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zester
English
Etymology
zest +? -er
Noun
zester (plural zesters)
- A kitchen implement used to remove the zest of citrus fruit.
Hypernyms
- (kitchen implement): bar tool, implement, kitchen implement
Translations
Anagrams
- Setzer, trezes
French
Etymology
zeste +? -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /z?s.te/
Verb
zester
- to zest
Conjugation
Further reading
- “zester” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- restez, stérez, tersez
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fester
English
Etymology
From Old French festre (cognate with Italian fistola, Occitan fistola, Spanish fístula), from Latin fistula. The verb is derived from the noun, while the “condition of something that festers” noun sense is derived from the verb. Doublet of fistula.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f?st?(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f?st?/
- Rhymes: -?st?(?)
- Hyphenation: fes?ter
Noun
fester (plural festers)
- (pathology, obsolete) A fistula.
- (pathology) A sore or an ulcer of the skin.
- The condition of something that festers; a festering; a festerment.
Verb
fester (third-person singular simple present festers, present participle festering, simple past and past participle festered)
- (intransitive) To become septic; to become rotten.
- (intransitive) To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.
- (transitive) To cause to fester or rankle.
- c. 1599–1600, John Marston, Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. As it hath beene Sundry Times Acted, by the Children of Paules, London: Printed [by Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] in Saint Dunstans Church-yarde, published 1602, ?OCLC, Act I, scene i; republished in J[ames] O[rchard] Halliwell, editor, The Works of John Marston. Reprinted from the Original Editions. With Notes, and some Account of His Life and Writings. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: John Russell Smith, Soho Square, 1856, ?OCLC, page 74:
- For which I burnt in inward sweltring hate, / And festred rankling malice in my breast, / Till I might belke revenge upon his eyes: […]
- c. 1599–1600, John Marston, Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. As it hath beene Sundry Times Acted, by the Children of Paules, London: Printed [by Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] in Saint Dunstans Church-yarde, published 1602, ?OCLC, Act I, scene i; republished in J[ames] O[rchard] Halliwell, editor, The Works of John Marston. Reprinted from the Original Editions. With Notes, and some Account of His Life and Writings. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: John Russell Smith, Soho Square, 1856, ?OCLC, page 74:
Conjugation
Derived terms
- festeringly
- festerment
- festerous (rare)
Translations
Anagrams
- efters, freest, freets
Danish
Noun
fester c
- indefinite plural of fest
Verb
fester
- present of feste
German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?st?
Adjective
fester
- inflection of fest:
- strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- strong genitive/dative feminine singular
- strong genitive plural
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
fester m
- indefinite plural of fest
Verb
fester
- present of feste
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse festr.
Noun
fester f (definite singular festra or festri, indefinite plural festrer, definite plural festrene)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by fest f
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
fester f
- indefinite plural of fest
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
fester
- present tense of feste (“to fasten”)
Swedish
Noun
fester
- indefinite plural of fest
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