different between vonk vs codpiece

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch vonk, from Middle Dutch vonke, from Old Dutch funko, from Proto-Germanic *funkô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??k/

Noun

vonk (plural vonke, diminutive vonkie)

1. spark

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??k/
• Hyphenation: vonk
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vonke, from Old Dutch funko, from Proto-Germanic *funkô.

Cognate with Old High German funko, funcho (German Funke), English funk (“spark, touchwood”).

Noun

vonk m (plural vonken, diminutive vonkje n)

1. spark (a small particle of glowing matter, either molten material or from fire)
2. spark (a short or small burst of electrical discharge)
3. (Brabant) heavy blow/kick

   Die gaf me daar toch een vonk op jong!

   He gave it a whopping thump, my dear!

Synonyms

• (spark): glinster
• (blow): slag, trap

Derived terms

• vonken

Descendants

• Afrikaans: vonk

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vonk

1. first-person singular present indicative of vonken
2. imperative of vonken

English

Etymology

From Middle English cod (“scrotum”) +? piece

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?d?pi?s/

Noun

codpiece (plural codpieces)

1. A part of male dress in the 15th and 16th centuries, worn in front of the breeches to cover the male genitals.
   • , Act III, Scene III, line 130.

     Borachio: Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is, how giddily ’a turns about all the hot-bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty, sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh’s soldiers in the reechy painting, sometime like god Bel’s priests in the old church-window, sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirch’d worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?

2. A conspicuous protection for the male genitals in a suit of plate armor.

Translations

See also

• merkin