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Definition taint
Etymology 1
From Latin tingere, tinctum via Anglo-Norman or Old French teint (past participle of teindre (“to dye, to tinge”))
Noun
taint (plural taints)
- A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food
- A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish
- (obsolete) tincture; hue; colour
- (obsolete) infection; corruption; deprivation
- (programming) A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
Verb
taint (third-person singular simple present taints, present participle tainting, simple past and past participle tainted)
- (transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
- (transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.
- (intransitive) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
- (intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
- (transitive, Australia, finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
Etymology 2
From Old French atteinte (“a blow, stroke”). Compare with attaint.
Noun
taint (plural taints)
- A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
Verb
taint (third-person singular simple present taints, present participle tainting, simple past and past participle tainted)
- (transitive) To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- (transitive) To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
- (intransitive) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
Etymology 3
Reportedly from the phrase “'tain't your balls and 'tain't your ass”. Ascribed to E.E. Landy's Underground Dict. (1972) is the following explanation: ‘'taint their ass and 'taint their pussy.’
Noun
taint (plural taints)
- (slang) The perineum.
Etymology 4
Contraction of it ain't.
Contraction
taint
- Alternative spelling of 'taint
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