texas
See also: Texas and Texas'
English
Etymology
From the practice of naming cabins after US states, the state of Texas having been recently admitted to the Union.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɛk.səs/
- Rhymes: -ɛksəs
- Hyphenation: tex‧as
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
texas (plural texases)
- The topmost cabin deck on a steamboat.
- 1866, New Albany Ledger, October 6 (describing the steamboat Robert E. Lee)
- She has sixty one staterooms in the main cabin, twenty four extra rooms in the texas for passengers, a nursery for servants and children, and a cabin adjoining the nursery in which are staterooms for fifty passengers.
- 1991, Norman A. Fox, The Rawhide Years:
- Now Will saw lights ahead and they were to the landing where the steamboats lay moored, banking the river front solidly as far as the ... whose lights rose tier upon tier from main deck to the cupola-like pilot houses atop the texases.
- 1866, New Albany Ledger, October 6 (describing the steamboat Robert E. Lee)
Anagrams
- taxes
Ido
Verb
texas
- present of texar
Latin
Verb
texās
- second-person singular present active subjunctive of texō
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English Texas.
Noun
texas
- (slang) craziness, wildness (like the Wild West)
- 2017, Jean-Louis Adorsen, Høstmørke, adorsen (e-publ.), →ISBN.
- « […] Nå må jeg løpe, det er helt Texas her akkurat nå. […] »
- " […] Now I have to run, it is pretty wild over here right now. […] "
- 2017, Jean-Louis Adorsen, Høstmørke, adorsen (e-publ.), →ISBN.
Usage notes
Often used in the phrase det var helt texas, meaning "it was totally/absolutely/completely crazy/wild".[1]
References
- Solomon, David (2015-10-20), “Y'all, Norwegians Use the Word 'Texas' as Slang to Mean 'Crazy'”, in Texas Monthly
- “texas” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “texas” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English Texas.
Noun
texas
- (slang) craziness, wildness (like the Wild West)
References
- “texas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.