different between plag vs plaw

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /plæd?/
• Rhymes: -æd?

Noun

plag

1. (mineralogy, informal) plagioclase feldspar

Anagrams

• GPAL, LPGA, galp

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla??/, [p?læj?]

Verb

plag

1. imperative of plage

Dutch

Alternative forms

• plagge

Etymology

From Middle Dutch plagge (“cloth, rag; sod”). Related to Swedish plagg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?x/
• Hyphenation: plag
• Rhymes: -?x

Noun

plag f (plural plaggen, diminutive plagje n)

1. A cut-out sod, an excavated flat piece of top soil grown with grasses or heath; in the past used as fuel or roof covering.
2. A flat, excavated piece of peat.
3. (archaic) A cloth, a rag.

Derived terms

• plaggen
• plaggenhut

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?k

Verb

plag

1. singular imperative of plagen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of plagen

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

plag

1. imperative of plage

Tok Pisin

Noun

plag

1. flag

English

Alternative forms

• play

Etymology

From Middle English plawen, playen, pla?en, from Old English plagian, a dialectal (Anglian) variant of Old English plegian (“to move about quickly, play”). More at play.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Verb

plaw (third-person singular simple present plaws, present participle plawing, simple past and past participle plawed)

1. (intransitive) To boil; seethe.
2. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To boil; boil slightly; parboil.

Noun

plaw (plural plaws)

1. A boiling.

   give meat a plaw

Anagrams

• Walp, pawl

Middle English

Noun

plaw

1. Alternative form of pleye