See Also: Plunket(dictionary)
Plunket, Saint Oliver(encyclopedia)
asper(medicine)
asper(1)(dictionary)
asper(2)(dictionary)
asper(3)(dictionary)

asper(1) (iou) and Plunket (iou)


asper(1) (iou)



asper adjective.Long dial. Also aspre. LME-L19.
[Old French aspre (mod. apre) from Latin asper rough, harsh.]
Rough; harsh, bitter; severe, stern; fierce.

Plunket (iou)



Plunket adjective2. NZ. E20.
[Lady Plunket, wife of the Governor-General of New Zealand 1904-10, used with ref. to the Plunket Society, popular name for the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children.]
Designating a nurse trained in the methods of child-feeding and care advocated by the Royal New Zealand society for the Health of Women and Children, a baby reared according to these methods, or a clinic following them. Cf. KARITANE.