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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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banana
English
Etymology
From Wolof banaana, via Spanish or Portuguese.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: b?-nä?n?, IPA(key): /b??n??n?/
- (General American) enPR: b?-n??n?, IPA(key): /b??næn?/
- Rhymes: -??n?, -æn?
- Hyphenation: ba?na?na
Noun
banana (countable and uncountable, plural bananas)
- An elongated curved tropical fruit that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
- (Canada, US, Britain, Ireland) Especially, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar.
- The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, usually of the genus Musa but sometimes also including plants from Ensete, has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.
- (uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
- (mildly derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare coconut (“assimilated Hispanic or Black”) or Oreo (“Black person who is "black outside" and "white inside"”).
- (nuclear physics) A banana equivalent dose.
- (colloquial) A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).
- (slang) The penis.
- 1986 Cop Feels of Three Men's "Privates" Christopher Street - Volume 10
- The fact that the cop bought O'Brien a beer after feeling of his banana suggests that it must have been a promising one
- 2012 Sarah Miynowski Fishbowl page 36
- His you-know-what turned soft .. his eight o'clock class was the last thing on his mind five minutes ago, when his banana wasn't overripe.
- 2014 Anthony Bunko Lord Forgive Me page 71
- Most of the gang were trying their best to shag the girls. One boy was sitting in a tree playing with himself and another was asking a table of teenagers if they would like to see his banana.
- 2017 Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture page 234
- He adds that after eating his banana (sucking his penis), he wants anal sex, but she asks him to lick her pussy. Then he tells her no because it is disgusting.
- 1986 Cop Feels of Three Men's "Privates" Christopher Street - Volume 10
- (sports) A banana kick.
Synonyms
- (Asian assimilated into Western culture): jook-sing, Twinkie
Antonyms
- (Asian assimilated into Western culture): egg (Western assimilated into Asian culture)
Coordinate terms
- (Asian assimilated into Western culture): coconut
- (fruit): finger, hand
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
banana (not comparable)
- Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.
- 2001, Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles, page 155, ?ISBN.
- Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.
- 2002, Andrew Collins, Guild of Honor, page 53, ?ISBN.
- He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.
- 2006, Richard Witzig, The Global Art of Soccer, page 247, ?ISBN.
- [...]Bernd Schneider closed the scoring in injury-time with a 23 meter free-kick banana shot into the upper-right corner.
- 2001, Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles, page 155, ?ISBN.
Hypernyms
- bunch
- hand
- Appendix:English collective nouns
See also
- bananas (adj)
Anagrams
- Annaba
Asturian
Noun
banana f (plural bananes)
- banana (fruit)
Synonyms
- plátanu
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /b??na.n?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ba?na.na/
Noun
banana f (plural bananes)
- banana (fruit)
Synonyms
- plàtan
Derived terms
- bananer
Further reading
- “banana” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Cornish
Etymology
From English banana
Pronunciation
- (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA(key): [ba?na?na]
- (Revived Late Cornish) IPA(key): [b??næ?n?]
Noun
banana m (plural bananas)
- banana
Mutation
French
Verb
banana
- third-person singular past historic of bananer
Galician
Noun
banana f (plural bananas)
- banana (fruit)
Synonyms
- (banana): plátano
Related terms
- bananeira
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?nana
Noun
banana
- definite accusative plural of bani
- inflection of banani:
- indefinite accusative
- indefinite dative singular
- indefinite genitive
Irish
Etymology
From Wolof banaana.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b???n??an???/
Noun
banana m (genitive singular banana, nominative plural bananaí)
- banana
Declension
Derived terms
- crann bananaí (“banana-tree”)
Mutation
Further reading
- "banana" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Italian
Pronunciation
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba?na.na/
Noun
banana f (plural banane)
- banana (fruit)
Noun
banana m (invariable)
- banana (color)
Adjective
banana (invariable)
- banana
Related terms
- banano
Japanese
Romanization
banana
- R?maji transcription of ???
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
From German Banane, from ultimately from Wolof banaana.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba?nana/
Noun
banana f
- banana
Declension
References
- banana in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
- Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Maltese
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Noun
banana f (plural bananiet)
- banana (fruit)
Portuguese
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly from Wolof banaana (“banana”) or Arabic ??????? (ban?n, “fingertip, banana”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /b??n?.n?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ba?n?.n?/, /b??n?.n?/
Noun
banana f (plural bananas)
- banana (fruit)
- banana (plant)
- Synonym: bananeira (more common)
- (informal) penis
- (Brazil, informal) bras d'honneur (obscene gesture)
- Synonym: manguito (Portugal)
Noun
banana m, f (plural bananas)
- (derogatory, slang) wimp (a weak or inconfident person)
Romanian
Noun
banana f
- definite singular nominative/accusative of banan?
Sardinian
Etymology
From Spanish banana, from Wolof banaana.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /banana/
Noun
banana f (plural bananas)
- banana (fruit)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Spanish, from Portuguese, from Wolof banaana.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ban??na/
- Hyphenation: ba?na?na
Noun
banána f (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- banana
Declension
References
- “banana” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
Spanish
Etymology
From Wolof banaana.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba?nana/, [ba?na.na]
Noun
banana f (plural bananas)
- (Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay) banana (fruit)
- Synonyms: plátano, guineo, cambur, banano
Usage notes
- banana may also be used in Spain, to differentiate from plátano (“plantain”); otherwise, plátano refers to either.
Derived terms
- banano, bananero
Further reading
- “banana” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English banana.
Noun
banana
- banana
Welsh
Etymology
From English banana, from Wolof banaana, via Portuguese and/or Spanish.
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ba?nana/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ba?na?na/, /ba?nana/
Noun
banana f (plural bananas)
- banana
Synonyms
- (jocular) ffrwchnedden
Mutation
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- what bananas good for
- what banana republic means
- what banana went extinct
- what bananas to use for banana bread
- what banana are you
- what banana republic stores are closing
- what bananas do to your body
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