caler
Meaning
- (transitive) to wedge (open) (a door)
- (transitive) to jam (machinery etc.), to stall (an engine)
- (intransitive) to stall (of driver, engine)
- (transitive) to fill (someone) up
- (colloquial, intransitive) (of person eating) to be full
- (transitive) to synchronize
- (Quebec, transitive) to chug (an alcoholic beverage)
- (Quebec, transitive) to be bald or balding, to go or be going bald
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Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ka.le/
Etymology
In summary
Borrowed from Old Occitan calar, from Ancient Greek χαλάω (khaláō).
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