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welly (oh) and living(1) (iou)


welly (oh)



[C] BrE informal
[Date: 1900-2000; Origin: wellington]
a wellington (=kind of boot)

living(1) (iou)



living adjective & noun2. OE.
[from LIVE verb + -ING2.]
A. adjective.
pred. & postpositive. Not dead; alive, when alive. OE.
R. B. Peake You are the only man living that can serve my brother.
That lives or has life; that is real. Also, contemporary, now existent. OE.
Dickens By the living Lord it flashed upon me..that she had done it. T. K. Wolfe There was no way to explain this to a living soul. Independent He is living proof that the party can change its way.
b. transf. (Of water) flowing, running; (of a coal, embers, etc.) live; (of a rock or stone) = LIVE adjective 4. LME.
c. Of a language: still in vernacular use. L17.
With specifying word: that passes life in a specified manner. LME.
Of or pertaining to a living person or what is living. L17.
J. Crace She is..interested in living folklore.
= LIVELY adjective 4-7. E18.
Special collocations: living chess: in which living people act as the chess-pieces. living daylights: see DAYLIGHT. living dead the undead; the class of people leading an empty or miserable existence. living-dead adjective experiencing living death. living death an empty or miserable existence. living fossil a plant or animal that has survived relatively unchanged since the extinction of the others of its group, known only as fossils. living image: see IMAGE noun. living memory the memories of some people still living. living newspaper a theatrical documentary consisting of a series of short social or political scenes. living picture (a) = TABLEAU vivant; (b) a motion picture. living skeleton a very emaciated person. living theatre theatre consisting of live stage performances, as opp. to cinema. living will a written declaration by a person setting out the circumstances in which artificial means of maintaining his or her life should be withdrawn.
b. noun collect. pl. The class of living people. OE.
in the land of the living: see LAND noun1.
D. A. Dye Hey, Taylor. You back among the living?
livingly adverb LME.
livingness noun L17.