cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dwarf birch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwarf birches
Senses: glosses: Betula nana, a species of birch in the family Betulaceae, native to arctic and cool temperate regions of northern Europe, northern Asia and northern North America.
equicrural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /iːkwɪˈkɹʊəɹəl/
Etymology: From Latin aequicrurus, + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The same is not forgot by Lapidaries while they cut their gemms pyramidally, or by æquicrural triangles.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 174:
glosses: Having legs of equal size; isosceles.
in control
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The General said that his troops were now in control of the situation.
text: It was a bitter blow to England's players, who sank to their knees in disappointment, after fighting so hard but a draw does not cause too much damage and they still remain in control of their own destiny.
ref: 2021 September 8, Phil McNulty, “Poland 1-1 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Exercising control over a machine, vehicle, situation etc.
Synonyms: in the saddle
Related terms: under control
out of control
zymotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From zymotic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Whether this mass of filth [wet house-refuse] be, zymotically, the cause of cholera, or whether it be (as cannot be questioned) a means of agricultural fertility, and therefore of national wealth, it must be removed.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 2, London: G. Newbold, page 385:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: In a zymotic manner, infectiously.
out of control
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The economy is out of control and is headed for a crash.
text: The correspondence in these columns about locomotive slipping, which has been proceeding for some months past, is tending to get out of control, and it is necessary, despite the interest of the subject, to bring it to a close.
ref: 1954 April, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 260:
text: The UN secretary general has said that “climate change is out of control”, as an unofficial analysis of data showed that average world temperatures in the seven days to Wednesday were the hottest week on record.
ref: 2023 July 7, “UN says climate change ‘out of control’ after likely hottest week on record”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Not under control.
examples: text: The airplane went out of control after its flight-control system failed.
text: A coal train running into Bangor got out of control, with the result that the engine crashed through the buffers, and the leading bogie and driving wheels mounted the platform beyond.
ref: 1944 November and December, “Notes and News: Bufferstop Collisions in Northern Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 370:
glosses: Not controllable.
examples: text: Your children are completely out of control. Can you stop them running around like that?
text: “The time is now for the United Nations and the rest of the world to jointly stand up against China and its lawless and out-of-control bullying of Taiwan,” they said, adding: “Enough is Enough.”
ref: 2022 September 11 [2022 September 9], Lee Hsin-fang, Jonathan Chin, “Letter calls for Taiwan’s UN inclusion”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2022, Front Page:
glosses: Not in control of one's actions.
Synonyms: full tilt boogie
on the loose
back yards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back yard
floud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flouds
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of flood.
Anne Marie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
wisedome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wisedomes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of wisdom.
knapweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæpwiːd/
Forms: form: knapweeds
Etymology: Alteration of knopweed.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: hardhead
hypernyms: weed#Noun
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organism#Noun
glosses: Any of various common weeds of, or formerly of, the genus Centaurea.
hypernyms: weed#Noun
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plant#Noun
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organism#Noun
glosses: Any of various common weeds of, or formerly of, the genus Centaurea.
Centaurea nigra.
hypernyms: weed#Noun
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plant#Noun
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organism#Noun
glosses: Any of various common weeds of, or formerly of, the genus Centaurea.
Rhaponticum repens.
synonyms: hardhead
Russian knapweed
hypernyms: weed#Noun
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plant#Noun
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organism#Noun
glosses: Any of various common weeds of, or formerly of, the genus Centaurea.
Centaurea calcitrapa.
synonyms: starthistle#Noun
caltrop
Derived terms: taxonomic: Centaurea macrocephala
word: bighead knapweed
taxonomic: Centaurea nigra
word: black knapweed
taxonomic: Centaurea jacea
word: brown knapweed
taxonomic: Centaurea nigra
word: common knapweed
taxonomic: Centaurea diffusa
word: diffuse knapweed
taxonomic: Centaurea macrocephala
word: giant knapweed
taxonomic: Centaurea scabiosa
word: greater knapweed
taxonomic: Centaurea scabiosa
word: great knapweed
taxonomic: Centaurea paniculata
word: Jersey knapweed
taxonomic: Centaurea nigra
word: lesser knapweed
taxonomic: Rhaponticum repens
word: Russian knapweed
taxonomic: Centaurea uniflora
word: singleflower knapweed
taxonomic: Centaurea spp.
word: slender knapweed
taxonomic: Centaurea maculosa
word: spotted knapweed
taxonomic: Centaurea virgata ssp. squarrosa
word: squarrose knapweed
taxonomic: Centaurea diffusa
word: tumble knapweed
taxonomic: Centaurea diffusa
word: white knapweed
taw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: tau (one pronunciation)
homophone: tor (non-rhotic)
homophone: tore (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: tour (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger, pour–poor merger)
Forms: form: taws
form: tawing
form: tawed
form: tawed
Etymology: From Middle English tawen, from Old English tawian (“to do, make”), from Proto-West Germanic *tawōn, a variant of Proto-West Germanic *tauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *tawjaną (“to make, prepare”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”).
Cognate with Dutch touwen (“to rope, tether, curry”), Dutch tuien (“to fasten with ropes”), German Tau (“rope, hawser, cable”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽 (taujan, “to make, prepare”). Related to tool and tether.
Senses: glosses: To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew.
glosses: To beat; to scourge.
glosses: To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
glosses: To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
To turn (animals' hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution.
Related terms: tool
taw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: tau (one pronunciation)
homophone: tor (non-rhotic)
homophone: tore (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: tour (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger, pour–poor merger)
Etymology: From Middle English tawen, from Old English tawian (“to do, make”), from Proto-West Germanic *tawōn, a variant of Proto-West Germanic *tauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *tawjaną (“to make, prepare”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”).
Cognate with Dutch touwen (“to rope, tether, curry”), Dutch tuien (“to fasten with ropes”), German Tau (“rope, hawser, cable”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽 (taujan, “to make, prepare”). Related to tool and tether.
Senses: glosses: Tawed leather.
Derived terms: tawse
taw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: tau (one pronunciation)
homophone: tor (non-rhotic)
homophone: tore (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: tour (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger, pour–poor merger)
Forms: form: taws
Etymology: Unknown. Attested in English from the 18th century. Compare Old English tāw (“instrument”). Also compare Irish togh (“choose, elect”).
Senses: examples: text: Near the timberyard a squatted child at marbles, alone, shooting the taw with a cunnythumb.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A favorite marble in the game of marbles.
glosses: A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
examples: text: Walk around your corner; see-saw around your taw.
qualifier: square dancing
glosses: A dance partner.
glosses: A favorite person; beloved, partner, spouse.
Derived terms: ring-taw
taw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: tau (one pronunciation)
homophone: tor (non-rhotic)
homophone: tore (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: tour (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger, pour–poor merger)
Forms: form: taws
form: tawing
form: tawed
form: tawed
Etymology: Unknown. Attested in English from the 18th century. Compare Old English tāw (“instrument”). Also compare Irish togh (“choose, elect”).
Senses: glosses: To shoot a marble.
taw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: tau (one pronunciation)
homophone: tor (non-rhotic)
homophone: tore (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: tour (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger, pour–poor merger)
ipa: /ˈtaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
ipa: /tɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: tau (one pronunciation)
homophone: tor (non-rhotic)
homophone: tore (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: tour (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger, pour–poor merger)
Forms: form: taws
form: tav
form: taf
form: tau
Etymology: Compare Phoenician 𐤕 (tāw), Hebrew ת (tav), Arabic تاء (tāʔ).
Senses: glosses: The 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic.
taw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: tau (one pronunciation)
homophone: tor (non-rhotic)
homophone: tore (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: tour (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger, pour–poor merger)
ipa: /ˈtaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: taws
form: tawing
form: tawed
form: tawed
form: tawe
Etymology: Compare tew (“to tow”), and tow.
Senses: examples: text: Swans vpon the Streame to tawe me
ref: 1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses' Elizium:
glosses: To push; to tug; to tow.
uncous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncous
form: most uncous
Etymology: From Latin uncus.
Senses: examples: 1658: And contemplating the calicular shafts, and uncous disposure of their extremities, so accommodable unto the office of abstersion, not condemne as wholly improbable the conceit of those who accept it for the herbe Borith. — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 180)
glosses: Curved or hook-shaped.
aculeous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aculeous
form: most aculeous
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin aculeus (“needle”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: And such an order is observed in the aculeous prickly plantation, upon the heads of several common thistles.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 180:
glosses: Resembling or pertaining to a needle.
in a hurry
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I can’t stop now. I'm in rather a hurry.
text: To worry, worry, super-scurry / Call out the troops now in a hurry
ref: 1984, Nena, Kevin McAlea, “99 Red Balloons”, in 99 Luftballons:
glosses: Rushed, hurried; short of time.
glosses: In a hurried manner.
Derived terms: moron in a hurry
grievant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grievants
Senses: examples: text: Grievant admitted that he had been told to preprice the goods he picked for each order. Indeed, the order form he uses has the price labels attached.
ref: 1979, Labor Arbitration Reports, volume 71, page 194:
glosses: One who submits a grievance.
Related terms: grievand
grievand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grievands
Senses: glosses: One who is the object of a formal grievance.
Related terms: grievant
kumazemi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kumazemis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese クマゼミ.
Senses: glosses: A cicada, Cryptotympana facialis, from subtropical eastern Asia, that makes a particularly loud noise
vomeronasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪzəl
Etymology: From vomer + -o- + nasal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or situated near the vomer bone between the nose and the mouth
Derived terms: vomeronasal cartilage
vomeronasal organ
Jupiter's beard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Latin barba Iovis.
Senses: glosses: A common name for various plants:
The red valerian, Centranthus ruber
glosses: A common name for various plants:
Aster linosyris, a European plant with yellow flowers.
glosses: A common name for various plants:
The silverbush, Anthyllis barba-jovis, a European shrub with silvery leaves.
examples: 1658: Thus […] nature […] somewhat after this manner hath ordered the bush in Jupiters''' beard, or houseleek; which old superstition set on the tops of houses, as a defensative against lightening, and thunder. — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 181)
glosses: A common name for various plants:
The common houseleek, Sempervivum tectorum.
glosses: A common name for various plants:
A white-edged fungus, Hyphodontia barba-jovis.
clonogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clonogenicities
Etymology: From clonogenic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The ability of a cell to form clones
glosses: The degree to which a cell can form clones
Related terms: clonogenic
clonogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clonogenic
form: most clonogenic
Etymology: From clono- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Having the ability to form clones
Derived terms: anticlonogenic
clonogenically
clonogenicity
clonogenics
nonclonogenic
Related terms: clonogen
clonogenesis
subaerial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + aerial.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Formed, located or occurring on the Earth's land surface; contrasted with subaqueous
Derived terms: subaerially
Related terms: submarine
favaginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more favaginous
form: most favaginous
Etymology: Obscure formation from Latin favus (“honeycomb”). Compare deluginous (where the -in- is also unexpected); most -ginous terms derive from Latin words ending in g being suffixed with -īnus (“-inous”).
Senses: examples: text: A like ordination there is in the favaginous Sockets, and Lozenge seeds of the noble flower of the Sunne.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 181:
glosses: Resembling a honeycomb; cellular.
mummie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mummies
Etymology: From mum + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Isn’t it a jolly place?’ she said to Guy. ‘I like it ever so much better than Mussooree. Only perhaps that’s because I’ve got mummie. It is always horrid without mummie. Unless of course I’ve got Auntie Helen,’ she added politely. / Guy laughed. ‘You little humbug,’ he said; ‘I don’t believe you care for Auntie Helen a bit.’ / ‘Yes I do. I care for her very much. Only of course I love my mummie just one little weeny bit the best.’
ref: 1892, John Roy [pseudonym; Mortimer Durand], “Simla”, in Helen Treveryan: or, The Ruling Race […], volume II, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 150:
text: Dearest Mother: I have been a bad girl not to write you, […] Will you forgive me?—My mind has been pretty much taken up with all this, & I have neglected my mummie.
ref: 1923 May 30, Edna St. Vincent Millay, “To Mrs. Cora B[uzelle] Millay”, in Allan Ross Macdougall, editor, Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, published 1952, →LCCN, →OCLC, chapter V (New York—The Orient—Steepletop: 1923–1925), page 174:
text: Now Dorothy’s children were teenagers. Mack was sixteen, and Bitsy was thirteen. […] She taught Bitsy to call her Mummie, but Mack out-and-out called her Mama. […] I bridled at this new information and made a mental note to tell Mummie. I imagined Miss Gussie having Glenn Davis over to her house to a Kool-Aid party. After he left she would have to fumigate. I knew my mummie would.
ref: 1990, Michael Lee West, “Part Two”, in Crazy Ladies, New York, N.Y.: HarperPerennial, →ISBN, pages 97 (Miss Gussie: 1966) and 150 (Bitsy: 1966):
glosses: Alternative spelling of mummy (“mother”).
afeard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more afeard
form: most afeard
form: afeared
form: affeard
form: affeared
Etymology: From afear + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Pray you pass with your best violence;
I am afeard you make a wanton of me.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: I feel as if something’s behind me all the time; and I’m afeard to turn around, becuz maybe there’s others in front a-waiting for a chance.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 197:
text: He's afeard of you, Luke. Don't you know that?
ref: 2009, John Hough, Jr., Seen the Glory (Fiction), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 192:
glosses: Afraid.
Derived terms: unafeard
Related terms: afear
mansuete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmænswiːt/
Forms: form: more mansuete
form: most mansuete
Etymology: From Latin mānsuētus.
Senses: examples: text: Domestick and mansuete Birds.
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: tame; gentle
vaccina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vaccinia (“cowpox”).
butthurt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtˌhɝt/
ipa: /ˈbʌtˌhɜːt/
Forms: form: more butthurt
form: most butthurt
form: butt-hurt
Etymology: From butt + hurt. First use appears c. 1996 in the Usenet group alt.graffiti. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: "... oh my. dont get so butthurt, ... i cant even remember what i wrote. anyhow, no i've never been to newyork. and yes i know that graffiti started there.."
ref: 1996 November 12, kev...@aol.com, “WRITERS WITH HALF A BRAIN”, in alt.graffiti (Usenet):
synonyms: assmad
buttsore
buttmad
qualifier: slightly vulgar
glosses: Overly annoyed or bothered by a perceived insult or injustice; needlessly offended.
Derived terms: butthurtness
butthurt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtˌhɝt/
ipa: /ˈbʌtˌhɜːt/
Forms: form: butt-hurt
Etymology: From butt + hurt. First use appears c. 1996 in the Usenet group alt.graffiti. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: He's just full of butthurt because he wasn't allowed to join the society.
text: The amount of butthurt in this scenario was phenomenal […]
ref: 2015, J. S. Frankel, Picture (im)perfect, page 138:
qualifier: slightly vulgar
glosses: A feeling of offense caused by a perceived insult or injustice.
Related terms: pain in the butt
bug
pain in the arse
pain in the ass
pain in the bum
pain in the rear
cubic inch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubic inches
Senses: synonyms: in³
cu. in.
cu in
;
cube
glosses: A unit of volume equal to that of a cube with each edge one inch long.
Related terms: c.i.d.
cid
C.I.D.
CID
cubic inches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubic inch
shearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English scherynge; equivalent to shear + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Tending to cut or tear.
shearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English scherynge; equivalent to shear + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shear
shearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shearings
Etymology: From Middle English scherynge; equivalent to shear + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
examples: text: the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth
glosses: The material cut off in this way.
glosses: Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
examples: text: When male sheep have been castrated , they are termed — from the period of weaning to that of shearing — wether , or wedder or shear hogs or tegs, then shearings , shearlings , dinmonts , & c .
ref: 1864, William Youatt, The Complete Grazier and Farmer's and Cattle-Breeder's:
glosses: Alternative form of shearling.
glosses: The act or operation of reaping.
examples: text: the shearing of metal plates
glosses: The act or operation of dividing with shears.
glosses: The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
topics: business
mining
glosses: The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
Derived terms: shearing shed
hypercorrection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪ.pə.kəˈɹɛk.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌhaɪ.pɚ.kəˈɹɛk.ʃən/
Forms: form: hypercorrections
form: hyper-correction
Etymology: From hyper- + correction.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Nonstandard language use that results from the overapplication of a perceived prescriptive rule.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: hypercorrectism
glosses: A nonstandard form so used.
Related terms: hypercorrect
hyper-correct
hypercorrective
hyper-corrective
hypercorrectness
hyper-correctness
hypercorrectism
hyper-correctism
incorrection
Ellery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An English surname transferred from the given name, variant of Hilary or Eulalie.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A town in Chautauqua County, New York, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Edwards County and Wayne County, Illinois, United States.
expectorates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of expectorate
expectorating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of expectorate
expectorated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of expectorate
garbage can
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garbage cans
Senses: glosses: A receptacle, usually roughly cylindrical and wider at the top than at the bottom, which serves as a place to discard waste materials.
Hyponyms: sense: container for wastepaper
word: wastepaper basket
Coordinate terms: ashcan
dumpster
dustbin
garbage pail
litter bin
rubbish bin
trash bin
trash can
wastebin
wastepaper basket
and see Thesaurus:waste bin
fishie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishies
form: fishy
Etymology: From fish + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of fish; alternative spelling of fishy.
ticky-tacky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticky tacky
Etymology: Probably reduplication of tacky. Apparently coined by Malvina Reynolds in the early 1960s (see quotation, below).
Senses: examples: text: And the boys go into business, and marry and raise a family / In boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.
ref: 1962, Malvina Reynolds, “Little Boxes”:
glosses: Cheap, low-quality building material, especially as that used to make conventional suburban housing of a uniform design.
ticky-tacky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ticky tacky
Etymology: Probably reduplication of tacky. Apparently coined by Malvina Reynolds in the early 1960s (see quotation, below).
Senses: examples: text: My first impression was that Phoenix was another American Dream (a la L.A.) come true—ticky-tacky tract housing complexes and mini-malls stretching boundlessly into the flat desert horizon.
ref: 2013, K.T. Berger, Where the Road and the Sky Collide, page 112:
glosses: Made of this material; cheaply built, of low quality.
examples: text: It almost seems that major discipline problems take care of themselves; it is the day-to-day little ticky-tacky issues that bind and scratch and itch until you find that you are boxed in with a class that you can no longer control.
ref: 2010, Charles Mertz, So, You Want to be a Teacher, page 99:
glosses: Inferior, minor, trivial.
Related terms: ticky-tack
spoliator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspoʊliˌeɪtɚ/
Forms: form: spoliators
Etymology: From spoliate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: But the rude spoliator came, and that which time had spared, speedily fell beneath his hand. The contemplation of the ruins to-day, cannot but cause regret and sorrow to the lover of our antiquities, and a feeling of indignation will not allow itself to be suppressed, when we reflect upon the wanton destruction of this ancient sepulchre.
ref: 1887, William Crossing, The Ancient Crosses of Dartmoor, Exeter: James G Commin, page 57:
glosses: One who spoliates.
issa
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈɪsə/
/ˈɪzə/
Senses: glosses: Contraction of it's a.
glosses: Contraction of is a.
litrebike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litrebikes
Etymology: From litre + bike or blend of litre + motorbike.
Senses: glosses: A motorcycle with an engine displacement of 1000cc or greater.
bonesetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonesetters
Etymology: From bone + setter.
Senses: glosses: One who realigns broken or disjointed bones.
Related terms: bonesetting
bonesetters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonesetter
hypovolemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Forms: form: hypovolaemic
form: hypovolæmic
Etymology: From hypo- + volemic.
Senses: antonyms: hypervolemic
glosses: Of, pertaining to hypovolemia, or characterized by low volume of blood in the circulatory system; as hypovolemic shock.
letterheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letterhead
rehydration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rehydrations
Etymology: From re- + hydration.
Senses: glosses: The replenishment of water and electrolytes lost through dehydration.
harder-won
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hard-won: more hard-won
hardest-won
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hard-won: most hard-won
hypercorrections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypercorrection
harnasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harnass
harnasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of harnass
harnassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of harnass
harnassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of harnass
International Load Line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: International Load Lines
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A mark on the hull of a merchant ship to show the waterline under specified conditions, indicating the maximum load that the ship may carry.
Synonyms: Plimsoll line
Plimsoll mark
hit-and-run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hit-and-runs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hit and run.
hit-and-run
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: If observed, approach with extreme caution and inform nearest control of contact. Both subjects now under multiple federal warrants charging bank robbery, murder, and hit-and-run murder.
ref: 1963 February, Rick Raphael, “Code Three”, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact:
text: During the Reaper attack on Thessia, the asari armada used Janiri as a staging base for their hit-and-run attacks on the invading Reapers, striking, jumping to FTL to lose pursuers, and discharging the static into Janiri's magnetic field as they prepared for another attack.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Janiri:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or being a hit and run.
hobnailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hobnail + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The farmer's hobnailed boots were used in mud and snow.
text: The clumping of hobnailed boots on the gravel outside proclaimed the approach of Manning. John looked questioningly at Poirot.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 63:
text: “I don't know if it's my imagination, Kipper,” I said, “but something gives me the impression that at moment of going to press you aren't too sold on Bobbie.” He shrugged a shoulder. “Oh, I wouldn't say that. Apart from wishing I could throttle the young twister with my bare hands and jump on the remains with hobnailed boots, I don't feel much about her one way or the other.”
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IX:
glosses: Having hobnails.
hipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hipped
form: most hipped
Etymology: From hip (“anatomy sense”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: hipped roof
glosses: Having hips or a feature resembling hips.
examples: text: a wide-hipped woman
glosses: Having hips of a specific kind.
Derived terms: hipped roof
swivel-hipped
hipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hip (verb).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hip
hipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See hip (Etymology 3)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hip
hipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hipped
form: most hipped
Etymology: See hip (Etymology 3)
Senses: examples: text: If I admitted, though, to being a little hipped on the subject of Trotsky, I could sometimes gain an indulgent if flickering attention
ref: 1993, Christopher Hitchens, For the sake of argument: essays and minority reports, page 200:
glosses: Aware, informed.
glosses: Interested.
hipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hipped
form: most hipped
Etymology: Compare hippish.
Alternative spelling of hypped.
Senses: examples: text: 'You will be hipped, Haredale, you will be miserable, melancholy, utterly wretched.'
ref: 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter XXVII, in Barnaby Rudge:
text: 'I had seen more of the quiet and peace of the country than had been my share since boyhood, and for that reason, or because I had no great taste for the task before me - the task now so imminent - I felt a little hipped.'
ref: 1894, Stanley J. Weyman, chapter II, in Under the Red Robe:
antonyms: unhipped
glosses: Depressed.
ondulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of undulate.
cat tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat trees
Senses: synonyms: cat tower
glosses: A structure of platforms and scratching posts designed for a cat to play on.
hypernyms: tree
glosses: A euonymus.
scratching post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scratching posts
Senses: glosses: A wooden post, wrapped in a piece of carpet (or similar material), that a domestic cat is encouraged to scratch (rather than the furniture).
Related terms: cat tree
ragdoll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ragdolls
Etymology: From rag doll.
Senses: related: word: Ragdoll
glosses: A modern American breed of domestic cat with a longhair colourpoint coat that relaxes completely when picked up.
examples: text: In this chapter I'll give you a taste of some of the most popular applications for physics: ragdolls, breakable objects, and movie-style explosions.
ref: 2007, Ian Millington, Game physics engine development, page 401:
text: It is, in itself, a beautiful little game, but what it really indicates is a new way to create game controls: by simulating muscles rather than arbitrary forces. The rig in Ski Stunt Simulator is a controlled, active ragdoll.
ref: 2008, Steve Swink, Game Feel: A Game Designer's Guide to Virtual Sensation, page 333:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
glosses: A model consisting of a set of connected rigid bodies that can collapse in a loose, natural manner.
examples: text: Eve came and tea’d with ragdolls, her children. She was strict with them. My tin soldiers weren’t fit company. […] Now she looks like one of her old ragdolls. O where have my tin soldiers gone?
ref: 1992, Edward Power, “Adam & Eve”, in Patrick Cotter, editor, The Cloverdale Anthology of Irish Poetry 1992, Cork: The Three Spires Press, →ISBN, page 49:
text: Aunt Jackie looked like one of Fleda’s old ragdolls after the play was done—couldn’t stand if she wanted to.
ref: 2006, Heather Doherty, Goody Bledsoe, Ottawa, Ont.: Oberon Press, →ISBN, page 25:
text: Let’s imagine your dream business is to sell homemade ragdolls inspired by an old ragdoll that was made by your great-grandmother in France.
ref: 2015, Kathleen Clauson, “Tips for Starting Your Own Dream Business on eBay and Etsy in Thirty Days or Less”, in Carol Smallwood, editor, Women, Work, and the Web: How the Web Creates Entrepreneurial Opportunities, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, part I (Fostering Change), page 83:
glosses: Alternative form of rag doll (“doll made from cloth”).
Derived terms: ragdoll physics
ragdoll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ragdolls
form: ragdolling
form: ragdolled
form: ragdolled
form: rag-doll
Etymology: From rag doll.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
skiing
snowboarding
sports
video-games
glosses: To be flung about so that the limbs move loosely.
examples: text: I was so tired that potholes, fumes and noise aside, I slept regardless, my head rag-dolling from side to side.
ref: 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 86:
glosses: To move, roll, fall, etc., so that the limbs move loosely.
examples: text: “Manhandle” isn’t the term for what he’s doing. It’s something more desperate, the way he’s clutching and yanking and pawing at him—our guy is ragdoll'''ing his antagonist.
ref: 2015, Kent Russell, I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son, Corsair, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN:
text: They worked from the clinch against the ringposts and Daniel handfought to get the Thai Plum, one hand clasped over the other behind the other man’s neck, and there he pinched his elbows together and ragdolled Jung Woo, stepped wide and flung him across the canvas, pulled him back to where knees could be landed if they’d been thrown.
ref: 2017, Kevin Hardcastle, In the Cage, Biblioasis, →ISBN:
text: The next time we played Milestone, this time at home, Rob got kicked out of the game in the first period for fighting. It wasn’t much of a fight. The guy wasn’t exactly hellfire on skates. Rob and him dropped their gloves, and Rob proceeded to ragdoll the guy. I don’t think the guy even got a punch in.
ref: 2020, Jerry “Teabag” Hack, Memoir of a Hockey Nobody: They Said I Couldn’t Make the NHL, So I Went Out and Proved Them Right!, Tellwell Talent, →ISBN:
text: The storm was brutal. It ragdolled my skinny body and tossed me all over the vessel until it hurled me right at Captain Vex’s cabin door.
ref: 2023, Sk Alham Zain, Fabricated Realities: Short-Stories from the Past, Present, and Future, BlueRose Publishers, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: To fling about so that the limbs move loosely.
shorthair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shorthairs
Etymology: From short + hair.
Senses: glosses: Any of several breeds of domestic cat with relatively short hair, slender body and large head.
Related terms: shorthaired
play fast and loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays fast and loose
form: playing fast and loose
form: played fast and loose
form: played fast and loose
Etymology: From the con game fast and loose.
Senses: examples: text: I cannot say that there were any outright lies in the editorial, but it does play fast and loose with the truth.
glosses: To ignore proper behavior or social conventions, especially when it suits one's purpose.
glosses: To be recklessly inaccurate, inappropriate, or otherwise ignoring guidelines and conventions.
glosses: To act in a tricky, inconstant way, saying one thing and doing another.
biosynthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + synthetic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: of or pertaining to biosynthesis
Derived terms: biosynthetically
nonbiosynthetic
photobiosynthetic
postbiosynthetic
retrobiosynthetic
newsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːzi
Forms: form: newsier
form: newsiest
Etymology: From news + -y.
Senses: glosses: Containing lots of news; informative.
glosses: Chatty, gossipy.
Derived terms: newsily
newsiness
newsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːzi
Forms: form: newsies
Etymology: From news + -y.
Senses: glosses: A distributor of news; a newsagent.
examples: text: Taken together, these websites resembled something of a first-person news network, a collective form of collaborative news-gathering. Ordinary people were transforming into 'amateur newsies', […]
ref: 2006, Stuart Allan, Online News: Journalism And The Internet, page 61:
glosses: A journalist.
next-door
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nextdoor
form: next door
Senses: glosses: that occupies an adjacent place, especially the building immediately to the left or right
next-door
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: nextdoor
form: next door
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of next door.
nextdoor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of next-door.
nextdoor
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of next-door.
nibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See nib.
Senses: glosses: plural of nib
nibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nibs
form: nabs
Senses: examples: text: Vera, you are a gleam of brilliant modernity in our dim old cave of antiques — and their nibs, our ancestors." Peter waved disrespectfully to the portrait
ref: 1919, Robert Nichols, “The Secret”, in The Century, page 734:
text: Betsey Reed, Her Nibs, was just as witty and quaint as usual, sitting in state in her wheel chair and dominating everything and everybody.
ref: 1920, Oreola Williams Haskell with Ida Husted Harper, Banner bearers: tales of the suffrage campaigns, page 345:
text: You may also know that, during intermission, Paul and Linda were summoned to a room behind the royal box for a private chat with her nibs.
ref: 1983 June 5, “OFFSTAGE”, in Chicago Tribune:
text: "Your Nibs," I panted, "I am sent by the machine gunner man to tell you that ... "Please don't call me Your Nibs, and knock before you come in next time,
ref: 2004, Michael Arnold, A game with dice, page 59:
glosses: An important or self-important person.
raw_tags: after possessive pronoun
glosses: Self.
raw_tags: after possessive pronoun
examples: text: Two for his nibs.
synonyms: nob
qualifier: cribbage
glosses: A jack turned up by the dealer.
Derived terms: her nibs
his nibs
my nibs
niblike
their nibs
your nibs
Related terms: himself
nice-looking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈnaɪs ˈlʊkɪŋ/
Forms: form: more nice-looking
form: nicer-looking
form: most nice-looking
form: nicest-looking
Senses: synonyms: good-looking
antonyms: bad-looking
glosses: Pleasing to the eye; attractive.
niggler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nigglers
Etymology: From niggle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who niggles; a constant critic.
nightspot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nightspots
form: night spot
Etymology: From night + spot.
Senses: examples: text: We went to a nightspot where the lights were low
Dined and danced, and I was ready to go
ref: 1955, Ray Charles, Greenbacks:
text: I simply cannot believe the prevalence of loud music in Boston's gay bars. It's not that I dislike disco, but I tire of leaving the nightspots with ringing ears (and double vision, I might add, due to the silly light shows!)
ref: 1977 December 3, Mark Dean, “Shattered Ears”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 22, page 4:
glosses: An establishment that is open late at night, especially one that provides entertainment, such as a nightclub.
nippiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nippy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nippy.
quirn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɜː(ɹ)n/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: quirns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of quern.
nor'easter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nor'easters
Etymology: Contraction of northeaster.
Senses: examples: text: A nor’easter churned its way up the East Coast on Sunday, washing out roads and prompting air travel delays as heavily populated areas of the Northeast experienced excessive rain, lashing winds and coastal flooding.
ref: 2025 October 12, Kathy McCormack, “New Jersey declares emergency as nor’easter approaches, while Alaska flooding carries away homes”, in AP News, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2025:
glosses: Alternative form of northeaster.
northeaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northeasters
form: nor'easter
form: noreaster
Etymology: From north + easter.
Senses: examples: text: A northeaster in one place may be an easter, a norther, or a souther in some other locality.
ref: 1902, John Burroughs, Locusts and Wild Honey, page 81:
text: A wave simulator in the tank can re-enact tsunamis and northeasters, and imitate wave conditions from midocean.
ref: 2007 February 20, Tina Kelley, “A Wet Wind Tunnel So Ships Can Move Faster and Better”, in The New York Times:
antonyms: southwester
glosses: An extratropical storm, usually found in coastal New England and Atlantic Canada, whose winds usually come from the northeast.
Coordinate terms: southeaster
southwester
northwester
norther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː(ɹ)θə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈnɔː(ɹ)ðə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: northers
Etymology: From north + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Brisk winds from the south for several days in Texas are generally followed by a "norther."
ref: 1882, Signal Service Notes - Issues 1-20, page 87:
text: Keep her going South-South East as fast as she'll take it, Shelby. It'll be a wet ride till we get outside the stream with this Norther.
ref: 2010, Barry Warburton, Chasseur & St Lawrence, page 18:
glosses: A strong north wind, a wind blowing from the north.
Derived terms: blue norther
norther
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː(ɹ)θə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈnɔː(ɹ)ðə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: northers
form: northering
form: northered
form: northered
Etymology: From north + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The hills […] run inland with a slight northering tendency.
ref: 1893, F. Adams, New Egypt, page 86:
text: But from one impulse, like a northering sun, / The innumerable outburst is begun, / And in that common sunlight all men know / A common ecstasy.
ref: 1919, Century Readings for a Course in American Literature, page 870:
text: One could also speak of a northering of imagination, an attenuation, chilling, emptying out. But that sense of diminishment in going north may be mistaken, ...
ref: 2008, Paul H. Fry, Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 15:
text: The map maintained that the mountains were those along whose far flank I'd northered on foot, and one molar-tooth peak certainly looked like Squaretop.
ref: 2014, Colin Fletcher, River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea, Vintage, →ISBN:
text: "In that direction, we have a southbound breeze all the way to the ground." […] The northering sun was peeking under the curve of the balloon. “We're coming at them from out of the sun.”
ref: 2017, Vernor Vinge, The Zones of Thought Series: (A Fire Upon the Deep, The Children of the Sky, A Deepness in the Sky), Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: We follow Waverley in the reverse progress of his own private eastering, and (the eastering here technically a northering) we make our way through […]
ref: 2021, Brian Gingrich, The Pace of Fiction: Narrative Movement and the Novel, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: To move or go toward the north.
examples: text: The 23 February 1667 Sunday. All the morning flat calm until after six. At the coming away of the ebb sprang up a small gale at W.N.W. and N.W. by W., that we stretched along the shore toward the Ness, S.W. course. The wind northered and came easterly, a small gale. We stayed for our boat until one, which we had sent to search 4 French shallops that assured lay there to lade wool.
ref: 1667, record quoted in 1940, Publications of the Navy Records Society, page 8
text: Att noone it came S. afterwardes westerly, and after sunnesett it northered, and blew a verie stiffe gale; some raine.
ref: 1868, Works of the Camden Society, page 74:
glosses: To blow from (closer to) the north, pushing ships (etc) towards the south; to have its apparent source shift northward.
raw_tags: of wind
norther
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː(ɹ)θə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈnɔː(ɹ)ðə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From north + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "Northest" of all
There is something about Scandinavia that leads those who live there to stress the "northness" of their position … This gentleman, it will be remembered, claimed to live "norther" than any other man. … he placed chief emphasis on the fact that no man lived norther than he.
ref: 1931 April 24, The Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume XXI, number 28, page 700 (of the compiled volume 31)
text: Clerk: […] And he come across this one salesman. From up north.
Stone: North Texas?
Clerk: Norther than that. Thought he said New York, but I could be mistaken.
ref: 1989, Willy Holtzman, “San Antonio Sunset”, in Ramon Delgado, editor, The Best Short Plays, 1988-1989, page 342:
text: Nothing can be norther than the North Pole […]
ref: 2020, Avro Mukerji, Few Urban Thoughts, page 9:
glosses: comparative form of north: more north; northern
Derived terms: northerly
ABD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Most of my employers knew I was a graduate student, and fortunately, most seemed reluctant to ask me too many questions. Our mutual silence served as a way to deal with the status inconsistency of a house wife with a B.A. hiring a ABD to clean her house.
ref: 1992, Mary Romero, “Intersection of Biography and History: My Intellectual Journey”, in Maid in the U.S.A., Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 6:
text: The most common reason for such episodes is that a student takes a job before completing a thesis, usually after attaining ABD (all but dissertation) status.
ref: 2001, John Siegfried, Wendy Stock, “So You Want to Earn a Ph.D. in Economics?: How Long Do You Think It Will Take?”, in The Journal of Human Resources, volume 36, number 2, page 366:
qualifier: academics
glosses: Initialism of all but dissertation.
Hypernyms: abt
fishiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fishy: most fishy
fishier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fishy: more fishy
deceives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsiːvz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deceive
animal feed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animal feeds
Senses: glosses: Material, of an animal or most often vegetable origin, prepared (especially industrially) as feed for domestic or farm animals.
braaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of braai
braaied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of braai
tana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tanas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thana.