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pest
English
Etymology
From Middle French peste (whence French peste), ultimately from Latin pestis.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /p?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
pest (plural pests)
- (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
- Any destructive insect or caterpillar that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.
- An annoying person, a nuisance.
- An animal regarded as a nuisance, destructive, or a parasite, vermin.
- An invasive weed.
Synonyms
- (creature): bug
Related terms
- garden pest
- pester
- pesting
- pesthole
- pesthouse
- pesticidal, pesticide
- pestiferous
- pestilence, pestilent, pestilential
Translations
Anagrams
- EPTs, ESTP, PETs, STEP, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pets, sept, sept-, spet, step, step-
Danish
Etymology
From French peste, from Latin pestis (“disease, plague, pest, destruction”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?st/, [p??sd?]
Noun
pest c (uncountable, singular definite pesten)
- (medicine) plague
- (figuratively) pestilence
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
pest f (uncountable)
- A plague, pest, pestilence.
- A specific bovine plague
- An obnoxious person
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: pes
Verb
pest
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of pesten
- imperative of pesten
References
- M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]
Northern Kurdish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?st/
Noun
pest f (Arabic spelling ?????)
- pressure, oppression
References
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “pest”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin pestis
Noun
pest f or m (definite singular pesta or pesten, indefinite plural pester, definite plural pestene)
- a plague
- sky (noe/noen) som pesten - avoid (something/someone) like the plague
- velge mellom pest og kolera - choose the lesser of two evils
Derived terms
- byllepest
- forpeste
- pestepidemi
References
- “pest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin pestis
Noun
pest m (definite singular pesten, indefinite plural pestar, definite plural pestane)
pest f (definite singular pesta, indefinite plural pester, definite plural pestene)
- a plague
- sky (noko/nokon) som pesten - avoid (something/someone) like the plague
- velje mellom pest og kolera - choose the lesser of two evils
Derived terms
- byllepest
- forpeste
- pestepidemi
References
- “pest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *p?st?
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pê?st/
Noun
p?st f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- (regional, literary) fist
Declension
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *p?st?. Cognate with Serbo-Croatian ????, pest, Slovak päs?, Russian ????? (pjast?, “middle part of the hand”) and ????????? (zapjást?je), dialectal Bulgarian (Western dialects) ??????? (pestnik), ?????? (pesnik), ???????? (pestnica). Compare Ancient Greek ????? (pugm?), English fist, German Faust.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pé?st/
Noun
p??st f
- (anatomy) fist
Inflection
Derived terms
- pésten
Swedish
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin pestis.
Noun
pest c
- A plague
- A pest; something deeply annoying
Derived terms
- blodpest
- böldpest
- lungpest
- pest och pina
- välja mellan pest och kolera
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bore
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /b??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b??/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /bo(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /bo?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophones: boar, Bohr, boor (accents with the pour–poor merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English boren, from Old English borian (“to pierce”), from Proto-Germanic *bur?n?. Compare Danish bore, Norwegian Bokmål bore, Dutch boren, German bohren, Old Norse bora. Cognate with Latin for? (“to bore, to pierce”), Latin feri? (“strike, cut”) and Albanian birë (“hole”). Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; compare German drillen.
Verb
bore (third-person singular simple present bores, present participle boring, simple past and past participle bored)
- (transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
- 1881, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences
- […] used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
- 1881, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences
- (transitive) To make a hole through something.
- (intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
- (transitive) To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
- 1862, Thaddeus William Harris, A Treatise on Some of the Insects Injurious to Vegetation
- short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore […] a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood
- 1862, Thaddeus William Harris, A Treatise on Some of the Insects Injurious to Vegetation
- (transitive) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
- (intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
- (intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- They take their flight […] boring to the west.
- (of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Crabb to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To fool; to trick.
Synonyms
- (make a hole through something): see also Thesaurus:make a hole
Antonyms
- interest
Related terms
- (to make a hole): borer
- (to inspire boredom): bored, boredom, boring
Translations
Noun
bore (plural bores)
- A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
- The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
- A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
- A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
- One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
- Something dull or uninteresting
- 1871, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks
- It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.
- 1871, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks
- Calibre; importance.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:bore
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English *bore, bare, a borrowing from Old Norse bára (“billow, wave”). Cognate with Icelandic bára, Faroese bára.
Noun
bore (plural bores)
- A sudden and rapid flow of tide occuring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
Synonyms
- eagre
Translations
Etymology 3
Verb
bore
- simple past tense of bear
- (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of bear
Anagrams
- Bero, Boer, Ebor, Ebro, robe
Cornish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *b?regos (“morning”). Compare Breton beure, Old Irish báireach and Old Irish bárach, whence i mbáireach and i mbárach (“tomorrow”), modern Irish amáireach (Munster, Connaught) and Irish amárach (Donegal).
Noun
bore m
- morning
Mutation
Czech
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bor?/
- Rhymes: -or?
- Hyphenation: bo?re
Noun
bore
- vocative singular of bor ("pine wood"):
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bo?r?/
- Rhymes: -o?r?
- Hyphenation: bo?re
Noun
bore
- vocative singular of bor ("boron"):
Anagrams
- oreb, robe
References
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
bore
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of boren
Anagrams
- boer, Ebro, robe, ober
French
Etymology
Coined by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis Jacques Thénard in 1808, from the same root but independently of English boron.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??/
Noun
bore m (uncountable)
- boron
Further reading
- “bore” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- orbe, robe, robé
Middle English
Etymology 1
A back-formation from boren; reinforced by Old Norse bora.
Alternative forms
- boore
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b??r(?)/
Noun
bore (plural bores)
- A bore, hole, puncture or indentation.
- A gap, cavity or piercing.
- (rare, euphemistic) The anus; the asshole.
Descendants
- English: bore
- Scots: bore, boir
References
- “b?re, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.
Etymology 2
Verb
bore
- Alternative form of boryn
Etymology 3
Noun
bore
- Alternative form of bor
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse bora
Verb
bore (imperative bor, present tense borer, simple past and past participle bora or boret, present participle borende)
- to bore or drill (make a hole through something)
Derived terms
- borerigg
References
- “bore” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
bore
- past participle of bera
Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *b?regos (“morning”). Compare Breton beure, Old Irish bárach (whence i mbárach (“tomorrow”), modern Irish amáireach and amárach).
Pronunciation
- (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /?b?r?/
- (North Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /?b?ra/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /?bo?r?/, /?b?r?/
Noun
bore m (plural boreau)
- morning
Derived terms
- bore da (“good morning”)
- bore coffi (“coffee morning”)
Related terms
- yfory
Mutation
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