cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
later
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.tə/
enpr: lāʹtər
ipa: /ˈleɪ.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈleɪ̯.ɾɚ]
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Etymology: * Adverb: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lator, equivalent to late + -er.
* Adjective: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lætra, equivalent to late + -er.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian leeter (“later”), West Frisian letter (“later”), Dutch later (“later”), German Low German later (“later”).
Senses: examples: text: Jim was later than John.
glosses: comparative form of late: more late
examples: text: The Victorian era is a later period of English history than the Elizabethan era.
text: The eldest son was usually given the name of his paternal grandfather, later children those of other relatives.
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiii:
glosses: Coming afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
examples: text: I felt some leg pain during the first mile of my run and I strained my calf two miles later.
glosses: Coming afterward in distance (following an antecedent distance as embedded within an adverbial phrase)
examples: text: The meeting was adjourned to a later date.
glosses: At some time in the future.
later
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.tə/
enpr: lāʹtər
ipa: /ˈleɪ.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈleɪ̯.ɾɚ]
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Etymology: * Adverb: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lator, equivalent to late + -er.
* Adjective: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lætra, equivalent to late + -er.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian leeter (“later”), West Frisian letter (“later”), Dutch later (“later”), German Low German later (“later”).
Senses: examples: text: Later, dude.
glosses: See you later; goodbye.
Derived terms: later days
later on
laterward
laterwards
save for later
sooner or later
haubergeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haubergeons
Senses: examples: text: The haubergeon, was a coat composed either of plate or chain mail without sleeves: the shirt of mail was much in the form of the shirts now worn, except that it had no sleeves, it was always of chain mail.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 15:
glosses: Alternative form of habergeon.
medical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛdɪkl̩/
Forms: form: more medical
form: most medical
Etymology: Borrowed from French médical, from Medieval Latin medicālis, from Latin medicus. Replaced Old English lǣċe (“doctor (physician)”), which is cognate with Icelandic læknir (“doctor”).
Senses: examples: text: medical doctor; medical student
text: Do you have any medical experience?
text: The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
ref: 2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.
examples: medical marijuana; medical cannabis; medical treatment
glosses: Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal.
examples: text: A costly medical condition can bankrupt you if it doesn't kill you first.
glosses: Requiring medical treatment.
examples: medical examinaton; medical exemption; medical history; medical record; medical diagnosis
glosses: Pertaining to the state of one's health.
examples: text: medical ward
synonyms: nonsurgical
nonoperative
antonyms: surgical
operative
glosses: Pertaining to or requiring treatment by other than surgical means.
examples: text: medical oncology, radiation oncology, and surgical oncology
text: surgical therapy only when medical therapy fails
glosses: Pertaining to medication specifically (that is, pharmacotherapy), rather than to other aspects of medicine and surgery.
Synonyms: sense: medicinal
word: curative
sense: medicinal
word: therapeutic
Derived terms: aeromedical
anatomicomedical
antimedical
biomedical
chief medical advisor
chief medical officer
chronomedical
durable medical equipment
electromedical
emergency medical service
emergency medical technician
ethnomedical
extramedical
geomedical
iatromedical
med-evac
Medicaid
medical alert jewelry
medical cannabis
medical center
medical certificate
medical condition
medical cybernetics
medical desert
medical doctor
medicalese
medical ethics
medical examiner
medical finger
medical glove
medical Greek
medical history
medical informatics
medicalisation
medicalise
medical isotope
medicalization
medicalize
medical journal
medical jurisprudence
medically
medical marijuana
medical out
medical practitioner
medical record
medical report
medical school
medical student
medical students' disease
medical tape
medical tourism
Medicare
medicide
medikit
medispa
medscanner
nanomedical
neuromedical
nonmedical
non-medical
paramedical
photomedical
physicomedical
physiomedical
phytomedical
premedical
pseudomedical
psychomedical
quasimedical
sociobiomedical
sociomedical
sportsmedical
telemedical
transmedicalism
transmedicalist
unmedical
zoomedical
Related terms: medicational
medical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛdɪkl̩/
Forms: form: medicals
Etymology: Borrowed from French médical, from Medieval Latin medicālis, from Latin medicus. Replaced Old English lǣċe (“doctor (physician)”), which is cognate with Icelandic læknir (“doctor”).
Senses: examples: text: You'll have to get a medical before you apply for that job.
text: After completing a medical and the requisite paperwork on Tuesday to seal the deal, Di María said: “I am absolutely delighted to be joining Manchester United. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in Spain and there were a lot of clubs interested in me, but United is the only club that I would have left Real Madrid for.
ref: 2014 August 26, Jamie Jackson, “Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real”, in The Guardian:
text: All UK train drivers must undergo a medical every three years up to the age of 54, and annually from then on.
ref: 2021 November 17, “Network News: Age-related medical requirements”, in RAIL, number 944, page 9:
glosses: A medical examination.
examples: text: We medicals have a better way than that. When we dislike a friend of ours, we dissect him.
ref: 1884, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body Snatcher:
text: There was the school of simplicity, socialism, and universal love, the head of which was a Quixotic Diogenes called Mêh-tsz or Meccius (fifth century b.c.); the school of denominationalists, or pedantic adherents to the letter of absolutely defined principles; the legists, or partisans of a system of repression and punishment (on the Plehve-Pobyedonóschtschoff basis); the astrologists, or believers in occult influences; the medicals or elixirists; the sensualists; and many others, recalling to our minds the various divisions of Greek philosophy at the same period.
ref: 1905, Edward Harper Parker, “Confucianism”, in China and Religion, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton and Company, pages 67–68:
glosses: A medical practitioner.
Related terms: medicate
medicine
jazerant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæzəɹənt/
enpr: jăzʹə-rənt
Forms: form: jazerants
form: jazeran
form: jazarine
form: jazeraint
form: jesserant
form: gestorne
form: gestron
Etymology: From Middle English jessera(u)nt, gessera(u)nt(e), from Old French jazerant, from Old Occitan jazerenc, from Arabic جَزَائِرِيّ (jazāʔiriyy, “Algerian, of Algiers”), derived from الجَزَائِر (al-jazāʔir, “Algiers; Algeria”).
Senses: examples: text: The jazerant, is according to Du Cange, a sort of military vestment. […] But what was the specific distinction of a jazerant seems at present uncertain.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 15:
glosses: A coat of defense of Arab origin, made of small plates of metal sewn upon linen or similar, like a brigandine.
examples: text: a coat of jazerant
glosses: This kind of armor taken generally.
probable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒbəbl̩/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑbəbl̩/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈprɔbəbl̩/
note: Indic
ipa: /prɵˈbabl̩/
Forms: form: more probable
form: most probable
Etymology: From Middle English probable, from Old French probable, from Latin probābilis (“that may be proved, credible”), from probāre (“to test, examine”); see probe, probity, prove. Compare recent doublet provable.
Senses: examples: text: It's probable that it will rain tomorrow.
text: The probable source of the failure was the mass of feathers in the intake manifold.
glosses: Likely or most likely to be true.
examples: text: With all the support we have, success is looking probable.
glosses: Likely to happen.
examples: text: probable evidence
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
text: From an examination of the Teutonic words for "temple" Grimm has made it probable that amongst the Germans the oldest sanctuaries were natural woods.
ref: 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 8:
glosses: Supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating.
glosses: Capable of being proved.
Derived terms: probability
probable cause
probable error
probably
Related terms: possible
probeable
probable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒbəbl̩/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑbəbl̩/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈprɔbəbl̩/
note: Indic
ipa: /prɵˈbabl̩/
Forms: form: probables
Etymology: From Middle English probable, from Old French probable, from Latin probābilis (“that may be proved, credible”), from probāre (“to test, examine”); see probe, probity, prove. Compare recent doublet provable.
Senses: examples: text: Four of the 32 251 Ku aircraft turned back, but the other 28 fought for 20 minutes against a reported 100 enemy aircraft, claiming 18 destroyed and five probables.
ref: 2013, Ikuhiko Hata, Yasuho Izawa, Christopher Shores, Japanese Naval Fighter Aces 1932-45, page 57:
glosses: Something that is likely.
glosses: A person who is likely to appear or do a certain thing.
aketon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæk.(ə.)tən/
Forms: form: aketons
form: acton
form: hacqueton
form: haqueton
form: haketon
Etymology: From Middle English aketoun, aketon, from Old French aqueton, auqueton, alqueton, from Old Spanish alcoton (modern algodón), from Arabic الْقُطْن (al-quṭn), definite of قُطْن (quṭn, “cotton”). Doublet of cotton.
Senses: examples: text: The aketon, gambeson, vambasium, and jack were military vestments, calculated for the defence of the body, differing little from each other, except in their names, their materials and construction were nearly the same, the authorities quoted in the notes, shew they were all composed of many folds of linen, stuffed with cotton, wool or hair, quilted, and commonly covered with leather, made of buck or doe skin.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 15:
coordinate_terms: gambeson
haustement
pourpoint
glosses: A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail.
gambeson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡæm.bɪ.sən/
Forms: form: gambesons
form: gambison
Etymology: From Middle English gambison, from Old French gambeson, gambaison, from gambais, wambais (“quilted jerkin”), from Medieval Latin wambāsium (“doublet, waistcoat”), from Frankish *wamba (“abdomen, belly”), from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, womb”): compare Middle High German wambeis, German Wams (“waistcoat, doublet”), from Old High German wamba (“stomach”). More at womb.
