foul
Significado (English)
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- Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
- Obscene, vulgar or abusive.
- Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.
- Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
- (obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.
- Unpleasant, stormy or rainy. (of the weather)
- Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
- Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
- (with "of") Positioned on, in, or near enough to (a specified area) so as to obstruct it.
- Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
Synonyms
strong-smelling
ill-scented
marked-up
act dishonestly
bad-smelling
dirty-minded
do wrong
make dirty
renegue on
be spattered
be blotted with
be soiled
be stained with
not clean
extremely bad
make foul/dirty
bare-knuckle
bare-knuckled
collide with
renege on
run foul of
play foul
Frecuencia
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/faʊl/
Etimoloxía (English)
In summary
Inherited from Middle English foul, from Old English fūl (“foul, dirty, unclean, impure, vile, corrupt, rotten, stinking, guilty”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūl, from Proto-Germanic *fūlaz (“foul, rotten”), from Proto-Indo-European *puH- (“to rot”). Cognate with Dutch vuil (“foul, dirty, filthy, obscene, lewd”), German faul (“foul, rotten, putrid, lazy”), German Low German fuul (“foul, rotten, putrid”), Faroese fúlur (“foul”), Icelandic fúll (“foul, rotten, sullen”), Danish ful (“nasty, ugly”), Norwegian Bokmål ful (“clever, sly”), Norwegian Bokmål ful (“clever, sly”) and Swedish ful (“ugly, dirty, bad”), and through Indo-European, with Albanian fëlliq (“to make dirty”), Latin puter (“rotten”). More at putrid. Ancient Greek φαῦλος (phaûlos, “bad”) is a false cognate inasmuch as it is not from the same etymon, instead being cognate to few.
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