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eat
English
Etymology
From Middle English eten, from Old English etan (“to eat”), from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etan? (“to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?édti, from *h?ed- (“to eat”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /i?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /it/
- Rhymes: -i?t
Verb
eat (third-person singular simple present eats, present participle eating, simple past ate or (dialectal) et or (obsolete) eat, past participle eaten or (dialectal) etten)
- To ingest; to be ingested.
- (transitive, intransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
- At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
- (intransitive) To consume a meal.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- I eat in the kitchen.
- I eat in the kitchen.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (intransitive, ergative) To be eaten.
- 1852, The New Monthly Magazine (page 310)
- I don't know any quarter in England where you get such undeniable mutton—mutton that eats like mutton, instead of the nasty watery, stringy, turnipy stuff, neither mutton nor lamb, that other countries are inundated with.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
- […] dish him [the fish] with slices of oranges, barberries, grapes, gooseberries, and butter; and you will find that he eats deliriously either with farced pain or gammon pain.
- 1852, The New Monthly Magazine (page 310)
- (copulative, intransitive) To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").
- (transitive, intransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
- To use up.
- (transitive) To destroy, consume, or use up.
- 1857-1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians
- His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
- 1857-1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians
- (transitive, informal, of a device) To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
- 1991, Shane Black, The Last Boy Scout (movie)
- No! There's a problem with the cassette player. Don't press fast forward or it eats the tape!
- 1991, Shane Black, The Last Boy Scout (movie)
- (transitive, informal, of a vending machine or similar device) To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service, or return the payment.
- 1977, Nancy Dowd, Slap Shot (movie)
- Hey! This stupid [soda vending] machine ate my quarter.
- 1977, Nancy Dowd, Slap Shot (movie)
- (transitive) To destroy, consume, or use up.
- (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
- (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
- 1988, George Gallo, Midnight Run (movie)
- I have to have him in court tomorrow, if he doesn't show up, I forfeit the bond and I have to eat the $300,000.
- 1988, George Gallo, Midnight Run (movie)
- (transitive, slang) To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
- 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
- I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.
- 1997, A. A. Gill, "Diary" (in The Spectator, 1 November 1997):
- Friends are only necessary in the ghastly country, where you have to have them, along with rubber boots and a barometer and secateurs, to put off bucolic idiocy, a wet brain, or eating the 12-bore.
- 2012, Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again: A Novel, St. Martin's Press (?ISBN):
- Mike had been to other calls where someone had eaten a gun. He knew to expect teeth embedded in the ceiling and brains dripping off it.
- 2017, Edward W. Robertson, Stardust, Edward W. Robertson:
- The animal was sweating and scared and MacAdams was surprised when they finished up without either of them eating a kick.
- 2018, Daniel Tomazic, Of Bullies and Men: Young Adult Fiction (?ISBN), page 18:
- There was a resounding smacking noise and Georgy was sure Philip had just eaten a fist.
- 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
- (transitive, intransitive) To corrode or erode.
- (transitive, slang) To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (consume): consume, swallow; see also Thesaurus:eat
- (cause to worry): bother, disturb, worry
- (eat a meal): dine, breakfast, chow down, feed one's face, have one's breakfast/lunch/dinner/supper/tea, lunch
Derived terms
Related terms
- fret
- ort
Translations
See also
- drink
- edible
- food
Noun
eat (plural eats)
- (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.
- 2011, William Chitty, ?Nigel Barker, ?Michael Valos, Integrated Marketing Communications (page 167)
- Eating a Picnic creates a flurry of wafer pieces, flying peanuts and chocolate crumbs. […] As well as being messy, Picnic happens to be a big eat – something of a consumption challenge in fact.
- 2011, William Chitty, ?Nigel Barker, ?Michael Valos, Integrated Marketing Communications (page 167)
Anagrams
- -ate, AET, Até, Atë, ETA, TEA, Tea, a.e.t., aet, ate, eta, tea, æt.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?e.at/, [?eät?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?e.at/, [????t?]
Verb
eat
- third-person singular present active subjunctive of e?
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /?ea?h(t)/
Verb
eat
- first-person plural present of ii
West Frisian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???t/
Pronoun
eat
- something, anything
- Antonym: neat
Further reading
- “eat”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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bab
English
Etymology
Clipping of babby (“babber”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bæb/
Noun
bab (plural babs)
- (Britain, informal) Baby
- (fishing, East Anglia) A bait for eels, consisting of a bundle of live worms.
Synonyms
- (baby): see Thesaurus:baby
- (bait): clod
Verb
bab (third-person singular simple present babs, present participle babbing, simple past and past participle babbed)
- (intransitive, fishing, East Anglia) To fish for eels using a bab.
Anagrams
- B.B.A., BBA, abb, abb.
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French barbe
Noun
bab
- beard
Hungarian
Etymology
From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian bob, Slovak bôb, Russian ??? (bob, “bean”), from Proto-Slavic *bob?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?b]
- Rhymes: -?b
Noun
bab (plural babok)
- bean
Declension
Synonyms
- fuszulyka (regional)
- paszuly (regional)
Derived terms
- babzsák
- kávébab
- szójabab
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay bab. From Arabic ????? (b?b).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bab/, [?bap?]
Noun
bab (plural bab-bab, first-person possessive babku, second-person possessive babmu, third-person possessive babnya)
- chapter
- door, gate
- Synonyms: gapura, pintu
- case, matter
- Synonyms: hal, masalah
Further reading
- “bab” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Irish
Noun 1
bab m (genitive singular bab, nominative plural babanna)
- Alternative form of bob (“bob; fringe”)
Noun 2
bab m (genitive singular bab, nominative plural babanna)
- Alternative form of bob (“stump, target”)
Declension
Mutation
References
- "bab" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Malay
Etymology
From Arabic ????? (b?b)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bap/
- Rhymes: -bap, -ap
Noun
bab (Jawi spelling ????, plural bab-bab, informal 1st possessive babku, impolite 2nd possessive babmu, 3rd possessive babnya)
- chapter (section in a book)
Further reading
- “bab” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Meriam
Noun
bab
- father or paternal uncle
Northern Kurdish
Alternative forms
- bav
Noun
bab m
- father
Palauan
Etymology
From Pre-Palauan *babo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babaw, from Proto-Austronesian *babaw.
Adjective
bab
- above, top
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bap/
Noun
bab f
- genitive plural of baba
Rohingya
Alternative forms
- ????????????????? (bab) – Hanifi Rohingya script
Etymology
From Sanskrit ???? (vapra). Cognate with Sylheti ??? (baf), Assamese ??? (bap), Bengali ??? (bap), Hindi ??? (b?p)
Noun
bab (Hanifi spelling ????????????????)
- father
- Synonym: baf
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Puter, Vallader) bap
Etymology
From Late Latin *babbus. Compare Sardinian babbu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ba?p]
Noun
bab m (plural babs)
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) father
Coordinate terms
- mamma
See also
- pader (term to address a priest or monk)
Scots
Etymology 1
Compare bob, likely cognate of English bob, from Middle English bobben (“to strike, to shake”).
Verb
bab (third-person singular present babs, present participle babbin, past bab'd, past participle bab'd)
- synonym of bob (“to move up and down”)
- to dance, to hop
Etymology 2
From older Scots bob; compare Middle English bobbe (“cluster of fruit; spray of leaves”).
Noun
bab (plural babs)
- nosegay, a bunch of flowers; a tassel, a bunch of ribbons
- (in compounds) something fine, something decorated
- a lump, dollop
- (figuratively) a lumpish person, an idiot
Etymology 3
From Northern Middle English bab, a variant of babe
Noun
bab (plural babs)
- (obsolete) a babe, baby
References
- “bab, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- “bobben v.1”, in Middle English Compendium?[4], November, 2019
- “bab, n.1” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- “bob, n.1” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- “bob, n.1.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, ?OCLC
- “bobbe”, in Middle English Compendium?[5], November, 2019
- “bab, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, ?OCLC
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
bab m (genitive singular baba, plural baban or babannan)
- tuft, tassel
- child's excrement (hence abab)
- stain
Related terms
- abab
References
- “bab” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
- A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Complied by Malcolm MacLennan)
Zazaki
Noun
bab (m)
- father (sort form)
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