Senses: examples: text: Although the gambeson was chiefly worn under the coat of mail, to protect the body from being bruised by the strokes of the sword or lance, a circumstance that might happen without a division of the mail, the verses quoted in the Siege of Karleverok, shew that it was sometimes worn as a fur coat, and ornamented with rich decorations.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 18:
coordinate_terms: aketon
haustement
pourpoint
glosses: A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted, often worn as padding under armor.
vambasium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vambasiums
Senses: examples: text: The aketon, gambeson, vambasium, and jack were military vestments, calculated for the defence of the body, differing little from each other, except in their names, their materials and construction were nearly the same, the authorities quoted in the notes, shew they were all composed of many folds of linen, stuffed with cotton, wool or hair, quilted, and commonly covered with leather, made of buck or doe skin.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 15:
glosses: A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted.
structure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹʌk(t)ʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈstɹɐk(t)ʃə(ɹ)]
ipa: /ˈstɹʌkt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: [ˈstʃɹɐktʃə]
Forms: form: structures
form: structuring
form: structured
form: structured
Etymology: From Middle French structure, from Latin structūra (“a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure”), from struere, past participle structus (“pile up, arrange, assemble, build”). Compare construct, instruct, destroy, etc.
Senses: examples: text: I'm trying to structure my time better so I'm not always late.
text: I've structured the deal to limit the amount of money we can lose.
glosses: To give structure to; to arrange.
Derived terms: data-structured coupling
log-structured
permission structure
self-structured
structured illumination
structured illumination microscopy
Related terms: infrastructure
macrostructure
microstructure
restructure
structural
structuralism
structuralist
structured
substructure
superstructure
unstructured
throat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹəʊt/
ipa: /ˈθɹoʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: throats
form: throating
form: throated
form: throated
form: throate
form: throte
Etymology: From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrotu, from Proto-Germanic *þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”), Swedish trut, Icelandic þroti (“swelling”).
Senses: examples: text: He beat about and pecked the net until his mate was liberated, and, throating a song of gratitude, the bird he freed flew to the sky.
ref: 1911, Paul Wilstach, Thais, "the Story of a Sinner who Became a Saint and a Saint who Sinned": A Play in Four Acts, page 17:
text: As you know, I have gone in for the more manly athletics here with my visual enthusiasm, throating a nasty tenor on the Glee Club and shaking a vicious hoof on our dancing team. Well, last night the Intercollegiate Shimmy Contest with Goofy ...
ref: 1921, Harry Charles Witwer, The Rubyiat of a Freshman, page 31:
text: Tariq wants to be tactful and refrains from his natural impulse to throat his pain and curse her loudly in French. The girl looks devastated.
ref: 2017, Alexis Debary, Arab Nights: Post 9/11 Thriller set in Tunisia, →ISBN:
text: to throat threats
text: So Hector hereto throated threats, to go to sea in blood
ref: [1611?], Homer, “Book XIII”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
glosses: To utter in or with the throat.
examples: text: The Roman began to throat his rigid flagpole of a mancock, making groaning noises.
ref: 1995, Kyle Stone, Hot bauds: a selection of steamy BBS writings, Badboy:
text: His head leaned back, water splashing his face as I throated his solid pipe. Those giant hands found the back of my head as he worked his hips back and forth to pump further and further into my mouth.
ref: 2017, Brian Patrick Davis, Songs About Boys, →ISBN:
glosses: To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
glosses: To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.
cuirass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪˈɹæs/
ipa: /ˈkjʊəɹæs/
rhymes: -æs
Forms: form: cuirasses
Etymology: First use appears c. 1464. From Middle English curasse, curesse, from Old French cuirace, spelling influenced by modern French cuirasse.
Senses: examples: text: The cuirass covered the body before and behind, it consisted of two parts, a breast and back piece of iron, fastened together by means of straps and buckles, or other contrivances. They were originally as the name imports, made of leather, but afterwards of metal, both brass and iron.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 19:
glosses: A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle.
examples: text: Lady Orkney's history, to whose house we are going, is a curious one. As Miss Elizabeth Villiers, by her charms she pierced the cuirass that enveloped the well-disciplined heart of William III.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 43–44:
glosses: The breastplate taken by itself.
Related terms: cuirie
cuir bouilli
cuirass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪˈɹæs/
ipa: /ˈkjʊəɹæs/
rhymes: -æs
Forms: form: cuirasses
form: cuirassing
form: cuirassed
form: cuirassed
Etymology: First use appears c. 1464. From Middle English curasse, curesse, from Old French cuirace, spelling influenced by modern French cuirasse.
Senses: glosses: To cover with defensive armor; to armor-plate.
halecret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhæl.ɪˌkɹɛt/
Forms: form: halecrets
form: allecret
form: hallecret
Etymology: First attested in English in 1536 as halkrig and 1540 as halkrik, taken to be from Middle French halecret, itself first attested in 1488 as aldecrez (plural) and 1489 as hallecretz (plural), of uncertain origin. Compare Breton halacred. Perhaps from Middle Dutch halscleet (“gorget”) (see hals (“neck, throat”), cleet (“piece of clothing”)), or related to German Halskragen.
