lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪz.əd/
ipa: /ˈlɪz.ɚd/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈlɪzə(ɾ)ɖ/
note: Indic
ipa: /lɪˈzɑ(ɾ)ɖ/
rhymes: -ɪzə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: lizards
Etymology: From Middle English lesarde, lisarde, from Anglo-Norman lusard, from Old French lesard (compare French lézard), from Latin lacertus, which is of obscure origin. Displaced native Middle English aske, from Old English āþexe (> modern English ask, askard).
Senses: examples: text: The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.
ref: a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 169:
text: The forms of the serpent and lizard exhibit almost every element of beauty and horror in strange combination; […]
ref: 1851, John Ruskin, chapter XX, in The Stones of Venice, volume I (The Foundations), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § XXX, pages 223–224:
text: Hooded rattlesnakes, horned toads, and lizards crawl in the dust and among the rocks.
ref: 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:
text: When held in the hand, the lizard produces an amorous stimulus.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 139:
text: Pinned against my neighbours, I could feel small hands, fleeting as lizards, fluttering lightly through my pockets in search of money, mobile, wallet.
ref: 2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:
glosses: Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or part of Mosasauria — typically characterised by a rounded torso, a short neck with an elevated head, four limbs and a long tail, although some species are legless.
examples: text: Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown
ref: 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Proof”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.:
glosses: Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
glosses: An unctuous person.
glosses: A coward.
topics: games
rock-paper-scissors
glosses: 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.
examples: text: lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard
glosses: A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.
Derived terms: word: alderman lizard
word: alligator lizard
word: alpine meadow lizard
word: basilisk lizard
word: beaded lizard
word: bearded lizard
word: bleed the lizard
word: bluelizardite
word: blue-tongued lizard
word: blue-tongue lizard
word: bobtail lizard
word: bunk lizard
word: caiman lizard
word: canteen lizard
word: changeable lizard
word: Chinese crocodile lizard
word: collared lizard
word: crib lizard
word: dabb lizard
word: draco lizard
word: dragon lizard
word: drain the lizard
word: earless monitor lizard
word: Eastwood's whip lizard
word: European green lizard
taxonomic: Sceloporus undulatus
word: fence lizard
word: flat lizard
taxonomic: Draco spp.
word: flying lizard
word: frilled lizard
word: frilled-neck lizard
word: frilled neck lizard
word: frill-necked lizard
word: frilly lizard
word: fringe-toed lizard
word: fuck-you lizard
word: glass lizard
word: Goldman's bunchgrass lizard
word: green lizard
word: horned lizard
word: house lizard
word: Jesus lizard
word: Jesus Christ lizard
taxonomic: Pogona barbata
word: Jew lizard
word: La Gomera giant lizard
word: lasagna lizard
taxonomic: Pygopodidae spp.
word: legless lizard
word: leopard lizard
word: lesbian lizard
word: lion lizard
word: lizard beetle
word: lizard brain
word: lizard brained
word: lizard-brained
word: Lizardbreath
taxonomic: Schroederichthys saurisqualus
word: lizard catshark
word: lizardfish
taxonomic: Synodontidae spp.
word: lizard fish
word: lizardfolk
word: lizard-folk
taxonomic: Kaupifalco monogrammicus
word: lizard hawk
word: lizardish
word: lizardless
word: lizardlike
word: lizardling
word: lizardly
word: lizard man
word: lizardman
word: lizardness
word: lizardom
taxonomic: Himantoglossum hircinum
word: lizard orchid
taxonomic: Tetrastigma voinierianum
word: lizard plant
word: lizardry
word: lizard-skin
word: lizardskin
taxonomic: Thamnophis spp.
word: lizard snake
word: lizard-stone
taxonomic: Piper spp.
word: lizard tail
word: lizardy
word: lot lizard
word: lounge lizard
word: lounge-lizard
word: mimic glass lizard
word: monitor lizard
word: Monte Cristo arboreal alligator lizard
word: night lizard
word: ocellated lizard
taxonomic: Tiliqua rugosa
word: pinecone lizard
taxonomic: Sceloporus undulatus
word: pine lizard
word: pit lizard
word: plated lizard
word: regal horned lizard
word: rock lizard
word: sailfin lizard
word: Saint Croix ground lizard
word: sand lizard
word: side-blotched lizard
taxonomic: Tiliqua rugosa
word: sleepy lizard
word: snake lizard
word: spectacled lizard
word: spiny-tailed lizard
word: star lizard
alt: Trachysaurus rugosus
word: stump-tailed lizard
word: Tenerife giant lizard
word: terrible lizard
word: Texas spiny lizard
word: thunder lizard
taxonomic: Urosaurus spp
word: tree lizard
word: viviparous lizard
word: wall lizard
word: Wegner's glass lizard
word: western fence lizard
word: woodlizard
taxonomic: Amphisbaenia spp.
word: worm lizard
word: zebra-tailed lizard