root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ro͞ot
ipa: /ɹuːt/
ipa: /ɹʉt/
ipa: /ɹʊt/
rhymes: -uːt
rhymes: -ʊt
homophone: route (some pronunciations)
homophone: rute
Forms: form: roots
form: wrout
form: rout
form: wroot
Etymology: From Middle English wrōten (“to dig with the snout”), from Old English wrōtan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrōtan, from Proto-Germanic *wrōtaną (“to dig out, to root”). Related to Old English wrōt (“snout; trunk”). Loss of initial w- probably due to influence from the related noun (Etymology 1).
Senses: examples: text: It was always sensible to get off the busy streets if you were going to have a root inside your girlfriend's bra.
ref: 2002, Tom Reilly, Hollow Be Thy Name, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
text: It'll come to me eventually, but I think I'll go over to Bristol tomorrow afternoon and have a root through the medical school library.
ref: 2011 August 1, Bernard Knight, According to the Evidence, Severn House Publishers Ltd, →ISBN:
text: It was not likely a tapestry over two hundred feet long and twenty inches wide was in the dustbin, but Pavel took a root through Laurent's dustbin anyway, just because it was there.
ref: 2016 January 20, Joan Smith, The Virgin and the Unicorn, Belgrave House, →ISBN:
glosses: An act of rummaging or searching.
examples: text: Fancy a root?
text: Ken was in the good mood he'd been in for weeks. Nothing like a regular root to turn him into the jolly green giant.
ref: 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 113:
synonyms: word: screw
word: shag
word: aphrodisia
word: carnal knowledge
word: coitus
word: coition
word: commerce
word: commixtion
word: congress
word: conjunction
word: connection
word: consummation
word: conversation
word: copulation
word: coupling
word: intercourse
word: intimacy
word: intimate relations
word: intromission
word: joining
word: lovemaking
word: lustmaking
word: marital embrace
word: mating
word: mounting
raw_tags: for animals
word: pareunia
word: penetration
word: relations
word: sex
word: sexual congress
word: sexual intercourse
word: sexual relation
word: sexual union
word: swiving
word: union
word: the beast with two backs
word: the birds and the bees
word: boom-boom
word: chesterfield rugby
word: horizontal dancing
word: horizontal hula
word: horizontal jogging
word: horizontal mambo
word: horizontal refreshments
word: how's your father
word: love
word: Netflix and chill
word: physical love
word: roll in the hay
word: Ugandan affairs
word: Ugandan discussions
word: action
word: ass
word: bang
word: barney-mugging
word: beef injection
word: bonking
word: cuntfuck
word: fucking
word: frig
word: fucky-fucky
word: hot beef injection
word: hump
word: humpa humpa
word: jig-jig
word: jiggy-jiggy
word: lay
word: legover
word: meat injection
word: nookie
word: old hat
word: pipe
word: plow
word: plough
word: poon
word: poontang
word: punani
word: pussy
word: ride
word: root
word: rumpo
word: rumpy-pumpy
word: seeing-to
word: sexy time
word: sexy times
word: screw
word: screwing
word: shag
word: skin
word: snu snu
word: tang
word: trim
word: hanky-panky
word: funny business
word: making whoopee
word: jiggery-pokery
word: monkey business
word: fooling about
word: fooling around
word: playing around
glosses: An act of sexual intercourse.
synonyms: word: screw
glosses: A sexual partner.