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# underwater
## English
### Alternative forms

* (predicate adjective and adverb): under water
* under-water

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ʌndə(ɹ)ˈwɔːtə/
* (General American) enPR: ŭndərwôʹtər, IPA: /ʌndɚˈwɔtəɹ/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Etymology 1

From under (preposition) +‎ water.

#### Adjective

underwater (comparative more underwater, superlative most underwater)
* (not comparable) Beneath the surface of the water; of or pertaining to the region beneath the water surface.
    Watch out for underwater obstacles.
    He was a pioneer in underwater exploration.
* (nautical) Beneath the water line of a vessel.
    When the ship was brought into dry dock, it was found that she had underwater damage.
* (figuratively) In difficulty, especially financially.
    Antonyms: above water, solvent, in the black
    Hyponyms: insolvent, in the red
* (finance) Having negative equity; owing more on an asset than its market value.
    We've been underwater on our mortgage ever since the housing crash.
** 2013 May 13, Underwater (Bates Motel), episode 9 (Television), spoken by Matt Bronstein (Matthew MacCaull), via A&E:You're underwater. The best thing you can do is just walk away. Let the bank take it back.
* (finance) Of an option, having a strike price higher (call options) or lower (put options) than the current market price of the underlying asset or financial product; for example, an option to buy shares at $20 when the current market price is $15.

##### Synonyms

* (beneath the water surface): subaqueous, subaquatic, submarine
* (having negative equity): upside down

##### Antonyms

* above water, above-water

##### Derived terms

* underwater basket weaving
* underwater hockey
* underwater lake
* underwater rugby

##### Related terms

* keep one's head above water
* underground
* underseas

##### Translations
#### Adverb

underwater (comparative more underwater, superlative most underwater)
* So as to go beneath the surface of the water.
    Can you swim underwater?

##### Translations
#### Noun

underwater (plural underwaters)
* Underlying water or body of water, for example in an aquifer or the deep ocean.
* (fishing) A type of lure which lies beneath the water surface.
** 1923, Sheridan R. Jones, Bait Casting: The Short Rod and How to Use It‎, page 57:Practically all wobbling underwaters will take fish aplenty in the hands of a man who really knows how to put them through their stints.

### Etymology 2

From under- +‎ water.

#### Alternative forms

* under-water

#### Verb

underwater (third-person singular simple present underwaters, present participle underwatering, simple past and past participle underwatered)
* (agriculture, horticulture, transitive) To water or irrigate insufficiently.
    Care must be taken not to underwater houseplants in the summer.
** 2021 July 22, “Is Your Plant Overwatered or Underwatered?”, in Sustained Kitchen‎:If your plant is wilting, this could be another sign of overwatering or underwatering.

##### Antonyms

* overwater

##### Related terms

* unwatered

#### See also

* underwater on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
# Marsjankę
## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (normal speech) /marsˈjan.kɛ/, (careful speech) /marsˈjan.kɛw̃/
* Rhymes: -ankɛw̃
* Syllabification: Mars‧jan‧kę

### Noun

Marsjankę
* accusative singular of Marsjanka
# within
## English
### Alternative forms

* w/i, w/in (abbreviations)

### Etymology

From Middle English withinne, withinnen, from Old English wiþinnan; equivalent to with +‎ in.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /wɪðˈɪn/
* (US) IPA: /wɪðˈɪn/, /wɪˈθɪn/
* (Scotland) IPA: /wɪˈθɪn/
* (Canada) IPA: /wɪθˈɪn/
** (Ottawa Valley) IPA: /wɪtˈɪn/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪn
* Hyphenation: with‧in

### Preposition

within
* In the inner part, spatially; physically inside.
    within her studio
** 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:The Rat […] lightly stepped into a little boat which the Mole had not observed. It was painted blue outside and white within, and was just the size for two animals; and the Mole's whole heart went out to it at once […] .
* In the scope or range of.
    within his hearing; her within five seconds of breaking the record; within an inch of falling overboard
** 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France‎:England struck back with a fine try from Ben Foden and closed to within seven points with three minutes left when Mark Cueto capitalised on a break from replacement Matt Banahan.
* Before the specified duration ends.
    Leave here within three days.
** 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.
** 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport:And Netherlands, backed by a typically noisy and colourful travelling support, started the second period in blistering fashion and could have had four goals within 10 minutes

#### Antonyms

* outside
* outwith
* without

#### Derived terms

* live within oneself
* state within a state
* stay within the lines
* wheel within a wheel
* within a bull's roar
* within ames ace
* within an ace of
* within an inch of one's life
* within call
* within cry
* within-doors
* within doors
* within living memory
* within one sigma
* within one's means
* within one's rights
* within reach
* within reason
* within-subjects
* within the agreed time
* within the four seas
* within the pale

#### Translations
### Adverb

within (not comparable)
* In or into the interior; inside.

#### Translations
### Adjective

within (not comparable)
* (law) In the context of which the present document or ruling is made.
    the within appeal
** 2013, Court of Appeal for Ontario, Malka v. Vasiliadis:As part of the within appeal the appellants brought a fresh evidence motion. Although the court did not specifically address the motion in its oral reasons dismissing the appeal, that motion was rejected by the court for the following reasons.
# graphetic
## English
### Etymology

From graph +‎ -etic, by analogy with phone → phonetic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɹæˈfɛ.tɪk/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛtɪk
* Hyphenation: gra‧phe‧tic, graph‧et‧ic

### Adjective

graphetic (not comparable)
* Of or relating to graphetics.

#### Derived terms

* graphetically
# employee
## English
### Alternative forms

* employe, employé (dated)

### Etymology

From employ +‎ -ee. First attested in the early 19th century, possibly modeled after French employé.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌɛmplɔɪˈiː/, /ˌɛmˈplɔɪiː/, /ɪm-/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: em‧ploy‧ee
* Rhymes: -iː

### Noun

employee (plural employees)
* A person who provides labor to a company or another person.
    Synonyms: member of staff; associate (sometimes euphemistically synonymous)
    Hypernym: worker
    Holonyms: business, company
    Coordinate terms: employer; (in some contexts hyponymous) boss, manager
    One way to encourage your employees to work harder is by giving them incentives.
** 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Hocussing of Cigarette”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.

#### Derived terms

* antiemployee
* business-to-employee
* coemployee
* employee benefit
* employee handbook
* employeeless
* ghost employee
* nonemployee
* unemployee
* W-2 employee

#### Related terms

* employ
* employé
* employée
* employer
* employment

#### Translations
### See also

* payroll
* taxes
* work

### References

* 1 2 “employee”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “employee”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* ↑ “employee, n.$^1$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
# graphical
## English
### Etymology

From graphic +‎ -al.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɹæfɪkəl/

### Adjective

graphical (not comparable)
* Of, related to, or shown on a graph.
* (computing) Of, related to, or using graphics.
* Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines.
** 1642, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC:The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical, or composed of letters.

#### Derived terms

* graphicality
* graphicalness
* graphical user interface
* hypergraphical
* neurographical
* nongraphical
* pseudographical
* semigraphical

#### Translations
### See also

* graphic

### Anagrams

* algraphic
# ניב
## Hebrew
### Etymology

Compare Arabic ناب (nāb, “fang”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA: /niv/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

נִיב • (niv) m (plural indefinite נִיבִים) [pattern: קֵטֶל]
* idiom
* dialect
    ארמית בבלית היא ניב ארמי, שדובר בפי יהודי בבל בין המאה ה־3 והמאה ה־11 לספירה.Babylonian Aramaic is an Aramaic dialect, spoken by the Jews of Babylon from the 3rd to the 11th centuries CE.
* canine tooth, fang

### Proper noun

נִיב • (niv) m
* a male given name

### References

* “ניב” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

### Further reading

* ניב on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{he}$

### Anagrams

* בין, בני, בנ״י
# copypasto
## English
### Noun

copypasto (plural copypastos)
* Alternative spelling of copy-pasto.
** 2003 January 21, Jugoslav Dujic, “Re: Using common DLL routines...”, in comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32‎ (Usenet):| 2), I was only able to compile by removing the WINSHELLAPI identifier from the typedef line... 2) I think it's just a Barry's copypasto. WINSHELLAPI evaluates to __declspec(dllimport), which doesn't make sense if you do GetProcAddress.
** 2006 January 20, Welby, “Sum in Report field”, in microsoft.public.access.reports‎ (Usenet):Is indeed a typo or rather a 'copypasto' […] > You posted ¶ =Sum(Iif([code]=1, [amount], 0) ¶ Is that a typo - there is a missing ")" ?
# graphoid
## English
### Etymology

From graph +‎ -oid. 1985, United States.

