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shill

English

Etymology

Unknown; attested as verb 1914, as noun 1916. Perhaps an abbreviation of shillaber, attested 1913. The word entered English via carny, originally denoting a carnival worker who pretends to be a member of the audience in an attempt to elicit interest in an attraction.

Speculatively an extended form of German Schieber (black marketeer, profiteer) via *shi-la-ber.

There are some suggestions that it originates in the surname Shilaber or Shillibeer, especially George Shillibeer, but proposed origins are dubious as the word is first attested in North America in the 20th century, while proposed models are 19th century British.

American humorist Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (1814–1890) was known to write under the name Mrs. Ruth Partington to lend credibility to some of his ideas. This is one more possible origin of the word, although there is no specific evidence supporting a connection.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??l/
  • Rhymes: -?l

Noun

shill (plural shills)

  1. A person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial.
    • 1983, Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising,
      Witnesses have testified that Jim Jones (like a few other professional faith-healers) used shills part of the time....
  2. An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game.
    • 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing,
      The pitchman swept his cane in a slow acceleration over the heads of the crowd and then suddenly pointed the silver cap toward Billy and the shill.
  3. (gambling) A house player in a casino.

Synonyms

  • shillaber

Translations

Verb

shill (third-person singular simple present shills, present participle shilling, simple past and past participle shilled)

  1. (derogatory) To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly.
    • 1996, Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World,
      Today there are even commercials in which real scientists, some of considerable distinction, shill for corporations. They teach that scientists too will lie for money. As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.
  2. To put under cover; to sheal.
  3. (Britain, obsolete, dialect) To shell.

Related terms

  • sheep-dip

Translations

References

Anagrams

  • Hills, hills

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hope

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: h?p, IPA(key): /h??p/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ho?p/
  • Rhymes: -??p

Etymology 1

From Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian (to expect, hope), from Proto-West Germanic *hop?n, further etymology unclear.

Verb

hope (third-person singular simple present hopes, present participle hoping, simple past and past participle hoped)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
  2. To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
  3. (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
    • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Psalms cxix. 81
      I hope in thy word.
    • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Psalms xlii. 11
      Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.
  4. (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.
Usage notes
  • This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Derived terms
  • here's hoping
  • hoped for
Translations
See also
  • aspire
  • desire
  • expect
  • look forward
  • want

Etymology 2

From Middle English hope, from Old English hopa (hope, expectation), from the verb hope.

Noun

hope (countable and uncountable, plural hopes)

  1. (countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
  2. (countable) The actual thing wished for.
  3. (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
  4. (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.
    • But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • forlorn hope
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English hope (a valley), from Old English h?p (found only in placenames). More at hoop.

Noun

hope (plural hopes)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a comb.

Etymology 4

From Icelandic hóp (a small bay or inlet). Cognate with English hoop.

Noun

hope (plural hopes)

  1. A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
  2. (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

Anagrams

  • pheo, pheo-

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

hope

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of hopen

Maori

Noun

hope

  1. waist
  2. hip (ringa hope)

Shona

Etymology

From the root of Common Bantu *d??kópè, whence also chikope (eyelid).

Noun

hópé 10

  1. sleep

West Frisian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?ho?p?/

Noun

hope n (no plural)

  1. Alternative form of hoop

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