cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
foreboding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forboding
Etymology: From Middle English forbodyng, vorboding, equivalent to fore- + bode + -ing. Compare German Vorbote (“harbinger, omen”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forebode
bitchwad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitchwads
Etymology: From bitch + -wad.
Senses: examples: text: If there were a merciful God in Heaven, He would give me arms that I might strangle this bitchwad.
ref: 2000 October 11, John Reynolds, “What every PC at my company is thinking.”, in 3dfx.products.voodoo5 (Usenet):
text: I'm really tired of this stupid dumbass poser 24/7'ing in here, pretending to be a soldier. Please, someone find out who this bitchwad is, so he can shut the hell up.
ref: 2001 November 11, Donn Miller, “Someone please find out who Slick really is”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet):
text: Also, the internet has been permanantly connected recently cos of bitchwad rinsing chat rooms. Grrr.
ref: 2001 August 15, Elliot “Squeeze The Uise” Costi, “Globally ignored”, in alt.alumni.warwick (Usenet):
text: if you really think you were the victim of the crime, you should alert the proper authorities and not cry like a little bitchwad all over the group every other fucking post.
ref: 2005 July 15, “d1b9p54” from anonymous.to, “Phil and netcopping (was: some other thing)”, in soc.history.what-if (Usenet):
glosses: Term of abuse.
dickwad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dickwads
Etymology: From dick + -wad.
Senses: examples: text: I get dickwad in there wantin' to play wheel of fortune so I can find out their supplier!
ref: 1991, Point Break [Movie]
text: "Yeah? Who's gonna stop me, dickwad?"
ref: 2001, Stephen J. Cannell, The Tin Collectors, St. Martin's Paperbacks:
text: You treat your girlfriend so bad, you damn dickwad!
glosses: A contemptible person; a fool.
areolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹiːə.lə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -iːələ(ɹ)
Forms: form: more areolar
form: most areolar
Senses: examples: text: Although this may be caused by erroneous preoperative markings, areolar diameter differences are usually caused by skin tension differences between the breasts after wound closure.
ref: 2016, Onelio Garcia Jr., “Management of Asymmetry After Breast Reduction”, in Dennis C. Hammond, editor, Clinics in Plastic Surgery, Vol. 43, No. 2: Complications in Breast Reduction, Elsevier, page 377:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to areolae.
examples: areolar tissue
2012, James W. Fleshman Jr., Open Total Proctocolectomy and Ileal Pouch, James W. Fleshman, Elisa H Birnbaum, Steven R Hunt, Matthew G Mutch, Ira J Kodner, Bashar Safar, Atlas of Surgical Techniques for Colon, Rectum and Anus, Elsevier (Elsevier Saunders), page 130,
At the level of the sacral promontory, an areolar tissue plane begins behind the superior hemorrhoidal artery (Figure 9-3A and B).
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Characterised by areolae (intercellular spaces).
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to areoles.
Derived terms: areolar tissue
circumareolar
infraareolar
periareolar
retroareolar
subareolar
white wedding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white weddings
Senses: examples: text: More generally, the fact that a pregnant bride does not have a full white wedding serves to confirm the respectability and ‘virginity’ of those who do.
ref: 1978, Marie P. Corbin, The Couple, page 71:
text: The concept of virginity is capable of arousing many associations - everything from white weddings to patriarchy – but Bob Hope's oneliner only activates one particular set, its chronological implications.
ref: 1987, Jerry Palmer, The logic of the absurd: On film and television comedy, page 71:
text: Oh, yes, she'd be a virgin when she married – otherwise she couldn't have a proper white wedding.
ref: 1989, Julie Mitchell, Sunday Afternoons, page 77:
text: Maybe she was a hypocrite, but she promoted the old-fashioned morality of virginity and white weddings to her daughter.
ref: 1989, Sandra K. Roades, Yesterday's Embers, page 152:
text: In this chapter I examine whether this statement applies equally to new rituals that emerged in Africa in the course of the 20th century: (a) rituals surrounding church weddings or white weddings, and (b) kitchen parties. ‘White weddings’ are church blessings of marriages that take place immediately after the traditional wedding ceremony, and ‘church weddings’ are blessings of marriages some time (in some cases many years) after the traditional wedding.
ref: 2001, Thera Rasing, The Bush Burnt, the Stones Remain: Female Initiation Rites in Urban Zambia, Lit Verlag, →ISBN, page 218:
text: 2013, Obvious Vengeyi, "‘The Bible equals Gona’: An Analysis of the Indigenous Pentecostal Churches of Zimbabwe's magical conception of the Bible", in Joachim Kügler & Masiiwa Ragies Gunda, From Text to Practice - The role of the Bible in daily living of African people today, in Bible in Africa Studies (BiAS) 4, University of Bamberg Press (2nd ed.), →ISBN, page 91.
White weddings are also regarded as the only ‘Godly’ marriages.
text: 2015, Rebecca Probert, "From this Day Forward? Pre-Marital Cohabition and the Rite of Marriage from the 1960s to the Present Day", in Joanna K. Miles & Perveez Mody & Rebecca Probert, Marriage Rites and Rights, Bloomsbury (1st ed.), →ISBN.
