cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gules
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡjuːlz/
ipa: /ˈɡjulz/
homophone: ghouls (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -uːlz
Forms: form: gu.
form: g.
Etymology: From Middle English goules, from Old French geule (“animal’s mouth, throat”) via Middle French geules. Compare with French gueules, Portuguese goelas and Spanish gules.
Senses: examples: text: The symbol of the Red Cross is a cross gules.
text: Now is he total gules, horridly tricked
ref: 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii 2:
text: You know they still
Call themselves Bulls, though thus degenerate,
And everything relating to a Bull
Is popular and respectable in Thebes.
Their arms are seven Bulls in a field gules;
They think their strength consists in eating beef,—
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: In blazon, of the colour red.
gules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡjuːlz/
ipa: /ˈɡjulz/
homophone: ghouls (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -uːlz
Forms: form: gu.
form: g.
Etymology: From Middle English goules, from Old French geule (“animal’s mouth, throat”) via Middle French geules. Compare with French gueules, Portuguese goelas and Spanish gules.
Senses: glosses: plural of gule
purpure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈpjʊə/
ipa: /pɚˈpjʊɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English purpure, from Old English purpure and Old French purpure (“purple”); both from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple and purpura.
Senses: examples: text: Many authorities reject the authenticity of purpure as a tincture.
ref: 1997, Brault, Early Blazon:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A purple colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees clockwise.
purpure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈpjʊə/
ipa: /pɚˈpjʊɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English purpure, from Old English purpure and Old French purpure (“purple”); both from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple and purpura.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: In blazon, of the colour purple.
chevron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛvɹən/
ipa: /ˈʃɛvɹɑn/
Forms: form: chevrons
form: cheveron
Etymology: From Middle English cheveroun, from Old French chevron, the mark so called because it looks like rafters of a shallow roof, from Vulgar Latin *capriō, from Latin caper (“goat”), the likely connection between goats and rafters being the animal's horns.
Senses: glosses: A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
coordinate_terms: chevronel
couple-close
glosses: A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
examples: 2009, Jamie Dunn, Truckie has a point, Sunshine Coast Daily Online, June 13, 2009.
I told you that in fact they were called chevrons and it was an exercise by the transport department to teach us to stay two chevrons behind the car in front.
glosses: One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.
glosses: A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””.
glosses: An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
examples: text: It is pertinent to remember, however, that one of the greatest phoneticians, Jan Hus, used diacritics (in the form of points, which have later become chevrons in his own language), and that his alphabet is the most satisfactory for eastern Europe, since it has been officially adopted by the languages which use the Latin script.
ref: 1953, William James Entwistle, Aspects of Language, Faber and Faber, page 107:
text: The symbol ř (“r” with a chevron) is used for a phoneme which sounds like Czech ř (as in Dvořák), i.e. a voiced alveolar flap. The presence of the chevron has no effect on the index numbers used in transliteration; cf. 2.058.
ref: 1976, Stephen J. Lieberman, The Sumerian Loanwords in Old-Babylonian Akkadian (Harvard Semitic Studies, issue 22; published by Scholars Press for Harvard Semitic Museum), page 66
glosses: A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
glosses: A wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world.
glosses: Synonym of arrowhead (“horse jump obstacle”).
synonyms: word: arrowhead
extra: horse jump obstacle
Synonyms: sense: rank insignia
word: stripe
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: wicket
sense: typographic and mathematical symbols
word: angle bracket
Derived terms: chevron bone
chevroned
chevronel
chevronelle
chevronny
chevronwise
per chevron
Related terms: chevrony
echelon
chevron
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛvɹən/
ipa: /ˈʃɛvɹɑn/
Forms: form: chevrons
form: chevroning
form: chevroned
form: chevroned
form: cheveron
Etymology: From Middle English cheveroun, from Old French chevron, the mark so called because it looks like rafters of a shallow roof, from Vulgar Latin *capriō, from Latin caper (“goat”), the likely connection between goats and rafters being the animal's horns.
Senses: examples: text: ...the sheet to be chevroned locks itself into the furrow.
ref: 1963, Lucien Victor Gewiss, "Process and Devices for Chevroning Pliable Sheet Material," US Patent 3397261 http://www.google.com/patents?id=XflXAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA11-IA4, page 14
text: ... as a thick finger with a gob of very slippery jelly or cream comes sliding down the crack now towards his asshole, chevroning the hairs along like topo lines up a river valley...
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
text: Bull fixed the claw under a batten, strained like a sailor at the capstan, shirt off, arms chevroned by elaborate tattoos.
ref: 1983, Allen Sillitoe, The Lost Flying Boat, →ISBN, page 118:
text: Earlier, in glaring winter daylight, i'd first noticed thin lines chevroning off the edge of each eye into the taut skin of his cheeks...
ref: 2003, Felice Picano, A House on the Ocean, a House on the Bay, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: To form or be formed into chevrons
fold up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: folds up
form: folding up
form: folded up
form: folded up
Senses: examples: text: Please fold up these towels so they will fit on the shelf.
text: Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: It used to be said there were two kinds of chairs to go with two kinds of Ministers: one sort that folds up [pun] instantly, the other sort goes round and round in circles (laugh track).
ref: 1980 February 25, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “Open Government”, in Yes Minister, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds):
glosses: To make or become more compact by folding.
examples: text: It used to be said there were two kinds of chairs to go with two kinds of Ministers: one sort that folds up [pun] instantly, the other sort goes round and round in circles (laugh track).
ref: 1980 February 25, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “Open Government”, in Yes Minister, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds):
glosses: To surrender, abandon or give up under pressure.
examples: text: That place folded up years ago.
text: When Grimaldi left the group in 1976, Rod folded his band up.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 288:
glosses: To go out of business; to stop doing something.
examples: text: They will fold up on Sunday and be gone from here.
text: The circus folded up its tent and headed north.
glosses: To move on, as in a traveling circus taking down its tents and attractions and moving to a new location.
Derived terms: word: fold-up
subcover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcovers
Etymology: From sub- + cover.
Senses: examples: The open intervals cover the real numbers; the open intervals of the form (x, x+1) are a subcover.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A cover which is a subset of another cover.
cover charge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cover charges
Senses: examples: text: The cover charge was pretty high, but the band was really good.
glosses: An amount of money to be paid for entering a bar or restaurant where entertainment is provided.
glosses: An amount of money added to a restaurant bill in lieu of tips, and to pay for uncharged items such as bread and water.
swot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɒt/
ipa: /swɑt/
ipa: /swɔt/
homophone: swat
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: swots
form: swotting
form: swotted
form: swotted
form: swat
Etymology: From a dialectal English word, from Middle English swot, swat, from Old English swāt (“perspiration; sweat”), from Proto-Germanic *swaitą (“sweat”). More at sweat.
Senses: synonyms: cram
glosses: To study with effort or determination.
Derived terms: swot up on
swot vac
Related terms: hit the books
swot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɒt/
ipa: /swɑt/
ipa: /swɔt/
homophone: swat
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: swots
form: swat
Etymology: From a dialectal English word, from Middle English swot, swat, from Old English swāt (“perspiration; sweat”), from Proto-Germanic *swaitą (“sweat”). More at sweat.
Senses: examples: text: He liked Tom all right... Sampson and Bullock he could do without, however. Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-type swot ever to be quite the thing.
ref: 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 23:
text: On first listen, Americans of a certain vintage would call one a Poindexter, while older Brits would regard the other as a swot.
ref: 2023 August 8, Janan Ganesh, “The oneness of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak”, in Financial Times:
glosses: One who swots; a boffin, nerd, or smart aleck.
examples: text: All I want is — guerre fini, soldat fini; and to go home without burden of any thought save music, and hard swot for a time.
ref: Quoted in 1983, Ivor Gurney, Robert Kelsey Rought Thornton, War Letters: A Selection (page 254)
glosses: Work.
glosses: Vigorous study at an educational institution.
Derived terms: swotty
well drink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: well drinks
Etymology: From the well near the bar (and thus handy to the bartender) holding bottles of liquor.
Senses: examples: text: Don't order the well drinks there. They use the cheapest stuff they can find.
glosses: A mixed drink for which one does not specify the exact brand of liquor to be used.
Related terms: call drink
call drink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: call drinks
Senses: examples: text: Call drinks generally cost more than well drinks.
glosses: A mixed drink for which one specifies (i.e., calls) the exact brand or brands of liquor to be used.
Related terms: well drink
mixed drink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed drinks
Senses: examples: text: I like gin and tonic as a mixed drink, but I really prefer beer.
hyponyms: bomb shot
glosses: An alcoholic drink made from one or more kinds of liquor mixed with other ingredients.
Related terms: call drink
cocktail
liquor
well drink
scramble
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹæmbl̩/
rhymes: -æmbəl
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps from earlier dialectal scramble, scrammel (“to collect or rake together with the hands”), from scramb (“to pull or scrape together with the hands”) + -le (frequentative suffix) (compare Dutch schrammen (“to graze, brush, scratch”)); or alternatively from a nasalised form of scrabble (“to scrape or scratch quickly”).
Senses: glosses: Shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item, causing them to rush for it.
antihistamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.tiˈhɪs.tə.miːn/
ipa: /ˌæn.taɪˈhɪs.tə.miːn/
Forms: form: antihistamines
Etymology: From anti- + histamine.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the most striking method of demonstrating the effect of antihistamine substances is to use them to protect guinea-pigs against the action of histamine sprayed into the air from an atomizer.
ref: 1946 December 24, British journal of pharmacology and chemotherapy, volume 1, number 4, page 278:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug or substance that counteracts the effects of a histamine. Commonly used to alleviate the symptoms of hay fever and other allergies.
