Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word harringay.

Examples

  • Any breach of safeguarding is immediate special measures according the the Ofsted assessment criteria, since harringay alot more schools are getting them.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • Any breach of safeguarding is immediate special measures according the the Ofsted assessment criteria, since harringay alot more schools are getting them.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • [compact. ning.com] Harringay Online [harringay. ning.com] Montpelier Community

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • (adjective) - (1) Harringay expresses a neighbourhood or district abounding in hares.

    --Trench Johnson's Phrases and Names: Their Origins and Meanings, 1906

    (2) In modern times, "buying the rabbit" means asking or looking for trouble or doing something that will inevitably earn a rebuff. The phrase owes its origin to the fact that one of the old-fashioned meanings of the word rabbit is curse or bother.

    --J.B. Lippincott's Everyday Phrases Explained, 1913

    (3) Fud, a tail; still applied to the tail of a hare or rabbit.

    --Charles Mackay's Lost Beauties of the English Language, 1874

    January 14, 2018