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English[edit]

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 order Squamata that is not a snake or an amphisbaenian, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.
- (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
- bleed the lizard
- blue-tongued lizard
- blue-tongue lizard
- bobtail lizard
- caiman lizard
- changeable lizard
- Chinese crocodile lizard
- collared lizard
- crib lizard
- dabb lizard
- dragon lizard
- drain the lizard
- Eastwood's whip lizard
- fence lizard
- 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
- horned lizard
- house lizard
- Jesus Christ lizard
- Jesus lizard
- Jew lizard
- La Gomera giant lizard
- legless lizard (Pygopodidae spp.)
- leopard lizard
- lesbian lizard
- lion lizard
- lizard beetle
- lizard brain
- lizard-brained
- lizard brained
- lizard catshark (Schroederichthys saurisqualus)
- lizard fish (Synodontidae spp.)
- lizard-folk
- lizard hawk (Kaupifalco monogrammicus)
- lizard man
- lizard orchid (Himantoglossum hircinum)
- lizard plant (Tetrastigma voinierianum)
- lizard-skin
- lizard snake (Thamnophis spp.)
- lizard-stone
- lizard tail (Saururus spp., Piper spp.)
- lot lizard
- lounge-lizard
- lounge lizard
- monitor lizard
- Monte Cristo arboreal alligator lizard
- night lizard
- ocellated lizard
- pinecone lizard (Tiliqua rugosa)
- pit lizard
- plated lizard
- regal horned lizard
- rock lizard
- sailfin lizard
- sand lizard
- side-blotched lizard
- sleepy lizard (Tiliqua rugosa)
- snake 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
|
unctuous person
coward — see coward
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
lizard
- Alternative form of lesarde
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