dedecorationn.
rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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‘A disgracing or dishonouring’ (Phillips 1658); hence in Bailey, Johnson, and modern dictionaries.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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n.1658- strike a bum note
- strike a bustle
- strike a docket
- strike a good stroke
- strike a hag in the post
- strike a hag into the post
- strike a hard bargain
- strike a hull
- strike a light
- strike a line (also path
- strike a medical etc off the register
- strike a medical practitioner off the register
- strike a name off or now rarely out of
- strike a name off or out of
- strike a person a blow
- strike a person between the eye
- strike a person between the eyes
- strike a person in the eye
- strike a person in the eyes
- strike a person luck
- strike a prisoner in the boots
- strike a rough patch
- strike a sticky patch
- strike a stroke
- strike a tinder