Similarly, Diana Leonard noted of her study of couples getting married in Swansea in the late 1960s that most wanted a ‘proper’ wedding—--ie a white wedding in church--—but that since seven brides were pregnant, and five men and four women had been married before, only seven out of the twenty were ‘eligible’ to marry in church (Leonard 1980: 206).
glosses: A traditional wedding ceremony, typically in a church, in which the bride wears a white wedding dress, symbolic of her virginity.
Related terms: shotgun wedding
white marriage
therein
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈðɛəɹˈɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Etymology: From Middle English theryn, ther-inne, þer-in, from Old English þǣrin, þǣrinne, from Proto-West Germanic *þārin, *þārinna, from Proto-Germanic *þarin, *þarinna, equivalent to there + in. Cognate with Saterland Frisian deerin (“therein”), West Frisian dêryn (“therein”), Dutch daarin (“therein”), German Low German daarin (“therein”), German darin, drin (“therein”), Danish deri (“therein”), Swedish däri (“therein”), Icelandic þar í (“therein”).
Senses: examples: text: September 1792, George Washington, letter
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
text: "Ha," said Robin, "comest thou from Locksley Town? Well do I know that fair place for miles about, and well do I know each hedgerow and gentle pebbly stream, and even all the bright little fishes therein, for there I was born and bred. Now, where goest thou with thy meat, my fair friend?"
ref: 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
text: 'Behold! once more I kiss thee, and by that kiss I give to thee dominion over sea and earth, over the peasant in his hovel, over the monarch in his palace halls, and cities crowned with towers, and those who breathe therein.'
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: in that; in that place; in him/her/it.
Derived terms: therein lies the rub
thereafter
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌðɛəɹˈɑːf.tə(ɹ)/
note: Northern England, other non-rhotic without the trap–bath split
ipa: /ˌðɛəɹˈæf.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌðɛɹˈæf.tɚ/
rhymes: -ɑːftə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: thereafters
Etymology: From Middle English therafter, theraftir, þerefter, þerafter, þeræfter, from Old English þǣræfter (“after that; thereafter”), equivalent to there + after. Cognate with Saterland Frisian deerätter (“thereafter”), West Frisian dêrefter (“behind that; thereafter”), Dutch daarachter (“behind that; thereafter”), German Low German daarachter (“behind that”), Danish derefter (“thereafter”), Swedish därefter (“thereafter”).
Senses: examples: text: He left; thereafter we never met again.
text: The Lent term had pulled me down, a week of modest enjoyment thereafter in town had finished the work; and I drank in the sharp moorish air like a thirsty man who has been forwandered among deserts.
ref: 1899, John Buchan, No Man's Land:
text: "My third command to the Winged Monkeys," said Glinda, "shall be to carry you to your forest. Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore."
ref: 1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
text: He chuckled, and thereafter spoke no more. He did not stir as I passed by him and went down into the cabin.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
glosses: After that, from then on; thenceforth.
Coordinate terms: afterward
fore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔː/
ipa: /fɔɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /fo(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /foə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: four
homophone: for (horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: foremost
Etymology: A development of the prefix fore-.
Senses: examples: text: the fore part of the day
glosses: Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous.
examples: text: The fore end of the tape is drawn out, and when the indicator points to this number the end is firmly fixed to the front of the camera.
ref: 1921, The Photographic Journal, page 8:
text: Crystal vases with crimson roses and golden-brown asters were set here and there in the fore part of the shop […]
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 23:
glosses: Forward; situated towards the front (of something).
fore
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔː/
ipa: /fɔɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /fo(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /foə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: four
homophone: for (horse–hoarse merger)
Etymology: A development of the prefix fore-.
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.
fore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔː/
ipa: /fɔɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /fo(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /foə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: four
homophone: for (horse–hoarse merger)
Etymology: A development of the prefix fore-.
Senses: examples: text: The waiting-room was now less empty than Watt had at first supposed, to judge by the presence, some two paces to Watt's fore, and as many to his right, of what seemed to be an object of some importance.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: People face a dilemma whenever they bring to the fore an understanding that appears inadequate in the light of the other beliefs they bring to bear on it.
ref: 2002, Mark Bevir, The Logic of the History of Ideas:
glosses: The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.
examples: text: in the fore of the ship
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.
The front part of a vessel.
synonyms: bow
stem
forestem
prow
prore
antonyms: stern
aft
poop
fore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔː/
ipa: /fɔɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /fo(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /foə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: four
homophone: for (horse–hoarse merger)
Etymology: A development of the prefix fore-.
Senses: glosses: In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
examples: text: The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 7”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: Formerly; previously; afore.
examples: text: fore and aft
topics: nautical
transport
antonyms: aft#Adverb
glosses: In or towards the bows of a ship.
Derived terms: back and fore
first
fore-and-aft
fore and aft
fore-and-aft cap
fore-and-after
fore and aft rig
fore-and-aft-rigged
foreanent
fore arm
forecheck
foredraft
fore edge
forehatch
forehead
foreline
foremast
foremost
forereef
foreright
foreshore
foreward
fore wing
to the fore
wherefor
whithertofore
nimby
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪm.bi/
rhymes: -ɪmbi
Forms: form: NIMBY
Etymology: Acronym of not in my back yard. More at NIMBY.
Senses: glosses: Not in my backyard (in objection to an undesirable structure built locally).
nimby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪm.bi/
rhymes: -ɪmbi
Forms: form: nimbies
form: nimbys
form: NIMBY
Etymology: Acronym of not in my back yard. More at NIMBY.
Senses: examples: text: politically correct green (as in vegetation) nimbies (may object to nuclear power plants, polluting factories, etc.)
text: socially conservative brown (as in shirts) nimbies (may object to the building of jails, prisons, housing for ex-convicts, drinking or adult entertainment establishments)
text: fiscally conservative green (as in money) nimbies (may object to the building of anything which may decrease preexisting property values)
text: Of course, in China everything is determined by the state. So many times, when I asked how China had managed to build this network so quickly, I was told that it was because the government had backed it. And, of course, there are fewer Nimbys in an authoritarian state.
ref: 2025 April 16, Christian Wolmar, “Hugely impressed by China's high-speed rail network”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 42:
glosses: Someone who objects to the building of an undesirable structure in their neighborhood, especially in public policy debate.
nimby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪm.bi/
rhymes: -ɪmbi
Forms: form: more nimby
form: most nimby
form: NIMBY
Etymology: Acronym of not in my back yard. More at NIMBY.
Senses: examples: text: Their vote against measures to help refugees has been perceived by the socially conscious margin of society as a typically nimby attitude.
text: […] to be obvious exaggerations of the threats, but rather focused on critiquing the means employed—i.e., the various enforcement techniques that adversely affected innocent bystanders—and in a very nimby (not in my back yard) sort of way.
ref: 2010, Timothy J. Dunn, Blockading the Border and Human Rights, page 32:
glosses: Not wanting to have to deal with unpleasant or distasteful things near them.
Derived terms: nimbyish
nimbyism
nimbyist
Related terms: BANANA - acronym similar to NIMBY
nimbyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nimbyisms
form: NIMBYism
form: Nimbyism
Etymology: From nimby + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Are the objections to the airport legitimate or is it just a case of nimbyism?
text: All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.
ref: 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2023:
text: And in the case of New York, NIMBYism is ultimately the reason a great global city has become a one-industry town, leaving it unusually vulnerable to pandemic-driven economic dislocations.
ref: 2022 January 18, Paul Krugman, “Why a Blue City Is Feeling the Blues”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2022:
glosses: The ideology of a nimby.
Related terms: nimbyist
matrilineal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmeɪtɹɪˈlɪnɪəl/
/ˌmætɹɪ-/
Etymology: From matri- + lineal. Coined by British government anthropologist Northcote Whitridge Thomas in 1904 along with patrilineal.
Senses: examples: text: Kerala traditionally has matrilineal inheritance.
text: Enkidu expresses the values of nature, matrilineal conservatism, and the populism of the assembly, the assembly of village elders from the days before military dictatorship.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 191:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Tracing descent only through female ancestors.
Derived terms: matrilinealism
matrilineality
matrilineally
nonmatrilineal
Related terms: matrilateral
1337
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more 1337
form: most 1337
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of elite.
glosses: Alternative spelling of leet.
1337
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leet.
spaghetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spaghetti
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian spaghetto; see further at spaghetti.
Senses: examples: text: My first class consisted of twenty-six dancers; at least a third of these appeared to be tiny Asian women, each with a waist the approximate width of a spaghetto.
ref: 2000, Henry Alford, Big Kiss: One Actor's Desperate Attempt to Claw His Way to the Middle, Broadway Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 65:
text: With his thumb and forefinger he lifted one spaghetto at a time and dunked it into the bowl of sauce before eating it.
ref: 2004 September 7, D. L. Stewart, “Cyclone Salad Set To Hit School Cafeterias”, in Dayton Daily News:
text: Not once was I allowed to help make dinner, slice a tomato, boil a spaghetto (one piece of spaghetti), or wash a dish.
ref: 2010, Rita Golden Gelman, Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World, Three Rivers Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 289:
text: A typical spaghetto is linear. If each strand is covered in a sauce with lots of olive oil, it can slide over others. If you then tried to pick up the spaghetti with your fingers, you would only get the few strands you actually held and the rest would slip back onto the plate.
ref: 2010, Michele Sequeira, Michael Westphal, Cell Phone Science: What Happens When You Call and Why, Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN:
qualifier: prescriptive or humorous
glosses: A single strand of spaghetti.
overseas Chinese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overseas Chinese
Senses: examples: text: President Chiang Ching-kuo sent a message urging overseas Chinese to help reunify China under the Three Principles of the People. Overseas Chinese should join with compatriots and the military of the Taiwan area and the people on the Chinese mainland to support the anti-Communist cause and create a bright future for the Chinese people.
ref: 1981 October 25, “Overseas Chinese cited for ROC-building role”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 42, Taipei, page 1:
text: It was not until 1974 that the first Taiwanese businessman settled there, and thereupon began a gradual increase in the Overseas Chinese (OC) population.
ref: 2008 July 30, James To Jiann Hua, “The Overseas Chinese in Tonga”, in The Tokyo Foundation, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2014:
text: OCPA stands for Overseas Chinese Physics Association. [...] The chartered goals of the organization are to promote physics research in general and to promote recognition of achievements by ethnic Chinese physicists in particular
ref: 2007, “About OCPA”, in Overseas Chinese Physics Association, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2010:
text: With China’s rising wealth being chronicled on a near-daily basis by the media, overseas Chinese can probably expected to be targeted more regularly, either by opportunist criminals abroad or by envious people on the mainland.
ref: 2009 August 7, Malcolm Moore, “Overseas Chinese become targets.”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2009:
glosses: A person or people of Chinese ethnicity, living in a non-Chinese country; a member of the ethnic Chinese expatriate or immigrant community; Huaqiao
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Huaqiao
bestiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛstʃəlˌlɪtɪ/
ipa: /ˈbistiˌælɪti/
ipa: /ˌbist͡ʃiˈælɪti/
ipa: /ˌbɛst͡ʃiˈælɪti/
rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: bestialities
form: beastiality
Etymology: From bestial + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Less common, but still frequent, are erect penises, more complete female nudes, copulations, and even scenes of bestiality.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 216:
text: Second, the romance option brings up a unique issue: having sex with an alien. It’s somewhat difficult to say what the Christian should think on this issue because, well, the Bible doesn’t talk about aliens. Probably because they don’t exist (sorry to burst your bubble). Would this be considered bestiality? Or is it not bestiality since they are also beings capable of rational and ethical thought and self-reflection unlike usual animals?
ref: 2019 October 31, Garrick Beckett, “Beckett: How BioWare Approaches Religion & Sexuality”, in The Lutheran Column, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2020, Blog:
glosses: Sexual activity between a human and another animal species.
examples: text: the pitiful inadequacy of the reforms and the bestiality of the white society
ref: 1963, James Boggs, The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook:
glosses: Bestial nature, savagery, inhumanity, like (or akin to) an animal's.
glosses: Any abstract entity similar to a beast.
glosses: A status of lower animal.
glosses: An animal-like instinct or behaviour.
glosses: A mark, trait, or emblem of a beast.
Derived terms: necrobestiality
Related terms: beastliness
Serowe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Botswana.
apartheid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Received Pronunciation, strictly
ipa: /əˈpɑːtheɪt/
note: Received Pronunciation, strictly
ipa: /əˈpɑːthaɪt/
note: US, strictly
enpr: ə-pärtʹhāt
note: US, strictly
enpr: ə-pärtʹhīt
ipa: /əˈpɑɹtheɪt/
note: US, strictly
ipa: /əˈpɑɹthaɪt/
note: US, strictly
note: US, laxly
enpr: ə-pärʹtīd
ipa: /əˈpɑɹ.taɪd/
note: US, laxly
Forms: form: apartheids
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans apartheid (literally “separateness, apartness”) (1929 in a South African socio-political context), from Afrikaans apart (“separate”) + suffix -heid, cognate of English -hood.
Senses: examples: text: She don't care about the rest at all / She's got a system they call apartheid / It keeps a brother in a subjection
ref: 1988, Eddy Grant, “Gimme Hope Jo'anna”:
text: The premise of apartheid was that whites were superior to Africans, Coloureds and Indians, and the function of it was to entrench white supremacy forever.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, pages 127-128:
synonyms: plural relations
glosses: The policy of racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.
examples: text: The 1973 Apartheid Convention conferred universal jurisdiction to the state signatories to prosecute those who commit apartheid.
text: When the doors of a business are open to the public, they must be open to all regardless of race if apartheid is not to become engrained in our public […] .
ref: 1963, Justice William O. Douglas, concurring, Lombard v. Louisiana (373 U.S. 267)
text: Jim Crow miscegenation laws enforced apartheid in marriage.
ref: 2006 March 3, Leslie Feinberg, “Civil rights leaders were gay-baited, red-baited”, in Workers World:
glosses: Any similar policy of racial segregation or separation and discrimination, particularly when in favor of a minority rule.
examples: text: Fifteen minutes drive to the Brown Trout was guaranteed to satisfy my appetite because there, as with other clubs and hotel bars, a form of sex apartheid was practised. The males assembled in the region of the bar and the opposite gender either sat discreetly detached or strayed outside to gossip gaily among themselves.
ref: 2008, Peter Hewitt, Kenya Cowboy: A Police Officer's Account of the Mau Mau Emergency, →ISBN, page 64:
text: In these annual reports, the religious apartheid practices in India are not mentioned at all.
