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enoughadj.pron.n.adv. Forms: α. Old English genog, Old English genoh, Old English ginog (Northumbrian), Old English (rare)–Middle English inoh, early Middle English anog (East Anglian), early Middle English enohc, early Middle English ȝenoh, early Middle English hinoh (south-western), early Middle English innoh, early Middle English innoþ, early Middle English innouȝh (Oxfordshire), early Middle English inoch, early Middle English inog, early Middle English inohg, early Middle English inohȝ, early Middle English inotht, early Middle English inoþ, early Middle English onoh, early Middle English ynog, early Middle English ynug, Middle English anogh (East Anglian and northern), Middle English anoght (northern), Middle English anought, Middle English anouȝ, Middle English anouh (east midlands), Middle English anowgh (East Anglian and east midlands), Middle English anowȝ, Middle English anowh (East Anglian and east midlands), Middle English anowth (East Anglian), Middle English enewgh (chiefly north-east midlands), Middle English enewghe (north-east midlands), Middle English enewyghe (north-east midlands), Middle English enoght (northern and north midlands), Middle English enoghte (northern), Middle English enoȝ, Middle English enoȝe, Middle English enoh, Middle English enohe, Middle English enohut (northern), Middle English enohw (northern), Middle English enouȝ, Middle English enouhe, Middle English enoweh (northern), Middle English enowght (northern), Middle English enowȝe, Middle English enowȝh, Middle English enowh, Middle English enowthe (Berkshire), Middle English enoyght (north-east midlands), Middle English enuch, Middle English enugh, Middle English enughe, Middle English enuȝhe, Middle English enwgh, Middle English ȝnowȝe (north-west midlands), Middle English inewgh (north-east midlands), Middle English innghe (north-west midlands, transmission error), Middle English innogh (chiefly north-west midlands), Middle English innoghe (chiefly north-west midlands), Middle English innoȝe (north-west midlands), Middle English inoght (chiefly northern), Middle English inogthe (northern), Middle English inoȝ, Middle English inoȝe, Middle English inoȝh, Middle English inoȝhe, Middle English inoȝht (north-west midlands), Middle English inoȝth, Middle English inohe, Middle English inoht (northern), Middle English inouȝ, Middle English inouȝe, Middle English inouȝh, Middle English inouȝt (north-east midlands), Middle English inouh, Middle English inoutȝ, Middle English inouþe, Middle English inouvȝ, Middle English inovgh, Middle English inovȝ, Middle English inowge, Middle English inowgȝ, Middle English inowȝ, Middle English inowȝe, Middle English inowȝhe, Middle English inowȝþ, Middle English inowh, Middle English inowhe, Middle English inowthe, Middle English inuȝhe, Middle English jnogh, Middle English jnough, Middle English jnouȝ, Middle English jnowge, Middle English jnowgh, Middle English jnowȝ, Middle English jnowh, Middle English jnowhe, Middle English yinoghe, Middle English ynewgh (north-east midlands), Middle English ynewȝ, Middle English ynewȝe (north-east midlands), Middle English ynoch, Middle English ynoghe, Middle English ynoghȝ, Middle English ynoghȝe, Middle English ynoght, Middle English ynoȝ, Middle English ynoȝe, Middle English ynoȝgh, Middle English ynoh, Middle English ynouȝ, Middle English ynouȝe, Middle English ynouȝk (east midlands), Middle English ynouh, Middle English ynouhe, Middle English ynouhȝ, Middle English ynovȝt (north midlands), Middle English ynowght, Middle English ynowgth, Middle English ynowȝ, Middle English ynowȝe, Middle English ynowȝh, Middle English ynowȝt (north midlands), Middle English ynowh, Middle English ynowþȝ, Middle English ynugh (north-west midlands, in a late copy), Middle English ynuȝhe (north-west midlands), Middle English–1500s enowghe, Middle English–1500s inowghe, Middle English–1500s ynogh, Middle English–1500s ynought, Middle English–1500s ynowgh, Middle English–1500s ynowghe, Middle English–1500s ynowhe, Middle English–1600s enogh, Middle English–1600s enoghe, Middle English–1600s enoughe, Middle English–1600s enowgh, Middle English–1600s inogh, Middle English–1600s inoghe, Middle English–1600s inoughe, Middle English–1600s inowgh, Middle English–1600s ynoughe, Middle English (north-east midlands)–1700s enought, Middle English–1700s inough, Middle English–1700s ynough, Middle English– enough, late Middle English inore (transmission error), 1500s anoughe, 1500s henowgh, 1500s yenoughe, 1500s ynnoughe, 1500s–1600s anough, 1500s–1600s innough, 1500s–1600s inought, 1500s–1600s yenough, 1500s–1600s ynnough, 1600s enout, 1600s innought; English regional 1800s aneugh (Cumberland), 1800s anoigh (Leicestershire), 1800s anough, 1800s eneugh (northern), 1800s enoogh (Lancashire), 1800s enugh (Lancashire); Scottish pre-1700 aeneuche, pre-1700 aneach, pre-1700 anench (transmission error), pre-1700 aneocht, pre-1700 aneuche, pre-1700 aneucht, pre-1700 aneuchtt, pre-1700 aneughe, pre-1700 aneught, pre-1700 aneuh, pre-1700 aneuth, pre-1700 anevch, pre-1700 anevcht, pre-1700 anewche, pre-1700 anewcht, pre-1700 anewght, pre-1700 anewtht, pre-1700 aniogh, pre-1700 annewche, pre-1700 annwch, pre-1700 annwche, pre-1700 annwyche, pre-1700 anuch, pre-1700 anuche, pre-1700 