cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
regina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reginas
Senses: examples: text: In this box the regina of the colony, surrounded by her harmonious, cleanly, industrious, skilful subjects, carries on her part of procreation, and finally hatches her numerous progeny, called by Bee-masters the larvæ.[…]The Bees will immediately commence their operations in their new apartment. Thus swarming is effectually prevented; and thus the Queen gains a vast addition to her dominions, and consequently additional space for the population of her momentarily enlarged domicile. There is now no want of store-house room, nor of employment, for our indefatigable labourers. And while the subjects are employed in collecting, and manufacturing (if I may so say) their various materials, the regina is engaged in carrying on the great, first principle of nature—the propagation of her species.
ref: 1832, Thomas Nutt, “Bee-Boxes and Managament of Bees in them”, in Humanity to Honey Bees: or, Practical Directions for the Management of Honey Bees upon an Improved and Humane Plan, […], Wisbech, Cambridgeshire: […] H. and J. Leach, […], pages 34 and 37:
text: Chiri says: “Pouf, child! That is not because she is grand. The Regina Margherita is grander, and she bows and smiles a dozen ways all at once. It is the heart.” Chiri says that—but if it is only the heart, she herself would make a very grand lady because her heart is of gold; and her smile is better than the regina’s, although some of her teeth are quite gone, and her skin is dark like the castagnola.[…]“[…]But it has the bicyclists attending!” / “That is true. Then it must belong to the Queen Margherita!” / “It is not the regina’s coachman!” / “Parbleu, you are right! Then it may be the foreign prince who is visiting!”
ref: 1910, Olive M. Briggs, The Fir and the Palm, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, pages 94 and 287:
text: He is, in any case, extremist enough to have decided to assassinate the Queen, out of frustration with his ‘token life, token education, token job, token family.’ He impresses Percy with his proposal to restore the ‘Ancient Kingdom of Northumbria’ and persuades him to help with the ‘reginicide.’ But the regina changes her route[…]
ref: 1977, The Spectator, page 28, column 3:
text: George No. Don’t ring the … / (Ruby rings the bell several times.) / Ruby Thank you. The Regina is rapidly approaching./[…]/ Ruby AND SMILE – A TRIUMPHANT REGINA IS LANDING ON THE LAWN. / George WILL YOU STOP SAYING THAT. We don’t talk about reginas. / Ruby So it’s David. / George Her Majesty is not a … not in the vernacular. It’s official. For coins …
ref: 2006, Vanessa Brooks, Queen’s English, London: Josef Weinberger Plays, →ISBN, pages 63 and 75:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Regina (“queen”).
Winnipeg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪn.əˌpɛɡ/
Etymology: * From Ojibwe wiinibig (“dirty waters”), from wiini’ (“to make someone dirty”), wiinad (“it is dirty”), + nibi (“water”), plural nibig (“waters”).
* After the lake, from Cree/Swampy Cree ᐑᓂᐯᐠ (“muddy waters”), describing the river's water entering the lake (CanOD).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Manitoba, Canada.
glosses: A large lake in Manitoba, Canada; in full, Lake Winnipeg.
glosses: A river that flows 813 km from Lake of the Woods, Ontario into Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba; in full, Winnipeg River.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri, United States, named after the Canadian city.
Synonyms: word: Peg
word: Winterpeg
word: WPG
word: Wpg
word: Wpg.
Derived terms: Lake Winnipeg
Winnie the Pooh
Winnipeg couch
Winnipegger
Winnipeg goldeye
Winnipeg handshake
Winnipegish
Winnipeg rye
Winnipeg rye bread
Related terms: Lake Winnipegosis
Lake Winnibigoshish
Winnipegosis
Winnebago
Toronto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈɹɒ.nəʊ/
ipa: /təˈɹɒn.təʊ/
ipa: /təˈɹɑ.noʊ/
ipa: /təˈɹɑn.toʊ/
ipa: [tʰəˈɹɑ̈ntʰo(ʊ)]
ipa: [tʰəˈɹɑ̈ɾ̃o(ʊ)]
note: local, MTE
ipa: /təˈɹɑnoʊ/
note: local, MTE
ipa: [tʰəˈɹɑɾ̃ə]
note: local, MTE
ipa: [tʰɹɑɾ̃ə]
note: local, MTE
ipa: [t͡ʃəˈɹɑno(ʊ)]
note: local, MTE
ipa: [t͡ʃɹɑno(ʊ)]
note: local, MTE
ipa: [t͡ʃəˈɹɑnə]
note: local, MTE
ipa: [t͡ʃɹɑnə]
note: local, MTE
ipa: [t̠͡ɹ̠̊˔ʷɑɾ̃ə]
rhymes: -ɒnəʊ
rhymes: -ɒntəʊ
Etymology: From Mohawk tkaronto (“where trees stand in water”), originally referring to the strait between Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching. Compare karón꞉ta (“tree”) from Proto-North Iroquoian *-ɹõt-.
