cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
short sweetening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He was a little taller than a hogshead of sugar, but not quite so round, consequently when his head and hands were at the bottom of the hogshead, into which he had slipped while surreptitiously filling his haversack with short sweetening, his feet hanging over the top, gave unimpeachable evidence of his whereabouts.
ref: 1898, Ben LaBree, editor, Camp Fires of the Confederacy, page 405:
text: Made our molasses into long sweetening and tapped the sugartrees for short sweetening.
ref: 1959, Leonard W. Roberts, “Jim Couch, His Family Story”, in Up Cutshin & down Greasy: folkways of a Kentucky mountain family, page 8:
text: Sorghum and sugarcane provided molasses and sugar. The slaves called syrup "long sweetening" and sugar "short sweetening." Their sweetening was more often long than short.
ref: 1986, Elizabeth Silverthorne, Plantation life in Texas:
text: Even at the end of the century, a country hostess might inquire, on serving coffee, if the guest preferred "long or short sweetening."
ref: 1999, Rhoda C. Ellison, Bibb County, Alabama: The First Hundred Years, page 51:
glosses: Sugar.
Related terms: long sweetening
luscious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌʃəs/
rhymes: -ʌʃəs
Forms: form: more luscious
form: most luscious
form: lushious
Etymology: From earlier lushious, lussyouse (“luscious, richly sweet, delicious”), a corruption of lustious, from lusty (“pleasant, delicious”) + -ous. Shakespeare uses both lush (short for lushious) and lusty in the same sense: "How lush and lusty the grass looks" (The Tempest ii. I.52).
An alternative etymology connects luscious to a Middle English term: lucius, an alteration of licious, believed to be a shortening of delicious.
Senses: examples: text: Her lips were like two luscious beefsteaks.
ref: 1863, H.S. Thompson, Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden:
text: There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
synonyms: word: toothsome
word: ambrosial
word: appetizing
word: dainty
word: delectable
word: delicious
word: delish
word: exquisite
word: finger-lickin' good
word: flavorful
word: flavorous
word: flavorsome
word: gustful
word: lekker
word: lickerish
word: lip-smacking
word: luscious
word: moreish
word: mouthwatering
word: nummy
word: ono
word: out of this world
word: palatable
word: sapid
word: savory
word: scrummy
word: scrumptious
word: tasteful
word: tasty
word: to die for
word: toothful
word: toothsome
word: yummy
word: scrumdiddlyumptious
glosses: Sweet and pleasant; delicious.
examples: text: With one hand he gently disclosed the lips of that luscious mouth of nature.
ref: 1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of Fanny Hill: A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text:
synonyms: word: juicy
word: alluring
word: arousing
word: attractive
word: bangable
word: beautiful
word: beddable
word: bedworthy
word: bonable
word: bonerific
word: buff
word: delicious
word: desirable
word: doable
word: dreamy
word: effable
word: fanciable
word: fappable
word: fapworthy
word: fine
word: fit
word: fuckable
word: gorgeous
word: hittable
word: horny
word: hot
word: humpable
word: peng
word: provocative
word: raunchy
word: rootable
word: salacious
word: screwable
word: seductive
word: sensual
word: sexable
word: sexalicious
word: sexy
word: shaggable
word: swoonsome
word: tasty
word: toothsome
glosses: Sexually appealing; seductive.
examples: text: Hitherto I had been indebted only to the girls of the house for the corruption of my innocence: their luscious talk, in which modesty was far from respected.
ref: 1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of Fanny Hill: A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text:
glosses: Obscene.
Derived terms: lusciously
lusciousness
overluscious
long sweetening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Long Sweetening is its just and proper name, but by Molasses better known to fame.
ref: 1822, John Davis, The American Mariners: Or, The Atlantic Voyage. A Moral Poem ..., US: Brodie and Dowding, page 162, lines 332-3:
text: Made our molasses into long sweetening and tapped the sugartrees for short sweetening.
ref: 1959, Leonard W. Roberts, “Jim Couch, His Family Story”, in Up Cutshin & down Greasy: folkways of a Kentucky mountain family, page 8:
text: Mr. Hurst made the best of the situation and drank his molasses-sweetened coffee with seeming relish, as though he had been raised on long sweetening.
ref: 1974, John Quincy Wolf, Life in the Leatherwoods:
text: Reach me some of that long sweetening, honey, she'd say at the breakfast table.
ref: 1989, Lee Smith, Fair and Tender Ladies:
glosses: A viscous, syrupy sweetener, generally molasses, but sometimes table syrup.
Related terms: short sweetening
sidehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sideheads
Etymology: From side + head.
Senses: glosses: A subheading placed at or in the margin of printed matter.
glosses: A subheading whose succeeding text is run in.
glosses: A stub (row heading) in a table of information.
cavernous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkav.ən.əs/
ipa: /ˈkæv.ɚ.nəs/
rhymes: -ævə(ɹ)nəs
Forms: form: more cavernous
form: most cavernous
Etymology: Late Middle English cavernous, cavernose, borrowing from Old French caverneux or Latin cavernōsus (“full of hollows or cavities”), from caverna (“a hollow, cavity, cave”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to cavern + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The last stop on the West Coast Main Line before you cross the border into Scotland, the strategically placed Carlisle Citadel is a station steeped in history. Opened on September 1 1847, the cavernous station was once home to seven railway companies in the pre-Grouping years.
ref: 2019 November 20, Paul Stephen, “Lakes and lines offer scenery to savour”, in Rail, page 54:
synonyms: cavelike
glosses: Resembling a cavern in size, shape, or atmosphere.
examples: text: cavernous eyes
text: While the filmmakers behind Dear Evan Hansen have maintained that their biggest motivation for adapting the popular Broadway musical was to immortalize Platt’s Tony-winning titular performance, what they’ve actually done by having the 27-year-old play a high school senior is highlight the stage show’s cavernous weaknesses while failing to transport just about any of its strengths to the new medium.
ref: 2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club:
synonyms: cavelike
glosses: Resembling a cavern in size, shape, or atmosphere.
Giving the impression of vast, dark depths.
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Having many caverns.
Composed largely of vascular sinuses and capable of dilating with blood to bring about the erection of a body part.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having many caverns.
Having cavities.
Derived terms: bronchocavernous
cavernoma
cavernous body
cavernously
cavernous nerve
cavernous sinus
extracavernous
intercavernous
intracavernous
noncavernous
paracavernous
pericavernous
cavern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăv'ən
ipa: /ˈkav.ən/
ipa: /ˈkav.n̩/
enpr: kăv'ərn
ipa: /ˈkæv.ɚn/
ipa: /ˈkæv.ɹən/
rhymes: -ævə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: caverns
Etymology: From Middle English caverne, borrowing from Old French caverne, from Latin caverna (“hollow, cavity, cave”), from cavus (“hollow, excavated, concave”).
Senses: glosses: A large cave.
examples: text: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.
ref: 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 55:
glosses: An underground chamber.
examples: text: a dark cavern of a shop
glosses: A large, dark place or space.
Derived terms: cavernful
cavernicolous
cavernitis
cavernlike
cavernoma
cavernous
incaverned
mesocavern
cavern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kăv'ən
ipa: /ˈkav.ən/
ipa: /ˈkav.n̩/
enpr: kăv'ərn
ipa: /ˈkæv.ɚn/
ipa: /ˈkæv.ɹən/
rhymes: -ævə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: caverns
form: caverning
form: caverned
form: caverned
Etymology: From Middle English caverne, borrowing from Old French caverne, from Latin caverna (“hollow, cavity, cave”), from cavus (“hollow, excavated, concave”).
Senses: examples: text: catacombs caverning the hillsides
synonyms: hollow
cave
glosses: To form a cavern or deep depression in.
glosses: To put into a cavern.
nihilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nihilations
Etymology: From Latin nihilō (“to reduce to nothing”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The act of nihilating.
Related terms: nihilate
entangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtaŋ.ɡəl/
ipa: /ɛnˈtaŋ.ɡəl/
ipa: [ɛnˈtaŋ.ɡl̩]
ipa: /ɪnˈtæŋ.ɡəl/
other: /ɛnˈtaŋ.ɡəl/
Forms: form: entangles
form: entangling
form: entangled
form: entangled
form: entangel
form: intangle
Etymology: From Middle English entanglen (“to involve [someone] in difficulty”, “to embarrass”). Equivalent to en- + tangle.
Senses: examples: text: The dolphins became entangled in a fishing net.
glosses: To tangle up; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated.
glosses: To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult.
examples: text: But when I turn away, / Thou, willing me to stay, / Wooest not, nor vainly wranglest; / But, looking fixedly the while, / All my bounding heart entanglest, / In a golden-netted smile; […]
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Madeleine”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza 3, page 19:
synonyms: perplex
bewilder
puzzle
glosses: To ensnare.
glosses: To involve in difficulties or embarrassments; to embarrass, puzzle, or distract by adverse or perplexing circumstances, interests, demands, etc.; to hamper; to bewilder.
Derived terms: entangleable
entanglon
hydroentangle
interentangle
unentangle
Related terms: entanglement
entangler
entangling
megaliter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaliters
Etymology: From mega- + liter.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of megalitre One million liters.
Related terms: kiloliter
umpty-umpth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʌmptiˌʌmpθ/
Etymology: From umpty-ump + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Before dialing his office, he skimmed his trial notes, trying for the umpty-umpth time to poke a hole in the prosecution's case. For more than three days, witness by witness, the task had grown more formidable
ref: 2005, David A. Weiss, Paralegal . Paramour:
glosses: Umpteenth.
kiloliter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiloliters
Etymology: From kilo- + liter.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kilolitre One thousand liters.
Related terms: kilo-
liter
megaliter
decaliter
gigaliter
decaliter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decaliters
Etymology: From deca- + liter.
Senses: glosses: US spelling of decalitre.
gigaliter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigaliters
Etymology: From giga- + liter.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gigalitre.
Related terms: giga-
nanoliter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoliters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nanolitre One billionth of a liter; 10⁻⁹ of a liter. Symbol: nl.
Derived terms: subnanoliter
fore edge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fore edges
form: foredge
Etymology: From fore- + edge.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he fore-edge of this is arm'd with a multitude of little bristles, or Tenter-hooks […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXVIII:
glosses: The front edge of something.
glosses: The front edge of something.
The edge of a book, leaf, or illustration furthest from the backbone.
microliter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microliters
Etymology: From micro- + liter.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of microlitre One millionth (10⁻⁶) of a liter. Symbol µl.
Derived terms: submicroliter
mischance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈtʃɑːns/
Forms: form: mischances
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman meschance, Old French meschance, meschaunce.
Senses: examples: text: But let this same be presently perform'd / Even when men's minds are wild, lest more mischance / On plots and errors happen.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: I write gaily enough, for there is no use in bewailing such a hopeless mischance.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 73, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: mishap
word: misluck
word: adverseness
word: adversity
word: bad luck
word: hard luck
word: ill luck
word: mischance
word: misfortune
word: mishap
word: misluck
word: tough luck
word: unfortunateness
word: unluck
word: unluckiness
glosses: Bad luck, misfortune.
examples: text: He doth miraculously protect from thieves, incursions, sword, fire, and all violent mischances […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 3:
synonyms: adversity
misfortune
antonyms: fortuity
glosses: A mishap, an unlucky circumstance.
Derived terms: mischanceful
mischancy
mischance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈtʃɑːns/
Forms: form: mischances
form: mischancing
form: mischanced
form: mischanced
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman meschance, Old French meschance, meschaunce.
Senses: glosses: To undergo (a misfortune); to suffer (something unfortunate).
footer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʊtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: footers
Etymology: From Middle English footer, equivalent to foot + -er.
Senses: glosses: A footgoer; pedestrian
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents or number pages. (Compare foot in printing.)
examples: text: The new boat is a six-footer.
glosses: Something that measures a stated number of feet in some dimension.
examples: text: a right-footer
glosses: Someone who has a preference for using a certain foot.
Related terms: left-footer
right-footer
seven-footer
six-footer
ten-footer
footer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʊtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: footers
Etymology: From football + -er (“Oxford -er”).
Senses: glosses: Football / soccer.
examples: text: […] punting a footer around the quad on a beautiful day like today, not frowsting in their studies.
ref: 2016, John Owens, A Month of Sundays:
glosses: A football.
footer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʊtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: footers
form: footering
form: footered
form: footered
form: foutre
form: fouter
Etymology: 18th century. From fouter, foutre (“valueless thing”), possibly from French foutre (“to lecher”), from Latin futuere (“to fuck”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to hit”).
Senses: synonyms: word: fidget
word: fuss
word: trifle
word: arse about
word: arse around
word: bludge
word: bum around
word: cabbage
word: clown around
word: dally
word: dawdle
word: dick about
word: dick around
word: diddle
word: dilly-dally
word: dretch
word: drumble
word: faff
word: faff about
word: faff around
word: fanny about
word: fanny around
word: fart about
word: fart around
word: fiddle about
word: fiddle around
word: fool about
word: fool around
word: footle
word: forslow
word: goof around
word: goof off
word: hang about
word: hang around
word: hang out
word: horse around
word: idle
word: jerk off
word: lallygag
word: lamp
word: laze
word: laze about
word: laze around
word: linger
word: loaf
word: loaf about
word: loaf around
word: loiter
word: lollop
word: lollygag
word: mess around
word: mill about
word: mill around
word: muck about
word: muck around
word: piddle
word: pingle
word: stand by
word: tarry
word: tool around
word: waste time
word: while
glosses: To meddle with or pass time without accomplishing anything meaningful.
Derived terms: footle
bashful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈbæʃfəɫ]
ipa: [ˈbæʃfʊɫ]
Forms: form: more bashful
form: most bashful
form: bashfull
Etymology: 16th-century apheresis of abashed + -ful (“full of”).
Senses: glosses: Shy; not liking to be noticed; socially timid.
examples: text: a bashful look
text: “Have you done something to your hair?”
“I just ran a comb through it,” shrugged the vicar.
“Well, it looks delightful.”
“How delightful of you to say so.” Auntie Flip and the vicar shared bashful grins. Frank had never witnessed his babysitter behave like this before.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Indicating bashfulness.
Synonyms: shy
blushful
sheepish
Derived terms: bashful bladder
bashfully
bashfulness
overbashful
unbashful
mutineer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mutineers
Etymology: From French mutinier.
Senses: glosses: Someone who participates in mutiny.
mutineer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mutineers
form: mutineering
form: mutineered
form: mutineered
Etymology: From French mutinier.
Senses: glosses: To mutiny.
indignity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɪɡ.nɪ.ti/
Forms: form: indignities
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin indignitās, indignitātem. Equivalent to indign + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: public indignity
text: humiliating indignity
text: He suffered the indignity of being ignored.
text: The prisoners endured many indignities.
glosses: degradation, debasement or humiliation
glosses: an affront to one's dignity or pride
Related terms: indign
indignant
indignation
dignity
debasement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbeɪsmənt/
rhymes: -eɪsmənt
Forms: form: debasements
Etymology: From debase + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: His large water-dog was acquainted with the fact, and upon the approach of his master, betrayed his sense of inferiority by a sanctity of deportment, a debasement of the ears, and a dropping of the lower jaw not altogether unworthy of a dog.
ref: 1832, Edgar Allan Poe, Bon Bon:
text: She had given herself to Darrow, and concealed the episode from Owen Leath, with no more apparent sense of debasement than the vulgarest of adventuresses.
ref: 1912, Edith Wharton, chapter 33, in The Reef, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company:
text: There's something ugly and fascinating about reading such intimate tales of debasement and depression and failure and self-doubt.
ref: 2009, Gilbert Cruz, "The Many Faces of Addiction (Book review of America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life by Benoit Denizet-Lewis)," Time, 12 Jan.
glosses: The act of debasing or the state of being debased; a lowering or degradation, especially in character or quality.
glosses: The lowering of the value of a currency by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.
murrain
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌɹ(ɪ)n/
ipa: /-ɹeɪn/
ipa: /ˈmʌɹən/
Forms: form: more murrain
form: most murrain
Etymology: The noun is derived from Late Middle English morein, morine, moreyn (“(widespread) death; widespread sickness, plague; fatal disease; carnage; carrion”), from Anglo-Norman morine, mourine, moreyn (“death; widespread sickness, plague; carrion; cattle disease”), Middle French morine, and Old French morine, mourine, murine (“widespread sickness, plague; animal which has died from a disease”), from Late Latin morina (“plague”), probably from Latin morior (“to die; to decay, wither”).
The adjective and adverb are derived from the noun.
Cognates
* Italian morìa (“plague”)
* Latin morticīnus (“that has died naturally, dead; (relational) carrion”) (Medieval Latin morticinium)
* Occitan moria (“death; plague”)
* Old French morie (“death”) mourie (“flesh of animals that have died of disease”) (Middle French murie)
* Portuguese morrinha (“cattle plague”)
* Spanish morriña (“cattle plague”)
Senses: examples: text: It is a murrion crafty drab, and froward to be pleaſed.
ref: c. 1553 (date written), “S.” [pseudonym; attributed to William Stevenson], […] Gammer Gurtons Nedle: […], London: […] Thomas Colwell, published 1575, →OCLC, Act II, scene iv, signature C, verso:
text: La there; And that ſame's a murrain vviſe boy, if you mark him; and vvill ſee a thing, I vvarrant you, as ſoon as the vviſeſt of us all, vvere he tvvice as old again.
ref: a. 1664 (date written), Lord Viscount Fawlkland [i.e., Henry Cary, 4th Viscount Falkland], The Mariage Night, London: […] W[illiam] G[odbid] for R[obert] Crofts […], published 1664, →OCLC, Act III, page 25:
synonyms: word: murrainly
word: acutely
word: awfully
word: beyond
word: damn
word: drastically
word: exceedingly
word: extraordinarily
word: highly
word: hugely
word: immensely
word: insanely
word: intensely
word: jolly
word: murrain
word: severely
word: strikingly
word: terribly
word: violently
word: wicked
word: wildly
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: Used as an intensifier: extremely, very.
repulse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpʌls/
Forms: form: repulses
form: repulsing
form: repulsed
form: repulsed
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin repulsus, from repellere (“to drive back”), from re- (“back”) + pellere (“to drive”).
For spelling, as in pulse, the -e (on -lse) is so the end is pronounced /ls/, rather than /lz/ as in pulls, and does not change the vowel (‘u’). Compare else, false, convulse.
Senses: examples: text: to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy
text: If we fail to repulse the enemy within the gates--unemployment, poverty, disorganized agriculture and the like--from whence may we expect the united strength and clear purpose to repulse any outside force?
ref: 1939 December 5, J. W. Studebaker, Democracy Shall Not Be Plowed Under, page 9:
glosses: To repel or drive back.
examples: text: to repulse a suitor
text: At the end of a week, she could bear the suspense no longer, and so went humbly to her old home and sought forgiveness. She was not repulsed, but her reception was cold; and this hurt her almost as badly.
ref: 1850, T. S. Arthur, “Happy on a Little”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 89:
glosses: To reject or rebuff.
examples: text: The smell of rotting food repulsed me.
text: I find your conduct reprehensible, disgusting, and it repulses me, the way a mongoose repulses a snake.
glosses: To cause revulsion in; to repel.
repulse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpʌls/
Forms: form: repulses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin repulsus, from repellere (“to drive back”), from re- (“back”) + pellere (“to drive”).
For spelling, as in pulse, the -e (on -lse) is so the end is pronounced /ls/, rather than /lz/ as in pulls, and does not change the vowel (‘u’). Compare else, false, convulse.
Senses: glosses: The act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
glosses: Refusal, rejection or repulsion.
Related terms: repel
repellent
repulsion
repulsive
pulse
thrawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrawls
Senses: examples: text: He placed the side of beef on the thrawl.
glosses: A stone slab or shelf used to keep food cool in a larder or pantry, in the days before refrigeration was domestically available.
twinkling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪŋklɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋklɪŋ
Forms: form: more twinkling
form: most twinkling
Etymology: From Middle English twynkelynge, equivalent to twinkle + -ing.
Senses: synonyms: atwinkle
glosses: Sparkling intermittently.
twinkling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪŋklɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋklɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English twynkelynge, equivalent to twinkle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twinkle
twinkling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪŋklɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋklɪŋ
Forms: form: twinklings
Etymology: From Middle English twynkelyng, twynkelynge, equivalent to twinkle + -ing.
Senses: synonyms: blinking
strobing
glosses: A shining with fast intermittent light.
examples: text: The housework was done in a twinkling.
synonyms: word: blink of an eye
word: eyeblink
word: twinkle
word: bat of an eye
word: bit
word: blink of an eye
word: crack
word: eyeblink
word: flash
word: glimpse
word: half a mo
word: instant
word: jiff
word: jiffy
word: jot
word: minute
word: mo
word: moment
word: New York minute
word: New York second
word: no time
word: sec
word: second
word: span
word: split-second
word: spurt
word: stound
word: tick
word: trice
word: twink
word: twinkle
word: twinkling
word: while
glosses: A very short period, notionally the time it takes to blink the eyes.
Derived terms: in the twinkling of a bedpost
in the twinkling of a bedstaff
in the twinkling of an eye
infirmity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɜːmɪti/
ipa: /ɪnˈfɜɹməti/
Forms: form: infirmities
Etymology: From infirm + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: physical infirmity
text: mental infirmity
text: suffer from an infirmity
text: He bore the weight of old age and physical infirmity.
text: Despite her infirmity, she remained mentally sharp.
synonyms: caducity
glosses: feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.
glosses: a moral weakness or defect
Related terms: word: infirm
varlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɑːlət/
Forms: form: varlets
Etymology: From Middle English varlet, varlette, from Old French varlet, variant of vadlet, vallet, vaslet. Doublet of valet.
Senses: examples: text: The varlet, or follower of the merchant, who was still a youth, though his vigorous frame and embrowned cheek denoted equally severe exercise and rude exposure, started and reddened at this free inquiry, which was enforced by a hand slapped familiarly on his knee, and such a squeeze of the leg as denoted the freedom of the camp.
ref: 1840, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter I, in Mercedes of Castile: Or, The Voyage to Cathay. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, page 19:
text: The Winchester Manorhouse has fled bodily, like a Dream of the old Night […]. House and people, royal and episcopal, lords and varlets, where are they?
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 8, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
glosses: A servant or attendant.
examples: text: [T]here was a little, sleek, fat clerk of the name of Chaucer, who was so apt at rondel, sirvente, or tonson, that no man dare give back a foot from the walls, lest he find it all set down in his rhymes and sung by every underling and varlet in the camp.
ref: 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The White Company, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company […], →OCLC, page 138:
glosses: Specifically, a youth acting as a knight's attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood.
examples: text: [W]hen the worlde is fraughted with ſo manye varlettes, that it will be a long time ere a man ſhall diſcerne the faythful from the Hipocrites.
ref: 1574, Augustine Marlorate [i.e., Augustin Marlorat], “[Revelation 2:2]”, in Arthur Golding, transl., A Catholike Exposition vpon the Reuelation of Sainct Iohn. […], London: […] H[enry] Binneman, for L[ucas] Harison, and G[eorge] Bishop, →OCLC, folio 32, recto:
text: My lady to be called a nasty Scotch wh–re by such a varlet!—To be sure I wish I had knocked his brains out with the punchbowl.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: He was false, cunning, vulgar, ignoble; the cheapest kind of human product […] The white, puffy mother, with the high forehead, in the corner there, looked more like a lady; but if she were one, it was all the more shame to her to have mated with such a varlet, Ransom said to himself, making use, as he did generally, of terms of opprobrium extracted from the older English literature.
ref: 1885–1886, Henry James, chapter VIII, in The Bostonians […], London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 16 February 1886, →OCLC, 1st book, pages 57–58:
glosses: A rogue or scoundrel.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: The jack.
trumpery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌmpəɹi/
Forms: form: trumperies
Etymology: From Middle English trompery, from Middle French tromperie (“deceit”).
Senses: examples: text: I have ſold all my Tromperie: not a counterfeit Stone, not a Ribbon, Glaſſe, Pomander, Browch, Table-booke, Ballad, Knife, Tape, Gloue, Shooe-tye, Bracelet, Horne-Ring, to keepe my Pack from faſting: […]
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 IV, scene iii], page 296, columns 1–2:
text: PROSPERO.^([To Ariel]) / This was well done, my bird. / Thy shape invisible retain thou still: / The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither / For stale to catch these thieves.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: Worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk.
examples: text: Now upon the coming of Chriſt, very much, tho' not all, of this idolatrous Trumpery and Superſtition was driven out of the World: […]
ref: 1698, Robert South, “The Lineal Descent of Jesus of Nazareth from David by his Blessed Mother the Virgin Mary. Proved in a Discourse on Rev. xxii. 16.”, in Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions, volume III, London: […] Tho[mas] Warren for Thomas Bennet […], →OCLC:
glosses: Nonsense.
examples: text: 1640, Richard Greenwey, The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie, publ. by Richard Whitaker, 182.
Agrippina after this, more mad and wilfull then ever, gave out threatning and thundring ſpeeches: yet not forbearing the Princes eares, but crying, that Britannicus was now growen to mans eſtate : a true and worthy plant to receive his fathers Empire, which a grafted ſon by adoption now poſſeſſed by the injury and trumpery of his mother.
text: In that case there is no need for me to write about the trumpery scandal by which I was the sufferer—the innocent sufferer, I positively assert.
ref: 1859 November 26 – 1860 August 25, [William] Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, […], published 1860, →OCLC:
glosses: Deceit; fraud.
trumpery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌmpəɹi/
Etymology: From Middle English trompery, from Middle French tromperie (“deceit”).
Senses: examples: text: He earnestly exhorted them all to be earnest in their studies, and to think nothing beneath them. Let them not pass over any cases as unimportant; for they must remember that some of the greatest principles of the law had been enunciated out of the most apparently trumpery cases that had come before the judges.
ref: 1872 February 3, A. R. Adams, “The Birmingham Law Students' Society”, in The Law Times: The Journal and Record of the Law and the Lawyers, volume LII, London: Published at the Office of the Law Times, Wellington Street, Strand, W.C., →OCLC, pages 259–260:
text: I also remember the old Royal Mews that stood on the site of the present trumpery National Gallery, with its too suggestive pepper-boxes; […]
ref: 1887, Charles Mackay, Through the Long Day: Or, Memorials of a Literary Life, page 113:
text: “Of all the trumpery moonshine!” Mr Wilkins exploded. “What do you think you're playing at, Jennings!”
ref: 1954, Anthony Buckeridge, According to Jennings, London: William Collins, Sons, OCLC 255905255; republished London: Stratus Books, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7551-0165-8, page 136
glosses: Gaudy but worthless.
horn dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horn dogs
Senses: examples: text: Brandon has five [kids]. Then again, he always was a horn dog!
ref: 2003, Mark A. Roeder, This Time Around:
text: In spite of this, green M&Ms do not turn you into a raging horn dog, although Lord knows, people have tried.
ref: 2003, P. T. Elliot, E. M. Lowry, Cracker Ingenuity:
text: She was a horn dog, even as she pushed seventy.
ref: 2003, Loren McLeod, Settling in Sandspur:
glosses: Alternative spelling of horndog.
trull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌl/
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: trulls
Etymology: From French tous les trois (“all three”).
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: A set of three special trump cards used in some Tarock games, having a higher value than the other trumps.
breeders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breeder
bascule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbæskjuːl/
Forms: form: bascules
Etymology: From French bascule.
Senses: examples: text: In the late eighties and early nineties several new types of movable spans were advocated, including the pull-back draw, the jackknife span, the bob-tail swing, the horizontal-folding draw, the shearpole draw, the gyratory lift, the transbordeur, the double-cantilever swing, several types of bascule, and the vertical lift.
ref: 1932, Journal of the Association of Chinese & American Engineers, page 10:
text: The study sample contains nine rolling-lift bascules of the type invented by Chicago engineer William Scherzer in 1893 , and refined by the engineering staff of the Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Company, also of Chicago.
ref: 1986, Jeffrey A. Hess, Historic Highway Bridges in Wisconsin, page 87:
text: Look at those towering structures. It’s the first combination of bascule and suspension bridge ever attempted. Most innovative. [In reference to w:Tower Bridge.]
ref: 2009, w:Sherlock Holmes (2009 film), spoken by Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.):
glosses: A counterbalanced structure having one end that rises as the other lowers.
examples: text: A device for coupling and releasing the trigger mechanism in a bascule of a gun
ref: 1997, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The portion of a breech-loading firearm that pivots open in order to allow access to the chamber.
Derived terms: basculation
bascule bridge
Related terms: bacule
seesaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sô
ipa: /ˈsiː.sɔː/
rhymes: -iːsɔ
enpr: sô
ipa: /ˈsi.sɔ/
enpr: sä
ipa: /ˈsiː.sɑː/
rhymes: -iːsɑ
Forms: form: seesaws
form: see-saw
Etymology: Probably a frequentative imitative of rhythmic back-and-forth, up-and-down or zigzagging motion, such as teeter-totter, zigzag, flip-flop, ping pong, etc., under the umbrella term of reduplication; also likely influenced by the verbs see and saw of either present or past tense.
Senses: synonyms: teeter-totter
glosses: A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.
glosses: A series of up-and-down movements.
examples: text: He has been arguing in a circle; there is thus a see-saw between the hypothesis and the fact.
ref: 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
text: Manchester Citykept up their unbeaten start to the Premier League season with victory over QPR in an entertaining see-saw encounter at Loftus Road.
ref: 2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A series of alternating movements or feelings.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormal breathing pattern caused by airway obstruction, characterized by paradoxical chest and abdominal movement.
Derived terms: Tipper and See-Saw Time
seesaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sô
ipa: /ˈsiː.sɔː/
rhymes: -iːsɔ
enpr: sô
ipa: /ˈsi.sɔ/
enpr: sä
ipa: /ˈsiː.sɑː/
rhymes: -iːsɑ
Forms: form: seesaws
form: seesawing
form: seesawed
form: seesawed
form: see-saw
Etymology: Probably a frequentative imitative of rhythmic back-and-forth, up-and-down or zigzagging motion, such as teeter-totter, zigzag, flip-flop, ping pong, etc., under the umbrella term of reduplication; also likely influenced by the verbs see and saw of either present or past tense.
Senses: glosses: To use a seesaw.
examples: text: When I think of your kisses / My mind see-saws
ref: 1971, “All I Want”, in Blue, performed by Joni Mitchell:
glosses: To fluctuate.
examples: text: He see-saws himself to and fro.
ref: 1832, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eugene Aram:
glosses: To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.
seesaw
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sô
ipa: /ˈsiː.sɔː/
rhymes: -iːsɔ
enpr: sô
ipa: /ˈsi.sɔ/
enpr: sä
ipa: /ˈsiː.sɑː/
rhymes: -iːsɑ
Forms: form: more seesaw
form: most seesaw
form: see-saw
Etymology: Probably a frequentative imitative of rhythmic back-and-forth, up-and-down or zigzagging motion, such as teeter-totter, zigzag, flip-flop, ping pong, etc., under the umbrella term of reduplication; also likely influenced by the verbs see and saw of either present or past tense.
Senses: glosses: fluctuating.
fluctuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌkt͡ʃu.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈflʌktju.eɪt/
Forms: form: fluctuates
form: fluctuating
form: fluctuated
form: fluctuated
Etymology: First attested in the 1630'; borrowed from Latin flūctuātus, perfect passive participle of flūctuō (“(of the sea) to surge, swell; (of man) to waver, fluctuate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To vary irregularly; to swing.
examples: text: One of them, at great Expence of Algebra, proves, that the Motes, which in Scotomias, we seem to have in our Eyes, are not real Bodies fluctuating in them.
ref: 1719, William Vickers, An easie and safe method for curing the King's Evil, page 39:
glosses: To undulate.
examples: text: I fluctuated between wishing he was back home and wishing I'd never met him.
glosses: To be irresolute; to waver.
glosses: To cause to vary irregularly.
glosses: To rise and fall as a wave; to be tossed up and down the waves.
Derived terms: cofluctuate
Related terms: fluctuant
fluctuation
fluctuate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌkt͡ʃu.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈflʌktju.eɪt/
Forms: form: more fluctuate
form: most fluctuate
Etymology: First attested in the 1630'; borrowed from Latin flūctuātus, perfect passive participle of flūctuō (“(of the sea) to surge, swell; (of man) to waver, fluctuate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Tossed up and down the waves.
glosses: Wavering, fickle.
Tridentine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tɹaɪˈdɛntaɪn/
/tɹɪˈdɛntaɪn/
/ˈtɹɪdəntin/
Forms: form: more Tridentine
form: most Tridentine
Etymology: From Latin Tridentīnus (“pertaining to Trent”).
Senses: glosses: Relating to Trent, Italy.
glosses: Relating to the Council of Trent.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: Pertaining to the form of Mass promulgated at the Council of Trent, often called the Tridentine Mass.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: Aligned with the traditionalist Catholic movement.
Tridentine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɹaɪˈdɛntaɪn/
/tɹɪˈdɛntaɪn/
/ˈtɹɪdəntin/
Forms: form: Tridentines
Etymology: From Latin Tridentīnus (“pertaining to Trent”).
Senses: glosses: A strong follower of the Tridentine Creed established at the Council of Trent.
aecium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈiːs.i.əm/
Forms: form: aecia
form: aeciums
form: æcium
Etymology: From New Latin aecium, from Ancient Greek αἰκίᾱ (aikíā, “injury, insult”). However Merriam-Webster relates that aecium is a back-formation from aecidium and is not related to the Greek αἰκίᾱ (aikíā). The word aecium was "introduced as a substitute for aecidium by the Purdue University plant pathologist J. C. Arthur (1850–1942) in an effort to reform terminology for rust fungi; see Terminology of the Spore-Structures in the Uredinales, Botanical Gazette, vol. 39 (Mar., 1905), pp. 219-22."
Senses: examples: text: 1932 August, Ralph Ulysses Cotter, Factors Affecting the Development of the Aecial Stage of Puccinia Graminis, US Dept of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 314, page 29,
The writer therefore made observations to determine the conditions under which the aecia open and discharge spores most readily.
text: The receptive hyphae with binucleate cells eventually form the basal cells of the aecium.[…]Many cup-like structures, called aecia, appear on the lower surface of leaf.
ref: 2010, N. K. Soni, Vandana Soni, Fundamentals of Botany, volume 1, page 127:
text: It is a heteroecious rust and its aecia are produced on species of Oxalis, namely O. stricta, according to Arthur (1929).
ref: 2010, M. S. Patil, Anjali Patil, “16: The Rust Fungi: Systematics, Diseases and Their Management”, in Arun Arya, Analía Edith Perelló, editors, Management of Fungal Plant Pathogens, page 209:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cuplike fruiting structure of some parasitic rust fungi that contains chains of aeciospores.
Related terms: aecial
aecidium
pycnium
zachun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a dialectal variant of Arabic زَقُّوم (zaqqūm).
Senses: glosses: An oil extracted by from the fruit of a small thorny tree (Balanites aegyptiaca), which has healing properties.
glosses: The tree itself, found in northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
zaffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: zaffers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zaffre.
deviancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːvi.ənsiː/
Forms: form: deviancies
Senses: glosses: The state of being deviant, abnormal or anomalous.
Synonyms: abnormality
enormity
weirdness
strangeness
degenerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈdʒɛn(ə)ɹətɪv/
Forms: form: more degenerative
form: most degenerative
Etymology: From degenerate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by or causing degeneration.
Derived terms: antidegenerative
atherodegenerative
axodegenerative
cardiodegenerative
cytodegenerative
degenerative disc disease
degenerative joint disease
degeneratively
erythrodegenerative
gliodegenerative
heredodegenerative
myodegenerative
neurodegenerative
nondegenerative
osteodegenerative
prodegenerative
vasodegenerative
Related terms: degenerate
esurient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈsjʊə.ɹɪ.ənt/
ipa: /ɪˈʃʊə.ɹi.ənt/
ipa: /iː-/
ipa: /ɛ-/
ipa: /ə-/
ipa: /ɪˈsʊ.ɹi.ənt/
ipa: /ə-/
ipa: /-ˈzʊ-/
Forms: form: esurients
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ēsurient, ēsurientem, from ēsuriēns (“hungering”), present participle of ēsuriō (“to be hungry, to hunger for something”), a desiderative verb from edō (“to eat”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti (“to eat”)) + -turiō (suffix indicating a desire for an action).
Senses: examples: text: Sure it is that he [Philip Nye] was a moſt dangerous and ſeditious Perſon, a politick Pulpit driver of Independency, an inſatiable eſurient after riches, and what not to raiſe a family and to heap up wealth.
ref: 1691, [Anthony Wood], “PHILIPP NYE”, in Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume II (Completing the Whole Work), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […], →OCLC, column 370:
text: [S]ome noble sportsmen have, I hear, with a view to improve their [i.e., young foxes'] physique and to initiate them early into training, supplied the young esurients and their mammas and papas with Spratt's dog biscuits, by a due course of which food it may be supposed, theoretically, they would be put on a level with their pursuers so far as condition went, while their wily instincts would be so much weight in their favour in the great handicap 'twixt fox and hound.
ref: 1878, M[aurice] O’Connor Morris, chapter II, in Hibernia Venatica, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: One who is greedy or hungry.
Related terms: esculent
aeciospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: [ˈisiəˌspɔː]
[ˈiʃiəˌspɔː]
Forms: form: aeciospores
form: æciospore
Etymology: From aecium + spore.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A binucleate spore of a rust fungus, formed in a chainlike series in an aecium.
Related terms: aecidium
aecium
tits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Senses: glosses: plural of tit
tits
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Senses: examples: text: "Oh tits, a slight mishap, I've taken his fuckin' feet off!"
ref: 1999, Robin Mitchell, Grave Robbers:
text: "Oh, tits. We can't do anything with those."
ref: 2007, Damian Tarnopolsky, Lanzmann and Other Stories:
glosses: Used to express dismay or annoyance.
examples: 2000, "The Tooth Fairy's Tats 2000" (season 4, episode 1), South Park
Eric Cartman: Alright! Kenny's in, you guys! Tits!
glosses: Used to express excitement.
tits
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Forms: form: more tits
form: most tits
Senses: examples: text: Ah, man, I dunno what you're talking about, to me, beef broccoli pizza is tits!
text: 2000, "The Tooth Fairy's Tats 2000" (season 4, episode 1), South Park
Eric Cartman: Yeah! This is so tits!
Ms. Cartman: Don't say "tits", Eric. Cartman: Oh, I mean this is so cool!
text: 2003, The Venture Bros., Dean Venture,
"This place is tits!"
synonyms: the tits
glosses: Very good; awesome; amazing.
disasterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of disastrous.
focused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊ.kəst/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.kəst/
Forms: form: more focused
form: most focused
form: focussed
Senses: glosses: Directing all one's efforts towards achieving a particular goal.
glosses: Dealing with some narrowly defined aspects of a broader phenomenon.
Synonyms: sense: directing all one's efforts towards a goal
word: concentrated
word: determined
word: single-minded
sense: dealing with narrow aspects
word: narrow-scope
word: centered
word: focused
word: inspissated
word: intensive
word: telic
word: intent
Hyponyms: word: all ears
word: bound up
word: determined
word: diligent
word: earnest
word: gathered
word: single-minded
word: transfixed
word: hyperfocused
Derived terms: body-focused repetitive behavior disorder
electrofocused
focused deterrence
focusedness
hyperfocused
laser-focused
trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy
trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy
trauma focused cognitive behavioural therapy
tri-focused
underfocused
Related terms: word: methodical
focused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊ.kəst/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.kəst/
Forms: form: focussed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of focus