different between trump vs arse

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??mp/
• (some accents) IPA^(key): [t????mp]
• Rhymes: -?mp
• Homophone: Trump

Etymology 1

Possibly from French triomphe (“triumph”) or Old French triumphe.

Noun

trump (plural trumps)

1. (card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.

   Diamonds were declared trump(s).

2. (card games) A playing card of that suit.

   He played an even higher trump.

3. (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
4. (colloquial, now rare) An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13

     All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump; the captain begged his pardon.

   • 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, pg 19 and 163

     Brooke was a trump to telegraph right off.

   • Alfred is a trump, I think you say.

5. An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Decker to this entry?)

6. A card of the major arcana of the tarot.

Usage notes

For the top-ranking suit as a whole, American usage favors the singular trump and British usage the plural trumps.

Translations

Verb

trump (third-person singular simple present trumps, present participle trumping, simple past and past participle trumped)

1. (transitive, card games) To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.

   He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped.

2. (intransitive, card games) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
3. (transitive) To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
   • 1629, Ben Jonson, The New Inn, Act 1, Scene 3

     to trick or trump mankind

4. (transitive, dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
   • 1699, Charles Leslie, A Short and Easy Method with the Deists

     Authors have been trumped upon us.

5. (transitive) To supersede.

   In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.

6. (transitive) To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.

Synonyms

• (to play a trump card on another suit): ruff
• (to get the better of a competitor): outsmart

Coordinate terms

• (to play a trump card on another suit): underruff, overruff

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English trumpe, trompe (“trumpet”) from Old French trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), from a common Germanic word of imitative origin.

Akin to Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”). More at trumpet, drum.

Noun

trump (plural trumps)

1. (archaic) A trumpet.
   • 1611, King James Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:52:

     In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible

   • 1798, Joseph Hopkinson, “Hail, Columbia”:

     Sound, sound the trump of fame,

2. (slang, Britain, childish, vulgar) Flatulence.
3. The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.

Derived terms

Verb

trump (third-person singular simple present trumps, present participle trumping, simple past and past participle trumped)

1. To blow a trumpet.
2. (intransitive, slang, Britain, childish, vulgar) To flatulate.

   And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.

Etymology 3

Shortening of Jew's-trump, which may be from French jeu-trump, jeu tromp, jeu trompe (a trump, or toy, to play with).

Noun

trump (plural trumps)

1. (dated, music) Synonym of Jew's harp.

Further reading

• Trump in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

English

Alternative forms

• ass (US)

Etymology

From Middle English ars, ers, from Old English ærs, ears, from Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz (compare Dutch aars and German Arsch), from Proto-Indo-European *h?érsos (“backside, buttocks”) (according to Julius Pokorny and Carl Darling Buck).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??s/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /??s/
• (Ireland, US) IPA^(key): /??s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Noun

arse (plural arses)

1. (current in South Africa, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, dated in New England, now vulgar) The buttocks or more specifically, the anus.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks, Thesaurus:anus

   • 2011, James Smart, The Guardian, 12 March:

     As the novel progresses, he is shot in the hand with his own gun, shot in the arse with someone else's and lacerated by a prosthetic weed trimmer.
2. (chiefly Britain, derogatory slang) A stupid, mean or despicable person.
   • 2007, Martin Harrison, The Judgement of Paris, p.282:

     “You're an arse,” Ellen said. ¶ “Please? You must like something about me …?” ¶ “I do. You're an arse. I just told you that. I feel comfy with you, because you're such an arse.”

   • 2007, L. A. Wilson, The Silurian: Book One: The Fox and the Bear, p.103:

     He looked at me, was just about to call me an arse, when I told him, “You throw it too hard. Try and think of the javelin hitting the target before you throw it. Let it all go through your mind first, see it, feel it, then throw it.” ¶ “Good advice, you arse,” he said and tried again.

   • 2011, Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes, unnumbered page:

     Felnigg. What a suppurating arse. Look at him. Arse.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:arse.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: lasi

Translations

Verb

arse (third-person singular simple present arses, present participle arsing, simple past and past participle arsed)

1. (slang, intransitive) To be silly, act stupid or mess around.

   Stop arsing around!

   • 1985, Sam McAughtry, McAughtry's War, page 10,

     He was university material, just arsing about as a rigger, arsing about, killing time with bohunks like me […] .

   • 2005, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, page 291,

     Pi, upset, roars, "Quit arsing around there and get cracking," and a dozen heads turn their way.

   • 2011, Jaine Fenn, Bringer of Light, unnumbered page,

     He was half-expecting a call from the lingua, telling him to stop arsing around, but his com stayed silent, so it looked like a certain amount of arsing around was allowed.

Derived terms

• arse about (verb)
• arse around (verb)
• half-arsed (adjective)
• can't be arsed

Anagrams

• AREs, Ares, EARs, ERAs, Ersa, SERA, Sear, ares, ears, eras, rase, reas, sare, sear, sera

Italian

Adjective

arse f pl

1. feminine plural of arso

Verb

arse

1. third-person singular indicative past historic of ardere

Participle

arse

1. feminine plural of the past participle of ardere

Anagrams

• ersa, rase, resa, sera

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ar.se/, [?ärs??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ar.se/, [??rs?]

Participle

arse

1. vocative masculine singular of arsus

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of airi (“for the sake of it; therefore”) +? se (“this”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ar??s?e/

Adverb

arse

1. therefore, for this/that reason

   Synonym: airi

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12^a22

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ársis

Noun

arse f (plural arses)

1. (poetry, music) arsis (the stronger part of a measure or foot)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?arse]

Adjective

arse

1. genitive/dative feminine singular of ars
2. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of ars
3. genitive/dative feminine/neuter plural of ars

Verb

arse

1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of arde