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raffle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æfl?/
- Rhymes: -æf?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English rafle, from Old French rafle, raffle (“dice game", also "plundering”), from rafler (“to snatch, seize, carry off”), from Frankish *raffol?n, from Proto-Germanic *hrap?n?, *hr?p?n? (“to scratch, touch, pluck out, snatch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreb(h)-, *(s)kerb(h)- (“to turn, bend, shrink”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Middle Dutch raffel (“dice game”), German raffen (“to snatch away, sweep off”), Old English hreppan (“to touch, treat, attack”).
Noun
raffle (plural raffles)
- A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
- He entered a raffle to win a lifetime supply of toothpaste, but he did not win.
- (obsolete) A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cotgrave to this entry?)
Derived terms
- meat raffle
Translations
Verb
raffle (third-person singular simple present raffles, present participle raffling, simple past and past participle raffled)
- (transitive) To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing, often used with off.
- They raffled off four gift baskets.
- (intransitive) To participate in a raffle.
- to raffle for a watch
Translations
Etymology 2
See raff.
Noun
raffle (uncountable)
- refuse; rubbish
Anagrams
- farfel, laffer
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yaffle
English
Etymology
Imitative of the bird's cry.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?jafl?/
- Rhymes: -æf?l
Noun
yaffle (plural yaffles)
- (Britain, dialectal) The European green woodpecker, Picus viridis.
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 119:
- “‘Punched that rotton strap,’ he goes on saying, ‘like a gret ol' yaffle punchin' a 'ollow log!’”
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 119:
Synonyms
- (Picus viridis): yaffingale, yaffler, woodall
Translations
Verb
yaffle (third-person singular simple present yaffles, present participle yaffling, simple past and past participle yaffled)
- (intransitive) Of the green woodpecker: to make its distinctive cry.
- 2005, Tim Kendall, Strange Land (page 13)
- Green woodpecker is not without options. Each year the builder comes to fix the house of the wooden roof. Green woodpecker watches then flies away, yaffling.
- 2005, Tim Kendall, Strange Land (page 13)
Anagrams
- Laffey
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