from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A European abalone (Haliotis tuberculata) found chiefly in the Channel Islands.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun An ear-shell or sea-ear; an abalone or haliotid; a large marine shell of the family Haliotidæ: formerly a local English (Channel Islands) name of H. tuberculata, more fully called Guernsey ormer, or Guernsey ear-shell, which is abundant there and is used as food. See cut under abalone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Zoöl.) An abalone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun An abalone or sea-ear, particularly Haliotis tuberculata, common in the Channel Islands.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun an abalone found near the Channel Islands
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French dialectal, from French ormier, short for oreille-de-mer, translation of Latin auris maris, sea-ear : auris, ear; see ous- in Indo-European roots + maris, genitive of mare, sea; see mori- in Indo-European roots.]
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From Jèrriais ormèr, Guernésiais ormer, variants of French ormier, contraction of oreille-de-mer, from Late Latin *auris maris.
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In contrast, the five-year note was the best perf ormer as many investors bought this maturity and sold 30-year securities, taking advantage of the supply dynamics.
"[F] ormer U.S. House of Representatives Page, Real Estate broker, and music composer" Thomas Boyle promises to FINE TUNE AMERICA (probably a joke, but who can tell these days?).
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This contents and the demeaning language used in this article and the one by Dennis Ross are insulting not only to the present Iranian leadership, but also to the majority of Iranians including those who strongly oppose the Iranian administration such as the ormer Foreign Minister under Shah, Mr. Ardeshir Zahedi.
"Just in the past few months," [Bruce Bartlett ormer policy advisor for Ronald Reagan] said, "I think a light has gone off for people who've spent time up close to Bush: that this instinct he's always talking about is this sort of weird, Messianic idea of what he thinks God has told him to do."
The Washington Times says, Intelligence sources said a network of current and ormer CIA officers opposed to Mr. Bagley's views was behind the cancellation. . .
frogapplause commented on the word ormer
Ormer, the very lonely abalone.
May 30, 2010
mollusque commented on the word ormer
The very lovely aboriginal abalone.
May 30, 2010
frogapplause commented on the word ormer
Ormer, the very lovely
but lonely
aboriginal abalone
who was full of baloney.
May 30, 2010
mollusque commented on the word ormer
and cannelloni.
May 30, 2010
fbharjo commented on the word ormer
but wasn't called a phon(e)y
November 29, 2011