cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
latria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ləˈtɹaɪə/
Forms: form: latrias
Etymology: From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek λατρεία (latreía, “service,” “worship”), from λατρευειν (latreuein, “wait on,” “serve with prayer”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The highest form of worship, named adoration, properly given to the triune God alone.
Coordinate terms: dulia
hyperdulia
Related terms: word: latreutic
word: latreutical
word: -latry
Ginevra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Ginevra. Doublet of Jennifer.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Italian, variant of Guinevere.
summertime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summertimes
form: summer-time
Etymology: From Middle English somertime, equivalent to summer + time. Compare Dutch zomertijd (“summertime”), German Sommerzeit (“summertime”), Danish sommertiden (“summertime”), Swedish sommartid (“summertime”). Compare summertide.
Senses: glosses: The period or season of summer.
Synonyms: summertide
variola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊlə
Forms: form: variolas
Etymology: From Middle English variolas pl (“pustules, pocks”), from Medieval Latin or Medical Latin variola (“infectious disease causing pustules; pox”), from Latin varius. Doublet of variole.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Smallpox.
Derived terms: equine variola
variola ovina
variolar
varioline
variolous
legate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛɡɪt/
ipa: /ˈlɛɡət/
rhymes: -ɛɡɪt
rhymes: -ɛɡət
ipa: /ˈliːɡeɪt/
ipa: /ˈlɛɡɪt/
ipa: /ˈlɛɡət/
rhymes: -ɛɡɪt
rhymes: -ɛɡət
ipa: /ˈliːɡeɪt/
Forms: form: legates
Etymology: Inherited from Old English legat(e), from Old French legat, from Latin lēgātus, substantivized from the perfect passive participle of lēgō (“to bequeath, send as envoy”).
Senses: glosses: A deputy representing the pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions.
examples: text: Moſt great and puiſant Monarke of the earth,
Your Baſſoe wil accompliſh your beheſt:
And ſhew your pleaſure to the Perſean,
As fits the Legate of the ſtately Turke.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i:
text: The dark figure on the raised white terrace; legate of the sun facing the sun; the most ancient royal power.
ref: 1965, John Fowles, The Magus:
glosses: An ambassador or messenger.
examples: text: Legate, I had the news last night—my cohort ordered home
By ships to Portus Itius and thence by road to Rome.
ref: 1911, Rudyard Kipling, “The Roman Centurion’s Song”, in The History of England:
glosses: The deputy of a provincial governor or general in ancient Rome.
Derived terms: legatee
legateship
Related terms: legacy
legatine
legation
prolegate
legate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ləˈɡeɪt/
/ləˈɡeɪt/
Forms: form: legates
form: legating
form: legated
form: legated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lēgātus, perfect passive participle of lēgō (“to bequeath, leave as legacy, legate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To leave as a legacy.
glosses: past participle of legate
legate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛɡɪt/
ipa: /ˈlɛɡət/
rhymes: -ɛɡɪt
rhymes: -ɛɡət
ipa: /ˈliːɡeɪt/
ipa: /ˈlɛɡɪt/
ipa: /ˈlɛɡət/
rhymes: -ɛɡɪt
rhymes: -ɛɡət
ipa: /ˈliːɡeɪt/
Forms: form: legates
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lēgātum (“a legacy”), substantivized from the neuter forms of the perfect passive participle of lēgō (“to bequeath, leave as legacy, legate”). Doublet of legacy.
Senses: glosses: A legacy or bequest.
leiotrichous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /lʌɪˈɒtɹɪkəs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λεῖος (leîos, “smooth”) + the root τριχ (trikh) of θρίξ (thríx, “hair”), + -ous.
Senses: glosses: having smooth hair
adenoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăd ĕnō' mĕ
ipa: /ædəˈnoʊmə/
rhymes: -əʊmə
Forms: form: adenomas
form: adenomata
Etymology: From aden- + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A benign tumour of the epithelium arising from or resembling a gland.
Hyponyms: lymphadenoma
Derived terms: word: adenoma sebaceum
word: adenomatoid
word: adenomatosis
word: adenomatous
word: adenomectomy
word: chorioadenoma
word: cystoadenoma
word: fibroadenoma
word: hepatoadenoma
word: lipoadenoma
word: macroadenoma
word: microadenoma
word: nonadenoma
alt: PIA
word: porcine intestinal adenomatosis
word: pulmonary adenomatosis
word: spiradenoma
Leonid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈliː.ə.nɪd/
Forms: form: Leonids
Etymology: From Latin Leō (“lion; the constellation Leo”, stem Leōn-) + -id.
Senses: examples: text: I wrote my first story about the ghost of a horse leaping from a cascade of flame just after the leonids had been more torrential than men had remembered them for centuries.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
text: Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.
ref: 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:
text: I was surprised by […] the unusually tall windows, […] through which long telescopes were once turned on eclipses of the sun and the moon, on the intersections of the orbits of the stars with the line of the meridian, on the Leonid meteorite showers and the long-tailed comets flying through space.
ref: 2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 141:
glosses: Any meteor of a meteor shower that appears to radiate from the constellation Leo in November.
Leonid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈliː.ə.nɪd/
Etymology: Borrowed from Macedonian and Russian Леони́д (Leoníd) or Ukrainian Леоні́д (Leoníd), from Ancient Greek Λεωνίδας (Leōnídas). Cognate with the English historical name Leonidas.
Senses: glosses: A male given name, a transliteration of a common East Slavic name (notably that of the first two Ukrainian presidents, Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma, as well as Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev).
leucodermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /luːkəˈdɜːmɪk/
Etymology: From leuco- + dermic.
Senses: glosses: white-skinned, Caucasian; pale
leucotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈluːkətəʊm/
Forms: form: leucotomes
Etymology: From leuco- + -tome.
Senses: examples: text: All sorts of rubbish is lying in the sand: a typewriter with half the keys missing (he picks out fragmentary sentences, sometimes these seem to mean something), a smashed neurosurgical unit (he pockets a handful of leucotomes, useful for self-defence).
ref: 1970, JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An instrument used to perform a leucotomy.
Tabo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in Himachal Pradesh, India, the site of an ancient monastery.
AXJ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Asia excluding Japan.
esteeming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of esteem
trendsetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛn(d)ˌsetə/
Forms: form: trendsetters
form: trend-setter
form: trend setter
Etymology: From trend + setter.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: influencer, thought leader
text: "We are very optimistic. Network Rail has certainly been the trendsetter. It has been the champion of this, because it spotted the merit.
ref: 2025 July 23, Paul Clifton, “Air force: drones' developing railway role”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 31:
glosses: Someone who starts a trend, or makes something more popular.
Related terms: trendsetting
levant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈvænt/
Forms: form: levants
Etymology: Transferral use of Levant, from French levant. Compare French faire voile en Levant (“to sail eastward”), literally: set the sail with the Levant, an easterly wind that blows in the Mediterranean Sea.
Senses: glosses: A disappearing or absconding after losing a bet.
levant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈvænt/
Forms: form: levants
form: levanting
form: levanted
form: levanted
Etymology: Transferral use of Levant, from French levant. Compare French faire voile en Levant (“to sail eastward”), literally: set the sail with the Levant, an easterly wind that blows in the Mediterranean Sea.
Senses: examples: text: In a mighty little time their husbands played them false and, taking whatever they could lay hands upon, levanted and left them in the lurch.
ref: 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 16:
text: He died of a Tuesday. Got the run. Levanted with the cash of a few ads.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To abscond or run away, especially to avoid paying money or debts.
Derived terms: levanter
levant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈvænt/
ipa: /ˈlɛvənt/
ipa: /lɪˈvænt/
Etymology: From French levant.
Senses: examples: text: Crest, a stag regardant levant argent.
ref: 1932, Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset:
text: [...] crest a raven levant sable issant out of a[…]
ref: 1977, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History, Proceedings:
text: [...] neck grene acornes proper wounded on his left sholder and at her feet there is a fawcon issant levant argent out of a crowne or.
ref: 1980, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Rising, of an animal.
topics: law
glosses: Rising or having risen from rest; said of cattle.
examples: text: Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
synonyms: oriental
eastern
antonyms: occidental
western
ponent
glosses: Eastern.
Derived terms: couchant and levant
levant and couchant
everything but the kitchen sink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: everything and the kitchen sink
form: everything including the kitchen sink
Etymology: Originally military slang, 1944.
Senses: examples: text: She must have brought everything but the kitchen sink along on the trip, and how she lifted her suitcase, I do not know.
synonyms: word: everything under the sun
word: all the marbles
word: bag and baggage
word: everytang
word: everything but the galley stove
word: everything but the kitchen sink
word: everything under the sun
word: full monty
word: hook
word: line and sinker
word: kit and caboodle
word: lock
word: stock and barrel
word: the whole bang shoot
word: the whole nine yards
word: the works
word: whole ball of wax
word: whole hog
word: whole enchilada
word: whole kit and caboodle
word: whole package
word: whole shebang
word: whole shitting match
word: whole shooting match
word: whole smash
glosses: Almost everything, whether needed or not.
Related terms: kitchen sink regression
kitchen-sinky
kitchen-sinkery
ligula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪɡ.jʊ.lə/
Forms: form: ligulas
form: ligulae
Etymology: From Latin ligula (“strap, spoon”), a variant of lingula (“small tongue-shaped object”), itself partly derived from lingō (“lick”) and partly a diminutive of lingua (“tongue”).
Senses: examples: text: He unhasped the ligulae of his haversack, taking out a pair of blue jeans which he tossed to Bruno.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: A strap or strap-shaped object, especially such a development in plants or insects.
Derived terms: ligular
Related terms: ligulate
ligule
liguloid
limmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪmə/
rhymes: -ɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: limmers
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps from limb, or French limier; see leamer.
Senses: examples: text: Thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands.
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: A rogue; a low, base fellow.
examples: text: Doll Sneerpiece was not a scholar but fond of gentlemen, although to dub her a limmer, would have been to do her a wrong.
ref: 1994, Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies:
glosses: A promiscuous woman.
glosses: A limehound; a leamer.
glosses: A mongrel, such as a cross between the mastiff and hound.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A manrope at the side of a ladder.
limmer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪmə/
rhymes: -ɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more limmer
form: most limmer
Senses: examples: text: Then the limmer Scottes ared me, burnt my guddes, and made deadlie feede on me and my barnes.
ref: 1564, Bullein, Dialogue:
text: The roote is long and very limmer, spreading his bráches both large and long under the earth and doth oftentimes let, hinder, & staye both the plough and Dren in toyling the ground, for they be so tough and limmer, that the share & colter of the plough cannot easily divide and cut them asunder.
ref: 1578, Rembert Dodoens, A Nievve Herball, Or Historie of Plantes, page 669:
text: Auld plenishen out by was strew'd, Guid L--d but it was limmer; Some creepy stools, an' shelfs weel scower'd Tae hide the worm pict tim'er Tae sell that day.
ref: 1844, Robert Huddleston, A Collection of Poems and Songs, on rural subjects, page 81:
text: If you ride with the hell-spawned reivers and live as a limmer thief then you must expect to be singed by hell's fire.
ref: 2002, Linda Lea Castle, Embrace the Sun: The Vaudrys, page 13:
glosses: Limber; flexible (either physically or morally).
lipoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪpɔɪd/
Etymology: From lip- + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: She advertised the lipoid virtues of what he had heard called junkfood, presumably food for junkies, whom, living in Tangiers, he knew all about.
ref: 1984, Anthony Burgess, Enderby's Dark Lady:
glosses: Of pertaining to fat.
lipoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪpɔɪd/
Forms: form: lipoids
Etymology: From lip- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A lipid or other substance resembling fat
Derived terms: antilipoid
lipoidemia
lipoidosis
phospholipoid
litharge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪθɑːd͡ʒ/
enpr: lĭthʹärj
ipa: /ˈlɪθɑɹd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: litharges
Etymology: From Middle English litarge, from Old French litarge, from Latin lithargyrus, from Ancient Greek λιθάργυρος (lithárguros), from λίθος (líthos, “stone”) + αργυρός (argurós, “silver”).
Senses: examples: text: Yes: living among the cohabations^([sic]) of Faust himself, among the litharge and agate and hyacinth and pearls.
ref: 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 86:
text: From an inner pocket he produces a costly Ramillies Wig, shakes it out in a brisk Cloud of scented Litharge, and claps it on, with a minimum of fuss, over his ascetic’s Crop.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part One: Latitudes and Departures, page 227:
glosses: lead monoxide (PbO) a toxic solid formed from oxidation of lead in air, and used as a pigment.
lixiviate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪkˈsɪvieɪt/
Forms: form: lixiviates
form: lixiviating
form: lixiviated
form: lixiviated
Etymology: Borrowed from a Medieval Latin lixīvio, lixīviātus, or formed from the root of lixīvium, lixīvia, from lixīvius (“made into lye”), from lixa (“water, lye, ashes”).
Senses: examples: text: […]the Slaves are out in the Storm, doing their Owners’ Laundry, observing and reading each occurrence of Blood, Semen, Excrement, Saliva, Urine, Sweat, Road-Mud, dead Skin, and other such Data of Biography, whose pure form they practice Daily, before all is lixiviated ’neath Heaven.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 88–89:
glosses: To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.
Derived terms: nonlixiviated
lixiviate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪkˈsɪvieɪt/
Forms: form: more lixiviate
form: most lixiviate
Etymology: Borrowed from a Medieval Latin lixīvio, lixīviātus, or formed from the root of lixīvium, lixīvia, from lixīvius (“made into lye”), from lixa (“water, lye, ashes”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.
examples: text: but we cou'd not, by this way, discern the least acidity in our arsenical solution, but rather a manifest sign of an urinous or lixiviate quality
ref: 1685, Robert Boyle, Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters:
glosses: Impregnated with salts from wood ashes.
lixiviate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪkˈsɪvieɪt/
Forms: form: lixiviates
Etymology: Borrowed from a Medieval Latin lixīvio, lixīviātus, or formed from the root of lixīvium, lixīvia, from lixīvius (“made into lye”), from lixa (“water, lye, ashes”).
Senses: glosses: leachate
Locrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈləʊkɹiən/
/ˈlɒkɹiən/
Etymology: From Latin Locris + -an.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the ancient Greek region of Locris.
examples: text: scattered piano keys (all white, an octave on B to be exact—or H, in the German nomenclature—the notes of the rejected Locrian mode
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Designating an ancient Greek mode, of uncertain detail.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Designating a minor scale with the second and fifth scale degrees lowered by a semitone.
Derived terms: Hypolocrian
super-Locrian
paradoxism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paradox + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An avant-garde movement in the arts etc, based on heavy use of contradictions and paradoxes, founded by F. Smarandache in the 1980s.
armorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armorers
form: armourer
Etymology: From Middle English armurer, from Old French armurier. By surface analysis, armor + -er.
Senses: synonyms: armer
armsmaker
glosses: A manufacturer of weapons, especially of guns.
examples: text: The squadron ground crews and armourers set high standards.
ref: 2014, Tony Redding, Life and Death in Bomber Command:
text: Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who was in charge of weapons on set as the movie’s armorer and who was also charged with involuntary manslaughter, also had that responsibility, the prosecutors said, as did Dave Halls, the first assistant director, who reached a plea agreement.
ref: 2023 January 19, Julia Jacobs, Graham Bowley, “Alec Baldwin Charges Spur Debate on Responsibility for Guns on Set”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A military specialist in charge of the upkeep of small arms etc.
hypernyms: metalworker
blacksmith
metalsmith
smith
glosses: Someone who makes or repairs armor.
lorelei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɔːɹəlaɪ/
Forms: form: loreleis
Etymology: From the Lorelei rock on the Rhine, which was haunted by one of these creatures according to German legend.
Senses: examples: text: We grew silly, tongue-tied, said foolish things we did not mean to say, shoved one another about in the boat, and finally overturned it. The loreleis laughed musical little laughs.
ref: 1965, William Henry Davenport, Ben Siegel, Biography past and present: selections and critical essays:
text: She was like a mermaid, an isolated creature that lives in fulfillment of its own senses; she lured me on, she was the lorelei of the gleaming river of traffic with its million, brilliant eyes that intermittently flowed between us.
ref: 1977, Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve:
glosses: A siren; a temptress.
lorn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɔːn/
ipa: /lɔɹn/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: more lorn
form: most lorn
Etymology: From Middle English lorn, loren, ilorn, iloren (past participle of lese, lesen (“to lose, be deprived of; to damn, doom to perdition”)), from Old English loren, ġeloren, from Proto-Germanic *galuzanaz, *luzanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *leusaną (“to lose”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to cut, sever; to separate; to loosen; to lose”). See further at lese.
Senses: glosses: Doomed; lost.
examples: text: I loue thilke laſſe, (alas why do I loue:) / And am forlorne, (alas why am I lorne:) / Shee deignes not my good will, but doth reproue, / And of my rurall muſick holdeth ſcorne.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Ianuarie. Aegloga Prima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC, folio 2, recto:
text: Yet, trust me, Memory's warmest sighs / Are often breathed in moments lorn— / And many a feeling thought will rise / And in the bosom die unborn.
ref: 1857, Gerald Griffin, “Addressed to a Friend”, in The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Gerald Griffin, Duffy: James Duffy 7 Wellington Quay, →OCLC, stanza VII, page 159:
text: The mighty river flowing dark and deep, / With ebb and flood from the remote sea-tides / Vague-sounding through the City's sleepless sleep, / Is named the River of the Suicides; / For night by night some lorn wretch overweary, / And shuddering from the future yet more dreary, / Within its cold secure oblivion hides.
ref: 1870–1874, James Thomson, “The City of Dreadful Night”, in The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems, London: Reeves and Turner, […], published 1880, →OCLC, part XIX, stanza 1, pages 47–48:
text: He never found his beloved machine gun. Lorn and drained-nervous, he was fired next day.
ref: 1963, Thomas Pynchon, “In which Benny Profane, a Schlemihl and Human Yo-yo, Gets to an Apocheir”, in V.: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, 1964 March, →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: Abandoned, forlorn, lonely.
Derived terms: forlorn
lasslorn
lornly
lornness
lovelorn
lorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɔːn/
ipa: /lɔɹn/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Etymology: From Middle English lorn, loren, ilorn, iloren (past participle of lese, lesen (“to lose, be deprived of; to damn, doom to perdition”)), from Old English loren, ġeloren, from Proto-Germanic *galuzanaz, *luzanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *leusaną (“to lose”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to cut, sever; to separate; to loosen; to lose”). See further at lese.
Senses: glosses: past participle of lese.
losel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊzəl/
enpr: lōʹzəl
ipa: /ˈloʊzəl/
Forms: form: losels
form: lozel
form: lozell
Etymology: From Middle English losel (also lorel), from *losen, loren, past participle of lesen (“to lose”), equivalent to lose + -le.
Senses: examples: text: Dowtles such losels
Make the churche to be
In smale auctoryte; […]
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 65, lines 138–140:
text: The whiles a losell wandring by the way, / One that to bountie neuer cast his mind, / Ne thought of honour euer did assay […].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: And, losel, thou art worthy to be hang'd.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: These thousand straight-standing firm-set individuals, who shoulder arms, who march, wheel, advance, retreat; and are, for your behoof, a magazine charged with fiery death, in the most perfect condition of potential activity: few months ago, till the persuasive sergeant came, what were they? Multiform ragged losels, runaway apprentices, starved weavers, thievish valets […]
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “III, The One Institution”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope):
text: Not since I backed a horse have I been pressed so hard; peril of life, jeopardy of land and livelihood, and to sum up, all these losels in the wood to hunt me down.
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Chapter 7, The Hooded Face”, in The Black Arrow:
text: Lots of folk live on their wits: / Lecturers, lispers, / Losels, loblolly-men, louts— / They don't end up as paupers; […]
ref: 1954, Philip Larkin, Toads:
text: ‘Come on, you losel,’ he said to Spatchcock, ‘you privy calligrapher, you. You can carry his bottles. I’ll carry him.’
ref: 1964, Anthony Burgess, The Eve of St Venus:
glosses: A worthless or despicable person, scoundrel.
Synonyms: lidderon
Derived terms: loselism
loselry
losel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊzəl/
enpr: lōʹzəl
ipa: /ˈloʊzəl/
Forms: form: more losel
form: most losel
form: lozel
form: lozell
Etymology: From Middle English losel (also lorel), from *losen, loren, past participle of lesen (“to lose”), equivalent to lose + -le.
Senses: glosses: Worthless; wasteful.
loxodromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /lɒksəˈdɹɒmɪk/
Etymology: From French loxodromique, from Ancient Greek λοξός (loxós, “oblique”) + δρόμος (drómos, “course”).
Senses: examples: text: […]and who was himself on the early threshold of a decision precisely the opposite in its motives and predispositions, a ship, as it were, straining at its moorings in a contrary current and arming for its sinuous and loxodromic voyage to the richer though silted harbor of Rye[…]
ref: 1969 November 10, John Fowles, chapter 59, in The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1st US edition, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company […], →OCLC, page 344:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Pertaining to motion at a constant angle to the meridians; on a set compass bearing.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Preserving angles between curves, such as in a Möbius transformation that is not elliptic or parabolic.
Derived terms: loxodrome
loxodromically
loxodromic transformation
nonloxodromic
loxodromic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /lɒksəˈdɹɒmɪk/
Forms: form: loxodromics
Etymology: From French loxodromique, from Ancient Greek λοξός (loxós, “oblique”) + δρόμος (drómos, “course”).
Senses: glosses: A path or curve on the surface of a sphere that intersects all meridians at a constant angle.
armourer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armourers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of armorer.
take a wicket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a wicket
form: taking a wicket
form: took a wicket
form: taken a wicket
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To get a batsman out.
lunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: lunts
Etymology: From Dutch lont.
Senses: examples: text: 1844, E. A. Friedlænder (translator), The Amber Witch [1838, Abraham Schweidler (Wilhelm Meinhold), Maria Schweidler, die Bernsteinhexe], page 90,
In the mean time, however, he himself (understand; the young Nobilis) had seen that a fine smoke issued from the nostrils of the steed, and as he stooped down, he had immediately pulled forth a lunt, almost of a finger's length, the which was yet burning, and which a knave had privily poked into his nostrils with a needle.
text: Bent down and saw I was right. A lunt up the bugger’s nose. A lunt? said Doctor Copper. Almost as long as your left forefinger, yes, said his visitor. Still burning.
ref: 1969, Robert Nye, Tales I Told My Mother:
text: The gunpowder was stamped into the tube, then a lead ball was put into the muzzle, a wad was stamped over it, and the charge was set fire to by a lunt through the lower hole.
ref: 1999, Igorʹ Mikhaĭlovich Dʹi͡akonov, The Paths of History, page 149:
glosses: A slow-burning match or torch.
glosses: Smoke with flames, especially from a pipe.
lunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: lunts
form: lunting
form: lunted
form: lunted
Etymology: From Dutch lont.
Senses: examples: text: 18th c, Robert Burns, The Twa Dogs, 1822, The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, page 28,
The lunting pipe, and sneeshing mill, / Are handed round wi' right gude-will;
text: My conscience! ye lent a ready hand in the brulzie; but what can ha'e set the Magazines a-lunting? it's a mystery o' mysteries.[…]Especially as it's their game to set everybody a-lunting, and keep out of the conflagration themselves.
ref: 1832, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 2, page 377:
glosses: To emit smoke.
examples: 2014, Robert P. Wills, Tales From A Second Hand Wand Shoppe, Book 1: They Were the Best of Gnomes, They Were the Worst of Gnomes, page 278,
“Lunting?” interrupted Julie, eyebrow raised.
Grimbledung shrugged, “It's a good and proper word”, he raised an eyebrow back, "it just doesn't get used that much."
Julie smirked, “Go on then, with your lunting.”
He let out a sigh. "As I was saying, I was sitting there when a Minotaur came lunting up." He paused for a moment, "Pipe in mouth, walking along", he winked at Julie, […] .
glosses: To walk while smoking a pipe.
lutulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlʌtjʊlənt/
Forms: form: more lutulent
form: most lutulent
Etymology: From Latin lutulentus (“dirty, impure”), from lutum (“mud, dirt”).
Senses: examples: text: For who is there who anything of some significance has apprehended but is conscious that that exterior splendour may be the surface of a downwardtending lutulent reality
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
glosses: Pertaining to mud, muddy.
Synonyms: turbid
caza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cazas
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Alternative form of kaza.
ten-for
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ten-fors
Senses: examples: text: He took a ten-for against India.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The feat of a bowler taking ten wickets in a match.
Related terms: five-for
third man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third men
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a fielding position on the off side, behind square, near the boundary; a fielder in that position
third slip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third slips
Senses: examples: text: Henry took the catch at third slip.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a fielding position to the off side of second slip; a fielder in that position
third umpire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third umpires
Senses: examples: text: The third umpire was involved thrice in the T20 match.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A match official who uses TV replays to assist the two umpires in the case of close decisions.
timed out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Describing the method of getting out in which the batsman takes longer than two minutes to appear on the field.
timed out
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Describing a wicket that has fallen by this means.
timed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of time out
twinkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
homophone: Twinkie
homophone: twinky
Forms: form: twinkies
Etymology: Genericized trademark of Twinkie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Twinkie.
glosses: A generic version of the snack food, that is an oblong yellow cake with a creamy white filling.
examples: text: This twinkie was enveloped in an oversize parka with the hood pulled so far forward that all that could be seen of his face was a frostbitten nose and a microphone.
ref: 1994, Dana Stabenow, A Cold-Blooded Business, →ISBN, page 15:
text: Indeed, this unexpected emergent talent could propel Barrymore to an acting orbit adjacent to that of her Gardens co-star, Jessica Lange – who, let's remember, started out herself as a big-screen twinkie, in the 1976 King Kong, as the big ape's unwilling object of affection.
ref: 2009 January 13, Rob Salem, “Pressure of Grey Gardens Gives Barrymore the Jitters”, in Toronto Star:
text: Tom Ford, who said he was “a twinkie” at Studio 54 in the days when Halston hung out there with Liza Minnelli, Liz Taylor, Bianca Jagger and Warhol, was also impressed with Mr. McGregor and the show.
ref: 2021 May 7, Maureen Dowd, “Ewan McGregor: Dahling, He’s Halston!”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An actor, actress, or public figure who is considered to be no more than eye candy.
Derived terms: twink
oreo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oreos
Etymology: Genericized use of Oreo, q.v.
Senses: examples: text: The young woman said, "Well, actually we do have one minority student."
The young man chimed in, "Yeah, but he's an oreo."
"An oreo?" I asked. "Please define the term oreo."
"You know," the young man said. "Black on the outside, and white in the middle."
ref: 2012, Walter B.J. Mitchell, Stories I Tell My High School English Students, page 78:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Oreo.
malar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪlə/
rhymes: -eɪlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From modern Latin malaris, from Latin mala (“jaw, cheek-bone”).
Senses: examples: text: Whose? Les yeux morts d'Eurydice, he says, but suspects they beckon, they and that malar elegance.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: Pertaining to the cheek.
Derived terms: malar bone
sphenomalar
submalar
temporomalar
zygomaticomalar
malar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪlə/
rhymes: -eɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: malars
Etymology: From modern Latin malaris, from Latin mala (“jaw, cheek-bone”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The cheekbone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit.
malic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmælɪk/
rhymes: -ælɪk
homophone: Malick
Etymology: From French malique, from Latin mālum.
Senses: examples: text: The fruit tastes very tart and has a green apple/malic flavor that is more pronounced than any berry type flavors.
ref: 1999, James Austin Kennedy, Proanthocyanidins in Vitis Vinifera L., Cv. Cabernet Sauvignon Berries, University of California, page 40:
glosses: Pertaining to apples.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to malic acid or its derivatives.
Derived terms: malamic acid
malamide
malate
pyromalic
Nichole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, a less common spelling of Nicole.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Nicholas.
malkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːlkɪn/
Forms: form: malkins
form: maukin
form: maulkin
Etymology: From Malde, an early form of Maude or Matilda + -kin (diminutive ending). Compare grimalkin.
Senses: examples: text: Ȝe ne haue na more meryte · in masse ne in houres / Þan Malkyn of hire maydenhode · þat no man desireth.
You gain no more merit from mass or your prayers / Than Malkin from her maidenhood, which no man desires.
ref: c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman (Bodleian MS Laud Misc. 581), I
text: We did but keep you surety for our son, / If this be he, — or a draggled mawkin, thou, / That tends her bristled grunters in the sludge[.]
ref: 1849, Tennyson, Poems, volume 2, page 224:
glosses: A (stereotypical name for a) lower-class or uncultured woman; a kitchenmaid; a slattern.
examples: text: "She had no sooner said so, but they all vanished saving onely one Peter Grospetter, whom a little after she saw snatch'd up into the aire, and to let fall his Maulkin (a stick that they make clean Ovens withall) and her self was also driven so forcibly with the wind, that it made her almost Lose her breath."
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 120
glosses: A mop, especially one used to clean a baker's oven.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.
examples: text: [A] straw malkin like thee, which the very crows are not afraid to perch on[.]
ref: 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 23, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 321:
glosses: A scarecrow.
examples: text: Now she was strong enough to walk and watch them circling in the sky or to sit in the arbour at the end of the long lawn and, with the sunlight smouldering in her dark-red hair and lying wanly over the area of her face and neck, watch the multiform and snow-white convolutions of her malkins.
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
glosses: A cat.
examples: text: There was milk punch and spiced whisky, a smell of goose and maukin roasting on the spit.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 158:
glosses: A hare.
malversation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mælvəˈseɪʃən/
Forms: form: malversations
Etymology: From French malversation, from malverser, from Latin male versari (“behave badly”). Compare Spanish malversación (“embezzlement”).
Senses: examples: text: the euyl exempil of ther maluersatione prouokyt the pepil til adhere to vice & to detest vertu.
ref: 1549, chapter XIX, in The Complaynt of Scotland:
text: The Decreet was for Sallary, and it was offered to be proven, that Rue (for his Malverſation) was by warrand from General Monk, excluded from Collection that year.
ref: 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548
text: The walī looked angrily on my brother, saying: ‘Shameless ill-doer, it is quite clear from these marks upon your back that you have practised every sort of crime and malversation.’
ref: 1923, Powys Mathers, transl., The Thousand Nights and One Night:
text: I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government,
But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation.
ref: 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part I:
text: In addition to their absolute power they were wasteful and extravagant, their malversations were constant and enormous, and they treated the local whites with an arrogance and superciliousness that galled these little potentates with their two or three hundred slaves.
ref: 1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, Vintage Books, published 2023, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: corrupt behaviour, illegitimate activity, especially by someone in authority
marginalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marginalizes
form: marginalizing
form: marginalized
form: marginalized
form: marginalise
Etymology: From marginal + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The practice of only analysing Indian English in terms of how it differs from a notional standard English that resides in the Englishes of the varieties of the Inner Circle is one of the key ways in which Indian English is marginalised.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 305:
glosses: To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people) to the margins or to a lower limit; to exclude socially or otherwise.
examples: text: Ideally, we would like to integrate out the parameters #92;theta, i.e. marginalize in order to obtain a prediction. Since this is again hard to realize analytically, one usually approximates the integral via sampling from the posterior.
ref: 2021, Nils Thuerey, Philipp Holl, Maximilian Mueller, Patrick Schnell, Felix Trost, Kiwon Um, chapter 25, in Physics-based Deep Learning, page 245:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To find a marginal distribution of a joint probability distribution.
Synonyms: alienate
invisibilize
peripheralize
sideline
Derived terms: demarginalize
marginalizable
marginalizer
remarginalize
Related terms: marginal
marginalization
marginalize out
mammetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmæmɪtɹi/
Forms: form: mammetries
form: mawmetry
form: maumetry
form: mommetry
Etymology: From Middle English mawmetrie, from Anglo-Norman maumeterie, a reduced form of mahumetterie (“idolatry, heathendom”), from Mahumet (“Muhammad”), ultimately from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad) (see Muhammad for more). Equivalent to mammet + -ry.
Senses: glosses: The religion of Muhammad: Islam.
glosses: Idolatry; paganism.
mammothrept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaməθɹɛpt/
Forms: form: mammothrepts
Etymology: From Late Latin mammothreptus (“kept at the breast too long”), from Koine Greek μαμμόθρεπτος (mammóthreptos, “brought up by one’s grandmother”), from Ancient Greek μάμμη (mámmē, “grandmother”) + θρεπτός (threptós) verbal adjective from τρέφω (tréphō, “to bring up”).
Senses: examples: text: O, you are a meere mammothrept in judgement, then. Why, doe you not obserue how excellently the dittie is affected in euerie place?
ref: 1601, Ben Jonson, Fountaine of Selfe-love, act IV scene 3:
text: She concludes, "you better apologize." The day I apologize to you, you contumacious mammothrept, there will be two moons in the sky.
ref: 1947, Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks:
text: ‘And having seen the parents I am impatient to see this youth, the fruit of their strangely unattractive loins: will he be a wretched mammothrept?’
ref: 1970, Patrick O'Brian, Master & Commander:
glosses: A spoiled child.
dissolving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dissolve
dissolving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissolvings
Senses: examples: text: For example, the only manifestation of solubility is dissolving, and being immersed in liquid is its only circumstances of manifestation. Perhaps there are some differences between particular immersions or dissolvings, but they must be similar enough […]
ref: 2009, Gregor Damschen, Robert Schnepf, Karsten Stüber, Debating Dispositions:
glosses: The act by which something dissolves.
mancia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmænt͡ʃə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian mancia.
Senses: examples: text: Its landscape is one of inanimate monuments and buildings; near-inanimate barmen, taxi-drivers, bellhops, guides: there to do any bidding, to varying degrees of efficiency, on receipt of the recommended baksheesh, pourboire, mancia, tip.
ref: 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:
text: We got up and Don Carlo looked critically at the money I had left on the table. ‘That is too much. A mancia of two lire. The waiter will be dissatisfied with those who leave a smaller but more rational mancia.’ ‘You disapprove of generosity? Perhaps they will call me Don Quixote della mancia.’ Neither of them thought that funny.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
glosses: tip, gratuity
carrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹəl/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹəl/
homophone: carol
homophone: Carol
rhymes: -æɹəl
rhymes: -ɛɹəl
Forms: form: carrels
form: carell
form: carrell
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Middle French carrelé (“type of fabric”), probably from carrelé (“having checks”), an adjective use of the past participle of carreler (“to pave; to tile”) (modern French carreler), from carrel + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs). Carrel is a variant of carreau (“square; tile”), from Old French quarel (“square block of stone”), from Vulgar Latin *quadrellus, from Latin quadrus (“square”, adjective), probably from quattuor (“four”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”)) + -us (suffix forming adjectives).
Senses: glosses: A type of fabric used in the 16th and 17th centuries.
carrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹəl/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹəl/
homophone: carol
homophone: Carol
rhymes: -æɹəl
rhymes: -ɛɹəl
Forms: form: carrels
Etymology: Possibly a variant of quarrel.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quarrel (“a square-headed arrow”).
synonyms: word: quarrel
extra: a square-headed arrow
manometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnɒmɪtə/
ipa: /məˈnɑmɪtɚ/
ipa: /məˈnɑmədəɹ/
Forms: form: manometers
form: manometre
Etymology: From French manomètre, formed from Ancient Greek μανός (manós, “thin, rare”) + μέτρον (métron), equivalent to mano- + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: As soon as the manometer of the pump indicated the maximum of rarification, the apparatus was inclined […]
ref: 1872, The American Journal of Science:
text: Pökler helped in working out the Halbmodelle solution: bisecting the model lengthwise and mounting it flat-side to the wall of the test chamber, bringing the tubes through that way to all the manometers outside.
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow:
synonyms: manoscope
pressure gauge
glosses: An instrument to measure pressure in a fluid, especially a double-legged liquid column gauge used to measure the difference in the pressures of two fluids.
Derived terms: electromanometer
haemomanometer
micromanometer
telemanometer
thermomanometer
Related terms: english: measures blood pressure
translation: measures blood pressure
word: sphygmomanometer
word: Manometer in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
under the weather
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndə ðə ˈwɛðə/
ipa: /ˈʌndɚ ðə ˈwɛðɚ/
Etymology: From under the weather bow (“affected by bad weather; seasick”); weather bow is a nautical term referring to the side of a ship exposed to bad weather.
Senses: examples: text: […] I met a stranger, a quiet little man, who also had been under the weather from malaria.
ref: 1907 May, Andy Adams, “The School of Experience”, in Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press Cambridge, →OCLC, page 151:
glosses: ill or gloomy, especially from a cold or flu.
examples: text: I was a bit under the weather last night: out with a party of friends, you know. Dare say we all had a bit more than we could carry.
ref: 1907, Louis Joseph Vance, The Brass Bowl, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, publishers, →OCLC, pages 128–129:
glosses: Somewhat intoxicated or suffering from a hangover.
examples: text: The Hawkinses are under the weather now, but their Tennessee property is millions when it comes into market.
ref: 1873, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens]; Charles Dudley Warner, chapter XIX, in The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; Chicago, Ill.: F. G. Gilman, →OCLC; republished Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1874, →OCLC, page 178
glosses: Experiencing adversity.
Synonyms: sense: somewhat ill or gloomy
word: off one's feed
sense: somewhat ill or gloomy
word: out of sorts
sense: somewhat intoxicated
word: out of sorts
sense: experiencing adversity
word: out of sorts
stuff up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stuffs up
form: stuffing up
form: stuffed up
form: stuffed up
Senses: examples: text: Don't drink tonight, because it'll stuff you up before your business trip.
glosses: To ruin or harm.
examples: text: We lost the match because of the goalkeeper stuffing up.
glosses: To make a big mistake.
examples: text: My nose is all stuffed up so I'm speaking funny.
glosses: To cause (the nasal passages) to be blocked.
spilt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: spilled
Etymology: From spill + -t.
Senses: examples: text: Don't cry over spilt milk; tears won't put it back in the glass.
glosses: That has been spilled.