Margate (oh) and Virginia (iou)

Margate (oh)

a town with a large beach on the northern coast of Kent in southeast England. People used to think of it as a typical place where working class people went for their holidays.

Virginia noun. E17.
[See sense 1.]
Used attrib. to designate things found in, obtained from, or associated with Virginia, a State in the south-eastern US (orig. the first English settlement, 1607). E17.
Virginia Algonquian (of) the Algonquian language (now extinct) of the Powhatans. Virginia bluebell = Virginia cowslip below. Virginia cowslip a N. American woodland plant of the borage family, Mertensia virginica, bearing nodding blue trumpet-shaped flowers. Virginia creeper any of several woody climbing plants of the genus Parthenocissus, of the vine family; esp. P. quinquefolia, of the eastern US, and P. tricuspidata, of China and Japan, which both have tendrils ending in adhesive pads and are grown for covering walls and buildings. Virginia deer = Virginian deer s.v. VIRGINIAN adjective. Virginia fence US a rail fence made in a zigzag pattern; make a Virginia fence (colloq.), walk drunkenly. Virginia nightingale = Virginian nightingale s.v. VIRGINIAN adjective. Virginia opossum = Virginian opossum s.v. OPOSSUM 1. Virginia poke = POKE noun2 2a. Virginia rail a N. American rail, Rallus linicola, which resembles the water rail in appearance and habits. Virginia reel N. Amer. a country Dance. Virginia snakeroot: see snakeroot s.v. SNAKE noun. Virginia stock a low-growing cruciferous plant of the Mediterranean region, Malcolmia maritima, grown for its fragrant flowers, freq. lilac or white. Virginia tobacco a variety of tobacco grown and manufactured in Virginia. Virginia water-leaf a water-leaf, Hydrophyllum virginianum, with leaves edible when young (also called Shawnee salad).
ellipt. = Virginia tobacco below. Also, a cigarette made of this. E17.

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