lizard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: games
rock-paper-scissors
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).
Inflected forms:
form: lizards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: 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, a long tail and four limbs, although some species are legless.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
The forms of the serpent and lizard exhibit almost every element of beauty and horror in strange combination; […]
Hooded rattlesnakes, horned toads, and lizards crawl in the dust and among the rocks.
When held in the hand, the lizard produces an amorous stimulus.
Pinned against my neighbours, I could feel small hands, fleeting as lizards, fluttering lightly through my pockets in search of money, mobile, wallet.
gloss: Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown
gloss: An unctuous person.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A coward.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
examples: lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard
Derived words: alderman lizard
alligator lizard
alpine meadow lizard
Balkan green lizard
basilisk lizard
beaded lizard
bearded lizard
bleed the lizard
bluelizardite
blue-tongued lizard
blue-tongue lizard
bobtail lizard
bunchgrass lizard
bunk lizard
caiman lizard
canteen lizard
changeable lizard
Chinese crocodile lizard
collared lizard
crib lizard
crocodile lizard
dabb lizard
draco lizard
dragon lizard
drain the lizard
Eastwood's whip lizard
fence lizard
flat lizard
flying lizard
frilled lizard
frilled neck lizard
frilled-neck lizard
frill-necked lizard
frilly lizard
fringe-toed lizard
fuck-you lizard
glass lizard
Goldman's bunchgrass lizard
green lizard
ground lizard
horned lizard
house lizard
Jesus lizard
Jesus Christ lizard
Jew lizard
La Gomera giant lizard
lasagna lizard
legless lizard
leopard lizard
lesbian lizard
lion lizard
lizard beetle
lizard brain
lizard brained
lizard-brained
Lizardbreath
lizard catshark
lizardfish
lizard fish
lizardfolk
lizard-folk
lizard hawk
lizard-hipped
lizardish
lizardless
lizardlike
lizardling
lizardly
lizardman
lizard man
lizardness
lizardom
lizard orchid
lizard plant
lizardry
lizardskin
lizard-skin
lizard snake
lizard-stone
lizard tail
lizardy
lot lizard
lounge lizard
lounge-lizard
mesquite lizard
monitor lizard
night lizard
ocellated lizard
pinecone lizard
pine lizard
pit lizard
plated lizard
ring-necked lizard
rock lizard
sailfin lizard
Saint Croix ground lizard
sand lizard
scaly lizard
side-blotched lizard
sleepy lizard
snake lizard
spectacled lizard
spiny lizard
spiny lizard
spiny-tailed lizard
star lizard
stump-tailed lizard
Tenerife giant lizard
terrible lizard
Texas spiny lizard
thunder lizard
tree lizard
viviparous lizard
wall lizard
Wegner's glass lizard
western fence lizard
whip lizard
woodlizard
worm lizard
zebra-tailed lizard
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