cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
newb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: n(y)o͞ob
ipa: /n(j)uːb/
rhymes: -uːb
Forms: form: newbs
form: newbz
Etymology: Shortened from newbie.
Senses: examples: text: That guy must be a newb at this game. He has no idea how to play.
text: Level three, and she thinks she's rich. What a newb.
ref: 2008 October 6, The Barbarian Sublimation (The Big Bang Theory), season 2, episode 3, spoken by Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons):
glosses: A newbie; someone who is new to a game, or has a new character.
Derived terms: newblet
pube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuːb/
rhymes: -uːb
Forms: form: pubes
Etymology: Back-formation from pubes.
Senses: examples: text: He was a man would could step back from a problem and look at it logically and find the sense in most given situations. Sure, questions such as ,“ Why are we here?” “Is there a God?“ and “Why is there a pube in the butter?” have stumped Jack in the past; however, in knowing that this is the case, Jack has been quite happy to move on and find answers to questions that are far more relevant to day-to-day existence.
ref: 2010, Nick Waugh-Bacchus, Platonic?, →ISBN, page 261:
glosses: A single pubic hair.
Derived terms: pubedresser
pubeless
pubelike
Related terms: pubarche
sqn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sqns
form: sqn.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of squadron.
internets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Internets
Etymology: In the humorous sense, inspired by George W. Bush who pluralized internet in a debate with John Kerry in 2004.
Senses: glosses: plural of internet
examples: text: I can't find this word in my print dictionary; let me go look it up on the internets.
text: I hear there's rumors on the internets that we're going to have a draft.
ref: 2004 October 8, George W. Bush
text: Indeed, coming on the heels of a party leader who speaks of "the Internets" and "the Google," it's a disturbing trend that GOP leaders seem so disconnected from the technologies that are changing the way most Americans live]
ref: [2007, Garrett M. Graff, The First Campaign, page 281
text: However, the phrasing of the internets meme is now largely outdated.
ref: [2012, Michele Zappavigna, Discourse of Twitter and Social Media:
glosses: The Internet.
raw_tags: with the
Related terms: interweb
interwebs
interwebz
internets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Internets
Etymology: In the humorous sense, inspired by George W. Bush who pluralized internet in a debate with John Kerry in 2004.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of internet
tinnitus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪn.ɪ.təs/
ipa: /ˈtɪn.ə.təs/
ipa: /tɪˈnaɪ.təs/
rhymes: -aɪtəs
Forms: form: tinnituses
form: tinniti
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin tinnītus (“a jingling, ringing”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: acouasm
qualifier: otolaryngology
glosses: The experience of auditory sensations, such as a ringing or pulsating sound, occurring in the absence of any external stimulus.
Derived terms: objective tinnitus
pulsatile tinnitus
subjective tinnitus
tinnitic
skype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: skīp
ipa: /skaɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Forms: form: skypes
form: skyping
form: skypeing
form: skyped
form: skyped
form: Skype
Etymology: From Skype.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To make (a telephone call) using Skype software.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To send (a message or file) with Skype.
examples: text: I'll skype you tomorrow. We can skype for a couple of hours.
text: While spatial mobility does cause discontinuity in social relationships and result in losing the support system from their home country (Rangaswamy 2000), yet the social ties of our participants have not dissolved as they have been able to maintain supportive networks in India through physical visits, e-mails, ‘skypeing’ to contacts in foreign places.
ref: 2013, S. Irudaya Rajan, editor, India Migration Report 2013: Social Costs of Migration, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: ‘Where’s 007? He invited too?’ ‘He’s skypeing his mum. He’ll meet us down there.’
ref: 2015, Alan Carter, Bad Seed, Fremantle: Fremantle Press, →ISBN, page 123:
text: And so Andy went home, still on a caffeine high, feeling excited about life as a graduate student, and instead of skypeing with Anja or going for a beer, he went online and read up on some of the relevant particle physics.
ref: 2015, Denis O’Sullivan, The Anthropist: A Curious Tale of Parallel Monogamy, Sex, Religion, Quantum Mechanics and Volleyball, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 21:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To contact (a person) via Skype.
Hypernyms: vidcall
vidchat
absorbed dose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹbd doʊs/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹbd doʊs/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹbd doʊs/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹbd doʊs/
Forms: form: absorbed doses
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hypernyms: radiation dose#Noun
<
dose#Noun
coordinate_terms: equivalent dose
effective dose
committed dose
glosses: The amount of energy imparted by nuclear (or ionizing) radiation to unit mass of absorbing material. Units of measure include the gray, the rad, and their derivatives (e.g., centigray, millirad).
GLAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of general ledger accounting code.
Christmas Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island and external territory of Australia, located on the Indian Ocean.
examples: text: Going to Christmas island may take several days with a stop in Fiji on the way and on return.
ref: 2016 September 1, “2015 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS”, in National Statistics Office Ministry of Finance^(https://web.archive.org/web/20190819052204/https://www.mfed.gov.ki/sites/default/files/2015%20Population%20Census%20Report%20Volume%201(final%20211016).pdf), archived from the original on 19 Aug 2019, page 25:
glosses: Kiritimati, an island of Kiribati.
Derived terms: Christmas Island boobook
Christmas Islander
Christmas Island red crab
Christmas Island swiftlet
Christmas Island whiptail skink
hanazumo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hanazumo
Etymology: From Japanese 花相撲 (hana-zumō, literally “flower sumo”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A special sumo exhibition tournament.
Kiritimati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɪsməs/
rhymes: -ɪsməs
Etymology: Borrowed from Gilbertese Kiritimati (“Christmas”), from English Christmas.
Senses: examples: text: To enumerate people on Kiritimati island (or Christmas island) one needs to fly and stay overnight in Fiji before flying to Kiritimati island.
ref: 2016 September 1, “2015 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS”, in National Statistics Office Ministry of Finance^(https://web.archive.org/web/20190819052204/https://www.mfed.gov.ki/sites/default/files/2015%20Population%20Census%20Report%20Volume%201(final%20211016).pdf), archived from the original on 19 Aug 2019, page 9:
glosses: An island of Kiribati, also called Christmas Island.
haridashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haridashi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 張り出し.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: an extra rikishi at a rank that normally only allows two
mauri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʉriː/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori mauri.
Senses: examples: text: We're just cuzzies from down at the marae down the road that are trying to be proactive and look after our whenua, look after our stories, and look after the mauri of our awa, our river.
ref: 2021 January 1, “Local hapū to watch over dangerous Omanawa Falls near Tauranga”, in Stuff NZ:
glosses: Life force, according to Maori beliefs.
heyagashira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heyagashira
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 部屋頭.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: the rikishi of highest rank in a particular heya
higashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: higashi
Etymology: From Japanese 東 (higashi, “east”), from the way the eastern or right side of the sumo ranking list is considered more prestigious, by analogy with the rising sun as opposed to the setting sun.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The (more prestigious) right-hand side of the banzuke.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A rikishi listed on the right side of the banzuke.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The eastern side of the ring.
Related terms: nishi
higashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: higashi
Etymology: From Japanese 干菓子 /乾菓子 (higashi, literally “dry confectionery”).
Senses: examples: text: kigata. Wooden forms used for making higashi
ref: [1963], “List of Illustrations: Wood”, in Katachi: Japanese Pattern and Design in Wood, Paper, and Clay, New York, N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, page xviii, column 1:
text: There are hundreds of distinct variations within the main types of wagashi: namagashi, monaka, yokan, manju, and higashi. […] higashi are dried sweets made from rice flour, sugar, and starch pressed into molds that give them a textured and decorative surface.
ref: 2007 winter, Elisa Herr, “A Sweet Tradition”, in Japan Info, volume 9, New York, N.Y.: Japan Information Center, Consolate General of Japan, →OCLC, page 8, columns 1–2:
text: Most of the Japanese sweets that we had regularly eaten back on Earth, like dango and manju, were classified as namagashi. Rakugan and senbei rice crackers were classified as higashi, but I’d hardly ever had opportunities to eat rakugan, and senbei were kind of different from what I had in mind when I thought of namagashi.
ref: 2024 September 9, Itsuki Mizuho, translated by Yen-Po Tseng, “Garden Paradise?”, in To Another World… with Land Mines!, volume 9, [San Antonio, Tex.]: J-Novel Club, →ISBN:
glosses: A type of wagashi that contains very little moisture and thus keeps relatively longer than other kinds.
nishi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nishi
Etymology: From Japanese 西 (nishi, “west”), from the way the western or left side of the sumo ranking list is considered less prestigious, by analogy with the setting sun as opposed to the rising sun.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: the left-hand (less prestigious) side of the banzuke (番付, “ranking list”)
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a rikishi (力士, “sumo wrestler”) listed on the left side of the banzuke
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: the western side of the ring
Related terms: higashi
hyoshigi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyoshigi
Etymology: From Japanese 拍子木.
Senses: examples: text: I put the glasses down and found that my heart was beating fast, thumping with an accelerating sound like that of the hyoshigi which I had last heard in that sombre vaporous gallery in the Wallace Collection.
ref: 1978, Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea, Vintage, published 1999, page 247:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: One of the wooden sticks that are clapped by the yobidashi to draw the spectator's attention.
yobidashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yobidashi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 呼び出し.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: Any of the functionaries whose tasks include building the dohyo, making announcements, singing the shikona of each rikishi and advising them of preparation time.
shikona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shikona
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 四股名.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The wrestling name of a rikishi, normally derived from his heya, place of birth etc.
ichidai toshiyori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 一代年寄 (ichidai toshiyori, literally “lifelong elder”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: the lifelong status of elder conferred on an outstanding yokozuna
Related terms: toshiyori-kabu
sweet pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet peppers
Senses: synonyms: capsicum
hypernyms: pepper
capsicum
glosses: The fruit of a nonspicy cultivar of pepper, Capsicum annuum, marketed in green-, red-, yellow- and orange-skinned varieties.
Hyponyms: green pepper
yellow pepper and red pepper
ichimon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichimon
Etymology: From Japanese 一門.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: Any of the five groups that most heya belong to.
touch wood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: touches wood
form: touching wood
form: touched wood
form: touched wood
Etymology: From a folk practice of unclear origin.
Senses: examples: text: Touching wood possibly has reference to (a) the cross, or (b) the altar rails in days when criminals could take sanctuary in churches.
ref: 1930, John D. Stephenson, chapter I, in The Structure of English from Sentence to Essay, page 105:
text: Very few patients for whom I provided psychiatric treatment ended their lives by suicide, but I became increasingly convinced that my residency instructor who touched wood because none of his patients had killed themselves had not been treating many seriously mentally ill patients for any extended period of time.
ref: 2003, Chester Schneider, The Making of a Christian Psychiatrist, US: Xulon Press, page 193:
text: Examples of rituals include touching wood, repeating phrases in your mind, wearing lucky clothes or jewellery, and avoiding unlucky numbers, out of a faulty belief that these rituals will stop unfortunate or tragic events befalling yourself or your loved ones.
ref: 2010, Rhena Branch, Rob Willson, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Dummies, 2nd edition, UK: John Wiley & Sons, page 102:
synonyms: word: knock on wood
glosses: To make contact with wood to avert bad luck, in accordance with a folk practice.
touch wood
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From a folk practice of unclear origin.
Senses: examples: text: And the reds are going to avoid relegation this year, touch wood.
text: If it′s ever me (Jesus Christ, touch wood!), I don′t want you bringing me flowers.
ref: 1988, Janette Turner Hospital, chapter I, in Charades, page 314:
text: The English press has been very good to me, touch wood.
ref: 2008 March, Anna Friel with Deanna Kizis (interviewer), “A Conversation with: Anna Friel”, in Women′s Health, page 88:
text: I know I have my faults and one of them is my impatience and I also cannot tolerate people who are ill, mainly because I am so very rarely ill—“Touch wood,” I said out loud and touched my head at the same time.
ref: 2009, Lee Hobin, chapter I, in The Male Survival Guide to Pregnancy, page 59:
synonyms: word: knock on wood
glosses: Hopefully; said while touching something wooden, to avert superstitious bad luck from what has just been said.
Related terms: apotropaism
white pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white peppers
Etymology: From Middle English whyte peper, equivalent to white + pepper.
Senses: glosses: A spice consisting of the light-colored seed of the black pepper fruit without the dark-colored pulp and skin. Used as a spice in light colored foods such as cream sauces.
peppercorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peppercorn
ichomage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichomage
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: Alternative spelling of oichomage.
Poohsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuːstɪks/
ipa: /ˈpustɪks/
Forms: form: Pooh sticks
Etymology: From Pooh + sticks, coined by the English author Alan Alexander Milne (1882–1956) in his book The House at Pooh Corner (1928): see the quotation.
Senses: examples: text: And that was the beginning of the game called Poohsticks, which Pooh invented, and which he and his friends used to play on the edge of the Forest. […] Now one day Pooh and Piglet and Rabbit and Roo were all playing Poohsticks together.
ref: 1928 October 11, A[lan] A[lexander] Milne, “In which Pooh Invents a New Game and Eeyore Joins in”, in The House at Pooh Corner, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 94:
topics: games
glosses: A game for two or more players in which each player throws a stick into a river from the upstream side of a bridge crossing it, the winner being the player whose stick emerges first on the other side.
claims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kleɪmz/
rhymes: -eɪmz
Senses: glosses: plural of claim
claims
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kleɪmz/
rhymes: -eɪmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of claim
oichomage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oichomage
Etymology: From Japanese 大銀杏髷 (oo-ichō-mage, literally “gingko topknot”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The elaborate hairstyle, resembling a gingko leaf, worn by sekitori during bouts and on ceremonial occasions.
