cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
prawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɔːn/
ipa: /pɹɔn/
ipa: /pɹɑn/
ipa: /pɹoːn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: prawns
form: prawning
form: prawned
form: prawned
Etymology: First attested early 1400s as various Middle English forms prayne, prane, praune, and prawne, which present no clear cognates in languages other than English. The forms suggest a hypothetical Old English form *prægn, where *æg would have evolved into Middle English *ay, but it is unclear if the word is of Germanic origin, from another European language, or loaned from a substrate. In the Isle of Wight, a word prankle ("prawn") is recorded and thought to be related. Century, following Skeat, suggested transposition of an unrecorded Old French *parne, *perne related to Spanish perna (“a flat shellfish”), Old Italian perna and diminutive pernochie, parnocchie, glossed as "shrimps or prawne, fishes" by John Florio, but the OED considers Florio's entry incorrect and the suggested connection semantically and phonologically implausible.
Sense 3 ("woman with attractive body and unattractive face") is from the idea of discarding the head of a prawn before eating it.
Senses: glosses: To fish for prawns.
prawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɔːn/
ipa: /pɹɔn/
ipa: /pɹɑn/
ipa: /pɹoːn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: prawns
Etymology: An alternative spelling of pron (pronounced identically with cot-caught merger), which in turn is a corrupted spelling of porn.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of porn.
shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: shrimps
form: shrimping
form: shrimped
form: shrimped
Etymology: From Middle English schrimpe (“shrimp, puny person”), possibly from or related to Middle Low German schrempen (“to wrinkle”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaz (“shrivelled”), from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną (“to shrivel”), from Proto-Indo-European *skremb-, *skr̥mb-.
See also Middle High German schrimpf (“a scratch, minor wound”), Norwegian skramp (“thin horse, thin man”); also Old English sċrimman (“to shrink”) and scrimp, Middle High German schrimpfen (“to shrink, dry up”), Swedish skrympa (“to shrink”); also Lithuanian skrembti (“to crust over, stiffen”), and possibly Albanian shkrumb (“embers, ashes; crumble”).
Senses: examples: text: Fishing, shrimping and crabbing are permitted on designated areas of the refuge subject to the following conditions:[…]
ref: 1986, The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America, page 454:
text: Although the line is not always sharply drawn, offshore shrimping and inshore shrimping require different strategies.
ref: 1996, Anthony V. Margavio, Caught in the Net: The Conflict Between Shrimpers and Conservationists, page 24:
text: There were times we shrimped in the same boat due to breakdowns and such, but for the most part we each had our own separate boat. We started out using outboard motor boats. However, shrimping with an outboard is pretty hard.
ref: 2007, Jerry Wayne Caines, A Caines Family Tradition: A Native Son's Story of Fishing, Hunting and Duck Decoys in the Lowcountry, page 86:
glosses: To fish for shrimp.
glosses: To contract; to shrink.
Derived terms: shrimper
amongst
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmʌŋst/
rhymes: -ʌŋst
Forms: form: among
form: amongest
form: amoungst
form: amoungest
Etymology: From amongs + -t (excrescent), from among + -s (genitive). By surface analysis, among + -st (excrescent). Root among from Old English ongemang, from on (“in”) + gemang (“assemblage, mingling”).
Senses: examples: text: Janek feels very at ease amongst his friends, but gets incredibly nervous when meeting new people.
text: And novv thee vvorſhip, mongſt that bleſſed throng / Of heauenlie Poets and Heroes ſtrong.
ref: [1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Ruines of Time”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC, signature C2, verso:
ref: a. 1627 (date written), Francis Bacon, “[Baconiana Politico-Moralia. […].] It is my purpoſe to give a true and plain Account, of the Deſigns and Labours of a very great Philoſopher amongſt us; and to offer to the World, in ſome tollerable Method, thoſe Remains of his, which to that end, were put into my Hands.”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Baconiana. Or Certain Genuine Remains of Sr. Francis Bacon, […], London: […] J. D. for Richard Chiswell, […], published 1679, →OCLC, page 21:
text: The smart little locomotives, mostly 0-6-0 saddletanks, which are always busy shunting traffic amongst the vast dockside warehouses, belong to the Manchester Ship Canal Railway, a line of considerable importance.
ref: 1959 October, Norman Jones, “The Manchester Ship Canal Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 488:
glosses: Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. See usage note at amidst.
Synonyms: word: among
raw_tags: of amongst
word: amidst
word: amid
word: amongst
word: in
word: in the middle of
word: in the midst of
word: in the thick of
Hypernyms: word: together with
word: within
Hyponyms: word: amidships
topics: nautical
transport
word: through
Derived terms: get amongst it
thereamongst
whereamongst
amazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-mā'zĭng
ipa: /əˈmeɪzɪŋ/
ipa: [əˈmeɪ̯zɪŋ]
rhymes: -eɪzɪŋ
Etymology: From amaze + -ing, from Old English āmasian.
Senses: examples: text: Falling into her uſual Trance, ſhe at that inſtant wrought their Fancies to be perſuaded of the confuſed Articulation of Multitudes met as in a Fair, converſing and making a chattering, to the amazing of them all.
ref: 1698, John Fryer, “The Present State of Persia. Chap. XIII. Of Their Bookmen and Books; of Their Religion and Religious Worship; of Their Notions in Philosophy; of Heaven and Hell: Their Astronomers, Physicians, and Lawyers.”, in A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. […], London: […] R[obert] R[oberts] for Ri[chard] Chiswell, letter V (Travels into Persia), page 375:
text: How many things have men found out to the amazing of one another, to the wonderment of one another, to the begetting of endless commendations of one another in the world
ref: 1848, John Bunyan, Robert Philip, The Greatness of the Soul: And the Unspeakableness of the Loss Thereof, T. Nelson, page 29:
text: Amazing is judged relative what already exists, and Quake has the best underwater effects so far.
ref: 1996 August 5, Tim Behrendsen, “Tim Behrendsen Lost and Spaced THE FINAL TRY”, in rec.games.computer.quake.misc (Usenet):
text: Reality, especially God's Reality is amazing. For instance that there is something rather than nothing is amazing. [...] Amazing is amazing.
ref: 1997 November 30, Sir Frederick, “Pro-Mormons are amazing also”, in alt.religion.mormon.fellowship (Usenet):
text: The amazing is happening.
ref: 1999 July 13, Irma Dobkin, Mary Jo Peterson, Gracious Spaces, McGraw-Hill Professional, page xix:
text: All that is impossibly amazing is considered nothing, and the impossibly amazing is considered normal.
ref: 2000 March 24, Shadow, “Return of the Fulgore Rant!”, in alt.fan.dragons (Usenet):
text: The amazing is that, in EXACTLY the same situation, the demo2 doesn't show this problem.
ref: 2001 February 3, Brian, “D3 weird FPS”, in alt.games.descent (Usenet):
text: Everything that amazes has its method, until we notice that the amazing is not amazing, has no method.
ref: 2003 June 23, Thomas Bernhard, Three Novellas, University of Chicago Press, page 31:
text: Sheffield is an amazing athlete, how much of the amazing is provided from the Chemlab.
ref: 2004 October 23, MgClearwater, “George says: Joe and Brian stay..”, in alt.sports.baseball.ny-yankees (Usenet):
text: 2006 May 16, Simon Baird, "monkeyGTD is amazing- a few questions and suggestions", GTD TiddlyWiki, Google goups
Cool! Of course 99% of the amazing is due to the "powered by TiddlyWiki" part of MonkeyGTD.. :)
glosses: present participle and gerund of amaze
amazing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-mā'zĭng
ipa: /əˈmeɪzɪŋ/
ipa: [əˈmeɪ̯zɪŋ]
rhymes: -eɪzɪŋ
Forms: form: more amazing
form: most amazing
Etymology: From amaze + -ing, from Old English āmasian.
Senses: examples: text: “It’s been amazing, the amount of emails and congratulations,” the Snow White and the Huntsman star, 36, told Ryan Seacrest Friday on his radio show.
ref: 2012 March 16, “Charlize Theron Says Swaddling’s ‘Pretty Amazing’”, in People Magazine:
glosses: Causing wonder and amazement; very surprising.
examples: text: “I didn’t think I would be a fan of the swaddling, but the swaddling’s pretty amazing,” she says.
ref: 2012 March 16, “Charlize Theron Says Swaddling’s ‘Pretty Amazing’”, in People Magazine:
text: 2014, November 6, WAAY-TV (Huntsville, AL), VIDEO: "Sitting next to him was amazing" says student of General Via
"I think it was pretty amazing that he picked our school out of a lot of schools to come speak to us about what he has done, and what our country has done, to help us gain our freedom," Mucci said, “sitting next to him was amazing.”
text: 2014, November 8, Nick McCarvel, "Wozniacki's marathon debut was amazing, Djokovic says", USA TODAY Sports
"Running a marathon is definitely an amazing experience."
ref: 2015 June 10, Lindsey Bever, Morning Mix: Another reason seeing-eye dogs are amazing:
glosses: Possessing uniquely wonderful qualities; very good.
Synonyms: awesome
Derived terms: amazingly
amazingness
awesomazing
unamazing
Related terms: amazement
tod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒd/
ipa: /tɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
rhymes: -ɑːd
homophone: Todd
Forms: form: tods
Etymology: From Middle English tod, of unknown origin. Possibly influenced by Etymology 2, due to its bushy tail.
