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ditch
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Etymology 1
From Middle English dich, from Old English d?? (“trench, moat”) from Proto-Germanic *d?kaz (compare Swedish dike, Icelandic díki, West Frisian dyk (“dam”), Dutch dijk (“id.”), German Teich (“pond”)), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eyg?- (“to stick, set up”) (compare Latin f?g? (“to affix, fasten”), Lithuanian diegti (“to prick; plant”), dýgsti (“to geminate, grow”)). Doublet of dike.
Noun
ditch (plural ditches)
- A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
- (Ireland) A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top.
- c. 1947, Patrick Kavanagh, Stony Grey Soil
- You flung a ditch on my vision
- Of beauty, love and truth.
- O stony grey soil of Monaghan
- You burgled my bank of youth!
- 2013, Frank McNally, When Anglophone lines get crossed
- The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as boundaries and/or irrigation. But to the English, the ditch is the trench. Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. (As for the trench, where I come from that’s a sheugh).
- c. 1947, Patrick Kavanagh, Stony Grey Soil
References
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- fosse
- moat
Verb
ditch (third-person singular simple present ditches, present participle ditching, simple past and past participle ditched)
- (transitive) To discard or abandon.
- To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
- (intransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
- (intransitive) To dig ditches.
- (transitive) To dig ditches around.
- (transitive) To throw into a ditch.
Synonyms
- abandon
- discard
- dump
- jettison
- lose
- shed
- See also Thesaurus:junk
Translations
Etymology 2
From earlier deche, from Middle English dechen, from Old English d?can (“to smear, plaster, daub”). More at deech.
Verb
ditch (third-person singular simple present ditches, present participle ditching, simple past and past participle ditched)
- Alternative form of deech
Noun
ditch (usually uncountable, plural ditches)
- Alternative form of deech
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dioch
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d???k/
Noun
dioch (plural diochs)
- An African weaverbird of the genus Quelea.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 146:
- From the trees comes the doleful cry of the black-faced dioch, and the weary rustle of galagos creeping back to their nests after a meticulous night's prowl.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 146:
Synonyms
- quelea
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