From en.wiktionary.org:
[stash]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
Late [en], originally a verb of uncertain etymology. Perhaps of [en] origin,
or possibly from [en], a variant of [fro], which is likely a [en] borrowing,
from [en].
Used in the [Wycliffe Bible] as _slascht_ (see 1 Kings 5:18) but otherwise
unattested until 16th century. Conjunctive use from various applications of
the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩. _See also_ [EN].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A slash ing action or motion :
1. A swift , broad cut ting stroke , especially one made with an edged weapon or whip .
2. [en] A wide striking motion made with an implement such as a cricket bat , hockey stick , or lacrosse stick .
3. [en] A sharp reduction in resource s allot ted.
2. A mark made by slash ing:
1. A deep cut or laceration , as made by an edged weapon or whip .
2. [en] A deep taper - pointed incision in a plant .
3. Something resembling such a mark:
1. [en] A slit in an outer garment , usually exposing a lining or inner garment of a contrast ing color or design . [Clearing]
2. [en] A clearing in a forest , _particularly_ one made by logging , fire , or other violent action .
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1895 | author=w:Henry Van Dyke | title=Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness
|passage=We passed over the shoulder of a ridge and around the edge of a fire
SLASH, and then we had the mountain fairly before us.}}
1. [en] The slash mark : the punctuation mark ⟨ / ⟩.
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1965 | author=Dmitri A. Borgmann | title=Language on Vacation | page=240
|passage=Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like
[slant], [slant line], [slash], and [slash mark]. Examination of typing
instruction manuals discloses additional names such as [diagonal] and
[diagonal mark], and other sources provide the designation [oblique].}}
1. [en] Any similar typographical mark, such as the backslash ⟨ \ ⟩.
1. [en] The vulva .
1. [en] The loose woody debris remain ing from a slash ; the trimming s left while preparing felled tree s for removal .
2. [en] [slash fiction] ; fan fiction focus ed on homoerotic pairing of fictional character s.
3. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=2013 | author=Katherine Arcement | title=Diary | journal=London Review of Books | volume=35 | issue=5
|passage=Comments merely allow readers to proclaim themselves mortally
offended by the content of a story, despite having been warned in large block
letters of INCEST or SLASH (any kind of sex between two men or two women: the
term originated with the Kirk/Spock pairing – it described the literal slash
between their names).}}
***** Synonyms
- [deep cut] [en]
- [typographic mark] [en] ; [en] [formal name] ; [en] [chiefly UK] ; [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] [sometimes proscribed] ; [en] [marking line breaks] ; [en] [UK] ; [en] s, [en] s [marking pronunciations] ; [en] [proofreading mark] ; [en] [former use as a form of comma] ; [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] [chiefly UK] ; [en] , [en] [dated] ; [en] [obsolete] ; [en] [UK] ; [en] [improper] ; [en] [improper]
- [vulgar term for female genitalia] _See_ [EN]
***** Antonyms
- [en]
***** Hypernyms
- [typographic mark] [en] [in fractions] ; [en] [in division]
***** Hyponyms
- [en]
- [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col4|en|dot dot slash |backslash|slash movie |foreslash
|frontslash|non-slash |slashable |slash pocket |slashy |slashfic |femslash
|backward slash|hack-and-slash|pre-slash|slash bunt|slash chord|slash
dupe|slash hook|slash line|slash pine|slash print|slash-and-burn|slash-mark
|slash area |slash fiction |slash fire |slash mark }}
***** Translations
[swift cut with a blade]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th]
[trans-bottom]
[ice hockey, lacrosse: quick and hard lateral strike with a player's stick]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[typography: / symbol]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] [colloquial] , [fi] [when reading out the symbol]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey] , [nrf] [Jersey]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw] , [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] , [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[slash fiction]
[vulgar slang: female genitalia]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- French: [fr] (3)
- Japanese: [ja]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
[trans-bottom]
***** See also
[list:punctuation/en]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To cut or attempt to cut , _particularly_ :
1. To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edge d weapon .
2. To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip .
3. [en] To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick , usually across another player 's arm s or leg s.
4. [en] To reduce sharply .
5. [en] To create slash es in a garment .
6. [en] To criticize cutting ly.
2. To strike violent ly and random ly, _particularly_ :
1. [en] To swing wildly at the ball .
3. To move quick ly and violent ly.
4. To crack a whip with a slash ing motion .
5. [en] To clear land , [en] with violent action such as logging or brushfire s or [en] through grazing .
6. [en] To write slash fiction .
7. * [en]
***** Synonyms
- [to strike with a whip] [en] , [en] , [en]
- [to strike a whip] [en]
***** Coordinate terms
- [slash fiction] [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col4|en| |femslasher |slasher |slash down |slash off |slash out |slash pile
|slash up }}
***** Translations
[to make a broad cut with an edged weapon]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] [of grasses]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey] , [nrf] [Jersey]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
**** Adverb
[-]
1. [Used to note the sound or action of a slash.]
