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hurt
English
Etymology
From Middle English hurten, hirten, hertan (“to injure, scathe, knock together”), from Old Northern French hurter ("to ram into, strike, collide with"; > Modern French heurter), perhaps from Frankish *h?rt (“a battering ram”), from Proto-Germanic *hr?tan?, *hreutan? (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”); however, the earliest instances of the verb in Middle English are as old as those found in Old French, which leads to the possibility that the Middle English word may instead be a reflex of an unrecorded Old English *h?rtan, which later merged with the Old French verb. Germanic cognates include Dutch horten (“to push against, strike”), Middle Low German hurten (“to run at, collide with”), Middle High German hurten (“to push, bump, attack, storm, invade”), Old Norse hrútr (“battering ram”).
Alternate etymology traces Old Northern French hurter rather to Old Norse hrútr (“ram (male sheep)”), lengthened-grade variant of hj?rtr (“stag”), from Proto-Germanic *herutuz, *herutaz (“hart, male deer”), which would relate it to English hart (“male deer”). See hart.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hû(r)t, IPA(key): /h??t/
- (General American) enPR: hûrt, IPA(key): /h?t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Verb
hurt (third-person singular simple present hurts, present participle hurting, simple past and past participle hurt)
- (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.
- (intransitive) To be painful.
- (transitive) To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.
- Copying and pasting identical portions of source code hurts maintainability, because the programmer has to keep all those copies synchronized.
Synonyms
- (to be painful): smart
- (to cause physical pain and/or injury): wound, injure, dere
Derived terms
- hurtle
- wouldn't hurt a fly
Translations
See also
- ache
Adjective
hurt (comparative more hurt, superlative most hurt)
- Wounded, physically injured.
- Pained.
Synonyms
- (wounded): imbrued, injured, wounded; see also Thesaurus:wounded
- (pained): aching, sore, suffering
Translations
Noun
hurt (plural hurts)
- An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
- (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
- 1605, Shakespeare, King Lear vii
- I have received a hurt.
- The cause is a temperate conglutination ; for both bodies are clammy and viscous , and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts , without penning them in too much
- The pains of sickness and hurts […] all men feel.
- 1605, Shakespeare, King Lear vii
- (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm
- (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
- (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
- A husk.
Translations
Related terms
- hurty
References
Anagrams
- Ruth, Thur, ruth, thru, thur
Polish
Etymology
From Middle High German hurt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xurt/
Noun
hurt m inan
- wholesale
Declension
Derived terms
- (adjective) hurtowy
- (nouns) hurtownia, hurtownik
Further reading
- hurt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
hurt From the web:
- what hurts the most
- what hurts the most lyrics
- what hurts the most chords
- what hurts your credit score
- what hurts the most meaning
prick
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??k/, [p?????k]
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English prik, prikke, from Old English prica, pricu (“a sharp point, minute mark, spot, dot, small portion, prick”), from Proto-Germanic *prikô, *prik? (“a prick, point”), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *brey?- (“to scrape, scratch, rub, prickle, chap”). Cognate with West Frisian prik (“small hole”), Dutch prik (“point, small stick”), Danish prik (“dot”), Icelandic prik (“dot, small stick”). Pejorative context came from prickers, or witch-hunters.
Noun
prick (plural pricks)
- A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing. [from 10th c.]
- An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object. [from 10th c.]
- (obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point. [10th-18th c.]
- (obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot. [10th-18th c.]
- A small pointed object. [from 10th c.]
- The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object. [from 13th c.]
- A feeling of remorse.
- 1768–1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued
- the pricks of conscience
- 1768–1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued
- (slang, vulgar) The penis. [from 16th c.]
- (Britain, Australia, US, slang, derogatory) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying. [from 16th c.]
- (now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco. [from 17th c.]
- The footprint of a hare.
- (obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
- (obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, "September"
- they that shooten nearest the prick
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, "September"
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English prikken, from Old English prician, priccan (“to prick”), from Proto-Germanic *prik?n?, *prikjan? (“to pierce, prick”), of uncertain origin; perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *brey?- (“to scrape, scratch, rub, prickle, chap”). Cognate with dialectal English pritch, Dutch prikken (“to prick, sting”), Middle High German pfrecken (“to prick”), Swedish pricka (“to dot, prick”), and possibly to Lithuanian ?br?žti (“to scrape, scratch, carve, inscribe, strike”).
Verb
prick (third-person singular simple present pricks, present participle pricking, simple past and past participle pricked)
- (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly. [from 11th c.]
- (farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
- (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowper to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
- c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
- Some who are pricked for sheriffs.
- c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
- (transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart). [from 16th c.]
- (nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
- To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
- 1615, George Sandys, The Relation of a Journey begun an. Dom. 1610, in four books
- The cooks [...]prick it [a slice] on a prog of iron.
- 1615, George Sandys, The Relation of a Journey begun an. Dom. 1610, in four books
- (intransitive, dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
- 17th century (probably 1606), William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, scene 1:
- By the pricking of my thumbs, / Something wicked this way comes.
- 17th century (probably 1606), William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, scene 1:
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
- The courser [...] pricks up his ears.
- (horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
- (transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad. [from 13th c.]
- (intransitive, archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly. [from 14th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- At last, as through an open plaine they yode,
They spide a knight that towards them pricked fayre [...].
- At last, as through an open plaine they yode,
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, lines 527 to 538.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- Indeed, it is a memorable subject for consideration, with what unconcern and gaiety mankind pricks on along the Valley of the Shadow of Death.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
- Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Geraint and Enid
- I was pricked with some reproof.
- (transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
- (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
- To aim at a point or mark.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hawkins to this entry?)
- (obsolete, usually as prick up) to dress or adorn; to prink.
Translations
Swedish
Pronunciation
Adverb
prick
- exactly, sharp, on the spot
Noun
prick c
- a dot, small spot
- a remark, a stain (in a record of good behaviour)
- a guy, person; especially about a particularly nice or funny one
- a floating seamark in the form of a painted pole, possibly with cones, lights and reflectors
Usage notes
(guy, person): Mainly used in conjunction with the adjectives rolig (“funny”) or trevlig (“nice”), but also ruskig (“eerie, scary”).
Declension
Related terms
- pricka
- prickig
Derived terms
References
- prick in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
prick From the web:
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