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# úhor
## Czech
### Alternative forms

* ouhor

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech úhor, from Proto-Slavic *ugorъ. Cognate with Polish ugór and Serbo-Croatian ugar (“fallow land”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈuːɦor]
* Hyphenation: úhor

### Noun

úhor m inan
* fallow (land)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “úhor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “úhor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “úhor”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈuːɦɔr]

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ǫgořь.

#### Noun

úhor m animal (relational adjective úhorí)
* eel of the suborder Anguilloidei, especially:
** freshwater eel, anguillid
* (in the plural) Anguilliformes
    Synonym: úhorotvaré

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ugorъ.

#### Noun

úhor m inan (relational adjective úhorový)
* fallow (land)
    Synonym: prieloh

##### Declension
### Further reading

* “úhor”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025
# молодежь
## Russian
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [məɫɐˈdʲɵʂ] (phonetic respelling: молодёжь)

#### Noun

молодежь • (molodjóžʹ) f inan
* Alternative spelling of молодёжь (molodjóžʹ)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmoɫədʲɪʂ]

#### Noun

мо́лодежь • (mólodežʹ) f inan (genitive мо́лодежи, uncountable)
* (dialectal) Alternative form of молодёжь (molodjóžʹ)
# ծռել
## Armenian
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Armenian ծռեմ (cṙem).

### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /t͡səˈrel/, [t͡sərél]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /d͡zəˈɾel/, [d͡zəɾél]

### Verb

ծռել • (cṙel)
* (transitive) to bend, to curve

#### Inflection

*colloquial **dated
*colloquial **dated

#### Related terms

* ծուռ (cuṙ)
# دبو
## Malay
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

دبو (plural دبو-دبو or دبو۲, informal 1st possessive دبوکو, 2nd possessive دبومو, 3rd possessive دبوڽ)
* Jawi spelling of debu‎

### Etymology 2
#### Pronoun

دبو
* Jawi spelling of debu‎
# حقوقي
## Arabic

* Root
* ح ق ق (ḥ q q)
* 21 terms

### Etymology

Relative adjective (nisba) composed of حُقُوق (ḥuqūq, “law, jurisprudence”) +‎ ـِيّ (-iyy). The word حُقُوق (ḥuqūq) is the plural of حَقّ (ḥaqq, “right”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ħu.quː.qijj/

### Adjective

حُقُوقِيّ • (ḥuqūqiyy) (feminine حُقُوقِيَّة (ḥuqūqiyya), masculine plural حُقُوقِيُّونَ (ḥuqūqiyyūna), feminine plural حُقُوقِيَّات (ḥuqūqiyyāt))
* legal, juristic

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: hüquqi
* → Ottoman Turkish: حقوقی (hukûkî)
** → Turkish: hukuki

### Noun

حُقُوقِيّ • (ḥuqūqiyy) m (plural حُقُوقِيُّونَ (ḥuqūqiyyūna), feminine حُقُوقِيَّة (ḥuqūqiyya))
* jurist, legal expert

#### Declension
### References

* Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “حقوقي”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “حقوقي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
* Wehr, Hans (1960) “حقوقي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz

## Hijazi Arabic

* Root
* ح ق ق
* 5 terms

### Etymology

From Arabic حُقُوقِيّ (ḥuqūqiyy).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ħu.ɡuː.ɡi/

### Adjective

حقوقي • (ḥugūgi) (feminine حقوقية (ḥugūgiyya), common plural حقوقيّين (ḥugūgiyyīn))
* legal
# Galbavý
## Czech
### Etymology

Ultimately derived from Hungarian balog (“left-handed”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɡalbaviː]

### Proper noun

Galbavý m anim (female equivalent Galbavá)
* a male surname

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “Galbavý”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

## Slovak
### Etymology

From galbavý, ultimately derived from Hungarian balog (“left-handed”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɡalbaviː]

### Proper noun

Galbavý m pers (female equivalent Galbavá)
* a male surname

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “Galbavý”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025
# avarice
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English avarice, from Old French, from Latin avāritia, from avārus (“greedy”).

