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quin

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kw?n/, [k?w??n]
  • Rhymes: -?n
  • Homophone: Quinn

Etymology 1

Noun

quin (plural quins)

  1. (informal) A quintuplet.
Related terms
  • quad

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

quin (plural quins)

  1. A European scallop, Pecten opercularis, used as food.
    • 1973, N. L. Tranter, Population since the industrial revolution (page 104)
      Similarly the stocks of the free-living scallops and quins, which are caught by trawling, are threatened by over-fishing to supply the market for canned or frozen luxury sea-foods.

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin quinam.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?kin/

Adjective

quin (feminine quina, masculine plural quins, feminine plural quines)

  1. (interrogative) which, what
  2. what a

Related terms

  • qui

Further reading

  • “quin” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k??/

Interjection

quin

  1. (Quebec, colloquial) (surprise, giving someone something) alternative form of tiens

Ido

Pronoun

quin

  1. (interrogative) whom (plural) (object)

Usage notes

To ask for a subject, use qui instead.


Latin

Etymology

From instrumental qu? + ne.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /k?i?n/, [k?i?n]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwin/, [kwin]

Adverb

qu?n (not comparable)

  1. (usually with present indicative) how come not, why don't I/you/he ..., how about? (in questioning suggestions)
    Synonyms: quid est quod n?n, c?r n?n, qu?r? n?n?
    1. (in commands with imperative, subjunctive or future) come on, let's, ...then! (adding force)
      Synonyms: age, fac
  2. (emphatic) Used to corroborate or amplify the previous statement: and even, and in fact
    1. Strengthened by various adverbs:
    2. Used to emphasise an objection to the previous statement: why, but ...!

Conjunction

qu?n

  1. (used with a negative like n?m? or n?llus) who does/can/would not (usually following a nominative)
    Synonym: qu?/quae/quod n?n (in the nominative mostly)
  2. (used with a negative like numquam or n?n) without (something happening), (so) that...not
    Synonym: ut n?n
  3. (preceded by n?n, followed by sed quod/quia) not because not...but, not that not...but
    Synonym: (n?n) quod/quia...n?n
  4. (with negated verbs of stopping, hindering) from doing or happening
    Synonym: qu?minus, n?
  5. (used with negated words of hesitation, doubting, not knowing) that

References

  • qu?n” on page 1712 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

  • quin in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • quin in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quin in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin quinam (who, which). Cognate with Catalan quin and with Franco-Provençal quint from a merging of Latin quinam and quantus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kin/

Adjective

quin m (feminine singular quina, masculine plural quins, feminine plural quinas)

  1. (interrogative) which
  2. (interrogative) what
  3. (exclamative) what

Synonyms

  • qual (for animate objects)
  • que (for inanimate objects)

Derived terms

  • quinament

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goo

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?u?/
  • Rhymes: -u?

Etymology 1

American English, known since 1903, possibly from burgoo (thick porridge) (1787); alternately, perhaps an alteration of glue.

Noun

goo (uncountable)

  1. (uncountable, informal) Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery, unpleasant, and of vague or unknown composition, such as slime or semen.
    Synonyms: gloop, goop, gunge, gunk; see also Thesaurus:goo
  2. Excessive, showy sentimentality.
    Synonyms: mawkishness, saccharinity, sugariness
Derived terms
  • from goo to you by way of the zoo
  • gooey
  • gooeyness
Translations

Verb

goo (third-person singular simple present goos, present participle gooing, simple past and past participle gooed)

  1. (transitive) To apply goo to something.
    They gooed their hair with some fragrant styling product.

Etymology 2

(onomatopoeia)

Noun

goo (plural goos)

  1. An example of baby talk.
    The infant's goos and gahs were endearing.

Verb

goo (third-person singular simple present goos, present participle gooing, simple past and past participle gooed)

  1. (intransitive) To produce baby talk.
    The baby gooed while daddy made sappy faces at it.

See also

  • gaga, ga-ga
  • goo-goo

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “goo”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

  • ogo

Dutch

Noun

goo f (plural gooën)

  1. Alternative form of gouw

Anagrams

  • oog

Esperanto

Noun

goo (accusative singular goon, plural gooj, accusative plural goojn)

  1. The board game go

Manx

Etymology 1

From Old Irish guth, from Proto-Celtic *gutus, from Proto-Indo-European *??uHtus, from *??ewH- (to call on, invoke).

Noun

goo m (genitive singular goo, plural googhyn)

  1. voice
  2. word, reputation

Mutation

Etymology 2

Noun

goo

  1. Eclipsed form of coo.

Middle English

Verb

goo

  1. Alternative form of gon (to go)

References

p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.

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