OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# plegere
## Old English
### Etymology

By surface analysis, plegian (“to play”) +‎ -ere.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈple.je.re/

### Noun

pleġere m
* player
* athlete
* wrestler

#### Declension

Strong ja-stem:

### References

* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “plegere”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
# Kirk Bramwith
## English
### Proper noun

Kirk Bramwith
* A small village and civil parish (served by Moss and District Parish Council) in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE6211).

### References

* Parish map
# plegstowum
## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈplejˌstoː.wum/

### Noun

pleġstōwum
* dative plural of pleġstōw
# getting a hold of
## English
### Verb

getting a hold of
* present participle and gerund of get a hold of
# брауни
## Bulgarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English brownie.
(Can this etymology be sourced?)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbrawni] ~ IPA: [ˈbraoni]
* Syllabification: бра‧у‧ни
* Hyphenation: бра‧уни

### Noun

бра́уни • (bráuni) n
* brownie (chocolate dessert)

#### Declension
## Kazakh

Alternative scripts :
| Arabic | براۋني |
| Cyrillic | брауни |
| Latin | brauni |
| Yañalif | ʙrauni |

### Etymology

Borrowed from Russian бра́уни (bráuni), from English brownie.

### Noun

брауни • (brauni)
* brownie
# preannounce
## English
### Alternative forms

* pre-announce

### Etymology

From pre- +‎ announce.

### Verb

preannounce (third-person singular simple present preannounces, present participle preannouncing, simple past and past participle preannounced)
* (transitive) To announce in advance.
    The company preannounced the impending takeover.
** 1997 March 23, James Gleick, “Pushy, Pushy”, in The New York Times Magazine‎:Those responsible for preannouncing the Internet's hot new ideas are pushing Push with a ferocious unanimity.
** 2000 October 1, Kenneth N. Gilpin, “MARKET INSIGHT; Openness Can Be A Two-Way Street”, in The New York Times‎:No one can remember, for example, the last time Alcoa preannounced their earnings.
** 2004 November 29, John Markoff, “The Disco Ball of Failed Hopes and Other Tales From Inside Intel”, in The New York Times‎:The decision to preannounce an unproven technology was an uncharacteristic one for Intel, said G. Dan Hutcheson, president of VLSI Research Inc., and a longtime observer of the company.
** 2013 February 5, Steven Davidoff Solomon, “Reasons to Be Suspicious of Buyouts Led by Management”, in The New York Times‎:In other words, the transaction is preferred because it is the best of bad choices. And at least one study has found that when management preannounces a deal it results in lower premiums presumably because it scares off other bidders.
** 2015, Richard Severson, Ethical Principles for the Information Age‎:Some would say that Microsoft engaged in a subtle form of vaporware by preannouncing its product before it was actually ready to be delivered, then, at the last minute, announcing a short delay.

#### Synonyms

* foreannounce

#### Related terms

* preannouncement
# particulariser
## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paʁ.ti.ky.la.ʁi.ze/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

particulariser
* to particularise

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “particulariser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
# neochota
## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈnɛoxota]

### Noun

neochota f
* unwillingness
    Antonym: ochota

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “neochota”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “neochota”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “neochota”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
# slipping off
## English
### Verb

slipping off
* present participle and gerund of slip off
# slips one past
## English
### Verb

slips one past
* third-person singular simple present indicative of slip one past
# slipped one past
## English
### Verb

slipped one past
* simple past and past participle of slip one past
# slips through
## English
### Verb

slips through
* third-person singular simple present indicative of slip through
# slipping under
## English
### Verb

slipping under
* present participle and gerund of slip under
# усрать
## Russian
### Etymology

у- (u-) +‎ срать (sratʹ)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ʊsˈratʲ]

### Verb

усра́ть • (usrátʹ) pf (imperfective усира́ть)
* (vulgar) to cover in shit
* (vulgar) to spend, to waste
    усрать кучу денег ― usratʹ kuču deneg ― to spend a lot of money
# lonso
## Ladino
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin ursus, from Proto-Italic *orssos. Compare Aragonese onso.

### Noun

lonso m (Latin spelling, feminine lonsa)
* bear
    Synonyms: (Belgrade, Skopje) ursa, (Monastir) urse
* a stupid person
    Synonym: azno

### Further reading

* Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “lonso, sa”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC
* Elli Kohen & Dahlia Kohen-Gordon (2000) “lonso/lónso”, in Ladino–English Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 234
* Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “lónso”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 331
# offerer
## English
### Etymology

From offer +‎ -er.

