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wintry
English
Alternative forms
- wintery
Etymology
From Old English wintrig. Also constructed from winter +? -y.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w?nt(?)??/
- (General American) enPR: w?n?t(?-)r?, IPA(key): /?w?nt(?)?i/, [?w???(?)?i]
- Rhymes: -?nt?i
- Hyphenation: win?try
Adjective
wintry (comparative wintrier, superlative wintriest)
- Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.
- wintry weather
- Of precipitation, containing sleet or snow.
- It will be cloudy overnight, with outbreaks of heavy rain at times. The rain may turn wintry over higher ground.
- Aged, white-haired.
- Chilling, cheerless.
- 1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet, The Bounder's Folly
- He reached the old ruins at last, dim masses of moss-grown masonry in the glimmer of the wintry starlight.
- a wintry remark
- 1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet, The Bounder's Folly
Synonyms
- (suggestive or characteristic of winter): brumal, hibernal, hiemal
Derived terms
Translations
References
- wintry at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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raw
English
Etymology
From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hr?aw (“raw, uncooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hr?waz (“raw”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh?- (“raw meat, fresh blood”). Cognate with Scots raw (“raw”), Dutch rauw (“raw”), German roh (“raw”), Swedish rå (“raw”), Icelandic hrár (“raw”), Latin cr?dus (“raw, bloody, uncooked”), Irish cró (“blood”), Lithuanian kraujas (“blood”), Russian ????? (krov?, “blood”). Related also to Old English hr?ow, hr?oh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, sad, stormy, tempestuous”). More at ree.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: rô, IPA(key): /???/
- Rhymes: -??
- (US) enPR: rô, IPA(key): /??/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: r?, IPA(key): /??/
- (cot–caught merger, father-bother merger) enPR: rä, IPA(key): /??/
- Homophones: roar (in non-rhotic accents), rah (with cot-caught merger and father-bother merger)
Adjective
raw (comparative rawer, superlative rawest)
- (cooking) (of food) Not cooked. [from 9th c.]
- (of materials, products, etc.) Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. [from 10th c.]
- Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated. [from 14th c.]
- New or inexperienced. [from 16th c.]
- Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated. [from 16th c.]
- (statistics) (of data) Uncorrected, without analysis. [from 20th c.]
- 2010, "Under the volcano", The Economist, 16 Oct 2010:
- What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.
- 2010, "Under the volcano", The Economist, 16 Oct 2010:
- (of weather) Unpleasantly cold or damp.
- (of an emotion, personality, etc.) Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed
- Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
- (of language) Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters
- (obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:raw
Derived terms
- rawly
- rawness
- raw sugar
Translations
Adverb
raw
- (slang) Without a condom.
Synonyms
- (without a condom): Thesaurus:condomless
Translations
Noun
raw (plural raws)
- (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
- 1800, Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association, Lousiana Sugar Chemists' Association, American Cane Growers' Association, The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, Volume 22, page 287,
- With the recent advance in London yellow crystals, however, the disproportion of the relative value of these two kinds has been considerably reduced, and a better demand for crystallized raws should consequently occur.
- 1921, American Chemical Society, The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Volume 13, Part 1, page 149,
- Early in the year the raws were melted to about 20 Brix in order to facilitate filtration.
- 1939, The Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Volume 148, Part 2, page 2924,
- The world sugar contract closed 1 to 3 points net higher, with sales of only 36 lots. London raws sold at 8s. 4½d., and futures there were unchanged to 3d. higher.
- 1800, Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association, Lousiana Sugar Chemists' Association, American Cane Growers' Association, The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, Volume 22, page 287,
- A galled place; an inveterate sore.
- (by extension, figuratively) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
- 1934, Harold Heslop, Goaf (page 29)
- In a moment Tom was angry. The women saw that Bill had touched him upon the raw, and they went out of the room to prepare a meal.
- 1934, Harold Heslop, Goaf (page 29)
- (anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
- (manga fandom slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.
Translations
Anagrams
- RWA, Rwa, WAR, WRA, War, War., war, war-
Anguthimri
Adjective
raw
- (Mpakwithi) black
References
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 188
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English hr?aw.
Noun
raw
- Alternative form of rawe (“raw”)
Etymology 2
From Old English r?w, r?w.
Noun
raw
- Alternative form of rewe (“row”)
Welsh
Noun
raw
- Soft mutation of rhaw.
Mutation
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