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English
Etymology
From Middle English schort, short, from Old English sċeort, sċort (“short”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurt, from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Cognate with shirt, skirt, curt, Scots short, schort (“short”), French court, Dutch kort, German kurz, Old High German scurz (“short”) (whence Middle High German schurz), Old Norse skorta (“to lack”) (whence Danish skorte), Albanian shkurt (“short, brief”), Latin curtus (“shortened, incomplete”), Proto-Slavic *kortъkъ. Doublet of curt. More at shirt.
Pronunciation
- (with the horse-hoarse merger) enPR: shôrt
- (without the horse–hoarse merger)
Adjective
short (comparative shorter, superlative shortest)
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- (of a person) Of comparatively small height.
- Having little duration.
- Antonym: long
Our meeting was a short six minutes today. Every day for the past month it’s been at least twenty minutes long.
2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 172:Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
- (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
"Phone" is short for "telephone" and "asap" short for "as soon as possible".
- (cricket, of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
- (cricket, of a ball) bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- (golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- (baking, of pastries, metallurgy) Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)
2013, Heston Blumenthal, Historic Heston, →ISBN, page 122:I chose to interpret the references to butter and sugar as indicating that a short pastry was required. (Later editions suggest a biscuit-like texture.)
- Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
He gave a short answer to the question.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
a short supply of provisions
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
to be short of money
I'd lend you the cash but I'm a little short at present.
The cashier came up short ten dollars on his morning shift.
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
an account which is short of the truth
1829, Walter Savage Landor, “The Emperor Alexander and Capo D'Istria”, in Imaginary Conversations, volume IV:[…] the people are worn down with taxes, and hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse them again to war.
- (colloquial) Undiluted; neat.
1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1848, →OCLC:“There ain’t no drain of nothing short handy, is there?” said the Chicken, generally. “This here sluicing night is hard lines to a man as lives on his condition.”
Captain Cuttle proffered a glass of rum […]
2003, Linda Chaikin, Desert Rose:Delance raised his beer and watched Hoadly throw down another swig of hard stuff. "Take it short if you want to make it over the mountain tonight."
- (obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
- (finance) Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Coordinate term: long
- short position
I'm short in General Motors because I think their sales are plunging.
- (by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of.
- (finance, dated) Of money: given in the fewest possible notes, i.e. those of the largest denomination.
- Antonym: long
1909, James Blyth, The member for Easterby, page 296:He pulled a cheque-book from his pocket, and drew for two hundred thousand pounds. “I'll take it short,” he said […]
Usage notes
- (having a small distance between ends or edges): Short is often used in the positive vertical dimension and used as is shallow in the negative vertical dimension; in the horizontal dimension narrow is more commonly used.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of "having a small distance between ends or edges"): tall, high, wide, broad, deep, long
- (antonym(s) of "of a person, of comparatively little height"): tall
- (antonym(s) of "having little duration"): long
- (antonym(s) of "cricket"): long
- (antonym(s) of "financial position expecting falling value"): long
Translations
having a small distance between ends or edges
- Adyghe: кӏако (kʼakʷo)
- Afrikaans: kort (af)
- Albanian: i shkurtër
- Alviri-Vidari: (Vidari) کله (kole)
- Arabic: قَصِير (qaṣīr)
- Egyptian Arabic: قصير (’uṣáyyar)
- Hijazi Arabic: قصير (gaṣīr)
- Armenian: կարճ (hy) (karč)
- Aromanian: shcurtu
- Assamese: চুটি (suti), চাপৰ (sapor) (vertical)
- Azerbaijani: qısa (az)
- Bashkir: ҡыҫҡа (qıśqa), тоҡор (toqor) (Eastern Bashkir)
- Belarusian: каро́ткі (be) (karótki)
- Bengali: কম (kom)
- Bikol Central: halipot (bcl), hababa (bcl) (of a person)
- Brunei Malay: buntak, pindik
- Bulgarian: къс (bg) (kǎs), кра́тък (bg) (krátǎk)
- Burmese: တို (my) (tui)
- Carpathian Rusyn: коро́ткый (korótkŷj)
- Catalan: curt (ca)
- Cebuano: mubo
- Chamicuro: c̈hijtawa (vertically)
- Chechen: доца (doca)
- Cherokee: ᎠᏍᏆᎳᎢ (asqualai)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 短 (dyun2)
- Dungan: дуан (duan)
- Eastern Min: 短 (doi)
- Mandarin: 短 (zh) (duǎn)
- Crimean Tatar: qısqa
- Czech: krátký (cs)
- Dalmatian: cort
- Danish: kort (da)
- Dutch: kort (nl)
- Erzya: нурька (nuŕka), нурькине (nuŕkińe)
- Esperanto: mallonga (eo)
- Estonian: lühike (et)
- Even: урумкун (urumkun)
- Evenki: урумкун (urumkun)
- Faroese: stuttur (fo)
- Finnish: lyhyt (fi)
- French: court (fr)
- Friulian: curt
- Gagauz: gücük, cıba
- Galician: curto (gl)
- Georgian: მოკლე (moḳle)
- German: kurz (de)
- Greek: σύντομος (el) (sýntomos), κοντός (el) (kontós)
- Ancient: βραχύς (brakhús)
- Guaraní: mbyky
- Hawaiian: pōkole
- Hebrew: קָצָר (he) (katsár)
- Higaonon: mababa
- Hindi: कम (hi) (kam), नाटा (hi) (nāṭā), छोटा (hi) (choṭā)
- Hungarian: rövid (hu), kurta (hu)
- Icelandic: stuttur (is)
- Ido: kurta (io)
- Ingrian: lyhyt
- Irish: gearr, gairid
- Old Irish: gerr
- Italian: corto (it)
- Japanese: 短い (ja) (みじかい, mijikai)
- Javanese: cendhèk, cekak (jv)
- Kabardian: кӏэщӏ (kbd) (kʼɛśʼ), кӏагуэ (kbd) (kʼagʷɛ)
- Kapampangan: makuyad
- Kashubian: krótczi
- Kazakh: қысқа (kk) (qysqa)
- Khmer: ខ្លី (km) (khləy)
- Komi-Zyrian: дженьыд (džeńyd)
- Korean: 짧다 (ko) (jjalda), 짧은 (ko) (jjalbeun) (attributive)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: kurt (ku)
- Kyrgyz: кыска (ky) (kıska)
- Ladino: kurto
- Lao: ສັ້ນ (san)
- Latgalian: eiss
- Latin: brevis (la), curtus
- Latvian: īss (lv)
- Laz: მკულე (mǩule)
- Lithuanian: trumpas (lt)
- Livonian: līti
- Lombard: cùrt
- Macedonian: краток (kratok), кус (kus)
- Malay: pendek (ms)
- Malayalam: ചെറിയ (ml) (ceṟiya)
- Maltese: qasir (mt)
- Manchu: ᡶᠣᡥᠣᠯᠣᠨ (foholon)
- Mansaka: pandak
- Maori: tukutata (of distance), poto, popoto, pōtehetehe, pātehetehe
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: кӱчык (küčyk)
- Western Mari: кӹтӹк (kÿtÿk)
- Middle English: schort
- Minangkabau: singkek (min)
- Mingrelian: კუნტა (ḳunṭa)
- Moksha: нюрьхкяня (ńuŕhkäńa)
- Mongolian: богино (mn) (bogino), ахар (mn) (axar)
- Nanai: хурми (hurmi)
- Neapolitan: curto
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kort (no)
- Nynorsk: kort
- Occitan: cort (oc)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: кратъкъ (kratŭkŭ)
- Old English: sċort
- Old Javanese: paṇḍak
- Oromo: gabaabaa
- Ottoman Turkish: قیصه (kısa), كوتاه (kûtah)
- Papiamentu: kòrtiku
- Pashto: لنډ (lanḍ)
- Persian: کوتاه (fa) (kutâh)
- Polish: krótki (pl)
- Portuguese: curto (pt) m
- Romanian: scurt (ro)
- Russian: коро́ткий (ru) m (korótkij)
- Sanskrit: ह्रस्व (sa) (hrasva)
- Scottish Gaelic: goirid
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кра̀так
- Roman: kràtak (sh)
- Sicilian: curtu (scn)
- Slovak: krátky
- Slovene: kratek (sl)
- Somali: gaaban
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: krotki
