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greasehorns

greasehorns is the plural of greasehorn.

Meaning of greasehorn

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

Questions about greasehorns

What is greasehorns the plural of?
Greasehorns is the plural of greasehorn.

Words near greasehorns in the dictionary

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

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