Definitions
Etymologies
- See loon. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Kitteh is wishin hiz lown wuz emo so it kan kut itslf.”
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“The usual figure of a Sky boy, is a lown with bare legs and feet, a dirty kilt, ragged coat and waistcoat, a bare head, and a stick in his hand, which, I suppose, is partly to help the lazy rogue to walk, partly to serve as a kind of a defensive weapon.”
“I would be unhappy; and I don't think I'll be loaning him the lown mower again.”
“We should have both lord and lown, if the peevish baggage would but give way to customers.”
“That sounded harmless enough; she settled lown to enjoy her dinner.”
“She was hull-lown but I could see her tops'ls, sir.”
“Why," he exclaimed, in a lowered voice, "that lown tore your pretty shirtwaist!”
“We should have both lord and lown if the peevish baggage would but give way to customers.”
“About the end o 'July there cam' a spell o 'weather, the like o't never was in that countryside; it was lown an' het an 'heartless; the herds couldnae win up the Black Hill, the bairns were ower weariet to play; an' yet it was gousty too, wi 'claps o' het wund that rummled in the glens, and bits o 'shouers that slockened naething.”
“The usual figure of a Sky-boy, is a lown with bare legs and feet, a dirty kilt, ragged coat and waistcoat, a bare head, and a stick in his hand, which, I suppose, is partly to help the lazy rogue to walk, partly to serve as a kind of a defensive weapon.”
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deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Quiet Alternatives
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tacit, taciturn, still, hushed, dampen, soft pedal, clammed up, pipe down, hush-hush, shush, muffled, toned down and 34 more...
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