Gibraltarn.
/dʒɪˈbrɒltə//dʒɪˈbrɔːltə/ 1. figurative. An impregnable stronghold.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > fort or fortified town > [noun]
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Gibraltar1856
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jong1904
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits vi. 115 In this Gibraltar of propriety, mediocrity gets intrenched, and consolidated.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person
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1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 158 Asse, and worse then a Cumane Asse, and foole, and dolt, and idiot,..and dodipoul, and Gibaltar.
1608 Merry Devil Edmonton (1617) B 2 b Let me cling to your flanks, my nimble Giberalters.
3. A kind of sweetmeat; a piece of this. More fully Gibraltar rock.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > other sweets
scrochat1448
gobbet riala1500
Portugal1560
sugar-pellet1591
muscadine1599
moscardino1616
rock candy1653
covering-seeds1687
lollipop1784
turn-over1798
lavender-sugar1810
humbug1825
kiss1825
elecampane1826
Gibraltar1831
yellow man1831
rose cake1834
cockle1835
maple candy1840
butterscotch1847
sponge candy1850
squib1851
honeycomb1857
marshmallow1857
motto kiss1858
fondant1861
coffee cream1868
candy-braid1870
candy bar1885
suckabob1888
nut bar1896
crackerjack1902
teiglach1903
red-hot1910
violet cream1912
mouldy1916
patty1916
lace1919
Tootsie Roll1925
sugar mouse1931
Parma1971
cinder toffee1979
1831 Hawthorne in Hawthorne & Wife (1885) I. 126 I send Susannah's Gibraltars. There were fourteen of them originally.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 203/2 Gibraltar rock and Wellington pillars used to be flavoured with ginger, but these ‘sweeties’ are exploded.
1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 460/1 The gibraltars and the silver pieces that Mr. Morley..bestowed upon him.
1886 E. Bates Old Salem, Two Salem Inst. 64 The Gibraltar..is a white and delicate candy, flavored with lemon or peppermint.
Compounds
In names of things belonging to Gibraltar.
Gibraltar ape n. the Barbary ape, Macaca sylvana, esp. a member of the colony of these animals living on the rock of Gibraltar.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Macaca (macaque) > Macaca sylvanus (Barbary ape)
magot1607
Gibraltar-monkey1884
Gibraltar ape1932
1932 S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys & Apes iii. 49 The young of the Gibraltar ape, Macaca sylvana, are born in spring and early summer.
1968 Sunday Tel. 20 Oct. 3/5 He has had to be content with Gibraltar apes.
Gibraltar-monkey n. (see quot.).
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Macaca (macaque) > Macaca sylvanus (Barbary ape)
magot1607
Gibraltar-monkey1884
Gibraltar ape1932
1884 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. III. ii Gibraltar-monkey, Inuus ecaudatus, an originally African monkey, a colony of which is wild on the rocks of Gibraltar.
Gibraltar-stone n. (see quot.).
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1884 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. III. ii Gibraltar stone, stalagmite from a cavern in the rock of Gibraltar.
Gibraltar-swift n. (see quot.).
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Apodiformes > [noun] > family Apodidae > genus Apus > other types of
Gibraltar-swift1770
1770 G. White Let. 26 Nov. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 88 Scopoli seems to me to have found the hirundo melba, the great Gibraltar swift, in Tirol, without knowing it.
Derivatives
Gibralˈtarian n.
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1896 J. Thomson Afr. Explorer ix. 209 Fortunately he fell in with a Gibraltarian.
Giˈbraltarine n. an inhabitant or native of Gibraltar.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Spaniards > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Spain > Gibraltar
rock scorpion1817
rock lizard1843
scorpion1845
Gibraltarine1883
Rock-scorp1912
1883 Athenæum 7 Apr. 438/3 Tangier..has long been one of the holiday haunts of the Gibraltarines.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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