Meaning

noun building material used as siding or roofing

noun frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream

noun a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it

originFrom Middle English schaken, from Old English sċeacan, sċacan (“to shake”), from Proto-West Germanic *skakan, from Proto-Germanic *skakaną (“to shake, swing, escape”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keg-, *(s)kek- (“to jump, move”). Cognate with Scots schake, schack (“to shake”), West Frisian schaekje (“to shake”), Dutch schaken (“to elope, make clean, shake”), Low German schaken (“to move, shift,…

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