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    [Noun]  | "ve*ran*da" | \ və-ˈran-də \


    1: a usually roofed open gallery or portico attached to the exterior of a building

    Origin: 1711 ;

     Borrowed perhaps via an Indo-Portuguese creole from Portuguese varanda, akin to Spanish baranda "railing" (earlier, "balcony, floor of a building"), Catalan barana "railing," Old Occitan baranda "barrier, barricade," all going back to *varanda "enclosing barrier, the area enclosed," of obscure origin; reinforced by Hindi & Urdu baraṇḍā "roofed gallery," Marathi varãḍ, varãḍā "parapet," in part borrowed from Portuguese varanda and English veranda, in part going back to Sanskrit varaṇḍaka- "mound of earth, rampart separating two fighting elephants," varaṇḍa- "partition wall" ;

      * Note : An Anglo-Indian word, most of the early evidence for which is cited in Yule and Burnell's Hobson-Jobson (2nd edition 1903) and the Oxford English Dictionary. The superficial similarity in form and meaning of the Romance and Indo-Aryan words is striking enough that the Romance scholar Joan Coromines attempted to connect them, positing an Indo-European substratal noun as the source of both, to which he added Lithuanian (Žemaitian dialect) varanda "loop plaited from flexible twigs" (Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico). It is questionable, however, if the original meanings of the three etyma are really closely comparable, so that the phonetic likeness may simply be coincidence. The Romance word has been connected with Spanish and Portuguese vara "rod, pole" and other progeny of Latin vāra "forked pole," but, as Coromines points out, the deverbal suffix -anda would require the existence of an otherwise unknown verb *varar; other Romance forms descended from a variant *varandia/varania (see: Coromines) make such a hypothesis even less likely.;

    [Noun]  | "veranda" 


    1: a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building;


      * e.g., " ... whiling away the afternoon from the inn's wide veranda "



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     [ "veranda" ]

    1: a porch, or a balcony.

      * e.g.,  ... Bob: Where do you wanna go? 

     [ "veranda" ]

    1:  In Glasgow, a miniscule balcony on a high-rise tower block.

      * e.g.,  ...  "Dougie, quick it's raining. Take the washing in off the veranda." 

     [ "veranda" ]

    2:  In the rest of the English-speaking world, including the rest of Scotland, a large raised patio overlooking a lawn.

      * e.g.,  ...  "I think this calls for G-and-Ts on the veranda. Wouldn't you agree, Hamish?" 

     [ "veranda" ]

    1:  the female version of the taint

      * e.g.,  ...  trisha had a bruise on her veranda from my ringfinger after giving her the shocker 

     [ "veranda" ]

    2:  a very holy place that a man often come across as his tongue travels from performing cunnilingus to giving a rim job

      * e.g.,  ...  damn trisha's veranda tasted like sweet cherry pie 

     [ "veranda" ]

    1: bamcony

      * e.g.,  ... locve skitting on veranda 

     [ "veranda" ]

    1: bamcony

      * e.g.,  ... i lobe skitting on veranda 

     [ "Social On The Veranda" ]

    1: A new, young upcoming Australian band that plays indie rock music who just released their debut EP 'Caught In The Chaos.'

      * e.g.,  ... Conor: Yo man, you coming to the gig this friday? 

     [ "carmen on my veranda" ]

    1: n: A drunk latino woman with a bowl of fruit on her head, found passed out on your front porch in the morning. (Sad shades of Carmen Miranda).

      * e.g.,  ... "I was so embarrassed this morning, I had to step over a drunken Carmen on my Veranda this morning to get to Starbucks." 

     [ "veranda over the toy shop" ]

    1: slang from Oz... Australia, describing a big belly.

      * e.g.,  ... Crickey! he's got quite the veranda over the toy shop. 

     [ "Monks veranda" ]

    1: The area of skin between and man's balls and asshole

      * e.g.,  ... I've got a real itch on my monks veranda today, need to find somewhere out of teh way to give it a good scratch 

     [ "VPS (Veranda Park Solanos)" ]

    1: A San Antonio Texas gang based in Northside of San Antonio

      * e.g.,  ... “You reppin’ VPS (Veranda Park Solanos)?” 

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