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bump
English
Etymology
From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision", also "to make a heavy, hollow sound, boom”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”). Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”), probably of imitative origin. More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Noun
bump (countable and uncountable, plural bumps)
- A light blow or jolting collision.
- The sound of such a collision.
- A protuberance on a level surface.
- A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
- (obsolete) One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind. Also (dated, metonymically) the faculty itself
- c.1845 Thomas MacNevin, cited in Charles Gavan Duffy (1896) Young Ireland: A Fragment of Irish History, 1840-45; final revision (London: T.F. Unwin) Vol.II p.100:
- Our task is to elevate the character of the people, raising up, in fact, their bump of self-esteem and suppressing the bumps of servility and fury.
- c.1845 Thomas MacNevin, cited in Charles Gavan Duffy (1896) Young Ireland: A Fragment of Irish History, 1840-45; final revision (London: T.F. Unwin) Vol.II p.100:
- (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
- The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
- (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
- A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
- (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
- The noise made by the bittern; a boom.
- (preceded by definite article) A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump each other's hips together.
- In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.
- (uncountable) A coarse cotton fabric.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
bump (third-person singular simple present bumps, present participle bumping, simple past and past participle bumped)
- To knock against or run into with a jolt.
- To move up or down by a step; displace.
- (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
- (chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
- (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
- 2005, Lois Jones, EasyJet: the story of Britain's biggest low-cost airline (page 192)
- Easyjet said the compensation package for passengers bumped off flights was 'probably the most flawed piece of European legislation in recent years' […]
- 2005, Lois Jones, EasyJet: the story of Britain's biggest low-cost airline (page 192)
- (transitive) To move the time of (a scheduled event).
- 2010, Nancy Conner, Matthew MacDonald, Office 2010: The Missing Manual, p. 332:
- A colleague emails with news that her 4:30 meeting got bumped to 3:30.
- 2010, Nancy Conner, Matthew MacDonald, Office 2010: The Missing Manual, p. 332:
- (transitive) To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.
- (intransitive, archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.
- as a bittern bumps within a reed
- (printing, dated) To spread out material so as to fill any desired number of pages.
- (slang, transitive) To assassinate; to bump off.
- 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
- You know about the night the kid bumped Brody?
- 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
bump
- (Internet) Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
Danish
Etymology
Onomatopoeic, compare English bump.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bom?p/, [?b??m?b?]
- Homophone: bomb
Noun
bump n (singular definite bumpet, plural indefinite bump)
- thud
- jolt
- road hump
Inflection
Derived terms
- vejbump
- bumpe
Verb
bump (form)
- imperative of bumpe
Welsh
Numeral
bump
- Soft mutation of pump (“five”).
Mutation
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weal
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?l, IPA(key): /wi?l/
- Rhymes: -i?l
- Homophone: we'll; wheal, wheel (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English wele, from Old English wela (“wellness, welfare, prosperity, riches, well-being, wealth”), from Proto-Germanic *walô (“well-being, wellness, weal”). Cognate with German Wohl, Danish vel, Swedish väl.
Noun
weal (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Wealth, riches. [10th-19th c.]
- (literary) Welfare, prosperity. [from 10th c.]
- (by extension) Boon, benefit.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 557:
- And indeed I blamed myself and sore repented me of having taken compassion on him and continued in this condition, suffering fatigue not to be described, till I said to myself, "I wrought him a weal and he requited me with my ill; by Allah, never more will I do any man a service so long as I live!"
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 557:
- Specifically, the general happiness of a community, country etc. (often with qualifying word). [from 15th c.]
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, page 372:
- Louis could aim to restyle himself the first among citizens, viewing virtuous attachment to the public weal as his most important kingly duty.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, page 372:
Derived terms
- commonweal
- wealful
- wealsman
- wealth
Related terms
- in weal or woe
Translations
Etymology 2
See wale.
Noun
weal (plural weals)
- A raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by a stroke of a rod or whip; a welt.
- Synonym: wheal
- 1958, T. H. White, The Once and Future King, London: Collins, 1959, Chapter 16,[1]
- He had been slashed sixteen times by mighty boars, and his legs had white weals of shiny flesh that stretched right up to his ribs.
- 2007, Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain, New York: Weinstein Books, Book Two, Chapter Twenty-One, p. 422,[2]
- And I saw the green island in the immense sea, the borders of the sea curling with a lining of light, like a vast piece of rice paper, its edges alive with weals of red embers, ready to burst into flame.
Translations
Verb
weal (third-person singular simple present weals, present participle wealing, simple past and past participle wealed)
- To mark with stripes; to wale.
Anagrams
- alew, e-law, lawe, wale
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