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ashake

adj
/əˈʃeɪk/

Etymology

From a- + shake.

  1. derived from *(s)keg-✻
  2. inherited from *skakaną✻ — “to shake, swing, escape”
  3. inherited from *skakan✻
  4. inherited from sċeacan
  5. inherited from schaken
  6. prefixed as ashake — “a + shake”

Definitions

  1. shaking, aquiver

    • "Dunkery Beacon," whispered John, so close into my ear, that I felt his lips and teeth ashake; "dursn't fire it now except to show the Doones way home again, since the naight as they went up and throwed the watchmen atop of it.
    • Then you'll buy her dear,' cried my lady, ashake with rage. '
    • AT THE WINDOW THE pine-trees bend to listen to the autumn wind as it mutters Something which sets the black poplars ashake with hysterical laughter; While slowly the house of day is closing its eastern shutters.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ashake. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA