stein

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English

Faience beer stein
Glass beer stein

Etymology

From a regional use of German Stein (stone). Probably a clipping of Steingut (stoneware) or Steinkrug (stone pitcher). Compare Old English stǣna (stone jug, a pot of stone or earth). Doublet of stone. More at stean.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /staɪn/
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    Rhymes: -aɪn

Noun

stein (plural steins)

  1. A beer mug, usually made of ceramic or glass.
    • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, “Zollenstein”, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 40:
      So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein—coloring and all. Backed by towering hills, [] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
    • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 3: In the Zone, page 305:
      A gnome-size German civilian with a red von Hindenburg mustache is dispensing steins of what looks to be mostly head.
    • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest , Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 24–25:
      [] those 50 grams of resin-soaked dope, which had been so potent that on the second day it had given him an anxiety attack so paralyzing that he had gone to the bathroom in a Tufts University commemorative ceramic stein to avoid leaving his bedroom, []

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References

  • Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.
  1. ^ stein” in Duden online

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Anagrams

Crimean Gothic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Possibly a writing corruption of stern. At any rate from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

Noun

stein

  1. star
    • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
      Stein. Stella.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Noun

stein

  1. indefinite accusative singular of steinn

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German stein, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

stein m (plural steine)

  1. stone
    • c. 1200, Walther von der Vogelweide, Ich saz ūf eime steine:
      Ich saz ūf eime steine
      Und dahte bein mit beine.
      I was sitting on a stone
      Putting one leg over the other.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse steinn, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

Pronunciation

Adjective

stein (neuter singular stein, definite singular and plural steine)

  1. (slang) stoned, under the influence of cannabis

Noun

stein m (definite singular steinen, indefinite plural steiner, definite plural steinene)

  1. stone
  2. pip (in citrus fruit, grapes)

Alternative forms

  • sten (all senses, also Riksmål)

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Verb

stein

  1. imperative of steine

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse steinn, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz. Akin to English stone.

(smoking): The adjective is a Calque of English stoned.

Pronunciation

Noun

stein m (definite singular steinen, indefinite plural steinar, definite plural steinane)

  1. stone
  2. pip (e.g. in citrus fruit, grapes, cherries)

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Adjective

stein (definite singular and plural steine)

  1. (slang) stoned, under the influence of cannabis

Adverb

stein

  1. (colloquial) Used as an intensifier; completely
    Dei er stein hakkande gale folk ass!
    This people are completely crazy as hell!

References

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

Noun

stein m

  1. stone

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Old Norse

Noun

stein

  1. indefinite accusative singular of steinn