cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
guzzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌzəl/
rhymes: -ʌzəl
Forms: form: guzzles
form: guzzling
form: guzzled
form: guzzled
form: guzle
form: guzzel
Etymology: Attested since 1576. Possibly imitative of the sound of drinking greedily, or from Old French gouziller, gosillier (“to pass through the throat”), from gosier (“throat”), and akin to Italian gozzo (“throat; a bird's crop”).
Senses: examples: text: No more her care shall fill the hollow tray, / To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey.
ref: 1720, John Gay, “Friday; or, the Dirge”, in Poems on Several Occasions:
text: They had a delightful meal, eating as much as possible, for whenever they stopped eating the Puddin" sang out--
"Eat away, chew away, munch and bolt and guzzle,
Never leave the table till you're full up to the muzzle."
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 22:
text: What do you get when you guzzle down sweets, / Eating as much as an elephant eats?
ref: 1971, Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley, “Oompa Loompa, Doompa-Dee-Do”, in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory:
text: It is Boxing Day in a football ground, and all we can do is sprawl over the plastic, hurling instructions and vague encouragement. The seat is an extension of the sofa, the match another Pick of the Day in the Radio Times. Some are wearing Santa hats, some have been drinking only six or seven hours after last stopping, guzzling away, topping up their levels to reach pie-eyed delirium.
ref: 2016, Daniel Gray, Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football:
glosses: To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
examples: text: A comparison more properly bestowed on those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar.
ref: 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes:
text: Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise.
ref: 1684, Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse:
text: Every theatre had it's footman's gallery: […] they guzzled, devoured, debauched, cheated, played cards, bullied visitors for vails: […]
ref: 1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians:
glosses: To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
examples: text: This car just guzzles petrol.
text: 2004, Mike Rigby, quoted in The Freefoam Roofline Report, http://michaelrigbyassociates.com/pages/research/quarterly/readreport35166.htm
China continues full steam ahead and the Americans continue to guzzle fuel, while supply becomes restricted.
glosses: To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.
examples: text: Blood guzzled from the wound.
text: The barrel guzzled out beer from the hole.
glosses: To flow copiously; to spray out.
Synonyms: sense: to drink quickly, voraciously
word: swig
sense: to drink quickly, voraciously
word: swill
Derived terms: guzzledom
guzzle down
guzzle up
guzzler
guzzly
unguzzled
Related terms: guttle
guddle
guzzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌzəl/
rhymes: -ʌzəl
Forms: form: guzzles
form: guzle
form: guzzel
Etymology: Attested since 1576. Possibly imitative of the sound of drinking greedily, or from Old French gouziller, gosillier (“to pass through the throat”), from gosier (“throat”), and akin to Italian gozzo (“throat; a bird's crop”).
Senses: examples: Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle! — Tom Brown
glosses: Drink; intoxicating liquor.
glosses: A drinking bout; a debauch.
glosses: An insatiable thing or person.
examples: text: Means't thou that senseless, sensual epicure, / That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure?
ref: 1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie:
text: This is all one thing as if hee should goe about to jussle her into some filthy stinking guzzle or ditch.
ref: 1623, W. Whately, Bride Bush:
qualifier: provincial
glosses: A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.
glosses: The throat.
cundum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cundums
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of condom.
TATP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: TATP, or triacetone triperoxide, was the explosive used in the 2017 Manchester Arena attack, the 2015 attacks in Paris and the 2016 Brussels attack carried out by Islamic State extremists.
ref: 2024 August 8, Deborah Cole, “Taylor Swift concert plot: Austrian police find bomb chemicals in suspect’s home”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of triacetone triperoxide.
Synonyms: sense: organic compound
word: TCAP
sense: organic compound
word: triacetone triperoxide
heyday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪdeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪdeɪ
Forms: form: heydays
Etymology: Late 16th century, from earlier heyda (1520s), as exclamation – compare hey, hei. Sense “period of success, vigor” is a respelling as heyday based on unrelated day (as “period of time”) – compare day in the sun.
Senses: examples: text: The early twentieth century was the heyday of the steam locomotive.
text: Must your hot ytch and plurisie of lust, The heyday of your luxury, be fedd Up to a surfeite, and could none but I Be pickt out to be cloake to your close tricks, Your belly-sports?
ref: c. 1626 or 1629–1633 (first performance), [John Ford], ’Tis Pitty Shee’s a Whore […], London: […] Nicholas Okes for Richard Collins, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act IV:
text: She started learning the craft at age 13 from her father, who founded the family's tile business, Kam Fat Mahjong, in 1962. Masters who would visit Hong Kong during its manufacturing heyday in the 1970s and 80s also shared their techniques and trained apprentices.
ref: 2025 July 27, Kathleen Magramo, “The game is almost over for one of Hong Kong’s last mahjong carvers”, in CNN:
glosses: A period of success, popularity, or power; prime.
glosses: An exultation of the spirits; gaiety; frolic.
