Bootle
a city in Merseyside metropolitan county, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
Historical Examples
Natural History in Anecdote Various
Happy Days Alan Alexander Milne
Recollections of a Busy Life William B. Forwood
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2) Charles Creighton
George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians T. Martin Wood
My Little Sister Elizabeth Robins
Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells Ernest Spon
Liverpool a few years since James Aspinall
Hunting Sketches Anthony Trollope
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) John Morley
noun
a port in NW England, in Sefton unitary authority, Merseyside; on the River Mersey adjoining Liverpool. Pop: 59 123 (2001)
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without result, gain, or advantage; unavailing; useless. Contemporary Examples GOP R.I.P. John Batchelor April 9, 2009 Historical Examples The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six Titus Livius The Gold Girl James B. Hendryx Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope The Book of Humorous Verse Various History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89, Vol. II. Complete John Lothrop […]
- Bootlicker
to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to. to be a toady. Historical Examples The Cruise of the Dry Dock T. S. Stribling In the Heart of a Fool William Allen White verb (informal) to seek favour by servile or ingratiating behaviour towards (someone, esp someone in authority); toady
- Bootlicking
to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to. to be a toady. verb (informal) to seek favour by servile or ingratiating behaviour towards (someone, esp someone in authority); toady
- Bootloader
noun (computing) a bootstrap loader See bootstrap (sense 4)
- Bootp
bootp The Bootstrap Protocol. A protocol described in RFCs 951 and 1084 and used for booting diskless workstations. See also Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. (1995-02-16)