different between dungaree vs waist

English

Alternative forms

• dungeree (dated)

Etymology

From Hindi ?????? (???gr?, “coarse calico”), from the name of a village.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?d??.????i?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

dungaree (countable and uncountable, plural dungarees)

1. (uncountable) Heavy denim fabric, often blue; blue jean material.
   • 1833, W. F. W. Owen, Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia and Madagascar (volume 1, page 76)

     This fellow was in the native costume, which is literally worse than nothing, consisting only of a straw tube, about a foot long, with a shred of blue dungaree hanging from its upper end.

   • 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The "Gloria Scott"

     He wore an open jacket, with a splotch of tar on the sleeve, a red-and-black check shirt, dungaree trousers, and heavy boots badly worn.

2. (plural only) Pants or overalls made from such fabric.
3. attributive form of dungarees

Synonyms

• (heavy denim fabric): canvas, duck, denim

Derived terms

• dungarees

Translations

Anagrams

• Gendreau, renagued, unagreed, underage, ungeared

English

Alternative forms

• waste, wast (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English waste, wast (“stature, waist”), from Old English w?st, *w?xt, from Proto-Germanic *wahstuz (“growth, development, stature, build”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?weg-s- (“to multiply, increase”). Cognate with Middle High German wahst (“growth”), Danish vækst (“growth”), Swedish växt (“growth, development, size”), Icelandic vöxtur (“growth”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (wahstus, “growth”). Related to Old English weaxan (“to grow, increase”). More at wax.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /we?st/
• Rhymes: -e?st
• Homophone: waste

Noun

waist (plural waists)

1. The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach.
2. A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist.
3. The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps).
4. The middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft.
5. (nautical) That part of the upper deck of a ship between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 18

     There he stood, very quietly overlooking some sailmakers who were mending a top-sail in the waist.

6. (obsolete) The middle part of anything.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (uesuto)

Translations

Further reading

• Waist in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Waist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Swati, Waits, waits

Gothic

Romanization

waist

1. Romanization of ????????????????????

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /west/
• (Mid Northern Scots) IPA^(key): /w?ist/

Noun

waist (plural waists)

1. waist