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shake

English

Etymology

From Middle English schaken, from Old English s?eacan, s?acan (to shake). from Proto-Germanic *skakan? (to shake, swing, escape), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keg-, *(s)kek- (to jump, move). Cognate with Scots schake, schack (to shake), West Frisian schaekje (to shake), Dutch schaken (to elope, make clean, shake), Low German schaken (to move, shift, push, shake) and schacken (to shake, shock), Norwegian Nynorsk skaka (to shake), Swedish skaka (to shake), Dutch schokken (to shake, shock), Russian ???????? (skakát?, to jump). More at shock.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??e?k/
  • Rhymes: -e?k
  • Homophones: sheik, sheikh (one pronunciation)

Verb

shake (third-person singular simple present shakes, present participle shaking, simple past shook or (rare) shaked or (slang) shooketh, past participle shaken or (dialectal) shook)

  1. (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
  2. (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
  3. (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
  4. (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
    Synonym: traumatize
  5. (transitive) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
  6. (intransitive) To move from side to side.
    Synonyms: shiver, tremble
  7. (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
  8. (intransitive) To dance.
  9. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
  10. (transitive, figuratively) To threaten to overthrow.
  11. (intransitive, figuratively) To be agitated; to lose firmness.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

shake (plural shakes)

  1. The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
    The cat gave the mouse a shake.
    She replied in the negative, with a shake of her head.
  2. A milkshake.
  3. A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
  4. Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
  5. (building material) A thin shingle.
  6. A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
  7. A fissure in rock or earth.
  8. A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
  9. (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
  10. (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)
  11. (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
  12. A shook of staves and headings.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
  13. (Britain, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
  14. A shock or disturbance.
    • 1864, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis
      As long as I had seen Mr Holdsworth in the rooms at the little inn at Hensleydale, where I had been accustomed to look upon him as an invalid, I had not been aware of the visible shake his fever had given to his health.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • (crack or split in wood): knot

Anagrams

  • Hakes, hakes

Japanese

Romanization

shake

  1. R?maji transcription of ???
  2. R?maji transcription of ???

Spanish

Noun

shake m (plural shakes)

  1. shake (drink)

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fidget

English

Etymology

From fidge (to fidget) +? *-et (frequentative ending), possibly from Middle English *-ten, from Old English -ettan.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /?f?d?.?t/
  • Rhymes: -?d??t

Verb

fidget (third-person singular simple present fidgets, present participle fidgeting or fidgetting, simple past and past participle fidgeted or fidgetted)

  1. (intransitive) To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.
  2. (transitive) To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.

Derived terms

  • fidgeter

Translations

Noun

fidget (plural fidgets)

  1. A nervous wriggling or twitching motion.
  2. (informal) A person who fidgets, especially habitually.
    Synonym: fidgeter
  3. A toy intended to be fidgeted with.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • gifted

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