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buggy
English
Etymology
Origin unknown.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b?.?i/
- Rhymes: -??i
Noun
buggy (plural buggies)
- A small horse-drawn cart.
- A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.
- A hearse.
- 1920's arr: Jimmie Rogers Frankie and Johnnie
- Bring out the rubber tired buggy/Bring out the rubber tired hack/I'm takin' my Johnny to the graveyard/But I ain't gonna bring him back
- 1920's arr: Jimmie Rogers Frankie and Johnnie
- (Britain) A pushchair; a stroller.
- (Canada, Southern US) A shopping cart or trolley.
Synonyms
- (pushchair): stroller
Translations
Adjective
buggy (comparative buggier, superlative buggiest)
- Infested with insects
- (computing) Containing programming errors
- This software is so buggy that I don't know how anyone can use it!
- Resembling an insect
- (slang) Crazy; bughouse
- 2011, Beverley Armstrong-Rodman, Nightmare in the Everglades (page 106)
- You have to help me get out of here. They want to keep me longer, but I can't stay. This place is driving me buggy.
- 2011, Beverley Armstrong-Rodman, Nightmare in the Everglades (page 106)
Derived terms
- baby buggy
- bugginess
- buggy eyes
Translations
References
- “buggy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English buggy.
Pronunciation
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /?b?.?i/
- Hyphenation: bug?gy
Noun
buggy m (plural buggy's, diminutive buggy'tje n)
- A baby buggy, a pushchair, a stroller.
- A buggy (small motor vehicle).
Derived terms
- strandbuggy
Adjective
buggy (not comparable)
- Buggy, containing programming errors.
Inflection
French
Etymology
From English buggy
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bœ.?i/
Noun
buggy m (plural buggies or buggys)
- buggy (small vehicle)
Further reading
- “buggy” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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cabriolet
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French cabriolet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kæ.b?i.??le?/
- Rhymes: -e?
Noun
cabriolet (plural cabriolets)
- An automobile with a retractable top.
- (originally) A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.
Synonyms
- (automobile): convertible
- (carriage pulled by a horse): roadster
Derived terms
- cab
Translations
Anagrams
- bacteriol., carbolite
Dutch
Etymology
From French cabriolet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ka?.bri.o??l?(t)/
- Hyphenation: ca?bri?o?let
- Rhymes: -?, -?t
Noun
cabriolet m (plural cabrioletten or cabriolets, diminutive cabrioletje n)
- cabriolet, convertible (car with a convertible top)
- cabriolet (light carriage with a convertible top, drawn by one horse)
Derived terms
- cabrio
French
Etymology
From Italian cabriola, cabriole (“horse caper”) +? -et, from Latin capreolus, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”); see also Old Norse hafr (“he-goat”), Old English hæfr, Welsh gafr, Old Irish gabor. Doublet of Chevrolet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.b?i.j?.l?/
Noun
cabriolet m (plural cabriolets)
- a cabriolet carriage
- a convertible car
- a knotted cord, each end tied to wood, to tie criminals to by the wrists
- a Directoire style hat type
Descendants
See also
- coupé-cabriolet
References
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
Further reading
- “cabriolet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Alternative forms
- cabriolè
Etymology
Borrowing from French cabriolet, from Italian cabriola.
Noun
cabriolet f (invariable)
- (automobiles) cabriolet
- Synonym: cabrio
Further reading
- cabriolet in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Swedish
Etymology
From French cabriolet.
Noun
cabriolet c
- cabriolet (vehicle)
Declension
Synonyms
- cab
Further reading
- cabriolet in Svensk ordbok.
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