Senses: examples: text: The halecret was a kind of corcelet of tvvo pieces, one before and one behind, it was lighter than the cuiraſs.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, […], London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC, page 19:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A kind of light armour protecting the bust, used in the 16th century, usually thought to have been a corselet or light cuirass.
brigandine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪɡ.ənˌdiːn/
ipa: /ˈbɹɪɡ.ənˌdin/
ipa: /ˈbɹɪɡ.ənˌdaɪn/
Forms: form: brigandines
form: brigantine
form: brigander
Etymology: From Middle English brigandyn, brigantien, attested by 1456 (eventually displacing the slightly earlier synonym brigander), from Old French brigandine, from brigand + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 46:4:
text: The brigandine takes its name from the troops, by which it was first worn, who were called brigans, they were a kind of light armed irregular foot, much addicted to plunder, whence it is probable the appellation of brigands was given to other freebooters.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 19:
text: Red-haired and freckled, he wore a studded brigantine, high boots, fingerless leather gloves, and a quiver on his back.
ref: 2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Arya [Stark]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: A coat of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, sewn or riveted under or onto canvas or linen or other material.
ryvett
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ryvetts
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:ryvett.
glosses: Alternative form of rivet (“a kind of plate armor, attributed to the Germans”).
raw_tags: as almaine ryvett
chauvinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃəʊ.vɪ.nɪ.zəm/
ipa: /ˈʃoʊ.vɪˌnɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈʃəʊ.və.nɪ.zəm/
Forms: form: chauvinisms
Etymology: Borrowed from French chauvinisme (“idealistic devotion to Napoleon”), named for Nicolas Chauvin, a legendary and excessively patriotic soldier of the French First Republic. The figure of Chauvin became especially famous as a character in the play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers.
Senses: examples: text: (C. S.) Lewis occasionally expressed a somewhat tongue-in-cheek chauvinism towards the English. Describing an encounter with a fellow Irishman, he wrote: "Like all Irish people who meet in England, we ended by criticisms on the invincible flippancy and dullness of the Anglo-Saxon race.
glosses: Excessive patriotism, eagerness for national superiority; jingoism.
examples: text: Feminists say that male chauvinism is still prevalent in cultures worldwide.
text: “This is an outrageous example of unconscious racial chauvinism!” Jack said.
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 312:
glosses: Unwarranted bias, favoritism, or devotion to one's own particular group, cause, or idea.
Synonyms: jingoism
Derived terms: antichauvinism
carbon chauvinism
female chauvinism
male chauvinism
Related terms: chauvinist
bigotry
Chauvinism in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
corselet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːslət/
Forms: form: corselets
form: corcelet
form: corselette
form: corslet
Etymology: From French corselet, from cors, an archaic spelling of corps (“body”).
Senses: glosses: Armor for the body, for example a breastplate and backpiece taken together.
examples: text: Strictly speaking, the word corcelet meant only that part which covered the body, but was generally used to express the whole suit, under the terms of a corselet furnished, or complete.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 21:
glosses: An entire suit of armor, made up chiefly of the breastplate and backpiece worn with a headpiece and with a gorget, pauldrons, vambraces, gauntlets, and tassets attached.
glosses: A tight-fitting item of clothing which covers the body and not the limbs.
glosses: A type of women's underwear, combining a bra and a girdle in one garment; a corselette.
examples: text: With the added suggestion of her goggles it reminded her pupil of the polished shell or corslet of a horrid beetle.
ref: 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The thorax of an insect.
Derived terms: corseleted
corcelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corcelets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corselet (armor)
corslet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corslets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corselet.
tasset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæsɪt/
rhymes: -æsɪt
homophone: tacet
homophone: tacit
Forms: form: tassets
Etymology: Either inherited from Middle English *tassette, from Old French tassette, or borrowed in the 1800s from French tassette, see tasse for more. Equivalent to tasse + -et.
Senses: examples: text: This included the head-piece and gorgett, the back and breast, with skirts of iron called tasses or tassets covering the thighs, as may be seen in the figures, representing the exercise of the pike, published anno 1622, by the title of the Military Art of Training; the same kind of armour was worn by the harquebusiers.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 21:
glosses: A tasse.
tasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tăs
ipa: /tæs/
rhymes: -æs
Forms: form: tasses
form: tace
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English tasse (“armor plate protecting the hip”), derived from Old French tasse, tasche (“purse; pouch”), derived from Frankish *taskā (“pouch”), derived from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ. Cognate with Old High German tasca (“pouch”), German Tasche (“pocket; pouch; bag”), Dutch tas (“bag”).
Senses: examples: text: This included the head-piece and gorgett, the back and breast, with skirts of iron called tasses or tassets covering the thighs, as may be seen in the figures, representing the exercise of the pike, published anno 1622, by the title of the Military Art of Training; the same kind of armour was worn by the harquebusiers.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 21:
text: The tasse, meant only to cover the hips, was so long that its edges scraped against the floor.
ref: 2022, Tim Akers, Valhellions, Baen Books, →ISBN:
synonyms: tasset
glosses: A piece of armor for the hips and thighs: one of a set of plates (each being of one piece or segmented) hanging from the bottom of the breastplate or from faulds.
codpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒdˌpiːs/
Forms: form: codpieces
form: cod-piece
Etymology: From cod (“bag, pouch, scrotum”) + piece.
Senses: examples: text: , Act III, Scene III, line 130.
Borachio: Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is, how giddily ’a turns about all the hot-bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty, sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh’s soldiers in the reechy painting, sometime like god Bel’s priests in the old church-window, sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirch’d worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?
text: Once Francis lifts her hand. She pulls back, half-resisting, and for one moment it seems he intends to lay her little fingers upon his unspeakable codpiece.
ref: 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 408:
glosses: A part of male dress in the 15th and 16th centuries, worn in front of the breeches to cover the male genitals.
examples: text: On some suits were screwed large iron cod-pieces; these, according to tradition, were intended to prevent the ill consequences of those violent shocks received in charging, either in battle, or at a tournament. Same say, they were meant to contain sponges for receiving the water of knights, who in the heat of an engagement might not have any more convenient method of discharging it. But most probably, they were rather constructed in conformity to a reigning fashion in the make of the breeches of those times.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 21:
glosses: A conspicuous protection for the male genitals in a suit of plate armor.
Derived terms: codpieced
Related terms: merkin
rickshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪkˌʃɔː/
rhymes: -ɪkʃɔː
Forms: form: rickshaws
form: ricksha
form: rikisha
form: rikshaw
form: 'rickshaw
form: riksha
form: ricsha
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 力(りき)車(しゃ) (rikisha), a clipping of 人(じん)力(りき)車(しゃ) (jinrikisha), from Middle Chinese 人力 (nyin lik, “human power”) + 車 (t͡ʃʰæ, “cart”) (compare Mandarin 人力車 /人力车 (rénlìchē)).
Senses: glosses: A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person.
Derived terms: autorickshaw
cycle rickshaw
electric rickshaw
quickshaw
rickshaw noodles
Related terms: jinriksha
pedicab
tuk-tuk
rickshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪkˌʃɔː/
rhymes: -ɪkʃɔː
Forms: form: rickshaws
form: rickshawing
form: rickshawed
form: rickshawed
form: ricksha
form: rikisha
form: rikshaw
form: 'rickshaw
form: riksha
form: ricsha
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 力(りき)車(しゃ) (rikisha), a clipping of 人(じん)力(りき)車(しゃ) (jinrikisha), from Middle Chinese 人力 (nyin lik, “human power”) + 車 (t͡ʃʰæ, “cart”) (compare Mandarin 人力車 /人力车 (rénlìchē)).
Senses: glosses: To move someone by means of a rickshaw.
jinriksha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌd͡ʒɪnˈɹɪk.ʃə/
Forms: form: jinrikshas
form: jinriksha
form: jinricksha
form: jinrickshaw
form: jinrikisha
form: jinnyrickshaw
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 人力車(じんりきしゃ) (jinrikisha).
Senses: examples: text: There are no roads outside the villages in northern Yezo, no jinriksha,—those most fascinating man-power carriages,—no kago, or swinging cars, and no side-saddles...
ref: 1898 July, Mabel Loomis Todd, "In Aino-land", The Century Illustrated Montly Magazine, Vol. LVI, No. 3, p. 346
text: In the Transportation Buildin' is a map one hundred feet long, showing the transportation facilities of the Empire, a perfect network of railways and telegraphand telephone wires, showin' they have other ways of gettin' 'round there besides man-carts and jinrikshas, yes, indeed!
ref: 1904, Marietta Holley, Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition, →ISBN:
text: Then a treat is in store for me! Three jinriksha are procured, and we ride off to the station. My, what a thrill!!!
ref: 1930 January 4, Ruth Downing, “Our Sunday School Missionary in Japan”, in John van Schaick, Jr., editor, The Christian Leader, volume XXXIII, number 1, Boston, Mass.; Chicago, Ill.: Universalist Publishing House, →OCLC, page 27, column 1:
glosses: Synonym of rickshaw.
synonyms: word: rickshaw
what a lovely day
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: The day is lovely.
is it going to rain
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: Is it going to rain
Senses: glosses: Is it going to rain?
I think so
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: antonyms: I think not
I don't think so
glosses: I believe that is the case, but am not certain.
I don't think so
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪ dəʊnt θɪŋk səʊ/
ipa: /aː doʊnt θɪŋk soʊ/
Senses: examples: text: Bob: Is this the right place to catch the bus?
Suzy: I don't think so.
glosses: I think what has been said is untrue.
examples: text: Go out with you? Huh, I don't think so, sweetheart!
glosses: No, absolutely not (used to refuse or decline something proposed).
