salacious
EnglishMerriam-Webster Dictionarystrong> behavior or artifice designed to deceive or hide //hiding behind a camouflage of righteous indignation
EnglishMerriam-Webster Dictionaryverb
camouflaged; camouflaging
Definition (Entry 2 of 3)
- transitive verb
- : to conceal or disguise by camouflage //The makeup camouflages blemishes.
- intransitive verb
- : to practice camouflage
adjective
Definition (Entry 3 of 3)
- : made in colors or patterns typical of camouflage //a camouflage jacket
Examples
Noun
- //The army tanks were painted green and brown for camouflage.
- //The rabbit's white fur acts as a camouflage in the snow.
- //Rabbits use their white fur as camouflage in the snow.
- //Her so-called charity work was a camouflage for her own self-interest.
- //His tough attitude served as camouflage.
Verb
- //It was impossible to camouflage the facts.
- //camouflaged the military camp as a native village
First Known Use
Noun
1885, in the meaning defined at sense 2aVerb
1917, in the meaning defined at transitive sense Adjective
1918, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
Noun
borrowed from French, from camoufler "to disguise, make unrecognizable" (originally criminal argot, perhaps derivative from the base of camouflet "a practical joke performed by igniting a paper cornet and blowing the smoke from it into the nose of a sleeping person") + -age -age; camouflet, alteration (with replacement of the initial syllable by the expressive prefix ca-) of Middle French chault moufflet, from chault "warm" (going back to Latin calidus "hot, warm") + moufflet, presumably, "breath, puff of air," from moufl- (as in Middle French mouflart "with puffy cheeks," Walloon dialect moufler "to puff up the cheeks") + -et -et entry 1; moufl- is an expressive base perhaps borrowed from a West Germanic etymon, whence late Middle High German muffeln "to grumble, mutter," Swiss German müffele "to chew slowly," Middle Dutch moffelaer "braggart, glutton" — more at cauldronNOTE: This etymology of French camoufler is preferred by Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (vol. 16, p. 575) and Bloch and Wartburg's Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue française, 6th edition, 1975 ("… l'idée de «fumée» pouvant très bien servir de base à un mot au sens de «déguiser»" — "the notion of 'smoke' being very well capable of serving as the base for a word with the sense 'to disguise'"). It is cited more recently by Trésor de la langue française. Earlier etymologists (Gamillscheg, Dauzat), as well as Gaston Esnault, compiler of Dictionnaire des argots (Paris, 1965), believed that camoufler was a loan from Italian camuffare "to feign, conceal, disguise, mask," which is remarkably close in both form and sense. Esnault dates the earliest occurrence of camoufler, as a reflexive verb ("to assume a disguise"), to 1821. The Italian verb is much older, first occurring in the fourteenth century. Lessico etimologico italiano places it under *camāre, a variant of *carmāre "to cast a spell, charm" with -rm- assimilated to -m- (for other ideas on the origin of camuffare see M. Cortelazzo and P. Zolli, Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana).
Verb
derivative of camouflage entry 1Adjective
from attributive use of camouflage entry 1camouflage
verb
Synonyms & Antonyms (Entry 1 of 2)
- to change the dress or looks of so as to conceal true identity //camouflaged the military camp as a native village
verb
camouflaged; camouflaging
Definition (Entry 2 of 3)
- transitive verb
- : to conceal or disguise by camouflage //The makeup camouflages blemishes.
- intransitive verb
- : to practice camouflage
adjective
Definition (Entry 3 of 3)
- : made in colors or patterns typical of camouflage //a camouflage jacket
Examples
Noun
- //The army tanks were painted green and brown for camouflage.
- //The rabbit's white fur acts as a camouflage in the snow.
- //Rabbits use their white fur as camouflage in the snow.
- //Her so-called charity work was a camouflage for her own self-interest.
- //His tough attitude served as camouflage.
Verb
- //It was impossible to camouflage the facts.
- //camouflaged the military camp as a native village
First Known Use
Noun
1885, in the meaning defined at sense 2aVerb
1917, in the meaning defined at transitive sense Adjective
1918, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
Noun
borrowed from French, from camoufler "to disguise, make unrecognizable" (originally criminal argot, perhaps derivative from the base of camouflet "a practical joke performed by igniting a paper cornet and blowing the smoke from it into the nose of a sleeping person") + -age -age; camouflet, alteration (with replacement of the initial syllable by the expressive prefix ca-) of Middle French chault moufflet, from chault "warm" (going back to Latin calidus "hot, warm") + moufflet, presumably, "breath, puff of air," from moufl- (as in Middle French mouflart "with puffy cheeks," Walloon dialect moufler "to puff up the cheeks") + -et -et entry 1; moufl- is an expressive base perhaps borrowed from a West Germanic etymon, whence late Middle High German muffeln "to grumble, mutter," Swiss German müffele "to chew slowly," Middle Dutch moffelaer "braggart, glutton" — more at cauldronNOTE: This etymology of French camoufler is preferred by Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (vol. 16, p. 575) and Bloch and Wartburg's Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue française, 6th edition, 1975 ("… l'idée de «fumée» pouvant très bien servir de base à un mot au sens de «déguiser»" — "the notion of 'smoke' being very well capable of serving as the base for a word with the sense 'to disguise'"). It is cited more recently by Trésor de la langue française. Earlier etymologists (Gamillscheg, Dauzat), as well as Gaston Esnault, compiler of Dictionnaire des argots (Paris, 1965), believed that camoufler was a loan from Italian camuffare "to feign, conceal, disguise, mask," which is remarkably close in both form and sense. Esnault dates the earliest occurrence of camoufler, as a reflexive verb ("to assume a disguise"), to 1821. The Italian verb is much older, first occurring in the fourteenth century. Lessico etimologico italiano places it under *camāre, a variant of *carmāre "to cast a spell, charm" with -rm- assimilated to -m- (for other ideas on the origin of camuffare see M. Cortelazzo and P. Zolli, Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana).
Verb
derivative of camouflage entry 1Adjective
from attributive use of camouflage entry 1camouflage
verb
Synonyms & Antonyms (Entry 1 of 2)
- to change the dress or looks of so as to conceal true identity //camouflaged the military camp as a native village
verb
camouflaged; camouflaging
Definition (Entry 2 of 3)
- transitive verb
- : to conceal or disguise by camouflage //The makeup camouflages blemishes.
- intransitive verb
- : to practice camouflage
adjective
Definition (Entry 3 of 3)
- : made in colors or patterns typical of camouflage //a camouflage jacket
Examples
Noun
- //The army tanks were painted green and brown for camouflage.
- //The rabbit's white fur acts as a camouflage in the snow.
- //Rabbits use their white fur as camouflage in the snow.
- //Her so-called charity work was a camouflage for her own self-interest.
- //His tough attitude served as camouflage.
Verb
- //It was impossible to camouflage the facts.
- //camouflaged the military camp as a native village
First Known Use
Noun
1885, in the meaning defined at sense 2aVerb
1917, in the meaning defined at transitive sense Adjective
1918, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
Noun
borrowed from French, from camoufler "to disguise, make unrecognizable" (originally criminal argot, perhaps derivative from the base of camouflet "a practical joke performed by igniting a paper cornet and blowing the smoke from it into the nose of a sleeping person") + -age -age; camouflet, alteration (with replacement of the initial syllable by the expressive prefix ca-) of Middle French chault moufflet, from chault "warm" (going back to Latin calidus "hot, warm") + moufflet, presumably, "breath, puff of air," from moufl- (as in Middle French mouflart "with puffy cheeks," Walloon dialect moufler "to puff up the cheeks") + -et -et entry 1; moufl- is an expressive base perhaps borrowed from a West Germanic etymon, whence late Middle High German muffeln "to grumble, mutter," Swiss German müffele "to chew slowly," Middle Dutch moffelaer "braggart, glutton" — more at cauldronNOTE: This etymology of French camoufler is preferred by Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (vol. 16, p. 575) and Bloch and Wartburg's Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue française, 6th edition, 1975 ("… l'idée de «fumée» pouvant très bien servir de base à un mot au sens de «déguiser»" — "the notion of 'smoke' being very well capable of serving as the base for a word with the sense 'to disguise'"). It is cited more recently by Trésor de la langue française. Earlier etymologists (Gamillscheg, Dauzat), as well as Gaston Esnault, compiler of Dictionnaire des argots (Paris, 1965), believed that camoufler was a loan from Italian camuffare "to feign, conceal, disguise, mask," which is remarkably close in both form and sense. Esnault dates the earliest occurrence of camoufler, as a reflexive verb ("to assume a disguise"), to 1821. The Italian verb is much older, first occurring in the fourteenth century. Lessico etimologico italiano places it under *camāre, a variant of *carmāre "to cast a spell, charm" with -rm- assimilated to -m- (for other ideas on the origin of camuffare see M. Cortelazzo and P. Zolli, Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana).
Verb
derivative of camouflage entry 1Adjective
from attributive use of camouflage entry 1camouflage
verb
Synonyms & Antonyms (Entry 1 of 2)
- to change the dress or looks of so as to conceal true identity //camouflaged the military camp as a native village
verb
camouflaged; camouflaging
Definition (Entry 2 of 3)
- transitive verb
- : to conceal or disguise by camouflage //The makeup camouflages blemishes.
- intransitive verb
- : to practice camouflage
adjective
Definition (Entry 3 of 3)
- : made in colors or patterns typical of camouflage //a camouflage jacket
Examples
Noun
- //The army tanks were painted green and brown for camouflage.
- //The rabbit's white fur acts as a camouflage in the snow.
- //Rabbits use their white fur as camouflage in the snow.
- //Her so-called charity work was a camouflage for her own self-interest.
- //His tough attitude served as camouflage.
Verb
- //It was impossible to camouflage the facts.
- //camouflaged the military camp as a native village
First Known Use
Noun
1885, in the meaning defined at sense 2aVerb
1917, in the meaning defined at transitive sense Adjective
1918, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
Noun
borrowed from French, from camoufler "to disguise, make unrecognizable" (originally criminal argot, perhaps derivative from the base of camouflet "a practical joke performed by igniting a paper cornet and blowing the smoke from it into the nose of a sleeping person") + -age -age; camouflet, alteration (with replacement of the initial syllable by the expressive prefix ca-) of Middle French chault moufflet, from chault "warm" (going back to Latin calidus "hot, warm") + moufflet, presumably, "breath, puff of air," from moufl- (as in Middle French mouflart "with puffy cheeks," Walloon dialect moufler "to puff up the cheeks") + -et -et entry 1; moufl- is an expressive base perhaps borrowed from a West Germanic etymon, whence late Middle High German muffeln "to grumble, mutter," Swiss German müffele "to chew slowly," Middle Dutch moffelaer "braggart, glutton" — more at cauldronNOTE: This etymology of French camoufler is preferred by Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (vol. 16, p. 575) and Bloch and Wartburg's Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue française, 6th edition, 1975 ("… l'idée de «fumée» pouvant très bien servir de base à un mot au sens de «déguiser»" — "the notion of 'smoke' being very well capable of serving as the base for a word with the sense 'to disguise'"). It is cited more recently by Trésor de la langue française. Earlier etymologists (Gamillscheg, Dauzat), as well as Gaston Esnault, compiler of Dictionnaire des argots (Paris, 1965), believed that camoufler was a loan from Italian camuffare "to feign, conceal, disguise, mask," which is remarkably close in both form and sense. Esnault dates the earliest occurrence of camoufler, as a reflexive verb ("to assume a disguise"), to 1821. The Italian verb is much older, first occurring in the fourteenth century. Lessico etimologico italiano places it under *camāre, a variant of *carmāre "to cast a spell, charm" with -rm- assimilated to -m- (for other ideas on the origin of camuffare see M. Cortelazzo and P. Zolli, Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana).
Verb
derivative of camouflage entry 1Adjective
from attributive use of camouflage entry 1