lizard

plural lizards

1. Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or mosasaur—typically characterised by a rounded torso, a short neck with an elevated head, a long tail and four limbs, although some species are legless.

   When held in the hand, the lizard produces an amorous stimulus.

   1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 139

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   The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.

   a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 169

   The forms of the serpent and lizard exhibit almost every element of beauty and horror in strange combination; […]

   1851, John Ruskin, chapter XX, in The Stones of Venice, volume I (The Foundations), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § XXX, pages 223–224

   Hooded rattlesnakes, horned toads, and lizards crawl in the dust and among the rocks.

   1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22

   Pinned against my neighbours, I could feel small hands, fleeting as lizards, fluttering lightly through my pockets in search of money, mobile, wallet.

   2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower

2. attributiveLizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.

   Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown

   1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Proof”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.

3. colloquialAn unctuous person.
4. colloquialA coward.
5. gamesA hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
6. in compoundsA person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous woman.

   lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard

1. A peninsula in southern Cornwall, England.

1. A village in Landewednack parish, on the peninsula near Lizard Point, Cornwall, the most southerly village in England, also known as Lizard Town (OS grid ref SW7012)