Nuzi
/ˈnuːzi/(also Nuzu) Archaeol.
adjective
1Designating cuneiform documents mostly dating from 1500–1350 b.c. excavated at Nuzi in present-day Iraq.
2Designating a style of painted ceramic ware dating from the Mitanni empire of the 15th and early 14th centuries b.c., found in sites throughout western Asia but originally excavated at Nuzi.
noun
The Nuzi dialect of Akkadian.
Origin
1920s. From Nuzi or Nuzu, the name of the site of an ancient Mesopotamian city located close to Kirkuk in present-day Iraq.
- sell-in
- selling point
- selling race
- sell like hot cakes
- sell-off
- sell off the farm
- sell one's soul (to the devil)
- sell (or sell off) the family jewels
- sell (or sell off) the family silver
- Sellotape
- sell-out
- sell short
- sell someone a bill of goods
- sell someone a dummy
- sell someone a (or the) dummy
- sell someone a pup
- sell someone down the river
- sell someone/thing short
- sell something for a mess of pottage
- sell the pass
- sell-through
- Selma
- Selous, Frederick Courteney
- seltzer
- seltzer water