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towel
English
Etymology
From Middle English towayle, towel, towail, towaille, from Old French toaille (“towel”) (modern French touaille), from Frankish *þwahilu (“cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *þwahan? (“to wash”). Cognate with Old High German dwahila (“towel”) (modern dialectal German Zwehle), Dutch dwaal (“towel”), dweil (“mop”), Low German Dweel (“towel”), Old English þw?le (“band; ribbon; fillet”), Old English þw?an (“to wash”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: toul, tou??l
- IPA(key): /ta?l/, /?ta?.?l/
- Rhymes: -a?l, -a??l
Noun
towel (plural towels)
- A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as a person after a bath.
Hyponyms
- lavabo
- see also Derived terms below
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (taoru)
Translations
Verb
towel (third-person singular simple present towels, present participle toweling or towelling, simple past and past participle toweled or towelled)
- (transitive) To hit with a towel.
- (transitive) To dry by using a towel.
- He got out of the shower and toweled himself dry.
- (transitive) To block up (a door, etc.) with a towel, to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug.
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete, transitive) To beat with a stick, or "oaken towel".
Derived terms
- towel off
- towel up
- untoweled, untowelled
Anagrams
- Towle, owlet
Middle English
Noun
towel
- Alternative form of towayle
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terrycloth
English
Noun
terrycloth (countable and uncountable, plural terrycloths)
- Alternative form of terry cloth
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