cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: lane
Forms: form: lains
form: laining
form: lained
form: lained
form: lean
form: len
Etymology: From Middle English lainen, leynen, from Old Norse leyna (“to conceal”) and Old English līeġnan (“to deny; conceal”); both from Proto-Germanic *laugnijaną, from Proto-Germanic *laugnō (“secrecy”).
Senses: examples: text: Also broder sir Agrauayne and sir mordred in lyke wyse sir Launcelot rescowed yow bothe and thre score and two from sir Turquyn / Me thynketh broder suche kynde dedes and kyndenes shold be remembryd / doo as ye lyst sayd syr Agrauayne for I wylle layne it no lenger
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “j”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XX:
glosses: To conceal, keep quiet about.
lied
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lēd
ipa: /liːd/
homophone: lead
homophone: lede
homophone: leed
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: lieder
Etymology: Borrowed from German Lied (“song”). Doublet of leed, which was inherited by Old English lēoþ (“poem”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An art song, usually sung solo in German and accompanied on the piano.
Derived terms: liedlike
lied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lēd
ipa: /liːd/
homophone: lead
homophone: lede
homophone: leed
rhymes: -iːd
enpr: līd
ipa: /laɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: lyed
enpr: lēd
ipa: /liːd/
homophone: lead
homophone: lede
homophone: leed
rhymes: -iːd
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: examples: text: “They put on an unemotional face but they're concerned, all right,” he said. “I lied, you know, and they know it. At least Sam knows it. This just might not be so routine a procedure. But we have to go in, and right now.[…]
ref: 2006 December 23, Arelo Sederberg, Country Music: And Other Stories, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 211:
glosses: simple past and past participle of lie (in the sense "to give false information intentionally")
participle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːˈtɪsɪpəl/
ipa: /ˈpɑːtɪsɪpəl/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹtɪˌsɪpəl/
Forms: form: participles
Etymology: From Middle English participle, from Old French participle (1388), variant of participe, from Latin participium.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A form of a verb that may function as an adjective, noun or adverb. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect participles.
Hypernyms: verbal
Hyponyms: active participle
adverbial participle
agent participle
dangling participle
future participle
gerund-participle
hanging participle
past active participle
past participle
perfect participle
perfect passive participle
present active participle
present participle
verbal participle
Derived terms: gerund-participle
part of speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parts of speech
Etymology: From Middle English parte of spech, a calque of Latin pars ōrātiōnis.
Senses: examples: text: PARTS OF SPEECH. There are ten parts of speech, viz. Article, Substantive or Noun, Adjective, Numeral, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction, and Interjection.
ref: 1828, Charles Follen, A Practical Grammar of the German Language, Boston, page 9:
text: 322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
ref: 1844, E. A. Andrews, First Lessions in Latin; or Introduction to Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar, 6th edition, Boston, page 91:
text: One group of substantives, the gerunds (scolding), belongs to a form-class with infinitives and with other verb-forms, in serving as head for certain types of modifiers, such as a goal (scolding the boys). For this reason a system of parts of speech in a language like English cannot be set up in any fully satisfactory way: our list of parts of speech will depend upon which functions we take to be the most important.
ref: 1933, Leonard Bloomfield, Language, page 269:
text: The Parts of Speech are the Noun (Substantive and Adjective), the Pronoun, the Verb, and the Particles (Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction)[.]
ref: 2008 (1894), B. L. Gildersleeve & G. Lodge, Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar, third edition, reprint by Dover, p.9
text: Following this, coding was added to delineate multiple senses within entries and nested terms within entries; then part of speech labels were added for every sense[.]
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 489:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb.
Synonyms: lexical category
lexical class
syntactic category
word class
light
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: līt
ipa: /laɪt/
ipa: [laɪt]
ipa: [lɑjt]
ipa: [ɫɐɪt]
ipa: [ləjt]
ipa: [lɑɪt]
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: lite
Forms: form: lighter
form: lightest
form: lite
form: lighte
form: lyght
form: lyghte
form: licht
Etymology: From Middle English light, liht, leoht, from Old English lēoht (“luminous, bright, light, clear, resplendent, renowned, beautiful”), from Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz (“light”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian ljoacht (“light”), Dutch licht, German licht.
Senses: examples: text: The room is light when the Sun shines through the window.
text: Historic England explained the listing: "The station's unique design employs a high level of sophistication and innovation through its use of conoid shells supported on a cruck-like frame, which not only create a dramatic aesthetic form, but endow the building with a light and spacious interior."
ref: 2023 March 22, Philip Haigh, “Five configuration stages to boost Manchester rail capacity”, in RAIL, number 979, page 31:
glosses: Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.
examples: text: She had light skin.
text: 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the Sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.
examples: text: I like my coffee light.
glosses: Served with extra milk or cream.
raw_tags: of coffee
Synonyms: sense: having light
word: bright
sense: having light
word: lightful
sense: pale in colour
word: pale
sense: coffee: served with extra milk or cream
word: white
word: with milk
word: with cream
word: ablaze
word: coruscating
word: dazzling
word: effulgent
word: flashy
word: gleaming
word: glowing
word: hot
word: illuminated
word: incandescent
word: irradiated
word: lit
word: lucent
word: luminous
word: lustrous
word: radiant
word: refulgent
word: scintillating
word: shiny
word: sparkling
word: splendent
word: vibrant
Derived terms: Light Alfs
light bread
light brown apple moth
light-colored
lightface
lightfaced
light-haired
lightie
lightish
light matter
light orange
light paper
light plough
light side of the Force
lightskin
light-skinned
lightsome
lightsomely
lightsomeness
lightwood
nonlight
noonlight
overlight
Related terms: lightness
lighty
light
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: līt
ipa: /laɪt/
ipa: [laɪt]
ipa: [lɑjt]
ipa: [ɫɐɪt]
ipa: [ləjt]
ipa: [lɑɪt]
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: lite
Forms: form: lighter
form: lightest
form: lite
form: lighte
form: lyght
form: lyghte
form: licht
Etymology: From Old English lēoht, līht, from Proto-West Germanic *lį̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *linhtaz or *līhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- (“light”).
Cognate with Dutch licht, German leicht, Swedish lätt, Norwegian lett, Albanian lehtë, Latin levis, Russian лёгкий (ljóxkij), Lithuanian lengvas, Sanskrit लघु (laghu), Persian لاغر (lāghar).
Senses: examples: text: I prefer to travel light.
glosses: Carrying little.
Derived terms: travel light
Related terms: lightliness
lightly
light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: līt
ipa: /laɪt/
ipa: [laɪt]
ipa: [lɑjt]
ipa: [ɫɐɪt]
ipa: [ləjt]
ipa: [lɑɪt]
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: lite
Forms: form: lights
form: lite
form: lighte
form: lyght
form: lyghte
form: licht
Etymology: From Old English lēoht, līht, from Proto-West Germanic *lį̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *linhtaz or *līhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- (“light”).
Cognate with Dutch licht, German leicht, Swedish lätt, Norwegian lett, Albanian lehtë, Latin levis, Russian лёгкий (ljóxkij), Lithuanian lengvas, Sanskrit लघु (laghu), Persian لاغر (lāghar).
Senses: topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
glosses: See lights (“lungs”).
examples: text: We crossed to the pub on the corner of Carlisle Street and I ordered two schooners of old for him and one of light for me.
ref: 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 117:
glosses: A low-alcohol lager.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A member of the light cavalry.
Synonyms: word: luminance
word: radiation
Meronyms: word: bioluminescence
word: color
word: photograph
Related terms: word: photon
light
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: līt
ipa: /laɪt/
ipa: [laɪt]
ipa: [lɑjt]
ipa: [ɫɐɪt]
ipa: [ləjt]
ipa: [lɑɪt]
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: lite
Forms: form: lights
form: lighting
form: lighted
form: lighted
form: lite
form: lighte
form: lyght
form: lyghte
form: licht
Etymology: From Old English lēoht, līht, from Proto-West Germanic *lį̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *linhtaz or *līhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- (“light”).
Cognate with Dutch licht, German leicht, Swedish lätt, Norwegian lett, Albanian lehtë, Latin levis, Russian лёгкий (ljóxkij), Lithuanian lengvas, Sanskrit लघु (laghu), Persian لاغر (lāghar).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter
examples: text: His mailèd habergeon she did undight, / And from his head his heavy burgonet did light.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
glosses: To leave; to depart.
Derived terms: light along
light down
lighter
light up
light
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: līt
ipa: /laɪt/
ipa: [laɪt]
ipa: [lɑjt]
ipa: [ɫɐɪt]
ipa: [ləjt]
ipa: [lɑɪt]
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: lite
Forms: form: lights
form: lighting
form: lit
form: lit
form: lighted
form: lighted
form: light
form: light
form: lite
form: lighte
form: lyght
form: lyghte
form: licht
Etymology: From Middle English lighten, from Old English līhtan (“to relieve”), from Proto-West Germanic *lį̄htijan, from Proto-Germanic *linhtijaną, from *linhtaz (“light”).
Senses: examples: text: I lit upon a rare book in a second-hand bookseller's.
glosses: To find by chance.
examples: text: "Sacredam!" he cried, when his eyes lit upon Buck. "Dat one dam bully dog! Eh? How moch?"
ref: 1903 July, Jack London, “Into the Primitive”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 34:
glosses: To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice
examples: text: She fell out of the window but luckily lit on her feet.
text: [W]e knew not what Courſe to take, but the Creatures [wolves] reſolv'd us ſoon, for they gather'd about us preſently, in Hopes of Prey, […] I drew my little Troop in among thoſe Trees, and placing our ſelves in a Line, behind one long Tree, I advis'd them all to light, and keeping that Tree before us, for a Breaſt-Work, to ſtand in a Triangle, or three Fronts, encloſing our Horſes in the Center.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, pages 356–357:
text: And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
ref: 1769, Benjamin Blayney (Ed.), King James Bible (Genesis 24:64)
text: Some kinds of ducks in lighting strike the water with their tails first, and skitter along the surface for a few feet before settling down.
ref: 1885, Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman:
text: 1957, Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel), The Cat in the Hat
And our fish came down, too. He fell into a pot! He said, "Do I like this? Oh, no! I do not. This is not a good game," Said our fish as he lit.
text: One cannot help but notice a teasingly elusive air about her, as if she were a butterfly that refused to light and fluttered just out of reach of its would-be captor.
ref: 1977 December 31, Lisa Nussbaum, “Jacqui Mac: Bringing Her Dreams Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 10:
glosses: To alight; to land or come down.
Synonyms: sense: find by chance
word: chance upon
sense: find by chance
word: come upon
sense: find by chance
word: find
sense: find by chance
word: happen upon
sense: find by chance
word: hit upon
sense: alight
word: alight
sense: alight
word: land
Derived terms: light into
light out
lit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology: Alteration of earlier light, from Middle English lighte, from Old English līhtte, first and third person singular preterite of līhtan (“to light”), by analogy with bit. More at light; compare fit (“fought”).
This form was proscribed during the 18th and 19th centuries, with lighted being preferred, but is now the most common past form of light.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of light (“illuminate; start a fire; etc”)
examples: text: […] but finally [the bird] came to the tree and, after edging along falteringly, lit on a branch above them.
ref: 1896, Florence Merriam Bailey, A-birding on a Bronco, page 87:
glosses: simple past and past participle of light (“alight: land, come down on”)
lit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: lits
form: litting
form: litted
form: litted
Etymology: Alteration of earlier light, from Middle English lighte, from Old English līhtte, first and third person singular preterite of līhtan (“to light”), by analogy with bit. More at light; compare fit (“fought”).
This form was proscribed during the 18th and 19th centuries, with lighted being preferred, but is now the most common past form of light.
Senses: examples: text: With that the kid lits off down the street, and, what do you know!
ref: 1988 April 8, Grant Pick, “Johnny Washington's Life”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: To run or light (alight).
lit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: litter
form: more lit
form: littest
form: most lit
Etymology: From Middle English lit, lut, from Old English lȳt (“little, few”), from Proto-Germanic *lūtilaz (“little, small”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewd- (“to cower, hunch over”). Cognate with Old Saxon lut (“little”), Middle High German lützen (“to make small or low, decrease”). More at little.
Senses: glosses: Little.
lit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology: From Middle English lit, lut, from Old English lȳt (“little, few”), from Proto-Germanic *lūtilaz (“little, small”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewd- (“to cower, hunch over”). Cognate with Old Saxon lut (“little”), Middle High German lützen (“to make small or low, decrease”). More at little.
Senses: glosses: Little.
Related terms: lite
lit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology: From Middle English lit, from Old Norse litr (“colour, dye, complexion, face, countenance”), from Proto-Germanic *wlitiz, *wlitaz (“sight, face”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to see”). Cognate with Icelandic litur (“colour”), Old English wlite (“brightness, appearance, form, aspect, look, countenance, beauty, splendor, adornment”), Old English wlītan (“to gaze, look, observe”).
Senses: glosses: Colour; blee; dye; stain.
Derived terms: lithouse
lit-house
litmus
lit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: lits
form: litting
form: litted
form: litted
Etymology: From Middle English litten, liten, from Old Norse lita (“to colour”), from litr (“colour”). See above.
Senses: glosses: To colour; dye.
lit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology: Short for literature.
Senses: examples: text: Do we have any lit homework tonight?
glosses: Clipping of literature.
Derived terms: alt-lit
chick lit
comput lit
cyberlit
dick lit
frat lit
grip-lit
kidlit
lab lit
lad lit
ladlit
litblog
lit crit
litfan
litfic
lit flick
litRPG
lit-verse
litzine
misery lit
mis lit
poplit
quit lit
sick lit
Treklit
vid lit
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: wagon-lit
lighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪtəd/
rhymes: -aɪtəd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of light
lighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪtəd/
rhymes: -aɪtəd
Forms: form: more lighted
form: most lighted
Senses: glosses: Filled with light; illuminated.
Synonyms: illuminated
lighty
lit up
Derived terms: candlelighted
lamplighted
multilighted
nonlighted
starlighted
toplighted
torchlighted
unlighted
past participle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæst pɑː(ɹ)ˈtɪsɪpəl/
ipa: /ˈpɑːst pɑː(ɹ)ˈtɪsɪpəl/
Forms: form: past participles
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A participle indicating a completed action or state.
Synonyms: perfect participle
Coordinate terms: future participle
present participle
Derived terms: active past participle
past participial
inflect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈflɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: inflects
form: inflecting
form: inflected
form: inflected
Etymology: From Latin īnflectō, from in- (“in”) + flectō (“I bend”).
Senses: glosses: To cause to curve inwards.
examples: text: The actress has a great skill of being able to inflect her voice to any situation.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
examples: text: In Latin, adjectives and nouns inflect a lot, but inflection is minimally found in Modern English.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To be varied in the form to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
raw_tags: of a word
Synonyms: sense: to bend or curve inwards
word: inbend
Derived terms: inflectable
inflection
inflective
inflexion
misinflect
noninflecting
Related terms: conjugate
decline
deflect
natter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnætɚ/
ipa: /ˈnætə/
rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)
Forms: form: natters
form: nattering
form: nattered
form: nattered
Etymology: From a Northern England dialectal variant of gnatter (also knatter) ("to chatter, grumble; nibble away at"), ultimately of imitative origin. Cognate with German Low German gnattern (“to mumble, grumble, be grouchy”).
Senses: examples: text: What are you guys nattering about? You're clearly not following the meeting!
glosses: To talk casually; to discuss unimportant matters.
glosses: To nag.
Derived terms: natterer
nattersome
nattery
natter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnætɚ/
ipa: /ˈnætə/
rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)
Forms: form: natters
Etymology: From a Northern England dialectal variant of gnatter (also knatter) ("to chatter, grumble; nibble away at"), ultimately of imitative origin. Cognate with German Low German gnattern (“to mumble, grumble, be grouchy”).
Senses: glosses: Mindless and irrelevant chatter.
Related terms: sand-natter
drivel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɪv.əl/
rhymes: -ɪvəl
Forms: form: drivels
form: driveling
form: drivelling
form: driveled
form: driveled
form: drivelled
form: drivelled
Etymology: From Middle English drevelen, drivelen, from Old English dreflian (“to drivel, slobber, slaver”), from Proto-Germanic *drablijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerebʰ- (“cloudy, turbid; yeast”).
Senses: glosses: To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly; to drool.
synonyms: drool
glosses: To have saliva drip from the mouth.
examples: text: This drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
text: driveling dotard
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Sixth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: To be weak or foolish; to dote.
Derived terms: bedrivel
driveler
driveller
drivelingly
drivellingly
drivel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɪv.əl/
rhymes: -ɪvəl
Forms: form: drivels
Etymology: From Middle English drivel, probably from driven + -el, unless borrowed from an equivalent word in another West Germanic language. Compare Old Dutch drevel (“scullion”).
Senses: examples: text: that foul aged drivel
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A servant; a drudge.
examples: text: if thou didst know what a life I lead with that drivel, it would make thee even of pity receive me into thy only comfort
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: A fool; an idiot.
drivel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɪv.əl/
rhymes: -ɪvəl
Forms: form: drivels
form: driveling
form: drivelling
form: driveled
form: driveled
form: drivelled
form: drivelled
Etymology: Perhaps a blend of drive + dribble.
Senses: examples: text: But that is a state of things, which must in time work its own cure. We cannot always go dribbling and drivelling along, government and people alike being the scoff of all onlookers.
ref: 1865 October 7, The Mercury, Hobart, page 2:
text: There was a good deal of bustle and life at the inn; but three or four inebriates drivelling about the premises were 'suffering a recovery,' from the excitement of the previous night's entertainment.
ref: 1872 October 29, The Newcastle Chronicle, NSW, page 4:
text: Walter was as silly as most men are when in love. He went drivelling off in pursuit of her "dear little work-worn hands"[.]
ref: 1914 May 30, The Darling Downs Gazette, Qld, page 2:
text: Drivelling back to the shanty at midday presented him with a distracting gamble over lunch.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 122:
text: "I am amazed to think we are in the second week of war and this country is still drivelling along with a small volunteer force," he added.
ref: 1939 September 15, The Daily Examiner, Grafton, NSW, page 5:
glosses: To move or travel slowly.
examples: text: Instead of drivelling away the precious initiative season of life in the vain labour of teaching tuneable voices to sing[.]
ref: 1858 August 17, The Ovens and Murray Advertiser, Beechworth, Vic, page 2:
text: It is for the country to say whether we are to keep on in this backward course, whether we are to go on getting deeper and deeper into debt, whether we are to have increased taxation year after year. The bone and sinew of the land is drivelling away.
ref: 1872 August 31, The Mercury, Hobart, page 2:
glosses: To use up or to be used up.
baloney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈləʊni/
ipa: /bəˈloʊni/
ipa: /bəˈləʉni/
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: baloneys
form: boloney
form: bologna
form: polony
Etymology: Phonetic spelling of bologna.
Senses: glosses: A type of sausage; bologna.
Synonyms: Bologna sausage
mortadella
baloney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈləʊni/
ipa: /bəˈloʊni/
ipa: /bəˈləʉni/
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: balonie
form: bologna
form: boloney
Etymology: Origin unclear. Perhaps from the Polari slang word balonie. Alternatively, perhaps simply from bologna (“sausage”), possibly used as a minced oath for bullshit.
Senses: examples: text: That's a bunch of baloney! I don't believe one word!
glosses: Nonsense.
Derived terms: baloney pony
balonium
no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney
globaloney
phony-baloney
hooey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhuː.i/
rhymes: -uːi
Forms: form: hooie
Etymology: Possibly related to phooey, possibly a euphemism for horseshit, or possibly from Ukrainian or Russian хуй (xuj). Compare hooie (interjection) and German hui.
Senses: examples: text: I heard his speech. It sounded like a whole lot of hooey to me.
text: For many doctors, meditation resides in the realm of New Age hooey—okay for Indian yogis and students of Eastern religion, but not suitable for scientific study.
ref: 2006, Ronald H. Hoffman (with Sidney Stevens), How to Talk with Your Doctor: The Guide for Patients and Their Physicians Who Want to Reconcile and Use the Best of Conventional and Alternative Medicine, ReadHowYouWant.com, pages 216–217:
text: Sheldon Cooper: I did, but I think I've kind of outgrown Star Trek. You know, stock characters, ludicrous plots, beam me up. What a load of hooey.
ref: 2011 October 13, Chuck Lorre, Eric Kaplan, Maria Ferrari, “The Russian Rocket Reaction (5-5)” (00:16:47–00:17:00 from the start), in The Big Bang Theory:
text: Dingo: Haha! Sounds like you're scared of ghosts. You know there's no such thing, right?! / Yonny: Well, actually, science has yet to DISprove the existence of ghosts. / Dingo: What? Yon, you're into all this ghost hooey? Really?!
ref: 2023 July 21, Nintendo EPD, Pikmin 4, Nintendo, level/area: Rescue Command Post:
text: “Jaws 2, 3 and 4, if I had made them, would still have failed,” Spielberg told me, “because of the improbability of a shark that large reoccurring thrice. The audience will accept so much until it becomes hooey.”
ref: 2025 June 14, Nigel Andrews, quoting Steven Spielberg, “They don't come any bigger”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 13:
glosses: Silly talk or writing; nonsense, silliness, or fake assertion(s).
hooey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhuː.i/
rhymes: -uːi
Forms: form: hooeys
Senses: glosses: A hog-tie performed in a rodeo show.
prattle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹætəl/
rhymes: -ætəl
Forms: form: prattles
form: prattling
form: prattled
form: prattled
Etymology: From prate + -le (early modern English frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch pruttelen and Dutch preutelen (“to mutter”).
Senses: examples: text: And as E. Rushmore Coglan prattled of this little planet I thought with glee of a great almost-cosmopolite who wrote for the whole world and dedicated himself to Bombay.
ref: 1906, O. Henry, A Cosmopolite in a Café:
text: I looked across at Anna, and I noticed that her eyes had grown strangely blank, without expression. I felt instinctively that the subject brought up by Victor was one she would not have chosen. Victor, insensitive to this, went prattling on.
ref: 1952, Daphne Du Maurier, “Monte Verità”, in The Apple Tree:
glosses: To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble.
Synonyms: word: babble
word: bat the breeze
word: blab
word: blabber
word: blather
word: carp
word: chat
word: chatter
word: chew the fat
word: chew the rag
word: chinwag
word: chit-chat
word: chunner
word: clack
word: claver
word: clepe
word: drivel
word: jabber
word: gabble
word: gibber
word: go on
word: maunder
word: natter
word: palaver
word: piffle
word: prate
word: prattle
word: rabbit
word: rabbit on
word: ramble
word: shoot the breeze
word: shoot the bull
word: shoot the shit
word: smatter
word: tattle
word: twaddle
word: waffle
word: wibble
word: witter
word: yabber
word: yack
word: yatter
word: yap
Hypernyms: word: speak
Hyponyms: word: gossip
word: sperg
word: talk a blue streak
word: talk a mile a minute
Derived terms: prattler
prattlingly
Related terms: word: chatterbox
word: talkative
prattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹætəl/
rhymes: -ætəl
Etymology: From prate + -le (early modern English frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch pruttelen and Dutch preutelen (“to mutter”).
Senses: examples: text: Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], line 27:
synonyms: word: absurdity
word: all my eye
word: all my eye and Betty Martin
word: applesauce
word: bafflegab
word: balderdash
word: balls
word: baloney
word: banana oil
word: Bandini
word: baragouin
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bilgewater
word: blah
word: blather
word: blatherskite
word: bobbins
word: bollocks
word: bosh
word: BS
word: bull
word: bullcrap
word: bulldust
word: bull feathers
word: bullshit
word: bullspeak
word: bunk
word: bunkum
word: bushwah
word: clamjamfrey
word: claptrap
word: cobblers
word: codswallop
word: crap
word: crock
word: crock of shit
word: double Dutch
word: double talk
word: doublespeak
word: dribble
word: drivel
word: eyewash
word: fiddle-faddle
word: flapdoodle
word: flim-flam
word: flizz
word: flummery
word: folderol
word: foolishness
word: footle
word: framis
word: fuckery
word: fuckry
word: fudge
word: galimatias
word: garbage
word: garble
word: gibber
word: gibberish
word: gobbledygook
word: gossip
word: Greek
word: guff
word: gup
word: hoax
word: hocus-pocus
word: hogwash
word: hokum
word: hooey
word: horsefeathers
word: horse hockey
word: horse piss
word: horse puckey
word: horseshit
word: humbug
word: Irish bull
word: jabber
word: jargon
word: jibber-jabber
word: jimjam
word: jive
word: junk
word: lallation
word: macaroni
word: malarkey
word: manure
word: meaninglessness
word: moonshine
word: mumbo jumbo
word: nertz
word: nonsense
word: pie in the sky
word: piffle
word: pigswill
word: poppycock
word: prattle
word: put-on
word: rhubarb
word: rhubarb rhubarb
word: rigmarole
word: rot
word: rubbish
word: ruse
word: santorum
word: shit
word: shite
word: skimble-skamble
word: squit
word: stuff
word: stuff and nonsense
word: tommy-rot
word: tosh
word: tush
word: trash
word: tripe
word: twaddle
word: wass
word: whiff-whaff
word: word salad
word: babble
word: bavardage
word: bibble-babble
word: blab
word: blabber
word: blabbing
word: blather
word: blathering
word: chatter
word: chinwag
word: chit-chat
word: claver
word: clepe
word: gabble
word: hot air
word: mardle
word: natter
word: palaver
word: prate
word: prattle
word: scuttlebutt
word: small talk
word: tattle
word: twaddle
word: waffle
word: yackety-yak
word: yap
word: yatter
glosses: Silly, childish talk; babble.
Derived terms: prittle-prattle
pula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʊlə/
enpr: po͞olʹä
ipa: /puːlɑː/
homophone: puller (UK, non-rhotic)
Etymology: From Tswana pula, Northern Sotho pula, and Sotho pula (“rain”), all from Proto-Bantu *mbúdà.
Senses: examples: text: Given under my hand and the Public Seal at Gaborone this 31st day of March, 2020. / PULA!
ref: 2020 March 31, Government of Botswana, “State of Public Emergency — S.I. No. 59 of 2020”, in Republic of Botswana Government Gazette Extraordinary, page C213:
glosses: Rain, used as an expression of greeting or good luck.
glosses: The currency of Botswana, divided into 100 thebe.
irregular verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irregular verbs
Senses: glosses: A verb that does not follow the normal rules for its conjugation.
lost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lŏst
rhymes: -ɒst
ipa: /lɒst/
ipa: /lɔst/
note: Indic
ipa: /lɔsʈ/
note: lot–cloth split
enpr: lôst
rhymes: -ɔːst
ipa: /lɔːst/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /lɔst/
note: father-bother merger
enpr: läst
rhymes: -ɑːst
ipa: /lɑst/
note: Indic
ipa: /lɑsʈ/
homophone: last (trap–bath split)
Forms: form: los'
form: loss
Etymology: From Middle English loste, losede (preterite) and Middle English lost, ilost, ilosed (past participle), from Old English losode (preterite) and Old English losod, ġelosod, equivalent to lose + -t.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lose
Derived terms: I lost my backpack
I lost my bag
I lost my glasses
I lost my handbag
I lost my keys
I lost my wallet
I've lost my keys
long-lost
look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence
look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence
no love lost
lost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: lŏst
rhymes: -ɒst
ipa: /lɒst/
ipa: /lɔst/
note: Indic
ipa: /lɔsʈ/
note: lot–cloth split
enpr: lôst
rhymes: -ɔːst
ipa: /lɔːst/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /lɔst/
note: father-bother merger
enpr: läst
rhymes: -ɑːst
ipa: /lɑst/
note: Indic
ipa: /lɑsʈ/
homophone: last (trap–bath split)
Forms: form: loster
form: more lost
form: lostest
form: most lost
form: los'
form: loss
Etymology: From Middle English loste, losede (preterite) and Middle English lost, ilost, ilosed (past participle), from Old English losode (preterite) and Old English losod, ġelosod, equivalent to lose + -t.
Senses: examples: text: The children were soon lost in the forest.
glosses: Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way.
examples: Deep beneath the ocean, the Titanic was lost to the world.
glosses: In an unknown location; unable to be found.
examples: an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd
glosses: Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible.
examples: a lost limb; lost honour
glosses: Parted with; no longer held or possessed.
examples: a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit; no time should be lost
glosses: Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered.
examples: text: a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul
text: They struck me also as being of surpassing interest as representing, probably with studious accuracy, the last rites of the dead as practised among an utterly lost people, and even then I thought how envious some antiquarian friends of my own at Cambridge would be if ever I found an opportunity of describing these wonderful remains to them.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope.
examples: lost to shame; lost to all sense of honour
glosses: Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible.
examples: to be lost in thought
glosses: Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as not to notice external things.
Derived terms: all is not lost
be lost to the four winds
get lost
he who hesitates is lost
I'm lost
long lost
lost and found
lost articles
Lostaway
lost cause
Lost Creek
lost decade
lost errand
lost for words
lost generation
lost ground
lost highway
lost in action
lost in the sauce
lost in the shuffle
lost in thought
lost in time
lost in translation
lostling
lost media
lost motion
lostness
lost neutral
lost on
lost property
lost river
lost shark
lost sheep
lost soul
lost to history
lost to the world
lost to time
lost wages
lost wax
lost-wax casting
lost-wax process
lost weekend
lost with all hands
lost world
make up for lost time
one who hesitates is lost
Ten Lost Tribes
unlost
reading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rēd'ĭng
ipa: /ˈɹiːdɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈɹiːɾɪŋ]
ipa: /ˈɹidiŋ/
ipa: [ˈɹiɾiŋ]
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English reding, redyng, redand, from Old English rǣdende, present participle of rǣdan (“to read”), equivalent to read + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of read
make
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪk/
ipa: [meɪkʲ]
ipa: [meːk]
ipa: /mɛk/
ipa: /mæk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: makes
Etymology: From Middle English make, imake, ȝemace, from Old English ġemaca (“a mate, an equal, companion, peer”), from Proto-West Germanic *gamakō, from Proto-Germanic *gamakô (“companion, comrade”), from Proto-Indo-European *maǵ- (“to knead, oil”). Reinforced by Old Norse maki (“an equal”).
Cognate with Icelandic maki (“spouse”), Swedish make (“spouse, husband”), Danish mage (“companion, fellow, mate”). Doublet of match.
Senses: examples: text: To me, if I weren't going with someone and was taking pills, it would be like advertising that I'm an easy make.
ref: 2007, Prudence Mors Rains, Becoming an Unwed Mother, →ISBN, page 26:
text: She's your make, not mine. […] It isn't anything short of difficult to entertain someone else's pregnant fiancee.
ref: 1962, Ralph Moreno, A Man's Estate, page 12:
qualifier: usually in phrase "easy make"
glosses: Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female).
examples: text: Th'Elfe therewith astownd,
 Vpstarted lightly from his looser make,
 And his vnready weapons gan in hand to take.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Where their maids and their makes
 At dancing and wakes,
 Had their napkins and posies
 And the wipers for their noses
ref: 1624, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Owls at Kenilworth:
text: But then sometimes I thought, it's a black Crake
 That never to her-sell can get a Make.
ref: 1684, Meriton, Praise Ale:
text: Every cake hath its make; but a scrape cake hath two.
ref: 1678 (later reprinted: 1855), John Ray, A Hand-book of Proverbs
glosses: Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.
Derived terms: make-hawk
on the make
put the make on
make
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪk/
ipa: [meɪkʲ]
ipa: [meːk]
ipa: /mɛk/
ipa: /mæk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: makes
form: meck
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: the last we shall have, I take it; for a make to a million, but we trine to the nubbing cheat to-morrow.
ref: 1826, Sir Walter Scott, Woodstock; Or, the Cavalier:
text: Only as he climbed the steps did he mind that he hadn't even a meck upon him, and turned to jump off as the tram with a showd swung grinding down to the Harbour […]
ref: 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), page 606
glosses: A halfpenny.
make
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪk/
ipa: [meɪkʲ]
ipa: [meːk]
ipa: /mɛk/
ipa: /mæk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: makes
Etymology: Origin unclear.
Senses: examples: text: Harvest.—When left for seed, they are cut and wadded as pease, with a make.
Produce.—From three to six sacks an acre.
ref: 1797, Arthur Young, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Suffolk: Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, page 73:
text: Harvest. Taken up by a pease-make, and left in small heaps, and turned as often as the weather may make it necessary.
ref: 1811, William Gooch, General view of the agriculture of the county of Cambridge; drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, page 142, section VI "Pease"
glosses: An agricultural tool resembling a scythe, used to cut (harvest) certain plants such as peas, reeds, or tares.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: make-koshi
made
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪd/
ipa: /meːd/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /meɪd/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /meːd/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: maid
Forms: form: mades
form: mad
form: mathe
Etymology: From Middle English mathe, from Old English maþu, maþa (“maggot, worm, grub”), from Proto-Germanic *maþô (“maggot”), from Proto-Indo-European *mot- (“worm, grub, caterpillar, moth”). Cognate with Scots mathe, maithe (“maggot”), Dutch made (“maggot”), German Made (“maggot”). More at maggot.
Senses: glosses: A grub or maggot.
Related terms: maddock
maggot
mauk
mawk
made
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪd/
ipa: /meːd/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /meɪd/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /meːd/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: maid
Etymology: From Middle English made, makede, makode (preterite) and maad, mad, maked (past participle), from Old English macode (first and third person preterite) and macod, gemacode, ġemacod (past participle), from macian (“to make”). More at make.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make
glosses: simple past and past participle of myek
glosses: simple past and past participle of mak
Derived terms: a camel is a horse made by a committee
a camel is a horse made by committee
a promise made is a promise kept
a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor
bitch-made
countrymade
custom-made
custom made
fanmade
full-made
fullmade
hand made
hand-made
handmade
have got it made
have it made
homemade
home-made
housemade
how the sausage gets made
humanmade
human-made
judge-made
judge-made law
lie in the bed one has made
machine-made
made dish
made for each other
made for one another
made-for-television
made-for-TV
made hand
made in China
made in Japan
made in the shade
made man
madeness
made of fail
made of money
made of sterner stuff
made of stone
made of sugar
made-to-measure
made-to-order
made-to-order story
made up
made-up
made-upness
made-wine
made you look
man-made
man-made fiber
match made in heaven
match made in hell
new-made
newmade
person-made
premade
purpose-made
ready-made
revolutions are not made with rosewater
rules are made to be broken
scratch-made
scratch made
self-made
self-made wealth
show what one is made of
tailor-made
the real treasure is the friends we made along the way
unmade
well-made
well-made play
what one is made of
who died and made you boss
who died and made you king
who died and made you president
woman-made
meant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
ipa: /mɪnt/
homophone: mint (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: ment
Etymology: From Middle English ment, mente, from Old English mǣnde, mǣndon, etc. Equivalent to mean + -t.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mean
Derived terms: foremeant
meantness
unmeant
meet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mēt
ipa: /miːt/
ipa: /mit/
rhymes: -iːt
homophone: meat
homophone: mete
Forms: form: meeter
form: meetest
form: mete
Etymology: From Middle English mete, imete, from Old English ġemǣte (“suitable, having the same measurements”), from the Proto-Germanic *gamētijaz, *mētiz (“reasonable; estimable”) (cognate with Dutch meten (“measure”), German gemäß (“suitable”) etc.), itself from collective prefix *ga- + Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”).
Senses: examples: text: It ſeemes not meete, nor wholeſome to my place, / To be producted, (as, if I ſtay, I ſhall,) / Againſt the Moore. […]
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 311:
text: And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him an helpe meet for him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 2:18:
text: And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 8:26:
text: […] it is therefore but meet, that in this place we set down who the Pequod's harpooneers were, and to what headsman each of them belonged.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter XXVII, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 131:
text: The mountain birds are sweeter,
But the valley birds are fatter,
And so we deemed it meeter
To carry off the latter.
ref: 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter VIII, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):
glosses: Suitable; right; proper.
glosses: Submissive; passive.
Derived terms: helpmeet
meetly
meetness
unmeet
met
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: met
ipa: /mɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of meet
Derived terms: metness
undermet
unmet
met
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: met
ipa: /mɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Senses: examples: text: Then Hector, Priam’s martial son, stepp’d forth, and met the ground,
With wise Ulysses, where the blows of combat must resound;
ref: [1611?], Homer, “Book III”, 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: simple past and past participle of mete (to measure)
met
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: met
ipa: /mɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: met
Etymology: From Middle English meten (“to dream”), from Old English mætan (“to dream”).
Senses: examples: text: All night me met eke that I was at Kirke.
ref: c. 1653, William Cartwright, The Ordinary:
glosses: To dream; to occur (to one) in a dream.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: met mitzvah
mishear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈhɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mishears
form: mishearing
form: misheard
form: misheard
Etymology: From Middle English misheren, from Old English mishȳran, mishīeran (“to hear amiss, not listen to, disobey”), equivalent to mis- + hear.
Senses: examples: text: I misheard when she asked for mints, and gave her mince instead.
text: And if any mishear or misutter it, even that also serves, since it warns.
ref: 1883, Meeds Tuthill, The Civil Polity of the United States Considered in Its Theory and Practice, page 240:
text: When a slickly handsome drug dealer named Legrand (Michael Beach, in the film's most seductive performance), first meets the teen-ager on the playground, he mishears the name Manigault. "Did he say Nanny Goat?" Legrand asks, explaining the nickname in one quick, witty stroke.
ref: 1996 November 23, Caryn James, “From Hero To Heroin And Back”, in The New York Times:
text: Our report of a relative who, as a child, thought the classic version of the Lord's Prayer began "Our father, a chart in heaven, Harold be thy name" stated that this type of mistake is known as an eggcorn. A number of readers have suggested that instances like this in which a whole phrase rather than just a word is misheard, should be called mondegreens rather than eggcorns.
ref: 2006 November 18, “Feedback”, in New Scientist, archived from the original on 24 May 2016, page 218:
glosses: To hear wrongly.
glosses: To misunderstand.
Derived terms: mishearer
Related terms: lapsus auris
misheard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪs.hɝd/
ipa: /ˈmɪs.hɜː(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɪshɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: misherd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mishear