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cloak
English
Alternative forms
- cloke (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English cloke, from Old Northern French cloque (“travelling cloak”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“travelers' cape, literally “a bell”, so called from the garment’s bell-like shape”), of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos-, ultimately imitative.
Doublet of clock.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?klo?k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Noun
cloak (plural cloaks)
- A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
- A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
- (figuratively) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
- No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak.
- (Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
Derived terms
- cloak and dagger
Translations
See also
- burnoose, burnous, burnouse
- domino costume
Verb
cloak (third-person singular simple present cloaks, present participle cloaking, simple past and past participle cloaked)
- (transitive) To cover as with a cloak.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, hide or conceal.
- (science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
- The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.
Derived terms
- cloaking device
Translations
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gag
English
Etymology
The verb is from 15th-century Middle English gaggen, Early Modern English gagge, possibly imitative or perhaps related to or influenced by Old Norse gag-háls ("with head thrown backwards"; > Norwegian dialectal gaga (“bent backwards”)). The intransitive sense "to retch" is from 1707.
The noun is from the 16th century, figurative use (for "repression of speech") from the 1620s. The secondary meaning "(practical) joke" is from 1863, of unclear origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
gag (plural gags)
- A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.
- (law) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.
- A joke or other mischievous prank.
- (film) a device or trick used to create a practical effect; a gimmick
- A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.
- (archaic) A mouthful that makes one retch or choke.
- Mycteroperca microlepis, a species of grouper.
- Synonym: gag grouper
Synonyms
- (legal): gag order
- (joke): See also Thesaurus:joke
Derived terms
- gagless
- sight gag
Descendants
- ? French: gag
- ? Italian: gag
- ? Spanish: gag
Translations
Verb
gag (third-person singular simple present gags, present participle gagging, simple past and past participle gagged)
- (intransitive) To experience the vomiting reflex.
- (transitive) To cause to heave with nausea.
- 2008, Stephen King, "A Very Tight Place"
- His empty stomach was suddenly full of butterflies, and for the first time since arriving here at scenic Durkin Grove Village, he felt an urge to gag himself. He would be able to think more clearly about this if he just stuck his fingers down his throat […]
- 2008, Stephen King, "A Very Tight Place"
- (transitive) To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
- 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- They said no word to the landlord, they drank his ale instead,
- But they gagged his daughter and bound her to the foot of her narrow bed;
- Two of them knelt at her casement, with muskets at their side!
- 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- (transitive) To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
- 1917, Francis Gregor (translator), De Laudibus Legum Angliae, Sir John Fortescue, written 1468–1471, first published 1543.
- […] some have their mouths gagged to such a wideness, for a long time, whereat such quantities of water are poured in, that their bellies swell to a prodigious degree […]
- 1917, Francis Gregor (translator), De Laudibus Legum Angliae, Sir John Fortescue, written 1468–1471, first published 1543.
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.
- When the financial irregularities were discovered, the CEO gagged everyone in the accounting department.
- c. 1840, Thomas Macaulay, Essay on Machiavelli
- The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hoodwinked.
- (transitive, intransitive) To choke; to retch.
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, slang) To deceive (someone); to con.
- 1777, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 79:
- I endeavoured what I could to soften off the affectation of her sudden change of Disposition; and I gagged the Gentleman with as much ease as my very little ease would allow me to assume.
- 1777, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 79:
Derived terms
- gag me with a spoon
Translations
Related terms
- blech
- retch
References
- gag in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Further reading
- gag at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- agg
French
Etymology
From English gag.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?/
Noun
gag m (plural gags)
- joke
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English gag.
Noun
gag m (invariable)
- gag, joke
- Synonyms: scherzo, freddura; see also Thesaurus:battuta
Occitan
Noun
gag m (plural gags)
- jay
Romanian
Etymology
From French gag.
Noun
gag n (plural gaguri)
- joke
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From English gag.
Noun
gag m (plural gags)
- gag (joke)
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /ka?k?/
- Tone numbers: gag8
- Hyphenation: gag
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From ??”)
Adverb
gag (Sawndip forms ? or ? or ?, old orthography gag)
- by oneself; alone
- Synonym: (dialectal) haek
- on one's own; by oneself; without permission
- Synonym: (dialectal) gujgag
- just; only
Derived terms
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From ?? ??”)
Verb
gag (old orthography gag)
- to eject; to cough up
- Synonym: (dialectal) gak
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