cameln.
/ˈkaməl/ 1.
a. A large hornless ruminant quadruped, distinguished by its humped back, long neck, and cushioned feet; it is nowhere found wild, but is domesticated in Western Asia and Northern Africa, in the arid regions of which it is the chief beast of burden.There are two distinct species, the Arabian or one-humped, and the Bactrian or two-humped; a lighter and fleeter variety of the former is known as the Dromedary.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Camelidae (camel) > [noun]
olfendeOE
camelc950
oont1815
ship of the desert1823
desert-ship1824
cameloid1888
humpy1934
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. iii. 4 Gewede of herum ðæra camella [c975 Rushw. hrægl olbendena herum; c1000 Ags. reaf of olfenda hærum; c1160 Hatton, of oluende hære].
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark i. 6 Mið herum camelles [Rushw. cameles, Ags. oluendes, Hatton, olfendes].
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xix. 24 Eaður is camel [Rushw. olbende, Ags. olfende] ðerh ðyril nedles oferfæra.
c1280 Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 3 As eþe forto bring a camel in to þe neld-is ei.
c1300 K. Alis. 6333 They no haveth camayle, no olifaunt.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1398 Anð fond good grið and good hostel Him and hise men and hise kamel.
c1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Judges viii. 21 The neckis of kyngis chamels [a1425 L.V. camels].
c1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Chron. xii. 40 Assis, and chamoilis [a1425 L.V. camelis], and mulis.
c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 1140 Syn ye be strong as is a greet Camaille [v.r. camaile, camayle, Harl. MS. chamayle (rhyme bataille, -aile, aylle)].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3304 And þine camels [Gött. chameyles, Trin. Cambr. camailes] sal drinc þair fill.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. xxiii. 250 Mylk of mares or of camaylles or of asses.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum Camelle, or chamelle, camelus.
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 699 Hic camelus, a camylle.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 45 Blind foolis, clensing forþ þe knatt, but swelowyng þe camely.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 164/4 His knees were as harde as the horne of a camel.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. v. 16 It is as hard to come, as for a Cammell To threed the posterne of a small needles eie. View more context for this quotation
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 96 The wantonnes thereof appeareth by the prouerbe of a dauncing Camell.
1699 L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. 199 His Neck small, and resembling a Cammels.
1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §278 Well, therefore, has the Camel..been termed ‘the Ship of the Desert’.
1861 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (new ed.) 71 It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
b. figurative. A great awkward hulking fellow.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lout or boor > [noun]
carter1509
clumpertonc1534
club1542
pig1546
lout1548
clinchpoop1555
clout-shoe1563
loose-breech1575
hoyden1593
clunch1602
clod1607
camel1609
clusterfist1611
loon1619
Grobian1621
clota1637
hoyde1636
Hottentot1710
yahoo1726
polisson1866
mucker1884
bohunk1908
hairy ape1931
cafone1949
trog1956
oafo1959
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person
bearc1395
carter1509
kensy?a1513
clumpertonc1534
club1542
lout1548
clinchpoop1555
clout-shoe1563
loose-breech1575
clown1583
hoyden1593
boor1598
kill-courtesy1600
rustic1600
clunch1602
loblolly1604
camel1609
clusterfist1611
loon1619
Grobian1621
rough diamonda1625
hoyde1636
clodhopper1699
roughhead1726
indelicate1741
vulgarian1809
snob1838
vulgarist1847
yahoo1861
cave-dweller1865
polisson1866
mucker1884
caveman1907
wampus1912
yobbo1922
yenta1923
yob1927
rude1946
cafone1949
no-neck1961
ocker1971
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. ii. 245 A dray-man, a porter, a very Cammell . View more context for this quotation
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. i. 55 Do rudenesse, do Camel, do, do. View more context for this quotation
c. figurative in allusion to Matthew 23:24: Anything large and difficult to ‘swallow’ or do away with.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > that which is difficult > something difficult to get over or accept
corec1460
choke-pear1573
camel1637
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 172 Swolwynge þe grete camaile alhool.]
