<young animal>
→
novice
2 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | English | |
Lexeme | colt | |
Meaning 1 | young male horse | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | (cricket, slang) a professional cricketer during his first season | The bowling is more promising in the colts than in the eleven. (1882, The Downside Review, volume 1, page 287) |
Reference | OED English Wiktionary | |
Comment | |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Romanian | |
Lexeme | boboc | |
Meaning 1 | gosling, duckling | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | novice. unexperienced, beginner; student in the first year | |
Reference | MDA2 | |
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