Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A four-wheeled horse-drawn pleasure carriage having two or four seats.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A light phaëton, with or without a top, and hung on side-bars with end-springs and with cross-springs extending from side to side, designed to carry four persons.
Wiktionary
- n. historical A light American horse-drawn carriage seating two or four people.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A four-wheeled pleasure carriage, (commonly two-seated) somewhat like a phaeton, but having a straight bottom.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a county in southeastern England on the Thames
- n. a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four seats
Etymologies
- An adaptation of the Surrey cart, originally made in the county of Surrey. (Wiktionary)
- Short for Surrey cart, after Surrey, a county of southeast England. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Behind the surrey was the riding party, even more startling than when they had first burst upon Wallie in their bead-work and curio-store trappings.”
“Arrive by bike, arrive by car, the DeYoung is still the second biggest ripoff in GGP,#1 is "surrey" rentals.”
“So much so that the vast majority of people never leave their homes, choosing to have their surrogate (or 'surrey') live for them.”
“If that works, I want them to put out a fatwa on tandem bicycles, paddle boats and the surrey with the fringe on top.”
“Labels: photos, silliness comments: surrey said ...”
“These people have no idea what the bible says most have never even read the bible, if they did then they must surrey know they will have a special place in hell awaiting them.”
““Only if you drive me in the surrey with the fringe on top.””
“I would take the fringe off and use it for my surrey...”
“When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘surrey’.
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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English Counties, Districts, Boroughs
northumberland, tyne and wear, newcastle upon tyne, gateshead, north tyneside, south tyneside, sunderland, cumbria, carlisle, allerdale, eden, copeland and 348 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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New words, not to be confused with th...
maladroit, aphasia, delphinium, bromide, greenhorn, just deserts, loth, supplanted, steeplechase, steeple, annex, vestments and 236 more...
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mapping it out
name of places: beautiful, peculiar, fascinating, farcical, and imaginary.
worcester, london, salem, peabody, cambridge, boston, india, russia, caledonia, londinium, isca dumnoniorum, leominster and 21 more...
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brin1d2lynn's list
Dooflobbie
Thingamajig
Hootendibbler
Whatchamacallit
Trifling
Mullish
Obstreperous
Impudent
Insolent
Crabby
Cranky
Idiocy
Hul...chagrinery, vexsome, irksome, carbuncle, cantankerous, splendiferous, odious, perfidious, parsimonious, pandemonium, mayhem, erstwhile and 59 more...
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The Barouche List: Need a Ride?
Bilby says I should have one. Even though most of these are on my other lists (the ones that weren't, I didn't really want to list).
barouche, buggy, carriage, cabriolet, randem, berlin, victoria, surrey, herdic, hansom, rockaway, cariole and 74 more...
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whereabouts
cathedral, priory, dale, weald, london, edinburgh, surrey, copse, lothlorien, edoras, edhellond
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Interesting Eyecolor
Shades of eyeshadow
asphyxia, vapor, uzi, el dorado, hotpants, shotgun, snowcone, jelly bean, darjeeling, fishnets, getaway, jezebel and 12 more...
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For Faulkner Lovers
Or anybody else studying his works, especially The Bear.
immobile, absolve, temerity, abject, effluvium, daube, lambent, attrition, moil, relinquish, evanescent, dissolution and 53 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for surrey.
chained_bear Usage on barouche. Oct 21, 2008
reesetee But does it have a fringe on top? Sep 11, 2007