glove
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- An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.
- A baseball mitt.
- The ability to catch a hit ball.
- (slang) A condom.
- A challenge from one to another.
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Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ɡlʌv/
Etimologia
From Middle English glove, glofe, from Old English glōf, *glōfe, *glōfa, ("glove"; weak forms attested only in plural form glōfan (“gloves”)), from Proto-Germanic *galōfô (“glove”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- (“collective and associative prefix”) + Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“flat of the hand, palm”), from Proto-Indo-European *lāp-, *lēp-, *lep- (“flat”). Cognate with Scots gluve, gluive (“glove”), Icelandic glófi (“glove”). Related to Middle English lofe, lufe (“palm of the hand”). More at loof.
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