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English

Pronunciation


Adjective

  1. Having lost its freshness from age. Stale food, for instance, is food which is still edible but has lost its deliciousness.
  2. : The steak is as stale as the beer.
  3. : If you don't enter a room for some days, the air will become stale.
  4. No longer new; no longer interesting; established; old; as, stale news, a stale joke, etc.


Translations

  • Albanian: bajat
  • Finnish: väljähtänyt, tympeä, kulunut
  • German: veraltet, abgedroschen (joke)
  • Russian: {{t|ru|избитый|tr=izbítyj|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|ru|банальный|tr=banálnyj|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|ru|бородатый|tr=borodátyj|sc=Cyrl}} (joke or news)

Noun

  1. In the Context of A woman who is “no longer fresh” or who has lost her virginity.
  2. * Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV, Scene i, lines 59-60:
  3. *: I stand dishonor'd, that have gone about
  4. *: To link my dear friend to a common stale


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Related terms


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stale \Stale\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Staled (st[=a]ld); p. pr. &
vb. n. Staling.]
To make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty, or
use of; to wear out.
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Age can not wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety. --Shak.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stale \Stale\, v. i. [Akin to D. & G. stallen, Dan. stalle, Sw.
stalla, and E. stall a stable. [root] 163. See Stall, n.,
and cf. Stale, a.]
To make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of
horses and cattle. --Hudibras.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stale \Stale\ (st[=a]l), n. [OE. stale, stele, AS. stael, stel;
akin to LG. & D. steel, G. stiel; cf. L. stilus stake, stalk,
stem, Gr. steleo`n a handle, and E. stall, stalk, n.]
The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.
[Written also steal, stele, etc.]
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But seeing the arrow's stale without, and that the head
did go
No further than it might be seen. --Chapman.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stale \Stale\, n. [See Stale, a. & v. i.]
1. That which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by
use. [Obs.]
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2. A prostitute. [Obs.] --Shak.
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3. Urine, esp. that of beasts. "Stale of horses." --Shak.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stale \Stale\, a. [Akin to stale urine, and to stall, n.;
probably from Low German or Scandinavian. Cf. Stale, v. i.]
1. Vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life, spirit,
and flavor, from being long kept; as, stale beer.
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2. Not new; not freshly made; as, stale bread.
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3. Having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out;
decayed. "A stale virgin." --Spectator.
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4. Worn out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty
and power of pleasing; trite; common. --Swift.
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Wit itself, if stale is less pleasing. --Grew.
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How weary, stale flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world! --Shak.
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Stale affidavit (Law), an affidavit held above a year.
--Craig.

Stale demand (Law), a claim or demand which has not been
pressed or demanded for a long time.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stale \Stale\, n. [Cf. OF. estal place, position, abode, market,
F. ['e]tal a butcher's stall, OHG. stal station, place,
stable, G. stall (see Stall, n.); or from OE. stale theft,
AS. stalu (see Steal, v. t.).]
1. Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to
draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool
pigeon. [Obs.]
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Still, as he went, he crafty stales did lay.
--Spenser.
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2. A stalking-horse. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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3. (Chess) A stalemate. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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4. A laughingstock; a dupe. [Obs.] --Shak.
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WordNet stale
adj 1: showing deterioration from age; "stale bread" [ant: fresh]
2: lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new;
"moth-eaten theories about race" [syn: old, moth-eaten]
3: no longer new; uninteresting; "cold (or stale) news" [syn: cold]
v : urinate, of cattle and horses
Moby Dictionary
allurement , antiquated , back-number , bait , banal , bewhiskered ,
blown , boring , bromidic , cliche , cliched , come-on , common ,
commonplace , corny , crumbling , cut-and-dried , dead , decoy ,
dilapidated , dilute , diluted , dry , dusty , enticement , fade ,
familiar , fetid , flat , flavorless , frowy , fusty , gamy , gone off ,
gone to seed , gruelly , hackney , hackneyed , hand-me-down , hardened ,
high , inane , indifferent , insipid , jejune , limp , mild , mildewed ,
milk-and-water , moldering , moldy , moss-grown , moth-eaten , mouldy ,
musty , noisome , off , old , old hat , old-fashioned , overused , pappy ,
platitudinous , pulpy , rancid , rank , reechy , reeking , rotten ,
ruined , ruinous , rusty , sapless , savorless , seducement , set ,
shopworn , smelly , snare , sour , soured , spiceless , spoiled , square ,
stenchy , stereotyped , stinking , stock , strong , tainted , tasteless ,
temptation , thin , threadbare , time-scarred , timeworn , tired ,
tiresome , trap , trite , truistic , turned , unflavored , unoriginal ,
unsavory , vapid , warmed-over , washy , watered , watered-down , watery ,
weak , weary , well-known , well-worn , wilted , wishy-washy , withered ,
worn , worn thin


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