cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mutualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuː.tʃʊ.əˌlɪz.m̩/
ipa: /ˈmju.t͡ʃu.əˌlɪz.m̩/
Forms: form: mutualisms
Etymology: From mutual + -ism. Compare French mutualisme and Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish mutualismo.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any interaction between two species that benefits both; typically involves the exchange of substances or services.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An economic theory and anarchist school of thought that advocates a society where each person might possess a means of production, either individually or collectively, with trade representing equivalent amounts of labor in the free market.
Derived terms: anarcho-mutualism
Related terms: commensalism
numskull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numskulls
form: numbskull
Etymology: From numb (“deadened”) + skull.
Senses: glosses: A dunce, mentally dull or stupid person.
examples: text: That numskull will never learn how to compose a letter.
glosses: A person who refuses to learn or grow mentally.
Synonyms: airhead
bubblehead
thickhead
Derived terms: numpty
numptie
numskullery
patzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: păʹtsər
enpr: päʹtsər
ipa: /ˈpætsər/
ipa: /ˈpɑtsər/
Forms: form: patzers
form: potzer
Etymology: Uncertain, but probably from German Patzer (“bungler”), from patzen.
Senses: examples: text: If you have learned the principle that it is inadvisable to move the same piece twice in the opening you would probably imagine that these guys are patzers.
ref: 2004 September 5, Nigel Short, The Sunday Telegraph:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Synonym of woodpusher: a bad player.
synonyms: word: woodpusher
extra: a bad player
Derived terms: patzerish
exercise book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exercise books
Senses: glosses: A booklet for students, containing either problems or exercises, and blank, often lined pages for writing answers.
sensible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛn.sɪ.bəl/
ipa: [ˈsɛnsɪbɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈsɛn.sə.bəl/
ipa: [ˈsɛnsəbɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈsen.sɪ.bəl/
ipa: [ˈsensɪbɫ̩]
Forms: form: sensibles
Etymology: From Latin sēnsibilis (“perceptible by the senses, having feeling, sensible”), from sentiō (“to feel, perceive”).
Senses: examples: text: Our temper changed […] which must needs remove the sensible of pain.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Sensation; sensibility.
examples: text: Aristotle distinguished sensibles into common and proper.
ref: 1857, William Fleming, Vocabulary of Philosophy:
text: Accordingly, with respect to their knowability or opinability, Socrates makes no distinction among the sensibles between natural things and artifacts (510a5–6); both are relegated to the realm of opinion. Hence, there is no Socratic-Platonic biology.
ref: 2018, Richard F. Hassing, Final Causality in Nature and Human Affairs (page 4)
glosses: That which impresses itself on the senses; anything perceptible.
examples: text: This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.
outline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtlaɪn/
Forms: form: outlines
Etymology: From out + line.
Senses: glosses: A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
examples: text: From this point of vantage, we were able to gain an impression of the massive outlines of the main structure, and its intricate maze of girders.
ref: 1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
glosses: The outer shape of an object or figure.
examples: text: Painters, by their outlines, colours, lights, and shadows, represent the same in their pictures.
ref: 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
glosses: A general description of some subject.
glosses: A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
examples: text: the outline of a speech
glosses: A preliminary plan for a project.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A setline or trotline.
Derived terms: outlineless
Related terms: silhouette
outline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtlaɪn/
Forms: form: outlines
form: outlining
form: outlined
form: outlined
Etymology: From out + line.
Senses: examples: text: He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: To draw an outline of; to describe.
examples: text: Wikipedia items featuring books usually outline them after giving their background.
text: At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To summarize.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software-compilation
synonyms: reverse inline
coordinate_terms: inline
glosses: To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.
Derived terms: outliner
reoutline
half-title
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-titles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of half title.
bugbear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌɡ.bɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbʌɡ.bɛː(ɹ)/
enpr: bŭg′-bâr
ipa: /ˈbʌɡ.bɛɚ/
enpr: bŭg′-bâr
Forms: form: bugbears
form: bugbearing
form: bugbeared
form: bugbeared
form: bug-bear
Etymology: From obsolete meaning of bug (“something terrifying”) + bear. See Middle English bugge, modern bogey.
Senses: glosses: To alarm with idle phantoms.
Gordon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɔrdn̩/
ipa: /ˈɡɔːdn̩/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dən
Forms: form: Gordons
Etymology: The main etymology, associated with Celtic names, is from the Scots surname Gordon, from a place name, but the origin is debated:
* If the English or Scots name is from a Brythonic language (such as Old Welsh or Old Breton), then possibly from a Proto-Brythonic compound such as *gor (“spacious”) + *din (“fort”);
* If the Scots name is itself from English, then possibly from French Gourdon, derived from Gallo-Roman Latin Gordus, from Gaulish *Gordos;
* Otherwise, possibly ultimately from Old English *gor-dūn (“mud hill”) whence a habitational name.
