prune
31prune — Applied both in Britain and the USA to a person who is easily taken in, someone who is foolish. In air force slang, specifically, the word was applied to a bad pilot, a ‘Pilot Officer Prune’. ‘You poor prune’ is therefore not an uncommon… …
32PRUNE — n. f. Fruit à noyau, rond ou allongé, dont la chair est couverte d’une peau lisse et fleurie, et dont il y a plusieurs variétés agréables au goût. Prunes de reine Claude. Prunes de Monsieur. Prunes de mirabelle. Prunes sèches. Prunes confites.… …
33prune — 1. noun /pruːn/ a) The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum. b) An old woman, especially a wrinkly one. 2. verb /pruːn/ a) To remove excess material from a tree or …
34prune — verb ADVERB ▪ drastically, hard (esp. BrE), heavily, severely ▪ Prune the trees hard in the winter. ▪ Their budgets have been drastically pruned. (figurative) …
35prune — prune1 [pru:n] v [T] [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: proignier, probably from provigner to breed plants from shoots , from Latin propago; PROPAGATE] 1.) also prune sth<=>back to cut off some of the branches of a tree or bush to make …
36prune — f Une contravention sur une voiture, une amende relative à la circulation. • Regarde, elles t’ont mis une prune (à la vue du papillon sur pare brise). • Je roulais à 160 sur l’autoroute, y avait un radar, j’ai pris une prune …
37prune — prune1 /proohn/, n. 1. a variety of plum that dries without spoiling. 2. such a plum when dried. 3. any plum. [1300 50; late ME < MF < L pruna, pl. (taken as fem. sing.) of prunum plum < Gk proû(m)non PLUM1] prune2 …
38prune — The dried ripe fruit of Prunus domestica (family Rosaceae), a tree cultivated in warm, temperate regions; a food with laxative properties. * * * prune prün n a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation and often used as a food and as a …
39prune — verb 1) I pruned the roses Syn: cut back, trim, thin, pinch back, clip, shear, top, dock 2) prune lateral shoots of wisteria Syn: cut off, lop (off), chop off, clip …
40prune — [pruːn] verb [T] I to cut off parts of a tree or plant II noun [C] prune [pruːn] a dried PLUM (= type of fruit) …
