culture vulture
Someone who engages in cultural appropriation; a cultural appropriator.
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Someone who engages in cultural appropriation; a cultural appropriator.
A person, especially one in power, who emphasizes keeping government budgets under control, derogatory when such actions are seen as predatory or entail harsh fiscal discipline or austerity.
(noun) Any bird within the subfamilia Accipitrinae
Synonym of bird colonel.
Synonym of bird colonel.
An onomatopoeia for spitting or expectoration on a penis as a form of oral sex used by Haliey Welch in 2024.
With particular vigilance or attention, implying sharp vision.
Paying extremely close attention; in an extremely protective way
To observe (someone or something) closely and keenly.
A skilled surgeon needs precision, courage, and gentleness
A keen and vigilant observer
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Ware hawk; the word to look sharp, a bye-word when a bailiff passes. Hawk also signifies a sharper, in opposition to pigeon. See PIGEON. See WARE HAWK.
People with similar interests or characteristics do not harm each other
a strict, demanding, or intimidating person
Of doubtful social position — too good for the kitchen, and not good enough for the family; not hawks to be fondled and petted — the "tasselled gentlemen" of the days of falconry — nor yet buzzards — a dull kind of falcon synonymous with dunce or plebeian. "Neither flesh, fowl, nor good red herring.
A soldier tied to the halberts in order to be whipped; his attitude bearing some likeness to that figure, as painted on signs.
Gaudenzio Ferrari (1481-1549), the Milanese painter. The Eagle of the doctors of France. Pierre d'Ailly (1350-1420), French cardinal and astrologer, who calculated the horoscope of Our Lord, and maintained that the stars fore- told the deluge.
Jacques Benigne Bossuet (1627-1704), Bishop of Meaux, the grandest and most sublime of the pulpit orators of France.
The arms of Germany ; to indicate that German wines could be obtained within.
The German eagle has its head turned to our left hand, and the Roman eagle to our right hand. When Charlemagne was made "Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire," he joined the two heads to- gether, one looking east and the other west; consequently, the late Austrian Empire, as the direct successor of the Holy Roman Empire, included the Double-headed Eagle in its coat of arms.
An exclamation used by thieves to inform their confederates that some police officers are at hand.