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shanghai
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??æ??ha?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??æ?.ha?/, /??æ??ha?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Etymology 1
American English, from Shanghai, with reference to the former practice of forcibly crewing ships heading for the Orient.
Verb
shanghai (third-person singular simple present shanghais, present participle shanghaiing, simple past and past participle shanghaied)
- (transitive) To force or trick (someone) into joining a ship as part of the crew.
- Synonym: press-gang
- 1999 June 24, ‘The Resurrection of Tom Waits’, in Rolling Stone, quoted in Innocent When You Dream, Orion (2006), page 256,
- It was the strangest galley: the sounds, the steam, he's screaming at his coworkers. I felt like I'd been shanghaied.
- (transitive) To abduct or coerce.
- Synonym: press-gang
- 1974 September 30, ‘Final Report on the Activities of the Children of God',
- Oftentimes the approach is to shanghai an unsuspecting victim.
- (transitive, US) To trick (a person) into entering a jurisdiction where they can lawfully be arrested.
- (transitive) To commandeer; appropriate; hijack
- (transitive, military, slang) To transfer (a person) against their will.
- 2020, Stephen Crane, ?Ambrose Bierce, The Military MEGAPACK®: 25 Great Tales of War (page 329)
- “Why, if you so loved and cherished the armed guard,” Captain Banning continued, “did you arrange for transfer?”
“I never, sir! ... But he shanghaied me out of the armed guard pronto.”
- “Why, if you so loved and cherished the armed guard,” Captain Banning continued, “did you arrange for transfer?”
- 2020, Stephen Crane, ?Ambrose Bierce, The Military MEGAPACK®: 25 Great Tales of War (page 329)
Translations
Noun
shanghai (plural shanghais)
- (US, archaic) A tall dandy.
Etymology 2
From Scottish shangan, from Scottish Gaelic seangan, influenced by the Chinese city.
Noun
shanghai (plural shanghais)
- (Australia, New Zealand) A slingshot.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 206:
- They scrounged around the camp […] and held out their filthy wings to the feeble sun, making themselves an easy target for Charles's shanghai.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 206:
Translations
References
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ging
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English gyng, gynge, genge, from Old English genge (“a troop, privy, company, retinue”), from Proto-Germanic *gangij? (“pace, walk”). Cognate with Middle Low German gink (“a going, turn, way”), Old Norse gengi (“accompaniment, entourage, help”), Icelandic gengi (“rate”). Related to Old English gengan (“to go”), from Proto-Germanic *gangijan? (“to go”). More at gang.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????/
Noun
ging (plural gings)
- (obsolete) A company; troop; a gang.
- (dated) A slingshot
Etymology 2
From ginger
Pronunciation
Noun
ging (plural gings)
- (informal) A redhead, a ginger-haired person
Anagrams
- GIGN
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??
Verb
ging
- singular past indicative of gaan
Garo
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???/
Noun
ging
- nose, snot, mucus
Derived terms
- gingkol
- gingnabak
- gingriking
- gingsep
- gingsi
- gingsika
- gingti
- gingting
References
- Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon?[1], Bangladesh: University of Michigan
- Mason, M.C. (1904) , English-Garo Dictionary, Mittal Publications, New Delhi, India
- Garo-Hindi-English Learners' Dictionary, North-Eastern Hill University Publications, Shillong
German
Alternative forms
- gieng (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???/
Verb
ging
- first/third-person singular preterite of gehen
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???/
Noun
ging f (genitive singular ginge, nominative plural gingeacha)
- Ulster form of ding (“wedge”)
Declension
Middle English
Adjective
ging
- Alternative form of yong
ging From the web:
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- what ginger tea good for
- what ginger does for the body
- what ginger ale is made with real ginger
- what ginger ale good for
- what ginger beer for moscow mule
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