lizard
See also: Lizard
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English lesarde, lisarde, from Anglo-Norman lusard, from Old French lesard (compare French lézard), from Latin lacertus, which is of obscure origin. Displaced native Middle English aske, from Old English āþexe (> modern English ask, askard).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lizard (plural lizards)
- Any reptile of the suborder Lacertilia, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.
- a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 169:
- The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.
- 1851, John Ruskin, chapter XX, in The Stones of Venice, volume I (The Foundations), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § XXX, pages 223–224:
- The forms of the serpent and lizard exhibit almost every element of beauty and horror in strange combination; […]
- 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:
- Hooded rattlesnakes, horned toads, and lizards crawl in the dust and among the rocks.
- (chiefly in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
- 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Proof”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.:
- Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown
- (colloquial) An unctuous person.
- (colloquial) A coward.
- (rock paper scissors) A hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- (in compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.
- lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard
Derived terms
[edit]- alderman lizard
- alligator lizard
- alpine meadow lizard
- basilisk lizard
- beaded lizard
- bearded lizard
- bleed the lizard
- bluelizardite
- blue-tongued lizard
- blue-tongue lizard
- bobtail lizard
- bunk lizard
- caiman lizard
- canteen lizard
- changeable lizard
- Chinese crocodile lizard
- collared lizard
- crib lizard
- dabb lizard
- draco lizard
- dragon lizard
- drain the lizard
- Eastwood's whip lizard
- European green lizard
- fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus)
- flat lizard
- flying lizard (Draco spp.)
- frilled lizard
- frilled-neck lizard
- frilled neck lizard
- frill-necked lizard
- frilly lizard
- fringe-toed lizard
- fuck-you lizard
- glass lizard
- Goldman's bunchgrass lizard
- green lizard
- horned lizard
- house lizard
- Jesus lizard, Jesus Christ lizard
- Jew lizard (Pogona barbata)
- La Gomera giant lizard
- legless lizard (Pygopodidae spp.)
- leopard lizard
- lesbian lizard
- lion lizard
- lizard beetle
- lizard brain
- lizard brained, lizard-brained
- Lizardbreath
- lizard catshark (Schroederichthys saurisqualus)
- lizardfish
- lizard fish (Synodontidae spp.)
- lizardfolk
- lizard-folk
- lizard hawk (Kaupifalco monogrammicus)
- lizardish
- lizardless
- lizardlike
- lizardling
- lizardly
- lizardman
- lizard man
- lizardness
- lizardom
- lizard orchid (Himantoglossum hircinum)
- lizard plant (Tetrastigma voinierianum)
- lizardry
- lizardskin
- lizard-skin
- lizard snake (Thamnophis spp.)
- lizard-stone
- lizard tail (Saururus spp., Piper spp.)
- lizardy
- lot lizard
- lounge lizard, lounge-lizard
- mimic glass lizard
- monitor lizard
- Monte Cristo arboreal alligator lizard
- night lizard
- ocellated lizard
- pinecone lizard (Tiliqua rugosa)
- pine lizard (Sceloporus undulatus)
- pit lizard
- plated lizard
- regal horned lizard
- rock lizard
- sailfin lizard
- Saint Croix ground lizard
- sand lizard
- side-blotched lizard
- sleepy lizard (Tiliqua rugosa)
- snake lizard
- spectacled lizard
- spiny-tailed lizard
- star lizard
- stump-tailed lizard (Trachysaurus rugosus)
- Tenerife giant lizard
- Texas spiny lizard
- thunder lizard
- tree lizard (Urosaurus spp)
- viviparous lizard
- wall lizard
- Wegner's glass lizard
- western fence lizard
- woodlizard
- worm lizard (Amphisbaenia spp.)
- zebra-tailed lizard
Translations
[edit]reptile
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unctuous person
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coward — see coward
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Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]lizard
- Alternative form of lesarde
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