### Pronunciation

* (non-merged vowel) IPA: /ˈævəɹɪs/
* (merged vowel) IPA: /ˈævəɹəs/, /ˈævɹəs/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ævəɹəs

### Noun

avarice (usually uncountable, plural avarices)
* Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth
    Synonyms: covetousness, cupidity
* Inordinate desire for some supposed good.

#### Synonyms

* avariciousness
* See also Thesaurus:greed

#### Related terms

* avaricious, avariciously

#### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### References

* ↑ “avarice”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

### Anagrams

* caviare

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French avarice, borrowed from Latin avaritia. Cognate with Italian avarizia, Portuguese avareza, Spanish avaricia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.va.ʁis/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -is

### Noun

avarice f (plural avarices)
* greed; avarice

#### Related terms

* avare
* avarement
* avaricieux

### Further reading

* “avarice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Old French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin avaritia.

### Noun

avarice oblique singular, f (oblique plural avarices, nominative singular avarice, nominative plural avarices)
* greed; avarice

#### Descendants

* → English: avarice
* French: avarice
# barber surgeon
## English
### Noun

barber surgeon (plural barber surgeons)
* (historical) A medical practitioner of medieval Europe, generally charged with looking after soldiers during or after a battle.
# bibliologist
## English
### Etymology

From bibliology +‎ -ist.

### Noun

bibliologist (plural bibliologists)
* One who studies bibliology.
# مردود
## Arabic

* Root
* ر د د (r d d)
* 18 terms

### Etymology

Derived from the passive participle of the verb رَدَّ (radda, “to return something”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mar.duːd/

### Adjective

مَرْدُود • (mardūd) (feminine مَرْدُودَة (mardūda), masculine plural مَرْدُودُونَ (mardūdūna), feminine plural مَرْدُودَات (mardūdāt))
* passive participle of رَدَّ (radda)
** rejected
** (Islam) rejected (Hadith terminology)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: mərdud
* → Persian: مردود
** → Urdu: مردود
* → Ottoman Turkish: مردود (merdûd)
** Turkish: merdud

### Noun

مَرْدُود • (mardūd) m (plural مَرْدُودَات (mardūdāt))
* (finance) yield, pay-off, returns, revenue

#### Declension
## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَرْدُود (mardūd).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [maɾ.ˈduːð]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäɾ.d̪úːd̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäɾ.d̪úːd̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [mäɾ.d̪úːd̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mäɾ.d̪úd̪̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [mæɹ.d̪úːd̪̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [mäɾ.d̪úd̪]

### Adjective

مردود • (mardud)
* rejected
* failed, rejected (in school)
    Synonym: رفوزه (rofuze)

### Further reading

* Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مردود”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
* Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “مردود”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
# bride price
## English
### Alternative forms

* bride-price, brideprice

### Noun

bride price (plural bride prices)
* In some cultures, a sum of money or other valuables paid by a bridegroom or on his behalf to the family of the bride.
** 1937, Grace Crowfoot, “Custom and Folk Tale in Palestine. The Dowry or Bride Price,”, in Folklore, volume 48, number 1, page 31:It is well known in Artas as in other villages exactly what the bride price should customarily be—so much for a cousin bride, so much more for a village bride, more still for a stranger.
** 2017 January 4, Liu Zhen, “Don’t pay over 60,000 yuan for a bride, say Chinese officials”, in South China Morning Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 January 2017, China‎:Taiqian county in Henan province has issued guidelines saying grooms should pay no more than 60,000 yuan (HK$67,000) as a “bride price”, the Chinese tradition that a male partner offers money to his fiancée’s family to secure their marriage.
** 2018 November, Lucy Moore, “Founding Mothers”, in Literary Review:Their fares across the Atlantic were paid on the understanding that when they married, their Virginian husbands would pay a bride price for them of 150 pounds of tobacco, then worth about £22 (perhaps seven years’ salary for a domestic maid).

