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101hair — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. mane (see hair); filament;bit, inch (see narrowness, nearness). II Body covering filament Nouns 1. hair; head of hair, mop, mane, crop of hair, thatch, shock; gray, silver or white hair (see… …
102whiskers — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. pl. beard, hair, stubble; hirsuteness; mustache, sideburns, goatee, Vandyke, muttonchops, etc.; bristles; feelers, antennae. See roughness. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. beard, mustache, sideburns,… …
103sideburns — side|burns [ˈsaıdbə:nz US bə:rnz] n [plural] [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: burnsides type of beard in which the chin is shaved, from Ambrose Burnside (1824 81), U.S. general who wore such a beard] hair grown down the sides of a man s face in front of …
104Burnside — Technically, this essay does not belong in the book because the subject does not consist of a proper noun used as an ordinary word. The proper noun is Burnside; the ordinary word, sideburns. Clearly sideburns is not a derivative. Let s clarify …
105Sideburns — Technically, this essay does not belong in the book because the subject does not consist of a proper noun used as an ordinary word. The proper noun is Burnside; the ordinary word, sideburns. Clearly sideburns is not a derivative. Let s clarify …
106up the wahoozey — a lot, more than needed, coming out of our ears The Burnsides are so rich they have money up the wahoozey! …
107beard — n 1.Inf. beaver, full beard, Med. barba; whiskers, mutton chops, burnsides, sideburns; goatee, Vandyke, imperial; stubble, bristles, five o clock shadow. 2. barb, point, spine, spur, jag, nib, prong, tine, cusp. 3. defy, brave, oppose, face, look …
108mutton chop — n. 1. a piece cut from the rib of a sheep for broiling or frying 2. [pl.] side whiskers shaped like mutton chops (i.e., narrow at the top, and broad and rounded at the bottom), with a clean shaven chin separating the two whiskers; burnsides …
