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baste
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /be?st/
- Rhymes: -e?st
- Homophone: based
Etymology 1
Late Middle English, from Old French bastir (“build, construct, sew up (a garment)”).
Verb
baste (third-person singular simple present bastes, present participle basting, simple past and past participle basted)
- To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
Translations
Etymology 2
Middle English basten, of uncertain etymon, possibly from Old French basser (“moisten, soak”), from bacin (“basin”).
Verb
baste (third-person singular simple present bastes, present participle basting, simple past and past participle basted)
- To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
- (by extension) To coat over something.
- To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
Translations
Noun
baste (plural bastes)
- A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.
- 1876, The Odd Fellow's Companion
- "Just like a leg of mutton being roasted before a slow fire without any one to give it a baste," groaned the old man.
- 1876, The Odd Fellow's Companion
Etymology 3
Perhaps from the cookery sense of baste or from some Scandinavian etymon. Compare Old Norse beysta (“to beat, thresh”) (whenceDanish børste (“to beat up”)). Compare alsoSwedish basa (“to beat with a rod, to flog”) andSwedish bösta (“to thump”).Might be related French bâton (formerly baston), which means stick (English baton comes from bâton) ; see also French bastonnade, the act of beating with a stick.
Verb
baste (third-person singular simple present bastes, present participle basting, simple past and past participle basted)
- (archaic, slang) To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
- July 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diaries
- One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.
- July 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diaries
Translations
References
- [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) , “Baste”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: Printed for C. Chappell, […], OCLC 23927885.
Anagrams
- Bates, Beast, Sebat, abets, bates, beast, beats, besat, betas, esbat, tabes
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
baste
- singular past indicative and subjunctive of bassen
Anagrams
- batse, besta
French
Noun
baste m (plural bastes)
- ace of clubs
Noun
baste f (plural bastes)
- basque (clothing)
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English bæst.
Noun
baste
- Alternative form of bast (“bast”)
Etymology 2
From Old French bast.
Noun
baste
- Alternative form of base (“illegitimacy”)
Northern Sami
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /?pas?te/
Noun
baste
- spoon
Inflection
Derived terms
- deadjabaste
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Portuguese
Verb
baste
- first-person singular present subjunctive of bastar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of bastar
- third-person singular imperative of bastar
Spanish
Verb
baste
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of bastar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of bastar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of bastar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of bastar.
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drub
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??b/
- Rhymes: -?b
Etymology 1
From Middle English *drob, drof, from Old English *dr?b, dr?f (“turbid; dreggy; dirty”), from Proto-Germanic *dr?buz (“turbid”).
Noun
drub (usually uncountable, plural drubs)
- (dialectal, Northern England) carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.
Derived terms
- drubly
Etymology 2
1625, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Arabic ??????? (?araba, “to beat, to hit”), or perhaps originally from a dialectal word (Kent) drab, variant of drop, dryp, drib (“to beat”), from Middle English drepen (preterit drop, drap, drape “to strike, kill”) from Old English drepan (“to strike”), from Proto-Germanic *drepan? (“to beat, bump, strike, slay”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reb- (“to strike, crush, kill”). Akin to Old Frisian drop (“a blow, beat”), Old High German treffan (“to hit”), Old Norse drepa (“to strike, slay, kill”). Compare also dub. More at drape.
Verb
drub (third-person singular simple present drubs, present participle drubbing, simple past and past participle drubbed) (transitive)
- To beat (someone or something) with a stick.
- To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.
- To forcefully teach something.
- To criticize harshly; to excoriate.
Derived terms
- drubbing
Translations
Anagrams
- BrdU, Burd, brud, burd
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