cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
acquirement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkwaɪə(ɹ)mənt/
Forms: form: acquirements
Etymology: From acquire + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: […] his acquirements by industrie were […] enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature.
ref: 1630, John Hayward, The Life, and Riagne of King Edward the Sixt, London: John Partridge, page 4:
text: If she can think, that the part she has had in your education, and your own admirable talents and acquirements, are to be thrown away upon such a worthless creature as Solmes, I could heartily quarrel with her.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 177:
text: […] there was a degree of deference in his deportment toward that young gentleman which seemed to indicate that he felt himself conscious of a slight inferiority in point of genius and professional acquirements.
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 305:
glosses: Something that has been acquired; an attainment or accomplishment.
examples: text: […] rules for the acquirement of a taste […]
ref: 1712 June 30 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, June 19, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 409; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
text: One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought […].
ref: 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
text: At best, a considerable time elapses between authorization and land acquirement, during which land values may vary impredictably.
ref: 1952, Annual report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army:
glosses: The act or fact of acquiring something; acquisition.
Synonyms: sense: that which is acquired
word: acquisition
sense: act of acquiring
word: acquisition
sense: act of acquiring
word: procuration
sense: act of acquiring
word: procurement
sense: act of acquiring
word: obtainment
Derived terms: reacquirement
acquiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkwaɪ(ə)ɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acquire
acquittal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkwɪ.t(ə)l/
ipa: /əˈkwɪ.d(ə)l/
Forms: form: acquittals
form: acquital
Etymology: From acquit + -al.
Senses: glosses: The act of fulfilling the duties (of a given role, obligation etc.).
examples: text: criminal acquittal
text: absolute acquittal
text: The jury returned a verdict of acquittal.
text: His unexpected acquittal shocked the public.
topics: law
glosses: A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process.
glosses: Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends.
glosses: The act of releasing someone from debt or other obligation; acquittance.
glosses: Avoidance of danger; deliverance.
Derived terms: nonacquittal
postacquittal
preacquittal
Related terms: acquit
acquitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-kwĭtʹĭd
ipa: /əˈkwɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acquit
acquitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-kwĭtʹĭd
ipa: /əˈkwɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: Having been acquitted; having gone through a trial that resulted in something other than a guilty verdict.
Derived terms: unacquitted
acrid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.ɹɪd/
rhymes: -ækɹɪd
Forms: form: acrider
form: more acrid
form: acridest
form: most acrid
Etymology: From Latin ācris, from ācer (“sharp”); probably assimilated in form to acid. Compare eager.
Senses: examples: text: Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
ref: 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
synonyms: word: pungent
word: acrimonious
antonyms: delectable
delicious
tasteful
glosses: Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste.
examples: text: The bombardier beetle sprays acrid secretions to defend itself.
synonyms: corrosive
glosses: Causing heat and irritation.
examples: text: That man has an acrid temper.
text: In a chaotic, 90-minute back-and-forth, the two major party nominees expressed a level of acrid contempt for each other unheard-of in modern American politics.
ref: 2020 September 29, Jonathan Martin, Alexander Burns, “With Cross Talk, Lies and Mockery, Trump Tramples Decorum in Debate With Biden”, in New York Times:
synonyms: acerbic
acrimonious
glosses: Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating.
Derived terms: acridity
acridly
acridness
antacrid
subacrid
acrobat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.ɹə.bæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: acrobats
Etymology: From French acrobate, from Ancient Greek ἀκροβάτης (akrobátēs, “walking on tiptoe, climbing aloft”), from ἀκροβατέω (akrobatéō, “I walk on tiptoe”), from ἄκρον (ákron, “highest or farthest point, mountain top, peak”) + βαίνω (baínō, “I walk, step”).
Senses: hyponyms: contortionist
tightrope walker
trapeze artist
tumbler
glosses: An athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination, often as part of a circus performance.
Derived terms: word: acrobat ant
word: acrobatess
word: acrobatic
word: acrobatics
word: acrobatism
Related terms: english: taxonomic genus
translation: taxonomic genus
word: Acrobates
english: taxonomic family
translation: taxonomic family
word: Acrobatidae
word: acro-
acrobat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.ɹə.bæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: acrobats
form: acrobating
form: acrobated
form: acrobated
Etymology: From French acrobate, from Ancient Greek ἀκροβάτης (akrobátēs, “walking on tiptoe, climbing aloft”), from ἀκροβατέω (akrobatéō, “I walk on tiptoe”), from ἄκρον (ákron, “highest or farthest point, mountain top, peak”) + βαίνω (baínō, “I walk, step”).
Senses: examples: text: Tumbling is different from posturing, and means throwing summersets and walking on your hands; and acrobating means the two together […]
ref: 1861, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 3, London: Griffin, Bohn, page 98:
text: They seem to think as clowning and acrobating is a downright paradise, and comes as naturally to anybody as the measles.
ref: 1882, “Floey and the Angels”, in The Quiver, volume 17, page 31:
text: Mother was teaching me the tight-rope; I’d learned a bit of acrobating, too.
ref: 1914, Owen Johnson, chapter 21, in The Salamander, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 317:
text: The others were fairly hulking teenagers in terrible costumes and makeup, who tapped, acrobated, sang, recited, played saxoophones, and did bad magic […]
ref: 1988, Phyllis Newman, chapter 2, in Just In Time, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 32:
glosses: To practise acrobatics.
examples: text: We have known […] veteran reporters, so dumbfounded and confounded by the first fire of Ralph, and his grand and lofty acrobating in elocution, that they up, seized their hat and paper, and sloped, horrified at the prospect of an attempt to “take down” Mr. Emerson.
ref: 1856, Jonathan F. Kelley, “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, in Humors of Falconbridge,, Philadelphia: T.B.Peterson, page 155:
text: […] I laughed at the very idea of one of those heavy-pouched, blue-clad fellows catching hold of an agile fellow like I was, who had on more than one occasion acrobated from the engine’s tender back to the rear end of the caboose, by swinging and vaulting from truck to truck, underneath long freight trains running at top speed, with no member of the ever-alert train crew having discovered him.
ref: 1912, Leon Ray Livingston, chapter 2, in The Curse of Tramp Life, Cambridge: Springs, PA: The A-N. 1 Publishing Co, page 17:
text: He acrobated into a shirt, pulled up the pants of his good suit, arching to draw them high […]
ref: 1952, Bernard Malamud, “Pre-Game”, in The Natural, New York: Dell, published 1965, page 8:
text: Here [in the stage show] was all the paraphernalia I longed for—slit skirts, suntanned thighs, boleros, sequins, saucy looks, legs askew and whole bevies of girls acrobating gracefully while covering their more pertinent parts with fans or gigantic powder puffs.
ref: 1976, Edna O’Brien, chapter 6, in Mother Ireland,, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 127:
text: the blood-red cardinal acrobating about in his holly bush
ref: 2011, Bradford Morrow, “Gardener of Heart”, in The Uninnocent,, New York: Pegasus Books, page 31:
glosses: To move like an acrobat (with agility, balance, long leaps, etc.).
acting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.tɪŋ/
rhymes: -æktɪŋ
Etymology: From act + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The Acting Minister must sign Executive Council documents in a Minister's absence.
text: The CEO is currently in a hospital. The CFO is acting CEO in the meantime.
text: Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the US DOGE Service, the agency that houses the temporary Department of Government Efficiency, a White House official told CNN on Tuesday.
ref: 2025 February 25, Kaitlan Collins and Tierney Sneed, “White House reveals who DOGE acting administrator is”, in CNN:
glosses: Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job.
Related terms: cis-acting
nonacting
self-acting
unacting
pro tem
acting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.tɪŋ/
rhymes: -æktɪŋ
Etymology: From act + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of act
acting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.tɪŋ/
rhymes: -æktɪŋ
Forms: form: actings
Etymology: From act + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: […] he does so much magnifie Nature and her Actings in all this material World, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joynt Deess with God in the Affairs thereof;
ref: 1685, Herbert Croft, Some Animadversions upon a book intituled, The Theory of the Earth, London, Preface:
text: […] I desire this Account may pass with them, rather for a Direction to themselves to act by, than a History of my actings, seeing it may not be of one farthing value to them to note what became of me.
ref: 1722, Daniel Defoe, “A Journal of the Plague Year”, in et al., London: E. Nutt, page 10:
text: Boyle’s theory explains the whole range of God’s actings in the world, those things that injure man as well as those which advantage him.
ref: 1974, J. R. Jacob, “Robert Boyle and Subversive Religion in the Early Restoration”, in Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, volume 6, number 4, →JSTOR, page 276:
glosses: An action or deed.
topics: law
glosses: Something done by a party—so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action.
glosses: Pretending.
topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: The occupation of an actor.
Derived terms: acting charades
voice acting
Māori
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Maori.
Māori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Māoris
form: Māori
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Maori.
Māori
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Maori.
Kuiper belt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪ.pə(ɹ).bɛlt/
ipa: /ˈkʌɪpə bɛlt/
ipa: /ˈkaɪ.pɚ.bɛlt/
Forms: form: the Kuiper belt
Etymology: Named after the astronomer Gerard Kuiper (1905-1973).
Senses: examples: text: Deep searches for regular satellites around Kuiper belt objects are difficult due to observational limitations, but Haumea is one of the few for which sufficient data exist.
ref: 2016 May 27, Luke D. Burkhart, Darin Ragozzine, Michael E. Brown, “A Deep Search for Additional Satellites around the Dwarf Planet Haumea”, in The Astronomical Journal, volume 151, number 6, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2025:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: Edgeworth-Kuiper belt
hypernyms: belt
glosses: A region of space between thirty and fifty astronomical units from the Sun, roughly confined within a thick band around the ecliptic of the Solar System, and populated by many thousands of trans-Neptunian objects.
Derived terms: Kuiper belt object
Related terms: Kuiper Belt environment
Kuiper belt object
Kuiper Belt object
Kuiper belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪ.pə(ɹ).bɛlt/
ipa: /ˈkʌɪpə bɛlt/
ipa: /ˈkaɪ.pɚ.bɛlt/
Forms: form: Kuiper belts
Etymology: Named after the astronomer Gerard Kuiper (1905-1973).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
hypernyms: asteroid belt
belt
glosses: A type of asteroid belt, expected to exist in the outer regions of planetary systems, that forms an annular belt or disc around the system's center, lies beyond the region of major-planet formation, and at its outer extent may reach the inner region of an Oort cloud.
mongol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mongols
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Mongol (“person with Down's syndrome”).
Ezra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛzɹə/
Forms: form: Ezras
form: Ez.
form: Ezr.
Etymology: From the Biblical Hebrew עֶזְרָא (ʿezrā). Doublet of Esdras.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The fifteenth book of the Old Testament and a book of the Hebrew Tanakh.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A Jewish high priest from the fifth century BC.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
glosses: A surname from Hebrew.
Derived terms: Ezra-Nehemiah
Aaron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛəɹ.ən/
ipa: /ˈæɹ.ən/
ipa: /ˈæ.ɹən/
ipa: /ˈɛə.ɹən/
rhymes: -ɛɹən
rhymes: -æɹən
homophone: Aran
homophone: Arin
homophone: Arran
homophone: Arun
homophone: Erin stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
other: /ahăron/
other: /aaron/
other: /ˈɛəɹən/
other: /ˈɛɹən/
other: /ˈæɹən/
other: /ɛəɹən/
other: /ærən/
Forms: form: Aarons
Etymology: From Latin Aaron, from Ancient Greek Ἀαρών (Aarṓn), from Hebrew אַהֲרֹן (ʾAhărōn), of unknown meaning, possibly meaning “bearer of martyrs”, or perhaps also, or instead, related to the Ancient Egyptian ꜥḥꜣ rw (“warrior lion”), though it has been suggested to also mean “elevated”, “exalted” or “high mountain”. Doublet of Harun.
Senses: examples: text: And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and hee said, Is not Aaron the Leuite thy brother? I know that he can speake well.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 4:14:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The elder brother of Moses in the Book of the Exodus, and in the Quran.
examples: text: - - - the Junior Prom with boys whose names are right out of the grade-school reader, not Aaron and Arnold and Marvin, but Johnny and Billy and Jimmy and Tod. Not Portnoy or Pincus, but Smith and Jones and Brown!
ref: 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Random House, published 2002, page 145:
text: Superstar quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who ruptured his left Achilles tendon just four snaps into his New York Jets career, has written off this season as a “lost year,” though he feels he can “play more years” in the NFL.
ref: 2023 December 20, Sam Joseph, “Aaron Rodgers writes off this season as ‘lost year,’ but quarterback says he feels ‘I can play more years’ in NFL”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Derived terms: Aaronic
Aaronid
Aaronite
Aaron's beard
Aaron's bells
Aaron's rod
Aaron's serpent
Related terms: word: Aaren
raw_tags: of given name
word: Aron
word: Arron
word: Aaronson
raw_tags: of given name
Aaron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛəɹ.ən/
ipa: /ˈæɹ.ən/
ipa: /ˈæ.ɹən/
ipa: /ˈɛə.ɹən/
rhymes: -ɛɹən
rhymes: -æɹən
homophone: Aran
homophone: Arin
homophone: Arran
homophone: Arun
homophone: Erin stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
other: /ahăron/
other: /aaron/
other: /ˈɛəɹən/
other: /ˈɛɹən/
other: /ˈæɹən/
other: /ɛəɹən/
other: /ærən/
Forms: form: Aarons
Etymology: From Latin Aaron, from Ancient Greek Ἀαρών (Aarṓn), from Hebrew אַהֲרֹן (ʾAhărōn), of unknown meaning, possibly meaning “bearer of martyrs”, or perhaps also, or instead, related to the Ancient Egyptian ꜥḥꜣ rw (“warrior lion”), though it has been suggested to also mean “elevated”, “exalted” or “high mountain”. Doublet of Harun.
Senses: qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: The leader of a group of thieves.
Synonyms: criminal leader
out
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊt/
ipa: /ɒʔ/
ipa: /uːt/
ipa: /ɘʉt/
ipa: /aʊt/
ipa: /ʌʊt/
ipa: [əut]
ipa: [ɛʊt]
note: Nova Scotia
ipa: [ɵut]
ipa: /æɔt/
ipa: /æʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: oute
Etymology: From Middle English out, oute, from a combination of Old English ūt (“out”, preposition & adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *ūt, from Proto-Germanic *ūt (“out”); and Old English ūte (“outside; without”, adverb), from Proto-Germanic *ūtai (“out; outside”); both from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“upwards, away”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots oot (“out”), Yola out, outh, udh, ut, uth (“out”), North Frisian üt, ütj (“out”), Saterland Frisian uut (“out of”), West Frisian út (“out”), Cimbrian aus, auz (“out, outwards”), Dutch uit (“out”), German, Luxembourgish aus (“out”), Yiddish אויס (oys, “over, finished”), Danish ud (“out; outside”), Icelandic út (“out”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish ut (“out”), Gothic 𐌿𐍄 (ut, “out of”).
