thug: a brutal ruffian or assassin : gangster, tough. This suffix appears in bastard, laggard, and sluggard, to name a few. Based on our extensive corpora (= collections of written and spoken texts) and aligned to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages ( CEFR ), the word lists Browse all entries english in from C & W abbreviation to Czechia noun Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries. The Oxford Advanced American Dictionary is an advanced-level monolingual dictionary for learners of American English. Seven weeks later, a court found William C.
The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP). His parents were Arthur Sabin Coward (1856–1937), a piano salesman, and Violet Agnes Coward (1863–1954), daughter of Henry Gordon Veitch, a captain and surveyor in the Royal Navy.
