hackney

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An English habitational surname
A London borough where once upon a time many horses were pastured
One of several breeds of compact English horses. From the London borough where many such animals were kept
Available for public hire. From the London borough where many horses were kept for public hire
Offered for hire
To make uninteresting or trite by frequent use
A breed of English horse
An ordinary horse
A carriage for hire or a cab
To use as a hackney
A horse used to ride or drive
to make stale or trite by repetition
{v} to practice or use one thing much
{a} common, let for hire
{n} a hired horse, hireling, prostitute
a borough of East London which is a rather poor area
An English surname
Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean; as, hackney coaches; hackney authors
a carriage for hire
a compact breed of harness horse a carriage for hire
To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation
A horse or pony kept for hire
{i} hired coach; taxi; horse used to draw a carriage; riding horse
To carry in a hackney coach
A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony
A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute
A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach
a compact breed of harness horse
hackney cab
Currently a motorised vehicle available for public hire - a modern implementation of the original horse drawn function
hackney cab
Originally a carriage pulled by a hackney horse, available for public hire
hackney carriage
The official name for a traditional "London"-style taxi; a black cab
hackney carriage
(England) taxicab
hackney carriage
hackney: a carriage for hire
hackneyed
Simple past tense and past participle of hackney
hackneyed
Repeated too often

The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.

hackneyed
If you describe something such as a saying or an image as hackneyed, you think it is no longer likely to interest, amuse or affect people because it has been used, seen, or heard many times before. Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts. That's the old hackneyed phrase, but it's true. a hackneyed phrase is boring and does not have much meaning because it has been used so often (hackney (16-19 centuries), from hackney (14-20 centuries), probably from Hackney, area in London, England where horses were once kept)
hackneyed
{s} banal, commonplace, trite, unoriginal
hackneyed
repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
hackney

    Hyphenation

    Hack·ney

    Turkish pronunciation

    häkni

    Pronunciation

    /ˈhaknē/ /ˈhækniː/

    Etymology

    [ 'hak-nE ] (noun.) 14th century. Probably from Hackney, formerly a town, now a borough of London, used for grazing horses before sale, or from Old French haquenee (“ambling mare for ladies”), Latinized in England to hakeneius (though some recent French sources report that the English usage predates the French)
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