lure
English
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Etymology 1
[edit]From Anglo-Norman lure, from Old French loirre (Modern French leurre), from Frankish *lōþr, from Proto-Germanic *lōþr-, perhaps ultimately related to *laþō (“invitation, calling”), or from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to hide”). Compare English allure, also from Old French. Probably related to German Luder (“bait”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /l(j)ʊə/, /lɔː/, /lɜː/
- (US) IPA(key): /lʊəɹ/, /lɝ/
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /lʉːɹ/
- Homophones: lore (some speakers with the pour–poor merger); law (non-rhotic, pour–poor merger)
- Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]lure (plural lures)
- (also figurative) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
- 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 2:
- How many have with a smile made small account
Of Beauty and her lures
- (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
- (falconry) A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 222:
- My Faulcon now is ſharpe and paſſing emptie, / And til ſhe ſtoope ſhe muſt not be full gorg'd, / For then ſhe never lookes upon her lure.
- A velvet smoothing brush.[1]
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Verb
[edit]lure (third-person singular simple present lures, present participle luring, simple past and past participle lured)
- (intransitive) To attract by temptation, appeal, or guile.
- Synonym: entice
- (transitive) To attract fish with a lure.
- (transitive, falconry) To recall a hawk with a lure.
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Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]lure (plural lures)
References
[edit]- ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Lure”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lure
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle Low German luren.
Verb
[edit]lure (imperative lur, present tense lurer, passive lures, simple past lurte, past participle lurt, present participle lurende)
References
[edit]- “lure” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lure
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]lure (present tense lurar or lurer, past tense lura or lurte, past participle lura or lurt, present participle lurande, imperative lur)
- Alternative form of lura
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Frankish *lōþr, from Proto-Germanic *lōþr-, perhaps ultimately related to *laþō (“invitation, calling”), or from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to hide”).
Noun
[edit]lure oblique singular, f (oblique plural lures, nominative singular lure, nominative plural lures)
- lure (bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk)
Descendants
[edit]- English: lure
References
[edit]- lure on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- “lure”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Luder”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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