### Noun

graphoid (plural graphoids)
* (combinatorics) A matroid that has two collections of nonempty subsets called circuits and cocircuits such that the intersection of any circuit and cocircuit is not only the identity matroid, no circuit properly contains another circuit, no cocircuit properly contains another cocircuit, and for any painting of M that colors exactly one element green and the rest either red or blue there exists either a circuit containing the green element and no red elements or a cocircuit containing the green element and no blue elements.
* (logic) A set of statements of the form, "X is irrelevant to Y given that we know Z" where X, Y and Z are sets of variables, which can be manipulated by a set of axioms concerning informational irrelevance and its graphical representation.

#### Derived terms

* digraphoid

### Further reading

* MathWorld
# graphological
## English
### Etymology

From graphology +‎ -ical.

### Adjective

graphological (not comparable)
* Relating to graphology.

#### Derived terms

* graphologically

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* logographical
# graptide
## English
### Noun

graptide (plural graptides)
* This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### Derived terms

* monograptide
# grasped
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ɡɹæspt/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɡɹɑːspt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -æspt, -ɑːspt
* Hyphenation: grasped

### Verb

grasped
* simple past and past participle of grasp

#### Derived terms

* ungrasped

### Anagrams

* spadger, sparged
# にちえいご
## Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of にちえいご – see the following entry. :
| 【日英語】 | [noun] Japanese and English |
(This term, にちえいご (nichieigo), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.) :
# grassed
## English
### Verb

grassed
* simple past and past participle of grass

### Adjective

grassed (not comparable)
* grassy; covered with grass.
    a grassed open space
** 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 194:They came out together on the grassed slope of the headland, with Cora walking her usual pace behind Bradly, following his broad back with unconscious docility.
** 1942, Emily Carr, “Sunday”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:The field was roofed by tall, thin pine trees. The ground underneath was clear and grassed.

#### Derived terms

* overgrassed
* ungrassed
# människosönerna
## Swedish
### Noun

människosönerna
* definite plural of människoson
# öğrenmek
## Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اوكرنمك (öğrenmek, “to learn”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (ögren-, “to learn”), from Proto-Turkic *ögren-. See also öğretmek (“to teach”), causative form of the same root.
Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (ögrenmēk, “to learn”), Azerbaijani öyrənmək (“to learn”), Bashkir өйрәнеү (öyrənew, “to learn”), Chagatai [script needed] (örgenmek, “to learn”), Chuvash вӗрен (vĕren, “to learn”), Kazakh үйрену (üirenu, “to learn”), Khakas ӱгренерге (ügrenerge, “to learn”), Kipchak [script needed] (ȫren-/öwren-, “to learn”), Kumyk уьйренмек (üyrenmek), Kyrgyz үйрөнүү (üyrönüü, “to learn”), Northern Altai ӱгренерге (ügrenerge), Salar örğen, Southern Altai ӱренер (ürener), Tatar өйрәнү (öyränü, “to learn”), Tuvan өөренир (öörenir, “to learn”), Turkmen öwrenmek (“to learn”), Uyghur ئۆگەنمەك (ögenmek, “to learn”), Uzbek oʻrganmoq (“to learn”), Yakut үөрэн (üören, “to learn”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /øːɾænˈmec/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

öğrenmek (third-person singular simple present öğrenir)
* (transitive) to learn, study, master
    Bugün okulda ne öğrendin? ― What did you learn in school today?
* (transitive) to come to know, to find out, discover
    Annem buraya geldiğimi öğrenmemeli. ― My mother should not find out that I have been here.

