spurn

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English spurnen, spornen, from Old English spurnan (“to strike against, kick, spurn, reject; stumble”), from Proto-Germanic *spurnaną (“to tread, kick, knock out”), from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-. Cognate with Scots spurn (“to strike, push, kick”), German spornen (“to spur on”), Icelandic sporna, spyrna (“to kick”), Latin spernō (“despise, distain, scorn”). Related to spur and spread. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /spɜːn/ (US) IPA(key): /spɝn/ Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n === Verb === spurn (third-person singular simple present spurns, present participle spurning, simple past and past participle spurned) (ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn. (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot. (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity) (intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === spurn (plural spurns) An act of spurning; a scornful rejection. (archaic) A kick; a blow with the foot. (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment. (mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass. ==== Translations ==== === References === == Icelandic == === Etymology === Nominal formation related to spyrja (“to ask”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /spʏ(r)t⁽ʰ⁾n/ Rhymes: -ʏrtn === Noun === spurn f (genitive singular spurnar, nominative plural spurnir) "asking", news (used in set phrases) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === A back-formation from spurnen. ==== Alternative forms ==== sporn, spurne ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /spurn/ ==== Noun ==== spurn (rare) A stumbling; a collapse. (rare) A strike or blow using one's feet. ===== Descendants ===== English: spurn ===== References ===== “spurn(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 8 May 2018. === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== spurn alternative form of spurnen