cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Bassett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæsət/
Forms: form: Basset
Senses: glosses: An English surname transferred from the nickname derived from a nickname for a short person.
glosses: A northern suburb of the City of Southampton, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4216). Related term: Bassett Green.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Mississippi County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Chickasaw County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Allen County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small city, the county seat of Rock County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Henry County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Randall, Kenosha County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Compton Bassett
North Weald Bassett
Royal Wootton Bassett
Wootton Bassett
Related terms: basset hound
Bassetlaw
souffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: souffles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of soufflé (“dish made with eggs”).
souffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: souffles
form: souffleing
form: souffled
form: souffled
form: souffleed
form: souffleed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of soufflé.
souffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: souffles
Etymology: From French souffle.
Senses: examples: text: the uterine souffle heard over the pregnant uterus
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A murmuring or blowing sound.
jaywalking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Back-formation from jaywalker. Analyzable as jaywalk + -ing, or jay (“a stupid person”) + walking.
Senses: examples: text: […] when he had felt unhappy over a movie theater large enough to contain ten times the population of Schoenstrom, and been cursed by a policeman for jaywalking, and had passed a hotel entirely full of diplomats and marble and caviare[…
ref: 1919, Sinclair Lewis, Free Air, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 257:
glosses: An act of behaving as a jaywalker.
jaywalking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From jaywalk + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jaywalk
Clarissa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kləˈɹɪsə/
rhymes: -ɪsə
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more. Popularized in English by Samuel Richardson's 1748 novel Clarissa. Doublet of Clarisse.
Senses: examples: text: My wife's maiden name—Unmarried name, I should rather say […] was Harlowe—Clarissa Harlowe—you heard me call her my Clarissa—
I did—but I thought it to be a feigned or a love-name, said Miss Rawlins. […]
No—it was her real name, I said.
ref: 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa:
glosses: A female given name from Latin or Italian.
Related terms: Clarice
Clarisse
Clarissa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kləˈɹɪsə/
rhymes: -ɪsə
Forms: form: Clarissas
form: clarissa
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more. Popularized in English by Samuel Richardson's 1748 novel Clarissa. Doublet of Clarisse.
Senses: examples: text: Following Francis' example, Clare founded an order of religious women known as the Poor Ladies of Assisi (like Francis' Poor Men), and later as the Clarissas or Poor Clares in her honor.
ref: 1991, Thomas Head, “Clare of Assisi”, in An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers:
text: In the protomonastero of Santa Chiara in Assisi, erected from the outset for the Clarissas, however, equally frequent changes and modifications in the location of the nuns' choir suggest that there were still uncertainties as to the best place for it.
ref: 1992, Caroline A. Bruzelius, “Hearing Is Believing: Clarissan Architecture, ca. 1213–1340”, in Gesta, volume 31, number 2, page 85:
text: The rule of Urban IV also clarified the nomenclature of the Clarissas, with the pope designating the group as the Order of St. Claire rather than Poor Ladies, or Poor Recluses, of San Damiano.
ref: 1995, Caroline A. Bruzelius, “Queen Sancia of Mallorca and the Convent Church of Sta. Chiara in Naples”, in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, volume 40, page 75:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.
synonyms: word: Poor Clare
extra: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare
Derived terms: Clarissan
Clarissian
jaywalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jāʹwôkər
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪ.wɔkɚ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪ.wɑkɚ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪwɔːkə/
Forms: form: jaywalkers
Etymology: From jay (“a stupid person”) + walker; jay walker (“a pedestrian who doesn't pay attention to the road, endangering themselves and obstructing horses, carts, and automobiles”). First use appears c. 1917 in Harper's Magazine. Coined in analogy to the older turn-of-the-20th-century term jay driver (“a driver who doesn't pay attention to the road, endangering horses, carts, bicyclists, and pedestrians”). Promoted by driving enthusiasts and automotive concerns to clear the roads of obstructive pedestrians by making it illegal to walk in the middle of roads.
Senses: coordinate_terms: jayrunner
glosses: A person who violates pedestrian traffic regulations by crossing a street away from a designated crossing or who walks on the part of the street intended for vehicles instead of the part designated for pedestrians.
wikipedia: Harper's Magazine
Derived terms: jaywalk
jaywalking
Roderick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒdəɹɪk/
ipa: /ˈɹɒdɹɪk/
Forms: form: Rodrick
Etymology: Medieval English name from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþirīks, revived after Walter Scott used it in a poem in 1811, where it is a translation of its Spanish cognate Rodrigo. Roderick is also used to anglicize Scottish Ruairidh and Welsh Rhydderch.
