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open-arses

open-arses is the plural of open-arse.

Meaning of open-arse

Noun

open-arse (plural open-arses)

  1. (UK, regional) The medlar fruit.
    • In several of our counties the same fruit is called an open arse; another of those unluckily belotted travesties of a very properly-expressed original phrase [...].1837, John Bellenden Kerr, An Essay on the Archaeology of our Popular Phrases and Nursery Rhymes, vol II.1

Questions about open-arses

What is open-arses the plural of?
Open-arses is the plural of open-arse.

Words near open-arses in the dictionary

  1. open-air museums
  2. open-aired
  3. open-and-shut
  4. open-armed
  5. open-arse
  6. open-arses
  7. open-back
  8. open-book
  9. open-book contract
  10. open-book contracts
  11. open-breasted

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