Synonyms: day in the sun
golden age
golden years
good old days
Related terms: hey
heyday
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪdeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪdeɪ
Etymology: Late 16th century, from earlier heyda (1520s), as exclamation – compare hey, hei. Sense “period of success, vigor” is a respelling as heyday based on unrelated day (as “period of time”) – compare day in the sun.
Senses: examples: text: "Heyday, Miss Morland!" said he. "What is the meaning of this? I thought you and I were to dance together."
ref: 1798, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey:
glosses: A lively greeting.
examples: text: "Come follow me, my wags, and say, as I say. There's no riches but in rags; hey day, hey day, &c."
ref: 1600, Ben Jonson - Cynthia's Revels
text: Bass. Heydey! good words, good words, I must beleeue'em And be a Coxcombe for my labor.
ref: 1633, John Ford, The Broken Heart, act IV, scene i, page 252:
text: Here Jones, having ordered a servant to show a room above stairs, was ascending, when the dishevelled fair, hastily following, was laid hold on by the master of the house, who cried, “Heyday, where is that beggar wench going? Stay below stairs, I desire you.”
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.
Synonyms: sense: greeting
word: hello
sense: expression of wonder
word: wow
arrah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Whisht! whisht! Of what are ye thinking, ye silly gossoons? Will ye bring down the peace officers upon ye, and take out the bit o' the night in the prison, instead o' drinking me health, as ye may, and me helping to do that same? Arrah! Why should ye glower and snarl at each other, like a kennel o' mad puppies, when it's the brave frolic ye may have together?
ref: 1913, anonymous author, chapter VI, in Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and Her Irish Nurse:
text: "Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see?
"Arrah, Tim, mavourneen, why did you die?"
ref: c. 1850s, Anonymous, Finnegan's Wake (folk song)
glosses: An expletive.
raw_tags: in Ireland
triacetone triperoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The relatively stable, trimeric form of the high explosive acetone peroxide
Synonyms: tricyclic acetone peroxide
TATP
TCAP
hang an arse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs an arse
form: hanging an arse
form: hung an arse
form: hung an arse
Senses: examples: text: For though in her he settles well his tarse,
Yet his dull, graceless bollocks hang an arse.
ref: c. 1670, John Wilmot, A Satyr on Charles II:
glosses: to hang back, to be afraid to advance.
padding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpædɪŋ/
rhymes: -ædɪŋ
homophone: patting stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: From pad + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pad
padding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpædɪŋ/
rhymes: -ædɪŋ
homophone: patting stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: paddings
Etymology: From pad + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
government
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
war
glosses: Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
examples: text: That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.
text: But to my intense surprise, on getting down early the next morning, and eagerly opening the newspapers, there was not a word about the arrest! There was a column of mere padding about “The Styles Poisoning Case,” but nothing further. It was rather inexplicable, but I supposed that, for some reason or other, Japp wished to keep it out of the papers.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 135:
glosses: Anything of little value used to fill up space.
glosses: The process of mordanting a fabric.
synonyms: word: diap
word: diapee
word: diapy
word: diapie
word: didee
word: didie
word: diddy
word: didy
word: dipe
word: hippins
word: napkin
word: nappy
word: pamper
word: Pampers
word: pampers
word: dip
word: gamer pants
word: gaming pants
word: omutsu
word: padding
word: pamp
word: pampie
word: pamps
glosses: A diaper.
glosses: Robbing on a highway.
Derived terms: laughter padding
padding-ken
stat padding
underpadding
arse about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: arses about
form: arsing about
form: arsed about
form: arsed about
form: arse-about
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arse around.
glosses: To turn round.
arse about
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: arse-about
Senses: examples: text: You've got this arse-about!
text: For the dome of the belly turned arse about has its parallel in the eye that falls out like the contents of a broken egg and that in its evocation of and preempting of regeneration becomes, in Bataille's novel, unremittingly erotic and polymorphously perverse.
ref: 1995, David Wills, Prosthesis, Stanford University Press, page 207:
text: Strike me if wasn't thinking old Colonel Bill had got it arse about.
ref: 2007, L. J. Spears, Jack Flagg, page 66:
text: ‘This is arse-about, you know,’ I said. ‘You′ve got the athletic skills, and I'm the one going mountain climbing.[…].’
ref: 2008, Kieran Kelly, Aspiring, Pan MacMillan Australia, page 65:
glosses: The wrong way round; exactly opposite to that which is desirable; contrary; conceptually inverted; wrong.
King Arthur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English kyng Arthure.
Senses: glosses: A legendary king of Britain, said to have led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the early 6th century.
Derived terms: Arthurian
Arthuriana
Related terms: Avalon
Camelot
Excalibur
Guinevere
Holy Grail
Knights of the Round Table
Merlin
Mordred
Morgan le Fay
pulp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌlp/
ipa: /pʊlp/
ipa: /pʌlp/
rhymes: -ʌlp
rhymes: -ʊlp
Forms: form: pulps
Etymology: From Middle English pulpe, from Latin pulpa.
