Definitions
Etymologies
- From Portuguese abada ‘female rhinoceros’, perhaps from Malay. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“They 40-year-old actor and 51-year-old entertainer both wore the box's 'abada' - an official T-shirt needed for entry which each guest traditionally re-stylizes in their own taste.”
“To get close to the action, revellers pay anywhere from 200 reais to 2,500 reais for an "abada," a colour-coded sleeveless shirt that serves as a pass to follow a given band through the streets.”
“Driving her tea pot car over a cliff and she bounces out of it and lands arss first on top of the spines of a arizona cactus. abada abbada thats all folks.”
“Like the NARWHAL, the abada was avidly hunted during the fifteenth century and later.”
“She dressed this way — the lace blouse and double abada wrappas — only to fit in with the other madams who rode the bus.”
“Post a comment or leave a trackback. tags: abada, jessamyn, me, wikipedia, youtube.”
“Scott Fitzgerald abada abada ten years of jessamyn : contact, faq, who?”
abada abada › in a hotel with half-assed wifi, my thoughts turn to F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Post a comment or leave a trackback. tags: abada, australia, jessamyn.”
“Post a comment or leave a trackback. tags: abada, australia, jessamyn, photos.”
“Post a comment or leave a trackback. tags: abada, dodge, jessamyn, kansas.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘abada’.
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Noteworthy Words
Here I have in mind a list of words that could be spelled with only the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, and G--and thus could also be played as a tune on the piano.
face, ace, bag, cage, bad, fad, fade, fee, gee, beg, fed, deaf and 98 more...
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Mythological Beastiary
abada, therianthropy, ba, bahamut, balaur, banshee, behemoth, bendigeidfran, bluecap, centaur, bugbear, Ceryneian Hind and 14 more...
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Mafufu's Words
bespeak, salterello, pants status, persephone, crochet, abada, yo, mellifluous
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FTL
Words listed first by me that don't belong in any other list.
licit, precis, mnemosyne, badinage, mariposa, lepidoptera, coruscation, poignant, meme, oxymoron, xenophobia, asterism and 128 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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Seven
turnskin, therianthrope, mimic, mimical, mimetic, animagus, selkie, incantatory, cynanthrope, therianthropy, nagual, pooka and 200 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for abada.
hernesheir Not quite a palindrome, but the halves of this word are nearly a mirror-image on either side of the internal "a". Mar 23, 2011
mafufu I like it. Mar 13, 2009
mollusque Rhinoceros. Apr 15, 2008