1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies ii. v. 23 Christians..mocked & nicknamed Puritans, except they can swallow the Camell of Conformity.
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 23 Can we believe that your government strains in good earnest at the petty gnats of schisme, when..it makes nothing to swallow the Camel heresie of Rome.
1860 L. V. Harcourt Diaries G. Rose I. 143 If the former was more than ‘a gnat’, the latter was not less than ‘a camel’ of immorality.
d. The characteristic colour of a camel, a shade of fawn.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > yellowish brown > fawn
fawn-brown1800
fawn-coloured1803
fawny1849
chamois1872
camel1881
fawn1881
fawnish1895
1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes i. 50 Camel color is the most recent variety of écru shades, coming to us from England.
1922 Daily Mail 11 Dec. 14 Brushed Wool Scarf-wrap..Can be supplied..in plain colours—White,..Camel, Beige, Grey.
1923 Daily Mail 26 Feb. 1 In good shades of Grey, Camel, Fawn.
1924 Tourist Winter Sports No. 20 Sports hats..of camel check Tweed with scarves to match.
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a. technical. A machine for imparting additional buoyancy to vessels, and thus enabling them to cross bars, shoals, etc., otherwise impassable; also for raising sunken ships, removing rocks, etc.It consists generally of two or more huge watertight chests provided with plugs and pumps. Water is admitted in order to sink the chests into position, and they are then fitted and braced to the sides of the vessel, which they are sometimes shaped to fit. On pumping out the water the camels rise, bearing up the vessel along with them.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment for moving ship over bar or shoal > [noun] > apparatus giving increased buoyancy
floating dam1706
camel1716
caisson1811
camel-engine186.
float-case1874
1716 J. Perry State of Russia 168 His Majesty..sent a Person with me to shew me all the Camels (which are flat Vessels made to be fix'd to the bottom of Ships, and to come up like a Chest on each side).
1799 Naval Chron. 2 283 Men of war..lifted over the bar by means of camels.
1805 in Naval Chron. 14 227.
1847 A. C. Key Narr. Recov. H.M.S. Gorgon 76 The construction of camels to be secured to the ship's bilge.
b. A type of aeroplane (see quots.). Cf. pup n.1 5.
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1918 J. T. B. McCudden Five Years in R. F. C. 278 I saw a derelict Sopwith ‘Camel’ which had apparently been shot down several weeks previous.
1918 J. T. B. McCudden Five Years in R. F. C. 310 On one of the Gotha raids I saw a Camel pilot firing at a Gotha at over half a mile range.
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words Camel, the, the nickname of a type of Sopwith scout aeroplane carrying Vickers and Lewis guns. (From its distinctive appearance).
1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station xvi. 290 The Sopwith Camel—a single-seater fighter..derived its name from the hump which it carried on the forward top-side of its fuselage.
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Camel is also a denomination given to a kind of pit-coal, otherwise called canel.
Compounds
C1. Generalattributive.
a.
camel-back n.
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1861 R. Noel in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 464 For ladies to ride ten, twelve, and twenty-four hours on camel back at a stretch.
camel-battery n.
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1884 J. Macdonald in 19th Cent. June 987 The blue-jackets of the..camel-battery poured a well-directed fire at..the redoubt.
camel caravan n.
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1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols viii.105 The camel caravan usually does a good part of its travelling at night.
camel-cart n.
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1900 Daily News 25 Sept. 3/4 Our caravan..included..six camel carts for the ladies and children.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 25 Nov. 2/1 The most striking..conveyance is a camel-cart.
camel-corps n.
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1884 Times 22 Nov. The Camel Corps which marched from Assouan.
camel-draught n.
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1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 128 To slake My greedy thirst with nectarous camel-draughts.
camel-driver n.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > conveyance by pack-animals > one who > camel-driver
cameller1615
camel-driver1753
cameleera1785
sarwan1821
oont-wallah1857
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xxix. 187 The trifling conduct of the carriers and camel-drivers.
camel-dung n. (also camel's dung)
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1903 W. C. Russell Overdue vi Recollection reeks of the flavour of the camel-dung cigarettes of Alexandria.
camel-guide n.
