cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
coke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊk/
ipa: /koʊk/
ipa: /koʉk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Etymology: Originated circa 1908 in American English as a clipping of cocaine.
Senses: glosses: Cocaine.
Derived terms: word: coke dick
word: coked up
english: coke head
translation: coke head
word: cokehead
word: coke nose
word: coke whore
Related terms: coca
coke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊk/
ipa: /koʊk/
ipa: /koʉk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: cokes
Etymology: 1909, from the name of the American company Coca-Cola and the beverage it produced; the drink was named for two of its original ingredients, coca leaves and cola nut.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
qualifier: New Mexico
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).
Synonyms: sense: soft drink
word: the list at soda
Derived terms: english: coke-bottle
translation: coke-bottle
word: coke bottle
word: coke float
word: go and eat coke
download
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnˌləʊd/
ipa: /ˌdaʊnˈləʊd/
ipa: /ˈdaʊnˌloʊd/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation, verb) -əʊd
Forms: form: downloads
form: DL
form: dl
form: d/l
form: D/L
Etymology: From down- + load. Verbal form first appears c. 1962 in the Wichita Falls (Texas) Times. Nominal form first appears c. 1977 in Scientific American.
Senses: examples: text: The download took longer than I expected.
glosses: A file transfer to a given computer or device from a remote one through a network connection.
examples: text: I got the download but it wouldn't work on my computer.
text: The blue sites will be blocked on all school computers, and no email or instant messaging will be set up or permitted. These student computers would strictly be for school use. Teachers will be able to request downloads from students' jumpdrives.
ref: 2007, Barbara Ellen Harris, I Am So Pissed!:
glosses: A file that has been or is intended to be transferred in this way.
Coordinate terms: upload
Derived terms: autodownload
download manager
drive-by download
redownload
annex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænɛks/
ipa: /ˈænɛks/
Forms: form: annexes
form: anex
form: annexe
Etymology: Borrowed from French annexe, from Latin annexus. More at Etymology 2.
Senses: examples: text: 6.2.3.2.2. For aircraft having pressurized cabins, the disinsection of cabins and annexes, cockpit and annexes, is to be carried out after the embarkation of passengers and crew and the closing of the doors and windscreen[.]
ref: 1949, World Health Organization, Report on the 1st- Session May 10-15, page 19:
glosses: An addition, an extension.
glosses: An appendix to a book or document.
glosses: An addition or extension to a building.
glosses: An addition to the territory of a country or state, from a neighbouring country or state, normally by military force.
Synonyms: sense: something additional
word: addition
word: supplement
word: augmentation
Derived terms: granny annexe
annex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænɛks/
ipa: /əˈnɛks/
ipa: /ˈænɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
ipa: /ˈænɛks/
ipa: /əˈnɛks/
ipa: /ˈænɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
Forms: form: annexes
form: annexing
form: annexed
form: annexed
form: anex
form: annexe
Etymology: From Middle English annexen, anexen, from Old French annexer (“to join”), from Medieval Latin annexāre, infinitive of annexō, frequentative of Latin annectō (“bind to”), from ad (“to”) + nectō (“tie, bind”). Compare the rare annect. Doublet of adnex.
Senses: examples: text: The ancient city of Petra was annexed by Rome.
text: In 1910, he returned to Korea, which had by this time been annexed by Japan.
ref: 2009, Wikipedia:Syngman Rhee:
glosses: To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate.
examples: text: to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt
text: Under Edward the Second, the Commons began to annex petitions to the bills by which they granted subsidies
ref: 1793, John Horne Tooke, The Constitution of England:
glosses: To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.
glosses: To join; to be united.
Synonyms: underjoin
Derived terms: annexable
annexation
annexational
annexationism
annexationist
annexment
annexure
disannex
nonannexed
reannex
unannexed
Related terms: adnexa
merge
fuse
add
annexation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annexations
Etymology: From Medieval Latin annexation-, stem of annexatio (“action of annexing”), from past participle of annecto.
Senses: glosses: Addition or incorporation of something, or territories that have been annexed.
topics: law
glosses: A legal merging of a territory into another body.
Synonyms: word: annexion
Derived terms: annexational
annexationism
annexationist
annexationistic
antiannexation
nonannexation
reannexation
astronomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstɹɑn.ə.mi/
ipa: /æsˈtɹɑn.ə.mi/
note: Indic
ipa: /asʈro.nɔmi/
note: Indic
ipa: /əsˈʈrɔnəmi/
rhymes: -ɒnəmi
Forms: form: astronomies
Etymology: From Middle English astronomie, astronemy, from Old French astronomie, equivalent to astro- + -nomy. Displaced native Old English tungolcræft.