anugh, pre-1700 anughe, pre-1700 anuich, pre-1700 anuiche, pre-1700 anwch, pre-1700 anwche, pre-1700 enenocht (perhaps transmission error), pre-1700 eneuche, pre-1700 eneucht, pre-1700 eneughe, pre-1700 enevcht, pre-1700 enewch, pre-1700 enewche, pre-1700 enewgh, pre-1700 enewghe, pre-1700 enewght, pre-1700 ennewch, pre-1700 ennewche, pre-1700 ennuche, pre-1700 enoughe, pre-1700 enowch, pre-1700 enowgh, pre-1700 ineuch, pre-1700 ineucht, pre-1700 ineugh, pre-1700 inewch, pre-1700 inewche, pre-1700 inewcht, pre-1700 inewgh, pre-1700 innuch, pre-1700 inoch, pre-1700 inocht, pre-1700 inouch, pre-1700 inuch, pre-1700 inucht, pre-1700 inwch, pre-1700 yneuch, pre-1700 yneuche, pre-1700 yneucht, pre-1700 yneugh, pre-1700 yneughe, pre-1700 yneuht, pre-1700 ynewch, pre-1700 ynewcht, pre-1700 ynouch, pre-1700 ynouche, pre-1700 ynough, pre-1700 ynoughe, pre-1700 1700s enought, pre-1700 1700s enugh, pre-1700 1700s–1900s aneugh, pre-1700 1700s– eneuch, pre-1700 1700s– eneugh, pre-1700 1700s– enough, pre-1700 1700s– enuch, pre-1700 1800s– aneuch, pre-1700 1800s– enouch, pre-1700 1900s– anewch, 1800s aneuwch, 1800s anoch, 1800s enaugh, 1900s aneoch, 1900s anouch, 1900s enooch, 1900s– anooch, 1900s– anyoch, 1900s– anyooch, 1900s– enoch, 1900s– enyoch, 1900s– enyuch; Irish English (northern) 1900s– eneuch, 1900s– eneugh, 1900s– enoch, 1900s– enooch, 1900s– enyooch, 1900s– enyuch; N.E.D. (1891) also records the forms early Middle English inooȝ, Middle English aney, Middle English anough. β. 1500s anoff, 1500s enoufe, 1500s inoffe, 1500s ynouffe, 1500s–1600s enuffe, 1500s–1600s inuffe, 1600s anouf, 1600s anuf, 1600s anufe, 1600s (1700s North American) anuff, 1600s anuffe, 1600s enof, 1600s enofe, 1600s enouf, 1600s enufe, 1600s enufgh, 1600s (1800s– regional and nonstandard) enuf, 1600s–1700s enoff, 1600s–1700s (1800s– regional and nonstandard) enuff; English regional 1700s enouf (Yorkshire), 1700s inuf (Yorkshire), 1800s aneaf (Yorkshire), 1800s aneeaf (Yorkshire), 1800s aneuf (Cumberland), 1800s aneuff (Cumberland), 1800s aniff (Lincolnshire), 1800s anoof (Staffordshire), 1800s anouff (Lancashire), 1800s anuf (Yorkshire), 1800s anuff, 1800s eneaf (Yorkshire), 1800s enef (Norfolk), 1800s enif (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire), 1800s eniff (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire), 1800s enuf (Cheshire), 1800s inif (Yorkshire), 1800s unuuf (Somerset), 1800s– eneeaf (Yorkshire), 1800s– eneuf (northern), 1800s– enoof; U.S. regional 1800s anawff, 1800s enofe, 1800s enuff, 1800s ernuff, 1900s enurf; Scottish pre-1700 enuff, pre-1700 1900s– anuff, 1700s anofe, 1800s– anoff (Shetland), 1900s– enouf (Orkney); Irish English 1800s a'nuff; N.E.D. (1891) also records a form late Middle English ynoughf. See also enow adj., pron., and adv.1 Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian enōch , anōch , genōch (only attested as adverb; West Frisian nōch , adjective), Old Dutch ginuog (Middle Dutch genoech , Dutch genoeg ), Old Saxon ginōg (Middle Low German genōch ), Old High German ginuog (Middle High German genuoc , German genug ), Old Icelandic gnógr , nógr , Old Swedish nogh (Swedish nog ), Old Danish, Danish nok , Gothic ganohs (the latter reflecting a variant of the Germanic base without the operation of Verner's Law), all in the senses ‘sufficient, abundant’ < the Germanic base of y- prefix + an ablaut variant (lengthened o -grade) of the Germanic base of Old English genugan , Old High German ginugan , Gothic ganauhan to suffice, prefixed derivatives (with the Germanic base of y- prefix) < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit naśati will attain, classical Latin nancīscī to acquire, Early Irish -icc (in e.g. ro-icc reaches), Armenian hasanem I arrive, attain, and perhaps Lithuanian nokti to grow ripe. Compare enow adj., pron., and adv.1, and also 'nough adv., adj., and pron. and nuff adv., adj., and pron.Uses paralleled in other Germanic languages. With use as adverb compare corresponding uses in Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, Middle High German, Old Swedish, and Old Danish. With sense A. 3 compare corresponding senses in West Frisian and Swedish. Early development of the stem-final consonant. The stem of Old English genōg ends in a voiced velar fricative. The voiced quality of this fricative is always preserved before a vowel of an inflectional ending, as in nominative and accusative plural genōge . In uninflected forms (and sometimes also before inflectional endings beginning with a consonant) the final fricative frequently had become devoiced by the beginning of the Middle English period; compare uninflected Old English genōh . This devoicing is only partially reflected in Old English spelling and appears to have progressed differently in different dialects. In early Middle English, forms with voiced velar fricative, which were particularly characteristic of the plural, developed into the forms with the labiovelar approximant w , covered at enow adj. (see the β. forms at that entry). The forms with the devoiced fricative, which were particularly characteristic of the nominative singular and of the accusative singular masculine and neuter (and so also of the adverb), developed into the forms covered at this entry. Since the change was not always reflected in spelling, some of the Middle English