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tough
English
Etymology
From Middle English tough, towgh, tou, to?, from Old English t?h (“tough, tenacious, holding fast together; pliant; sticky, glutinous, clammy”), from Proto-West Germanic *t??h(?), from Proto-Germanic *tanhuz (“fitting; clinging; tenacious; tough”), from Proto-Indo-European *den?- (“to bite”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: t?f, IPA(key): /t?f/
- Rhymes: -?f
- Homophone: tuff
Adjective
tough (comparative tougher, superlative toughest)
- Strong and resilient; sturdy.
- The tent, made of tough canvas, held up to many abuses.
- (of food) Difficult to cut or chew.
- To soften a tough cut of meat, the recipe suggested simmering it for hours.
- Rugged or physically hardy.
- Only a tough species will survive in the desert.
- Stubborn.
- He had a reputation as a tough negotiator.
- (of weather etc) Harsh or severe.
- Rowdy or rough.
- A bunch of the tough boys from the wrong side of the tracks threatened him.
- (of questions, etc.) Difficult or demanding.
- This is a tough crowd.
- (material science) Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
tough
- (slang) Used to indicate lack of sympathy
- If you don't like it, tough!
Translations
Noun
tough (plural toughs)
- A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully.
Translations
Verb
tough (third-person singular simple present toughs, present participle toughing, simple past and past participle toughed)
- To endure.
- To toughen.
Derived terms
- tough out
Translations
Anagrams
- ought
German
Etymology
From English tough; see also German taff.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taf/
Adjective
tough (comparative tougher, superlative am toughsten or am toughesten)
- (slang) Alternative form of taff (“tough; robust; assertive and not overly sensitive”)
Declension
- declension with am toughsten
- declension with am toughesten
Further reading
- “tough” in Duden online
Middle English
Noun
tough
- Alternative form of tow
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hood
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h?d/
- (General American) IPA(key): [h??d], [h??d]
- Rhymes: -?d
Etymology 1
From Middle English hood, hod, from Old English h?d, from Proto-Germanic *h?daz (cognate with Saterland Frisian Houd, West Frisian/Dutch hoed, German Low German Hood, German Hut). Cognate with Proto-Iranian *xawdaH (“hat”) (compare Avestan ????????????????? (xåda), Old Persian ???????????? (x-u-d /xaud?/)), from Proto-Indo-European *kad?- (“to cover”). More at hat.
Noun
hood (plural hoods)
- A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
- A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree.
- An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
- (automotive, chiefly Britain) A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
- (automotive, chiefly US, Canada) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.
- (by extension, especially in the phrase "under the hood") A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.
- 2004, D. Michael Abrashoff, Get Your Ship Together: How Great Leaders Inspire Ownership From The Keel Up, Penguin (?ISBN):
- Like many captains, I was just as glad to leave engineering to the engineers. Looking under the ship's hood wasn't what interested me.
- 2015, Max Lucado, Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life, Thomas Nelson (?ISBN), page 71:
- I never see the pilot percolating coffee or the attendant with a screwdriver under the airplane's hood. Why? Because we all have something we are good at, and we are expected to do that one thing well.
- 2004, D. Michael Abrashoff, Get Your Ship Together: How Great Leaders Inspire Ownership From The Keel Up, Penguin (?ISBN):
- A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
- (nautical) One of the endmost planks (or, one of the ends of the planks) in a ship’s bottom at bow or stern, that fits into the rabbet. (These, when fit into the rabbet, resemble a hood (covering).)
- 1830, A Treatise on Marine Architecture, page 260:
- Care must also be taken to place the tenons on the main post so that a stop-water can be driven between it and the fore tenon and the rabbet of the hoods at the keel. The post being dressed to its proper dimensions, the tenons cut, and their ...
- 1874, Samuel James P. Thearle, Naval architecture: a treatise on laying off and building wood, iron, and composite ships. [With] Plates, page 360:
- The fore hoods end at a rabbet cut in the wood stem (see Plate CXVIII.), and the after hoods end at a rabbet prepared in the yellow metal body post. The fore hoods are fastened to the bottom plating as elsewhere; but in the stem they have ...
- 1940, Lauchlan McKay, Richard Cornelius McKay, The Practical hip-builder, page 62:
- But for deep and narrow vessels you must line your hooden-ends wider to get up faster, and consequently the lower ends of the after-hoods will come round, […]
- 1830, A Treatise on Marine Architecture, page 260:
Synonyms
- (engine cover): bonnet, cowl
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- cuculliform (hood-shaped)
Verb
hood (third-person singular simple present hoods, present participle hooding, simple past and past participle hooded)
- To cover something with a hood.
- Antonym: unhood
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- 2004, George Fletcher Bass, Serçe Liman?: An Eleventh-century Shipwreck, Texas A&M University Press (?ISBN), page 516:
- Hooding ends [Hoods, Hood ends] The ends of planks that fit into the stem and sternpost rabbets.
Etymology 2
Clipping of hoodlum.
Noun
hood (plural hoods)
- (slang) Gangster, thug.
- 1968, John McPhee, The Pine Barrens, Chapter 7
- Teen-age hoods steal cars in cities, take them into the pines, strip them, ignite them, and leave the scene.
- 1968, John McPhee, The Pine Barrens, Chapter 7
Translations
Etymology 3
Clipping of neighborhood; compare nabe.
Alternative forms
- 'hood
Adjective
hood (not comparable)
- Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.
Translations
Noun
hood (plural hoods)
- (African American Vernacular English, slang) Neighborhood.
Usage notes
Particularly used for poor US inner-city black neighborhoods. Also used more generally, as a casual neutral term for “neighborhood”, but marked by strong associations.
Synonyms
- (poor neighborhood, esp. black): ghetto
- (neighborhood): nabe, neighborhood
Translations
Etymology 4
Clipping of hoodie, influenced by existing sense “hoodlum”.
Noun
hood (plural hoods)
- (Britain) Person wearing a hoodie.
Anagrams
- Hodo, hodo-
Manx
Pronoun
hood (emphatic form hoods)
- (informal) second-person singular of hug
- to you
Middle English
Alternative forms
- hode, hod, hude, hudde, hoode
Etymology
From Old English h?d, from Proto-Germanic *h?daz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ho?d/
- Rhymes: -o?d
Noun
hood (plural hoodes)
- hood (part of a garment):
- A hood as a symbol of rank (of the church and of guilds).
- A hood made of chain mail used as head armour.
- (rare, Late Middle English) Any sort of protective cloaking or covering.
Derived terms
- hoden
- hoder
- hodles
- hodynge
Descendants
- English: hood
- Scots: hude, huid
References
- “h??d, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.
North Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian hâved.
Noun
hood n (plural hööd)
- (Föhr-Amrum) (anatomy) head
- at hood sködle
- to shake one's head
- at hood sködle
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