cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pretext
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːtɛkst/
rhymes: -iːtɛkst
Forms: form: pretexts
form: pretexting
form: pretexted
form: pretexted
Etymology: From Latin praetextum (“an ornament, etc., wrought in front, a pretense”), neuter of praetextus, past participle of praetexere (“to weave before, fringe or border, allege”).
Senses: examples: text: The spy obtained his phone records using possibly-illegal pretexting methods.
text: […] the something in the air of these establishments; the vibration of the vast, strange life of the town; the influence of the types, the performers, concocting their messages; the little prompt Paris women arranging, pretexting goodness knew what, driving the dreadful needle-pointed public pen at the dreadful sand-strewn public table[…]
ref: 1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: Not all the surviving veteran chiefs would actually fight. Some remained nominally in the resistance but in practice delayed at their bases, pretexting a lack of ammunition for their uncertain inertia.
ref: 1970 August 12 [1969 January 15], John Womack, Jr., Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 261:
glosses: To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.
Synonyms: word: blag
subtext
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtexts
Etymology: From sub- + text.
Senses: examples: text: Everyone heard the announcement, but not everyone agrees on what the subtext was.
text: The word dick has meant penis since the 1890s, but Chester Gould’s private detective “Dick Tracy” has no puerile subtext related to this word.
ref: 2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 113:
text: While his major plays appear on the surface to have little plot, their subtext is full of overheated romance and melodrama.
ref: 2012 July 27, Jason Zinoman, “Chekhov's Banana Peel”, in Slate:
topics: literature
media
publishing
coordinate_terms: context
paratext
peritext
epitext
glosses: The implicit meaning of a text, often a literary one, or a speech or dialogue.
Derived terms: word: subtextual
Related terms: connotation
subcurrent
subtweet
undercurrent
subtext
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subtexts
form: subtexting
form: subtexted
form: subtexted
Etymology: From sub- + text.
Senses: examples: text: All the participants used subtexting as an important viewing strategy of mainstream films. We are always looking for innuendoes and cues either with certain individual characters or between female characters.
ref: 1996, Womonspace News: Our Voice in the Lesbian Community: Dec 1996:
text: Subtexting is the technique that every author needs to know in order to create dialogue that is rich in meaning while sounding natural, for in real life, this is the way people often converse.
ref: 2002, Collins, Brandilyn, Getting into character : seven secrets a novelist can learn from actors, →OCLC:
glosses: To create or use a subtext.
Related terms: subtweet
wicked
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭkʹĭd
ipa: /ˈwɪkɪd/
rhymes: -ɪkɪd
Etymology: From Middle English wicked, wikked, an alteration of Middle English wicke, wikke (“morally perverse, evil, wicked”). Of uncertain origin. Possibly from an adjectival use of Old English wiċċa (“wizard, sorcerer”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikkō (“necromancer, sorcerer”), though the phonology makes this theory difficult to explain. Alternatively, perhaps related to English wicker, Old Norse víkja (“to bend to, yield, turn, move”), Swedish vika (“to bend, fold, give way to”), English weak.
The "excellent, awesome" sense is an ameliorative semantic shift from the original sense of "evil, mischievous". Compare similar semantic development in terrific and sick.
Senses: examples: text: I didn't really wanna go see On Golden Pond with the fam, but my mom made me go, and I must say that in retrospect it was a wicked expressive film, with a lot of significant meaning.
text: The band we went to see the other night was pissah, and they were wicked loud!
text: James: It looks like you're wearing earrings also. Those are really something. Those aren't too heavy, are they? / Sonia: No, they're actually, like, wicked light.
ref: 2025, Love On the Spectrum, season 3, episode 3, James and Sonia (actors):
synonyms: word: above a bit
word: absolutely
word: abundantly
word: all too
word: but good
word: completely
word: eminently
word: ever so
word: exceedingly
word: excessively
word: extremely
word: greatly
word: highly
word: in spades
word: main
word: mightily
word: murrain
word: passing
word: positively
word: pretty
word: quite
word: right
word: simply
word: sore
word: specially
word: strongly
word: swith
word: truly
word: vastly
word: very
word: very much
word: way
word: way too
word: wicked
glosses: To a superlative extent, very, extremely
raw_tags: in Lancashire
wicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭkʹĭd
ipa: /ˈwɪkɪd/
rhymes: -ɪkɪd
enpr: wĭkt
ipa: /wɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
enpr: wĭkʹĭd
ipa: /ˈwɪkɪd/
rhymes: -ɪkɪd
Etymology: See wick.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wick
wicked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭkʹĭd
ipa: /ˈwɪkɪd/
rhymes: -ɪkɪd
enpr: wĭkt
ipa: /wɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
enpr: wĭkʹĭd
ipa: /ˈwɪkɪd/
rhymes: -ɪkɪd
Etymology: See wick.
Senses: examples: text: a two-wicked lamp
text: Up went Moggy, with her thick-wicked kitchen candle, to seek repose; […]
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: Having a wick.
Derived terms: multiwicked
wicked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭkʹĭd
ipa: /ˈwɪkɪd/
rhymes: -ɪkɪd
enpr: wĭkt
ipa: /wɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
rhymes: -ɪkɪd
enpr: wĭkʹĭd
ipa: /ˈwɪkɪd/
rhymes: -ɪkɪd
enpr: wĭkt
ipa: /wɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Etymology: See wick.
