cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fell
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: more fell
form: most fell
Etymology: From Middle English fel, fell (“strong, fierce, terrible, cruel, angry”), either from Old French fel or from Old English *fel, *felo, *fæle (“cruel, savage, fierce”) (only in compounds, wælfel (“bloodthirsty”), ealfelo (“evil, baleful”), ælfæle (“very dire”), etc.), from Proto-West Germanic *fali, *falu, from Proto-Germanic *faluz (“wicked, cruel, terrifying”). Cognate with Old Frisian fal (“cruel”), Middle Dutch fel (“wrathful, cruel, bad, base”), German Low German fell (“rash, swift”), Danish fæl (“disgusting, hideous, ghastly, grim”). Compare also Middle High German vālant (“imp”) and Dutch fel (“fierce, feisty, bitter”). See felon.
Senses: glosses: Sharply; fiercely.
Derived terms: fellness
fell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Etymology: Perhaps from Latin fel (“gall, poison, bitterness”), or more probably from the adjective above.
Senses: examples: text: Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. / What hours, O what black hoürs we have spent / This night!
ref: 1885–1887, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “[Poem 45]”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 66:
glosses: Anger; gall; melancholy.
fell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
fell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Senses: glosses: simple past of fall
examples: text: For I have heard that my Enemies have fell into that ſnare which they laid for mee. They which would have taken away my life have loſt their own;[…]
ref: 1650, Micheel Sandivogius, translated by J. F., A New Light of Alchymie: Taken Out of the Fountaine of Nature, and Manuall Experience […] , London: Richard Cotes, page 121:
text: I ſhould have fell overboard, or been killed by the enemy ; for having ſo many things to carry along with me, which I knew not how to uſe[…]
ref: 1796, Thomas Bennett, The Life and Remarkable Conversion of T. Bennett, Etc. [Written by Himself.], London, →ISBN, page 31:
text: And when it got to ten past I said you must have fell in with company, but I was beginning to get worried.' 'You know I never fall in with company,' he protested irritably. 'I always leave the Royal at ten to, never a minute more nor less.'
ref: 2013 October 3, John McGahern, Collected Stories, Faber & Faber, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: past participle of fall
fallen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːlən/
ipa: /ˈfaːlən/
ipa: /ˈfɔlən/
ipa: /ˈfɑlən/
rhymes: -ɔːlən
rhymes: -ɑlən
Etymology: Morphologically fall + -en.
Senses: glosses: past participle of fall
fallen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːlən/
ipa: /ˈfaːlən/
ipa: /ˈfɔlən/
ipa: /ˈfɑlən/
rhymes: -ɔːlən
rhymes: -ɑlən
Forms: form: fallen
Etymology: Morphologically fall + -en.
Senses: glosses: The dead.
glosses: Casualties of battle or war.
examples: text: In the Augustinian period, however, sin was held to be a death-inflicting agent, implying that the fallen was dead, and had to be restored to life.
ref: 1873, James Strong with John McClintock, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical literature, volume 5:
topics: Christianity
glosses: One who has fallen, as from grace.
fed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: feds
Etymology: Clipping of federal.
Senses: examples: text: That corrupt fed was caught taking bribes from a mobster!
text: A person is saying that the protester shot in the head by the feds with non lethals is in the hospital, doctors saying they don’t think they will make it.
Holy fuck, I’m speechless.
ref: 2020 July 12, PNW Youth Liberation Front, Twitter, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2020:
text: Hi. I should have made this clearer earlier. I will now. I have worked with feds. I have worked with foreign special forces who may well have been trained by the guys shooting at you from the courthouse.
