Ääntäminen
US:
- Tuntematon aksentti:
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
- Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
- A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.
- A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.
- A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).
- Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)
- (informal) A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.
- (slang) An informer or snitch; a squealer.
- (slang) A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (Nembutal).
- (Australia, informal) A yellow sticker of unroadworthiness.
Adjektiivit
- Of a light yellow colour.
Verbit
- (intransitive) to dance nimbly (as in the canary dance)
- (slang) to inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.
Esimerkit
- I will to my honest knight / Falstaff, and drink canary with him.
- and make you dance canary / With sprightly fire and motion;
- The tendency in these types of situations (as far as I can see) is that because I don't think the act itself is illegal, the police will go through your vehicle systematically loking for anything wrong with it, to slap a canary on it (that's slang for an unroadworthy sticker) or present you with some other fine.
- Yes, if the exhaust is to noisey they can slap a yellow canary on it, but the[n] who cares you got rid of it.
- You don't have to carry a spare wheel for a car to be roadworthy, and if you *do* carry one, it doesn't have to be in a roadworthy condition *unless* you fit it [to] the car and drive on it. If it's not and you get pinched, expect a canary...
- but to jig off a tune at / the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet,
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