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flourish

English

Alternative forms

  • florysh, floryshe (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English floryschen, from Old French floriss-, stem of some conjugated forms of florir (compare French fleurir), from Vulgar Latin *flor?re, from Latin fl?re? (I bloom) (and conjugation partly from fl?r?sc?), from fl?s (flower). See flower + -ish.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?fl??.??/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?fl??.??/, /?fl?.??/
    • (hypercorrection) IPA(key): /?fl??.??/
  • (accents without the hurryfurry merger)
  • (accents with the hurryfurry merger)

Verb

flourish (third-person singular simple present flourishes, present participle flourishing, simple past and past participle flourished)

  1. (intransitive) To thrive or grow well.
  2. (intransitive) To prosper or fare well.
    • 1795, Robert Nelson, A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England
      Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness.
  3. (intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.
  4. (transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
    • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
      Bottoms of thread [] which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works.
  5. (transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with.
  6. (intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
  7. (intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
    • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard
      They dilate [] and flourish long upon little incidents.
  8. (intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
  9. (transitive) To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
    • 1716, Elijah Fenton, an ode to John Gower
      With shadowy verdure flourish'd high,
      A sudden youth the groves enjoy.
    • c. 1603-1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act IV, Scene 1
      To bring you thus together, 'tis no sin, Sith that the justice of your title to him Doth flourish the deceit.
  10. (intransitive) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
  11. (intransitive, obsolete) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:prosper

Translations

Noun

flourish (plural flourishes)

  1. A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
  2. An ornamentation.
  3. (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
  4. (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.

Translations

References

  • flourish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

  • rushfoil

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rimshot

English

Alternative forms

  • rim shot

Etymology

rim +? shot

Noun

rimshot (plural rimshots)

  1. A percussive note in which the drumstick hits both the head and the rim of the drum.
  2. (colloquial) A percussive sting or flourish used to punctuate a joke in a cabaret or vaudeville act.

Usage notes

  • Technically, the sting used to punctuate a joke is not a rimshot. A rimshot is a particular note (as in sense 1 above); a sting is a percussive figure consisting of several notes, perhaps a roll followed by a crash cymbal. As noted above, though, colloquially, a sting is also called rimshot.

Further reading

  • rimshot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • sting (percussion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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