mod

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"I don't think I'd be fighting now if I met a mod. I'm 71," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2014

In old Turk. it means, a Prince of the blood; in mod. times a gentleman, Greek or European.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The word is adopted from the O. Fr. grape, mod. grappe, bunch or cluster of flowers or fruit, grappes de raisin, bunch of grapes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

Milton. pros. prosody. coll., colloq. colloquially. min. mineralogy. prov. provincial. comp. comparative. mod. modern. q.v. which see. conch. conchology.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

"Ta'ám," which has many meanings: in mod. parlance it would signify millet holcus seed.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir