cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
IRA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /aɪ ɑɹ eɪ/
[ˈaɪɹə]
Forms: form: IRAs
Senses: examples: text: Since you fund a nondeductible IRA with already-taxed dollars, you might figure you wouldn't pay any income taxes on the conversion. But you wouldn't just owe tax on the funds you're converting; you'd also have to take the pretax contributions and gains in all your non-Roth IRAs into account.
ref: 2012 July 31, Walter Updegrave, “'Should I convert my IRA into a Roth?'”, in CNN Money:
text: These were the liquefiable assets at hand: a drawerful of family jewelry, a 401(k), an IRA, and a one-bedroom condo purchased with inheritance money after her parents' passing.
ref: 2022, Ling Ma, “Tomorrow”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of individual retirement account.
Derived terms: Roth IRA
Related terms: word: 401(k)
word: Roth 401(k)
word: 403(b)
word: RRSP
fledgling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɛd͡ʒ.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: fledgeling
Etymology: From fledge (“prepare for flying”) + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: His trenchant criticisms of the Church's repression […] include a discussion of the considerable 1938 success of the fledgling NODL in getting magazines removed from various points of sale.
ref: 2011, Jay A. Gertzman, Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940:
synonyms: unfledged
virginal
glosses: Untried or inexperienced.
examples: text: Harry Boland was born in Dublin in 1884 and educated with his younger brother Gerry in Clontarf. His father James, who greatly influenced him was politically active in the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the fledgling GAA. Harry Boland fought at the GPO in April 1916 and was interned in Dartmoor and Lewes jail.
ref: 1997 August 5, “Film failed to do justice to drama surrounding death of Harry Boland”, in The Irish Times:
text: Less than 24 hours later, Aker’s fledgling green energy and technology unit, Aker Horizons, revealed it had landed a bigger catch, with its planned purchase of Roscommon native Eddie O’Connor’s Mainstream Renewable Power for up to €1 billion.
ref: 2021 January 22, Joe Brennan, “Has Eddie O’Connor underestimated the value of his €1bn baby?”, in The Irish Times:
synonyms: nascent
emerging
glosses: Emergent or rising.
fledgling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɛd͡ʒ.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: fledglings
form: fledgeling
Etymology: From fledge (“prepare for flying”) + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings).
glosses: An insect that has just fledged, i.e. undergone its final moult to become an adult or imago.
glosses: An immature, naïve or inexperienced person.
Related terms: hatchling
nestling
innocent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnəsənt/
Forms: form: innocents
form: hinnocent
Etymology: From Middle English innocent, from Old French innocent, inocent, borrowed from Latin innocēns (“harmless, inoffensive”), from in- (“not”) + nocēns, present participle of noceō (“to hurt”). By surface analysis, in- (“not”) + nocent (“harmful; guilty”). Displaced native Old English unsċyldiġ.
Senses: examples: text: The slaughter of the innocents was a significant event in the New Testament.
text: We were asked to strike that impossible balance between being innocents and whores.
ref: 1991 February 11, Jennifer Justice, “Farewell Lavender Hearts”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 29, page 9:
glosses: One who is innocent, especially a young child.
glosses: A harmless simple-minded person; an idiot.
owe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊ/
enpr: ō
ipa: /oʊ/
homophone: o
homophone: O
homophone: oh
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: owes
form: owing
form: owed
form: ought
form: owed
form: ought
form: own
Etymology: From Middle English owen, from Old English āgan, from Proto-West Germanic *aigan (“to own”), from Proto-Germanic *aiganą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂óyḱe (“to possess, own”), reduplicated stative of *h₂eyḱ- (“to own”). See also own, ought.
Cognate with Sanskrit ईष्टे (īṣṭe, “to own, possess”).
Senses: examples: text: We owe it to our children to make our nation a better place to live in the future.
text: I owe Kevin five bucks which he lent to me last week.
text: This time I'll cover for you, but now you owe me a favour.
text: VVe owe God a death, and we can but die:
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
text: […] To you, Antonio,
I owe the most, in money and in love;
And from your love I have a warranty
To unburden all my plots and purposes
How to get clear of all the debts I owe.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: He inherited a fair fortune from his uncle, but owed it all before he came into it, and spent it twice over immediately afterwards.
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.
glosses: To have debt; to be in debt.
examples: text: The record owes its success to the outstanding guitar solos.
glosses: To have as a cause; used with to.
Derived terms: how much do I owe you
owe it to oneself
owe out
ower
owe someone one
the world owes one a living
to what do I owe the pleasure
anonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.ə.nɪm/
Forms: form: anonyms
Etymology: Coined or borrowed around 1812, from French anonyme, from Ancient Greek ἀνώνυμος (anṓnumos, “without name”).
Senses: synonyms: anon
glosses: An anonymous person.
synonyms: pseudonym
antonyms: autonym
orthonym
alethonym
glosses: An assumed or false name.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
antonyms: systematic name
coordinate_terms: trivial name
common name
vernacular name
;
scientific name
taxonomic name
glosses: A mere name; a name resting upon no diagnosis or other recognized basis.
Related terms: ananym
anonymal
anonymity
anonymize
anonymosity
anonymous
anonymously
anonymousness
popular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒpjʊlə/
ipa: /ˈpɑpjəlɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpɒp(j)ula(ɾ)/
rhymes: -ɒpjələ(ɹ)
Forms: form: populars
Etymology: From Middle English populer, from Old French populaire and Latin populāris, from populus (“people”) + -āris (“-ar”).
Senses: examples: text: To pass time, Nicole (Tammy Lynn Michaels), the most vicious of the populars, decides they should play a little game. Earlier that day, in their feminist studies class, the women were discussing Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, a novel ...
ref: 2002, Stephen Tropiano, The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV, Hal Leonard Corporation, →ISBN:
glosses: A person who is popular, especially at a school.
examples: text: Serious newspapers boomed; the populars became tabloid supplements to television, with the television schedules and related features increasingly the core of the newspaper.
ref: 1983, Jeremy Tunstall, The Media in Britain, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: An inexpensive newspaper with wide circulation.
examples: text: [...] when their ambassadors were come from Samos, and that they saw not only the populars, but also some others of their own party thought trusty before, to be now changed.
ref: 1843, Thucydides, “The” History of the Grecian War, Translated by Thomas Hobbes, page 415:
glosses: A member of the Populares
quidam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quidams
Etymology: From Latin quīdam.
Senses: examples: text: A quidam gallant determined upon a time to surprise both my house and my selfe.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.12:
text: She singing a miserable ditty, a bead-roll of lamentable rhymes, strung together by this Quidam!—This Henley!
ref: 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. IV, letter 77:
glosses: A nobody; a person of no importance.
EULA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːlə/
homophone: Eula
Forms: form: EULAs
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of end user license agreement.
Related terms: terms of use
parental love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The love of parents towards their children.
glosses: Love which is similar to parental love.
dentist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛntɪst/
Forms: form: dentists
Etymology: Borrowed from French dentiste.
Senses: examples: text: It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 119:
text: Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.
ref: 2014 July 31, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: A medical doctor who specializes in teeth.
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of Dengist.
Derived terms: dentistess
dentistic
dentistical
dentistlike
dentistress
dentistry
nondentist
surgeon-dentist
Related terms: antidentite
dental
denture
orthodontics
toothpuller
playground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪɡɹaʊnd/
Forms: form: playgrounds
Etymology: From play + ground. Compare Middle English playstede (“playground”) from Old English pleġstede.
Senses: examples: text: The kids have to go to the playground during recess, no matter the weather.
text: The local council have set up a new playground, equipped with slides, swings, and a climbing wall.
text: Where else in the world can you pre-order sushi and fondue on some of the trains, travel in family carriages equipped with mini-playgrounds, or use a request stop button at some small stations? Where else can you hear the announcement: "The train at Platform 4 is ten minutes late due to an incident in another country," as I did once at the Swiss station of Spiez?
ref: 2025 October 15, Vitali Vitaliev, “The recipe for Swiss bliss”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 68:
qualifier: outdoors
glosses: A large open space for children to play in, usually having dedicated play equipment (such as swings and slides).
examples: text: The exclusive tropical island was a millionaire's playground.
text: Kjelsås (six miles) marks the end of the suburbs, and the line immediately plunges into Nordmarka. This vast untamed area of forest and mountain (much of it over 2,000 ft. above sea level), interspersed with innumerable lakes, large and small, is known as Oslo's playground.
ref: 1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, pages 457-458:
glosses: Any physical or metaphysical space in which a person or organization has free rein to do as they please.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A sandbox for testing calls to an application programming interface.
Derived terms: adventure playground
playground ball
playgroundful
playground rumor
playground taunt
Related terms: playfield
playhouse
playland
playpen
playroom
playstead
playstructure
skier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskiːə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -iːə(ɹ)
Forms: form: skiers
Etymology: From ski + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a professional skier
text: a poor skier
text: Some ski instructors are allowed to take groups off-piste too, so long as they don't travel across glaciers, but the tour hosts and reps who commonly show skiers around pisted runs within large resorts are definitely not allowed to go off-piste […]
ref: 2014, Alun Richardson, Rucksack Guide - Ski Mountaineering and Snowshoeing, page 126:
text: Townsend hare inhabit this area, particularly above the cabin, and a skier is likely to have one explode from a tree well and disappear into the whiteness as he skis by. Life is a constant bivouac for them -- they spend days huddled in tree wells during storms -- but I suspect they are as content and warm in their luxurious coats as we are in a cabin.
ref: 2014, Patrick Armstrong, The Log of a Snow Survey, →ISBN:
glosses: One who skis.
Derived terms: alpine skier
cross-country skier
downhill skier
heli-skier
sit-skier
skier cross
skier-cross
skier day
skier X
skier-X
speed skier
technical skier
water-skier
skier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskiːə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -iːə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈskaɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈskiːə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -iːə(ɹ)
Forms: form: skiers
Etymology: From sky + -er.
Senses: examples: text: However, when Guha returned, she picked the wrong ball to pull and hit a skier to Charlotte Edwards.
ref: 2002, Jeff Green, "New Zealand win tri-series in convincing style", Cricinfo
text: The second thing I did my best to get out of was the unpleasant position Monty found himself in rather too often in Sri Lanka: standing under a skier in the deep.
ref: 2012, Harry Pearson, "There's always a catch – unless it's me or Monty underneath the ball", The Guardian
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ball hit high in the air, often leading to a catch.
dunnock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunnocks
Etymology: From Middle English donek, dunok, from Old English *dunnuc, equivalent to dun (“brownish grey”) + -ock (diminutive suffix). Compare Old High German doniklīn (“hedge-sparrow; dunnock”). Compare ruddock.
Senses: glosses: A small European and Asian passerine bird, Prunella modularis; the hedge sparrow or hedge warbler.
dunny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌni/
rhymes: -ʌni
Forms: form: dunnier
form: dunniest
Etymology: From dun (“dusky brown”) + -y (“forming adjectives of lesser degree”).
Senses: examples: text: I were skynnes of conny, / That causeth I loke so donny.
ref: c. 1517 (date written; published c. 1545), John Skelton, “Here after Foloweth the Booke Called Elynour Rummynge. The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng per Skelton Laureat.”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Poetical Works of John Skelton: […], volume I, London: Thomas Rodd, […], published 1843, →OCLC, page 108, lines 399–400:
english: I wear skins of cony [rabbit], / That cause me to look so dunny.
translation: I wear skins of cony [rabbit], / That cause me to look so dunny.
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glosses: Somewhat dun, dusky brownish.
dunny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌni/
rhymes: -ʌni
Forms: form: dunnier
form: dunniest
Etymology: Probably from dun (“to ring”) + -y (“forming adjectives of lesser degree”).
Senses: examples: text: Dunny, somewhat deaf, deafish.
ref: 1708, J. Kersey, Dictionary Anglo-Britannicum:
glosses: Somewhat deaf, hard of hearing.
examples: text: What the devil are you dunny? won't you give me no answer?
ref: a. 1791, F. Grose, Olio, p. 105
glosses: Slow to answer: stupid, unintelligent.
Derived terms: dunnily
dunniness
dunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌni/
rhymes: -ʌni
Forms: form: dunnies
Etymology: Probably from dun (“to ring”) + -y (“forming adjectives of lesser degree”).
Senses: examples: text: Should a School-boy do so, he'd be whip'd for a Dunny.
ref: 1709, British Apollo, Vol. II, No. 29, p. 3
glosses: A dummy, an unintelligent person.
dunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌni/
rhymes: -ʌni
Forms: form: dunnies
form: danna
form: dunnee
Etymology: A clipped form of English cant dunnakin (“outhouse”) + -y (suffix forming affectionate diminutives). Dunnakin, dunnekin, etc. are of uncertain etymology, but probably from some form of English cant danna (“dung”) + ken (“house”, pejorative slang). The Scottish and North English senses may derive from Etymology 4 below, either under influence from English cant or as its original source.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of danna: shit.
examples: text: "I've got one of those outside dunnies here, hasn't been emptied for six months and I ran out of sawdust three months ago."
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 106:
text: There was one leaning dunny down the back and, if you stayed very quiet, on a very still day you could hear the white ants as they chewed the wood.The bottom boards were already eaten through, and I avoided using the dunny at all costs.
ref: 2008, Judith L. McNeil, No One's Child, page 95:
text: ‘Until you wake up to yourself, you can live in the old dunny for all I care.’
‘All right, I will,’ said Tony.
ref: 2010, Christopher Milne, “The Boy Who Lived in a Dunny”, in The Day Our Teacher Went Mad and Other Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls, page 108:
glosses: An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
examples: text: The dunny was another place to go to get out of class. You got to go there by raising your hand in class and asking Miss if you could go to the lav.
ref: 2010, Kathleen M. McGinley, Out of the Daydream, page 47:
glosses: Any other place or fixture used for urination and defecation: a latrine; a lavatory; a toilet.
glosses: A passageway, particularly those connecting an outhouse to the main building.
Synonyms: sense: outhouse
word: bathroom
sense: toilet
word: toilet
Derived terms: bang like a dunny door
bang like a dunny door in a gale
dunny budgie
dunny can
dunny cart
dunny-ken
dunny man
dunny roll
dunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌni/
rhymes: -ʌni
Forms: form: dunnies
Etymology: A clipped form of English dungeon + -y (“forming affectionate diminutives”).
Senses: glosses: A cellar, basement, or underground passage.
surfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɝfɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fɪŋ
Etymology: From the verb surf + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surf
surfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɝfɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fɪŋ
Forms: form: surfings
Etymology: From the verb surf + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The pastime or sport of riding surf on a surfboard.
examples: text: To J. M. Duffin, former student and now assistant archivist at the University of Pennsylvania, thanks for courteous surfings of the Internet for missing dates, publishers, and other embarrassing gaps in my text.
ref: 2003, Don Yoder, Groundhog Day, page v:
glosses: The activity of browsing the Internet.
Synonyms: word: surf riding
Derived terms: bed surfing
bodysurfing
car surfing
couch-surfing
couch surfing
crowd surfing
ego surfing
ego-surfing
elevator surfing
kitesurfing
kite surfing
lift surfing
parasurfing
shoulder surfing
sofa surfing
train surfing
volcano surfing
windsurfing
wing surfing
Related terms: surf
surfboard
surfer
surf riding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: surfing
Related terms: surf
surfboard
surfer
kyūjitai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkju.d͡ʒiˈtaɪ/
Forms: form: kyujitai
Etymology: Transliteration from Japanese 旧(きゅう)字(じ)体(たい) (kyūjitai, literally “old character form”).
Senses: examples: text: Although the kyūjitai kanji were not banned, the obsolete kyūjitai kanji have become unreadable to more and more readers over time, thus making texts including them difficult for modern readers, but at least there is a recognized mapping from new form to old form.
ref: 2020, Stewart Arneil, “Encoding Disappearing Characters: The Case of Twentieth-Century Japanese-Canadian Names”, in Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, number 12, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, →DOI, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: shinjitai
glosses: The traditional form of Japanese kanji used before 1947.
second lieutenant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second lieutenants
form: 2nd lieutenant
Senses: glosses: The lowest rank of a commissioned army officer, below a lieutenant.
glosses: The lowest rank of a commissioned officer in the United States Army, United States Air Force, or United States Marine Corps, below a first lieutenant. The rank of second lieutenant is equivalent to the naval rank of ensign.
Synonyms: english: traditional infantry lowest commission officer rank
translation: traditional infantry lowest commission officer rank
word: ensign
english: traditional cavalry lowest commission officer rank
translation: traditional cavalry lowest commission officer rank
word: coronet
Coordinate terms: lieutenant junior grade
sublieutenant
tantō
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tantōs
form: tantō
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tanto.
worth one's while
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Doing volunteer work to help others is truly worth one's while.
text: Even if (2.3.5) holds, so that the worker's strategy is a best response to the firm's strategy, it must also be worth the firm's while to pay w#42;.
ref: 1992, Robert Gibbons, A Primer in Game Theory, Prentice-Hall, page 110:
glosses: Beneficial and important enough on which to spend time, effort, or money.
Related terms: worthwhile
harry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈhæɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈhɛɹ.i/
homophone: Harry
homophone: hairy stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -æɹi
Forms: form: harries
Etymology: Related to Sanskrit अस्थि (asthi, “bone”).
Senses: glosses: A menial servant; a sweeper.
Henrietta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɛn.ɹiˈɛtə/
rhymes: -ɛtə
Forms: form: Henriettas
Etymology: Latinate form of French Henriette, derived from the male given name Henry.
Senses: examples: text: Alberta is more like a man's name than any other name that comes from a men's, more than Georgianna which is just like a magnolia blossom or Henrietta which most people change to Etta or Geraldine which nobody ever thinks of coming from a man's Irish name like Gerald.
ref: 1936, George Weller, Clutch and Differential, Ayer, published 1970, →ISBN, page 196:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Jackson County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Hubbard County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Ray County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Monroe County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Lorain County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in North Woodbury Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Clay County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Calhoun County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and ghost town therein, in Richland County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A locality in the town of Vacoas-Phoenix, Mauritius.
glosses: A rural locality in Waratah-Wynyard council area, Tasmania, Australia.
Derived terms: word: HeLa
word: Henrietta cloth
word: Henrietta Township
sense: given name pet forms
word: Etta
sense: given name pet forms
word: Henia
sense: given name pet forms
word: Hettie
sense: given name pet forms
word: Hetty
Related terms: Harriet
Harry
Henriette
Henry
all of a sudden
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔl əv ə ˈsʌdən/
Forms: form: all of the sudden
form: all the sudden
form: all on a sudden
form: of a sudden
form: on a sudden
form: upon a sudden
Senses: examples: text: All of a sudden I felt very hot and tired.
text: ― Enju: “Wh-What?! What are you saying all of a sudden?! Idiot! Hentai!”
ref: 2016 December 19, Moe! Ninja Girls, Japan: NTT Solmare, iOS, Android, scene: Season 3, Chapter 3:
synonyms: all at once
at one stroke
in one fell swoop
just like that
out of the blue
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: Suddenly, quickly, without warning.
Related terms: just like that
fr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frr.
Senses: examples: text: Second, the poetess includes her own name (v. 20) and refers to herself in the first person, suggesting that the poem was composed for a real-life situation and an actual person;² and, as in frr. 31 and 94 (LP) (in conjunction with Plu. Luc. 18.9), the situation in which the poetess finds herself constitutes unambiguous evidence that she was a "lesbian" in sensu technico.³
ref: 1993, J. C. B. Petropoulos, “Sappho the Sorceress: Another Look at fr. 1 (LP)”, in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, volume 97, Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 43:
glosses: Abbreviation of fragment.
donate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəʊˈneɪt/
ipa: /dəˈneɪt/
ipa: /ˈdoʊˌneɪt/
ipa: /doʊˈneɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: donates
form: donating
form: donated
form: donated
Etymology: Circa 1845, back-formation from donation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), chiefly found in American English. Ultimately from Latin dōnāre (“to give”).
Senses: examples: text: She donates 100 dollars to Red Cross every year.
text: He donated an etching from his own collection to the new art gallery.
glosses: To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another.
wikipedia: American English
Derived terms: donatable
donatee
donater
donateware
donator
donatress
donatrix
nondonating
worry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌɹi/
note: without the hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈwʌɹi/
note: General American, Canada, hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈwɝi/
ipa: /ˈwʊɹi/
ipa: /ˈwɒɹi/
ipa: /ˈwəʊɹi/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
Forms: form: worries
Etymology: From Middle English worien, werien, wirien, wirwen, wyryȝen (“to choke, strangle”), from Old English wyrġan, from Proto-Germanic *wurgijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ- (“bind, squeeze”).
Cognate with Dutch worgen, wurgen, German würgen. Compare Latin urgere (“to press, push”), Sanskrit वृहति (vṛhati, “to tear out, pluck”), Lithuanian ver̃žti (“to string; squeeze”), Russian (poetic) отверза́ть (otverzátʹ, “to open”, literally “to untie”). Related to wring.
Senses: examples: text: I'm afflicted by worry throughout the night.
text: "Worry never solved any problems. Only gives you ulcers."
ref: 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 35:
synonyms: care
glosses: A strong feeling of anxiety.
examples: text: My main worry is that I'll miss the train.
synonyms: care
glosses: An instance or cause of such a feeling.
examples: text: They could never make him speak a word, although he was old enough, in short, he was a perfect worry night and day.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 305:
glosses: A person who causes worry.
Derived terms: a worry shared is a worry halved
muffin worry
worrisome
worry beads
worry-free
worryful
worryless
worry line
worry stone
worry-wart
brandish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹændɪʃ/
rhymes: -ændɪʃ
Forms: form: brandishes
form: brandishing
form: brandished
form: brandished
Etymology: From Middle English braundischen, from Old French brandiss-, stem of brandir (“to flourish a sword”), from Frankish *brandijan, from Frankish *brand (“firebrand; sword”), from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“fire; flame; sword”), whence Old English brand (“firebrand; torch”); equivalent to brand + -ish. More at brand.
Senses: examples: text: He brandished his sword at the pirates.
text: Hvng be yͤ heauens vvith black, yield day to night; / Comets importing change of Times and States, / Brandiſh your cryſtall Treſſes in the Skie, / And vvith them ſcourge the bad reuolting Stars, / That haue conſented vnto Henries Death: / King Henry the Fift, too famous to liue long, / England ne're loſt a King of ſo much vvorth.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 96, column 1:
text: the quivering lance which he brandished bright
ref: 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay:
text: Back, he spurred like a madman, shouting a curse to the sky, / With the white road smoking behind him, and his rapier brandished high! / Blood-red were his spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat; […]
ref: 1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 2, stanza IX, page 53:
glosses: To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating anger, threat or skill.
examples: text: to brandish syllogisms
text: Long, however, the young ſpark did not remain, before, giving it [his penis] two or three ſhakes, by way of brandiſhing it, he threw himſelf upon her, […]
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 66:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: It sets the stage for cutting corners in our principles just so we can brandish a perceived badge of stature.
ref: 2011, Jejomar C. Binay, Binay: Blame corruption on modern consumerism, Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation, http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/315850/binay-blame-corruption-modern-consumerism
glosses: To bear something with ostentatious show.
Synonyms: flourish
wave
Derived terms: brandisher
brandishment
Related terms: assault
brandish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹændɪʃ/
rhymes: -ændɪʃ
Forms: form: brandishes
Etymology: From Middle English braundischen, from Old French brandiss-, stem of brandir (“to flourish a sword”), from Frankish *brandijan, from Frankish *brand (“firebrand; sword”), from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“fire; flame; sword”), whence Old English brand (“firebrand; torch”); equivalent to brand + -ish. More at brand.
Senses: glosses: The act of flourishing or waving.
Synonyms: flourish
noctilucent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more noctilucent
form: most noctilucent
Etymology: From nocti- + lucent.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Shining or glowing at night, especially of very high-altitude clouds that reflect sunlight long after sunset; nightshining.
mishmash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪʃˌmæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: mishmashes
form: mish-mash
form: mishmosh
Etymology: Attested since the late 15th century, Middle English mysse masche, probably a reduplication of mash, although a Yiddish origin or influence has also been suggested. Cognates include Saterland Frisian Miskmask and German Mischmasch.
Senses: examples: text: As for Mr. Pynchon’s conjuring of millennial New York, it’s a total mishmash.
ref: 2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in New York Times:
text: He cites 'on-seat charging facilities', which he describes as pregviously^([sic]) being a "mishmash of some having them and not having them".
ref: 2025 July 23, Richard Wilcock, “A new dawn for the Electrostars”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 26:
synonyms: word: bouillabaisse
word: bric-a-brac
word: catch-all
word: clamjamfrey
word: cocktail
word: gallery
word: congeries
word: crazyquilt
word: disjecta membra
word: farrago
word: galimatias
word: gallimaufry
word: grab bag
word: hodgepodge
word: horse and rabbit stew
word: hotchpotch
word: hotchpot
word: job lot
word: jumble
word: macedoine
word: medley
word: melange
word: mingle-mangle
word: miscellanea
word: miscellany
word: mishmash
word: mixed bag
word: mixture
word: motley
word: odds and ends
word: oddments
word: olio
word: olla podrida
word: omnium-gatherum
word: pastiche
word: patchwork quilt
word: potpourri
word: ragbag
word: salmagundi
word: slurry
word: smorgasbord
word: welter
word: Whitman's sampler
glosses: A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
mishmash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪʃˌmæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: mishmashes
form: mishmashing
form: mishmashed
form: mishmashed
form: mish-mash
form: mishmosh
Etymology: Attested since the late 15th century, Middle English mysse masche, probably a reduplication of mash, although a Yiddish origin or influence has also been suggested. Cognates include Saterland Frisian Miskmask and German Mischmasch.
Senses: glosses: To mix together, especially in a confused way.
glosses: To become mixed together.
hodgepodge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒd͡ʒˌpɒd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈhɑd͡ʒˌpɑd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: hodgepodges
form: hodge-podge
form: hotchpotch
Etymology: From Middle English hochepoche, a variation of hochepot, from Old French hochepot, from Middle Dutch hutspot (“beef or mutton cut into small pieces and mixed and boiled together in a pot”), from hotsen, hutsen (“to shake; jog; jolt”) + pot (“pot”), equivalent to hotch + pot. Compare German Low German Hüttspott (“hodgepodge”).
Senses: examples: text: His latest sculpture is a hodgepodge of kitchen clutter and scrap glued together.
text: MAn's life is but vain, for tis ſubject to pain, / and ſorrow, and ſhort as a buble; / 'tis a hodge podge of buſineſs, and mony and care, / and care, and mony, and trouble.
ref: 1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], chapter XI, in The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN, page 217:
text: The entire section is a hodgepodge of ill-absorbed and ill-digested bits of information lifted in a haphazard fashion from the sources used with apparently no other goal in mind than to accumulate a list of items with some degree of resemblance to forms from Manding and Dravidian […]
ref: 1989 January 24, Werner Winter, “On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharian”, in Central Asiatic Journal, volume 33, number 1/2, Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISSN, page 130:
synonyms: farrago
melange
mishmash
glosses: A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
glosses: A confused mass of ingredients shaken or mixed together in the same pot.
Synonyms: word: bouillabaisse
word: bric-a-brac
word: catch-all
word: clamjamfrey
word: cocktail
word: gallery
word: congeries
word: crazyquilt
word: disjecta membra
word: farrago
word: galimatias
word: gallimaufry
word: grab bag
word: hodgepodge
word: horse and rabbit stew
word: hotchpotch
word: hotchpot
word: job lot
word: jumble
word: macedoine
word: medley
word: melange
word: mingle-mangle
word: miscellanea
word: miscellany
word: mishmash
word: mixed bag
word: mixture
word: motley
word: odds and ends
word: oddments
word: olio
word: olla podrida
word: omnium-gatherum
word: pastiche
word: patchwork quilt
word: potpourri
word: ragbag
word: salmagundi
word: slurry
word: smorgasbord
word: welter
word: Whitman's sampler
Hypernyms: word: assortment
word: collection
word: group
Meronyms: word: bits and bobs
word: dribs and drabs
word: odds and sods
Derived terms: hodgepodgery
Related terms: word: gubbins
word: higgledy-piggledy
word: miscellaneous
word: pick 'n' mix
word: rando
word: disorder
word: heterogeneous
word: uniformity
hodgepodge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒd͡ʒˌpɒd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈhɑd͡ʒˌpɑd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: hodgepodges
form: hodgepodging
form: hodgepodged
form: hodgepodged
form: hodge-podge
form: hotchpotch
Etymology: From Middle English hochepoche, a variation of hochepot, from Old French hochepot, from Middle Dutch hutspot (“beef or mutton cut into small pieces and mixed and boiled together in a pot”), from hotsen, hutsen (“to shake; jog; jolt”) + pot (“pot”), equivalent to hotch + pot. Compare German Low German Hüttspott (“hodgepodge”).
Senses: glosses: To move or position in an erratic, disorganized manner.
hotchpotch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒt͡ʃpɒt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: hotchpotches
form: hotchpot
form: hotchpotz
form: hotch-pot
Etymology: From French hochepot, from hocher (“to shake”) + pot (“pot”); of Dutch or German origin. Compare Dutch hutspot.
Senses: topics: law
property
synonyms: collation
glosses: The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, especially in the case of divorce or intestacy.
glosses: A kind of mutton broth with green peas instead of barley or rice.
examples: text: A mixture or hotchpotch of many tastes.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: The railways in Wales are a bizarre hotchpotch of lines which, remarkably, do not even allow for a journey between the lines in the south and those in the north without venturing across the border into England.
ref: 2019 December 18, Christian Wolmar, “Overdue investment and a better deal for Welsh railways”, in Rail, page 54:
glosses: Alternative form of hodgepodge (“miscellaneous collection”).
glosses: Alternative form of hodgepodge (“mixture of ingredients”).
Synonyms: farrago
hodgepodge
melange
mingle-mangle
mishmash
oddments
odds and ends
omnium-gatherum
ragbag
melange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlɑnʒ/
ipa: /meɪ-/
ipa: /-ˈlɑndʒ/
Forms: form: melanges
form: mélange
Etymology: From French mélange, from Middle French mélange, meslange, from Old French meslance, meslinges (“set of diverse elements”), derived from mescler (“to mingle, mix up”) (modern French mêler), from Vulgar Latin *misculāre, from Latin misceō (“mix”) + -inges, a suffix from Frankish *-ingo (“-ing”). More at mix, -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The room was a melange of comic books and posters.
glosses: A mixture of different things; a disordered mixture.
glosses: A Viennese coffee speciality, half steamed milk and half coffee.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A large-scale breccia formed in the accretionary wedge over a subductional environment.
Synonyms: sense: collection of a variety of things
word: assortment
sense: collection of a variety of things
word: farrago
sense: collection of a variety of things
word: hodgepodge
sense: collection of a variety of things
word: hotchpotch
sense: collection of a variety of things
word: mingle-mangle
sense: collection of a variety of things
word: mishmash
sense: collection of a variety of things
word: mixture
sense: collection of a variety of things
word: omnium-gatherum
sense: collection of a variety of things
word: ragbag
mingle-mangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mingle-mangles
form: minglemangle
Etymology: Reduplicated from mingle.
Senses: examples: text: Is not it an extraordinary instance of a minglemangle of old Norse Paganism and Christianity? Thor's Mell and Christ's Cross.
ref: 1902, Charles James Longman, Longman's Magazine - Volume 39 - Page 191:
glosses: A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
Synonyms: farrago
hodgepodge
hotchpotch
melange
mishmash
omnium-gatherum
ragbag
mingle-mangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mingle-mangles
form: mingle-mangling
form: mingle-mangled
form: mingle-mangled
form: minglemangle
Etymology: Reduplicated from mingle.
Senses: examples: text: So ſhould vve Preachers be true men, Preachers of God's vvay, truly, truly, vvithout regard of perſon; that is, for man's pleaſure corrupting the vvord, or mingle-mangle the vvord vvith man's inven tion and traditions.
ref: 1550 October 19 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “Sermon XII. Preached at Stamford, Oct. 9, in the Year 1550.”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, Master Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester. […], volume I, London: […] J. Scott, […], published 1758, →OCLC, page 240:
synonyms: jumble
glosses: To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of.
oddments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oddment
oddments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It was a terrific mess. On a table against a wall sat a television, a radio, and a computer, and upon every other available surface were scattered countless tools, wires, books and charts and notebooks, disconnected antennas, disassembled gadgets, and various other unrecognizable oddments.
ref: 2007, Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society, page 97:
synonyms: word: odds and ends
word: odds and sods
word: hodgepodge
word: hotchpotch
word: bouillabaisse
word: bric-a-brac
word: catch-all
word: clamjamfrey
word: cocktail
word: gallery
word: congeries
word: crazyquilt
word: disjecta membra
word: farrago
word: galimatias
word: gallimaufry
word: grab bag
word: hodgepodge
word: horse and rabbit stew
word: hotchpotch
word: hotchpot
word: job lot
word: jumble
word: macedoine
word: medley
word: melange
word: mingle-mangle
word: miscellanea
word: miscellany
word: mishmash
word: mixed bag
word: mixture
word: motley
word: odds and ends
word: oddments
word: olio
word: olla podrida
word: omnium-gatherum
word: pastiche
word: patchwork quilt
word: potpourri
word: ragbag
word: salmagundi
word: slurry
word: smorgasbord
word: welter
word: Whitman's sampler
glosses: A variety of miscellaneous things.
odds and ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a dialectal corruption of ords and ends (“points and endings" or "beginnings and ends”). More at ord, end.
Senses: examples: text: The garage was filled with a random assortment of odds and ends.
text: I scraped my palette, stuck my brushes in a bowl of black soap, and I strolled into the smoking-room. I really believe that, excepting Geneviève's apartments, no room in the house was so free from the perfume of tobacco as this one. It was a queer chaos of odds and ends hung with threadbare tapestry.
ref: 1895, Robert W. Chambers, chapter 2, in The King in Yellow, "The Mask":
glosses: Miscellaneous things; oddments
Synonyms: odds and sods
Related terms: bits and bobs
omnium-gatherum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒm.nɪəmˈɡæ.ðə.ɹəm/
ipa: /ˌɑm.ni.əmˈɡæ.ðɚ.əm/
Forms: form: omnium-gatherums
form: omnium-gathera
form: omnium gatherum
form: omnigatherum
Etymology: Dog Latin, from Latin omnium (“of all”) and gather + -um, suggesting a collection of everything.
Senses: examples: text: But out of the water he dared not put his head; for the rain came down by bucketsful, and the hail hammered like shot on the stream, and churned it into foam; and soon the stream rose, and rushed down, higher and higher, and fouler and fouler, full of beetles, and sticks; and straws, and worms, and addle-eggs, and wood-lice, and leeches, and odds and ends, and omnium-gatherums, and this, that, and the other, enough to fill nine museums.
ref: 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:
text: We live in the era of Omnium-Gatherum; all the world's a museum, and men and women are its students. To design any building in England nowadays is therefore to work under the eye, so to speak, of the Society of Antiquaries.
ref: 1864, Robert Kerr, The Gentleman's House, page 342:
synonyms: word: bouillabaisse
word: bric-a-brac
word: catch-all
word: clamjamfrey
word: cocktail
word: gallery
word: congeries
word: crazyquilt
word: disjecta membra
word: farrago
word: galimatias
word: gallimaufry
word: grab bag
word: hodgepodge
word: horse and rabbit stew
word: hotchpotch
word: hotchpot
word: job lot
word: jumble
word: macedoine
word: medley
word: melange
word: mingle-mangle
word: miscellanea
word: miscellany
word: mishmash
word: mixed bag
word: mixture
word: motley
word: odds and ends
word: oddments
word: olio
word: olla podrida
word: omnium-gatherum
word: pastiche
word: patchwork quilt
word: potpourri
word: ragbag
word: salmagundi
word: slurry
word: smorgasbord
word: welter
word: Whitman's sampler
glosses: A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
ragbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ragbags
Etymology: Compound of rag + bag.
Senses: glosses: A bag of rags and scraps.
examples: text: The pages that constitute "Anna Livia Plurabelle" are surely the most easily decipherable in that masterly and monstrous ragbag of a book.
ref: 2019 May 14, John Banville, “Colin Farrell Joins the League of High-Profile Narrators of 'A Portrait of the Artist'”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2023:
text: In our ragbag of stereotypes, ostriches have thus become the quintessential dim-witted animals. Even the Bible says they're dumb, and bad parents too.
ref: 2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody's fool”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Partners, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2023:
text: Opposite, the Loram site contains a real ragbag of yellow, blue or rust-streaked kit whose appearance belies their importance in keeping the railways running.
ref: 2020 November 18, Paul Bigland, “New infrastructure and new rolling stock”, in Rail, page 49:
synonyms: word: grab bag
word: mixed bag
word: bouillabaisse
word: bric-a-brac
word: catch-all
word: clamjamfrey
word: cocktail
word: gallery
word: congeries
word: crazyquilt
word: disjecta membra
word: farrago
word: galimatias
word: gallimaufry
word: grab bag
word: hodgepodge
word: horse and rabbit stew
word: hotchpotch
word: hotchpot
word: job lot
word: jumble
word: macedoine
word: medley
word: melange
word: mingle-mangle
word: miscellanea
word: miscellany
word: mishmash
word: mixed bag
word: mixture
word: motley
word: odds and ends
word: oddments
word: olio
word: olla podrida
word: omnium-gatherum
word: pastiche
word: patchwork quilt
word: potpourri
word: ragbag
word: salmagundi
word: slurry
word: smorgasbord
word: welter
word: Whitman's sampler
glosses: A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things; a smorgasbord.
examples: text: Near-synonym: ragtag
text: Billy and the rest were wooed through gate after gate, and Billy saw his first Russian. The man was all alone in the night—a ragbag with a round, flat face that glowed like a radium dial.
ref: 1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 71:
coordinate_terms: bag lady
old bag
ragamuffin
glosses: A person (especially a woman) of unclean or untidy appearance.
dianoetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /daɪənəʊˈɛtɪk/
Forms: form: more dianoetic
form: most dianoetic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διανοητικός (dianoētikós, “pertaining to thinking”), from διανοητός (dianoētós), verbal adjective of διανοέομαι (dianoéomai, “to think”), from δια- (dia-, “through”) + νοέω (noéō, “to think, suppose”).
Senses: examples: text: The bitter laugh laughs at that which is not good, it is the ethical laugh. The hollow laugh laughs at that which is not true, it is the intellectual laugh. Not good! Not true! Well well. But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugh, down the snout — Haw! — so.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to reason or thinking; intellectual.
Synonyms: discursive
Derived terms: dianoetically
Related terms: dianoialogy
dianoiology