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faze
English
Alternative forms
- phase (see notes)
Etymology
From English dialectal (Kentish) feeze, feese (“to alarm, discomfit, frighten”), from Middle English f?sen (“to chase, drive away; put to flight; discomfit, frighten, terrify”), from Old English f?san, f?san (“to send forth; to hasten, impel, stimulate; to banish, drive away, put to flight; to prepare oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *funsijan? (“to predispose, make favourable; to make ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go; to walk”). The word is cognate with Old Norse fýsa (“to drive, goad; to admonish”), Old Saxon f?sian (“to strive”).
Citations for faze in the Oxford English Dictionary start in 1830, and usage was established by 1890.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: f?z, IPA(key): /fe?z/
- Homophone: phase
- Rhymes: -e?z
Verb
faze (third-person singular simple present fazes, present participle fazing, simple past and past participle fazed)
- (transitive, informal) To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. [from mid 19th c.]
Usage notes
The spelling phase is sometimes used for faze; including by such notables as Mark Twain and The New York Times.
Alternative forms
- feaze
Derived terms
- unfazed
Translations
References
Kabuverdianu
Verb
faze
- do, make
Etymology
From Portuguese fazer.
References
- Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, ?ISBN
Portuguese
Verb
faze
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of fazer
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?faze]
Noun
faze f
- indefinite plural of faz?
- indefinite genitive/dative singular of faz?
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gaudy
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /????.di/
- (US) IPA(key): /???.di/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /???.di/
- Rhymes: -??di
Etymology 1
Origin uncertain; perhaps from gaud (“ornament, trinket”) +? -y, perhaps ultimately from Old French gaudir (“to rejoice”).
Alternatively, from Middle English gaudi, gawdy (“yellowish”), from Old French gaude, galde (“weld (the plant)”), from Frankish *walda, from Proto-Germanic *walþ?, *walþij?, akin to Old English *weald, *wielde (>Middle English welde, wolde and Anglo-Latin walda (“alum”)), Middle Low German wolde, Middle Dutch woude. More at English weld.
A common claim that the word derives from Antoni Gaudí, designer of Barcelona's Sagrada Família Basilica, is incorrect: the word was in use centuries before Gaudí was born.
Adjective
gaudy (comparative gaudier, superlative gaudiest)
- very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furniture suitable to the fortune of its proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.
- 2005, Thomas Hauser & Marilyn Cole Lownes, "How Bling-bling Took Over the Ring", The Observer, 9 January 2005
- Gaudy jewellery might offend some people's sense of style. But former heavyweight champion and grilling-machine entrepreneur George Foreman is philosophical about today's craze for bling-bling.
- (obsolete) fun; merry; festive
- And for my strange petition I will make
Amends hereafter by some gaudy day
- And for my strange petition I will make
- And then, there he was, slim and handsome, and dressed the gaudiest and prettiest you ever saw...
Synonyms
- (excessively showy): tawdry, flashy, garish, kitschy
- Thesaurus:gaudy
Derived terms
- gaudily
- gaudy night
Translations
Noun
gaudy (plural gaudies)
- One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gower to this entry?)
Etymology 2
Latin gaudium (“joy”). Doublet of joy.
Noun
gaudy (plural gaudies)
- A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the summer vacations.
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