Synonyms: word: antihistamine
word: antihistaminic
Hypernyms: word: pharmaceutical
Hyponyms: word: bromazine
word: bromodiphenhydramine
word: carbinoxamine
word: clemastine
word: chlorphenoxamine
word: diphenylpyraline
word: diphenhydramine
word: doxylamine
word: orphenadrine
word: phenyltoloxamine
word: brompheniramine
word: chlorphenamine
word: dexbrompheniramine
word: dexchlorpheniramine
word: dimetindene
word: pheniramine
word: talastine
word: chloropyramine
word: histapyrrodine
word: mepyramine
word: methapyrilene
word: tripelennamine
word: pyribenzamine
word: alimemazine
word: hydroxyethylpromethazine
word: isothipendyl
word: mequitazine
word: methdilazine
word: oxomemazine
word: promethazine
word: buclizine
word: cetirizine
word: chlorcyclizine
word: cinnarizine
word: cyclizine
word: hydroxyzine
word: levocetirizine
word: meclizine
word: niaprazine
word: oxatomide
word: antazoline
word: azatadine
word: bamipine
word: cyproheptadine
word: deptropine
word: dimebon
word: ebastine
word: epinastine
word: ketotifen
word: mebhydrolin
word: mizolastine
word: phenindamine
word: pimethixene
word: pyrrobutamine
word: rupatadine
word: triprolidine
word: acrivastine
word: astemizole
word: azelastine
word: desloratadine
word: fexofenadine
word: loratadine
word: terfenadine
word: thenalidine
word: emedastine
word: montelukast
word: olopatadine
Derived terms: anticistamines
antihistaminic
Related terms: word: Template:Antihistamines on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Beatles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːtl̩z/
ipa: /ˈbiːtl̩z/
ipa: [ˈbiːɾɫ̩z]
homophone: beetles
Forms: form: the Beatles
Etymology: Originally spelled Beatals, punningly referencing the expression beat all (“surpass everything”), then later altered to Beatles, blend of beat + beetles, with beat referring to "beat music" or the "beat" of a drum, and beetles inspired by the contemporaneous band name The Crickets.
Senses: examples: text: Don't tell me to play goddamn Beatles in my house. We're in America, I swear to God.
ref: 2023, Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon, Sofia Coppola, Priscilla, spoken by Elvis (Jacob Elordi):
synonyms: Fab Four
glosses: An extremely successful and influential British rock music quartet that operated primarily in the 1960s.
Derived terms: Beatle
Beatle boot
Beatle cut
Beatledom
Beatlehead
Beatle-ish
Beatle-less
Beatlelike
Beatlemania
Beatlemaniac
Beatleness
Beatles-like
Beatlesque
Beatley
big as the Beatles
pre-Beatles
the Fifth Beatle
Beatles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːtl̩z/
ipa: /ˈbiːtl̩z/
ipa: [ˈbiːɾɫ̩z]
homophone: beetles
Etymology: Originally spelled Beatals, punningly referencing the expression beat all (“surpass everything”), then later altered to Beatles, blend of beat + beetles, with beat referring to "beat music" or the "beat" of a drum, and beetles inspired by the contemporaneous band name The Crickets.
Senses: glosses: plural of Beatle
stonewall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstəʊnwɔːl/
ipa: /ˈstoʊnwɔl/
ipa: /ˈstoʊnwɑl/
Forms: form: stonewalls
form: stonewalling
form: stonewalled
form: stonewalled
Etymology: From Middle English stonwal, stone wall, stanewalle (“wall made of stone”), from Old English stānweall (“stonewall”), equivalent to stone + wall. The alcoholic drink (sense 3) was perhaps named thus because its effect was as potent as running into a stone wall.
Senses: examples: text: Either the thing to be stonewalled must be itself a bad thing, or it must be stonewalled as the only means of preventing some other wrong being committed; obviously, paying the public creditor was no wrong, and the budget, if wrong, could be effectually obstructed by stonewalling the financial resolutions.
ref: 1876 January–October, “Public Affairs”, in The Melbourne Review, volume 1, Melbourne, Vic.: Samuel Mullen, 55 & 57 Collins Street East, →OCLC, page 244:
glosses: To obstruct.
examples: text: At the press conference, the Prime Minister appeared to be stonewalling when asked about tax increases.
text: As he becomes defensive or stonewalls in return, she feels frustrated and angry, and so adds contempt to underscore the strength of her frustration. As her husband finds himself the object of his wife's criticism and contempt, he begins to fall into the innocent-victim or righteous-indignation thoughts that more and more easily trigger flooding. To protect himself from flooding, he becomes more and more defensive or simply stonewalls altogether. But when husbands stonewall, remember, it triggers flooding in their wives, who feel completely stymied.
ref: 1996, Daniel Goleman, “Intimate Enemies”, in Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, paperback edition, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, part 3 (Emotional Intelligence Applied), page 141:
text: Even so, the rematch was a cliffhanger. It was marked by Kasparov’s increasing anger and frustration at the behaviour of IBM, which stonewalled against his requests for printouts of the machine’s logs of completed games.
ref: 2017 June 4, John Naughton, “Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins by Garry Kasparov – review”, in The Guardian:
text: Two weeks later, they said they were unable to provide answers and politely passed on the opportunity to talk to me. / It’s unclear why they stonewalled me; maybe the recent lawsuits have executives tight-lipped.
ref: 2022 April 20, Mariella Rudi, “Tostitos Hint of Lime has zero lime – but it’s still the perfect chip”, in The Guardian:
text: The silence that follows begins to feel awkward. It's one of several moments where Yaccarino stonewalls.
ref: 2023 September 30, Hannah Murphy, “The wildest job in Silicon Valley”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 18:
glosses: To refuse to answer or cooperate, especially in supplying information.
Derived terms: word: stonewaller
word: stonewalling
stonewall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstəʊnwɔːl/
ipa: /ˈstoʊnwɔl/
ipa: /ˈstoʊnwɑl/
Etymology: Apparently a corruption of stone cold.
Senses: examples: text: Fortune favoured the fortunate when Martin Atkinson ignored a stonewall penalty.
ref: 2007 February 19, Martin Smith, “Fabregas factor helps Blackburn”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 15 May 2011:
text: [Neil] Lennon also pointed to a booking for Niall McGinn for diving as a stonewall penalty to add to his grievances.
ref: 2011 January 13, Gordon Parks, “Celtic boss Neil Lennon in new blast at referees after ‘offside’ goal sees two more points dropped in SPL title race”, in Daily Record, Glasgow, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2016:
glosses: Certain, definite.
Synonyms: stone cold
eugenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /juˈd͡ʒɛn.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɛnɪk
Forms: form: more eugenic
form: most eugenic
Etymology: From eu- + -genic.
Senses: examples: text: In making his point, Thomas dedicated more than a dozen pages on the history of the eugenics movement to explain why “the use of abortion to achieve eugenic goals is not merely hypothetical.”
ref: 2019 May 28, Ariane de Vogue, “Why Clarence Thomas wrote over a dozen pages on eugenics”, in CNN:
text: [Alan] Dershowitz, who as a Harvard Law professor regularly attended lunches [Jeffrey] Epstein hosted for the scientists, told the Times he was “appalled” to learn about Epstein's eugenic ambitions, but their friendship continued.
ref: 2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents:
glosses: Of or relating to eugenics.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
antonyms: dysgenic
glosses: Relating or adapting to production of strong or effective offspring.
Derived terms: antieugenic
eugenically
eugenicism
eugenicist
eugenicize
eugenist
neo-eugenic
noneugenic
Stonewall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stonewalls
Etymology: From stone + wall. The drink is so named because its effect is likened to running into a stone wall. The riots take their name from the Stonewall Inn where they began (in the 1840s, the property was called Bonnie's Stone Wall, later renamed to Bonnie's Stonewall Inn, then the Stonewall Inn Restaurant, and then the Stonewall Inn). The Confederate general acquired his nickname after a battle in which, while other troops were in motion, fellow general Barnard E. Bee observed "there stands Jackson like a stone wall" (either resolutely, or unhelpfully). The chess setup is so named because it is a solid formation which is hard to overrun by force, like a stone wall.
Senses: examples: text: Try one of the inn's specialties from the old days — a Coow Woow (pronounced coo-woo), a 17th-century drink made with ginger brandy and rum on crushed ice; or a Stonewall, which is a century older — gin and applejack over ice cubes.
ref: 1974, Ian Keown, Lovers' guide to America, page 85:
text: A Stonewall? That's a man's drink, ma'am. It's hard cider—cider wine at about six-and-one-half percent alcohol with rum added. Quite powerful.
ref: 2001, Bert Osterberg, Silas Cully's Tavern Tales: Stories, Jokes, and Recipes, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of stonewall (“alcoholic drink”).
Stonewall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From stone + wall. The drink is so named because its effect is likened to running into a stone wall. The riots take their name from the Stonewall Inn where they began (in the 1840s, the property was called Bonnie's Stone Wall, later renamed to Bonnie's Stonewall Inn, then the Stonewall Inn Restaurant, and then the Stonewall Inn). The Confederate general acquired his nickname after a battle in which, while other troops were in motion, fellow general Barnard E. Bee observed "there stands Jackson like a stone wall" (either resolutely, or unhelpfully). The chess setup is so named because it is a solid formation which is hard to overrun by force, like a stone wall.
Senses: examples: text: Stonewall means fighting back.
ref: 1979 June, Gay Community News:
glosses: A series of riots in 1969 New York City, beginning with the patrons of the gay bar "The Stonewall Inn" resisting police arrest, which marked the beginning of the militant gay rights movement.
glosses: A nickname of Confederate general Thomas Jonathan Jackson.
examples: the Stonewall attack, a Stonewall setup, a Stonewall formation
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A formation in chess (a variation of the Queen's Pawn Game) in which white plays pawns to d4 and several other positions, requiring black to react energetically (see Stonewall Attack).
glosses: Any of several places:
A town in Manitoba, Canada.
glosses: Any of several places:
A former gold-mining town in California, in the Cuyamaca Mountains.
glosses: Any of several places:
A town in Louisiana.
glosses: Any of several places:
A town in Mississippi.
glosses: Any of several places:
A town in North Carolina.
glosses: Any of several places:
A town in Oklahoma.
glosses: Any of several places:
An unincorporated community in Texas.
glosses: Any of several places:
An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
Derived terms: Stonewall Attack
Stonewall County
Brooklyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹʊk.lən/
enpr: bro͝oklĭn
ipa: /ˈbɹʷʊk.ɫɪn/
ipa: [ˈbɹ̠ʷʊ̠kɫ̪ɪ̈n]
Etymology: From Dutch Breukelen, from broek (“wetland, marsh”).
Senses: examples: text: We live in Brooklyn, baby / We're trying to make it, baby
ref: 1972, “We Live in Brooklyn Baby”, in He's Coming, performed by Roy Ayers Ubiquity:
glosses: A borough of New York City, New York, United States. It is located on the western end of Long Island.
glosses: A town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States.
glosses: A village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A small town in Morgan County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A small city Poweshiek County Iowa, United States.
glosses: A village in Jackson County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A town in Green County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A village in Dane County and Green County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A town in Green Lake County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A small town in Washburn County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of townships in the United States, listed under Brooklyn Township.
glosses: A small suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A suburb of Wellington, Wellington region, New Zealand.
glosses: A female given name transferred from the place name, of modern usage, also spelled Brooklynn.
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the place name, of modern usage.
Synonyms: sense: area on western end of Long Island
english: dated: pre-1898
translation: dated: pre-1898
word: City of Brooklyn
word: Borough of Brooklyn
word: Kings County
word: King's County
Derived terms: Brooklyn blackout cake
Brooklyn Center
Brooklyn fade
Brooklynite
Brooklyn Park
Related terms: Brookline
joshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joshis
Etymology: Ellipsis of 女子プロレス (joshi puroresu), itself a compound of 女子 (joshi, “woman”) + プロレス (puroresu, “professional wrestling”).
Senses: examples: text: [Naoko] Sato and [Makiko] Ueda were young and attractive, unlike some of the burlier, older women who had dominated the sport in Japan up to that point. They introduced youth and sex appeal to joshi wrestling and quickly became a pop culture sensation.
ref: 2017, Pat Laprade, Dan Murphy, Sisterhood of the Squared Circle: The History and Rise of Women's Wrestling:
glosses: Japanese women's professional wrestling
examples: text: Whether they are called joshis, luchadoras, or lady grapplers, one can find female wrestlers in every part of the world.
ref: 2017, Pat Laprade, Dan Murphy, Sisterhood of the Squared Circle: The History and Rise of Women's Wrestling:
glosses: Japanese women's professional wrestling
A female Japanese professional wrestler
counterpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊntə(ɹ)ˌpɔɪnt/
Forms: form: counterpoints
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English [Term?], from Middle French contrepoint, from Medieval Latin contrāpūnctum. Equivalent to counter- + point.
Senses: examples: text: I noticed […] that when a very cheesy synthesized violin sound plays in counterpoint with a real violin, it can quite convincingly seem as if two violins are playing.
ref: 2009, Roger T. Dean, The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A melody added to an existing one, especially one added to provide harmony whilst each retains its simultaneous identity; a composition consisting of such contrapuntal melodies.
examples: text: As counterpoints to the glamorous looks of 1980s models such as Chistie Brinkley and Heidi Klum, heroin chic looks such as Kate Moss were thin to the point of anorectic gauntness.
ref: 2014, Nancy M. Marion, Willard M. Oliver, Drugs In American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics and the Law, page 188:
glosses: Any similar contrasting element in a work of art.
examples: text: […] Priests; who affecting in them selves and their followers a certein Angelical puritie, fell sodainly to the very counterpoint of justifying bestialitie.
ref: 1605, Sir Edwin Sandys, Europae Speculum [A Relation of the State of Religion in Europe], in Mary Ellen Henley, Sir Edwin Sandy's Europae Speculum: a Critical Edition (2001)
glosses: An opposite point.
Synonyms: contrapuntal music
polyphony
counterpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊntə(ɹ)ˌpɔɪnt/
Forms: form: counterpoints
form: counterpointing
form: counterpointed
form: counterpointed
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English [Term?], from Middle French contrepoint, from Medieval Latin contrāpūnctum. Equivalent to counter- + point.
Senses: glosses: To compose or arrange such music.
examples: text: […] the dominant discourse on theory and method in the study of religions remains stuck on the debate about reductionism, which is in turn bent on representing the debate about theory and method in the study of religions as a choice between an unscientific phenomenology or an unsympathetic positivism (for phenomenology the idea that explanation is always 'bad' is perfectly counterpointed by the idea that religion is always 'good').
ref: 2011, Paul-François Tremlett, Religion and the Discourse on Modernity:
glosses: To serve as an opposing point against.
counterpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊntə(ɹ)ˌpɔɪnt/
Forms: form: counterpoints
Etymology: From Old French contrepointe, a corruption of coultepointe, from Latin culcita puncta, i.e. a stitched pillow or cover. See quilt.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of counterpane.
olde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more olde
form: most olde
Senses: examples: text: Crossbowmen from such distant realms as Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, New York, New Jersey and Delaware, all right there in Merrie Olde Arkansas, in the non-medieval year of 1973.
ref: 1973 November 25, James G. Andrews, “In Merrie Olde Arkansas”, in The Commercial Appeal Mid-South Magazine, page 4:
text: Staid, olde Britain goes bonkers / ‘Red-Nose Day’ puts chuckle in charity
ref: 1989 March 11, Dayton Daily News, volume 112, number 183, Dayton, Oh., page 8 - A:
glosses: Archaic spelling of old.
