cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Machiavellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæk.i.əˈvɛl.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌmæk.jəˈvɛl.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌmɑk.i.əˈvɛl.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌmæk.jəˈvɛl.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɛliən
Forms: form: more Machiavellian
form: most Machiavellian
form: machiavellian
Etymology: From Machiavelli + -an, from the name of the Italian statesman and writer Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), whose work The Prince (1532) advises that acquiring and exercising power may require unethical methods.
Senses: examples: text: Iago is the Machiavellian antagonist in William Shakespeare's play Othello.
text: The most common reason cited is a Machiavellian one: Police view perjury as a necessary means to achieve the ends of justice.
ref: 1999 January, Larry Cunningham, “Taking on Testilying”, in Criminal Justice Ethics, volume 18, →DOI, pages 26–40:
text: These are the actions of a club flailing around to make things work, not the 4D chess moves of some Machiavellian puppet master.
ref: 2021 August 5, “Messi’s Departure Is a Mess Everyone Could See Coming”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2021:
glosses: Attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods, especially in politics.
examples: text: As Dr. Spalding notes, the connection that Washington drew "between private morality and national character, between virtue and happiness, hardly seems Machiavellian."
ref: 2006, Paul Rahe, Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy:
glosses: Related to the philosophical system of Niccolò Machiavelli.
Synonyms: Machiavellic
Machiavellistic
Derived terms: Machiavellianism
Machiavellism
Merkelvellian
Machiavellian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæk.i.əˈvɛl.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌmæk.jəˈvɛl.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌmɑk.i.əˈvɛl.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌmæk.jəˈvɛl.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɛliən
Forms: form: Machiavellians
form: machiavellian
Etymology: From Machiavelli + -an, from the name of the Italian statesman and writer Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), whose work The Prince (1532) advises that acquiring and exercising power may require unethical methods.
Senses: glosses: An unscrupulous schemer.
Synonyms: word: Machiavellianist
word: Machiavellist
word: Machiavel
shuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃʌk/
ipa: /ʃʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: shucks
form: shock
Etymology: Origin unknown. Possibly a dialectal survival of unrecorded Middle English *schulk(e), *schullok (“small shell”); either from Old English *sċylluc, *sċylloc, diminutive of Old English sċyll (“shell”), or alternatively created in Middle English from Middle English schulle, schelle (“shell, husk, pod”) + -ok, making it equivalent to shell + -ock (diminutive suffix) or shell + -k (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: There was no linen, no pillow, and when she touched the mattress it gave forth the faint dry whisper of shucks.
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 46:
glosses: The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A fraud; a scam.
glosses: A phony.
Derived terms: shuck pen
shuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃʌk/
ipa: /ʃʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: shucks
form: shucking
form: shucked
form: shucked
form: shock
Etymology: Origin unknown. Possibly a dialectal survival of unrecorded Middle English *schulk(e), *schullok (“small shell”); either from Old English *sċylluc, *sċylloc, diminutive of Old English sċyll (“shell”), or alternatively created in Middle English from Middle English schulle, schelle (“shell, husk, pod”) + -ok, making it equivalent to shell + -ock (diminutive suffix) or shell + -k (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Shall we shuck walnuts?
glosses: To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
examples: text: I will shuck my clothes and dive naked into the pool.
text: [...] but what had actually happened was that the wheel of one of the coaches became detached from its axle, or, in the more expressive American argot, the train "shucked off a wheel near Everett."
ref: 1941 April, “Notes and News: The Reason Why”, in Railway Magazine, page 182:
glosses: To remove (any outer covering).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
glosses: To fool; to hoax.
Derived terms: shuck and jive
shuck down
shucking knife
shuck off
shuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃʌk/
ipa: /ʃʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: shucks
form: shucking
form: shucked
form: shucked
Etymology: From a dialectal variant of shock.
Senses: glosses: To shake; shiver.
glosses: To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
glosses: To do hurriedly or in a restless way.
glosses: To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
glosses: To walk at a slow trot.
raw_tags: of a horse
Derived terms: shuckish
shucky
shuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃʌk/
ipa: /ʃʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: shucks
Senses: topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
synonyms: padfoot
shriker
glosses: A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.
louis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: louis
form: louises
Etymology: Borrowed from French louis, from Louis, the name of the French kings who first issued these coins and whose images appeared on their obverses.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: Any gold or silver coin issued by the French kings from Louis XIII to Louis XVI and bearing their image on the obverse side, particularly the gold louis d'ors, originally a French form of the Spanish doubloon but varying in value between 10 and 24 livres.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: The louis d'or constitutionnel, a 24-livre gold coin issued by the First French Republic.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: The franc germinal or napoleon, a similar gold coin issued by Napoleon and bearing his image on the obverse, worth 20 francs.
Synonyms: word: Louis
word: lew
Hyponyms: franc germinal
napoleon
louis d'or
louis d'or constitutionnel
archebacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archebacterium
archaea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːˈkiːə/
ipa: /ɑrˈkiə/
ipa: /ɑrˈkeɪə/
Senses: glosses: plural of archaeon
poon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: poons
Etymology: Compare Tamil புன்னை (puṉṉai), Malayalam പുന്ന (punna), names for Calophyllum inophyllum. Doublet of punnai.
Senses: glosses: Any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, yielding a light, hard wood used for masts, spars, etc.
eubacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eubacterium
cyanobacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə
Senses: examples: text: Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.
ref: 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: plural of cyanobacterium.
Derived terms: cyanobacterial
cyanobactin
debone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbəʊn/
ipa: /diˈboʊn/
Forms: form: debones
form: deboning
form: deboned
form: deboned
Etymology: From de- + bone.
Senses: examples: text: I am deboning a fish.
text: Down it went on the counter, for patient bone removal that would last him a whole day. Frank had done an awful lot of deboning in his life
ref: 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: bone
unbone
hypernyms: prepare
coordinate_terms: pluck#Verb
gut#Verb
skin#Verb
glosses: To remove the bones from.
Derived terms: deboner
Related terms: boneless
marshall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marshalls
Senses: examples: text: A gay activist has been elected to the prestigious position of marshall of his class at Harvard College.
ref: 1980 December 27, “The Penultimate Stodgy Position”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 23, page 2:
glosses: Alternative spelling of marshal.
Derived terms: marshalless
unmarshall
bryozoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bryozoan
glosses: plural of bryozoon
glosses: plural of bryozoum
vincent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪnsənt/
Forms: form: vincents
Etymology: From the Latin verb vincō. It could be either the stem of the present active participle vincēns (“the conquering man”) or the third-person plural future active indicative meaning ‘they will conquer’.
Senses: examples: text: If the vincent could actually be persuaded to play a game, the professionals always won in the end, either because of their superior skill or because of such stratagems as those described by Greene […]
ref: 1977, Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld, Folio Society, published 2006, page 26:
glosses: The victim or dupe in a betting game, especially bowls.
barbara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑɹb(ə)ɹə/
ipa: /ˈbɑːb(ə)ɹə/
Forms: form: barbaras
Etymology: From the name Barbara; chosen because it has three A's in it representing universal affirmatives.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A syllogism in which all three propositions are of the form "All X are Y" or "X is a Y".
tarsus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑː.səs/
ipa: /ˈtɑɹ.səs/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)səs
Forms: form: tarsi
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin tarsus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: The part between the main part of the hindlimb and the metatarsus in terrestrial vertebrates.
A group of small bones in this part of the foot. The seven bones of the human tarsus form the ankle and upper part of the foot.
examples: text: On the ledge, the guillemots shuffle awkwardly about on their tarsi, the long bone connecting the ‘ankle’ to the feet.
ref: 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 99:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: The part between the main part of the hindlimb and the metatarsus in terrestrial vertebrates.
The shank or tarsometatarsus of the leg of a bird or reptile.
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: The part between the main part of the hindlimb and the metatarsus in terrestrial vertebrates.
The true foot or the fifth joint of the leg of an insect or other arthropod, typically consisting of several small segments and ending in a claw.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A plate of dense connective tissue found in each eyelid, attached to either the superior tarsal muscle (in the upper eyelid) or inferior tarsal muscle (lower eyelid), which aid with sympathetic control.
Derived terms: apicotarsus
basitarsus
distitarsus
epitarsus
foretarsus
hypotarsus
mesotarsus
metatarsus
pretarsus
protarsus
tarsal
telotarsus
tibiotarsus
Related terms: acrotarsium
tarsometatarsus
scot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: scots
Etymology: From Middle English scot, scott, from Old English scot, scott, sċeot, ġescot (“contribution; payment; tax; fine”), from Old Norse skot, from Proto-Germanic *skutą (“that which is thrown or cast; projectile; missile”), related to English shoot. Later influenced by Old French escot (Modern écot), itself of Germanic origin. Doublet of shot.
Senses: glosses: A local tax, paid originally to the lord or ruler and later to a sheriff.
Derived terms: Rome-scot
scotale
scot and lot
scot-free
Related terms: churchscot
escot
lightscot
scot-free
shot
shout
scot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: scots
Senses: examples: text: The black fellows were in a very savage mood. […] Mr. Lawson, having heard that the up-creek blacks were "in a scot," and fearing that the youngsters might fall into their hands, had then started with his little party in pursuit.
ref: 1869, Richard Rowe, The Boy in the Bush:
glosses: A fury; a fit of temper.
snow globe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow globes
form: snowglobe
Senses: glosses: A decorative object or toy containing a model of a landscape, fluid and suspended white flakes that emulate snowfall when shaken.
Synonyms: snowdome
snowstorm
tarsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑː.səl/
ipa: /ˈtɑɹ.səl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)səl
Etymology: From tarsus + -al, cognate to New Latin tarsālis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Of or relating to the tarsus.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Being or relating to plates of dense connective tissue that serve to stiffen the eyelids.
Derived terms: carpotarsal
craniocarpotarsal
crurotarsal
extratarsal
infratarsal
intertarsal
intratarsal
mediotarsal
mesotarsal
midtarsal
posttarsal
pretarsal
retrotarsal
spondylocarpotarsal
superior tarsal
superior tarsal muscle
supratarsal
talotarsal
tarsal bone
tarsal gland
tarsally
tarsal muscle
tarsal tunnel syndrome
tarsoconjunctival
tarso-
tars-
tarsotarsal
tibiotarsal
Related terms: basitarsal
foretarsal
metatarsal
protarsal
tarsometatarsal
tarsal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑː.səl/
ipa: /ˈtɑɹ.səl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)səl
Forms: form: tarsals
Etymology: From tarsus + -al, cognate to New Latin tarsālis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Ellipsis of tarsal bone.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of tarsal muscle.
Related terms: bone
tarsal bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarsal bones
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the seven bones of the tarsus.
carpus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː.pəs/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.pəs/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pəs
Forms: form: carpi
Etymology: From New Latin carpus, from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The group of bones that make up the wrist.
Derived terms: carpal
carpal bone
carpel
bruce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuːs/
ipa: /ˈbɹʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: bruces
Etymology: From the man's name Bruce.
Senses: examples: See Thesaurus:man
glosses: A man.
carpal bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpal bones
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the eight bones of the carpus or wrist.
hellish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɛlɪʃ
Forms: form: more hellish
form: most hellish
Etymology: From hell + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Fauſtus is gone, regard his helliſh fall, / Whoſe fiendful fortune may exhort the wiſe, / Onely to wonder at vnlawful things, […]
ref: 1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC, signature [F3], recto:
glosses: infernal, related or similar to hell
examples: text: I woke up from a hellish noise coming from the house next door.
synonyms: awful
horrible
infernal
nightmarish
terrible
glosses: causing great pain, discomfort or distress
Derived terms: hellishly
hellishness
unhellish
Related terms: hell
scrummy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹʌmi/
rhymes: -ʌmi
Forms: form: scrummier
form: scrummiest
Etymology: Blend of scrumptious + yummy
Senses: examples: text: Of course one did get some scrummy things to eat abroad, that cook did not, somehow, produce at home; and the people looked different […]
ref: 1930, Ralph Hale Mottram, The English Miss:
text: There's an all day menu, with lots of fish dishes such as fish soup, tuna, and monkfish. Pudding might include a scrummy rosemary panacotta.
ref: 2004, Alan Murphy, Scotland:
text: After mopping up the last bits with my scrummy nan breads we settled down to watch the DVD of "The Two Towers" from "Lord of the Rings" […]
ref: 2006, Julie Wilson, Our Spanish Winters:
glosses: Delicious.
india
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: international standards
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of India from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
jamaica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jə-mā'kə
ipa: /d͡ʒəˈmeɪ.kə/
Etymology: From Spanish jamaica.
Senses: glosses: roselle
aves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ave
buteo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buteos
Etymology: From the genus name Buteo, from Latin būteō.
Senses: examples: text: In flight, it has the broad-winged, wide-tailed look of the buteos, the soaring hawks that are built like small eagles.
ref: 1988 February 5, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Any of the broad-winged soaring raptors of the genus Buteo.
dissentient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissentients
Etymology: From the Latin dissentiēns (“dissenting”).
Senses: examples: text: The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
text: Naturally, the wisdom of striking to remedy grievances was questioned; but there were few dissentients from the view that the Government and B.T.C. are mishandling the human relations involved.
ref: 1962 November, “Talking of Trains: The one-day strike”, in Modern Railways, page 291:
glosses: A dissenter.
dissentient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dissentient
form: most dissentient
Etymology: From the Latin dissentiēns (“dissenting”).
Senses: examples: text: Moody and Sankey had sung their way into every dissentient chapel, and Boshy appreciated their words thoroughly, and sang them to a wrong tune incessantly.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 198:
text: A dissentient opinion came from the aunt.
ref: 1914, Saki, ‘The Story-teller’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 354
text: When the news spread through the warren, there was not a dissentient voice.
ref: 1996, Richard Adams, Tales from Watership Down:
glosses: Dissenting; of a different opinion.
