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ochre
English
Etymology 1
From Old French ocre and its source Latin ?chra, from Ancient Greek ???? (?khra, “pale yellow”), from ????? (?khrós, “pale, ocher”) (modern Greek ????? (ochrós)).
Alternative forms
- ocher (chiefly US)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???k?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?o?k?/
- Rhymes: -??k?(r)
Noun
ochre (countable and uncountable, plural ochres)
- An earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide
- A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour
- (molecular biology, colloquial) The stop codon sequence "UAA."
- (slang) Money, especially gold.
- 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 6,[1]
- ‘What does he come here cheeking us for, then?’ cried Master Kidderminster, showing a very irascible temperament. ‘If you want to cheek us, pay your ochre at the doors and take it out.’
- 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 6,[1]
- Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Welsh: ocr
Translations
Adjective
ochre (not comparable)
- Having a yellow-orange colour.
- (archaeology) Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.
Translations
Verb
ochre (third-person singular simple present ochres, present participle ochring or ochreing, simple past and past participle ochred)
- To cover or tint with ochre.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: Appleton, 1943, Chapter 14, p. 229,[2]
- […] his eye was caught by the sight of one child in a group of smaller children playing in the shallows some little distance down—a white child, so white by contrast with the others that at first he thought it must be ochred, which it could not be while playing in the water.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: Appleton, 1943, Chapter 14, p. 229,[2]
See also
- ochrous / ochreous
- kokowai
- ruddle
- Appendix:Colors
Etymology 2
From an unknown West African language, probably Igbo ??k??r??, but cf. Akan ?kr?mã and ?krakra (“broth”).
Noun
ochre (countable and uncountable, plural ochres)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of okra.
References
- ochre at OneLook Dictionary Search
- ochre in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “okra, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2004
Anagrams
- -chore, Roche, chore, ocher, roche
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ochry
English
Adjective
ochry (comparative more ochry, superlative most ochry)
- Alternative form of ochery
Anagrams
- -chory, Orchy
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.xr?/
Noun
ochry
- inflection of ochra:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
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