ref: 2009, Moorthy Muthuswamy, Defeating Political Islam: The New Cold War, →ISBN, page 120:
glosses: A policy or situation of segregation based on some specified attribute.
apartheid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: Received Pronunciation, strictly
ipa: /əˈpɑːtheɪt/
note: Received Pronunciation, strictly
ipa: /əˈpɑːthaɪt/
note: US, strictly
enpr: ə-pärtʹhāt
note: US, strictly
enpr: ə-pärtʹhīt
ipa: /əˈpɑɹtheɪt/
note: US, strictly
ipa: /əˈpɑɹthaɪt/
note: US, strictly
note: US, laxly
enpr: ə-pärʹtīd
ipa: /əˈpɑɹ.taɪd/
note: US, laxly
Forms: form: apartheids
form: apartheiding
form: apartheided
form: apartheided
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans apartheid (literally “separateness, apartness”) (1929 in a South African socio-political context), from Afrikaans apart (“separate”) + suffix -heid, cognate of English -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, apartheiding the apartheiders, is what the rest of the world is doing.
ref: 1986, Stanlake John Thompson Samkange, On Trial for that U.D.I.: A Novel, page 79:
text: Whatever the reason the blacks have for "apartheiding" Boston, whites should be all for it.
ref: 1989, Instauration - Volumes 15-16, page 36:
text: The most deadly of all ghosts are wandering over Britain and medicine, apartheiding people into superiors and nonentities.
ref: 2003, Mayur K. Lakhani, A Celebration of General Practice, →ISBN, page 183:
text: Speaking of the resulting apartheiding of British Columbia, Cole Harris observed, "racism was built into the landscape of settlement."
ref: 2009, Shirley R. Steinberg, Diversity and Multiculturalism: A Reader, →ISBN, page 151:
text: By 1922, the apartheiding of British Columbia was cemented into a public and private English-language discourse that took for granted how and where one racialized body was placed in relation to another, and in turn how each related to the state system.
ref: 2011, Timothy J. Stanley, Contesting White Supremacy, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: To impose a policy of segregation of groups of people, especially one based on race.
Derived terms: anti-apartheidism
anti-apartheidist
apartheid anthem
Apartheid Clyde
Apartheid Defense League
apartheider
apartheidesque
apartheid flag
apartheidic
apartheidisation
apartheidish
apartheidism
apartheidist
apartheidistic
apartheidization
apartheidize
apartheidlike
apartheidness
eco-apartheid
ecoapartheid
grand apartheid
petty apartheid
postapartheid
preapartheid
Related terms: Jim Crow law
slavey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsleɪvi/
rhymes: -eɪvi
Forms: form: slaveys
form: slavies
Etymology: From slave + -y.
Senses: glosses: A male servant.
examples: text: I told a man on the links yesterday that I'd been a slavey for nine months. I was trying to explain why I was a suffragette […]
ref: 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 81:
text: "Doing? Not a Dam' thing. I mean, I was sitting on the bed lighting a cigarette. We'd just come upstairs. Everything was all right; old Peabody in Sydney and the slavey given a night off to go to the pictures."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82:
text: "The short-haired slavey who had opened the door now put in an appearance as waiter."
ref: 1887, Nellie Bly, Ten Days in a Mad-House, Norman L. Munro, published 1887, page 12:
glosses: A female domestic servant; a maid or maidservant.
Amerind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæməɹənd/
Forms: form: Amerinds
Etymology: Blend of American + Indian or possibly blend of American + indigenous. First appears c. 1899 in the publication American Anthropologist.
Senses: examples: text: The cultural hiatus associated with the Pine Pollen Zone suggests that Amerinds may have avoided the area.
glosses: An American Indian.
Amerind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæməɹənd/
Etymology: Blend of American + Indian or possibly blend of American + indigenous. First appears c. 1899 in the publication American Anthropologist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a hypothetical, largely discredited higher-level language family including all of the indigenous languages of the Americas, excluding those that belong to Eskimo-Aleut or Na-Dene.
Related terms: Amerindian
American Indian
Indian
castellano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: castellanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish castellano (“Castilian”), from Medieval Latin Castella (“Castile, Land of Fortresses”) + -ānus (“-an: forming adjectives”), from Latin castrum (“fort”) + -ella (“-elle: forming diminutives”). Doublet of Castilian, castellanus, castellan, and chatelain.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 4.8 g.
glosses: A former Spanish coin, notionally equivalent to a castellano of gold.
Coordinate terms: sense: unit of mass
word: grano (1⁄96 castellano)
sense: unit of mass
word: tomin (1⁄8 castellano)
sense: unit of mass
word: escrupulo (1⁄4 castellano)
sense: unit of mass
word: adarme (3⁄8 castellano)
sense: unit of mass
word: ochava (3⁄4 castellano)
sense: unit of mass
word: onza (6 castellanos)
sense: coin
word: tomin (1⁄8 castellano)
sense: coin
word: adarme (3⁄8 castellano)
boudoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buˈdwɑɹ/
ipa: /ˈbuːdwɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: boudoirs
Etymology: Borrowed from French boudoir, from bouder (“to sulk”).