Derived terms: Olde English Bulldogge
olde tyme
olde worlde
ye olde
eurythmics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eurhythmics
Senses: glosses: A rhythmic interpretation of music with graceful, freestyle dance movements.
Related terms: eurythmy
eurythmy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eurythmies
form: eurhythmy
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὐρυθμία (euruthmía, “rhythmical order”), from εὖ (eû, “well”) + ῥυθμός (rhuthmós, “symmetry”).
Senses: glosses: The harmony of features and proportion in architecture.
examples: text: For three weeks Lorde engages in a regime of rest, relaxation, eurhythmy, and active meditation.
ref: 1988 December 11, Cheryl Clarke, “Still Shouting Down The Silence”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 7:
glosses: Graceful body movements to the rhythm of spoken words and music.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Healthy, normal beating of the pulse; eurhythmia.
Mande
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The name in Mande.
Senses: glosses: A branch of Niger-Congo languages, spoken mostly in West Africa.
evacuant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: cathartic
purgative
glosses: laxative
Related terms: purgatory
evacuant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evacuants
Senses: glosses: something used to clean out an organ system, especially the bowels
glosses: a laxative
Cardiganshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)dɪɡənʃə(ɹ)/
/ˈkɑː(ɹ)dɪɡənʃɪə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From the town of Cardigan + -shire, from Welsh Ceredigion.
Senses: glosses: A maritime traditional county of Wales, bordered by Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Brecknockshire, Radnorshire, Montgomeryshire and Merionethshire.
Synonyms: County of Cardigan
Radnorshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹædnəʃə/
ipa: /ˈɹædnəʃɪə/
Senses: glosses: An inland traditional county of Wales, bounded to the north by Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, to the east by Herefordshire, to the south by Brecknockshire and to the west by Cardiganshire.
Montgomeryshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /mɒntˈɡʌmɹiʃɪə(ɹ)/
/mɒntˈɡʌmɹiʃə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Montgomery + -shire.
Senses: glosses: An inland traditional county of Wales, bounded to the north by Denbighshire, to the east and southeast by Shropshire, to the south by Radnorshire, to the southwest by Cardiganshire and to the west and northwest by Merionethshire.
Merionethshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌmɛɹiˈɒnɛθʃə(ɹ)/
/ˌmɛɹiˈɒnɛθʃɪə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Merioneth + -shire.
Senses: glosses: A maritime traditional county of Wales, bounded to the north by Caernarfonshire, to the east by Denbighshire, to the south by Montgomeryshire and Cardiganshire, and to the west by Cardigan Bay.
Caernarfonshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kɑː(ɹ)ˈnɑː(ɹ)vənʃə(ɹ)/
/kɑː(ɹ)ˈnɑː(ɹ)vənʃɪə(ɹ)/
/kə(ɹ)ˈnɑː(ɹ)vənʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: Caernarvonshire
form: Carnarvonshire
Senses: glosses: A maritime traditional county of Wales. bounded to the north by the Irish Sea, to the east by Denbighshire, to the south by Cardigan Bay and Merionethshire, and to the west by Caernarfon Bay and the Menai Strait, which separates it from Anglesey. The county is now mostly in Gwynedd.
Derived terms: word: Caerns
Denbighshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛnbiːʃə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Denbigh + -shire.
Senses: glosses: A county in north-east Wales, bordered by Wrexham, Flintshire, Conwy, Gwynedd and Powys
glosses: A maritime traditional county of Wales, bounded to the north by the Irish Sea, to the east by Flintshire, Cheshire and Shropshire, to the south by Montgomeryshire and Merionethshire, and to the west by Caernarfonshire.
evanesce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌiːvəˈnɛs/
Forms: form: evanesces
form: evanescing
form: evanesced
form: evanesced
Etymology: From Latin evanescere (“to vanish”). Doublet of vanish.
Senses: glosses: To disappear into a mist or dissipate in vapor
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To transition from the solid state to gaseous state without ever becoming a liquid
Hypernyms: vanish
disappear
Related terms: evanescent
evanescently
evanescence
effervesce
Flintshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪnt.ʃə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Flint + -shire, also once known as the County of Flint.
