stonewall

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈstəʊnwɔːl/
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• General-American: /ˈstoʊnwɔl/
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• cot-caught-merger: /ˈstoʊnwɑl/
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• CMU ARPABET: S T OW1 N W AO2 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Apparently a corruption of stone cold.

From stone + wall. The drink is so named because its effect is likened to running into a stone wall. The riots take their name from the Stonewall Inn where they began (in the 1840s, the property was called Bonnie's Stone Wall, later renamed to Bonnie's Stonewall Inn, then the Stonewall Inn Restaurant, and then the Stonewall Inn). The Confederate general acquired his nickname after a battle in which, while other troops were in motion, fellow general Barnard E. Bee observed "there stands Jackson like a stone wall" (either resolutely, or unhelpfully). The chess setup is so named because it is a solid formation which is hard to overrun by force, like a stone wall.

From Middle English stonwal, stone wall, stanewalle (“wall made of stone”), from Old English stānweall (“stonewall”), equivalent to stone + wall. The alcoholic drink (sense 3) was perhaps named thus because its effect was as potent as running into a stone wall.

15 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: vuorenvarma — certain, definite
• Portuguese: tergiversar — refusal to cooperate
• Catalan: entorpir — to refuse to answer or cooperate
• Catalan: obstruir — to refuse to answer or cooperate
• Dutch: betonneren — to refuse to answer or cooperate
• French: bétonner — to refuse to answer or cooperate
• German: abblocken — to refuse to answer or cooperate
• German: mauern — to refuse to answer or cooperate
• Hungarian: elzárkózik — to refuse to answer or cooperate
• Spanish: entorpecer — to refuse to answer or cooperate
• Spanish: rehusarse a cooperar — to refuse to answer or cooperate
• Spanish: andar con evasivas — to refuse to answer or cooperate
• Spanish: andarse con evasivas — to refuse to answer or cooperate
• Spanish: negarse a contestar — to refuse to answer or cooperate
• Tagalog: dedma — to refuse to answer or cooperate