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plough
English
Alternative forms
- plow (American)
Etymology
From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English pl?h (“hide of land, ploughland”) and Old Norse plógr (“plough (the implement)”), both from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz, *pl?guz (“plough”). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou, West Frisian ploech, North Frisian plog, Dutch ploeg, Low German Ploog, German Pflug, Danish plov, Swedish and Norwegian plog, Icelandic plógur. Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow”); see sullow.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pla?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Noun
plough (plural ploughs)
- A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
- Synonyms: sull, (dialectal) zowl
- Hyponyms: ard, light plough, scratch plough, carruca, heavy plough, mouldboard plough, turnplough
- The use of a plough; tillage.
- 1919, Commonwealth Shipping Committee, Report (volume 8, page 47)
- If you get it early ploughed and it lies all winter possibly, you find it an advantage to give it a second plough; but it does not invariably follow that we plough twice for our green crop.
- 1919, Commonwealth Shipping Committee, Report (volume 8, page 47)
- Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)
- Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.
- Synonym: carucate
- c. 1350, Geoffrey Chaucer (attributed), The Tale of Gamelyn
- Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five.
- A joiner's plane for making grooves.
- A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
- (yoga) A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, hal?sana.
Usage notes
The spelling plow is usual in the United States, but the spelling plough may be found in literary or historical contexts there.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
plough (third-person singular simple present ploughs, present participle ploughing, simple past and past participle ploughed)
- (transitive) To use a plough on to prepare for planting.
- (intransitive) To use a plough.
- To move with force.
- To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
- Synonyms: chamfer, groove, rut
- (nautical) To run through, as in sailing.
- (bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
- (joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
- (Britain, college slang, transitive) To fail (a student).
- Synonyms: flunk, pluck
- (transitive, vulgar) To have sex with, penetrate.
- Synonyms: get up in, pound, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Derived terms
Translations
See also
Middle English
Alternative forms
- ploug, plouh, plogh, plog, ploh, ploch
- plugh, pleugh, plue, pleu (northern)
Etymology
From Old English pl?h, from Proto-West Germanic *pl?g.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plu?x/
Noun
plough (plural ploughs)
- plow
Descendants
- English: plough
- Yola: pleough
References
- “pl?ugh, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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flunk
English
Etymology
Alteration of funk, or perhaps a blend of flinch +? funk.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fl??k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Verb
flunk (third-person singular simple present flunks, present participle flunking, simple past and past participle flunked)
- (US, transitive, intransitive) Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass.
- He flunked math, again.
- (US, transitive) Of a teacher, to deny a student a passing grade.
- Unsatisfied with Fred's progress, the teacher flunked him.
- (US, dated, informal) To shirk (a task or duty).
- To back out through fear. (Commonly in the phrase 'flunk it', the 'it' referring to a specific task avoided; sometimes without specific reference, describing a person's attitude to life in general.)
Translations
See also
- flunk out
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