Gird
Gird noun - An act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings.
Usage example: in her farewell speech, the departing governor got in some retaliatory girds at the media
Name and gird are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Name" instead the word "Gird" as a noun or a verb.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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The man known as Luap to the followers of Gird was referred to as "Gird's Luap" or just "the Luap" so frequently even in his own time that few people remembered that his real name was Selamis.
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Meaningful Name: "Iron Girder" sounds a bit strange if one thinks of a girder as a supporting beam, but the word comes from "gird" meaning to span or surround (compare girdle, a kind of belt).
Source: Discworld / Raising Steam
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