Senses: glosses: A male fox.
examples: text: Who am Ah? Ah'm tod, whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!
ref: 1977, Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs:
glosses: A fox in general.
glosses: Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
Synonyms: sense: male fox
word: dog-fox
sense: fox
word: reynard
Hypernyms: sense: male fox
word: fox
Coordinate terms: sense: male fox
english: female fox
translation: female fox
word: vixen
Derived terms: tod and lambs
Related terms: Todd
todd
tod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒd/
ipa: /tɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
rhymes: -ɑːd
homophone: Todd
Forms: form: tods
Etymology: Late Middle English, of uncertain origin, but possibly from the same source as German Zotte (“clotted hair”), which see. Also cognate with Saterland Frisian todde (“bundle”), Swedish todd (“mass (of wool)”, dialectal).
Senses: examples: text: His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, / Not to undo with thunder.
ref: 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv, page 2:
text: For birds in bushes tooting:
At length within the Ivy tod
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “March. Ægloga Tertia.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
text: The ivy tod is heavy with snow.
ref: 1797–1798 (date written), [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”, in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, London: […] J[ohn] & A[rthur] Arch, […], published 1798, →OCLC:
glosses: A bush, especially of ivy.
examples: text: Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
ref: 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 27, page 202:
text: Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.
ref: 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 209:
glosses: An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).
tod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒd/
ipa: /tɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
rhymes: -ɑːd
homophone: Todd
Forms: form: tods
form: todding
form: todded
form: todded
Etymology: Late Middle English, of uncertain origin, but possibly from the same source as German Zotte (“clotted hair”), which see. Also cognate with Saterland Frisian todde (“bundle”), Swedish todd (“mass (of wool)”, dialectal).
Senses: glosses: To weigh; to yield in tods.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: on one's tod
sie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: sigh
homophone: sai
homophone: psi
homophone: xi
homophone: scye
homophone: Si
homophone: Sy
homophone: Cy
Forms: form: sies
form: sying
form: sied
form: sied
form: sigh
form: sey
form: sye
Etymology: From Middle English sien, from Old English sīgan (“to sink, descend”), from Proto-Germanic *sīganą, *sīhwaną (“to strain, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to pour, strain”). Cognate with Dutch zijgen (“to filter”), German seihen (“to strain, sieve”), Icelandic síga (“to lower”).
Senses: glosses: To sink; fall; drop.
glosses: To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
glosses: To drop, as water; trickle.
glosses: To sift.
glosses: To strain, as milk; filter.
sie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: sigh
homophone: sai
homophone: psi
homophone: xi
homophone: scye
homophone: Si
homophone: Sy
homophone: Cy
Forms: form: sies
form: sigh
form: sey
form: sye
Etymology: From Middle English sien, from Old English sīgan (“to sink, descend”), from Proto-Germanic *sīganą, *sīhwaną (“to strain, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to pour, strain”). Cognate with Dutch zijgen (“to filter”), German seihen (“to strain, sieve”), Icelandic síga (“to lower”).
Senses: glosses: A drop.
Related terms: sile
sie
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: sigh
homophone: sai
homophone: psi
homophone: xi
homophone: scye
homophone: Si
homophone: Sy
homophone: Cy
ipa: /siː/
homophone: c
homophone: cee
homophone: sea
homophone: see
ipa: /saɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: sigh
homophone: sai
homophone: psi
homophone: xi
homophone: scye
homophone: Si
homophone: Sy
homophone: Cy
Forms: form: sir
form: hir
form: hirs
form: hirself
form: shi
Senses: examples: text: If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions, […]
ref: 1993 September 24, Alex Martelli, “punishment vs ethics (was Re: Discipline my daughters)”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet):
text: "You must be Ash," sie said, hir voice a shade deeper than Amaranth's.
ref: 2010 September 16, Jessica Freely, Amaranth and Ash, La Vergne: Lightning Source, →ISBN, page 101:
text: Sie may feel that hir actual identity of hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders.
ref: 2011 May 19, Ken Wickham, The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant, CreateSpace, →ISBN, page 7:
text: When I asked hir about hir preferred self-identification in this scene, sie offered me this language, 'sie sharply performs the hotness of teasing all the audience from the edge-space of androgyny.'
ref: 2011 August 16, Petra Kuppers, Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC PN1590.H36 K87 2011, page 18:
glosses: Gender-neutral subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she
vegetarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛd͡ʒɪˈtɛɹi.ənɪzəm/
ipa: /vɛd͡ʒɪˈtɛəɹi.ənɪzəm/
Forms: form: vegetarianisms
Etymology: Attested since circa 1847, when the British Vegetarian Society was founded. From vegetarian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Vegetarianism, he said, is an idea “that has three things going for it all at once—economics, health and compassion.”
ref: 1975 March 21, Judy Klemesrud, quoting Jean Mayer, “Vegetarianism: Growing Way of Life, Especially Among the Young”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
antonyms: carnism
glosses: The practice of following a vegetarian diet.
wikipedia: Vegetarian Society
Derived terms: semivegetarian
Related terms: carnivorism
veganism
maggot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: măg'ət
ipa: /ˈmæɡət/
homophone: MAGAt
rhymes: -æɡət
Forms: form: maggots
Etymology: From Middle English magot, magat, maked, probably a metathetic alteration of maddock, maðek (“worm", "maggot”), originally a diminutive form of a base represented by Old English maþa (Scots mathe), from Proto-West Germanic *maþō, from Proto-Germanic *maþô, from the Proto-Indo-European root *mat, which was used in insect names, equivalent to made + -ock. Near-cognates include Dutch made, German Made and Swedish mask, Icelandic maðkur (“worm, grub, maggot”).
The use of maggot to mean a fanciful or whimsical thing derives from the folk belief that a whimsical or crotchety person had maggots in their brain.
Senses: glosses: A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.
examples: text: Drop and give me fifty, maggot.
text: "Maggot!" said Catweazle angrily. "Sit thee down!"
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 32:
glosses: A worthless person.
examples: text: Are you not mad, my friend? What time o' th' moon is't? / Have not you maggots in your brain?
ref: 1620, John Fletcher, Women Pleased, III.iv:
text: ‘I am ashamed of him! how can he think of humouring you in such maggots!’
ref: 1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 100:
text: […] If you draw, Sir, there's one prospect up the river, by the mills—upon my conscience—but you don't draw?'
No answer.
'A little, Sir, maybe? Just for a maggot, I'll wager—like my good lady, Mrs. Toole.'
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: A whimsy or fancy.
examples: text: (We) We are the new diabolic
 (We) We are the bitter bucolic
 If I have to give my life, you can have it
 (We) We are the pulse of the maggots
ref: 2004, “Pulse of the Maggots”, performed by Slipknot:
glosses: A fan of the American metal band Slipknot.
Synonyms: sense: soft legless larva
word: grub
Derived terms: act the maggot
antimaggot
apple maggot
demaggot
dog and maggot
fox maggot
gag a maggot
MAGAt
maggot bag
maggot cheese
maggoted
maggotiness
maggoting
maggotish
maggotless
maggotlike
maggotorium
maggot-pated
maggotpated
maggot-pie
maggotry
maggot therapy
maggoty
onion maggot
pea-maggot
rat-tailed maggot
white maggot
Related terms: mawk
mawkish
maggot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: măg'ət
ipa: /ˈmæɡət/
homophone: MAGAt
rhymes: -æɡət
Forms: form: maggots
form: maggoting
form: maggoted
form: maggoted
Etymology: From Middle English magot, magat, maked, probably a metathetic alteration of maddock, maðek (“worm", "maggot”), originally a diminutive form of a base represented by Old English maþa (Scots mathe), from Proto-West Germanic *maþō, from Proto-Germanic *maþô, from the Proto-Indo-European root *mat, which was used in insect names, equivalent to made + -ock. Near-cognates include Dutch made, German Made and Swedish mask, Icelandic maðkur (“worm, grub, maggot”).
The use of maggot to mean a fanciful or whimsical thing derives from the folk belief that a whimsical or crotchety person had maggots in their brain.
Senses: examples: text: In the summer I had to get the sheep penned twice a day to maggot them and I needed a good dog.
ref: 1950, Frederick Daniel Smith, Barbara Wilcox, Sold for Two Farthings, page 82:
glosses: To rid (an animal) of maggots.
maggot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: măg'ət
ipa: /ˈmæɡət/
homophone: MAGAt
rhymes: -æɡət
Forms: form: more maggot
form: most maggot
Etymology: From Middle English magot, magat, maked, probably a metathetic alteration of maddock, maðek (“worm", "maggot”), originally a diminutive form of a base represented by Old English maþa (Scots mathe), from Proto-West Germanic *maþō, from Proto-Germanic *maþô, from the Proto-Indo-European root *mat, which was used in insect names, equivalent to made + -ock. Near-cognates include Dutch made, German Made and Swedish mask, Icelandic maðkur (“worm, grub, maggot”).
The use of maggot to mean a fanciful or whimsical thing derives from the folk belief that a whimsical or crotchety person had maggots in their brain.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maggoted (“drunk; intoxicated”).
peep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pēp
ipa: /piːp/
ipa: /pip/
ipa: [pʰip]
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: peeps
Etymology: From Middle English pepen. Compare Dutch piepen (“peep”), German Low German piepen (“to peep”), German piepen and pfeifen, all probably onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: A short, soft, high-pitched sound, as made by a baby bird.
examples: text: I don't want to hear a peep out of you!
glosses: A feeble utterance or complaint.
examples: text: With a "peep" from a high-pitched whistle, the train would leave by the crossover to the down line, […].
ref: 1954 March, W. A. Tuplin, “Recollections of the Wirral Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 168:
text: "Peep, peep," said Edward, "I'm ready."
