cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
buttering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterings
Senses: examples: text: It is interesting that the sentences that Davidson uses in his arguments for events are all about genuine flesh and blood events: butterings of toast, explosions of boilers, raisings of arms, kickings of Shem and Sean and the like.
ref: 1986, R. Barcan Marcus, G. J. W. Dorn, P. Weingartner, Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science VII:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: The action of the verb to butter
The application of butter (n.) to something.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
snowboarding
sports
glosses: The action of the verb to butter
The action of a rider having to butter in an acrobatic maneuver.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
snowboarding
sports
glosses: The action of the verb to butter
The action of a rider having to butter in an acrobatic maneuver.
The action of turning with only the tips (tail or nose) of skis or snowboards
Related terms: nosebuttering
tailbuttering
preceder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preceders
Etymology: From precede + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who precedes.
banged up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bang up
banged up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: My uncle has been banged up for ten years now; I haven't seen him in five.
glosses: Spending time in prison or jail.
examples: He is banged up: he suffers strain to left shoulder.
glosses: Physically injured or wounded.
Synonyms: sense: pending time in prison or jail
word: behind bars
sense: pending time in prison or jail
word: incarcerated
sense: pending time in prison or jail
word: imprisoned
sense: pending time in prison or jail
word: put away
sense: physically injured or wounded
word: hurt
word: imbrued
word: injured
word: wounded
jiggly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡ.əˌli/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡ.li/
rhymes: -ɪɡəli
Forms: form: jigglier
form: jiggliest
Etymology: From jiggle + -y.
Senses: glosses: that jiggles
Derived terms: jiggliness
Jigglypuff
jingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡli/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡli
Forms: form: jinglier
form: jingliest
Etymology: From jingle + -y.
Senses: glosses: that jingles, having a jingling sound.
jittery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪt.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪt.ə.ɹi/
Forms: form: jitterier
form: jitteriest
Etymology: From jitter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Those were all landmark moments to cherish. Just as appealing was the manner in which Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Milner cut swathes down either flank, albeit through flustered full-backs who had looked poorly positioned and horribly jittery from the start.
ref: 2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian:
glosses: nervy, jumpy, on edge
examples: jittery video playback
glosses: Having jitter, or unwanted signal characteristics.
Derived terms: jitterily
jitteriness
overjittery
unjittery
rimshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rimshots
form: rim shot
Etymology: From rim + shot.
Senses: glosses: A percussive note in which the drumstick hits both the head and the rim of the drum.
glosses: A percussive sting or flourish used to punctuate a joke in a cabaret or vaudeville act.
rim shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rim shots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rimshot.
jinn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: gin
Forms: form: jinns
form: jinn
form: jawan
form: jinnan
form: jinnah
form: genie
form: ginn
form: djinn
form: djinni
form: djinny
form: jinnee
form: jinni
form: jin
Etymology: Derived from Arabic جِنّ (jinn, collective noun) (singular جِنِّيّ (jinniyy)).
Senses: examples: text: Even the sad jinn within the graven image slept[.]
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 342:
qualifier: Arabic culture
glosses: A human-like spiritual or immaterial being, as opposed to al-ins (people), often invisible but able to manifest in form and also inhabit people or animals; origin of the genie of Western literature, film etc.
examples: text: There not only jewels but also dangerous jinn abide: the inconvenient or resisted psychological powers that we have not thought or dared to integrate into our lives.
ref: 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 8:
text: Surah 18:50: 'And We told the Angels "prostrate yourselves before Adam". So they all prostrated themselves, except Iblees who was one of the jinn.
ref: 2020, Abu-Hamdiyyah, Muhammad, The Qur'an: an introduction, Routledge, page 101:
text: The second context in which jinn occurs in the Qur'an is where we find both ins and jinn are mentioned together. Ins is a collective noun signifying humans, recognisable familiar human beings.
ref: 2020, Abu-Hamdiyyah, Muhammad, The Qur'an: an introduction, Routledge, page 101:
glosses: Such beings collectively.
Synonyms: jann
jinni
genie
Related terms: angel
ghoul
ifrit
jann
nasnas
shaitan
jinxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jinx
jitterbugger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jitterbuggers
Etymology: From jitterbug + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who dances the jitterbug.
jobholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jobholders
Etymology: From job + holder.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is employed in a regular job
joblessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jobless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being jobless or unemployed.
examples: text: Even if it were working perfectly, the stimulus would not come close to stemming the cascade of joblessness unleashed by this megarecession.
ref: 2009 July 11, Bob Herbert, “The Human Equation”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The phenomenon or level of unemployment in an economy.
Synonyms: unemployment
jocoseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jocose + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being jocose
joyfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɔɪfəlnəs/
Forms: form: joyfulnesses
Etymology: From joyful + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: word: joy
word: joyousness
word: blitheness
word: blithesomeness
word: cheerfulness
word: cheeriness
word: contentness
word: contentedness
word: delight
word: delightedness
word: elatedness
word: elation
word: exuberance
word: exuberantness
word: felicity
word: gaiety
word: gayness
word: gayfulness
word: gladness
word: gladsomeness
word: glee
word: gleefulness
word: gleesomeness
word: happiness
word: high spirits
word: hilarity
word: jolliness
word: jollity
word: joviality
word: jovialness
word: joy
word: joyfulness
word: joyousness
word: liss
word: merriment
word: merriness
word: mirth
word: mirthfulness
word: pleasedness
glosses: The state of being joyful.
Derived terms: unjoyfulness
joyousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joyousnesses
Etymology: From joyous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The bright sun, the sweet free air, brought their own joyousness with them; all nature seemed too glad for sorrow.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 319:
synonyms: word: joy
word: joyfulness
word: blitheness
word: blithesomeness
word: cheerfulness
word: cheeriness
word: contentness
word: contentedness
word: delight
word: delightedness
word: elatedness
word: elation
word: exuberance
word: exuberantness
word: felicity
word: gaiety
word: gayness
word: gayfulness
word: gladness
word: gladsomeness
word: glee
word: gleefulness
word: gleesomeness
word: happiness
word: high spirits
word: hilarity
word: jolliness
word: jollity
word: joviality
word: jovialness
word: joy
word: joyfulness
word: joyousness
word: liss
word: merriment
word: merriness
word: mirth
word: mirthfulness
word: pleasedness
glosses: The state of being joyous.
judiciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From judicious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being judicious
juiciness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juicinesses
Etymology: From juicy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being juicy.
jumpiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumpinesses
Etymology: From jumpy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Several times I thought I saw something, but it was only jumpiness. One of the others raised a hesitant false alarm.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:
glosses: The state of being jumpy.
justness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: justnesses
Etymology: From just + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being just; fairness
jocosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jocosities
Etymology: From jocose + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being jocose.
glosses: A jocose utterance.
jocundity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jocundities
Etymology: From Middle English jocundite, from Middle French jocundité, from Late Latin iōcunditās. By surface analysis, jocund + -ity. Doublet of jucundity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being jocund.
glosses: A jocund remark; a witticism.
materially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more materially
form: most materially
Etymology: From Middle English materialy; equivalent to material + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Tobacco, for instance, shrinks materially by frequent reshippings, and as all goods are warehoused as a convenience to importers, duties should be paid on what the importer receives.
ref: 1894, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, Opinions of Collectors of Customs Concerning Ad Valorem and Specific Rates of Duty on Imports:
glosses: In a material manner; with regard to physical things or characteristics.
examples: text: In cases of extreme thickening of the coats of the stomach, of a scirrhoid character, where the suffering patients are almost worn out with constant pain, such remedies, applied over the epigastrium, most materially alleviate the distress.
ref: 1839, Robley Dunglison, Dunglison's American medical library:
glosses: To a significant degree.
exquisitely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exquisitely
form: most exquisitely
Etymology: From exquisite + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Over the fish-dish — something sole-like, exquisitely seethed in a strange sauce, garnished with roots and fruits of the country — Tommy became sentimental.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 527:
glosses: In an exquisite manner.
examples: text: There was something exquisitely painful in the memories that crowded upon his mind: a thousand of Constance's daily acts of affection rose before him: neyer till this moment had he felt them unrequited; but now they were remembered like a reproach.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 282–283:
text: They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “2/2/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
glosses: Exceedingly; in the highest degree.
timidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪmɪdli/
Forms: form: more timidly
form: most timidly
Etymology: From timid + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His mother o'er her barm-cloth wide / Gazed forward somewhat timidly / The new-comer's bright weed to see.
ref: 1870, William Morris, “September: The Land East of the Sun and West of the Moon”, in The Earthly Paradise: A Poem, part III, London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, page 80:
text: The four young pigs who had protested when Napoleon abolished the Meetings raised their voices timidly, but they were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
glosses: In a timid manner.
Springer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States.
glosses: A town in Carter County, Oklahoma, United States.
job-sharing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From job + sharing.
Senses: glosses: An arrangement whereby multiple people are employed on a part-time basis to perform a job normally available to one working full-time, and remuneration is apportioned between them.
jocosely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jocosely
form: most jocosely
Etymology: From jocose + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Hurst interrupted, 'to have his name mixed up with shady people, as Ormond says; so, my dear! the long and short of it is, you must refuse her invitation to go there on this visit!' 'But I have accepted it.' 'Unaccept it then,' jocosely.
ref: 1880, Mrs. Harry Bennett-Edwards, In Sheep's Clothing, volume 2, page 154:
glosses: In a jocose manner.
jocundly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jocundly
form: most jocundly
Etymology: From jocund + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a jocund manner.
jokingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒoʊ.kɪŋ.li/
ipa: /ˈdʒəʊ.kɪŋ.liː/
ipa: [ˈdʒəʊ.kɪŋ.lɪ]
Forms: form: more jokingly
form: most jokingly
Etymology: From joking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: San Jose, the county seat, is jokingly referred to as “Man Jose” by the locals, and with good reason: In the 22 to 29 age cohort, Santa Clara County has 37,410 never-married, college-grad men versus 27,147 never-married, college-grad women.
ref: 2015, Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: In a joking manner.
Derived terms: half-jokingly
unjokingly
jollily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jollily
form: most jollily
Etymology: From Middle English jolily; equivalent to jolly + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Every servant in the family, from high to low, wished Tom success, and I can fancy, an’ please your honour, I see him this moment with his white dimity waistcoat and breeches, and hat a little o’one side, passing jollily along the street, swinging his stick, with a smile and a cheerful word for every body he met.
ref: 1782, Laurence Sterne, “Remainder of the Story of Trim’s Brother”, in The Beauties of Sterne: including all his pathetic tales, and most distinguished observations on life, London: T. Davies et al, page 74:
text: There’s a sermon now, writ in high heaven, and the sun goes through it every year, and yet comes out of it all alive and hearty. Jollily he, aloft there, wheels through toil and trouble […]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 99”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: [Albert, as scout leader:] Forward! Jollily forward!
ref: 1959 September 13, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 251:
text: They stiffened when they saw Hillier, ready to throw him a salute, but he waved at them jollily as he marched through, singing.
ref: 1966, Anthony Burgess, Tremor of Intent: An Eschatological Spy Novel, London: Heinemann, Part III, Chapter 3:
glosses: In a jolly manner.
jubilantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuː.bɪ.lənt.li/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuː.bə.lənt.li/
Forms: form: more jubilantly
form: most jubilantly
Etymology: From jubilant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The socialist press of the city jubilantly exploited this utterance, scattering it broadcast over San Francisco in tens of thousands of paper dodgers.
ref: 1910, Jack London, chapter 7, in Burning Daylight, part II:
text: Having written jubilantly home to the Secretary of State that his mission had succeeded, he was now faced with the necessity of writing again to confess that this success had been ephemeral.
ref: 1922, Rafael Sabatini, “chapter XXIV”, in Captain Blood:
glosses: With jubilation or triumph.
Synonyms: sense: with jubilation
word: delightedly
sense: with jubilation
word: elatedly
sense: with jubilation
word: joyfully
judgmentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more judgmentally
form: most judgmentally
form: judgementally
Etymology: From judgmental + -ly.
Senses: antonyms: nonjudgmentally
glosses: In a judgmental manner.
Derived terms: non-judgmentally
judicially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From judicial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a judicial manner.
Derived terms: nonjudicially
judiciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more judiciously
form: most judiciously
Etymology: From judicious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She knows how to ask questions judiciously: and it is a first requisite to make people feel it is easy to answer you; and, also, that their answer reflects credit on themselves.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 243–244:
text: “That applies to Tylenol tomorrow the same as it does today, the same as it did yesterday. That is the standard of care: to only use medications when indicated during pregnancy and judiciously,” Dr. DeNicola said.
ref: 2025 September 22, Azeen Ghorayshi, “Trump Issues Warning Based on Unproven Link Between Tylenol and Autism”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2025:
glosses: In a judicious manner.
juicily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more juicily
form: most juicily
Etymology: From juicy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a juicy manner.
jumpily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jumpily
form: most jumpily
Etymology: From jumpy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But when I sympathise and say that dating a pop star can't have helped, he says jumpily: "I think it's important to remember that when I started going out with her, she wasn't famous.
ref: 1999 December 20, “Sabine Durrant interview with Jamie Theakston”, in The Guardian:
glosses: nervously, or restlessly
examples: text: The bus drove jumpily along the unmade road.
glosses: unevenly
juridically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From juridical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a juridical manner.
justifiably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more justifiably
form: most justifiably
Etymology: From justifiable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a justifiable manner; with justification
Grand Guignol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: grand guignol
Etymology: Popular form of Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol.
Senses: glosses: A Parisian theatre which specialized in grotesque and grisly horror shows.
examples: text: I may remark, in passing, that I did not go to see any bullfights... . But if I had preferred a Grand Guignol thrill to a great experience of a great nation,... .
ref: 1926 June 19 [U.S. publication date in the Illustrated London News], G. K. Chesterton, "Spain and the Color Black", reprinted in, 1991, the Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, volume XXIV, The Illustrated London News, 1926-1928, Ignatius Press, pages 112-113
text: Hence the incomparably strange reincarnation of the cultural figure of the male homosexual as a predatory, determined invert, wrapped in a Grand Guignol cloak of degeneracy theory, and casting his lascivious eyes-and hands-out from the pages of Victorian sexology manuals and onto "our" children, and above all onto "our" sons.
ref: 1987, Simon Watney, "The Spectacle of AIDS", reprinted as chapter 13 of, 1993, Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Barale, and David M. Halperin (eds.), The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, Routledge, page 206
text: Everything quickly gets impossibly sensitive, aesthetic, ethereal, and opaquely lovely, yet there is a Grand Guignol thread running through it all that results in constant ominous tension, as though something dreadfully beautiful is going to happen at any moment-i.e., the author is going to turn queer.
ref: 1993, Florence King, Southern Ladies and Gentlemen, St. Martin's Press,, →ISBN, page 147:
text: Should we be surprised? It is not as though we haven't seen this stuff before in glossy, grand guignol crime series such as Luther and Ripper Street, with their artful depictions of lady corpses, all alabaster skin and wonkily splayed limbs, as men stand over them stifling their erections.
ref: 2018 June 16, Fiona Sturges, “Cattleprods! Severed tongues! Torture porn! Why I’ve stopped watching the Handmaid’s Tale”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2020:
glosses: That which thrives on grotesquery and gore.
Derived terms: Grande Dame Guignol
penstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penstocks
form: pentstock
Etymology: Perhaps from pen (“an enclosure”) + stock.
Senses: examples: text: It amazes him still, this effortless journey powered by the fall of water. Water surging through tunnel and penstock.
ref: 2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: A sluice or pipe which allows the controlled flow of water from behind a dam, typically routing it to a turbine of a power plant.
glosses: The barrel of a wooden pump.
patriation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patriations
Etymology: English; especially Canadian English. Back-formation from repatriation.
Senses: examples: text: The patriation of Canada's constitution from the United Kingdom took place in 1982.
glosses: The transfer of a governmental power from a former mother country to a newly independent one.
Related terms: patriate
polishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of polish
polishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polishings
Senses: glosses: verbal noun of polish: the action whereby something is polished.
glosses: An extract of partially milled rice.
Derived terms: apple-polishing
biopolishing
French polishing
polishing-bed
polishing-cask
polishing-mill
polishing-slate
polishing-snake
polishing-tin
rice polishings
polishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That makes shiny or smooth.
glosses: That refines.
carving knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carving knives
Senses: glosses: A large knife designed for cutting cooked turkey and similar dishes.
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A knife used to pare, cut, and smooth wood.
Derived terms: electric carving knife
carving knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carving knife
bevvy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛvi/
rhymes: -ɛvi
homophone: bevy
Forms: form: bevvies
Etymology: Clipping of beverage + -y (diminutive suffix)
Senses: examples: text: Well, she schlumphed her Vera down the screech at a rate of knots, zhooshed up the riah, checked the slap in the mirror behind the bar, straightened up one ogle fake riah that had come adrift, and bold as brass orderlied over as fast as she could manage in those bats and, in her best lips, asked, if she could parker the omi a bevvy.
ref: 1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 123:
text: 'Want some Lou Reed?' asked Spam.
'Nah. I'll stick to the bevvy.'
ref: 1998, Toni Davidson, Intoxication: An Anthology of Stimulant-based Writing, page 44:
glosses: Alcoholic beverage.
bevvy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛvi/
rhymes: -ɛvi
homophone: bevy
Forms: form: bevvies
form: bevvying
form: bevvied
form: bevvied
Etymology: Clipping of beverage + -y (diminutive suffix)
Senses: examples: text: Anthony and I bevvied together a few nights, but the truth is I couldn't keep up.
ref: 2019, Craig Ferguson, Riding the Elephant:
glosses: To get drunk.
quomodo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quomodos
Etymology: From Latin quōmodo (“In what way?”).
Senses: examples: text: In a Word, to hint at no more Reaſons for his Conduct, Mr. Northerton was deſirous of departing that Evening, and nothing remained for him but to contrive the Quomodo, which appeared to be a Matter of ſome Difficulty.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “The Conclusion of the foregoing Adventure”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII, page 132:
glosses: The means, way, or method (of doing something).
bevvies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bevvy
swigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɪɡz/
rhymes: -ɪɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of swig
swigs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɪɡz/
rhymes: -ɪɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swig
swigging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪɡɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swig
spins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪnz/
rhymes: -ɪnz
Forms: form: the spins
Senses: glosses: vertigo
spins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪnz/
rhymes: -ɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of spin
spins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪnz/
rhymes: -ɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spin
self-abasement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-abasements
Etymology: From self + abasement.
Senses: examples: text: Self-abasement is a state of excessive, unwarranted humility self-inflicted humiliation and degradation.
ref: year unknown, Dr. Ian Traill, The Pearl of Great Worth!: “The Vibe”, Traillblazer Bookshop →ISBN, page 105
text: This self-abasement is a widespread characteristic in Holland. Especially in the company of foreigners the Dutch tend to run their country down. By pretending to be less than they know they are, they prevent being belittled by other people.
ref: 2016, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Peter Geschiere, Evelien Tonkens, The Culturalization of Citizenship: Belonging and Polarization in a Globalizing World, Springer, →ISBN, page 54:
text: Self-abasement is a process whereby through criticizing, blaming, or otherwise derogating the self, the individual seeks to allay anxiety.
ref: 1991, Norman A. Polansky, Integrated Ego Psychology, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: The abasement of oneself.
oncologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oncologist
sumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sump
sumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sump
drains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of drain
drains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drain
abras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abra
wobbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "We thought everything was alright, then when Luke started to walk we noticed he got the wobbles, and they never left, eight months later he was diagnosed with A-T," she said.
ref: 2022 February 16, “Luke's wheeling his way to raising greater A-T awareness”, in NDIS:
glosses: Unsteadiness on one's feet, wheels, etc.
examples: text: England had the wobbles at 4 for 109 and a lead of 115.
ref: 2006, Roland Perry, The Ashes: A Celebration, Random House (Australia), →ISBN:
text: You'd have to be impressed with the way the right is stuffing up the post-election transition into opposition. It had the wobbles from the start, electing Peter Dutton as its leader and promptly trying to soften his image.
ref: 2022 June 22, Guy Rundle, “The right is coming apart — and Labor needs to step up and help it self-destruct”, in Crikey:
synonyms: yips
glosses: Nervousness which prevents someone from performing properly.
wobbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wobble
wobbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wobble
wobbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wobble
wobbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wobblings
Senses: glosses: The motion of something that wobbles.
wobbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wobble
ebbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛbz/
rhymes: -ɛbz
Senses: glosses: plural of ebb
ebbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛbz/
rhymes: -ɛbz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ebb
ebbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛbd/
rhymes: -ɛbd
Senses: examples: text: And the ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, Comes deared, by being lacked.
ref: 1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra:
text: But now, like the ebbed finances of one out of place, every thing seems to hang about it lose and empty.
ref: 1795, Charles Este, A Journey in the Year 1793, page 109:
text: They flushed hotly as they met by chance and their hands touched in the slack clasp of an ebbed friendship.
ref: 1917 January, Leonora Orem Rocheleau, “The Great Equation”, in The Mother's Magazine, volume 12, number 1, page 41:
text: Presided over by a political monster, with two sons waiting in the possible succession who had more than shown their own aptitude for cruelties that most of the good peace marchers will find nearly unthinkable without their being overcome by existential revulsion and fear, a regime that was certainly a continuing threat to those living under it and perceived, quite reasonable, as a potential if not immediate threat beyond its borders, Saddam's regime gave no grounds at all for confidence in the hypotesis of an “ebbed” future level of killing.
ref: 2005, Thomas Cushman, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, page 205:
text: My first clear—my first new memory is of waking, slowly, so slowly, with the languor of a fever patient whose crisis is past, in an ebbed, remote lucidity as unfamiliar as the feel of sheets.
ref: 2016, Sylvia Kelso, Source, page 502:
text: There were those still living, said Serik when I got back to the car, who had visited the graves since childhood and had watched as, decade by decade, the water below first withdrew, then further withdrew, until the vessels in their obsolescence were abandoned, circumscribed by a shrinking pond and then, as the water vanished, set down in the dry sediment, canted there as if by an ebbed tide that had failed to come back.
ref: 2018, William Atkins, The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places:
glosses: Having receded, or reduced in amount, intensity, or importance; diminished.
Derived terms: unebbed
ebbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛbd/
rhymes: -ɛbd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ebb
ebbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛbɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛbɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ebb
ebbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛbɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛbɪŋ
Forms: form: ebbings
Senses: examples: ebbings and flowings
glosses: The action of something that ebbs.
Synonyms: refluent
stabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stab
stabs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stab
achates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achate
acopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + cope + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inability to cope (function psychologically and socially) in one's home environment.
fag hags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fag hag
hags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæɡz/
rhymes: -æɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of hag
hags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæɡz/
rhymes: -æɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hag
swineherds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swineherd
valorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæləˌraɪz/
Forms: form: valorizes
form: valorizing
form: valorized
form: valorized
form: valorise
form: valourise
form: valourize
Etymology: Back-formation from valorization.
Senses: examples: text: […]noting his tendency “to valorise my father and, I'm afraid, to demonise her because of some of the tendencies she had: she was very harsh. That was a faint undertone to my 'idyllic' childhood, I suppose.”
ref: 2001 May 12, Robert Potts, quoting Paul Muldoon, “The poet at play”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Creating a historical dictionary for a variety of English valorises that variety by linking it to national history and national identity.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 115:
text: You can see it in the way we valorize the C.E.O.s of “unicorn” companies who have expanded their wealth far beyond what could possibly be justified by their individual contributions.
ref: 2023 October 28, Elizabeth Spiers, “A Tech Overlord’s Horrifying, Silly Vision for Who Should Rule the World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To assess (something) as being valuable or admirable.
glosses: To fix the price of (something) at an artificially high level, usually by government action.
Derived terms: valorization
goatherds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goatherd
blue blood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue bloods
form: blue-blood
form: blueblood
Etymology: Calque of Spanish sangre azul, probably a reference to the more visible veins of White people.
Senses: examples: text: "He loves you, Jane. Thin persons like a fine armful of a woman. Pharaoh, who is a cad, likes blue blood on the same principle of the attraction of opposites. That is why he is captivated by Gertrude's aristocratic air."
ref: 1883, George Bernard Shaw, chapter III, in An Unsocial Socialist:
glosses: Noble or aristocratic ancestry.
examples: text: The bluebloods of golf began pouring into the sweltering nation’s capital yesterday for the 64th U.S. Open championship, and the hottest topic was not Arnold Palmer or Jack Nicklaus, but Champagne Tony Lema.
ref: 1964 June 16, “All Eyes On Lema At U.S. Open This Week”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 22:
text: His expected appearance at the Met Gala — once a staid affair for New York blue bloods that has become an East Coast Oscars on Ms. Wintour’s watch — can be viewed as part of TikTok’s shift in how it presents itself to the public.
ref: 2024 May 3, Jacob Bernstein, Madison Malone Kircher, Sapna Maheshwari, “TikTok’s Boss Goes From Reserved Tech Exec to Met Gala Chair”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 May 2024:
glosses: An aristocrat.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, blood.
Derived terms: alt: blue-bloodedness
word: blue-blooded
shepherding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shepherd
shepherding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shepherdings
Senses: glosses: The herding of sheep.
examples: text: I'd long believed that he was noticing more and more of my subtleties, and was growing ever more conscious of my secret shepherdings. Now he believes me safely out of the way, with all my power stripped.
ref: 2015, Libbie Hawker, House of Rejoicing:
glosses: The act of one who shepherds or guides.
herdsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herdsman
gormy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɔːmi/
ipa: /ˈɡɔɹmi/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mi
Etymology: Either:
* from gorm (“fool; one who is undiscerning”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’); or
* a variant of gaumy (“awkward”), from gaum (“to stare idly or vacantly; to gape, gaze; to be awkward or stupid; a lout; a gaping, idle fellow”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: And not always with finesse — the Lombard clanked and churned, and a man who is like a regular Lombard may be a bit gormy and sometimes apply brute strength when he might do the work easier if he'd stop and think a little.
ref: 1990, John Gould, There Goes Maine!: A Somewhat History, Sort of, of the Pine Tree State, New York, N.Y.: Norton, →ISBN, page 1187:
text: Kimball was never one to argue with a comrade's eyes and ears, not even those of a gormy jeezer like Connolly.
ref: 1990, Maurice Shadbolt, Monday’s Warriors: […], Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 5:
text: The Killian boy was carrying a chair, and making difficulties with it; he was what old-time Yankees would have called "a gormy lad."
ref: 2009, Stephen King, chapter 23, in Under the Dome: […], New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 682:
text: Just the sort of place gormy Eugene would pick to hold a family get-together.
ref: 2010 March, Pat Cunningham, chapter 4, in A London Werewolf in America, [Austin, Tex.]: Siren-BookStrand, →ISBN, page 32:
synonyms: gorming
glosses: Awkward, clumsy, klutzy, ungainly.
Related terms: gaum
gaumy
gawm
gawming
gorm
gorming
gormy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɔːmi/
ipa: /ˈɡɔɹmi/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mi
Etymology: From gorm, gaum (“to smear; grime (noun)”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The first thing you have got to do is to wash them gormy 'ands [...]
ref: 1914, Edward [Henry] Peple, The Prince Chap: A Comedy in Three Acts, New York, N.Y.; London: Samuel French, →OCLC, act II, page 50:
text: When I bought my tamarinds I eat one or two and then discovered that I had left my handkerchief at home, my hands were a little gormy, so I washed them in Frog Pond.
ref: 1916 June 22, Abigail Clarke, quoting Edward Everett Hale, “Edward Everett Hale at Harvard College. IV. (1835–39.)”, in The Christian Register, volume 95, number 25, Boston, Mass.: Christian Register Association, →OCLC, page 583, column 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of gaumy (“sticky, smeared with something sticky; grimy”).
hogherds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hogherd
omniverse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omniverses
Etymology: From omni- + -verse.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The entire set of co-existing universes, multiverses, etc.
Derived terms: omniversal
Related terms: multiverse
jokey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: jokier
form: jokiest
Etymology: From joke + -y.
Senses: examples: text: They have successfully adopted internet culture and continue to appeal to the insecurity and anger of white kids in America, giving them a space to funnel their youthful anxieties into jokey anti-Semitism and a feeling of group belonging under the umbrella of white/Christian nationalism (whether they believe in it or not).
ref: 2020 December 24, Mariel Hope Cooksey, The Alt-Right and Christianity, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2021, page 40:
text: In “Question,” Schneider bounces between bloggier, jokier chapters (“Why in God’s Name Did They Make ‘Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue’?”) and more revealing, still jokey ones, about her gender transition and other formative experiences (“So if You’re Trans, Does That Mean You Like Guys?”).
ref: 2023 October 3, Margaret Lyons, “For This ‘Jeopardy!’ Champ, Winning Came Before the Buzzer”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2023:
glosses: Alternative spelling of joky.
joky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: jokier
form: jokiest
form: jokey
Etymology: From joke + -y.
Senses: glosses: in the nature of a joke; jocular
Derived terms: jokily
jokiness
Related terms: in-jokey
in-joky
administre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: administres
form: administring
form: administred
form: administred
Senses: examples: text: And if they shall, uppon this general overture, declare unto you, that they desire only the said free pardon, and Parliament, you shall promyse them, as is aforsaid, to be suters with them ; soo as they will sett their handes to tharticles therof, and, with the same, promyse no further to molest Us, with other particuler or publique matiers, ne to administre unto Us any further occasions, that might provoke our indignation against them, but to use them selfes in all thinges like good and faithfull subgiettes.
ref: 1536, Henry VIII. quoted in State Papers, page #515
glosses: Obsolete form of administer.
admires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of admire
adobo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʔaˈdobo/
ipa: /əˈdoʊboʊ/
Forms: form: adobos
Etymology: From Spanish adobo, from Old French adober (“equip a horseman”) (perhaps via Catalan), from the same Germanic root as dab, dub. Compare French daube (earlier dobe (1571), adobbe (1598)), Italian dobba (1549), adobbo (1570).
Senses: glosses: A Philippine dish in which pork or chicken is slowly cooked in a sauce including soy sauce, vinegar, and crushed garlic.
examples: text: 1 chipotle chili in adobo sauce
ref: 2009 January 27, Susan Sampson, “Chipotle pulled chicken on corn spoon bread”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A marinade.
adobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adobe
adorno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adornos
Senses: examples: text: Willey (1949:324) suggested that this mound probably dates to late Weeden Island times, though the bird head rim adorno (Luer 1992a:54, Figure Id; Moore 1903:Figure 63) might indicate a Safety Harbor component.
ref: 1999, Clarence Bloomfield Moore, Jeffrey M. Mitchem, The West and Central Florida Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore, page 25:
glosses: A clay ornament attached to a piece of pottery, usually at the rim.
Heian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A period of Japanese history lasting from 794 to 1185.
agencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒən.siz/
Senses: glosses: plural of agency
agito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agitos
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin agitō (“I chase”).
Senses: glosses: An asymmetric crescent that is a symbol of the Paralympic movement.
jollity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒlɪti/
Forms: form: jollities
Etymology: From Middle English jolyfte, from Old French joliveté (“gaiety, cheerfulness; amorous passion; life of pleasure”), from jolif. Equivalent to jolly + -ty.
Senses: examples: text: But I pitty the flatteries, and ſelfe-applauſes of a careleſſe and impenitent heart: This jollity hath in it much danger, and vvithout ſome change, death.
ref: 1651, Jos[eph] Hall, “Soliloq[uy] XI. False Joy.”, in Susurrium cum Deo. Soliloquies: Or, Holy Self-conferences of the Devout Soul, […], 2nd edition, London: […] Will[iam] Hunt, and are to be sold by George Lathum junior, […], →OCLC, page 37:
text: The Jolly Sandboys was a small road-side inn of pretty ancient date, with a sign, representing three Sandboys increasing their jollity with as many jugs of ale and bags of gold.
ref: 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “Chapter the Eighteenth”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC:
text: The youngsters, not immediately within sight, seemed rather bright and desirable appurtenances than otherwise; the incidents of daily life were not without humorousness and jollity in their aspect there.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), page 36:
synonyms: word: joy
word: joviality
word: blitheness
word: blithesomeness
word: cheerfulness
word: cheeriness
word: contentness
word: contentedness
word: delight
word: delightedness
word: elatedness
word: elation
word: exuberance
word: exuberantness
word: felicity
word: gaiety
word: gayness
word: gayfulness
word: gladness
word: gladsomeness
word: glee
word: gleefulness
word: gleesomeness
word: happiness
word: high spirits
word: hilarity
word: jolliness
word: jollity
word: joviality
word: jovialness
word: joy
word: joyfulness
word: joyousness
word: liss
word: merriment
word: merriness
word: mirth
word: mirthfulness
word: pleasedness
glosses: The state of being jolly; jolliness, cheerfulness.
examples: text: Across the US, candidates traditionally attend rallies, barbecues and similar jollities in their states and districts.
ref: 2006 September 4, Rupert Cornwell, “You'd think it was the Thirties all over again”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 21 Sep 2009:
glosses: Revelry or festivity; a merry or festive gathering.
examples: text: Add to this picture a jolly, crackling, rollicking fire, going rejoicingly up a great wide chimney,—the outer door and every window being set wide open, and the calico window-curtain flopping and snapping in a good stiff breeze of damp raw air,—and you have an idea of the jollities of a Kentucky tavern.
ref: 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 11, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:
glosses: Things, remarks, or characteristics which are enjoyable.
josher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: joshers
Etymology: From josh + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who joshes or ridicules
jotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jot
jotting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jottings
Senses: glosses: A brief note or sketch
jouster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jousters
Etymology: From joust + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who jousts.
glosses: A horse used as a mount when jousting.
jouster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jousters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jowter.
jouncy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: jouncier
form: jounciest
Etymology: From jounce + -y.
Senses: glosses: bumpy or bouncy