### Noun

offerer (plural offerers)
* One who offers.
    The offerer must wait to learn if the offeree accepts the offer or rejects it.
** 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 240:The sacrifice also is a black lamb, which the offerer must present with averted head, and on Thursday evening.
** 1970 January 24, “Administration's Recommended Policy on Satellite Communication”, in The New York Times‎:The number or classes or potential offerers of satellite services should not be [limited] arbitrarily.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* for free, reoffer
# bad faith
## English
### Etymology

* (philosophy): a semantic loan from French mauvaise foi, coined by existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.

### Noun

bad faith (uncountable)
* The misrepresentation of one's own true motive.
    Antonym: good faith
    Near-synonyms: dishonesty, insincerity, bloody-mindedness
    bad-faith interpretation
* (law) An intent to deceive or mislead another to gain some advantage; dishonesty or fraud in a transaction (such as knowingly misrepresenting the quality of something that is being bought or sold).
* (law) A malicious motive by a party in a lawsuit, which has an effect on the ability to maintain causes of action and obtain legal remedies.
* (philosophy) The existentialist concept of denying one's total freedom of will.

#### Synonyms

* Punic faith

#### Translations
### See also

* bona fide
* good faith
* mala fide

### References

* Bad faith on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Bad faith (existentialism) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* "Bad Faith" Defined (The 'Lectric Law Library)
# slowed in
## English
### Verb

slowed in
* simple past and past participle of slow in
# slows off
## English
### Verb

slows off
* third-person singular simple present indicative of slow off
# slowed out
## English
### Verb

slowed out
* simple past and past participle of slow out
# slugging out
## English
### Verb

slugging out
* present participle and gerund of slug out
# sluiced out
## English
### Verb

sluiced out
* simple past and past participle of sluice out
# slumping down
## English
### Verb

slumping down
* present participle and gerund of slump down
# smacked out
## English
### Adjective

smacked out (not comparable)
* (slang) Overwhelmed by the effects of using heroin; nodding off from heroin use.

### Verb

smacked out
* simple past and past participle of smack out
# to the point
## English
### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Prepositional phrase

to the point
* (idiomatic) Relevant or pertinent; succinct; specific.
    His letter was short and to the point.
    But, more to the point…
** 2015 July 2, Peter Bradshaw, “Amy review – a harrowing account of Winehouse's tragic destiny”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:Jonathan Ross is shown congratulating her on being “common” and his identifying the elephant in the room is to the point, although the film doesn’t press the point of how that voice just surged up.
** 2024 January 10, Howard Johnston, “Launched for enthusiasts - now it's for everyone”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 29:Going for broke, the BRB said that Edinburgh-Aberdeen and Hull-Doncaster-Leeds should be considered [for electrification], along with Plymouth-Penzance and Crewe-Holyhead, all to be in place by 2001. Norman Fowler's reply was short and to the point: Sorry, no.
* Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see to,‎ point.

#### Synonyms

* on point, pithy. See also Thesaurus:concise and Thesaurus:pertinent

#### Antonyms

* beside the point

#### Derived terms

* get to the point

#### See also

* up to a point (“to a degree”)
# villus
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin villus (“shaggy hair”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɪləs/
* Rhymes: -ɪləs

### Noun

villus (plural villi)
* (biology) A small projection from a membrane, particularly those found in the mucous membranes of the intestines.
** 1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the physiological chemistry […] :where a villus comes next to a gland the short cubical cells of the gland may be traced into the columnar cells of the villus , the hyaline border becoming more marked
** 1966 February, Robert Schrek, ““Hairy” Cells in Blood in Lymphoreticular Neoplastic Disease and “Flagellated” Cells of Normal Lymph Nodes”, in Blood, volume 27, number 2, page 199:Studies of the viable blood cells with phase contrast microscopy showed peculiar cells that had numerous short villi and were arbitrarily called “hairy cells.”
* (botany) One of the fine soft hairs on fruits, flowers, and other parts of plants.

#### Derived terms

* chorionic villus sampling

#### Related terms

* extravillous
* intervillar
* intervillous
* intravillous
* macrovillus
* microvillus
* perivillous
* velour
* velvet
* villar
* villiform
* villitis
* villonodular
* villosity
* villous

#### Translations
## Latin
### Etymology

Dialectal variant of vellus (“fleece”).