Synonyms: sense: I think what has been said is untrue
word: I think not
sense: strong way to say no
word: absolutely not
sense: strong way to say no
word: hardly
sense: strong way to say no
word: not in a million years
sense: strong way to say no
word: not on your life
sense: strong way to say no
word: not on your nelly
sense: strong way to say no
word: not likely
sense: strong way to say no
word: no way
sense: strong way to say no
word: no way Jose
sense: strong way to say no
word: as if
sense: strong way to say no
word: no chance
kamikaze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kä′mĭ-kä′zē
ipa: /ˌkɑː.mɪˈkɑː.ziː/
ipa: /ˌkɑ.mɪˈkɑ.zi/
ipa: /ˌkɐː.mɪˈkɐː.ziː/
ipa: /ˌkɐː.məˈkɐː.ziː/
ipa: /ˌka.mɪˈka.zi/
ipa: /ˌkaː.mɪˈkaː.ziː/
rhymes: -ɑːziː
Forms: form: kamikazes
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 神風(かみかぜ) (kamikaze, “divine wind”), from 神(かみ) (kami, “divine”) + 風(かぜ) (kaze, “wind”); which originally referred to the typhoon that destroyed the Mongol navy attacking Japan in 1281.
Senses: glosses: An attack requiring the suicide of the one carrying it out, especially when done with an aircraft.
glosses: One who carries out a suicide attack, especially with an aircraft.
examples: text: Coupled with this were issues involving actually getting enough torpedoes out there to the fleet in the first place! Whilst they were a munition, a torpedo is far more complex and took far longer to build than a shell for a naval gun, even a battleship shell. Torpedoes, remember, are effectively small self-guiding kamikaze submarines, and, so, unless you have a large factory and an extensive production line going, you're only gonna see handfuls produced each year.
ref: 2020 February 12, Drachinifel, 8:16 from the start, in The Mark 14 Torpedo - Failure is Like Onions, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2022:
text: The Ukrainians themselves have been using kamikaze drones to strike against Russian targets – and asked their allies to supply them with more of these deadly weapons.
ref: 2022 October 17, Ivana Kottasová, “‘Kamikaze’ drones are the latest threat for Ukraine. Here’s what we know”, in CNN:
glosses: A vehicle used for a suicide attack, especially an aircraft.
glosses: One who takes excessive risks, as for example in a sporting event.
examples: text: Only top-shelf liquor is served, though Sasha refuses to serve drinks he deems fratlike. These include woo woos, kamikazes and shots of any kind.
ref: 2000 May 7, Julia Chaplin, “Buzz Off: Secret Bars That Spurn Hype”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 May 2025:
glosses: A cocktail made of equal parts vodka, triple sec and lime juice.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A deliberate wipeout.
Derived terms: kamikaze drone
kamikaze shoplifting
Related terms: hara-kiri
hero
juramentado
martyr
seppuku
shaheed
suicide
suicide bomber
kamikaze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kä′mĭ-kä′zē
ipa: /ˌkɑː.mɪˈkɑː.ziː/
ipa: /ˌkɑ.mɪˈkɑ.zi/
ipa: /ˌkɐː.mɪˈkɐː.ziː/
ipa: /ˌkɐː.məˈkɐː.ziː/
ipa: /ˌka.mɪˈka.zi/
ipa: /ˌkaː.mɪˈkaː.ziː/
rhymes: -ɑːziː
Forms: form: kamikazes
form: kamikazeing
form: kamikazed
form: kamikazed
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 神風(かみかぜ) (kamikaze, “divine wind”), from 神(かみ) (kami, “divine”) + 風(かぜ) (kaze, “wind”); which originally referred to the typhoon that destroyed the Mongol navy attacking Japan in 1281.
Senses: glosses: To destroy (a ship, etc.) in a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.
glosses: To carry out a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.
glosses: To fail disastrously.
kamikaze
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kä′mĭ-kä′zē
ipa: /ˌkɑː.mɪˈkɑː.ziː/
ipa: /ˌkɑ.mɪˈkɑ.zi/
ipa: /ˌkɐː.mɪˈkɐː.ziː/
ipa: /ˌkɐː.məˈkɐː.ziː/
ipa: /ˌka.mɪˈka.zi/
ipa: /ˌkaː.mɪˈkaː.ziː/
rhymes: -ɑːziː
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 神風(かみかぜ) (kamikaze, “divine wind”), from 神(かみ) (kami, “divine”) + 風(かぜ) (kaze, “wind”); which originally referred to the typhoon that destroyed the Mongol navy attacking Japan in 1281.
Senses: examples: text: Sheathed in helmets, gloves, and jackets, they look more like manic video game figures than humans. They weave through traffic and around double-decker buses at kamikaze velocity.
ref: 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2018:
glosses: Suicidal, risking one's own life.
glosses: Having or showing reckless disregard for safety or personal welfare.
were-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /weə(ɹ)/
Etymology: Back-formation from werewolf (“man-wolf”), from Old English werewulf, derived from wer (“man”) + wulf (“wolf”).
Senses: glosses: Prefixed to animal names to indicate a human that shapeshifts into that animal.
Related terms: english: were
translation: were
word: wer
alt: weregild
word: wergeld
word: werewolf
word: world
word: lycanthropy
word: shapeshifting
word: shapeshifter
word: zoanthropy
loyal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔɪəl/
rhymes: -ɔɪəl
Forms: form: more loyal
form: most loyal
form: loyall
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French loyal, from Old French loial, leial, leal, from Latin lēgālis. Doublet of legal and leal.