Senses: examples: text: As Toronto slowly comes back to life after two years of repeated lockdowns and closures, the wreckage of the pandemic is surfacing like cigarette butts in melted snow drifts.
ref: 2022 April 18, Catherine Porter, “A ‘Wild West’ of Marijuana Shops Grows in Toronto”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2022:
text: A year earlier, the Canadian leader was seen at a Sikh event in Toronto where separatist flags and posters depicting an extremist Sikh leader killed in a 1984 Indian Army operation were displayed.
ref: 2024 November 29, Lex Harvey, “Clashes erupted outside a Hindu temple near Toronto. They’re the latest sign of Canada and India’s spiraling relations”, in CNN:
synonyms: Big Smoke
Hogtown
Hollywood North
Muddy York
The 6
The North
Queen City
T.O.
York
glosses: The capital city of Ontario, Canada and largest city Canada.
glosses: A lakeside suburb of Greater Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, in the local government area of the City of Lake Macquarie.
glosses: An unincorporated community in the township of Lot 23, Grenville Parish, Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
glosses: A village in County Durham, England.
glosses: Numerous places in the United States:
A former unincorporated community in Woodside Township, now a suburb of Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois.
glosses: Numerous places in the United States:
A ghost town in Helt Township, Vermillion County, Indiana.
glosses: Numerous places in the United States:
A small town in Clinton County, Iowa.
glosses: Numerous places in the United States:
A tiny city in Woodson County, Kansas, named after Toronto, Ontario.
glosses: Numerous places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Camden County, Missouri, named after Toronto, Ontario.
glosses: Numerous places in the United States:
A city in Jefferson County, Ohio, named after Toronto, Ontario.
glosses: Numerous places in the United States:
A small town in Deuel County, South Dakota, named after Toronto, Ontario.
Derived terms: Toronto Islands
Related terms: Torontonian
Fredericton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɛdɹɪktən/
rhymes: -ɛdɹɪktən
Forms: form: Fredericston
Etymology: From Fredericston, from Frederic + -s- + -ton. The city was named after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827), by colonial governor Thomas Carleton.
Senses: synonyms: Celestial City
Saint Anne's Point
glosses: The capital city of New Brunswick, Canada.
wikipedia: en:Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
en:Thomas Carleton
Derived terms: Frederictonian
Fredericton Junction
Halifax
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæl.ɪˌfæks/
rhymes: -ælɪfæks
Etymology: From Old English halh-ġefeaxe (literally “grassy corner”), compounded from halh + ġefeaxe. Folk etymology suggests Old English hāliġfeax (literally “holy hair”), as compounded from hāliġ + feax, from a local legend that the town is said to have received the name from the fact that the hair of a murdered virgin was hung up on a tree in the neighborhood, which became a resort of pilgrims. Compare also Fairfax.
The capital city of Nova Scotia is named after statesman George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax (1716–1771).
The civil parish is also named after the 2nd Earl of Halifax. Coined by British-Dutch surveyor Samuel Holland.
Senses: glosses: An industrial town in West Yorkshire, England, 20km south-west of Leeds.
glosses: A civil parish of Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
glosses: A regional municipality, the capital city of Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A small town, the county seat of Halifax County, North Carolina, United States.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Halifax County, Virginia, United States.
glosses: An earldom in the Peerage of Great Britain.
Derived terms: go to Halifax
Halifax County
Related terms: Haligonian
Charlottetown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑː.ləˌtaʊn/
ipa: /ˈʃɑɹ.ləˌtaʊn/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lətaʊn
Etymology: The name of the city on Prince Edward Island is Charlotte + town. The city is named after Queen Charlotte (1744-1818). The town in Labrador was named after the city on Prince Edward Island by the local resident Benjamin Powell, who had hoped that the settlement might one day reach a similar size and importance.
Senses: synonyms: word: Ch'town
glosses: The capital city and county seat of Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
synonyms: word: Olds Cove
glosses: A town in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Derived terms: Charlottetonian
Saint John's
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Saint John + -'s.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Related terms: St. John's
St. Johns
pato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pato (literally “duck”), since it was originally played with a live duck inside a basket instead of a ball.
Senses: glosses: The national sport of Argentina, a game played on horseback that combines elements of polo and basketball.
pata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɑ/
other: /ˈpɑtə/
other: /ˈpætə/
Forms: form: patas
form: patta
Etymology: From Marathi पट्टा (paṭṭā) or a related term in another Indian language. Compare the longer form Marathi दांडपट्टा (dāṇḍpaṭṭā).
Senses: glosses: An Indian sword with an attached gauntlet.
Synonyms: dandpatta
gans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡænz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gan
goose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gōōs
ipa: /ɡuːs/
ipa: /ɡus/
ipa: /ɡʉs/
ipa: /ɡʉ͡ws/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: gooses
form: goosing
form: goosed
form: goosed
Etymology: PIE word
 *ǵʰh₂éns
From Middle English goos, gos, from Old English gōs, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.
