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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)
- The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.
- (obsolete) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
- A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.
- A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
- A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- 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)
- (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
- (transitive) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
- (transitive) To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- (transitive) To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
- Synonym: berate
- (intransitive) To ply the whip; to strike.
- (intransitive) To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice.
- (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)
- (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)
- (obsolete) Remiss, lax.
- (obsolete) Relaxed.
- 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.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 211)
- (Ulster) excellent, wonderful
- We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash!
- That Chinese (food) was lash!
- (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
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Etymology
From Middle English laste, from Old English latost.
Adverb
lash
- last
Adjective
lash
- 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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wallop
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w?l.?p/
- Rhymes: -?l?p
- Hyphenation: wal?lop
Etymology 1
From Middle English wallopen (“gallop”), from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old Northern French walop (“gallop”, noun) and waloper (“to gallop”, verb) (compare Old French galoper, whence modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”) from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan? (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (“dead, victim, slain”) from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). Compare the doublet gallop.
Noun
wallop (plural wallops)
- A heavy blow, punch.
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- An emotional impact, psychological force.
- A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
- (slang) anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, whitewash.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four,
- "You're a gent," said the other, straightening his shoulders again. He appeared not to have noticed Winston's blue overalls. "Pint!" he added aggressively to the barman. "Pint of wallop."
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four,
- (archaic) A thick piece of fat.
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
Derived terms
- (beer): codswallop
Translations
Verb
wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping or wallopping, simple past and past participle walloped or wallopped)
- (intransitive) To rush hastily.
- (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Brockett to this entry?)
- (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- To be slatternly.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Derived terms
- walloper
- walloping
Etymology 2
Clipping of write to all operators.
Verb
wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping, simple past and past participle walloped)
- (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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