barnyard
Speech parts
1. barnyard - Noun
2. barnyard - Adjective
Meaning
A yard belonging to a barn.
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Examples
A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.
I had weird dreams full of barnyard animals. Most of them wanted to kill me. The rest wanted food.
"Use yer heads! A barnyard goose tastes better 'an a wild one cause it don't use its muscles. The same oughta hold true for a giant's brains!"-Bruenor Battlehammer, explaining his new recipe in response to Drizzt's and Wulfgar's expressions of horror and disgust.
He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die!
He bears a sword of flame but not to harm The wakened life that feels his quickening sway And barnyard voices shrilling "It is day!" Take by his grace a new and alien charm.
At the time, their music was liberating; the barnyard sounds were experiments in altering the tonal qualities of the instruments, and clattering wood blocks broke up the rhythm.