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lizard

noun

  1. type of reptile
  2. reptile
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈlɪz.əːd/ / [ˈlɪz.əːd] / /ˈlɪz.ɚd/

name

Etymology: Recorded as Lisart 1086 (Domesday Book); a corruption of Cornish Lysardh (literally “high court”), influenced by lizard.

  1. A village in Landewednack parish, on the peninsula near Lizard Point, Cornwall, the most southerly village in England, also known as Lizard Town (OS grid ref SW7012)

noun

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).

  1. Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or part of †Mosasauria—typically characterised by a rounded torso, a short neck with an elevated head, a long tail and four limbs, although some species are legless.

    “The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.”

    “The forms of the serpent and lizard exhibit almost every element of beauty and horror in strange combination; […]”

  2. Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.

    “Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown”

  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 female.

    “lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard”