Noun: avsky
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like avsky
surrogati,
farmakologi,
sydøst,
sateng,
safran,
samisk,
pubertet,
slalåm,
sodomi,
sjømat,
skrekk,
språkvitenskap,
kjerneenergi,
blodsirkulasjon,
bengali,
berbisk,
årsnedbør,
chamorro,
usbekisk,
pulverform, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Calque of German Abscheu; from surface analysis, av- + sky. Compare Danish afsky, Swedish avsky, and Dutch afschuw. See: German Nouns '
Abscheu', Danish Nouns '
afsky', Swedish Nouns '
avsky', Dutch Nouns '
afschuw'.
Verbs referencing "avsky"
Dutch Nouns
afschuw, German Nouns
Abscheu.
Translations
abominate, to feel disgust towards, to hate in the highest degree
detest, to dislike intensely
hate, to dislike intensely
loathe, to detest, hate, revile