### Noun

villus m (genitive villī); second declension
* hair, tuft of hair, shaggy hair
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid I.701–702:Dant famulī manibus lymphās, Cereremque canistrīs expediunt, tōnsīsque ferunt mantēlia villīs.The servants give the hands waters, and corn from wicker baskets they deal, and bring towels of smooth hair.

#### Declension

Second-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* villōsus
* villūtus (Late Latin)

#### Descendants

* → English: villus
* Italian: villo, vello
* Spanish: vello

### References

* “villus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “villus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* villus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* villus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
# smashes down
## English
### Verb

smashes down
* third-person singular simple present indicative of smash down
# smells out
## English
### Verb

smells out
* third-person singular simple present indicative of smell out
# smelling out
## English
### Verb

smelling out
* present participle and gerund of smell out
# smelled up
## English
### Verb

smelled up
* simple past and past participle of smell up
# birthiversary
## English
### Noun

birthiversary (plural birthiversaries)
* Alternative spelling of birthaversary
# innseann
## Irish
### Pronunciation

* (Munster) IPA: /ˈiːnʲʃən̪ˠ/

### Verb

innseann
* Munster form of insíonn

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938) Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Description of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, § 173, page 133
# melburniano
## Spanish
### Etymology

From Melbourne +‎ -iano.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /melbuɾˈnjano/ [mel.β̞uɾˈnja.no]
* Rhymes: -ano
* Syllabification: mel‧bur‧nia‧no

### Adjective

melburniano (feminine melburniana, masculine plural melburnianos, feminine plural melburnianas)
* Melburnian (of, from or relating to Melbourne (city in Australia))

### Noun

melburniano m (plural melburnianos, feminine melburniana, feminine plural melburnianas)
* Melburnian, Melbournite (native or inhabitant of Melbourne (city in Australia)) (male or of unspecified gender)
# snarled up
## English
### Verb

snarled up
* simple past and past participle of snarl up
# snazzes up
## English
### Verb

snazzes up
* third-person singular simple present indicative of snazz up
# sneaking past
## English
### Verb

sneaking past
* present participle and gerund of sneak past
# trigintaduonionic
## English
### Adjective

trigintaduonionic (not comparable)
* (rare) Of or pertaining to a trigintaduonion.
# pomocný
## Czech
### Etymology

From pomoc +‎ -ný.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpomot͡sniː]

### Adjective

pomocný (adverb pomocně)
* auxiliary, helping

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “pomocný”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “pomocný”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “pomocný”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
# pomocni
## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔˈmɔt͡s.ɲi/
* Rhymes: -ɔt͡sɲi
* Syllabification: po‧moc‧ni

### Adjective

pomocni
* virile nominative/vocative plural of pomocny
# pomocní
## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpomot͡sɲiː]

### Adjective

pomocní
* animate masculine nominative plural of pomocný
# input fields
## English
### Noun

input fields
* plural of input field
# snowing down
## English
### Verb

snowing down
* present participle and gerund of snow down
# borgtocht
## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* borgtogt (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle Dutch borchtocht, borchtucht f. Equivalent to borg +‎ tocht.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɔrx.tɔxt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: borg‧tocht

### Noun

borgtocht m (plural borgtochten, diminutive borgtochtje n)
* (civil law) suretyship
* (criminal law) bail

#### Usage notes

Could also be feminine historically.

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: borgtog

### References

* Matthias de Vries, Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864) “borgtocht”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001
# soortgenoot
## Dutch
### Etymology

Compound of soort +‎ genoot.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsoːrt.xəˌnoːt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: soort‧ge‧noot

### Noun

soortgenoot m (plural soortgenoten, diminutive soortgenootje n)
* an organism belonging to the same species (in usage sometimes translatable as congener)
* (figurative) one's peer, equal, counterpart, member of the same group
* (figurative) an object of the same type or category
# intercapping
## English
### Alternative forms

* InterCapping (the autological spelling)

### Noun

intercapping (uncountable)
* The use of an intercapped word; the styling produced by such use.
    Synonyms: intercaps, InterCaps
    Hyponyms: bicapitalization, BiCapitalization
    Coordinate terms: capping, capitalizing, capitalization, caps; all-caps, ALL CAPS, AlTeRnaTinG cApS, Upstyle, Headline Style, Initial Caps, Title Case, Sentence case, downstyle; lowercasing, lowercase
    Near-synonyms: camel case, CamelCase

