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awe
English
Etymology
From Middle English aw, awe, agh, aw?e, borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“terror, dread”). Displaced native Middle English eye, ey?e, ay?e, e??e, from Old English ege, æge (“fear, terror, dread”), from the same Proto-Germanic root.
Pronunciation
- In non-rhotic accents:
- enPR: ô, IPA(key): /??/
- Homophones: oar, or, ore, o'er
- In rhotic accents:
- (US) enPR: ô, IPA(key): /?/
- Homophone: aw
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: ä, IPA(key): /?/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
awe (usually uncountable, plural awes)
- A feeling of fear and reverence.
- A feeling of amazement.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV
- For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must each have been as overcome by awe as was I. All about us was a flora and fauna as strange and wonderful to us as might have been those upon a distant planet had we suddenly been miraculously transported through ether to an unknown world.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV
- (archaic) Power to inspire awe.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
awe (third-person singular simple present awes, present participle awing or aweing, simple past and past participle awed)
- (transitive) To inspire fear and reverence in.
- (transitive) To control by inspiring dread.
Synonyms
- (inspire reverence): enthral, enthrall; overwhelm
Derived terms
- awed
Translations
Anagrams
- AEW, EAW, WAE, WEA, eaw, wae
Mapudungun
Adverb
awe (using Raguileo Alphabet)
- quickly, promptly.
- soon
Synonyms
- arol
References
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English ?owu.
Noun
awe
- Alternative form of ewe
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ég?os. Doublet of eye.
Alternative forms
- aw, ahe, au, aue, aghe, age, a?e
Pronunciation
- (Early ME) IPA(key): /?a???/
- IPA(key): /?au?(?)/
- Rhymes: -au?(?)
Noun
awe (uncountable)
- awe, wonder, reverence
- fear, horror
- that which elicits or incites horror; something horrifying
Related terms
- agheful
- aghlich (rare)
- awles (rare)
- awen (rare)
Descendants
- English: awe
- Scots: awe, aw
References
- “aue, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-11.
Etymology 3
From Old English onwe?, awe?.
Adverb
awe
- Alternative form of away
Papiamentu
Alternative forms
- awé (alternative spelling)
Etymology
From Portuguese hoje and Spanish hoy and Kabuverdianu ochi.
Pronoun
awe
- today
Swahili
Verb
awe
- inflection of -wa:
- third-person singular subjunctive affirmative
- m-wa class subject inflected singular subjunctive affirmative
Western Arrernte
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aw?/
Interjection
awe
- yes
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stagger
English
Etymology
From Middle English stageren, stakeren, from Old Norse stakra (“to push, stagger”). Cognate with dialectal Danish stagre.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?stæ??/?
- (US) IPA(key): /?stæ??/
- Rhymes: -æ??(r)
Noun
stagger (plural staggers)
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion
- 7 October 2012, Paolo Bandini in The Guardian, Denver Broncos 21 New England Patriots 31 - as it happened
- Put down the rosary beads folks, I believe hell may just have frozen over. Peyton Manning drops back, sees nothing open and runs for a first down. If you can call that running. More like the stagger of a wounded rhino. Did the job, though
- 1861, Ellen Wood, East Lynne Chapter 39
- Afy slowly gathered in the sense of the words. She gasped twice, as if her breath had gone, and then, with a stagger and a shiver, fell heavily to the ground.
- 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Stave 2
- And when old Fezziwig and Mrs. Fezziwig had gone all through the dance; advance and retire; both hands to your partner, bow and courtesy, corkscrew, thread the needle, and back again to your place; Fezziwig "cut"—cut so deftly that he appeared to wink with his legs, and came upon his feet again without a stagger.
- 7 October 2012, Paolo Bandini in The Guardian, Denver Broncos 21 New England Patriots 31 - as it happened
- (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- 19 April 2016, Rachel Roddy in The Guardian, Rachel Roddy’s Roman spring vegetable stew recipe
- I don’t include cured pork, although it is very nice, and rather than putting everything in the pan at once I prefer a stagger of ingredients, which ensures each one gets the right amount of time.
- 19 April 2016, Rachel Roddy in The Guardian, Rachel Roddy’s Roman spring vegetable stew recipe
- (motor racing) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
- (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
Translations
Verb
stagger (third-person singular simple present staggers, present participle staggering, simple past and past participle staggered)
- Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
- (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
- She began to stagger across the room.
- Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow.
- (transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
- The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer.
- (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
- The enemy staggers.
- 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
- (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
- Doubt, waver, be shocked.
- (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.
- (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- He will stagger the committee when he presents his report.
- 1640, James Howell, England's Teares for the present Warres
- whosoever will be curious to read the future story of this intricate war , if it be possible to compile a story of it , he will find himself much staggered.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord
- Grants to the house of Russell were so enormous, as not only to outrage economy, but even to stagger credibility.
- (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- (transitive) Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track.
- To schedule in intervals.
- We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.
Translations
See also
- bestagger
- staggeringly
- staggers
References
Anagrams
- gagster, gargets, taggers
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