different between excrescence vs bouillon

English

Etymology

From Middle English, early 15th century, in sense “(action of) growing out (of something else)”. Borrowed from Latin excrescentia (“abnormal growths”), from excrescentem, from excr?scere, from ex- (“out”) (English ex-) + cr?scere (“to grow”) (English crescent). Sense of “abnormal growth” from 1570s, from earlier excrescency (1540s in this sense).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?sk??s?ns/, /?k?sk??s?ns/

Noun

excrescence (plural excrescences)

1. Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part III, XXXIII [Uniform ed., p. 299]:

     Perhaps he meant that towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
2. A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct.
3. (phonetics) The epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [?w?rmp?] (adding a [p] between [m] and [?]), or -t (Etymology 2).

   Synonym: vyanjanabhakti

   Antonyms: svarabhakti, anaptyxis

   Hypernym: epenthesis

Hyponyms

• (phonetic): linking consonant

Related terms

• excrescency
• excrescent

Translations

See also

• (phonetic): intervocalic

References

English

Etymology

First attested 1656, from French bouillon, from the verb bouillir (“to boil”), from Old French boillir, from Latin bull?re, present active infinitive of bulli? (“I bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bu?.j?n/, /?bu?.j??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?l?j?n/, /?b?lj?n/, /?bu?j?n/

Noun

bouillon (countable and uncountable, plural bouillons)

1. A clear seasoned broth made by simmering usually light meat, such as beef or chicken.
2. An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.

Hypernyms

• (type of broth): broth

Hyponyms

• Scotch broth

Derived terms

• bouillon cube
• court bouillon

Related terms

• bullion (bulk gold or silver)

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French bouillon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu(l)?j?n/
• Hyphenation: bouil?lon
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

bouillon m (plural bouillons, diminutive bouillonnetje n)

1. stock, broth (water in which meat (or other food) has been boiled)

   Synonym: vleesnat

2. (dated) bullion, fringe of gold or silver wire

   Synonym: cantille

Derived terms

• bouillonblokje

French

Etymology

bouillir +? -on

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.j??/

Noun

bouillon m (plural bouillons)

1. broth (water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled)
2. bubble rising from a boiling liquid
3. gulp of liquid which escapes forcefully
4. flesh rising on a fold
5. risen fold of cloth
6. unsold copies of a publication
7. simple restaurant, which originally served only bouillon

Derived terms

• boire le bouillon
• boire le bouillon d'onze heures
• bouillon de culture
• bouilloire
• bouillon-blanc
• bouillonnement
• bouillonner
• bouillotte

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

• “bouillon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Gallo

Etymology

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Noun

bouillon m

1. mud

Derived terms

• bouillounou (“muddy”)