Cognates
Compare West Frisian goes, North Frisian göis (also Fering-Öömrang dialect North Frisian gus; Sölring dialect North Frisian Guus; Heligoland dialect North Frisian gus), Low German Goos, Gans, Dutch gans, German Gans, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian gås, Icelandic gæs, Irish gé, Latin ānser, Latvian zùoss, Russian гусь (gusʹ), Albanian gatë, Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn), Avestan 𐬰𐬁 (zā), Sanskrit हंस (haṃsá).
* The tailor's iron is so called from the likeness of the handle to the neck of a goose.
Senses: examples: text: She greeted Miss Lonelyhearts, then took hold of her husband and shook the breath out of him. When he was quiet, she dragged him into their apartment. Miss Lonelyhearts followed and as he passed her in the dark foyer, she goosed him and laughed.
ref: 1933, Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts:
text: The witness stand. Goldminers giving evidence, sure he's violent didn't I see him with my own peepers chasing those poor kids up on the roof and he goosed my wife last Christmas. Violently. Just a forceful nudge of the knee.
ref: 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 36:
text: Here are the three strange men have exposed themselves to me, the two obscene phone callers, the time I was goosed by an employer.
ref: 1991 August 24, Artemis OakGrove, “I Deserve A Medal”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 5:
glosses: To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks, or prod between the buttocks, of (a person).
examples: text: Almost everyone in McKay’s impossibly starry cast feels like they’re jumping into the SNL host role, game for some light comedic lifting while waiting for the pros to show up and goose the laughs.
ref: 2021 December 7, Jesse Hassenger, “Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence cope with disaster in the despairing satire Don’t Look Up”, in AV Club:
text: The ensuing snarknado also seemed to goose the TV ratings. Hundreds of thousands of viewers switched on the movie after it began, suggesting that they’d gotten wind through Twitter of the bananas spectacle that was unfolding.
ref: 2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To stimulate; to spur.
glosses: To gently accelerate (an automobile or machine), or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
glosses: Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.
glosses: To hiss (a performer) off the stage.
Iqaluit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈkælʊ.ɪt/
Etymology: Borrowed from Inuktitut ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ (iqaloit, “place of fish”), plural of ᐃᖃᓗᒃ (iqalok, “fish”).
Senses: synonyms: Frobisher Bay
glosses: The capital city of Nunavut, Canada.
Yellowknife
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjɛloʊnaɪf/
Etymology: From yellow (“a colour like that of copper”) + knife (“a tool prominently made, used, owned, and traded, by the T'satsąot'ınę”).
From Dogrib T'satsąot'ınę.
Named after the Tsatsaotine (“Copper People”) (the Yellowknives), a local Dene tribe that made copper tools.
Senses: glosses: The capital of and only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
wikipedia: en:Yellowknives
heel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːl/
ipa: /hil/
homophone: heal (general)
homophone: he'll (some accents)
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: heels
form: heeling
form: heeled
form: heeled
Etymology: From Middle English hele, from Old English hēla, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hilō, from Proto-Germanic *hanhilaz, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *hanhaz (“heel, hock”), equivalent to hock + -le. More at hock.
Compare North Frisian haiel, West Frisian hyl, Dutch hiel, German Low German Hiel, Danish and Norwegian hæl, Swedish häl.
Senses: examples: text: She called to her dog to heel.
glosses: To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.
glosses: To cause to follow at somebody’s heels (transitive).
glosses: To add a heel to, or increase the size of the heel of (a shoe or boot).
examples: she heeled her horse forward
glosses: To kick with the heel.
examples: text: I cannot sing,
 Nor heel the high lavolt.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], lines 85-86:
glosses: To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, etc.
glosses: To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit (the ball) with the heel of the club.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot forward, the heel on the ground and the toe up.
glosses: At Yale University, to work as a heeler or student journalist.
Derived terms: heel out
heel up
heel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːl/
ipa: /hil/
homophone: heal (general)
homophone: he'll (some accents)
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: heels
form: heeling
form: heeled
form: heeled
Etymology: Probably inferred from hielded, the past tense of hield, from Middle English helden, heelden, from Old English hyldan, hieldan (“to incline”), cognate with Old Norse hella (“to pour out”) (whence Danish hælde (“lean, pour”)).
Senses: examples: text: The faster a ship sails, the better she will answer her helm; if she sail very slow, she will scarce steer at all. If she heel much, she won't answer the helm so well.
ref: 1764, John Nourse, Navigation Or, the Art of Sailing Upon the Sea, page 65:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To incline to one side; to tilt.
Related terms: angle of vanishing stability
limit of positive stability
heel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːl/
ipa: /hil/
homophone: heal (general)
homophone: he'll (some accents)
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: heels
Etymology: Probably inferred from hielded, the past tense of hield, from Middle English helden, heelden, from Old English hyldan, hieldan (“to incline”), cognate with Old Norse hella (“to pour out”) (whence Danish hælde (“lean, pour”)).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he boat, from a sudden gust of wind, taking a deep heel, I tumbled overboard and down I went […] .
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 14
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant.
Synonyms: heeling
heel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːl/
ipa: /hil/
homophone: heal (general)
homophone: he'll (some accents)
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: heels
form: heeling
form: heeled
form: heeled
Etymology: See hele (“conceal, keep secret, cover”).
Senses: examples: text: They should be dug up with a sharp mattock or grub hoe, the roots being broken as little as possible, and they should be heeled in a cool place and protected from the sun until ready to plant. When lifted for planting from the trench in which heeled the roots should be kept covered with a wet sack.
ref: 1911, Biennial Report of the State Geologist, North Carolina Geological Survey Section, page 92:
text: In the late fall the seedlings may be dug and heeled in very closely until all the leaves have dropped.
ref: 1913, Indian School Journal, page 142:
text: Member: Did you water the trees when you set them out?
Walter Vonnegut: No; I heeled the trees in as soon as they were received.
ref: 1916, Transactions of the Indiana Horticultural Society, page 111:
text: If trees are received from the nursery in the fall, they should be carefully heeled in until the planting season opens in the spring.
ref: 1937, Robert Wilson, Ernest John George, Planting and care of shelterbelts on the northern Great Plains, page 15:
text: Place seedlings in the trench. Small-stemmed seedlings may be heeled-in in bunches of 25, but large seedlings should be heeled-in loose.
ref: 1976, Keith W. Dorman, The Genetics and Breeding of Southern Pines, page 66:
text: [I] of my own free will and accord, do hereby, here at and hereon, solemnly swear that I will always heel, conceal and never improperly reveal any of the secrets or mysteries of, or belonging to [the Masons].
ref: , Brian Kerr, Lodge St Lawrence 144 Ritual, page 34
glosses: Alternative form of hele (“cover; conceal”).
raw_tags: in the phrase "heel in"
Whitehorse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From white + horse.
* In Yukon, from the appearance of the White Horse Rapids, which looked like the manes of white horses.
Senses: synonyms: White Horse
glosses: The capital city of Yukon, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States, named after a tavern.
glosses: A census-designated place in Dewey County, South Dakota, United States, named after a chieftain.
glosses: A local government area in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, named after the White Horse Inn, a former tavern; in full, the City of Whitehorse.
Ottawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒtəwə/
ipa: /ˈɑtəwə/
ipa: [ˈɑɾəwə]
ipa: /ˈɑtəˌwɑ/
ipa: /ˈɒtəwɒ/
ipa: /ˈɒtəwə/
note: Ottawa Valley, dialectal
ipa: [ˈɔɾ̥əwa(ː)]
Forms: form: Ottawa
form: Ottawas
form: Odawa
form: Odaawaa
form: Ottowa
Etymology: From Ojibwe odaawaa/ᐅᑡᐙ (“an Ottawa; a trader”), from Proto-Algonquian *atawewa (“to trade”).
Senses: examples: text: The Anishinaabe people are American Indians who have historically been associated with the Great Lakes region of what is now called Canada and the United States. The Anishinaabe people of the Great Lakes include the Odawas (also known as the Ottawas), the Chippewas (also known as the Ojibwes), and the Potawatomis (also known as the Bodéwadmis)—three interrelated groups that are sometimes collectively referred to as the Three Fires Confederacy. […] The Bureau also noted a decline in the number reported as Ottawa between 1910 and 1930 and went on to observe that the significant number of Michigan Natives “with tribe not reported in Emmet, Charlevoix, and Leelanau Counties……should probably be added to the number of Ottawa” (Census Bureau 1937, page 38).
ref: 2022 May 5, Arland Thornton, Alphonse Pitawanakwat, Eric Hemenway, Lindsey Willow Smith, Linda Young DeMarco, Anishinaabe Geography in the 1930 Decennial Census—and the Use of this Geography in Studying the 1900-1940 Attributes of Anishinaabe People, pages 4, 18:
related: word: Odawa
word: Odaawaa
word: Ottowa
glosses: A member of the Ottawa people.
swan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɒn/
ipa: /swɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
Forms: form: swans
form: swan
Etymology: From Middle English swan, from Old English swan, from Proto-West Germanic *swan, from Proto-Germanic *swanaz (“swan”, literally “the singing bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *swonh₂-/*swenh₂- (“to sing, make sound”).
Cognate with West Frisian swan, Low German Swaan, swan, Dutch zwaan, German Schwan, Danish svane, Norwegian svane, Swedish svan. Related also to Old English ġeswin (“melody, song”), Old English swinsian (“to make melody”).
Further cognates include (possibly) Russian звон (zvon, “ring, chime”); Latin sonus (“sound”), Sanskrit स्वन् (svan, “sound”).
Doublet of sound.
Senses: glosses: Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage.
glosses: One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire).
Hyponyms: english: adult male
translation: adult male
word: cob
english: young
translation: young
word: cygnet
english: adult female
translation: adult female
word: pen
english: young
translation: young
word: swanling
Derived terms: taxonomic: Cygnus bewickii
word: Bewick's swan
taxonomic: Cygnus melancoryphus
word: black-necked swan
taxonomic: Cygnus atratus
word: black swan
word: black swan event
word: black swan fallacy
word: coscoroba swan
word: graceful as a swan
taxonomic: Cygnus olor
word: mute swan
word: New Zealand swan
word: Old Swan
word: Swan
word: swan boat
word: Swan Creek
word: swan-dive
word: swan dive
taxonomic: Anser cygnoides
word: swan goose
taxonomic: Aechmophorus occidentalis
word: swan grebe
word: swanherd
word: Swan Hill
word: swan hopper
word: swan hopping
word: Swan Lake
word: swanlike
word: swan-like
word: swan-likeness
word: swanliness
word: swanling
word: swanly
word: swan maiden
word: swan mark
taxonomic: Euproctis similis
word: swan moth
taxonomic: Anodonta cygnea
word: swan mussel
word: Swan Nebula
word: swan-neck
word: swan neck
word: swan neck deformity
word: swan-necked
taxonomic: Aechmophorus occidentalis
word: swan-necked grebe
word: swannery
word: swanness
word: swannish
word: swannishness
taxonomic: Gomphocarpus physocarpus
word: swan plant
word: Swan River
word: swansdown
word: swanship
word: swan shot
word: swanskin
word: swan's neck
word: swansong
word: swan song
word: swan's road
word: swan upper
word: swan upping
word: Swan Village
taxonomic: Cygnus buccinator
word: trumpeter swan
taxonomic: Cygnus columbianus
word: tundra swan
taxonomic: Cygnus columbianus
word: whistling swan
word: White Swan
taxonomic: Cygnus cygnus
word: whooper swan
swan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɒn/
ipa: /swɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
Forms: form: swans
form: swanning
form: swanned
form: swanned
Etymology: From Middle English swan, from Old English swan, from Proto-West Germanic *swan, from Proto-Germanic *swanaz (“swan”, literally “the singing bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *swonh₂-/*swenh₂- (“to sing, make sound”).
Cognate with West Frisian swan, Low German Swaan, swan, Dutch zwaan, German Schwan, Danish svane, Norwegian svane, Swedish svan. Related also to Old English ġeswin (“melody, song”), Old English swinsian (“to make melody”).
Further cognates include (possibly) Russian звон (zvon, “ring, chime”); Latin sonus (“sound”), Sanskrit स्वन् (svan, “sound”).
Doublet of sound.
Senses: examples: text: He swans around that stinking office in his expensive clothes that are a little too tight for comfort, he swans around that stinking office without a care in the world.
ref: 2010, Lee Rourke, The Canal, Melville House Publishing, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
text: One of the few strokes of good luck Emma had had in recent days was the news that Tatiana Flint-Hamilton, her only real rival for top billing as 'most photographable girl' at today's event had decided to swan off to Sardinia instead, leaving the limelight entirely to Emma.
ref: 2013, Tilly Bagshawe, One Summer’s Afternoon, HarperCollin, →ISBN:
text: On the other side: the rich, beautiful tapestry of WASP culture that constituted Levis's life—friends playing horseshoes at backyard cocktail parties, where girls swanned in chaise longues, clinking their gin and tonics.
ref: 2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
glosses: To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
swan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɒn/
ipa: /swɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
Forms: form: swans
form: swanning
form: swanned
form: swanned
form: swanny
Etymology: Probably from dialectal I s’wan, a corruption of I shall warrant; or possibly from a minced form of I swear on.
Senses: examples: text: "Well, I swan, man, I had a better opinion of you than that."
ref: 1907 December, J. D. Archer, “Foiling an eavesdropper”, in Telephony, volume 14, page 345:
text: ‘She slammed the door so hard I figured a window'd break […].’ ‘I swan,’ I said.
ref: 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 214:
glosses: To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).
juxtaposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒʌk.stə.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɐk.stə.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɐk.stə.pəˈzəʃ.ən/
Forms: form: juxtapositions
form: juxta-position
Etymology: From French juxtaposition, from Latin iuxtā (“near”) (from Latin iungō (“to join”)) + French position (“position”) (from Latin pōnō (“to place”)).
Senses: examples: text: It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces.
ref: 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend:
glosses: The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
examples: Example: mother father instead of mother and father
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
examples: text: Using juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. a#92;timesb collapses to ab.
text: A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition.
ref: 2007, Lawrence Moss, Hans-Jörg Tiede, “Applications of Modal Logic in Linguistics”, in P. Blackburn et al., editors, Handbook of Modal Logic, Elsevier, page 1054:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
An absence of operators in an expression.
examples: text: There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.
glosses: The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
examples: text: The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.
text: Her mother favored a multiyear project: obscenities carved in intricate and clever juxtapositions, descending every finger, curling in lettered whorls across the palm, fanning in offensive rays across the opisthenar, which is the name for the back of the hand, a word that Leilani knew because she had studied the structure of the human hand in detail, the better to understand her difference.
ref: 2001, Dean R. Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven, Random House, →ISBN, page 497:
topics: art
arts
glosses: The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.
examples: Example: In 1965 the government was elected; in 1965 the economy took a dive.
glosses: The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
The close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist.
