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greasehorn

greasehorn noun: a horn filled with grease for use as lubricant.

Noun

greasehorn (plural greasehorns)

  1. (historical) A horn filled with grease for use as lubricant.
  2. (UK, derogatory, dialectal, obsolete) A flatterer.
    • "Confound your insolence! What have you been about?"
      "Your work, and have done it well."
      "Hypocrite and twaddler! Smooth-faced, snivelling greasehorn!" (this last term is, I believe, purely ———shire, and alludes to the horn of black rancid whale-oil, usually to be seen suspended to cart-wheels, and...1857, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor

Forms of greasehorn

pluralgreasehorns

Origin of greasehorn

grease + horn

Questions about greasehorn

What does greasehorn mean?
Greasehorn means a horn filled with grease for use as lubricant.
What part of speech is greasehorn?
Greasehorn is a noun.
What is the plural of greasehorn?
The plural of greasehorn is greasehorns.

Words near greasehorn in the dictionary

  1. greased the wheels
  2. greased up
  3. greasegrass
  4. greasehead
  5. greaseheads
  6. greasehorn
  7. greasehorns
  8. greaseless
  9. greaselessness
  10. greaselike
  11. greasen

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