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# nousta päähän
## Finnish
### Verb

nousta päähän
* (impersonal + adessive) to go to someone's head (to strongly affect a person, especially to the detriment of his or her senses or mental faculties)
    Menestys ei ole noussut hänellä päähän.His success has not gone to his head.
* (impersonal + adessive) to come up (to begin to feel the effects of a recreational drug)
    Näin hänen ilmesstään, että hänellä alkoi jo nousta päähänI could tell from her expression she was coming up already.

#### Conjugation

This impersonal verb is always used in the third person singular, but may be inflected in tense (such as present or past) and mood (such as indicative or conditional). To see the conjugated forms of the verb, see nousta.

#### Synonyms

* (go to someone's head): nousta hattuun
* (to come up): nousta hattuun, kihahtaa lettiin, olla nousuhumalassa, tulla humalaan
# συναπτός
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From σῠνᾰ́πτω (sunáptō, “join together, connect”) +‎ -τός (-tós).

### Adjective

σῠνᾰπτός • (sunaptós) m or f (neuter σῠνᾰπτόν); second declension
* joined together, continuous

#### Descendants

* → Translingual: Synaptus

### References

* “συναπτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* συναπτός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

## Greek
### Adjective

συναπτός • (synaptós) m (feminine συναπτή, neuter συναπτό)
* consecutive

#### Declension

Derivations: Comparative: πιο + positive forms (e.g. πιο συναπτός, etc.) Relative superlative: definite article + πιο + positive forms (e.g. ο πιο συναπτός, etc.)

#### Related terms

* συνάπτω (synápto, “to join, to attach, to contract”)
# છાપરું
## Gujarati
### Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit छत्त्वर (chattvará).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Gujarati) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃʰɑp.ɾũ/
* Rhymes: -ũ
* Hyphenation: છાપ‧રું

### Noun

છાપરું • (chāprũ) n
* thatch hut
    Synonym: ઝૂંપડું (jhū̃pḍũ)
* a sloping thatch, a thatched roof

#### Declension
### References

* Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “chattvará”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 272

### Further reading

* “છાપરું”, in Gujaratilexicon.com [Gujarati-English dictionary], Arnion Technologies, 2009.
# demonstratie
## Dutch
### Etymology

16th century, either from Middle French démonstration or directly from Latin demonstratio. The sense “protest” is a 19th-century semantic loan from English demonstration.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌdeː.mɔnˈstraː.(t)si/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: de‧mon‧stra‧tie
* Rhymes: -aːtsi

### Noun

demonstratie f (plural demonstraties, diminutive demonstratietje n)
* demonstration, demo (showing of something)
    Synonym: vertoning
* demonstration, exposition (explaining of something)
    Synonym: betoog
* demonstration (group protest)
    Synonyms: betoging, groepsprotest

#### Hypernyms

* (group protest): protest

#### Derived terms

* massademonstratie

#### Related terms

* demonstreren

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: demonstrasie
* → Indonesian: demonstrasi
# got it how one lived
## English
### Verb

got it how one lived
* simple past and past participle of get it how one lives
# mrzet
## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech mrzěti, from Proto-Slavic *mьrzěti.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmr̩zɛt]

### Verb

mrzet impf (perfective zamrzet)
* to be sorry (with subject and object reversed)
    To opomenutí mě mrzí. ― I am sorry for that omission.

#### Conjugation

| Infinitive | mrzet, mrzeti | Active adjective | mrzící |
| Verbal noun | — | Passive adjective | — |
| Present forms | indicative | indicative | imperative | imperative |
| | singular | plural | singular | plural |
| 1st person | mrzím | mrzíme | — | mrzme |
| 2nd person | mrzíš | mrzíte | mrz | mrzte |
| 3rd person | mrzí | mrzí | — | — |
* The future tense: a combination of a future form of být + infinitive mrzet.
| Participles | Past participles | Past participles | Passive participles | Passive participles |
| | singular | plural | singular | plural |
| masculine animate | mrzel | mrzeli | — | — |
| masculine inanimate | mrzel | mrzely | — | — |
| feminine | mrzela | mrzely | — | — |
| neuter | mrzelo | mrzela | — | — |
| Transgressives | present | past |
| masculine singular | mrze | — |
| feminine + neuter singular | mrzíc | — |
| plural | mrzíce | — |

#### Related terms

* rozmrzele
* mrzký
* mrzutý
* rozmrzelý
* mrzout
* mrzutost
* omrzet
* zamrzet

### Further reading

* “mrzeti”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “mrzeti”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “mrzet”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
# tuzin
## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old Czech tuzen, from Middle High German totzen, from Old French dozaine, from doze, from Latin duodecim (“twelve”). Compare German Dutzend, English dozen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtu.ʑin/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uʑin
* Syllabification: tu‧zin

### Noun

tuzin m inan
* dozen (twelve)
* dozen (a large number)

#### Derived terms

* nietuzinkowy

### See also

* kopa
* mendel

### Further reading

* tuzin in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* tuzin in Polish dictionaries at PWN
# biliteralism
## English
### Etymology

From biliteral +‎ -ism.

### Noun

biliteralism (uncountable)
* The quality of being biliteral.
# 時報廣場
## Chinese

| | | newspaper which mainly reports on current affairs; times | square; plaza |
| trad. (時報廣場) | trad. (時報廣場) | 時報 | 廣場 |
| simp. (时报广场) | simp. (时报广场) | 时报 | 广场 |

### Etymology

Calque of English Times Square, taking into account the fact that the square is named after The New York Times.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): Shíbào Guǎngchǎng, Shíbào Guǎngcháng
    (Zhuyin): ㄕˊ ㄅㄠˋ ㄍㄨㄤˇ ㄔㄤˇ, ㄕˊ ㄅㄠˋ ㄍㄨㄤˇ ㄔㄤˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): si$^4$ bou$^3$ gwong$^2$ coeng$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: Shíbào Guǎngchǎng [Phonetic: shíbàoguángchǎng]
*** Zhuyin: ㄕˊ ㄅㄠˋ ㄍㄨㄤˇ ㄔㄤˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: Shíhbào Guǎngchǎng
*** Wade–Giles: Shih$^2$-pao$^4$ Kuang$^3$-chʻang$^3$
*** Yale: Shŕ-bàu Gwǎng-chǎng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shyrbaw Goangchaang
*** Palladius: Шибао Гуанчан (Šibao Guančan)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂʐ̩³⁵ pɑʊ̯⁵¹ ku̯ɑŋ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
** (Standard Chinese, literary variant)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: Shíbào Guǎngcháng
*** Zhuyin: ㄕˊ ㄅㄠˋ ㄍㄨㄤˇ ㄔㄤˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: Shíhbào Guǎngcháng
*** Wade–Giles: Shih$^2$-pao$^4$ Kuang$^3$-chʻang$^2$
*** Yale: Shŕ-bàu Gwǎng-cháng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shyrbaw Goangcharng
*** Palladius: Шибао Гуанчан (Šibao Guančan)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂʐ̩³⁵ pɑʊ̯⁵¹ ku̯ɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: si$^4$ bou$^3$ gwong$^2$ coeng$^4$
*** Yale: sìh bou gwóng chèuhng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: si$^4$ bou$^3$ gwong$^2$ tsoeng$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xi$^4$ bou$^3$ guong$^2$ cêng$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /siː²¹ pou̯³³ kʷɔːŋ³⁵ t͡sʰœːŋ²¹/

### Proper noun

時報廣場
* Times Square (a wide intersection in New York City)

#### Synonyms

* 時代廣場／时代广场 (Shídài Guǎngchǎng)
# Hamptschire
## Middle English
### Proper noun

Hamptschire
* Alternative form of Hampteschire
# кошарка
## Macedonian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkɔʃarka]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

кошарка • (košarka) f
* basketball

#### Derived terms

* кошаркар m (košarkar), кошаркарка f (košarkarka)
* кошаркарски (košarkarski)

#### Related terms

* кош m (koš)

#### See also

* кошар m (košar)
* кошара f (košara)
* кошаре n (košare)
* кошарина f (košarina)

### References

* “кошарка” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) [Digital dictionary of the Macedonian language] − drmj.eu

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From кошара (“basket”), as a direct calque of English basketball. Likely 1940s in origin, as earlier news publications use the transcribed term баскетбал (cf. German Basketball), sometimes hyphenated, instead.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kǒʃaːrka/
* Hyphenation: ко‧шар‧ка

### Noun

ко̀ша̄рка f (Latin spelling kòšārka)
* (sports) basketball

#### Usage notes

The term "basket", similarly to many other European languages, is an informal nickname for basketball, particularly 3-on-3 streetball games. The official FIBA 3X3 game is often referred to as "basket" by local media, due to its association with streetball.

