Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several plants having sharp, often hooked thorns that can become caught in clothing, such as a thorny African acacia or a catbrier.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The greenbrier.
- noun Any of various species of hawthorn.
- noun In South Africa, one of numerous acacias and mimosas.
- noun The grapple plant.
- noun The prickly ash.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun any of several small bushes with sharp hooked
thorns .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I did neither; I enjoy a good performance as well as the next licentious rascal, and never mind playing wait-a-bit with a coquette who knows her business.
Watershed 2010
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We were an odd pair of scallywags to look at, but as South African as a wait-a-bit bush.
Greenmantle 2005
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The country beyond consisted of large patches of trap-covered tufa, having little soil or vegetation except tufts of grass and wait-a-bit thorns, in the midst of extensive sandy, grass-covered plains.
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There the vegetation consists of fine grass growing in tufts among low bushes of the “wait-a-bit” thorn
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The adjacent country is all covered with low, thorny scrub, with grass, and here and there clumps of the “wait-a-bit thorn”, or
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A jungle of mimosa, ebony, and “wait-a-bit” thorn lies between the Chicova flats and the cultivated plain, on which stand the villages of the chief, Chitora.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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The horse, on feeling the lion on him, sprang away, and the rider, caught by a wait-a-bit thorn, was brought to the ground and rendered insensible.
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I took a pair of EFT cards out of my baldric and programmed them with the agreed amounts, flapped a wait-a-bit paw at the two Y'tata, and addressed the man at the table.
Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001
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I did neither; I enjoy a good performance as well as the next licentious rascal, and never mind playing wait-a-bit with a coquette who knows her business.
Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999
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A. mellifera subsp. detinens derived its common name (wait-a-bit tree) from the pairs of small hooks on the branches.
Chapter 2 1994
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