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Definition of Proverbial
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or resembling or expressed in a proverb. "The proverbial grasshopper"
2. Adjective. Widely known and spoken of. "Your proverbial dizzy blonde"
Definition of Proverbial
1. a. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial.
Definition of Proverbial
1. Adjective. Of, resembling, or expressed as a proverb, cliché, fable, or fairy tale. ¹
2. Adjective. Widely known; famous; stereotypical. ¹
3. Noun. (euphemistic) Used to replace a word that might be considered unacceptable in a particular situation, when using a well known phrase. ¹
4. Noun. (euphemistic) The groin or the testicles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Proverbial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proverbial
Literary usage of Proverbial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Samuel Thurber (1896)
"Recall the very similar proverbial expression used earlier in the play by Macbeth.
ACT V. Scene 1. 86. My mind she has mated. Remember that mate is two ..."
2. Chaucer and the Roman de la Rose by Dean Spruill Fansler (1914)
"CHAPTER VI PROVERBS AND proverbial EXPRESSIONS proverbial material is hard to
... By proverbial expressions we shall mean such observations and bits of ..."
3. The Life and Stories of the Jaina Savior, Pārçvanātha by Bhāvadevasūri (1919)
"Niti consists not only of solid stanzas devoted to didactic or proverbial themes,
but also to incidental statements woven into other discourse ..."
4. The Age of Fable; Or, Beauties of Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, John Loughran Scott (1898)
"proverbial EXPRESSIONS. No. i. Page 52. MATERIEM superabat opus. — Ovid.
The workmanship surpassed the material. No. 2. Page 52. Facies non omnibus una, ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1842)
"proverbial Philosophy ; a Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally treated.
... The philosophy here is proverbial, and often of the nature of ..."
6. The Christian Examiner (1841)
"proverbial Philosophy ; being Thoughts and Arguments originally treated. By MARTIN
FARQUHAR TUPPER, Esq., AM Second Edition. Boston: J. Do we: 1840. ..."
7. Cornell Studies in Classical Philology by Cornell University (1901)
"Phrases that have the flavor of the speech of the people, that seem to have become
crystallized into proverbial forms and values, generally have the ..."
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