Noun: amyl
Sample Sentences
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We had two bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers. . . and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. [1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, New York: Popular Library, →ISBN, page 4:]
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Holy fuck! — it’s like a double amyl rush — popping in the cranium like a week-old orgasm. [1993, Tristan Hawkins, Pepper, London: Flamingo, →ISBN, page 226:]
Nouns inflected like amyl
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)
3. Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-der.
4. Proto-Hellenic *mólā
5. Ancient Greek μύλη (múlē)
6. Ancient Greek ἄμῠλος (ámŭlos)
7. Ancient Greek ἄμῠλον (ámŭlon)der.
8. Latin amylumder.
9. English amyl
10. From Latin amylum (“starch”), from Ancient Greek ἄμυλον (ámulon, “starch”) from ἀ- (a-, “privative”) + μύλη (múlē, “mill”). See: Latin Nouns '
amylum', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἄμυλον'.
Verbs referencing "amyl"
Finnish Nouns
amyyli.