different between flail vs stoush
flail
English
Etymology
From Middle English flaile, flayle, from earlier fleil, fleyl, fle??l, flegl, from Old English fligel, *flegel (“flail”), from Proto-Germanic *flagilaz (“flail, whip”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Old French fil and Latin f?lum ("a fine thread or wire, a filament", i.e. a defiling instrument for the thrashing of a wire). Cognate with Scots flail (“a thresher's flail”), West Frisian fleil, flaaiel (“flail”), Dutch vlegel (“flail”), Low German vlegel (“flail”), German Flegel (“flail”). Possibly a native Germanic word from Proto-Germanic *flag-, *flah- (“to whip, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?k- (“to beat, hit, strike; weep”); compare Lithuanian plàkti (“to whip, lash, flog”), Ancient Greek ????????? (pl?gnúnai, “strike, hit, encounter”), Latin plang? (“lament”, i.e. “beat one's breast”) + Proto-Germanic *-ilaz (instrumental suffix); or a borrowing of Latin flagellum, diminutive of flagrum (“scourge, whip”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?lag-, *b?la?- (“to beat”); compare Old Norse blekkja (“to beat, mistreat”). Compare also Old French flael (“flail”), Walloon flayea (“flail”) (locally pronounced "flai"), Italian flagello (“scourge, whip, plague”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fle?l/
- Rhymes: -e?l
Noun
flail (plural flails)
- A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.
- A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
Synonyms
- threshel, thrashel
Quotations
- 1631 — John Milton, L'Allegro
- When in one night, ere glimpse of morn,
His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn
That ten day-labourers could not end;
- When in one night, ere glimpse of morn,
- 1816 — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
- Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail
- Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
- 1842 — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Slave in the Dismal Swamp
- On him alone the curse of Cain
Fell, like a flail on the garnered grain,
And struck him to the earth!
- On him alone the curse of Cain
- 1879 — Henry George, Progress and Poverty, ch V
- If the farmer must use the spade because he has not capital enough for a plough, the sickle instead of the reaping machine, the flail instead of the thresher...
Translations
Coordinate terms
- (weapon): nunchaku
Verb
flail (third-person singular simple present flails, present participle flailing, simple past and past participle flailed)
- (transitive) To beat using a flail or similar implement.
- (transitive) To wave or swing vigorously
- Synonym: thrash
- 1937, H. P. Lovecraft, The Evil Clergyman
- He stopped in his tracks – then, flailing his arms wildly in the air, began to stagger backwards.
- (transitive) To thresh.
- (intransitive) To move like a flail.
Translations
See also
- flail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Flail in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
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stoush
English
Etymology
Possibly from stash. Australian from 1893; Boer War military slang. Also may be derived from stushie or stooshie, a Scottish term for a commotion, rumpus, or row.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sta??/
Noun
stoush (plural stoushes)
- (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A fight, an argument.
- 1996, Elizabeth Knox, Glamour and the Sea, Victoria University Press, New Zealand, page 166,
- Barry explained that his friend wasn?t drunk, he?d been in a stoush, had a ding on his head and was covered in money.
- 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 200,
- Now Henry knows dead cert he?s in for a stoush, but Snake-hips says he should go with him, and out on Nymagee-street Henry Lawson refuses a twenty-pound note, and the two men shake and Henry accepts the next billiards game, doubles with Snake-hips (who plays even worse than Henry), the Minister for Public Instruction, and the Austrian chappie.
- 2004, Jay Verney, Percussion, University of Queensland Press, page 151,
- She and Anna used to reproduce Veronica?s stoushes with Pat, conducted with gusto over the fence but never brought into the confining space of either house where they might smoulder and flare.
- 2008, Anna Haebich, Spinning the Dream: Assimilation in Australia 1950-1970, Fremantle Press, page 63,
- Melbourne almost lost the event when union go-slow tactics and a stoush over federal and state funding responsibilities seriously delayed work on the construction of the Olympic Stadium and Village.
- 1996, Elizabeth Knox, Glamour and the Sea, Victoria University Press, New Zealand, page 166,
Verb
stoush (third-person singular simple present stoushes, present participle stoushing, simple past and past participle stoushed)
- (Australia, informal) To fight; to argue.
- 1916, C. J. Dennis, The Call of Stoush, The Moods of Ginger Mick, 2009, Sydney University Press, page 15,
- Wot price ole Ginger Mick? ?E?s done a break— / Gone to the flamin? war to stoush the foe.
- 1999, Marion Halligan, Marlene Mathews, A Sporting Nation: Celebrating Australia?s Sporting Life, page 121,
- The two business moguls have stoushed over rights to televise rugby union, whose marketability has greatly risen since institution of the World Cup in 1987.
- 2008, Matthew Kidman, Alex Feher, Master CEOs: Secrets of Australia?s Leading CEOs, 2012, unnumbered page,
- There was a lot of corporate stoushing and things said that people didn?t like.
- 1916, C. J. Dennis, The Call of Stoush, The Moods of Ginger Mick, 2009, Sydney University Press, page 15,
Anagrams
- shouts, souths
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