Senses: examples: text: throw it out the window; get it out your mind
text: We are gonna get evicted. —If your fat butt fits out the door, that is.
text: Can you, when you have pushed out your gates the very defender of them, and in a violent popular ignorance given your enemy your shield, think to front his revenges with the easy groans of old women, the virginal palms of your daughters, or with the palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant as you seem to be?
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: Thy roselips and full blue eyes / Take the heart from out my breast.
ref: 1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Adeline:
text: After she'd made her single cup of coffee she sat looking out the window into the slushy, halficy backyard and dialed Tony's number on Staten Island.
ref: 2012, Thomas Gifford, Woman in the Window:
glosses: From the inside to the outside of; out of.
Synonyms: sense: away from the inside
word: through
Derived terms: out-of-bounds
Sleeping Beauty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sleeping Beauties
Etymology: In the genetics sense, so called because the transposon was brought back to activity from a long evolutionary sleep.
Senses: glosses: A fairy tale originally titled La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault.
examples: text: How far have we come since the days of our favorite childhood fairy tales if women still need a rescuer like the Cinderellas, Sleeping Beauties, and other helpless maidens of the past?
ref: 2012, Vera Sonja Maass, Finding Love That Lasts: Breaking the Pattern of Dead End Relationships, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 81:
text: Womanly duties, as Joan thought of them, were fine for girls who imagined themselves as Cinderellas or Sleeping Beauties, good girls rewarded for menial housework and, in the case of Sleeping Beauty, a passivity so profound it was deaf, dumb, blind, and comatose.
ref: 2014, Kathryn Harrison, Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured, Doubleday, →ISBN:
text: They emote and are long-winded about it; they express affection and passion and have sex and revel in it; they are cruel and vengeful; they whine and complain, gossip, browbeat, and nag—in short, everything that we have always suspected is behind the refractive exteriors of the more famous Cinderellas and Sleeping Beauties. […] It features a storyteller who, tired of telling the same old Cinderellas and Sleeping Beauties, meets up with some fairies in a wood as he is searching for new material.
ref: 2023, Nancy L. Canepa, transl., The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales & Their Tellers, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The main character in this story, who is in unbroken slumber under a magical spell, awaiting the kiss of a prince.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A transposon used in genetic engineering.
examples: text: Wake up Sleeping Beauty, school starts in 10 minutes.
glosses: One who is asleep at an inappropriate time.
Derived terms: Sleeping Beauty problem
Sleeping Beauty syndrome
Related terms: Prince Charming
Sleeping Beauty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: In the genetics sense, so called because the transposon was brought back to activity from a long evolutionary sleep.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of sleeping beauty (Oxalis corniculata).
fairy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛəɹi/
ipa: /ˈfeː.ɹi/
enpr: fârʹē
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈfɛə̯ɹ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈfɛɹ.i/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈfeə.ɹi/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈfiə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈfeɹ.ɪ/
ipa: /ˈfeɹe/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈfɜːɹɪ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi
homophone: ferry (Mary–marry–merry merger)
homophone: furry (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: more fairy
form: most fairy
form: faery
form: faëry
form: faerie
form: faërie
form: færie
form: fairie
Etymology: From Middle English faierie, fairie, from Old French faerie, from fae + -erie, from Latin fāta (“goddess of fate”). Equivalent to fay + -ry. Attested in English from about 1330, in King Alisaunder, first in the sense of "enchantment, illusion, dream" ("that thou herdest is fairye") and shortly thereafter "realm of the fays, fairy-land" and "the inhabitants of fairyland, collectively". The re-interpretation of the term as a countable noun denoting individual inhabitants of fairy-land can be traced to the 1390s, but became common only in the 16th century, perhaps due to reinterpreting phrases like faerie knight.
Senses: examples: ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 287:
glosses: Like a fairy; fanciful, whimsical, delicate.
buttock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtək/
ipa: [ˈbɐtək]
ipa: /ˈbʌtək/
ipa: [ˈbʌɾək]
rhymes: -ʌtək
Forms: form: buttocks
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English buttok, probably from Old English buttuc (“end; end piece”; also, “short piece of land”). Attested with its current anatomical meaning since 1300. A diminutive form of what is presumably the Old English precursor of butt + -ock (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Run, run, come you hither / Novv, take all my Cuſhions dovvn and thvvack them ſoundly, / After my Feaſt of Millers: for their Buttocks / Have left a peck of flovver in them, beat them carefully […]
ref: c. 1615–1620 (date written), Tho[mas] Middleton, The Mayor of Quinborough: A Comedy. […] [Hengist, King of Kent], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], published 1661, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 61:
english: Hengist, King of Kent
translation: Hengist, King of Kent
synonyms: word: asscheek
english: crude
translation: crude
word: cheek
word: 'tocks
word: arse
word: arse cheeks
word: ass
word: ass cheeks
word: back
word: backside
word: batty
word: behind
word: blessed assurance
word: booty
word: botty
word: bottom
word: bum
word: bum cheeks
word: buns
word: butt
word: butt cheeks
word: buttocks
word: caboose
word: cheeks
word: derriere
word: fanny
word: fourth point of contact
word: gluteus maximus
word: glutes
word: gooseberry-grinder
word: gyatt
raw_tags: used jokingly by generation alpha preteens
word: heinie
word: hiney
word: hinderlin
word: hurdies
word: jacksie
word: keester
word: keister
word: moon
word: moneymaker
word: nates
word: nether cheeks
word: patootie
word: peach
word: posterior
word: rear
word: rear end
word: rump
word: seat
word: sit upon
word: tail
word: toches
word: tush
word: tushie
glosses: Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back, the perineum, and the top of the legs.
examples: text: There came a blast of freezing wind that made Skell shrug himself against the oaken post on which the ship's buttock rested.
ref: 1925, Adventure, volume 54:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
Derived terms: buttock cleavage
buttock-clenching
buttocked
buttocker
buttockless
buttocklike
buttock line
buttock mail
buttocky
cross-buttock
fat-buttocked
mouse buttock
quakebuttock
Related terms: callipygian
callipygous
dasypygal
tale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tāl
ipa: /ˈteːl/
note: pane–pain merger
ipa: /ˈteɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
homophone: tail
Forms: form: tales
form: taling
form: taled
form: taled
Etymology: From Middle English talen, from Old English talian (“to count, calculate, reckon”), from Proto-West Germanic *talōn, from Proto-Germanic *talōną (“to count”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to count, reckon, aim, calculate, adjust”).
Cognate with Dutch talen (“to long, care”), German zahlen (“to pay”), Swedish tala (“to speak, talk”), Icelandic tala (“to talk”).
Senses: glosses: To speak; discourse; tell tales.
glosses: To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.
Derived terms: taler
tale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tāl
ipa: /ˈteːl/
note: pane–pain merger
ipa: /ˈteɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
homophone: tail
Forms: form: tales
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tael.
Related terms: pourquoi tale
lira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪəɹə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹə
Forms: form: lire
form: lira
form: liras
Etymology: From Italian lira, from Latin lībra (partly via Turkish lira, Arabic لِيرَة (līra), Maltese lira, Greek λίρα (líra), and Hebrew לִירָה (“lirá”), all of which are originally from the Italian). Doublet of arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, litra, litre, livre, and rottol.
Senses: glosses: The basic unit of currency in Turkey.
glosses: The currency of Lebanon (also pound), Syria (also pound), Jordan (also dinar)
glosses: The former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus and the Vatican City, superseded by the euro
lira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪəɹə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹə
Forms: form: lirot
form: liroth
form: liras
Etymology: From Italian lira, from Latin lībra (partly via Turkish lira, Arabic لِيرَة (līra), Maltese lira, Greek λίρα (líra), and Hebrew לִירָה (“lirá”), all of which are originally from the Italian). Doublet of arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, litra, litre, livre, and rottol.
Senses: glosses: The former currency of Israel, superseded by the sheqel.
Related terms: ₺
£
lira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪəɹə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹə
rhymes: -ɪəɹə
ipa: /ˈlɪəɹə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹə
Etymology: From Ukrainian ліра (lira), ultimately related to the Byzantine lyra (Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra)). Doublet of Lyra, lyra, and lyre.
Senses: glosses: A Ukrainian folk musical instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
lira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪəɹə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹə
rhymes: -ɪəɹə
ipa: /ˈlaɪɹə/
rhymes: -aɪɹə
homophone: lyra
homophone: Lyra
ipa: /ˈlɪəɹə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹə
rhymes: -ɪəɹə
Forms: form: lirae
Etymology: From Latin līra (“furrow”).
Senses: glosses: Any of a set of fine ridges on the shells of some molluscs
lira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪəɹə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹə
rhymes: -ɪəɹə
ipa: /ˈlaɪɹə/
rhymes: -aɪɹə
homophone: lyra
homophone: Lyra
Senses: examples: text: The first evidence of the Byzantine lira is in a Persian literary source of the ninth century.
ref: 1940, Curt Sachs, The History of Musical Instruments, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., page 275:
text: Some instruments comprise types which are found, more or less unchanged, also with various nations and periods (recorder, shawm), whereas others belong to smaller regions (byzantine lira, rectangular harp) or only to the territory of Serbia and Macedonia (drums, larger shawms, especially in the Turkish period).
ref: 1976, Musicological Annual, page 118:
text: Being an approximate synonym of cithara, the word lyra is most often applied to the harp, but one also finds it interpreted as the Germanic lyre, Byzantine lira (equated in turn with the Arabic rebab), hurdy-gurdy, citole or gittern, lute, etc.
ref: 1977, Laurence Wright, “The Medieval Gittern and Citole: A Case of Mistaken Identity”, in The Galpin Society Journal:
glosses: Alternative form of lyra.
Related terms: lira da braccio
lira de braccio
fairy floss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairyfloss
Etymology: From fairy + floss.
Senses: examples: text: Disconsolately they shot the water-chute, swung on the swings, ate fairy floss from the booth like nostalgic exiles from fairyland.
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 74:
text: The girls were already bagging fairy floss, and stockpiling it as fast as they could.
ref: 2009, Rex Ellis, Chapter 3: Cocklebiddy, the Sydney Show and Kybo Station: Go with the Flow, page 25:
text: Sophie hands an impatient child a stick of fairy floss and sees Grace walk by, pushing the baby in his stroller.
ref: 2005, Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary, page 282:
text: Sergeant Snottle pulled out from under his long black chest plate a piece of pink and blue fairy floss.
ref: 2011, Jacqueline Delaney, Professor Yish Kabibble in the Curse of the Scruttles, page 22:
glosses: Heated sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick.
Synonyms: word: candy floss
word: cotton candy
Derived terms: Persian fairy floss
cotton candy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotton candies
form: cotton-candy
Etymology: From cotton + candy; from being a candy appearing like a mass of cotton balls or cotton batting.
Senses: glosses: Melted sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick.
Synonyms: word: candy floss
word: fairy floss
candy floss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkændi ˌflɒs/
Forms: form: candy flosses
Senses: glosses: Heated sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick.
Synonyms: word: cotton candy
word: fairy floss
zyzzyva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪzɪvə/
Forms: form: zyzzyvas
Etymology: From the name of the genus, translingual Zyzzyva.
Senses: examples: text: A zyzzyva is a weevil of the genus Zyzzyva.
ref: 1976, Edward Stevens, The Religion Game, American Style, New York: Paulist Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 87:
text: Against the Yak, the zyzzyva zips
He yammers, has yaws, he yawns and he yips
ref: 2003 May 30, Kalpana Swaminathan, Ambrosia for Afters, New Delhi; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 43:
text: Everything on earth has an end, for your mortally thin dictionary, the tropical, American weevil, the Zyzzyva.
ref: 2007 August 30, Otto Mann, King Size, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 118:
text: No wonder you wanted to look it up. A zyzzyva is a weevil.
ref: 2010 September 7, Mary Daheim, Loco Motive: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery, 1st edition, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 240:
glosses: A tropical American weevil of the genus Zyzzyva.
cotton boll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotton bolls
Senses: glosses: The round, fluffy clumps in which cotton forms and grows on a cotton plant.
Related terms: cotton ball
scrabble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹæbəl/
rhymes: -æbəl
Forms: form: scrabbles
form: scrabbling
form: scrabbled
form: scrabbled
Etymology: From Middle Dutch schrabbelen, frequentative of schrabben (“to scrape”), equivalent to scrab + -le. More at scrape.
Senses: examples: text: […] there came no answer, except the echo of my own voice sounding hollow and far off down in the vault. So in despair I turned back to the earth wall below the slab, and scrabbled at it with my fingers, till my nails were broken and the blood ran out; having all the while a sure knowledge, like a cord twisted round my head, that no effort of mine could ever dislodge the great stone.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
text: So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]
ref: 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 12:
glosses: To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.
examples: text: “Oh. The perfect ending to the perfect-- [chuckles] I almost said evening. More like months, though, isn't it? Since we started scrabbling for coins because the damn government took away our-- every thing. They took everything. And the only thing that was left, you idiots either lost, gave away, ate, or just blew up and sank.”
ref: 2014 March 24, Adam Reed, “On the Carpet” (19:15 from the start), in Archer, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Malory Archer (Jessica Walter):
glosses: To gather hastily.
examples: text: She was on her hands and knees scrabbling in the mud, looking for her missing wedding ring.
glosses: To move with difficulty by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws.
examples: text: David […] scrabbled on the doors of the gate.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 21:13:
glosses: To scribble.
examples: to scrabble paper
glosses: To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.
Derived terms: hardscrabble
scrabbler
scrabbly
scribble-scrabble
Related terms: word: scrab
word: scramble
word: scrap
word: scrape
english: a sausage-like food
translation: a sausage-like food
word: scrapple
scrabble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹæbəl/
rhymes: -æbəl
Forms: form: scrabbles
Etymology: From Middle Dutch schrabbelen, frequentative of schrabben (“to scrape”), equivalent to scrab + -le. More at scrape.