Senses: examples: text: "You must not forget that eventually Roderick will have to succeed whatever title you choose. We must not select anything which would seem ridiculous in connection with Roderick. His actual name is bad enough, as it is. Roderick!" Mrs. Hammond winced. This was a painful subject with her. "How often I pleaded with poor Lucy to call him Thomas!"
ref: 1924, P. G. Wodehouse, Bill the Conqueror, George H. Doran, published 1924, page 16:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Related terms: word: Rod
word: Roddy
word: Derick
Pembroke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛmbɹʊk/
Etymology: Ultimately from Proto-Brythonic *Penn-broɣ (literally “land's head, land's end”), whence Welsh Penfro.
Senses: glosses: A town and community with a town council in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9801).
glosses: A town in the Northern Region, Malta.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A community in West Hants Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A community in Yarmouth district municipality, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A city in Renfrew County, Ontario.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Bryan County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Kankakee County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lincoln Township, Newton County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Christian County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Washington County, Maine.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Genesee County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Robeson County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Giles County, Virginia.
glosses: A parish in Bermuda.
glosses: A rural settlement near Stratford, Taranaki, New Zealand.
glosses: A surname.
qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: Ellipsis of Pembroke College, Oxford.
qualifier: Cambridge University
glosses: Ellipsis of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Derived terms: Pembroke Dock
Pembroke Pines
Pembrokeshire
Aladdin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlædɪn/
rhymes: -ædɪn
Etymology: From Arabic عَلَاءُ الدِّين (ʕalāʔu d-dīn, “nobility of the faith”).
Senses: examples: text: Aladdin, of the former dynasty [Khilji], subdued nearly all the Deccan, about 1312; [...]
ref: 1876, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History and Conquests of the Saracens: Six Lectures Delivered Before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution:
glosses: Alternative form of Alauddin.
examples: text: Orkhan, valuing his brother's knowledge, appointed him Grand Vizier. Aladdin was not an expert in warlike affairs, and turned his attention to the internal improvement of the dominion [...]
ref: 1912, Alexander W. Hidden, The Ottoman Dynasty, page 12:
glosses: Alternative form of Alaeddin.
glosses: An Arabic tale about a young man named Aladdin who is recruited by a sorcerer to get a magic lamp from a cave; often adapted into comic pantomime in Britain.
examples: text: “Nay, never mind that,” said Aladdin, “tell thy story, friend, as best thou mayst.”
ref: 1895, Howard Pyle, “Not a Pin to Choose”, in Twilight Land:
glosses: The young man who is the protagonist and title character of the story.
Whitney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈwɪtni/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈʍɪtni/
Etymology: From Old English hwītan, dative of hwīt (“white”) + īeġ (“island”), "white island".
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Middle English.
examples: text: "I don't believe I've ever known a woman named 'Whitney'," I said, trying not to look too deeply into her bright blue eyes. "Or, hell, even a man for that matter."
"You've never heard of Whitney Houston?"
"Who's that?" I said, realizing that I had never gotten really serious about a woman with blue eyes.
ref: 1993, James Crumley, The Mexican Tree Duck, Picador, published 1994, →ISBN, page 138:
text: “His research shows you can change aging to make lives younger for longer. Now he wants to change the world and make aging a disease,” said Whitney Casey, an investor who is partnering with Sinclair to create a do-it-yourself biological age test.
ref: 2022 June 2, Sandee LaMotte, “The ‘Benjamin Button’ effect: Scientists can reverse aging in mice. The goal is to do the same for humans”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1980s and 1990s due to the fame of Whitney Houston.
glosses: A male given name from surname.
glosses: A census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States.
Derived terms: Mount Whitney
Whitney-on-Wye
jerrybuilt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Later 1800s. From jerry (of obscure meaning) + built
Senses: examples: text: The whole operation was jerrybuilt from the beginning, and thus was doomed to failure.
glosses: Shoddily built; ill-constructed.
'twixt
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /twɪkst/
rhymes: -ɪkst
Forms: form: twixt
Senses: examples: text: Since I have your good leave to go away,
I will make haste: but, till I come again,
No bed shall e’er be guilty of my stay,
Nor rest be interposer ’twixt us twain.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: I think that ’twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.
ref: 1851, Sojourner Truth, Frances Dana Barker Gage, Ain't I a Woman?:
glosses: Contraction of betwixt.
Mozart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊtsɑːt/
ipa: /ˈmoʊtsɑɹt/
Forms: form: Mozarts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Mozart. First recorded in the 14th century as Middle High German Mozahrt, from motzen (“to roll in filth”); originally used as a given name with the -hart suffix, as a name for dirty or sloppy people.
Senses: examples: text: One child is a Mozart with a flying start, while another foots it, and makes little way; but the course is the same, being set by the object.
ref: 1933, Sir William Mitchell, The Place of Minds in the World, page 142:
text: He is a Mozart in the insect world, sending out his strain upon the evening air.
ref: 1911, Joseph Lane Hancock, Nature Sketches in Temperate America: A Series of Sketches and Popular Account of Insects, Birds,..., page 103:
text: [W]e can understand how a father who is a good musician may have a son who is a Mozart—a genius in music...
ref: a. 1875, Henry Ward Beecher, Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn (1875) p. 446
glosses: By analogy with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a musical virtuoso.
examples: text: There is a Mozart of competitive eating who is yet to reveal himself.
ref: 2006, Ryan A Nerz, Eat This Book: a year of gorging and glory on the competitive eating circuit, page 67:
text: Li Po is the most musical, most versatile, and most engaging of Chinese poets, a Mozart of words.
ref: 2001, Victor H. Mair, The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, page 296:
text: Joyce Carol Oates has said, "If there is a Mozart of interviewers, Larry Grobel is that individual."
ref: 2001, Lawrence Grobel, Endangered Species: Writers Talk about Their Craft, Their Visions, Their Lives:
text: In contrast, MacDonald's Gibbie is not only a moral prodigy, but also a Mozart of religious sensibility.
ref: 2001, Kathryn Ann Lindskoog, Surprised by C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and Dante: An Array of Original Discoveries, page 116:
text: By the same token, Rembrandt resembled Hawthorne, and the architect who had designed Melrose Abbey was a Mozart among architects.
ref: 1976, Noel Bertram Gerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe: a biography, page 86:
glosses: By extension, a virtuoso in any field.
Mozart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊtsɑːt/
ipa: /ˈmoʊtsɑɹt/
Forms: form: Mozarts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Mozart. First recorded in the 14th century as Middle High German Mozahrt, from motzen (“to roll in filth”); originally used as a given name with the -hart suffix, as a name for dirty or sloppy people.
Senses: examples: text: How do we know what we think we know about Mozart? And why is he still the most popular composer of the western classical tradition? He is one of the most written-about, dissected and mythologised composers in the history of western music.
ref: 2005 September 16, Nicholas Kenyon, “Myth, Muzak and Mozart”, in The Guardian:
text: Of course, this only raises once more the conundrum why the general public should value gothic cathedrals, Mozart's operas, and Kafka's stories so highly, but not the Method of Infinite Descent or Fourier analysis.
ref: 1999, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, translated by Tom Artin, Drawbridge Up: Mathematics—A Cultural Anathema, Natick, MA: A K Peters, page 25:
text: Individuals who are biologically “young” (whatever that means) have no monopoly on “young” or “fresh” ideas. Thus Mozart can write Eine Kleine Nachtmusik before he is dead at the age of 31, Thomas Jefferson can draft the Declaration of Independence at age 34 and Buchminster Fuller, after reaching the age of 70, can continue to get patents for his inventions.
ref: 1997, Larimer v. Dayton Hudson Corportation, Appeal no. 97-2127: Brief of the Defendants-Appellees, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, see footnote 6, page 11:
glosses: A surname from German; (music) used specifically of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.
Derived terms: word: Mozartesque
word: Mozartian
sense: attributive uses of the proper noun “Mozart”
word: Mozart and Liszt
sense: attributive uses of the proper noun “Mozart”
word: Mozart ball
sense: attributive uses of the proper noun “Mozart”
word: Mozart effect
gipsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gipsies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gypsy.
Derived terms: Gipsy Hill
gipsyish
gipsyism
gipsylike
gipsy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gipsies
form: gipsying
form: gipsied
form: gipsied
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gypsy.
jimsonweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jimsonweeds
form: jimson weed
form: jimpson weed
form: jimpsonweed
Etymology: From Jimson + weed.
Senses: examples: text: In so doing I have included a number of categories which may not generally be considered suitable for inclusion under the heading of religion. Stewart, for instance, includes shamanism, curing, special powers of shamans, miscellaneous shamanistic information, guardian spirits, destiny of the soul, ghosts or soul, and jimsonweed.
ref: 1960, James F. Downs, “Washo Religion”, in Anthropological Records, volume 16, number 9, University of California Press, pages 365-386:
text: While the hallucinations produced by jimsonweed and other anticholinergics are frequently described as frightening or even “nightmarish,” the toxic anticholinergic syndrome caused by jimsonweed can include seizures, CNS depression, respiratory failure, and cardiac abnormalities, all of which can be life-threatening.
ref: 2022, Jerrold S. Meyer, Andrew M. Farrar, Dominik Biezonski, Jennifer R. Yates, editors, Psychopharmacology, Fourth edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: A poisonous plant of the Datura stramonium species, part of the nightshade (Solanaceae) family, occasionally ingested as a hallucinogen.
glosses: Any poisonous plant of the genus Datura.
Synonyms: sense: poisonous plant
word: angel's trumpet
sense: poisonous plant
word: devil's apple
sense: poisonous plant
word: devil's cucumber
sense: poisonous plant
word: devil's trumpet
sense: poisonous plant
word: Jamestown weed
sense: poisonous plant
word: mad apple
sense: poisonous plant
word: moonflower
sense: poisonous plant
word: stinkweed
sense: poisonous plant
word: thorn apple
sense: poisonous plant
word: zombie's cucumber
Juliette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Julie, from French Juliette.
mantlepiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mantlepieces
Senses: examples: text: The house was handsome and handsomely fitted up, and the young ladies were immediately put in possession of a very comfortable apartment. It had formerly been Charlotte’s, and over the mantlepiece still hung a landscape in coloured silks of her performance, in proof of her having spent seven years at a great school in town to some effect.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 54:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mantelpiece.
johnnycake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑː.niːˌkeɪk/
Forms: form: johnnycakes
form: jonnycake
form: jonny cake
form: johnny cake
Etymology: From johnny, alteration of journey, + cake.
Senses: examples: text: Next mornin' I was up early and when the banker turned out I was fryin' a couple of slices of the pork and had some coffee b'ilin'. Likewise there was a pan of johnnycake in the oven.
ref: 1910, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter II, in The Depot Master:
glosses: A dense, baked or fried flatbread made of cornmeal.
Synonyms: sense: dense baked or fried flatbread
word: ashcake
sense: dense baked or fried flatbread
word: battercake
sense: dense baked or fried flatbread
word: New England cornbread
sense: dense baked or fried flatbread
word: corncake
sense: dense baked or fried flatbread
word: cornpone
sense: dense baked or fried flatbread
word: hoecake
sense: dense baked or fried flatbread
word: journeycake
sense: dense baked or fried flatbread
word: mushbread
sense: dense baked or fried flatbread
word: pone
sense: dense baked or fried flatbread
word: Shawneecake
juicer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒusɚ/
Forms: form: juicers
Etymology: From juice + -er.
Senses: glosses: A manual or electrical device used for rendering the juice of fruits or vegetables.
examples: text: A keen juicer, she has tried all kinds of fruits and vegetables.
glosses: A person who extracts juice for consumption.
glosses: A (citrus) reamer.
glosses: One who uses steroids.
examples: text: Like the perplexed lower-middle-class juicers who populate his stories, Carver never seemed to know where he was or why he was there.
ref: 2009 November 20, Stephen King, “Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An alcoholic.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: An electrician.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A chess piece.
Derived terms: lime-juicer
jessamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jessamines
Senses: examples: text: vines, fig-trees, and jessamine (III, vii)
ref: 1794, Ann Radcliffe, Mysteries of Udolpho:
glosses: Alternative form of jasmine.
Derived terms: orange flowering jessamine
jackstraw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jackstraws
Senses: examples: text: It was a cheerful reminder of one’s childhood, and another bond of sympathy between the various branches of the human race, however remotely separated from each other, to find the little shaven-pated lads playing ball in the streets of Hakodadi, or jackstraws within the domestic circle at home.
ref: 1856, Matthew C. Perry, Francis L. Hawks, chapter 23, in Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, volume 1, Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, page 466:
text: If I wasn’t a good Christian, it’s on my naked knees I’d be saying my prayers and paters to every jackstraw you have roofing your head, and every stony pebble is paving the laneway to your door.
ref: 1907, John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World, act 3:
text: It was late February before the expedition entered the Coldwater, early March before it approached the Tallahatchie. Here it encountered afresh felled trees like endless bundles of jackstraws, thrown vigorously, crossed under water at every imaginable angle.
ref: 1912, Mary Johnston, chapter 5, in Cease Firing:
text: The landlord strode on jackstraw legs across the room.
ref: 1983, Jack Vance, chapter 24, in Lyonesse:
glosses: One of the pieces used for the game called jackstraws or pick-up sticks.
examples: text: [They] had rather be called Sons of the Earth, provided it be their own Earth, (their own Native Country) and act like Men at home, then, being deſtitute of Houſe or Land, to relieve the neceſſities of Nature in a Foreign Country, by ſelling of Smoke, as thou doſt, an inconſiderable Fellow, and a Jack-ſtraw, and who dependeſt upon the good will of thy Maſters for a poor Stipend; [...]
ref: 1692, John Milton, “The Author’s Preface”, in [Joseph Washington], transl., A Defence of the People of England, […]: In Answer to Salmasius’s Defence of the King, [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC, pages xvii–xviii:
text: At the start of 1950, he was a jackstraw in Washington. Then he discovered Communism—almost by inadvertence, as Columbus discovered America, as James Marshall discovered California gold. By the spring of the year, he was a towering figure […]
ref: 1959, Richard Rovere, “What He Was and What He Did-1”, in Senator Joe McCarthy, Cleveland: Meridian, published 1963, page 4:
glosses: An insignificant person.
