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nail

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: n?l, IPA(key): /ne?l/, [ne???]
  • Rhymes: -e?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English nail, nayl, Old English næ?l, from Proto-Germanic *naglaz (compare Saterland Frisian Nail (nail), West Frisian neil, Low German Nagel, Dutch nagel, German Nagel, Danish negl, Swedish nagel), from Proto-Indo-European *h?nog?- (nail) (compare Irish ionga, Latin unguis, Albanian nyell (ankle, hard part of a limb), Lithuanian nagas, Russian ????? (nogá, foot, leg), ??????? (nógot?, nail), Ancient Greek ???? (ónux), Persian ????? (nâxon), Sanskrit ?? (nakhá)).

Noun

nail (plural nails)

  1. The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
  2. The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
  3. The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
  4. The claw of a bird or other animal.
  5. A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.
  6. A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The Exchange, Bristol.
  7. An archaic English unit of length equivalent to 1?20 of an ell or 1?16 of a yard (2+1?4 inches or 5.715 cm).
Derived terms
Translations

See also

  • claw
  • talon

Etymology 2

From Middle English naylen, from Old English næ?lan.

Verb

nail (third-person singular simple present nails, present participle nailing, simple past and past participle nailed)

  1. (transitive) To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
    Synonyms: pin, rivet, screw; see also Thesaurus:join
  2. (intransitive) To drive a nail.
    Synonym: hammer
  3. (transitive) To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.
    • The rivets of their arms were nail'd with gold.
  4. (slang) To catch.
    Synonyms: arrest, collar, nick; see also Thesaurus:capture
  5. (transitive, slang) To expose as a sham.
  6. (transitive, slang) To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.
    Synonyms: ace, fullbring, fulfill
  7. (transitive, slang) To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.
  8. (transitive, vulgar, slang) Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.
    Synonyms: dick, pound, rail, screw; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
  9. To spike, as a cannon.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Crabb to this entry?)
  10. (transitive) To nail down: to make certain, or confirm.
    Synonyms: clinch, fix, lock down, pin down
Translations

See also

  • Wikipedia disambiguation page on both meanings of nail
  • Wikipedia disambiguation page on spike
  • Nail in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

  • I-lan, INLA, Ilan, LNAI, Lain, Lani, Lian, Lina, Nila, anil, lain

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /n?i??/

Etymology 1

Noun

nail

  1. grandmother

Etymology 2

Noun

nail

  1. snow
  2. ice

Middle English

Noun

nail

  1. Alternative form of nayl

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nai?l/

Noun

nail

  1. Nasal mutation of dail.

Mutation

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girl

English

Alternative forms

  • girle, gyrle (obsolete)
  • gal (colloquial)
  • guhrl, gurl (nonstandard)
  • grrrl, grrl (slang)

Etymology

From Middle English gerle, girle, gyrle (young person of any gender), of uncertain origin. Probably from Old English *gyrle, *gyrele, from Proto-Germanic *gurwilaz, a diminutive form of Proto-Germanic *gurwijaz (compare North Frisian gör (girl), Low German Gör, Göre (child of any gender), German Göre (young child), dialectal Norwegian gorre, dialectal Swedish garre, gurre (small child)), from Proto-Indo-European *??er- (short) (compare Old Irish gair (short), Ancient Greek ???? (khre?, need, necessity), ??????? (khr?sthai, to need), Sanskrit ?????? (hrasva, short, small)).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???l/, (obsolete) /???l/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /??l/
  • (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /???l/, [??w]
  • Rhymes: -??(?)l
  • Homophone: Guirl

Noun

girl (countable and uncountable, plural girls)

