At a local coffee bar, a young woman was expounding on her idea of the perfect mate to some of her friends.
"The man I marry must be a shining light amongst company. He must be musical. Tell jokes. Sing. And stay home at night!"
An old granny overheard and spoke up, "Honey, if that"s all you want, get a TV!"
v. Discourage, intimidate. daunting adj. [latin domito from domo tame]
DAVIT
n. Small crane on board ship, esp. For moving or holding a lifeboat. [french diminutive of david]
DEALT
past and past part. Of *deal1.
DEATH
certificate n. Official statement of a person's death.
- duty n. Hist. Property tax levied after death.
- n. - irreversible ending of life; dying or being killed.
- instance of this.
- destruction; ending (death of our hopes).
- being dead (eyes closed in death).
- (usu. Death) personification of death, esp. As a skeleton.
- lack of spiritual life. at death's door close to death. Be the death of 1 cause the death of.
- be annoying or harmful to. Catch one's death colloq. Catch a serious chill etc. Do to death 1 kill.
- overdo. Fate worse than death colloq. Very unpleasant experience. Put to death kill or cause to be killed. To death to the utmost, extremely (bored to death). deathlike adj. [old english]
- penalty n. Punishment by death.
- rate n. Number of deaths per thousand of population per year.
- row n. Us part of a prison for those sentenced to death.
- squad n. Armed paramilitary group.
DEBAG
v. (-gg-) slang remove the trousers of (a person), esp. As a joke.
DEBAR
v. (-rr-) (foll. By from) exclude; prohibit (debarred from the club). debarment n. [french: related to *bar1]
DEBIT
—n. - entry in an account recording a sum owed.
- sum recorded.
- total of such sums.
- debit side of an account. —v. (-t-) 1 (foll. By against, to) enter on the debit side of an account (debit £50 to my account).
- (foll. By with) charge (a person) with a debt (debited me with £500). [latin debitum *debt]
DEBUG
v. (-gg-) colloq. - remove concealed microphones from (a room etc.).
- remove defects from (a computer program etc.).
- = *delouse.
DEBUT
n. (brit. Debut) first public appearance (as a performer etc.). [french]
- n. (us debut) first public appearance (as a performer etc.). [french]
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