#### Synonyms

* (dated) баскетбал
* (informal) баскет

### Further reading

* “кошарка”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
# riuscire
## Italian
### Alternative forms

* riescire (archaic or Tuscan)

### Etymology

From ri- +‎ uscire. Compare French réussir, borrowed via riuscita.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ri.uʃˈʃi.re/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ire
* Hyphenation: ri‧u‧scì‧re

### Verb

riuscìre (first-person singular present rièsco, first-person singular past historic riuscìi, past participle riuscìto, auxiliary èssere) (intransitive)
* to manage; to be able [with a or di (+ infinitive) ‘to do something’]
    Synonyms: essere capace, essere in grado di, essere all'altezza, potere
    Antonym: fallire
    Non riesco di contattarlo. ― I am not able to reach him.
    Ho buttato tutti i soldi per vincere, ma non sono riuscito.I threw (away) all my money to win, but I was not able to.
* to be able to be accomplished [with a ‘by someone’, along with a or di (+ infinitive) ‘to do something’]} (idiomatically translated as English be able with subject and object reversed)
    Mi sono sempre riuscite imprese grandi.I have always been able to accomplish big things.
* to end up or turn out [with bene ‘well’, male ‘badly’, etc.]
    La prova è riuscita bene.The test turned out well.
* to reach (a position, qualification, etc.); to become
    È riuscito un buon dottore.He became a good doctor.
* to achieve (a certain position in standings)
    È riuscito primo in graduatoria. ― He was first in the rankings.
* to succeed; to do well [with in ‘in something’]
    Synonyms: avere successo, ottenere, conseguire, farcela, spuntarla, vincere, arrivare
    riuscire nel lavoro ― to do well at work
    Il segreto per riuscire è impegnarsi.The secret to succeeding is working hard.
* (copulative) to appear [with a (+ predicative adjective) ‘in some state’]
    Synonyms: dimostrarsi, sembrare, apparire, rivelarsi
    Mi riesce difficile. ― It looks hard.
* to exit or go out again
    Synonyms: uscire di nuovo, andarsene
    Antonyms: rientrare, rincasare
* to exit [with da ‘from a different place than the entrance’]
    Il proiettile, trafitto il petto, riuscì dal polmone.The bullet, having pierced his chest, exited from the lung.
* to continue after a break or obstacle (of a pathway, road, etc.) [with su ‘on/in some location’]
    Synonyms: sboccare, giungere, andare a finire, pervenire
    Il percorso riesce sul prato.The path continues on the lawn.

#### Usage notes

* (be able to): Typically phrased using the active voice, but (as illustrated in the third example) the passive voice, with the agent followed by a or represented using an indirect object pronoun.
* (turn out): When not followed by a complement, implies that the given item, action, etc. turned out well.

#### Related terms

* riuscita
* riuscito
* uscire

### Anagrams

* scurirei
# gotten it how one lived
## English
### Verb

gotten it how one lived
* past participle of get it how one lives
# okolica
## Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okolica. Compare Russian око́лица (okólica).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔ.kɔˈli.t͡sa/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -it͡sa
* Syllabification: o‧ko‧li‧ca
* Homophone: Okolica

### Noun

okolica f
* surroundings, vicinity, neighbourhood
    Synonyms: pobliże, sąsiedztwo
    Hypernym: obszar

#### Related terms

* okoliczny
* okolicznie
* bezokolicznik
* okolicznik
* okoliczność
* około

### Further reading

* okolica in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* okolica in Polish dictionaries at PWN
# White River
## English
### Proper noun

