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brute
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bro?ot, IPA(key): /b?u?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /b?ut/
- Rhymes: -u?t
Etymology 1
From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin br?tus (“dull, stupid, insensible”), an Oscan loanword, from Proto-Indo-European *g?réh?us (“heavy”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (barús), Persian ????? (gerân) and Sanskrit ???? (gurú) (English guru).
Adjective
brute (comparative more brute, superlative most brute)
- Without reason or intelligence (of animals). [from 15th c.]
- Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans). [from 16th c.]
- Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless. [from 16th c.]
- Crude, unpolished. [from 17th c.]
- Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
- Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.
Translations
Noun
brute (plural brutes)
- (archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. [from 17th c.]
- 1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees:
- they laid before them how unbecoming it was the Dignity of such sublime Creatures to be sollicitous about gratifying those Appetites, which they had in common with Brutes, and at the same time unmindful of those higher qualities that gave them the preeminence over all visible Beings.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.17:
- But if he lives badly, he will, in the next life, be a woman; if he (or she) persists in evil-doing, he (or she) will become a brute, and go on through transmigrations until at last reason conquers.
- 1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees:
- A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. [from 17th c.]
- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
- (film, television) A kind of powerful spotlight.
- 1976, A. Arthur Englander, ?Paul Petzold, Filming for Television (page 191)
- For a scene like the Highgate exhumation night sequence suitable equipment would consist of: two brutes on Molevators, three 10 K lights also on Molevators and, for good measure, two 5 Ks, four 2 Ks, two pups (1000 W), two North lights […]
- 1976, A. Arthur Englander, ?Paul Petzold, Filming for Television (page 191)
- (archaic, Britain, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
brute (third-person singular simple present brutes, present participle bruting, simple past and past participle bruted)
- (transitive) To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.
Etymology 2
Verb
brute (third-person singular simple present brutes, present participle bruting, simple past and past participle bruted)
- Obsolete spelling of bruit
Anagrams
- Ubert, buret, rebut, tuber
Dutch
Pronunciation
Adjective
brute
- Inflected form of bruut
French
Adjective
brute
- feminine singular of brut
Noun
brute f (plural brutes)
- brute, an animal lacking in reason.
- An animal lacking in intelligence and sensibility.
- (By analogy) A person without reason.
- One who imposes his will on others using violence - a bully.
Further reading
- “brute” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- buter, rebut, tuber
Italian
Adjective
brute
- feminine plural of bruto
Anagrams
- turbe
Latin
Adjective
br?te
- vocative masculine singular of br?tus
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pig
English
Wikispecies
Etymology 1
From Middle English pigge (“pig, pigling”) (originally a term for a young pig, with adult pigs being swine), apparently from Old English *picga (attested only in compounds, such as picgbr?ad (“mast, pig-fodder”)). Compare Middle Dutch pogge, puggen, pegsken (“pigling”).
A connection to early modern Dutch bigge (contemporary big (“piglet”)), West Frisian bigge (“pigling”), and similar terms in Middle Low German is sometimes proposed, "but the phonology is difficult". Some sources say the words are "almost certainly not" related, others consider a relation "probable, but not certain".
The slang sense of "police officer" is attested since at least 1785.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
pig (plural pigs)
- Any of several intelligent mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus scrofa.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pig
- (specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
- 2005 April, Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission ?ISBN, page I-9:
- Weanlings grow into feeder pigs, and feeder pigs grow into slaughter hogs. […] Ultimately the end use for virtually all pigs and hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products.
- 2005 April, Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission ?ISBN, page I-9:
- (uncountable) The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
- 2005, Ross Eddy Osborn, Thorns of a Tainted Rose ?ISBN, page 196:
- "Miss Chastene, could you fetch me out an extra plate of pig and biscuit. My partner can't do without your marvelous cooking."
- 2005, Ross Eddy Osborn, Thorns of a Tainted Rose ?ISBN, page 196:
- A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).
