A tough old cowboy told his grandson that if he wanted to live a long life, the secret was to sprinkle a little gunpowder on his oatmeal every morning. The grandson did this religiously, and lived to the age of 93.
When he died he left 14 children, 28 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren… and a 15-foot hole in the wall of the crematorium.
comb. Form forming adjectives and nouns meaning ‘affected with -mania’ or ‘a person affected with -mania’ (nymphomaniac).
- —n. - colloq. Person behaving wildly (too many maniacs on the road).
- colloq. Obsessive enthusiast.
- person suffering from mania. —adj. Of or behaving like a maniac. maniacal adj. Maniacally adv.
MANILA
n. - (in full manila hemp) strong fibre of a kind of tree native to the philippines.
- (also manila) strong brown paper made from this. [manila in the philippines]
MANNED
adj. (of a spacecraft etc.) Having a human crew.
MANNER
n. - way a thing is done or happens.
- (in pl.) A social behaviour (good manners). B polite behaviour (has no manners). C modes of life; social conditions.
- outward bearing, way of speaking, etc.
- style (in the manner of rembrandt).
- kind, sort (not by any manner of means). in a manner of speaking in a way; so to speak. To the manner born colloq. Naturally at ease in a particular situation etc. [latin manus hand]
MANQUE
adj. (placed after noun) that might have been but is not (an actor manque). [french]
MANTEL
n. Mantelpiece or mantelshelf. [var. Of *mantle]
MANTIS
n. (pl. Same or mantises) (in full praying mantis) predatory insect that holds its forelegs like hands folded in prayer. [greek, = prophet]
MANTLE
—n. - loose sleeveless cloak.
- covering (mantle of snow).
- fragile lacelike tube fixed round a gas-jet to give an incandescent light.
- region between the crust and the core of the earth. —v. (-ling) clothe; conceal, envelop. [latin mantellum cloak]
MANTRA
n. - hindu or buddhist devotional incantation.
- vedic hymn. [sanskrit, = instrument of thought]
MANUAL
—adj. - of or done with the hands (manual labour).
- a worked by hand, not automatically (manual gear-change). B (of a vehicle) worked by manual gear-change. —n. - reference book.
- organ keyboard played with the hands, not the feet.
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