different between frail vs customary
frail
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French fraile, from Latin fragilis. Cognate to fraction, fracture, and doublet of fragile.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?e?l/
- Rhymes: -e?l
Adjective
frail (comparative frailer, superlative frailest)
- Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish
- 1831, John James Audubon, Ornithological Biography: Volume 1, Blue-grey Fly-catcher
- Its nest is composed of the frailest materials, and is light and small in proportion to the size of the bird
- 1831, John James Audubon, Ornithological Biography: Volume 1, Blue-grey Fly-catcher
- Weak; infirm.
- 1922, Isaac Rosenberg, Dawn
- O as the soft and frail lights break upon your eyelids
- 1922, Isaac Rosenberg, Dawn
- Mentally fragile.
- Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
Derived terms
- frailly
- frailness
Related terms
Translations
Noun
frail (plural frails)
- A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins.
- The quantity of fruit or other items contained in a frail.
- A rush for weaving baskets.
- (dated, slang) A girl.
- 1931, Cab Calloway / Irving Mills, ‘Minnie the Moocher’:
- She was the roughest, toughest frail, but Minnie had a heart as big as a whale.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 148:
- ‘She's pickin' 'em tonight, right on the nose,’ he said. ‘That tall black-headed frail.’
- 1941, Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels, published in Five Screenplays, ?ISBN, page 77:
- Sullivan, the girl and the butler get to the ground. The girl wears a turtle-neck sweater, a cap slightly sideways, a torn coat, turned-up pants and sneakers.
- SULLIVAN Why don't you go back with the car... You look about as much like a boy as Mae West.
- THE GIRL All right, they'll think I'm your frail.
- 1931, Cab Calloway / Irving Mills, ‘Minnie the Moocher’:
Verb
frail (third-person singular simple present frails, present participle frailing, simple past and past participle frailed)
- To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.
References
- frail in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- filar, flair
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customary
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?st?m(?)?i/
Noun
customary (plural customaries)
- A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.
Translations
Adjective
customary (comparative more customary, superlative most customary)
- In accordance with, or established by, custom or common usage
- Synonyms: conventional, habitual
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
- Holding or held by custom
Synonyms
- wont
Derived terms
- customarily
Related terms
- consuetude
- costumal
- costume
- custom
- customer
- customization
- customize
Translations
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