Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Middle English forms of anon.
Examples
“I am nowmore convinced than everthat a well-made riesling can easilyage 10-20 years andthat riesling can take onan entirely different characteristics between the 10 and 20 year mark.”
“Lastnight, I appeared onan hour-long phone in on Five Live listening in amazement as Angela Smith and Barry Gardiner defended Brown.”
“If I didn't write, I might just shrink up and go live onan ashram, or in a cave.”
“He has gotten a lot of people talking and discussing and acting onan issue that normally would not have been on the radar screens.”
“See thisthreeminuteMcCain attack video ~which could easily be seen as a pro Obama ad reinforcing Barack's effect onan America starved for another choice.”
“If not then what good can a new leader possibly do, is there enough time , could the Party agre onan electorally plausible programme anyway?”
“The Eastern Master was known forhis fearless stance onan approach which hetaught should be free from hesitation, true to the purity of the tradition, and utterly fresh in approach to the scriptural texts.”
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“I grab my pencil, write onan endpaper (gasp, I know):”
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“Or, suggesting not usingyellow script onan unreadable pinkbackground unless you have x-ray eyes?”
“Speaking of which, that's the name ofa farm stand that sells the produce onan organic farm of a family I know.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘onan’.
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Nicknames you shouldn't give to an ax...
primrose, snookums, lavender, piglet, rainbow sunshine, kitten, fuzzy, sweetie, wiggles, care bear, love-a-lot, cheery and 87 more...
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JesusIsLord's Words
debauchery, plethora, wiki, numinous, wormwood, scribe, gelded, mithridate, orthogonal, jaculiferous, jaculate, jactitation and 415 more...
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known words
words wot i already knew
antisyzygy, calenture, shill, saudade, sehnsucht, squonk, steganographic, anomie, wiggy, grok, hermeneutics, agrise and 206 more...
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Tickles my humerus
I find these to be inherently funny.
cow tipping, bumblebee, homoscedasticity, seattle, wagga wagga, booby, pants, guacamole, poodle, fanny pack, nincompoop, svenborgia and 161 more...
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Words named after people, probably
braille, clerihew, wellington, cardigan, nasaaq, cesarean, onan
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PWNED!!
A new place for me to store all those instances of rapier wit and awesome bon mots I come across.
freegan, suit, funding, false dichotomy, pay out, celebrity media, metro walk, silent stars, wernher von braun, child, psychotic dogs, alcohol and 24 more...
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BrainyBabe See onanism. Dorothy Parker named her canary Onan, because he spilled his seed upon the ground. Dec 28, 2008