Senses: glosses: A maritime traditional county of Wales, bounded to the north by the Irish Sea, to the northeast by the Dee estuary, to the east by Cheshire and to the south and southwest by Denbighshire. A detached part, Maelor Saesneg, is bounded on the northwest by Denbighshire, on the northeast by Cheshire, and on the south by Shropshire. There is a further small detached part around Marford.
glosses: A local government area of Wales. It borders Merseyside, Cheshire, Wrexham and Denbighshire.
first e-rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 2003, Technically you have used "first e-rights" and can no longer sell it as an unpublished story/article ... Once a story is printed on the web, first e-rights have been used but first print rights are still available. — Tina Morgan Know Your Rights, appearing in Fiction Factor: The online magazine for fiction writers.
topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: The right to publish a work for the first time in electronic form.
Anglesey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋ.ɡəl.siː/
Etymology: Possibly of Old Norse origin, from Ǫngullsey (“hook island”) (ǫngull + ey) or Ǫnglisey (“Ǫngli's island”), the name Ǫngli itself being a variant of Ǫngull and from the former noun. Folk etymology confused the name with that of the Angles. More at Anglesey.
Senses: glosses: An island and traditional county at the northwestern extremity of north Wales. It is separated from Caernarfonshire on the mainland by a narrow stretch of water called the Menai Strait. The county was merged into Gwynedd in 1974.
examples: text: Owain Roberts, from Anglesey, was sent a bill for £4,300 by Vodafone.
ref: 2014 November 22, Miles Brignall, “Victory against Vodafone for schoolteacher billed £15,000”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A unitary authority in Wales, Isle of Anglesey County Council, created in 1996 when it was separated from Gwynedd.
glosses: A marquisate in the peerage of the United Kingdom.
Synonyms: Ynys Môn
evaginate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: evaginates
form: evaginating
form: evaginated
form: evaginated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ēvāgīnātus, perfect passive participle of ēvāgīnō (“to unsheath”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To evert a bodily organ inside surface to outside.
glosses: To cause (a bodily organ or part) to turn inside out.
Related terms: evagination
vagina
vaginate
evaginate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ēvāgīnātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Alternatively, back-formation from evagination.
Senses: examples: an evaginate membrane
glosses: Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated.
e-zine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-zines
Etymology: From e- + zine.
Senses: examples: text: After reading the submission guidelines for various e-zines and print markets, I've found a wide variety of "rights" listed.
ref: 2003, Tina Morgan, Know Your Rights, Fiction Factor: The online magazine for fiction writers:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A magazine published in electronic form, especially on the World Wide Web.
Synonyms: cyberzine
webmag
webzine
songwriter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: songwriters
Etymology: From song + writer.
Senses: examples: text: We are now collaborating with a famous songwriter.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musician who composes songs; especially writing the song's lyrics and/or creating a melody or a tune for the song.
Synonyms: word: cleffer
word: tunesmith
Related terms: songwriting
singer-songwriter
evasion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈveɪʒən/
rhymes: -eɪʒən
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: evasions
Etymology: From Middle French évasion, from Late Latin evasionem (accusative of evasio).
Senses: examples: text: In these hunting scenes, as many critics have noted, the reversals, negotiations, lurkings, and evasions between hunter and prey mirror and frame the bedroom strategies of the Lady and Gawain.
ref: 2011, Christine Chism, Alliterative Revivals, page 99:
text: He complained to LNER but was told: "We have had an increase in fare evasion on certain services which has led to our locking toilet facilities where (people) usually hide to avoid payment. Although Aberdeen is a gated station, customers often purchase the cheapest ticket available and board our services."
ref: 2020 January 2, Barry Doe, “ScotRail suspending seat reservations is hardly a "recipe for disaster"”, in Rail, page 62:
synonyms: equivocation
prevarication
shift
subterfuge
shuffling
glosses: The act of eluding or evading or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
Derived terms: antievasion
avoision
evasional
fare evasion
immune evasion
immunevasion
immunoevasion
nonevasion
tax evasion
JD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Jiggs dinner.
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of Juris Doctor.
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of juvenile delinquent.
examples: text: The Julian proleptic calendar is formed by applying the rules of the Julian calendar to times before Caesar's reform, and the Julian date (JD) specifies the particular instant of a day by ending the Julian day number with the fraction of the day elapsed since the preceding Greenwich noon.
ref: 1999, Kenneth R. Lang, Astrophysical Formulae: Space, Time, Matter and Cosmology, volume II, Springer, →ISBN, page 70:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Julian date.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Julian day.
examples: text: Could you get me a JD and Coke?
text: The only brolly that's in sight / Is the mini one that's in my drink / JD, coke and lime / This is how I want to spend my time
ref: 2010, “Hawaii”, performed by Tom Felton:
text: Mmmm, come here baby / I got the JD
ref: 2023, “Outside”, performed by Br3nya:
glosses: Initialism of Jack Daniel's, an American brand of whiskey.
glosses: Initialism of job description.
JD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Indian politics
glosses: Initialism of Janata Dal (former Indian political party)
philomath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪləmæθ/
Forms: form: philomaths
Etymology: First indubitably attested ante 1643 (perhaps antedated to 1611); from the Ancient Greek φιλομαθής (philomathḗs, “fond of learning”), from φίλος (phílos, “loving”) + μάθη (máthē, “learning”), from μανθάνω (manthánō, “learn”); compare opsimath, philomathematic, and polymath.
Senses: examples: text: For this (in my humble opinion, not very important purpose, and fitter to employ the talent of a philomath than a Newton) he and Leibnitz, much about the same, struck out a fluxional method, which they both took for a demonstration.
ref: 1824, Rev. Philip Skelton, The Complete Works of the Late Rev. Philip Skelton, Rector of Fintona, page 27:
text: Jerman for twenty years past had been the author of a Quaker almanac, and had for about the same time been engaged in a fierce almanac warfare with Jacob Taylor, a philomath and a printer of Friends’ books.
ref: 1896, John Bach McMaster, Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters, page 108:
glosses: A lover of learning; a scholar.
examples: text: "The success of an almanac depended upon the appeal of the "philomath"-the resident astrologer who did the writing and predicting."
ref: 2007, Thomas Fleming, Benjamin Franklin: Inventing America, Sterling Point Books, age 33
glosses: An astrologer or predictor.
eupnea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /juːpˈniːə/
Forms: form: eupneas
form: eupnœa
form: eupnoea
Etymology: From eu- + -pnea.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: normopnea
antonyms: apnea
coordinate_terms: dyspnea
hypopnea
hyperpnea
tachypnea
bradypnea
glosses: Normal, relaxed breathing; healthy condition of inhalation and exhalation.
Derived terms: word: eupneic
hapless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæplɪs/
ipa: /ˈhæpləs/
rhymes: (US) -æpləs
Forms: form: more hapless
form: most hapless
Etymology: From about 1400, from hap (“luck”) + -less.
Senses: glosses: unfortunate.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], “chapter 8”, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
text: Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
text: My dear friend, are you to become that hapless kind of outcast, a champion of lost causes?
ref: 1914, John Galsworthy, The Mob, act 1:
text: The hapless squad, which was outscored 517-268 in 2008, became the first in league history to go 0-16.
ref: 2008 December 31, Harriet Barovick, “Detroit The Lost Season”, in Time:
text: Among the most captivating scenes from the initial Los Angeles protests were the scorched Waymo cars, lined up in a row and engulfed in heavy black smoke. Some observers believe the cars were targeted because of their association with Big Tech. Others view the Waymos as hapless victims, because they have no one behind the wheel and easily become paralyzed if an object is placed in their path.
ref: 2025 June 13, Rachel Swan, “If Waymos are ignited during Saturday’s No Kings protest, S.F. officials could let them burn”, in San Francisco Chronicle, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2025:
glosses: Very unlucky; ill-fated.
qualifier: Very
glosses: miserable, wretched, unhappy, measly, forlorn.
examples: text: Gideon Defoe scripted from his own series-launching comedic book The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists, about the adventures of a hapless group of pirates known only by names like The Pirate With The Scarf, The Pirate With Gout, and in the case of their leader, The Pirate Captain.
ref: 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Devoid of talent or skill.
Derived terms: haplessly
haplessness
Related terms: happy
happen
euphony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːfəni/
Forms: form: euphonies
Etymology: From French euphonie, from Ancient Greek εὐφωνία (euphōnía), from εὐ- (eu-, prefix meaning ‘good, well’) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound; (human) voice; discourse, speech”) (from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say, speak”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). The English word is analysable as eu- + -phony.
Senses: examples: text: Mandalay. In the name there was a euphony which beckoned to the imagination, yet this was the bitter, withered reality.
ref: 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth, Chapter 8:
antonyms: cacophony
glosses: A pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.
examples: text: When I hear you speak, I hear beautiful euphony.
glosses: Pleasant phonetic quality of certain words.
Synonyms: word: concord
word: consonance
word: euphonism
word: euphony
word: harmony
word: unisonance
Hypernyms: word: order
word: sound
Hyponyms: word: melody
word: symphony
Derived terms: euphonic
euphonious
euphonize
Related terms: word: ideophone
word: phonaesthesia
word: euphonious
Europeanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Europeanizes
form: Europeanizing
form: Europeanized
form: Europeanized
form: Europeanise
Etymology: From European + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make something, or someone, more European.
euchre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːkəɹ/
rhymes: -uːkəɹ
Forms: form: euchres
form: eucre
Etymology: Possibly from German Juckerspiel, name of an eighteenth-century Alsatian card game, itself apparently a compound of Jucker (“joker?”, may be dialectal) + Spiel (“game”). Likely a doublet of joker.
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.
euchre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːkəɹ/
rhymes: -uːkəɹ
Forms: form: euchres
form: euchring
form: euchred
form: euchred
form: eucre
Etymology: Possibly from German Juckerspiel, name of an eighteenth-century Alsatian card game, itself apparently a compound of Jucker (“joker?”, may be dialectal) + Spiel (“game”). Likely a doublet of joker.
Senses: examples: text: Well: he guesses They have euchred Mexico into some such Byzantine exercise, probably to do with the Americans. Perhaps the Russians.
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
glosses: To deceive or outwit.