Hypernyms: english: structurally
translation: structurally
word: position
Derived terms: juxtapositional
Related terms: juxtapose
juxtaposed
juxtapositive
juxtaposition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒʌk.stə.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɐk.stə.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɐk.stə.pəˈzəʃ.ən/
Forms: form: juxtapositions
form: juxtapositioning
form: juxtapositioned
form: juxtapositioned
form: juxta-position
Etymology: From French juxtaposition, from Latin iuxtā (“near”) (from Latin iungō (“to join”)) + French position (“position”) (from Latin pōnō (“to place”)).
Senses: glosses: To place in juxtaposition.
Related terms: parataxis
lose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lo͞oz
ipa: /luːz/
homophone: loos
rhymes: -uːz
enpr: lōz
ipa: /lɔːz/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of loos (“praise; fame; reputation”).
loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lo͞os
ipa: /luːs/
ipa: /ˈlʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: looses
form: loosing
form: loosed
form: loosed
Etymology: From Middle English loos, los, lous, from Old Norse lauss, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz, whence also -less, leasing; from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- (“to untie, set free, separate”), whence also lyo-, -lysis, via Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 21:2:
text: "Ay, and one was nigh to being slain by the hot-pot to be eaten of those brutes, thy children, and had not the others fought gallantly they too had been slain, and not even I could have called back the life which had been loosed from the body."
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: To let loose, to free from restraints.
glosses: To unfasten, to loosen.
glosses: To make less tight, to loosen.
glosses: Of a grip or hold, to let go.
topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: To shoot (an arrow).
examples: text: Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 13:13:
glosses: To set sail.
examples: text: he had red her riddle, which no wight
Could ever loose
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To solve; to interpret.
Synonyms: sense: let loose
word: free
sense: let loose
word: release
sense: unfasten
word: loosen
sense: unfasten
word: unbind
sense: unfasten
word: undo
sense: unfasten
word: unfasten
sense: unfasten
word: untie
sense: make less tight
word: loosen
sense: make less tight
word: relax
sense: make less tight
word: slacken
sense: of grip or hold
word: let go
sense: of grip or hold
word: release
topics: archery
martial-arts
sports
military
war
government
politics
hobbies
lifestyle
word: fire
topics: archery
martial-arts
sports
military
war
government
politics
hobbies
lifestyle
word: shoot
Derived terms: loose off
loose up
loose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lo͞os
ipa: /luːs/
ipa: /ˈlʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: looses
Etymology: From Middle English loos, los, lous, from Old Norse lauss, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz, whence also -less, leasing; from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- (“to untie, set free, separate”), whence also lyo-, -lysis, via Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: In throwing a Dart, or Iavelin, wee force back our armes, to make our loose the stronger.
ref: 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter:
topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The release of an arrow.
examples: text: They give a loose to their feelings on proper occasions.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: A state of laxity or indulgence; unrestrained freedom, abandonment.
examples: text: The defeat will leave manager Martin Johnson under pressure after his gamble of pairing Jonny Wilkinson and Toby Flood at 10 and 12 failed to ignite the England back line, while his forwards were repeatedly second best at the set-piece and in the loose.
ref: 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: All play other than set pieces (scrums and line-outs).
examples: text: Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow.
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv, page 1:
text: The doctor now interposed, and prevented the effects of a wrath which was kindling between Jones and Thwackum; after which the former gave a loose to mirth, sang two or three amorous songs, and fell into every frantic disorder which unbridled joy is apt to inspire […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Freedom from restraint.
glosses: A letting go; discharge.
Derived terms: give a loose
loose
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: lo͞os
ipa: /luːs/
ipa: /ˈlʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
Etymology: From Middle English loos, los, lous, from Old Norse lauss, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz, whence also -less, leasing; from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- (“to untie, set free, separate”), whence also lyo-, -lysis, via Ancient Greek.
Senses: topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: begin shooting; release your arrows
Related terms: forlorn
lyo-
ly-
-lysis
lysis
loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lo͞os
ipa: /luːs/
ipa: /ˈlʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: looses
form: loosing
form: loosed
form: loosed
Senses: examples: text: And now I feare that fatall Prophecie, / Which in the time of Henry, nam'd the Fift, / Was in the mouth of euery ſucking Babe, / That Henry borne at Monmouth ſhould winne all, / And Henry borne at Windſor, looſe all: […]
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 107, column 1:
text: [W]e went to the Chetto de san Felice, to see the noblemen and their ladies at Basset, a game at cards which is much used, but they play not in public, and all that have inclination to it are in masquerade, without speaking one word, and so they come in, play, loose or gaine, and go away as they please.
ref: 1645 June, John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for June 1645]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC, pages 191–192:
text: And ſince the Law would not ſuſtain Action for it, at the gainers inſtance againſt the Debitor who looſed it, much leſſe ſhould it ſuſtain a Diſpoſition for payment of it againſt the Creditors, and yet this may be ſaid to be an onerous cauſe; for the looſer hazarded as much of his own, againſt what he gained, and ſo this Game was but the return of his Money: […]
ref: 1675, George Mᶜkenzie of Rosehaugh, “Without just”, in Observations upon the 28. Act, 23. Parl. K. James VI. against Dispositions Made in Defraud of Creditors, &c., Edinburgh: […] His Majesties Printers, page 89:
glosses: Obsolete form of lose.
examples: text: I'm going to loose this game.
glosses: Misspelling of lose.
Derived terms: looser
huevo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛ.voʊ/
Forms: form: huevos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish huevo (“egg; testicle”). Doublet of egg, ey, oeuf, and ovum.
Senses: examples: text: Perro prances merrily down the path, balancing his huevo jauntily on his nose, to the amazement of some watching chickens.
ref: 2002, School Library Journal: SLJ - Volume 48, Issues 5-8, page 155:
text: Day or night, huevos has long been a personal favorite, but they inevitably put me into a food coma. To lighten the load, I've slimmed down to just one huevo, and instead amped up the ratio of black beans (simmered in a saucepan, not refried, with aromatics and spices).
ref: 2010, Kim O'Donnel, The Meat Lover's Meatless Cookbook, →ISBN:
text: you, who can't believe your Ma rose at 4:45 to fry one huevo and a slice of bologna laid on corn tortilla—border benedict— here's your chance to drag home $80 a week, for her electric.
ref: 2015, Luis Alberto Urrea, Tijuana Book of the Dead, →ISBN, page 3:
text: It is hard to believe Jefe was only as big as a candy bar when he first came out of his huevo.
ref: 2016, Dr. Brady Barr, Jennifer Keats Curtis, After A While Crocodile: Alexa's Diary, →ISBN:
glosses: An egg.
examples: text: The horse has no huevos. The horse is a mare.
ref: 1988, Charles Bowden, Blue Desert, →ISBN, page 3:
text: "I'd give my left huevo for any one of them," Leonardo said. "But . . . but how?"
ref: 1995, Jack Curtis, Hide-Out Canyon, →ISBN, page 137:
text: They were giant wooly monsters with huge curl horns and yellow eyes that saw everything. And below hung big huevos.
ref: 1997, Floyd Martínez, Spirits of the High Mesa, →ISBN, page 11:
text: But lately his brother had started walking as if he had baseballs packed in his pants instead of huevos the size of a hummingbird's.
ref: 1997, Marc Talbert, A Sunburned Prayer, →ISBN, page i:
text: Go stand naked in front of a male plastic surgeon. “One breast's lower than the other, we'll have to fix that...” Oh yeah, Doc? Let's see what you got. One huevo's hanging lower than the other.
ref: 2009, Lynn Breedlove, Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show:
glosses: A testicle.
Related terms: huevos
Huevos
huevos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huevo.
huevos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I dig into my huevos.
ref: 2007 January 7, Charles Baxter, “Breakfast of Champions”, in New York Times:
glosses: Huevos rancheros, a Mexican breakfast dish
examples: text: Fortunately the magneto's power was limited, or the rods would have circled the table until one of the men had proved that he had real huevos, the implication being that the rest of the men were pussies.
ref: 1974, Jerry Kamstra, Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler, page 126:
text: In this business a man has to have balls, real huevos, Dwayne.”
ref: 2001, Lee Taylor, Bull, →ISBN, page 2:
text: They also think you've got some pretty big huevos to be as close to him as you are.
ref: 2018, Daniel Lines, Crohn's, and a Life with the Other Big "C" (Kind Of), →ISBN:
glosses: Balls; nerve; bravery; brazenness.
Related terms: huevos divorciados
said and done
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: When all is said and done, we'll look back at this and laugh.
glosses: Agreed to and accomplished or finished.
Related terms: when all's said and done
easier said than done
no sooner said than done
chamois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæmwɑː/
ipa: /ˈʃæmwɑːz/
ipa: /ˈʃæmi/
rhymes: -æmi
ipa: /ˈʃæmiz/
Forms: form: chamoises
form: chamois
form: chamoix
form: chamoix
form: shamois
form: shamoy
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French chamois, from Late Latin camox, from Gaulish camox (5th c. AD, Polemius Silvius), probably from an extinct Alpine language (Raetic, Ancient Ligurian), possibly Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“without horns”). Compare also Old High German gamiza (“chamois”) (whence modern German Gämse).