Senses: glosses: A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
A mixture of wood, cellulose and/or rags and water ground up to make paper.
glosses: A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
A mass of chemically processed wood fibres (cellulose).
glosses: A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
A suspension of mineral particles, typically achieved by some form of agitation.
glosses: A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
The soft center of a fruit.
synonyms: fruitflesh
glosses: A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
The soft center of a tooth.
glosses: A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
The underside of a human fingertip; a finger pad.
synonyms: palp
glosses: A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
The very soft tissue in the spleen.
examples: text: The hard-hitting, action packed, thud and blunder adventure fantasy was a commodity during that somber decade: Americans paid money to forget their troubles, and the pulps were willing to sell.
ref: 1983, Gary Hoppenstand, Ray Broadus Browne, The Defective Detective in the Pulps, page 2:
text: The fledgling comics business was a sweatshop trade for creative hopefuls too inexperienced, too socially ill-equipped, or, more often, too minimally talented for the established avenues of hackdom, the pulps and commercial art.
ref: 2009, David Hajdu, Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture:
glosses: A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper.
Synonyms: sense: soft moist mass
word: flesh
sense: soft moist mass
word: mash
sense: soft moist mass
word: pomace
Hyponyms: sense: soft moist mass
english: created from juice or oil extraction
translation: created from juice or oil extraction
word: pomace
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: beat to a pulp
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: kraft pulp
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: pulpaceous
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: pulpal
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: pulpament
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: pulp chamber
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: pulpectomy
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: pulp engine
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: pulp fiction
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: pulpify
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: pulpily
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: pulpless
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: pulp mill
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: pulpotomy
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: pulpous
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: pulpwood
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: pulpy
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: red pulp
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: soda pulp
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: splenic pulp
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: wood-pulp
sense: terms derived from pulp (noun)
word: wood pulp
pulp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌlp/
ipa: /pʊlp/
ipa: /pʌlp/
rhymes: -ʌlp
rhymes: -ʊlp
Forms: form: pulps
form: pulping
form: pulped
form: pulped
Etymology: From Middle English pulpe, from Latin pulpa.
Senses: glosses: To make or be made into pulp.
glosses: To beat to a pulp.
glosses: To deprive of pulp; to separate the pulp from.
Derived terms: pulper
pulp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌlp/
ipa: /pʊlp/
ipa: /pʌlp/
rhymes: -ʌlp
rhymes: -ʊlp
Forms: form: more pulp
form: most pulp
Etymology: From Middle English pulpe, from Latin pulpa.
Senses: examples: text: The Nightwing annual had what felt like a very 'pulp-ish' plot, and the Superman annual was great, with a very pulp plot and a^([sic]) incredible Doc Savage tribute cover.
ref: 1997 July 22, Eric Gimlin, “Re: Annual theme '98”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID <33D504B4.105@swbell.net>:
text: Rather than Asimov I might suggest Stanley Weinbaum (since he died young and early in his career, he is far more "pulp" than Asimov - and remarkably readable - there is a LANCER collection of some of his short stories).
ref: 2003 January 3, Mark Wheatley, “Re: PULP 2003 READING”, in alt.pulp (Usenet), message-ID <3E159FC7.70409@insightstudiosgroup.com>:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Of or pertaining to pulp magazines; in the style of a pulp magazine or the material printed within such a publication.
Synonyms: pulpish
pulpy
ask my arse
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A common reply to any question; once common at court and among sailors, under the name of "selling bargains".
assig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assigs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of assignation or assignee.
Athanasian wench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Athanasian wenches
Etymology: The first words of the Athanasian Creed are, in Latin, "Quicunque vult (salvus esse...)", "whoever wants to (be saved...)".
Senses: examples: text: Of course I couldn't stop myself
— for I was an Athanasian wench
who said Quicunque vult and Amen to everything —
stop myself from thinking
What an ugly cock this Fridolin
must have, some primitive weapon, an iguana-headed […]
crude killing thing, a bulldog's kisser
at the end of a pick handle.
ref: ca 1980, Peter Klappert, Satan Who Is Most Noisy When He Whispers, published in Idiot Princess of the Last Dynasty. New York: Knopf in 1984 →ISBN
text: Villon gently cooled her impatience. "Hush, hush, my girl! There are many kinds of love, as you ought to know well enough. I am a rogue and a vagabond, no less, and so sometimes I love you and other such Athanasian wenches; Isabeau there and Jehanneton."
ref: 1901, Justin Huntly McCarthy, If I were king, page 35:
glosses: A sexually promiscuous or loose woman, willing to have sexual intercourse with anybody.
Synonyms: Quicumque vult
Quicunque vult
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Quicunque vult
form: Quicunque Vult
form: Quicumque vult
Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Latin quīcunque vult (salvus esse …) (“whoever will (be saved …)”), the opening words of the creed.
