pelt
The skin of an animal with the hair or wool onThe skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification).
» Do not pelt your dog with stones, so the neighbors will not imitate you.
Bewirf deinen Hund nicht mit Steinen, damit die Nachbarn es dir nicht nachmachen.
Не кидай каміння у свого собаку аби твої сусіди не наслідували цей приклад.
Meaning
15 sensesThe skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification).
Pelz, Balg, Fell
ко́жаkóža, шку́раškúra
шку́раškúra, ху́троxútro
(also, figuratively)The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.
The fur or hair of a living animal.
Near-synonym: coat
body covering of a living animal
(Ireland, humorous, informal)Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair.
Haut
ко́жаkóža
(transitive)A beating or falling down of hailstones, rain, or snow in a shower.
(transitive)A blow or stroke from something thrown.
(figuratively, transitive)A verbal insult; a jeer, a jibe, a taunt.
(figuratively, transitive)A fit of anger; an outburst, a rage.
(transitive)An act of moving quickly; a rush.
(obsolete)A garment made from animal skins.
(obsolete)The body of any quarry killed by a hawk; also, a dead bird given to a hawk for food.
(Scotland, archaic, transitive)A tattered or worthless piece of clothing; a rag.
Examples
11 sentencesDo not pelt your dog with stones, so the neighbors will not imitate you.
Не кидай каміння у свого собаку аби твої сусіди не наслідували цей приклад.
deBewirf deinen Hund nicht mit Steinen, damit die Nachbarn es dir nicht nachmachen.
Miroslav’s car was pelted with spit.
The audience booed and pelted them with rotten tomatoes.
ruЗрители их освистали и забросали гнилыми помидорами.
deDas Publikum buhte sie aus und warf mit faulen Tomaten.
He tossed his guest a question as soft as a chinchilla pelt.
The only one who really needs an ocelot pelt is the ocelot itself.
deDer einzige, der einen Ozelotpelz wirklich braucht, ist der Ozelot selbst.
Translations
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Origin
The noun is inherited from Middle English pelt (“skin of a sheep, especially without the wThe noun is inherited from Middle English pelt (“skin of a sheep, especially without the wool”); further etymology uncertain, possibly:
The verb is derived from Late Middle English pelt, pelte; further origin uncertain, probably a variant of Late Middle English pilten (“to push, thrust; to strike; to cast down, humble; to incite, induce; to place, put; to extend, reach forward with”) [and other forms], possibly from Old English *pyltan, from Late Latin *pultiare, from Latin pultāre (“to beat, knock, strike”), the frequentative of pellere, the present active infinitive of pellō (“to drive, impel, propel, push; to hurl; to banish, eject, expel, thrust out; to beat, strike; to set in motion”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to beat; to drive, push”).
Uncertain; possibly related to pelting (“mean, paltry”) (obsolete), peltry (“rubbish, trash; an unpleasant thing”) (chiefly Scotland, obsolete), and paltry (“of little value, trashy, trivial; contemptibly unimportant, despicable”), possibly from a Germanic language such as Middle Low German palte, palter (“cloth; rag, shred”), from Old Saxon *paltro, *palto (“cloth; rag”), from Proto-Germanic *paltrô, *paltô (“patch; rag, scrap”). The ultimate origin is uncertain, but the word is possibly a wanderwort from *polto- (“cloth”).
A variant of pelta, borrowed from Latin pelta, from Ancient Greek πέλτη (péltē, “small crescent-shaped leather shield of Thracian design”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps either from Thracian, or ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover; to wrap; hide; skin; cloth”).
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