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Couching
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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noun
1.
a piece of furniture for seating from two to four people, typically in the form of a bench with a back, sometimes having an armrest at one or each end, and partly or wholly upholstered and often fitted with springs, tailored cushions, skirts, etc.; sofa.
2.
a similar article of furniture, with a headrest at one end, on which some patients of psychiatrists or psychoanalysts lie while undergoing treatment.
3.
a bed or other place of rest; a lounge; any place used for repose.
4.
the lair of a wild beast.
5.
EXPANDBrewing. the frame on which barley is spread to be malted.
6.
Papermaking. the board or felt blanket on which wet pulp is laid for drying into paper sheets.
7.
COLLAPSEFine Arts. a primer coat or layer, as of paint.
verb (used with object)
8.
to arrange or frame (words, a sentence, etc.); put into words; express: a simple request couched in respectful language.
9.
to express indirectly or obscurely: the threat couched under his polite speech.
10.
to lower or bend down, as the head.
11.
to lower (a spear, lance, etc.) to a horizontal position, as for attack.
12.
EXPANDto put or lay down, as for rest or sleep; cause to lie down.
13.
to lay or spread flat.
14.
Papermaking. to transfer (a sheet of pulp) from the wire to the couch.
15.
to embroider by couching.
16.
COLLAPSEArchaic. to hide; conceal.
verb (used without object)
Idiom17.
to lie at rest or asleep; repose; recline.
18.
to crouch; bend; stoop.
19.
to lie in ambush or in hiding; lurk.
20.
to lie in a heap for decomposition or fermentation, as leaves.
21.
on the couch, Informal. undergoing psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment.
Origin:
1300–50; (noun) Middle English couche < Anglo-French, Old French, derivative of coucher; (v.) Middle English couchen < Anglo-French, Old French coucher, Old French colcher < Latin collocāre to put into place, equivalent to col- col- + locāre to put, place; see locate
1300–50; (noun) Middle English couche < Anglo-French, Old French, derivative of coucher; (v.) Middle English couchen < Anglo-French, Old French coucher, Old French colcher < Latin collocāre to put into place, equivalent to col- col- + locāre to put, place; see locate
Related forms
well-couched, adjective
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Word Origin & History
couch
mid-14c., from O.Fr. couche "a bed, lair," from coucher "to lie down," from L. collocare (see couch (v.)). Traditionally, a couch has the head end only raised, and only half a back; a sofa has both ends raised and a full back; a settee is like a sofa but may be without arms;
EXPANDan ottoman has neither back nor arms, nor has a divan, the distinctive feature of which is that it goes against a wall. Couch potato first recorded 1979. The first element in Couch-grass (1570s) is a corruption of O.E. cwice (see quick).
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