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disgust
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French desgouster, from Old French desgouster (“to put off one's appetite”), from des- (“dis-”) + gouster, goster (“to taste”), from Latin gustus (“a tasting”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?s-g?st?
- IPA(key): /d?s???st/, [d?s?k?st]
- Rhymes: -?st
- Hyphenation: dis?gust
- Homophone: discussed
Verb
disgust (third-person singular simple present disgusts, present participle disgusting, simple past and past participle disgusted)
- To cause an intense dislike for something.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
- It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
Translations
Noun
disgust (uncountable)
- An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
- With an air of disgust, she stormed out of the room.
Translations
Further reading
- disgust in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- disgust in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- disgust at OneLook Dictionary Search
Catalan
Etymology
dis- +? gust
Noun
disgust m (plural disgusts or disgustos)
- displeasure
- Antonym: plaer
Derived terms
- disgustar
Further reading
- “disgust” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “disgust” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “disgust” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “disgust” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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rankle
English
Etymology
From Middle English ranklen, ranclen, from Old French rancler, räoncler, draoncler (“to ulcerate, to form a boil”), from Old French draoncle (“a boil”), from Latin dracunculus (“little serpent”), diminutive of Latin drac? (“serpent, dragon”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /??æ?.k?l/
- Rhymes: -æ?k?l
Noun
rankle (plural rankles)
- A festering, embittering object or condition — either mental, or a physical sore or ulcer (rare).
- 1795, James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury
- To this the Prince appeared to acquiesce; but I saw it did not please, and left a rankle in his mind.
- 1795, James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury
Verb
rankle (third-person singular simple present rankles, present participle rankling, simple past and past participle rankled)
- (transitive or intransitive) To cause irritation or deep bitterness.
- 1890 — Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, chapter IX
- The close proximity of the two countries, the relative positions of their ports, made the naval situation particularly strong; and the alliance which was dictated by sound policy, by family ties, and by just fear of England's sea power, was further assured to France by recent and still existing injuries that must continue to rankle with Spain. Gibraltar, Minorca, and Florida were still in the hands of England; no Spaniard could be easy till this reproach was wiped out.
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XX, [2]
- I stood trembling with agony for the spear was rankling in the wound.
- 1890 — Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, chapter IX
- (intransitive) To fester.
- a splinter rankles in the flesh
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto X
- But yet the cause and root of all his ill,
Inward corruption and infected sin,
Not purg'd nor heald, behind remained still,
And festring sore did rankle yet within […]
- But yet the cause and root of all his ill,
- 1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert
- a malady that burns and rankles inward
- 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord
- This would have left a rankling wound in the hearts of the people.
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, chapter XIV
- You are beside him, sleeping and waking. You search his thoughts. You burrow and rankle in his heart!
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXVI:
- Now blotches rankling, coloured gay and grim, / Now patches where some leanness of the soil's / Broke into moss or substances like boils;
Synonyms
- (to cause irritation): embitter, irritate
- (to fester): fester
Translations
References
Anagrams
- KERNAL, Karlen, lanker
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