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prong
English
Etymology
From Middle English pronge, perhaps from Middle Low German prange (“stick, restraining device”), from prangen (“to press, pinch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)preng- (“to wrap up, constrict”), akin to Lithuanian springstù (“to choke, become choked or obstructed”), Latvian sprañgât (“cord, constrict”), Ancient Greek ????????? (sparganó?, “to swaddle”), ????????? (spárganon, “swaddling cloth”). See also prank, prance, prink.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p???/
- (US) IPA(key): /p???/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
prong (plural prongs)
- A thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool. A tine.
- a pitchfork with four prongs
- A branch; a fork.
- the two prongs of a river
- (colloquial) The penis.
- 2008, Andy Zaltzman on The Bugle podcast, episode 34, You Will Know Us By Our Knobbly Fruit.
- Hang on... That looks like... No, it can't be. Is that my wang!? Micky Paintbrush, have you painted my papal prong on that nudy man!?
- 2008, Andy Zaltzman on The Bugle podcast, episode 34, You Will Know Us By Our Knobbly Fruit.
Derived terms
- pronghorn
Translations
See also
- tine
- tooth
Verb
prong (third-person singular simple present prongs, present participle pronging, simple past and past participle pronged)
- To pierce or poke with, or as if with, a prong.
Translations
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feeder
English
Etymology
From Middle English feedere, federe, fedare, equivalent to feed +? -er.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?fid?/
- Rhymes: -i?d?(r)
Noun
feeder (plural feeders)
- One who feeds, or gives food to another.
- The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
- 2010, Niall Richardson, Transgressive Bodies:
- Often similes such as 'soft as velvet' or 'fluffy like a cloud' will be employed and the feeder will describe how he feels he can be lost in the enveloping folds of soft flesh.
- 2010, Niall Richardson, Transgressive Bodies:
- The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
- One who feeds, or takes in food.
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene v:
- The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder,
- Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day
- More than the wild-cat; […]
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene v:
- One who, or that which, feeds material into something.
- 2007, Thomas E. Lightburn, The Shield and the Shark (page 173)
- When the claxon sounded they immediately stopped what they were doing and uncovered the Oerlikon. Paddy, who was ammunition feeder, stood by while Jock trained the 20mm gun around.
- 2007, Thomas E. Lightburn, The Shield and the Shark (page 173)
- That which is used to feed.
- a bird feeder
- A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
- 1827, Conrad Malte-Brun, Universal Geography, or A Description of All the Parts of the World, on a New Plan, Edinburgh: Adam Black, volume 6, book 101, 285:
- The surface of the Balaton and the surrounding marshes is not less than 24 German square miles, or 384 English square miles; its principal feeder is the Szala, but all the water it receives appears inconsiderable relatively to its superficial extent, and the quantity lost in evaporation.
- 1827, Conrad Malte-Brun, Universal Geography, or A Description of All the Parts of the World, on a New Plan, Edinburgh: Adam Black, volume 6, book 101, 285:
- A branch line of a railway.
- A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
- (education) A feeder school.
- (shipbuilding, navigation) A feeder ship.
- (US, law) A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
- (baseball, slang, archaic, 1800s) The pitcher.
- (video games, derogatory) A player whose character is killed by the opposing player or team more than once, deliberately or through lack of skills and experience, thus helping the opposing side.
- (obsolete) One who abets another.
- (obsolete) A parasite.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- ferede, reefed, refeed
Manx
Etymology
From Middle Irish *figedóir (“weaver”) (compare Irish fíodóir, Scottish Gaelic figheadair), from figid (“weaves, plaits, intertwines”, verb); synchronically, fee +? -der.
Noun
feeder m (genitive singular feeder, plural feederyn)
- spider
- Synonym: doo-oallee
- weaver
Mutation
References
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “figedóir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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