What is the meaning of SILK. Phrases containing SILK
See meanings and uses of SILK!Slangs & AI meanings
n a mess; a poor job: We paid the guy from down the road to come and finish painting the fence, but he made a complete pig’s ear of it. Probably comes from the phrase “you can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear.”
Yellow silk is slang for oriental women viewed purely as sex partners.
A silk hat.
A Chinese word signifying quality, first introduced to mariners in the China trade. Soon became a common word of seamen applied to fine silks, teas, tobacco, etc.
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Silk is American air−force slang for a parachute.
Plug is slang for a shot, blow, or punch. Plug is slang for to shoot with a gun. Plug is slang for to punch or strike.Plug is slang for a tampon.Plug is slang for to have sexual intercourse.Plug was old American slang for a high, tapering silk hat.Plug is American slang for a worthless horse.
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Cat's milk is London Cockney rhyming slang for silk.
Satin and silk is London Cockney rhyming slang for milk.
, as in “all silk so far†All okay so far
Barbed wire.
 A silk handkerchief
Squeeze is slang for the neck.Squeeze is slang for silk, and especially a silk tie.Squeeze is slang for a plan.Squeeze is slang for an impression of an object made for criminal purposes.Squeeze is British slang for money.Squeeze is American slang for a girlfriend.
 Handkerchief (often silk)
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Having the surface covered with a fine and dense silky pubescence; velvety; as, a velutinous leaf.
n.
A light cape or short cloak of silk or lace worn by women in summer.
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That which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize.
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Fig.: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language.
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The larva of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths, which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa.
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Silkiness.
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Dressed in silk.
v. t.
To render silken or silklike.
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Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.
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Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.
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Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.
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Hence, soft and smooth; as, silky wine.
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of Silkman
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A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back.
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The quality or state of being silky or silken; softness and smoothness.
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A dealer in silks; a silk mercer.
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A dyestuff of the induline group, made from aniline, and used as a substitute for indigo in dyeing wool and silk a violet-blue or a gray-blue color.
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