Senses: glosses: A Gordon setter.
quale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɑːleɪ/
ipa: /-li/
ipa: /ˈkweɪ-/
other: /ˈkwɑːl/
other: /ˈkweɪl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
rhymes: -eɪl
homophone: quail
Forms: form: qualia
Etymology: A direct borrowing from Latin quāle.
Senses: examples: text: I was more like a vegetable than a person—with my consciousness only a shadow of self-awareness, only a dim sense of qualia penetrated my mental haze.
ref: 2011, Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An instance of a subjective, conscious experience.
Related terms: sense datum
Exi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Exhibition Park in Newcastle upon Tyne.
goaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goalers
Etymology: From goal + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix).
Senses: glosses: A goalkeeper in ice hockey.
examples: text: a three-goaler
glosses: A person who has scored a specified number of goals.
Knowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Knowledge
form: The Knowledge
Senses: examples: text: The drivers of the officially licensed "black cabs" are famous for their mastery of "The Knowledge" of London streets.
ref: 2004, Robert S. Wayne, Royal London in Context: The Independent Traveler's Guide to Royal London, page 177:
glosses: A course of study which must be completed by prospective London taxi drivers; consists of 320 routes through central London and many significant places.
prospective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈspɛktɪv/
rhymes: -ɛktɪv
Etymology: From Middle French prospectif, from Late Latin prospectivus. See more at English prospect.
Senses: examples: text: Prospective students are those who have already applied to the university, but have yet to be admitted.
glosses: Likely or expected to happen or become.
examples: text: A short distance above I-ch’ang is the prospective site of a hydroelectric dam that has vast promise for the industrialization of central China.
ref: 1968, Herold Jacob Wiens, “I-CH’ANG”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 11, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1054, column 1:
glosses: Anticipated in the near or far future.
examples: text: And in times long and dark Proſpective Glaſs / Fore-ſaw what future dayes ſhould bring to paſs,
ref: 1626 (date written), John Milton, “At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge, […]”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], published 1673, →OCLC, page 67:
glosses: Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.
examples: 1668-1690, Josiah Child, A new discourse of trade
The French king, and the king of Sweden are […] circumspect, industrious, and prospective, too, in this affair.
glosses: Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Being a study that starts with the present situation and follows participants into the future
raw_tags: of research
examples: text: What some other languages convey with prospective aspect, English conveys with expressions like going to drive the car home.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Indicating grammatically an activity about to begin.
prospective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈspɛktɪv/
rhymes: -ɛktɪv
Forms: form: prospectives
Etymology: From Middle French prospectif, from Late Latin prospectivus. See more at English prospect.
Senses: examples: text: the whole Scene of affairs was changed from Spain to France there now lay the prospective
ref: 1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers:
glosses: The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
examples: text: [T]hey [two pavillions] were trimmed on the inside with rich armour and military furniture, hanged up as upon the walls; and behind the tents there were represented, in prospective, the tops of divers other tents, as if it had been a camp.
ref: 1613 March 2 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Masque of the Inner-Temple and Gray’s Inn, Gray’s Inn and the Inner-Temple; […]”, in The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher: […], volume IV, London: […] John Stockdale, […], published 1811, →OCLC, page 573, column 2:
glosses: A perspective glass.
examples: text: Would you like to show the prospective around?
text: I'm meeting the prospectives at 3.
text: At the moment, meeting interesting, 'could be, maybe not' prospectives around the globe keeps her entertained.
ref: 2006, Verve: The Spirit of Today's Woman, volume 14, numbers 4-6, page 114:
glosses: A prospective (potential) member, student, employee, date, partner, etc.
Related terms: inchoative
polemic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlɛmɪk/
ipa: /pəˈliːmɪk/
rhymes: -ɛmɪk
rhymes: -iːmɪk
Forms: form: polemics
form: polemick
Etymology: From French polémique, from Ancient Greek πολεμικός (polemikós, “of war”), from πόλεμος (pólemos, “war”).
Senses: synonyms: controversialist
disputant
polemicist
glosses: A person who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.
glosses: An argument or controversy.
synonyms: harangue
screed
rant
tirade
philippic
glosses: A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.
Derived terms: polemical
polemically
polemicist
polemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlɛmɪk/
ipa: /pəˈliːmɪk/
rhymes: -ɛmɪk
rhymes: -iːmɪk
Forms: form: more polemic
form: most polemic
form: polemick
Etymology: From French polémique, from Ancient Greek πολεμικός (polemikós, “of war”), from πόλεμος (pólemos, “war”).
Senses: examples: text: A fourth hindrance is by some held to be, that many of our polemic publications are too polemic. Some hold that we should urge the simple Gospel, and make no attack on Hinduism or Muhammadanism .
ref: 1893, Report of the Third Decennial Missionary Conference:
text: To explain some of these challenges, it is useful to take a brief and polemic look at the one area that is perhaps most fundamentally affected by the new conditions: the workplace.
ref: 1995, Patrick Nicol Troy, Technological Change and the City:
text: Using a rather polemic tone, Mutua (2002) argues that interpretations of human rights are not neutral but very much embedded in cultural and political assumptions
ref: 2017, Monisha Bajaj, Human Rights Education: Theory, Research, Praxis:
glosses: Having the characteristics of a polemic.
Synonyms: polemical
Derived terms: nonpolemic
philopolemic
polemician
polemicise
polemicism
polemicize
sometimes
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sŭmʹtīmz
ipa: /ˈsʌmtaɪmz/
Forms: form: sts.
Etymology: From Middle English sumtymes, somtymes, som tymes, equivalent to sometime + -s (adverbial suffix). Compare West Frisian somstiden (“sometimes”), Dutch somtijds, somwijlen (“sometimes”).
Senses: examples: text: Farewell old Gaunt, thy ſometimes brothers wife / With her companion Greefe, muſt end her life.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], lines 54–55:
glosses: Former; sometime.
extelligence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ex- + intelligence (contrasted with knowledge carried within the brain, as if intelligence were derived from in). Coined by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen in their book Figments of Reality (1997).
Senses: glosses: All the cultural capital that is available to people in the form of tribal legends, folklore, nursery rhymes, books, videotapes, CD-ROMs etc.
metric carat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A unit of weight, 0.2 grams, used for gemstones, etc.
cutting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌtɪŋ
Etymology: From cut + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I need some sort of cutting utensil to get through this shrink wrap.
text: The power consumed in metal cutting is largely converted into heat near the cutting edge of the tool, and many of the economic and technical problems of machining are caused directly or indirectly by this heating action.
ref: 1984, E[dward] M[oor] Trent, “Heat in Metal Cutting”, in Metal Cutting, 2nd edition, London; Boston, Mass.: Butterworths & Co., published 1989, →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: That is used for cutting.
examples: text: The weather was atrocious, with bitterly cold wind and cutting sleet—rather appropriate, considering Aunt Fonteyn's temperament.
ref: 2004 June, P[atricia] N[ead] Elrod, chapter 12, in Death Masque (Adventures of Jonathan Barrett, Gentleman Vampire; 3), Dallas, Tex.: BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 211:
glosses: Piercing, sharp.
examples: text: The director gave the auditioning actors cutting criticism.
text: [H]e concludes with this cutting remark, But Benefactors may give Money, but not grateful Minds to ſuch as receive it.
ref: 1703, Ambr[ose] Philips, “An Appendix to the Life of Abp. Williams”, in The Life of John Williams, Lᵈ Keeper of the Great Seal, Bishop of Lincoln, and ABp. [Archbishop] of York. […], 2nd edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] A[bel] Roper […]; and R. Basset […], →OCLC, page 311:
text: Poor Betsy had often been the subject of Tommy's jokes; many a cutting remark had been made about her dress, which, though clean and whole, was always poor and old-fashioned; [...]
ref: 1861 September, “The Little Gleaner”, in The Child’s Companion, and Juvenile Instructor, number 201, London: The Religious Tract Society; […], →OCLC, page 260:
glosses: Of criticism, remarks, etc.: (potentially) hurtful; curt.
examples: text: a cutting chai
glosses: Of a beverage: half-sized.
examples: text: […] there are always some "free lances" who are ready to do a "cutting" trade, and thus become formidable competitors.
ref: 1889, Brewers' Guardian, volume 19, page 159:
glosses: Cutthroat; ruthlessly competitive.
Hyponyms: cross-cutting
Derived terms: cuttingly
cuttingness
noncutting
overcutting
cutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌtɪŋ
Etymology: From cut + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cut
cred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: creds
Etymology: Clippings.
