elbow
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: anatomy
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English elbowe (“elbow”), from Old English elboga, elnboga (“elbow”), from Proto-Germanic *alinabugô (“elbow”), equivalent to ell + bow. Cognate with Scots elbuck (“elbow”), Saterland Frisian Älbooge (“elbow”), Dutch elleboog (“elbow”), Low German Ellebage (“elbow”), German Ellbogen, Ellenbogen (“elbow”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål albue (“elbow”), Norwegian Nynorsk olboge (“elbow”), Faroese albogi, Icelandic olbogi, olnbogi (“elbow”), Swedish armbåge (“elbow”).
Compound parts: ell
bow
Inflected forms:
form: elbows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: elbows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: elbowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: elbowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: elbowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.
pos: noun
examples: Up to the elbowes naked were there Armes.
Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
gloss: Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back
The water runs down with a strong, sharp stickle, and then has a sudden elbow in it, where the small brook trickles in; and on that side the bank is steep, four or it may be five feet high, overhanging loamily; […]
gloss: A detective.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
examples: "An elbow, huh?" putting all the contempt he could in his voice; and somehow any synonym for detective seems able to hold a lot of contempt.
gloss: Part of a basketball court located at the intersection of the free-throw line and the free-throw lane.
pos: noun
gloss: A hit, strike, or blow with the elbow.
pos: noun
examples: In the fair dinkum department that elbow prop Barrie McDermott threw into the face of Paul Sironen deserved to get him four months on the side-lines[.]
England ran Tunisia ragged in that spell but were punished for missing a host of chances when Ferjani Sassi equalised from the penalty spot against the run of play after Kyle Walker was penalised for an elbow on Fakhreddine Ben Youssef.
gloss: Two nearby crossings of a rope.
pos: noun
gloss: To push with the elbow or elbows; to forge ahead using the elbows to assist.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He elbowed his way through the crowd.
Through the crush Malone and Roxton elbowed their way until they reached Challenger's side, and partly by judicious propulsion, partly by artful persuasion, they got him, still bellowing his grievances, out of the building.
On the DLR, or on the driverless Line 14 on the Paris Metro, I always try to sit at the front. (It's usually just a matter of elbowing aside some ten-year-old boys; I can then get on with pretending to drive the train.)
gloss: To strike with the elbow.
pos: verb
examples: Trumper elbowed me in the ribs and made a sign with his head. He seemed irritated now by our delay.
She looked round for Vera, but could not see her, and in the process of wriggling through the heaving crowd was elbowed in the eye. The blow acted like a spur, putting one thought in her head … to escape.
Anyway, Margret is already asleep. I put my head on the pillow and am just about to inch warmth-seekingly closer to her when she suddenly elbows me full in the face with stupefying force. My howl of pain wakes her and she glances over her shoulder at her elbow, still embedded in my skull.
Green also left the game in the first quarter after Xavier Tillman inadvertently elbowed him in the face. Hearing boos from the crowd, [Draymond] Green raised his middle fingers toward the fans as he left the court to get stitches above his right eye.
gloss: To nudge, jostle or push.
pos: verb
examples: Suddenly and with all her heart Kate longed to be home, back at the homestead, to participate in the rambunctious toss and jostle as breakup elbowed its way into the Park.
gloss: To force (someone) to quit or lose their job so that someone else can be hired.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: The president was elbowed out of power by members of her own party.
Derived words: all-elbows
at one's elbow
at the elbow
bend one's elbow
bump elbows
collar and elbow
crook one's elbow
elbow and collar
elbow bone
elbow bump
Elbow Cay
elbow chair
elbow-chair
elbow-deep
elbow dip
elbowedness
elbowful
Elbowgate
elbow grease
elbow juice
Elbow Lake
elbowless
elbowlike
elbow macaroni
elbow mentality
elbow pit
elbow plant
elbow relation
elbow rim
elbowroom
elbow room
elbow scissors
elbow shake
elbow sleeve
elbow tap
elbow to elbow
elbowy
get the elbow
give the elbow
golfer's elbow
hairy elbow syndrome
know one's arse from one's elbow
know one's ass from one's elbow
know the difference between one's ass and one's elbow
Little Elbow
miner's elbow
more grease to your elbow
more power to your elbow
out at elbow
out-at-elbow
rub elbows
shake one's elbow
sharp-elbowed
street elbow
tennis elbow
elbower
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