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Definition of Body English
1. Noun. A motion of the body by a player as if to make an object already propelled go in the desired direction.
Definition of Body English
1. Noun. (idiomatic) A body motion made to coax an object already propelled go in a desired direction. For example, a nervous leaning or twisting movement while playing sports such as golf or bowling, to "persuade" the ball to go in a desired direction. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Body English
Literary usage of Body English
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1845)
"... non consideratur csse corpus, vcl esse magnum, is not Latin; nor the version
of it, a point is a body which is not considered to be a body, English. ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1883)
"... Ре- body's English Journalism and the Men «K Have Made it, Lond. and NY, 1882 :
Hatton's Journalistic London, reprinted with additions from Harper s ..."
3. Landmarks in English Industrial History by George Townsend Warner (1899)
"... slight were the rights of the individual in commerce, and how powerful the
idea of membership of some corporate body. English traders might naturally ..."
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