Senses: examples: text: The Duchesse's boudoir was fitted up in a style of luxury utterly different from anything before familiar to the Carraras.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 118:
text: Dorcas, faithful to her “young gentlemen,” denied strenuously that it could have been John’s voice she heard, and resolutely declared, in the teeth of everything, that it was Mr. Inglethorp who had been in the boudoir with her mistress.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 154:
text: I found her in her boudoir getting outside a dish of tea and a crumpet.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: A woman's private sitting room, dressing room, or bedroom.
Coordinate terms: word: cabinet
word: study
Derived terms: boudoir biscuit
boudoir chair
boudoir lamp
boudoir piano
smell like a tart's boudoir
Related terms: boody
withdrawing room
drawing room
woo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͞o
ipa: /wuː/
rhymes: -uː
Senses: examples: text: "I got you a new cell phone." "Woo, that's great!"
glosses: Expressing joy or excitement; woohoo, yahoo.
Derived terms: woo girl
woo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͞o
ipa: /wuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: more woo
form: most woo
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of woo woo.
woo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͞o
ipa: /wuː/
rhymes: -uː
Senses: examples: text: Physics hasn't been "looking" at it, certain men who embrace the Copenhagen Interpretation rather than Many Worlds or the Pilot Wave angles are resorting to woo.
ref: 2020 February 13, LinuxGal, “Atheists claim a 'thing' happened.”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), message-ID <alpine.DEB.2.21.2002150505580.3311@teresita-Latitude-D630>:
text: The cognitive loopholes and biases that make us woo-prone are a human universal.
ref: 2022 March 8, Laith Al-Shawaf, “Detecting Bull$%#!”, in Psychology Today:
glosses: Alternative form of woo woo.
Derived terms: woo-monger
go woo
Related terms: wee woo
aborning
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɔɹ.nɪŋ/
Etymology: From a- (“in the act of”) + born + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: What a shock this morning
A terror without warning
Turned out a blank
What heavens thank
 The "frie" died a borning.
ref: 1985 April 20, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
text: No fewer than five planned “uprisings” died a-borning.
ref: 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2004, page 765:
glosses: That is in the process of being born; coming into existence; before coming to completion.
aborning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɔɹ.nɪŋ/
Etymology: From a- (“in the act of”) + born + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: This festival is an excellent chance to see new talent aborning.
glosses: While being born or produced.
Related terms: aborn
born
bemuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈmjuːz/
ipa: /bəˈmjuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: bemuses
form: bemusing
form: bemused
form: bemused
Etymology: From be- + muse. In meaning, influenced by bemaze and later amuse.
Senses: examples: text: [With] fairy tales bemused the shepherd lies.
ref: 1771, James Foot, Penseroso:
text: the bad metaphysics with which they bemuse themselves
ref: 1847, Hugh Miller, First Impressions of England and its people:
text: With regard to definition-writing students, as a result of having spent years padding out written assignments in order to meet word-length requirements, were somewhat bemused to be told that fewer words were better than a long, wordy definition.
ref: 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 146:
glosses: To confuse or bewilder.
glosses: To be amused, especially sardonically.
examples: text: When those incorrigible things, Poets, are once irrecoverably Be-mus'd
ref: 1705, Alexander Pope, Letters:
glosses: To devote to the Muses.
examples: text: a parson much be-mus'd in beer
ref: 1735, Alexander Pope, Satires of Dr. Donne versified:
text: This old man generally bemused himself in beer, once a fortnight.
ref: 1784, Edward Harwood, The Case of the Rev. Dr Harwood, page 27:
text: […] more innocently, and no doubt profitably, than if he had dined at a big-wig's board or bemused himself with smoke and beer among his brethren of the pen.
ref: 1891, Grace L. Keith Johnston, The Halletts: A Country Town Chronicle, volume 3, page 34:
glosses: To make drunk; to intoxicate.
Derived terms: bemusement
nidus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪdəs
Forms: form: nidi
form: niduses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nīdus (“nest”). Doublet of nye and nest.
Senses: glosses: An aggregate of neurons.
glosses: A nest for insects or small animals.
glosses: A place of infection in an organism.
glosses: An origin (originating point) for a phenomenon.
Related terms: word: nido-
word: nidal
word: pilonidal
word: nidation
word: annidation
word: nidificate
word: nidify
word: nidulate
sense: and see
word: nidifugous
butt-fucking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: anal sex
butt-fucking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Engaging in anal sex
taking it up the ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take it up the ass
butt sex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Anal sex.
moai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊ.aɪ/
Forms: form: moai
form: moais
form: mo'ai
form: moyai
Etymology: From Rapa Nui mo'ai (“statue, figurine”).
Senses: examples: text: As the years passed, the Moais and Ahus became larger and larger, many with red scoria top crowns weighing as much as ten tons.
ref: 2012, John Loret, John T. Tanacredi, Easter Island, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: One of the large stone statues on Easter Island (Rapa Nui).
Derived terms: road moai
Related terms: word: 🗿
english: the stone platform of the moai
translation: the stone platform of the moai
word: ahu
Narutard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Narutards
form: narutard
Etymology: From Naruto + -tard.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Narutard.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: An obsessive fan of the Japanese manga series Naruto.
feral child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feral children
Senses: glosses: A child who is raised without human contact as a result of being abandoned, allegedly often raised by wild animals.
Athabascan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Athabaskan
form: Athapascan
form: Athapaskan
Etymology: From Athabasca + -an, from Cree Ahđapaskâw (literally “where there are plants distributed in a net-like pattern”).
Senses: examples: text: “I’d like to thank the president for working with us to achieve this significant change to show honour, respect and gratitude to the Athabascan people of Alaska,” said Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican who led the fight for the name change in Congress.
ref: 2015 August 31, The Guardian:
glosses: Pertaining to a group of peoples mostly inhabiting Alaska, western Canada, the Pacific coast of California and Oregon, and the Navajo and Apache peoples in the American Southwest.
Athabascan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Athabaskan
form: Athapascan
form: Athapaskan
Etymology: From Athabasca + -an, from Cree Ahđapaskâw (literally “where there are plants distributed in a net-like pattern”).
Senses: glosses: The family of languages spoken by these peoples.
Derived terms: Proto-Athabascan
Athabascan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Athabascans
form: Athabaskan
form: Athapascan
form: Athapaskan
Etymology: From Athabasca + -an, from Cree Ahđapaskâw (literally “where there are plants distributed in a net-like pattern”).
Senses: glosses: Any member of these peoples.
Pentateuch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛn.təˌtjuːk/
ipa: /ˈpɛn.təˌtuːk/
ipa: /ˈpɛn.təˌtʊk/
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: the Pentateuch
Etymology: PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Ancient Greek πεντάτευχος (pentáteukhos), from Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte, “five”) + τεῦχος (teûkhos, “tool, scroll, book”).
Senses: glosses: The Torah: the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
Synonyms: Books of Moses
the Law
Torah
Derived terms: pentateuchal
obligatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈblɪɡətɔɹi/
ipa: /ˈɑblɪɡəˌtɔɹi/
ipa: /əˈblɪɡət(ə)ɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɔblɪɡeʈ(ɵ)ri/
Forms: form: more obligatory
form: most obligatory
Etymology: From Middle English obligatorie, from Latin obligatōrius.
Senses: examples: text: an obligatory promise
text: […] if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction, it is no oath, and so not obligatory.
ref: 1673, Richard Baxter, Christian Directory:
text: [I]t was something that every schoolboy of my generation almost `had' to do, as obligatory a proof of impending manliness as scrumping apples or pulling girls' pigtails.
ref: 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 12:
glosses: Imposing obligation, legally, morally, or otherwise; binding; mandatory.
glosses: Requiring a matter or obligation.
Synonyms: bounden
mandatory
incumbent
Derived terms: disobligatory
nonobligatory
obligala
obligatorification
obligatoriness
obligatorize
unobligatory
Related terms: obligate
obligated
obligation
obligational
obligato
obligatorily
oblige
obligee
obliger
obliging
obligingly
obligingness
obligor
metamorphosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛtəˈmɔːfəsɪs/
ipa: /ˌmɛtəmɔːˈfəʊsɪs/
ipa: /ˌmɛtəˈmɔɹfəsɪs/
Forms: form: metamorphoses
Etymology: First attested in 1533, from Latin metamorphōsis, from Ancient Greek μεταμόρφωσις (metamórphōsis), from μετά (metá, “change”) + μορφή (morphḗ, “form”). Analyzable as meta- + -morph + -osis
Senses: examples: text: With Severne she along doth go, / Her Metamorphosis to show ; / And makes the wand’ring Wy declaim / In honour of the British name.
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, “Poly-Olbion”, in The Complete Works of Michael Drayton, volume I, London: J. R. Smith, published 1876, page 147:
text: I wonder’d at ſuch a Metamorphoſis in ſo ſhort a time, he told me, ’twas for the death of his Wife, that Nature had thus antedated his Years ; ’tis true, that a weighty ſetled ſorrow is of that force, that beſides the contraction of the Spirits, it will work upon the radical moiſture, and dry it up, ſo that the Hair can have no moiſture at the Root.
ref: 1626 May 11 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XXVIII. To Mr. R. L. Merchant.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section IV, page 179:
text: Where is the gloriously-decisive change, / Metamorphosis the immeasurable / Of human clay to divine gold, we looked / Should, in some poor sort, justify its price ?
ref: 1868, Robert Browning, “The Pope”, in Charlotte Porter, Helen A. Clarke, editors, The Ring and the Book, volume II, New York: T. Y. Crowell & Co., published 1898, lines 1610–3, page 212:
glosses: A transformation, such as one performed by magic.
examples: text: The station has been refurbished both at ground level and below ground, where the wide, fluorescently lit platforms are an almost unrecognisable metamorphosis of the dingy, reeking Low Level of old.
ref: 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 713:
glosses: A noticeable change in character, appearance, function, or condition.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A change in the form and often habits of an animal after the embryonic stage during normal development (e.g. the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly or a tadpole into a frog).
