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Traditional English :: Rottweiler
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rottweier.html - n.
1 a dog of a tall black-and-tan breed.
2 this breed. [G f. Rottweil in SW Germany] |
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Traditional English :: Rottweiler
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rottweier.html - n.
1 a dog of a tall black-and-tan breed.
2 this breed. [G f. Rottweil in SW Germany] |
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English Idioms :: rotten egg
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rottweier.html - {n.}, {informal} A person whose character or way of acting is not good. * /His friends have all learned he is a rotten egg./ Often used by children in fun, as of someone who is slow in doing something. * /The boys ran to the river to go swimming and Dick cried, "Last one in is a rotten egg!"/ |
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English Idioms :: rotten to the core
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rottweier.html - {adj. phr.} 1. Thoroughly decayed or spoiled. * /This apple is inedible; it is brown and soft and rotten to the core./ 2. In total moral collapse. * /The Communist government of Cuba is rotten to the core./ |
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Traditional English :: rotten
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rottweier.html - adj. (rottener, rottenest) 1 rotting or rotted; falling to pieces or liable to break or tear from age or use. 2 morally, socially, or politically corrupt. 3 sl. a disagreeable, unpleasant (had a rotten time). b (of a plan etc.) ill-advised, unsatisfactory (a rotten idea). c disagreeably ill ( feel rotten today). rotten borough hist. (before 1832) an English borough able to elect an MP though having very few voters. rotten-stone decomposed siliceous limestone used as a powder for polishing metals. rottenly adv. rottenness n. [ME f. ON rotinn, rel. to ROT, RET] |
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Traditional English :: rotter
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rottweier.html - n.
esp. Brit. sl. an objectionable, unpleasant, or reprehensible person. [ROT] |
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