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beast
English
Alternative forms
- beest (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English beeste, beste, from Old French beste (French bête), from Latin b?stia (“animal, beast”); many cognates – see b?stia.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /bi?st/
- Rhymes: -i?st
Noun
beast (plural beasts)
- Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.
- (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
- Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
- A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
- (slang) Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.
- That is a beast of a stadium.
- The subwoofer that comes with this set of speakers is a beast.
- (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
- (prison slang, derogatory) A sex offender.
- 1994, Elaine Player, Michael Jenkins, Prisons After Woolf: Reform Through Riot (page 190)
- Shouts had been heard: 'We're coming to kill you, beasts.' In desperation, Rule 43s had tried to barricade their doors […]
- 1994, Elaine Player, Michael Jenkins, Prisons After Woolf: Reform Through Riot (page 190)
- (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
- 2000, Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon, Berkley (2001), ?ISBN, page 905:
- […] Even unopposed, the natural obstacles are formidable, and defending his line of advance will be a beast of a problem."
- 2006, Heather Burt, Adam's Peak, Dundurn Press (2006), ?ISBN, page 114:
- He'd be in the hospital a few days — broken collarbone, a cast on his arm, a beast of a headache — but fine.
- 2000, Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon, Berkley (2001), ?ISBN, page 905:
- A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.
Derived terms
- beastly
- minibeast
- saddle beast
- beast of burden
Related terms
- bestial
- bestiary
Translations
See also
- belluine (suppletive adjective)
Derived terms
Related terms
Verb
beast (third-person singular simple present beasts, present participle beasting, simple past and past participle beasted)
- (Britain, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
Adjective
beast (comparative more beast, superlative most beast)
- (slang, chiefly Midwestern and northeastern US) great; excellent; powerful
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- There is another type from Siemens which is the HYB 39S64XXX(AT/ATL) -8B version (notice the "B" and the end) which is totally beast altogether.
- 1999, "Jason Chue", AMD K6-2 350mhz, FIC VA503+, LGS 64mb PC100 sdram (on newsgroup jaring.pcbase)
Anagrams
- Bates, Sebat, abets, baste, bates, beats, besat, betas, esbat, tabes
Middle English
Noun
beast
- Alternative form of beeste
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cur
English
Etymology
From Middle English kur, curre, of Middle Low German [Term?] or North Germanic origin. Compare Middle Dutch corre (“house dog; watch-dog”), dialectal Swedish kurre (“a dog”). Compare also Old Norse kurra (“to growl; grumble”), Middle Low German korren (“to growl”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): [k??]
- (US) IPA(key): [k?]
- Rhymes: -??(r)
Homophone: Kerr
Noun
cur (plural curs)
- (dated or humorous) A contemptible or inferior dog.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- A fals double tunge is more fiers and fell
Then Cerberus the cur couching in the kenel of hel;
Wherof hereafter, I thinke for to write,
Of fals double tunges in the di?pite.
- A fals double tunge is more fiers and fell
- 1613, Shakespeare, The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII, Act 2, scene 4
- you have many enemies, that know not why they are so, but, like to village-curs, bark when their fellows do.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 25
- "You have no more spirit than a mongrel cur. You lie down on the ground and ask people to trample on you."
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- (dated or humorous) A detestable person.
- 1613, Shakespeare, The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII, Act 1, scene 1
- This butcher's cur is venom-mouth'd, and I have not the power to muzzle him.
- 1613, Shakespeare, The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII, Act 1, scene 1
Derived terms
- curdog
Translations
See also
- bitsa, bitser
- mongrel
- mutt
Anagrams
- CRU, Cru, RUC, cru, ruc
Aromanian
Etymology 1
From Latin culus. Compare Romanian cur.
Alternative forms
- curu
Noun
cur
- (slang, referring to the anus) ass
Etymology 2
From Latin curr?. Compare Romanian cure, cur (modern curge, curg).
Alternative forms
- curu
Verb
cur
- I run.
- I flow.
Derived terms
- curari / curare
Etymology 3
From Latin c?r?. Compare archaic/regional Romanian cura, cur.
Alternative forms
- curu
Verb
cur (past participle curatã)
- I clean.
