different between fraught vs garish

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f???t/
• Rhymes: -??t
• (US) IPA^(key): /f??t/, /f??t/
• Homophone: frot (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English fraught, freght, from Middle Dutch vracht or Middle Low German vracht (“freight money”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fra- (intensive prefix) + Proto-Germanic *aihtiz (“possession”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ey?- (“to possess”). Cognate with Old High German fr?ht (“earnings”), Old English ?ht (“owndom”), and a doublet of freight. More at for-, own. Adjective from Middle English, passive participle of the verb fraughten, from Middle Dutch vrachten.

Noun

fraught (usually uncountable, plural fraughts)

1. (obsolete) The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.
2. (obsolete) Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight

   fraught money.

3. (obsolete) The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat.
4. (obsolete) A ship's cargo, lading or freight.
5. (Scotland) A load; a burden.
6. (Scotland) Two bucketfuls (of water).

Derived terms

• fraught-free

Related terms

• freight

Etymology 2

From Middle English fraughten, fraghten, freghten, from Middle Dutch vrachten, vrechten, from the noun (see above).

Verb

fraught (third-person singular simple present fraughts, present participle fraughting, simple past and past participle fraughted)

1. (transitive, obsolete except in past participle) To load (a ship, cargo etc.).
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To form the cargo of a vessel.
   • 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest

     Had I been any god of power, I would / Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er / It should the good ship so have swallow'd and / The fraughting souls within her.

Adjective

fraught (comparative more fraught, superlative most fraught)

1. (of a cargo-carrier) Laden.
2. (figuratively, with with) Loaded up or charged with; accompanied by; entailing.

   • a discourse fraught with all the commending excellences of speech

   • a. 1865, Isaac Taylor, Epidemic Whims

     enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits

   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 236d.

     […] all these matters are fraught with paradox, just as they always have been

3. (with with) Furnished, equipped.
4. Distressed or causing distress, for example through complexity.

   a fraught relationship; a fraught process

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “fraught”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “fraught”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

English

Etymology

Of unknown origin, possibly from obsolete Middle English gawren (“to stare”) which is of uncertain origin, probably from Old Norse gá (“to watch, heed”) or gaurr (“rough fellow”) (Proto-Indo-European *g?ow-rós, from *g?ew- (“to be angry”)). Compare with English gaw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???????/

Adjective

garish (comparative more garish, superlative most garish)

1. Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste. [from 1540s]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gaudy

Derived terms

• garishly
• garishness

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Harigs, girahs, girsha