borrow
verb (used with object)
to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent.
Borrovian
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a word derived from
Borrow.
Example Sentences
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In the one case we get nebulous speculation and fanciful induction based upon Borrovian knowledge; in the other, a solid mass of real learning accompanied by the smallest possible amount of speculation or fanciful induction.
From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by George Henry Borrow
Borrovian for the Russian shuba, a fur cloak or pelisse.
From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
It is a book for your true Borrovian, who is thankful for any information about the word-master, not for the casual reader, who might indeed be alienated from the subject by this copious memoir.
From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Clement King Shorter
There is undoubtedly a feeling of unity here which is hardly to be felt in any other part of the Borrovian “Odyssey.”
From Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 by Thomas Seccombe
Not "poignantly genteel," to use a Borrovian phrase, was he.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
