5. slang a person or thing considered to be useless or defective [C14: from Medieval Latin lemōn-, from Arabic laymūn] ˈlemonish adj ˈlemon-ˌlike adj Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003...
nounharridan,fury,shrew,vixen,scold,battle-axe(informal),termagant(rare),Xanthippe,ballbreaker(slang)Violent wives are too easily dismissed as hysterical, man-hating viragos. Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 200...
lift weightsexaggerate /ɪɡˈzædʒəreɪt/ v. 夸张wake up in the morning refreshedready to start your dayslang /slæŋ/ n./adj./v. 俚语(的);用俚语说a ton ofthank you to all of youstand out 突出;站出来;坚持到底;坚决反对at some point 在某一时刻 更多全部...
in.to be very obvious.Do you think I would stick out like a sore thumb at the party if I wear this coat? See also:like,out,sore,stick,thumb McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved....
in.to be very obvious.Do you think I would stick out like a sore thumb at the party if I wear this coat? See also:like,out,sore,stick,thumb McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved....
The years quoted here are the earliest dates of a particular definition, as furnished by OED. Since any linguistic influence or presence of Hindus would most likely be part of a minor sub-culture, integration of any linguistic contribution into English would be slow in coming--like slang or ...
Like the most chinese students, my tongue twisted is horrible bad, even now I’m working in an English speaking country, but when I talk, they can obviously find out I’m speaking chingllish, what a frustrating, I really feel confuse. Walkerhu ...
Maddie’s signing doesn’t appear natural or nuanced (using slang gestures, for instance). She might have been more sensitive to seeing motion if this was really happening to her. That being said, I think its depiction of Maddie as a full, engaging character who fends for herself and ...
Pardon the little redunacy of topics below as I used a smallish phone to write and edit this page and am in misery when I write, and very weary, so makes it hard to remember and focus well. Now for the proof that God has predestined the future of all beings regardless of the wills...
Meaning "such as" ("A Town Like Alice") attested from 1886. The word has been used as a postponed filler ("going really fast, like") from 1778; as a presumed emphatic ("going, like, really fast") from 1950, originally in counterculture slang and bop talk. Phrasemore like it"closer...