Noun: lash
| Singular | lash |
| Plural | lashes |
Sample Sentences
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I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it. [1711 July 14 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “TUESDAY, July 4, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 108; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:]
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The culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
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The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well. [1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:]
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But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. [1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:]
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I'll have a lash.
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Much-loved characters living on after their author’s death is not so unusual these days. Every second bloke in possession of a keyboard seems to have had a lash at a James Bond thriller, including Kingsley Amis, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd, Anthony Horowitz, Christopher Wood and Sebastian Faulks. [2021 August 28, Grant Smithies, “The Dark Remains: Ian Rankin's 'terrifying' return”, in Stuff:]
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“I felt I’d go out and grab the bull by the horns and give it a good lash and I’m very pleased to come away with second in my very first Diamond League final.” [2022 September 9, Cathal Dennehy, “Ciara Mageean shines in Diamond League to claim second”, in Irish Examiner:]
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the Ayrshire cow gives a lash of milk on comparatively bare pasture [1883, Ontario Agricultural College, Annual Report of the Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm, page 163:]
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The oaks cry oot beneath November's lashes, But not for all the months[…] [1891, James Logie Robertson, Ochil Idylls: And Other Poems, page 23:]
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... put a lash of scepticism in his tone. [2014 April 22, John Creasey, The Theft of Magna Carta, House of Stratus, →ISBN, page 79:]
Nouns inflected like lash
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English lashe, lasshe, lasche (“a stroke; the flexible end of a whip”), from Proto-Germanic *laskô (“flap of fabric, strap”).
2. Cognate with Dutch lasch, las (“a piece; seal; joint; notch; seam”), German Low German Laske, Lask (“a flap; dag; strap”), German Lasche (“a flap; joint; strap; tongue; scarf”), Swedish lask (“scarf”), Icelandic laski (“the bottom part of a glove”). See: Middle English Nouns '
lashe', German Nouns '
Lasche', Icelandic Nouns '
laski'.