Senses: examples: text: The fact is, dark energy is the biggest mystery in science. It has driven a huge amount of research in the past decade, and was a key driver in last year’s “New Worlds, New Horizons” report from the National Academies of Science, which prioritized future astronomy and astrophysics projects.
ref: 2011 October 9, Meg Urry, “Dark energy, science’s biggest mystery”, in CNN:
glosses: The study of the physical universe beyond the Earth's atmosphere, including the process of mapping locations and properties of the matter and radiation in the universe.
examples: text: Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck;
And yet methinks I have astronomy […]
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 14”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: Astrology.
Synonyms: word: astronomy
Hypernyms: science
Hyponyms: archaeoastronomy
archeoastronomy
astronomer
bioastronomy
Cherenkov astronomy
ethnoastronomy
gamma-ray astronomy
gravitational-wave astronomy
infrared astronomy
multi-messenger astronomy
neutrino astronomy
optical astronomy
paleoastronomy
radar astronomy
radio astronomy
ultraviolet astronomy
X-ray astronomy
Meronyms: word: archaeoastronomy
word: archeoastronomy
word: astrometry
word: infrared astronomy
word: neutrino astronomy
word: optical astronomy
word: paleoastronomy
word: radar astronomy
word: radio astronomy
word: X-ray astronomy
Derived terms: archaeastronomy
archaeoastronomy
archeoastronomy
astronomer
astronomess
astronomick
astronomist
bioastronomy
ethnoastronomy
paleoastronomy
Related terms: word: astral
word: astrologist
word: astrology
word: astrometry
word: astronomer
word: astronomical
word: astronomically
word: astrophysics
word: cosmology
word: uranology
word: starlore
word: celestial body
word: star
word: planet
word: moon
word: asteroid
word: comet
word: black hole
word: constellation
word: galaxy
word: aberration
word: astronomical unit
word: eclipse
word: meridian
word: occultation
word: orbit
word: parallax
word: perihelion
word: spectrum
word: right ascension
word: zenith
word: coronagraph
word: spectrograph
word: spectroheliograph
word: telescope
word: interferometer
word: observatory
word: :Category:Astronomy
word: Appendix:List of astronomical terms
giraffe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɪˈɹɑːf/
ipa: /dʒɪˈɹaf/
ipa: /d͡ʒəˈɹæf/
rhymes: -ɑːf
Forms: form: giraffes
form: giraffe
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-der.?
Classical Persian زُرْنَا (zurnā)
Proto-Indo-European *ped-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *pṓds
Proto-Indo-Iranian *pā́ts
Proto-Iranian *pā́dah
Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎭 (p-a-d)
Classical Persian پَا (pā)
Classical Persian زُرْنَاپَا (zurnāpā)bor.
Classical Syriac ܙܪܝܦܐ (zārīp̄ā)bor.
Arabic زُرَافَة (zurāfa)bor.
Italian giraffabor.
Middle French giraffebor.
English giraffe
Borrowed from Middle French giraffe, from Italian giraffa. Displaced camelopard.
Senses: examples: text: A group of giraffes is called a tower.
ref: 2019 June 6, “A gaggle, a confusion and a conspiracy - bizarre animal collective group names”, in BBC:
synonyms: camelopard
glosses: A ruminant, of the genus Giraffa, of the African savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, making them the tallest living animal; yellow fur patterned with dark spots, often in the form of a network; and two or more short, skin-covered horns, so-called; strictly speaking the horn-like projections are ossicones.
glosses: A giraffe unicycle.
examples: text: Are you having a giraffe?!
synonyms: bubble bath
bubble
glosses: A laugh.
glosses: A very tall individual.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Giraffa giraffa angolensis
word: Angolan giraffe
word: Baringo giraffe
word: Congolese giraffe
word: forest giraffe
word: giraffe bread
word: giraffedom
taxonomic: Litocranius walleri
word: giraffe gazelle
word: giraffelike
word: giraffeling
word: giraffe piano
word: giraffe seahorse
word: giraffe sheep
word: giraffess
word: giraffe thorn
taxonomic: Trachelophorus giraffa
word: giraffe weevil
word: giraffish
word: giraffiti
word: giraffoid
word: giraffy
word: high as giraffe pussy
taxonomic: Giraffa tippelskirchi tippelskirchi
word: Kilimanjaro giraffe
taxonomic: Giraffa camelopardalis antiquorum
word: Kordofan giraffe
word: Maasai giraffe
taxonomic: Giraffa tippelskirchi tippelskirchi
word: Masai giraffe
word: Niger giraffe
taxonomic: Giraffa peralta
word: Nigerian giraffe
taxonomic: Giraffa camelopardalis
word: northern giraffe
taxonomic: Giraffa camelopardalis camelopardalis
word: Nubian giraffe
taxonomic: Giraffa reticulata
word: reticulated giraffe
taxonomic: Giraffa camelopardalis thornicrofti
word: Rhodesian giraffe
taxonomic: Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi
word: Rothschild giraffe
word: Rothschild's giraffe
taxonomic: Giraffa giraffa angolensis
word: smoky giraffe
taxonomic: Giraffa reticulata
word: Somali giraffe
taxonomic: Giraffa giraffa giraffa
word: South African giraffe
taxonomic: Giraffa camelopardalis thornicrofti
word: Thornicroft's giraffe
taxonomic: Giraffa camelopardalis
word: three-horned giraffe
taxonomic: Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi
word: Ugandan giraffe
taxonomic: Giraffa camelopardalis peralta
word: West African giraffe
word: zebra giraffe
con
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒn/
enpr: kŏn
ipa: /kɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: conn
homophone: stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: cons
Etymology: Abbreviation of Latin contra (“against”).