forms with g(h) , ȝ(h) , h listed at this entry could instead have been intended as representing the labiovelar approximant w , and hence would belong instead at enow adj. (compare rough adj. and row adj., and also the discussion at plough n.1). Early Middle English instances of this type with the plural ending -e are covered at enow adj. Later developments. Despite much analogical levelling (already in Middle English) between forms going back to the voiced and the voiceless velar fricatives, there remained a tendency, observable in late Middle English, early modern English, and Older Scots, to use forms in -w (descended from the voiced velar fricative in the plural forms of the adjective) with plural nouns (compare enow adj. 1a), while using the forms descended from the voiceless velar fricative (covered at enough adj.) in other contexts. The tendency was recognized as standard usage in the 18th cent., and survived to some extent in many regional varieties of British English after enow adj., pron., and adv.1 had disappeared from standard speech (compare note at enow adj. 1). Specific form types. For the development of the final voiceless fricative /x/ to /f/ (reflected in spelling in the β. forms) see discussion at G n., and compare laugh v., rough adj., etc. With forms in a- compare a- prefix2; for the development of forms in e- , compare discussion at ylike adv. A. adj. ( determiner). I. As much or as many as required or wanted; sufficient in quantity or number. Also (of something undesirable): present in a greater amount than is tolerable or expected. 1. attributive. With noun expressed or occasionally implied by the context. Originally following the noun, but subsequently and (since the end of the 19th cent.) normally preceding the noun. Frequently with infinitive or for indicating purpose. a. With a singular mass noun. OE (1932) 1534 Þær wæs ælcum genog fram dæges orde drync sona gearu. OE Acct. Voy. Ohthere & Wulfstan in tr. Orosius (Tiber.) (1980) i. i. 17 Ne bið ðær nænig ealo gebrowen mid Estum, ac þær bið medo genoh. a1225 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Lamb.) l. 235 in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 173 Hi hem deð wa inoch. a1275 (?c1200) (Trin. Cambr.) (1955) 114 Þer hachte is hid, þer is armþe inoch. a1325 (c1250) (1968) l. 3365 Anog adden he ðanne drinc. c1330 (Auch.) (1882) l. 162 Thow byrd to haue nurtour aneuch. a1400 (a1325) (Gött.) l. 4799 Tresur enohut wid ȝu ȝe take. c1475 (?c1300) (Caius) l. 2832 (MED) Voir and grys enough lede we. c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 502 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) I. 21 Schame Inucht had he. 1518 Dispatch 12 May in Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart (1812) I. Pref. 12 With payne and trauayle anough, we made toward the Cowrte. c1540 (?a1400) (2002) f. 211 Past of his pouer to pouert ynugh. 1550 f. 8 At last they brought hym to a darke seller, wher they couerid hym with shame ynowgh, till the counsell of the Realme sent for hym. a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece (1858) I. l. 1367 It stude rycht stark quhair it had strenth aneuche. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. ii. 316 There's wood enough within. View more context for this quotation a1678 A. Marvell To Coy Mistress in (1681) 19 Had we but World enough, and Time, This coyness Lady were no crime. 1704 III. 107/2 Some persons have reported, and that with Reason enough, that the Penalty of False Returns shou'd be greater both on the Returner and the Returned. 1766 O. Goldsmith I. iii. 27 He had not resolution enough to give any man pain by a denial. 1816 J. Wilson ii. ii. 36 That thought is happiness Enough for me. 1860 J. Tyndall i. §11. 74 I..thought that we had light enough, and ought to make use of it. 1903 Nov. 76 It is discharged by valves into the strike-heaters—double-lined cauldrons supplied with steam enough to keep the sugar hot until crystallisation is reached. 1934 16 Aug. 2/6 Heat and cold are cruel things, but man has intelligence enough to overcome them. 2012 G. Duncan xxix. 168 Madeline, with nous enough not to kill on her own doorstep, had been in the area. a1586 (a1500) Freiris Berwik l. 414 in W. A. Craigie (1919) I. 144 God be lovit heir is aneuche sufficiance And with that wourd..They eit and drank. 1598 F. Meres ii. f. 105v Many godles and profane Actaeons haue inough meate and lodging for their yelping houndes. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer (new ed.) xxiii. 359 In meane space, Pallas, entertain'd intent, That when Vlysses, thought enough time spent In loue-ioyes with his wife; to raise the Day, And make his graue occasions, call, away. 1654 J. Crandon i. xiii.122 How little better they have fared, who would have them to justifie onely as works of grace, having not had enough subtlety to prove them Gospel or Grace works. 1712 (single sheet) What tho' 'tis of our G-n-r-l said, His Temper's something sparing, His soldiers had, enough good Bread. ?1798 W. C. Proby 10 He also would take away wealth from the hands of its possessors, leaving them only enough land to support existence. 1834 Rep. Commissioners appointed Poor Laws 187 in (H.C. 44) XXVII. 1 Master barbers, who might have saved enough money to keep them from the parish. 1859 F. Fowler 59 ‘She says you have enough gold to build a sty wid, and will be sure to give me a little.’ At first old hard-fist refused. 1970 G. Scott-Heron i. 15 There were the winos and phony subway blind men who had escaped the crush and the Man with enough bread to appease their Jones for one more day. 2016 9 Dec. 11/2 The Archbishop of Mosul, Mor Nicodemus Daoud Sharaf, and the Archbishop of St Matthew's..were denied visas..because they did not have enough money. b. With a plural count noun. The Old English and Middle English forms with plural inflection will be found under enow adj., pron., and adv.1; the early examples here should perhaps be regarded as showing pronominal use with partitive genitive plural.a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 35 Mid oðre wowe inohg. c1330 (?a1300) (Auch.) (1952) l. 259 About him com barouns anouȝ. c1500 God spede Plough (Lansd.) l. 78 in W. W. Skeat (1873) 71 Then commeth the tipped-staves for the Marshalse, And saye they haue prisoners mo than Inough. 1653 J. Taylor 13 He having supllyed us with abilities more then enough to expresse our desires aliunde, otherwise then by immediate dictate. 1665 R. Boyle ii. viii. sig. P4v 'Tis not many, or few, that are requir'd, but enough. 1700 W. Prideaux Jrnl. 15 Aug. in (1920) 6 7 Att the little Towne is very good watering and cockoe nutts enough with corne and wood, plantins and mananoes. 1818 33 108 Now, there are candidates enough, who will pretend that they are for Reform. 1878 R. Browning 12 Two, enough and none to spare. 1913 E. Ferber vii. 175 The local members of the U. C. T. sent roses enough to tax every vase and wash-pitcher that the hotel could muster. 1994 T. C. Boyle (1995) 96 She sat through the long afternoons..baking roasts and hams and pies enough for an army. ?1535 tr. M. Luther sig. o.iiiiv Now marke therfore whether al men haue ynoughe good workes to do, or not. ?1555 W. Turner sig. Eviv That there be better prouision for the uniuersities, that the realme may haue enough scolers [1565 ynough scollers] that ar learned to make shepeherdes of. 1631 T. Fuller xxxix. ig. B4v Were there not vsed in the dayes of yore, Enough men-murdering Engines? 1699 tr. J. de La Bruyère 203 If there are not enough good Writers, where are those who know how to read? 1749 June 223 They will never have enough guts in their brains to find out, that there are others,..who may dispute these points with me. 1753 Suppl. When there is stable-room enough partitions are to be made for several horses to stand in. 1869 2 396 A very short screw is sufficient to cause enough revolutions of the roller to roll up the blind. 1889 W. D. Howells II. v. xvi. 642 We know that in reality, marriage is dog-cheap, and anybody can have it for the asking—if he keeps asking enough people. 1904 29 July 155/1 As if we did not already have enough names for the orders of insects, Mr. A. E. Shipley generously gives us seven more. 2016 5 Mar. 9/4 To walk on water with Jesus requires enough brains to ask the Lord if that's what he wants you to do. OE (Corpus Cambr.) x. 25 Genoh byþ soþlice þam leorningcnihte þæt he sy swylce hys lareow. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 10722 Tiss meocnesse iss oferr mett. Swa þatt itt oferrfloweþþ. & itt iss mare þann inoh. a1200 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Trin. Cambr.) l. 389 in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 232 [C]rist sal one ben inoȝh alle his derlinges. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 365 This is ynough, Grisilde myn. c1450 (c1415) in W. O. Ross (1940) 128 It is inowȝþ to þe to beleven as holychurche techeþ þe. 1535 2 Sam. xxiv. 16. It is ynough, holde now thy hande. 1579 E. Spenser June 79 Enough is me to paint out my vnrest. 1609 W. Shakespeare cxxxiii. sig. H4v Is't not ynough to torture me alone. View more context for this quotation 1649 J. Milton Pref. sig. Bv Which is anough, by onely remembring them the truth of what they themselves know. 1664 S. Butler ii. ii. 74 Is't not enough w'are bruised, and kicked, With sinful members of the wicked? 1701 tr. A. Belloste iii. i. 200 The happy and comfortable Effects that I have so frequently seen produc'd by them, is enough..to recommend them to the Esteem and Use of the Wise and unprejudicated Artist. 1809 W. Irving II. v. ii. 13 Antony..sounded a charge with such a tremendous outset,..that it was enough to make your heart leap out of your mouth only to be within a mile of it. 1855 T. B. Macaulay III. 213 It was enough for him that those bills seemed, etc. a1902 F. Norris (1903) viii Was it true that the mere nod of his head was enough to call her back to him? 1959 J. Barzun i. 22 Willingness in the learner is enough: why distinguish intention and performance? 2001 Feb. 22/1 A few mild days this month are enough to coax open the fragrant flowers of Iris unguicularis ‘Mary Barnard’. †II. Uses perhaps derived from the adverb. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adverb] > well-cooked OE (2001) I. xxxi. 18 Sete ofer fyr, læt socian, næs to swiðe weallan, oððaet hyo [sc. sealfe] genoh sy. ?a1200 (?OE) (1896) 39 Wylle þanne þa wurt mid þan æȝe on þan swunes smere innan þare panne, fort hyt ȝenoh beo. a1425 (a1382) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Deut. xvi. 7 Thou shalt make it ynowȝ [a1382 Bodl. 959 ynow; a1425 L.V. sethe; L. coques], and eete, in the place that the Lord thi God chesith. ?c1425 Recipe in (Arun. 334) (1790) 432 When thai arne ynough, take hem up, and let hem kele. 1587 T. Dawson (new ed.) f. 5v Blanch your Almonds and strain them, with them thicken your potte & let it seeth a good while and when it is enough serue it vpon soppes with your Capon. 