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imbroglio
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian imbroglio (“tangle, entanglement, muddle”) (im-, alternative form of in- (“prefix forming verbs denoting derivation”) + broglio (“confusion; intrigue, fraud, rigging, stuffing”); see also imbrogliare (“to tangle”)), cognate with and probably from an earlier form of French embrouiller (“to embroil, muddle”) (em- (“em-”), a form of en- (“en-, prefix meaning ‘caused’”) + brouiller (“to confuse, mix up”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?b???lj??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?b?o?ljo?/
- Rhymes: -??lj??
- Hyphenation: im?bro?glio
Noun
imbroglio (plural imbroglios or imbrogli)
- A complicated situation; an entanglement.
- 2013, Frances Whiting, chapter 19, in Walking on Trampolines, Sydney, N.S.W.: Pan Macmillan Australia, ?ISBN; trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, February 2015, ?ISBN page 207:
- I could have phoned you with all this, Tallulah, but knowing you as I have over the years, when you and I have both been a party to some of Duncan's little imbroglios, I thought I should talk to you in person.
- 2013, Frances Whiting, chapter 19, in Walking on Trampolines, Sydney, N.S.W.: Pan Macmillan Australia, ?ISBN; trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, February 2015, ?ISBN page 207:
Synonyms
- snarl (noun)
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Translations
French
Etymology
From Italian imbroglio (“tangle”), from imbrogliare (“to tangle”), cognate with and probably from an earlier form of French embrouiller (“muddle, embroil”), from em- (“en-”) + brouiller. Doublet of embrouille.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.b??.ljo/
Noun
imbroglio m (plural imbroglios)
- a complicated situation; an entanglement
Further reading
- “imbroglio” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
From imbrogliare (“to tangle”), cognate with and probably from an earlier form of French embrouiller (“muddle, embroil”), from em- (“en-”) + brouiller.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /im?br??.?o/
- Hyphenation: im?bro?glio
Noun
imbroglio m (plural imbrogli)
- tangle, entanglement, muddle, scrape
- Synonyms: impiccio, intrico, pasticcio
- cheat, swindle, trick, diddle, fraud
- Synonyms: frode, inganno, truffa
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Verb
imbroglio
- first-person singular present indicative of imbrogliare
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tiff
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?f/
- Rhymes: -?f
Etymology 1
Originally, a sniff, sniffing; compare Icelandic word for a smell.
Noun
tiff (plural tiffs)
- A small argument; a petty quarrel.
- Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor.
Translations
Verb
tiff (third-person singular simple present tiffs, present participle tiffing, simple past and past participle tiffed)
- (intransitive) To quarrel.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:squabble
- 1846, Walter Savage Landor, untitled
- She tiff'd at Tim, she ran from Ralph.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English tiffen, Old French tiffer, tifer ("to bedizen"; > Modern French attifer), from Frankish *tipf?n, *tipp?n (“to decorate”), perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“top, tip”). Compare Dutch tippen (“to clip the points or ends of the hair”), Old Norse tippa (“point, tip”), English tip (noun), Middle High German zipfen (“to prance; skip; sashay; bob; flutter; frisk”).
Verb
tiff (third-person singular simple present tiffs, present participle tiffing, simple past and past participle tiffed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To deck out; to dress.
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Etymology 3
Verb
tiff (third-person singular simple present tiffs, present participle tiffing, simple past and past participle tiffed)
- (British India, intransitive) To have lunch.
- 1841, The Asiatic journal and monthly register
- Besides that one to which the permanent residence was attached, Mr. Augustus had several outlaying factories, which he visited from time to time, to superintend the manufacture of his indigo; at all of these he had little bungalows, or temporary abodes, where we tiffed and passed the heat of the day.
- 1841, The Asiatic journal and monthly register
Related terms
- tiffin
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