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Antonyms for shell out

Grammar : Verb
Spell : shel
Phonetic Transcription : ʃɛl

Definition of shell out

Origin :
  • Old English sciell, scill, Anglian scell "seashell, eggshell," related to Old English scealu "shell, husk," from Proto-Germanic *skaljo "piece cut off; shell; scale" (cf. West Frisian skyl "peel, rind," Middle Low German schelle "pod, rind, egg shell," Gothic skalja "tile"), with the shared notion of "covering that splits off," from PIE root *(s)kel- (1) "to cut, cleave" (cf. Old Church Slavonic skolika "shell," Russian skala "bark, rind;" see scale (n.1)). Italian scaglia "chip" is from Germanic.
  • Sense of "mere exterior" is from 1650s; that of "hollow framework" is from 1791. Meaning "structure for a band or orchestra" is attested from 1938. Military use (1640s) was first of hand grenades, in reference to the metal case in which the gunpowder and shot were mixed; the notion is of a "hollow object" filled with explosives. Hence shell shock, first recorded 1915. Shell game "a swindle" is from 1890, from a version of three-card monte played with a pea and walnut shells.
  • verb give
Example sentences :
  • It was pressed to pay, coaxed to plank down, soothered to shell out.
  • Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
  • Then you can cook your own sausages for supper, my man, and shell out what you owe on the nail.
  • Extract from : « My Friend Smith » by Talbot Baines Reed
  • A man will shell out his dust to another man free and easy and gratis.
  • Extract from : « Strictly Business » by O. Henry
  • If he was confident of my business he'd shell out his cash quick enough!
  • Extract from : « The Prime Minister » by Anthony Trollope
  • I lifted the shell out and, carrying it in my arms, took the road for the shelter.
  • Extract from : « A Blue Devil of France » by G. P. Capart
  • So he did not take the hint to shell out, and worked the innocent con.
  • Extract from : « The Autobiography of a Thief » by Hutchins Hapgood
  • What he thought came out like a shell out of a gun—with an explosion.
  • Extract from : « Captain Macedoine's Daughter » by William McFee
  • Get your gov'nor to shell out to old Spring, and he'll take you on like a shot.
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Town » by John Alexander Hammerton
  • The first thing she did was to eat the shell out of which she had just crawled.
  • Extract from : « Among the Night People » by Clara Dillingham Pierson
  • It don't seem jest the thing for a woman to shell out money to a man.
  • Extract from : « Sevenoaks » by J. G. Holland

Synonyms for shell out

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