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plug
English
Etymology
1606; from Dutch plug, from Middle Dutch plugge (“peg, plug”), from Old Dutch *pluggi. Origin unknown. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz, but the word seems originally restricted to northern continental West Germanic: compare German Low German Plüg, Norwegian plug (“peg, wedge”, probably borrowed from Middle Low German), German Pflock (“peg”, restricted to Central German and phonetically divergent). Possibly akin to Lithuanian plúkti (“to strike, hew”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: pl?g, IPA(key): /pl??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
plug (plural plugs)
- (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
- (loosely) An electric socket: wall plug.
- Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
- Synonyms: bung, dowel, stopper, stopple
- (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
- (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
- (US, slang) A worthless horse.
- Synonyms: (racing) bum, dobbin, hack, jade, nag
- (dated) Any worn-out or useless article.
- (construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
- (slang) A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features one or more of these.
- (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
- (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
- (jewellery) A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
- (slang) A drug dealer.
- 2017, Gucci Mane, Neil Martinez-Belkin, The Autobiography of Gucci Mane (page 32)
- He saw me catch a trap and leave the house of a drug dealer. That's why he targeted me. He could have easily blown my ass off right then and there for lying, but for some reason he didn't. He just left. I biked back to my plug's spot and told him […]
- 2017, Gucci Mane, Neil Martinez-Belkin, The Autobiography of Gucci Mane (page 32)
- A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Burmese: ???? (pa.lat)
- ? Japanese: ??? (puragu)
Translations
Verb
plug (third-person singular simple present plugs, present participle plugging, simple past and past participle plugged)
- (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
- (transitive) To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
- (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.
- (transitive) To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
- 1884, H. Rider Haggard, The Witch's Head
- I am awfully glad that you kept your nerve and plugged him; it would have been better if you could have nailed him through the right shoulder, which would not have killed him...
- 1884, H. Rider Haggard, The Witch's Head
- (slang, transitive) To have sex with, penetrate sexually.
Synonyms
- (persist): keep up, soldier on; see also Thesaurus:persevere
- (shoot a bullet): bust a cap, pop, ventilate
- (have sex with): drill, pound, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- gulp
Albanian
Alternative forms
- pllug
Etymology
From a South Slavic language language, from Proto-Slavic *plug? (“plough”), further derived from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz (“plough”), *pl?guz (“plough”). Compare Serbo-Croatian ????, Bulgarian ???? (plug), and English plough. Replaced parmendë in most dialects, which came to mean “wooden plough”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plu?/
Noun
plug m (indefinite plural plugje, definite singular plugu, definite plural plugjet)
- steel plough
- an instance of tilling
Declension
Synonyms
- parmendë
Derived terms
- plugoj, plugim
References
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- plugu
Etymology
From a Slavic language, compare Proto-Slavic *plug?, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz, *pl?guz (“plough”). Compare also Daco-Romanian plug.
Noun
plug n (plural pluguri)
- plough
- Synonyms: aratru, aletrã, dãmãljiugu, paramendã
Derived terms
Dutch
Etymology
From early modern plugge, from Middle Dutch *plugge, from Old Dutch *pluggi, from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz. Despite being attested only very late, it has certain cognates in several other Germanic languages, including Middle Low German plugge, Middle High German plugge, Swedish plugg.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pl?x/
- Hyphenation: plug
- Rhymes: -?x
Noun
plug m (plural pluggen, diminutive plugje n)
- wall plug (used to hold nails and screws)
Derived terms
- oorplug
French
Etymology
From English plug.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plœ?/
Noun
plug m (plural plugs)
- butt-plug
Istro-Romanian
Etymology
From a Slavic language, compare Proto-Slavic *plug?, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz, *pl?guz (“plough”).
Noun
plug n (plural plugur, definite singular plugu, definite plural plugurle)
- plough
Romanian
Etymology
From a Slavic language, compare Proto-Slavic *plug?, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz, *pl?guz (“plough”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [plu?]
Noun
plug n (plural pluguri)
- plough
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *plug?, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz, *pl?guz (“plough”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plû?/
Noun
pl?g m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- plough
Declension
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *plug?, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz, *pl?guz (“plough”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plú?k/, /plúk/
Noun
pl?g or pl?g m inan
- plough (device pulled through the ground in order to break it upon into furrows for planting)
Inflection
Further reading
- “plug”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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whisk
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /(h)w?sk/
- Rhymes: -?sk
Etymology 1
Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse visk, from Proto-Germanic *wiskaz, *wisk? (“bundle of hay, wisp”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys-. Doublet of verge.
Cognate with Danish visk, Dutch wis, German Wisch, Latin virga (“rod, switch”), viscus (“entrails”), Lithuanian vizgéti (“to tremble”), Czech vechet (“wisp of straw”), Sanskrit ????? (ve?ka, “noose”). Compare also Old English wiscian (“to plait”), granwisc (“awn”).
Noun
whisk (plural whisks)
- A quick, light sweeping motion.
- With a quick whisk, she swept the cat from the pantry with her broom.
- A kitchen utensil, now usually made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle (and formerly of twigs), used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
- He used a whisk to whip up a light and airy souffle.
- A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
- Peter dipped the whisk in lather and applied it to his face, so he could start shaving.
- A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
- I used a whisk to sweep the counter, then a push-broom for the floor.
- A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
- A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
- My wife in her new lace whiske.
- (archaic) An impertinent fellow.
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Hyponyms
- eggwhisk
Translations
Verb
whisk (third-person singular simple present whisks, present participle whisking, simple past and past participle whisked)
- (transitive) To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
- He that walks in gray, whisking his riding Page.
- (transitive) In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
- (transitive) To move something rapidly and with no warning.
- July 3, 1769, Horace Walpole, letter to the Earl of Strafford
- I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another.
- July 3, 1769, Horace Walpole, letter to the Earl of Strafford
- (intransitive) To move lightly and nimbly.
Translations
References
Etymology 2
So called from the rapid action of sweeping the cards off the table after a trick has been won.
Noun
whisk (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The card game whist.
- 1621, John Taylor, Taylor's Motto
- Trump, noddy, whisk, hole […]
- 1621, John Taylor, Taylor's Motto
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