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newt

Someone who is stupid or dumb. What are you, a newt? How did you get that easy question wrong?

(as) pissed as a newt

slang Very intoxicated. Primarily heard in UK. When I got to the pub, you were as pissed as a newt. Do you remember anything that happened last night?

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pissed as a newt

BRITISH, INFORMAL, VERY RUDE

If someone is as pissed as a newt, they are very drunk. She swore never to drink again. Hah! Pissed as a newt the first night she came back. Note: Other nouns such as fart or parrot are sometimes used instead of newt. The last time I saw him, in Glasgow, he was as pissed as a parrot.

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vulgar slang

pissed as a newt (or fart)

very drunk.

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(as) pissed as a ˈnewt

(British English, taboo, slang) very drunk OPPOSITE: (as) sober as a judge

See also: newt, pissed

newt

n. a stupid person; a dull and uninteresting person. Don’t act like such a newt.

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Woking Borough Councils organisational licence allows it to authorise operations that may affect great crested newts on development of sites.

United Kingdom : Wildlife licensing: new newt licence

Comparisons of newt TTX levels among populations in the current study were done using non-parametric Wilcoxon/Kruskal-Wallis tests.

Otter predation on Taricha granulosa and variation in tetrodotoxin levels with elevation

She said: "I was ill for a week with suspected salmonella poisoning, which I now know you can catch from just touching a newt.

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Sex- specific effect of pool desiccation on movement of Alpine newt among breeding sites.

Predation-Induced Injuries in Wild Populations of Alpine Newt

And, with the help of the volunteers, cars will be escorted by torch-light carefully towards the car park while migrating newts are moved out of danger to the side of the road.

Drinkers taking a mi-newt for wildlife; Migration led to quandary over garden

Now, atheism and Socialism are growing stronger again right here in America," Newt continued.

Re-Newtering America

About 200 of the newts are believed to be traded each year.

Keep your hands off Lorestan Newt

VICTIM OF DISAPPEARING HABITAT The Great Crested Newt is found across Europe and parts of Asia.

Our armed forces to defend newts - with 21 ponds; Conservation scheme set for approval

As it does this, the newt keeps the rest of its body still.

Bizarre newt uses ribs as poisonous stings to protect itself against predators

Earlier this year junior environment minister Joan Ruddock defended spending pounds 60,000 moving four great crested newts from a site in Cheshire.

No newts is bad newts for ministers; ENVIRONMENT

Hundreds of great crested newts have been reduced to just a handful near the site of the Broughton Retail Park.

WALES: Hundreds of newts die in official refuge; County reported to EC over claims site was neglected

Experts say great crested newts are Britain's largest newt species and their numbers have declined significantly during the past century.

Rare newts stop work on hotel

7million more than planned after it was found to run through the home of a rare newt.

pounds 1.7M cost of newt bypass

Now, work has been halted while each is rounded up - at a cost of pounds 1,000 per newt - and given a temporary home.

Brewers' pounds 25,000 newt bill

Perhaps the most intriguing political force in the '90s was Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton's arch-enemy.