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bold
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b??ld/, [b??ld]
- (General American) IPA(key): /bo?ld/
- Rhymes: -??ld
- Homophone: bowled
Etymology 1
From Middle English bold, from Old English bold, blod, bolt, botl (“house, dwelling-place, mansion, hall, castle, temple”), from Proto-Germanic *budl?, *buþl? (“house, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ew- (“to grow, wax, swell”) or *b?uH-.
Cognate with Old Frisian bold (“house”) (whence North Frisian bol, boel, bøl (“house”)), North Frisian bodel, budel (“property, inheritance”), Middle Low German b?del (“property, real estate”). Related to build.
Alternative forms
- bolde, boolde (both obsolete)
Noun
bold (plural bolds)
- (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.
Related terms
- bottle
- build
Etymology 2
From Middle English bold, bolde, bald, beald, from Old English bald, beald (“bold, brave, confident, strong, of good courage, presumptuous, impudent”), from Proto-West Germanic *balþ, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (“strong, bold”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el-, *b?l?- (“to bloat, swell, bubble”).
Cognate with Dutch boud (“bold, courageous, fearless”), Middle High German balt (“bold”) (whence German bald (“soon”)), Swedish båld (“bold, dauntless”). Perhaps related to Albanian ballë (“forehead”) and Old Prussian balo (“forehead”). For semantic development compare Italian affrontare (“to face, to deal with”), sfrontato (“bold, daring, insolent”), both from Latin frons (“forehead”).
Adjective
bold (comparative bolder, superlative boldest)
- Courageous, daring.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 239c.
- It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 239c.
- Visually striking; conspicuous.
- the painter's bold use of colour and outline
- (typography, of typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
- Presumptuous, forward or impudent.
- […] even the bolde?t and mo?t affirmative Philo?ophy, which has ever attempted to impo?e its crude Dictates and Principles on Mankind.
- (Ireland) Naughty; insolent; badly-behaved.
- All of her children are terribly bold and never do as they are told.
- Full-bodied.
- (Philippines) Pornographic; depicting nudity.
- Steep or abrupt.
Synonyms
- (courageous): audacious, brave, courageous, daring, forward, doughty
- See also Thesaurus:brave
Related terms
- bield
- bolden
- boldness
- embolden
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English bolden, balden, from Old English baldian, bealdian, from Proto-Germanic *balþ?n?, related to *balþaz (see above). Cognate with Old High German irbald?n (“to become bold, dare”).
Verb
bold (third-person singular simple present bolds, present participle bolding, simple past and past participle bolded)
- (transitive) To make (a font or some text) bold.
- (transitive, obsolete) To make bold or daring.
- […] for this bu?ines,
- It touches vs, as France inuades our land
- Not bolds the King, with others whome I feare,
- Mo?t iu?t and heauy cau?es make oppo?e.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To become bold.
Anagrams
- BLOD
Cebuano
Etymology
From English bold, from 1940s-1970s bold films (exploitation film).
Adjective
bold
- naked, nude
- pornographic
Danish
Alternative forms
- boldt (archaic)
Etymology
From Old Norse b?llr
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b??l?d?]
- Rhymes: -?ld
Noun
bold c (singular definite bolden, plural indefinite bolde)
- ball
Declension
Derived terms
- fodbold
- tennisbold
Further reading
- “bold” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “bold” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Old English
Etymology
Probably representing an earlier *bodl, *boþl, from Proto-West Germanic *b?þl, from Proto-Germanic *b?þl?, from an instrumental form of *b?an? (“to dwell”). Compare Old Norse ból. More at suffix -eld.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bold/, [bo?d]
Noun
bold n
- house, dwelling, building
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: bold
- English: bold
Romanian
Etymology
From a Common Slavic root *bodli.
Noun
bold n (plural bolduri)
- pin
Derived terms
- îmboldi
See also
- ac
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glib
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?b/
- Rhymes: -?b
Etymology 1
A shortening of either English glibbery (“slippery”) or its source, Low German glibberig, glibberich (“slippery”) / Dutch glibberig (“slippery”).
Adjective
glib (comparative glibber, superlative glibbest)
- Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
- (dated) Smooth or slippery.
- Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.
Derived terms
- glibly
- glibness
Translations
Verb
glib (third-person singular simple present glibs, present participle glibbing, simple past and past participle glibbed)
- (transitive) To make glib.
- 1628, Joseph Hal, “Christian Liberty Laid Forth,” in The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D., Volume V, London: Williams & Smith, 1808, p. 366, [1]
- There is a drunken liberty of the Tongue; which, being once glibbed with intoxicating liquor, runs wild through heaven and earth; and spares neither him that is God above, nor those which are called gods on earth.
- 1730, Edward Strother, Dr. Radcliffe’s Practical Dispensatory, London: C. Rivington, p. 342, [2]
- They are good internally in Fits of the Stone in the Kidneys, by glibbing the Ureters, and making even a large Stone pass with ease […]
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, “Gran’s Battle,” [3]
- We were having one of our bitterest cold snaps. Wind due north, shrieking over stiff land; two feet of snow, all substances glibbed with ice and granite-hard.
- 1628, Joseph Hal, “Christian Liberty Laid Forth,” in The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D., Volume V, London: Williams & Smith, 1808, p. 366, [1]
Etymology 2
From Irish glib.
Noun
glib (plural glibs)
- (historical) A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly worn in Ireland.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:
- Whom when she saw in wretched weedes disguiz'd, / With heary glib deform'd and meiger face, / Like ghost late risen from his grave agryz'd, / She knew him not […].
- The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curled bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them.
- 1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
- Their wild costume of the glib and mantle.
- 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! [[s:Westward Ho!/Chapter {{{1}}}|Chapter {{{1}}}]]
- a dozen of his ruffians at his heels, each with his glib over his ugly face, and his skene in his hand
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:
Etymology 3
Compare Old English and dialect lib to castrate, geld, Danish dialect live, Low German and Old Dutch lubben.
Verb
glib (third-person singular simple present glibs, present participle glibbing, simple past and past participle glibbed)
- (obsolete) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
- 1623: William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act II Scene 1
- Fourteen they shall not see
To bring false generations. They are co-heirs;
And I had rather glib myself than they
Should not produce fair issue.
- Fourteen they shall not see
- 1623: William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act II Scene 1
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *glib?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lî?b/
Noun
gl?b m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- mud, mire
Declension
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