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swell
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: sw?l, IPA(key): /sw?l/
- Rhymes: -?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English swellen, from Old English swellan (“to swell”), from Proto-Germanic *swellan? (“to swell”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Old Frisian swella, Low German swellen, Dutch zwellen (“to swell”), German schwellen (“to swell”), Swedish svälla (“to swell”), Icelandic svella. The adjective may derive from the noun.
Verb
swell (third-person singular simple present swells, present participle swelling, simple past swelled or swole or swoll, past participle swollen or swelled)
- (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Prologue,[1]
- O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
- The brightest heaven of invention,
- A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
- And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
- 1914, P. C. Wren, Snake and Sword, London: Longmans, Green, Chapter 5, p. 78,[2]
- “If you drinks a drop more, Miss Lucy, you’ll just go like my pore young sister goed, […] Pop she did not. She swole … swole and swole.”
- “You mean ‘swelled,’ Cookoo,” corrected Lucille […]
- “ […] I say she swole—and what is more she swole clean into a dropsy.”
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Prologue,[1]
- (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
- 1633, John Donne, “The Storme” in Poems, London: John Marriot, p. 57,[3]
- Mildly it [the wind] kist our sailes, and, fresh, and sweet,
- As, to a stomack sterv’d, whose insides meete,
- Meate comes, it came; and swole our sailes, when wee
- So joyd, as Sara’ her swelling joy’d to see.
- 1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to Some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation, Oxford, p. 12,[4]
- ’Tis low ebb sure with his Accuser, when such Peccadillos as these are put in to swell the Charge.
- 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, "Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
- After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of pointed criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday.
- 1633, John Donne, “The Storme” in Poems, London: John Marriot, p. 57,[3]
- (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
- (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
- 1880, Felix Leopold Oswald, Summerland Sketches (page 57)
- It commenced with a slow crescendo, so irresistibly lugubrious that two of our dogs at once raised their heads and swelled their voices into a responsive tremolo, which may have been heard and appreciated by their distant relatives.
- 1880, Felix Leopold Oswald, Summerland Sketches (page 57)
- (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
- (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 5, Scene 1,[6]
- Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.
- 1814, Walter Scott, Waverley, Edinburgh: James Ballantyne, Volume 3, Chapter 9, p. 111,[7]
- […] you swell at the sight of tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet.
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 5, Scene 1,[6]
- To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
- 1662, John Dryden, To My Lord Chancellor Presented on New-Years-Day, London: Henry Herringman, p. 5,[8]
- In all things else above our humble fate
- Your equal mind yet swells not into state,
- But like some mountain in those happy Isles
- Where in perpetual Spring young Nature smiles,
- Your greatnesse shows:
- 1662, John Dryden, To My Lord Chancellor Presented on New-Years-Day, London: Henry Herringman, p. 5,[8]
- To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
- To protuberate; to bulge out.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English swelle, from the verb swellen (modern swell).
Noun
swell (countable and uncountable, plural swells)
- The act of swelling; increase in size.
- A bulge or protuberance.
- Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
- 1826, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations, London: Henry Colburn, 2nd edition, Volume I, Conversation 6, p. 128,[9]
- Concentrated are his arguments, select and distinct and orderly his topics, ready and unfastidious his expressions, popular his allusions, plain his illustrations, easy the swell and subsidence of his periods […]
- 1826, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations, London: Henry Colburn, 2nd edition, Volume I, Conversation 6, p. 128,[9]
- A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, ch. 24:
- There was a great, smooth swell upon the sea.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, ch. 24:
- (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
- (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
- (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
- A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
- 1909, Joseph A. Altsheler, The Last of the Chiefs, ch. 2:
- Off on the crest of a swell a moving figure was seen now and then. "Antelope," said the hunters.
- 1909, Joseph A. Altsheler, The Last of the Chiefs, ch. 2:
- (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
- (informal, dated) A person who dresses in a fancy or elegant manner.
- c. 1850, William Makepeace Thackeray, "The Kickleburys on the Rhine" in The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh:
- It costs him no more to wear all his ornaments about his distinguished person than to leave them at home. If you can be a swell at a cheap rate, why not?
- 1887, Horatio Alger, The Cash Boy, ch. 9:
- He was dressed in a flashy style, not unlike what is popularly denominated a swell.
