premises
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈpɹɛmɪsɪz/
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Etymology 1
[edit]See premise
Alternative forms
[edit]- præmises (archaic)
Noun
[edit]premises
Verb
[edit]premises
- third-person singular simple present indicative of premise
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]premises pl (plural only)
- Land, and all the built structures on it, especially when considered as a single place.
- (law) The subject of a conveyance or deed.
- (obsolete, slang, euphemistic) The vagina.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina
- 1683, The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony, London: […] H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, […], published 1760, pages 81–82:
- […] ſhe charges her to put him to it as a virgin ought to do; and farther, that as ſoon as he entered the premiſes, with fome feigned reluctancy on her part, muſt fall into a fainting ſhriek, as if ſhe had fallen into a cold water in a hot fit.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]land, and all the built structures on it, considered as a single place
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References
[edit]- “premises n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present