1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons 294 You shall discover if it be enough boyled, by putting into it a Hens egg, if it sink, it is not yet enough. 1747 H. Glasse i. 10 As soon as you find the Greens are shrunk and fallen to the Bottom..they are enough. 1852 F. Bishop x. 160 Boil gently; when the fish rises to the surface, it is enough. 1863 J. C. Atkinson Eneugh, adv., sufficiently cooked, enough done (of any article of food). B. pron. and n. I. As pronoun. 1. the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] OE 619 Þonne gife ic him þæs leohtes genog. lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius (Bodl.) (2009) I. xxiv. 292 He hæfð on his agenum genoh, ne þearf he nanes þinges buton þæs þe he on him selfum hæfð. a1225 (c1200) (1888) 81 Sum wel wis clerec ðe..þincþ ðat he hafð inohȝ on his witte ðe he cann. a1325 (?c1300) (Cambr. Gg.1.1) 772 (MED) In to a priue stide he drotht, Þer he hauid of his wille inotht. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xii. vii. 616 Culueris..arerid nouȝt vp hire heed whanne he drynkeþ or he haue idronke inowh. a1400 (a1325) (Gött.) l. 13501 All þai had enoght at ett. 1488 (c1478) Hary (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 446 Quhen thou wanttis gud cum fech ynewch fra me. 1526 Matt. xxv. f. xxxvv Not so, lest there be not ynought for vs and you. 1569 R. Grafton II. 300 I haue and shall haue inough to mainteine my poore estate, as long as I liue. a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 179 in J. Ware (1633) Little Iohn came to Ireland..and found in the woods, enough to fit his humour. 1611 Nahum ii. 12 The Lion did teare in pieces enough for his whelpes, and strangled for his Lionesses. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot i. 34 I have said enough of the Turks way of Eating, Drinking and Sleeping. 1767 A. Young 294 The plea of growing enough for family use of wheat, oats, &c. is a mistaken one. 1852 H. B. Stowe II. xix. 12 Augustine! Augustine!.. I'm sure you've said enough. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato (ed. 2) I. 369 I am in want, and he has enough. 1902 L. B. Wilson & W. M. Chowning in 27 Enough was accomplished to warrant the formation of a working hypothesis. 1984 20 Feb. 42/1 Kodak's new system had a maximum recording time of ninety minutes—not enough for a football game. 2001 B. Broady 77 If you take enough of anything you'll get off on it. b. In exclamatory uses. c1400 (?c1390) (1940) l. 1948 I-noȝ..I þonk yow, bi þe rode. ?1555 tr. G. Savonarola sig. L7 Couetouse men & gredy in the desyre of monye, inflamed with the inordinat fyre of auaryce, which neuer sayeth ynoughynough, or whoe whoe. 1562 A. Brooke tr. M. Bandello f. 27v Part frendes (sayd he) part frendes, helpe frendes to part the fray: And to the rest, enough (he cryes) now time it is to staye. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. x. 34 And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough . View more context for this quotation 1640 R. Brome sig. H3v So, so, Enough, enough, he will be quiet now. 1729 A. Pope (new ed.) iii. 357 Enough! enough! the raptur'd Monarch cries. 1860 R. F. Burton I. vi. 218 ‘Bas! bas! enough!’ cries the beak. 1905 9 Jan. Derned be the poor Democratic shitepoke who first cries ‘hold—enough!’ 1946 K. Tynan 27 May (1994) ii. 121 All right. I cry off. Enough, enough! 2015 K. Cole iii. 17 Enough! You all went through hardships, but so have I. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil (1959) ix. Prol. l. 19 Eneuch of this, ws nedis prech na mor, Bot, accordyng the purpos said tofor. a1555 J. Bradford in M. Coverdale (1564) 337 My best I will doe by gods grace: but enough of thys. a1627 W. Sclater (1629) 6 Enough of this, least I incurre the prouerbiall scomme; Sus Mineruam. 1645 King Charles I Let. 11 Apr. in 1st Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1870) App. 6/2 in (C. 55) XXXIX. 543 But anuf of this, I know thy affection. 1712 E. Cooke 354 But enought of this, since it was not our Fortune to take her. 1764 C. Churchill 5 Enough of Kinglings, and enough of Kings. 1808 W. Scott i. xvii. 38 Enough of him. 1834 T. Carlyle (1869) iii. x. 276 O, enough, enough of likenings and similitudes. 1855 M. Arnold i. 19 Enough of tears, ye Gods, enough of wail! Not to lament in was Valhalla made. 1935 J. Lindsay 181 ‘Enough of that, you scum,’ he said, feeling safer. ‘I'm only doing as the law insists.’ 1996 S. Figiel (1998) 17 Every time you think you've taken one layer off, another one appears... Until you finally give up. You say, ‘Enough of this! Enough of layers.’ 2013 E. Lange (2014) i. 6 I wasn't looking for a fight with some challenged kid. I just wanted him to stop eyeballing me. ‘But enough of the ogling, got it?’ II. As noun. the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > for oneself or himself 1597 R. Naunton Let. Mar. in G. Ungerer (1976) II. 121 His temperance, which hath so qualefyed the depth of his desires as they haue found a bottome & an inough at length. 