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English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish hamaca, from Taíno *hamaka (compare Lokono hamaka, Wayuu jama'a), from Proto-Arawak *hamaka. Columbus, in the narrative of his first voyage, says: “A great many Indians in canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of bartering their cotton, and hamacas, or nets, in which they sleep.”
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈhæmək/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈhæmək/, /ˈhæmɪk/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -æmək
Noun
[edit]hammock (plural hammocks)
- A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet (1.8 meters) wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
- 1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book I, page 7:
- […] the poore ſaylers, who […] commonly get forthwith into their beds (or hamackoes) reſting their tyred bodies […]
- (US, archaic outside dialects) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]swinging couch or bed
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piece of land
Verb
[edit]hammock (third-person singular simple present hammocks, present participle hammocking, simple past and past participle hammocked)
- (intransitive) To lie in a hammock.
- 1901, Yone Noguchi, The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (wiki article):
- "I fancied that we — I and who? — hammocked among the summer breezes."
- (transitive, of a cloth) To hang in a way that resembles a hammock.
- 2013, Mary Jo Putney, Patricia Rice, Susan King, Christmas Roses: Love Blooms in Winter[1]:
- "She hammocked their plaids between the table and the bed, then edged her way past Kenneth as she approached the central hearth."
- (transitive) To make something be wrapped tight, like in a hammock.
- 1960, John D. MacDonald, The Only Girl in the Game[2]:
- "She hammocked her breasts into her bra, snapped it, hitched at it, and gave herself a profile glance in the mirror."
- (transitive, broadcasting) To schedule (a new or unpopular programme) between two popular ones in the hope that viewers will watch it.
- Coordinate term: tentpole
Further reading
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Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English hammock. Derived from Spanish hamaca. Ultimately derived from Taíno *hamaka. First attested in 1853.[1]
Doublet of hängmatta (“hammock; suspended bed”).
Noun
[edit]hammock c
- A hammock; a canopy swing; a freestanding garden furniture with a suspended couch.
Declension
[edit]Declension of hammock | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | hammock | hammocken | hammockar | hammockarna |
Genitive | hammocks | hammockens | hammockars | hammockarnas |
See also
[edit]- hängmatta (“hammock; suspended bed”)
References
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