lizard

Meaning

Noun

• Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or an amphisbaenian, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.
• Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
• An unctuous person.
• A coward.
• A hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
• A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.

Origin

• From Middle English lesarde, lisarde, from Anglo-Norman lusard, from Old French lesard (compare French lézard), from Latin lacertus. Displaced native , from (> modern English ask, askard).