Senses: examples: text: Dogs are very loyal animals, which is why they make wonderful pets.
text: George is a loyal and loving husband.
glosses: Having or demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something.
glosses: Firm in allegiance to a person or institution; allegiant.
examples: text: We must remain loyal to the mission.
glosses: Faithful to a person or cause.
Derived terms: loyalise
loyalism
loyalist
loyalization
loyalize
loyally
loyalness
loyal toast
nonloyal
overloyal
semiloyal
superloyal
ultraloyal
unloyal
Related terms: loyalty
teat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: teats
Etymology: From Middle English tete, from Old French tete (“teat”) (compare French tette), from Frankish *tittā, *tittō, from Proto-Germanic *tittaz (“teat; nipple; breast”), ultimately of expressive origin. Compare Old High German zizza ("teat"; modern German Zitze), whence also Italian zizza (“teat”).
It heavily displaced Old English titt, a cognate of the same origin, which survives as tit, but in more vulgar use. Compare Dutch tiet and German Zitze (“teat”).
Senses: examples: text: Milk formed their chief diet, and this they were supposed to imbibe from the witch herself, from a third "teat" which had been made beneath the arm by a nip from the Devil's pincers.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 107:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted.
glosses: Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle.
glosses: An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants.
Derived terms: cold as a witch's teat
glass teat
hind teat
mare's teat
mare's teat grape
witch's teat
Related terms: breast
mammary gland
tit
udder
merkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜːkɪn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kɪn
Forms: form: merkins
Etymology: 1617, probably a variant form of malkin, from Malde + -kin.
Senses: examples: text: ... his penis squashed invisible under a flesh-colored leather jockstrap, over which he wears a false cunt and merkin of sable both handcrafted in Berlin by the notorious Mme. Ophir, the mock labia and bright purple clitoris molded of — Madame had been abject, pleading shortage — synthetic rubber and Mipolam, the new polyvinyl chloride...
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
glosses: A woman's pubic wig. Worn for nude stage appearances and by women, originally after shaving their pubic hair to eliminate lice or for other reasons, now often as a fashion item.
glosses: A mop for cleaning cannon.
examples: text: Well, I seem to recall Tori and Patrick being seen together, and a reference in People comes to mind, with a photo attached. I'm not for sure that Patrick is completely gay, but he's at least bi according to a person I know with first hand experience. Perhaps we have a dual merkin-beard relationship here, eh?
ref: 1996 January 10, Colin Wright, “Tori Spelling & Patrick Muldoon on NBC Movie”, in alt.showbiz.gossip (Usenet):
glosses: The male counterpart of a beard, a companion to a lesbian to feign her straightness.
Related terms: codpiece
merkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜːkɪn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kɪn
Forms: form: merkins
form: 'merkin
form: Merkin
form: 'Merkin
form: murkin
form: 'murkin
form: Murkin
form: 'Murkin
Etymology: Representing an aphetic pronunciation of American.
Senses: examples: text: For all you non-'merkins: Most 'merkins are idiots, just like the residents of your country. See, most people are idiots. We just have idiots with a higher average income than you do, so they can afford to be better cretins.
ref: 1998 January 15, Vasilisha, “Internet Oracularities Digest #973”, in rec.humor.oracle.d (Usenet):
text: It is, unfortunately, an all-to-common assumption -- sort of like assuming that all posters here are 'merkins. Perhaps it's best to assume that all posters are vertebrates (I was going to type primates, but one of my neutered cats sent a post awhile^([sic]) back).
ref: 2000 August 2, John Monrad, “One group's thoughts”, in talk.origins (Usenet):
text: There is a brand of cheap, nasty aftershave over in Britain caller Que. About two quid a bottle and it's foul. Buy some and fly to Noo Yawk. Then sell it to a Murkin for forty bucks. Tell them it is Calvin Klein's British version.
ref: 2000 December 29, RampRat, “making money from stupid Murkins”, in alt.nuke.the.british (Usenet):
text: Well he did say he doesn't follow the sport so it is understandable that he isn't aware of the four year rotation (soon to be changed to 2 years if FIFA (the internatinal football body for you unknowing merkins) have their way). I couldn't tell you sod all about the 'World' Series as I don't follow Baseball.
ref: 2002 June 23, John of Aix, “Where Did The Merkin Footballers Go?”, in alt.nuke.the.usa (Usenet):
glosses: An American.
wig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭg
ipa: /wɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
homophone: Whig (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wigs
Etymology: Clipping of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque. The meaning of "to reprimand" perhaps came from this being something a bigwig would do or perhaps from the expressions to flip one's wig, wigs on the green, or dash my wig!
Senses: glosses: A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.
examples: text: Ye’ve been grossly deceived and put upon, Milly, and it’s my belief his old ruffian of an uncle in a wig is in the plot against us.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 12, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: A bigwig
qualifier: among fishermen
glosses: An old seal.
