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
- ethno-
- ethnoarchaeological
- ethnoarchaeologist
- ethnoarchaeology
- ethnobiology
- ethnobotanic
- ethnobotanical
- ethnobotanically
- ethnobotanist
- ethnobotany
- ethnocentred
- ethnocentric
- ethnocentrically
- ethnocentricity
- ethnocentrism
- ethnocentrist
- ethnocide
- ethnocultural
- ethnogenesis
- ethnogenic
- ethnogeny
- ethnogogue
- ethnographer
- ethnographic
- ethnographical