Noun: lizard
| Singular | lizard |
| Plural | lizards |
Sample Sentences
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The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings. [a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 169:]
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The forms of the serpent and lizard exhibit almost every element of beauty and horror in strange combination; […] [1851, John Ruskin, chapter XX, in The Stones of Venice, volume I (The Foundations), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § XXX, pages 223–224:]
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Hooded rattlesnakes, horned toads, and lizards crawl in the dust and among the rocks. [1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:]
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When held in the hand, the lizard produces an amorous stimulus. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 139:]
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Pinned against my neighbours, I could feel small hands, fleeting as lizards, fluttering lightly through my pockets in search of money, mobile, wallet. [2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:]
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Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown [1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Proof”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.:]
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lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard
Nouns inflected like lizard
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English lesarde, lisarde, from Anglo-Norman lusard, from Old French lesard (compare French lézard), from Latin lacertus, which is of obscure origin. Displaced native Middle English aske, from Old English āþexe (> modern English ask, askard). See: Middle English Nouns '
lesarde', French Nouns '
lézard', Latin Nouns '
lacertus'.
Verbs referencing "lizard"
French Nouns
lézard.