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1886 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. X. 193 ‘Take care of the glass-phials!’ cried the Prophet to a camel-guide.
camel-gulper n. (see 1c.)
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1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More II. 27 Father Cressy, the Camel-gulper.
camel-hide n.
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a1300 Cursor Mundi 2250 Þai þam hide Bath wit hors and camel-hide.
camel-keeper n.
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1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Camelero A Camel keeper.
camel-load n.
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1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xxx. 192 Camel-loads of cloth.
camel-man n.
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1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (1864) 68 Indian Merchants, with their..ten Camels, and fiue Camel-men.
1883 E. Arnold Pearls of Faith xxii. 79 Amru the camel-man lay dead.
camel messenger n.
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1884 Daily News 27 Sept. 5/3 Two camel messengers..came in to-day to ask for food and arms.
camel-path n.
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1824 Edinb. Rev. 41 45 Beaten camel-paths.
camel's dung n.
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1827 Every Night Book 87 We strongly recommend you..to illumine the butt-end of your cigar with camel's dung.
1879 W. J. Loftie Ride in Egypt xii. 261 There is an all-pervading smell..caused..by the use of camel's dung for fuel.
camel-skin n.
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a1425 in Middle Eng. Dict. Camel skyn.
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 38 Ȝe haue girdilis lich knytys; and þei with þongis of chamel skynnys, as Hely and Ion, go girt in her lendes.
1497 J. Alcock Mons Perfeccionis (de Worde) E i b/1 Clothed in a camell skynne.
1903 Month Aug. 165 St. John in his camel-skin robe.
camel-story n.
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1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies vii. 100 I think it hard to finde a faith that can swallow any such Camel-stories.
camel-trunk n.
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1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxxii. 294 A camel trunk or two which have accompanied him on many an Indian march.
b.
camel-backed adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > hump back
hoveredc897
embossedc1430
bow-backed1470
crook-backed1477
courbe-backed1480
bunch-backed1519
hunchbacked1598
buncht-back1603
crouch-backed1606
hulch1611
hulch-backed1611
hulched1611
crouchback1627
camel-backed1631
huck-backed1631
hulchy1632
boss-backed1640
gibbous1646
huckle-backeda1652
hulck-backed1656
hunched1656
crump-backeda1661
humpbacked1681
humped1713
humpback1726
humptya1825
hunchy1841
bible-backed1857
crooked-backed1866
cyphotic1889
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 477 Crooked, crump-shouldred, or Camell-backed.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. xxvi. 215 Not that he was crook-shouldered, or camel-backed.
camel-faced adj.
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1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 179 Camel-faced boys and girls, and camel-haired children.
camel-haired adj.
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1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 179 Camel-faced boys and girls, and camel-haired children.
camel-like adj.
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a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 500 Knees..Camell-like in the curtesie which you giue unto his name.
1761 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 59/2 A large camel-like protuberance of fat on the top of their shoulders.
camel-shaped adj.
C2. Special combinations. Also camel's hair n.
camel-back n. originally U.S. an inferior or synthetic rubber used to retread tyres.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > synthetic resins and plastics > [noun] > synthetic rubber > specific
methyl rubber1919
Thiokol1930
polychloroprene1931
polyisobutylene1931
polybutadiene1935
polyisoprene1935
polysulphide1935
Buna1936
neoprene1937
Perbunan1938
butyl rubber1940
camel-back1942
polyesteramide1943
polydiene1946
nitrile rubber1947
cold rubber1948
SBR1956
Spandex1959
nitrile1983
1942 in Amer. Speech (1943) 18 302/2 The term ‘camelback’, broadly used, refers to the uncured rubber applied to the worn tire to make the new tread.
1959 Times 27 Apr. (Suppl. Rubber Ind.) p. vii/6 A general-purpose cold rubber for tyre stocks, camelbacks.
camel-bird n. name applied to the Ostrich.
