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Brewer's: Crude Forms
in grammar. The roots or essential letters of words. The words are crude or unfinished. Thus am—is the crude form of the verb amo; bon—of the adjective bonus; and domin —of the noun…Brewer's: Cuba
The Roman deity who kept guard over infants in their cribs and sent them to sleep. Verb cubo, to lie down in bed. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894CubeCub A…Brewer's: Dresser
A kitchen dresser, the French dressoir, a sideboard, verb dresser, to raise, set up. “The pewter plates on the dresser.” Longfellow: Evangeline, i. 2. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Drop in
(To). To make a casual call, not invited; to pay an informal visit. The allusion is to fruit and other things falling down suddenly, unexpectedly, or accidentally. It is the intransitive…Brewer's: Dodge About
(To), in school phrase, is to skip about and not go straight on through a lesson. A boy learns a verb, and the master does not hear him conjugate it straight through, but dodges him about…Brewer's: Dole-fish
The share of fish allotted to each one of a company of fishermen in a catch. Dole = the part dealt to anyone. (Anglo-Saxon, dál or dæl, from the verb dael-an, to divide into parta.)…Brewer's: Dosser
One who sleeps in a low or cheap hired dormitory. The verb doss = to sleep. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Do-the-Boys' HallDoss-house A B C D E F G…Brewer's: Double Entendre
(English-French for Un mot a double entente, or à deux ententes). Words which secretly express a rude or coarse covert meaning, generally of a licentious character. “Entendre” is the…Brewer's: Choker
(A). A neckcloth. A white choker is a white neckcloth or necktie, worn in full dress, and generally by waiters and clergymen. Of course, the verb to choke has supplied the word. Source:…Brewer's: Cock the Ears
(To). To prick up the ears, or turn them as a horse does when he listens to a strange sound. Here “cock” means to turn, and seems to be connected with the Greek a circle, and the verb .…Trending
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