1642 W. Piers i. 35 Still as the world growes upon him, his desires grow upon the world, his enough changeth alwaies, every yeare, nay every day, nay every houre he thinkes upon another enough. 1647 N. Bacon 176 Its his enough. 1678 O. Grew xi. 115 When Esau said to Jacob, I have enough; what was his enough? the fulness of his outward condition without God. 1848 T. S. Arthur 4/1 There had been enough of evil in his life: and there had been an enough of consequent suffering to others. 1858 N. Hawthorne II. 149 There is no enough short of a little too much. 1908 Dec. 147/1 Now you know that there is no enough except in the enough of all. 1916 ‘G. Fleming’ 144 He pretended that ‘enough’ was his rule of entertainment, but his enough was too much both to eat and to drink. 2009 R. Skidelsky (2010) 144 Here Keynes comes closest to answering the question of why his ‘enough’ is not going to be ‘enough’. C. adv. 1. the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius (Otho) (2009) I. xxv. 495 Genog sweotole me i[s] ðæt gesæd. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 10386 He ne wass nohht god inoh. Cristess sho þwang tunnbindenn. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 217 Þis chirche is riche inoh. a1325 (c1250) (1968) l. 600 It adde lested long a-nog. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 8103 Bi-halden vs inogh has þou. c1456 R. Pecock (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 118 (MED) Nevertheles, God is myȝti ynouȝ forto protecte and defende this, and so do he for his charite and his goodnes. 1535 1 Chron. xxiii. D He [sc. Dauid] himselfe was olde, and had lyued ynough. 1570 J. Foxe (rev. ed.) I. 1674/1 Accept my thankes, though they procede out of a not enough circumcised hart. c1600 (1833) 59 To assy gif thair ladderis wer convenient and lang aneuch. 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 77 in Your choice Tulips..will be more secure, and forward enough. 1667 J. Milton iv. 124 Yet not anough had practisd to deceive Uriel once warnd. View more context for this quotation 1716 Lady M. W. Montagu 1 Dec. (1965) I. 287 I hope you know me enough to take my word. 1780 Lady D. Maxwell Let. 14 Jan. in J. Lancaster (1821) I. 310 You are not enough thankful for what the Lord has already done for you. 1809 J. Roland 61 You are not always quick enough to parry as has been recommended. 1834 79 We are not enough aware that what we call sources of enjoyment, are not so, in themselves, absolutely and necessarily. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato I. 155 He who is moderately good, and does no evil, is good enough for me. 1876 C. C. Robinson Dêazed bread is overbaked outwardly, and not enough baked within. 1902 1131 Some bush carpenter, who has no skill in the art of designing, though, perhaps, a good enough mechanic. 1999 C. Holz xii. 175 A slim, blond couple who looked enough alike to be brother and sister. 2003 G. Kolata iii. 62 The greatest gains in fitness..come from exercising enough so that you move out of the lowest quintile of fitness. 1596 W. Warner (rev. ed.) ix. xlvii. sig. P7 My Parents they weare wealthy, and my selfe in wanton youth, Was fayre enough, but proude enough, so Foole-enough in truth. 1624 J. Skinner ii. 1 The Spaniard also was master enough at sea.., because the English Merchants there..were vnwilling to furnish vs with ships of warre, toward the common defence. a1658 J. Cleveland (1659) 67 The Prince and Duke of York have equal share In your perfections, which, though they divide, Make them both Prince enough by th' mothers side. 1711 J. Addison No. 130. ¶1 The Butler has been Fool enough to be seduced by them. 1780 ‘L. Lackrent’ 20 Jan. 3 But whether this be essential to the Legality of every Association, I am not Lawyer enough to determine. 1823 C. Lamb 9 Dec. (1935) II. 411 I..am not Bibliomanist enough to like Blackletter. 1878 T. Hardy I. ii. ii. 247 Looking at a spot into which she was not climber enough to venture. 1904 29 May 7/3 Was it that the ‘exclusives’ were toadies enough to go to Government House, knowing well Macquarie's partiality for the ‘birthstained’? 1999 11 June 4 c/6 This is a lesson only a woman can teach him. Are you woman enough for the Job? 1831 1 Jan. 13/2 This is a better Pantomime than the one at Drury Lane, but only enough better to keep up the charter, which Covent Garden has rarely, if ever, broken through, of producing the better of the two. 1837 13th Parl. 1st Sess. No. 37. No. 6. p. 6 The hollow quoins are made of the posts, and those used for that purpose are enough larger to be of equal strength. 1897 R. M. Stuart 18 You'd see one thet was enough pinker an sweeter 'n the rest to make you climb for it. 1900 15 Dec. 975/2 Average good land would stand having the potatoes enough nearer to give half as many more bushels to the acre. 1953 5 Aug. For every five pounds you are overweight, your heart, each time it pumps, needs to labour enough harder to send the blood three extra miles. 1998 T. J. Dygard 24 Kevin felt himself becoming a better quarterback. No doubt about it. But how much better? Enough better? He had four days of practice to learn. 