See Also: ambuscade(medicine)
ambuscade(dictionary)

sleazy (iou) and ambuscade (iou)


sleazy (iou)



sleazy adjective. ['sli:zi] Also sleezy. M17.
[Origin unkn.]
Rough with projecting fibres. rare. M17.
(Of a fabric) thin or flimsy in texture; fig. slight, unsubstantial. M17.
Dilapidated, slatternly, squalid; disreputable in character; cheap and inferior. colloq. M20.
Listener A gigolo in a sleazy night club. B. W. Aldiss Some sleezy and probably malevolent god.
sleazily adverb M20.
sleaziness noun E18.

ambuscade (iou)



ambuscade noun & verb. L16.
[French embuscade from Italian imboscata or Spanish emboscada, Portuguese embuscada: see AMBUSH noun, -ADE.]
A. noun. = AMBUSH noun. L16.
b. verb intrans. & trans. = AMBUSH verb. L16.
ambuscader noun = AMBUSHER L17.