vulgar+herd

  • 51set — v 1. put, place, position, move into position; situate, locate, localize, plant, mount; deposit, reposit, lay down, plump, rest; land, bring down, bring in, set down; park, station, stick; lodge, quarter; slap, tuck, slip, insert; implant,… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 52genteelism — Fowler (1926) described genteelism as ‘the substituting, for the ordinary natural word that first suggests itself to the mind, of a synonym that is thought to be less soiled by the lips of the common herd, less familiar, less plebeian, less… …

    Modern English usage

  • 53pū̆ -1, peu-, pou- also phu- —     pū̆ 1, peu , pou also phu     English meaning: to blow, blow up     Deutsche Übersetzung: von der Schallvorstellung der aufgeblasenen Backen; “aufblasen; aufgeblasen, angeschwollen, angeschwollen, aufgebauscht” etc.     Material: O.Ind.… …

    Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary

  • 54children should be seen and not heard — Originally applied specifically to (young) women. c 1400 J. MIRK Festial (EETS) I. 230 Hyt ys an old Englysch sawe [saying]: ‘A mayde schuld be seen, but not herd.’ 1560 T. BECON Works I. Bbb2 This also must honest maids provide, that they be not …

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