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lizard

Pronunciation: /ˈlɪzəd/

The English word “lizard” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or mosasaur—typically characterised by a rounded torso, a short neck with an elevated head, a long tail and four limbs, although some species are legless.
  2. Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
  3. An unctuous person.
  4. A coward.
  5. A hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
  6. A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous woman.

Etymology

From Middle English lesarde, lisarde, from Anglo-Norman lusard, from Old French lesard (compare French lézard), from Latin lacertus, which is of obscure origin. Displaced native Middle English aske, from Old English āþexe (> modern English ask, askard).

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