different between congee vs conger

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?nd?i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?nd?i?/

Etymology 1

From Old French congié (modern congé), from Latin comme?tus (“passage, permission to leave”), from comme? (“I go and come”), from con- + me? (“I go, I pass”). Figurative senses generally borrowed from developments in French congé.

Alternative forms

• conge [16th-17th c.]
• congé [from 18th c.]

Noun

congee (plural congees)

1. Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly):
   1. (obsolete) Formal permission to leave; a passport.
2. (obsolete) Formal dismissal; (figuratively) any dismissal; (originally & particularly humorously ironic) abrupt dismissal without ceremony.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     So courteous conge both did giue and take,
     With right hands plighted, pledges of good will.

3. (obsolete) Formal leavetaking; (figuratively) any farewell.
4. (obsolete, Scotland) A fee paid to make another go away, (particularly) alms to a persistent beggar.
5. (archaic) A bow, curtsey, or other gesture (originally) made at departure but (later) including at greeting or in obeissance or respect.
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. IV, ch. 96:

     So saying, he bowed with a thousand apish congês, and presented his paper to Peregrine […] .

Derived terms

• give congee
• take congee

Verb

congee (third-person singular simple present congees, present participle congeeing, simple past and past participle congeed)

1. (archaic) To give congee, (particularly)
   1. (obsolete, transitive) To give formal permission to leave; to dismiss.
   2. (obsolete, transitive) To give formal permission to do something; to license.
2. (archaic) To take congee: to leave ceremoniously.
3. (archaic) To make a congee: to bow, curtsey, etc., (particularly dialectal) while leaving; (figuratively) to make obeissance, show respect, or defer to someone or something.

Etymology 2

From Tamil ????? (kañci), via Portuguese.

Alternative forms

• conjee

Noun

congee (usually uncountable, plural congees)

1. (Asian cooking) A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.

Synonyms

• rice porridge; rice congee (hypercorrect)
• (Chinese English): porridge

Hyponyms

• (Korean, Thai contexts): jook, juk
• (Chinese contexts): zhou

Derived terms

• rice congee

See also

• (Portuguese): canja

Translations

See also

• Thesaurus:dim sum

References

• "congee | congé, n.²" & "v." in the Oxford English Dictionary, 1891.

Anagrams

• negoce

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French congre, from Latin conger from Ancient Greek ??????? (góngros), from Proto-Indo-European *geng-, *gong- (“a lump, rounded object”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k????(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k????/
• Homophone: conga (non-rhotic accents)

Noun

conger (plural congers)

1. Any of several scaleless marine eels, of the genus Conger, found in coastal waters

   Synonym: conger eel

2. (historical) A chain of booksellers.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (góngros), from Proto-Indo-European *geng-, *gong- (“a lump, rounded object”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kon.?er/, [?k????r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kon.d??er/, [?k?n??d???r]

Noun

conger m (genitive congr?); second declension

1. conger eel

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Descendants

References

• conger in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conger in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers