cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
geek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gēk
ipa: /ɡiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: geeks
Etymology: Probably related to keek. Compare German gucken (“look”), kieken (“look”) and the dialectal corruption of Dutch keek (“keek”) (from kijk (“look”)), kijken (“to look”). Australian use from Cornish dialect.
Senses: examples: text: Have a geek at this.
text: Then he says let′s have a geek at some of the elephant pictures instead.
ref: 2005, Carmel Bird, The Essential Bird, unnumbered page:
glosses: A look.
Synonyms: sense: look
word: butcher’s
sense: look
word: gander
sense: look
word: dekko
geek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gēk
ipa: /ɡiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: geeks
form: geeking
form: geeked
form: geeked
Etymology: Probably related to keek. Compare German gucken (“look”), kieken (“look”) and the dialectal corruption of Dutch keek (“keek”) (from kijk (“look”)), kijken (“to look”). Australian use from Cornish dialect.
Senses: examples: text: This gayte bucca-davy, all'ys geekin' round arter a gook.
ref: 1891, Joseph Henry Pearce, Esther Pentreath:
text: I will geek, I will geek I tell ee; while I have the spirit of a man in me I'll geek.
ref: 1895, Joseph Thomas, Randigal Rhymes:
glosses: To look; to peep; to stare about intently.
Synonyms: look
Related terms: geek someone's head up
supper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌpɚ/
ipa: /ˈsʌpə/
rhymes: -ʌpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: suppers
Etymology: From Middle English soper, from Old French soper, from sope (“soup”). Compare French souper.
Senses: examples: text: There he stood, with admirable patience, […] longing to go to rest for hours past; aware that suppers disagreed with him […] so tired and longing for bed!
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 46, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: Food consumed before going to bed.
examples: text: We normally have supper at 7.
glosses: Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon.
examples: text: a fish supper
text: Roisin the savior paraded into the front room with three fish suppers, one sausage supper, one single fish, one single chips, a single sausage, a chicken and chips, and three curry and chips.
ref: 2014, Gerald Hansen, An Embarrassment of Riches:
glosses: A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips.
Synonyms: sense: meal
word: dinner
word: meal
Derived terms: box supper
brupper
bump supper
Burns supper
churn supper
covered dish supper
cowboy supper
faith supper
fall supper
fish supper
harvest supper
kern supper
kitchen supper
Last Supper
Lord's Supper
lupper
pie supper
progressive supper
rere-supper
safari supper
sing for one's supper
song and supper room
supper club
supper hour
supper-hour
supper time
supper-time
Related terms: soup
supper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌpɚ/
ipa: /ˈsʌpə/
rhymes: -ʌpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: suppers
Etymology: From sup + -er.
Senses: glosses: A drinker, especially one who drinks slowly (i.e., one who sups).
golf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɒlf/
ipa: /ɡɒf/
ipa: /ɡɑlf/
ipa: /ɡɔlf/
ipa: /ɡɒf/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɡɔlf/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɡolf/
rhymes: -ɒlf
Etymology: The word is first known in English from the 17th century as a borrowing from Middle Scots golf, gouff. Although the etymology is uncertain, the most likely origin is that it comes from the Middle Dutch colve, colf (“club”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kulbaz (“club”), related to German Kolben (“piston, rod”), Swedish kolv (“piston, rod”), Old English clopp (“rock; cliff”).
Senses: examples: text: In January, China’s state planner said it had ordered the closure of more than 100 golf courses in a multi-year campaign launched in 2011 to tackle illegal development in the sector.
Golf has also been added to a list of Communist Party disciplinary violations, and is often cited in cases of graft.
ref: 2017 October 16, Adam Jourdan, Matt Miller, “In the rough - China closes Wanda golf courses in chilly northeast”, in Himani Sarkar, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2023, Business News:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes.
qualifier: international standards
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Golf from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
Derived terms: African golf
antigolf
army golf
barnyard golf
clock golf
code golf
crazy golf
dart golf
disc golf
flying disc golf
folf
footgolf
frisbee golf
frolf
golfaholic
golf bag
golf ball
golf buggy
golf caddie
golf caddy
golf car
golf cart
golf clap
golf club
golf-club
golf course
golf croquet
golfdom
golfese
golf hole
golfiana
golfless
golflike
golf pencil
golf pro
golf shirt
golf shoe
golfspeak
golf towel
golf umbrella
golfwear
golf widow
golfwise
hickory golf
midget golf
miniature golf
nongolf
peewee golf
pub golf
regex golf
snow golf
Tom Thumb golf
word golf
golf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɒlf/
ipa: /ɡɒf/
ipa: /ɡɑlf/
ipa: /ɡɔlf/
ipa: /ɡɒf/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɡɔlf/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɡolf/
rhymes: -ɒlf
Forms: form: golfs
form: golfing
form: golfed
form: golfed
Etymology: The word is first known in English from the 17th century as a borrowing from Middle Scots golf, gouff. Although the etymology is uncertain, the most likely origin is that it comes from the Middle Dutch colve, colf (“club”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kulbaz (“club”), related to German Kolben (“piston, rod”), Swedish kolv (“piston, rod”), Old English clopp (“rock; cliff”).
Senses: examples: text: Last mystery of all, he learned to golf.
ref: 1894, Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work/An Error in the Fourth Dimension:
glosses: To play the game of golf.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)
savage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsævɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ævɪd͡ʒ
Forms: form: savages
form: salvage
Etymology: From Middle English savage, from Old French sauvage, salvage (“wild, untamed”), from Late Latin salvāticus, alteration of Latin silvāticus (“wild”, literally “of the woods”), from silva (“forest; grove”). Doublet of sylvatic.
Senses: examples: text: 'Well, my lord, I don't know,' said Freeman with a sort of jolly sneer; 'we have been dining with the savages.'
'They are not savages, Freeman.'
'Well, my lord, they have not much more clothes, anyhow; and as for knives and forks, there is not such a thing known.'
ref: 1847, Benjamin Disraeli, Tancred: or The New Crusade, page 251:
text: The glimpse of the steamboat had for some reason filled those savages with unrestrained grief.
ref: 1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II, page 491:
text: In the year 1879, when the Utes succeeded in getting some United States troops into what was afterwards known as Thornburg's "rat hole," several mounted couriers succeeded in slipping through the circling line of savages.
ref: 1901 July 19, “Horses in time of War”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 10, page 296:
glosses: A person not living in a civilization; a barbarian.
examples: text: Their kids are little savages! One of them bit me the other day.
glosses: An aggressively defiant person.
examples: text: It was on Dec. 29 that TikTok star Liv Pearsall posted a video titled "7 Times Elmo Was an Absolute Savage," in which the star with more than 2.7 million followers lip-synced to various Elmo-ments.
ref: 2022 January 6, Kalhan Rosenblatt, “Elmo's feud with a pet rock has consumed the internet”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 29 May 2023:
text: "Sometimes they would stay up while she'd have a whole new guy in a relationship," she wrote in a comment. "LMFAO she is a savage."
ref: 2022 August 31, Emily Lefroy, “I 'hard launch' my first dates on Instagram: Confident or unhinged?”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2022:
glosses: Someone who speaks in an audacious, hilarious, and often sarcastic manner.
examples: text: The torch-eyed ſavage, with growl tremendous, riſing up, diſlocated at one blow the arched neck of Sadit's Arabian ſteed, and brought the unfortunate omrah to the duſt, expiring between his extended claws.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 7:
glosses: A wild and ferocious beast.
savage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsævɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ævɪd͡ʒ
Forms: form: savages
form: savaging
form: savaged
form: savaged
Etymology: From Middle English savage, from Old French sauvage, salvage (“wild, untamed”), from Late Latin salvāticus, alteration of Latin silvāticus (“wild”, literally “of the woods”), from silva (“forest; grove”). Doublet of sylvatic.
Senses: examples: text: No matter how anyone might savage me, I should stay strong.
text: But that was only the start, because the Fletchers - (obviously) carrying two torpedo launchers - were only launching half-salvos, so one full wave of torpedoes had driven off the cruisers after having savaged the destroyers, aaand then it was a case of, well, here come twenty-five destroyers, here comes^([sic]) two hundred and fifty torpedoes, hello Japanese battleships, dodge this!
ref: 2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 26:48 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2022:
glosses: To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
examples: text: His latest film was savaged by most reviewers.
text: British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
ref: 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
glosses: To criticise vehemently.
glosses: To attack with the teeth.
raw_tags: of an animal
examples: text: Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To make savage.
Jewess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jewesses
Etymology: From Middle English Jewesse, from Old French juiesse, juise; equivalent to Jew + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: And the prominent, if not indeed the principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Commissions for Combating Counter-Revolution has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses.
ref: 1920, Winston Churchill, Zionism versus Bolshevism:
text: To whom did Ivanhoe tip his lance in gallantry today?
To a Jewess named Rebecca, daughter of Isaac, the banker of his tribe.
What could he want of the Jews except money for the ransom?
ref: 1952, Ivanhoe:
text: As for Wahram V (Gur), the Zoroastrian Persians could see him as a legitimate ruler and the Jews would see him as a Jewish king. After all, he was Jewish since his mother was a Jewess.
ref: 2009, Touraj Daryaee, Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, London: I.B.Tauris, →ISBN, page 78:
text: You really are a high-class Jewess, lemme tell ya.
ref: 2015, Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, Knockoffs (Broad City), season 2, episode 4, spoken by Bobbi Wexler (Susie Essman), via Comedy Central:
hypernyms: Jew
glosses: A female Jew.
Derived terms: crypto-Jewess
Hassidic Jewess
Orthodox Jewess
secular Jewess
Related terms: Jew
Jewish
Jewry
Judaica
Judaism
Judea
Hebrew
Israeli
Israelite
Yiddish
nonce word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonce words
Etymology: From for the nonce and word. Coined by James Murray, the influential first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: nonce
occasionalism
contrivance
logatome
pseudoword
hypernyms: protologism
glosses: A word invented for the occasion, especially to create alliteration or a rhyme.
wikipedia: Dr. Seuss
James Murray (lexicographer)
Oxford English Dictionary
Related terms: word: non-word
alt: one attestation
word: hapax legomenon
alt: two attestations
word: dis legomenon
english: three attestations
translation: three attestations
word: tris legomenon
folk etymology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folk etymologies
Etymology: English from the 1880s (Abram Smythe Palmer, 1882), a calque of German Volksetymologie (1820s, in 1821 as Volks-Etymologie in J. A. Schmeller's Die Mundarten Bayerns grammatisch dargestellt).
Senses: examples: text: Many English folk etymologies involve backronyms.
text: It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer.
ref: 1926, James A.H. Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, volume X, part I, page 248, column 1:
text: He even sharked up a false or "folk" etymology in which saunter is made to derive from sainte terre, making the saunterer a crusader.
ref: 1986, Robert Richardson, Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 237:
synonyms: etymythology
fake etymology
false etymology
pseudoetymology
paraetymology
paretymology
glosses: A popular explanation for the origin of a term which has been rejected as false by expert etymologists.
examples: text: SURCEASE owes its form and meaning to a remarkable folk-etymology, as has been pointed out by Prof. Skeat:—"It is obvious, from the usual spelling, that this word is popularly supposed to be allied with cease, with which it has no etymological connexion."
ref: 1882, Abram Smythe Palmer, Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions, London: George Bell, →OCLC, page 654:
text: Thus hamburger (whose true etymology is 'city of Hamburg' + er 'someone from') has been reanalyzed as ham + burger 'burger made with ham.' [...] Subsequently, on the analogy of this folk etymology, new forms such as cheeseburger, chiliburger, and plain burger have been created.
ref: 2006, Shaligram Shukla, Jeff Connor-Linton, “Language change”, in Ralph Fasold, Jeff Connor-Linton, editors, An Introduction to Language and Linguistics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 296:
synonyms: popular etymology
glosses: A modification of a word or its spelling resulting from a misunderstanding of its etymology, as with island, belfry, and hangnail.
Derived terms: folk-etymological
folk-etymologically
folk etymologist
folk-etymologize
Related terms: catachresis
eggcorn
folk linguistics
goropism
Hobson-Jobson
malapropism
misnomer
mondegreen
phono-semantic matching
reanalysis
rebracketing
surface etymology
dry-tool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dry-tools
form: dry-tooling
form: dry-tooled
form: dry-tooled
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To climb bare rock using ice climbing equipment.
glosses: To have sexual intercourse without lubricant.
popular etymology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popular etymologies
Senses: glosses: A folk etymology.
unitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːnɪt(ə)ɹi/
Etymology: From unit + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: If yes–no questions are CPs containing a null yes–no question operator (a null counterpart of whether) in spec-CP, we can arrive at a unitary characterisation of questions as CPs with an interrogative specifier.
ref: 2004, Andrew Radford, Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 221:
glosses: Having the quality of oneness.
examples: text: a unitary authority
text: a unitary state
topics: government
glosses: That concentrates power in a single body, rather than sharing it with more local bodies.
raw_tags: of a system of government or administration
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: That contains an identity element.
raw_tags: of an algebra
examples: text: The eigenvectors of an orthogonal or unitary operator, corresponding to different eigenvalues, are orthogonal.
ref: 1997, P. K. Suetin, Alexandra I. Kostrikin, Yuri I. Manin, translated by M. E. Alferieff, Linear Algebra and Geometry, page 137:
text: In essence we are looking for some way to average the individual unitary matrices Uₖ. But a linear combination of unitary matrices does not remain unitary.
ref: 2002, M. Klajman, J. A. Chambers, “A Novel Approximate Joint Diagonalization Algorithm”, in J. G. McWhirter, I. K. Proudler, editors, Mathematics in Signal Processing V, page 71:
text: We then repeat the same procedure to the (d − 1) × (d − 1) block unitary matrix using (d − 2) two-level unitary matrices.
ref: 2008, Mikio Nakahara, Tetsuo Ohmi, Quantum Computing: From Linear Algebra to Physical Realizations, page 84:
topics: linear-algebra
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Whose inverse is equal to its adjoint.
raw_tags: of a matrix or operator
Synonyms: sense: that contains an identity element
word: unital
Derived terms: word: special unitary group
word: unitary authority
word: unitary council
word: unitary government
english: group whose elements are unitary matrices or operators
translation: group whose elements are unitary matrices or operators
word: unitary group
word: unitary matrix
word: unitary psychosis
word: unitary representation
word: unitary state
Related terms: unitariness
unitarily
unitarity
unitarian
unitize
unitise
singular
unionized
united
unitary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːnɪt(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: unitaries
Etymology: From unit + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Outside the metropolitan areas most councils (English and Welsh counties, London boroughs, Scottish and Welsh unitaries, and Northern Ireland districts) are now elected en bloc every four years.
ref: 2005, John Greenwood, Robert Pyper, David Wilson, New Public Administration in Britain:
glosses: A unitary council.
examples: text: 1980, Michael Reed, Barry Simon, Methods of Modern Mathematical Physics, Volume 1: Functional Analysis, Revised and Expanded Edition page 243,
Since ergodicity and mixing are expressible in terms of the induced Koopman unitaries they are not additional invariants.
text: Can unitaries in a unital C*-algebra with real rank zero be approximated by unitaries with finite spectrum?
ref: 2001, Huaxin Lin, An Introduction to the Classification of Amenable C*-Algebras, page 170:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A unitary matrix or operator.
sec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: sec
form: secs
form: sec.
Senses: glosses: Second, ¹⁄₆₀ of a minute.
examples: text: Wait a sec!
text: And the sloping of the shoulder / From the slender shapely neck / Makes you long to come behind her and to hold her / Just a sec.
ref: 1881 August 27, “In Church”, in Supplement to the Manchester Weekly Times, Manchester, England, page 8:
synonyms: word: jiffy
word: mo
word: tic
word: bat of an eye
word: bit
word: blink of an eye
word: crack
word: eyeblink
word: flash
word: glimpse
word: half a mo
word: instant
word: jiff
word: jiffy
word: jot
word: minute
word: mo
word: moment
word: New York minute
word: New York second
word: no time
word: sec
word: second
word: span
word: split-second
word: spurt
word: stound
word: tick
word: trice
word: twink
word: twinkle
word: twinkling
word: while
glosses: Clipping of second (“short indeterminate period of time”).
examples: text: shadow sec
topics: government
politics
glosses: Clipping of secretary
Derived terms: com sec
just a sec
Related terms: C-sec
demi-sec
triple sec
kama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kämə
ipa: /kɑmə/
rhymes: -ɑːmə
Forms: form: kama
Etymology: From Japanese 鎌 (kama, “sickle, scythe”).
Senses: glosses: A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.
kama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kämə
ipa: /kɑmə/
rhymes: -ɑːmə
Etymology: From Sanskrit काम (kā́ma).
Senses: examples: text: The place of kāma or the pursuit of love and pleasure in the balanced Hindu scheme of life derives from the importance attached to the life of the married householder (grhastha).
ref: 1958, V. Raghavan, “Chapter XII: Kāma, The Third End of Man”, in Stephen N Hay, William Theodore De Bary, editors, Sources of Indian Tradition, volume 2, page 258:
text: Ancient Indian thought divides the principal aims of human existence into dharma (religion, morality, social obligations), artha (economics, politics, power), and kāma (erotic pleasure, sexual interaction, sexual gratification).
ref: 2006, “Indian Erotology”, in Alan Soble, editor, Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, Volume 1: A-L, page 493:
glosses: The act or process of wishing; longing, desire (with or without sexual connotations); one of the goals of life in Hindu tradition.
Derived terms: kama rupa
Kama Sutra
Related terms: preman
to wit
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Originally that is to wit (“that is to know”). See wit.
Senses: examples: text: The directors of the company, to wit, Fred Smith and Albert Jones, inform us that…
text: The defendant is charged with possession of a controlled substance, to wit, cocaine…
text: Thus, I had so long suffered in this quest,
Heard failure prophesied so oft, been writ
So many times among "The Band"─to wit,
The knights who to the Dark Tower's search addressed
Their steps - that just to fail as they, seemed best,
And all the doubt was now—should I be fit?
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section VII:
text: July 2000, Todd Greanier, Discover the secrets of the Java Serialization API
Though the animation code above demonstrates how a thread could be included as part of an object while still making that object be serializable, there is a major problem with it if we recall how Java creates objects. To wit, when we create an object with the new keyword, the object’s constructor is called only when a new instance of a class is created.
glosses: That is to say; namely; specifically.
Synonyms: namely
scilicet
videlicet
specifically
in other words
y-axis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: y-axes
Senses: topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: ordinate
coordinate_terms: x-axis
z-axis
glosses: The axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top and usually shows the range of values of variable dependent on one other variable, or the second of two independent variables.
z-axis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: z-axes
Senses: topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: x-axis
y-axis
glosses: The axis on a graph of at least three dimensions that is usually drawn vertically and usually shows the range of values of a variable dependent on two other variables or the third independent variable.
nubbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌbɪn/
Forms: form: nubbins
Etymology: Perhaps nub + -in.
Senses: glosses: A stub, especially a stub of undeveloped corn or fruit or nipple.
examples: text: As an avid button collector, I have had to develop an efficient way of removing the nubbin of thread from the buttonhole.
text: She walks to the next room, a little larger, holding a double bed. The shade is half drawn, and low light gives each nubbin of the bedspread a shadow.
ref: 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 67:
synonyms: nublet
;
nub
glosses: A small protuberance, bud, bump, or knob.
glosses: Synonym of clitoris.
synonyms: word: clitoris
Derived terms: nubbin disease
habeas corpus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌheɪbiəs ˈkɔːpəs/
ipa: /ˌheɪbiəs ˈkɔːrpəs/
ipa: /ˌheɪbiæs ˈkɔrpəs/
Forms: form: habeas corpora
form: habeas corpuses
Etymology: From Latin habeas corpus ad subjiciendum (“You (shall) have the body to be subjected to (examination)”), referring to the body of the detainee (not the body of a victim, similar to corpus delicti).
Senses: examples: text: While Trump has not explicitly mentioned habeas corpus in public, it’s what he was referencing last month when he commented on steps he could take to combat nationwide injunctions against his actions on deportations, according to one of the people familiar with the talks.
ref: 2025 May 9, Kaitlan Collins, Samantha Waldenberg and Tierney Sneed, “Trump involved in discussions over suspending habeas corpus, sources say”, in CNN:
topics: law
synonyms: writ of habeas corpus
glosses: A writ ordering that a person be brought before a court or a judge, most frequently used to ensure that a person's imprisonment, detention, or commitment is legal.
Derived terms: habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
Related terms: due process
jurisdiction
habeas corpus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌheɪbiəs ˈkɔːpəs/
ipa: /ˌheɪbiəs ˈkɔːrpəs/
ipa: /ˌheɪbiæs ˈkɔrpəs/
Forms: form: habeas corpuses
form: habeas corpusing
form: habeas corpused
form: habeas corpused
Etymology: From Latin habeas corpus ad subjiciendum (“You (shall) have the body to be subjected to (examination)”), referring to the body of the detainee (not the body of a victim, similar to corpus delicti).
Senses: examples: text: Hawley […] particularly desired, judging by his actions, to put polygamists out of existence, at the same time very mercifully habeas corpused all the prostitutes and their supporters[.]
ref: 1873 August 12, “The Fate of Judges and All Others Who Work Against Zion”, in The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star:
text: He saw that according to the fable typed on its lily white face one, John Grimaldi of Brooklyn, was summoned, advised, entreated, requested, ordered, corpus delictied, habeas corpused and generally invited to appear in said court[.]
ref: 1918, Frazier Hunt, “Pegging Away”, in Blown by the Draft:
topics: law
glosses: To apply the legal principle of habeas corpus to an individual or situation.
Related terms: corpus delicti
you'll
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːl/
ipa: /ˈjuːəl/
ipa: /ˈjul/
ipa: /ˈjʊl/
ipa: /jʊl/
ipa: /jəl/
ipa: /jʉl/
rhymes: -uːl
rhymes: -uːəl
rhymes: -ʊl
homophone: (stressed) Yule
homophone: (disyllabic) Uel
Forms: form: you'l
form: u'll
form: ull
Etymology: Contraction of you will and you shall.
Senses: glosses: you will
glosses: you shall
Synonyms: word: thou'lt
word: ye'll
bill of attainder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bills of attainder
Senses: examples: text: They resolved to copy a Tudor precedent and to proceed against him by bill of attainder. Doubts of law and defects of evidence would thus be cured
ref: 1920, Francis Charles Montague, The History of England, from the Accession of James I to the Restoration, page 1663:
text: Coupled with the Constitution's proscription of ex post facto laws is a similar prohibition against bills of attainder.
ref: 1998, Daniel E. Troy, Retroactive Legislation, page 56:
text: That the tax would take effect after some of the payments were made also raises issues. Says former Attorney General Richard Thornburg, also in an e-mail: "Such legislation could well run afoul of constitutional restrictions on bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, laws impairing the obligations of contract, unauthorized takings of property and the like.
ref: 2009 March 21, Jim McTague, “Would a Tax on Bonuses Be Constitutional?”, in Barron's:
topics: law
glosses: A legislative determination imposing punishment without trial.
Synonyms: bill of pains and penalties
Related terms: ex post facto
dolce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdoʊl.tʃeɪ/
Forms: form: dolces
Etymology: From Italian dolce. Doublet of douce, doux, and dulce.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A soft-toned organ stop.
Related terms: dolce far niente
dolce stil nuovo
dolce vita
la dolce vita
jazz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: jăz
ipa: /d͡ʒæz/
rhymes: -æz
Forms: form: jazzes
form: jazzing
form: jazzed
form: jazzed
form: jaz
raw_tags: used from about 1912 to about 1918
form: jas
raw_tags: used from about 1912 to about 1918
form: jass
raw_tags: used from about 1912 to about 1918
form: jasz
raw_tags: used from about 1912 to about 1918
Etymology: Unknown. First attested around 1912 in a discussion of baseball; attested in reference to music around 1915. Numerous references suggest that the term may be connected to jasm and jism.
Senses: examples: text: You’ve gone and jazzed it now!
glosses: To destroy; to ruin.
glosses: To play (jazz music).
glosses: To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
glosses: To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting.
examples: text: Don’t jazz it too much!
glosses: To complicate.
examples: text: ‘Jazzing?’ Temple whispered […]. ‘Yes, putty-face!’ the woman said. ‘How do you suppose I paid that lawyer?’
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 59:
glosses: To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
examples: text: "In the old days, heaps of unmarried women were companions, and let me tell you, my dear girl, they had a much better time than they have now, with all this jazzing and short skirts and pretending to have careers. The modern girl hasn't a scrap of decent feeling or sentiment about her. Money--money and notoriety, that's all she's after. That's what we fought the war for--and that's what we've come back to!" "George, do keep to the point. Miss Dorland doesn't jazz--"
ref: 1928, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club:
text: ‘Well, if you're going to jazz about the way you do, I suppose you'll need rouge at your age.’
ref: 1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 119:
glosses: To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.
examples: text: Stop jazzing me!
glosses: To distract or pester.
examples: text: Twenty-four black men jazzed madly as trumpets exploded her eardrums in tom-tom time. Ebony orgasm flooded her with creme.
ref: 1982, Arthur Winfield Knight, Kit Knight, Beat angels, page 7:
text: The thrill of the rimming soon made this guy beg for me to stop before he jazzed his nuts.
ref: 1986, Winston Leyland, Hard, page 84:
text: I reached around and began jacking off Marshall's prick as I was jazzing his ass.
ref: 1988, First Hand - Volume 8, Issue 2, page 47:
glosses: To ejaculate.
Synonyms: sense: to destroy
word: annihilate
word: ravage
word: destroy
sense: to play jazz music
word: cook
word: jam
word: play music
sense: to enliven
word: invigorate
word: vitalise
word: enliven
sense: to complicate
word: complexify
word: confuscate
word: complicate
sense: to prostitute oneself
word: sell one's body
word: turn tricks
word: prostitute oneself
sense: to pester
word: bother
word: bug
word: annoy
SFX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the initial letter of "special" or "sound", and the pronunciation of "effects".
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of sound effects.
glosses: Abbreviation of special effects.
Related terms: VFX
FX
GFX
granduncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granduncles
form: grand uncle
form: grand-uncle
Etymology: From Middle English graunt oncle, equivalent to grand- + uncle.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of great-uncle.
synonyms: word: great-uncle
Derived terms: great-granduncle
Related terms: grandaunt
shuriken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sho͞or'ĭk-ən
ipa: /ˈʃuː.ɹɪ.kən/
enpr: sho͝or'ĭk-ən
ipa: /ˈʃʊə.ɹɪ.kən/
enpr: shûr'ĭk-ən
ipa: /ˈʃɝ.ɪ.kən/
rhymes: -uːɹɪkən
rhymes: -ʊəɹɪkən
rhymes: -ɜːɹɪkən
Forms: form: shurikens
form: shuriken
Etymology: From Japanese 手裏剣 (しゅりけん shuriken), from Middle Chinese 手 (ʃúw "hand") + 裏 (lí "inside") + 劍 (kjæ̀m "sword").
Senses: synonyms: ninja star
throwing star
hyponyms: shaken
glosses: A dart or throwing blade, sometimes with multiple points, used as a weapon by ninja (or samurai).
tycoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪˈkuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: tycoons
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 大君(たいくん) (taikun, “great lord, prince”), a title for the shōgun. Related to taipan, from Cantonese 大班 (daai⁶ baan¹). The game sense was derived from the use of tycoon in titles of games in which one plays a tycoon (e.g., RollerCoaster Tycoon).
Senses: examples: text: Chairman Yu is a tycoon who owns multiple hotel chains.
text: Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 24, in Crime out of Mind:
synonyms: captain of industry
magnate
mogul
glosses: A wealthy and powerful business person.
examples: text: Tycoons / A game in which users build up some sort of business by earning money over time and then using that money on upgrades.
ref: 2013, Brandon LaRouche, Intermediate ROBLOX Lua Programming, Double Trouble Studio, →ISBN, page 172:
text: In most tycoons, you will find an automatic machine called a dropper, which is used for producing bricks.
ref: 2017, Christina Majaski, The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to Robloxing: Everything You Need to Know to Build Awesome Games!, New York, N.Y.: Sky Pony Press, →ISBN, page 65:
text: In my opinion, tycoons are great to create as your first game, but they take time to learn! The main tips are to keep the tycoon simple and stick with a theme.
ref: 2019, Roblox Guide to Success and Dominating the World of Roblox, Ro Books, →ISBN, page 13:
text: These experiences have fallen somewhat out of favor because once a tycoon is complete and all items are unlocked, there is not much of an incentive to continue playing. Updating these experiences can be a more difficult task, depending on how your tycoon is structured.
ref: 2022, Zander Brumbaugh, Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, 2nd edition, Packt, →ISBN, page 217:
text: “What should we play? Adopt Me, a tycoon, SCP, an obby?”
ref: 2022, Jessica Stone, Digital Play Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide to Comfort and Competence, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: The next most common game that we see inside Roblox are Tycoons.
ref: 2022, Heath Haskins, The Advanced Roblox Coding Book: An Unofficial Guide, Updated Edition: Learn How to Script Games, Code Objects and Settings, and Create Your Own World!, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 153:
topics: video-games
synonyms: tycoon game
glosses: A game involving the use of a base to generate bricks and cash (similar to an idle game or clicker game), which can then be used to purchase upgrades and expand. Common within the massively multiplayer online game platform Roblox.
topics: card-games
games
synonyms: daifugō
glosses: A Japanese shedding game
topics: card-games
games
synonyms: daifugō
glosses: A Japanese shedding game
The name for the person in the top spot in that game
Derived terms: oil tycoon
tycoon game
tycoonocracy
tycoonocrat
Related terms: daimyō
taipan
mese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meses
form: mease
Etymology: From Middle English mese, mes, mees (“dinner, dish”), from Old English mēse, mēose, mīse, mȳse (“table; that which is set on a table; dish; food, meal”), a vernacular loan from Latin/Late Latin mē(n)sa (“table; meal”). Cognate with Scots mes, mese (“a serving of food”), Old High German mias, meas (German Mus, Gemüse), Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐍃 (mēs). Compare Old English mēsan (“to eat, dine”), from Proto-Germanic *mōsijaną, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą, an ablaut variant of the root Proto-Germanic *mat- (“food”).
Senses: glosses: A dinner; meal.
mese
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: meses
form: mesing
form: mesed
form: mesed
Etymology: From Middle English mesen, of North Germanic origin. More at meek.
Senses: glosses: To moderate; subdue; abate; mollify.
mese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meses
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin mesē, from Ancient Greek μέση (mésē, literally “middle [string]”).
Senses: qualifier: musical pitch
glosses: In Ancient Greek musical theory, the highest-pitched fixed note in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre, always pitched a perfect fourth above the hypate, with two movable notes between them, the parhypate (lower in pitch) and the lichanos (higher in pitch). The mese was lower than the paramese (the lower-pitched fixed note in the farther tetrachord on a lyre) by a ratio of 8:9.
bokken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŏk'ən
ipa: /ˈbɒk.ən/
rhymes: -ɒkən
Forms: form: bokkens
form: bokken
Etymology: From Japanese 木剣 (ぼっけん, bokken, “wooden sword”), see below.
Senses: glosses: A wooden katana, used as a training sword.
Synonyms: bokuto
Gebrauchsmusik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gebrauchsmusik (literally “utility music”).
Senses: examples: text: Copland's own criticism of Gebrauchsmusik as a “contaminated” musical style can also be read as a rebuke of its ties to musical styles associated with the culture industry.
ref: 2009, Elizabeth B. Crist, Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 76:
topics: entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
music
musicology
sciences
glosses: Music composed for a specific, identifiable purpose, not just for its own sake.
mag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: mags
Senses: examples: text: NY Mag
translation: New York Magazine
english: New York Magazine
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text: stash of porno mags
glosses: Clipping of magazine.
examples: text: Get the mag in there to clear away the scrap.
glosses: Clipping of magnet.
examples: text: She looks fine on physical exam, but I don't like these low mag levels.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of magnesium.
examples: text: brand new tires and factory-original mags
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Ellipsis of mag wheel.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Clipping of magnitude.
topics: law
glosses: Clipping of magistrate.
examples: text: mag hits
text: Some marine salvagers might be interested in these unusual mag hits.
text: The policy is that all staff entering the Capitol are required to go through the mags whether or not they are with a Member of Congress.
ref: 2010, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, Legislative Branch Appropriations for 2011: Hearings..., page 171:
text: “Take the f-ing mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here.”
ref: 2022 June 28, Luke Broadwater, Michael S. Schmidt, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump Urged Armed Supporters to Capitol, White House Aide Testifies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Clipping of magnetometer.
Derived terms: bongo mag
discmag
diskmag
fag mag
girlie mag
girly mag
jazz mag
K-Mag
lad mag
ladymag
mag book
mag dump
mag-slip
mag slip
mag tape
porno mag
skin mag
stroke mag
tit mag
webmag
mag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: mags
form: magging
form: magged
form: magged
Etymology: From Mag, a nickname for Margaret.
Senses: qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: To steal.
examples: text: "Is that why you're always magging with Pascoe?" Horrible John went on. […] "So that's why you and him are always talking. And here's me thinkin' you was crawlin' for stripes."
ref: 2015, Eric Lambert, The Twenty Thousand Thieves:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: To talk.
Derived terms: magsman
magpie
mag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: mags
Senses: examples: text: "Why, of course you wanted to get in," Mr. Bucket asserts with cheerfulness; "but for a old gentleman at your time of life […] not to consider that if he don't keep such a business as the present as close as possible it can't be worth a mag to him, is so curious! You see your temper got the better of you; that's where you lost ground," says Mr. Bucket in an argumentative and friendly way.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
text: When all your tin is gone and spent,
 And you've not a mag for bread or rent
ref: 1861, Philip William Perfitt, The Pathfinder, page 377:
glosses: A halfpenny.
having
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhævɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have
having
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhævɪŋ/
Forms: form: havings
Senses: examples: text: He thus came to think of perceiving as a complex of 'havings,' not a complex of 'havings' and 'doings.'
ref: 2002, Ronald Jager, The Development of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy:
glosses: The act of possessing; ownership.
examples: text: Out of my lean and low ability
I’ll lend you something: my having is not much;
I’ll make division of my present with you:
Hold, there’s half my coffer.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
text: Your havings wasted by the scythe and spade—
Your rights and charters hobnail’d into slush—
ref: 1875, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Queen Mary, London: Henry S. King, act II, scene 2, page 80:
glosses: Something owned; possession; goods; estate.
glosses: A person's behaviour.
glosses: Good manners.
having
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhævɪŋ/
Forms: form: more having
form: most having
Senses: examples: text: The new man in Humanity, which is the communication of the Son of Man Who is the Interceder, is an asking man, although it is not a greedy and a having man.
