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thatch

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?æt?/
  • Rhymes: -æt?

Etymology 1

Variant of thack, from Middle English thache, thach, from Old English þæc (roof-covering), from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þak? (covering), from (o-grade of) Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (cover).

Cognate with Icelandic þak, Dutch dak, German Dach, Norwegian tak, Swedish tak, Danish tag; and with Latin toga, Albanian thak (awn, beard, pin, peg, tassel, fringe), Lithuanian stogas (roof). Related to Ancient Greek ????? (tégos, roof) and ????? (stég?, roof). See also English deech, deck.

Noun

thatch (countable and uncountable, plural thatches)

  1. Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
  2. (Caribbean) Any of several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
  3. A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.
  4. (by extension) Any straw-like material, such as a person's hair.
    • 2008, Wallace Madding, The Country Club Killings: A Montana Story (page 21)
      An outgoing, story-telling Irishman from Butte, Montana, with his thatch of red hair and sandpapered face, Matt was the quintessential imp.
Synonyms
  • (straw for covering roofs or stacks): haulm
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English thacchen, from Old English þe??an, þe??ean (to cover), from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjan? (to cover), from Proto-Germanic *þak? (cover, covering, noun) (see above).

Cognate with West Frisian dekke, Dutch dekken, German decken, Danish tække, Swedish täcka. Alteration of vowel after Middle English perhaps due to the above noun.

Verb

thatch (third-person singular simple present thatches, present participle thatching, simple past and past participle thatched)

  1. To cover the roof with straw, reed, leaves, etc.
Derived terms
Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

  • hatcht

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turf

English

Etymology

From Middle English turf, torf, from Old English turf (turf, sod, soil, piece of grass covered earth, greensward), from Proto-West Germanic *turb, from Proto-Germanic *turbz (turf, lawn), from Proto-Indo-European *derb?- (tuft, grass). Cognate with Dutch turf (turf), Middle Low German torf (peat, turf) (whence German Torf and German Low German Torf), Swedish torv (turf), Norwegian torv (turf), Icelandic torf (turf), Russian ????? (trava, grass), Sanskrit ???? (darbhá, a kind of grass), ?????? (d??rv?, bent grass).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /t?f/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??f/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)f
  • Homophone: TERF

Noun

turf (countable and uncountable, plural turfs or turves)

  1. (uncountable) A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
  2. (countable) A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc.
  3. (countable, Ireland) A sod of peat used as fuel.
  4. (uncountable, slang) The territory claimed by a person, gang, etc. as their own.
  5. (uncountable, with "the") A racetrack; or the sport of racing horses.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

turf (third-person singular simple present turfs, present participle turfing, simple past and past participle turfed)

  1. To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
  2. (Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release.
  3. (business) To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.
    Eight managers were turfed after the merger of the two companies.
  4. (business) To cancel a project or product.
    The company turfed the concept car because the prototype performed poorly.
  5. (informal, transitive) To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
  6. (medical slang, transitive) To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.

Derived terms

  • turfer
  • turf out

Translations

Anagrams

  • ruft

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t?rf/
  • Hyphenation: turf
  • Rhymes: -?rf

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch torf, from Old Dutch *torf, from Proto-Germanic *turbz (turf, lawn), from Proto-Indo-European *derb?- (tuft, grass).

Noun

turf m (plural turven, diminutive turfje n)

  1. peat
  2. A tally mark representing five.
  3. (informal) A fat book, tome; a book containing many pages.
Derived terms
  • turfgas
  • turfsteker
  • turfwinning

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

turf

  1. first-person singular present indicative of turven
  2. imperative of turven

Anagrams

  • ruft

Hungarian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?turf]
  • Hyphenation: turf
  • Rhymes: -urf

Noun

turf (plural turfok)

  1. (sports) turf (a racetrack or the sport of racing horses)

Declension

Further reading

  • turf 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 English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *turbz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /turf/, [tur?f]

Noun

turf f (nominative plural tyrf)

  1. turf

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: turf
    • English: turf

References

  • Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “turf”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Spanish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

turf m (plural turfs)

  1. racetrack

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