You queried:

cormorants "

Results retrieved for:
    • \ ˈkȯrm-rənt 

    • \ ˌdə-bəl-ˈkre-stəd- \

    Your query is not considered offensive by any official sources.

    ( some results may take a moment to update )


    [Noun]  | "cor*mo*rant" | \ ˈkȯrm-rənt \


    1: any of various dark-colored web-footed waterbirds (family Phalacrocoracidae, especially genus Phalacrocorax) that have a long neck, hooked bill, and distensible throat pouch

    2: a gluttonous, greedy, or rapacious person


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English cormeraunt, from Middle French cormorant, from Old French cormareng, from corp raven + marenc of the sea, from Latin marinus{mat|corbel|}, {mat|marine|};

    [Noun]  | "dou*ble-crest*ed cormorant" | \ ˌdə-bəl-ˈkre-stəd- \


    1: a North American cormorant (Nannopterum auritum) of which the breeding adults have a tuft of feathers on each side of the head


    Origin: 1835 ;

    [Noun]  | "cormorants" 


    1: one who eats greedily or too much;


      * e.g., " ... Diamond Jim Brady was perhaps the most celebrated cormorant of the Gilded Age "



    •  Antonyms : 

    • (N/A)





    [Noun]  | "cormorant" 


    1: one who eats greedily or too much;


      * e.g., " ... Diamond Jim Brady was perhaps the most celebrated cormorant of the Gilded Age "



    •  Antonyms : 

    • (N/A)





     [ "Cormorants" ]

    1: Exclamation at having discovered extra insects.

      * e.g.,  ... Bug Catcher: 'scuse me, have you seen any bugs around here? 

     [ "spaghetti cormorant" ]

    1: The act of a man ejaculating prematurely without even achieving a full erection, if any. This act is typically only achieved via masturbation, whether intentional or not.

      * e.g.,  ... "All I did was shuffle in my chair and I had a spaghetti cormorant right in the middle of the exam." 

     [ "Spaghetti Cormorant" ]

    1: One of the "naughty" words you can't use in Harmonix's Rock Band Network

      * e.g.,  ... "What is a...'Spaghetti Cormorant?'" 

     [ "cormorant weather" ]

    1: Extremely hot and excessively humid weather. Usually necessitates walking around with one's arms held out from the body (in the manner of a cormorant drying itself after diving for fish) to provide some small measure of armpit ventilation. No matter how expensive your underarm deodorant is, expect it to give up the ghost roughly half an hour after application.

      * e.g.,  ... "Whew! Forty-two Celsius and ninety-five percent humidity... Yup. that's definitely cormorant weather. Welcome to Darwin!" 

     [ "Spaghetti Cormorant" ]

    1: (noun) Straight girls who have sex with other girls. From spaghetti: "girls who are straight until wet", and cormorant: British slag for shagging.

      * e.g.,  ... "There was some serious spaghetti cormorant action happening at the club last night" 

     [ "Year of the Cormorant" ]

    1: The length of time in which you take the classes before your final exams.

      * e.g.,  ... "John, I wish it was still the YEar of the Cormorant" 

     [ "Year of the Cormorant" ]

    1: An ancient intonation only to be uttered in direst boredom, such as maths and physics.

      * e.g.,  ... Maths-vato: blahblahblabalhlbah 

     No results from Words API...

     No results from Linguatools Conjugations API...

     No results from Words API...

     No results from Word Associations API...


    * Query The Library of Babel *
    * Query Wikipedia *
    * Query Google *

    * Discuss! *


    You must be signed in to post comments!


    Top comments for:
    "cormorants"