whittle

Значение (Английский)

Noun

A knife; especially, a clasp knife, pocket knife, or sheath knife.

Verb

1. To cut or shape wood with a knife.
2. To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).
3. To make eager or excited; to excite with liquor; to inebriate.

Синонимы

carve

sharpen

plane

pare

chip off

chisel

grave

🪦

scrape off

hew

shave

reduce

cut

scrape

carve wood

slice

shape

make pointed

plane down

shave off

bark

trim off

chip away

chop

crossout

curtail

cut off

decrease

facet

hack

lessen

lower

polish

🇵🇱

rip

sculpt

sculpture

Произносится как (IPA)

/ˈʍɪtəl/

Этимология (Английский)

Унаследовано от среднеанглийский: whittel

Родственно старонорвежский: þveita

Родственно древнегреческий: σείω

Унаследовано от среднеанглийский: whytel

Унаследовано от староанглийский: hwītel

Родственно исландский: hvítill

In summary

From Middle English whittel (“large knife”), an alteration of thwitel, itself from thwiten (“to whittle”), from Old English þwītan (“to strike down, whittle”), from Proto-Germanic *þwītaną, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *twey- (“to shake, hurl, toss”). Compare Old Norse þveita (“to hurl”), Ancient Greek σείω (seíō, “I shake”). Related to thwite and thwaite.