different between crayon vs applesauce

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (“(diminutive)”), from Latin creta (“chalk, clay”), from cr?tus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?e?.?n/, /?k?e?.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?e?.?n/, [?k??e?.?n]; also /?k?e?.?n/ (the most common pronunciations, used by 83% of Americans)
• (US) enPR: kr??än
• (US, uncommon, especially Northeastern US, Midwestern US) IPA^(key): /?k?æn/, [?k?e?n]
• (US, rare, especially Philadelphia, New Jersey, sometimes Southern US) IPA^(key): /?k?a?n/, [?k???n], [?k?æ?n]
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

crayon (plural crayons)

1. A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

   Hyponym: Conté

2. A colored pencil, a colouring pencil

   Synonym: pencil crayon

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.

3. (dated) A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
   • 1885, Littell's Living Age (volume 167, page 187)

     But on the wall hung two fine crayons, representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar.

4. (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
5. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (rail transport) An informal map of a proposed rail route.

Related terms

• cretaceous

Translations

Verb

crayon (third-person singular simple present crayons, present participle crayoning or crayonning, simple past and past participle crayoned or crayonned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To draw with a crayon.

Further reading

• crayon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• crayon at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• acyron

French

Etymology

craie (“chalk”) +? -on (diminutive), from Latin cr?ta (“chalk, clay”), from cr?tus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.j??/

Noun

crayon m (plural crayons)

1. pencil
2. (colloquial) pen
3. (vulgar, slang) cock, dick, prick

Descendants

• ? English: crayon
• ? Esperanto: krajono
• ? Spanish: crayón, clarión

Further reading

• “crayon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• apple sauce (UK)

Etymology

apple +? sauce

Pronunciation

Noun

applesauce (countable and uncountable, plural applesauces)

1. (US) Alternative spelling of apple sauce.
2. (slang, US, dated, 1920s) Nonsense, balderdash, bunk, piffle.

Synonyms

• (nonsense): codswallop, hooey, malarkey; see also Thesaurus:nonsense

Derived terms

• applesauce cake
• criss-cross applesauce

Translations

Interjection

applesauce!

1. (slang, US, dated) Nonsense!

Synonyms

• fiddlesticks, horsefeathers, pull the other one; see also Thesaurus:bullshit

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