Jan 1, 2011 · A rum Beak; a good Justice. A quare Beak; a bad Justice. A scribing Gloak to the Beak; a Clerk to the Justice. A Horney, a Scout ; a Constable, a Watchman. This last occurrence is especially interesting in strongly suggesting that, in the London cant of 1754, beak referred to a magistrate but not to a constable.

May 28, 2015 · The part that looks like the bill (beak) of a duck. Technically only bill caps have bills, and there are other kinds of caps which don't have bills, but in contemporary American culture, the bill cap is the dominant form of hat, so the name can be (and generally is) shortened to cap, without creating any real ambiguity. –

The word eagle is aquila in Italian, and it is well-known that an eagle's "nose" is curved; a hooked nose in English is often called a beak or beaked nose. Adj.1. beaked - having or resembling a beak. The first picture on the left, depicts an eagle's head whose beak is compared to that of the gentleman's nose. The description (translated) says:

Apr 29, 2014 · @Doorknob - Elliot has named it correctly. The upper lip is skin-covered, skin-colored, and hairy. The pink parts are called the upper and lower vermilion, the border between the skin and the vermilion is called the vermilion border, the wet, shiny inner portion of what people call the "lips" is called the wet vermilion or the mucosa.

Jul 31, 2011 · And yes, I know, beak also has a plosive consonant, and fear ends in an "r". Changes in natural language are rarely consistent or easily explained, and this is one case where we just have to accept the fact that some words changed their pronunciation in a certain way and others, for whatever reasons, either stayed the same or changed in other ways.

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Sep 23, 2014 · 1 is the closest to being correct here. It's an East End London idiom. It is used when someone is very angry & arguing, & sticking their face right into the person that they are angry with/complaining to. Therefore, telling someone to "wind your neck in son, and calm down", is to literally tell them to move their neck back so their …

Dec 31, 2013 · Another theory traces the word kipper to the kip, or small beak, that male salmon develop during the breeding season. Salmon Kype. The salmon spend about one to five years (depending on the species) in the open ocean, where they gradually become sexually mature. The adult salmon then return primarily to their natal streams to spawn.

Jul 31, 2020 · It is indeed related to someone "putting on airs" but the technical etymology goes back to Old English when they often related a person's "energy" and even things like overall health or mental state were believed to be tied to odors and "bad air" (hence plague doctors and those beaked masks; flowers and perfumes kept in the large 'beak' were ...