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varsal

varsal adjective: whole, entire.

Adjective

varsal (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial, obsolete, usually) Whole, entire.
    • Why, my Lord, you see he's the provokingest Creature in Life: I believe, there is not such another in the varsal World.1731, Jonathan Swift, A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation
    • Now I would give five golden guineas this minute, that her father or any mortal man, woman or child in the varsal world, would come in and say something; for 'tis so awk'ard for I to be sitting here, and I nothing to say to she.1826, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, The Rose, Thistle and Shamrock, act III, scene II

Origin of varsal

Clipping of universal, based on a dialectal pronunciation of the word.

Questions about varsal

What does varsal mean?
Varsal means whole, entire.
What part of speech is varsal?
Varsal is an adjective.

Words near varsal in the dictionary

  1. Varronian
  2. varroosis
  3. Varroville
  4. varry
  5. vars
  6. varsal
  7. Varsanyi
  8. varsha
  9. varsities
  10. varsity
  11. varsity jacket

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