#### Synonyms

* bride gift, bride-gift, bridegift
* bride token
* bride wealth, bride-wealth, bridewealth
* dower
* reverse dowry
* mahr

#### Translations
### References

* “bride price”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
# clumsy
## English
### Etymology

Possibly from an alteration of clumsed (“benumbed”) or from clumse (“a stupid fellow; lout”) +‎ -y. More at clumse.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /ˈklʌmzi/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

clumsy (comparative clumsier, superlative clumsiest)
* Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous.
    He's very clumsy. I wouldn't trust him with carrying the dishes.
* Not elegant or well-planned, lacking tact or subtlety.
    It is a clumsy solution, but it might work for now.
    What a clumsy joke
** 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], “The Prologue”, in Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, signature A2, recto:The ravviſh danke of clumzie vvinter ramps / The fluent ſummers vaine: and drizling ſleete / Chilleth the vvan bleak cheek of the numd earth, / VVhilſt ſnarling guſts nibble the iuyceles leaues, / From the nak't ſhuddring branch; […]
* Awkward or inefficient in use or construction, difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape.

#### Derived terms

* beclumpse
* clumsily
* clumsiness

#### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### Noun

clumsy (plural clumsies)
* (informal, fairly rare) A clumsy person.
** 1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “Bad Tuesday”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 82:On the stairs he met Ellen, the housemaid, and as he passed her he knocked the hot-water jug out of her hand. “Well, you are a clumsy,” said Ellen, as she bent down to mop up the water.

#### Synonyms

* butterfingers
* galoot
* klutz

#### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

#### See also

* clumsies

### Anagrams

* cumyls, muscly
# cosmic
## English
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek κοσμικός (kosmikós)

### Pronunciation

* enPR: kŏz'mĭk, IPA: /ˈkɒz.mɪk/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Adjective

cosmic (comparative more cosmic, superlative most cosmic)
* Of or from or pertaining to the cosmos or universe.
* Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast.
    cosmic speed
** 1874 October, John Tyndall, “Inaugural Address before the British Association”, in Popular Science, page 683:The human understanding, for example—the faculty which Mr. Spencer has turned so skillfully round upon its own antecedents—is itself a result of the play between organism and environment through cosmic ranges of time.
* Of or relating to abstract spiritual or metaphysical ideas.
** 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 9:Humpty Dumpty is the cosmic egg, the wall, the edge between transcendence and existence. As nothing breaks up into the world of things, the movement toward entropy becomes irreversible.
** 1999, John W. Milor, Apparition, page 272:“It's called transdimentional awareness,” Jay contributed to the conversation, “and it's like totally cosmic man.”
* (astronomy, dated) Rising or setting with the sun; not acronycal.

#### Derived terms

* acosmic
* anthropocosmic
* astrocosmic
* biocosmic
* cosmically
* cosmic background radiation
* cosmic bowling
* cosmic calendar
* cosmic censorship
* cosmic censorship hypothesis
* cosmic dust
* cosmic egg
* cosmic event horizon
* cosmic gravitational-wave background
* cosmic gravitational wave background
* cosmic infrared background
* cosmicism
* cosmicist
* cosmicity
* cosmicize
* cosmic joker
* cosmic latte
* cosmic microwave background
* cosmic neutrino background
* cosmic radiation
* cosmic ray
* cosmic singularity
* cosmic string
* cosmic teapot
* cosmic time
* cosmic wall
* cosmic web
* cosmic year
* first cosmic velocity
* geocosmic
* hypercosmic
* intercosmic
* neocosmic
* noncosmic
* pancosmic
* postcosmic
* precosmic
* psychocosmic
* second cosmic velocity
* sociocosmic
* supercosmic
* third cosmic velocity
* transcosmic
* ultracosmic

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* comics

## Friulian
### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Adjective

cosmic
* cosmic

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French cosmique.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkos.mik/

### Adjective

cósmic m or n (feminine singular cosmică, masculine plural cosmici, feminine and neuter plural cosmice)
* cosmic

#### Declension
### Further reading

* cosmic in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
# crematorium
## English
### Etymology

From New Latin crematorium.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /kɹɛməˈtɔːɹɪəm/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /kɹɛməˈtɔːɹɪəm/, /kɹiːməˈtɔːɹi.əm/

### Noun

crematorium (plural crematoriums or crematoria)
* A place where the bodies of dead people are cremated.

