different between frail vs old-fashioned
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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old-fashioned
English
Alternative forms
- old fashioned
Etymology
old +? fashion +? -ed
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /o?ld?fæ??nd/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??ld?fæ??nd/
- Hyphenation: old-?fash?ioned
Adjective
old-fashioned (comparative more old-fashioned, superlative most old-fashioned)
- Of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue.
- Synonyms: date, oldfangled, outdated; see also Thesaurus:obsolete, Thesaurus:unfashionable
- Of a person, preferring the customs of earlier times.
Antonyms
- new-fashioned
Hypernyms
- fashioned
Derived terms
- old-fashionedly
- old-fashioned look
- old-fashionedness
Translations
Noun
old-fashioned (plural old-fashioneds)
- A cocktail made by muddling sugar with bitters and adding whiskey or, less commonly, brandy, served with a twist of citrus rind. [from late 19th c.]
- 1996, Paul F. Boller, Presidential Anecdotes (page 286)
- At the end of the workday, the Trumans liked to have a cocktail before dinner. Shortly after they moved into the White House, Mrs. Truman rang for the butler, Alonzo Fields, one afternoon and ordered two old-fashioneds.
- 1996, Paul F. Boller, Presidential Anecdotes (page 286)
Further reading
- old fashioned (cocktail) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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