vouch
pronunciation
How to pronounce vouch in British English:
UK [vaʊtʃ]
How to pronounce vouch in American English:
US [vaʊtʃ]
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- Verb:
- give personal assurance; guarantee
- give surety or assume responsibility
- summon (a vouchee) into court to warrant or defend a title
- give supporting evidence
Word Origin
- vouch
- vouch: [14] Vouch originally meant ‘call as a witness’; ‘guarantee’ is a 16th-century development. The word was borrowed from Old French voucher ‘summon’, which in turn appears to have evolved from Latin vocāre ‘call’ (source of English vocation, vocative, etc). Anglo-Norman used the Old French infinitive verb as a noun, meaning ‘summons’, from which English gets voucher [16]. Vouchsafe [14] originated as a compound of vouch ‘guarantee’ and safe.=> vocation
- vouch (v.)
- early 14c., "summon into court to prove a title," from Anglo-French voucher, Old French vocher "to call, summon, invoke, claim," probably from Gallo-Roman *voticare, metathesis of Latin vocitare "to call to, summon insistently," frequentative of Latin vocare "to call, call upon, summon" (see voice (n.)). Meaning "guarantee to be true or accurate" is first attested 1590s. Related: Vouched; vouching.
Example
- 1. I 'll vouch for the boy , tarkheena .
- 2. It would , after all , vouch for recently-launched efforts to promote chile internationally as a country that " does things well " .
- 3. " I 've known harry for a long time , and I 'll vouch for the fact that he would do anything for his country , " he said .
- 4. But when asked whether he would himself vouch for the chinese group , he said : " to look at every element of a company we represent , and to be able to judge on an individual basis every comment that is made about them , is just not our business . "
- 5. And there 's a privacy-first social network called connect . Me launching soon that promises to let you choose who gets to see what information about you ( as well as letting you vouch for the identity of people you know personally ) .