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Mod

noun

A British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers.

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"Mod" Quotes from Famous Books

... receipt of post-card. The Lavender Laundry hopes that you will give them a trial, as their terms are extremely mod—' ...

— Tenterhooks • Ada Leverson

... supposed the axis of the earth to be always turned towards the Sun.^{(169)} [(169). See Delambre, Hist. Astr. Mod., Vol. I, p. 96]. It was reserved to Kepler to propound the hypothesis of the constant parallelism of the earth's ...

— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan

... formed in every way to catch a woman's eye. The Raja's daughter therefore half forgave him his offence of mod ——. Again she sweetly smiled, disclosing two rows of little opals. Then descending to the water's edge, she stooped down and plucked a lotus. This she worshipped; next she placed it in her hair, then she put it in her ear, then she bit it with her teeth, then she trod upon it with her ...

— Vikram and the Vampire • Sir Richard F. Burton

... Report of the Commissioners appointed by the Cardinal, of whom Pascal is the one now best known, to consider Morin's plan. See the full account in Delambre, Hist. Astr. Mod. ii. 236, etc. ...

— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan

... Tableau des Saints, ou examen de l'esprit, de la conduite, des maximes, et du mrite des personnages que le Christianisme rvre et propose pour modles. Hoc admonere simplices etiam potest, Opinione alterius ne quid ponderent; Ambitio namque diffidens mortalium Aut gratiae subscribunt, aut odio suo; Erit ille nottis, quem per te cognoveris. Phaed., Lib. ...

— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing

... didn't much believe I'd find one at New York. So I just took up with the captain of the Aroostook's offer. He says she can telegraph to her folks at Venus as soon as she gets to Try-East, and she's welcome to stay on the ship till they come for her. I didn't think of their havin' our mod'n improvements out there; but he says they have telegraphs and railroads everywheres, the same as we do; and they're real kind and polite when you get used to 'em. The captain, he's as nice a man as I ever see. His wife's be'n two or three voyages with him in the ...

— The Lady of the Aroostook • W. D. Howells

Words linked to "Mod" : stylish, Britain, teenager, United Kingdom, fashionable, UK, Great Britain, stripling, teen, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, U.K., adolescent