White River
* Several rivers:
** A major tributary of the Kootenay River, British Columbia, Canada; it is 40 miles long.
** A tributary of the Salmon River, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
** A tributary of the Nass River, British Columbia, Canada.
** A tributary of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada.
** A tributary of the Yukon River in Alaska, United States and Yukon, Canada; it is about 200 miles long.
** A tributary of Lake Superior in Thunder Bay district, Ontario, Canada.
** A river in Jamaica.
** A tributary of the Waimakariri River, on the South Island, New Zealand.
** A former river in Montserrat, destroyed by pyroclastic flows.
** A tributary of the Salt River in Arizona, United States; it is 16 miles long.
** A major tributary of the Mississippi River in Arkansas and Missouri, United States; it is 722 miles long.
** A small river in Tulare County, in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, United States. It is 50.7 miles long and dries up as it nears Kern County.
** A major tributary of the Wabash River in Indiana, United States; it is 362 miles long and has two forks.
** A tributary of White Lake in Michigan, United States; it is 23.6 miles long.
** A tributary of Lake Huron, in southern Huron County, Michigan, United States; it is 12.1 miles long.
** A small river in southeastern Nevada, United States. It is 138 miles long but dry in several portions.
** A tributary of the Deschutes River in Oregon, United States; it is about 50 miles long.
** A long tributary of the Missouri River in Nebraska and South Dakota, United States; it is 580 miles long.
** An intermittent stream, a tributary of the Brazos River in the South Plains of Texas, United States; it is 62 miles long.
** A tributary of the Green River in Colorado and Utah, United States; it is 195 miles long.
** A tributary of the Price River in Utah, United States.
** A tributary of the Connecticut River in Vermont, United States; it is 60.1 miles long.
** A tributary of the Puyallup River in Washington, United States; it is about 75 miles long.
** A tributary of Lake Wenatchee in Washington, United States; it is 32 miles long.
** A tributary of the Fox River in Wisconsin, United States; it is about 19 miles long.
* A township in the Algoma District, Ontario, Canada.
* A suburb of the city of Honiara, Solomon Islands.
* A town in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
* A number of places in the United States:
** An unincorporated community in Gibson County, Indiana.
** A small city, the county seat of Mellette County, South Dakota.
** A town in Ashland County, Wisconsin.
** An unincorporated community in the town of Gingles, Ashland County, Wisconsin.
** A number of townships in the United States, listed under White River Township.
# قلیان
## Persian
### Alternative forms

* غلیان (ğalyân), قلیون (qalyun)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غَلْيُون (ḡalyūn, “smoking pipe”), then hypercorrecting the ending [un] which colloquial Iranian Persian generally puts for trailing /ɒn/, with regard to the vulgar origin of the habit of tobacco smoking, which wrong deduction was also supported by reminiscence of Arabic غَلَيَان (ḡalayān, “boiling”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [qal.jɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [qäl.jɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [qäl.jɑːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [qäl.jɑːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [qäl.jɔːn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [qæl.jɒːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [qäl.jɔn]

### Noun

قلیان • (qalyân)
* calean, hookah, narghile
    Synonym: نارگیله (nârgile)

#### Derived terms

* قلیان کشیدن (qalyân kašidan, “to smoke hookah”)
* قلیان‌کش (qalyân-kaš, “hookah smoker”)

#### Descendants

* → English: calean
* → Azerbaijani: qəlyan
* → Russian: калья́н (kalʹján)
** → Belarusian: калья́н (kalʹján)
** → Ukrainian: калья́н (kalʹján)

### References

* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “غليان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
* Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “غلیان”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 617b
# fortune-told
## English
### Verb

fortune-told
* simple past and past participle of fortune-tell
# бранобран
## Macedonian
### Etymology

From бран (bran, “wave”) +‎ -о- (-o-) +‎ бран(и) (bran(i), “to defend”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbranɔbran]

### Noun

бранобран • (branobran) m (plural бранобрани, relational adjective бранобрански)
* breakwater
# vício
## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* vicio (pre-reform)

### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vitium. Doublet of viço, probably a semi-learned term, and vezo, which was inherited.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈvi.si.u/ [ˈvi.sɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvi.sju/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈvi.si.u/ [ˈvi.sɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvi.sju/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈvi.si.o/ [ˈvi.sɪ.o], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvi.sjo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈvi.sju/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈvi.sju/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈbi.sju/
* Rhymes: -isiu, -isju
* Hyphenation: ví‧ci‧o

### Noun

vício m (plural vícios)
* vice
* defect
* addiction
# talked out of one's ear
## English
### Verb

talked out of one's ear
* simple past and past participle of talk out of one's ear
# keyboardowy
## Polish
### Etymology

From keyboard +‎ -owy.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ki.bɔrˈdɔ.vɘ/
* Rhymes: -ɔvɘ
* Syllabification: key‧boar‧do‧wy

### Adjective

keyboardowy (not comparable, no derived adverb)
* (relational) keyboard

#### Related terms

* keyboard
* keyboardzista
* keyboardzistka

### Further reading

* keyboardowy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
# zew
## Polish
### Etymology

Analyzable as a deverbal from zwać.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈzɛf/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛf
* Syllabification: zew

### Noun

zew m inan
* call

#### Declension

(rare) alternative declension:

#### Related terms

* zwać

### Further reading

* zew in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* zew in Polish dictionaries at PWN
# Wanzhou
## English
### Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 萬州 / 万州 (Wànzhōu).

