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jab
English
Etymology
Originally a Scottish (unclear if Scots or Scottish English) form of English job (“peck, poke, thrust”), from Middle English jobben.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?æb/
- Rhymes: -æb
Noun
jab (plural jabs)
- A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion.
- 1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, Chapter 9,
- He tore in for the ball, make a running jab for it and held it.
- 1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, Chapter 9,
- (boxing) A short straight punch.
- (Britain) A medical hypodermic injection (vaccination or inoculation)
- Our dog was exposed to rabies, so the whole family went to a clinic to get our jabs.
- (Britain, Australia) A vaccination, whether or not delivered via conventional injection.
- (US, figuratively) A mild verbal insult.
Derived terms
- jabby
Translations
Verb
jab (third-person singular simple present jabs, present participle jabbing, simple past and past participle jabbed)
- To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
- To deliver a quick punch.
- (slang, Britain) To give someone an injection
Translations
References
Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “jab”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from English job.
Noun
jab m (genitive singular jab, nominative plural jabanna)
- job, piece of work
- post, employment
Declension
Derived terms
- jabaire m (“(cattle-)jobber”)
References
- "jab" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English jab.
Noun
jab m (invariable)
- jab (boxing punch)
Spanish
Noun
jab m (plural jabs)
- (boxing) jab
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quicken
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kw?k?n/
- Rhymes: -?k?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English quikenen, equivalent to quick +? -en. Cognate Danish kvikne (“to quicken, revive”), Swedish kvickna (“to revive”), Icelandic kvikna (“to turn on, ignite”).
Verb
quicken (third-person singular simple present quickens, present participle quickening, simple past and past participle quickened)
- (transitive, literary) To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive. [from 14thc.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke XVII:
- Whosoever will goo about to save his lyfe, shall loose it: And whosoever shall loose his life, shall quycken it.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 1
- The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead, / And makes my labours pleasures
- Like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke XVII:
- (intransitive, literary) To come back to life, receive life. [from 14th c.]
- (intransitive) To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited. [from 15th c.]
- (intransitive) Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move. [from 16th c.]
- 2013, Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 35.IV:
- Royal pregnancies were not announced in those days; the news generally crept out, and public anticipation was aroused only when the child quickened.
- 2013, Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 35.IV:
- (transitive) To make quicker; to hasten, speed up. [from 17thc.]
- 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p.47:
- That day Arya quickened their pace, keeping the horses to a trot as long as she dared, and sometimes spurring to a gallop when she spied a flat stretch of field before them.
- 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p.47:
- (intransitive) To become faster. [from 17thc.]
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
- (shipbuilding) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.
Translations
Etymology 2
Apparently from quick, with uncertain final element.
Noun
quicken (plural quickens)
- (now chiefly Northern England) The European rowan, Sorbus aucuparia. [from 15th c.]
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p, 104:
- Miss Wannop moved off down the path: it was only suited for Indian file, and had on the left hand a ten-foot, untrimmed quicken hedge, the hawthorn blossoms just beginning to blacken […].
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p, 104:
Synonyms
- quickbeam
See also
- quickens
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
quicken
- inflection of quick:
- strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- strong dative plural
- weak/mixed all-case plural
Old Dutch
Etymology
From quic +? -en.
Verb
quicken
- to come to life
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Middle Dutch: quicken
Further reading
- “kwikken”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
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