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whale
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?l, IPA(key): /we?l/
- (without the wine–whine merger) enPR: hw?l, IPA(key): /?e?l/
- Rhymes: -e?l
- Homophones: wail, wale (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English whale, from Old English hwæl (“whale”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwal, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz (“whale”) (compare German Wal, Swedish val, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hval, Norwegian Nynorsk kval; compare also Dutch walvis, West Frisian walfisk, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)k?álos (“sheatfish”) (compare German Wels, Latin squalus (“big sea fish”), Old Prussian kalis, Ancient Greek ??????? (áspalos), Avestan ????????????????? (kara, “kind of fish”)).
Noun
whale (plural whales)
- Any one of numerous large marine mammals comprising an informal group within infraorder Cetacea that usually excludes dolphins and porpoises.
- Synonym: (obsolete) baleen
- (by extension) Any species of Cetacea.
- (figuratively) Something, or someone, that is very large.
- 1920 September, “A Reformed Free Lance” (pseudonym), “Doctoring a Sick Encyclopedia”, in The Writer, Volume XXXII, Number 9, page 131:
- It was a whale of a job. […] It took two months, and the fair blush of youth off my cheeks.
- 1947 May 19, John Chamberlain, “Will Clayton and his Problem”, in Life, page 120:
- But when it comes to his business life and business career, Will Clayton is not as other men; he is such a whale of a lot better that it suggests a qualitative as well as a quantitative difference.
- 1920 September, “A Reformed Free Lance” (pseudonym), “Doctoring a Sick Encyclopedia”, in The Writer, Volume XXXII, Number 9, page 131:
- (figuratively, as "whale of a ___") Something, or someone, that is excellent.
- 2002, Kathleen Benson, Philip M. Kayal, Museum of the City of New York, A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City, Syracuse University Press ?ISBN, page 54
- My own father only wrote one poem in his life as far as I know, but it was a whale of a lyric, the kind you would give your whole life to write, which he did, but that is another story.
- 2006, June Skinner Sawyers, Read the Beatles: Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter, Penguin ?ISBN
- Busley Crowther in The New York Times called it “a whale of a comedy” even though he couldn't tell the four musicians apart except for Ringo (“the big-nosed one”).
- 2013, Fred Holtby & Chris Lovie, ROWDY - THE STORY OF A POLICE DOG, Lulu.com ?ISBN, page 105
- They were having a whale of a time when a very stern looking shop assistant came over to tell them off.
- 2002, Kathleen Benson, Philip M. Kayal, Museum of the City of New York, A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City, Syracuse University Press ?ISBN, page 54
- (gambling) In a casino, a person who routinely bets at the maximum limit allowable.
- (finance, informal) An investor who deals with very large amounts of money.
- (video games, by extension) A video game player who spends large amounts of money on optional content.
Derived terms
Related terms
- narwhal
- rorqual
- walrus
Translations
See also
Verb
whale (third-person singular simple present whales, present participle whaling, simple past and past participle whaled)
- (intransitive) To hunt for whales.
Translations
References
- whale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Cetacea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Cetacea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Etymology 2
Uncertain. Perhaps a variant of wale influenced by whack, whap, etc.
Verb
whale (third-person singular simple present whales, present participle whaling, simple past and past participle whaled)
- (slang, transitive) To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly.
- 1852, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Why Mr Sellum disposed of the horse (chapter XIV in Works, volume 22):
- Brought him back, put him in the stall—low stable—got out of his reach, and then begun to whale him. Then he kicked up agin; […]
- 1865 May, Three Days at Camp Douglass, in Our Young Folks: An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, volume I, number V, page 296:
- "I wouldn't let him. When you were a boy in your part of the country, and other boys told tales about you, what did you do with them?" "Whaled 'em like time, Captin'," answered the man; "and if ye'll only shet yer eyes to 't, I'll whale him." "I can't allow such things in the prison," said the Captain; "and besides, the fellow will be lame for a fortnight, and wouldn't be a match for you in that condition. Let him get limber, and then, if you don't whale him, I'll make you walk the ladder for a month." The result was, the conscript officer received a sound thrashing; and did not commit another act worthy of punishment for a week.
- 2004, Steve Frazee, Voices in the Hill (?ISBN):
- They beat him down and kept whaling him after he was flat.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:whale.
- 1852, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Why Mr Sellum disposed of the horse (chapter XIV in Works, volume 22):
Derived terms
- whale on
Translations
Anagrams
- wheal
Middle English
Alternative forms
- hwæl, qual, whal, swale, quall, quale, whaale, whalle, qwayll, wale, qwall, qwalle
Etymology
Inherited from Old English hwæl, from Proto-West Germanic *hwal, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?l/, /?al/
- (dialectal) IPA(key): /wa?l/, /x?a?l/
Noun
whale (plural whales)
- A whale or cetacean.
- (rare) An oceanic monster.
- (rare) The meat of the whale.
Descendants
- English: whale
- Scots: whaul
References
- “wh?le, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-01.
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comedian
English
Etymology
comedy +? -ian. From Middle French comédien, from comédie (“comedy”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /k??mi?di.?n/
Noun
comedian (plural comedians) (feminine: comedienne)
- An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.
- Synonym: comic
- (by extension) Any person who is humorous or amusing, either characteristically or on a particular occasion.
- Synonyms: card, cutup, gagster, joker, wag, wit
- (dated) A person who performs in theatrical plays.
- Synonyms: actor, player, thespian
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene 2,[1]
- […] the quick comedians
- Extemporally will stage us, and present
- Our Alexandrian revels;
- 1714, Susanna Centlivre, The Wonder, London: E. Curll and A. Bettesworth, Preface,[2]
- I Don’t pretend to write a Preface, either to point out the Beauties, or to excuse the Errors, a judicious Reader may possibly discover in the following Scenes, but to give those excellent Comedians their Due, to whom, in some Measure the best Dramatick Writers are oblig’d.
- 1755, George Colman, The Connaisseur, London: R. Baldwin, Volume 1, p. 1,[3]
- When a Comedian, celebrated for his excellence in the part of Shylock, first undertook that character, he made daily visits to the center of business, the ’Change, and the adjacent Coffee-houses; that by a frequent intercourse and conversation with “the unforeskinn’d race,” he might habituate himself to their air and deportment.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 51,[4]
- Becky, the nightingale, took the flowers which he threw to her and pressed them to her heart with the air of a consummate comedian.
- (obsolete) A writer of comedies.
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica, London, p. 5,[5]
- Neither is it recorded that the writings of those old Comedians were supprest, though the acting of them were forbid;
- 1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, London: Whitestone et al., Volume 3, Lecture 47, p. 377,[6]
- […] the Dramatic Author, in whom the French glory most, and whom they justly place at the head of all their Comedians, is, the famous Moliere.
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica, London, p. 5,[5]
Synonyms
- funnyman/funnywoman
Hypernyms
- (male comedian): comedian (male and female)
Hyponyms
- (comedian, male and female): comedian (male), comedienne (female)
See also
- tragedian
Translations
Anagrams
- daemonic, demoniac, dæmonic, midocean
Romanian
Etymology
From French comédien.
Noun
comedian m (plural comedieni)
- comedian
Declension
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