etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) <span class="searchmatch">sound</span> <span class="searchmatch">as</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">roach</span> (not comparable) Perfectly <span class="searchmatch">sound</span>....
<span class="searchmatch">sound</span> <span class="searchmatch">as</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> barrel (simile, rare) healthy, enjoying good health <span class="searchmatch">sound</span> <span class="searchmatch">as</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> bell <span class="searchmatch">sound</span> <span class="searchmatch">as</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> dollar <span class="searchmatch">sound</span> <span class="searchmatch">as</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">roach</span> <span class="searchmatch">sound</span> <span class="searchmatch">as</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> pound <span class="searchmatch">sound</span> <span class="searchmatch">as</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> barrel at...
(adjective) safe and <span class="searchmatch">sound</span> <span class="searchmatch">sound</span> <span class="searchmatch">as</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> barrel <span class="searchmatch">sound</span> <span class="searchmatch">as</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> bell <span class="searchmatch">sound</span> <span class="searchmatch">as</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> dollar <span class="searchmatch">sound</span> <span class="searchmatch">as</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> pound <span class="searchmatch">sound</span> <span class="searchmatch">as</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">roach</span> <span class="searchmatch">soundly</span> <span class="searchmatch">soundness</span> → Volapük: saun healthy...
tar-vvater and turpentine vvill make you <span class="searchmatch">as</span> <span class="searchmatch">ſound</span> <span class="searchmatch">as</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">roach</span>. 1874, Wilkie Collins, The Dead Alive: The old man had become <span class="searchmatch">a</span> confirmed invalid, confined by chronic...
tar-vvater and turpentine vvill make you <span class="searchmatch">as</span> <span class="searchmatch">ſound</span> <span class="searchmatch">as</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">roach</span>. (euphemistic, dated) Alcoholism <span class="searchmatch">as</span> it precipitates <span class="searchmatch">a</span> person's death (especially of natural...
conſumptions, coughs and catarrhs, tar-vvater and turpentine vvill make you <span class="searchmatch">as</span> <span class="searchmatch">ſound</span> <span class="searchmatch">as</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">roach</span>. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter III, in Moby-Dick; or...
raudās <span class="searchmatch">A</span> form of rauda (“<span class="searchmatch">roach</span>”, fish sp.). raudas f inflection of rauda: genitive singular nominative/vocative/accusative plural From the same stem <span class="searchmatch">as</span> raudāt...
un‧based unbased (comparative more unbased, superlative most unbased) Without <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">sound</span> basis; unfounded; baseless. 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter...
(intransitive) To hit <span class="searchmatch">a</span> flat surface and deform into an irregular shape. The egg splatted onto the floor. (transitive) To splatter. She splatted the <span class="searchmatch">roach</span> with her...
from Latin bombus (“<span class="searchmatch">a</span> booming <span class="searchmatch">sound</span>”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the <span class="searchmatch">sound</span> itself. Doublet of bombe...