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).
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» 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. — Esperantostern
Не кидай каміння у свого собаку аби твої сусіди не наслідували цей приклад. — pinaxe
carlosalberto · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
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. — pinaxe
deBewirf deinen Hund nicht mit Steinen, damit die Nachbarn es dir nicht nachmachen. — Esperantostern
Miroslav’s car was pelted with spit.
The audience booed and pelted them with rotten tomatoes.
ruЗрители их освистали и забросали гнилыми помидорами. — Wezel
deDas Publikum buhte sie aus und warf mit faulen Tomaten. — freddy1
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. — Esperantostern
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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