- Upper Sorbian: krótki (hsb)
- Spanish: corto (es)
- Sundanese: pondok
- Svan: მეკუ̂შდე (meḳûšde)
- Swahili: -fupi (sw)
- Swedish: kort (sv)
- Tajik: кӯтоҳ (tg) (kütoh)
- Tarantino: corte
- Tarifit: aquḍaḍ m
- Tatar: кыска (qıska)
- Tetum: badak
- Thai: สั้น (th) (sân)
- Turkish: kısa (tr)
- Turkmen: gysga
- Udmurt: вакчи (vakći)
- Ukrainian: коро́ткий (uk) (korótkyj)
- Urdu: چھوٹا (ur) (choṭā), کوتاہ (kutāh)
- Uyghur: قىسقا (qisqa)
- Uzbek: qisqa (uz)
- Vietnamese: ngắn (vi)
- Volapük: brefik (vo)
- Walloon: court (wa)
- Welsh: byr (cy) m, ber f, byrion (cy) m pl or f pl
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: mevava'
- Yakut: кылгас (kılgas)
- Yiddish: קורץ (kurts)
- Zazaki: kılm (diq)
- Zealandic: kort
- Zhuang: dinj, gud, gvwd, ngaed
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of a person, of comparatively small height
- Amharic: አጭር (ʾäč̣r)
- Armenian: ցածրահասակ (hy) (cʻacrahasak), կարճահասակ (hy) (karčahasak), կոլոտ (hy) (kolot)
- Assamese: চাপৰ (sapor), চুটি-চাপৰ (suti-sapor)
- Belarusian: ні́зкі (be) (nízki)
- Brunei Malay: buntak, pindik, randah
- Bulgarian: ни́сък (bg) (nísǎk)
- Burmese: ပု (my) (pu.), နိမ့် (my) (nim.)
- Catalan: baix (ca)
- Chamicuro: na'yechoma
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 矮 (ai2)
- Mandarin: 矮 (zh) (ǎi)
- Czech: malý (cs)
- Danish: lav (da)
- Dutch: klein (nl)
- Esperanto: malalta
- Estonian: lühike (et)
- Faroese: lágur, lágvaksin, stuttur (fo)
- Finnish: lyhyt (fi)
- French: petit (fr), bref (fr) m
- Galician: baixo (gl)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: klein (de)
- Greek: κοντός (el) (kontós)
- Guaraní: karape
- Hebrew: נָמוּךְ (he) m (namúch)
- Hungarian: alacsony (hu)
- Icelandic: lágur (is) m, lágvaxinn m, stuttur (is) m, stuttvaxinn m
- Ingrian: lyhyt
- Irish: beag
- Old Irish: berr
- Italian: piccolo (it), basso (it) m, cartuccia (it) f, mezzacartuccia, corto (it) m
- Japanese: 低い (ja) (ひくい, hikui), 小柄 (こがら, kogara)
- Jarawa: učəhə
- Kabuverdianu: baxu, bóxe
- Khmer: ទាប (km) (tiep)
- Korean: 작다 (ko) (jakda)
- Ladino: kurto, bashitiko
- Latgalian: eiss m
- Latin: humilis
- Latvian: īss (lv) m
- Macedonian: низок m (nizok)
- Malay: pendek (ms)
- Malayalam: കുറിയ (ml) (kuṟiya), ചെറിയ (ml) (ceṟiya)
- Maori: takupū, kanepoto
- Mongolian: намхан (namxan)
- Persian: قد کوتاه (qad-kutâh), کوتوله (fa) (kutule) (vulgar)
- Polish: niski (pl)
- Portuguese: baixo (pt) m
- Rapa Nui: poto
- Romanian: scund (ro)
- Russian: ни́зкий (ru) (nízkij), невысо́кий (ru) (nevysókij)
- Scottish Gaelic: beag (gd)
- Slovak: nízky
- Slovene: majhen (sl) m, majhna f
- Spanish: bajo (es), petiso (es) (South America)
- Swahili: -fupi (sw)
- Swedish: kort (sv)
- Tajik: паст (tg) (past)
- Tamil: குள்ளமான (kuḷḷamāṉa)
- Tatar: тәбәнәк (täbänäk)
- Thai: เตี้ย (th) (dtîia)
- Turkish: kısa (tr)
- Ukrainian: ни́зький (uk) (nýzʹkyj)
- Vietnamese: thấp (vi), lùn (vi)
- Welsh: byr (cy)
- Yagnobi: паст (past)
- Zhuang: daemq
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having little duration
- Amharic: አጭር (ʾäč̣r)
- Arabic: قَصِير (qaṣīr)
- Armenian: կարճ (hy) (karč)
- Assamese: চুটি (suti), চমু (somu)
- Brunei Malay: pindik, singkat, sekajap
- Bulgarian: кра́тък (bg) (krátǎk)
- Burmese: တို (my) (tui)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 短 (dyun2)
- Dungan: дуан (duan), җеё (ži͡əi͡o)
- Mandarin: 短 (zh) (duǎn)
- Czech: krátký (cs)
- Dutch: kort (nl)
- Finnish: lyhyt (fi)
- French: court (fr), bref (fr) m
- Galician: curto (gl)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: kurz (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: βραχύς (brakhús)
- Hungarian: rövid (hu)
- Ingrian: lyhyt
- Interlingua: breve
- Irish: gearr, gairid
- Italian: corto (it)
- Japanese: 短い (ja) (みじかい, mijikai)
- Javanese: cekak (jv)
- Korean: 짧다 (ko) (jjalda)
- Latin: brevis (la)
- Latvian: īss (lv)
- Macedonian: краток (kratok), кус (kus)
