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Etymology

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Abbreviations.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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vac (plural vacs)

  1. (informal) Clipping of vacation.
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 324:
      It was to be their last term at Oxford and Hilary had incited them both to journey with him to Provence for the long vac.
  2. (informal) Clipping of vacuum cleaner.
  3. Clipping of vacuum.
  4. (informal) Clipping of vaccine.

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Verb

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vac (third-person singular simple present vacs, present participle vaccing or vacking, simple past and past participle vacced or vacked)

  1. To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
    • 2010, Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star, page 332:
      I went on to how Harold used to work in security on the building; he used to see Andy in the underground car-park vacking the sick out of the Merc.

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Anagrams

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Huave

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish vaca. Doublet of wacüx.

Noun

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vac

  1. cow

References

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  • Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert, Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence, Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso, Ponce Villanueva, Tereso, Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)‎[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 177

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Noun

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vac n (plural vacuri)

  1. Obsolete form of veac.

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative vac vacul vacuri vacurile
genitive-dative vac vacului vacuri vacurilor
vocative vacule vacurilor

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  • vac in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Veps

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *vacca. Cognates include Finnish vatsa.

Noun

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vac

  1. belly

Declension

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Inflection of vac (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing. vac
genitive sing. vacan
partitive sing. vacad
partitive plur. vacoid
singular plural
nominative vac vacad
accusative vacan vacad
genitive vacan vacoiden
partitive vacad vacoid
essive-instructive vacan vacoin
translative vacaks vacoikš
inessive vacas vacoiš
elative vacaspäi vacoišpäi
illative vacaha
vacha
vacoihe
adessive vacal vacoil
ablative vacalpäi vacoilpäi
allative vacale vacoile
abessive vacata vacoita
comitative vacanke vacoidenke
prolative vacadme vacoidme
approximative I vacanno vacoidenno
approximative II vacannoks vacoidennoks
egressive vacannopäi vacoidennopäi
terminative I vacahasai
vachasai
vacoihesai
terminative II vacalesai vacoilesai
terminative III vacassai
additive I vacahapäi
vachapäi
vacoihepäi
additive II vacalepäi vacoilepäi
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