What is the meaning of FEATHERS. Phrases containing FEATHERS
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A Spanish person
Spitting feathers is slang for very thirsty.
Feathers is British slang for pubic hair.
The 'feathers' of the dart which makes the dart more aerodynamic
A male homosexual. Contributor sent the following comment: PATO: I found this listed in your dictionary. You might want to add that it means "duck" in Spanish. Probably referring to Latino men wearing their hair slightly long and flipped up (like a "DA" I think)... resembling the feathers on the back of a male duck.
Body hair.
Horse feathers is American slang for nonsense.
A request to display an honest understanding, dealing or arrangement. 2. Give it up, don't ruffle your feathers Fair go
Adj. 1. Thirsty. E.g."Let's stop at the next cafe, I'm spitting feathers." 2. Frantic, fretful, agitated. E.g."She was spitting feathers after those kids smashed her front window."
cause a commotion
Ridiculous.
A pad stuffed with cotton or feathers, worn by ladies for the double purpose of giving a greater prominence to the hips, and setting off the smallness of the waist.
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A tyrant flycatcher (Milvulus forficatus) of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers.
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A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird.
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One of a special group of feathers which arise from each of the scapular regions and lie along the sides of the back.
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To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
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A green pigment found in the feathers of the turacou. See Turacin.
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A red or crimson pigment obtained from certain feathers of several species of turacou; whence the name. It contains nearly six per cent of copper.
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A very fine wavy crosswise color marking, or a patch of such markings, as on the feathers of birds.
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An arrow or bolt for a crossbow having feathers or brass placed at an angle with the shaft to make it spin in flying.
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To strip of plumes or feathers; hence, to humiliate.
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The Australian pied crow shrike (Strepera graculina). It is glossy bluish black, with the under tail coverts and the tips and bases of the tail feathers white.
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Of or pertaining to the uropygium, or prominence at the base of the tail feathers, in birds.
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Having feathers which in form, color, or arrangement somewhat resemble scales; as, the scaled dove.
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To deprive of feathers; to strip.
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The prominence at the posterior extremity of a bird's body, which supports the feathers of the tail; the rump; -- sometimes called pope's nose.
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The bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds.
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A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers.
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One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, esp. of a hawk.
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Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.
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Any one of several species of plantain eaters of the genus Turacus, native of Africa. They are remarkable for the peculiar green and red pigments found in their feathers.
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A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve.
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