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the world > animals > birds > superorder Ratitae (flightless) > [noun] > member of Struthioniformes (ostrich)
strucion?c1225
ostricha1250
ostrich-camel1607
struthiocamel1607
sparrow-camel1646
camel-bird1771
nandu1822
struthioid1879
1771 T. Scott Comm. Job (note) The Ostrich is called by the Persians the Camel-Bird.
camel-brown n. an artificial fly used in angling.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of
moor flylOE
drake-flya1450
dub-flya1450
dun cut1496
dun fly1496
louper1496
red fly1616
moorish fly1635
palmer1653
palmer fly1653
red hackle1653
red palmer1653
shell-fly1653
orange fly1662
blackfly1669
dun1676
dun hackle1676
hackle1676
mayfly1676
peacock fly1676
thorn-tree fly1676
turkey-fly1676
violet-fly1676
whirling dun1676
badger fly1681
greenfly1686
moorish brown1689
prime dun1696
sandfly1700
grey midge1724
whirling blue1747
dun drake?1758
death drake1766
hackle fly1786
badger1787
blue1787
brown-fly1787
camel-brown1787
spinner1787
midge1799
night-fly1799
thorn-fly1799
turkey1799
withy-fly1799
grayling fly1811
sun fly1820
cock-a-bondy1835
brown moth1837
bunting-lark fly1837
governor1837
water-hen hackle1837
Waterloo fly1837
coachman1839
soldier palmer1839
blue jay1843
red tag1850
canary1855
white-tip1856
spider1857
bumble1859
doctor1860
ibis1863
Jock Scott1866
eagle1867
highlander1867
jay1867
John Scott1867
judge1867
parson1867
priest1867
snow-fly1867
Jack Scott1874
Alexandra1875
silver doctor1875
Alexandra fly1882
grackle1894
grizzly queen1894
heckle-fly1897
Zulu1898
thunder and lightning1910
streamer1919
Devon1924
peacock1950
1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling 107 September..2 Camel brown..2 Dubbed with the hair pulled out of the lime of an old wall.
camel-engine n. = sense 2a.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment for moving ship over bar or shoal > [noun] > apparatus giving increased buoyancy
floating dam1706
camel1716
caisson1811
camel-engine186.
float-case1874
186. Athenæum No. 1999. 240/3 A huge powerful camel-engine.
camel grass n.
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1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur 7 Languishing acacias and tufts of camel-grass.
camel-gun n. a gun, as a machine gun, made light and short so as to be transportable by camels.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > machine-gun > types of
mitrailleuse1867
mitrailleur1869
Gatling gun1870
light machine gun1883
Gardner1884
Maxim1884
volley gun1884
Nordenfelt1885
Maxim1888
camel-gun1891
Maxim–Nordenfeldt gun1898
pom-pom1899
bomb Maxim1900
Lewis (machine) gun1913
Spandau guna1918
Vickers1917
LMG1922
Spandau1929
Bren1937
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed ii. 29 Aren't the camel-guns ever going to begin?
camel-gut n. the dried gut or intestines of a camel used to furnish strings for musical instruments.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > [noun] > parts generally > string > material of
catling1578
catgut1599
sheep's gut1600
tharm1671
tharm-string1787
camel-gut1879
1879 J. Stainer Music of Bible 12 The Kinnor had, according to Fetis, nine strings of camel-gut.
camel-insect n. a name given to members of the genus Mantis, from their elongated thorax.
camel-kneed adj. having hard or callous knees like those of a camel, caused by much kneeling.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > [adjective] > disorders of leg
fickle-hammed1675
sprain-legged1721
gummy1740
camel-kneed1801
scissor leg1882
1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. v. 307 Some camel-kneed prayer-monger.
camel-locust n. = camel-insect.
camel's-hay n. a sweet-scented grass or rush growing in the East ( Andropogon Schœnanthus).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > fragrant plants or plants used in perfumery > [noun] > lemon-grass
squinant1548
camel's-hay1597
camel's-meat1598
sweet rush1598
schoenanth1633
rusa1783
lemon-grass1837
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 40 Camels haie hath leaues very like vnto Cyperus.