Senses: examples: text: After listening to that sheer pile of bull mess he tried to tell me yesterday, I've decided he's got precisely zero cred as far as I'm concerned.
text: Don't worry about losing geek cred here: In addition to its usual functions, the remote will be able to call up a customizable Command menu that executes any program or script you have the temerity to put in its configuration file.
ref: 2002 November, Popular Science, volume 261, number 5, page 48:
glosses: Credibility.
examples: text: DCE programming: using login creds to auth server?
ref: 1998, Lou Langholtz, comp.soft-sys.dce (Usenet):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A credential.
examples: text: And you're getting well paid, of course, but that's nothing to them, is it? They could double your salary, Gertler—pay you two million creds a year —and it'd still be peanuts to these people […]
ref: 2021, Michael Carroll, Laurel Sills, Matthew Smith, Judge Dredd Year Three:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A credit (currency unit).
Derived terms: street cred
Related terms: bona fides
street cred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From street (“urban youth”) + credibility, by shortening.
Senses: glosses: Credibility among young, hip urban dwellers; particularly important in the hip-hop and rap scenes.
simp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: simps
Etymology: 1903. Clipping of simpleton.
Senses: examples: text: Pimps and simps would fall in from here and there and everywhere, grabbing thousand-dollar advances from the madames and leaving their lady friends in pawn.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “They Found the Body in a Ditch”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 59:
text: Groggy from my nap I turn on the TV and try to watch.... Morons and simps appear in the screen, drool like pinheads and waterheads....
ref: 1981, Philip K. Dick, Valis, →ISBN, page 105:
text: By a cruel irony, however, the elitist power serves the secret ends of the masses whom they despise. The real snobs are the people. The real simps are the intellectuals.
ref: 1998, Clarence Cyril Walton, Archons and Acolytes: The New Power Elite, page ix:
text: This list has been limited to members and cohorts of the Clinton administration, those simps and ninnies, lava-lamp liberals and condo pinks, spoiled twerps, wiffenpoofs, ratchet-jawed purveyors of monkey doodle and baked wind, piddlers upon merit, beggars at the door of accomplishment, thieves of livelihood, envy-coddling tax lice applauding themselves for their magnanimity with the money of others, their nose in virtue's bum.
ref: 2007, The American Spectator's Enemies List:
text: “What a simp I am. I can't believe I left it at home.” She leans her forehead against her locker, straightens, and then turns to me. “Can you believe what a simp I am?"
ref: 2012, Lynda Mullaly Hunt, One for the Murphys, page 52:
glosses: A simple person lacking common sense; a fool or simpleton.
examples: text: The JEWS own this country, the IRISH run it, the BRITISH envy it, the GERMANS cuss it, the NEGROES enjoy it, the FRENCH style and perfume it, the CHINESE wash it, BOOTLEGGERS irrigate it, the GREEKS feed and shine it, the JAPS fear it, MEXICANS hate it, RUSSIANS pity it, the ITALIANS fruit it, ALL NATIONS cigarette it, EVERYBODY likes it, and the AMERICANS—well, those poor simps just pay the bills and can keep out of jail if they behave themselves and are very careful about their driving and parking.
ref: 1987 February 18, “[untitled]”, in New York Newsday:
text: All of this, inspired by hypersensitive simps who never once had to demonstrate that, by reasonable standards, they had been victimized in any way.
ref: 2009, Michael Graham ·, Redneck Nation: How the South Really Won the War:
text: A real pimp is a gentleman, but these are pimps in gorilla suits. They hang around pimps, they have hoes on the track working for them, they may even look like pimps, but they are straight simps.
ref: 2012, Pumpin' Ken, Pimpology: The 48 Laws of the Game, page 11:
text: Of course,a guy who wanted to run for office would have to get himself snipped BEFORE he had children, but that's not a big deal since most of the officious little simps who go on to be your mayor realize very early on that they're not going to work for a living.
ref: 2015, Marc Dion, Marc Dion: Volume I:
glosses: Someone who is not worthy of respect.
simp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: simps
Etymology: Originated in West Coast hip hop culture in the 1980s. Further etymology unknown. Possibly from:
# a special use of simpleton (above);
# a clipping of simper;
# a respelled clipping of sympathetic; or
# a blend of sissy + pimp or possibly sissy + wimp.
Originally restricted to African-American Vernacular English, until it received a boost in usage in the late 2010s through Internet culture, having been popularized through Twitch and TikTok.
Senses: examples: text: Baby got it goin' on / A lot of simps won't like this song / 'Cause them punks like to hit it and quit it / And I'd rather stay and play
ref: 1992, “Baby Got Back”, in Sir Mix-a-Lot (lyrics), Rick Rubin and Sir Mix-a-Lot (music), Mack Daddy, Def American Recordings:
text: Until you are sure that this girl has a genuine interest and might be compatible, no dates or gifts. Why should you be the one who feeds every straggler in your town? It's time to break away from these byzantine patterns of square behavior. It's time right now to break away from all those years of bad programming. You're a simp because your family made you that way.
ref: 2012, Dennis Jeanpierre, Tito Fresh, Step Your Game Up: Dating and Relationship Guide for the Urban Man:
text: I don't be like some of those halfass simps. I'm a player, you understand?
ref: 2001, Andrew Vachss, Flood, page 335:
text: And then something happened that seems kinda strange. He bought her a house. Just a few blocks away. His girlfriend won't touch him. She calls him a wimp. I'm sorry to tell you your daddy's a simp.
ref: 2020, Brad Gosse, Daddy's A SIMP: Don't Expect Much Inheritance:
glosses: A man who foolishly overvalues and defers to a woman, putting her on a pedestal.
examples: text: “Trump simp”.
ref: 2020 October 6, Miranda Devine, “Help, the President tweeted my email!”, in Daily Telegraph:
text: Tweet: Crosbee @crosbeelisser . Oct 25 I'm a simp for @justnfields.
ref: 2020 October 26, David Regimbal, “Buckeye B-@-tle Cry: Ohio State Fans Celebrated the Return of Big Ten Football By Aggressively Hopping into the Mentions”, in Eleven Warriors:
text: "If I can put it in really plain English, Mr Morrison needs to make sure he doesn't look like he's just a simp to Donald Trump," Shorten said.
ref: 2020 November 2, Paul Scott, “Paul Scott writes: So what did Novocastrians most often look for on Google between March and October, 2020?”, in Newcastle Herald:
glosses: Someone who foolishly overvalues someone else and defers to them, putting them on a pedestal.
coordinate_terms: shill#Noun
qualifier: sometimes self-deprecating
glosses: An advocate for an ideology or cause.
Synonyms: word: doormat
english: a person who is too submissive for a partner
translation: a person who is too submissive for a partner
word: white knight
simp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: simps
form: simping
form: simped
form: simped
Etymology: Originated in West Coast hip hop culture in the 1980s. Further etymology unknown. Possibly from:
# a special use of simpleton (above);
# a clipping of simper;
# a respelled clipping of sympathetic; or
# a blend of sissy + pimp or possibly sissy + wimp.
Originally restricted to African-American Vernacular English, until it received a boost in usage in the late 2010s through Internet culture, having been popularized through Twitch and TikTok.
Senses: examples: 1992, Fatlip (The Pharcyde), Passin’ Me By lyrics
Now let me tell you 'bout the feelings I feel for you / When I try or make some sort of attempt, I simp / Damn, I wish I wasn't such a wimp
2013, TravieBASED, Whats Wrong With Simping?
Dudes wanna talk down on other dudes when they start simping like they're feminine or something when in fact the majority of all dudes and even those motherfuckers saying that shit be simping too.
2018, T.y (@Ty_Brazil), Tweet.
G why is simping becoming so popular ? It’s nothing wrong with treating your lady nice , but some of these niggas out straight simping
2018, Penny the Petty Pest (@PineappleGC), Tweet.
Yall be simping in bitches DMs, then trying them on the tl then getting shocked why u getting aired out.
glosses: To be especially deferential to and emotionally vulnerable with a woman, often with the intent of receiving sexual gratification.
raw_tags: of a man
glosses: To obsequiously praise or admire.
examples: 2018, mimi (@splendamami), Tweet.
the dick can't be that good honey stop simping over that boy
2017, Jody Tran, Spotify playlist *simps in vietnamese*
i dedicate this playlist to all my hoes who want to simp in viet. this takes u on an adventure to the modern angsty world of vietnam. this is where we can get into all our feels culturally. we all gonna mfking be CRYING IN THE VIETNAMESE CLUB!!
2016, @jakedeee, Spotify playlist Simping
If I think about my ex while I listen to this playlist, you should too.
glosses: To reminisce melancholically; to recall once fond memories now tinged with sadness, especially regarding a former lover.
Related terms: simpering
simp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: more simp
form: most simp
Etymology: Clipping of simplified.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of simplified.
simpleton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪmpəltən/
Forms: form: simpletons
Etymology: From simple + -ton (as in a surname). Compare French simplet, Italian semplicione.
Senses: examples: text: The stranger had crossed a sacred line. He had mentioned the men's mothers. Nothing could get him out of a beating now, even the fact that he was obviously a simpleton. Albeit a simpleton with a good vocabulary.
ref: 2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 92:
text: Baron Cohen’s new creation (and the previous ones, too) has its roots in Groucho characters like Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding, Otis B. Driftwood, and Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff, and the concept of a pompous simpleton running a rogue nation has obvious parallels to Duck Soup’s Rufus T. Firefly, who leads the country of Fredonia to a needless and highly preventable war.
ref: 2012 May 15, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: The Dictator”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: “Doesn't matter. That man is not the leader.” “But he is the main guy on the show.” “He is an actor, Nandor. A simpleton who paints his face. He is an empty-headed puppet who thinks the world loves him, when in actual fact, he is nothing more than a lapdog begging for scraps.” [groans] “No, he is not the leader. That would be another devil who pulls the strings. The halfwit they call the director.”
ref: 2024 November 25, Max Brockman, “P.I. Undercover: New York” (11:26 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 8, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
glosses: A simple-minded person lacking common sense.
dweeb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dwiːb/
rhymes: -iːb
Forms: form: dweebs
Etymology: From 1968 US college slang, probably related to feeb.
The 1980s backronym Dim-Witted Eastern-Educated Boor derives from apparent social and attitudinal differences between West Coast and East Coast US, and describes a stereotypical Ivy League graduate from Harvard, Yale, etc.
Etymology tree
Anglo-Norman feblebor.
Middle English feble
English feeble
English mind
English -ed
English minded
English feeble-minded
English feebinflu.
English dweeb
Senses: examples: text: I may be dumb, but I'm not a dweeb.
ref: 1994, Dexter Holland, “Self Esteem”, in Smash, performed by The Offspring:
text: There never is a Keanu but a dweeb looking at me.
ref: 1996, Richard Stannard, Matt Rowe, “If U Can't Dance”, in Spice, performed by Spice Girls:
text: No way, man, the biggest dweeb of them all with . . . Marilyn!
ref: 2005 June 13, Edmund White, “My Women”, in The New Yorker:
synonyms: word: dork
word: flabbergast
word: flabagast
word: flabaghast
word: gink
word: nerd
word: Nigel
word: nosebleed
glosses: A boring, studious, or socially inept person.
Synonyms: word: Nigel
word: dork
Derived terms: dweebery
dweebette
dweebish
dweeblet
dweebling
dweebness
dweeby
tweeb
depressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depress
sometime
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: sŭmʹtīm'
ipa: /ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/
Forms: form: some time
form: some-time
form: sometyme
Etymology: From Middle English somtyme, som time, some tyme, sume time, sumtym, sumtyme, equivalent to some + time.
Senses: examples: text: I'll see you at the pub sometime this evening.
text: This will certainly happen sometime in the future.
text: It happened sometime yesterday.
text: But while there remains a considerable degree of consensus that the consequence of apparently losing the plot sometime between 1914 and 1918 was the cultural and economic malaise of the 1920s and 1930s, there are still some who look back on the interwar years less with criticism than with nostalgia.
ref: 1995, John Frank Williams, The Quarantined Culture: Australian Reactions to Modernism, 1913–1939, page 219:
glosses: At an indefinite but stated time in the past or future.
glosses: Sometimes.
examples: text: Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: At an unstated past or future time; once; formerly.
Synonyms: sense: at an indefinite time in the future
word: at some point
word: at some time
word: other
word: somewhen
sense: at an indefinite time in the past
word: at one time
word: in the past
word: formerly
word: drekly
word: sometime
word: somewhere along the line
word: whenevs
Hyponyms: word: in the future
word: one day
word: in the past
Derived terms: sometime thing
sometime or other
sometime or another
sometimey
Related terms: word: sometimes
word: sooner or later
word: eventually
sometime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sŭmʹtīm'
ipa: /ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/
Forms: form: some time
form: some-time
form: sometyme
Etymology: From Middle English somtyme, som time, some tyme, sume time, sumtym, sumtyme, equivalent to some + time.
Senses: examples: text: my sometime friend and mentor
text: Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen / Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state
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 I, scene ii]:
text: Ion our sometime darling, whom we prized / As a stray gift, by bounteous Heaven dismiss'd
ref: 1832, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Ion: A Tragedy, in Five Acts:
glosses: Former, erstwhile; at some previous time.
examples: text: an author and sometime lecturer
glosses: Occasional; intermittent.
Synonyms: sense: former
word: earlier
sense: former
word: erstwhile
sense: former
word: ex-
sense: former
word: previous
Derived terms: sometimes
despondent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspɒndənt/
Forms: form: more despondent
form: most despondent
Etymology: From Latin dēspondēns, from the verb despondere (“to give up, to abandon”).
