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spurn
English
Etymology
From Middle English spurnen, spornen, from Old English spurnan (“to strike against, kick, spurn, reject; stumble”), from Proto-Germanic *spurnan? (“to tread, kick, knock out”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper-, *sperw- (“to twitch, push, fidget, be quick”). Cognate with Scots spurn (“to strike, push, kick”), German spornen (“to spur on”), Icelandic sporna, spyrna (“to kick”), Latin spern? (“despise, distain, scorn”). Related to spur and spread.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /sp?n/
- (UK) IPA(key): /sp??n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)n
Verb
spurn (third-person singular simple present spurns, present participle spurning, simple past and past participle spurned)
- (transitive, intransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
- Domestics will pay a more ready and cheerful service, when they find themselves not spurned, because fortune has laid them below the level of others, at their master's feet.
- (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
- (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.
- The myller spurnde on a stone.
And downe he fyl backwarde upon his wyfe
- The myller spurnde on a stone.
Derived terms
- spurner
Translations
Noun
spurn (plural spurns)
- An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
- A kick; a blow with the foot.
- (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
- (mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
Translations
References
Icelandic
Noun
spurn f (genitive singular spurnar, nominative plural spurnir)
- Used in set phrases
- Ég hafði spurnir af Ara.
- I received news of Ari.
- Ég hafði spurnir af Ara.
Declension
Derived terms
- afspurn
Middle English
Etymology 1
A back-formation from spurnen.
Alternative forms
- sporn, spurne
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spurn/
Noun
spurn
- (rare) A stumbling; a collapse.
- (rare) A strike or blow using one's feet.
Descendants
- English: spurn
References
- “spurn(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-08.
Etymology 2
Verb
spurn
- Alternative form of spurnen
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underrate
English
Etymology
under- +? rate
Verb
underrate (third-person singular simple present underrates, present participle underrating, simple past and past participle underrated)
- (transitive) to underestimate; to make too low a rate or estimate
Translations
Noun
underrate (plural underrates)
- A price less than the value.
- to sell a thing at an underrate
Translations
Anagrams
- denaturer, renatured
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