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Traditional English :: wallaroo
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wallaro.html - n.
a large brownish-black kangaroo, Macropus robustus. [Aboriginal wolaru] |
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Traditional English :: wallaby
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wallaro.html - n. (pl. -ies) 1 any of various marsupials of the family Macropodidae, smaller than kangaroos, and having large hind feet and long tails. 2 (Wallabies) colloq. the Australian international Rugby Union team. on the wallaby (or wallaby track) Austral. vagrant; unemployed. [Aboriginal wolaba] |
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Traditional English :: Wallachian
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wallaro.html - adj. & n. (also Walachian) --adj. of the former Principality of Wallachia, now part of Romania. --n. a native of Wallachia. [Wallachia (as VLACH)] |
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Traditional English :: wallah
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wallaro.html - n. orig. Anglo-Ind., now sl. 1 a person concerned with or in charge of a usu. specified thing, business, etc. (asked the ticket wallah). 2 a person doing a routine administrative job; a bureaucrat. [Hindi -wala suffix = -ER(1)] |
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Traditional English :: wallaroo
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wallaro.html - n.
a large brownish-black kangaroo, Macropus robustus. [Aboriginal wolaru] |
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English Idioms :: wall
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wallaro.html - See: BACK TO THE WALL, BEAT ONE'S HEAD AGAINST A WALL, CLIMB THE WALL, FORWARD WALL, HANDWRITING ON THE WALL, HOLE-IN-THE-WALL, STONE WALL or BRICK WALL, TO THE WALL. |
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