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enjoy
English
Alternative forms
- enioy (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English enjoyen, from Old French enjoier, anjoier, enjoer (“to give joy, receive with joy, rejoice”), equivalent to en- +? joy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?d????/, /?n?d????/, /?n?d????/
- Rhymes: -??
- Hyphenation: en?joy
Verb
enjoy (third-person singular simple present enjoys, present participle enjoying, simple past and past participle enjoyed)
- (transitive) To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something
- (transitive) To have the use or benefit of something.
- that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
- (intransitive, India) To be satisfied or receive pleasure.
- (transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
- (receive pleasure or satisfaction): appreciate, delight in, rejoice, relish
- (have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Derived terms
- enjoyable
- enjoyment
- to enjoy oneself
Translations
Anagrams
- joyen, joyne
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frowst
English
Alternative forms
- froust
Etymology
Back-formation from frowsty.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /f?a?st/
- Rhymes: -a?st
Noun
frowst (plural frowsts)
- Stuffiness; stifling warmth in a room.
- 1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle
- I was pretty bad myself, but managed to move about all the time, for the frowst in my cabin would have sickened a hippo.
- 1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle
Synonyms
- (stuffiness; stifling warmth): stuffiness
- fustiness
Translations
Verb
frowst (third-person singular simple present frowsts, present participle frowsting, simple past and past participle frowsted)
- (intransitive) To enjoy being in a warm, close, stuffy place.
- 1902, Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories
- The cure for this ill is not to sit still, / Or frowst with a book by the fire;
- 1902, Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories
Translations
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