mountaineering any separate mountain peak over 3000 feet high: originally used of Scotland only but now sometimes extended to other parts of the British Isles
[C20: named after Hugh Thomas Munro (1856--1919), who published a list of these in 1891]
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A laidlaw munrois always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
So is ort. Does it mean:
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
Alice, original name Alice Laidlaw. born 1931, Canadian short-story writer; her books include Lives of Girls and Women (1971), The Moons of Jupiter (1982), and The Love of a Good Woman (1999)
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H(ector) H(ugh), pen name Saki. 1870--1916, Scottish author, born in Burma (now Myanmar), noted for his collections of satirical short stories, such as Reginald (1904) and Beasts and Superbeasts (1914)