#### Conjugation

* Show negative conjugation:
* Show potential conjugation:
* Show impotential conjugation:

#### Derived terms

* öğrenci

#### Related terms

* öğrenebilmek
* öğrenememek
* öğrenici
* öğrenilmek
* öğrenim
* öğreniş
* öğrenme
* öğrenmemek
* öğrenmiş
* öğretmek

### References

* Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ȫ(j)-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
* Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ögren-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 114
# Pommesärmchen
## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpʰɔ.məs.ˌʔɛɐ̯mçən]
* (This entry needs an audio pronunciation. If you are a native speaker with a microphone, please record this word. The recorded pronunciation will appear here when it's ready.)

### Noun

Pommesärmchen n (strong, genitive Pommesärmchens, plural Pommesärmchen)
* Diminutive of Pommesarm
# the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral
## English
### Etymology

Said by Alice Roosevelt Longworth of her father Theodore Roosevelt. Also used to describe Kaiser Wilhelm II.

### Phrase

the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral
* The perpetual center of attention.

### References

* ↑ Michael Teague (1981) Mrs. L.: Conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth‎: “My father, who gave Eleanor away, lived up to his reputation of being the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral and hogged the limelight unashamedly.”
# levevilkår
## Danish
### Etymology

Compound of leve +‎ vilkår.

### Noun

levevilkår c pl
* living conditions (socially, economically etc.)
    Synonyms: leveforhold, kår, livsvilkår

### References

* “levevilkår” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From leve +‎ vilkår.

### Noun

levevilkår n (definite singular levevilkåret, indefinite plural levevilkår, definite plural levevilkåra or levevilkårene)
* living conditions

### References

* “levevilkår” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From leve +‎ vilkår.

### Noun

levevilkår n (definite singular levevilkåret, indefinite plural levevilkår, definite plural levevilkåra)
* living conditions
# leveomkostninger
## Danish
### Etymology

leve +‎ omkostninger

### Noun

leveomkostninger pl
* (plural only) costs of living

#### Declension
### References

* “leveomkostninger” in Den Danske Ordbog
# progon
## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /prǒɡon /
* Hyphenation: pro‧gon

### Noun

prògon m (Cyrillic spelling про̀гон)
* persecution
* pursuit, chase
# CoffeeScript
## English
### Etymology

From coffee +‎ script.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: kô′fē skrĭpt, kŏf′-
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɔː.fiː skɹɪpt/, /ˈkɒf.-/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈkɔ.fi skɹɪpt/, /ˈkɑf.-/
* (India) IPA: /ˈkɒ.fiː skɾipʈ/, /ˈkɒf.-/
* Hyphenation: Cof‧fee‧Script

### Proper noun

CoffeeScript
* (programming) A programming language that compiles to JavaScript.
# 四苦
## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 四 | 苦 |
| し Grade: 1 | く Grade: 3 |
| on'yomi ||

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) しく [shìkúꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
* (Tokyo) しく [shíꜜkù] (Atamadaka –)
* IPA: [ɕikɯ̟]

### Noun

四(し)苦(く) • (shiku)
* (Buddhism) the four kinds of suffering: birth, old age, disease and death
    Synonym: 生老病死 (shōrōbyōshi)

#### Derived terms

* 四苦八苦(しくはっく) (shikuhakku)

### References

* 1 2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
# примедба
## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* при́мједба (Ijekavian)

### Etymology

приметити +‎ -ба.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /prǐːmedba/
* Hyphenation: при‧мед‧ба

### Noun

при́медба f (Latin spelling prímedba)
* remark, comment, note
* objection
# lok-lok
## English
### Noun

lok-lok (uncountable)
* (Singapore, Malaysia) A food consisting of meat, vegetables, etc. served on a skewer for dipping into sauce.
# thosais
## English
### Noun

thosais
* plural of thosai
# thosai
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Tamil தோசை (tōcai). Doublet of dosa.

