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Blazing
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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noun
1.
a bright flame or fire: the welcome blaze of the hearth.
2.
a bright, hot gleam or glow: the blaze of day.
3.
a sparkling brightness: a blaze of jewels.
4.
a sudden, intense outburst, as of fire, passion, or fury: to unleash a blaze of pent-up emotions; a blaze of glory.
5.
blazes, Informal. hell: Go to blazes!
verb (used without object)
6.
to burn brightly (sometimes followed by away, up, forth): The bonfire blazed away for hours. The dry wood blazed up at the touch of a match.
7.
to shine like flame (sometimes followed by forth): Their faces blazed with enthusiasm.
8.
to burn with intense feeling or passion (sometimes followed by up): He blazed up at the insult.
9.
to shoot steadily or continuously (usually followed by away): The contestants blazed away at the clay pigeons.
10.
to be brilliantly conspicuous.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English, Old English blase torch, flame; cognate with Middle High German blas torch
before 1000; Middle English, Old English blase torch, flame; cognate with Middle High German blas torch
noun
1.
a spot or mark made on a tree, as by painting or notching or by chipping away a piece of the bark, to indicate a trail or boundary.
2.
a white area down the center of the face of a horse, cow, etc.
verb (used with object)
3.
to mark with blazes: to blaze a trail.
4.
to lead in forming or finding (a new method, course, etc.): His research in rocketry blazed the way for space travel.
Origin:
1655–65; akin to Old Norse blesi, Dutch bles, German Blässe white mark on a beast's face, and to German blass pale
1655–65; akin to Old Norse blesi, Dutch bles, German Blässe white mark on a beast's face, and to German blass pale
verb (used with object), blazed, blaz·ing.
1.
to make known; proclaim; publish: Headlines blazed the shocking news.
2.
Obsolete. to blow, as from a trumpet.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English blasen < Middle Dutch; cognate with Old Norse blāsa to blow. See blast
1350–1400; Middle English blasen < Middle Dutch; cognate with Old Norse blāsa to blow. See blast
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Word Origin & History
blaze
"make public" (often in a bad sense, boastfully), late 14c., from M.Du. blasen "to blow" (on a trumpet), from P.Gmc. *blaes-an, from PIE *bhle-, var. of base *bhel- "to swell, blow up" (see bole).
EXPANDblazing
prp. adj. from blaze (q.v.), late 14c., "shining," also "vehement." As a mild or euphemistic epithet, attested from 1888 (no doubt connected with the blazes in colloquial sense of "Hell").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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