1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 81 Camels-Hay is also frequently call'd the sweet Rush.
camel's-meat n. = camel's-hay.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > fragrant plants or plants used in perfumery > [noun] > lemon-grass
squinant1548
camel's-hay1597
camel's-meat1598
sweet rush1598
schoenanth1633
rusa1783
lemon-grass1837
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Squinance, squinanth, cammels meate, or sweet rush, which is very medicinable.
camel's-straw n. an old name for the Common Rush ( Juncus conglomeratus and effusus).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > rush and related plants
rusheOE
sharp rushc1050
seave14..
junk?a1425
candle-rushc1440
rush1562
sea-rush1562
camel's-straw1578
mat-rush1578
sprot1595
frog grass1597
matweed1597
rush grass1597
sprata1600
spart1614
bumble1633
toad-grass1640
moss-rush1670
thresha1689
spreta1700
bog rush1760
black grassa1763
goose-corn1762
toad-rush1776
wood-rush1776
stool-bent1777
scrub-grass1811
beak-rush1830
salt-weed1836
wiwi1840
thread rush1861
three-leaved rush1861
kill-cow1898
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. lii. 511 The first kinde [of Rushes] is called in English, the Rush candle, or Candle rushe: Camels strawe.
camel-swallower n.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > [noun] > credulous person
credulous1583
easy weener1604
credulist1616
swallow1625
crediblea1674
camel-swallower1802
gobemouche1818
swallower1821
unphilosopher1829
stiffy1965
1802 C. Wilmot Irish Peer on Continent (1920) 114 The Friar..was a delightful sketch of a wholesale camel swallower. He believed in the most extravagent miracles.
1840 C. H. Townshend Facts in Mesmerism 332 The gnat-strainers and camel-swallowers may be content to accept this story.
camel-swallowing n. (see sense 1c).
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > [noun]
overtrowingc1425
overtrowtha1500
overtrowshipa1525
credulity1547
tickle credit1563
credulency1586
credulousness1598
overcredulityc1625
credulence1650
sequaciousness1653
ultrafidianism1825
nasoductilitya1834
camel-swallowing1858
acceptativeness1870
leadableness1885
1858 C. Dickens Let. 13 Dec. (1995) VIII. 719 All manner of camel-swallowing and of gnat-straining.
camel-thorn n. (also camel's-thorn) (a) a leguminous plant ( Alhagi camelorum); (b) South African the tree Acacia giraffæ or A. hirtella; camel-tree.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > alhagi
camel-thorn1607
alhagi1745
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > acacia trees > [noun]
acacia1542
babul1696
marblewood1753
black wattle1802
popinac1809
wattlec1810
wattle-treec1810
giraffe tree1815
haakdoring1822
hookthorn1822
kameeldoorn1822
camel-thorn1824
catechu-tree1829
silver wattle1832
blackthorn1833
thorny acacia1834
boobyalla1835
seyal1844
mulga1848
thorn-wood1850
hackthorn1857
mimosa1857
poison tree1857
Port Jackson1857
talha1857
golden wattle1859
whitethorn acacia1860
buffalo thorn1866
nelia1867
siris1874
cassie1876
couba1878
needlebush1884
sallow wattle1884
sally1884
giddea1885
prickly Moses1887
yarran1888
opopanax tree1889
wait-a-while1889
fever tree1893
giraffe acacia1896
stay-a-while1898
brigalow1901
wirra1904
cootamundra1909
Sydney golden wattle1909
witchetty bush1911
rooikrans1917
jam-tree1934
whistling thorn1949
blackthorn1966
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 94 There is a certaine herbe, which hath a seede like a mirtle seed..and this seede is foode for Cammels... It is therefore called Camell-thorne.
1824 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. II. 292 Some scattered trees of Camel-thorn, or Mokaala.
1849 A. H. Layard Nineveh & Remains II. i. xiii. 109 Without a blade of vegetation, except..a scanty tuft of camel-thorn.