Senses: examples: text: pros and cons
glosses: A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).
Synonyms: disadvantage
Related terms: pros and cons
con
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒn/
enpr: kŏn
ipa: /kɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: conn
homophone: stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: cons
Etymology: Clipping of convict.
Senses: glosses: A convicted criminal, a convict.
Derived terms: ex-con
con
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒn/
enpr: kŏn
ipa: /kɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: conn
homophone: stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: cons
Etymology: From con trick, shortened from confidence trick.
Senses: examples: text: My heart is breaking for my sister
And the con that she called "love"
ref: 2012, Jeff Bhasker, Nate Ruess, Andrew Dost, Jack Antonoff, “Some Nights”, in Some Nights), performed by fun.:
text: Leavers will be attracted to that story because it spares them the discomfort of admitting that they voted for a con, and then made a prime minister of the con artist.
ref: 2021 February 23, Rafael Behr, “Brexit is a machine to generate perpetual grievance. It's doing its job perfectly”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: scam
word: Abraham work
word: deception
word: deceit
word: dupery
word: fiddle
word: hocus-pocus
word: jugglery
word: list
word: mislead
word: Punic faith
word: rinky-dink
word: ruse
word: subterfuge
word: swack
word: trickery
glosses: A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.
Derived terms: bull con
con artist
con man
conman
con woman
conwoman
Don the Con
green con
long con
short con
con
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒn/
enpr: kŏn
ipa: /kɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: conn
homophone: stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: cons
form: conning
form: conned
form: conned
Etymology: From con trick, shortened from confidence trick.
Senses: examples: text: Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals [title]
ref: 2017 July 17, Martin Lukacs, “Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals”, in The Guardian:
text: Taiwan man soaks feet in dry ice for 10 hours to con insurance firms, causing amputation […] A man in Taiwan shocked the internet after attempting to defraud five insurance companies by immersing his feet in a bucket of dry ice for 10 hours, resulting in the amputation of both feet.
ref: 2025 June 25, Yating Yang, “Taiwan man soaks feet in dry ice for 10 hours to con insurance firms, causing amputation”, in scmp.com:
synonyms: word: be sold a pup
word: abuse
word: counterfeit
word: deceive
word: dissemble
word: dissimulate
word: feign
word: jiff
word: overreach
word: put on
word: spoof
word: sham
word: trick
glosses: To trick, lie or defraud, usually for personal gain.
Derived terms: outcon
unconned
Related terms: sense: terms derived from "con" (swindle)
word: con artist
sense: terms derived from "con" (swindle)
word: con game
sense: terms derived from "con" (swindle)
word: con man
sense: terms derived from "con" (swindle)
word: con trick
con
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒn/
enpr: kŏn
ipa: /kɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: conn
homophone: stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: cons
form: conning
form: conned
form: conned
Etymology: From earlier cond; see conn.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of conn (“direct a ship”).
con
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒn/
enpr: kŏn
ipa: /kɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: conn
homophone: stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: From earlier cond; see conn.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of conn (“navigational direction of a ship”).
Derived terms: take the con
con
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒn/
enpr: kŏn
ipa: /kɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: conn
homophone: stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: cons
Etymology: Clipping of convention or conference.
Senses: examples: text: I can't speak for Faye as ed of FHAPA, but it would be really swell of someone could send us a set of Intersection daily newszines, plus any con flyers or other fannish papers that were there to had for the picking up: fannish things, you know, not including media, gaming, filking or costuming, fine fun but not my cup of blog, thank you.
ref: 1995 September 4, Lindsay Crawford, “Re: Intersection”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <9509042250393785@emerald.com>:
glosses: An organized gathering, such as a convention, conference, or congress.
Derived terms: con crud
confan
con flu
congoer
conrunner
constaff
consuite
furcon
post-con depression
relaxacon
Trekcon
con
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒn/
enpr: kŏn
ipa: /kɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: conn
homophone: stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: cons
Etymology: Clipping of conversion.
Senses: examples: text: We're getting a loft con done next year.
glosses: The conversion of part of a building.
con
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒn/
enpr: kŏn
ipa: /kɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: conn
homophone: stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: Clipping of consumption.
