(music) A mode that is the same as a major key, with the interval pattern:

(music) a mode whose scale is the same as a natural minor scale, with the interval pattern:

(music) a mode whose scale is the same as a major key with the fourth scale degree raised by one half step, with the interval pattern:

(idiomatic, transitive) To mock; to ridicule or imitate, often to express contempt. / (idiomatic, transitive) To defeat easily, so as to show up as inadequate.

A person who guards money for someone else, often to prevent it from being spent on unscheduled needs.

(idiomatic) A possession or financial commitment, especially a building or vehicle, that creates substantial ongoing expenses, especially one whose costs are considered to be unsustainable.

(sometimes capitalized) Long-standing nickname of a complicated, seemingly man-made excavation on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, Canada, rumored to contain pirate treasure and which has been repeatedly and unsuccessfully probed at great expense.

Alternative form of pin money

(historical) An allowance of money given by a man to his wife or to other dependents for their personal, discretionary use.

Alternative form of for love or money