"Peep, peep, peep," said Henry, "so am I."
ref: 2001, Rev. W. Awdry, Thomas the tank engine collection : a unique collection of stories from the railway series - p. 177 - Egmont Books, Limited, Aug 15, 2001:
glosses: The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill.
topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A sandpiper or other small wader.
Derived terms: peepy
peep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pēp
ipa: /piːp/
ipa: /pip/
ipa: [pʰip]
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: peeps
form: peeping
form: peeped
form: peeped
Etymology: From Middle English pepen. Compare Dutch piepen (“peep”), German Low German piepen (“to peep”), German piepen and pfeifen, all probably onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.
glosses: To speak briefly with a quiet voice.
peep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pēp
ipa: /piːp/
ipa: /pip/
ipa: [pʰip]
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: peeps
form: peeping
form: peeped
form: peeped
Etymology: From Middle English pepen, variant of piken.
Senses: examples: text: The man peeped through the small hole.
text: And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
ref: 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
glosses: To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed.
examples: text: When flowers first peeped, and trees did blossoms bear.
ref: 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
text: They first caught crabs and quohogs in the sand; grown bolder, they waded out with nets for mackerel; more experienced, they pushed off in boats and captured cod; and at last, launching a navy of great ships on the sea, explored this watery world; put an incessant belt of circumnavigations round it; peeped in at Behring’s Straits; and in all seasons and all oceans declared everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that has survived the flood; most monstrous and most mountainous!
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 14, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 70:
glosses: To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.
examples: text: Did you peep that video I sent you?
text: Peep me, I'm fabulous, I work with the hardest working women at Kay Jeweler's, selling the finest jewels to the richest people.
ref: 2019 December, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 96:
glosses: To take a look at; check out.
examples: text: A lot of females were hesitant about getting with Pimp. He had a hard edge to him that made it impossible not to peep his cruel nature.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 58:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To see, uncover.
Hypernyms: glance
peep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pēp
ipa: /piːp/
ipa: /pip/
ipa: [pʰip]
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: peeps
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps variant of pip.
Senses: glosses: A spot on a die or domino.
Synonyms: sense: spot on die or domino
word: pip
peep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pēp
ipa: /piːp/
ipa: /pip/
ipa: [pʰip]
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: peeps
Etymology: Back-formation from peeps, a shortened form of people.
Senses: glosses: A person.
cot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑt/
ipa: /kɒt/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɒʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /kaːʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɔːʈ/
ipa: /kɔt/
homophone: caught (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: cots
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi खाट (khāṭ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀔𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (khaṭṭā), from Sanskrit खट्वा (khaṭvā, “bedstead”).
Senses: examples: text: There was a flickering of lanterns about the camp that night, and a rumor that brought men out of their cots to the tent doors, a paddling of the naked feet of doolie-bearers and the rush of a galloping horse.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 153:
synonyms: camp bed
glosses: A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
synonyms: crib
glosses: A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.
Derived terms: carrycot
chuck one's toys out of the cot
cot-bed
cot-caught merger
cot death
cotless
Cotman
fingercot
finger cot
life cot
meat-safe cot
pigscot
portacot
three hots and a cot
throw one's rattle out of the cot
throw one's toys out of the cot
cot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑt/
ipa: /kɒt/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɒʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /kaːʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɔːʈ/
ipa: /kɔt/
homophone: caught (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: cots
Etymology: From Middle English cot, cote, from Old English cot and cote (“cot, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutǭ (compare Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz (“execution pit”)), from Scythian (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “chamber”)). Cognate to Dutch kot (“student room; small homestead”). Doublet of cote; more distantly related to cottage.
Senses: examples: text: the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm
ref: 1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC:
text: One evening […] we were on a sudden, greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward Door of our rustic Cot.
ref: 1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia:
text: 1898, Ethna Carbery, "Roddy McCorley" (poem).
Oh, see the fleet-foot hosts of men who speed with faces wan / From farmstead and from thresher's cot along the banks of Ban
glosses: A cottage or small homestead.
synonyms: cote
glosses: A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.
Derived terms: bell cot
cothouse
cotland
cot-quean
Related terms: coscet
cosset
cote
cotter
cot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑt/
ipa: /kɒt/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɒʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /kaːʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɔːʈ/
ipa: /kɔt/
homophone: caught (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: cots
Etymology: From Irish coite, coit (“small boat”), possibly from Medieval Latin cattia (“pan”).
Senses: glosses: A small, crudely-formed boat.
cot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑt/
ipa: /kɒt/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɒʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /kaːʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɔːʈ/
ipa: /kɔt/
homophone: caught (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: cots
form: cote
Etymology: From dialectal cot, cote, partly from Middle English cot (“matted wool”), from Old English *cot, *cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô (“woolen fabric, wool covering”); and partly from Middle English cot, cote (“tunic, coat”), from Old French cote, from the same Germanic source (see English coat). Possibly influenced by English cotton.