Senses: examples: a scrabble for dear life
glosses: A scramble.
manu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmanʉː/
Forms: form: manus
Senses: examples: text: For those that don't know what a manu is, you've got your standard bomb, which everyone does, where you curl up and enter the water feet first. But a manu is when you are in a v-shape and essentially your tailbone or lower back enters the water first while you hold that v-shape.
ref: 2013 February 22, Elisha Rolleston, “Best water bombs: Nothin' but manus”, in Stuff:
text: An area of the outdoor pool at Whakatāne Aquatic Centre has been set aside for manus (bombing) after a nine-year-old boy nearly drowned last month.
ref: 2022 February 23, Diane McCarthy, “Special space allocated for manus after near drowning”, in RNZ, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2022:
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A method of diving similar to a cannonball/bomb but with the lower back entering the water first, causing a large splash.
manu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmanʉː/
Forms: form: manus
Etymology: In the sense of a manufacturer; clipping of 'manufacturer'
Senses: examples: ref: 2022 May 13, Le Spirit Designs, “Breaking Up with my Pin Manu?? How to Find Manufacturers on Alibaba”, in Youtube:
text: But I'm having trouble tracking down a manu using that term.
ref: 2023 November 11, Keishu13, “What is this type of pin called?”, in Reddit:
text: Currently waiting on just one more of the Final Fantasy Tarot Card enamel pins to finish, so my manu sent me this clip as a preview!
ref: 2024 June 1, Sano Eli ✧ prismono.com🪻 (@prismonoart), Twitter:
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: manufacturer
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: manu militari
per anum
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin per anum.
Senses: examples: text: If, however, a man had intercourse with a woman per anum he was at one time liable to be put to death.
ref: 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6):
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: via the anus
per nasum
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin per nasum.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: via the nose
per orum
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From per, borrowing from classical Latin per (“through”), and orum as incorrectly formed accusative of ōs (“mouth”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of per orem per os; via the mouth; orally
neg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: negs
Etymology: Clipping of negative.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Clipping of negative.
antonyms: aff
glosses: Clipping of negative.
examples: text: The purpose of a neg is to lower a woman's self esteem while actively displaying a lack of interest in her—by telling her she has lipstick on her teeth, for example, or offering her a piece of gum after she speaks.
ref: 2005, Neil Strauss, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, Text Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OL, pages 20–21:
text: A neg is not an insult but a negative social value judgment that is telegraphed.
ref: 2007 February 6, Erik von Markovik, The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed, St. artin's Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 94:
text: As we sped down Lake Michigan Drive, I was still feeling a little star-struck and decided that on account of her uber-hot looks, I'd need to start launching negs at her like there was no tomorrow.
ref: 2011, Benton Miller with Travis Wolfe, The Journal: Man's Quest for the Perfect Match, Moon Planet Publishing, page 104:
text: Negs include asking whether her nails are real, or saying that you saw someone else wearing her skirt.
ref: 2012, Meg Barker, Rewriting the Rules: An Integrative Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships, Routledge, →ISBN, →OL, pages 77–78:
topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
glosses: An expression or implication that one has a negative value judgement of someone in order to make them desire one's approval, especially when trying to pick up a date.
qualifier: quiz bowl
glosses: a penalty for giving an incorrect answer before a tossup has been fully read.
Derived terms: neg-raising
neg
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Etymology: Clipping of negative.
Senses: antonyms: poz
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: HIV negative.
Derived terms: negaholic
negger
neg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: negs
form: negging
form: negged
form: negged
Etymology: Clipping of negative.
Senses: glosses: To annoy or irritate deliberately.
examples: text: Women, on the other hand, are wired to believe that men are always ready to reach home base and never turn down a booty opportunity. So when he negs you, it seems unnatural, and you may worry that something’s wrong with your relationship.
ref: 2011 December 16, Jessica Knoll, “The Surprising Reasons He Turns You Down For Sex”, in Cosmopolitan:
text: I mean, the thing is, overall you want the chick to feel good about herself around you and because of you. It's true that good negging really helps that, but bad negging--negging where she's already insecure--can kill it.
ref: 2001 January 18, traction_free, “Negging”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet), message-ID <9477av$dpq$1@nnrp1.deja.com>:
text: She's an 11. This is going to take some hardcore negging.
ref: 2005, Neil Strauss, quoting Erik von Markovik, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, Text Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OL, page 151:
topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
glosses: To express or imply a negative value judgement of someone to make them desire one's approval, especially when trying to pick up a date.
examples: text: I negged the seller who didn't send me the widget I paid for.
text: It is important to leave feedback to warn others in serious situations, but it is also smart to consider the long-term consequences of racking up lots of negatives because you ‘negged’ someone over a small oversight or a misunderstanding over a three-dollar item.
ref: 2003 June 2, Jim Griffith, The Official eBay Bible, New York: Gotham Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 71:
text: He left negative feedback (a.k.a. “negging”) and vowed vengeance but the seller just laughed as she negged him back.
ref: 2006 March 10, Shauna Wright, Don't Get Burned on eBay: How to Avoid Scams and Escape Bad Deals, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, →OL, page 13:
glosses: To leave negative feedback about (someone) in a reputation tracking system.
Derived terms: negger
instrument
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnstɹəmənt/
ipa: /ˈɪnstɹʊmənt/
Forms: form: instruments
form: instrumenting
form: instrumented
form: instrumented
Etymology: From Middle English instrument, from Old French instrument, from Latin īnstrūmentum (“an implement, tool”),
From īnstruō (“build, construct; arrange”) + -mentum.
