bomboman.1
The name in Congo, West Africa, of ‘a huge non-poisonous snake swallowing deer, etc.’ (see Merolla, Vocab.; Proyart; Cavazzi Congo, Matamba, & Angola; Magyar Süd-Afrika). Apparently carried by the Portuguese from Congo to Brazil (Roquete has bom bôma ‘serpent d'Angola et du Brésil’), and there applied to the largest boas, in which sense it appears in some English works. (The history has been traced for us by Dr. E. B. Tylor.)
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1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. and in other recent Dicts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
bomn.2
/bɒm/ The sound caused by the discharge of a gun, less deep and sonorous than a ‘boom’. Also, the sound of a heavy object falling.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > explosive sound > [noun] > of guns or shells
flash in the pan1566
bark1871
phut1874
prut1898
pip-pop1902
bom1906
crump1914
crumping1919
poop1919
cough1928
1906 Westm. Gaz. 11 June 8/2 A faint distant Bom! and everybody murmurs with one accord, ‘First Gun!’
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vi. [Hades] 95 Bom! Upset. A coffin bumped out on to the road.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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n.21906- beat the dutch
- beat the gun
- beat the générale
- beat the head
- beat the hoof
- beat the knave out of doors
- beat the lights out of
- beat the lights out of a person
- beat the lights out of a thing
- beat the liver and lights out of
- beat the liver and lights out of a person
- beat the liver and lights out of a thing
- beat the living daylight out of
- beat the living daylights out of
- beat the living shit, hell, etc, out of
- beat the living shit, hell, etc, out of a person
- beat the living shit, hell, etc, out of a thing
- beat the market
- beat the nail back
- beat the pants off
- beat the pants off a person
- beat the pistol
- beat the price
- beat the rap
- beat the rappel