Dictionary entry

Grass widow

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

(n) လင်ယောက်ျားခေတ္တအဝေးရောက်နေသောမိန်းမ။

Definition

grass / grɑ:s; US græs / n ၁။ (က) [U] ျမက္။ a blade (ie leaf) of grass ❍ grass seed ❍ The dry grass caught fire. (ခ) [C] ျမက္မ်ဳိးရင္းျဖစ္ေသာ ေျပာင္း၊ ဝါး စသည္။ ornamental grasses. ၂။ (usu the grass) [sing, U] ျမက္ခင္း။ ျမက္ခင္းျပင္။ Don't walk on the grass. ❍ cut/ mow the grass ❍ cattle put out to grass (ie put in a field to eat the grass). ၃။ [U] ( sl ) ေဆးေျခာက္။ ဘင္း။ MARIJUANA. ၄။ [C] ( Brit sl usu derog ) ရဲသတင္းေပး။ v ၁။ ~ sth (over) ျမက္ခင္းထားသည္။ a small grassed area ❍ The old rose beds were levelled and grassed over. ၂။ ( US ) ျမက္ေကြၽးသည္။ ၃။ ~ (on sb) ( Brit sl usu derog ) ရဲကို သတင္းေပးသည္၊ လက္တို႔သည္။ They were only caught because somebody grassed (on them). ❏ grass court n ျမက္ခင္းျပင္ တင္းနစ္ကြင္း။ ❏ the grass is (always) greener on the other side (of the fence) [ IDM ] ( saying ) အေမေက်ာ္ ေထြးေတာ္လြမ္း ဆိုသကဲ့သို႔ အသစ္အဆန္းကို မ်က္စိက်သည္။ She writes about how much greener the grass is in America. ❏ grass roots n [pl] ( esp politics ) ေအာက္ေျခ လူတန္းစား။ win support at the grass roots (level) ❍ grass-roots opposition to the party's policy. ❏ grass snake n ျမက္ေလွ်ာ (ေႁမြ)။ ❏ grass widow n ( often joc ) လင္ေယာက်္ား ေခတၱ အေဝးေရာက္ေနေသာ မိန္းမ။ ❏ grassy adj ( -ier, -iest ) ျမက္ထူေသာ။ ျမက္ဖံုးေသာ။ a grassy bank/ hillside. ❏ (not) let the grass grow under one's feet [ IDM ] ဖင့္ႏႊဲ (မေနဘဲ)။ ❏ put sb out to grass [ IDM ] ( infml ) အနားယူေစလိုက္သည္။

Examples

  1. We should cut the grass before it starts raining.
  2. Stephen was lying full length on the grass.
  3. Tall flowering grasses
  4. He has proved he can play on grass.
  5. A grass verge
  6. A grass skirt