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taxonomy | skeezy |

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As an adjective skeezy is

sleazy.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    skeezy

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (slang) Sleazy.
  • * 2002 , Hanne Blank, Unruly Appetites: Erotic Stories , p. xiv:
    • I jilled while babysitting, having found a cache of skeezy porno mags hidden at the bottom of a big basket of magazines in one family's master bathroom.
  • * 2005 , Dan Lieberman, Carnegie Mellon University , p. 93:
    • I went to Rock Jungle twice and it was a disaster. It was filled with skeezy old men with bad cologne and gold chains trying to pick up eighteen-year-old girls.
  • *2014 ?Alena Smith, Tween Hobo: Off the Rails , page 192:
    • The pregnant daughter was yawning a lot and kept trying to lean on her skeezy boyfriend, who was housing a bag of Late Night All-Nighter Cheeseburger Doritos and not really sharing.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "skeezy")

    References

    * The Routledge dictionary of modern American slang and unconventional English, Tom Dalzell, Eric Partridge, 2008, p. 888