- Malay: pendek (ms), singkat (ms)
- Maore Comorian: -kutri
- Maori: uriuri, turu
- Persian: کوتاه (fa) (kutâh)
- Polish: krótki (pl)
- Portuguese: curto (pt), breve (pt)
- Romanian: scurt (ro)
- Russian: коро́ткий (ru) m (korótkij)
- Scottish Gaelic: goirid
- Spanish: corto (es)
- Swedish: kort (sv)
- Walloon: court (wa)
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cricket: relatively close to the batsman
cricket: bouncing relatively far from the batsman
golf: falling short of the green or the hole
of pastries: brittle, crumbly
abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant
limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty
insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking
deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard
not distant in time; near at hand
being in a financial investment position to profit of falling prices
Translations to be checked
Adverb
short (not comparable)
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street.
He cut me short repeatedly in the meeting.
The boss got a message and cut the meeting short.
- Unawares.
The recent developments at work caught them short.
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
His speech fell short of what was expected.
- (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
- (finance) With a negative ownership position.
We went short most finance companies in July.
Translations
without achieving a goal or requirement
cricket: bouncing relatively far from the batsman
finance: with a negative ownership position
Translations to be checked
Noun
short (plural shorts)
- A short circuit.
- A short film.
2012 July 12, Sam Adams, AV Club, Ice Age: Continental Drift:Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
38 short suits fit me right off the rack.
Do you have that size in a short?
- (baseball) A shortstop.
Jones smashes a grounder between third and short.
- (finance) A short seller.
The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne.
- (finance) A short sale or short position.
He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months.
- A summary account.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :For the short and the long is, our play is preferred.
- (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics, page 18:If we compare the nearest conventional shorts and longs in English, as in ‘bit’ and ‘beat’, ‘not’ and ‘naught’, we find that the short vowels are generally wide (i, ɔ), the long narrow (i, ɔ), besides being generally diphthongic as well.
- (programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
- (US, slang) An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
1975, Mary Sanches, Ben G. Blount, Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use, page 47:For example, one addict would crack shorts (break and enter cars) and usually obtain just enough stolen goods to buy stuff and get off just before getting sick.
1982, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice, Career Criminal Life Sentence Act of 1981: Hearings, page 87:[…] list of all crimes reported by these 61 daily criminals during their years on the street is: theft (this includes shoplifting; "cracking shorts", burglary and other forms of stealing), dealing, forgery, gambling, confidence games (flim-flam, etc.) […]
Descendants
Translations
short version of a garment in a particular size
phonetics: short sound, syllable, or vowel
programming: type of integer variable
See also
Verb
short (third-person singular simple present shorts, present participle shorting, simple past and past participle shorted)
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
- (intransitive, of an electrical circuit) To short circuit.
- (transitive) To shortchange
- (transitive, informal) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
This is the third time I’ve caught them shorting us.
