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open-arse

noun
/ˈəʊpənɑːs/UK

Etymology

From Middle English open-ers, from Old English openears, corresponding to open + arse, ‘with allusion to the large cavity at the end of the fruit between the persistent calyx lobes’ – OED3.

  1. inherited from openears
  2. inherited from open-ers

Definitions

  1. The medlar fruit.

    • In several of our counties the same fruit is called an open arse; another of those unluckily belotted travesties of a very properly-expressed original phrase [...].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for open-arse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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