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plash
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Etymology 1
From Middle English plasch, plasche, from Old English plæs? (“pool, puddle”). Cognate with Dutch plas (“pool, watering hole”). Related also to West Frisian plaskje (“to splash, splatter”), Dutch plassen (“to splash, splatter”), German platschen (“to splash”).
Noun
plash (plural plashes)
- (Britain, dialectal) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- Out of the wound the red bloud flowed fresh, / That vnderneath his feet soone made a purple plesh.
- 1597, Francis Bacon, Of the Coulers of Good and Evill, 4:
- Hereof Aesop framed the Fable of the two Frogs that consulted together in time of drowth (when many plashes that they had repayred to were dry) what was to be done.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXII:
- Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? [...]
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Consideration of our Latter End (sermon)
- These shallow plashes.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
- 1888, Henry James, The Aspern Papers
- Presently a gondola passed along the canal with its slow rhythmical plash, and as we listened we watched it in silence.
- 1888, Henry James, The Aspern Papers
- A sudden downpour.
Verb
plash (third-person singular simple present plashes, present participle plashing, simple past and past participle plashed)
- (intransitive) To splash.
- plashing among bedded pebbles
- 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha
- Far below him plashed the waters.
- […] heedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and the great drops that began to plash around her […]
- (transitive) To cause a splash.
- (transitive) To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.
- to plash a wall in imitation of granite
Related terms
- plashy
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English *plasshen, *plaisshen, *plesshen, from Old French plaissier, plessier (“to bend”). For the noun, compare Middle English plaisshes (“hedges forming an enclosure, palisade of hedges or wattles”). Compare also pleach.
Noun
plash (plural plashes)
- The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
Verb
plash (third-person singular simple present plashes, present participle plashing, simple past and past participle plashed)
- (transitive) To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.
- (transitive) To bend down a bough (in order to pick fruit from it).
- {{1679, John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, Second Part: Some of the trees hung over the wall, and my brother did plash and eat.
Anagrams
- Pahls, halps, phals
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murmur
English
Etymology
From Middle English murmur, murmor, murmour, from Old French murmure (modern French murmure), from Latin murmur (“murmur, humming, muttering, roaring, growling, rushing etc.”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m??.m?(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?.m?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)m?(?)
Noun
murmur (countable and uncountable, plural murmurs)
- (countable, uncountable) Any low, indistinct sound, like that of running water.
- (countable, uncountable) Soft indistinct speech.
- A murmur arose from the audience.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, chapter V:
- In the prison of the 'tween decks reigned a darkness pregnant with murmurs. The sentry at the entrance to the hatchway was supposed to "prevent the prisoners from making a noise," but he put a very liberal interpretation upon the clause, and so long as the prisoners refrained from shouting, yelling, and fighting--eccentricities in which they sometimes indulged--he did not disturb them.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI:
- The moment had come for the honeyed word. I lowered my voice to a confidential murmur, but on her inquiring if I had laryngitis raised it again.
- (cardiology, medicine) The sound made by any condition which produces noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart.
- A muttered complaint or protest; the expression of dissatisfaction in a low muttering voice; any expression of complaint or discontent
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
- In fear of disease and in the interest of his health man will be muzzled and masked like a vicious dog, and that without any murmur of complaint.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XX:
- Glossop will return from his afternoon off to find the awful majesty of the Law waiting for him, complete with handcuffs. We can hardly expect him to accept an exemplary sentence without a murmur, so his first move will be to establish his innocence by revealing all.
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
Translations
Verb
murmur (third-person singular simple present murmurs, present participle murmuring, simple past and past participle murmured)
- (intransitive, now rare) To grumble; to complain in a low, muttering voice, or express discontent at or against someone or something. [from 14th c.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John 6:41:
- The Iewes then murmured at him because he sayde: I am that breed which is come doune from heaven.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John 6:41:
- (intransitive) To speak or make low, indistinguishable noise; to mumble, mutter. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To say (something) indistinctly, to mutter. [from 15th c.]
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act II, Scene 3, line 51,[1]
- I […] heard thee murmur tales of iron wars;
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Chapter 21,[2]
- Gabriel murmured a confused reply, and hastened on.
- 1942, Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe, Chapter 7,[3]
- With a husky voice she murmured that he was the very dearest grandfather anyone ever had.
- 1978, Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance, New York: New American Library, 1986, Chapter 4, p. 105,[4]
- “ […] Don’t look now,” he murmured, lowering his eyes demurely, “but the most handsome man in Brookfield, Connecticut, has just walked in the room.”
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act II, Scene 3, line 51,[1]
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:mutter
Derived terms
Translations
References
- murmur in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “murmur”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000
Further reading
- heart murmur on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *mormur-, *mur- (“to mutter”). Reduplication points to imitative, onomatopoeic origin. Cognate with Sanskrit ????? (marmara, “rustling sound, murmur”), Ancient Greek ??????? (mormúr?, “to roar, boil”), Lithuanian mùrm?ti (“to mutter, murmur, babble”), Old High German murmur?n, murmul?n (“to mumble, murmur”), Old Norse murra (“to grumble, mumble”), Old Armenian ?????? (m?m?am).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?mur.mur/, [?m?rm?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?mur.mur/, [?murmur]
Noun
murmur n (genitive murmuris); third declension
- murmur, murmuring
- humming, roaring, growling, grumbling
- rushing, crashing
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Descendants
- English: murmur
- French: murmure
- Irish: monabhar
- Italian: mormorio
- Portuguese: murmúrio
- Spanish: murmullo, murmurio, murmuro
References
- murmur in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- murmur in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Middle English
Alternative forms
- murmure, murmour, murmour, murmor
Etymology
From Old French murmure, from Latin murmur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?murmur/
Noun
murmur (plural murmurs)
- A whining, protesting or complaining in the background; murmuring.
- (rare) Background noise or sounds.
Descendants
- English: murmur
References
- “murmur(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-20.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?murmur]
Verb
murmur
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of murmura
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