plain Dunstable
nounEtymology
Likely from an old Bedfordshire proverb "as plain as Dunstable road" or "as plain as Dunstable highway".
Definitions
straightforward language
straightforward language; straight talk.
- Because I value Mr. Solmes as my friend, you treat him the worse — That's the plain Dunstable of the matter, Miss! — I am not such a fool but I can see that.
- ‘Fancy roams over half the world in lovers' sighs, and plain Dunstable in gallantry belongs only to the Puritan ; but never have I met such fantastic wooing and cooing since I went in for daggering of arms myself.’
Straightforward, honest.
- Why, master Thorney, do you mean to talk out your dinner ? the company attends your coming . What must it be, master Frank ? or son Frank ? I am plain Dunstable.
- Howbeit there were some good walkers among them that walked in the king's highway ordinarily, uprightly, plain Dunstable way; and for this purpose I would show you an history which is written in the third of the Kings.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA