What is the meaning of DWELL. Phrases containing DWELL
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Noun. A person, usually young, who typically wears casual, brand-name sportswear, such as Nike, Addidas and Reebok etc Usually associated with town/city dwellers. Also towny. Mainly derog.
Dwell up is British slang for to stop, to wait.
Person deemed to copulate with sheep because they comes from a "rural area" and (thus) are short of woman. The result being an invariable desire/need to copulate with sheep. Used by any city dweller for anyone from the suburbs and beyond.
Noun. A rural dweller, a country bumpkin. [Yorkshire use]
a sled made from barrel slats
Noun. A rural dweller, a bumpkin, a yokel. Mainly derog. [Irish use]
New Jersey = the arm pit of America, this does not mean that African Americans live in Jersey. However, in any city in America, African Americans can be found in the worst parts (or arm pits) of that city. Therefore making them Jersey-dwellers.
House, apartment, dorm, dwelling
[from the mats in opium dens on which the smokers reclined and slept. In the 1930s, Harlem apartments where marijuana was sold and smoked while reclining on couches or mattresses were called tea pads ] (1) private place for taking drugs; a variant is crash pad , a place for recovering from the effects of a methamphetamine run (period of extended use); the user collapses (crashes ) into an exhausted sleep. (2) by extension, since the 1950s, any dwelling place, room, apartment
Sinews of the buffalo or other animal, or small strips of thin deer-skin, used by the dwellers and hunters of the prairies for sewing.
substandard dwelling
n 1. a. A cheap or disreputable gathering place. b. A building or dwelling. c. A prison. Often used with the. 2. A marijuana cigarette. 3. A penis.
(GAN-ja) n., marijuana, bot., cannabis sativa. “Stop dwellin’ on that ganja.â€Â [Etym., Rastafarian.]
A derelict person, a destitute individual or an impoverished city dweller
A hut, or mean dwelling.
Original application with the Australian Aborigine, who would for no apparent reason leave his place of dwelling and go wandering long distances, often for hundreds of kilometres
A farm-dweller or, more broadly, someone living beyond walking distance of a newsagent's; also usually suggesting that they are of low intelligence and/or quetionable personal hygiene.
Noun. 1. A miscreant, an irresponsible, self-assured lout, usually male. Abb. of scallywag. This derogatory term has been in prolific use from the early 1990s. 2. A person, usually young, who typically wears casual, brand-name sportswear, such as Nike, Addidas and Reebok etc., baseball caps, and boots, often Rockport. Usually associated with town/city dwellers. * Scally was also a term for a Liverpudlian youth, used in and around Liverpool itself and was possibly the forerunner of the current expression, however the use of it in this form is now rare.
Noun. A rustic, rural dweller. Derog. [Orig. U.S.]
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One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes.
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Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands.
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Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.
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One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature.
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One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal.
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The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.
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A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.
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Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.
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Of or pertaining to a troglodyte, or dweller in caves.
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An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller.
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A number or company of ten householders who, dwelling near each other, were sureties or frankpledges to the king for the good behavior of each other; a decennary.
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A genus of Infusoria which form minute vaselike or tubular cases in which they dwell.
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An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.
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See Lake dwellers, under Lake.
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Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus Cerianthus. These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth internal lining, in which they dwell, whence the name.
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To be accustomed to go; to frequent; to inhabit; to dwell; -- sometimes followed by of.
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One dwelling in the upland; hence, a countryman; a rustic.
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Any nest or dwelling of termes, or white ants.
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