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lash

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

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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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