grass

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
2. (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
3. (uncountable) A lawn.
4. (uncountable) The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
5. (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
6. (British, countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
7. (uncountable) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
8. (slang, uncountable) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
9. (countable, uncountable) The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
10. (countable, figuratively, obsolete) That which is transitory.
11. (countable) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
12. (countable) The surface of a mine.

Verb

1. (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
2. (intransitive, slang, transitive) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
3. (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
4. (transitive) To feed with grass.
5. (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
6. (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

Sinonieme

weed

herb

🌿

lawn

pasture

straw

marijuana

weeds

turf

fodder

herbs

hay

pot

Mary Jane

plant

🌱

thatch

flower

🌸

supergrass

snitch

ganja

green goddess

herbage

reeds

sward

betray

forage

grass over

vegetables

gage

locoweed

sess

skunk

🦨

brush

informer

hemp

dope

leaves

🍃

tell on

denounce

sod

stag

🦌

cereal

shit

💩

smoke

stool pigeon

vegetable

rat

🐀

blade of grass

shop

give away

reed

Vertalings

herbe

hierba

🌿

Gras

erba

gras

erva

🌿

pasto

yerba

grama

herba

🌿

ot

césped

γρασίδι

Rasen

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ɡɹɑːs/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: gras

Geërf van Old English: græs

Verwante met Skots: girs

Verwante met Noord-Fries: gäärs

Verwante met Saterfriesisch: Gäärs

Verwante met Fries: gers

Verwante met Nederduits: Gras

Verwante met Nederlands: gras

Verwante met Duits: Gras

Verwante met Deens: græs

Verwante met Sweeds: gräs

Verwante met Boeknoors: gress

Verwante met Faroëes: -

Verwante met Yslands: -

Verwante met Nuwe Noors: gras

Verwante met Latyn: herba

Verwante met Albanees: grath

In summary

From Middle English gras, from Old English græs, from Proto-Germanic *grasą (“grass”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots girs, gers, gress (“grass”), North Frisian gäärs, geers (“grass”), Saterland Frisian Gäärs (“grass”), West Frisian gers (“grass”), Low German Gras (“grass”), Dutch gras (“grass, turf, pasture”), German Gras (“grass, weed”), Danish græs (“grass”), Swedish gräs (“grass”), Norwegian Bokmål gress (“grass”), Faroese, Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk gras (“grass”), Latin herba (“plant, weed, grass”), Albanian grath (“grass blade, spike”). Related to grow, green.
The "informer" sense is probably a shortening of grasshopper (“police officer, informant”), rhyming slang for copper (“police officer”) or shopper (“informant”); the exact sequence of derivation is unclear.