2. With the idea of satisfying a requirement reduced or absent. a. With intensive force: fully, quite, pretty, very, as much as well could be. the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adverb] OE Ælfric (Cambr. Gg.3.28) i. 183 God wat genoh geare [a1225 Vesp. A.xxii ȝenoh ȝeare] gif ge of ðam treowe geetað, þonne beoð eowere eagan geopenode. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) i. Introd. 5 Genoh georne ic gehycge [L. perpendo], þæt ic dreoge, & hwæt ic anforlet. c1275 (?c1250) (Calig.) (1935) l. 1220 Wan ich iseo þar sum wrechede Is manne neh, innoh ich grede. ?c1335 in W. Heuser (1904) 112 Iesus was sikir inoȝ. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour (Adv.) i. 286 Hys landis yat is fayr inewch Yai ye lord off Clyffurd gave. a1535 T. More (1553) ii. xviii. sig. N.viii This point is..metely playne inough. 1568 R. Sempill Ballat Ionet Reid in W. T. Ritchie (1928) II. 334 The quhyt is twiche and fresche Ennewche. 1608 E. Topsell 300 Both are deadly enough, as may appeare by the common symptomes and signes which follow, and also death. 1630 J. Lane p. 151 (note) This heard, Leyfurco with his mates thus prate, theare wheare weare safe enuff topp of the gate. 1780 F. Burney Let. June in (2003) IV. 163 I began to feel monstrous glumpy upon this last speech, which, indeed, was impertinent enough. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage IV. x. x. 142 You may earn your board easily enough, by scoring up the customers, and keeping my ledger. 1871 R. Browning Hervé Riel xi, in Mar. 260 You shall look long enough ere you come to Hervé Riel. 1935 R. A. Knox vi. 224 He hummed and ha'd and said he didn't think it would do; he was not paid to be an usher to his neighbours' children—which was true enough. 2008 M. Billingham (2009) xxiii. 253 Tracing a number plate..was a simple enough business. 1704 W. Nicolson Diary 22 Nov. in (1985) 231 The Text of the Book (whimsically enough) in Vermilion-Letters, instead of an Italic Character. 1783 Ld. Hailes ii. 15 Which, aptly enough, might be denominated the journals of the senate. 1912 E. V. Baxter & L. J. Rintoul 3 Curiously enough, both the Common Nightingale..and the Northern Nightingale..were added in spring to the Scottish list. 2015 H. Scales ix. 249 A mollusc named, appropriately enough, the Windowpane Oyster. 1838 29 May It would have been enough better had they resolved that the whole body of the ‘Democracy of numbers’ should attend, for a dying effort. a1852 F. M. Whitcher (1883) xvi. 59 It's enough ginteeler 'n them flambergasted blue and yaller things. 1871 Feb. 116/1 I know they all look enough nicer than I do. ?1551 T. Becon ix. sig. D.iiii To deuoure vnmesurably al kinde of pleasaunt fishes, or whatsoeuer deinties besydes could be deuised, was fast good inough in ye popes kingdom, but to eate a peace of flesh although neuer so grosse, was twise a deadly sin. 1561 J. Dolman tr. Cicero i. sig. Biiiv There are certayne Latine bookes written nowe a dayes very vnaduisedlye: sette forthe by men honest enough, but not sufficiently learned. 1609 W. Shakespeare v. i. 48 An honest fellow inough..but hee has not so much braine as eare-wax. View more context for this quotation 1676 D. Clarkson vi. 165 He may be just enough, though in all his dealings, he be continually wronging others in lesser matters. He may be Chast enough, though he be unclean in thought, word, and deed venially. 1719 D. Defoe 356 Good Bread enough, but bak'd as Biskets. 1822 12 69 Calashes are good things enough, when the weather's wet and muggy. 1930 J. Taine (1976) ii. 25 Good enough for a Sunday supplement story, but not quite up to the level of this crowd. 1988 1 63/1 All this University fund-raising for new posts and research... Worthy enough in its way, but quite wrong-headed. Phrases?a1160 (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1137 Ðat wæron rachenteges ðat twa oþer thre men hadden onoh to bæron onne. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 16906 Þe prince..went to þat monument And sperd it wit a mikel stan; to turn i-nogh had tuent. 1569 R. Grafton II. 265 They thought they should have ynough to do to defende the towne. 1575 T. Newton tr. C. A. Curione iii. 106 Neither was there any at hand to help them, for euery one had ynough adoe to labour & sweate for his owne life and saluetie. 1622 F. Bacon 246 He had enough to do to saue and helpe. 1713 R. Steele in 12 Mar. 2/2 I shall find enough to do to give Orders proper for their Service, to whom I am by Will of their Parents Guardian. 1746 J. Cope 126 She would have enough ado to get home. 1796 G. Quayle Jrnl. in 54 (1968) 302 It blew so hard & the Tide driving in the Wind Eye gave us enough to do to keep the Water under by bailing. 1852 W. Jerdan I. vii. 53 The martinettish General had..enough ado to keep his Aides under military discipline. 1896 S. R. Crockett vi. 42 The wearers of the butcher's colours had enough to do to keep steeks with us. 1977 F. Ainsworth 11 You got enough to do to catch that crazy dog. 2009 26 June a3/3 You'd think we have enough to do just moving our shop without running smack into another moving adventure! a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) vi. l. 721 I have at every meel Of plente more than ynowh. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) i. l. 912 Som of hem toke on hem for þe colde More þan y-nough. 1535–6 H. Latimer Let. in J. Strype (1822) I. i. 471 He is wilfully witty, Dunsly learned..zealous more than enough. a1637 B. Jonson Timber 2072 in (1640) III It is a fleshy style, when there is much Periphrases, and circuit of words; and when with more then enough, it growes fat and corpulent. 1741 S. Richardson III. xxxii. 231 They have vex'd me more than enough. 1758 J. Parsons 9 We hope that more than enough has been said to prove that we are presbyterially constituted. 1883 S. C. Hall II. 305 He had horses more than enough to mount a regiment of cavalry. 1959 A. L. Rowse 20 Feb. (2003) 280 I have had more than enough of seeing my earnings go into the maw of the slackers of the Welfare State. 1984 C. J. Keating 79 She saved money, provided for the future, worked more than enough. 2007 12 Apr. 41/3 With more than enough votes to override Roosevelt's veto. P3. Proverbs and proverbial phrases. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 246 Inowghe is as good as a feste. 1546 J. Heywood ii. xi. sig. M For folke say, enough is as good as a feast. 1738 A. Pope 7th Epist. 1st Bk. Horace in II. ii. 25 Pray take them, Sir—Enough's a Feast. 1833 C. Lamb Pop. Fallacies vi in 235 (heading) That enough is as good as a feast. 1943 T. Harrisson et al. (2009) ii. 35 Christ, I've had 18 pints in one neet and noan ben any the worse for it, theat reet enough, enoughs as good as a feast. 2003 12 June 6/2 Its epigraph might be that old folk saying, ‘Enough is as good as a feast’. 1546 J. Heywood ii. xi. sig. Lv Here is enough, I am satisfied (sayde he.) Sens enough is enough (sayd I)..For folke say, enough is as good as a feast. 1685 tr. N. F. d'Ablancourt xi. 150 Hold there, enough is enough; should I leave you now to your reprobate sense, what would become of you poor wretch? 1721 J. Kelly 93 Enough is enough of Bread and Cheese. 1834 R. Southey I. 199 As for money, enough is enough. 1941 G. B. Shaw (1960) 319 I could multiply instances; but enough is enough. 1991 Oct. 634 Western donors decided enough was enough. 1555 J. Old xix. sig. F3 They that go about to bryng them into that slaunder, shal haue light ynough (and to spare) in theyr kyngdom, wher hel fyre shalbe theyr light. 1640 J. Mabbe tr. M. de Cervantes vi. 274 Heaven hath dealt so liberally with me, that I have (if enough be enough) enough and to spare. 1738 G. Whitefield Jrnl. 10 Jan. in (1756) 50 I could not but transverse the Prodigal's Complaint: How many are ready to perish with hunger, whilst I have enough and to spare. 1861 July 200/1 We have enough and to spare, and we repeat, that English and other European buyers of wheat, need have no hesitation in depending upon this country for all they may require. 1998 P. Jooste (1999) xvii. 347 It was always so generous with fruit. There was always enough and to spare. 1534 W. Turner tr. J. von Watt i. sig. Mviv How shold we otherwise worshyp the gospel? is not this reuerence grete ynoughe and ynough agayn? 1584 E. Bunny Treat. Pacification 4 in What special advantage is it to us, for to have any mo besides, when we have inough and inough only in him? 1653 J. Goodwin 59 They stand so staringly wide, that there is roomth enough and enough for seaven men to pass abrest between them. a1716 R. South (1717) VI. 137 Carrying enough and enough about him, to assure his final Doom. 1780 S. Crisp Let. 23 Feb. in F. Burney (2003) IV. 17 The play has wit enough, & enough—but..incidents dont appear to me interesting. 1834 T. H. Gallaudet iii. 23 For parents and teachers have esteem, and love, and other things, enough and enough, to bestow upon all the children who conduct well. 1608 T. Middleton iv. sig. Hv Aud. Pray Gentlemen depart, his howers come vpon him, sleepe in my bosome, sleepe. Lan: Nay we haue inough of him ifaith, keepe him for the house. 1648 J. Taylor 16 But having enough of this Windy-baggs..I make as bold as welcome, to descant a brother of his. 1704 No. 3989/3 The French Man having enough of it, sheared off. 1723 D. Defoe (ed. 2) 284 I really had enough of fighting. 1814 J. Austen I. x. 209 I have had enough of the family for one morning. View more context for this quotation 1882 Mar. 99/1 The newly filled pipe was hardly well alight before the player nearest to us ‘had enough’, and retired with his empty gold belt from the contest. 1970 L. Deighton (1972) x. 131 All right, she's just a naive young girl, but I've had enough of complex sophisticated people. 2006 18 Dec. 17/2 France is so over-taxed that even a generous, patriotic man like Johnny..has finally had enough. 1821 W. Scott II. viii. 190 ‘Enough said—enough said,’ replied Magnus; ‘no compulsion; but the play shall go on till we are tired of it.’ 1959 P. Larkin Let. 26 Sept. in (1992) 308 I am up again today..& feeling full of that skinned intolerance a few days' solitude invariably induces. Enough said. 2004 18 Apr. 15/1 (advt.) They don't. We do. Enough said. 1845 S. Judd i. xiv. 110 Their music is enough sight better than ours. 1856 A. Cary 63 Granmam likes Hal, in fact, enough sight the best. 1887 M. E. Wilkins 160 If it's got to be done by anybody I'd enough sight rather 'twould be done by the town. 1911 J. C. Lincoln xvi. 251 It was enough sight damper amongst the seats than in those cloth waves. 1941 8 Aug. 2/2 Inflation is bad enough. Deflation is enough sight worse, however. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  adj.pron.n.adv.eOE |
