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trump

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)

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flatulate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from flatulence, attested since the 19th century; ultimately of Latin origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?flætj?le?t/, /?flæt??le?t/

Verb

flatulate (third-person singular simple present flatulates, present participle flatulating, simple past and past participle flatulated)

  1. To emit digestive gases from the anus, especially with accompanying sound and smell.
    • 1985, James L. Framo, “Rationale and Techniques of Intensive Family Therapy,” in Intensive Family Therapy, Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy and James L. Framo eds. [1],
      Where else but in his own castle, with his own family, can a person pick his nose, flatulate, lose his temper with impunity, whine, let the child in him emerge—in short, regress and “be himself”?

Usage notes

Garner's Modern English Usage (4th ed) has an entry for flatulate, discussing the attestation history and lexicographic coverage of this verb and some of its synonyms. As with the other main bodily functions (such as urination, defecation, and vomiting), register governs the choice of synonym in a given context; flatulate serves formal registers well (such as in medical publications), whereas fart, although it is easily English's dominant synonym of the semantic field for this concept, is usually considered a casualism suited only to informal registers. Thus flatulate is to fart as urinate is to piss and as defecate is to shit.

Synonyms

  • See fart § Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:flatulate

Coordinate terms

  • queef

Derived terms

  • flatulation

Translations

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