What is the meaning of ALF. Phrases containing ALF
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Pass away, as a result of leaving life's harbour. Certainly, this term is in reference to the 1889 poem "Crossing the Bar" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Alf Garnet is London Cockney rhyming slang for hair (Barnet).
Alfalfa is American slang for money. Alfalfa is American slang for tobacco.
A simpleminded individual with few social skills and even less intellectual capacity. In use very much the London equivalent of Pranny. For example, see verse from a song by Ian Dury (1977) called Billericay Dickie:: I'd redezvous with Janet Quite near the Isle Of Thanet She looked more like a gannet. She wasn't 'alf a prannet. Her mother tried to ban it Her father helped me plan it and when I captured Janet She bruised her Pomegranite (ed: I wonder if anyone would like to send me an MP3 of this? sounds interesting!)
Alfie Bass is London Cockney rhyming slang for gas.
Piles (hemorrhoids). Blimey, I ain't 'alf suffering from me farmers
Alfred the Great is London Cockney rhyming slang for weight.
Alf is Australian slang for an uncultivated Australian.
Alfred (shortened from Alfred the Great) is London Cockney rhyming slang for weight.
A simpleminded individual with few social skills and even less intellectual capacity. In use very much the London equivalent of Pranny. For example, see verse from a song by Ian Dury (1977) called Billericay Dickie: I'd redezvous with Janet Quite near the Isle Of Thanet She looked more like a gannet. She wasn't 'alf a prannet. Her mother tried to ban it Her father helped me plan it and when I captured Janet She bruised her Pomegranite (ed: I wonder if anyone would like to send me an MP3 of this? sounds interesting!)
Emissions Control. Various conditions of electronic silence. For example, "EMCON Alfa" is total emissions silence while "EMCON Bravo" allows radiation of certain non type-specific emitters.
What cowboys often called a farmer.
Euphamism for 'cow' - as if one was needed! Introduced by the Alf Garnett (Warren Mitchell) character in the 1960's sitcom "For better or worse", as a less offensive way of insulting his wife Else (Dandy Nicholls). From the classic days of British comedy.
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The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.
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An ensign; a standard bearer.
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A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.
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A leguminous plant (Medicago sativa), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; -- called also alfalfa.
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The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc.
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Alt. of Alfa grass
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In the open-air.
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A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.
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An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.
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A book said to have been compiled under the direction of King Alfred. It is supposed to have contained the principal maxims of the common law, the penalties for misdemeanors, and the forms of judicial proceedings. Domebook was probably a general name for book of judgments.
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An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).
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Peace; -- a word used in composition, especially in proper names; as, Alfred; Frederic.
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A California surf-fish (Rhacochilus toxotes); -- called also alfione, and perch.
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