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Man that's useful with houseplants
Answer for the clue "Man that's useful with houseplants ", 6 letters:
mister
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Word definitions for mister in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mister \Mis"ter\, v. t. To address or mention by the title Mr.; as, he mistered me in a formal way. [Colloq.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
as a title of courtesy before a man's Christian name, mid-15c., unaccented variant of master . As a form of address, without a name and with a tinge of rudeness, from 1760.
Usage examples of mister.
It was the very bite that had been bleeding outside of the Jolly Bargeman, which, Mister Roberts would have taken his Bible oath on it.
He was in a terrible hurry, as Mister Gosling had only gone to the Jolly Bargeman and would be back in half an hour.
Mister Gosling had gone to the Jolly Bargeman to fetch back their supper, and the McDippers were below.
Up and up the dreadful threat would fly, booming and echoing through all the narrow, dark and twisty flues, until it found out Barnacle, exactly as Mister Roberts had divined, squatting in some sooty nook and, if there was room enough to move his arms, a-picking of his nose.
His proper name was Absalom Brown, but his owner, Mister Roberts, called him Barnacle on account of his amazing powers of holding on.
The brandy came, and Mister Gosling, with a reproachful look at Barnacle, poured it over his bleeding arm.
Mister Gosling firmly, as if, by washing alone, and without a paper or a penny changing hands, Barnacle had passed into his ownership.
Somehow he felt that they were a secret between him and Mister Gosling, and that to share a secret with the big man raised Barnacle a little .
Mister Gosling was about to push Barnacle after when he was forestalled.
Indignantly Barnacle denied the charge and was about to explain how his ma had hung the locket round his neck just before she popped her clogs, when Mrs McDipper and Mister Levy came back.
Mister Thompson, as if there were several Mister Thompsons all inside each other, and Barnacle was small, single and alone.
Mister Gosling breathed deeply, and, telling Barnacle to get a move on with sweeping the hay off the deck, went down below again.
The Colonel was staring straight at Mister Gosling in a queer, searching kind of way that filled Barnacle with uneasiness.
Mister Gosling, moving in front of Barnacle as if to stop the Colonel getting at him with a knife or something.
Mister Gosling, and kept making quick, pushing movements with his hands behind his back, to tell Barnacle to shove off up the ladder.