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lurch

English

Pronunciation

  • (US) enPR: lûrch, IPA(key): /l?t??/
  • Rhymes: -??(r)t?

Etymology 1

Originally a nautical term, possibly from French lacher (to let go).

Noun

lurch (plural lurches)

  1. A sudden or unsteady movement.
    the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard
    • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
      Yet I hoped by grouting at the earth below it to be able to dislodge the stone at the side; but while I was considering how best to begin, the candle flickered, the wick gave a sudden lurch to one side, and I was left in darkness.
Translations

Verb

lurch (third-person singular simple present lurches, present participle lurching, simple past and past participle lurched)

  1. To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
Translations

See also

  • leave someone in the lurch
  • Lurch in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Etymology 2

From Latin lurc?re.

Verb

lurch (third-person singular simple present lurches, present participle lurching, simple past and past participle lurched)

  1. (obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
    • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Building
      Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear.

Etymology 3

From French lourche (deceived, embarrassed; also the name of a game), from Proto-West Germanic *lort (left; left-handed; crooked; bent; warped; underhanded; deceitful; limping). Cognate to English lirt.

Noun

lurch (countable and uncountable, plural lurches)

  1. An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
  2. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has not yet pegged their 31st hole.
    • August 14, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway
      Lady Blandford has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch.

Verb

lurch (third-person singular simple present lurches, present participle lurching, simple past and past participle lurched)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
    • Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant.
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To rob.
  3. (obsolete, intransitive) To evade by stooping; to lurk.
  4. (transitive) To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “lurch”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

  • churl

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quiver

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kw?v?/
  • (General American, Canada) enPR: kw??v?r, IPA(key): /?kw?v??/
  • Rhymes: -?v?(?)
  • Hyphenation: qui?ver

Etymology 1

From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare (source of Dutch koker, and cognate to Old English cocer (quiver, case)), from Proto-West Germanic *kukur (container), said to be from Hunnic, possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (leather vessel for liquids); see there for more. Replaced early modern English cocker, the inherited reflex of that West Germanic word.

Noun

quiver (plural quivers)

  1. (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
    • 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act I, Scene I, line 271:
      Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
    • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 39:
      Arrows were carried in quiver, called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle.
  2. (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
    He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.
  3. (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
  4. (mathematics) A multidigraph.

Derived terms

  • quiverful

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English quiver, cwiver, from Old English *cwifer, probably related to cwic (alive).

Adjective

quiver (comparative more quiver, superlative most quiver)

  1. (archaic) Nimble, active.
    • 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Part II, Act III, Scene II, line 281:
      [...] there was a little quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus; and 'a would about and about, and come you in and come you in.

Etymology 3

From Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective.

Verb

quiver (third-person singular simple present quivers, present participle quivering, simple past and past participle quivered)

  1. (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion
    Synonyms: tremble, quake, shudder, shiver
    • And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.

Derived terms

  • aquiver
  • quivering
  • quiversome

Translations

References

Further reading

  • quiver on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür or Hunnic. Doublet of coker.

Alternative forms

  • quyver, qwyver, qwywere, qwyvere, whyver

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kwiv?r/

Noun

quiver (plural quivers)

  1. A quiver (a receptacle for arrows)
  2. (rare, vulgar) A vulva.
Descendants
  • English: quiver
References
  • “quiver, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.

Etymology 2

From Old English *cwifer, probably related to cwic (alive).

Alternative forms

  • quyver, quyvere, cwiver

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kwiv?r/

Adjective

quiver

  1. fast, speedy, rapid
  2. energetic, vigourous, vibrant
Descendants
  • English: quiver
References
  • “quiver, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.

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