lizard
See also: Lizard
English
Etymology
From Middle English lesarde, lisarde, from Anglo-Norman lusard, from Old French lesard (compare French lézard), from Latin lacertus. Displaced native Middle English aske (“newt, lizard”); see ask.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file)
Noun
lizard (plural lizards)
- Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake, 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”, The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.
- Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown
- 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Proof”, The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.
- (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
- legless lizard (Pygopodidae spp.)
- lizard brain
- lizard catshark (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- lizard fish (Synodontidae spp.)
- lizard hawk (Kaupifalco monogrammicus)
- lizard orchid (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Lizard plant (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- lizard-skin
- lizard snake (Thamnophis spp.)
- lizard-stone
- lizard tail (Saururus spp., Piper spp.)
- lounge lizard
- pinecone lizard (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- rock lizard
- sleepy lizard (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- stump-tailed lizard (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- tree lizard (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. spp)
- wall lizard
- worm lizard (Amphisbaenia spp.)
Translations
reptile
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unctuous person
coward — see coward
Middle English
Noun
lizard
- Alternative form of lesarde
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