### Proper noun

Wanzhou
* A district of Chongqing, China.
** 2010 December 24, Matt Gross, “Lost in China”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 November 2015, Travel‎:After more than three hours in cramped vans and buses, we gave up on our hoped-for destination, a supposedly lovely town called Wanzhou, and debarked, at lunchtime, in Liangping, a gray, homely town we’d never heard of.
** 2018 November 2, “Woman fought with driver, causing bus to fall in China river”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 16 August 2022‎:A statement from Wanzhou district police said the 48-year-old female passenger asked the driver to pull over after she missed her stop, but he didn’t.
** 2023 July 5, Bernard Orr, Ella Cao, Ethan Wang, “Rain kills 15 in southwest China as Xi urges better defences”, in Andrea Ricci, Robert Birsel, editors, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 5 July 2023, Asia Pacific‎:In Wanzhou district, northeast of Chongqing, floods have caused 227.8 million yuan ($31.5 million) worth of economic losses, state broadcaster CCTV said.

#### Synonyms

* (historical) Wanhsien, Wanxian

#### Translations
### Further reading

* Wanzhou, Wan-chou, Wanchou at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
# Cornelly
## English
### Proper noun

Cornelly
* A community (civil parish) in Bridgend county borough, Wales, which includes the settlements of North Cornelly and South Cornelly.

### References

* Community map
# nothing less than
## English
### Adverb

nothing less than (not comparable)
* (idiomatic) Certainly and completely: definitely, and wholly rather than merely mostly.
    Coordinate term: nothing more than
    Near-synonyms: nothing if not, nothing but
    Of course he disappointed you. The man is nothing less than a fraud and a swindler.

#### Related terms

* no less
# horsefeathers
## English
### Etymology

The "nonsense" sense, a euphemism for horseshit, is horse +‎ feathers, a nonexistent item as only birds have feathers. Compare hen’s teeth.
The "horse hair" sense notes the similarity of that hair to bird feathers.
Regarding the roofing sense, compare feathering strip and horsefeathers.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### Interjection

horsefeathers!
* (euphemistic, US) Indicates disbelief.
    Horsefeathers! You knew it was a bad idea and now you're just making excuses about it.

#### Synonyms

* fiddlesticks, get out of town, pull the other one; see also Thesaurus:bullshit

### Noun

horsefeathers
* plural of horsefeather (singular not used)

### Noun

horsefeathers pl (plural only)
* (euphemistic, US) Nonsense; indicates disbelief.
    Dismissing the rumors as "horsefeathers", he advised everybody to disregard them.
** 2015, Tony Sachs, “The Delicious Secret Behind Your Favorite Whiskey: The Best Spirits from MGP”, in Serious Eats:The most notorious of these was Templeton Rye: Said to be from Iowa, it was purportedly distilled using a Prohibition-era recipe that was a favorite of none other than Al Capone who, according to legend, called it "the good stuff." The story turned out to be such a load of horsefeathers that Templeton was found guilty of deceptive marketing, and forced by a judge to issue partial refunds to its customers.
* Long hair on lower legs of a draft horse (e.g., Clydesdale), especially the rear legs.
* Feathering strips.
** 1940, New York lumber trade journal, volumes 108-9, page 26:The exterior of the court is entirely of sheathing and wood shingles applied over "horsefeathers."
** 1968 United States Customs Court, First Division, A. N. DERINGER, INC. v. UNITED STATES 287 F.Supp. 1016 (1968) August 8, 1968:
    In summary, the record establishes that to produce horsefeathers one starts by sawing a log (longitudinally) into boards or planks, which are then likewise center resawn (longitudinally); that the original boards, as well as the center resawn boards, have at least two approximately parallel longitudinal sawed surfaces; that the resawn boards are simply resawn again longitudinally at an angle or bevel to produce horsefeathers; and that the only other sawing required is the crosscutting of the boards to length.
** 1978 April, Joseph R. Provey, “How to reroof your house like a pro”, in Popular Mechanics, page 160:Feathering strips, called horsefeathers, can be used to level cedar-shingle roof before reroofing with asphalt shingles
** 2005, Daniel Benn Atcheson, Roofing Construction and Estimating, Craftsman Book Company, page 192:To install shakes or shingles over beveled siding, fill in the low points of the existing wall with lumber or plywood strips (called horse feathers).

#### Usage notes

In “horse hair” sense, often referred to instead as feather, feathers or feathering, with hair on the front part narrowly referred to as spats.

#### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:nonsense

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “horse hair”): spats
# ǂau
## Nǀuu
### Verb

ǂau
* Alternative form of ǂao (“to want”)

### References

* Shah, S. & Brenzinger, M. (2016). Ouma Geelmeid ke kx’u ǁxaǁxa Nǀuu. Cape Town: CALDi, University of Cape Town.