Synonyms: sense: game piece
word: spillikin
Derived terms: care a jackstraw
jackstraw
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Along the grass-grown wharves,—silver-gray piles which crumbled at the ends into a jackstraw heap of rotting logs,—there was no human stir.
ref: 1906 October, Henry Milner Rideout, “Captain Christy”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 98, number 4, page 452:
text: He threw himself down on the far side and saw a white, hellishly misshapen creature pulling itself from beneath a jackstraw tumble of atlases and travel volumes.
ref: 1990, Stephen King, “The Library Policeman”, in Four past Midnight:
glosses: Resembling a bundle of jackstraws that has been strewn on a surface.
examples: text: […] if you are my daughter, you shall wear these for your father’s sake!—How now, madam! Refuse me! I command you on your obedience to accept of this—I will not be a Jack-straw father—
ref: 1754, Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison, London, Volume 7, Letter 11, p. 57:
glosses: Of no substance or worth.
raw_tags: of a person
jardiniere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jardinieres
Etymology: From French jardinière.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jardinière.
one's bark is worse than one's bite
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: One acts in a threatening way but is relatively harmless.
Related terms: barking dogs seldom bite
all bark and no bite
sell wolf tickets
nine lives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unknown. Many speculations exist.
Senses: examples: text: He was badly hurt many times but seems to have nine lives.
glosses: Durability; near immunity to damage; remarkable ability to survive.
raw_tags: of a cat
Related terms: curiosity killed the cat
maharajah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maharajahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of maharaja.
maharani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maharanis
Etymology: From Hindustani مہارانی / महारानी (mahārānī), from Sanskrit महा (mahā, “great”) and रानी (rānī, “queen”).
Senses: examples: text: Nonetheless, for many years afterward, she was often referred to as maharani, though that eventually gave way to the less glamorous but more respectful title of rajmata, the equivalent of queen mother.
ref: 2009 July 31, Bruce Weber, “Gayatri Devi, 90, a Maharani and a Lawmaker, Dies”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The wife of a maharajah; approximately, a queen consort.
Related terms: rani
crawfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɒˌfɪʃ/
Forms: form: crawfishes
form: crawfish
Etymology: 1620s, folk etymology from Middle English crevis, from Old French crevice (French écrevisse), influenced by fish. Compare crayfish.
Senses: synonyms: crawdad
crawldad
crawlfish
crayfish
mudbug
yabby
qualifier: Midwest
glosses: Any of various freshwater crustaceans: crayfish.
glosses: Any of various marine crustaceans, rock lobster; especially Jasus lalandii, the Cape crawfish.
glosses: An English-Canadian. Used in some corners of Quebec (including the Gaspé).
Derived terms: crawchie
crawfishy
crawfish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɒˌfɪʃ/
Forms: form: crawfishes
form: crawfishing
form: crawfished
form: crawfished
Etymology: 1620s, folk etymology from Middle English crevis, from Old French crevice (French écrevisse), influenced by fish. Compare crayfish.
Senses: glosses: To fish for crawfish.
examples: text: I have never been one to flinch or crawfish when faced with an unpleasant task.
ref: 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:
glosses: To backpedal, desert or withdraw (also used with out).
Penelope
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈnɛləpi/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πηνελόπη (Pēnelópē), possibly from πηνέλοψ (pēnélops, “duck”).
Senses: examples: text: You would be another Penelope; yet, they say, all the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca with moths.
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 I, scene iii]:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The faithful wife of Odysseus.
examples: text: "She's a sort of pretend auntie - an old friend of Mummy's. Her real name's Miss Penelope Gill but we always call her Gillie."
"Don't you ever let her hear you calling her Penelope!" said Mrs Lindsay, laughing. "She hates the name, though really I can't see why. I suppose it wasn't so fashionable when she was young."
ref: 1967, Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There, HarperCollins, published 2014, →ISBN, page 194:
text: "What's her name?" He meant the baby's. "Penelope. We're never going to call her Penny. Penelope." - - - ""Oh. Well, it's Penelope Henderson - Porteous I guess. Or Porteous - Henderson. But maybe that's too much of a mouthful, when she's already called Penelope? We knew that we wanted Penelope. We'll have to settle it somehow."
ref: 2004, Alice Munro, Runaway:Stories, Knopf, page 93:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A town in Texas.
Derived terms: Penelopean
penelopize
Pen
Penny
fauteuil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəʊˈtɜː.i/
other: /ˈfəʊ.tɜː.ɪ/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.tɪl/
other: /ˈfoʊ.tɔɪ/
other: /foʊˈteɪ/
Forms: form: fauteuils
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French fauteuil, from Germanic. Cognate with Old English fealdestōl (“folding-chair”). Doublet of faldistory, faldstool, and foldstool.