Senses: examples: text: Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:
text: “Last year, I was despondent that it was so hard to dislodge the iron grip of Google,” said Sridhar Ramaswamy, who previously oversaw advertising for Google, including Search ads, and now runs Neeva. “But technological moments like this create an opportunity for more competition.”
ref: 2022 December 21, Nico Grant, Cade Metz, quoting Sridhar Ramaswamy, “A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: blitheless
word: dispirited
word: blue
word: bummed out
word: chapfallen
word: cheerless
word: chopfallen
word: crestfallen
word: cut up
word: damp
word: dejected
word: depressed
word: despondent
word: disgruntled
word: disconsolate
word: disheartened
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: down
word: down in the dumps
word: down in the mouth
word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: downsome
word: dull
word: elegiac
word: elegious
word: forlorn
word: gloomy
word: glum
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: heavy-hearted
word: heartsore
word: heartsick
word: inconsolable
word: infelicitous
word: jawfallen
word: joyless
word: lachrymose
word: lamentful
word: low
word: low-spirited
word: lugubrious
word: lumpish
word: melancholic
word: melancholy
word: miserable
word: moody
word: mopey
word: morose
word: mournful
word: passionate
word: plaintive
word: querulous
word: sad
word: saddened
word: saturnine
word: shattered
word: solemn
word: sombre
word: sorrowful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: threnetic
word: threnetical
word: triste
word: tristful
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unconsolable
word: unhappy
word: unlively
word: wistful
word: woe
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: wretched
glosses: In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.
Synonyms: crestfallen
despairing
disconsolate
disheartened
dejected
downcast
gloomy
heartsick
hopeless
miserable
sad
Derived terms: despondency
despondently
undespondent
snub
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /snʌb/
ipa: /snʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: more snub
form: most snub
Etymology: From Middle English snubben (also snibben), from Old Norse snubba (“to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove”), which, like the source of English snip, is probably imitative in some manner. Cognate with Danish snibbe, dialectal Swedish snebba.
Senses: examples: text: a snub-nosed revolver
glosses: Conspicuously short.
examples: text: It was even less easy to fix the impression in the case of the man at the right end of the table, who, to say truth, was as commonplace a person as could be seen anywhere, with a round, brown-haired head and a round snub nose, but also clad in clerical black, of a stricter cut.
ref: 1914, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown:
text: If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 2, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
glosses: Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
raw_tags: of a nose
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
raw_tags: of a polyhedron
Derived terms: retrosnub
snub cube
snub disphenoid
snub dodecahedron
snub nose
snub-nosed
snub polyhedron
snub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snʌb/
ipa: /snʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: snubs
Etymology: From Middle English snubben (also snibben), from Old Norse snubba (“to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove”), which, like the source of English snip, is probably imitative in some manner. Cognate with Danish snibbe, dialectal Swedish snebba.
Senses: examples: text: I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub.
text: It was part of Evelyn’s character that in spite of many snubs which she received or imagined, she never gave up the pursuit of people she wanted to know, and in the long run generally succeeded in knowing them and even in making them like her.
ref: 1915, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: The bluntness of King Vajiralongkorn's intervention—and the determination it reveals to resist relatively small checks on royal power—is both a snub to the junta and a worry for democrats, some of whom had dared hope that the new king might be happy to take a back seat in public life.
ref: 2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist:
text: The snub from a traditional ally to Putin, who had hosted an inconsequential meeting of the warring countries’ leaders last month, comes immediately on the back of his disastrous summit with six former Soviet states.
ref: 2022 November 25, Daniel Boffey, “Putin’s grip on regional allies loosens again after Armenia snub”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A deliberate affront or slight.
glosses: A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
examples: text: [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7:
glosses: A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
Derived terms: give someone the snub
snubbing post
snub post
snub line
snub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snʌb/
ipa: /snʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: snubs
form: snubbing
form: snubbed
form: snubbed
Etymology: From Middle English snubben (also snibben), from Old Norse snubba (“to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove”), which, like the source of English snip, is probably imitative in some manner. Cognate with Danish snibbe, dialectal Swedish snebba.
Senses: examples: text: When, therefore, the First Secretary sounded him as to the expediency of some step in the direction of a firmer political combination than that at present existing,—by which of course was meant the dethronement of the present Prime Minister,—Mr. Roby had snubbed him!
ref: 1876, Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: For near three mortal months have you trifled with my feelings, eluded me, and snubbed me; and I won’t stand it!