These are not cops. They are not even similar.
ref: 2020 July 12, Robert Evans, Twitter, archived from the original on 16 May 2023:
glosses: A federal government officer or official.
examples: text: Jasmine York led chants of ‘f*** the f***ing feds’ as a crowd marched on Bristol’s Bridewell police station.
ref: 2022 March 15, “Kill the Bill protester who led ‘f*** the feds’ chant jailed over police car torching”, in Metro:
synonyms: word: 5-O
word: alphabet
word: barney
word: beatsman
word: bizzie
word: bluebottle
word: bluecoat
word: blue heeler
word: blue meanie
word: bobby
word: body snatcher
word: bogey
word: boy in blue
word: bull
word: bullyman
word: buttons
word: centenier
word: charpering omi
word: chazzer
word: cobbler
word: cop
word: copper
word: cozzer
word: cracker
word: crusher
word: crowns
word: dibble
word: fed
word: filth
word: finest
word: finger
word: five-o
word: flatfoot
word: flatty
word: fuzz
word: garda
word: gendarme
word: glowie
word: guardian of the peace
word: harman
word: harman-beck
word: jack
word: jackboot
word: jake
word: John Law
word: John Q. Law
word: Johnny Hopper
word: lawman
word: mee-maw
word: monarch
word: Mr Plod
word: mutton shunter
word: nuthook
word: oinker
word: Officer Friendly
word: Old Bill
word: PC Plod
word: pig
word: piggy
word: peeler
word: plod
word: police
word: police officer
word: policeman
word: policeperson
word: polis
word: po-po
word: raw lobster
word: roller
word: rozzer
word: scufter
word: slop
word: swine
word: statie
word: twelve
word: tyre biter
word: unboiled lobster
word: walloper
word: wooden-top
glosses: A police officer.
examples: text: Salmon were becoming scarce in the river until the feds stepped in.
glosses: The Canadian federal government.
Derived terms: fedpost
fed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: feds
Etymology: From federation.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: A federation in which powerlifters organize to compete.
glosses: Clipping of federation.
Derived terms: e-fed
fed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: feds
form: fedding
form: fedded
form: fedded
Etymology: From federation.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of federate.
Related terms: defed
fed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of feed
Derived terms: belt-fed
bloodfed
cornfed
fedpost
fed up
fullfed
handfed
malfed
milkfed
nonfed
rainfed
sheetfed
snow-fed
underfed
unfed
feed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Etymology: From fee + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fee
feel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fiːl/
ipa: [fiːɫ]
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: feels
Etymology: From Middle English felen, from Old English fēlan, from Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan.
Senses: examples: text: It begins as a firm elastic swelling, which communicates to the feel the idea that a fluid is contained under a firm fascia […]
ref: 1838, John Burns, The Principles of Surgery, volume 1, page 330:
glosses: The sense of touch.
examples: text: Bark has a rough feel.
text: And then something in the sound or the feel of the waters made him look down, and he perceived that the ebb had begun and the tide was flowing out to sea.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: The unshanked snaffle bit is good for bending and getting a horse used to the feel of a bit.
ref: 2010, Nathan Bowers, 4-H Guide to Training Horses, page 111:
glosses: A perception experienced mainly or solely through the sense of touch.
examples: text: You should get a feel for the area before moving in.
text: You can arrange camel trips into the desert but to really get a feel for this allow yourself a couple of extra days and be prepared for what at times can be an uncomfortable journey: Xuan Zang tells us that as he left Khotan he was ‘attacked by tornados which bring with them clouds of flying gravel’.
ref: 2010, Paul Wilson, “Khotan (Hetian)”, in The Silk Roads: A Route & Planning Guide, 3rd edition (Travel), Trailblazer Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 379:
glosses: A vague mental impression.
examples: text: She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me.
glosses: An act of fondling.
examples: text: I'm getting a feel for what you mean.
glosses: A vague understanding.
examples: text: She has a feel for music.
glosses: An intuitive ability.
examples: text: I know that feel.
glosses: A feeling; an emotion.
Derived terms: afterfeel
cop a feel
end-feel
gutfeel
gut feel
handfeel
look and feel
mouthfeel
skinfeel
feel
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /fiːl/
ipa: [fiːɫ]
rhymes: -iːl
Etymology: See fele.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fele.
feel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fiːl/
ipa: [fiːɫ]
rhymes: -iːl
Etymology: See fele.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fele.
feel
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /fiːl/
ipa: [fiːɫ]
rhymes: -iːl
Etymology: See fele.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fele.
felt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: felts
form: felte
Etymology: From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.