- c. 1850, William Makepeace Thackeray, "The Kickleburys on the Rhine" in The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh:
- (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
- 1864, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, ch. 2:
- "I am not in Mr Crosbie's confidence. He is in the General Committee Office, I know; and, I believe, has pretty nearly the management of the whole of it."
- "I'll tell you what he is, Bell; Mr Crosbie is a swell." And Lilian Dale was right; Mr Crosbie was a swell.
- 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood Chapter 14, p. 176,[10]
- The only sensible man I came across was the cabman who drove me about. A broken-down swell he was, I fancy.
- 1906, Gilbert Parker, The Trespasser, ch. 8:
- You buy a lot of Indian or halfbreed loafers with beaver-skins and rum, go to the Mount of the Burning Arrows, and these fellows dance round you and call you one of the lost race, the Mighty Men of the Kimash Hills. And they'll do that while the rum lasts. Meanwhile you get to think yourself a devil of a swell—you and the gods!
- 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, New York: Vintage, 2002, Part Seven, Chapter 3, p. 209,[11]
- ‘ […] Colleoni’s going to take over this place from you, and he’s got his lawyer. A man in London. A swell.’
- 1864, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, ch. 2:
- The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Synonyms: pommel, fork
Synonyms
- (person dressed in a fancy or elegant manner): dandy, dude, toff
- (person of high social standing): toff
Derived terms
- ground swell, groundswell
- upswell
- wind swell
Translations
Etymology 3
From the noun "swell" (a person dressed in an elegant manner).
Adjective
swell (not generally comparable, comparative sweller, superlative swellest)
- (dated) Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
- 1912, Popular Mechanics (page 20)
- We pay the express, $5 a day our new agents are making and wearing the swellest clothes besides; old agents after one season make twice as much.
- 1912, Popular Mechanics (page 20)
- (Canada, US, informal, dated) Excellent.
- 1931, Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key, New York: Vintage, 1972, Chapter 9, p. 176,[12]
- Jeff swaggered over to Ned Beaumont, threw his left arm roughly around his shoulders, seized Ned Beaumont’s right hand with his right hand, and addressed the company jovially: “This is the swellest guy I ever skinned a knuckle on and I’ve skinned them on plenty.”
- 1958, Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel, New York: Ballantine Books, 1977, Chapter 1, p. 8,[13]
- […] we’re league champions in basketball and our square-dance team is state runner-up and we have a swell sock hop every Wednesday.
- 2012, Ariel Levy, "The Space In Between", The New Yorker, 10 Sep 2012:
- Orgasms are swell, but they are not the remedy to every injustice.
- 1931, Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key, New York: Vintage, 1972, Chapter 9, p. 176,[12]
Translations
Adverb
swell (not comparable)
- (Canada, US, informal) Very well.
- 1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest, Chapter 12,[14]
- “That lousy ring wasn’t worth no grand. I did swell to get two centuries for it.”
- 1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Modern Library, 2013, Part 3, p. 251,[15]
- “ […] Last August, when I left The Walls, I figured I had every chance to start new. I got a job in Olathe, lived with my family, and stayed home nights. I was doing swell—”
- 1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest, Chapter 12,[14]
Translations
Anagrams
- Wells, wells
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English swellan.
Verb
swell
- Alternative form of swellen
Etymology 2
From the verb swellen.
Adverb
swell
- Alternative form of swelle
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English swell.
Noun
swell m (plural swells)
- (surfing) swell (series of waves)
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jut
English
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], alteration of jet, cognate with jetty.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Verb
jut (third-person singular simple present juts, present participle jutting, simple past and past participle jutted)
- (intransitive) To stick out.
- '1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey
- It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem.
- '1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey
- (obsolete) To butt.
- 1772-1782, William Mason, The English Garden
- the jutting steer
- 1772-1782, William Mason, The English Garden
Derived terms
- jaw-jutting
Translations
Noun
jut (plural juts)
- Something that sticks out.
- Synonyms: outcrop, protrusion
- 1999, Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 3 (2001 Perennial Edition).
- The town of Wall stands today as it has stood for six hundred years, on a high jut of granite amidst a small forest woodland.
Translations
Anagrams
- UJT
Gothic
Romanization
jut
- Romanization of ????????????
