marre
English
editVerb
editmarre (third-person singular simple present marres, present participle marring, simple past and past participle marred)
- Obsolete spelling of mar.
- 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:
- For commonlie, many scholemasters, some, as I haue seen, moe, as I haue heard tell, be of so crooked a nature, as, when they meete with a hard witted scholer, they rather breake him, than bowe him, rather marre him, then mend him.
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editAlbanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editmárre f (plural márre, definite márrja, definite plural márret)
- shame
- Synonym: turp
- disgrace, dishonor
- foolery, opaqueness, turpitude
- Synonyms: budallallëk, patejdukshmëri, poshtërsi
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editFrench
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editmarre f (plural marres)
- a sort of hoe (gardening tool)
Etymology 2
editProbably related to Old French marrir "frustrate," but possibly instead to Old French merelle "attendance token, counting token" in the sense of "part due" and thus "to have enough."
Adverb
editmarre
Derived terms
editVerb
editmarre
- inflection of marrer:
Further reading
edit- “marre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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editGalician
editVerb
editmarre
- inflection of marrar:
Italian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmarre f
Portuguese
editPronunciation
edit
Verb
editmarre
- inflection of marrar:
Spanish
editVerb
editmarre
- inflection of marrar:
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- Rhymes:Italian/arre/2 syllables
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