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lame
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /le?m/
- Rhymes: -e?m
- Hyphenation: lame
Etymology 1
From Middle English lame, from Old English lama (“lame”), from Proto-Germanic *lamaz (“lame”), from Proto-Indo-European *lem- (“to crush; fragile”). Akin to German lahm and Dutch lam, Old Norse lami, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian lam, akin to Old Church Slavonic ?????? (lomiti, “to break”).
Adjective
lame (comparative lamer, superlative lamest)
- Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
- Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function.
- (by extension) Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Industry in General (sermon)
- a lame endeavour
- c. 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act II scene i[1]:
- O, most lame and impotent conclusion! […]
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Industry in General (sermon)
- (slang) Unconvincing or unbelievable.
- (slang) Failing to be cool, funny, interesting or relevant.
Usage notes
Referring to a person without a disability as “lame” is offensive to many as it suggests a derogatory characterization of the physical condition from which the term was derived.
Synonyms
- (unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs): crippled
- (moving with difficulty):
- (by extension, hobbling): hobbling, limping, inefficient, imperfect
- (slang, unconvincing): weak, unbelievable
- (slang, failing to be cool, funny, interesting, or relevant): boring, pathetic, uncool, unfunny, uninteresting, irrelevant
Antonyms
- (unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs):
- (moving with difficulty):
- (by extension, hobbling): efficient, perfect
- (slang, unconvincing): convincing, believable
- (slang, failing to be cool, funny, interesting, or relevant): cool, funny, interesting, relevant
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
lame (third-person singular simple present lames, present participle laming, simple past and past participle lamed)
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to become lame.
- 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: And if you don't want to lame your horse you must look sharp and get them [stones stuck in hooves] out quickly.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 6
- Now her soul felt lamed in itself. It was her hope that was struck.
Translations
Noun
lame (plural lames)
- (prison slang) A stupid or undesirable person.
- 2011, Lil' Kim, Black Friday (song)
- You lames tryna clone my style and run wit it.
- 2011, Lil' Kim, Black Friday (song)
Etymology 2
From Middle French lame, from Latin lamina.
Noun
lame (plural lames)
- A lamina; a thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
- 2013, Paul F Walker, History of Armour 1100-1700, Crowood (?ISBN):
- This rim involved a raised rolled edge on the rerebrace that was inserted into a raised lip on the lower lame of the pauldron. This lip allows the arm to rotate without the need for leather straps and can be clearly seen carved on to the effigy […]
- 2015, Anne Curry, Malcolm Mercer, The Battle of Agincourt, Yale University Press (?ISBN), page 120:
- These pauldrons are generally asymmetrical with the left pauldron wider than the right, which is cut away for the passage of the lance. It would be attached to the shoulder by points through a restored leather tab on the top lame at the apex […]
- 2013, Paul F Walker, History of Armour 1100-1700, Crowood (?ISBN):
- (in the plural) A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
Related terms
- lamé
- lamella, lamellar
Etymology 3
Verb
lame (third-person singular simple present lames, present participle laming, simple past and past participle lamed)
- (obsolete) To shine.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?)
References
Anagrams
- -meal, Elam, Elma, Leam, Lema, Malé, alme, amel, leam, lema, male, meal, mela, mela-
Esperanto
Adverb
lame
- lamely
Estonian
Etymology
From lamama +? -e.
Adjective
lame (genitive lameda, partitive lamedat)
- flat
Declension
French
Etymology
Inherited from Latin l?mina, through the accusative l?minam. Doublet of lamine, a borrowing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lam/
- Rhymes: -am
- Homophone: lames
Noun
lame f (plural lames)
- lamina
- blade
- wave
Related terms
- lamé m
- lamer
- lamellaire
- lamelle
- laminer
- lamineur m
Descendants
- ? Italian: lama
- ? Persian: ???? (lâm, “microscope slide”)
Further reading
- “lame” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- mâle, mêla
Friulian
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin lamina. Compare Romansch loma, lama, French lame, Italian and Venetian lama.
Noun
lame f (plural lamis)
- blade
German
Etymology
From the English adjective lame.
Adjective
lame
- (slang) boring; unimpressive
- (slang) unskilled; useless
Declension
This entry needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- “lame” in Duden online
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la.me/
Noun
lame f
- plural of lama
Anagrams
- alme, male, mela
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
From French main.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [lame]
Noun
lame
- hand
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Adjective
lame
- (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of lam
- (non-standard since 2012) plural of lam
Etymology 2
Noun
lame m (definite singular lameen, indefinite plural lamear, definite plural lameane)
- alternative spelling of lamé
Old French
Noun
lame f (oblique plural lames, nominative singular lame, nominative plural lames)
- blade (of a weapon)
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?lame]
Noun
lame f
- indefinite plural of lam?
- indefinite genitive/dative singular of lam?
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lame/, [?la.me]
Verb
lame
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of lamer.
- ¡Lame mi culo! — “Lick my asshole!”
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of lamer.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of lamer.
- Lame. — “[He/she/it] licks.”
Swedish
Adjective
lame
- absolute definite natural masculine form of lam.
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deface
English
Etymology
From Middle English defacen, from Old French defacier, desfacier (“to mutilate, destroy, disfigure”), from des- (“away from”) (see dis-) + Vulgar Latin *facia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??fe?s/, /di??fe?s/
- Rhymes: -e?s
Verb
deface (third-person singular simple present defaces, present participle defacing, simple past and past participle defaced)
- To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
- 1869: George Eliot, The Legend of Jubal
- That wondrous frame where melody began / Lay as a tomb defaced that no eye cared to scan.
- 1869: George Eliot, The Legend of Jubal
- To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value of.
- He defaced the I.O.U. notes by scrawling "void" over them.
- 1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
- One-and-twenty worn and defaced shillings, however, were considered as equivalent to a guinea, which perhaps, indeed, was worn and defaced too, but seldom so much so.
- (heraldry, flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.
- You get the Finnish state flag by defacing the national flag with the state coat of arms placed in the middle of the cross.
Synonyms
- (damage in a conspicuous way): disfigure, mar, obliterate, scar, vandalize
- (degrade the face value): cancel, devalue, nullify, void
Derived terms
- defacement
Translations
See also
- efface
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