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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

wisker en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (UK, archaic, slang) A lie
    • Suppose I tell her some damn'd wisker; why, that's but m' old Dog-trick. 1694, “Amphitryon”, in Echard, Laurence, transl., Plautus's Comedies, Amphitryon, Epidicus, and Rudens, Made English, translation of Amphitryon by Titus Maccius Plautus:

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wiskers Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

lie