different between parch vs parching

English

Etymology

From Middle English parchen, paarchen (“to parch; dry; roast”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant of Middle English perchen (“to roast”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??t?/

  Rhymes: -??(r)t?

Verb

parch (third-person singular simple present parches, present participle parching, simple past and past participle parched)

1. (transitive) To burn the surface of, to scorch.

   The sun today could parch cement.

2. (transitive) To roast, as dry grain.

   • Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn.

3. (transitive) To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat.

   The patient's mouth is parched from fever.

4. (transitive, colloquial) To make very thirsty.

   We're parched, hon. Could you send up an ale from the cooler?

5. (transitive, archaic) To boil something slowly (Still used in Lancashire in parched peas, a type of mushy peas).
6. (intransitive) To become superficially burnt; be become sunburned.

   The locals watched, amused, as the tourists parched in the sun, having neglected to apply sunscreen or bring water.

Translations

Noun

parch (plural parches)

1. The condition of being parched.
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 64:

     Yet here he is, not at the head, but somewhere toward the rear of the serpentine queue wending its way through all this parch […].

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p??rx?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /parx/

Noun

parch m inan

1. dermatophytosis

   Synonyms: grzybica woszczynowa, strupie? woszczynowy

2. scab (fungal disease of plants and the lesions it causes)

Declension

Derived terms

• parszywie?
• parszywiec
• parszywy

Noun

parch m pers

1. (derogatory, ethnic slur, dated) kike

Declension

Derived terms

• parchaty

Further reading

• parch in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• parch in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• S?ownik etymologiczny j?zyka polskiego/parch on the Polish Wikisource.pl.Wikisource:S?ownik etymologiczny j?zyka polskiego/parch

Welsh

Etymology

Back-formation from parchu (“to respect”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /par?/

Noun

parch m (usually uncountable, plural parchau or peirch)

1. respect
2. reverence, veneration

Derived terms

• parchus (“respectable; respectful”)

Mutation

English

Adjective

parching (comparative more parching, superlative most parching)

1. Capable of causing something to parch.
2. (of thirst) Extreme.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     I began also to feel very hungry, as not having eaten for twenty-four hours; and worse than that, there was a parching thirst and dryness in my throat, and nothing with which to quench it.

Verb

parching

1. present participle of parch

Noun

parching (plural parchings)

1. The process of parching or roasting something, such as corn.
   • 1917, Studies in the Social Sciences (issue 9, page 20)

     I have already told how we parched sunflower seed; and that I used two or three double-handfuls of seed to a parching. I used two parchings of sunflower seed for one mess of four-vegetables-mixed.

2. The condition of being parched; absolute dryness.
   • 1797, Icelandic Poetry: Or The Edda of Sæmund (page 95)

     Squalid youths with ghastly grin,
     In hollow bitter roots shall bring,
     Urine of the unsav'ry goat,
     To quell the parchings of thy throat.