different between mahogany vs abraum

English

Etymology

From Spanish mahogani, possibly from a Mayan name.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??h???ni/
• Rhymes: -???ni

Noun

mahogany (countable and uncountable, plural mahoganies)

1. (uncountable) The wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture. [from 17th c.]
2. (countable) Any of the trees from which such wood comes. [from 18th c.]
3. (regional) A Cornish drink made from gin and treacle. [from 18th c.]
   • 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 178:

     William Murdoch […] produced a bottle of port; but I chose mahogany (two parts gin and one part treacle, which Lord Eliot made us at Sir Joshua Reynolds's as a Cornish liquor, but it seems they make it also with brandy, and often add porter to it).

4. A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood. [from 19th c.]
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 6:

     Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren.

5. (obsolete, colloquial) A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table. [19th c.]
   • 1842, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal

     Poets eat and drink without stint — and seldom at their own cost — for what man of mark or likelihood in the moneyed world is there, who is not eager to get their legs under his mahogany?

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

     Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany  […]

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

mahogany (comparative more mahogany, superlative most mahogany)

1. Made of mahogany.
2. Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.

References

• mahogany at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Hogmanay

English

Alternative forms

• Abraum salts

Etymology

From German abräumen (“to remove”), from ab (“from”) (Old High German aba (“away”)) + raum (“space”) (Old High German r?m).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???p?a?m/

Noun

abraum (uncountable)

1. A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.

References

Anagrams

• muraba