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I did other things instead of resorting to that electronic pacifier every time I wanted to block the world out or didn't want to be where I was.
We do a terrible thing, which you'll frown at, but if she's playing up in a restaurant, we'll put on the iPad and use it as a digital pacifier.
We do a terrible thing if she's playing up in a restaurant: we'll use the iPad as a digital pacifier The Candy Crush types of games, that are mindlessly addictive, are mostly played by commuters on the train.
But then again, what would be more jarring in the average suburban home than a sudden eruption of Anglo-Saxon expletives in a film that will doubtless be used as a pacifier by many busy parents?
"When that pacifier falls on the floor, the parents cannot throw themselves on it quickly enough to wash it off, soak it in bleach, run it through the dishwasher, the microwave, you name it".
These days, however, even the agile Mr Saleh is finding it increasingly hard to keep the peace and secure his grip.Qat, the mildly euphoria-inducing leaf that most Yemeni men while away their afternoons chewing, is one powerful pacifier.
When I looked the word "dummy" up in a dictionary one definition was "pacifier ", with the label showing its regional usage as "Brit".Alan ArthurMount Pleasant, South CarolinaRomania's recordSIR – In my dual capacity as faithful reader of your publication and economic counsellor to the prime minister of Romania, I am appalled by the carnivalesque depiction of my country in recent articles.
A "dummy" is the British term for what we would call a pacifier or soother.
Ebisu is also sometimes associated with Koto-shiro-nushi ("Sign-Master"), a son of the mythological hero Ōkuninushi and associated with happiness because of the role he once played as a pacifier in a conflict between earthly and heavenly deities.
For example, if an infant sucks a nubby pacifier without being able to see it and then is shown that pacifier alongside a smooth one, the infant's longer look at the nubby pacifier suggests that he recognizes it, even though he previously experienced only its tactile qualities.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Foolscap, an easel, a prince with a pacifier : it's good, old-fashioned, newfangled fun — and here I am, raining on the parade with the pissy insistence of a London squall.
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The primary grammatical function of "pacifier" is as a noun . It typically refers to a rubber or plastic nipple-shaped device given to babies to suck on, as seen in many Ludwig examples. It can also refer to something that calms or placates.
Expression frequency: Very common