Senses: examples: text: a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame)
text: a cot for a sore finger
glosses: A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.
cot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑt/
ipa: /kɒt/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɒʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /kaːʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɔːʈ/
ipa: /kɔt/
homophone: caught (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: cots
Etymology: Contraction of cot-quean.
Senses: examples: text: You know, that being an old bachelor, and somewhat of an epicure, he is at home, what the vulgar call a cot; and has laid down his spontoon for the tasting spoon, converted his sword into a carving knife, and his sash into a jelly bag.
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 347:
glosses: A man who does household work normally associated with women.
cot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑt/
ipa: /kɒt/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɒʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /kaːʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɔːʈ/
ipa: /kɔt/
homophone: caught (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒt
Etymology: Variant of cock
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: vulva; vagina.
busy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭz'i
ipa: /ˈbɪzi/
rhymes: -ɪzi
Forms: form: busies
Etymology: From Middle English bisy, busie, from Old English bisiġ (“busy, occupied, diligent”), from Proto-West Germanic *bisīg (“diligent; zealous; busy”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian biesich (“active, diligent, hard-working, industrious”), Dutch bezig (“busy”), Low German besig (“busy”). The spelling with ⟨u⟩ represents the pronunciation of the West Midland and Southern dialects while the Modern English pronunciation with /ɪ/ is from the dialects of the East Midlands.
Senses: examples: text: I remember playing on a building site once and coming across a five-pound note. I could hardly believe it when I spotted it poking out of the rubble. Excitedly, I ran straight home and gave it to my mum. I was hero of the hour until I got into trouble with the busies – the police – soon afterwards for pinching a bottle of milk from a float.
ref: 2016, Chris Graham, Five Minutes of Amazing: My Journey Through Dementia, London: Sphere, →ISBN, page 30:
qualifier: Liverpool
glosses: A police officer.
busy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭz'i
ipa: /ˈbɪzi/
rhymes: -ɪzi
Forms: form: busies
form: busying
form: busied
form: busied
Etymology: From Middle English bisien, from Old English bisgian (“to occupy, employ, trouble, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *bisīgōn. Cognate with Old Frisian bisgia (“to use”).
Senses: examples: text: On my vacation I'll busy myself with gardening.
text: They busied themselves with the tea.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 114:
glosses: To make somebody busy or active; to occupy.
Derived terms: bebusy
busy around
forebusy
overbusy
unbusy
pretty
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪti/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈprɪʈi/
ipa: /ˈpɝti/
ipa: /ˈpɹʊti/
ipa: /ˈpɔɪti/
note: Indic, spelling pronunciation, proscribed
ipa: /ˈprɛʈi/
rhymes: -ɪti
Forms: form: pooty
form: purdy
form: purty
form: pratty
form: prettie
form: pretie
Etymology: From Middle English prety, preti, praty, prati, from Old English prættiġ (“tricky, crafty, sly, cunning, wily, astute”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattug, from Proto-Germanic *prattugaz (“boastful, sly, slick, deceitful, tricky, cunning”), corresponding to prat (“trick”) + -y. Doublet of pratty.
Cognate with Dutch prettig (“nice, pleasant”), Low German prettig (“funny”), Icelandic prettugur (“deceitful, tricky”). For the semantic development, compare canny, clever, cute.
Senses: examples: text: They are proud, and vveare their hayre pretty long, and about their criſpes vvreath a valuable Shaſh or Tulipant; […]
ref: 1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, “Of Java Major”, in Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book III, page 325:
text: By the Sheets you have sent me to peruse, the Account you have given of her Birth and Parentage is pretty exact [...].
ref: 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section V:
text: Pauſanias's account is related pretty faithfully there, if we except two errors, one, that Arcas an Olympian mixed ſome Hippomanes with the brazen ſtatue, the other that he caſt a mare.
ref: 1741, [Pierre] Bayle, “A Dissertation Concerning the Hippomanes”, in John Peter Bernard, Thomas Birch, John Lockman, et al., transl., A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical: […], volume X, London: […] James Bettenham, for G[eorge] Strahan, J. Clarke, […], →OCLC, page 361:
text: It seems pretty clear that organic beings must be exposed during several generations to the new conditions of life to cause any appreciable amount of variation; […]
ref: 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Variation under Domestication”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 7:
text: I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: The Revolutionary decade was a pretty challenging time for business.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 539:
glosses: Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very.
examples: text: 'The boy sings pretty, don't he, Master Marner?'
ref: 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 139:
glosses: Prettily, in a pretty manner.
Derived terms: PDQ
Pretty Good Privacy
pretty much
pretty-spoken
pretty well
pretty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪti/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈprɪʈi/
ipa: /ˈpɝti/
ipa: /ˈpɹʊti/
ipa: /ˈpɔɪti/
note: Indic, spelling pronunciation, proscribed
ipa: /ˈprɛʈi/
rhymes: -ɪti
Forms: form: pretties
form: pooty
form: purdy
form: purty
form: pratty
form: prettie
form: pretie
Etymology: From Middle English prety, preti, praty, prati, from Old English prættiġ (“tricky, crafty, sly, cunning, wily, astute”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattug, from Proto-Germanic *prattugaz (“boastful, sly, slick, deceitful, tricky, cunning”), corresponding to prat (“trick”) + -y. Doublet of pratty.
Cognate with Dutch prettig (“nice, pleasant”), Low German prettig (“funny”), Icelandic prettugur (“deceitful, tricky”). For the semantic development, compare canny, clever, cute.
Senses: examples: text: I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!
ref: 1939, Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, The Wizard of Oz:
glosses: A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person.
examples: text: We'll stop at the knife store and look at the sharp pretties.
glosses: Something that is pretty.
Derived terms: play pretty
stink pretty
pretty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪti/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈprɪʈi/
ipa: /ˈpɝti/
ipa: /ˈpɹʊti/
ipa: /ˈpɔɪti/
note: Indic, spelling pronunciation, proscribed
ipa: /ˈprɛʈi/
rhymes: -ɪti
Forms: form: pretties
form: prettying
form: prettied
form: prettied
form: pooty
form: purdy
form: purty
form: pratty
form: prettie
form: pretie
Etymology: From Middle English prety, preti, praty, prati, from Old English prættiġ (“tricky, crafty, sly, cunning, wily, astute”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattug, from Proto-Germanic *prattugaz (“boastful, sly, slick, deceitful, tricky, cunning”), corresponding to prat (“trick”) + -y. Doublet of pratty.
Cognate with Dutch prettig (“nice, pleasant”), Low German prettig (“funny”), Icelandic prettugur (“deceitful, tricky”). For the semantic development, compare canny, clever, cute.
Senses: examples: text: He sat on the hearth rug and began prettying the dog's coat.
ref: 2007, Eric Knight, Lassie Come-Home, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: To make pretty; to beautify
Derived terms: pretty up
slip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: slĭp
ipa: /slɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: slips
Etymology: Probably from Middle Dutch slippe or Middle Low German slippe, probably ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *slīban (“to split”).
Senses: examples: text: a slip from a vine
text: "So much for auguries," said Emily, pointing to a young geranium, which was growing in vigour below. "The day before I left home, I planted that slip, and, in idea, linked my futurity with the slight shrub, saying, If it flourishes, so shall I—if it dies, I shall die too. See how luxuriantly it blooms!"
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 322:
glosses: A twig or shoot; a cutting.
examples: text: a native slip to us from foreign seeds
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: A descendant, a scion.
examples: text: She couldn't hurt a fly, young slip of a girl that she is.
glosses: A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
examples: text: Never, nevermore / Shall lone Œnone see the morning mist / Sweep thro' them—never see them overlaid / With narrow moonlit slips of silver cloud, / Between the loud stream and the trembling stars.
ref: 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “Œnone”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 62:
glosses: A long, thin piece of something.
examples: text: a salary slip
glosses: A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
qualifier: marine insurance
glosses: A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
Derived terms: deposit slip
hog-slip
pink slip
rejection slip
sales slip
slip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: slĭp
ipa: /slɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: slips
Etymology: From Middle English slyp, slep, slyppe, from Old English slyp, slyppe, slipa (“a viscous, slimy substance”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *sleupan, from Proto-Germanic *sleupaną (“to slip, sneak”), possibly connected with Proto-Indo-European *slewb-, *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak, crawl”); or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *slippijaną (“to glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyb- (“slimy; to glide”).
Compare Old English slūpan (“to slip, glide”), Old English cūslyppe, cūsloppe (“cowslip”).
Senses: examples: text: The Wasserpfeife or water-whistle from Moravia was a bird whistle made during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. […] The bird is of a grey and brown mottled glaze with sgraffito markings and touches of green slip.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 172:
topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
glosses: Mud, slime.
bustier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːstiɚ/
enpr: bo͞osʹtē-ā
Forms: form: bustiers
Etymology: Borrowed from French bustier, from buste + -ier.