Senses: examples: text: Gaston of Orleans was seated in a fauteuil, wrapped in a loose dressing-gown, everything about him betokening an indolent love of ease.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 96:
glosses: An armchair.
glosses: The chair of a presiding officer.
glosses: Membership in the Académie française.
lonnen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lonnens
form: loanin
form: lonnin
Etymology: Apparently from loan (“lane”) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A lane or street.
glosses: An area of shelter where cows are milked.
Derived terms: loaning
malathion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malathions
Etymology: From malate + -thion. Coined as a trade name.
Senses: examples: text: "Although effective in degrading pesticides with P-O bonds, washing of the vegetables sprayed with the thiolester organophosphate insecticide malathion with the enzyme did not yield any improved degradation."
text: Ecoparasite control, with appropriate concentrations of carbaryl, malathion, or pyrethrin dusts, is permissible if the agent is applied externally to both test and control animals not less than seven days prior to the start of the test.
ref: 1983, D. E. Kaukeinen, Vertebrate Pest Control and Management Materials, page 102:
glosses: An organophosphorus insecticide, Diethyl [(dimethoxyphosphinothioyl)-thio]butanedioate.
Synonyms: carbophos
maldison
mercaptothion
Derived terms: isomalathion
Nuremberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjʊəɹəmbəɡ/
ipa: /ˈn(j)ʊɹəmbɚɡ/
Etymology: From German Nürnberg, from Medieval Latin Norinberga. The second element is from Berg, origins of the first element unclear.
Senses: glosses: A major city in Bavaria, Germany.
glosses: The trial of Nazi criminals that took place there, after World War II.
Derived terms: Nuremberg defense
Nurembergian
Nuremberg violet
Related terms: Nürnberg
'twere
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: I had been glad if 'twere us but not them.
text: You drink wine as 'twere water!
text: To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: Then he came down rejoicing and said, "I have seen what seemeth to be a city as 'twere a pigeon."
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 17”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
glosses: It were
Related terms: 'twas
malamute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmæl.ə.mjuːt/
Forms: form: malamutes
Etymology: So called because the dogs were bred by the Malamute people of western Alaska. The people's name derives from Inupiaq malimiut.
Senses: glosses: An ancient northern breed of dog of the husky type, particularly used as a sled dog.
Derived terms: Alaskan Malamute
enlists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enlist
enlists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enlist
steak au poivre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steak au poivres
form: steaks au poivre
Etymology: French, meaning "peppered steak".
Senses: glosses: A steak that is coated with crushed peppercorns, fried, and finished with a cream and brandy sauce.
Bastille
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæˈstiːl/
ipa: /bɑː-/
ipa: /ˈbæstɪl/
ipa: /ˈbɑː-/
ipa: [bæˈstɪəɫ]
ipa: /bæˈstil/
rhymes: (one pronunciation) -iːl
Forms: form: the Bastille
Etymology: Borrowed from French Bastille, from bastille (“fortress”): see further at the English entry bastille. The building was known in full as the Bastille Saint-Antoine, and was a former fortress used as a prison by the French monarchy in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Senses: glosses: A former fortress and prison in Paris, France, the storming of which in 1789 began the French Revolution.
Derived terms: Bastille Day
Steel
Related terms: bastille
foo lion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foo lions
Etymology: A variant of foo dog reflecting that the animal depicted was intended to be a lion rather than a dog.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of foo dog.
synonyms: word: foo dog
Olympus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɪmpəs/
Etymology: From Latin Olympus, from Ancient Greek Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos), likely of Pre-Greek origin.
Senses: examples: text: Sleeping-car passengers, however, will know little of their entry into Greece until, at 6 a.m. on the third morning after leaving Paris, the short train runs over the Vardar plain, with dawn glimpses of Mount Athos to the east and of cloud-capped Olympus across the gulf to the south, past the rebuilt yard and into the new passenger station at Salonica.
ref: 1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:
glosses: The highest mountain in Greece; in Ancient Greek mythology the home of the gods.
Related terms: Olympic
Olympia
Susie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Susy
form: Suzie
form: Suzy
Etymology: Various names + -ie
Senses: examples: text: Susie has yellow hair, […]. She has a little breathless voice and a startled little laugh; even her name is like a powder puff.
ref: 1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, page 295:
glosses: A diminutive of Susan and of related female given names.
geomancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geomancers
Etymology: From Middle English geomancer, equivalent to geomancy + -er.
Senses: synonyms: geomant
glosses: A person who practices geomancy.
Suzie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Susie
form: Susy
form: Suzi
form: Suzy
Etymology: Diminutives + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of Susan and of related female given names.
Derived terms: Suzie Q
bamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæmp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: bamps
Senses: glosses: An idiotic and ill-mannered person.
examples: text: ‘Shut up’ hissed Gwilym. ‘Don't be so rude! He's a great old bloke. I wish he was my bamp.’
ref: 2013, Karenne Griffin, New Voices in the Valley, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 181:
text: Bell went back to Wales and my stayed with me. A week later Dave's brother, Ann Jane, mum and me went to lay Dave's ashes at the same spot where his mum and dad, my nan and Bamp had been laid.
ref: 2013, Angela Rogers, Dancing in the Rain: Seize the Day, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 167:
text: [I] might be a builder ... or a carpenter ... Might even be an engineer.... My Bamp does it. He’s an engineer
ref: 2015, D. Mannay, E. Staples, S. Hallett, L. Roberts, A. Rees, R. Evans, D. Andrews, Understanding the educational experiences and opinions, attainment, achievement and aspirations of looked after children in Wales, →ISBN, page 69:
glosses: One's grandfather.
Synonyms: fuckwit
idiot
imbecile
twat
certes
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː.tɪz/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.tiz/
homophone: Surtees
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tiz
Etymology: From Middle English certes, from Old French [Term?], from Latin certus (“certain”).
Senses: examples: text: [F]or certes, ſayes he, / I haue already choſen my officer, and what was he? / Forſooth, a great Arithmeticion, [...]
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 1:
text: This was very unpleasant, at least to myself; though, certes, it did not prey upon the minds of the others.
ref: 1845, Herman Melville, Omoo:
text: Here, certes, was no lost soul, but one who had gone joyfully to meet her Lord.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
synonyms: of course
truly
verily
glosses: Certainly, indeed.
bamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bamp
retraite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retraites
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of retreat.
OAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OAPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Orthogonal Array Processor.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Initialism of One Act Play.
glosses: Initialism of Old-Age Pensioner.
glug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: glugs
form: glook
form: gluck
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, imitating the sound of pouring or swallowing liquid.
Senses: examples: text: The blood did not come out of him in a glug but in a steady silent gush.
ref: 2004, Tom Bissell, “Death Defier”, in God Lives in St. Petersburg: Short Stories, Knopf Doubleday, published 2007:
glosses: The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured suddenly out of something, such as a jug or bottle.
examples: text: Pour a glug of bleach into the toilet.
text: Slowly, Khoklov removed a silver flask from within his suit jacket. He had a long contemplative glug, then shuddered violently.
ref: 1996, Bruce Sterling, “The Littlest Jackal”, in A Good Old-Fashioned Future, Bantam Spectra, published 1999, →ISBN:
text: She turned the taps to start the water running, poured in a generous glug of vanilla bubble bath, then moved into the bedroom, to the desk in the corner where her laptop sat open.
ref: 2015, Cindy Myers, Above It All, Kensington, →ISBN:
glosses: The amount of liquid issued when the "glug" sound is heard.
glug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: glugs
form: glugging
form: glugged
form: glugged
form: glook
form: gluck
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, imitating the sound of pouring or swallowing liquid.
Senses: examples: text: The water glugged down the sink.
text: We’d squat by the creek waiting for the bottle to glug full through its narrow neck and then together we would walk to the church and throw the water on the fire a quart at a time, not so much in hope of putting it out as to be able to say, if asked, that we tried.
ref: 1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, New York: Grove Press, page 200:
text: Spasmodically, Bill clutched the handle of the pump, until the attendant hit the flashing button on his console and the petrol began to glug.
ref: 1998, Will Self, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, London: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 135:
glosses: To flow in noisy bursts.
examples: text: He had glugged that glass of wine before she got a chance to introduce herself.
text: There is no sugary "welcome" drink to glug. Rather, Honey, an elderly, overweight Lab mix, waddles and wags my way.
ref: 1992 June 21, Barbara Holl, Cathy Hainer, Bill Heavey, Walter Nicholls, Christina del Sesto, “Summer Places”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: To quickly swallow liquid.
examples: text: The bottle cap rasped as she unscrewed it and glugged some Bailey's into her mug, the spoon tinkling as she stirred.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 281:
glosses: To pour noisily.
Derived terms: gluggable
gluggy
glug
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: glook
form: gluck
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, imitating the sound of pouring or swallowing liquid.
Senses: glosses: The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured out of a jug, bottle, etc., or when such an amount is swallowed by a person.
aufs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auf
Fortean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː.tɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.ti.ən/
ipa: /-ɾi.ən/
Forms: form: Forteans
Etymology: From Fort + -ean, named after Charles Hoy Fort (1874–1932), an American writer and investigator of anomalous phenomena. The word was coined by American journalist Ben Hecht (1894–1964) in a review of Fort’s book The Book of the Damned (1919) in the Chicago Daily News in 1920.
