different between schlocky vs adobe

English

Etymology

schlock +? -y

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?ki/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): (modern) /??l?ki?/, (older) /??l?k?/
• Rhymes: -?ki

Adjective

schlocky (comparative schlockier, superlative schlockiest)

1. Of inferior quality, cheap.
2. Tacky, of tasteless appearance.

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??d??.bi/, /??d??b/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??do?.bi/
• Rhymes: -??bi

Noun

adobe (usually uncountable, plural adobes)

1. An unburnt brick dried in the sun.

   Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.

   • 1903, O’Henry, Roads of Destiny

     “Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”

   • 1904, O’Henry, Cabbages and Kings

     Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses.

   • 1977, George Lucas, Star Wars (script)

     The Jawas mutter gibberish as they busily line up their battered captives, including Artoo and Threepio, in front of the enormous Sandcrawler, which is parked beside a small homestead consisting of three large holes in the ground surrounded by several tall moisture vaporators and one small adobe block house.

   • 26 May 2003, Roger Angell, in The New Yorker,

     The Sangre de Cristos came into view and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks.

2. The earth from which such bricks are made.
3. A house made of adobe brick.

Synonyms

• mudbrick (definition 1)

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “adobe”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• EABOD, abode, boaed

Dutch

Etymology

From Spanish adobe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??do?.b?/
• Hyphenation: ado?be

Noun

adobe m (plural adobes, diminutive adobetje n)

1. adobe

French

Etymology

From Spanish adobe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d?b/

Noun

adobe m (plural adobes)

1. adobe

Further reading

• “adobe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?ð??e?/

Noun

adobe m (plural adobes)

1. adobe (brick)
   • 1437, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 132:

     pareçeu y presente Gonçalvo Fiel, moordomo da dita villa, e presentou ao dito juis, alcaldes, jurado e procuradores, a Gonçalvo de Carcaçia preso dos pees con huus adobes e h?a cadea grosa de ferro fechada con h?u cadeado

     there appeared Gonzalvo Fiel, butler of the aforementioned town, to present to the mentioned judge, councilors, juror, and council agent one Gonzalvo of Carcarcía, his feet fettered with some bricks and a thick iron chain which was locked with a padlock

2. clod, divot, clump of earth

   Synonyms: baloco, terrón

References

• “adobe” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “adobe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “adobe” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “adobe” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Japanese

Romanization

adobe

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Portuguese

Noun

adobe m (plural adobes)

1. adobe (unburnt brick)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?dobe/, [a?ð?o.??e]

Etymology 1

Noun

adobe m (plural adobes)

1. (construction) adobe

Descendants

• ? Dutch: adobe
• ? English: adobe
• ? French: adobe
• ? Tagalog: adobe

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

adobe

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of adobar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of adobar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of adobar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of adobar.

Further reading

• “adobe” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• adube

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish adobe.

Noun

adobe

1. (construction) adobe

References

• The Tagalog Pinoy Dictionary