Lame horse meaning code#
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: and you might like to check out the growing collection of curated slang words for different topics over at Slangpedia. There is still lots of work to be done to get this slang thesaurus to give consistently good results, but I think it's at the stage where it could be useful to people, which is why I released it. Please also note that due to the nature of the internet (and especially UD), there will often be many terrible and offensive terms in the results. Or you might try boyfriend or girlfriend to get words that can mean either one of these (e.g. The search algorithm handles phrases and strings of words quite well, so for example if you want words that are related to lol and rofl you can type in lol rofl and it should give you a pile of related slang terms. The higher the terms are in the list, the more likely that they're relevant to the word or phrase that you searched for. David is saying that from taking counsel in his own soul he has become useless, he is so crippled by his sorrow that he cannot function or perform any work. This lameness can be caused by something simple as a thorn or a small blister or sore on the hoof. Note that this thesaurus is not in any way affiliated with Urban Dictionary.ĭue to the way the algorithm works, the thesaurus gives you mostly related slang words, rather than exact synonyms. A lame horse is useless for performing any work or function. For an easy to read explanation please click on How Lame - a quick guide to read more. Today, there are many shades of grey, and vets will talk in terms of a horse being, for example 3/10 lame. Acute lameness means it appeared recently & suddenly, and chronic describes an ongoing lameness that started a while ago. For many years a horse was either lame or sound easy, very black or white. Lameness is categorised as acute or chronic.
A slightly lame horse would be graded 1-2/10ths lame and a not weight bearing horse would be graded 10/10ths lame. The official Urban Dictionary API is used to show the hover-definitions. The level of severity is graded on a scale from 1-10. These indexes are then used to find usage correlations between slang terms. The Urban Thesaurus was created by indexing millions of different slang terms which are defined on sites like Urban Dictionary.