### Noun

thosai (countable and uncountable, plural thosais)
* (Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore) Dosa; a crepe made from fermented lentils and rice originating from South Indian cuisine
** 2006, Naleeza Ebrahim, Yaw Yan Yee, Singapore, Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, page 132:Thosai is usually eaten with coconut chutney and sambar.
** 2013 November 1, Marc de Faoite, TROPICAL MADNESS, Buku Fixi (Fixi Novo), →ISBN:“Uncle Raju,” he said, as he climbed up on my knees. “You will make me thosai? Mum says you make the best thosai in all Malaysia.” We all laughed. “Uncle Raju gets a break from cooking today,” said Mr Murugan. “Mum is cooking instead."
** 2017 May 4, Prakash K Sivanathan, Niranjala M Ellawala, Sri Lanka: The Cookbook, Frances Lincoln, →ISBN:Keep an eye on the heat and make sure the thosai doesn't burn on the bottom.
# καυλός
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ulós or *kawlós (“tubular bone, pipe, stalk”), possibly earlier *kéh₂wl̥, from a root *keh₂- or *kewh₂-, *keh₂w- (“hollow”) (compare κοῖλος (koîlos)); however there are unresolved phonetic problems, such as the lack of aspiration in Sanskrit. Cognates include Sanskrit कुल्या (kulyā), Latvian kauls, and Old English cāl (> English cole).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kau̯.lós/ → /kaˈβlos/ → /kaˈvlos/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /kau̯.lós/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /kawˈlos/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /kaˈβlos/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /kaˈvlos/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /kaˈvlos/

### Noun

καυλός • (kaulós) m (genitive καυλοῦ); second declension
* stem, stalk
* shaft

#### Derived terms

* καύλινος (kaúlinos)
* καυλίον (kaulíon)
* στρογγῠλόκαυλος (strongŭlókaulos)

#### Descendants

(From καυλίον (kaulíon)):
* →? Latin: caulis (or inherited from the same Proto-Indo-European source)
* Greek: καυλί (kavlí)

### References

* “καυλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “καυλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “καυλός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* καυλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* καυλός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. blade idem, page 81.quill idem, page 667.stalk idem, page 809.
# pony up
## English
### Etymology

Originally often poney. US early 19th century. According to Michael Quinion, probably not from the monetary sense of pony and instead from Latin "Legem pone mihi Domine viam iustificationum tuarum" (“Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes”) in reference to March 25th, a traditional day of debt settlement. This etymology has been accepted by the American Heritage Dictionary.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Verb

pony up (third-person singular simple present ponies up, present participle ponying up, simple past and past participle ponied up)
* (intransitive, transitive, slang) To pay (usually a bill, debt or due).
** 1824 September, “Paunch Hogabout”, in The Atlantic Magazine, volume 1, number 5, page 343:Every man, save Silvy, vociferously swore that he had ponied up his "quarter:" whereupon the landlady observed that Silvy the less had not paid his reckoning.
** 1944 February 7, War Advertising Council, “Advert”, in Life, volume 16, number 6, page 123:Know what I'd do with that dough ... if I'd the luck to have it?¶ I'd buy War Bonds—and, God, would I hang onto them! (Bonds buy guns—and give you four bucks for your three) ... I'd pony up for taxes cheerfully (knowing they're the cheapest way to pay for this war) ... I'd sock some in the savings bank, while I could ... I'd lift a load off my mind with more life insurance.
** 1992 July/August, “Naked City”, in Spy, page 18:If entertaining TV blusterer John McLaughlin felt any contrition after ponying up a six-figure sum to settle a sexual-harassment suit in 1989, he is evidently over it.
** 2009 January 25, Frank Rich, “No Time for Poetry”, in The New York Times‎:Only then did we learn that he doled out billions in secret, last-minute bonuses to his staff last month, just before Bank of America took over and just before the government ponied up a second bailout to cover Merrill’s unexpected $15 billion fourth-quarter loss.
** 2012 March 30, Joe Levy, “Rockers at Sea”, in The New York Times‎:Fans willing to pony up somewhere between $900 and $1,400 — not including airfare or bar tab — can rub shoulders with their favorite acts and enjoy three to five days of food, music, Caribbean sunshine and extras like a photo with the band (no autographs, please).

#### Synonyms

* (to pay): cough up, foot the bill, fork out, fork over, pay up, shell out, stump up, ante up

### References

* 1 2 Quinion, Michael (2013 August 10) “Pony up”, in World Wide Words‎, retrieved 2019-01-18
* ↑ John Russell Bartlett (1877) “to pony up”, in Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 482.
* ↑ https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=pony