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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)

  1. 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.
  2. (boxing) A short straight punch.
  3. (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.
  4. (Britain, Australia) A vaccination, whether or not delivered via conventional injection.
  5. (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)

  1. To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
  2. To deliver a quick punch.
  3. (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)

  1. job, piece of work
  2. 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)

  1. jab (boxing punch)

Spanish

Noun

jab m (plural jabs)

  1. (boxing) jab

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thrash

English

Etymology

From Middle English thrasshen, a dialectal variant of thresshen, threshen (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskan?, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /??æ?/
  • Rhymes: -æ?

Verb

thrash (third-person singular simple present thrashes, present participle thrashing, simple past and past participle thrashed)

  1. To beat mercilessly.
  2. To defeat utterly.
  3. To thresh.
  4. To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
    • c. 1690, Juvenal, John Dryden (translator), The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, 1987, John Dryden: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, page 364,
      I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
  5. (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
  6. (computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.

Derived terms

  • thrashel
  • thrasher

Translations

Noun

thrash (countable and uncountable, plural thrashes)

  1. (countable) A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
    • 1934 May, Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast in Weird Tales,
      As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.
  2. (music, uncountable) thrash metal

References

  • (computing, software) P. J. Denning. 1968. Thrashing: Its Causes and Prevention. Proceedings AFIPS,1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, vol. 33, pp. 915-922.

Anagrams

  • Harths, harths

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English thrash.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?tr??/ (occasionally pronounced as [?????])
  • Hyphenation: thrash

Noun

thrash m (uncountable)

  1. (music) thrash metal, thrash
    Synonym: thrashmetal

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