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throat
English
Alternative forms
- throate, throte (all obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-Germanic *þrut? (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”) (etymology 2), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Swedish trut.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?????t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???o?t/
- Rhymes: -??t
Noun
throat (plural throats)
- The front part of the neck.
- The gullet or windpipe.
- A narrow opening in a vessel.
- Station throat.
- The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gwilt to this entry?)
- (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
- (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
- (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)
- (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
- (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
Synonyms
- (gullet): esophagus (US), gullet, oesophagus (British)
- (windpipe): trachea, windpipe
- (narrow opening in a vessel): neck, bottleneck (of a bottle)
Antonyms
- (end of a gaff next to the mast): peak
Derived terms
Related terms
- throttle
Translations
Verb
throat (third-person singular simple present throats, present participle throating, simple past and past participle throated)
- (now uncommon) To utter in or with the throat.
- 1911, Paul Wilstach, Thais, "the Story of a Sinner who Became a Saint and a Saint who Sinned": A Play in Four Acts, page 17:
- He beat about and pecked the net until his mate was liberated, and, throating a song of gratitude, the bird he freed flew to the sky.
- 1921, Harry Charles Witwer, The Rubyiat of a Freshman, page 31
- As you know, I have gone in for the more manly athletics here with my visual enthusiasm, throating a nasty tenor on the Glee Club and shaking a vicious hoof on our dancing team. Well, last night the Intercollegiate Shimmy Contest with Goofy ...
- 2017, Alexis Debary, Arab Nights: Post 9/11 Thriller set in Tunisia (?ISBN):
- Tariq wants to be tactful and refrains from his natural impulse to throat his pain and curse her loudly in French. The girl looks devastated.
- to throat threats
- 1911, Paul Wilstach, Thais, "the Story of a Sinner who Became a Saint and a Saint who Sinned": A Play in Four Acts, page 17:
- (informal) To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
- 1995, Kyle Stone, Hot bauds: a selection of steamy BBS writings, Badboy
- The Roman began to throat his rigid flagpole of a mancock, making groaning noises.
- 2017, Brian Patrick Davis, Songs About Boys (?ISBN):
- His head leaned back, water splashing his face as I throated his solid pipe. Those giant hands found the back of my head as he worked his hips back and forth to pump further and further into my mouth.
- 1995, Kyle Stone, Hot bauds: a selection of steamy BBS writings, Badboy
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.
Further reading
- throat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Throat (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- throat in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- throat in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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jaws
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d????z/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /d???z/
- Rhymes: -??z
Noun
jaws
- plural of jaw
Noun
jaws
- (plural only) the mouth
- (plural only) the borders of anything which has a mouthlike aspect.
- Open the jaws of the wrench and wide as possible.
- The red wobbled in the jaws of the pocket, but didn't go down.
- (colloquial, eastern Ohio) a contrarian.
Verb
jaws
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaw
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