Related terms
- curari / curare
- curat
Dalmatian
Etymology 1
From Latin c?rus.
Alternative forms
- cuor, kuor
Adjective
cur m (feminine cuora)
- dear, beloved
Etymology 2
From Latin cor. Compare Italian cuore, French coeur, Old Portuguese cor, Old Spanish cuer.
Noun
cur
- heart
Irish
Alternative forms
- cuir
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [k???]
Noun
cur m (genitive singular as substantive cuir, genitive as verbal noun curtha)
- verbal noun of cuir
- sowing, planting; tillage
- burial
- setting, laying
- course; round
- (of implements) set
Declension
- Substantive
- Verbal noun
Mutation
References
- "cur" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “cur” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “cur” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Latin
Alternative forms
- q?r, qu?r, qu?r (older spelling)
- quur, cor (rare)
Etymology
From Old Latin qu?r, qu?r, from Proto-Italic *k??r, from Proto-Indo-European *k??r, having undergone pre-resonant and monosyllabic lengthening from *k?or (“where”), from *k?os (“interrogative determiner”) +? *-r (“adverbial suffix”). For similar lengthening effect, compare to *b??r. For other Indo-European cognates, compare:
- Sanskrit ????? (kárhi, “when”), Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”) < *k?or
- Old English hw?r (“where”), Old High German hw?r (“where”) < *k??r
- Albanian kur (“when”), Lithuanian kur? (“where, whither”), Armenian ??? (ur, “where”) < *k?ur
See also quirquir (“wherever(?)”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ku?r/, [ku?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kur/, [kur]
Adverb
c?r (not comparable)
- why, for what reason, wherefore, to what purpose, from what motive
- 19 BC, Vergilius, Aeneis; Book XI, from line 424
- Cur ante tubam tremor occupat artus?
- Why before the trumpet (of war), fear seizes your limbs?
- Cur ante tubam tremor occupat artus?
- 19 BC, Vergilius, Aeneis; Book XI, from line 424
Derived terms
- c?r n?n
References
- cur in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cur in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- cur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- “c?r” on page 519/1-2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
Manx
Etymology
A highly suppletive verb with forms derived from two already suppletive verbs.
- The imperative and verbal noun forms are from Old Irish cuirid, from older cor, the verbal noun of fo·ceird. The verbal noun is etymologically unrelated to fo·ceird itself however, only arising in its paradigm due to suppletion.
- All other forms of the verb are from Old Irish do·beir, itself also a suppletive verb. See also Scottish Gaelic thoir and Irish tabhair.
Verb
cur (verbal noun cur, coyrt)
- put
- give
Conjugation
Derived terms
- cur ayns kishtey (“box, crate”, verb)
Mutation
References
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 cuirid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Megleno-Romanian
Etymology
From Latin culus.
Noun
cur
- (slang) asshole (anus)
Middle English
Noun
cur
- Alternative form of curre
Middle Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish caur, from Proto-Celtic *karuts.
Noun
cur m (genitive curad, nominative plural curaid)
- hero, warrior
- c. 1000, The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig, section 15, published in Irische Teste, vol. 1 (1880), edited by Ernst Windisch:
- c. 1000, The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig, section 15, published in Irische Teste, vol. 1 (1880), edited by Ernst Windisch:
Descendants
- Irish: curadh
Derived terms
- curadmír (“warrior’s portion”)
Mutation
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cur”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kur/
Etymology 1
From Latin culus, from Proto-Indo-European *kuH-l-, zero-grade without s-mobile form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). Compare Italian culo, French cul.
Noun
cur n (plural cururi)
- (slang, vulgar, referring to the anus) asshole
- Synonyms: anus, dos, fund, popou, ?ezut
Declension
Derived terms
- curist
Etymology 2
Verb
cur
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of cura (to clean)
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
cur m (genitive singular cuir, no plural)
- verbal noun of cuir
- placing, setting, sending, sowing
- laying, pouring
- falling of snow, raining
- throwing
Derived terms
- ath-chur (“transplant”)
- eadar-chur (“interjection, interruption”)
Mutation
References
- “cur” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
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