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Definition: Gift Horse |
Gift HorseNoun1. A gift (usually of inferior quality) that should be accepted uncritically; "it wasn't much, but don't look a gift horse in the mouth". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fastidiousness | Mince the matter; turn up one's nose at; (disdain); look a gift horse in the mouth, see spots on the sun. |
Gratitude | Feel under an obligation, be under an obligation, lie under an obligation; savoir gr_; not look a gift horse in the mouth; never forget, overflow with gratitude; thank one's stars, thank one's lucky stars, bless one's stars; fall on one's knees. |
Ingratitude | Verb: be ungrateful; Adjective: forget benefits; look a gift horse in the mouth. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gift Horse |
| English words defined with "gift horse": To look a gift horse in the mouth. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gift horse": Greek Gift ♦ Harmonia's Necklace ♦ Jockey ♦ Look not a Gift Horse in the Mouth. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Gift Horse (1952) | |
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Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
St. Jerome | Never look a gift horse in the mouth. |
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Expressions using "gift horse": don't look a gift horse in the mouth ♦ look a gift horse in the mouth ♦ never look a gift horse in the mouth ♦ To look a gift horse in the mouth ♦ you must not look a gift horse in the mouth. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
child gift horse | 7 |
don gift horse in look mouth t | 6 |
gift horse rocking | 4 |
gift horse in look mouth never | 3 |
gift horse racing sports | 3 |
art gift horse | 3 |
black box gift horse | 2 |
draft gift horse | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gift horse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | calul de dar nu se cautã la dinţi (never look a gift horse in the mouth, you must not look a gift horse in the mouth). (various references) | |
Thai | หาข้อตำหนิ (look a gift horse in the mouth). (various references) | |
Turkish | üzümünü ye bağını sorma (don't look a gift horse in the mouth). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: foresight. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-g-h-i-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: fighters, freights, ghostier, refights. | |
-2 letters: fighter, forgets, forties, freight, frights, goiters, goitres, goriest, heriots, hogties, hoister, ogreish, refight, resight, shifter, shortie, sighter. | |
-3 letters: egoist, eights, ergots, fetish, fetors, fights, firths, fisher, fogies, forest, forges, forget, fortes, fortis, foster, fright, friths, froths, girths, gofers, goiter, goitre, griefs, grifts, griots, griths, heriot, hogtie, horste, hosier. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-g-h-i-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: foresights. | |
+2 letters: foresighted, overflights. | |
+3 letters: foresightful. | |
+4 letters: flugelhornist, foresightedly, fortnightlies. | |
+5 letters: electrofishing, flugelhornists, foreshortening, forthrightness. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 69 66 74 48 6F 72 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01101001 01100110 01110100 00100000 01001000 01101111 01110010 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G i f t   H o r s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0069 0066 0074 0048 006F 0072 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4175728624281848571 |
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