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fray
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: fr?, IPA(key): /f?e?/
- Rhymes: -e?
Etymology 1
From Middle English fraien, borrowed from Old French frayer, from Latin fric?re, present active infinitive of fric?.
Verb
fray (third-person singular simple present frays, present participle fraying, simple past and past participle frayed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) unravel; used particularly for the edge of something made of cloth, or the end of a rope.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To cause exhaustion, wear out (a person's mental strength).
- (Metaphorical use; nerves are visualised as strings)
- (transitive, archaic) frighten; alarm
- And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 63:
- "Besides, all the wit and Philosophy in the world can never demonstrate, that the killing and slaughtering of a Beast is anymore then the striking of a Bush where a Bird's Nest is, where you fray away the Bird, and then seize upon the empty Nest."
- 1830, Isaac Taylor, The Natural History of Enthusiasm
- the many checks and reverses which belong to the common course of human life , usually fray it away from present scenes
- (transitive) To bear the expense of; to defray.
- 1631, Philip Massinger, The Emperor of the East
- The charge of my most curious and costly ingredients frayed, I shall acknowledge myself amply satisfied.
- 1631, Philip Massinger, The Emperor of the East
- (intransitive) To rub.
- 1808, Walter Scott, Hunting Song
Related terms
- friction
- fricative
- affricate
- dentifrice
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English frai, aphetic variant of affray.
Noun
fray (plural frays)
- A fight or argument
- (archaic) Fright.
Related terms
- affray
Translations
Spanish
Etymology
Apocope of fraile (“friar”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?ai/, [?f?ai?]
Noun
fray m (plural frayes)
- friar
Abbreviations
- fr.
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rumpus
English
Etymology
1764, of unknown origin, "prob. a fanciful formation" [OED], possibly an alteration of robustious "boisterous, noisy".
Noun
rumpus (plural rumpuses)
- A noisy, sometimes violent disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel.
- (New Zealand) A rumpus room.
Synonyms
- ruckus, turmoil
Translations
See also
- romp
Latin
Etymology
Unknown.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?rum.pus/, [?r?mp?s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?rum.pus/, [?rumpus]
Noun
rumpus m (genitive rump?); second declension
- A vine branch
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Synonyms
- tr?dux
Derived terms
- rump?tin?tum
- rump?tinus
References
- rumpus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rumpus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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