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hump
English
Etymology
Probably borrowed from Dutch homp (“hump, lump”) or Middle Low German hump (“heap, hill, stump”), from Old Saxon *hump (“hill, heap, thick piece”), from Proto-Germanic *humpaz (“hip, height”), from Proto-Indo-European *kumb- (“curved”).
Pronunciation
- (Canada, UK) IPA(key): /h?mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Noun
hump (plural humps)
- A mound of earth.
- A speed hump.
- A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
- (animals) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
- (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (Britain, slang, with definite article) A bad mood.
- She's got the hump with me.
- Go away! You're giving me the right hump.
- (slang) A painfully boorish person.
- That guy is such a hump!
- A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.
Synonyms
- (abnormal deformity of the spine): gibbous, humpback, hunch, hunchback
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
hump (third-person singular simple present humps, present participle humping, simple past and past participle humped)
- (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
- (transitive, intransitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
- to rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse
- (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.
- (transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).
- (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.
- (US, slang, dated) To prepare for a great exertion; to put forth effort.
- (slang, dated) To vex or annoy.
- (rail transport) To shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard.
Synonyms
- (to carry): heft, shoulder, tote; see also Thesaurus:carry
- (to go on foot): hike, trek, walk; see also Thesaurus:walk
- (to have sex): bang, bone, ride, shag; see also Thesaurus:copulate or Thesaurus:copulate with
- (to vex): bother, irk, rile; see also Thesaurus:annoy
Derived terms
- dry-hump
- hump it
Translations
Anagrams
- phum, umph
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Possibly related to Low German humpel, compare with English hump.
Noun
hump m (definite singular humpen, indefinite plural humper, definite plural humpene)
- a bump or hump (e.g. in a road)
Derived terms
- fartshump
References
- “hump” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Possibly related to Low German humpel, compare with English hump.
Noun
hump m (definite singular humpen, indefinite plural humpar, definite plural humpane)
- a bump or hump (e.g. in a road)
Derived terms
- fartshump
References
- “hump” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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stir
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /st??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /st?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian (“to be in motion, move, agitate, stir, disturb, trouble”), from Proto-Germanic *sturiz (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), related to Proto-Germanic *staurijan? (“to destroy, disturb”). Cognate with Old Norse styrr (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), German stören (“to disturb”), Dutch storen (“to disturb”).
Verb
stir (third-person singular simple present stirs, present participle stirring, simple past and past participle stirred)
- (transitive) To incite to action
- Synonyms: arouse, instigate, prompt, excite; see also Thesaurus:incite
- (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, a liquid of suchlike, by passing something through it
- Synonym: agitate
- (transitive) To agitate the content of (a container), by passing something through it.
- (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
- (transitive, dated) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
- (intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.
- (intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
- (intransitive) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
- (intransitive, poetic) To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.
- Synonyms: arise, get up, rouse; see also Thesaurus:wake
- “Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins,” remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: “Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!”
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stir.
Usage notes
- In all transitive senses except the dated one (“to change the place of in any manner”), stir is often followed by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to stir up sedition.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
stir (countable and uncountable, plural stirs)
- The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)
- agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
- 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem).
- Why all these words, this clamour, and this stir?
- .
- Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stir.
- 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem).
- Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
- 1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
- Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stir.
- 1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
- Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
Derived terms
- cause a stir
- stirless
- upstir
Translations
Etymology 2
From Romani stariben (“prison”), nominalisation of (a)star (“seize”), causative of ast (“remain”), probably from Sanskrit ???????? (?ti??hati, “stand or remain by”), from ??????? (ti??hati, “stand”).
Noun
stir (countable and uncountable, plural stirs)
- (slang) Jail; prison.
- 1928, Jack Callahan, Man's Grim Justice: My Life Outside the Law (page 42)
- Sing Sing was a tough joint in those days, one of the five worst stirs in the United States.
- The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
- 1928, Jack Callahan, Man's Grim Justice: My Life Outside the Law (page 42)
Derived terms
- stir-crazy
Anagrams
- ISTR, RTIs, Rist, TRIS, TRIs, Tris, rits, sirt, tris, tris-
Danish
Verb
stir
- imperative of stirre
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