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Food [13] Purl Curl, swirl, frill; or an abbreviation of pur lamb: Pur lamb A castrated ram lamb Puxy A miry or boggy place Pwope A bunchy thing, an effigy, a doll, a puppet Q Quartere'il, Quaterevil A disease of sheep, a corruption of the blood Quine: The corner of a wall [13] Quob: Quiver, shake [13] R Rafty Rancid Rake To reek Rale: Walk [13 ...
For Old English-derived words, see List of English words of Old English origin. English words of African origin; List of English words of Afrikaans origin. List of South African English regionalisms; List of South African slang words; List of English words from indigenous languages of the Americas; List of English words of Arabic origin
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Adds a block quotation. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status text text 1 quote The text to quote Content required char char The character being quoted Example Alice Content suggested sign sign 2 cite author The person being quoted Example Lewis Carroll Content suggested title title 3 The title of the poem being quoted Example Jabberwocky Content suggested ...
Acrostic: a poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically. Example: “A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky” by Lewis Carroll. Concrete (aka pattern): a written poem or verse whose lines are arranged as a shape/visual image, usually of the topic. Slam; Sound; Spoken-word; Verbless poetry: a poem ...
The dictionary's direct ancestor is Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (1937–84) which originally inspired Green to write his own dictionary of slang, published as The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang in 1984. [3] [4]