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(Latin: bitter, sharp, sour, stinging)
(Latin: sour [sharp])
(Latin: sharp, to sharpen; point; needle, pin)
(Greek: oxys, "sharp", plus gen, "forming"; from the incorrect belief that oxygen forms acids; gas)
(Greek: sharp, acute, pointed, keen; sour, acid, acidic, pungent)
(Greek: bitter, sharp, pungent)
(Latin: a sharp edge or point; mental acuity, sharpness of vision)
(Latin: pungere, punctum to strike, to hit, to punch, to pierce, to puncture, to point, to sting, to bite; a dot, a mark; a point, a sharp point, a pinpoint)
(Latin: the pouch that holds the testes; a purse; probably a variant of scortum, "a skin, hide"; or of scrautum, "a leather bag for holding arrows"; akin to scrupus, "a sharp stone")
(Latin: uneasiness, anxiety, doubt, especially, over a moral issue; literally, "small, sharp stone or pebble")
(Latin: point, sharp point, spike)
Word Entries containing the term: “sharp
razor-sharp
This entry is located in the following unit: rad-, ras-, raz- (page 3)
sharp point
This entry is located in the following unit: Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies (page 20)
sharp tongue
The tendency to be bad-tempered or sarcastic in speech: Hank couldn't tolerate his wife's sharp tongue any longer; so, he was thinking of leaving her.
This entry is located in the following unit: Tongue Idioms (page 1)