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gag
English
Etymology
The verb is from 15th-century Middle English gaggen, Early Modern English gagge, possibly imitative or perhaps related to or influenced by Old Norse gag-háls ("with head thrown backwards"; > Norwegian dialectal gaga (“bent backwards”)). The intransitive sense "to retch" is from 1707.
The noun is from the 16th century, figurative use (for "repression of speech") from the 1620s. The secondary meaning "(practical) joke" is from 1863, of unclear origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
gag (plural gags)
- A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.
- (law) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.
- A joke or other mischievous prank.
- (film) a device or trick used to create a practical effect; a gimmick
- A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.
- (archaic) A mouthful that makes one retch or choke.
- Mycteroperca microlepis, a species of grouper.
- Synonym: gag grouper
Synonyms
- (legal): gag order
- (joke): See also Thesaurus:joke
Derived terms
- gagless
- sight gag
Descendants
- ? French: gag
- ? Italian: gag
- ? Spanish: gag
Translations
Verb
gag (third-person singular simple present gags, present participle gagging, simple past and past participle gagged)
- (intransitive) To experience the vomiting reflex.
- (transitive) To cause to heave with nausea.
- 2008, Stephen King, "A Very Tight Place"
- His empty stomach was suddenly full of butterflies, and for the first time since arriving here at scenic Durkin Grove Village, he felt an urge to gag himself. He would be able to think more clearly about this if he just stuck his fingers down his throat […]
- 2008, Stephen King, "A Very Tight Place"
- (transitive) To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
- 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- They said no word to the landlord, they drank his ale instead,
- But they gagged his daughter and bound her to the foot of her narrow bed;
- Two of them knelt at her casement, with muskets at their side!
- 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- (transitive) To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
- 1917, Francis Gregor (translator), De Laudibus Legum Angliae, Sir John Fortescue, written 1468–1471, first published 1543.
- […] some have their mouths gagged to such a wideness, for a long time, whereat such quantities of water are poured in, that their bellies swell to a prodigious degree […]
- 1917, Francis Gregor (translator), De Laudibus Legum Angliae, Sir John Fortescue, written 1468–1471, first published 1543.
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.
- When the financial irregularities were discovered, the CEO gagged everyone in the accounting department.
- c. 1840, Thomas Macaulay, Essay on Machiavelli
- The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hoodwinked.
- (transitive, intransitive) To choke; to retch.
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, slang) To deceive (someone); to con.
- 1777, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 79:
- I endeavoured what I could to soften off the affectation of her sudden change of Disposition; and I gagged the Gentleman with as much ease as my very little ease would allow me to assume.
- 1777, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 79:
Derived terms
- gag me with a spoon
Translations
Related terms
- blech
- retch
References
- gag in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Further reading
- gag at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- agg
French
Etymology
From English gag.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?/
Noun
gag m (plural gags)
- joke
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English gag.
Noun
gag m (invariable)
- gag, joke
- Synonyms: scherzo, freddura; see also Thesaurus:battuta
Occitan
Noun
gag m (plural gags)
- jay
Romanian
Etymology
From French gag.
Noun
gag n (plural gaguri)
- joke
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From English gag.
Noun
gag m (plural gags)
- gag (joke)
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /ka?k?/
- Tone numbers: gag8
- Hyphenation: gag
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From ??”)
Adverb
gag (Sawndip forms ? or ? or ?, old orthography gag)
- by oneself; alone
- Synonym: (dialectal) haek
- on one's own; by oneself; without permission
- Synonym: (dialectal) gujgag
- just; only
Derived terms
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From ?? ??”)
Verb
gag (old orthography gag)
- to eject; to cough up
- Synonym: (dialectal) gak
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pun
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: p?n, IPA(key): /p?n/
- Rhymes: -?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English ponnen, ponen, punen, from Old English punian, p?nian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush, grind”), from Proto-Germanic *pun?n? (“to break to pieces, pulverize”). See pound. As a kind of word play, from the notion of "beating" the words into place.
Verb
pun (third-person singular simple present puns, present participle punning, simple past and past participle punned)
- (transitive) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
- (intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.
Noun
pun (plural puns)
- A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.
- Synonyms: paronomasia, play on words
- Hypernym: joke
- Hyponym: antanaclasis
- Austen was likely referring to flogging or spanking, then common naval punishments, known as le vice anglais.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean ? (bun), from Chinese ? (“fen”)
Noun
pun (plural puns or pun)
- (Korean units of measure) Alternative form of bun: a Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.
Anagrams
- N-up, NPU, UPN, nup
Chuukese
Conjunction
pun
- because
Dalmatian
Alternative forms
- puan
- pen (Ragusan dialect)
Etymology
From Latin p?nis, p?nem.
Noun
pun m
- (Vegliot) bread
Malay
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /pon/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /p?n/
- Rhymes: -on
Adverb
pun (Jawi spelling ????)
- also
- even
Synonyms
- juga
Related terms
- -pun
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [pun]
Verb
pun
- first-person singular present indicative of pune
- first-person singular present subjunctive of pune
- third-person plural present indicative of pune
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *p?ln?, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *píl?nas, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pûn/
Adjective
p?n (definite p?n?, Cyrillic spelling ????)
- full, filled
- fleshy, plump
- full, complete
- occupied (of room)
Declension
Spanish
Noun
pun m (uncountable)
- (onomatopoeia) the sound of discharging a firearm
- Synonym: pum
- (onomatopoeia, vulgar) the sound of flatulence
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