#### Related terms

* cremate
* cremation
* crematory

#### Translations
## Dutch
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌkreː.maːˈtoː.ri.ʏm/
* Hyphenation: cre‧ma‧to‧ri‧um
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -oːriʏm

### Noun

crematorium n (plural crematoria or crematoriums, diminutive crematoriumpje n)
* a crematorium, a crematory
** 1876 November 23, “Crematie”, in Java-bode, volume 25, number 277, page 3:De afgevaardigden naar Dresden, dr. Egeling en dr. Hoogewerff, brachten verslag uit van het aldaar gehouden kongres; daarbij werden overgelegd eenige exemplaren van de stenographische verhandelingen van het 'kongres, photographieën van teekeningen en plannen voor een groot crematorium van de ingenieur Pieper en den architekt Lilienthal, en van den Siemenschen oven, en Beilagen v. d. Augsburgschen Allgem. Zeitung waarin de redevoeringen van prof. Kinkel is opgenomen.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: krèmatorium

## Latin
### Etymology

cremō +‎ -tōrium

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kre.maːˈtoː.ri.um/, [krɛmäːˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kre.maˈto.ri.um/, [kremäˈt̪ɔːrium]

### Noun

cremātōrium n (genitive cremātōriī or cremātōrī); second declension
* (New Latin) crematorium

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).
$^1$Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
# detached
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɪˈtæt͡ʃt/
* IPA: /dəˈtæt͡ʃt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ætʃt
* Hyphenation: de‧tached

### Adjective

detached (comparative more detached, superlative most detached)
* Not physically attached; separated from something it could connect to.
    Synonyms: distinct, unattached; see also Thesaurus:separate
* Of a house: not joined to another house on either side.
** 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed‎:"That field is their football ground and the detached house is their library and recreation room."
* Having or showing no bias or emotional involvement; disinterested.
    Synonyms: objective, unbiased; see also Thesaurus:impartial
* Not influenced by anyone else; characterized by an impersonal objectivity; impartial.

#### Derived terms

* detached house
* detachedly
* detachedness
* detached work
* nondetached
* semi-detached
* semidetached
* undetached

#### Translations
### Verb

detached
* simple past and past participle of detach
# light side of the Force
## English
### Etymology

From the Star Wars saga.

### Noun

light side of the Force
* (figuratively) The side of good; the side that works for the greater good.
    Coordinate term: dark side of the Force
# edible crab
## English
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

edible crab (plural edible crabs)
* Cancer pagurus; a species of robust crab of a reddish-brown color found in the North Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, and perhaps in the Mediterranean Sea.
* Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see edible,‎ crab.

#### Synonyms

* brown crab
# electrolytic
## English
### Etymology

From electrolyte +‎ -ic.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ɨˌlɛk.tɹɵˈlɪ.tɪk/

### Adjective

electrolytic (not comparable)
* Relating to electrolysis
** 2020 July 1, “First electric trains operate through Severn Tunnel”, in Rail, page 20:However, approaching energisation, electrolytic corrosion was discovered between the copper contact wire and aluminium beams in the tunnel. The corrosion was caused by the dissimilar metals. An aluminium contact wire system which prevents electrolytic corrosion was subsequently developed, tested and adopted within a year, and replaced the earlier copper installation.
* Relating to electrolytes

#### Derived terms

* electrolytical
* electrolytically
* electrolytic capacitor
* hydroelectrolytic
* nonelectrolytic
* photoelectrolytic
* polyelectrolytic

#### Translations
### Noun

electrolytic (plural electrolytics)
* A battery, capacitor or other similar device
# electron cloud
## English
### Noun

electron cloud (plural electron clouds)
* (physics) A mathematically defined region around an atomic nucleus defined by a high probability that the atom's electrons will be present in that region.

#### Synonyms

* atomic orbital
# gratin
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French gratin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɹəˈtæn/

### Noun

gratin (plural gratins)
* The top crust of a dish, consisting of breadcrumbs or grated cheese heated under a grill; the dish itself.

