See Also: Noel-Baker (of the City of Derby), Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron(encyclopedia)
Baker, john Randal(medicine)
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tacky(1)(dictionary)
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Baker, john Randal (medicine) and tacky (oh)


Baker, john Randal (medicine)


Baker, john Randal
<person> English zoologist, *1900.

See: Baker's pyridine extraction, Baker's acid haematein.


tacky (oh)



[Sense: 1-2; Date: 1800-1900; Origin: tacky 'horse in poor condition' (1800-1900).]
[Sense: 3; Date: 1700-1800; Origin: TACK1]
if something is tacky, it looks cheap or badly made, and shows poor taste
::tacky ornaments
especially AmE showing that you do not have good judgment about what is socially acceptable
::It's kind of tacky to give her a present that someone else gave you.
slightly sticky
::The paint's still slightly tacky.
-- tackily adv
-- tackiness n [U]