Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The den or dwelling of a wild animal.
- noun A den or hideaway.
- noun Obsolete A resting place; a couch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put or have put in a lair or den.
- To shelter; hold as in a lair.
- To lie (on); rest inactively.
- To enter a lair; lie down (in); lurk.
- noun A place in which to lie or rest; a bed; a couch: now used only of, or with figurative reference to, the den or resting-place of a wild beast.
- noun A litter, as of rabbits; a stock.
- noun An open pasture; a field.
- noun Aportion of a burying-ground affording space sufficient for one or more graves; a burial-plot.
- To sink when wading in snow, mud, or quagmire.
- noun A Scotch form of
lore . - noun Clay; earth.
- noun Mire; a bog; a quagmire.
- noun Soil; land; ground: in this sense probably confused with lair, 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place in which to lie or rest; especially, the bed or couch of a wild beast.
- noun Scot. A burying place.
- noun obsolete A pasture; sometimes, food.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A place
inhabited by awild animal , often acave or a hole in the ground. - noun figuratively A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a
superhero or asupervillain . - verb transitive, Scotland To mire.
- verb intransitive, Scotland To become mired.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the habitation of wild animals
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Remember Maxine D-CA that the CIA and Regan are infecting black people with aids. calling a man a lair is a lot different than accuseing one of Murder.
Wilson says no more apologies for outburst against president 2009
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Not sure how your failure to find more information than wikipedia or the supposed anecdotal evidence of a proven lair is interesting exactly.
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He has no money for beer, and his lair is only for sleeping purposes, so what else remains for him to do?
THE GHETTO 2010
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Last year he dispatched troops into Swat and South Waziristan to oust the Taliban from their mountain lair; more recently, he helped the US increase drone strikes.
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Tasteful, elegant furnishings, bedding, furniture and everything home; this spacious lair is one stop shopping.
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Hmm … I bet his secret lair is something out of Star Wars … the part with the Rancor.
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Tasteful, elegant furnishings, bedding, furniture and everything home; this spacious lair is one stop shopping.
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Eugene Debs sponsered by the Church of the presumptious assumption says: by the way shitweasel it isnt that lair is our favorite word just a very useful word when describing the rightwing MORONS like you that lie constantly
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Tasteful, elegant furnishings, bedding, furniture and everything home; this spacious lair is one stop shopping.
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The developers started down the right path: Bush's evil lair is hidden underneath an abandoned port-a-potty out in the middle of the desert.
Boing Boing 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word lair
Australian slang: a flashily-dressed young man
"At the Tivoli, said Lester, and then The Blue Room. Ooh, I was a lair then. All the best people'd sing me songs. I wrote for the best of em."
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, p 72 of the Graywolf Press hardcover edition
March 31, 2010
Gammerstang commented on the word lair
Australian slang: a flashily dressed young man of brash and vulgar behaviour, to dress up in flashy clothes, to renovate or dress up something in bad taste
July 12, 2018
bilby commented on the word lair
Also the adjective lairy.
July 13, 2018