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limpet
English
Alternative forms
- limpin (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English lempet, from Old English lempedu (“lamprey”), borrowed from Medieval Latin lampreda, alteration of Late Latin lampetra (“lamprey”), whose further origin is unknown, though is traditionally thought to derive from lamb? (“I lick, lap”) + petra (“stone, rock”). Doublet of lamprey, which came through Old French.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?m.p?t/
- * Rhymes: -?mp?t
Noun
limpet (plural limpets)
- A small mollusc, of the family Patellidae with a conical shell found clinging to rocks in the intertidal zones of rocky shores.
- (Britain) Someone clingy or dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space.
- He stuck to me like a limpet all day!
Derived terms
- limpet mine
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “limpet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Further reading
- limpet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Patellidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Anagrams
- timple
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barnacle
English
Etymology
From Middle English barnakille, from earlier bernake, bernekke, from Old Northern French bernaque (“barnacle”) (compare French barnache), from Medieval Latin barneca (“limpet”), from Gaulish (compare Welsh brennig, Irish báirneac), from Proto-Celtic *barin?kos, from *barin? (“rock, rocky ground”) (compare Old Irish barenn (“boulder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *g?r?H- (“hill, mountain”) + Proto-Celtic *-?kos, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-?os; for sense development, compare Ancient Greek ????? (lépas, “rock”) which gave ????? (lepás, “limpet”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b??n?kl?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b??n?kl?/
- Hyphenation: bar?na?cle
Noun
barnacle (plural barnacles)
- A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.
- Hypernyms: arthropod, crustacean
- The barnacle goose.
- (engineering, slang) In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
- (computing, slang) On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.
- (software engineering, slang) A deprecated or obsolete file, image or other artifact that remains with a project even though it is no longer needed.
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- (obsolete, in the plural) An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.
- Synonym: twitch
- (archaic, Britain, slang, in the plural) A pair of spectacles.
- (slang, obsolete) A good job, or snack easily obtained.
- (slang) A worldly sailor.
- Synonym: shellback
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
barnacle (third-person singular simple present barnacles, present participle barnacling, simple past and past participle barnacled)
- To connect with or attach.
- 2009, Liza Dalby, Hidden Buddhas: A Novel of Karma and Chaos, Stone Bridge Press (2009), ?ISBN, page 178:
- Tokuda went over everything his grandfather had taught him, including the commentary that had barnacled on to the core knowledge.
- 2009, Liza Dalby, Hidden Buddhas: A Novel of Karma and Chaos, Stone Bridge Press (2009), ?ISBN, page 178:
- To press close against something.
- 2002, Douglas Coupland, All Families Are Psychotic, Vintage Canada (2002), ?ISBN, page 16:
- He turned a corner to where he supposed the cupboard might be, to find Howie and Alanna barnacled together in an embrace.
- 2002, Douglas Coupland, All Families Are Psychotic, Vintage Canada (2002), ?ISBN, page 16:
See also
- limpet
Further reading
- barnacle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) , “Barnacle”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: Printed for C. Chappell, […], OCLC 23927885.
- barnacle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- barnacle (slang) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- balancer
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