**** Conjunction
[en-con]
1. [en] [Used to connect two or more identities in a list.]
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en-US]
5. [en] [Used to list alternatives.]
***** Usage notes
Typically written with the slash mark ⟨/⟩ and only spoken or transcribed as
the word "slash". Often omitted from speech and only marked as a brief pause
between the alternatives. Exclusively omitted in common constructions such as
[en], [en], and [en]/[en].
***** Synonyms
- [exclusive or] [en]
- [inclusive or] [en] , [en] , [en]
- [UK] [en]
**** Further reading
- [pedia]
*** Etymology 2
[en]. Compare [sco], possibly from [fro]. Slang use for urination attested
from the 1950s.
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A drink of something ; a draft .
2. [en] A piss : an act of urination .
3. [en] [piss] ; urine .
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To piss , to urinate .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1973 | author=Martin Amis | title=The Rachel Papers, | page=189
|passage=If you can SLASH in my bed (I thought) don't tell me you can't suck
my cock.}}
***** Translations
[slang: an act of urination]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] [slang] , [ru] [slang]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 3
[en]. Compare British dialectal [en] and [sco] and [sco].<!--Chambers 1908
mentions Swedish "slaska", dabble; "slask", wet.--> Perhaps related to [sv].
Compare also [en]: in many cases it is difficult to tell whether that sense or
this one is meant. (Also compare [en].)
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A swampy area ; a swamp .
2. * 1687 , Colonial Virginia _Patents 7_ , page 590, quoted in 1940 , George Davis McJimsey, _Topographic Terms in Virginia_ , page 120:
3. *: On the North side of one of ye Windings of a great SLASH or Swamp called ye Roundabout.
4. * 1694 , Edmond Andros, Isabella Mackland, colonial Virginia record (granting land to Robert Beverly), quoted in 1988 , Beverley Fleet, _Virginia Colonial Abstracts_ , page 318:
5. *: three acres one Rood and Six pole of Land [ ... ] Extending Northward along the Ditch thirty six poles and two fifths of a pole to a SLASH called Pitch and Tar SLASH or Swamp [ , ] then along that SLASH till it come to the Main Cart road westward [ ... ]
6. * 1694 October 26, colonial Virginia record (regarding Capt. Richard Halle of the County of Essex)m quoted in 1988 , Beverley Fleet, _Virginia Colonial Abstracts_ , page 406:
7. *: 720 acres "lying in the Forrest between Rappahannock and Mattapony river". Adjoins Goldman's land, the line of Robins by and [SIC] old Indian path in a SLASH , the land of Majr Robert Beverley, deceased.
8. * 1714 , Colonial Virginia _Patents 10_ , pages 153, 168, quoted in 1940 , George Davis McJimsey, _Topographic Terms in Virginia_ , page 121:
9. *: Thence . . . to two small pines by a SLASH or Sunken ground. . . . Thence . . . to two white oaks by a SLASH in lowground.
10. * 1715 , Colonial Virginia _Patents 10_ , 247, quoted in 1940 , George Davis McJimsey, _Topographic Terms in Virginia_ , page 121:
11. *: Beginning at the North side of a SLASH incomposeing Long [ ... ]
12. * 1747 September, John Garrott, Virginia deed (of Amelia County, Deed Book 2, page 542) quoted in 1988 , Beverley Fleet, _Virginia Colonial Abstracts_ , page 459:
13. *: 80 acres in Amelia Co., in the fork betw Persimmon SLASH and the Gulley [ . ]
14. [en] A slash pine , which grows in such (swampy) areas.
15. * 1932 , Mr. Yon, statement regarding a waterway from Choctawhatchee Bay to West Bay, Florida, printed in the _Hearings_ of the United States House Committee on Rivers and Harbors '' (1932), page 8:
16. *: [...] second growth long-leaf yellow SLASH . And also we have a short-leaf pine.
17. * [ 1935 , _Miscellaneous Publication_ , issue 209, page 15:
18. *: Slash pine (Pinus caribaea Morelet) / Slash pine is also known as yellow slash, swamp pine, hill slash, and Cuban pine. ]
19. [en] A large quantity of watery food such as broth .
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To work in wet conditions.
*** Etymology 4
_See_ [EN]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] : a deep trough of finely - fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal .
*** References
- _Oxford English Dictionary_ , 1st ed. "slash, _v.¹_ & _v._ ²" & "slash, _n.¹_ , _n.²_ , _n.³_ , & '' n.⁴ {"content": "''", "type": "DELIM", "wikinode": "WikiDelimNode"} ". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1911.
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro].
*** Pronunciation
- [ro]
*** Noun
[n]
1. [en] [sign]
**** Declension
[pl=slash-uri]
** Spanish
*** Pronunciation
[eslash]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [es] [en]