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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English jus, juis, from Old French jus, jous, from Latin j?s (“broth, soup, sauce”). Doublet of jus. Displaced native Middle English wos, woos (“juice”), from Old English w?s (“juice”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??u?s/, /d?????s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??us/
• Rhymes: -u?s

Noun

juice (usually uncountable, plural juices)

1. (uncountable) A liquid from a plant, especially fruit.
   • 1837 April, J. M. (London), in "Miscellaneous Intelligence: Art. V. Queries and Answers", The Gardener's Magazine, August edition, page 378.

   • 1940 November, Dwight M. DeLong, "Studies of Methods and Materials for the Control of the Leafhopper Empoasca fabae as a Bean Pest", Technical Bulletin, No. 740, United States Department of Agriculture, page 26.

   Hyponyms: apple juice, orange juice, lemon juice

2. (countable) A beverage made of juice.
   • 1938, C.B. Hutchison & S.B. Freeborn, Toward Better Agriculture: Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California, page 44.

   • 2006, Katie Kitamura, Japanese for Travellers: A Journey, Hamish Hamilton (publ.), page 189.

   Hyponyms: apple juice, orange juice, lemon juice

3. (uncountable) Any liquid resembling juice.

   Hyponym: moo juice

   1. (Scotland) A soft drink.
   2. (uncountable, slang) Liquor.
   3. (informal) The liquid that is used to submerge a substance kept in a container

      Hyponyms: pickle juice (the brine in a jar of pickles), sauerkraut juice (the brine in a jar of sauerkraut)

   4. (slang) The leftover liquid of some wet or damp substance.

      Hyponym: dumpster juice (liquid which oozes out of garbage dumpsters)

4. (uncountable, slang) Vitality, strength.
   • 1884 July, Alfales Young, "Letter from Salt Lake City", Wallace's Monthly, Vol. X, No. 6, page 450.

   • 2019, Timothy Andrews Sayle, Jeffrey A. Engel, Hal Brands, William Inboden (eds.), The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush's Decision to Surge in Iraq, page 161.

5. (uncountable, slang) Political power.
   • 1998, The Hotline, page 16.

6. (uncountable, slang) Petrol; gasoline.
   • 1973, Stephen Barlay, Double Cross: Encounters with Industrial Spies, Hamish Hamilton (publ.), page 227.

   • 2009, William J. Holstein, Why GM Matters: Inside the Race to Transform an American Icon, Walker Books, page 137,

   Synonym: dino juice

7. (uncountable, slang) Electricity.
8. (uncountable, slang) Steroids.
9. (uncountable, slang, vulgar, sex) Semen.
   • 1981, Susan Griffin, Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature, page 62, quoting Yvette Clemons, The Skin Flick Rapist.

     {{quote|en|The demand that a woman drink semen is repeated throughout pornography. Volume after volume presents such scenes as this which we find in The Skin Flick Rapist: "Maria gagged on his juice. It made him so angry that he reached out with his right hand and pulled at her hair."

   • 2005, Michael Thomas Ford, Tangled Sheets, Kensington Books, page 242.

10. (uncountable, slang, vulgar, sex) The vaginal lubrication that a female naturally produces when sexually aroused.
    • 1999, Tristan Taormino (ed.), Best Lesbian Erotica 1999, Cleis Press, page 62.

    • 2006, Donna Lea Simpson, Awaiting the Night, page 247.

11. (uncountable, slang) The amount charged by a bookmaker for betting services.
    • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 74]:

      He was a sporting man, a gambler. He had to go into hiding at last, because the juice men were after him. I believe they had even broken his ankles.

12. (uncountable, slang) Musical agreement between instrumentalists.

Synonyms

• (charge by bookmaker): cut, take, vig, vigorish

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• ? Danish: juice
• ? Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: juice, jus

  Norwegian Nynorsk: juice, jus

• ? Papiamentu: djus
• ? Slovak: džús
• ? Swedish: juice, jos

Verb

juice (third-person singular simple present juices, present participle juicing, simple past and past participle juiced)

1. (transitive) To extract the juice from something.
2. (transitive) To energize or stimulate something.

Derived terms

• dejuice
• juice up
• ruckus juice

Translations

Etymology 2

Dialectal spelling of Jew's, a particle of unclear origin. See Jew's harp for more.

Adjective

juice (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of Jew's (used in certain set phrases like juice harp)

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English juice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?ju?s]

Noun

juice c (singular definite juicen, not used in plural form)

1. Juice.
2. A container containing juice.

Inflection

Synonyms

• saft

Derived terms

• appelsinjuice
• grapefrugtjuice
• juicer
• tomatjuice
• æblejuice

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• jus

Etymology

From Latin jus, via English juice

Noun

juice m (definite singular juicen, indefinite plural juicer, definite plural juicene)

1. juice

Synonyms

• saft

References

• “juice” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• jus

Etymology

From Latin jus, via English juice

Noun

juice m (definite singular juicen, indefinite plural juicar, definite plural juicane)

1. juice

Synonyms

• saft

References

• “juice” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• jos

Etymology

Borrowed from English juice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s

Noun

juice c

1. fruit juice

Declension

Derived terms

• apelsinjuice
• äppeljuice

See also

• äppelmust
• dricka
• köttsaft
• lingondricka
• must
• saft

English

Etymology

From Middle English pere, from Old English pere, common North and West Germanic, from Vulgar Latin *pira, originally the plural of Latin pirum but reconstrued as a feminine singular. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Peere (“pear”), Dutch peer (“pear”), Danish pære (“pear”), French poire (“pear”), German Birne (“pear”), Icelandic pera (“pear”), Swedish päron (“pear”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??/, [p?e?]
• (General American) enPR: pâr, IPA^(key): /p??/
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): /?pi??(r)/
• Rhymes: -??(r)
• Homophones: pair, pare

Noun

pear (plural pears)

1. An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem.
2. A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).

   Synonym: pear tree

3. The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood).
4. Choke pear (a torture device).
5. (Jamaican) avocado, alligator pear
6. A desaturated chartreuse yellow colour, like that of a pear.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• warden

Anagrams

• Earp, Pera, Rape, aper, pare, prae-, præ-, rape, reap

Galician

Alternative forms

• piar

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pilare, from Latin p?la (“pillar”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe?a?/

Noun

pear m (plural peares)

1. pillar

   Synonym: columna

2. window sill

   Synonym: peitoril

3. one of several stone pillars placed by way of a bridge

   Synonym: poldra

Related terms

• Os Peares

References

• “pear” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “piar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “pear” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “pear” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “piar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?e?/
• Hyphenation: pear

Noun

pear (plural: pear dem, quantified: pear)

1. avocado

See also

• ackee

Further reading

• Richard Allsopp (main editor), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 2003 (reprint by The University of the West Indies Press, originally 1996 by Oxford University Press), ISBN 9789766401450 (originally ISBN-10: 976-640-145-4), page 434

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian p?r, ultimately from Latin p?r.

Noun

pear n (plural pearen, diminutive pearke)

1. pair, couple

Further reading

• “pear”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011