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Air-brained

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Giddy, heedless. This word is now generally spelt “hare-brained;” but, by ancient authors, hair-brained. In C. Thomson’s Autobiography it is spelt “Air-brained,” which seems plausible.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Aholibamah
Ahriman
Aide toi et le Ciel taidera (God will help those who help themselves)
Aigrette
Aim
Aim-crier
Air
Air
Air
Air one’s opinions (To)
Air-brained
Air-line
Air-ship (An)
Air-throne
Airs
Aïrapadam
Aisle (pronounoe ile)
Aitch-bone
Ajax
Ajax
Akbar

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