  1. A female child, adolescent, or a young woman.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:girl
    Antonyms: see Thesaurus:boy
    • 2006, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness, volume 3 of Scott Pilgrim
      Scott: Hey, it's our 8-month anniversary.
      Envy: Really? I can't even believe you remember that stuff!
      Scott: Whoa, wait a second... Am I the girl in this relationship?
      Envy: You totally are!
  2. A young female animal.
  3. (sometimes offensive) A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman.
  4. A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes)
    Synonyms: char, charlady, charwoman, maid, maiden, maidservant, womanservant
  5. (uncommon, card games) A queen (the playing card.)
  6. (colloquial) A term of endearment. (see usage notes)
    Synonyms: girlie, lass, lassie
    • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, pp. 8–9:
      'Now, girls,' continued Healey, 'you're very high-spirited and that's as it should be but I won't have you getting out of hand...' Setting a spatted foot on the bench that ran down the middle of the changing-room with elegant distain, Adrian began to flip through the pile of Y-fronts and rugger shorts with his cane.
  7. One's girlfriend.
    • 1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Girl from Hollywood
      There isn't any guy going to steal my girl!
  8. One's daughter.
  9. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A roebuck two years old.
  10. (US, slang, uncountable) Cocaine, especially in powder form.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cocaine
    • 1969, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life, Cash Money Content (2011), ?ISBN, page 43:
      She had taught me to snort girl, and almost always when I came to her pad, there would be thin sparkling rows of crystal cocaine on the glass top of the cocktail table.
    • 1977, Odie Hawkins, Chicago Hustle, Holloway House (1987), ?ISBN, page 175:
      Elijah nodded congenially to the early evening regulars in the Afro Lounge, headed straight for the telephone hung midway between the mens and womens, his nose smarting from a couple thick lines of recently snorted girl.
    • 2005, K'wan, Hoodlum, St. Martin's Press (2005), ?ISBN, page 185:
      After about an hour or two of half-ass sex and snorting girl, Honey was zoned out. [] She flexed her still numb fingers, trying to find a warmth that didn't seem to come. Cocaine always made her numb.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:girl.
  11. (somewhat childish) A female (tree, gene, etc).
    • 1950, Pageant:
      Are there “boy” trees and “girl” trees? Yes. A number of species, among them the yew, holly and date-bearing palm, have their male and female flowers on different trees. The male holly, for instance, must be planted fairly close to the female ...
    • 1970 [earlier 1963], Helen V. Wilson, Helen Van Pelt, Helen Van Pelt's African Violets, Dutton Adult (?ISBN):
      Of the 100 percent total, 25 will have two girl genes, 50 will have one boy and one girl gene, and 25 will have two boy genes.
    • 1972, GSN Gesneriad Saintpaulia News: African Violets, Gloxinias, Other Gesneriads and Exotic Plants:
      When there are two "girl" genes the plant is a girl dwarf.
  12. (derogatory) A boy or man who is weak or sentimental.
    Synonyms: Jessie, sissy, wimp
    Don't be such a girl!

Usage notes

  • (any woman, regardless of her age): An adult calling a grown woman a "girl" may be considered either a compliment or an insult, depending on context and sensibilities. In some cases, the term is used as a euphemism for virgin, to distinguish a female who has never engaged in sexual intercourse (a "girl") from one who has done so (and is a woman). Even if the word "girl" in most cases is not meant to be derogatory, it may still be patronising sometimes, especially when used to address someone older than oneself.
  • (term of endearment): When used as a term of endearment, it can be used for someone female or, in some contexts, for someone male, such as the use within the gay community.

Derived terms

Pages starting with “girl”.

Descendants

  • ? Hungarian: görl
  • ? Japanese: ??? (g?ru)

Translations

References

Verb

girl (third-person singular simple present girls, present participle girling, simple past and past participle girled)

  1. (transitive) To feminize or girlify; to gender as a girl or as for girls.
  2. (somewhat informal) To staff with or as a girl or girls.
    • 1949, The New Yorker:
      Making our way past a one-girl switchboard temporarily girled by two frantic operators, we found the victorious president, Elliott A. Bowles, barely visible behind a heap of telegrams [...]
    • 1961, The Georgia Review:
      Her first shock came when the ship on which she and her husband arrived was met by three boats “girled” by “great, splendid creatures, as tall as our millionaires' tallest daughters, and as strong-looking as any of our college-girl athletes,” ...
    • 1986, Marcus Cunliffe, The Literature of the United States, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books (?ISBN):
      She and her Altrurian diplomat husband, arriving there by sea, are greeted by flower-laden boats, each not manned, but girled by six rowers, who pulled as true a stroke as I ever saw.
    • 2009, Linda Howard, Night Moves: Dream Man/After the Night, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 220:
      To her disappointment, the chatty Carlene DuBois wasn't behind the desk; instead it was manned—or girled—by a frothy little blonde who barely looked old enough to be out of high school.

See also

  • miss

Anagrams

  • LIRG, gril

French

Noun

girl f (plural girls)

  1. dancing girl

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