Senses: examples: text: The clothes were equally frothy: teacup silk skirts, a bubbly wool coat in Bazooka pink, satin bustiers with huge fan pleats across the front, metallic peplum jackets and flamboyantly patterned tights.
ref: 2009 February 18, Cathy Horyn, “In the Moment, or Not”, in New York Times:
text: Next came the narrow silk straps of her bustier. She pushed the satin fabric down, toward her waist, exposing her breasts.
ref: 2010, Jane Porter, The Sheikh's Wife, →ISBN:
synonyms: bustiere
glosses: A tight-fitting women's top, often strapless, which covers the bust and sometimes extends over the belly, worn either as an undergarment or as outerwear.
bustier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːstiɚ/
enpr: bo͞osʹtē-ā
ipa: /ˈbʌsti.ə(ɹ)/
enpr: bŭsʹtē-ər
ipa: /ˈbuːstiɚ/
enpr: bo͞osʹtē-ā
Etymology: See busty.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of busty: more busty
ink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭngk
ipa: /ɪŋk/
note: pre-/ŋ/ tensing
ipa: /iŋk/
homophone: inc.
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: inks
form: inking
form: inked
form: inked
Etymology: From Middle English ynke, from Old French enque, from Latin encaustum (“purple ink used by Roman emperors to sign documents”), from Ancient Greek ἔγκαυστον (énkauston, “burned-in”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + καίω (kaíō, “burn”). In this sense, displaced native Old English blæc (“ink”, literally “black”).
Senses: examples: text: A plain impression is obtained by pressing the bulb of the finger, with the plane of the nail parallel to the plane of the plate, on the inked plate and then on the paper in the same manner.
ref: 1919, R. H. Leigh, How to Obtain Good Finger Prints, third edition, U.S. Navy Department Bureau of Navigation, page 1:
glosses: To apply ink to; to cover or smear with ink.
examples: text: Before Musk, America’s space industry was moribund. In 2011, NASA mothballed the last space shuttle, after inking a deal with SpaceX to make uncrewed cargo resupply runs to the International Space Station (ISS).
ref: 2021 December 13, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021:
glosses: To sign (a contract or similar document).
glosses: To apply a tattoo to (someone).
glosses: to eject ink (sense 3)
raw_tags: of a squid or octopus
Synonyms: sense: sign
word: endorse
sense: sign
word: initial
sense: sign
word: inscribe
sense: sign
word: subscribe
Related terms: dye
atrament
peculiar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈkjuː.li.ə/
ipa: /pəˈkjuː.li.ə/
ipa: /pɪˈkjul.jɚ/
ipa: /pəˈkjul.jɚ/
ipa: /pɪˈkjʉː.li.ə/
Forms: form: peculiars
Etymology: From Latin pecūliāris (“one's own”), from pecūlium (“private property”), from pecus (“cattle”).
Senses: examples: before 1716, Robert South, Twelve Sermons
If anything can legalize revenge, it should be injury from an extremely obliged person; but revenge is so absolutely the peculiar of heaven.
glosses: That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.
qualifier: canon law
glosses: an ecclesiastical district, parish, chapel or church outside the jurisdiction of the bishop of the diocese in which it is situated.
Related terms: Peculiar in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
explore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭksplôʹ
ipa: /ɪkˈsplɔː/
enpr: ĭksplôrʹ
ipa: /ɪkˈsploɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: ĭksplōrʹ
ipa: /ɪkˈsplo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɪkˈsploə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: explores
form: exploring
form: explored
form: explored
Etymology: From Middle French explorer, from Latin explōrāre (“to investigate, search out”), itself said to be originally a hunters' term meaning "to set up a loud cry", from ex- (“out”) + plōrāre (“to cry”), but the second element is also explained as "to make to flow" (from pluere (“to flow”)).
Senses: glosses: To seek for something or after someone.
examples: text: The committee has been exploring alternative solutions to the problem at hand.
text: Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:
glosses: To examine or investigate something systematically.
examples: text: It was around that time that the expedition began exploring the Arctic Circle.
glosses: To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To examine diagnostically.
examples: text: It is normal for a boy of this age to be exploring his sexuality.
glosses: To (seek) experience first hand.
examples: text: He was too busy exploring to notice his son needed his guidance.
glosses: To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
examples: text: The boys explored all around till cold and hunger drove them back to the campfire one by one.
text: They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
glosses: To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.
Synonyms: sense: examine or investigate systematically
word: delve into
sense: examine or investigate systematically
word: research
Derived terms: explorable
explorement
explorer
exploringly
explorista
explornography
reexplore
sexplore
Related terms: exploration
explorative
exploratory
explore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭksplôʹ
ipa: /ɪkˈsplɔː/
enpr: ĭksplôrʹ
ipa: /ɪkˈsploɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: ĭksplōrʹ
ipa: /ɪkˈsplo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɪkˈsploə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: explores
Etymology: From Middle French explorer, from Latin explōrāre (“to investigate, search out”), itself said to be originally a hunters' term meaning "to set up a loud cry", from ex- (“out”) + plōrāre (“to cry”), but the second element is also explained as "to make to flow" (from pluere (“to flow”)).
Senses: examples: text: Daylight was fading quickly, but I was still keen to have a little explore of the town and beach.
ref: 2008, John Watters, Bonza Voyage:
glosses: An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like.