name
Meaning 1
A surname from Norman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Wass
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Multicultural-London-English: [ˈwæs]
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Multicultural-London-English: [ˈwas]
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rhymes with -æs
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CMU ARPABET: W AH1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: W AA1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A village in Byland with Wass parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Ryedale district (OS grid ref SE5579).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
wanton disposition, unorderly state of mind or behaviour
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Multicultural-London-English, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
specifically inane or sottish words
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Multicultural-London-English, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: flizz, jazz, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, Bandini, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bilgewater, blah, blather, blatherskite, bobbins, bollocks, bosh, BS, bull, bullcrap, bulldust, bull feathers, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, clamjamfrey, claptrap, cobblers, codswallop, crap, crock, crock of shit, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, dribble, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, galimatias, Gallophone, garbage, garble, gash, gibber, gibberish, gobbledygook, gossip, Greek, guff, gup, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horse cock, horsefeathers, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horseshit, humbug, Irish bull, jabber, jabberwocky, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, junk, lallation, macaroni, malarkey, manure, meaninglessness, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, nertz, nonsense, pie in the sky, piffle, pigswill, poppycock, prattle, put-on, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, ruse, santorum, shit, shite, skimble-skamble, squit, stuff, stuff and nonsense, tommy-rot, tosh, trittle trattle, tush, trash, tripe, twaddle, wass, whiff-whaff, word salad
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From the Norman personal name Wazo.
From Somali was (“to have sexual intercourse with, to fuck”, verb); compare English fuckry. The multiple meanings of jazz also mirror this word well.