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/
• (locally also) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛk.sɪs/, /ˈtɛk.sɪz/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: Texas
• Rhymes: -ɛksəs, -ɛksɪs
• Hyphenation: tex‧as

Noun

texas (plural texases)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• taxes

Ido

Verb

texas

1. present of texar

Latin

Verb

texās

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of texō

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English Texas.

Noun

texas

1. (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. […] "

Usage notes

Often used in the phrase det var helt texas, meaning "it was totally/absolutely/completely crazy/wild".

References

• “texas” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “texas” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English Texas.

Noun

texas

1. (slang) craziness, wildness (like the Wild West)

References

• “texas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.