ref: 1875, Christ and the people, sermons, page 282:
glosses: Grasping; greedy.
magic wand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magic wands
Senses: glosses: A wand, usually made of wood, that is used to perform magic.
examples: text: We have to work hard together to find a solution. There is no magic wand.
glosses: A means which will effect an instant solution.
examples: text: Stealthily, she slid her nightstand drawer open, located the knee-high sock and pulled out her magic wand vibrator, ready to go with new batteries.
ref: 2017 October 17, Rachelle Ayala, Playing Catch, Rachelle Ayala:
text: The vibration wasn't as strong as that of her magic wand, but she slid the tip up and down the valley of her sex.
ref: 2020 July 21, Lila Dubois, Vienna Bargain, Farm Boy Press, →ISBN:
qualifier: genericized trademark
glosses: A long vibrator with a vibrating rubber head; the Hitachi Magic Wand or any similar sex toy.
squab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɒb/
ipa: /ˈskwɑb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: squabs
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly related to dialectal Swedish skvabb (“fatty, flabby”). First attested in the 17th century.
Senses: glosses: A fledgling (young) bird.
A young dove or pigeon.
synonyms: piper
squeaker
glosses: A fledgling (young) bird.
A young chicken.
synonyms: chick
glosses: A fledgling (young) bird.
A young rook.
examples: text: Squab may be consumed by ripping the bird apart with your hands and sucking the meat from the bones.
ref: 2022, Jennifer Egan, The Candy House, Corsair, page 207:
glosses: The meat of young dove or pigeon, typically under four weeks old, used as food.
examples: text: a. 1744, Alexander Pope (imitating Earl of Dorset), Artemisia, 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, page 86,
On her large ſquab you find her ſpread, / Like a fat corpſe upon a bed, / That lies and ſtinks in ſtate.
text: [H]erds of shabby vampires, Jew and Christian, over-run the house, [...] punching the squabs of chairs and sofas with their dirty fists, touzling the feather-beds, opening and shutting all the drawers, balancing the silver spoons and forks, looking into the very threads of the drapery and linen, and disparaging everything.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Retribution”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 591:
text: Another feature new to British Railways is the provision of two-position adjustable seats in the first class compartments. In this design, the seat squab can be pulled out some six inches, the seat back being attached to the seat to give a less upright sitting position.
ref: 1957 August 24, “New Multiple-Unit Stock for Hastings and Watford Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 532:
glosses: A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.
examples: text: Gorgonius sits abdominous and wan, / Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan:
ref: a. 1800, William Cowper, “The Progress of Error”, in Poems of William Cowper, Esq, published 1824, page 28:
glosses: A person of a short, fat figure.
Derived terms: squab chick
squab pie
squab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɒb/
ipa: /ˈskwɑb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: squabs
form: squabbing
form: squabbed
form: squabbed
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly related to dialectal Swedish skvabb (“fatty, flabby”). First attested in the 17th century.
Senses: glosses: To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
glosses: To furnish with squabs, or cushions.
glosses: To stuff thickly and sew through, the stitches being concealed by buttons, etc.
squab
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɒb/
ipa: /ˈskwɑb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: more squab
form: most squab
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly related to dialectal Swedish skvabb (“fatty, flabby”). First attested in the 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice.
ref: 1712, Thomas Betterton, The Miller of Trompington:
text: So on his Nightmare through the evening fog / Flits the squab fiend o'er fen, and lake, and bog […].
ref: 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 93:
glosses: Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
examples: text: broken limbs of trees, eggs, and young squab pigeons precipitated from above
ref: 1836, Richard King, Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Arctic Ocean:
glosses: Unfledged; unfeathered.
glosses: Clumsy.
glosses: Curt; abrupt.
glosses: Shy; coy.
squab
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɒb/
ipa: /ˈskwɑb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly related to dialectal Swedish skvabb (“fatty, flabby”). First attested in the 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and dropped him down, squab, upon a rock.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: With a heavy fall; plump.
piper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪ.pə/
ipa: /ˈpaɪ.pɚ/
ipa: /ˈpʌɪ.pɚ/
rhymes: -aɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pipers
Etymology: From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe + -er. Piecewise doublet of fifer.
Senses: glosses: A musician who plays a pipe.
examples: text: At Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley, the sounding of train horns was followed by a lone piper playing When the Battle's Over.
ref: 2020 May 20, “Railway remembers VE Day with a series of tributes”, in Rail, page 15:
glosses: A bagpiper.
glosses: A baby pigeon.
glosses: A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
glosses: A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
glosses: A broken-winded hack horse.
Synonyms: sense: bagpiper
word: bagpiper
sense: baby pigeon
word: squab
sense: baby pigeon
word: baby pigeon
sense: baby pigeon
word: pigeon chick
Derived terms: drunk as a piper
hornpiper
pay the piper
Pied Piper
piper gurnard
piperly
sandpiper
uilleann piper
who pays the piper calls the tune
Related terms: bagpiper
hornpiper
piper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪ.pə/
ipa: /ˈpaɪ.pɚ/
ipa: /ˈpʌɪ.pɚ/
rhymes: -aɪpə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of pepper.