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Apples and pears is London cockney rhyming slang for stairs.
Carl Earl is American slang for to vomit
Pearls is slang for amyl nitrate (or any associated inhalant drug).
Black pearl is slang for heroin.
Ocean pearl was th century London Cockney rhyming slang for a girl.
Ivory pearl is London Cockney rhyming slang for girl.
Pears is Australian slang for breasts.
Earl is American slang for to vomit
Pearly king is London Cockney rhyming slang for the anus (ring).
Pearly gates is slang for teeth.
Call Earl is American slang for to vomit.
Adj. Cold weather. A pun on 'there being a nasty nip in the air'... from nip(py) (cold) and nip (Japanese). E.g."Put on your scarf and hat, it's pearl harbour out there." [1990s]
Starved. "Lunch in a bit?" "Yeah, I'm a bit pear."
Pearl Harbour is slang for cold weather.
To leave. "I'll catch you later. I’m about to pearl."Â
Noun. Ejaculated semen that has landed around the vicinity of the neck and upper chest, imitative of a pearl necklace.
Pearly gate is London Cockney rhyming slang for a dinner plate.
Pearly whites is British slang for teeth.
Adj. Out of shape, unorganised, wrong. Heard in the expression go pear-shaped. E.g."All our plans went pear-shaped after our funds were cut by the finance department."
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Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.
v. i.
To resemble pearl or pearls.
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To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
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To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.
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Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly.
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A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl. [Written also nacker and naker.] See Pearl, and Mother-of-pearl.
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Of the form of a pear.
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Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
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Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells.
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Pearly; resembling pearl.
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A fermented liquor made from pears; pear cider.
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The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
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Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.
v. t.
To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.
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Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly.
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Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.
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Active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day.
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Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
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A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and compare in value with the precious stones.
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Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.
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