Difference between revisions of "Bedoueen"
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| − | + | * '''Bedouin:''' a nomadic Arab; the word is a generic term for a desert-dweller → Mohammed was cared for by a Bedouin woman in his childhood | |
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| − | + | * '''Buridan’s Ass:''' a person of indecision, after the ass in a 14th Century sophism (erroneously attributed to Jean Buridan) in which an ass dies of starvation because it cannot choose between two equidistant and equally desirable stacks of hay → [[Cropherb|Cropherb the crunchbracken]] | |
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| + | * '''bed''' | ||
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| + | * '''bed down:''' to settle down, especially in a makeshift bed, for sleep | ||
Latest revision as of 05:36, 1 July 2006
- Bedouin: a nomadic Arab; the word is a generic term for a desert-dweller → Mohammed was cared for by a Bedouin woman in his childhood
- between
- Buridan’s Ass: a person of indecision, after the ass in a 14th Century sophism (erroneously attributed to Jean Buridan) in which an ass dies of starvation because it cannot choose between two equidistant and equally desirable stacks of hay → Cropherb the crunchbracken
- bed
- bed down: to settle down, especially in a makeshift bed, for sleep