1896 H. A. Bryden Tales S. Afr. 75 The camel-thorn trees [f.n. giraffe acacias] grew pretty thickly all around.
1947 L. Hastings Dragons are Extra i. 14 Among the scrub and camelthorn trees.
1961 L. van der Post Heart of Hunter i. 21 Camel-thorn trees in leaf..growing in a part of the desert which was not typical camel-thorn country at all.
camel-tree n. Acacia giraffæ.
camel-trot n. a ball-room dance resembling the walk of a camel.
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1923 Weekly Disp. 8 Apr. 8 They call the modern dances camel-trots.
camel-walk n. a dance resembling the walk of a camel.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun]
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entry1631
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ballo1651
Irish trot1651
omnium gatheruma1652
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upspring1654
passacaglia1659
shuffle1659
passacaille1667
flip-flap1676
chaconne1685
charmer1702
Cheshire-round1706
Louvre1729
stick dance1730
white joke1730
baby dance1744
Nancy Dawson1766
fricassee1775
bumpkin1785
Totentanz1789
Flora('s) dance1790
goombay1790
egg-dance1801
supper dance1820
Congo dance1823
slip-jig1829
bran-dance1833
roly-poly1833
Congo1835
mazy1841
furry1848
bull-dance1855
stampede1856
double-shuffling1859
frog dance1863
hokee-pokee1873
plait dance1876
slow dancing1884
snake dance1895
beast dance1900
soft-shoe1900
cakewalk1902
floral dance1911
snake dance1911
apache dance1912
grizzly bear1912
jazz dance1917
jazz dancing1917
jazz1919
wine-dance1920
camel-walk1921
furry dance1928
snake-dance1931
pas d'action1936
trance dancing1956
touch dance1965
hokey-cokey1966
moonwalk1969
moonwalking1983
Crip Walk1989
mapantsula1990
society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > ballroom dancing > [noun] > others
quickstep1793
turkey-trot1839
racket1880
Military Schottische1882
veleta1900
military two-step1911
one-step1911
spot dance1911
Paul Jones1914
foxtrot1915
foxtrotting1916
Maxina1917
Boston two-step1918
slow foxtrot1918
twinkle1920
camel-walk1921
Charleston1923
slop1962
1921 Frontier May 16 The morbid minded may read them as openly as they danced the shimmy and the camel-walk a year ago.
1969 New York 15 Feb. 29/3 Rubbery-legged dances, like the Camel Walk.
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CamelCase n. (also camel case, Camel Case) Typography (esp. in computer programming and in internet company names) a typographical convention in which upper-case letters are used in the middle of a string of lower-case letters; spec. the use of an initial capital to mark the beginning of the second word of a compound presented as a single string of letters.Apparently coined with reference to the visual effect of this typeface, the capital letter (or letters) resembling a hump in a camel’s back.
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1995 Re: I'm happy again! in comp.os.os2.advocacy (Usenet newsgroup) 13 Sept. IMHO, the only reason it is NT, and not MT (or M$T), is that is it already too close to eMpTy (Ooooh Camel Case).
2000 A. Watt in E. Ladd et al. Using XHTML, XML, & Java 2 (2001) xvii. 424 The hyphenated attribute names of SMIL 1.0 would be replaced by ‘camel case’ attribute names; for example, clip-begin in SMIL 1.0 would be replaced by clipBegin in SMIL Boston.
2007 New Scientist 27 Oct. 58/1 It was software engineers who really took CamelCase to their hearts, using it in their program-writing conventions.
2013 T. Chatfield Netymology l. 151 What do YouTube, eBay and Leonardo DiCaprio have in common? All three represent a typographical phenomenon sometimes known as ‘medial capitals’—or, more poetically, as CamelCase.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
camelv.
to camel it: to ride or perform a journey on camel-back.
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1865 E. C. Clayton Cruel Fortune II. 144 He had..camelled it through the deserts.
1885 Liverpool Daily Post 9 Jan. 6/2 To day I have heard ‘fueled’ for taking in wood, and ‘cameled’ for using that ungainly beast in travelling.
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