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soak
English
Etymology
From Middle English soken, from Old English socian (“to soak, steep”, literally “to cause to suck (up)”), from Proto-Germanic *suk?n? (“to soak”), causative of Proto-Germanic *s?kan? (“to suck”). Cognate with Middle Dutch soken (“to cause to suck”). More at suck.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: s?k, IPA(key): /s??k/
- Rhymes: -??k
- (US) enPR: s?k, IPA(key): /so?k/
- Rhymes: -o?k
- Homophone: soke
Verb
soak (third-person singular simple present soaks, present participle soaking, simple past and past participle soaked)
- (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
- (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
- (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
- (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
- (figuratively, transitive) To take money from.
- 1928, Upton Sinclair, Boston
- It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. […] Well, they got him in the same kind of jam, and soaked him to the tune of three hundred and eighty-six thousand.
- 1928, Upton Sinclair, Boston
- (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
- (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
- (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
- (figuratively, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir H. Wotton to this entry?)
Translations
Verb
soak (third-person singular simple present soaks, present participle soaking, simple past and past participle soaked)
- (transitive) (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.
Noun
soak (plural soaks)
- An immersion in water etc.
- After the strenuous climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath.
- (slang, Britain) A drunkard.
- (slang) A carouse; a drinking session.
- (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber 2003, p. 38:
- I set off early to walk along the Melbourne Road where, one of the punters had told me, there was a soak with plenty of frogs in it.
- 1996, Doris Pinkington, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 170:
- Molly and Daisy finished their breakfast and decided to take all their dirty clothes and wash them in the soak further down the river.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber 2003, p. 38:
Synonyms
- (drunkard): alcoholic, souse, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard
Translations
Anagrams
- Kosa, koas, oaks, okas
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch zwak (“weak”), from Middle Dutch swac, from Old Dutch *swak, from Proto-West Germanic *swak.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?soa?]
- Hyphenation: so?ak
Adjective
soak
- (colloquial) weak.
- Synonym: lemah
Further reading
- “soak” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
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imarti
English
Noun
imarti (plural imartis)
- (India) An Indian dessert made by deep-frying urad flour batter in a kind of pretzel which is then soaked in sugar syrup.
- 1994, Manju Kak, First light in Colonelpura: short stories (page 33)
- A sudden concentration on food followed. Uncle said, have an imarti, they're hot and good.
- 1994, R?h? M?s?ma Raz?, Gillian Wright, The feuding families of village Gangauli
- […] fill a small basket of fresh, hot imartis.
- 1994, Manju Kak, First light in Colonelpura: short stories (page 33)
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