1991 August 24, Maridee BonaDea, quoting Brian Freeman, “Pomo Afro Homos On The Road”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 9:It's hard now. The NEA, state and city budgets are messed up and it's the small artists like us that are the ones getting shorted.
- (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- (obsolete) To shorten.
Descendants
Translations
transitive: to cause a short circuit
intransitive: to short circuit
to provide with smaller than agreed quantity
business: to sell something one does not own at the moment
Preposition
short
- Deficient in.
We are short a few men on the second shift.
He's short common sense.
- (finance) Having a negative position in.
I don’t want to be short the market going into the weekend.
Synonyms
Translations
finance: having a negative position in
Derived terms
Anagrams
Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin sors, sortem.
Noun
short m
- drawing (action where the outcome is selected by chance using a draw)
- sweepstakes
Chinese
Etymology
From English short, in the sense of a short circuit. Cognate with Taiwanese Hokkien 秀逗.
Pronunciation
Note:
- sot1 - Hong Kong;
- sok1 - Guangzhou.
Adjective
short
- (Cantonese) insane; crazy
- short short哋 [Cantonese] ― sot1 sot1 dei6-2 ― a bit crazy
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有都唔借你啦,short㗎你? [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]- jau5 du1 m4 ze3 nei5 laa1, sot1 gaa4 nei5?
- I'm not lending it even if I have done it. You're crazy, aren't you?
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of
瘋 (“mad; crazy; insane”)
Variety
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Location
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Words
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Classical Chinese
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痴, 狂, 癲
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Formal (Written Standard Chinese)
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瘋, 狂, 瘋癲, 瘋狂
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Mandarin
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Beijing
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瘋
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Taiwan
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瘋
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Yantai (Muping)
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痴
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Luoyang
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瘋
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Xi'an
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瘋
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Ürümqi
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瘋
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Guiyang
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瘋
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Liuzhou
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癲
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Yangzhou
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瘋
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Singapore
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神經病, 有毛病
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Cantonese
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Guangzhou
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癲, 黐線, 黐筋, 黐孖筋, short
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Hong Kong
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癲, 黐線, 黐筋, 黐孖筋, 黐膠花, short, 黐總掣, 黐大掣
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Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)
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癲, 黐線
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Penang (Guangfu)
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癲, 黐線
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Singapore (Guangfu)
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癲, 黐線
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Gan
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Nanchang
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瘋
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Hakka
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Meixian
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癲
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Eastern Min
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Fuzhou
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癲
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Southern Min
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Xiamen
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痟
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Quanzhou
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痟
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Yongchun
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痟
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Zhangzhou
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痟, 魔
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Zhao'an
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痟
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Tainan
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痟
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Penang (Hokkien)
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痟
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Singapore (Hokkien)
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痟
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Manila (Hokkien)
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痟
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Chaozhou
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痟
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Shantou
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痟
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Shantou (Chenghai)
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痟
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Shantou (Chaoyang)
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痟
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Jieyang
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痟
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Haifeng
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癲
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Singapore (Teochew)
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痟
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Leizhou
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痟神
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Wenchang
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發痟
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Singapore (Hainanese)
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發痟
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Wu
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Shanghai
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痴
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Shanghai (Chongming)
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痴
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Danyang
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瘋
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Hangzhou
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瘋
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Wenzhou
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癲
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Jinhua
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癲
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Xiang
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Loudi
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瘋
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Verb
short
- (Cantonese, of people) to become insane; to become crazy
- (Cantonese, of electronics) to malfunction
- (Cantonese, electrical engineering) to short-circuit
References
French
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English shorts.
Pronunciation
Noun
short m (plural shorts)
- shorts, short trousers (UK)
Avec un pantalon, j’ai moins froid aux jambes qu’avec un short.- With trousers on, my legs are not as cold as with shorts on.
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English short.
Noun
short m (invariable)
- short (short film etc.)
Middle English
Adjective
short
- Alternative form of schort
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English shorts.
Pronunciation
Noun
short m (plural shorts)
- (Brazil) shorts (pants that do not go lower than the knees)
- Synonyms: calção, calções, shorts
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English shorts.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃoɾt/
- Rhymes: -oɾt
- Syllabification: short
Noun
short m (plural shorts)
- shorts
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading