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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Queen's English (The). Dean Alford wrote a small book on this subject, whence has arisen three or four phrases, such as "clipping the Queen's English," "murdering the Queen's English," etc. Queen's English means grammatical English. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Language | Noun: language; phraseology; speech; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's English, Queen's English; dialect. |
Solecism | Verb: use bad grammar, faulty grammar; solecize, commit a solecism; murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English, break Priscian's head. |
Stammering | Mumble, mutter; maud, mauder; whisper; mince, lisp; jabber, gibber; sputter, splutter; muffle, mump; drawl, mouth; croak; speak thick, speak through the nose; snuffle, clip one's words; murder the language, murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English; mispronounce, missay. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: QUEEN'S ENGLISH |
| Specialty definitions using "QUEEN'S ENGLISH": Ramsbottom. (references) |
Expressions using "QUEEN'S ENGLISH": murder the Queen's English ♦ the Queen's English. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "QUEEN'S ENGLISH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | englische hochsprache. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | helyes angolság. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | クーロン力 (car horn, Chrysler, Clark, classic, classic car, classic life, classic races, classical, classicism, clerk, client, client server, climax, climber, climbing, climograph, cloud, collider, cook, cookie, cooking, cooking card, cooking school, Coulomb's force, coutouriere, couturier, crime story, crisis, criteria, crouching start, crown, cryoelectronics, cryogenics, cumin, cushion, cushion ball, Klaxon, Kuwait, large size, multi-purpose health facility, pitcher throwing to first base, quake, Quaker, quality, quality paper, quantity, quantize, quark, quarter, quarterback, quarterly, quartet, quartz, quasar, queen, queen size, Queensland, question, question mark, quick, quick motion, quick step, quick turn, quilter, quintet, quinto, quiz, quiz mania, quiz rally, quota, quotation mark, quote, Society of Friends, the Queen Mary). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | クイーンズイングリッシュ . (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | een'squay englishay inglês correto. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-e-e-e-g-h-i-l-n-n-q-s-s-u" | |
-3 letters: queenliness. | |
-5 letters: englishes, henequens, henequins, heniquens, lessening, squilgees. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Expressions 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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