texas
English edit
Etymology edit
From the practice of naming cabins after US states, the state of Texas having been recently admitted to the Union.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈtɛk.səs/
- (locally also) IPA(key): /ˈtɛk.sɪs/, /ˈtɛk.sɪz/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: Texas
- Rhymes: -ɛksəs, -ɛksɪs
- Hyphenation: tex‧as
Noun edit
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 edit
Ido edit
Verb edit
texas
- present of texar
Latin edit
Verb edit
texās
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
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 edit
Often used in the phrase det var helt texas, meaning "it was totally/absolutely/completely crazy/wild".[1]
References edit
- ^ Solomon, David (2015 October 20) “Y'all, Norwegians Use the Word 'Texas' as Slang to Mean 'Crazy'”, in Texas Monthly
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
texas
References edit
- “texas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.