Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Anglo-Saxon times, the domain or allotment of an individual.
- See
athel .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Noble.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The letter
Œ /œ , or the runeᛟ . - noun A kind of tree, perhaps a
tamarisk , found in northern Africa and in Arabia, which has dark, bluish wood.
Etymologies
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Examples
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One Response on September 28, 2009 at 7: 39 am | Reply ethel
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I remember those gas stations and Continental Kits; fill it up with ethel, Bud.
"He makes you see what you take for granted. And we do that in our houses. We do that in our marriages. We do that with our children." Ann Althouse 2009
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| Reply | Permalink ethel: I sent this link in to TPM earlier but I thought it might cheer you up ...
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That there are still concern trolls like ethel around is amusing.
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February 21, 2008 at 2:49 am i thinks so. mebbe change the name of the target kitteh to ethel-ornj the unready?
pwning ur elders - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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March 9, 2008 at 3:10 pm ethel mermaid HAHAHAHAHAHA1!
EMO BATH - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I really think they have their heads up their aaassses, how much power do you need to render 50kb of html markup? geez. ethel Says:
Sentiment Analysis for Internet Explorer; Comparing to Firefox 2006
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June 9th, 2006 at 12:54 am punaise car talk takes me back- Oh the drive from San Francisco to Las Vegas is more than nine hours at high speed with one stop for ethel.
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My other grandfather died when I was 7, and our next door neighbour Bill who used to play us the harmonica died on my 8th birthday (that was the first thing my gran told me when I woke up) My great aunt ethel (who we'd visited every week since I was born) died when I was 9, and my gran's cousin died when I'd just turned 10.
calmish Diary Entry calmish 2006
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They were said to be "ethel-born," and every member of the royal family was an "etheling," or son of the noble, emphatically.
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mollusque commented on the word ethel
The Old English letter œðel: the ligature œ.
November 3, 2007