Hungarian
Etymology
From Proto-Ugric *jukt?- (“to come”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?jut]
- Rhymes: -ut
Verb
jut
- (intransitive) to get somewhere (to a location or a situation), to arrive
- Synonyms: érkezik, kerül
- 1958, Miklós Szenczi (translator), Jane Austen (author), Büszkeség és balítélet (Pride and Prejudice)
- Fél mérföldön át egyre fölfelé vitt az útjuk, s végül elég magas dombtet?re jutottak, ahol véget ér az erd?, (…)
- They gradually ascended for half-a-mile, and then found themselves at the top of a considerable eminence, where the wood ceased, (…)
- Két nappal ezel?tt megdöbbent? hír jutott a fülembe.
- A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
- (Literally: “…got into my ears…”)
- A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
- Fél mérföldön át egyre fölfelé vitt az útjuk, s végül elég magas dombtet?re jutottak, ahol véget ér az erd?, (…)
- (intransitive, figuratively) to arrive at, come to (a decision, an agreement, an understanding, a conclusion, or a result)
- 1958, Miklós Szenczi (translator), Jane Austen (author), Büszkeség és balítélet (Pride and Prejudice)
- El?ször is az egyházi adó kérdésében olyan megegyezésre kell jutnia, amely hasznos reá magára nézve, de a kegyúr érdekeit sem sérti.
- In the first place, he must make such an agreement for tithes as a may be beneficial to himself and not offensive to his patron.
- El?ször is az egyházi adó kérdésében olyan megegyezésre kell jutnia, amely hasznos reá magára nézve, de a kegyúr érdekeit sem sérti.
- 1958, Miklós Szenczi (translator), Jane Austen (author), Büszkeség és balítélet (Pride and Prejudice)
- (intransitive) to come by something (-hoz/-hez/-höz)
- Synonym: kap
- 1976, Mária Borbás (translator), Jane Austen (author), Értelem és érzelem (Sense and Sensibility)
- Mrs. Dashwood elküldte válaszát, s tüstént abban az élvezetben részesítette magát, hogy bejelentette mostohafiának és a feleségének: házhoz jutott
- No sooner was her answer dispatched, than Mrs. Dashwood indulged herself in the pleasure of announcing to her son-in-law and his wife that she was provided with a house
- Mrs. Dashwood elküldte válaszát, s tüstént abban az élvezetben részesítette magát, hogy bejelentette mostohafiának és a feleségének: házhoz jutott
- 1983, Mária Borbás (translator), Jane Austen (author), A klastrom titka (Northanger Abbey)
- Váratlanul ranghoz és vagyonhoz jutott, és így elhárult minden akadály;
- His unexpected accession to title and fortune had removed all his difficulties;
- Váratlanul ranghoz és vagyonhoz jutott, és így elhárult minden akadály;
- (intransitive) to be left to someone, to be given or afforded to someone (-nak/-nek)
- 1958, Miklós Szenczi (translator), Jane Austen (author), Büszkeség és balítélet (Pride and Prejudice)
- Valami nagy hiba történhetett a két fiatalember nevelése körül. Az egyiknek jutott minden jóság, a másiknak csak a látszata.
- There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.
- (Literally: “to one of them got all the goodness,…”)
- There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.
- Edwardnak jutott osztályrészül az els?nek érkezett el?joga, (…)
- Edward was allowed to retain the privilege of first comer, (…)
- (…) Robert életmódjában, beszédében mi sem késztethetett ama gyanúra, hogy (…) bátyjának keveset hagyott, sem hogy neki magának túlságosan sok jutott;
- (…) nothing ever appeared in Robert's style of living or of talking to give a suspicion of (…) either leaving his brother too little, or bringing himself too much;
- (Literally: “too much got to himself”)
- (…) nothing ever appeared in Robert's style of living or of talking to give a suspicion of (…) either leaving his brother too little, or bringing himself too much;
- Valami nagy hiba történhetett a két fiatalember nevelése körül. Az egyiknek jutott minden jóság, a másiknak csak a látszata.
- 1958, Miklós Szenczi (translator), Jane Austen (author), Büszkeség és balítélet (Pride and Prejudice)
Conjugation
Derived terms
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References
Further reading
- jut in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Old French
Verb
jut
- third-person singular past historic of gesir
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