Senses: glosses: Active; brisk.
glosses: Infested with maggots.
glosses: Alternative form of wick, as applying to inanimate objects only.
nasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaː.sti/
ipa: /ˈnɑː.sti/
rhymes: -ɑːsti
ipa: /ˈnæs.ti/
rhymes: -æsti
Forms: form: nasties
Etymology: From Middle English nasty, nasti, naxty, naxte (“unclean, filthy”), whence also Early Modern English nasky (“nasty”), of obscure origin. Probably from earlier Middle English *naskty, *naskedy, from Middle English *nasked (“dirty, messy”) + -y, ultimately of North Germanic origin (comparable to Danish nasket (“dirty, foul, unpleasant”), Swedish naskot (“dirty, filthy”), Swedish naskig, naskug (“nasty, dirty, messy”)), themselves all probably related to Proto-Germanic *hnaskuz (“tender, soft”). Likely doublet of nesh and nosh. Cognate with Scots nastie, nestie (“dirty, filthy”).
Alternative theories have also been proposed, which include:
* From Low German nask (“nasty”) + -y.
* Middle Dutch nestich, nistich ("nasty, dirty, unpleasant" > Modern Dutch nestig (“dirty, filthy, unclean; lazy, cranky”)), perhaps ultimately connected to the Scandinavian word above, or related to *nest (“nest”).
* From Old French nastre (“lowly, strange”), shortened form of villenastre (“infamous, bad”), from vilein (“villain”) + -astre (pejorative suffix), from Latin -aster.
* Other suggestions include Old High German naz (“wet”), hardening of English nesh(y) (“soft”), or alteration of English naughty.
* Modern use of the word is sometimes attributed to the popular and often derogatory 19th century American political cartoons of Thomas Nast, but the word predates him.
Senses: examples: text: Processed foods are full of aspartame and other nasties.
text: This video game involves flying through a maze zapping various nasties.
text: I also urge the regular visual examination of the rectum (anoscopy) for people who engage in rectal sex, for the early detection of rectal warts, hemorrhoids, fissures — all those rectal nasties.
ref: 1981 August 1, Ron Vachon, “To Your Health”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
glosses: Something nasty.
qualifier: preceded by "the"
glosses: Sexual intercourse.
examples: text: In this way, it is hoped that the nasties will be dealt with, and the remainder regularized.
ref: 1984, ThirdWay, volume 7, number 5, page 17:
text: Jones evokes the nasties discursively to brand the Splat Pack as 'authentic outlaws'.
ref: 2014, mark Bernard, Selling the Splat Pack: The DVD Revolution and the American Horror Film:
glosses: A video nasty.
Derived terms: do the nasty
video nasty
horrid
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒ.ɹɪd/
ipa: /ˈhɔ.ɹɪd/
ipa: /ˈhɑ.ɹɪd/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪd
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin horridus (“rough, bristly, savage, shaggy, rude”), from horrere (“to bristle”). See horrent, horror, ordure.
Senses: examples: text: “Beg y’ pardon, sir,” said a voice at the tent door; “but Dormer’s ’orrid bad, sir, an’ they’ve taken him orf, sir.”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 149:
glosses: Terribly; horridly; to an extreme extent.
torrid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒɹɪd/
ipa: /ˈtɔɹɪd/
ipa: /ˈtɑɹɪd/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪd
Forms: form: torrider
form: torridest
Etymology: From Latin torridus, from torreō (“parch, scorch”).
Senses: glosses: Very hot and dry.
examples: text: a torrid love scene in a film or novel
glosses: Full of intense emotions arising from sexual love; ardent and passionate.
examples: text: Tomás O'Leary had a torrid time behind the forwards, fumbling on the floor, hesitant with his kicks.
ref: 2010 January 24, Eddie Butler, “"Rugby must beware leaping from the lenient to draconian over gouging"”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Full of difficulty.
examples: text: But thanks to a torrid stretch that started in mid-June, the Yankees have regained first place in the A.L. East and built the largest division lead — nine games ahead of the second-place Tampa Bay Rays — in the league.
ref: 2019 July 22, James Wagner, “Yankees Face Another A.L. Powerhouse in the Twins”, in The New York Times, page B11:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: [of a streak, form, etc.] Good; impressive; hot.
Derived terms: word: torridly
word: torridness
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: torrid zone
Related terms: torrent
toast
STFU
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: related: word: stfu
synonyms: shut the front door
STFD
;
keep one's mouth shut
glosses: Initialism of shut the fuck up.
STFU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Southern Tenant Farmers Union.
WTF
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: wtf
form: W.T.F.
form: W. T. F.
Etymology: (programming slang): Originated on The Daily WTF, a humorous blog dealing with real-world examples of bad programming.
Senses: examples: text: I've READ them; I know what all the words are. I still say, "WTF, over?" Someone's playing with our heads on this one, but what's all the word stew?
ref: 1985, Dick Dunn, “China Cat lyrics - explanations?”, in net.music.gdead (Usenet):
text: Now, please, explain WTF did you mean by this text?
ref: 1994, Marat Fayzullin, “Re: MMM”, in relcom.talk (Usenet):
text: WTF are you on about? We played some very good football for most of the match, […]
ref: 2005, “defect violation”, “Re: WTF!!”, in uk.sport.football.clubs.liverpool (Usenet):
text: WTF was that about?
ref: 2019, 20 November, Carol Midgley, "Prince Andrew is ‘not very quick on his feet’, says the Duchess of York. What of her?" (in The Times newspaper)
text: There’s a similar “sure but what else?” vibe to Made for Love, HBO Max’s new high-concept half-hour comedy, gently coasting on its WTF setup for longer than it should, to the detriment of the main star Cristin Milioti, trying her very best to secure our attention as it slowly drifts elsewhere.
ref: 2021 March 31, Benjamin Lee, “Made for Love review – Black Mirror-esque comedy needs an upgrade”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of what the fuck.
glosses: Where the fuck, why the fuck, when the fuck, or who the fuck.
Derived terms: WTAF
WTFDYM
WTFery
WTFO
WTFPL
WTFromantic
WTF Star
Related terms: DTF
TF
whiskey tango foxtrot
WTFU
WTF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: wtf
form: W.T.F.
form: W. T. F.
Etymology: (programming slang): Originated on The Daily WTF, a humorous blog dealing with real-world examples of bad programming.
Senses: examples: text: Likewise the WTF says they are the official Tae Kwon Do organization because […]
ref: 1998, The complete Idiot's guide to Taekwondo:
text: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognizes WTF at its 83rd […]
ref: 2003, Taekwondo: A Step-By-Step Guide to the Korean Art of Self-Defense:
text: The Secretariat of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) is located in Seoul, South Korea, in a beautiful edifice […]
ref: 2005, Official Taekwondo Training Manual:
text: The WTF secretary general, Hoss Rafaty, told insidethegames that the governing body would look to market itself as World Taekwondo for business and commercial purposes, although there are no current plans to officially change the organisation’s name.
ref: 2015 December 26, “WTF? Taekwondo governing body set for rebrand over use of acronym”, in The Guardian:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: WT
glosses: Initialism of World Taekwondo Federation.
WTF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WTFs
form: wtf
form: W.T.F.
form: W. T. F.
Etymology: (programming slang): Originated on The Daily WTF, a humorous blog dealing with real-world examples of bad programming.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of White's tree frog.
examples: text: I think coercing numbers to booleans is a WTF - 0 should not be evaluatable as a boolean, it should be a type mismatch.
ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature/3161298
text: React attempts to wrap the browser DOM API and it's conventions in a way that's (for people who use it) easier to reason about, that's kind of like saying Anvil is a WTF because it wraps Vulcan
ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22888986
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A bafflingly bad or unwise design decision.
contribute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈt(ʃ)ɹɪb.juːt/
ipa: /ˈkɒn.t(ʃ)ɹɪˌbjuːt/
ipa: /kənˈtɹɪb.jut/
ipa: /kənˈtɹɪb.(j)ət/
ipa: [kənˈtɹɪb.(j)əɾ]
ipa: /ˈkon.tɹɪb.jut/
Forms: form: contributes
form: contributing
form: contributed
form: contributed
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Latin contribūtus, perfect passive participle of contribuō (“to bring together; to unite”), from con- (“together”) + tribuō (“to bestow”), from tribus (“tribe”), derived from trēs (“three”), from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
Senses: examples: text: to contribute money to a church fund
text: to contribute articles to a journal
text: That principle carried out consistently and logically, makes the individual not a claimant upon society, but a benefiter of it. He contributes whatever talent, natural or acquired, he may have, cheerfully to the promotion of the common good, […]
ref: 1849, William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley, The Christian Remembrancer, volume 17, page 217:
text: Rivera retired the next three batters in order, with third baseman Alex Rodriguez contributing a nifty barehand pickup and throw on Julio Lugo’s roller.
ref: 2007 April 29, Pat Borzi, “Normalcy Returns: Rivera Gets First Save”, in The New York Times:
text: Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:
text: Lifetime ARPU, or the average revenue contributed per user over the lifetime of a product, can provide some insight into the habits of a large group of users within the product.
ref: 2013, Eric Benjamin Seufert, Freemium Economics: Leveraging Analytics and User Segmentation to Drive Revenue, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.
Synonyms: word: add
word: assist
word: bestow
word: bring
word: chip in
word: donate
word: do one's bit
word: endow
word: fund
word: gift
word: grant
word: impart
word: invest
word: join
word: kick in
word: lend
word: participate
word: pitch in
word: pledge
word: provide
word: put up
word: set forward
word: sweeten the kitty
word: supply
word: support
Derived terms: noncontributing
overcontribute
recontribute
uncontributed
uncontributing
Related terms: word: contributable
word: contribution
word: contributive
word: contributor
word: contributory
word: distribute
word: give
word: giver
saxophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæksəfoʊn/
Forms: form: saxophones
Etymology: Borrowed from French saxophone, a combination of the surname of its inventor Adolphe Sax (1814–1894) + -o- + -phone (“something that makes a sound”), from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound, voice”). The first element surname is a variant of the German Sachs (“Saxon”). Analyzable as Sax + -o- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: I played the saxophone in high school.
synonyms: sax
gobble-pipe
saxomaphone
glosses: A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards.
examples: text: The saxophones typically sit behind the flutes in a concert band.
glosses: Someone who plays the saxophone; a saxophonist.
Derived terms: alto saxophone
baritone saxophone
bass saxophone
contrabass saxophone
sax
saxophonist
sopranino saxophone
sopranissimo saxophone
soprano saxophone
soprillo saxophone
subcontrabass saxophone
tenor saxophone
saxophone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæksəfoʊn/
Forms: form: saxophones
form: saxophoning
form: saxophoned
form: saxophoned
Etymology: Borrowed from French saxophone, a combination of the surname of its inventor Adolphe Sax (1814–1894) + -o- + -phone (“something that makes a sound”), from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound, voice”). The first element surname is a variant of the German Sachs (“Saxon”). Analyzable as Sax + -o- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: To play the saxophone.
Cheerios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɪəɹ.i.əʊz/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪɹ.i.oʊz/
Etymology: Introduced on May 2, 1941, as “Cheerioats”: cheery + oats. The name was shortened to “Cheerios” on December 2, 1945, after a competing cereal manufacturer, Quaker Oats, claimed to hold the rights to use the term oats.
Senses: glosses: A toroidal toasted oat cereal made by General Mills.
Derived terms: Cheerios effect
piss in someone's Cheerios
shit in someone's Cheerios
Cheerios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɪəɹ.i.əʊz/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪɹ.i.oʊz/
Etymology: Introduced on May 2, 1941, as “Cheerioats”: cheery + oats. The name was shortened to “Cheerios” on December 2, 1945, after a competing cereal manufacturer, Quaker Oats, claimed to hold the rights to use the term oats.
Senses: glosses: plural of Cheerio
Rice Krispies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: raïs KRIHSpeez
ipa: /ɹaɪsˈkɹɪs.piz/
Etymology: Marketing coinage, from crispy.
Senses: glosses: A cereal manufactured by Kellogg Company that consists of puffed rice.
Synonyms: word: Rice Bubbles
blueberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbluːb(ə)ɹi/
enpr: blu'bĕ"rē
ipa: /ˈbluˌbɛ.ɹi/
Forms: form: blueberries
Etymology: From blue + berry.
Senses: examples: text: Meronym: anthocyanin
text: Applesaucey Tricks Galore / Looks elaborate but isn’t: Take bakers sponge cake shells. In each one put a big spoonful of canned apple sauce, then a scoop of vanilla ice cream and top all with blueberry sauce, or with the fresh berries.
ref: 1962 July 29, Features Magazine (Wichita Falls Times), Wichita Falls, Tex., page 20, column 1:
text: “And the Majestic Milky Way is pretty popular as well,” said Chad, whose personal favorite is the new Berry Potter, with vanilla ice cream, swirling blueberries and graham crackery Muggle crunch (Muggles are non-magic folk in the Harry Potter empire).
ref: 2006 August 10, Dick Johnson, “Ice cream: You never get sick of the stuff, workers say”, in Globe Gazette, Mason City, Ia., page A2, column 5:
hypernyms: berry#Noun
<
fruit#Noun
<
produce
glosses: An edible round berry, belonging to the cowberry group (Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus), with flared crowns at the end, that turns blue on ripening.
glosses: The shrub of the above-mentioned berry.
glosses: A dark blue colour.
Derived terms: blueb
blueberrita
blueberryade
blueberrylike
blueberry muffin baby
blueberrytini
cultivated blueberry
European blueberry
highbush blueberry
lowbush blueberry
Martian blueberry
saskatoon blueberry
sourtop blueberry
southeastern blueberry bee
wild blueberry
blueberry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbluːb(ə)ɹi/
enpr: blu'bĕ"rē
ipa: /ˈbluˌbɛ.ɹi/
Forms: form: blueberries
form: blueberrying
form: blueberried
form: blueberried
Etymology: From blue + berry.
Senses: examples: text: We blueberried on an open flat beside the river. The ground was covered with great frosted blue globules, sweet and warm in the sunshine.
ref: 1939, Kathrene Pinkerton, Wilderness Life, Carrick and Evans (1939), page 179
text: The "white longlegged, long-necked bird" seen by your Ayer reader while she was blueberrying on the shore of a pond was either the Little Blue Heron in white phase or immature, […]
ref: 1947 August 26, Robert Wallcott, Albert Hale, “What People Talk About”, in Daily Boston Globe:
text: They had not passed again in the surrey going to the Forks, nine miles away, and none of the girls had been blueberrying among the bushes at the edge of the woods.
ref: 1951, Elizabeth Coatsworth, The Enchanted: An Incredible Tale, Pantheon, published 1951, page 62:
text: Sarah and I have been blueberrying together off and on since the summer of '64. This morning, armed with our pots and pans, we went out and picked two quarts of wild berries and then came home and made a cake.
ref: 1988, Ms. Magazine, volume 17, numbers 1-6, page 38:
text: Pointy fraise de bois went through it all with undiminished generosity (so small a plant for all that giving!) and the picking was fine, for the birds were off blueberrying and taking the late raspberries just as they ripened.
ref: 2000, Robert Dash, Notes from Madoo: Making a Garden in the Hamptons, Houghton Mifflin Company, published 2000, →ISBN, page 152:
text: On some of the richest days, when a moose stalks by or a bear is blueberrying or munching hazelnuts outside, I think of my house as a bathysphere suspended in the wilderness.
ref: 2000, Edward Hoagland, “A Peaceable Kingdom”, in Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life, The Lyons Press, →ISBN, page 61:
text: "Come, Aunt Flo. I'll show you where we go blueberrying. Last year we got almost a bushel of berries, and Papa says they should be ripe now."
ref: 2002, Loretta Ellsworth, The Shrouding Woman, Henry Holt and Company, published 2002, →ISBN:
text: We decided to go blueberrying one day up in our hills. We grabbed our blueberry cans, hitched them to our belts, and headed for the blueberries.
ref: 2002, Lois Kenyon Pesanelli, His Hand Upon Me for Miracles, 1st Books Library (2002), page 14
glosses: To gather or forage for blueberries.
Related terms: bilberry
ericaceous
whortleberry
cornflakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornflake
Senses: glosses: A breakfast cereal made from toasted flakes of maize.
Derived terms: piss in someone's cornflakes
poo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /puː/
ipa: /pu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: poos
Etymology: See pooh.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pooh: an instance of saying "poo".
examples: text: Poo... feces.
ref: 1960, Harold Wentworth et al., Dictionary of American Slang, page 401:
text: Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.
ref: 2018, Brent Butt, “Sasquatch Your Language”, in Corner Gas Animated:
text: 2025 (viewed), "Bowel cancer screening", NHS [UK National Health Service] https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/bowel-cancer-screening/
Use a clean container to catch your poo. Do not let your poo touch the toilet water.
text: Ashley starts necking Imodium; Devin promises himself he will not crap in a bag while on a cruise with his future father-in-law; Abhi, the chef, notes that the unworking loos filled with poos layered with toilet paper look “like a lasagne”.
ref: 2026 June 24, Lucy Mangan, “Poop Cruise review – a fascinating look at a toilet disaster that still haunts passengers 12 years later”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Feces.
examples: text: That doggy's doing a poo.
ref: June 22 1981, The Guardian, p. 8
text: 2025 (viewed), "Bowel Dysfunction", Midlands Partnership University (NHS Foundation Trust) https://web.archive.org/web/20241203211740/https://www.mpft.nhs.uk/services/specialist-pelvic-health-team/bowel-dysfunction
Chronic Constipation – Symptoms can be: You have to strain a lot to poo; Your poos are hard and lumpy; You feel unfinished after having a poo.
glosses: A piece of feces or an act of defecation.
glosses: Cannabis resin.
Synonyms: sense: shit
word: feces
sense: defecation
word: defecation
Coordinate terms: pee
wee
Derived terms: all fart and no poo
bullpoo
cutesy-poo
icky-poo
pile of poo
pooey
pooface
poohead
poojeet
poonami
poophoria
poo pirate
poo poo
poo tickets
Pootin
transpoosion
up poo creek
poo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /puː/
ipa: /pu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: poos
form: pooing
form: pooed
form: pooed
Etymology: See pooh.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pooh: to say "poo".
examples: text: The dog practically has to poo on his shoe before he can make the pinch.
ref: 1975 July 6, C. James, Observer, page 23:
text: People had to poo in bags, you see. Jan had to get on the public address system and explain to thousands of disbelieving passengers that “number ones” could be done in the shower but “number twos” must be done in the red biohazard bags being distributed, then placed in corridors for collection by unnamed staff, none of whom chose to appear in this documentary.
ref: 2026 June 24, Lucy Mangan, “Poop Cruise review – a fascinating look at a toilet disaster that still haunts passengers 12 years later”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To defecate.
examples: text: Most babies I knew then had on introduction either howled or pooed their pants.
ref: 1989 December 11, The Mercury:
text: We all know what happened to them—they... poohed their pants.
ref: 2003 March 13, The Sun:
glosses: To dirty something with feces.
Synonyms: sense: to shit
word: defecate
Coordinate terms: pee
Derived terms: pooer
poo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /puː/
ipa: /pu/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: See pooh.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pooh: Expressing dismissal, disgust, etc.
examples: text: Petulant and pouty, Stephanie herself says things like, ‘Oh, poo.’
ref: 1986 January 12, Chicago Tribune, page 3c:
glosses: Expressing annoyance, frustration, etc.: a minced oath for 'shit'.
Synonyms: sense: expressing annoyance, etc
word: dammit
poo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /puː/
ipa: /pu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: poos
Etymology: Clipping of shampoo.
Senses: examples: text: Why I Cut Down on the “Poo”: A Note from Melissa […] People are saying no to “poo”—shampoo, that is. A very famous hairstylist to the stars (who has gorgeous hair himself) admits that he never washes his hair with shampoo. He’s not the only one to swear by the no-poo approach.
ref: 2012, Melissa Schweiger, Belli Beautiful: The Essential Guide to the Safest Health and Beauty Products for Pregnancy, Mom, and Baby, Da Capo Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Clipping of shampoo.
examples: text: Who wants another glass of poo?
synonyms: shampoo
champers
fizz
bubbly
glosses: Champagne.
Derived terms: no poo
pre-poo
poo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /puː/
ipa: /pu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: poos
Etymology: From poodle.
Senses: examples: text: To date, the only Poos who have received any serious attention from the AKC are the Labradoodle (Labrador Retriever and Poodle) and the Cockapoo (Cocker Spaniel and Poodle).
ref: 2005, Sandra Choron, Harry Choron, Planet Dog: A Doglopedia, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 211:
text: There’s no club for Maltipoo breeders yet, so your best bet is to look for a breeder of other Poo dogs.
ref: 2005, Margaret H. Bonham, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Designer Dogs, Alpha Books, →ISBN, page 88:
text: My sister has always wanted a little peekapoo, probably because they are kind of prissy, like she is. Personally, I never much cared for poo dogs of any kind, especially poodles. White french poodles are the worst.
ref: 2007, Renee Riva, Saving Sailor, David C. Cook, page 64:
text: And I looked at what I call the “poo” dogs, the currently fashionable/popular combos of cockapoo, yor-kiepoo, maltipoo, and a whole bunch of other “poos” that seemed unpredictable to me as to how big they would be, and what traits they would have of either breed.
