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lather
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: l?.th'?, lä.th'?, IPA(key): /?læ.ð?(?)/, /?l??ð?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /?læð?/
- Rhymes: -æð?(r), -??ð?(r)
Etymology 1
From Middle English lather, from Old English l?aþor (“a kind of niter used for soap, soda”), from Proto-Germanic *lauþr? (“that which is used for washing, soap”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówh?trom (“that which is used for washing”), from *lewh?-, *lowh?- (“to wash, bathe”). Cognate with Swedish lödder (“lather, foam, froth, soap”), Icelandic löður (“foam, froth, a kind of niter used for soap”), Old Irish lóathar (“wash-basin”), Ancient Greek ??????? (loutrón, “a bath, wash-room”), Latin lav? (“I wash”), Albanian laj (“I wash”), Ancient Greek ???? (loú?). More at lye.
Noun
lather (countable and uncountable, plural lathers)
- (countable, uncountable) The foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water.
- (countable, uncountable) Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
- (countable) A state of agitation.
Derived terms
- in a lather
- lathery
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English *lethren, from Old English l?þrian, l?þrian, *l?eþrian (“to anoint, smear, lather”), from Old English l?aþor (“a kind of niter used for soap, soda”). See above.
Verb
lather (third-person singular simple present lathers, present participle lathering, simple past and past participle lathered)
- (transitive) To cover with lather.
- (transitive) To beat or whip.
- (intransitive) To form lather or froth, as a horse does when profusely sweating.
Derived terms
- lather up
Translations
Anagrams
- Hartel, Hartle, Thrale, halter, rathel, thaler
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surf
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s??f/
- (General American) IPA(key): /s?f/
- Rhymes: -??(?)f
- Homophone: serf (in accents with the fern-fir-fur merger)
Etymology
1680s, perhaps from earlier suffe (c. 1590). Unknown, possibly related to sough, or possibly of Indo-Aryan origin, as the word was formerly a reference to the coast of India.The verb is from 1917.
Noun
surf (countable and uncountable, plural surfs)
- Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- […] perhaps it was the look of the island, with its gray, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach […]
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 5
- 'But when the surf fell enough for the boats to get ashore, and Greening held a lantern for me to jump down into the passage, after we had got the side out of the tomb, the first thing the light fell on at the bottom was a white face turned skyward.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- An instance or session of riding a surfboard in the surf.
- (Britain, dialect) The bottom of a drain.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
surf (third-person singular simple present surfs, present participle surfing, simple past and past participle surfed)
- To ride a wave, usually on a surfboard.
- (transitive, intransitive) To browse the Internet, television, etc.
Translations
Derived terms
- surfer (noun)
Derived terms
- (ride a wave): surfer, surfing, surfboard; crowdsurf, train-surf
- (browse the Internet): channel-surf, counter surf, cybersurf, netsurf, silver surfer
Anagrams
- Furs, furs
French
Noun
surf m (uncountable)
- surfing
Derived terms
- surf des neiges
Related terms
- surfer
- surfeur
- surfeuse
Italian
Etymology
From English surf.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?su?f/, IPA(key): /s??f/
- Hyphenation: sùrf
Noun
surf m (invariable)
- (sports) surfing
Derived terms
- surfista
- surfare
- tavola da surf
- windsurf
Spanish
Etymology
From English surf.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?su?f/, [?su?f]
- IPA(key): /?so?f/, [?so?f]
Noun
surf m (uncountable)
- surfing
Derived terms
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