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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This sounds truly Borrovian; and scattered through the amazing Etymologicon are twenty-six Romany words, very correctly spelt, which I used to think Whiter must have learnt from George Borrow.
From Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Francis Hindes Groome
It is all consistent with the Borrovian inconsistency.
From The Critical Game by John Albert Macy
The picture of the encampment may serve as an example of Borrovian prose, nervous, unembarrassed, and graphic.
From Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 by Thomas Seccombe
The article showed a great deal of what may be called Borrovian knowledge of the Welsh language and Welsh literature, and perhaps it is not ungenerous to say a good deal of Borrovian ignorance too.
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
