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Nanny's cry
Answer for the clue "Nanny's cry ", 6 letters:
behave
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Word definitions for behave in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from be- intensive prefix + have in sense of "to have or bear (oneself) in a particular way, comport" (compare German sich behaben , French se porter ). Cognate Old English compound behabban meant "to contain," and alternatively the modern sense ...
Usage examples of behave.
I began to behave, like all university actors, in the most actorish way possible.
However, I tend to think that passive participles do behave like normal adjectives in this regard.
They will find no Pelton, but they will find three women who will swear that, yes, you and your men demanded admittance last night, whereupon you behaved with drunken debauchery, fighting amongst yourselves.
Clem for something of this kind, yet he had managed things so well that up to the time of his departure she had not been able to remark a single suspicious circumstance, unless, indeed, it were the joyous affectionateness with which he continued to behave, She herself had been passing through a time of excitement and even of suffering.
They behaved in a professional way, cutting me like that, and there is something strangely amateurish too.
Even the quite young aphides behaved in this manner, showing that the action was instinctive, and not the result of experience.
What if this was simply how Archaeons behaved without gravity to keep them in check?
On the other hand, they seem to behave just like the asteroidal gee points.
You go through this audition today like a good girl and behave yourself.
Murray Undeceived and Avenged Tontine had what is called tact and common sense, and thinking these qualities were required in our economy she behaved with great delicacy, not going to bed before receiving my letters, and never coming into my room except in a proper dress, and all this pleased me.
Susan Bates looked sidewise at Minnie Peters and asked her to behave herself.
After I had left her I began to examine the nature of my feelings towards her, and they frightened me, for I could neither behave towards Mdlle.
After supper I sent out Le Duc and the other servant, and as soon as I was alone with my too lovely housekeeper, who had behaved at table like a woman of the world, I begged her to tell me her history.
The affair was happily consummated, but we had a narrow escape of being caught by Rose, who came in with Le Duc and begged me to let him dance, promising that he would behave himself properly.
While not all the same men, this group has behaved toward you almost exactly as the first.