ref: 2013, Danielle Steel, Pure Joy, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN:
text: ‘What kind of dog is Eddie?’ I asked curiously. ‘He’s a Westiepoo.’ ‘A what?’ ‘Westiepoo,’ repeated Nikki, ‘a West Highland White Terrier/Poodle mix. I’m pretty much obsessed with poos.’ ‘We have plenty of that round here,’ I said, ‘so you’ve come to the right place.’ ‘You might have worded that better, Nikki,’ said Max and she laughed. ‘I’m obsessed with poodle hybrids,’ Nikki explained.
ref: 2014, Sheila Agnew, Evie Brooks in Central Park Showdown, Dublin: The O’Brien Press, →ISBN, page 87:
text: She kept the bookmarks firmly on the “poo” dogs. “Come on! Just look. They’re irresistible!” She kept scrolling through sites for Maltipoos, Shih-poos and Yorkipoos.
ref: 2017, Teresa Toten, Beware That Girl, Hot Key Books, Bonnier Zaffre Ltd, →ISBN:
text: Then this family came in who wanted one of those fancy poo dogs and the woman wanted to dress it up and carry it around in her purse and I...I just...
ref: 2019, Miranda Liasson, All I Want for Christmas Is You, Forever, Hachette Book Group, →ISBN:
glosses: A poodle crossbreed.
Related terms: english: not etymologically related
translation: not etymologically related
word: poo-uli
bes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːz/
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: bees
Etymology: From Middle English bes.
Senses: examples: text: She bes there these five yare, an' has sint hoome foor her broother an' sister, the mooney for their passage, an' they bes goone these thra yares.
ref: 1850, William Stevens Balch, Ireland, as I Saw it:
text: "An' he bes free times as old as herself," he wailed, " an' ugly as a squid ! But he bes rich — rich as any marchant — an' for the bread an' the fixin's an' the gold she bes takin' 'im."
ref: 1916, The Windsor Magazine - Volume 44, page 353:
text: And she bes white. Now, I bes what they use to call a house nigra. I don't work in no fields. And you know, I likes my color. Sho' not real fair, and not real dark either. I bes just who I be.
ref: 2005, Brenda Dooling, The Diamond Cage, →ISBN, page 236:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of be
examples: text: She bes there these five yare, an' has sint hoome foor her broother an' sister, the mooney for their passage, an' they bes goone these thra yares.
ref: 1850, William Stevens Balch, Ireland, as I Saw it:
text: And she bes white. Now, I bes what they use to call a house nigra. I don't work in no fields. And you know, I likes my color. Sho' not real fair, and not real dark either. I bes just who I be.
ref: 2005, Brenda Dooling, The Diamond Cage, →ISBN, page 236:
glosses: Present tense inflected form of be: am or are.
Synonyms: is
bes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːz/
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: bees
Forms: form: besses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bes.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A bronze coin of the Roman Republic, worth two thirds of an as.
bes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːz/
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: bees
Senses: glosses: plural of be (“Cyrillic letter”)
bes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːz/
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: bees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beth (“Semitic letter”).
poker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊkɚ/
ipa: /ˈpəʊkə/
rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pokers
Etymology: From poke + -er.
Senses: synonyms: word: firestick
word: stoker
word: fire pike
glosses: A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
glosses: A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
examples: text: The guy next to him poked him in the ribs and said, “Check out the bazongas on this one!” Lee pivoted toward the rib poker and found himself looking straight into the face of Romeo Bouchard.
ref: 2012, Johnny Meah, Risk: No Eulogy for Tin Soldiers, page 40:
glosses: One who pokes.
glosses: A kind of duck, the pochard.
examples: text: Key sense with the super-soaker
Longest poker, leave man stressed like yoga
ref: 2020 July 8, Kaygrab x D1, “Rapid”, 1:18–1:21:
text: There is that guy that does with the pokings
I step with my poker
Play, cuz right, you might get folded
ref: 2021 March 6, Mloose (BG), “Real As Hell”, 0:58–1:02:
synonyms: jook
jooker
ching
ying
bassy
rambo
pokey
chete
shank
nank
splash
splasher
cheffer
wetter
glosses: A knife.
Synonyms: word: poker
Hypernyms: word: card game
word: game
Hyponyms: word: poker variant
Meronyms: word: playing card
word: poker hand
word: poker player
word: poker chip
word: button
word: bet (poker)
word: position (poker)
word: pre-flop
word: flop
word: turn
word: river
word: street
word: pot
word: main pot
word: side pot
Derived terms: blow poke
by the holy poker
draw poker
fireplace poker
gas poker
pai gow poker
pokerish
pokerlike
poker machine
poker plant
pokerwork
poverty poker
red-hot poker
stiff as a poker
straight poker
Related terms: word: act (poker)
poker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊkɚ/
ipa: /ˈpəʊkə/
rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pokers
form: pokering
form: pokered
form: pokered
Etymology: From poke + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The King continued pokering the fire with his back to the door, and took no notice of Lord Chesterfield.
ref: 1796 July, “The Late Lord Chesterfield”, in The Aberdeen Magazine, volume 1, number 2, page 70:
text: The lids have very pleasant designs pokered on with a hot needle.
ref: 1939, Norah Gourlie, A Winter with Finnish Lapps, page 68:
text: When she was gone Bell was afflicted by a mood that had her moving round the room, holding on to the yellow curtain, standing over her girls, stroking the sails of the model yacht, opening the drawer and looking at the broken brooch, pokering the fire, and shifting the kettle's position on the hearth.
ref: 1988, Robin Jenkins, Guests of War, page 246:
glosses: To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.
poker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊkɚ/
ipa: /ˈpəʊkə/
rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pokers
form: pokering
form: pokered
form: pokered
Etymology: American English, perhaps from first element of German Pochspiel, from German pochen, perhaps from French poque. First appeared in the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: Then we went to Mead's and pokered until morning.
ref: 1929, West Virginia Wild Life, page 38:
text: Papa liked nothing better than a game of poker . His pokering habits caused Mama grave anxiety.
ref: 1969, Emma Wilson Emery, Aunt Puss & Others: Old Days in the Piney Woods, page 94:
text: "He ran with and pokered with us boys,” Bob Paine would recall fifty years later, “ the darndest, pepperyest, finest companion a fellow could ask.”
ref: 1992, Vance H. Trimble, The Astonishing Mr. Scripps, page 56:
text: “Yeah,” Lemming mutters. “We're pokering, so shut the fuck up.” “I raise five,” Blake announces.
ref: 2017, Elle Kennedy, Sarina Bowen, Stay:
glosses: To play poker.
poker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊkɚ/
ipa: /ˈpəʊkə/
rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pokers
Etymology: Compare Danish pokker (“the deuce, devil”), and English puck.
Senses: examples: text: The very leaves on the horse-chesnuts[…]cling to the bough as if old poker was coming to take them away.
ref: 5 May 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to Hon. H. S. Conway:
glosses: Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
Synonyms: word: poker
Hypernyms: word: card game
word: game
Hyponyms: word: poker variant
Meronyms: word: playing card
word: poker hand
word: poker player
word: poker chip
word: button
word: bet (poker)
word: position (poker)
word: pre-flop
word: flop
word: turn
word: river
word: street
word: pot
word: main pot
word: side pot
Related terms: word: act (poker)
decompose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kəm-pōzʹ
ipa: /ˌdiːkəmˈpəʊz/
ipa: /ˌdikəmˈpoʊz/
ipa: /ˌdiːkəmˈpəʉz/
ipa: /ˌdiːkəmˈpɐʉz/
ipa: /ˌdiːkəmˈpɐʉz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: decomposes
form: decomposing
form: decomposed
form: decomposed
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French décomposer. Equivalent to de- + compose.
Senses: examples: text: Various fungi can decompose wood.
text: Our team decomposed this task into several subtasks that could be successfully distributed.
synonyms: disintegrate
fragment
antonyms: compose
;
assemble
;
recompose
coordinate_terms: disassemble
glosses: To separate or break down (something) into its components.
examples: text: Plastics can take centuries to decompose.
text: Nor had the post mortem on Newson's body revealed any illness or other physical condition that might have prevented him from applying the brake, although after four days in the oven-like heat of the wreckage, the body was so badly decomposed as to make any reliable post mortem results unlikely.
ref: 2025 February 19, Mike Lewis, “Tragedy at Moorgate”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 59, about the Moorgate tube crash:
synonyms: break down
glosses: To rot, decay or putrefy.
Derived terms: decomposability
decomposable
decomposer
decomposition
eigendecompose
nondecomposed
photodecompose
semidecomposed
undecomposed
once upon a time
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌns.əˈpɑn.əˈtaɪ̯m/
Senses: examples: text: Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there lived a beautiful princess.
text: There was once upon a time a charcoal-burner who had a son, and he was also a charcoal-burner.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 308:
text: Once upon a time, there was a Goblin Queen
And she lived in a grand palace...
ref: 2023, A. C. MacDonald, Twistwood Tales (comic), Andrews McMeel, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: A long time ago; at some time in the past (a traditional beginning of children's stories, especially fairy tales).
examples: text: Long before popular music evolved its many genres and subgenres, the industry was driven by a simple one-size-fits-all philosophy […] Songwriters, once upon a time, wrote songs for the masses.
ref: 2012, Christoper Zara, chapter 2, in Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, page {{{pg}}}:
glosses: Formerly.
Synonyms: sense: a long time ago
word: anciently
word: way back
word: long ago
informatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnfəˈmætɪks/
ipa: /ˌɪnfəɹˈmætɪks/
ipa: [ˌɪnfɚˈmæɾɪks]
rhymes: -ætɪks
Etymology: Coined 1967 from information + -ics; possibly influenced by automation and automatic.
German Informatik dates from 1957, French informatique from 1962.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A branch of information science and of computer science that focuses on the study of information processing, particularly with respect to systems integration and human interactions with machine and data.
Hyponyms: sense: Affixed forms and closed compounds
word: bioinformatics
sense: Affixed forms and closed compounds
word: ecoinformatics
sense: Affixed forms and closed compounds
word: geomatics
sense: Affixed forms and closed compounds
word: hydroinformatics
sense: Affixed forms and closed compounds
word: lengthioinformatics
sense: Affixed forms and closed compounds
word: nanoinformatics
sense: Affixed forms and closed compounds
word: neuroinformatics
sense: Open compounds
word: community informatics
sense: Open compounds
word: discovery informatics
sense: Open compounds
word: health informatics
sense: Open compounds
word: legal informatics
sense: Open compounds
word: medical informatics
sense: Open compounds
word: nursing informatics
sense: Open compounds
word: social informatics
sense: Open compounds
word: veterinary informatics
Derived terms: archaeoinformatics
astroinformatics
biblioinformatics
cheminformatics
chemoinformatics
geoinformatics
glycoinformatics
immunoinformatics
informaticist
pharmacoinformatics
phyloinformatics
teleinformatics
terminotics
Related terms: informatic
informatician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnfəməˈtɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɪnfəɹməˈtɪʃən/
Forms: form: informaticians
Etymology: From informatic + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Someone who practices informatics.
