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tripod
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin trip?s, tripodis, from Ancient Greek ??????? (trípous); equivalent to tri- +? -pod. Doublet of tripus.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?t?a?p?d/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?t?a?p?d/
- Hyphenation: tri?pod
Noun
tripod (plural tripods)
- A three-legged stand or mount.
- (science fiction) A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897).
- Synonyms: fighting-machine, Thing
- (slang) A man with macrophallism.
Translations
Verb
tripod (third-person singular simple present tripods, present participle tripoding, simple past and past participle tripoded)
- (intransitive) To enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress.
Translations
See also
- bipod
- monopod
- trivet
Anagrams
- torpid
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?tripod]
- Hyphenation: tri?pod
Noun
tripod (plural tripodok)
- tripod (three-legged stand or mount)
- Synonym: háromlábú állvány
Declension
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cuddy
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?di/
- Rhymes: -?di
Etymology 1
Origin uncertain. Perhaps a contraction from Dutch kajuit (“cabin”).
Noun
cuddy (plural cuddies)
- (nautical) A cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing ship under the poop deck.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 77:
- Being summoned to the cuddy to breakfast, I had not been there five minutes when I turned deadly sick, was obliged to retire to my cot […] .
- 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, ch 6:
- The sight of that watery-eyed old Jones mopping his bald head with a red cotton handkerchief, the sorrowing yelp of the dog, the squalor of that fly-blown cuddy which was the only shrine of his memory, threw a veil of inexpressibly mean pathos over Brierly’s remembered figure, the posthumous revenge of fate for that belief in his own splendour which had almost cheated his life of its legitimate terrors.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 77:
- a small cupboard or closet
- (Scotland, Durham, Northumbria) A donkey, especially one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 31:
- folk said the cuddy had bided so long with Pooty that whenever it opened its mouth to give a bit bray it started to stutter.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 31:
- (Britain, mining) A pony that works in a mine.
- (dated) A blockhead; a lout.
- 1840-1841, Thomas Hood, "Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg"
- It cost more tricks and trouble, by half,
Than it takes to exhibit a six-legged calf
To a boothful of country cuddies.
- It cost more tricks and trouble, by half,
- 1840-1841, Thomas Hood, "Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg"
- A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
Etymology 2
From Scots; compare Gaelic cudaig, cudainn, or English cuttlefish, or cod.
Alternative forms
- cuddie, cudden, cuth
Noun
cuddy (plural cuddies)
- The coalfish (Pollachius carbonarius).
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