noah1
/nəʊə
/noun Australian informal
A shark.
Origin
1940s: from rhyming slang Noah's ark.
Noah2
/ˈnəʊə/(In the Bible) a Hebrew patriarch represented as tenth in descent from Adam. According to a story in Genesis he made the ark which saved his family and specimens of every animal from the Flood. See Deucalion and Gilgamesh.
Rhymes
- cyclo-cross
- cyclogenesis
- cycloheptane
- cyclohexane
- cycloheximide
- cyclohexyl
- cycloid
- cycloidal
- cyclometer
- cyclone
- cyclone fence
- cyclone fencing
- cyclonic
- cyclonically
- cyclooxygenase
- cyclopaedia
- cycloparaffin
- cyclopean
- cyclopedia
- cyclopedic
- cyclopentadiene
- cyclopentadienyl
- cyclophosphamide
- cyclopian
- cycloplegia