walking dictionary

"My darling girl, I want a wife, not a walking dictionary.

This reveals two assumptions: that I am a walking dictionary and that the word's history will of course be known.

That walking dictionary could be a congenial copse or a vegetable villain.

"Still talking like a walking dictionary," Allie laughed.

The older people called him the 'Walking Dictionary'.

The owner is a walking dictionary."

Mr. Ameen is a walking dictionary of styles and is in love with syncopation, and his playing never settles in.

She--she was--why, Bridge, I'd have to be a walking dictionary to tell you what she was."

Mitchel, aka "Lexicon", aka "Lex": A walking dictionary.

Heading a long list of absurdities is the notion that Grace could ever develop a crush on Zach, who is a walking dictionary of sexist put-downs.

William Kent Krueger has said that he wanted to be a writer from the third grade, when his story, "The Walking Dictionary," was praised by his teacher and parents.

"I'm that walking dictionary, I'm that talking thesaurus/I'm that old high school prehistoric Soversaurus," she raps in "Public Warning."

Replies: Savitha, "Language" folks are characterized more by their capacity to embrace and use vocabulary - rather more like being a walking dictionary underpinned by an understanding of history and literature.

"Walking Dictionary Writing Brush", "Brush of Literalization" in the dub) is an oversized calligraphy brush that turns anything into whatever is written on it, but only works using Chinese characters.

"His peculiarity" has been well described by Ward as "a buoyant blackguardism which recovers itself instantaneously from the most complete exposure, and a picturesqueness of speech like that of a walking dictionary of slang."

Yusrullah's teacher at Public School 108 had called him a "walking dictionary," but in the first seven pages of "To Kill a Mockingbird," a book he read for the institute, he found 71 new vocabulary words.

Mr. Hornsby, who has performed with the Grateful Dead and last year produced an album for Mr. Russell, is a walking dictionary of pop and jazz piano styles as well as a superb technician.

He is also head of the Kamigata Kabuki-juku (school) and actively works with actor Ichikawa Ennosuke III on reviving old kabuki plays Nakawa has been described as a walking dictionary of Kamigata kabuki information.