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dribble
English
Etymology
drib +? -le (early modern English frequentative suffix)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d??.b?l/, /d??.bl?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?d??.b??/, /?d??.b(?)l/
- Rhymes: -?b?l
Verb
dribble (third-person singular simple present dribbles, present participle dribbling, simple past and past participle dribbled)
- (basketball, soccer) In various ball games, to move (with) the ball, controlling its path by kicking or bouncing it repeatedly
- To let saliva drip from the mouth, to drool
- To fall in drops or an unsteady stream, to trickle
- (transitive) To let something fall in drips.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- let her [the cook] follow him softly with a ladle full, and dribble it all the way up stairs to the dining-room
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- (dated) To live or pass one's time in a trivial fashion.
- To perform a card flourish in which the cards fall smoothly from one's hand.
Descendants
- ? Czech: driblovat
- ? French: dribbler
Translations
Noun
dribble (countable and uncountable, plural dribbles)
- (uncountable) Drool; saliva.
- (countable) A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle.
- (countable) A small amount of a liquid.
- (countable, sports) The act of moving (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it.
- (countable) A card flourish in which the cards fall smoothly from one's hand.
Translations
Related terms
- crossover dribble
- double dribble
- dribble glass
- dribble penetration
- dribbly
- kill one's dribble
Anagrams
- dibbler
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English dribble.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?ibl/
Noun
dribble m (plural dribbles)
- (sports) dribble
Verb
dribble
- first-person singular present indicative of dribbler
- third-person singular present indicative of dribbler
- first-person singular present subjunctive of dribbler
- third-person singular present subjunctive of dribbler
- second-person singular imperative of dribbler
German
Verb
dribble
- inflection of dribbeln:
- first-person singular present
- singular imperative
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
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sweat
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: sw?t, IPA(key): /sw?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English swete, swet, swate, swote, from Old English sw?t, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swait?, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), o-grade of *sweyd- (“to sweat”). Cognate with West Frisian swit, Dutch zweet, German Schweiß, Danish sved, Swedish svett, Yiddish ??????? (shvitsn) (English shvitz), Latin sudor, French sueur, Italian sudore, Spanish sudor, Persian ????? (xw?d, “moist, fresh”), Sanskrit ????? (svéda), Lithuanian sviedri, Tocharian B sy?-, and Albanian djersë.
Noun
sweat (usually uncountable, plural sweats)
- Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
- Synonym: perspiration
- The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis.
- (Britain, slang, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
- (historical) The sweating sickness.
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, page 131:
- When the sweat comes back this summer, 1528, people say, as they did last year, that you won't get it if you don't think about it.
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, page 131:
- Moisture issuing from any substance.
- A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
- (uncountable) Hard work; toil.
Synonyms
- sudor
Derived terms
Descendants
- Torres Strait Creole: swet
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English sweten, from Old English sw?tan, from Proto-Germanic *swaitijan? (“to sweat”). Compare Dutch zweten, German schwitzen, Danish svede. Doublet of shvitz.
Verb
sweat (third-person singular simple present sweats, present participle sweating, simple past and past participle sweated or sweat)
- (intransitive) To emit sweat.
- Synonym: perspire
- (transitive) To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
- To cause to perspire.
- To cause to perspire.
- (intransitive, informal) To work hard.
- Synonyms: slave, slog
- (transitive, informal) To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
- (intransitive, informal) To worry.
- Synonyms: fret, worry
- (transitive, colloquial) To worry about (something). [from 20th c.]
- 2010, Brooks Barnes, "Studios battle to save Narnia", The New York Times, 5 Dec 2010:
- 2010, Brooks Barnes, "Studios battle to save Narnia", The New York Times, 5 Dec 2010:
- (transitive) To emit, in the manner of sweat.
- With exercise she sweat ill humors out.
- 1980, Stephen King, The Mist
- I was sipping a third, but I had no kind of buzz on; apparently I had sweat the beer out as rapidly as I drank it.
- (intransitive) To emit moisture.
- (intransitive, plumbing) To solder (a pipe joint) together.
- (transitive, slang) To stress out.
- (transitive, intransitive, cooking) To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
- (transitive, archaic) To remove a portion of (a coin), as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal.
- 1879, Richard Cobden, On the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold (originally by Michel Chevalier)
- 1879, Richard Cobden, On the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold (originally by Michel Chevalier)
- (intransitive) To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
- (transitive) To scrape the sweat from (a horse).
Derived terms
Translations
Related terms
- shvitz
Anagrams
- Weast, swate, tawse, waste, wetas
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English sweatshirt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /swit/
Noun
sweat m (plural sweats)
- sweatshirt
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