finds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /faɪndz/
rhymes: -aɪndz
Senses: glosses: plural of find
finds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /faɪndz/
rhymes: -aɪndz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of find
moons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moon
moons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of moon
inspired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈspaɪɹd/
ipa: /ɪnˈspaɪəd/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more inspired
form: most inspired
Senses: examples: text: The actor's inspired performance of Hamlet's soliloquy left the audience dumbfounded.
text: New Zealand were crowned world champions for the first time in 24 years after squeezing past an inspired France team by a single point.
ref: 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Having excellence through inspiration.
examples: text: The artist was inspired to paint a true masterpiece.
text: He was inspired to learn to fly.
glosses: Filled with inspiration or motivated.
examples: text: Korean shamans are thought to be capable of inspired speech, in which they convey the words of the gods.
text: The point which I wish to establish is this, that the whole prediction of the future establishment of the religion of the Gospel was an inspired prediction, a prediction answerable to the highest test of a supernatural prescience.
ref: 1824, John Davidson, Discourses on Prophecy, in which are considered its structure, use, and inspiration: being the substance of twelve sermons preached in the chapel of Lincoln's Inn, London: John Murray, Albermarle Street, page 502:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Infused with power or knowledge granted from a supernatural entity; possessing inspiration from the divine.
glosses: Drawn into the lungs; inhaled.
raw_tags: of air
glosses: Inflated.
Hyponyms: biologically-inspired
Derived terms: bio-inspired
bioinspired
inspiredly
inspiredness
underinspired
uninspired
inspired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈspaɪɹd/
ipa: /ɪnˈspaɪəd/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: examples: text: Government-inspired rumors
text: But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: simple past and past participle of inspire.
juryo-kaku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juryo-kaku
Etymology: From Japanese 十両格 (jūryō-kaku).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: the rank of gyoji who officiates a bout involving a rikishi from the juryo division
pooh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /phuː/
ipa: /puː/
ipa: /pu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: poo
form: puh
form: poogh
form: pugh
Etymology: Originally onomatopoeic ("perhaps ancient" according to Online Etymology Dictionary) for a puff of air, after earlier poh and similar to later pew, phew, pho, phoo, poof. Later influenced by poop, onomatopoeic for the sound of flatulating and defecating, and by interjections of disgust similar to phew, pee-ew. Interjection for an unpleasant smell possibly linked to French puer (“to stink”).
Senses: examples: text: I am carelesse what the fustie World speakes of me, puh.
ref: 1600, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humor, iii, i, sig. iii
text: Pooh, ha, ha, ha, I know you envy me.
ref: 1694, William Congreve, Double-Dealer, I, i, 2:
glosses: Expressing dismissal, contempt, impatience, etc.
examples: text: Pooh!... How you smell of tobacco.
ref: 1859, S.S. Steele, Conjugal Lesson, page 182:
glosses: Expressing disgust at an unpleasant smell.
examples: text: Mom offers everybody fudge and says ‘Oh, pooh!’ when she gets upset.
ref: 1992 July 22, Time, page 55:
glosses: Alternative form of poo: a minced oath for 'shit'.
Synonyms: sense: expressing contempt
word: pht
word: feh
word: meh
word: pshaw
word: pish
word: bah
word: poh
sense: expressing disgust at a smell
word: bleah
word: eww
word: ick
word: uck
word: yuck
Derived terms: pooh-bah
poobah
pooh-pooh
pooh-pooh theory
pooh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /phuː/
ipa: /puː/
ipa: /pu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: poohs
form: poo
form: puh
form: poogh
form: pugh
Etymology: Originally onomatopoeic ("perhaps ancient" according to Online Etymology Dictionary) for a puff of air, after earlier poh and similar to later pew, phew, pho, phoo, poof. Later influenced by poop, onomatopoeic for the sound of flatulating and defecating, and by interjections of disgust similar to phew, pee-ew. Interjection for an unpleasant smell possibly linked to French puer (“to stink”).
Senses: examples: text: She […] hath ſtiled him with an immortall penne, the bawewawe of ſchollars, the tutt of gentlemen, the tee-heegh of gentlewomen, the phy of citizens, the blurt of Courtiers, the poogh of good letters, the faph of good manners, and the whoop-hooe of good boyes in London ſtreetes.
ref: 1593, Gabriell Haruey [i.e., Gabriel Harvey], Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame, London: […] Iohn Wolfe, →OCLC; republished as John Payne Collier, editor, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. […] (Miscellaneous Tracts. Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I; no. 8), [London]: [s.n.], [1870], →OCLC, page 181:
text: A thing which causes many ‘poohs’ and ‘pishes’.
ref: 1818, Lord Byron, Beppo, canto vii, l. 4:
glosses: An instance of saying "pooh".
examples: text: ‘You're rather in the pooh with the Adelaide police.’ ‘How much do I stink with them?’
ref: 1961, Camille Auguste Marie Caseleyr, The Living Come First, page 177:
glosses: Alternative form of poo: feces.
glosses: Alternative form of poo: A piece of feces; an act of defecation.
pooh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /phuː/
ipa: /puː/
ipa: /pu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: poohs
form: poohing
form: poohed
form: poohed
form: poo
form: puh
form: poogh
form: pugh
Etymology: Originally onomatopoeic ("perhaps ancient" according to Online Etymology Dictionary) for a puff of air, after earlier poh and similar to later pew, phew, pho, phoo, poof. Later influenced by poop, onomatopoeic for the sound of flatulating and defecating, and by interjections of disgust similar to phew, pee-ew. Interjection for an unpleasant smell possibly linked to French puer (“to stink”).
Senses: examples: text: The wrimouth'd Crittick...
That mewes, and puh's and shakes his brainelesse head...
ref: 1614, The Nipping or Snipping of Abuses, John Taylor, L4:
text: The Doctor... pshaw'd and pooh'd for some time.
ref: 1798, Charlotte Smith, The Young Philosopher, volume I, page 44:
glosses: To say "pooh".
examples: text: ‘Pooh! pooh!’ re-echoed his mother, ‘don't pooh me, John.’
ref: 1858, Archer Polson, Law & Lawyers, page 15:
glosses: To say "pooh" to.
examples: text: My cat poohed in here.
ref: 1989 April 1, Crisis, page 19:
text: We all know what happened to them—they... poohed their pants.
ref: 2003 March 13, The Sun:
glosses: Alternative form of poo: To defecate or dirty something with feces.
Synonyms: sense: all
word: pooh-pooh
kachi-koshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 勝ち越し.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a majority of wins in an honbasho; reflects positively on the rikishi's ranking
make-koshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 負け越し (makekoshi).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a majority of losses in a honbasho; reflects negatively on the rikishi's ranking
kanjin-sumo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 勧進相撲 (kanjin-zumō), with zumō changed to its usual English form sumo.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The historic form of sumo that developed into the modern sport.
tigons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tigon
Celia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -iːliə
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Caelia, feminine of Roman family name Caelius, probably from caelum (“heaven”). Introduced into English by William Shakespeare in As You Like It.
Senses: examples: text: Rosalind: But what will you be called?
Celia: Something that hath a reference to my state:
No longer Celia, but Aliena.
ref: Act I: Scene III
text: The British author Celia Dodd, who recently updated her 2011 book, “The Empty Nest: How to Survive and Stay Close to Your Adult Child,” told me that dads often seem to be coping fine with the transition but might be struggling the most.
ref: 2025 August 10, Don Riddell, “Now that my kids are off to college, what’s this empty nester dad to do?”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Celia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -iːliə
Forms: form: Celias
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Celia.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
kensho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 懸賞.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: Prize money given to encourage rikishi by sponsors.
Synonyms: kensho-kin
Mile High Club
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Mile High Club
Senses: examples: text: “My husband and I had joined the mile high club before, so to be able to do it privately was great,” she said in a phone interview.
ref: 2022 February 5, Shane O’Neill, “The Mile High Club, Complete With Membership Cards”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: Five Mile High Club
glosses: A notional club that one joins by having sex aboard an aircraft.
Related terms: Mile Long Club
Delia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːlɪə/
rhymes: -iːliə
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek Δήλῐᾰ (Dḗlĭă), epithet of the goddess Artemis, referring to her birth on the island of Delos.
Senses: examples: text: Sentiment hallows the vowels of Delia;/Sweet simplicity breathes from Rose;
ref: c. 1886, William Ernest Henley, A Ballade of Ladies' Names, Gleeson White: Ballades and Rondeaus, Read Books 1887, page 19:
text: "I'm Delia Grinstead," she told him. - - - "I don't believe I've ever run into a Delia before." "Well, it's Cordelia, really. My father named me that."
ref: 1995, Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years, Knopf, →ISBN, page 8:
text: MAGA Republicans are calling for Democratic Representative Delia Ramirez to be deported after she said, "I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American."
ref: 2025 August 5, Alia Shoaib, “MAGA Calls for Democratic Rep To Be Deported Over Guatemala Comments”, in Newsweek:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A village in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A city in Kansas.
glosses: A municipality of Sicily, Italy.
Derived terms: Delia effect
reach for the stars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reaches for the stars
form: reaching for the stars
form: reached for the stars
form: reached for the stars
Senses: examples: text: Tell Richard I saw the pictures that he sent for that feature on the female paratroopers and they're all so deeply unattractive. Is it impossible to find a lovely, slender, female paratrooper? Am I reaching for the stars here? Not really.
ref: 2006, Aline Brosh McKenna, Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada, spoken by Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep):
synonyms: reach for the sky
reach for the moon
shoot for the moon
aim for the sky
aim for the stars
coordinate_terms: ask for the moon
chase a rainbow
glosses: To have high hopes; to be ambitious.
Related terms: promise the stars
reach for the sky
build castles in the air
nosey parker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosey parkers
form: nosy parker
form: nosey-parker
form: nosy-parker
Etymology: Unknown, 1890.
Senses: examples: text: Yer a lotta nosey parkers.
ref: 1991, Kathleen Dayus, Where There's Life, London: Virago Press Ltd:
synonyms: buttinsky
stickybeak
glosses: An overly inquisitive or prying person.
Related terms: backseat driver
buttinsky
encroacher
gatecrasher
interloper
intruder
peeping tom
persona non grata
nosey parker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nosey parkers
form: nosey parkering
form: nosey parkered
form: nosey parkered
form: nosy parker
form: nosey-parker
form: nosy-parker
Etymology: Unknown, 1890.
Senses: examples: text: "I don't want to 'nosey parker'," he said, "but police have got to be told if there's anything wrong..."
ref: 1944, Ernest Robertson Punshon, Secrets Can't be Kept, page 23:
text: Alleyn is no dabbler or dilettante whose hobby is criminology and who nosey parkers around and chases ambulances to break the grip of boredom with a spot of adventure.
ref: 1979, LeRoy Lad Panek, Watteau's Shepherds: The Detective Novel in Britain, 1914-1940, page 189:
text: The inspector opened his mouth to ask Fred what she had better tell, but Ivy flared, "We'd be out of business in no time if I nosey parkered on everyone I saw around at night."
ref: 1995, Anne Worboys, Village Sins, page 144:
text: Now, I must admit I love nosey parkering around houses.
ref: 2004, David Robinson, An Expat's Life, Luxembourg & the White Rose, page 123:
glosses: To snoop; to behave in an inquisitive manner.
Derived terms: nosey-parkerdom
nosey-parkering
nosey-parkerishness
nosey-parkerism
nosey-parkery
kinboshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 金星 (kinboshi, “gold star”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: An honour awarded to a rikishi of maegashira rank upon beating a yokozuna.
kinjite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinjite
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 禁じ手 (kinjite), from 禁じる (kinjiru, “to forbid”) + 手 (te, “hand”).
Senses: topics: board-games
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
shogi
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A foul or forbidden move.
kimarite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kimarite
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 決まり手.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: any of the 82 techniques that may be used to win a match
Derived terms: kimarite-gakari
Related terms: abisetaoshi
amiuchi
ashitori
chongake
gasshohineri
harimanage
hatakikomi
hikiotoshi
hikkake
izori
kainahineri
kakenage
kakezori
katasukashi
kawazugake
kekaeshi
ketaguri
kimedashi
kimetaoshi
kirikaeshi
komatasukui
koshinage
kotehineri
kotenage
kubihineri
kubinage
makiotoshi
mitokorozeme
nichonage
nimaigeri
okuridashi
okurigake
okurihikiotoshi
okurinage
okuritaoshi
okuritsuridashi
okuritsuriotoshi
omata
osakate
oshidashi
oshitaoshi
sakatottari
shitatedashinage
shitatehineri
shitatenage
shumokuzori
sokubiotoshi
sotogake
sotokomata
sotomuso
sototasukizori
sukuinage
susoharai
susotori
tasukizori
tokkurinage
tottari
tsukaminage
tsukidashi
tsukiotoshi
tsukitaoshi
tsumatori
tsuridashi
tsuriotoshi
tsutaezori
uchigake
uchimuso
ushiromotare
utchari
uwatedashinage
uwatehineri
uwatenage
waridashi
watashikomi
yaguranage
yobimodoshi
yorikiri
yoritaoshi
zubuneri
kimarite-gakari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kimarite-gakari
Etymology: From Japanese 決まり手係.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The official who announces the winner of the torikumi and the kimarite used.
torikumi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torikumi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 取組.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a sumo bout
Derived terms: torikumi-hyo
torikumi-hyo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torikumi-hyo
Etymology: From Japanese 取組表 (torikumi-hyō, literally “bout table”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The programme of bouts in a day at a tournament.
999
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪn.naɪn.naɪn/
ipa: /trɪpəl.naɪn/
ipa: /naɪnz/
Forms: form: nine nine nine
form: triple nine
Etymology: Established in the United Kingdom as the first emergency service number in the world, initially chosen because of its suitability at a time of rotary-dial telephones.
Senses: examples: text: I don't know why they couldn't just keep it as it was! How hard is it to remember 911?
You mean 999...
I mean 999!
That's the American one!
Yeah!
ref: 2006 Feb. 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 2
roman: You berk.
text: When you call 999 in the UK, the operator usually answers the phone with "Emergency. Which service?"
glosses: The telephone number for emergency services in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Burma, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Sudan, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Dominica, Kiribati, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, and the Seychelles.
glosses: The telephone number for law enforcement in Singapore, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Eswatini, Botswana, Tanzania, Mauritius, and Trinidad and Tobago.
glosses: The telephone number for firefighting assistance in Malawi and Tonga.
glosses: The telephone number for ambulance services in Poland.
Coordinate terms: word: 000
sense: Mongolia
word: 105
word: 110
word: 111
word: 112
word: 119
word: 911
999
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪn.naɪn.naɪn/
ipa: /trɪpəl.naɪn/
ipa: /naɪnz/
Forms: form: nine nine nine
form: triple nine
Etymology: Established in the United Kingdom as the first emergency service number in the world, initially chosen because of its suitability at a time of rotary-dial telephones.
Senses: glosses: Emergency services; emergency service personnel.
koen-kai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 後援会 (kōenkai).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a sumo fan club, either for a heya or for a particular rikishi; a useful source of money
kokugi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 国技, meaning "national sport".
Senses: glosses: sumo
Related terms: ozumo
MP4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MP4s
Senses: examples: text: Typically, the art object that gets NFT’d is a digital file — maybe a JPEG image or an MP4 video — that lives on some hard drive, and that looks or sounds precisely the way it would have in the decades before NFTs came along.
ref: 2022 March 3, Blake Gopnik, “One Year After Beeple, the NFT Has Changed Artists. Has It Changed Art?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2022:
qualifier: file format
glosses: Abbreviation of MPEG-4 Part 14, a file format for playing music and videos.
Derived terms: MP4 player
Related terms: MP3
ozumo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 大相撲 (grand sumo).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: professional sumo wrestling
maezumo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maezumo
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 前相撲, literally "before sumo".
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The unofficial rank of beginners etc.
makuuchi dohyo-iri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 幕内土俵入り (makuuchi dohyō-iri, literally “makuuchi ring-entering”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A group ring-entering ceremony performed by all members of the makuuchi division, except the yokozuna, after the juryo bouts.
makuuchi-kaku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makuuchi-kaku
Etymology: From Japanese 幕内格 (makuuchi-kaku).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The gyoji who referees bouts involving a rikishi from the makuuchi division.
masu-seki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 升席 (masuseki).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The expensive seats, holding four people, on the ground floor of the arena.
matawari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 股割.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A form of exercise in which a rikishi sits on the ground with his legs wide apart, then lowers his torso to touch the ground between his legs.
elegante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elegantes
form: élégante
Etymology: From French élégante.
Senses: glosses: A fashionable lady.
matta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 待った (まった, matta).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The false start of a bout due to mutual misunderstanding.
mizuhiki-maku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mizuhiki-maku
Etymology: From Japanese 水引幕 (mizuhiki-maku).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The curtain that hangs from the yakata, symbolizing the movement of clouds and the passing of time.
mono-ii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mono-ii
Etymology: From Japanese 物言い (mono-ii, literally “talk of things”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a conference among the shimpan to reconsider a referee's decision
shimpan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shinpan
Etymology: From Japanese 審判 (shinpan, しんぱん), from Middle Chinese 審判 (ʃim-pʰàn "to judge", "to try") (compare Mandarin shěnpàn 审判).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: the four judges, sitting at each cardinal point
Liberal Democrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Liberal Democrats
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: a member of the Liberal Democrats political party
Synonyms: Lib Dem
shiranui-gata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 不知火型 (shiranuigata).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The less common ring-entering ceremony performed by yokozuna, consisting only of offensive moves.
Related terms: unryu-gata
unryu-gata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 雲龍型 (unryū-gata).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The normal ring-entering ceremony performed by yokozuna, consisting of both offensive and defensive moves.
Related terms: shiranui-gata
myoseki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myoseki
Etymology: From Japanese 名跡 (myōseki).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: Any of the 105 names available to sumo oyakata.
nage-waza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nage-waza
Etymology: From Japanese 投げ技.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: Any of the 12 throwing techniques.
farrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈfæɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈfɛɹoʊ/
rhymes: -æɹəʊ
Forms: form: farrows
Etymology: From Middle English *farow, *fargh (found only in the plural faren), from Old English fearh (“piglet”), from Proto-West Germanic *farh, from Proto-Germanic *farhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos, from *perḱ- (“to dig”).
See also Old High German farah, Middle Irish orc (“piglet”), Latin porcus, Proto-Slavic *porsę (“pig, piglet”), Lithuanian par̃šas, Avestan: 𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬯𐬀 (pər^əsa). Doublet of pork.
Senses: examples: text: Aha! I know you, gammer! Hamlet, revenge! The old sow that eats her farrow!
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: At full speed he ran into a pigsty, where a sow was lying on her side with a farrow of eleven tugging at her.
ref: 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:
text: She is the womb and the tomb: the sow that eats her farrow.
ref: 1949, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces:
glosses: A litter of piglets.
farrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈfæɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈfɛɹoʊ/
rhymes: -æɹəʊ
Forms: form: farrows
form: farrowing
form: farrowed
form: farrowed
Etymology: From Middle English farwen, from the noun.
Senses: glosses: To give birth to (a litter of piglets).
Derived terms: farrowing
unfarrowed
farrow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈfæɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈfɛɹoʊ/
rhymes: -æɹəʊ
Etymology: Cognate with Old English fearr (“bull”).
Senses: glosses: Not pregnant; not producing young (not calving) in a given season or year; barren.
raw_tags: of cows
intracranial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪniəl
Etymology: From intra- + cranial.
Senses: examples: text: Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
ref: 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease: The Great Morbidity of the 21st Century”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2014, page 200:
text: The doctors attributed the intracranial haemorrhage to a domestic accident to a fall Lula had in October while taking a shower in the Alvorada Palace, the official presidential residence in Brasília.
ref: 2024 December 10, Tom Phillips, Tiago Rogero, “Brazilian president in intensive care after emergency brain surgery”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the brain or inside of the head; within the cranium.
Derived terms: extraintracranial
idiopathic intracranial hypertension
intracranial hypertension
intracranially
intracranial pressure
mustang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌs.tæŋ/
Forms: form: mustangs
Etymology: From Mexican Spanish mestengo, from Old Spanish mesteño (“feral animal”) or mestengo (“feral animal”).
Senses: examples: text: The mustang pony, the invariable companion of the inhabitant of the prairie, whether he is rich or poor, is a little creature, apparently narrow-chested, and small across the loins.
ref: 1846, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, The Mysteries of the Backwoods, Carey and Hart, page 12:
text: Having ridden a distance of two or three miles, Garey slackened his pace, and put the mustang to a slow walk.
ref: 1851, Mayne Reid, edited by Charles J. Skeet, The Scalp Hunters; Or, Romantic Adventures in Northern Mexico, volume 3, page 145:
glosses: A small, hardy, naturalized (feral) horse of the North American west.
examples: text: He is a product of the merchant marine and is one of the officers called "Mustangs" who entered the navy during the Civil War.
ref: 1903, James Hoyt (editor), Seen & Heard by Megargee, L.N. Megargee, page 1754
text: He was the son of a famous artist, and was what we termed a "mustang" officer, who had come into the navy from the merchant service during the Civil War.
ref: 1939, Fred J. Buenzle, Bluejacket, W. W. Norton & Company, page 179:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A merchant marine who joined the U.S. Navy as a commissioned officer during the American Civil War.
examples: text: […] and the chief engineer is a "mustang" — that is, an officer who has risen from the ranks of enlisted men.
ref: September-December 1918, Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook, volume 120, Outlook Publishing Company, page 417:
text: Mustang— Officer who came up through the ranks. None better.
ref: 1943, Josef Israels, He's in the Marine Corps Now, R.M. McBride & Company, page 170:
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: generalized
glosses: A commissioned officer who started military service as an enlisted person.
Derived terms: mustang court
mustanger
mustang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌs.tæŋ/
Forms: form: mustangs
form: mustanging
form: mustanged
form: mustanged
Etymology: From Mexican Spanish mestengo, from Old Spanish mesteño (“feral animal”) or mestengo (“feral animal”).
Senses: glosses: To hunt mustangs (wild horses), either for military use or for slaughter as pet food.
the early bird gets the worm
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ði ˈɜɹli ˈbɜɹd ɡɛts ðə wɜɹm/
Forms: form: the early bird catches the worm
Senses: glosses: Whoever arrives first has the best chance of success; some opportunities are available only to the first competitors.
Related terms: early to bed, early to rise
first come, first served