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English word origin

Etymology of 🪢

Sense 1 and sense 3 are puns based on their similar pronunciations. Sense 2 is a metonym derived from the use of rope as a method of suicide; compare the verb rope (“to commit suicide, particularly by hanging”).

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Unnumbered source etymology

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Not. · Represents suicide. · A knot, slang for the bulbus glandis.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Sense 1 and sense 3 are puns based on their similar pronunciations. Sense 2 is a metonym derived from the use of rope as a method of suicide; compare the verb rope (“to commit suicide, particularly by hanging”).

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