Senses: glosses: Consumption; pulmonary tuberculosis.
con
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒn/
enpr: kŏn
ipa: /kɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: conn
homophone: stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: cons
form: conn
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps a clipping of Middle English acquerne, aquerne, ocquerne, okerne (“squirrel”), from Old English ācweorna, āqueorna, āquorna, ācurna (“squirrel”), from Proto-West Germanic *aikwernō, from Proto-Germanic *aikwernô (“squirrel”); or from its Old Norse cognate íkorni (“squirrel”), from the same ultimate source. Cognate with West Frisian iikhoarn (“squirrel”), Dutch eekhoorn (“squirrel”), German Eichhorn (“squirrel”), Icelandic íkorni (“squirrel”).
Senses: glosses: Squirrel, particularly the red squirrel.
glosses: A squirrel's nest.
con
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒn/
enpr: kŏn
ipa: /kɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: conn
homophone: stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: cons
Etymology: Clipping of conservative; compare lib.
Senses: examples: text: own the cons
glosses: A political conservative.
Derived terms: neocon
Obamacon
con
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒn/
enpr: kŏn
ipa: /kɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: conn
homophone: stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: Clipping of consolidation or consolidated.
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: Abbreviation of consolidation: only used in naming.
con
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒn/
enpr: kŏn
ipa: /kɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: conn
homophone: stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: Clipping of consolidation or consolidated.
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: Abbreviation of consolidated: only used in naming.
Synonyms: sense: consolidation, consolidated
word: consol
Related terms: sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: air-con
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: arroz con pollo
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: bodycon
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: café con leche
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: chile con carne
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: chili con carne
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: chili con queso
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: chilli con carne
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: con amore
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: con brio
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: cone
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: con law
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: con moto
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: con-non-con
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: con rod
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: con-scan
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: con-sensual
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: con sord
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: con sordini
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: con sordino
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: crim con
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: fabes con amasueles
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: loli-con
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: mod cons
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: nem con
sense: English terms containing "con" etymologically unrelated to the above entries
word: non-con
cloudless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cloudless
form: most cloudless
Etymology: From Middle English cloudeles, equivalent to cloud + -less.
Senses: examples: text: a cloudless day
text: a cloudless sky
text: The resurrection morning is a true sunrising, the inbursting of a cloudless day on all the righteous dead.
ref: 1873, Henry Southgate, Gone before, page 379:
synonyms: clear
noncloudy
unclouded
uncloudy
antonyms: clouded
cloudy
glosses: Without any clouds.
Derived terms: cloudlessly
cloudlessness
cloudless sulfur
cloudless sulphur
test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛst/
ipa: [tʰɛst]
ipa: [tʰest]
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: tests
Etymology: From Middle English teste, from Old French teste, test and Latin testis (“one who attests, a witness”).
Senses: examples: 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.
glosses: A witness.
Synonyms: word: all one's life's worth
word: challenge
word: mountain
word: test
word: trial
Hypernyms: word: chore
word: difficult situation
word: job
word: task
Hyponyms: word: woe
Related terms: word: Augean
word: Herculean
word: Sisyphean
word: boil the ocean
word: do the hard yards
word: have a mountain to climb
test
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛst/
ipa: [tʰɛst]
ipa: [tʰest]
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: tests
form: testing
form: tested
form: tested
Etymology: From Middle English teste, from Old French teste, test and Latin testis (“one who attests, a witness”).
Senses: glosses: To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
glosses: To make a testament, or will.
Related terms: attest
contest
detest
protest
test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛst/
ipa: [tʰɛst]
ipa: [tʰest]
rhymes: -ɛst
Senses: topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Clipping of testosterone.
Synonyms: word: all one's life's worth
word: challenge
word: mountain
word: test
word: trial
Hypernyms: word: chore
word: difficult situation
word: job
word: task
Hyponyms: word: woe
Related terms: word: Augean
word: Herculean
word: Sisyphean
word: boil the ocean
word: do the hard yards
word: have a mountain to climb
cloudlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloudlets
Etymology: From cloud + -let.
Senses: examples: text: 1872, Thomas Durfee, "El Paseo" in The Village Picnic and Other Poems, Providence, RI: George H. Whitney, p. 112, https://books.google.ca/books?id=pIEtAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
I gaze at the beautiful dames that go / In their open volantes up and down; / Bewitchingly floating, by threes and by twos, / In their gauzy cloudlets of silk and of lace, / That seem to have robbed the sky of its hues, / And seem to have robbed the swan of his grace.
text: We drove briskly up the long, sleeping hill, and bowled down the hollow past the farms where the hens were walking with the red gold cocks in the orchard, and the ducks like white cloudlets under the aspen trees revelled in the pond.
ref: 1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock, London: Heinemann, page 365:
text: The slide was shot back. A penitent emerged from the farther side of the box. The near slide was drawn. A penitent entered where the other penitent had come out. A soft whispering noise floated in vaporous cloudlets out of the box. It was the woman: soft whispering cloudlets, soft whispering vapour, whispering and vanishing.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter 3, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
text: The shell-bursts from the Fascist anti-aircraft guns dotted the sky like cloudlets in a bad water-colour, but I never saw them get within a thousand yards of an aeroplane.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
text: At the world's edge began a strewing of roses, a shining and a blooming ineffably pure; baby cloudlets hung illumined, like attendant amoretti, in the blue and blushful haze […]
ref: 1963, Thomas Mann, “Death in Venice”, in H. T. Lowe-Porter, transl., Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories, New York: Vintage, page 49:
text: The water overflowed, creating a wide circle of soggy ground and marsh and shallow puddles above which, in the brilliance of the morning, there was a shimmer of butterflies and dense cloudlets of flies pulsing like veils.
ref: 1968, Ivo Andrić, “Mustapha Magyar”, in Joseph Hitrec, transl., The Pasha's Concubine and Other Tales, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 93:
synonyms: cloudling
glosses: A little cloud.
examples: text: The idea is to use the cloudlet as a flexible gateway or portal to access the distant cloud. The cloudlet can be implemented on PCs, workstations or low-cost servers.
ref: 2017, Kai Hwang, Min Chen, Big-Data Analytics for Cloud, IoT and Cognitive Computing, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small-scale cloud data center deployed at the edge.
without
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪðˈaʊt/
ipa: /wɪθˈaʊt/
ipa: /wɪθˈaʊt/
ipa: /wɪðˈaʊt/
ipa: /wɪˈθaʊt/
ipa: /wɪˈðaʊt/
ipa: [wɪθˈɐʊ̯t]
ipa: [wɪðˈɐʊ̯t]
ipa: [-əu̯t]
ipa: [-ʌʊ̯t]
ipa: [wɪθˈɛʊ̯t]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [wɪɾ̥ˈəu̯t]
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: withoute
form: wythoute
form: wythowt
form: wythowte
Etymology: From Middle English withoute, withouten, from Old English wiþūtan (literally “against the outside of”). Compare Dutch buiten (“outside of, without”), Danish uden (“without”), Swedish utan (“without”), Norwegian uten (“without”). By surface analysis, with- + out.
Superseded non-native Middle English sauns, sans (“without”), from Old French sans, sanz, senz (“without”).
Senses: examples: text: And as each and all of them were warmed without by the sun, so each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, at least some remote and distant hope which, though perhaps starving to nothing, still lived on, as hopes will.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 18:
text: Strange silence here: without, the sounding street
Heralds the world's swift passage to the fire
ref: 1900, Ernest Dowson, Benedictio Domini, lines 13–14:
text: I knew that someone had entered the house cautiously from without.
ref: 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, Norton, published 2005, page 1100:
text: The feeling seemed to come not from without, but from within each body, as though every person had become a vibrating string.
ref: 2016, Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu, Death's End, Tor, translation of 死神永生, →ISBN, page 236:
text: Brainiac: This earthquake is quite literally worldwide.
Alex Danvers: But the seismic activity [isn't] coming from within the planet, it's coming from without.
ref: 2019 December 8, Supergirl (TV series), season 5, episode 8, "Crisis on Infinite Earths"
glosses: Outside, externally.
examples: text: Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without.
text: We've run out of bread; you'll have to do without until I can get to the bakeshop.
text: Whose can be used with a following noun or without.
text: Communication is a kind of beauty, he said – and “beauty manifests itself from the noun itself, without strawberries on the cake.”
ref: 2019 September 24, Jessie Yeung, “Pope Francis loves nouns but is ‘allergic’ to adjectives”, in CNN, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2019:
glosses: Lacking something; failing.
examples: text: “What's within reason?” “Hand-job, blow-job, full sex — straight, full service. Greek, maybe, if you're not too big. Golden shower, if you like, but not reverse. No hardsports. And absolutely nothing without.”
ref: 2012, Maxim Jakubowski, The Best British Crime Omnibus:
topics: lifestyle
prostitution
sexuality
glosses: Without a condom being worn.
Derived terms: Calne Without
Chippenham Without
Clifton Without
do without
go without
Llanidloes Without
make it do or do without
Melksham Without
Millom Without
Minehead Without
St Cuthbert Without
Wellington Without
without
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪðˈaʊt/
ipa: /wɪθˈaʊt/
ipa: /wɪθˈaʊt/
ipa: /wɪðˈaʊt/
ipa: /wɪˈθaʊt/
ipa: /wɪˈðaʊt/
ipa: [wɪθˈɐʊ̯t]
ipa: [wɪðˈɐʊ̯t]
ipa: [-əu̯t]
ipa: [-ʌʊ̯t]
ipa: [wɪθˈɛʊ̯t]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [wɪɾ̥ˈəu̯t]
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: withoute
form: wythoute
form: wythowt
form: wythowte
Etymology: From Middle English withoute, withouten, from Old English wiþūtan (literally “against the outside of”). Compare Dutch buiten (“outside of, without”), Danish uden (“without”), Swedish utan (“without”), Norwegian uten (“without”). By surface analysis, with- + out.
Superseded non-native Middle English sauns, sans (“without”), from Old French sans, sanz, senz (“without”).
Senses: examples: text: You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter I, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 1:
text: ‘Why,’ he blurted, ‘because they say I've no right to come up like this—without we mean to marry—’
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: Unless, except (introducing a clause).
glycolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlɪsɪs
Forms: form: glycolyses
Etymology: From glyco- + -lysis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The cellular degradation of the simple sugar glucose to yield pyruvic acid, and ATP as an energy source
Derived terms: endoglycolysis
glycolytic
hyperglycolysis
philia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪ.li.ə/
ipa: /ˈfiː.li.ə/
rhymes: -ɪliə
rhymes: -iːliə
Forms: form: philias
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek φιλία (philía).
Senses: glosses: friendship
glosses: liking
glosses: a psychological disorder characterized by an irrational favorable disposition towards something
stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɑɹz/
ipa: /stɑːz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of star
stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɑɹz/
ipa: /stɑːz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: Outer space.
Derived terms: royal stars
shoot for the stars
stars and bars
stars and stripes
stars in their eyes
written in the stars
stars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɑɹz/
ipa: /stɑːz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of star
star system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star systems
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: stellar system
glosses: A group of stars (and possibly smaller bodies such as planets or asteroids) that orbit one another.
examples: text: Chapters have examined the general structural trends that have defined particular phases in the organisation of the star system, looking at the conditions in which the system emerged, how the studios controlled the ownership of star images, and the power of the star in contemporary Hollywood.
ref: 2001, Paul McDonald, The Star System: Hollywood's Production of Popular Identities, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 107:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A method of creating, promoting and exploiting movie stars in cinema, emphasizing on their images rather than acting.
Related terms: constellation
planetary system
solar system
hagseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hagseeds
form: hag-seed
Etymology: From hag + seed.
Senses: examples: text: Hag-seed, hence!
Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou’rt best,
To answer other business.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: The offspring of a hag.
hagship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hag + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of a hag, an ugly woman.
hag-taper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hag-tapers
form: high-taper
form: hig-taper
Etymology: From hag + taper; see taper (“candle”).
Senses: synonyms: torchwort
common mullein
great mullein
Adam's flannel
Jacob's staff
Aaron's rod
Jupiter's staff
cow's lungwort
glosses: The great woolly mullein (Verbascum thapsus).
hah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: hä
ipa: /hɑː/
ipa: [ha(ː)]
rhymes: -ɑː
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ha.
examples: text: Shut up, buddy, you've forgotten that I can't run. Now you're the wise guy, hah?
ref: 1994, Milton Teichman, Sharon Leder, Truth and Lamentation: Stories and Poems on the Holocaust, page 58:
text: Isaac Sachs makes a 'Hah?' noise. 'You're not Sixsmith's niece?'
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of huh.
hah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hä
ipa: /hɑː/
ipa: [ha(ː)]
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: hahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heh (“Semitic letter”).
Related terms: hem and hah
hah
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: enpr: hä
ipa: /hɑː/
ipa: [ha(ː)]
rhymes: -ɑː
ipa: /hɑː˨/
ipa: [-˧˨]
ipa: /hɑː˨˦/
enpr: hä
ipa: /hɑː/
ipa: [ha(ː)]
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: har
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 哈 (hâⁿ).
Senses: examples: text: Mother: Just wait awhile, Susan. Jack said he’d be a little late. […] What would you like to drink, some Coca Cola?
Susan: That’s alright Aunty. We’re going out to dinner.
Mother: Or you prefer Pepsi, hah? We don’t drink Pepsi ourself, I always keep a few bottles just in case. Some people are so fussy.
ref: 1989, Eleanor Wong, Jackson on a Jaunt, or, Mistaken Identities, page 5, lines 23–31:
glosses: Synonym of ah (sense 1); used to form tag questions prompting the listener to confirm something.
synonyms: word: ah
extra: (sense 1); used to form tag questions prompting the listener to confirm something
examples: text: So, just make sure you don’t accidentally mix the two together lah, hah?
synonyms: hor
glosses: Used to form a tag question, either to invite acknowledgment, or to ascertain the continued attention of the listener.
raw_tags: after lah
glosses: Tagged at the end of a confirmation-seeking sentence to express subtle surprise or realisation.
hah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: hä
ipa: /hɑː/
ipa: [ha(ː)]
rhymes: -ɑː
ipa: /hɑː˨/
ipa: [-˧˨]
ipa: [hɑː˨˦˨]
enpr: hä
ipa: /hɑː/
ipa: [ha(ː)]
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: har
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 哈 (hâⁿ).
Senses: glosses: Huh!; used to express subtle surprise or amusement in a conversation.
glosses: Expression of discontent when one is faced with a rude awakening.
