worn-out+horse

  • 101crowbait — /kroh bayt /, n. Chiefly Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. an emaciated, worn out horse or cow. [1855 60, Amer.; CROW1 + BAIT] * * * …

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  • 102harridan — /hahr i dn/, n. a scolding, vicious woman; hag; shrew. [1690 1700; perh. alter of F haridelle thin, worn out horse, large, gaunt woman (compared with the initial element of haras stud farm, though derivation is unclear)] Syn. nag, virago, scold.… …

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  • 103 — 【노】 둔하다; 느리다. 馬부 5획 (총15획) [1] [n] old, worn out horse; jade; hack [2] incompetent; stupid; good for nothing …

    Hanja (Korean Hanzi) dictionary

  • 104jade — English has two words jade, of which by far the commoner nowadays is the name of the green stone [18]. Despite the mineral’s close association with China and Japan, the term has no Oriental connections. It is of Latin origin, and started life in… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 105cheapskate — (n.) also cheap skate, miserly person, 1896, from CHEAP (Cf. cheap) (adj.), second element perhaps from American English slang skate worn out horse (1894), of uncertain origin …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 106rip — {{11}}rip (n1.) rough water, 1775, perhaps a special use of RIP (Cf. rip) (v.). Originally of seas; application to rivers is from 1857. Rip tide (also riptide) is attested from 1862 but isn t a tide. {{12}}rip (n2.) thing of little value, 1815,… …

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  • 107knackered — adj British exhausted. This is not, strictly speaking, a slang word as it derives from knacker , denoting a worn out horse or a slaugh terer of horses, but has come to be seen as slang because of confusion with knackers, in the sense of testicles …

    Contemporary slang

  • 108screw — skruː n. metal fastener with a spiral grooved shaft; act of twisting or rotating; propeller; coercive pressure; sexual intercourse (Slang); miser, scrooge; old worn out horse; salary, wages (British Slang); prison guard, warden v. attach with a… …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 109screwed — screw·ed || skruːd adj. attached with a screw; drunk, intoxicated (British Slang); contorted, twisted; cheated, deceived, gypped (Slang) skruː n. metal fastener with a spiral grooved shaft; act of twisting or rotating; propeller; coercive… …

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  • 110screwing — n. act of fastening with screws; act of twisting; fornication, sexual intercourse (Slang) skruː n. metal fastener with a spiral grooved shaft; act of twisting or rotating; propeller; coercive pressure; sexual intercourse (Slang); miser, scrooge; …

    English contemporary dictionary