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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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whack
English
Etymology
Uncertain. Originally Scottish. Probably onomatopoeic, although possibly a variant of thwack.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wæk/
- (without the wine–whine merger) IPA(key): /?æk/
- Rhymes: -æk
- Homophone: wack (accents with the wine-whine merger)
Noun
whack (plural whacks)
- The sound of a heavy strike.
- The strike itself.
- The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
- (US, slang) An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
- C'mon. Take a whack at it.
- 40 bucks a whack.
- (originally Britain cant, dated) A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
- 1906, Jack London, White Fang, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 16,[1]
- “It’s damned tame, whatever it is, comin’ in here at feedin’ time an’ gettin’ its whack of fish.”
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: Appleton, Chapter VII, page 108,[2]
- “ […] O'Cannon's a taxpayer. He pays his whack towards the upkeep of the State School up in town—”
- 1951, Katherine Mansfield, Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922,
- For one thing I had a splendid supper when I got on board—a whack of cold, lean beef and pighells, bread, butter ad lib., tea, and plenty of good bread.
- 2014, Anthony Pritchard, Grand Prix Ferrari (page 203)
- There were problems over the installation of the engine and the handling. The team had paid top whack for the two Coopers, but the company gave them no help at all.
- 1906, Jack London, White Fang, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 16,[1]
- (obsolete) A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
- (US, obsolete) A deal, an agreement.
- 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Ch. vi, page 70:
- "I'll stay if you will."
"Good—that's a whack."
- "I'll stay if you will."
- It's a whack!
- 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Ch. vi, page 70:
- (typography, computing, slang) The backslash, ??\??.
- del c:\docs\readme.txt
- Delete c colon whack docs whack readme dot text.
- del c:\docs\readme.txt
Derived terms
- full whack
- have a whack at
- out of whack
- take a whack at
- top whack
- wacky
- whack up, whack-up
Translations
Verb
whack (third-person singular simple present whacks, present participle whacking, simple past and past participle whacked)
- To hit, slap or strike.
- G. W. Cable
- Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.
- G. W. Cable
- (slang) To kill, bump off.
- (transitive, slang) To share or parcel out (often with up).
- to whack the spoils of a robbery
- 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, London: G. Newbold, Volume 2, p. 152,
- When the sewer-hunters consider they have searched long enough […] the gang […] count out the money they have picked up, and proceed to dispose of the old metal, bones, rope, &c.; this done, they then, as they term it, “whack” the whole lot; that is, they divide it equally among all hands.
- (sports) To beat convincingly; to thrash.
- 2012, Ryan Pyette, Majors, Panthers play mind games, The London Free Press:
- The fidgety Majors were whacked 9-1 by the Kitchener Panthers at Couch and now trail their rivals 2-0 in an increasingly uncomfortable best-of-seven Intercounty Baseball League first-round series.
- 2012, Ryan Pyette, Majors, Panthers play mind games, The London Free Press:
- (Britain, chiefly in the negative) To surpass; to better.
- 2012, Steve Cullen, Total Flyfisher:
- Recently I was over in Ireland, I love the place, proper fishing, can't whack it!
- 2012, Steve Cullen, Total Flyfisher:
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:kill
Derived terms
- whack off
- whack the illy
Translations
Adjective
whack (comparative whacker, superlative whackest)
- Alternative form of wack (“crazy”)
- That's whack, yo!
- 2007, Joyce E. Davis, Can't Stop The Shine, page 51:
- As they joked about the big butts on female celebrities and what rappers had the whackest lyrics, Malcolm paid little attention to Kalia besides squeezing her hand or grabbing her arm to hold himself up […]
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "whack, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1923.
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