different between gac vs vac

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese g?c.

Noun

gac (uncountable)

1. The Southeast Asian fruit Momordica cochinchinensis, a reddish spiny gourd with high lycopene content.

Synonyms

• (Momordica cochinchinensis): baby jackfruit, Cochinchin gourd, spiny bitter gourd, sweet gourd

Translations

Anagrams

• ACG, AGC, CAG, CGA, cag

English

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Noun

vac (plural vacs)

1. (informal) A vacation.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 324:

     It was to be their last term at Oxford and Hilary had incited them both to journey with him to Provence for the long vac.

2. (informal) A vacuum cleaner.
3. (informal) Clipping of vaccine.

Derived terms

• (vacuum cleaner) minivac

Verb

vac (third-person singular simple present vacs, present participle vacking, simple past and past participle vacked)

1. To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
   • 2010, Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star (page 332)

     I went on to how Harold used to work in security on the building; he used to see Andy in the underground car-park vacking the sick out of the Merc.

Anagrams

• ACV, AVC, CVA, Cav.

Huave

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca. Doublet of wacüx.

Noun

vac

1. cow

References

• Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert; Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence; Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso; Ponce Villanueva, Tereso; Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)?^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 177

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish vatsa.

Noun

vac

1. belly