Synonyms: informaticist
Derived terms: bioinformatician
compress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɹɛs/
enpr: kəmprĕs'
rhymes: -ɛs
ipa: /ˈkɒmpɹɛs/
enpr: kŏm'prĕs
ipa: /ˈkɑmpɹɛs/
ipa: /kəmˈpɹɛs/
enpr: kəmprĕs'
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: compresses
Etymology: From Middle French compresse, from compresse (“to compress”), from Late Latin compressare (“to press hard/together”), from Latin compressus, the past participle of comprimō (“to compress”), itself from com- (“together”) + premō (“press”).
Senses: examples: text: He held a cold compress over the sprain.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice, etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
glosses: A machine for compressing.
Related terms: compression
Gelderland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Guelders
glosses: A province of The Netherlands with Arnhem as capital.
Groningen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹoʊnɪŋən/
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Groningen.
Senses: glosses: A city and capital of Groningen, Netherlands.
glosses: A municipality of Groningen, Netherlands.
glosses: A province of the Netherlands.
glosses: A village and resort in Saramacca, Suriname.
North Brabant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province of the Netherlands.
North Holland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province of the Netherlands.
Overijssel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Overijssel, meaning “[land] across the IJssel”, from the perspective of the bishopric of Utrecht by which it was held until 1528.
Senses: glosses: A province of the Netherlands, with Zwolle as capital city and Enschede the largest city.
wikipedia: bishopric of Utrecht
South Holland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province of the Netherlands.
glosses: A local government district in Lincolnshire, England.
glosses: A village in Thornton Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States.
Utrecht
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuˌtɹɛkt/
ipa: /ˈjuˌtɹɛxt/
ipa: /juːˈtɹɛxt/
Etymology: From Dutch Utrecht, from Middle Dutch and Old Dutch variants of ūt (“out, outside”) + Latin Trāiectum ad Rhēnum (“Crossing-on-the-Rhine”), the Roman fort at the location, from trāicere (“to cross, to send across”), from trāns- (“trans-: through, across”) + iacere (“to throw”).
Senses: examples: text: The Treaty of Utrecht (11 April 1713) recognized Anne as the rightful queen of England and yielded St Kitts and much of Canada to the English.
glosses: A city and municipality, the capital of Utrecht province, Netherlands.
examples: text: E.g. muug 'tired' in the Utrecht dialect (Ponelis 1990: 36). Utrechtian, which does not delete intervocalic [χ/ɣ], belongs to the group of Hollandic dialects, which is the Dutch dialect group most closely related to Afrikaans.
ref: 2012, Hans den Besten, edited by Ton van der Wouden, Roots of Afrikaans: Selected writings of Hans den Besten (series: Creole Language Library 44), John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam / Philadelphia, p. 81
glosses: A province of the Netherlands.
Derived terms: Utrechtian
Utrechtish
Utrecht velvet
Zeeland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dutch Zeeland.
Senses: glosses: A province of the Netherlands.
glosses: A village in North Brabant, Netherlands.
glosses: A city in Ottawa County, Michigan.
glosses: A city in McIntosh County, North Dakota.
Synonyms: Zealand
Derived terms: Zeelander
New Zealand
Zeelandia
lore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lô
ipa: /lɔː/
enpr: lôr
ipa: /loɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: lōr
ipa: /lo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /loə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: law (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: lure (some accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: lores
Etymology: From Middle English lore, from Old English lār, from Proto-West Germanic *laiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *laizō, from *laizijaną (“to teach”). Cognate with Dutch leer, German Lehre, Swedish lära and Danish lære. See also learn.
Senses: examples: text: the recondite lore of the Ancient Egyptians
text: He to them calles and speakes, yet nought avayles; / They heare him not, they have forgot his lore / But go which way they list; their guide they have forelore.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: All the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.
examples: text: Lore documents reveal that she was backstabbed by her subordinate, who wanted to become king, and she feels vengeful about it.
text: You might have stumbled upon discussions of Bloodborne's lore - there are plenty of discussions about Bloodborne's lore - which can be more than a little dense and, to the outsider, off-putting.
ref: 2018 March 6, Martin Robinson, “Dispelling the myths of Bloodborne”, in Eurogamer:
topics: lifestyle
coordinate_terms: canon
glosses: The backstory, especially for a character or setting, created around a fictional universe.
examples: text: It's Ashot lore that I used to have a priv where I posted pictures of weird animals I found on the street.
text: Most new followers don't know about my marching band lore.
topics: lifestyle
coordinate_terms: canon
glosses: The backstory, especially for a character or setting, created around a fictional universe.
Trivia shared by a person about themself.
examples: text: In her right hand a rod of peace shee bore, / About the which two serpents weren wound; / Entrayled mutually in lovely lore, / And by the tailes together firmely bound […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Workmanship.
Derived terms: angel-lore
beer-lore
birdlore
booklore
catlore
childlore
Cokelore
computerlore
copylore
deathlore
demonlore
devil-lore
doglore
dragonlore
druglore
earthlore
elflore
fairylore
fanlore
faxlore
fieldlore
filmlore
fishlore
flaglore
folklore
fowl-lore
ghostlore
giantlore
godlore
hairlore
herblore
horselore
kenlore
laborlore
lakelore
lifelore
loreal
lorefather
loreless
loremaster
loremistress
loric
loring
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