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starch
English
Etymology
From Middle English starche (noun), from *starche, sterch (“stiff”, adj), an assibilated form of Middle English stark, sterk (“strong; stiff”), from Old English stearc (“stark; strong; rough”). Compare Middle High German sterke, German Stärke. More at stark.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /st??t?/
- (UK) IPA(key): /st??t?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t?
Noun
starch (countable and uncountable, plural starches)
- (uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance, found especially in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
- (nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
- (uncountable) A stiff, formal manner; formality.
- this Professor is to give the society their stiffening, and infuse into their manners that beautiful political starch, which may qualify them for Levées, Conferences, Visits
- (uncountable) Fortitude.
- (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener
Derived terms
- starchy
- cornstarch
- potato starch
Translations
Verb
starch (third-person singular simple present starches, present participle starching, simple past and past participle starched)
- To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
- She starched her blouses.
Translations
Adjective
starch (not comparable)
- Stiff; precise; rigid.
- 1713, John Killingbeck, Eighteen sermons on practical subjects
- misrepresenting Sobriety as a Starch and Formal, and Vertue as a Laborious and Slavish thing
- 1713, John Killingbeck, Eighteen sermons on practical subjects
Derived terms
- starchness
Translations
References
- starch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- charts, crasht, trachs
Cimbrian
Adjective
starch
- strong
- loud
References
- Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
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starchlike
English
Etymology
starch +? -like
Adjective
starchlike (comparative more starchlike, superlative most starchlike)
- Resembling starch.
Synonyms
- starchy
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