Synonyms: dissentious
Derived terms: dissentience
dissentiency
dissentiently
Piers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪəz/
enpr: pîrz
ipa: /pɪɹz/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z
Etymology: A Middle English vernacular form of Peter, from Old French Piers, from Latin Petrus. Doublet of Pedro, Peter, and Boutros.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Related terms: word: Pearce
word: Pears
word: Pearse
word: Peers
word: Perce
word: Peirce
word: Peirse
word: Perris
word: Perriss
word: Perse
word: Persse
word: Pierce
word: Pierse
word: Pearson
word: Pierson
word: pier
inundate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.ənˌdeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪn.ʌnˌdeɪt/
ipa: /ɪˈnʌn.deɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪn.ənˌdeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪn.ənˌdæɪt/
ipa: /ˈən.ənˌdæɪt/
Forms: form: inundates
form: inundating
form: inundated
form: inundated
Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin inundātus, the perfect passive participle of inundō (“to flood, overflow”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- + undō (“to overflow, wave”), from unda (“wave”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.
glosses: To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
examples: text: The agency was inundated with phone calls.
text: I don't know any quarter in England where you get such undeniable mutton—mutton that eats like mutton, instead of the nasty watery, stringy, turnipy stuff, neither mutton nor lamb, that other countries are inundated with.
ref: 1852, The New Monthly Magazine, page 310:
text: That books are pouring off the world’s presses at unprecedented rates is a fact often alluded to as a flood that is inundating libraries and the book trades.
ref: 1972, Carol A. Nemeyer, Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: To overwhelm.
Synonyms: word: swamp
sense: to cover with water
word: deluge
sense: to cover with water
word: flood
sense: to cover with water
word: beflood
sense: to overwhelm
word: deluge
sense: to overwhelm
word: flood
sense: to overwhelm
word: beflood
Related terms: inundation
inundator
undulate
rummy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌmɪ/
ipa: /ˈɹʌmi/
rhymes: -ʌmi
Forms: form: rummies
Etymology: Unknown, with much speculation. Perhaps related to rum via poker slang, or ultimately from German Ruhm.
Senses: glosses: A card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong.
Derived terms: boathouse rummy
gin rummy
Indian rummy
knock rummy
Liverpool rummy
Michigan rummy
Persian rummy
pinochle rummy
rummy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌmɪ/
ipa: /ˈɹʌmi/
rhymes: -ʌmi
Forms: form: rummier
form: rummiest
Etymology: From rum + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a rummy flavour
glosses: Resembling or tasting of rum.
examples: text: “You say rummy things and you do rummy things. What I mean to say is, you're impulsive.”
ref: 1920, P. G. Wodehouse, Jill the Reckless, page 28:
glosses: Peculiar; odd.
Derived terms: rummily
rumminess
rummy nose
rummy-nose tetra
rummy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌmɪ/
ipa: /ˈɹʌmi/
rhymes: -ʌmi
Forms: form: rummies
Etymology: From rum + -y.
Senses: examples: text: No one has forgotten Frank Dodd, the crossing guard who went crazy here twelve years ago and killed those women, and they haven't forgotten the dog, either, the one that came down with rabies and killed Joe Camber and the old rummy down the road from him.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: A rum-drinking alcoholic.
uncia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌnʃi.ə/
Forms: form: uncias
form: unciae
Etymology: From Latin uncia (“various Roman units”). Doublet of ounce, inch, onça, onza, oka, ouguiya, and awqiyyah.
Senses: glosses: The Roman ounce, 1/12 of a Roman pound.
glosses: The Roman inch, 1/12 of a Roman foot.
glosses: A bronze coin minted by the Roman Republic, 1/12 of an as.
glosses: A Roman unit of land area, 1/12 of a jugerum.
qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: Synonym of ounce, the English and American avoirdupois unit of mass.
synonyms: word: ounce
extra: the English and American avoirdupois unit of mass
glosses: Synonym of twelfth.
synonyms: word: twelfth
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A numerical coefficient in a binomial.
carelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛɹləsnəs/
ipa: /ˈkɛələsnəs/
Forms: form: carelessnesses
Etymology: From Middle English *carelesnes, *carlesnesse, from Old English carlēasnes (“freedom from care, security, carelessness”), equivalent to careless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This accident was caused by carelessness.
text: There were, however, 34 deaths among passengers in movement accidents, due mainly to misadventure and carelessness when entering and leaving trains in motion, falling off platforms and out of carriages, and opening and closing carriage doors.
ref: 1960 December, “Talking of Trains: B.R. safety in 1959”, in Trains Illustrated, page 708:
glosses: Lack of care; the state or quality of being careless.
Synonyms: inattention
negligence
Related terms: careless
sempervivum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sempervivums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: My favorite of the moment: a sleeping man in a long cattle trough, planted with thousands of a Sedum album called Red Ice, now turning ruby red in the cold, with sempervivum eyes on a head-size volcanic rock, and two farmer-like feet made of same.
ref: 2007 November 15, Anne Raver, “Hardy Succulents Take on a New Glow”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of the genus Sempervivum of succulent plants, the houseleeks or liveforevers.
floral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfloɹəl/
ipa: /ˈflɔːɹəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
rhymes: -ɒɹəl
Forms: form: more floral
form: most floral
Etymology: From French floral, from Latin flōrālis, from flōs (“flower”).
Senses: examples: text: floral arrangement
text: floral tribute
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or connected with flowers.
examples: text: floral motif
text: Really, I like the floral pattern on this Chinese vase.
glosses: Portraying flowers, especially in a stylized way.
Derived terms: bifloral
extrafloral
floral clock
floral envelope
floral formula
florality
floralize
floral larceny
florally
floralness
floralturbation
floral white
interfloral
intrafloral
labiatifloral
macrofloral
microfloral
monofloral
multifloral
mycofloral
nonfloral
palaeofloral
paleofloral
palynofloral
polyfloral
prefloral
subfloral
trifloral
unfloral
unifloral
Related terms: flora
florate
floral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfloɹəl/
ipa: /ˈflɔːɹəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
rhymes: -ɒɹəl
Forms: form: florals
Etymology: From French floral, from Latin flōrālis, from flōs (“flower”).
Senses: examples: text: FUNKY, bold and bright, many new wallpapers offer a modern twist on fussy old damasks and florals.
ref: 2007 October 11, Marianne Rohrlich, “Grandma’s Wallpaper Gets Funky”, in New York Times:
glosses: A design involving flowers
glosses: A perfume redolent of flowers
protista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protiston
insure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /ɪnˈʃɔː(ɹ)/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ɪnˈʃʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪnˈʃʊɚ/
ipa: /ɪnˈʃɝ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: insures
form: insuring
form: insured
form: insured
Etymology: First attested in c. 1440, as a variant of Middle English ensuren (from Anglo-Norman enseurer, itself from en- + seür (“sure”), probably influenced by Old French asseürer (“to assure”)); took on its particular sense of "make safe against loss by payment of premiums" in 1635, replacing assure. Doublet of ensure.
Senses: examples: text: I'm not insured against burglary.
glosses: To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.
glosses: To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance
examples: text: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
ref: 1787, Preamble to the United States Constitution:
text: "I have a friend at court," whispered she to her companion: "last night I singled out one of Sir Robert's secretaries, and a few smiles made him my devoted chevalier, and he promised to insure an interview."
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Sir Robert Walpole and House”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 237:
text: […] the sentry placed over the prisoner had strict orders to let no one have communication with him but the Chaplain. And certain unobtrusive measures were taken absolutely to insure this point.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 19, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: The latest in automation equipment, combined with highly skilled craftsmen, insure the high quality of the Packard Clipper.
ref: 1954, Packard Motor Car Company, Packard Clipper Owner's Manual:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ensure; to make sure or certain of; guarantee.
Derived terms: coinsure
disinsure
insurability
insurable
insurance
insuree
insurer
overinsure
reinsure
self-insure
underinsure
Related terms: insurant
assure
ensure
inshore
peninsular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈnɪn.sjə.lə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpɛn.ɪn.sjʊ.lə(ɹ)/
ipa: /pəˈnɪn.sə.ləɹ/
note: General Australian, yod-coalescence
ipa: /pəˈnɪn.ʃə.lə(ɹ)/
homophone: peninsula (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: more peninsular
form: most peninsular
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin paenīnsulāris. By surface analysis, peninsula + -ar. In the historical sense borrowed from Spanish peninsular.
Senses: examples: text: The lakeside cottage was on a peninsular spit of land.
coordinate_terms: insular
glosses: Of, pertaining to, resembling, or connected with a peninsula or peninsulas.
examples: Near-synonym: insular
glosses: Exhibiting a narrow provincialism; parochial.
Derived terms: circumpeninsular
midpeninsular
nonpeninsular
peninsularism
peninsularly
peninsular Spanish
transpeninsular penis
peninsular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈnɪn.sjə.lə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpɛn.ɪn.sjʊ.lə(ɹ)/
ipa: /pəˈnɪn.sə.ləɹ/
note: General Australian, yod-coalescence
ipa: /pəˈnɪn.ʃə.lə(ɹ)/
homophone: peninsula (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: peninsulars
form: peninsulares
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin paenīnsulāris. By surface analysis, peninsula + -ar. In the historical sense borrowed from Spanish peninsular.
Senses: glosses: One who inhabits a peninsula.
examples: text: Some of the great merchants in the Indies were creoles, but the majority were peninsulares. These latter acted as effective intermediaries between Spain and the colonies.
ref: 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: A person born on the Iberian Peninsula who emigrated to a (contemporary or former) Spanish colony.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:peninsular.
glosses: Misspelling of peninsula, found chiefly in non-rhotic accents.
pretend
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈtɛnd/
ipa: /pɹiˈtɛnd/
ipa: /pɹɪˈtɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman pretendre, Middle French pretendre (French prétendre (“to claim, demand”)), from Latin praetendere (“to put forward, hold out, pretend”), from prae- (“pre-”) + tendō (“stretch”); see tend.
Senses: examples: text: As children we used to go on "spying" missions around the neighbour's house, but it was all pretend.
glosses: Not really what it is represented as being; imaginary, feigned.
pretend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈtɛnd/
ipa: /pɹiˈtɛnd/
ipa: /pɹɪˈtɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman pretendre, Middle French pretendre (French prétendre (“to claim, demand”)), from Latin praetendere (“to put forward, hold out, pretend”), from prae- (“pre-”) + tendō (“stretch”); see tend.
Senses: examples: text: We used to dress up in our grandparents' old clothes and play pretend.
glosses: The act of engaging in pretend play.
Derived terms: make pretend
satirical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈtɪɹɪkəl/
rhymes: -ɪɹɪkəl
Forms: form: more satirical
form: most satirical
Etymology: From satire + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Spitting Image was a famous satirical television program.
text: Given his remarks in The English People about the dangers of Standard English, and the fact that the satirical Newspeak of Nineteen Eighty-Four is an engineered language[…]
ref: 2000 October 15, John E. Joseph, Limiting the Arbitrary: Linguistic Naturalism and Its Opposites in Plato's Cratylus and Modern Theories of Language, →ISBN, page 155:
synonyms: satiric
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or connected with satire.
Derived terms: satirically
Turneresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Turneresque
form: most Turneresque
Etymology: From Turner + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Resembling the works or style of the English painter Joseph Turner.
spacy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: spacier
form: spaciest
form: spacey
Etymology: From space + -y.
Senses: glosses: spaced-out
glosses: eccentric
examples: text: This car is very spacy.
glosses: spacious; having much space
examples: text: His latest CD sounds very spacy.
glosses: of, related to or connected with the extraterrestrial
Noah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊə/
ipa: /ˈnoʊə/
rhymes: -əʊə
homophone: NOAA
Forms: form: Noahs
form: Noe
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew נֹחַ (nóakh, nṓaḥ).
Senses: examples: text: Now, on the night the baby Lord Jesus was born in that stable in Bethlehem, several came to bow down to him and his mother the lady Mary. They were three powerful warlords known as the Magi who brought many fine gifts. And still another, a wonderful man, a sea captain named Noah came to visit Jesus. His ship was called Noah's Ark. The Lord Jesus liked this Noah for he was a wise man, especially in the ways of animals whom he often took sailing in his Ark. This man, Noah was born long before the Lord Jesus but men in those days lived to be very old. So, no one can be sure, no one at all, that Noah did not visit Jesus in that stable in Bethlehem.
ref: 1958, 1:15:49 from the start, in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, →OCLC:
text: But records of the first dynasty, that of the Xia, contain stories of a Great Flood with a Noah-like savior, the Emperor Yu, who gained the mandate of heaven after dredging canals to dispel the floodwaters and make the land safe. Historians have long wondered whether this flood account was a creation-style myth, the folk memory of a real event, or some mixture of the two. Some have dismissed the story of Emperor Yu as a fiction intended to justify centralized rule and, in the absence of any evidence of a massive flood at the time, many have regarded the stories of the Xia dynasty as more myth than history.
ref: 2016 August 4, Nicholas Wade, “Scientific Evidence of Flood May Give Credence to Legend of China’s First Dynasty”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2016, Science:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A figure in Abrahamic religions, believed to have built an ark to save his family and members of each species of animal from the Great Flood.
examples: text: Easy to account for those trends - but what of post-Vietnam America and its generation of little Noahs? Were we expecting a flood momentarily?
ref: 1984, Erica Jong, Parachutes & Kisses, →ISBN, page 354:
text: On this week’s episode of “Legion,” Kondracki used her considerable talents to fulfill the promise of creator Noah Hawley’s iconoclastic but inconsistent pilot episode and its subsequent installments. Funnily enough, she did so with another multiminute opening shot.
ref: 2017 March 1, Sean T. Collins, “‘Legion’ Season 1, Episode 4: Mind Games”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2017:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: The 71st sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
Derived terms: word: Noachian
word: Noachic
word: Noachide
word: Noahian
word: Noahic
word: Noahide
word: Noahite
alt: the ark
word: Noah's ark
alt: toponym
word: Noah's Ark
word: Noahtic
word: Noyes
Noah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊə/
ipa: /ˈnoʊə/
rhymes: -əʊə
homophone: NOAA
Forms: form: Noe
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew נֹעָה (no`áh).
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Noah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊə/
ipa: /ˈnoʊə/
rhymes: -əʊə
homophone: NOAA
Forms: form: Noahs
form: Noe
Etymology: Abbreviation of Australian rhyming slang Noah's ark (“shark”).
Senses: examples: text: I pulled the line in. There was a head on the end. That′s all – just the fish′s head, the body had been bitten off.
Then Team-man pulled in a head. So did the old man.
‘Noahs. That′s the end of that,’ said the old man. ‘Looks like we′re going anyway.’
ref: 1998, Phillip Gwynne, Deadly Unna?, unnumbered page:
text: 2003, Kurt Blanksby, Fishing Guide to Western Australia, Revised and updated 2010, page 38,
Balloon fishing from the rock when the winds are correct can be a very productive way to target big mackerel and tuna, however the large number of sharks means that you will spend plenty of time battling unstoppable noahs between decent macks.
text: It looks like Jim and Rene are going ahead of us to chase away any big Noahs that might be lurking around.” Scott grinned to show that it was a joke and Jim waved to the group in acknowledgement.
“What do you mean ‘Noahs’?” asked a hefty millionaire from Minneapolis.
“Noah′s Arks,” one of the Australians answered for Scott. “Sharks.”
ref: 2006, Andrew Whitehead, Solomon Quest, page 91:
glosses: Clipping of Noah's ark; shark.
cuneiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuː.nɪ.fɔːm/
ipa: /ˈkjuː.ni.ɪ.fɔːm/
ipa: /kjʊˈneɪ.ɪ.fɔːm/
ipa: /kjuˈni.ə.fɔɹm/
ipa: /ˈkju.nɪ.fɔɹm/
ipa: /kjuˈneɪ.ɪ.fɔɹm/
Forms: form: cuniform
Etymology: From French cunéiforme or New Latin cuneifōrmis, from Classical Latin cuneus (“wedge”) + fōrma.
Senses: examples: text: About midway across the larger log a cuneiform notch or cut about six inches deep was made.
ref: 1889, John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt, “New Fire Among the Iroquois”, in American Anthropologist, volume 2, page 319:
text: The cuneiform tendon is always sharply defined when the hock is flexed by the action of the muscle.
ref: 1936, W. Frank Calderon, Animal Painting and Anatomy, page 297:
text: The cuneiform leaf is not the characteristic heart-shaped early form (O. and P., p. 241).
ref: 1952, Aileen Fox, Roman Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum): Excavations in the War-damaged Areas, 1945-1947, page 69:
glosses: Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.
examples: text: There, too, it was originally the vulgar script in contrast with the official cuneiform script employed for all official documents, compacts, etc.
ref: 1911, Alvin Sylvester Zerbe, The Antiquity of Hebrew Writing and Literature, page 182:
text: The text is inscribed on a clay tablet of a very unusual format. The only other known mathematical cuneiform text on a clay tablet of a similar format is also the only previously known Kassite (and therefore post-Old-Babylonian) mathematical cuneiform text.
ref: 2000, Jöran Friberg, A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts, page ix:
glosses: Written in the cuneiform writing system.
Synonyms: cuneal
cuneiform bone
precuneiform
wedgelike
wedge-shaped
wedgy
Derived terms: ectocuneiform
entocuneiform
intercuneiform
mesocuneiform
noncuneiform
protocuneiform
cuneiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuː.nɪ.fɔːm/
ipa: /ˈkjuː.ni.ɪ.fɔːm/
ipa: /kjʊˈneɪ.ɪ.fɔːm/
ipa: /kjuˈni.ə.fɔɹm/
ipa: /ˈkju.nɪ.fɔɹm/
ipa: /kjuˈneɪ.ɪ.fɔɹm/
Forms: form: cuneiforms
form: cuniform
Etymology: From French cunéiforme or New Latin cuneifōrmis, from Classical Latin cuneus (“wedge”) + fōrma.
Senses: glosses: An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clayen tablets.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.
Synonyms: wedge-writing
Derived terms: cuneiformist
Related terms: Akkadian
Accadian
Old Persian
Ugaritic
cuneiform bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuneiform bones
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any one of three wedge-shaped bones of the foot.
Synonyms: os cuneiforme
Derived terms: medial cuneiform bone
intermediate cuneiform bone
lateral cuneiform bone
afar
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɑɹ/
ipa: /əˈfɑː/
rhymes: (UK) -ɑː
Etymology: From Middle English afer, equivalent to a- (“for, on, or of”) + far.
Senses: examples: text: He was seen from afar.
text: He loved her from afar.
glosses: At, to, or from a great distance; far away.
alsatian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăl-sā'shən
ipa: /ælˈseɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: alsatians
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Alsatian.
brazil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹəˈzɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: brazils
form: brasil
form: Brazil
Senses: examples: text: A small Quantity of Saffron will Tinct more then a very great Quantity of Brasil.
ref: 1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva sylvarum:
glosses: A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood.
examples: text: The Prouince Brasilia tooke his name of the woode called Brasill.
ref: 1594, Thomas Blundeville, Exercises:
text: Thou know'st my brittle temper's prone to break.
Are my bones brazil or my flesh of oak?
ref: 1886, Francis Quarles, Emblems:
text: [P]ernambucco – the finest brasil from Brazil, so strong it almost resembles iron – became the favoured material for good bows.
ref: 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 198:
glosses: The hard, brown wood of a certain species of the tribe Caesalpinieae; originally sappan (Biancaea sappan), of the East Indies, and later brazilwood, Paubrasilia echinata.
examples: text: I picked up a handful of brazils from the bowl.
glosses: A Brazil nut.
glosses: A seam of coal containing iron pyrites
Derived terms: hard as brazil
holland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hollands
Etymology: After Holland, where it originally came from. From Old Dutch holt lant (“wood land”).
Senses: examples: text: I am convinced that many if not all the Quality in France were shirts of the finest holand, for tho' I never saw of them strip I have seen what is an equivalent proof, I have seen on the Bulwarks of Paris above twenty entire shirts hanging to dry that the best Gentlemen in England might wear without disparagement.
ref: 1768, Joshua Reynolds, edited by John Ingamells and John Edgcumbe, The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale, published 2000, page 23:
text: His apartments were blank. Brown hollands covered his library-table
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 29, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: A type of linen cloth, originally from Holland.
Derived terms: brown holland
japan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈpæn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: japans
Etymology: From Japan, due to this varnishing process being an imitation of East Asian processes. Sense “to ordain” in reference to the black clothes worn by the clergy.
Senses: examples: text: My own apartment, however, I was allowed to enter; and very pretty, I must say, it is. It is hung with Indian-silk, where the brightest of birds, and the gayest of flowers, disport themselves on a white ground. The screens and dressing-table are of black japan, while the mirror is set in exquisite silver filigree work, of which material are also the boxes of my toilette.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Much Change in a Little Time”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 64:
coordinate_terms: ebonization
glosses: A hard black enamel varnish containing asphalt.
glosses: Lacquerware.
Derived terms: japannery
japanware
japan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈpæn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: japans
form: japanning
form: japanned
form: japanned
Etymology: From Japan, due to this varnishing process being an imitation of East Asian processes. Sense “to ordain” in reference to the black clothes worn by the clergy.
Senses: examples: text: A Zoetrope in the same sale fetched 26 guineas. The revolving drum, 12 inches in diameter, was black japanned, on a turned wooden base, and there were many coloured strips.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 183:
coordinate_terms: ebonize
glosses: To varnish with japan.
examples: text: Jack, hearing that I was in this part of the world, sent me a very hearty letter, informing me, that he had been double-japanned (as he called it) about a year ago, and was the present incumbent of — […]
ref: 1826, George Colman, The Connoisseur, page 179:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: To ordain.
Derived terms: japanner
rejapan
unjapanned
bolivia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bolivias
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: A card game similar to rummy and canasta.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A meld of seven wild cards in said card game.
empennage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empennages
Etymology: From French empennage (“feathers of an arrow”).
Senses: glosses: The tail assembly of an aircraft.
glosses: The feathers of an arrow or the tail fins of a bomb or rocket used to stabilize the longitudinal axis of the projectile parallel to the flight path.
chile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
homophone: Chile (one General American pronunciation)
homophone: chili
homophone: chilli
homophone: chilly
Forms: form: chiles
Etymology: From Spanish chile. A variant of chili, chilli; see that entry for more information.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chili.
Derived terms: chilehead
chile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
homophone: Chile (one General American pronunciation)
homophone: chili
homophone: chilli
homophone: chilly
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
homophone: Chile (one General American pronunciation)
homophone: chili
homophone: chilli
homophone: chilly
Forms: form: chillun
form: chirren
form: chyle
Senses: examples: text: “I wants all the women and chillun and the old and the sick folks brought out.”
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 546:
text: An award that she shoulda been awarded. And an award they might want to consider changing the name of. Because, chile. Literally. Child.
ref: 2019 August 14, Random J, “Missy Elliott is finally getting a Video Vanguard award at the 2019 VMA's: The good, the bad and the messy”, in Random J Pop:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of child, representing Southern US and African-American Vernacular English.
Derived terms: honey chile