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61smooth — adj 1. glassy, glossy, polished, varnished, burnished; sleek, silky, satiny, velvet, fine; delicate, filmy, gossamery, attentuated; greasy, buttery, slippery, slick, icy, oily. 2. even, level, plane, horizontal, flush; flat, unrough, unruffled,… …
62Льюис (Lewis), [Гарри] Синклер — (7.II.1885, Соук Сентер, Миннесота 10.1.1951, Рим) прозаик, первый американский писатель лауреат Нобелевской премии (1930). Родился в семье провинциального врача. Впечатления детства и юности определили привязанность Льюиса к Среднему Западу… …
63babykins — Used by a mother to her daughter, aged about eight, in Gideon Planish, by Sinclair Lewis. See kins …
64bird — This word had been associated with ‘girl’ since the fourteenth century. Originally it may have been a separate word, ‘burd’, a poetic word for woman, and there may have been confusion with ‘bride’, since ‘bird’ itself was often written as… …
65brother — This term was formerly used far more frequently than today to a speaker’s real brother. a male relation born of the same parents. There are plenty of examples in the Shakespeare plays of such usage, the vocative expression sometimes being… …
66comrade — This word is similar to ‘chum’ in some respects. Both words originally meant ‘chamber mate’ and both came to have the general meaning of ‘friend’. ‘Comrade’, however, was early associated with comrades in arms, fellow soldiers who shared one’s …
67dear — This has been one of the commonest terms of address in English since the thirteenth century. In a count of fifty novels dealing with fairly contemporary life, ‘dear’ used on its own as a friendly term occurred 243 times. There were a further… …
68flatfoot — A slang reference to a policeman or private detective. An American man uses it to the latter in Gideon Planish, by Sinclair Lewis. ‘Gumshoe’ is a similar term, and see also Shamus …
69friend — ‘Unless there be real affection in his heart’, writes Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Blithedale Romance, ‘a man cannot more effectually show his contempt for a brother mortal, nor more gallingly assume a position of superiority, than by… …
70hero — One would expect a vocative such as ‘my hero’ to be used mockingly in modern times by a woman to a man, alluding to the romantic fiction of former times when weak females looked to strong men for protection. ‘Hero’ is certainly used mockingly… …