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Lily was sure that within twenty-four hours the story of her visiting her dress-maker at the Benedick would be in active circulation among Mr. Rosedale’s acquaintances. The worst of it was that she had always snubbed and ignored him.
ref: 1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
text: For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
examples: text: He snubbed my offer of help.
text: The joke is on those who snub books which, judged by their covers, are written for the mass market. Mineshaft is the finest satire in gay literature.
ref: 1986 February 15, Lars Eighner, “A Homosexual Norman Mailer?”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 5:
synonyms: rebuff
glosses: To turn down insultingly; to dismiss.
glosses: To check; to reprimand.
glosses: To stub out (a cigarette etc).
glosses: To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
glosses: To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
Synonyms: sense: to slight or ignore
word: give someone the cold shoulder
sense: to slight or ignore
word: turn the cold shoulder on someone
sense: to slight or ignore
word: cut someone cold
sense: to slight or ignore
word: cut someone dead
snub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snʌb/
ipa: /snʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: snubs
form: snubbing
form: snubbed
form: snubbed
Etymology: From Middle English snubben, snobben (“to sob”). Compare Dutch snuiven (“to snort, to pant”), German schnauben, German dialect schnupfen (“to sob”), and English snuff (transitive verb).
Senses: examples: text: He striveth, strugleth, roareth, sobbeth, snubbeth, and ready he is to burst for anger.
ref: 1621, Thomas Bedford, The Sinne Vnto Death:
glosses: To sob with convulsions.
cloakroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkləʊkɹʊm/
ipa: /ˈkləʊkɹuːm/
Forms: form: cloakrooms
form: cloak room
Etymology: From cloak + room.
Senses: glosses: A room intended for holding guests' cloaks and other heavy outerwear, as at a theater or night club.
glosses: A room intended for holding luggage, as at an airport.
glosses: A private lounge next to a legislative chamber.
glosses: A lavatory, now particularly a small secondary lavatory or a men's room.
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: cloaks
sense: room for storing heavy outer garments
word: coatroom
sense: room for storing heavy outer garments
word: coat check
sense: room for storing heavy outer garments
word: checkroom
sense: room for luggage
word: lost and found
sense: room for luggage
word: baggage room
sense: room for luggage
word: left-luggage office
sense: lavatory
word: bathroom
sense: small secondary lavatory
word: half bath
sense: small secondary lavatory
word: half bathroom
sense: small secondary lavatory
word: toilet
Coordinate terms: sense: coatroom for women
word: ladies' cloakroom
sense: lavatory for women
word: powder room
sense: lavatory for women
word: ladies' cloakroom
Derived terms: cloakroom attendant
cloakroom ticket
ladies' cloakroom
belongings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: You may leave your belongings in the cloakroom.
glosses: plural of belonging
Synonyms: sense: personal items
word: personal effects
postman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊsmən/
ipa: /ˈpəʊstmən/
Forms: form: postmen
Etymology: From post + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The total of their members amounts to 342,723 for 1875. Among these number … 6,968 male and sixty-three female postmen, imperial railway, telegraph, and post officials, railway workmen, dependent boatmen, waiters, &c.; …
ref: 1876–1877, Benjamin Homans (ed.), The Banker's Magazine and Statistical Register. Volume thirty-first, or, Volume eleventh of the third Series. From July, 1876, to June, 1877, inclusive, p. 283
text: A single narrow iron-clamped door formed the only means of entrance. On this our guide knocked with a peculiar postman-like rat-tat.
ref: 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 72:
text: Please, Mr. Postman, look and see / Is there a letter in your bag for me? / Please, please, Mr. Po-o-ostman
ref: 1961, “Please Mr. Postman”, performed by The Marvelettes:
text: The headmistress entered and told the girls "I want you to do everything you can to help the war effort—you are old enough to do it now." The girls changed into women postmen, head waiters, soldiers, landgirls, butchers and carpenters.
ref: 1971, J. P. Gallagher, Fred Karno: Master of Mirth and Tears, page 119:
text: Postmen, binmen, dock workers, even barristers are now on strike. Where will all this end?
ref: 2022 September 7, Philip Haigh, “Comment: More strikes and poor morale”, in RAIL, number 965, page 3:
synonyms: mailman
mail carrier
letter carrier
postal carrier
mailperson
postperson
glosses: Someone who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.
examples: text: Postman of the Court of Exchequer.
ref: 1835, James Whishaw, A Synopsis of the Members of the English Bar:
glosses: One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions, so called from the place where he sits, the other of the two being the tubman.
Derived terms: Chinese postman problem
hairdresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairdressers
form: hair dresser
form: hair-dresser
Etymology: From hair + dress + -er.
Senses: synonyms: barber
friseur
hairstylist
glosses: A person who cuts or styles hair as an occupation or profession.
Related terms: hairdress
hairdressing
assistant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɪstənt/
Forms: form: assistaunt
Etymology: From Middle English assistent, from Middle French assistant, from assister. By surface analysis, assist + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: an assistant surgeon
glosses: Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
examples: text: Genius and learning […] are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.
ref: 1790, James Beattie, Elements of Moral Science:
text: The person principally assistant on this occasion, indeed the only one who did any service, or seemed likely to do any, was the landlady […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.