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cad
English
Etymology
Short for caddie, from Scots, from French cadet, from dialectal capdet (“chief, captain”), from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput (“head”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kæd/
- Rhymes: -æd
Noun
cad (plural cads)
- A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.
- Synonyms: villain, dog
- (archaic) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; a bus conductor.
- c. 1835, Charles Dickens, "Omnibuses" (in Sketches by Boz)
- We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any buss on the road, whether it be for the gaudiness of its exterior, the perfect simplicity of its interior, or the native coolness of its cad.
- c. 1835, Charles Dickens, "Omnibuses" (in Sketches by Boz)
- (Britain, obsolete, slang) An idle hanger-on about innyards.
Derived terms
- caddish
Translations
See also
- no way to treat a lady
Anagrams
- ACD, ADC, CDA, D.Ac., DAC, DAc, DAc., DCA
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- cadu
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *cade?, from Latin cad?. Compare Daco-Romanian c?dea, cad.
Verb
cad (third-person singular present indicative cadi/cade, past participle cãdzutã)
- I fall.
Related terms
- cãdeari/cãdeare
- cãderi
- cãdzut
- cãdzui
- scad
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cid, from Proto-Celtic *k?id, from Proto-Indo-European *k?id, compare *k?is.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kad??/
Pronoun
cad
- (interrogative) what
- (Munster) (interrogative) where
Synonyms
- céard
- cad é
- caidé
Derived terms
- cad chuige (“why”)
- cad ina thaobh (“why”)
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 cía”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “cad” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 103.
- "cad" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kad/
- Rhymes: -ad
Verb
cad
- first-person singular present indicative of c?dea
- first-person singular present subjunctive of c?dea
- third-person plural present indicative of c?dea
Somali
Noun
cad ?
- white
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka?d/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Brythonic *kad (“battle”), from Proto-Celtic *katus (compare Old Irish cath), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh?tus (“fight”).
Noun
cad f (plural cadau or cadoedd)
- battle, army
Derived terms
- Cadan
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
- caed, cafwyd
Verb
cad
- impersonal preterite of cael
Mutation
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swine
English
Etymology
From Middle English swine, swin, from Old English sw?n, from Proto-Germanic *sw?n?, from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig”), equivalent to sow +? -en. Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish and Swedish svin, and more distantly to Polish ?winia, Russian ??????? (svin?já), Latin s?inus, Latin s?s, Ancient Greek ?? (hûs), Persian ???? (xuk). See also sow.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /swa?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
Noun
swine (plural swine or swines)
- (plural swine) A pig (the animal).
- (derogatory) A contemptible person (plural swines).
- (slang, derogatory) A police officer; a "pig".
- (slang, derogatory) Something difficult or awkward; a pain.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Appendix:English collective nouns
Noun
swine
- (archaic) plural of sow
Anagrams
- Wenis, Wiens, Wines, sewin, sinew, swein, we'ins, wenis, wines, wisen
Middle English
Alternative forms
- swin, swein, swynne, zuin, swyn, swyne, sweyne, swiyn, suin, sqwyne
Etymology
From Old English sw?n, from Proto-Germanic *sw?n?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /swi?n/
- Rhymes: -i?n
Noun
swine (plural swines)
- A pig, hog or swine.
- The meat of swine or pigs; pork.
- (colloquial) A disgraceful individual.
Synonyms
- pigge
- hog
Descendants
- Scots: swine
- English: swine
References
- “sw?n(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
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