Abram <span class="searchmatch">work</span> From <span class="searchmatch">Abraham</span> man. <span class="searchmatch">Abraham</span> <span class="searchmatch">work</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">Abraham</span> works) (archaic, British slang) A scam; a swindle; a sham. sham <span class="searchmatch">Abraham</span> <span class="searchmatch">Abraham</span> sham <span class="searchmatch">Abraham</span> suit...
<span class="searchmatch">Abraham</span> works plural of <span class="searchmatch">Abraham</span> <span class="searchmatch">work</span>...
Abram <span class="searchmatch">work</span> (plural Abram works) (archaic, British slang) Alternative spelling of <span class="searchmatch">Abraham</span> <span class="searchmatch">work</span> Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang...
Bedlam Tom of Bedlam's man Abraham sham <span class="searchmatch">Abraham</span> <span class="searchmatch">work</span> Abram sham sham <span class="searchmatch">Abraham</span> sham Abram [Francis Grose] (1788) “<span class="searchmatch">Abraham</span> man”, in A Classical Dictionary of...
The <span class="searchmatch">work</span> starts to approach that mysterious state of werq. <span class="searchmatch">Abraham</span> <span class="searchmatch">work</span> Abram <span class="searchmatch">work</span> adzework aerial <span class="searchmatch">work</span> platform after-<span class="searchmatch">work</span> all in a day's <span class="searchmatch">work</span> allwork...
which the phrase "shamming <span class="searchmatch">Abraham</span>" had been very distinctly audible; […] The term was used by workmen to mean taking time off <span class="searchmatch">work</span> through this pretense....
or characteristic of clockwork; with mechanical regularity. 1980, Carl <span class="searchmatch">Abraham</span> Daniel Fehrman, Poetic Creation, page 138: Particularly prose writers have...
Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press Grierson, George <span class="searchmatch">Abraham</span> (1932) “kömü”, in A dictionary of the Kashmiri language, Calcutta: Asiatic...
ergo- + -philia. ergophilia (uncountable) The love of <span class="searchmatch">work</span> or exercise. 1911, James Johnston <span class="searchmatch">Abraham</span>, The Surgeon's Log: Being Impressions of the Far East...
discouraged. (transitive) To persuade somebody not to do (something). 1854, <span class="searchmatch">Abraham</span> Lincoln., Notes for a Law Lecture: Discourage litigation. Persuade your...