different between king vs unking

English

Alternative forms

• kyng, kynge (archaic)
• kinge (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?ng, IPA^(key): /k??/
• (US, pre-/?/ tensing), IPA^(key): /ki?/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English king, kyng, from Old English cyng, cyning (“king”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz, *kunungaz (“king”), equivalent to kin +? -ing. Doublet of cyning.

Cognate with Scots keeng (“king”), North Frisian köning (“king”), West Frisian kening (“king”), Dutch koning (“king”), Low German Koning, Köning (“king”), German König (“king”), Danish konge (“king”), Norwegian konge, Swedish konung, kung (“king”), Icelandic konungur, kóngur (“king”), Finnish kuningas (“king”), Russian ????? (knjaz?, “prince”), ???????? (knjagínja, “princess”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English roy (“king”) (Early Modern English roy), borrowed from Old French roi, rei, rai (“king”).

Noun

king (plural kings)

1. A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it's an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.

2. A powerful or majorly influential person.

   • "I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came […] and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins. […]"
3. (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.
4. A component of certain games.
   1. (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
   2. (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
   3. A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
5. (Britain, slang) A king skin.

6. A male dragonfly; a drake.
7. A king-sized bed.
   • 2002, Scott W. Donkin, Gerard Meyer, Peak Performance: Body and Mind (page 119)

     Try asking for a king-size bed next time because kings are usually firmer.

8. The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.

Synonyms

• Rex (the reigning king, formal), roy (obsolete, formal)

Coordinate terms

• (monarch): caesar, emperor, empress, kaiser, maharajah, prince, princess, queen, regent, royalty, shah, tsar, viceroy
• (playing card): ace, jack, joker, queen

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: king
• ? American Sign Language: K@Shoulder K@Abdomen
• ? Isubu: kinge
• ? Japanese: ??? (kingu)
• ? Maori: kingi

Translations

See king/translations § Noun.

See also

Verb

king (third-person singular simple present kings, present participle kinging, simple past and past participle kinged)

1. To crown king, to make (a person) king.
   • 1982, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Review, Volume 47, page 16,

     The kinging of Macbeth is the business of the first part of the play […] .

   • 2008, William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (editor), Macbeth, Introduction, page 24,

     One narrative is the kinging and unkinging of Macbeth; the other narrative is the attack on Banquo's line and that line's eventual accession and supposed Jacobean survival through Malcolm's successful counter-attack on Macbeth.

2. To rule over as king.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, The Life of Henry the Fifth, Act 2, Scene 4,

     And let us do it with no show of fear; / No, with no more than if we heard that England / Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance; / For, my good liege, she is so idly king’d, / Her sceptre so fantastically borne / By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, / That fear attends her not.

3. To perform the duties of a king.
   • 1918, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, The Railroad Trainman, Volume 35, page 675,

     He had to do all his kinging after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility and certain others.

   • 2001, Chip R. Bell, Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning, page 6,

     Second, Mentor (the old man) combined the wisdom of experience with the sensitivity of a fawn in his attempts to convey kinging skills to young Telemachus.

4. To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
   • 1917, Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself, page 32,

     The seating arrangement of the temple was the Almanach de Gotha of Congregation Emanu-el. Old Ben Reitman, patriarch among the Jewish settlers of Winnebago, who had come over an immigrant youth, and who now owned hundreds of rich farm acres, besides houses, mills and banks, kinged it from the front seat of the center section.

5. To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
   • 1957, Bertram Vivian Bowden (editor), Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines, page 302,

     If the machine does this, it will lose only one point, and as it is not looking far enough ahead, it cannot see that it has not prevented its opponent from kinging but only postponed the evil day.

   • 1986, Rick DeMarinis, The Burning Women of Far Cry, page 100,

     I was about to make a move that would corner a piece that she was trying to get kinged, but I slid my checker back […] .

