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Brewer's: Hugger-mugger
The primary meaning is clandestinely. The secondary meaning is disorderly, in a slovenly manner. To hugger is to lie in ambush, from the Danish hug, huger, huggring, to squat on the ground…Brewer's: Learn
(1 syl.). Live and learn. Cato, the censor, was an old man when he taught himself Greek. Michael Angelo, at seventy years of age, said, “I am still learning.” John Kemble wrote out Hamlet…Brewer's: Kings have Long Hands
Do not quarrel with a king, as his power and authority reach to the end of his dominions. The Latin proverb is, “An nescis longas regibus esse manus, ” and the German, “Mit grossen herren…Brewer's: Tuck
A long narrow sword. (Gaelic, tuca ,] Welsh twca, Italian stocco, German stock, French estoc.) In Hamlet the word is erroneously printed “stuck,” in Malone's edition. If he by chance…Brewer's: Button
A decoy in an auction- room; so called because he buttons or ties the unwary to bargains offered for sale. The button fastens or fixes what else would slip away. The button of the cap.…Brewer's: Cap-a-pie
The general etymology is the French cap à pied, but the French phrase is de pied en cap. “Armed at all points exactly cap-a-pie.” Shakespeare: Hamlet, i. 2. “I am courtier, cap-a-pe…Brewer's: Deck
A pack of cards, or that part of the pack which is left after the hands have been dealt. But whilst he thought to steal the single`ten,' The `king' was slyly fingered from the deck.…Brewer's: Difference
Ophelia says to the queen. “You may wear your rue with a difference.” In heraldry differences or marks of cadency indicate the various branches of a family. (1) The eldest son, during the…Brewer's: Assay
or Essay. To take the assay is to taste wine to prove it is not poisoned. Hence, to try, to taste; a savour, trial, or sample. Holinshed says, “Wolsey made dukes and earls serve him of…2005–2006 Obie Awards
The 2005–2006 Obie Awards, honoring distinguished achievement in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions, were presented on May 15, 2006, at New York…Trending
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