different between flagellate vs cudgel

English

Etymology

Latin flagellum (“whip”)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l?t

Verb

flagellate (third-person singular simple present flagellates, present participle flagellating, simple past and past participle flagellated)

1. (transitive) To whip or scourge.

Related terms

• flagellation

Translations

Adjective

flagellate (comparative more flagellate, superlative most flagellate)

1. Resembling a whip.
2. (biology) Having flagella.

Related terms

• flagellum

Translations

Noun

flagellate (plural flagellates)

1. (biology) Any organism that has flagella.

Translations

Italian

Verb

flagellate

1. second-person plural present indicative of flagellare
2. second-person plural imperative of flagellare
3. feminine plural of flagellato

Latin

Verb

flagell?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of flagell?

English

Etymology

From Middle English kuggel, from Old English cy??el (“a large stick, cudgel”), from Proto-Germanic *kuggilaz (“knobbed instrument”), derivative of Proto-Germanic *kugg? (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewg?- (“swelling, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew-, *g?- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”), equivalent to cog +? -el (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch coghele (“stick with a rounded end”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?d??l/
• Rhymes: -?d??l

Noun

cudgel (plural cudgels)

1. A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
2. (figuratively) Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another.

Translations

Verb

cudgel (third-person singular simple present cudgels, present participle (US) cudgeling or (Commonwealth) cudgelling, simple past and past participle (US) cudgeled or (Commonwealth) cudgelled)

1. To strike with a cudgel.
   • 1950, Jack Vance, Dying Earth, "Mazirian the Magician"

     Aboard the barge and so off the trail, the blessing lost its puissance and the barge-tender, who coveted Guyal's rich accoutrements, sought to cudgel him with a knoblolly.

2. To exercise (one's wits or brains).

Translations

See also

• club
• singlestick

Further reading

• club (weapon) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• cludge