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- Dictionaryslither/ˈslɪðə/
verb
- 1. move smoothly over a surface with a twisting or oscillating motion: "I spied a baby adder slithering away"
noun
- 1. a slithering movement: "a snake-like slither across the grass"
- 2. a sliver: informal British "a slither of bacon"
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Jan 12, 2012 · As always, verbs can be nouned and vice versa. Slither is a member of the SL-phonosemantic class of English simplex words, which features three largely overlapping semantic features: (1) liquid/solid interface (sloop, slather, sleek, sluice); (2) two-dimensional contact (slalom, slate, slope); and (3) pejoratives formed from such contacts (slattern, slave, slouch, sleazy, slum).
Oct 16, 2014 · IMHO, "piece" is used for uncountable nouns, like "fruit" ("piece of fruit"), for one in a group or kind of things, or some abstract part of a whole. "Slice" seems to me should be used when you want a portion of something that can be divided in parts. So, in the case of pizza, asking for "a slice of pizza" means a slice of a pizza, a portion ...
May 22, 2019 · Right. I gave my answer when the original fill-in-the-blank was: "henceforth I am taking his BUGS ____". Later, this was edited to the substantially less awkward: "henceforth I am taking his BUG REPORTS ____".
Oct 13, 2020 · 2. One of the entries above has the origin partially correct: "1969 Current Slang I & II 53: Humangous, adj. A unit of measure one size larger than monjorious.—Air Force Academy cadets." I once had a dictionary that gave the origin of humungous as being from some cadets at the Air Force Academy in 1959.
Apr 13, 2011 · I meant sliver! – Finbarr. Apr 13, 2011 at 22:03. 1. I doubt anyone would say a sliver of bread; slivered carrots sounds okay, but note that a sliver is a small piece, not necessarily a small slice. Wafer could work well for bread, as it is a thin, small slice. However, if you want a thin slice that isn't necessarily small, then thin slice is ...
I have heard the term "CFNM" being used in sexuality, does anybody know what the term means ? (Note: OP said "CNFM", but another user edited that to "CFNM".) Actually 'googling' didn't help at all.
Jul 8, 2013 · To define is to delineate a specific meaning of a word. To describe is to provide useful attributes of something represented by that word. For example, it is hard to define "god" but easy to define "car."
It's just that “un-” is more versatile than “de-.” “un-” has two meanings for two different parts of speech: “(added to adjectives, participles, and their derivatives) denoting the absence of a quality or state; not” and “(added to verbs) denoting the reversal or cancellation of an action or state.” “de-,” on the other hand, is only added to non-participle verbs. “to unregister” and “to deregister” go (“un-/de-” + “to register”) and are synonyms; those ...
Dec 10, 2018 · I've often heard the word "discombobulated" used. But I've never heard of something being "combobulated", and it's not in any dictionary I've looked at. If "combobulated" is not word, where did "
Apr 24, 2013 · 3. You are correct insofar as the skinner of mule-skinner comes from the noun skinner that means "relating to skin". The OED has an earliest citation for the use meaning muleteer being 1870 in J. H. Beadle's "Life in Utah". Skinner, according to the OED, can be applied to: the driver of any team of draft animals, teamsters and drivers of motor ...