Related terms: word: what
word: lah1–14
word: lor2–3
word: lor1
word: ah6–7
word: leh1–2
word: mah
word: leh3–6
word: one1–3
word: hor1
word: know
word: nia
word: only
word: sia
word: hor2
word: ah1–3
word: hah1–3
word: meh
word: ba2
word: leh7–11
word: ba1
word: liao
word: already
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: Gupta
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: A. F. (1992)
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: in
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: volume 18
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: number 1
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: →DOI
delta
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛltə/
ipa: [ˈdɛɫtə]
rhymes: -ɛltə
Forms: form: deltas
form: deltaing
form: deltaed
form: deltaed
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δέλτα (délta), borrowed from a Phoenician word for "door", ultimately from Proto-Semitic *dalt-. Doublet of dalet.
* (river): from the triangular shape of the majuscule Greek letter delta Δ
* (USSF): from the delta wing, symbol of the USSF, a triangular wing, shaped like the majuscule Greek letter delta Δ
Senses: examples: text: Turingery worked on deltaed key to produce the deltaed contribution of the chi-wheels. Turing's discovery that delta-ing would reveal information otherwise hidden was essential to the developments that followed.
ref: 2007, B. J. Copeland, “Tunny and Colossus: Breaking the Lorenz Schlüsselzusatz traffic”, in Karl de Leeuw, Jan Bergstra, editors, The History of Information Security: A Comprehensive Handbook, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →ISBN, page 458:
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To calculate the differences between the characters in an enciphered text and the characters a fixed number of positions previous.
examples: text: The primary function of this command is to delta the product version file (if it has been retrieved for edit). However, prior to deltaing the product version file, the work source tree is searched to verify that no other source files are still waiting to be deltaed.
ref: 1992, Israel Silverberg, Source File Management With SCCS, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 166:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To compare two versions of the same file in order to determine where they differ (where a programmer has made edits).
epsilon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛpˈsaɪ.lən/
ipa: /ˈɛp.sɪˌlɒn/
ipa: /ˈɛp.sɪˌlɑn/
ipa: /ˈɛp.sɪ.lən/
ipa: /epˈsɑɪ.lən/
ipa: /ˈep.sɪ.lɔn/
ipa: /ˈeps.lən/
Forms: form: epsilons
form: epsila
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἒ ψιλόν (è psilón, “simple Ε”).
Senses: glosses: The fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ε or Ε, preceded by delta (Δ, δ) and followed by zeta (Ζ, ζ).
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: In IPA, the phonetic symbol ɛ that represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An arbitrarily small quantity.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An arbitrarily small quantity.
A small child.
examples: text: Yes, we have to convert all the symbol names to upper case at startup, but that’s epsilon.
text: All right, okay. My interest is epsilon.
ref: 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 106:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Something negligible or insignificant.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The percentage change in an option value with respect to the underlying dividend yield.
Hypernyms: sense: measure of derivative price sensitivity
english: includes list of coordinate terms
translation: includes list of coordinate terms
word: Greeks
Derived terms: epsilonic
epsilonics
epsilon iron
epsilonize
epsilon-machine
epsilon number
machine epsilon
hot chocolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot chocolates
Senses: examples: text: My mom drinks hot chocolate before bed.
synonyms: cocoa
hot cocoa
coordinate_terms: chocolate tea
cocoa tea
glosses: A warm beverage usually made of cocoa and water or milk, often drunk during cold weather.
examples: text: Could I get a hot chocolate with my toast?
glosses: A serving of this beverage.
examples: text: She likes to sprinkle hot chocolate on her ice cream.
glosses: A powder usually made from cocoa, sugar, and other ingredients, used to prepare this beverage.
hot chocolate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hot chocolates
form: hot chocolating
form: hot chocolated
form: hot chocolated
Senses: examples: text: […] butter & toast & warm towels after bath & lying in bed in laughter, snuggling & hot chocolating. love.
ref: 2006, Sean Burn, Edgecities, page 71:
text: “Well, while you and Denise are hot chocolating, I shall be finalizing next week's arrangements,” said Svetlana haughtily.
ref: 2010, Robin Anderson, La Di Da Di Bloody Da!', page 195:
text: They’d driven up while we’d been hot and stayed a bit longer up high.
ref: 2021 July 5, Heidi Steltzer, “Amid historic heat, a climate scientist’s mountain love story (commentary)”, in Mongabay:
glosses: To consume hot chocolate.
zeta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈziː.tə/
ipa: /ˈzeɪtə/
rhymes: -iːtə
rhymes: -eɪtə
Forms: form: zetas
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta). Doublet of zed.
Senses: glosses: The sixth letter of the modern Greek alphabet (Ζ, ζ) preceded by epsilon (Ε, ε) and followed by eta, (Η, η); or the seventh letter in the ancient Greek alphabet, in which it is preceded by digamma (Ϝ, ϝ)
examples: text: Zeta of 3 is irrational
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A mathematical function, formally known as the Riemann zeta function.
Derived terms: zeta function
zeta pinch
zeta potential
zeta value
digamma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈɡæmə/
rhymes: -æmə
Forms: form: digammas
Etymology: From di- + gamma, from its shape resembling two stacked capital gammas (Γ).
