mahogany – English noun declension

English noun forms of mahogany

Noun: mahogany
Singularmahogany
Pluralmahoganies

Sample Sentences

  • A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away[…]. [1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • In 2003, at Neal Auction Company in New Orleans, an 1810s mahogany armoire inlaid with ribbons and vines brought $140,000 (the presale estimate was $30,000 to $50,000). [2010 December 9, Eve M. Kahn, “Exploring the Art of Louisiana Furniture”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2020:]
  • William Murdoch […] produced a bottle of port; but I chose mahogany (two parts gin and one part treacle, which Lord Eliot made us at Sir Joshua Reynolds's as a Cornish liquor, but it seems they make it also with brandy, and often add porter to it). [1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 178]
  • Next day, the fish was 'scrowled' on a gridiron over the fire and eaten with 'mahogany', a powerful mixture of black treacle and gin, a favourite tipple of Cornish fishermen for keeping out the cold! [2006, Sara Paston-Williams, Fish: Recipes from a Busy Island, page 39:]
  • Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren. [1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 6, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:]
  • Poets eat and drink without stint — and seldom at their own cost — for what man of mark or likelihood in the moneyed world is there, who is not eager to get their legs under his mahogany? [1842, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal:]
  • Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany […] [1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. A word of unknown origin, concocted in either English or Middle Dutch from one or more exotic phytonyms and common European words.
2. alternative etymologies
3. Alternatively from Portuguese mogano, mógono, obsolete forms of mogno, itself of unknown origin (often suggested to be from the English word instead of the reverse), perhaps from an extinct indigenous language, such as a Mayan language originally spoken in Honduras or a South American language, but no known cognates survive. Another theory attempts to link Yoruba moganwo (“trees”, literally “tall ones”), but this has been criticized. See: Portuguese Nouns 'mogano'.

Verbs referencing "mahogany"

Italian Nouns mogano, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns mahogni, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns mahogni, Finnish Nouns mahonki, German Nouns Mahagoni, French Nouns mahagoni, Polish Nouns mahoń, French Nouns mahogani, Dutch Nouns mahonie.