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gash
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Etymology 1
Alteration of older garsh, from Middle English garsen, from Old French garser, jarsier (Modern French gercer), from Vulgar Latin *charax?re, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r, “engraver”).
Alternative forms
- garsh (dated)
Noun
gash (countable and uncountable, plural gashes)
- A deep cut.
- 2006, New York Times, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, [1]:
- Vowing that he was “never going to forget the lessons of that day,” President Bush paid tribute last night to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, laying wreaths at ground zero, attending a prayer service at St. Paul’s Chapel and making a surprise stop at a firehouse and a memorial museum overlooking the vast gash in the ground where the twin towers once stood.
- 2006, New York Times, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, [1]:
- (slang, vulgar) A vulva.
- 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 50th anniversary edition (2009), p. 126:
- “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”
- 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 50th anniversary edition (2009), p. 126:
- (slang, offensive) A woman
- 1934, James T. Farrell, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, Ch. 19:
- "Will you bastards quit singing the blues? You're young, and there's plenty of gash in the world, and the supply of moon goes on forever," Simonsky said.
- 1934, James T. Farrell, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, Ch. 19:
- (slang, British Royal Navy) Rubbish, spare kit
- (slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft
- (slang) Unused film or sound during film editing
- (slang) Poor quality beer, usually watered down.
Translations
Adjective
gash (comparative more gash, superlative most gash)
- (slang) Of poor quality; makeshift; improvised; temporary; substituted.
Verb
gash (third-person singular simple present gashes, present participle gashing, simple past and past participle gashed)
- To make a deep, long cut; to slash.
Translations
Etymology 2
From ghastful, by association with gash.
Adjective
gash (comparative more gash, superlative most gash)
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) ghastly; hideous
Related terms
- gashful
- gashly
Anagrams
- HAGS, hags, shag
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sunder
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?nd?/
- Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English sunder, from Old English sundor- (“separate, different”), from Proto-Germanic *sundraz (“isolated, particular, alone”), from Proto-Indo-European *snter-, *seni-, *senu-, *san- (“apart, without, for oneself”). Cognate with Old Saxon sundar (“particular, special”), Dutch zonder (“without”), German sonder (“special, set apart”), Old Norse sundr (“separate”), Danish sønder (“apart, asunder”), Latin sine (“without”).
Adjective
sunder (comparative more sunder, superlative most sunder)
- (dialectal or obsolete) Sundry; separate; different.
Derived terms
- sunderling
- sunderly
Etymology 2
From Middle English sundren (“to separate, part, divide”), from Old English sundrian (“to separate, split, part, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *sundr?n? (“to separate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sen(e)- (“separate, without”). Cognate with Scots sinder, sunder (“to separate, divide, split up”), Dutch zonderen (“to isolate”), German sondern (“to separate”), Swedish söndra (“to divide”). More at sundry.
Verb
sunder (third-person singular simple present sunders, present participle sundering, simple past and past participle sundered)
- (transitive) To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
- (intransitive) To part, separate.
- 1881 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Severed Selves, lines 8-9
- Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: —
- Such are we now.
- 1881 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Severed Selves, lines 8-9
- (Britain, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Derived terms
Related terms
- sundry
Translations
Noun
sunder (plural sunders)
- a separation into parts; a division or severance
- 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, VII, lines 2-4
- He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
- I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder
- And went with half my life about my ways.
- 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, VII, lines 2-4
Derived terms
- sundrous
See also
- sunder tree
Anagrams
- Durens, Dusner, drusen, nursed
Old English
Alternative forms
- sundor
- synder
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sundraz, whence also Old High German suntar, Old Norse sundr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sun.der/
Adverb
sunder
- apart, separate, private, aloof, by one's self
Synonyms
- ?ed?ledl??e
Derived terms
- onsundrum (“singly, separately, apart: privately: especially, in sunder”)
- sunderanweald m (“monarchy”)
- sunderfolgoþ m (“private office”)
- sunderfr?od?m, sunderfr?ols m (“privilege”)
- sunderl?pes (“separately”)
- sunderm?lum (“separately, singly”)
- sunderm?d f (“private meadow”)
- sunderst?w f (“special place”)
Related terms
- ?sundran, ?sundrian (“to divide, separate, disjoin, sever; distinguish, except. asunder”)
- ?syndrung f (“division”)
- sundrian (“to separate, sunder”)
See also
- sundor
- synder
References
- John R. Clark Hall (1916) , “sunder”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan.
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “sundor”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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