6. To dress and perform as a drag king.
   • 2008, Audrey Yue, King Victoria: Asian Drag Kings, Postcolonial Female Masculinity, and Hybrid Sexuality in Australia, in Fran Martin, Peter Jackson, Audrey Yue, Mark McLelland (editors), AsiaPacifQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities, page 266,

     Through the ex-centric diaspora, kinging in postcolonial Australia has become a site of critical hybridity where diasporic female masculinities have emerged through the contestations of "home" and "host" cultures.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

king (plural kings)

1. Alternative form of qing (Chinese musical instrument)

Anagrams

• gink

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kenkä. Cognate with Finnish kenkä.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kin??/

Noun

king (genitive kinga, partitive kinga)

1. shoe

Declension

Quotations

Kapampangan

Alternative forms

• keng
• qng, queng, quing (Spanish variant)

Preposition

king

1. indirect object marker; of, to, at, on, in, into, onto, among, around, for

Manx

Noun

king m

1. inflection of kione:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative plural

Mutation

Middle English

Alternative forms

• kenin, kening, kinig (in compounds, toponymic)
• gug, kug (in compounds, influenced by Old Norse (see etymology))
• knyng (transmission error)
• chinge, chin?, cing, cining, cin?, ging, keing, keng, kingk, kingue, kining, kink, kyng

Etymology

Inherited from the Old English cyning. The forms kug (attested in the compounds kugdom, kuglond, and kugriche) and gug (attested in the compound guglond) show the influence of the Old Norse konungr, whence they borrow their root vowel. The early forms featuring syncope (chinge, chin?, cing, and cin?) may have long ?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kin?/, [ki??]

Noun

king (nominative plural kinges, also the early forms kingas or kingæs)

1. king

Derived terms

• Kinges (Bible)
• kinges of Coloin
• king of kinges
• Kingpleie

Descendants

• English: king (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: keeng, king

References

• “king (n.)” in the Middle English Dictionary (1954–2001)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English king.

Noun

king

1. king

English

Etymology

un- +? king

Verb

unking (third-person singular simple present unkings, present participle unkinging, simple past and past participle unkinged)

1. (archaic) To remove (a king) from power.

   Synonyms: depose, dethrone, discrown, disenthrone, uncrown, unthrone

   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act IV, Scene 1,^[1]

     God save King Harry, unking’d Richard says,

     And send him many years of sunshine days!

   • 1649, John Milton, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, London, p. 28,^[2]

     […] the Scots were a free Nation, made King whom they freely chose, and with the same freedome un-Kingd him if they saw cause, by right of ancient laws and Ceremonies yet remaining,

   • 1754, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s-Inn Journal, No. 66, 19 January, 1754, in Volume 2, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, p. 85,^[3]

     The jesting of his Fool wholly turns upon his unkinging himself and retaining nothing, which Lear minutely attends to,

   • 1850, Herman Melville, White-Jacket, Chapter 56,^[4]

     “Yes,” cried Jonathan; “that greenhorn, standing there by the Commodore, is sailing under false colours; he's an impostor, I say; he wears my crown.”

     “ […] I say, Jonathan, my lad, don’t pipe your eye now about the loss of your crown; for, look you, we all wear crowns, from our cradles to our graves, and though in double-darbies in the brig, the Commodore himself can’t unking us.”

2. (archaic) To deprive (a king) of his royal qualities.
   • 1665, Robert South, Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions, London: Thomas Bennet, 1698, Volume 3, “A Sermon Preached At S^t Mary’s, Oxon. […] Christmas-Day, 1665,” p. 371,^[5]

     But if a Prince shall deign to be familiar and to converse with those upon whom he might trample, shall His condescension therefore Unking Him? And His familiarity rob Him of His Royalty?

   • 1677, Charles Davenant, Circe, London: Richard Tonson, Act III, Scene 6, p. 31,^[6]

     My swelling rage, in privacy I’le shrowd,

     And not un-King my self before the Crowd.

   • 1845, James Russell Lowell, Conversations on Some of the Old Poets, Cambridge, MA: John Owen, Third Conversation, p. 215,^[7]

     The soul is indifferent what garment she wears, or of what color and texture; the true king is not unkinged by being discrowned.

3. (archaic, figuratively) To remove (something) from a position of power or paramount importance.
   • 1638, John Suckling, Aglaura, London: Thomas Walkley, Act I, Scene 1, p. 9,^[8]

     —Oh ’tis well y’are come,

     there was within me fresh Rebellion,

     and reason was almost unking’d agen.

Coordinate terms

• unqueen

Anagrams

• nuking