lint

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• homophone: lent
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• homophone: Lent
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• homophone: leant (pin–pen merger)
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* As an occupational English surname, from the noun lint, chiefly in the Scottish English sense "flax fibers for spinning." * As a Dutch surname, from several placenames with the element Lint, probably from linde (“lime tree”).

From Middle English lynet, linet, from Old French linette (“grain of flax”), diminutive of lin (“flax”); or, from Medieval Latin linteum, from Latin līnum (“flax”).

From the lint Unix utility, written in 1979, which analyses programs written in the C language, itself named after the undesirable bits of fiber and fluff found in sheep's wool (see etymology 1).

65 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: wolletjies — fuzzy fluff
• Asturian: plumín — fuzzy fluff
• Catalan: borrissol — fuzzy fluff
• Chinese Mandarin: 絨毛 /绒毛 (róngmáo) — fuzzy fluff
• Danish: fnug — fuzzy fluff
• Dutch: pluis — fuzzy fluff
• Dutch: pluksel — fuzzy fluff
• Esperanto: ĉarpio — fuzzy fluff
• Finnish: nukka — fuzzy fluff
• Finnish: nöyhtä — fuzzy fluff
• French: peluche — fuzzy fluff
• French: mouton — fuzzy fluff
• Galician: peluxe — fuzzy fluff
• Galician: froxel — fuzzy fluff
• German: Fussel — fuzzy fluff
• German: Fluse — fuzzy fluff
• Hungarian: szösz — fuzzy fluff
• Irish: clúmh — fuzzy fluff
• Italian: lanugine — fuzzy fluff
• Japanese: 糸屑 (itokuzu) — fuzzy fluff
• Japanese: 綿埃 (watabokori) — fuzzy fluff
• Japanese: [navel lint:] 臍の胡麻 (heso no goma) — fuzzy fluff
• Māori: kerehunga — fuzzy fluff
• Māori: perehunga — fuzzy fluff
• Māori: tawhe — fuzzy fluff
• Norwegian: lo — fuzzy fluff
• Polish: kłaczek — fuzzy fluff
• Portuguese: cotão — fuzzy fluff
• Romanian: scamă — fuzzy fluff
• Russian: ворси́нка (vorsínka) — fuzzy fluff
• Russian: пух (pux) — fuzzy fluff
• Serbo-Croatian: pahuljice — fuzzy fluff
• Serbo-Croatian: mucice — fuzzy fluff
• Spanish: pelusa — fuzzy fluff
• Spanish: tamo — fuzzy fluff
• Spanish: flojel — fuzzy fluff
• Spanish: flojuelo — fuzzy fluff
• Swedish: ludd — fuzzy fluff
• Welsh: gwlaniach — fuzzy fluff
• Bulgarian: марля (marlja) — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• Catalan: gasa — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• Dutch: pluis — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• Finnish: pumpuli — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• Finnish: vanu — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• French: charpie — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• German: Verbandmull — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• German: Scharpie — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• Ancient Greek: ξύσμα (xúsma) — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• Irish: línolann — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• Japanese: リント布 (rinto fu) — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• Norwegian: lo — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• Polish: szarpie — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• Portuguese: gaze — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• Russian: линт (lint) — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• Russian: ко́рпия (kórpija) — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• Serbo-Croatian: runo — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• Serbo-Croatian: pahuljice — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• Spanish: gasa — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• Welsh: naddion llin — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• Welsh: nadd lliain — a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth
• Finnish: hahtuva — fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant
• German: Flaum — fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant
• Polish: kłaczek — fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant
• Portuguese: cotão — fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant
• Polish: włókna bawełny — raw cotton ready for baling