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burdock

UK/ˈbɜːdɒk/US/ˈbɝːdɑːk/

noun

What it means

  1. Any of the species of biennial thistles in the genus Arctium.

    Your love is like a studded leather headlock Your kiss, it could put creases in the rain You're rarer than a can of dandelion and burdock And those other girls are just post-mix lemonade

    2011, Alex Turner, “Suck It And See”, in Suck It And See, performed by Arctic Monkeys

    Synonyms: gobo

In a sentence

Your love is like a studded leather headlock Your kiss, it could put creases in the rain You're rarer than a can of dandelion and burdock And those other girls are just post-mix lemonade

2011, Alex Turner, “Suck It And See”, in Suck It And See, performed by Arctic Monkeys

Where it comes from

  1. Middle English*bury dokke
  2. Englishburdock

From Middle English *bury dokke (attested as plural bury dokkis), equivalent to bur(ry) + dock.

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