different between lash vs lask

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /læ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English lashe, lasshe, lasche (“a stroke; the flexible end of a whip”), from Proto-Germanic *laskô (“flap of fabric, strap”).
Cognate with Dutch lasch, las (“a piece; seal; joint; notch; seam”), German Low German Laske, Lask (“a flap; dag; strap”), German Lasche (“a flap; joint; strap; tongue; scarf”), Swedish lask (“scarf”), Icelandic laski (“the bottom part of a glove”).

Noun

lash (plural lashes)

1. The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.

   • I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.

2. (obsolete) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
3. A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.

4. A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
5. A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
6. In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.

Translations

Verb

lash (third-person singular simple present lashes, present participle lashing, simple past and past participle lashed)

1. (transitive) To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.

   • We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward

2. (transitive) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
3. (transitive) To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
4. (transitive) To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.

   Synonym: berate

5. (intransitive) To ply the whip; to strike.
6. (intransitive) To utter censure or sarcastic language.

   • To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice.

7. (intransitive, of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down

Synonyms

• (to whip or scourge): Thesaurus:whip

Translations

See also

• lash out

Etymology 2

From Middle French lachier, from Old French lacier (“to lace”)

Verb

lash (third-person singular simple present lashes, present participle lashing, simple past and past participle lashed)

1. (transitive) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.

   to lash something to a spar

   lash a pack on a horse's back

Translations

Etymology 3

From Old French lasche (French lâche).

Adjective

lash (comparative more lash, superlative most lash)

1. (obsolete) Remiss, lax.
2. (obsolete) Relaxed.
3. Soft, watery, wet.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 211)

     Fruits being unwholesome and lash before the fourth or fifth Yeare.

4. (Ulster) excellent, wonderful

   We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash!

   That Chinese (food) was lash!

5. (Britain) Drunk.

Synonyms

• (remiss): at fault, blameworthy, lax, neglectful, negligent, reprehensible
• (relaxed): See Thesaurus:carefree or Thesaurus:calm
• (soft, watery, wet): spongy, squidgy; see also Thesaurus:wet
• (excellent): See Thesaurus:excellent
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk

Anagrams

• Ahls, HALs, HLAs, Sahl, lahs, shal

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English laste, from Old English latost.

Adverb

lash

1. last

Adjective

lash

1. last

Related terms

• lauthest

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From Old Northern French *lasque, from lasker ‘to loosen’ (corresponding to standard Old French lascher > French lâcher).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??sk/, /læsk/
• Rhymes: -æsk

Noun

lask (plural lasks)

1. Diarrhoea (now only of animals).
   • , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.263:

     A grave and learned minister, and an ordinary preacher at Alkmaar in Holland, was (one day as he walked in the fields for his recreation) suddenly taken with a lask or looseness, and thereupon compelled to retire to the next ditch […].

   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician, Folio Society 2007, p. 150:

     The emulsion or decoction of the seed stays lasks and continual fluxes, eases the colic, and allays the troublesome humours in the bowels […].

Anagrams

• Salk, alks

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) laskõ

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *laskedak.

Verb

lask

1. let