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grit
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Etymology 1
With early modern vowel shortening, from Middle English grete, griet, from Old English gr?ot, from Proto-Germanic *greut? (compare German Grieß, Swedish gryta, Norwegian Nynorsk grjot), from Proto-Indo-European *g?r-eu-d- (compare Lithuanian grúodas (“frost; frozen street dirt”), Serbo-Croatian gr?da (“lump”)).
Noun
grit (uncountable)
- A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
- Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
- Inedible particles in food.
- A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
- (geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
- Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of C. Reade to this entry?)
Derived terms
- gritten
- gritty
Related terms
- grind
- grindstone
- sand, sandy, sandblasting
Translations
See also
- debris
- mortar and pestle
- swarf
Verb
grit (third-person singular simple present grits, present participle gritting, simple past and past participle gritted or (nonstandard) grit)
- Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
- To cover with grit.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
- 1767, Oliver Goldsmith, The Hermit
- The sanded |floor that grits beneath the tread.
- 1767, Oliver Goldsmith, The Hermit
Derived terms
- grit one's teeth
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English gryt (“bran, chaff”), from Old English grytt, from Proto-Germanic *grutj? (“coarsely ground bits”) (compare Dutch grut, German Grütze), ablaut variant of Proto-Indo-European *g?r-eu-d-. See above.
Noun
grit (plural grits)
- (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
- (usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
Related terms
- groat
- grout
- gruel
Translations
Anagrams
- girt, trig
Scots
Adjective
grit (comparative mair grit, superlative maist grit)
- great
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spunk
English
Etymology
1530, blend of spark +? funk (obsolete, “spark”). Also, merging with spunck, 1582, ultimately from Old Irish sponc, from Latin spongia (“sponge”).
Funk (“spark, touchwood”) is from Middle English funke, fonke (“spark”), from Old English *funce (“spark”), *fanca, from Proto-Germanic *funkô, *fankô (“spark”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng-, *(s)pheng- (“to shine”), and is akin to Middle Low German funke, fanke (“spark”), Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”), Old High German funcho, funko (“spark”), German Funke (“spark”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp??k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Noun
spunk (usually uncountable, plural spunks)
- (countable, obsolete) A spark.
- (uncountable) Touchwood; tinder.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
- Spunk, or Touch-wood prepared, might perhaps make it Russet: and some, as Beringuccio affirmeth, have promised to make it Red.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXII:
- A piece of Touch-wood (which is a kind of Jews-ear, or Mushrom, growing here in England also, on several sorts of Trees, such as Elders, Maples, Willows, &c. and is commonly call'd by the name of Spunk […]).
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
- (countable, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match.
- 1829, Society for Relief of the Destitute Sick (Edinburgh), Report, page 7,
- At present, her only means of procuring subsistence for herself and children, is by making spunks or matches, which, either she or her eldest child, a girl about six years of age, sells from door to door.
- 1843, John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, William Maginn, James Hogg, The Noctes Ambrosianæ of “Blackwood”, Volume IV, page 396,
- “Spunks — spunks — spunks — who will buy my spunks?” — cried an errant voice with a beseeching earnestness […] .
- 1829, Society for Relief of the Destitute Sick (Edinburgh), Report, page 7,
- (uncountable) Courage; spirit; mettle; determination.
- 1920 August, Edward Leonard, Old Zeke?s Mule, Boys? Life, 55,
- “I reckon I?m as good as a mule,” he declared. “Maria knows what that desert is as well as we do, but she?s got more spunk than either of us. I'm not going to let any mule show more spunk than me.”
- 1991, Lindsey Hanks, (copyright Linda Chesnutt, Georgia Pierce), Long Texas Night, Zebra Books, US, page 26,
- “You've got spunk, missy, I?ll have to say that for you. Maybe with your spunk and my good looks we can get this place in shape again.”
- It was Sarah?s turn to laugh.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:spunk.
- 1920 August, Edward Leonard, Old Zeke?s Mule, Boys? Life, 55,
- (countable, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) An attractive person (normally male).
- Synonyms: Adonis, beefcake, hunk
- 2005, Sue Austin, Women?s Aggressive Fantasies: A Post-Jungian Exploration of Self-Hatred, Love and Agency, Routledge, UK, page 166,
- We are welcomed by 20 year old spunks, as we make a last valiant attempt with our bodies - gasp, gasp - and try to get back in shape.
- (uncountable, chiefly Britain, vulgar, slang) Semen.
- 2007, Debra Hyde, Kidnapped, Violet Blue (editor), Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women, 2010, ReadHowYouWant, page 188,
- It was runny stuff and, as she felt Brain loosen his hold on the drawstrings, Cackle's spunk dripped onto the shelf of her chin.
- 2007, Debra Hyde, Kidnapped, Violet Blue (editor), Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women, 2010, ReadHowYouWant, page 188,
Derived terms
- spunky
Translations
Verb
spunk (third-person singular simple present spunks, present participle spunking, simple past and past participle spunked)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To catch fire; flame up.
- (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate.
Anagrams
- punks
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