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cahoot
English
Etymology
Probably from French cahute. See cahoots.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??hu?t/
Noun
cahoot (plural cahoots)
- (uncommon) A group of people working together (usually for an illicit purpose)
- (uncommon) An accomplice; a partner.
- (US, uncommon) A company or partnership.
Verb
cahoot (third-person singular simple present cahoots, present participle cahooting, simple past and past participle cahooted)
- (intransitive) To act in partnership.
See also
- cahoots
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989
Anagrams
- atchoo
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connive
English
Etymology
From French conniver (“to ignore and thus become complicit in wrongdoing”), or directly from its etymon Latin conn?v?re, c?n?v?re, third-person plural perfect active indicative of conn?ve?, c?n?ve? (“to close or screw up the eyes, blink, wink; to overlook, turn a blind eye, connive”) (perhaps alluding to two persons involved in a scheme together winking to each other), from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) + *n?v?re (related to nict? (“to blink, wink”), from Proto-Indo-European *kneyg??- (“to bend, droop”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /k??na?v/
- Rhymes: -a?v
- Hyphenation: con?nive
Verb
connive (third-person singular simple present connives, present participle conniving, simple past and past participle connived)
- (intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire. [from mid 17th c.]
- (intransitive, botany, rare) Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
- (intransitive, obsolete) Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
- Synonyms: (rare) dissimulate, look the other way, shut one's eyes, turn a blind eye, wink
- (intransitive, obsolete) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Related terms
- connivance
- connivent
- nictate
Translations
References
Latin
Verb
conn?v?
- second-person singular present active imperative of conn?ve?
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