#### Derived terms

* au gratin
* gratinate

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Gartin, Tigran, rating, taring, tringa

## Catalan
### Verb

gratin
* inflection of gratar:
** third-person plural present subjunctive
** third-person plural imperative

## French
### Etymology

From gratter +‎ -in.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡʁa.tɛ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

gratin m (plural gratins)
* (cooking) gratin
* (figurative) upper crust, elite
    Tout le gratin était réuni pour cet évènement. ― All the elite got together for this event.

#### Derived terms

* gratin dauphinois
* gratiner

#### Descendants

* → English: gratin
* → Japanese: グラタン
* → Persian: گراتَن (gerâtan)
* → Russian: грате́н (gratén)
* → Swedish: gratäng
* → Turkish: graten

### Further reading

* “gratin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* garnit, garnît, girant, granit
# ぎょりゅう
## Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ぎょりゅう – see the following entries. :
| 【魚竜】 | [noun] an ichthyosaur |
(This term, ぎょりゅう (gyoryū), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.) :
(The following entry is uncreated: 御柳.)
# hyperhidrosis
## English
### Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from hyper- +‎ hidrosis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [haɪpəɹhaɪˈdɹoʊsɪs]

### Noun

hyperhidrosis (countable and uncountable, plural hyperhidroses)
* (pathology) A medical condition with the primary symptom of excessive sweating, in excess of that required for regulation of body temperature.

#### Synonyms

* diaphoresis (in its sense of excessive sweating)
* hidrosis (in its sense of excessive sweating)

#### Antonyms

* hypohidrosis

#### Coordinate terms

* diaphoresis (in its sense of normal sweating)
* hidrosis (in its sense of normal sweating)

#### Derived terms

* hyperhidrotic
# ice dam
## English
### Noun

ice dam (plural ice dams)
* (hydrology, glaciology) An obstruction to the flow of a river caused by the flow of a glacier across its course.
    Coordinate term: earthquake dam
* (hydrology) An obstruction to the flow of a river caused by the concatenation of surface ice into a ridge that rises above and sinks below the surface causing a blockage, occurring frequently during spring breakup season.
    Coordinate terms: pressure ridge, ice shove
* (roofing) A mass of ice formed at the transition from a warm to a cold roof surface, frequently formed by refreezing meltwater at the overhang of a steep roof, causing ice and water to back up under roofing materials.
* (roofing) Ellipsis of ice dam membrane.

#### Derived terms

* ice-dammed

#### Translations
### Further reading

* ice dam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Decima, McAdie, decima, décima
# incautious
## English
### Etymology

From in- (negative prefix) +‎ cautious.

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ɪnˈkɑʃəs/
    Rhymes: -ɔːʃəs

### Adjective

incautious (comparative more incautious, superlative most incautious)
* careless, reckless, not exercising proper caution.
    Synonym: uncautious
** 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XV, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VIII:"You might have remained so still," replies Jones, "if you had not been unfortunate, I will venture to say incautious, in the placing your affections.
** 1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine:"Yes, let 'Sister' Davis have a whack at it too," urged George Bland. Tom Davis, who was Joe Matson's particular chum, was designated "Sister" because, in an incautious moment, when first coming to Excelsior Hall, he had shown a picture of his very pretty sister, Mabel.
** 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 60:Pot-plants on spindle-legged stands lurked in wait for an incautious gesture.

#### Derived terms

* incautiously
* incautiousness

#### Related terms

* incaution
# jack of all trades, master of none
## English
### Alternative forms

* Jack of all trades, master of none; Jack-of-all-trades, master of none; jack-of-all-trades, master of none; jack of all trades—master of none

### Etymology

Expanded form of jack of all trades, which originally was sometimes used as a term of praise.
In the 21st century this phrase has itself been (rarely) expanded to a couplet:
    Jack of all trades, master of none,
    though oftentimes better than master of one.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Noun

jack of all trades, master of none (plural jacks of all trades, masters of none)
* (idiomatic) A person who has a competent grasp of many skills but who is not outstanding in any one.

#### Synonyms

* factotum, handyman, sciolist, generalist, Renaissance man

#### Coordinate terms

* Jill of all trades, mistress of none

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins, William and Mary Morris (HarperCollins, New York, 1977, 1988)
* ↑ “Re: Jack”, ESC, The Phrase Finder, April 13, 2000