different between scupper vs slaughter

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sk?p.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sk?p.?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(?)

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English scope (“scoop”) or Dutch schop (“shovel”) +? -er; or from Dutch scheppen (“to draw off”).

Noun

scupper (plural scuppers)

1. (nautical) A drainage hole on the deck of a ship.
2. (architecture) A similar opening in a wall or parapet that allows water to drain from a roof.

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Translations

Further reading

• scupper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Of unknown origin; possibly verbized form of Etymology 1, but this is unlikely.

Verb

scupper (third-person singular simple present scuppers, present participle scuppering, simple past and past participle scuppered)

1. (Britain) Thwart or destroy, especially something belonging or pertaining to another; compare scuttle.
   • 2002, Hugo Young, The Guardian (2 Jul):

     "We can't allow US tantrums to scupper global justice."

Translations

References

• “scupper”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• cuppers

English

Alternative forms

• slaughtre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English slaughter, from Old Norse *slahtr, later slátr, from Proto-Germanic *slahtr?. Equivalent to slay +? -ter (as in laughter). Eventually derived from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”). Related with Dutch slachten, German schlachten (both “to slaughter”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sl??t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sl?t?/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?sl?t?/
• Hyphenation: slaugh?ter
• Rhymes: -??t?(?)
• Homophone: slotter (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

slaughter (countable and uncountable, plural slaughters)

1. (uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food.
2. A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI, 1773, The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Edinburgh, page 416,

     For ?in, on war and mutual ?laughter bent.
3. A rout or decisive defeat.
4. A group of iguanas.

   Synonym: mess

Hyponyms

• (a massacre): manslaughter

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Translations

Verb

slaughter (third-person singular simple present slaughters, present participle slaughtering, simple past and past participle slaughtered)

1. (transitive) To butcher animals, generally for food
2. (transitive, intransitive) To massacre people in large numbers
3. (transitive) To kill in a particularly brutal manner

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Anagrams

• Laughters, laughster, laughters, laughtres, lethargus, slaughtre