Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as faxwax, paxwax.
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Lists
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 426 more...
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Forgotten English 1
jacal, mastaba, lucarne, quoin, triglyph, gargarice, nimgimmer, phrenologize, fleam, eaglestone, toad eater, king's evil and 156 more...
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Scots Reduplicative Words
A list of reduplicative words gleaned from Scottish sources, primarily Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841, and citations therein.
For other reduplicative and simil...hist-hast, hobby-tobby, argie-bargie, argle-bargle, argol-bargolous, bick and birr, blitter-blatter, bringle-brangle, brittle-brattle, buf-baf, carrywarry, catterbatter and 49 more...
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Discovered in the Word Museum
Words found in Jeffrey Kacirk's "The Word Museum"
yeth-hounds, yird-swine, shivviness, st patrick's needle, outcumlins, noctuary, quignogs, queachy, urtication, rigmutton, probang, mucksluff and 65 more...
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Forgotten English
...From a series of 'knowledge cards.'
gimlet-eyed, apple-squire, tonsor, laverock, besom, blash, fixfax, scrynne, galligaskin, quacksalver, ordal, gorgayse and 36 more...
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sionnach A pillory, or stocks-lie neck-binding framework, derived from the fixfax ligaments, or "sinews in the necks of cattle or sheep". Nov 18, 2008