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lizard
English
Etymology
From Middle English lesarde, lisarde, from Anglo-Norman lusard, from Old French lesard (compare French lézard), from Latin lacertus. Displaced native Middle English aske (“newt, lizard”); see ask.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l?z.?d/
- (US) IPA(key): /?l?z.?d/
Noun
lizard (plural lizards)
- Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.
- (chiefly in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
- 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Proof”, The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.
- Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown
- 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Proof”, The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.
- (colloquial) An unctuous person.
- (colloquial) A coward.
- (rock paper scissors) A hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- (in compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.
- lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard
Derived terms
Translations
Middle English
Noun
lizard
- Alternative form of lesarde
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dizard
English
Noun
dizard (plural dizards)
- (obsolete) A talkative fool.
References
- 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes
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