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linge

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See also: Linge, lînge, lingë, and -linge

English

Etymology

From Middle English lengen (“to linger”), from Old English lenġan (“to make long, lengthen”), from Proto-West Germanic *langijan, from Proto-Germanic *langijaną (“to make long”). Cognate with Scots ling (“to lengthen, prolong, delay; tarry, continue”). More at linger.

Pronunciation

Verb

linge (third-person singular simple present linges, present participle linging, simple past and past participle linged)

  1. (intransitive, UK, dialectal, obsolete) To work hard.

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French

Etymology

From a substantivation of Old French linge, from Latin līneus.

Pronunciation

Noun

linge m (plural linges)

  1. linen
  2. cloth
  3. laundry
  4. (Switzerland) towel
  5. (North America, invariable) clothing

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Irish

Verb

linge

  1. present subjunctive analytic of ling

Latin

Verb

linge

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of lingō

Occitan

Pronunciation

Noun

linge m (plural linges)

  1. laundry

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin lingere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlin.dʒe/
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  • Rhymes: -indʒe
  • Hyphenation: lin‧ge

Verb

a linge (third-person singular present linge, past participle lins, third-person subjunctive lingă) 3rd conjugation

  1. (transitive) to lick
  2. (transitive, colloquial) synonym of linguși (“to bootlick”)
  3. (reciprocal, slang) to make out

Conjugation

    conjugation of linge (third conjugation, past participle in -s)
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