Synonyms: hairpiece
toupee
toupe
peruke
periwig
Hyponyms: wiglet
Derived terms: bag wig
bald wig
bewigged
bigwig
blow one's wig
bob wig
Cleopatra wig
curly wig
flip one's wig
fright wig
get one's wig split
gooseberry wig
have one's wig snatched
landlady's wig
lawyer's wig
scratch wig
trick wig
wig and falsies
wig block
wig cap
wiggy
wig head
wigless
wiglike
wiglomeration
wigmaker
wig out
wig-picker
wig tree
wig tree fern
wig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭg
ipa: /wɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
homophone: Whig (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wigs
form: wigging
form: wigged
form: wigged
Etymology: Clipping of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque. The meaning of "to reprimand" perhaps came from this being something a bigwig would do or perhaps from the expressions to flip one's wig, wigs on the green, or dash my wig!
Senses: glosses: To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.).
glosses: To upbraid, reprimand.
examples: text: That guy must be high. Look how he's wigging.
glosses: To act in an extremely emotional way; to be overly excited, irritable, nervous, or fearful; behave erratically.
examples: text: And I don't know nothin bout slippin
Zombie killer or rambo twinnin
Or a long pole like scaffold
Just tryna rise and aim and wig him
ref: 2020, CR1 of Hoxton, “EC1 Block Bully”, 1:26:
glosses: To shoot in the head.
Related terms: wiggins
wig onto
wig on to
wig out
wig
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭg
ipa: /wɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
homophone: Whig (wine–whine merger)
Etymology: Clipping of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque. The meaning of "to reprimand" perhaps came from this being something a bigwig would do or perhaps from the expressions to flip one's wig, wigs on the green, or dash my wig!
Senses: glosses: An expression of shock.
Related terms: have one's wig snatched
earwig
merkin
periwig
peruke
piggy-wig
blag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: blags
Etymology: The origin of the noun is unknown. The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: 'What's he do, Micky?' / 'Armed blags is what I hear – s'posed to be one or two nice little tucks down to him that he didn't go for. He keeps well active. Someone told me he's putting one together now.[…]'
ref: 1977, G[ordon] F[rank] Newman, chapter 4, in Law and Order, St. Albans, Hertfordshire: Granada Publishing, published 1983, →ISBN, page 40:
text: Through Lenny I had met a character whom I shall call Billy. He was part of a blag team famous for a series of large-scale wage snatches.
ref: 1997, Stephen Smith, “Helter Skelter Years”, in Addict: An Incredible True Story with a Fairytale End, [United Kingdom]: Westworld International, →ISBN:
text: They're turning over any business that couldn't go running back to the Other People, sex shops and massage parlours, doing blags long after they went outta fashion, doing loads of drugs and not giving a fuck about keeping a low profile.
ref: 2000 April, J. J. Connolly, “April Fool’s Day 1997: Welcome to the Layer Cake”, in Layer Cake, London: Duck Editions, Duckworth Literary Entertainments, published July 2001, →ISBN, page 6:
text: Darlin' – I know your old man's keen for you to learn the ropes an' all that, but let's not forget who's running this blag, shall we?
ref: 2005, Echo Freer, chapter 1, in Diamond Geezers, London: Hodder Children’s Books, Hodder Headline, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: An armed robbery or robbery involving violence; also, theft.
blag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: blags
form: blagging
form: blagged
form: blagged
Etymology: The origin of the noun is unknown. The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: glosses: To obtain (something) through armed robbery or robbery involving violence, or theft; to rob; to steal.
Derived terms: word: blagger
word: blagging
blag
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /blæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: more blag
form: most blag
Etymology: The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly:
* from blag (“to rob; to steal”) (see etymology 1); or
* borrowed from French blaguer (“to joke (about); to tell a lie”), from blague (“pouch, especially for tobacco; joke (from the notion of something puffed up, and thus fanciful)”) (from Dutch balg (“leather bag”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”)) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs).
The adjective and noun are probably derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: You’re wearing a blag designer shirt!
glosses: Not genuine; fake.
blag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: blags
Etymology: The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly:
* from blag (“to rob; to steal”) (see etymology 1); or
* borrowed from French blaguer (“to joke (about); to tell a lie”), from blague (“pouch, especially for tobacco; joke (from the notion of something puffed up, and thus fanciful)”) (from Dutch balg (“leather bag”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”)) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs).
The adjective and noun are probably derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: A good blag to get into a nightclub is to walk in carrying a record box.
glosses: An attempt to obtain, or the means of obtaining, something by guile or persuasion; a trick.
examples: text: Because I used to run cons with him. I came up here as a nun, but that was just a blag to make money out of the miners.
ref: 2013, Janis Pegrum Smith, More than Gold, [United Kingdom]: T*P Books, Wilton End Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Anyone who claims to be operating on a model designed to fulfil the will of Jesus, or Allah, or Krishna, or anyone, who isn't first and foremost dedicated to the union of all humankind and service of the needy is on a massive blag.
ref: 2014, Russell Brand, “Tiny Problems in Infinite Space”, in Revolution, London: Century, Random House, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: An act of deceiving; a con, a deception, a hoax.