daniel
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daniel (plural daniels)
- (US slang) The buttocks.
- 1946, Mezz Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, New York: Random House, page 85:
- He'd pull the chair out from under some dignified dowager and catch her just before she went to fall on her daniel […]
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Romanization edit
daniel
- Romanization of 𐌳𐌰𐌽𐌹𐌴𐌻
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Czech daněl, from Latin damma, from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to domesticate, tame”)
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Noun edit
daniel m animal
- fallow deer (any member of the genus Dama)
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Declension of daniel
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adjective
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Slovak edit
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daniel m anim
- fallow deer (any member of the genus Dama)
- daniel škvrnitý ― European fallow deer (Dama dama)
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Further reading edit
- “daniel”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024