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smidgen
English
Alternative forms
- smidge, smidgeon, smidget, smidgin
Etymology
Likely based on a variant of smeddum (“fine powder”), influenced by Scots smitch (“stain, speck”). Confer Northumbrian dialectal English smiddum (“small particle of lead ore; smitham”). Scots smitch may derive from an unattested synonym of Old English sm?tan (“to daub, smear, smudge”): *sm?cgan (“to soil, stain, taint, blacken”). If so, then cognate with smudge.
Alternate etymology connects smidgeon with Scottish Gaelic smidin (“small syllable”), though this is highly improbable considering the implied semantic shift that would have to have occurred.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sm?d???n/
- Rhymes: -?d??n, -?d??n
Noun
smidgen (plural smidgens)
- A very small quantity or amount.
- Synonyms: hair's breadth; see also Thesaurus:modicum
Usage notes
Some cookbooks and manufacturers of kitchen measurement sets have attempted to define a smidgen for recipes. Anything between 1?25 and 1?48 of a teaspoon may be found, 1?32 being perhaps the most commonly used. Other commonly used measures for small amounts include tad, dash, pinch, and drop. There seems to be some consensus of tad being the largest in this set and a smidgen being larger than a drop but smaller than a pinch.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Demings, Dengism
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hair
English
Etymology
From Middle English her, heer, hær, from Old English h?r, from Proto-Germanic *h?r? (“hair”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hier (“hair”), West Frisian hier (“hair”), Dutch haar (“hair”), German Low German Haar (“hair”), German Haar (“hair”), Swedish and Norwegian hår (“hair”), Icelandic hár (“hair”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cheveler, chevelere (“hair”), borrowed from Old French chevelëure (“hair, head-hair, coiffure, wig”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: hâr, IPA(key): /h??/, /h??/, /h??/
- (US, Canada, Ireland) IPA(key): /h?(?)?/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /he?/
- (Victoria) IPA(key): /h???/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): [hi?]
- Homophone: hare
- Rhymes: -??(r)
- (General New Zealand) Homophones: here (cheer–chair merger), air, heir (cheer–chair merger and H-dropping)
Noun
hair (countable and uncountable, plural hairs) (but usually in singular)
- (countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
- Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs.
- And draweth new delights with hoary hairs.
- (uncountable) The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I:
- Her abundant hair, of a dark and glossy brown, was neatly plaited and coiled above an ivory column that rose straight from a pair of gently sloping shoulders, clearly outlined beneath the light muslin frock that covered them.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I:
- (zoology, countable) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
- (botany, countable) A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
- (countable, engineering, firearms) A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
- (obsolete) Haircloth; a hair shirt.
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Second Nun's Tale", The Canterbury Tales:
- She, ful devout and humble in hir corage, / Under hir robe of gold, that sat ful faire, / Hadde next hir flessh yclad hir in an haire.
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Second Nun's Tale", The Canterbury Tales:
- (countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
- (slang, uncountable) complexity; difficulty; quality of being hairy
- Barack Obama
- Having said all that, those who argue that legalizing marijuana is a panacea and it solves all these social problems I think are probably overstating the case. There is a lot of hair on that policy.
- Barack Obama
Usage notes
- The word hair is usually used without an article in singular number when it refers to all the hairs on one's head in general. But if it refers to more than one hair, a few hairs, then it takes the plural form with an article and needs a plural verb.
- Adjectives often applied to "hair": long, short, curly, straight, wavy, dark, blonde, black, brown, red, blue, green, purple, coarse, fine, healthy, damaged, messy, beautiful, perfect, natural, dyed.
Derived terms
Related terms
- depilatory
Translations
Verb
hair (third-person singular simple present hairs, present participle hairing, simple past and past participle haired)
- (transitive) To remove the hair from.
- (intransitive) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
- (transitive) To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
- To string the bow for a violin.
Translations
Anagrams
- Hari, Hira, Ihar, Riha, riah
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ha??/
Verb
hair
- h-prothesized form of air
Noun
hair
- h-prothesized form of air
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
hair (plural haires)
- Alternative form of her (“hair”)
Etymology 2
Noun
hair (plural haires or hairen)
- Alternative form of here (“haircloth”)
Etymology 3
Adjective
hair
- Alternative form of hor (“hoar”)
Etymology 4
Noun
hair
- Alternative form of heir (“heir”)
Old French
Alternative forms
- hadir, ha?ir, haïr
Etymology
From Frankish *hattjan.
Verb
hair
- to hate
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. First person singular present hez and present subjunctives are inherited from Frankish with regular sound changes of *-ttj- > -z/c-. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Related terms
- haïne
Descendants
- Middle French: haïr
- French: haïr
- Norman: haï
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