### Anagrams

* apprenticing
# snows out
## English
### Verb

snows out
* third-person singular simple present indicative of snow out
# Olds Cove
## English
### Proper noun

Olds Cove
* (historical) Synonym of Charlottetown (“a town in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada”)
# niereligijnie
## Polish
### Etymology

From niereligijny +‎ -ie.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɲɛ.rɛ.liˈɡij.ɲɛ/
* Rhymes: -ijɲɛ
* Syllabification: nie‧re‧li‧gij‧nie

### Adverb

niereligijnie (comparative bardziej niereligijnie, superlative najbardziej niereligijnie)
* irreligiously, unreligiously (having no relation to religion)
    Synonyms: areligijnie, bezreligijnie, świecko
    Antonym: religijnie
* irreligiously, unreligiously (rejecting religion consciously)
    Synonym: niewierząco
    Antonym: religijnie

#### Related terms

* niereligijny
* niereligijność

### Further reading

* niereligijnie in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* niereligijnie in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
# świerczeć
## Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *(s)kvьrčěti. Doublet of ćwierczeć and skwierczeć.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɕfjɛr.t͡ʂɛt͡ɕ/
* Rhymes: -ɛrt͡ʂɛt͡ɕ
* Syllabification: świer‧czeć

### Verb

świerczeć impf
* (intransitive, obsolete) to frizzle, to sizzle
    Synonym: skwierczeć
* (intransitive, obsolete, of crops, clover, etc.) to appear, to emerge
    Synonym: pokazywać się

#### Related terms

* skwierk
* świercz
* świerszcz
* skwierczeć impf
* skwirzyć impf

### Further reading

* świerczeć in Polish dictionaries at PWN
# sobering
## English
### Adjective

sobering
* Causing more sober thought or concern.
    It was a sobering thought that I had almost killed myself. That was something I wouldn't soon do on purpose again.
** 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport‎:For Chelsea coach Andre Villas-Boas, this was his most sobering moment in the Premier League and he looked stunned on the sidelines at the regularity with which Chelsea's defence was exposed.

#### Translations
### Verb

sobering
* present participle and gerund of sober

### Anagrams

* Giberson, Gisborne
# ανασασμών
## Greek
### Noun

ανασασμών • (anasasmón) m
* genitive plural of ανασασμός (anasasmós)
# pissing on someone's parade
## English
### Verb

pissing on someone's parade
* present participle and gerund of piss on someone's parade
# cream soup
## English
### Noun

cream soup (countable and uncountable, plural cream soups)
* A creamy-textured soup, often made with cream and/or milk.
    Hypernym: soup
    The company's line of condensed soups offers various cream soups, including cream of celery, cream of mushroom, cream of chicken, and others.
# fradeło
## Venetan
### Alternative forms

* fradèlo, fradèo

### Etymology

From Latin frātellus.

### Pronunciation

* (central, Venetian) IPA: /fraˈdɛ.o/

### Noun

fradeło m (plural fradełi)
* brother

#### Derived terms

* fradelansa
# מאחורי
## Hebrew

* Root
* א־ח־ר (ʾ-kh-r)
* 12 terms
Picture dictionary :
מאחורי
מעל
תחת
בתוך
לפני
מאחורי
על
ליד
בין :

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Preposition

מְאֲחוֹרֵי • (me'akhoréi)
* behind, in back of
# hosshi
## Japanese
### Romanization

hosshi
* Rōmaji transcription of ほっし
# turdo
## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin turdus. Compare Italian tordo, English turdine.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈturdo]
* Rhymes: -urdo
* Hyphenation: tur‧do

### Noun

turdo (accusative singular turdon, plural turdoj, accusative plural turdojn)
* thrush (songbird of the family Turdidae)

#### Hyponyms

* birdo

#### Derived terms

* kantoturdo (“song thrush”)

### References

* Benson, Peter J. (1995) “thrush”, in Comprehensive English-Esperanto Dictionary, →ISBN

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto turdo, Latin turdus, Italian tordo, Spanish tordo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtur.do/

### Noun

turdo (plural turdi)
* thrush (bird)

## Interlingua
### Noun

turdo (plural turdos)
* thrush (bird)

## Latin
### Noun

turdō
* dative/ablative singular of turdus
# ենթա-
## Armenian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian ենթա- (entʻa-).

### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /jenˈtʰɑ/, [jentʰɑ́]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /jenˈtɑ/, [jentʰɑ́]

### Prefix

ենթա- • (entʻa-)
* under-, sub-, hypo-

#### Derived terms
## Old Armenian
### Alternative forms

* ընթա- (əntʻa-), ենթ- (entʻ-)

### Etymology

Adapted by the Hellenizing School from ընդ (ənd) +‎ -ա- (-a-). The spelling ընթա- (əntʻa-) reflects an intermediate form.

### Prefix

ենթա- • (entʻa-) (Hellenizing School)
* under, sub-, hypo-

#### Usage notes

Used post-classically to calque Ancient Greek words prefixed with ὑπο- (hupo-), e.g. ենթադրեմ (entʻadrem) = ὑποτίθημι (hupotíthēmi), ենթածեմ (entʻacem) = ὑπάγω (hupágō), ենթամնամ (entʻamnam) = ὑπομένω (hupoménō), ենթալուսնեայ (entʻalusneay) = ὑποσελήνιος (huposelḗnios), ենթակայ (entʻakay) = ὑπόστασις (hupóstasis).

#### Descendants

* → Armenian: ենթա- (entʻa-) (learned)

### References

* 1 2 3 Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “ենթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 26–27

### Further reading

* Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “ենթ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 658b
* Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ենթ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 157a
# zinduzkaketegu
## Basque
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /s̻indus̻kaketeɡu/ [s̻ĩn̪.d̪us̻.ka.ke.t̪e.ɣ̞u]
* IPA: (most dialects) /s̻indus̻kaketeɡu/ [s̻ĩn̪.d̪us̻.ka.ke.t̪e.ɣ̞u]
* IPA: (Biscayan) /s̺indus̺kaketeɡu/ [s̺ĩn̪.d̪us̺.ka.ke.t̪e.ɣ̞u]
* Rhymes: -eɡu
* Hyphenation: zin‧duz‧ka‧ke‧te‧gu

### Verb

zinduzkaketegu
* First-person plural (guk), taking second-person plural (zuek) as direct object, hypothetic consequential indicative form of eduki (“to support, to have”).
# honestly
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English honestly, honestlyche, honestliche, equivalent to honest +‎ -ly.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈɑnɪstli/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒnɪstli/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Hyphenation: hon‧est‧ly
* Audio (US):(file)

### Adverb

honestly (comparative more honestly, superlative most honestly)
* (manner) In an honest manner.
    He answered the questions honestly.
** 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter XIII, Democracy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):You honestly quit your tools; quit a most muddy confused coil of sore work, short rations, of sorrows, dispiritments and contradictions, having now honestly done with it all; — and await, not entirely in a distracted manner, what the Supreme Powers, and the Silences and the Eternities may have to say to you.
** 1896, Elsa d'Esterre Keeling, Old Maids and Young, volume 1, page 220:I can't honestly say that I feel any elatement at the prospect.
** 1902, J. M. Barrie, The Little White Bird:Nevertheless, you must know (if I am to speak honestly to you) that I do not repent me those dallyings in enchanted fields.
* Frankly, to be honest.
    Honestly, I didn't believe a word she said.

#### Synonyms

* (honest manner): candidly, sincerely, truthfully; see also Thesaurus:honestly
* (frankly): as a matter of fact, in all honesty, in point of fact, in truth; see also Thesaurus:actually

#### Translations
### Interjection

honestly
* Used to express exasperation, dismay, etc.
    Honestly! I want to finish this work and you keep interrupting.

#### Synonyms

* really

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* on the sly

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* honesteliche, honestelie, honestely, honestli, honestliche, honestlyche, onestelike, onestely, onestli, onestly

### Etymology

From honeste (“honourable, appropriate, excellent”) +‎ -ly (adverbial suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔnɛst(ə)liː/, /ˈɔnɛst(ə)lit͡ʃ(ə)/

### Adverb

honestly
* honourably, respectfully, nobly
* respectably, appropriately, politely
* tastefully, splendidly
* ethically, virtuously

#### Descendants

* English: honestly

#### References

* “honestlī(che, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.