wait-a-bit

[ weyt-uh-bit ]

noun

1. any of various plants bearing thorns or prickly appendages, as the grapple plant or the greenbrier.

wait-a-bit

noun

1. any of various plants having sharp hooked thorns or similar appendages, esp the greenbrier and the grapple plant

Word History and Origins

Origin of wait-a-bit¹

1775–85; translation of Afrikaans wag-'n-bietjie < Dutch wacht een beetje

Example Sentences

And they all had them easy-going, wait-a-bit kind of voices, and didn't see no pertic'ler importance in their "r's."

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Then all the youngster robins began to coax Robert Robin to sing his Wait-a-bit song.

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The Wait-a-bit (Wacht een beetje) is so called from the ingenious nature of its spines.

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A sage-hen crouching low in sand and shadowed by wait-a-bit thorn twigs is pretty well hidden.

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The British call them "wait-a-bit" thorns, and under either name they are equally dangerous.

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