Senses: synonyms: wau
glosses: An Ancient Greek letter representing /w/: Ϝ, ϝ
Coordinate terms: word: digamma function
sense: Greek alphabet; Previous
alt: Ε
word: epsilon
sense: Greek alphabet; Next
alt: Ζ
word: zeta
phoneme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊ.niːm/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.nim/
rhymes: -əʊniːm
Forms: form: phonemes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”). By surface analysis, phone (“speech sound”) + -eme (“unit”).
Senses: examples: text: It is crucial for the phoneme structure of Finnish — traditionally /d/ has not been included in the Finnish phonotax, but it fulfils the criteria of a phoneme (Karlsson, 1983: 66-7).
ref: 1990, Jarmo Lainio, “Sweden Finnish — development or deterioration?”, in Durk Gorter, editor, Fourth International Conference on Minority Languages: Western and Eastern European papers, Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 31:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
hypernyms: syntagma
glosses: An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.
Derived terms: archiphoneme
diaphoneme
grapheme-phoneme correspondence
metaphoneme
morphophoneme
phonemal
phonematic
phonemehood
phonemic
phonemical
phonemically
phonemicist
phonemicity
phonemics
subphoneme
Related terms: allophone
allophonic
allophonical
allophonically
allophonics
diaphone
diaphonic
diaphonical
diaphonically
diaphonics
diaphonologic
diaphonological
diaphonologically
diaphonology
grapheme-to-phoneme
-phone
phone
phonetic
phonetical
phonetically
phonetics
phonic
phonical
phonically
phonics
phono-
phonologic
phonological
phonologically
phonologist
phonology
chereme
chroneme
grammeme
grapheme
lemma
lexeme
listeme
morpheme
sememe
toneme
natural
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: năchʹ(ə)rəl
ipa: /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈnatʃ(ʊ)rəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈnetʃ(ʊ)rəl/
rhymes: -ætʃəɹəl
rhymes: -ætʃɹəl
Forms: form: more natural
form: most natural
form: naturall
form: nat'ral
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English natural, borrowed from Old French natural, naturel, from Latin nātūrālis, from nātus, the perfect participle of nāscor (“be born”, verb). Displaced native Old English ġecynde. By surface analysis, nature + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Watson, on the other hand, spoke natural.
ref: 2002, Daniel Shields, I Know Where the Horses Play, iUniverse, page 64:
text: "If the doctor hadn't been sure she was strangled you'd have sworn she died natural."
ref: 2005, Leo Bruce, Jack on the Gallows Tree: A Carolus Deene Mystery, Chicago: Chicago Review Press, page 124:
glosses: Naturally; in a natural manner.
fried egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fried eggs
Senses: examples: text: It's difficult to have a perfectly cooked, cooked-through fried egg because, by the time the yolk has coagulated, or set, the white is overcooked. You'll usually have to settle for either a runny yolk or a tough white.
ref: 1997 March 20, Kristin Eddy, “EGGS a dozen ways”, in Atlanta Journal Constitution:
text: Carefully break the egg into a bowl, […] Cook until the egg white is set, then turn and cook briefly. The yolk should still be runny. […] Top with the fried egg.
ref: 1997 April 16, JANET FLETCHER, “FLEETING PLEASURES; The first blush of spring's harvest”, in San Francisco Chronicle:
text: "Your dad said you should have a fried egg. He's gone to work awhile back. You want one or two?" I hesitated, and she must have caught a look of distaste on my face, for she added amiably, "Or you like scrambled better?"
ref: 2004 Autumn, Julie Keith, “Pneumonia”, in The Hudson Review, volume 57, Iss. 3, page 440:
coordinate_terms: boiled egg
omelet
omelette
poached egg
scrambled egg
scromlette
glosses: An egg that has been shallow-fried on one or both sides without being beaten or stirred.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A golf ball half-buried in sand in a bunker.
examples: text: Not only is she keeping Moyles out of the Breakfast slot. We now have to look at her Fried eggs in the newspaper (well The Sun!!!!).
ref: 1999 May 11, Sean Gallagher, “Zoe Ball's page 3”, in uk.media.radio.bbc-r1 (Usenet), message-ID <7ha8hh$5qo$1@news4.svr.pol.co.uk>:
text: Placing his hands on her fried eggs he asked, “Any chance of some action?”
ref: 2006, Sinead Moriarty, The Right Fit, →ISBN, page 18:
text: She pats her breast, not so much to draw attention to her fried eggs, but to force her breaths to become rhythmic.
ref: 2009, Fred Broussard, South Carolin: Island in the Sea of States, volume 2, →ISBN, page 8:
synonyms: bee sting
mosquito bite
glosses: A small female breast.
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: A collocation which is not idiomatic; sum of parts.
Derived terms: fried-egg plant
fried-eggy
Related terms: over easy
sunny side up