- 2019, Bee Smith, Queen Bee's Party
- So far on the streets there's been a lot of metallic pink (the kind of pink as in the shade of pig you get, and this is exactly the shade of the diary I've been writing in) […]
- 2019, Bee Smith, Queen Bee's Party
- (derogatory, slang) Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:glutton
- (derogatory, slang) A lecherous or sexist man.
- (derogatory, slang) A dirty or slovenly person.
- (derogatory) A very obese person.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fat person
- (now chiefly US, Britain, Australia, derogatory, slang) A police officer. [From ante 1785.]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:police officer
- 1989, Dan Simmons, Carrion Comfort, page 359,
- “...Sounds too easy,” Marvin was saying. “What about the pigs?”
- He meant police.
- 1990, Jay Robert Nash, Encyclopedia of World Crime: Volume 1: A-C, page 198,
- The bank robberies went on and each raid became more bloody, Meinhof encouraging her followers to “kill the pigs” offering the slightest resistance, referring to policemen.
- 2008, Frank Kusch, Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention, page 63,
- Backing 300 of the more aggressive protesters was a supporting cast of several thousand more who stared down the small line of police. Those in front resumed their taunts of “Pig, pig, fascist pig,” and “pigs eat shit, pigs eat shit.” The rest of the crowd, however, backed off and sat down on the grass when reinforcements arrived. Police did not retaliate for the name-calling, and within minutes the line of demonstrators broke apart and the incident was over without violence.113
- 2011, T. J. English, The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge, unnumbered page,
- But me, I joined the party to fight the pigs. That?s why I joined. Because my experience with the police was always negative.
- (informal) A difficult problem.
- (countable and uncountable) A block of cast metal.
- The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
- (engineering) A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.
- (US, military, slang) The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
- (uncountable) A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating a greater score or losing previous points gained.
Hyponyms
- (mammal of genus Sus): boar, herd boar; sow, brood sow; piglet, piggy
Derived terms
Descendants
- Torres Strait Creole: pig
- ? Abenaki: piks (from "pigs")
- ? Malecite-Passamaquoddy: piks (from "pigs")
Translations
Verb
pig (third-person singular simple present pigs, present participle pigging, simple past and past participle pigged)
- (of swine) to give birth.
- (intransitive) To greedily consume (especially food).
- 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, page 349:
- "Wow, Doc. That's heavy." Denis sat there pigging on the joint as usual.
- 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, page 349:
- (intransitive) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
- (intransitive) To live together in a crowded filthy manner.
- (transitive, engineering) To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).
Etymology 2
Origin unknown. See piggin.
Noun
pig (plural pigs)
- (Scotland) earthenware, or an earthenware shard
- An earthenware hot-water jar to warm a bed; a stone bed warmer
Derived terms
References
Anagrams
- GIP, GPI, gip
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse pík, from Proto-Germanic *p?kaz, *pikkaz, cognate with English pike. Doublet of pik.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi?/, [?p?i??]
- Homophone: pik
Noun
pig c (singular definite piggen, plural indefinite pigge)
- spike
- barb
- spine, quill (needle-like structure)
- prickle (a small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn)
Inflection
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English pigge, pygge, from Old English *picga (“pig; pigling”), see English pig.
Sense of "vessel; jar" is from Middle English pygg, perhaps an extension of the above.
Noun
pig (plural pigs)
- pig
- pot, jar, earthenware
Derived terms
Torres Strait Creole
Etymology
From English pig.
Noun
pig
- pig
- Synonym: pwaka
Welsh
Etymology
Possibly from Middle English pyke (“pike, sharp point”). Cognate with Breton beg.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi??/
Noun
pig f (plural pigau)
- beak, bill
- point, spike
- spout
Derived terms
- pigo (“to prick, to peck, to sting”)
Mutation
Further reading
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “pig”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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