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prune
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?u?n/
- Rhymes: -u?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English prune, from Old French prune, from Vulgar Latin *pr?na, feminine singular formed from the neutral plural of Latin pr?num, from Ancient Greek ??????? (proûnon), variant of ???????? (proûmnon, “plum”), a loanword from a language of Asia Minor. Doublet of plum.
Noun
prune (plural prunes)
- (obsolete) A plum.
- The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
- Hyponym: alubukhara
- (slang) An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.
Verb
prune (third-person singular simple present prunes, present participle pruning, simple past and past participle pruned)
- (intransitive, informal) To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
- 2005, Alycia Ripley, Traveling with an Eggplant (page 111)
- I hardly left that spot in my pool that month even when my fingers pruned and chlorine dried out my skin.
- 2005, Alycia Ripley, Traveling with an Eggplant (page 111)
Synonyms
- see Thesaurus:old woman
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old French proignier (“to trim the feathers with the beak”), earlier prooignier, ultimately from Latin pro- ("front") + rotundus (“round”) 'to round-off the front'.
Verb
prune (third-person singular simple present prunes, present participle pruning, simple past and past participle pruned)
- (transitive, horticulture) To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
- A good grape grower will prune the vines once a year.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
- to prune a budget, or an essay
- (transitive, computer science) To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
- (obsolete) To preen; to prepare; to dress.
- 1676, John Dryden, All For Love, Epilogue.
- For 'tis observed of every scribbling man,
- He grows a fop as fast as e'er he can;
- Prunes up, and asks his oracle, the glass,
- If pink or purple best become his face.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
- 1676, John Dryden, All For Love, Epilogue.
Derived terms
- pruning
- alpha-beta pruning en
Translations
Anagrams
- Perun, unrep
French
Etymology
From Old French prune, from Vulgar Latin *pr?na, feminine singular formed from the neutral plural of Latin pr?num, from Ancient Greek ???????? (proûmnon).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?yn/
Noun
prune f (plural prunes)
- plum
- (slang) ticket (“traffic citation”)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “prune” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Noun
pr?ne
- vocative singular of pr?nus
Middle English
Alternative forms
- pruna
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French prune, from Vulgar Latin *pr?na, from Latin pr?num, from Ancient Greek ??????? (proûnon), ???????? (proûmnon). Doublet of plomme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?priu?n(?)/
Noun
prune (plural prunes)
- A plum (fruit of Prunus domestica)
- A prune (dried plum)
- (pathology) A large, rounded boil.
Descendants
- English: prune
References
- “pr?ne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-26.
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *pr?na, feminine singular formed from the neutral plural of Latin pr?num.
Noun
prune f (oblique plural prunes, nominative singular prune, nominative plural prunes)
- plum (fruit)
Descendants
- French: prune
- Norman: preune
- Walloon: pronne
- ? Middle English: prune, pruna
- English: prune
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pru.ne/
Noun
prune
- plural of prun?
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snip
English
Etymology
From Dutch snippen (“to snip; shred”) or Low German snippen (“to snip; shred”), of imitative origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sn?p/
- Homophone: SNP
- Rhymes: -?p
Verb
snip (third-person singular simple present snips, present participle snipping, simple past and past participle snipped)
- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- To break off; to snatch away.
- The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores […] but I snipt […] some of it for my own share.
- (informal) To circumcise.
- 2001, David Cohen, The Father's Book: Being a Good Dad in the 21st Century, John WIley & Sons Ltd (2001), ?ISBN, page 72:
- Circumcised fathers face a special problem. Do you want your son's willy to be that radically different from your own? So, parents should perhaps not be put off. Be good to your son's future lovers and have him snipped.
- 2008, Ilene Schneider, Talk Dirty Yiddish: Beyond Drek: The Curses, Slang, and Street Lingo You Need to Know When You Speak Yiddish, Adams Media (2008), ?ISBN, page 150:
- His children, however, were not snipped, possibly because Princess Diana was opposed to the practice, which is out of fashion in England.
- 2012, Tom Hickman, God's Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis, Square Peg (2012), ?ISBN, page 144:
- By the outbreak of the First World War such claims had diminished and the medical profession touted circumcision as being 'hygienic' — fathers were not only encouraged to have their newborn sons snipped, but to belatedly enjoy the benefits themselves.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:snip.
- 2001, David Cohen, The Father's Book: Being a Good Dad in the 21st Century, John WIley & Sons Ltd (2001), ?ISBN, page 72:
- (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
Translations
Noun
snip (plural snips)
- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- That wholesale lot on eBay was a snip at $10
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
- A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- 2010, Ellen Renner, Castle of Shadows, Hachette UK, 2010 ?ISBN.
- 'Might as well come out now, you little snip, from wherever you be hiding!'
- 2010, Ellen Renner, Castle of Shadows, Hachette UK, 2010 ?ISBN.
- (dated) An impertinent or mischievous person.
- 1835, William Hamilton Maxwell, My Life (page 283)
- Nor was the lady's establishment more fortunate in gaining the regard of the household. The maid was a verjuiced spinster, too old to love herself, and too ill-natured to look on. The footman was a regular snip […]
- 1835, William Hamilton Maxwell, My Life (page 283)
- (obsolete) A share or portion; a snack.
- 1680, Roger L'Estrange, The Free-Born Subject, Or, the Englishmans Birthright Asserted Against All Tyrannical Vsvrpations Either in Church or State
- His Third Query is a Frank Proposal, without any more ado, of taking all the Church Lands into the Crown; and Courteously he offers the Poor Cavaliers a Snip in the Booty
- 1680, Roger L'Estrange, The Free-Born Subject, Or, the Englishmans Birthright Asserted Against All Tyrannical Vsvrpations Either in Church or State
- (obsolete, slang) A tailor.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Nares to this entry?)
- Template:RQ:Kingsley Alton
Translations
Derived terms
- snipper
- snippy
References
Anagrams
- Insp, NIPs, NPIs, Nips, PINs, PSNI, nips, pins, spin
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch snippe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sn?p/
- Hyphenation: snip
- Rhymes: -?p
Noun
snip f (plural snippen, diminutive snipje n)
- A snipe or woodcock, thin-beaked bird of the genera Gallinago, Scolopax, Lymnocryptes, Limnodromus and Coenocorypha.
- (informal, Netherlands) A 100 guilders banknote.
Derived terms
- houtsnip
- poelsnip
- snipverkouden
- watersnip
Descendants
- Afrikaans: snip
- ? Sranan Tongo: snepi
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