Senses: examples: text: Robertus Paululus, Presbyter of Amiens, in the Diocess of Rheims, speaking of the Offices recited at the Prime, observes that the Piety of good Christians had thereunto added the Quicunque vult, that the Articles necessary to salvation might never be forgotten any hour of the Day.
ref: 1728, Daniel Waterland, A Critical History of the Athanasian Creed […], 2nd edition, page 45:
text: Nobody can deny that Creed to have been published under the name of Charlemagne: nor, till an earlier work of undoubted authenticity can be produced where the ‘Quicunque vult’ is designated ‘the Faith’ or ‘Creed of S. Athanasius,’ can anybody deny Charlemagne to have been the first in whose writings, or the writing of persons acting under him, it is ascribed—and ascribed falsely—to S. Athanasius, and paraded as a Creed possessing all the authority that would attach justly to his name.
ref: 1885, Edmund S. Ffoulkes, Primitive Consecration of the Eucharistic Oblation: With an Earnest Appeal for Its Revival, page 314:
text: Monday Vespers is interrupted first by the materials for Prime, with psalm 117 […] and the Quicunque vult with a selection of antiphons.
ref: 2020, John Caldwell, “The Development of the Latin Liturgical Psalter in England”, in Tess Knighton, David Skinner, editors, Music and Instruments of the Middle Ages […], →ISBN, page 164:
topics: Christianity
synonyms: Quicunque
glosses: The Athanasian Creed.
Related terms: Athanasian wench
autem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autems
form: autum
form: autom
Etymology: UK 16th century. Possibly borrowed from Yiddish אַ (a, “indefinite article”) + טומאה (tume, “church (derogatory); forbidden; impure”).
Senses: examples: text: THESE Autem Mortes be maried wemen, as there be but a fewe: For Autem in their language is a Church, so shee is a wyfe maried at the church, and they be as chaste as a cowe: I haue yt gooeth to bull euery moone, with what bull she careth not.
ref: 1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursetors, page 49; republished 1814:
text: As ſoone as euer the pꝛoclamation was ended, Loꝛd, what a Companie of petitioners pꝛeſſed to the barre to pꝛeferre their papers of iniuries, that were offred and done among themſelues, here one complaines that hee could not trauell ſafely, noꝛ cary any money without danger of the vpꝛight man and Tinker, but that they would robbe and ſpoyle them of all that was ought about them, here another that they could not quietly take their reſt in the night, noꝛ keepe his Autem, oꝛ doxie ſole vnto himſelfe: but that the Ruffler, padder, oꝛ any vpright man, would take them away perfoꝛce, and others that they could not conuerſe, and keepe company with thoſe that they met, but that in the night they are ſure to be Clyd in the night, by the Angler, oꝛ hooker, oꝛ ſuch like pilferers that liue vpon the ſpoyle of other pooꝛe people.
ref: 1610, Samuel Rowlands, Martin Mark-All, Beadle of Bridewell; His defence and the Anſwere to the Belman of London.:
text: […] but in the mean Time he taught his Pupil a deal of canting Words, telling him Autem was Arabick for a Church; […]
ref: 1714, Alexander Smith, The History of the Lives Of the moſt Noted Highway-men, […] , 2nd edition:
text: Come, I say, who’s a going-out? Autem is over […]
ref: 1823, Jon Bee, Sportsman's Slang; a New Dictionary of the terms used in the affairs of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, and the Cock-pit; with those of Bon-ton, and the Varieties of Life; […] :
text: Vell, vell, a few minutes will settle that. Come, pals, to the autem ken. Avay. Mind and obey orders.
ref: 1837, W. Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, revised edition, page 246:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A church.
Derived terms: autem bawler
autem cackler
autem diver
autem gogler
autem jet
autem
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: autum
form: autom
Etymology: UK 16th century. Possibly borrowed from Yiddish אַ (a, “indefinite article”) + טומאה (tume, “church (derogatory); forbidden; impure”).
Senses: synonyms: wed
wedded
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: Married.
Derived terms: autem cove
autem mort
autem bawler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autem bawlers
Senses: examples: text: At last Job explained the cause of my appearance; viz. his wish to pacify Dawson's conscience by dressing up one of the pals, whom the sinner could not recognise, as an "autem bawler," and so obtaining him the benefit of the clergy without endangering the gang by his confession.
ref: 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman:
glosses: A parson.
Synonyms: autem jet
autem cackler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autem cacklers
Senses: examples: text: On one occasion a Jew was selling cocoa-nut when the "autem cackler," i.e., dissenting minister, came and wanted to impart to the Israelite the sin he committed in carrying on his vocation on such a day.
ref: 1876, Charles Hindley, editor, The Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 260:
text: 'Get the autem cackler,' his companion says, pointing at Tyers, mistaking him for a preacher.
ref: 2014 December 12, Sheena Vernon, Messiah: Love, Music and Malice at a Time of Handel, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:
text: "A military cove will damn us first, then tip us a sixpence, whilst an autem cackler calls down God's blessing and parts not from a thin farthing."
ref: 2015 January 31, Lucia St. Clair Robson, Mary's Land, Lucia St. Clair Robson, →ISBN:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A Dissenter; a Protestant who is not a follower of the Established Church (i.e. Church of England, Church of Scotland, etc).
examples: text: Oh! where will be the culls of the bing / A hundred stretches hence? / The bene morts, who sweetly sing, / A hundred stretches hence? / The autum-cacklers, autum-coves, / The jolly blade who wildly roves; / And where the buffer, bruiser, blowen, / And all the cops and beaks so knowin', / A hundred stretches hence?
ref: 1859, George Washington Matsell, The Vocabulum: or Rogues Lexicon, A Hundred Stretches Hence:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A married woman
Synonyms: sense: married woman
word: autem mort
autem diver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autem divers
Senses: examples: text: “You are up to a thing or two,” said he, “and it is a pity to see a fine lad like you nailed to a stall, like a clodpole.”
“But how am I to get hold of money otherwise?”
“In the same way as I got this,” showing a handful of silver, “by turning autem diver..."
ref: 1823, anonymous author, Tales of My Father, and My Friends:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: Pickpockets who practice in churches; also churchwardens and overseers of the poor.
make a pig's ear of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a pig's ear of
form: making a pig's ear of
form: made a pig's ear of
form: made a pig's ear of
Senses: examples: text: England responded with goals of their own from Theo Walcott and Danny Welbeck and, on the balance of play, deserved the victory. Yet there were long spells when they threatened to make a pig's ear of it.
ref: 14 August 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland”, in The Guardian:
text: Instead, he had lain awake for hours, knowing he'd made a pig's ear of everything, and trying to think of a way to sort things out.
ref: 2003, Kate Walker, Desert Affair, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: To do badly; to make a mess of.
Related terms: make a silk purse of a sow's ear and variants
pig's ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The cooked ear of a pig, as used in a number of cuisines around the world.
examples: text: While the Cockney landlord was putting the question: “Now, gentlemen, what is it—pig's ear, a needle an' pin, or a pimple an' blotch?” (beer, a drop of gin or a thimble of Scotch) one of the larky friends released the monkey from its chain.
ref: 1944, Country Life, volume 96, page 769:
text: The Indian breweries were producing rather more than 6 million gallons of beer annually: 3 million gallons of it was drunk by the British soldiery, who called it 'neck-oil', 'purge', or 'pig's ear', […]
ref: 2010, Jan Morris, Pax Britannica, page 338:
glosses: Beer.
Derived terms: make a pig's ear of
bar graph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar graphs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bar chart.
synonyms: word: bar chart
autem mort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autem morts
form: autum mort
form: autom mort
Senses: examples: text: These Autem Mortes be maried wemen, as there be but a fewe: For Autem in their Language is a church, so shee is a wyfe maried at the church, and they be as chaste as a cowe I have, that goeth to bull euery moone, with what bull she careth not.
ref: 1556, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors,:
text: The Autum-Mort finds better sport / In bowsing then in nigling.
ref: 1641–42, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, act 2:
text: Morts, autem morts, walking morts, dells, doxies, kinching morts, and their coes, with all the shades and grades of the Canting Crew, were assembled.
ref: 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A married woman.
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity.
Synonyms: sense: married woman
word: autem cackler
Hypernyms: sense: beggar with children
word: beggar
word: beggar
Related terms: sense: married woman
english: married man
translation: married man
word: autem cove
flow chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flow charts
form: flow-chart
form: flowchart
Senses: synonyms: flow diagram
glosses: A schematic representation of how the different stages in a process are interconnected.
Derived terms: flowcharter
flowcharting
Related terms: algorithm
pie chart
bar chart
flow diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flow diagrams
Senses: glosses: A diagram representing a flow or set of dynamic relationships in a system.
glosses: A flow chart.
flowchart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowcharts
Senses: examples: text: They created a flowchart language as the learning vehicle for computerless programming.
ref: 1976, Computerworld, volume 10, number 4, page 19:
text: This flowchart suggested by the neuroanatomy corresponds fairly well with what psychologists see in the clinic and lab.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 609:
text: Like many other studygrammers, student Lydia of @lydia.studies presents many of her neat flashcards, notes, and flowcharts through her Instagram account.
ref: 2018 April 24, Catherine Seok, “Study Instagrams”, in The Prospector, Cupertino High School, Cupertino, CA, page 11:
glosses: Alternative spelling of flow chart.
back biter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back biters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backbiter.
Comintern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmɪntəːn/
Etymology: From Russian Коминте́рн (Komintérn), contracted abbreviation of Коммуни́сти́ческий Интернациона́л (Kommunístíčeskij Intɛrnacionál, “Communist International”), from коммунисти́ческий (kommunistíčeskij) + Интернациона́л (Intɛrnacionál).
Senses: glosses: An international association of Communist parties, established in 1919 by Vladimir Lenin and dissolved in 1943.
Derived terms: anti-Comintern
Related terms: Cominform
one's back is up
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From the way a cat, when angry, raises or arches its back.
Senses: examples: text: My back is up, and I cannot hear the thought of wooing him any farther, nor would do it, though he were as pig a gentleman (look you) as Lucifer himself.
ref: 1835, William Hayley, The Life and Letters of William Cowper:
text: And I want you to be nice to Patty. For some reason her back is up.
ref: 2011, Jeannie Watt, The Baby Truce, →ISBN, page 84:
text: Now my back is up. “Yes, the witch,” I hiss.
ref: 2014, Kristin Butcher, Cabin Girl, →ISBN:
glosses: One is offended or angry.
Related terms: get one's back up
backbite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backbites
form: backbiting
form: backbit
form: backbitten
form: back-bite
Etymology: From Middle English bakbiten, bacbiten, equivalent to back- + bite. Cognate with Icelandic bakbíta (“to backbite, vilify”).
Senses: examples: text: They beguiled the time by backbiting and intriguing against each other in a foolish kind of way.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 213:
glosses: To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
glosses: To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks.
glosses: To speak badly of an absent individual.
Derived terms: backbiter
backbiting
backbite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backbites
form: back-bite
Etymology: From Middle English bakbiten, bacbiten, equivalent to back- + bite. Cognate with Icelandic bakbíta (“to backbite, vilify”).
Senses: glosses: One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter.
genetic fingerprinting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The forensic analysis of genetic information from a biological sample in order to aid identification.
Synonyms: DNA fingerprinting
DNA profiling
DNA testing
DNA typing
Related terms: genetic fingerprint
gesture politics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Actions by a politician for the purpose of publicity or to influence public opinion.
get a life
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets a life
form: getting a life
form: got a life
form: got a life
form: gotten a life
Senses: examples: text: "He's really broken. Hopefully he'll be able to find work somewhere and get a life."
ref: 1995 September 14, Joseph Berger, “Disgraced, Ex-Lawman In Rockland Avoids Jail”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Aug 2016:
text: "Harriet, please get a life," someone begged her on a message board, "and leave us poor Amazon customers alone."
ref: 2006 December 25, Lev Grossman, “Power To The People: Harriet Klausner, The Constant Critic”, in Time, retrieved 23 Aug 2016:
qualifier: dismissal
glosses: To begin having a more interesting, eventful, or worthwhile existence.
gobsmacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒb.smækt/
Forms: form: more gobsmacked
form: most gobsmacked
Etymology: As if smacked (“hit”) in the gob (“mouth (Irish / Scottish gaelic)”).
Attested since 1959, from Northern English dialect, particularly Liverpool, popularized via television.
Senses: examples: text: That wad mack im about yam sick, so ower Ilkla' moor bar-tat wish un best of luck at Ilkley Station, and when he landed back Martha wad be fare gob smacked at the yarns he wad tell 'er about Yorkshire clod-hoppers.
ref: 1925 December 24, A Yorkshire Clod-Hopper, “From a Yorkshire Clod-Hopper”, in The Bee-keepers' Record, volumes 49-53, J. Herrod-Hempsall, retrieved 08 Jun 2018, page 175:
text: We were as appalled and stunned and confused and gobsmacked (punched on the mouth) as anyone else.
ref: 1989 August 7, Glenn Frankel, “Salman Rushdie's Life on the Run”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: "I guess the word would be gobsmacked," Barclay said, of his reaction. "I am stunned."
ref: 2008 June 16, Caroline Mallan, “Linwood Barclay novel wins a plug on key UK book list”, in Toronto Star, Canada, page A2:
text: Peterik told CNN that the use of the song caught him by surprise.
“I was gobsmacked,” he said. “We were not asked about this at all. The first time we saw it was on national TV.”
ref: 2015 September 9, Todd Leopold, “Band unhappy with use of ‘Eye of the Tiger’ for Kim Davis”, in CNN:
text: Far from the stage, a woman approached them and said she could tell they were big fans, so she was upgrading them to the front row. “We were absolutely gobsmacked,” Ryan said.
ref: 2023 August 10, Matthew Cantor, “‘Paul McCartney winked right at me’: the fans who buy nosebleed seats – and get whisked to the front”, in The Guardian, UK:
text: A hospital consultant who treated Sergei and Yulia Skripal after they were poisoned with the nerve agent novichok was “gobsmacked” when Yulia woke and began trying to get out of bed four days after the attack.
ref: 2024 October 31, Steven Morris, “Consultant who treated Yulia Skripal ‘gobsmacked’ when she woke up, inquiry hears”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Flabbergasted, astounded, speechless, overawed.
Related terms: word: gobsmacking
english: much less common
translation: much less common
word: gobstruck
golden goal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden goals
Etymology: In soccer, chosen by FIFA to avoid the negative connotations of sudden death.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: silver goal
glosses: The first goal scored during extra time, giving immediate victory to the scoring side if the rule is in effect.
Related terms: sudden death
extra time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extra-time
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: word: overtime
glosses: An additional period played at the end of a game if the score is tied after the standard allocation of time.
Related terms: injury time
normal time
stoppage time
time added on
time on
DBA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DBAs
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of database analyst.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of database administrator.
glosses: Initialism of daily benefit amount.
glosses: Initialism of dibenzylideneacetone.
topics: business
coordinate_terms: BBA
MBA
glosses: Initialism of doctorate of business administration.
DBA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Alternative form of dba (“doing business as”).
fug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: fugs
Etymology: Unknown. Compare British slang fogo (“stench”) and English fog, or possibly a blend of funk + fog.
Senses: examples: text: 'Made one quite thankful to get back to the fug, though as a rule I think the way these trains are overheated is something scandalous'.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 131:
text: On certain days, when hot currents shimmered off Oyster's Reef, we would detect the chalk-dust of the mullock heaps, acrid; or, from the opal mines themselves, the ghastly fug of the tunnels and shafts.
ref: 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 4:
text: The gym teacher left that year, his successors had no interest in boxing, and society soon passed into a zone where the idea of thirteen-year-old boys punching each other's faces for educational purposes became as unthinkable as the dense fug of tobacco smoke in our school's staff room.
ref: 2004 November 8, John Derbyshire, “Boxing Day”, in National Review:
text: The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled in the orange glare of the streetlamp outside.
ref: 2005 July 16, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter; 6), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
text: That's what a fug was. You could have cut cubes out of the air and sold it for cheap building material.
ref: 2008, Terry Pratchett, Going Postal, →ISBN, page 288:
text: Inside, though, the little café was warm and bright, with a comforting fug of tea and baked bread and cakes.
ref: 2013, Benjamin Black, Elegy for April, →ISBN:
glosses: A heavy, musty, stuffy or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
examples: text: So delicious after the fug of summer. It makes one feel so alive.
ref: 2011, Olivia Manning, The Spoilt City: The Balkan Trilogy 2, →ISBN:
text: Somewhere in the fug of her mind she remembered how to close it and fetched the pole, slotting it into the mechanism above and beginning to turn the handles.
ref: 2015, Kate Riordan, The Girl in the Photograph, →ISBN:
glosses: A state of lethargy and confusion; daze.
examples: text: There was a fug of fear in the room.
ref: 2002, Chris Beckett, “Marcher”, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection, →ISBN:
text: Viewed from this perspective, the Victorian era reeks of a suffocating and bigoted complacency, and, no doubt, many white imperialists existed in a fug of self-righteous superiority.
ref: 2006, Colin Kidd, The Forging of Races, →ISBN:
text: But now am in total fug about what to text Roxster about tonight, and whether I should tell him about the nits.
ref: 2013, Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Her translations are dimmed over with a fug of late eighteenthcentury poetic diction, a striving for sublimity or for sentimental effect.
ref: 2014, Robert Anthony Welch, The Cold of May Day Monday: An Approach to Irish Literary History, →ISBN:
glosses: A state of chaos or confusion.
Derived terms: fuggy
fug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: fugs
form: fugging
form: fugged
form: fugged
Etymology: Unknown. Compare British slang fogo (“stench”) and English fog, or possibly a blend of funk + fog.
Senses: examples: text: Inside, the Golden Lion was fugged with the smoke of too many cigarettes and the unhappy sound of a darts team practising.
ref: 2008, Antony Moore, The Swap, →ISBN, page 231:
text: I'd walked down, for maybe the last time, from my lodgings behind New Fish Street, through air already fugged with smoke from the morning fires.
ref: 2012, Phil Rickman, The Heresy of Dr Dee, →ISBN:
text: The rich sewer gases fugged around her and she shook her head, trying to clear it.
ref: 2013, Tom Pollock, The Glass Republic: The Skyscraper Throne, →ISBN:
glosses: To create a fug (heavy unpleasant atmosphere).
examples: text: "Well, I like it a jolly sight better than fugging up in those carriages with all that gassing crowd of Garden Home fussers."
ref: 1921, Everybody's Magazine - Volume 44, page 38:
text: The air was warm and close and the late afternoon sun was fugging through grey clouds and making them light - still grey, but light, really light.
ref: 2005, Craig Taylor, Light, →ISBN, page 74:
glosses: To be surrounded by a fug (heavy unpleasant atmosphere).
examples: text: The adrenalin, though diminished, was still running through my veins; the red mist was lifting but my mind was fugged by this unfamiliar combination of hormones, slowly intermingling with indignity and contrition and the dawning of familiar, ignominious defeat.
ref: 2011, Richard Herring, How Not to Grow Up!: A Coming of Age Memoir. Sort Of., →ISBN, pages 34–35:
glosses: To put into a fug (daze).
glosses: To remain indoors, usually in a tightly closed room.
fug
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Etymology: Sound shift from fuck.
Senses: examples: text: It's always somethin' or other. Ah, fug it. I'm away now.
ref: 1985, Herbert A. Applebaum, Blue Chips, Brunswick Pub. Co., page 126:
text: Oh fug. Whad a mess.
ref: 2012, Drew Campbell, Dead Letter House, →ISBN:
text: “Why is this door locked?” she shouts. “Oh fug!”
ref: 2015, Lynn Lindquist, Secret of the Sevens, →ISBN:
glosses: Euphemistic form of fuck.
fug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: fugs
form: fugging
form: fugged
form: fugged
Etymology: Sound shift from fuck.
Senses: examples: text: He knew he would never eat them; they were merely an added load in his pack. Aaah, fug this.
ref: 1948, Norman Mailer, Naked Dead, page 692:
text: Scornfully the driver answered, "Fug you muthafug, you ain't gon drive this muthafuggin cah."
ref: 1969, Seymour Blicker -, Blues Chased a Rabbit, page 62:
text: "Fug this place," Jeff said. "Let's go to the pier in case that jerk comes back with a gun."
ref: 2005, Joe Taylor, The World's Thinnest Fat Man: Stories, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: Euphemistic form of fuck.
Used to express displeasure.
examples: text: Zit my fault the rotary fugged up and the new one's buggered?
ref: 2007, Paul Mitchell, Dodging the Bull: Stories, →ISBN, page 51:
text: You mean like in Zola–because they were fugged up in their turn by their parents.
ref: 2010, Julian Barnes, Metroland, →ISBN, page 39:
text: Tell them every detail, so they can find an Apprentice again, because if they don't, they're fugged.”
ref: 2013, J. Michael Shell, The Apprentice Journals, →ISBN, page 7:
text: He did an imitation of Big Jerry in full-choke cantankerousness: “'You'll just fug it up.'
ref: 2013, Jonathan Miles, Want Not, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: Euphemistic form of fuck.
To damage or destroy.
examples: text: All went well until girls started writing things like, 'I want to win a date with Tuli because I want him to fug me.'
ref: 2014, Richie Unterberger, Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers, →ISBN:
text: Married, two children, doesn't let him fug her any more.
ref: 2016, Julian Barnes, Metroland, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: Euphemistic form of fuck.
To copulate with.
fug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: fugs
Etymology: Sound shift from fuck.
Senses: examples: text: I don't know jes where the fug he think he is at.
ref: 1961, Robert Gover, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, page 21:
text: How the fug does a thug like you know about any preacher?
ref: 2013, Dan Ferullo, Monster Hill, →ISBN:
text: I mean, who the fug cares?
ref: 2013, Ian McDonald, Out on Blue Six, →ISBN:
glosses: Euphemistic form of fuck.
Used as an intensifier.
raw_tags: with the
examples: text: I didn't know what any of it meant and didn't give a fug either.
ref: 2013, Anne Lazurko, Dollybird, →ISBN:
text: After a short pause, Jay proclaimed, “I don't give a fug what you wave in fronna me. I'm sticking to my story.”
ref: 2013, Dan Ferullo, Monster Hill, →ISBN:
glosses: Euphemistic form of fuck.
Something of little value.
examples: text: Look at those fugs!
ref: 1942, Army and Navy Journal - Volume 80, Issues 1-26, page 345:
text: 'You bein' there an' him bein' there an' you such a fug of a loser an' him such a fug of a winner . . .'
ref: 2012, Elizabeth George, The Edge of Nowhere, →ISBN:
glosses: Euphemistic form of fuck.
A contemptible person.
in front of one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: All that time we've been searching for the answer, and it was right in front of our noses.
glosses: Plain; clearly apparent; obvious.
Related terms: under one's nose
triplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪplət/
note: rhythm counting
ipa: /ˈtɹɪ.pə.lɛt/
Forms: form: triplets
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From triple + -et.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A set of three, particularly
A group of three notes played or written where two notes would ordinarily be; a form of tuplet.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A set of three, particularly
A triquark.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A set of three, particularly
A quantum state with three allowed projections for the spin.
glosses: A set of three, particularly
A constructed gem consisting of a thin slice of natural opal sandwiched between a clear glass or quartz top and a synthetic or stone backing that enhances the colour of the opal.
glosses: One of a group of three, particularly
glosses: One of a group of three, particularly
One of a group of three siblings born at the same time to the same mother.
Synonyms: sense: group of three
word: trio
sense: one of a group of three siblings born at the same time
word: threeling
Derived terms: Cooke triplet
linear triplet
prime triplet
triplet oxygen
Related terms: single
solo
double
twofold
triple
threefold
quadruple
fourfold
quintuple
pentuple
fivefold
loner
singleton
monad
pair
couple
twosome
duo
dyad
trio
threesome
triad
troika
foursome
quartet
tetrad
fivesome
quintet
pentad
only one
singlet
twin
one of two
doublet
triplet
one of three
quadruplet
one of four
quintuplet
pentuplet
one of five
sextuple
hextuple
sixfold
septuple
heptuple
sevenfold
octuple
eightfold
ninefold
nonuple
tenfold
decuple
sixsome
sextet
hexad
sevensome
septet
heptad
eightsome
octet
octad
ninesome
nonet
ennead
tensome
decet
decad
sextuplet
hextuplet
one of six
one of seven
septuplet
heptuplet
octuplet
one of eight
one of nine
nonuplet
one of ten
decuplet
elevenfold
undecuple
hendecuple
twelvefold
duodecuple
thirteenfold
tredecuple
a hundredfold
centuple
multiple
elevensome
twelvesome
thirteensome
hundredsome
one of eleven
undecuplet
hendecuplet
one of twelve
duodecuplet
one of thirteen
tredecuplet
one of a hundred
centuplet
one of many
multiplet
babies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪbiz/
rhymes: -eɪbiːz
Senses: glosses: plural of baby
babies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪbiz/
rhymes: -eɪbiːz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of baby