Senses: examples: text: Stories about alligators in the sewers have been of particular interest, however, to Forteans (followers of Charles Fort). Forteans contend that many happenings derided by the official science of the Western world (falls of frogs from clear skies, the appearance of lake monsters, mystery beasts and so on) are genuine occurrences.
ref: 1996, Loren Coleman, “Alligators in the Sewers”, in Gillian Bennett, Paul Smith, editors, Contemporary Legend: A Reader (New Perspectives in Folklore; 4; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities; 1718), New York, N.Y.; London: Garland Publishing, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: A follower or admirer of Charles Fort.
examples: text: Not long afterwards, Fortean writer Paul Harris contacted me concerning this putative sea serpent, kindly supplying me with a couple of newspaper cuttings […] that contained photos of its remains, plus various additional details that he had gathered during his own investigation of this case.
ref: 2003, Karl P. N. Shuker, “Bring Me the Head of the Sea Serpent!”, in The Beasts that Hide from Man: Seeking the World’s Last Undiscovered Animals, New York, N.Y.: Paraview Press, →ISBN, page 244:
text: Morandir [Armson] is also a traveller, a food blogger, a scholar of the occult, an amateur cook, a martial artist, an enthusiastic Fortean, and a transplant recipient.
ref: 2013, “Contributors”, in Alex Norman, editor, Journeys and Destinations: Studies in Travel, Identity, and Meaning, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 287:
glosses: One who investigates anomalous phenomena.
Fortean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː.tɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.ti.ən/
ipa: /-ɾi.ən/
Forms: form: more Fortean
form: most Fortean
form: fortean
Etymology: From Fort + -ean, named after Charles Hoy Fort (1874–1932), an American writer and investigator of anomalous phenomena. The word was coined by American journalist Ben Hecht (1894–1964) in a review of Fort’s book The Book of the Damned (1919) in the Chicago Daily News in 1920.
Senses: examples: text: Ufology is a somewhat Fortean subject.
text: Charles Fort died in 1932, fifteen years before the flying-saucer craze began. It is a pity he did not live to witness this mass mania, because in many ways, it was a triumph of pure Forteanism. Mysterious objects are seen in the sky. They elude all "official" and "scientific" explanation. Wild Fortean hypotheses are invented to explain them, and discussed seriously by the man in the street as well as by seemingly intelligent authors and editors.
ref: 1957, Martin Gardner, “Flying Saucers”, in Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, 2nd rev. and exp. edition, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, →OCLC, page 55:
text: Coppel, Alfred: TOUCH THE SKY […] Short story. / Obviously based on Fortean concepts, this one concerns a man who really did touch the sky.
ref: 1986, Leon L. Gammell, “The Shorts”, in The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories (Starmont Reference Guide; no. 3), Mercer, Wash.: Starmont House, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 85:
text: Characters such as "Jack Brown" [supposedly a UFO investigator] have been annoying and frightening people for centuries. In earlier ages they were associated with the occult or with religious experience … the "dark men" of countless traditions. Today they are a part of the UFO mythos. They arrive after a UFO or fortean event, sometimes afoot, sometimes driving automobiles that appear new even if the vehicle is clearly many years old. […] They ask strange questions and make outlandish observations, or they simply follow from place to place.
ref: 2001, Curt Sutherly, “Strangers in the Night”, in UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, St. Paul, Minn.: Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, pages 44–45:
text: Other Fort-influenced writers argue that Fortean phenomena are themselves the means by which a kind of paranormal conspiracy of cosmic proportions is perpetrated against human beings.
ref: 2015, Simon Wilson, “Fortean phenomena”, in Matt Cardin, editor, Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics: The Paranormal from Alchemy to Zombies, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 92:
glosses: Of or pertaining to anomalous phenomena.
glosses: Of or pertaining to Charles Fort.
Related terms: Forteana
investigates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of investigate
make-believe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪk bəˌliːv/
ipa: /ˌmeɪk bəˈliːv/
Forms: form: make-believes
form: makebelieve
form: make believe
Etymology: Deverbal from make believe.
Senses: examples: text: Come on, come on, I go up and down / I like this curious feeling / I know, I see, it's like make believe / Cover your ears so you can hear what I'm saying
ref: 1985, “The Lady Don't Mind”, in Little Creatures, performed by Talking Heads:
glosses: The quality or act of pretending; acting as if something is true when in fact one knows it is not.
glosses: The condition of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are.
examples: text: ‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Marjorie Lindon, to even think such nonsense. Are you all nerves and morbid imaginings,—you who have prided yourself on being so strong-minded! A pretty sort you are to do battle for anyone.—Why, they’re only make-believes!’
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
glosses: Something imaginary.
make-believe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪk bəˌliːv/
ipa: /ˌmeɪk bəˈliːv/
Forms: form: makebelieve
form: make believe
Etymology: Deverbal from make believe.
Senses: examples: text: He called himself Lord So-and-So, even had his family crest on the wall, but it was all totally make-believe.
glosses: Imaginary; not real; pretend.