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insatiable
English
Etymology
From Old French insaciable, from Late Latin insatiabilis
Pronunciation
- Received Pronunciation (UK): [?n?se??j?b?l]
Adjective
insatiable (comparative more insatiable, superlative most insatiable)
- Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy
- 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 4, Abbot Hugo
- Hugo, in a fine frenzy, threatens to depose the Sacristan, to do this and do that; but, in the mean while, how to quiet your insatiable Jew? Hugo, for this couple of hundreds, grants the Jew his bond for four hundred payable at the end of four years. (...) Neither yet is this insatiable Jew satisfied or settled with: he had papers against us of 'small debts fourteen years old;' his modest claim amounts finally to 'Twelve hundred pounds besides interest'
- 1885 — Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado [1]
- Such an appointment would realize my fondest dreams. But no, at any sacrifice, I must set bounds to my insatiable ambition!
- 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 4, Abbot Hugo
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "insatiable" is often applied: appetite, desire, curiosity, thirst, hunger, need, greed.
Translations
Noun
insatiable (plural insatiables)
- One who or that which cannot be satiated.
Further reading
- insatiable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- insatiable at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- banalities
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin insati?bilis. Synchronically analysable as in- +? satiable.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.sa.sjabl/
Adjective
insatiable (plural insatiables)
- insatiable
Further reading
- “insatiable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Adjective
insatiable m or f (plural insatiables)
- insatiable
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maw
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /m??/
- (US) IPA(key): /m?/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /m?/
- Homophones: more (non-rhotic accents)
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle English mawe, maghe, ma?e, from Old English maga (“stomach; maw”), from Proto-Germanic *magô (“belly; stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks- (“bag, bellows, belly”). Cognate with West Frisian mage, Dutch maag (“stomach; belly”), German Low German Maag, German Magen (“stomach”), Danish mave,Norwegian mage (“stomach”)Swedish mage (“stomach; belly”), and also with Welsh megin (“bellows”), archaic Russian ?????? (mošná, “pocket, bag”), Lithuanian mãkas (“purse”).
Noun
maw (plural maws)
- (archaic) The stomach, especially of an animal.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X:
- So Death shall be deceav'd his glut, and with us two / Be forc'd to satisfie his Rav'nous Maw.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X:
- The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature.
- 1818, John Keats, Endymion
- To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw
- 1818, John Keats, Endymion
- (slang, derogatory) The mouth.
- Synonyms: trap, yap
- Shut your maw!
- Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.
- Appetite; inclination.
- Unless you had more maw to do me good.
Translations
Etymology 2
By shortening of mother
Noun
maw (plural maws)
- (dialect, colloquial) Mother.
Etymology 3
See mew (“a gull”),måke (“a gull”)
Noun
maw (plural maws)
- A gull.
Anagrams
- WMA, awm, mwa
Abinomn
Noun
maw
- butterfly
Cornish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mæ?/
Noun
maw m
- boy
- Me a wrug desky Kernowak termyn me ve maw.
- I learnt Cornish when I was a boy.
- Me a wrug desky Kernowak termyn me ve maw.
Synonyms
- mab
Mapudungun
Noun
maw (using Unified Alphabet)
- rain
Middle English
Noun
maw
- Alternative form of mawe (“stomach”)
Somali
Etymology
From Proto-Cushitic *ma?-/*mi?- (to be wet) from Proto-Afroasiatic *ma?-. Compare Egyptian mw, Aasax ma?a, also Dahalo ma?a; Hebrew ???? (máyim),
Classical Syriac ???? (mayy?) and Somali maanyo and Somali ma'wi.
Noun
maw m (plural mawooyin m)
- water container, water-jar
Reference
- Annarita Puglielli; Cabdalla Cumar Mansuur (2012) , “ma'wi”, in Qamuuska af-Soomaaliga, ?ISBN, page 613
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