Anglo-Saxon

alternative rare Anglosaxon · alternative initialism AS

1. archaicSynonym of Old English (language).

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   [T]he stickiness [of mistletoe berries] persists through the gut, making it hard to defecate mistletoe seeds with any grace. To deal with this, birds like the silky flycatcher, Phainopepla nitens, that are mistletoe specialists, have evolved a "waggle dance" – also known as butt-wiping behavior – where they clean up by rubbing themselves against twigs. Indeed, the association with bird droppings may even be the origin of the word: Some evidence suggests that "mistletoe" comes from Anglo-Saxon for "dung on a twig."

   2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season [print version: Under the hemiparasite, International New York Times, 24–25 December 2014, page 7]”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2014

   Synonyms: Old English

   1. archaicoftenspecificallyOld English free of any foreign borrowings (as from Old Norse or Norman French).
2. informalProfanity, especially words derived from Old English.

   How fucked up is that? (Pardon my Anglo-Saxon)

   2008, Zagreus Mike Luoma, Neo-gnosis, →ISBN

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   Sometimes these chairmen are authoritarians, who wield the budget-book as a weapon - the junior staff members have some Anglo-Saxon words for them

   1954, American Association of University Professors, Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors

   I haven't eaten in two days. What's left to puke? You may remark that my vocabulary has taken a turn for the Anglo-Saxon.

   1995, Margaret Edson, Wit

plural Anglo-Saxons · alternative rare Anglosaxon · alternative initialism AS

1. A member of the Germanic peoples who settled in England during the early fifth century.
2. USA person of English ethnic descent.
3. USMexican-AmericanA lightskinned or blond-haired person presumably of North European descent like British.

comparative more Anglo-Saxon · superlative most Anglo-Saxon · alternative rare Anglosaxon · alternative initialism AS

1. Related to the Anglo-Saxon peoples or language.
2. Related to nations which speak primarily English and are influenced by English culture and customs, especially Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States.

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   [...] Ethnography thus aims at record- ing as accurately as possible the respective modes of life of various groups. Ethnology, on the other hand, utilizes for comparative purposes (the nature of which will be explained below) the data provided by the ethnographer. Thus, ethnography has the same meaning in all countries, and ethnology corresponds approximately to what is known in Anglo-Saxon countries—where the term eth- nology has become obsolete—as social or cultural anthropology.

   1963, Claude Lévy-Strauss, translated by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Schoepf, Structural Anthropology, New York: Basic Books, page 2

3. governmentFavouring a liberal free-market economy.
4. USDescended from some other North European settlers like the British (English).