Senses: examples: text: When my father returned from Milan, he found playing with me in the hall of our villa a child fairer than pictured cherub – a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills.
ref: 1831 October 31, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, chapter I, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; Rupicapra rupicapra.
examples: text: [H]e seldom donned his armour, substituted costly damask and silk for his war-worn shamoy doublet, and affected at his advanced time of life more gaiety of attire than his contemporaries remembered as distinguishing his early youth.
ref: 1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], chapter XVI, in Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume I (The Betrothed), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 317:
glosses: Ellipsis of chamois leather (“soft pliable leather originally made from the skin of chamois (nowadays the hides of deer, sheep, and other species of goat are alternatively used)”).
glosses: The traditional colour of chamois leather.
examples: text: I took them, breathed on them, polished them with a chamois and hung them on the chandelier.
ref: 1926, Louise de Koven Bowen, Growing Up with a City, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 39:
text: Mirrors can be cleaned with warm water and ammonia or vinegar and polished with a chamois.
ref: 1984, Cruising World, page 158:
text: Once your paint has been restored, drying your car with a chamois is just about all you have to do to restore the luster.
ref: 1989, Popular Mechanics, page 146:
glosses: An absorbent cloth used for cleaning and polishing, formerly made of chamois leather.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A padded insert which protects the groin from the bicycle saddle.
Derived terms: cattle chamois
chammy
shammy
chamois leather
Pyrenean chamois
ShamWow
chamois
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæmwɑː/
ipa: /ˈʃæmwɑːz/
ipa: /ˈʃæmi/
rhymes: -æmi
ipa: /ˈʃæmiz/
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French chamois, from Late Latin camox, from Gaulish camox (5th c. AD, Polemius Silvius), probably from an extinct Alpine language (Raetic, Ancient Ligurian), possibly Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“without horns”). Compare also Old High German gamiza (“chamois”) (whence modern German Gämse).
Senses: glosses: Chamois-colored.
chamois
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæmwɑː/
ipa: /ˈʃæmwɑːz/
ipa: /ˈʃæmi/
rhymes: -æmi
ipa: /ˈʃæmiz/
Forms: form: chamoises
form: chamoising
form: chamoised
form: chamoised
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French chamois, from Late Latin camox, from Gaulish camox (5th c. AD, Polemius Silvius), probably from an extinct Alpine language (Raetic, Ancient Ligurian), possibly Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“without horns”). Compare also Old High German gamiza (“chamois”) (whence modern German Gämse).
Senses: synonyms: shammy
glosses: To clean with a chamois leather cloth.
nudnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʊdnɪk/
rhymes: -ʊdnɪk
Forms: form: nudniks
form: noodnick
form: noodnik
form: nudnick
Etymology: From Yiddish נודניק (nudnik) < root of נודיען (nudyen, “to bore”) + ־ניק (-nik, “noun-forming suffix”) (English -nik). Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *nuda < Proto-Indo-European *newti- (“need”) < *new- (“death, to be exhausted”).
Compare Russian ну́дный (núdnyj, “tedious”), Ukrainian нудни́й (nudnýj, “tedious”), Polish nudny (“boring”), Slovak nudný (“boring”), Old Church Slavonic ноудити (nuditi) or нѫдити (nǫditi, “to compel”), Hebrew נוּדְנִיק (“nag”).
Senses: examples: text: He interrupts people, and he is not interested in anything except what concerns him and his brother. He is a nudnick!
ref: 1992, Richard Preston quoting Samuel Eilenberg, The New Yorker, 2 March, "The Mountains of Pi"
text: Juliana greeted strangers with a portentous, nudnik, Mona Lisa smile that hung them up between responses, whether to say hello or not.
ref: 1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 15:
glosses: A person who is very annoying; a pest, a nag, a jerk.
Derived terms: phudnik
Related terms: nudzh
noodge
nudge
torta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔːtə/
ipa: /ˈtɔɹtə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə
Forms: form: tortas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish torta, from Latin turta, thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”). Doublet of torte and tart.
Senses: glosses: A sandwich, served either hot or cold, on an oblong white sandwich roll, derived from Mexican cuisine.
glosses: A flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process.
glosses: An overweight or obese Hispanic woman, especially one deemed attractive.
Related terms: torta ahogada
torta pounder
torta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔːtə/
ipa: /ˈtɔɹtə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə
Forms: form: tortas
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog torta, from Spanish torta, from Latin turta, thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”). Doublet of torte and tart.
Senses: glosses: A Philippine omelette of ground meat and potatoes.
torte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔːt/
enpr: tô(ɹ)t
ipa: /tɔɹt/
homophone: tort
homophone: taught
homophone: taut (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: tortes
form: torten
Etymology: Borrowed from German Torte. Cognate to tart. Doublet of torta.
Senses: examples: text: The football discussion had cut off as soon as Lacey entered the room. Now they just sat silently eating torte and sipping tea.
ref: 1994, Shanna Swendson, chapter 3, in Runaway Hearts (An Avalon Romance), New York, N.Y.: Avalon Books, →ISBN, page 32:
text: Call Natalie at Glorious Foods and tell her no for the 40th time. No! I don't want dacquoise. I want tortes filled with warm rhubarb compote.
ref: 2006, Aline Brosh McKenna, Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada, spoken by Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep):
glosses: A rich, dense cake, typically made with many eggs and relatively little flour (as opposed to a sponge cake or gâteau).
wikipedia: Hotel Sacher
Derived terms: blitz torte
Dobos torte
Esterházy torte
Linzer torte
Sacher torte
schmoo torte
Related terms: Linzertorte
Sachertorte