foul expressions

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• foul adj — Chickens can give some people a foul rash. ducky adj, foul ball, grouse v …   English expressions

• foul ball — When a baseball fell in the sewer it was called a foul ball …   English expressions

• foul — foul, foully The normal adverb from foul is foully (pronounced with both ls): • Jerome had done foully, but not so foully as he himself and all here believed Ellis Peters, 1993. The older form foul survives in the quasi adverbial expressions foul …   Modern English usage

• foul —    1. to defecate in an unacceptable place    Usually of dogs on carpets or pavements, but occasionally of humans:     Who had fouled his home? (Boyd, 1982 troops had defecated everywhere in a house)    To foul yourself is to defecate or vomit in …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• foul language — Synonyms and related words: bad language, billingsgate, blue language, colorful language, cursing, cussing, dirty language, dirty talk, dysphemism, evil speaking, filth, filthy language, obscenity, profane swearing, profanity, ribaldry, scatology …   Moby Thesaurus

• fowl n — foul adj, ducky adj, grouse v …   English expressions

• grouse v — This game is foul, Tom groused …   English expressions

• foully — foul, foully The normal adverb from foul is foully (pronounced with both ls): • Jerome had done foully, but not so foully as he himself and all here believed Ellis Peters, 1993. The older form foul survives in the quasi adverbial expressions foul …   Modern English usage

• Europe, history of — Introduction       history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …   Universalium

• Le Livre des snobs — The Book of Snobs Le Livre des snobs (W. M. Thackeray, The Book of Snobs) Première de couverture de l édition originale …   Wikipédia en Français

• Comparison between cricket and baseball — Baseball and cricket at the professional level are the best known members of a family of related bat and ball games. While many of their rules, terminology, and strategies are similar, there are many differences some subtle, some major between… …   Wikipedia