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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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truculent
English
Etymology
First attested circa 1540, from Middle French, from Latin truculentus (“fierce, savage”), from trux (“fierce, wild”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: \tr?k'-y?-l?nt\, IPA(key): /?t??kj?l?nt/
Adjective
truculent (comparative more truculent, superlative most truculent)
- Cruel or savage.
- The truculent soldiers gave us a steely-eyed stare.
- Deadly or destructive.
- Defiant or uncompromising.
- Eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict.
- 1992, Joel Feinberg, “The Social Importance of Moral Rights” in Philosophical Perspectives VI (Ethics, 1992), page 195:
- It is an important source of the value of moral rights then that?—?speaking very generally?—?they dispose people with opposed interests to be reasonable rather than arrogant and truculent.
- 2010, Seal Team 6 Member, in Esquire Magazine "The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden..."[1]
- (Refering to women in Bin Laden’s compound) “These bitches is getting truculent.”
- 1992, Joel Feinberg, “The Social Importance of Moral Rights” in Philosophical Perspectives VI (Ethics, 1992), page 195:
Quotations
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, ch VI,
- In her turn, Helen Burns asked me to explain, and I proceeded forthwith to pour out, in my own way, the tale of my sufferings and resentments. Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening.
- 1860–1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, ch XLVI,
- She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service.
- 1877, Leo Tolstoy (author), David Magarshack (translator), Anna Karenina, part 6, ch 12,
- She might pity herself, but he must not pity her. She did not want any quarrel; she blamed him for wanting one, but she could not help assuming a truculent attitude.
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance, ch 10,
- Most of them were little dramatic situations, crucial dialogues, the return of Mr. Hoopdriver to his native village, for instance, in a well-cut holiday suit and natty gloves, the unheard asides of the rival neighbours, the delight of the old ‘mater’, the intelligence—“A ten-pound rise all at once from Antrobus, mater. Whad d’yer think of that?” or again, the first whispering of love, dainty and witty and tender, to the girl he served a few days ago with sateen, or a gallant rescue of generalised beauty in distress from truculent insult or ravening dog.
- 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Beasts of Tarzan, ch 10,
- If he came too close to a she with a young baby, the former would bare her great fighting fangs and growl ominously, and occasionally a truculent young bull would snarl a warning if Tarzan approached while the former was eating.
- 1922, Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood: His Odyssy, ch XVI,
- Cahusac appeared to be having it all his own way, and he raised his harsh, querulous voice so that all might hear his truculent denunciation.
- 1925, Richard Henry Tawney, “Introduction”, to Thomas Wilson A discourse upon usury by way of dialogue and orations: for the better variety and more delight of all those that shall read this treatise (1572); Classics of social and political science Page 2
- Whatever his prejudices—and his book shows that they were tough—the most truculent of self-made capitalists could not have criticised him as a child in matters of finance. He had tried commercial cases, negotiated commercial treaties, …
Synonyms
- (cruel or savage): barbarous, cruel, ferocious, fierce, savage
- (deadly or destructive): deadly, destructive
- (defiant or uncompromising): defiant, inflexible, stubborn, uncompromising, unyielding
- (eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict): belligerent
Related terms
- truculence
- truculency
- truculently
Translations
See also
- belligerent
Anagrams
- unclutter
French
Etymology
From Latin truculentus (“fierce, savage”), from trux (“fierce, wild”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?y.ky.l??/
Adjective
truculent (feminine singular truculente, masculine plural truculents, feminine plural truculentes)
- violent or belligerent in a colorful, over-the-top or memorable fashion
- picturesque
Verb
truculent
- third-person plural present indicative of truculer
- third-person plural present subjunctive of truculer
Further reading
- “truculent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Romanian
Etymology
From French truculent, from Latin truculentus.
Adjective
truculent m or n (feminine singular truculent?, masculine plural truculen?i, feminine and neuter plural truculente)
- truculent
Declension
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