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wake | getup |

As a proper noun wake

is .

As a noun getup is

(chiefly|us|informal) a costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual.

wake

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) waken'', (etyl) ''wacan * Middle English wakien'', Old English ''wacian

Verb

  • (often followed by up ) To stop sleeping.
    • I woke up at four o'clock this morning.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • How long I slept I cannot tell, for I had nothing to guide me to the time, but woke at length, and found myself still in darkness.
  • (often followed by up ) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
  • * Bible, Zech. iv. 1
    • The angel came again and waked me.
    The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream.
  • (figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
  • * Milton
    • lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage
  • * J. R. Green
    • Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm.
  • (figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
  • * Milton
    • Gentle airs due at their hour / To fan the earth now waked .
  • * Keble
    • Then wake , my soul, to high desires.
  • To lay out a body prior to burial in order to allow family and friends to pay their last respects.
  • To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
  • To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
  • * Bible, Eccles. xlii. 9
    • The father waketh for the daughter.
  • * Milton
    • Though wisdom wake , suspicion sleeps.
  • * John Locke
    • I cannot think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
  • (obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, / Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, poetic) The act of waking, or state of being awake.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep.
  • * Dryden
    • Singing her flatteries to my morning wake .
  • The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
  • * Dryden
    • The warlike wakes continued all the night, / And funeral games played at new returning light.
  • * Milton
    • The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim, / Their merry wakes and pastimes keep.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) wacu.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A period after a person's death before the body is buried, in some cultures accompanied by a party.
  • (historical, Church of England) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
  • * Ld. Berners
    • Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England.
  • * Drayton
    • And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer.
    Synonyms
    * death watch
    See also
    * arval, arvel

    Etymology 3

    Probably (etyl), from (etyl) , Icelandic ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
  • The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
  • (figuratively) The area behind something, typically a rapidly moving object.
  • * De Quincey
    • This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions.
  • * Thackeray
    • Several humbler persons formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=September 28 , author=Tom Rostance , title=Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Alex Song launched a long ball forward from the back and the winger took it down nicely on his chest. He cut across the penalty area from the right and after one of the three defenders in his wake failed to make a meaningful clearance, the Oxlade-Chamberlain was able to dispatch a low left-footed finish into the far corner.}}
    See also
    * in the wake of * wakes

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A number of vultures assembled together.
    • See also
    * flock

    Related terms

    * wait * watch

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    getup

    English

    Alternative forms

    * get up * get-up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, US, informal) A costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual.
  • *1899 ,
    • When near the buildings I met a white man, in such an unexpected elegance of get–up that in the first moment I took him for a sort of vision.
  • * 1917 , " 1,200 Reading Firemen March," Reading Eagle (Pennsylvania, USA), 28 Oct. p. 4:
    • The Schnitzelbank Band, each member attired in an odd getup , received many comments for the manner in which the men marched.
  • * 2009 , " Worried They Will Miss the War: Inside the Mind of West Point's Class of 2009," Newsweek , 6 June:
    • [A] parade of costumed cadets trots by: a shark costume, an Uncle Sam getup and three young men in form-fitting bodysuits.
  • (informal) A fight or altercation.
  • * 2002 , Andrea Sachs, " Caricature Builder," Time , 21 Jan.:
    • "A bully. Picked on fellows. He loved to fight. But I never saw him in a getup with a fellow his own size."
  • (publishing) Layout and production style, as of a magazine.

    • See also

    * all get up * get up