What is the meaning of DEAR. Phrases containing DEAR
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If something is dear it means it is expensive. I thought Texan insurance was dear.
A letter, terminating a relationship.
- If something is dear it means it is expensive. I thought Texan insurance was dear.
In and around Leeds you will find older people might call you "duck" in the same way that they might call you "love" or "dear" in other places. Usually pronounced more like "dook", which rhymes with "book".
To kiss passionately, e.g. 'Oh dear. My dad and mum were snogging at their anniversary party. I didn't know where to look.'Â
Dearie me is bingo slang for three.
Expensive, overpriced. e.g. "I'd like to buy it but in my opinion, it's just too dear"
adj extremely tired; emotionally devastated. You could be shattered by the death of your dear mother or a good invigorating jog. Experiencing both simultaneously would leave you shattered in two different ways at once, and probably reasonably angry. Can there really be a God if the world contains this much suffering? No, probably not.
adj expensive. While a little bit antiquated, itÂ’s still in more widespread use in the United Kingdom than it is in the U.S.
expensive (it was a very dear suit)
Oh my dear was old London Cockney rhyming slang for beer.
Acronym for 'I don't give a damn'. In response to someone saying something entirely trivial, uninteresting or completely irrelevant. Idagd is the abbreviated form of 'fmdidgad', pronounced 'fumd-idgad'. This in turn is an abbreviation of the line from "Gone with the Wind", namely, "Frankly my dear, i don't give a damn". Often this line is only partially abbreviated, so delivered, "Frankly my dear...idgad".
Originally a carbonated sugary drink, now transferred to any alcoholic dring; as in "I'm just off for a pint of sherbert dear!"
(ed: entered verbatim - anyone have more information please?) Means "buzz off", but with the force of "f--- off". Used in Ipswich in elementary schools in the late 40's, early 50's., I suspect, and I would dearly love to have someone investigate this, that this expression was picked up from British soldiers and/or US airmen returning from the Pacific front in WWII, and I suspect that they adapted it from the Japanese verb "ikimasu", to go.
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superl.
Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price.
n.
The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price.
n.
Dear; beloved.
a.
Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.
superl.
Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year.
superl.
Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
adv.
In a dear manner; with affection; heartily; earnestly; as, to love one dearly.
superl.
Pressing; stringent; not easy; firmly held; dear; -- said of money or the money market. Cf. Easy, 7.
n.
A dear one; a sweetheart.
n.
Something dear to one as one's existence; a darling; -- used as a term of endearment.
n.
Same as Deary.
interj.
God's nails, or His nails, that is, the nails with which the Savior was fastened to the cross; -- an ancient form of oath, corresponding to 'Od's bodikins (dim. of body, i.e., God's dear body).
n.
A dear one; lover; sweetheart.
adv.
Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; touching, or affecting intimately; intimate; dear; as, a near friend.
n.
An intimate; a crony; a dear one.
adv.
Dearly; at a high price.
n.
A dear; a darling.
n.
Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
adv.
At what price; how dear.
n.
One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment.
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