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A change, usually degenerative, in the structure of a specific body tissue.
Derived terms: hemimetamorphosis
holometamorphosis
hypermetamorphosis
intermetamorphosis
metamorphosic
metamorphosist
metramorphosis
prometamorphosis
semimetamorphosis
ultrametamorphosis
Related terms: metamorphic
metamorphose
metamorphosize
metamorphism
foggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒɡi/
rhymes: -ɒɡi
Forms: form: foggier
form: foggiest
Etymology: From fog + -y, originally in the sense "covered with tall grass; marshy; thick". It is not clear whether fog (“mist”) is a back-formation from foggy (“covered with tall, obscuring grass”) or has a separate Germanic origin, and hence whether foggy (“covered with tall grass”) and foggy (“obscured by mist”) represent one word or two. See fog ("mist"; "tall grass") for more.
Senses: examples: text: At Esher we were getting out into bright sunshine, and apart from another foggy patch between Farnborough and Winchfield, we had a clear run from then on.
ref: 1955 April, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:
glosses: Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy.
examples: text: He was still foggy with sleep.
text: If she knew [a psychiatrist was] observing her son with a view to finding out if he was foggy between the ears, there would be umbrage on her part, or even dudgeon.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VI:
glosses: Confused, befuddled, etc.
examples: text: For they will feed on foggy grass and such like. Also ye shall understand that horses and Cattel may not well be foddered in Winter all together, but […]
ref: 1680, Leonard Mascall, The government of cattel. Divided into three books, etc, page 221:
text: […] for as he shuts up his meadow at Christmas, leaves such foggy grass behind, and manures well, in case a wet hot summer succeeds, […]
ref: 1772, William Ellis, Husbandry, abriged, page 98:
text: See swingin' owr the foggy swaird, Begrac'd wi' angel features, […]
ref: 1808, John Stagg, Miscellaneous Poems, Some of which are in the Cumberland and Scottish Dialects, page 143:
glosses: Being, covered with, or pertaining to fog (“tall grass etc that grows after, or is left after, cutting; moss”)
Derived terms: foggily
fogginess
Foggy Bottom
unfoggy
slumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslʌm.bə/
enpr: slŭmʹbər
ipa: /ˈslʌm.bɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: slumbers
form: slumbre
Etymology: From Middle English slombren, slomren, frequentative of Middle English slummen, slumen (“to doze”), probably from Middle English slume (“slumber”), from Old English slūma, from Proto-Germanic *slūm- (“slack, loose, limp, flabby”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“loose, limp, flabby”), equivalent to sloom + -er. Cognate with West Frisian slommerje, slûmerje (“to slumber”), Dutch sluimeren (“to slumber”), German schlummern (“to slumber, doze”), Swedish slummer (“to slumber”).
Senses: examples: text: Fast asleep? It is no matter; / Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: Ev’n Luſt and Envy ſleep, yet Love denies / Reſt to my Soul, and ſlumber to my Eyes.
ref: 1665 (first performance), John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman […], published 1667, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, page 29:
text: He at last fell into a slumber, and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC:
glosses: A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
examples: text: Marcel Duchamp's urinal and readymades seemed in the beginning to be insider jokes or jokelike paradoxes meant to awaken people from their aesthetic slumbers.
ref: 2009, Ben-Ami Scharfstein, Art without borders: a philosophical exploration of art and humanity:
glosses: A state of ignorance or inaction.
glosses: The snooze button on an alarm clock.
raw_tags: as used by Magnavox clock radios
Derived terms: slumber room
slumbercoach
slumber coach
slumberlike
slumber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslʌm.bə/
enpr: slŭmʹbər
ipa: /ˈslʌm.bɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: slumbers
form: slumbering
form: slumbered
form: slumbered
form: slumbre
Etymology: From Middle English slombren, slomren, frequentative of Middle English slummen, slumen (“to doze”), probably from Middle English slume (“slumber”), from Old English slūma, from Proto-Germanic *slūm- (“slack, loose, limp, flabby”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“loose, limp, flabby”), equivalent to sloom + -er. Cognate with West Frisian slommerje, slûmerje (“to slumber”), Dutch sluimeren (“to slumber”), German schlummern (“to slumber, doze”), Swedish slummer (“to slumber”).
Senses: examples: text: He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalm 121:4:
text: If Sleep and Death be truly one,
⁠And every spirit’s folded bloom
⁠Thro’ all its intervital gloom
In some long trance should slumber on; […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 65:
glosses: To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.
glosses: To be inactive or negligent.
examples: text: slumber his conscience
ref: 1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villers, Duke of Buckingham:
glosses: To lay to sleep.
examples: text: Then vp he tooke the slombred sencelesse corse.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To stun; to stupefy.
Related terms: catnap
doze
nap
shuteye
slumber party