vac

Abbreviations.

• IPA^(key): /væk/

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vac (plural vacs)

1. (informal) Clipping of vacation (“extended period of time away from work or school”).
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 324:

     It was to be their last term at Oxford and Hilary had incited them both to journey with him to Provence for the long vac.

2. (informal) Clipping of vacuum cleaner.
3. Clipping of vacuum.
4. (informal) Clipping of vaccine.

• (vacation): long vac, swot vac
• (vacuum cleaner): minivac
• (vacuum): vac bed, vac pack

vac (third-person singular simple present vacs, present participle vaccing or vacking, simple past and past participle vacced or vacked)

1. To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
   • 2010, Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star, page 332:

     I went on to how Harold used to work in security on the building; he used to see Andy in the underground car-park vacking the sick out of the Merc.

• ACV, AVC, CVA, Cav.

Borrowed from Spanish vaca. Doublet of wacüx.

vac

1. cow

• Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert; Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence; Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso; Ponce Villanueva, Tereso; Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981), Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 177

Inherited from Sanskrit वच् (vac).

vac (Pali name vaca)

1. to say
   • [c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎^[2] (overall work in Pali), page 291; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     वचवसवहादीनं उकारो वस्स ये ॥६॥
     वच, वस, वह इच्चेवमादीनं धातूनं वकारस्स उकारो होति य पच्चये परे । उच्चते, वुच्चति; वुस्सति; वुय्हति ॥

     6. Vacavasavahādīnaṃ ukāro vassa ye
     Vaca, vasa, vaha iccevamādīnaṃ dhātūnaṃ vakārassa ukāro hoti ya paccaye pare.Uccate, vuccate; vussati; vuyhati.

     Vac, vas, vah etc. which have 'u' for 'va'
     Roots vac, vas, vah and so on etc. have 'u' from 'va' next to the ending 'ya'.
     Exx: uccate, vuccate; vussati; vuyhati.]

vac n (plural vacuri)

1. obsolete form of veac

• vac in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *vacca. Cognates include Finnish vatsa.

vac

1. belly