Senses: examples: text: an instrumented test article
glosses: To apply measuring devices.
examples: text: When the Lit. Mongers deign to notice his work, they dismiss him as a "cult writer," another of their standard ploys. Purdy, not really bitter at the instrumented silence and sneers of the bookchat legions, […]
ref: 1978 April 15, Mitzel, “An Evening and an Afternoon with James Purdy”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
glosses: To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.
examples: text: a sonata instrumented for orchestra
glosses: To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.
Synonyms: sense: to apply measuring devices
word: measure
sense: to apply measuring devices
word: supervise
sense: to perform on an instrument
word: play
sense: to prepare for an instrument
word: arrange
ultracrepidarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌltɹəˌkɹɛpɪˈdɛəɹiən/
Forms: form: more ultracrepidarian
form: most ultracrepidarian
Etymology: Attributed to by English essayist and writer William Hazlitt, who used it in a letter to William Gifford (see quotation below); from ultra- (“beyond”) + Latin crepida (“a particular style of Greek sandal”) + -arian, evidently formed directly on the Latin proverb ne ultra/supra crepidam ("not beyond the crepida"). The reference is to a Greek story concerning the painter Apelles, who supposedly placed new works on public display and hid behind them to hear and act upon people's reactions. In Book 35 of his Natural History, Pliny the Elder records that a shoemaker noted that one figure had the wrong number of straps on his crepida, a kind of elaborate sandal. Delighted to see it fixed the next day, he supposedly began to critique the form of the leg, so annoying Apelles that the painter came out to tell him to mind his own business: that a shoemaker should restrict his commentary to the shoes.
Senses: examples: text: […]like a conceited mechanic in a village ale-house, you would set down every one who differs from you as an ignorant blockhead; and very fairly infer that any one who is beneath yourself must be nothing. You have been well called an Ultra-Crepidarian critic.
ref: 1819, William Hazlitt, “A Letter to William Gifford, Esq.”, in A. R. Waller, Arnold Glover, editors, The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, volume 1, London: J. M. Dent & Co., published 1902, page 368:
text: [Inspector Queen] was the only person in New York who might be called, without intent to malign, an Ultracrepidarian critic. It was of the very nature of his job to find fault with small and insignificant details.
ref: 1933, Ellery Queen, The American Gun Mystery:
text: Suitably daunted by ultracrepidarian angst, I record here some tentative readings in rhetoric's expanded domain and venture a few preliminary observations on their relation to the electronic word.
ref: 2010, Richard A. Lanham, The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 55:
text: In a sense, the ‘scientistic’ polemicist who stumbles across unseen disciplinary boundaries in an ultracrepidarian stupor is not always entirely in the wrong; there are now in fact contested territories where the dissonances are quite real.
ref: 2022, Peter Harrison, John Milbank, editors, After Science and Religion: Fresh Perspectives from Philosophy and Theology, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: Giving opinions on something beyond their knowledge or expertise.
Derived terms: ultracrepidarianism
ultracrepidarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌltɹəˌkɹɛpɪˈdɛəɹiən/
Forms: form: ultracrepidarians
Etymology: Attributed to by English essayist and writer William Hazlitt, who used it in a letter to William Gifford (see quotation below); from ultra- (“beyond”) + Latin crepida (“a particular style of Greek sandal”) + -arian, evidently formed directly on the Latin proverb ne ultra/supra crepidam ("not beyond the crepida"). The reference is to a Greek story concerning the painter Apelles, who supposedly placed new works on public display and hid behind them to hear and act upon people's reactions. In Book 35 of his Natural History, Pliny the Elder records that a shoemaker noted that one figure had the wrong number of straps on his crepida, a kind of elaborate sandal. Delighted to see it fixed the next day, he supposedly began to critique the form of the leg, so annoying Apelles that the painter came out to tell him to mind his own business: that a shoemaker should restrict his commentary to the shoes.
Senses: glosses: One who gives opinions on something beyond their knowledge (a person passing judgment beyond their expertise).
Related terms: cobbler, keep to your last
swimming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪmɪŋ
Forms: form: swimmings
Etymology: From Middle English swymmynge. Equivalent to swim (“to move through water”, verb) + -ing (suffix forming gerunds).
Senses: examples: text: He did a brilliant swim last summer.
text: The daring adventures of the American people in their scalings of the Alps and the Rocky mountains and in their swimmings across the Niagara rapids […]
ref: 1909, Swami Rama Tirtha, In Woods of God-realization: The pole star within, 7th edition:
text: Though we don’t all reach nirvana when we swim, swimming may well be that last refuge from connectivity — and, for some, the only way to find the solitary self.
ref: 2014 February 14, Bonnie Tsui, “The Self-Reflecting Pool”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2021:
glosses: The act or art of sustaining and propelling the body in water.
Related terms: artistic swimming
free-swimming
ice swimming
oblique-swimming triplefin
swimming bath
swimming bell
swimming briefs
swimming cap
swimming costume
swimming crab
swimming diaper
swimming goggles
swimming hole
swimming nappy
swimming pool
swimming pool acid
swimming shorts
swimming stone
swimming trunks
synchronised swimming
synchronized swimming