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tussle
English
Etymology
Related to tousle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?s?l/
- Rhymes: -?s?l
- Homophone: tussal
Noun
tussle (plural tussles)
- A physical fight or struggle.
- A conflict, an argument, a disagreement.
Translations
Verb
tussle (third-person singular simple present tussles, present participle tussling, simple past and past participle tussled)
- To have a tussle.
- The two sets of fans were tussling before the game.
Translations
Anagrams
- sutles
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fray
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: fr?, IPA(key): /f?e?/
- Rhymes: -e?
Etymology 1
From Middle English fraien, borrowed from Old French frayer, from Latin fric?re, present active infinitive of fric?.
Verb
fray (third-person singular simple present frays, present participle fraying, simple past and past participle frayed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) unravel; used particularly for the edge of something made of cloth, or the end of a rope.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To cause exhaustion, wear out (a person's mental strength).
- (Metaphorical use; nerves are visualised as strings)
- (transitive, archaic) frighten; alarm
- And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 63:
- "Besides, all the wit and Philosophy in the world can never demonstrate, that the killing and slaughtering of a Beast is anymore then the striking of a Bush where a Bird's Nest is, where you fray away the Bird, and then seize upon the empty Nest."
- 1830, Isaac Taylor, The Natural History of Enthusiasm
- the many checks and reverses which belong to the common course of human life , usually fray it away from present scenes
- (transitive) To bear the expense of; to defray.
- 1631, Philip Massinger, The Emperor of the East
- The charge of my most curious and costly ingredients frayed, I shall acknowledge myself amply satisfied.
- 1631, Philip Massinger, The Emperor of the East
- (intransitive) To rub.
- 1808, Walter Scott, Hunting Song
Related terms
- friction
- fricative
- affricate
- dentifrice
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English frai, aphetic variant of affray.
Noun
fray (plural frays)
- A fight or argument
- (archaic) Fright.
Related terms
- affray
Translations
Spanish
Etymology
Apocope of fraile (“friar”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?ai/, [?f?ai?]
Noun
fray m (plural frayes)
- friar
Abbreviations
- fr.
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