epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-08-27 | Author:Christopher J. Moore

WAGs (noun phrase) A frankly silly acronym and phrase coined by newspaper copy editors to describe the pampered wives and girlfriends of rich soccer players. On the subject of acronyms ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Ammer, Christine [Ammer, Christine]

l labor of love Work done for one’s satisfaction rather than monetary reward. For example, The research took three years but it was a labor of love. This expression appears ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-31 | Author:Crystal, David

Central, middle; coming between the eldest and youngest in age. From Cumberland: ‘Is that t’auldest lad er youngest?’ ‘It’s nowder, it’s middlemer’. mim (adjective) Berkshire, Cornwall, Durham, Ireland, Norfolk, Northumberland, ...

epub, mobi, pdf |nld | 0101-01-01 | Author:Eugene Ehrlich

O oak, pertaining to an quercine oar n. scull oar-shaped adj. remiform oath n. voir dire oath, taking an juration oatmeal n. flummery obedience n. Bushido, deference obedient adj. deferent, ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Simon Winchester [Winchester, Simon]

Eliza Merrett knew very little of books—indeed, she was barely literate. But when she saw how keenly Doctor Minor collected and cherished his old volumes, and when she listened to ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2007-06-13 | Author:Barbara Ann Kipfer [Ann kipfer, Barbara]

J J n (also jay or jay smoke or J smoke) A marijuana cigarette; JOINT [1960s+ Narcotics; fr the J of Mary Jane, “marijuana,” or the j of joint] jab ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-07 | Author:PAM PETERS [PETERS, PAM]

bookish boyish childish churlish feverish fiendish foolish freakish girlish owlish irrelevance or irrelevancy popish priggish prudish selfish sheepish Irrelevancy had a 40 years headstart on irrelevance stylish waspish in C19, ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Noah Webster [Webster, Noah]

epub |eng | 2014-01-13 | Author:John Downes

M-1, M-2, and M-3 three measures of the money supply as defined by the Federal Reserve Board: M1 is the narrowest measure of money supply. It includes currency in circulation, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1998-12-31 | Author:Simon Winchester

It was at about this time that there came two developments, one of which by chance led indirectly to the other. The first stemmed from a factor that is not ...

mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Ehrlich, Eugene [Ehrlich, Eugene]

Related words: immurement and immuration (IM-ye-RAY-shen) both nouns. impalpable (im-PAL-pe-bel) adjective 1. unable to be touched, intangible. 2. not easily grasped by the mind. Related words: impalpability (im-PAL-pe-BIL-i-tee) noun, impalpably ...

mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Ehrlich, Eugene [Ehrlich, Eugene]

“The diner was suddenly crowded with jackbooted, tattooed, hirsute men.” Janus-faced (JAY-nes-FAYST) From the name of the ancient god Janus, a two-faced personage, who was in charge of guarding the ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-03-15 | Author:Simon Winchester [Winchester, Simon]

2. The Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem, used as an asylum for the reception and cure of mentally deranged persons; originally situated in Bishopsgate, in 1676 rebuilt near London ...