Horse Definition
- Another matter entirely; something else.
- To continue to pursue a cause that has no hope of success.
- To dwell tiresomely on a matter that has already been decided.
- To be or become disdainful, superior, or conceited.
- To restrain oneself.
- A source of information regarded as original or unimpeachable.
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Horse
- a horse of another
- beat
- be
- hold (one's) horses
- the horse's mouth
- back the wrong horse
- beat a dead horse
- from the horse's mouth
- hold one's horses
- horse around
- horse of another color
- on one's high horse
- to horse!
Origin of Horse
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From Middle English horse, hors, from Old English hors (“horse”), from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sos (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”).
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Middle English from Old English hors Old Norse hross horse and German Ross steed
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Initialism of Texas hold 'em, Omaha eight or better, razz, seven card stud, and seven card stud eight or better.
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From horse, the word used to keep track of missed shots
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