Senses: examples: text: It were a delicate stratagem to shoe
 A troop of horse with felt.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
glosses: A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
glosses: A hat made of felt.
examples: text: You'll notice that all the illustrations are done in different media: some with pencil crayons, some with felts, some with paint, some with chalk pastels.
ref: 1989, Anne D. Forester, Margaret Reinhard, The Learners' Way, page 116:
glosses: A felt-tip pen.
examples: text: To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.
ref: 1707, John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry:
glosses: A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
Derived terms: antifelt
coated felt sheet
felt grain
feltless
feltlike
feltmaker
feltmaking
feltmonger
feltness
felt scale
felt-tip pen
feltwork
feltwort
felty
glass felt
needlefelt
saturated felt
felt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: felts
form: felting
form: felted
form: felted
form: felte
Etymology: From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.
Senses: examples: text: the same Wool , for instance , one Men felts it into a Hat, another weaves it into Cloth , another weaves it into Kersey or Serge
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
examples: text: to felt the cylinder of a steam engine
glosses: To cover with, or as if with, felt.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To cause a player to lose all their chips.
Derived terms: refelt
felt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: felte
Etymology: From Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of feel
felt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: more felt
form: most felt
form: felte
Etymology: From Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Conversions to Islam can therefore be a deeply felt aesthetic experience that rarely occurs in Christian accounts of conversion, which are generally the source rather than the result of a Christian experience of beauty.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 257:
glosses: That has been experienced or perceived.
Derived terms: deepfelt
heartfelt
homefelt
infelt
underfelt
unfelt
blond
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɒnd/
ipa: /blɑnd/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒnd
rhymes: (General American) -ɑnd
Forms: form: blonder
form: more blond
form: blondest
form: most blond
form: blonde
raw_tags: of a woman
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French blond m, from Old French blond, blont, blund, (> Medieval Latin blondus), from Frankish *blund (“a mixed color between golden and light-brown”), from Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“mixed, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to become turbid, see badly, go blind”). Compare Old English blondenfeax (“grey-haired”), Old English blandan (“to mix”). More at blend.
Alternative etymology connects Frankish *blund to Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“blond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥ndʰ-, *bʰlendʰ- (“blond, red-haired”). If so, then it would be cognate with Sanskrit ब्रध्न (bradhná, “ruddy, pale red, yellowish”).
Senses: examples: text: blond hair
text: blond ale
text: blond beer
text: She has a blond complexion, with brown hair and gray eyes.
ref: 1914, “American Anthropologist”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: If you're going one or two shades lighter, don't even touch your brows. But if you're making a big change, soften them by tinting them with home haircolor: a lighter shade of brown for blonder shades, a golden shade if you're dyeing your hair red.
ref: 2011 Feb, “Beauty Confessions”, in Redbook, volume 216, number 2, page 60:
glosses: Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour.
examples: text: He seemed—somehow—younger than I had ever been, and blonder and more beautiful, and he wore his masculinity as unequivocally as he wore his skin.
ref: 1956, James Baldwin, chapter 2, in Giovanni's Room, Penguin, published 2001, Part 2:
text: Blonde bombshells have been around since the beginning of time, but lately, stars have really been stepping up their golden-haired game.
ref: 2012 Jan, “The Best Blonde Hair Color in Hollywood”, in Cosmopolitan, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2012:
glosses: Having blond hair.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: “She was so blond, that where it said 'sign here,' she wrote Gemini.” He had given her only the weakest of smiles.
ref: 2010, Mariah Stewart, Moon Dance, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:
text: Katelyn's laugh was nearly uncontrollable. “You are so blond sometimes,” she said with a long laughing sigh, but then calmed herself down.
ref: 2002, Michael Jay, The Altherian Code, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: Alternative spelling of blonde (“stupid”).
Synonyms: word: platinum
word: flaxen
word: fair-haired
word: golden-haired
word: auricomous
blond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɒnd/
ipa: /blɑnd/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒnd
rhymes: (General American) -ɑnd
Forms: form: blonds
form: blonde
raw_tags: of a woman
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French blond m, from Old French blond, blont, blund, (> Medieval Latin blondus), from Frankish *blund (“a mixed color between golden and light-brown”), from Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“mixed, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to become turbid, see badly, go blind”). Compare Old English blondenfeax (“grey-haired”), Old English blandan (“to mix”). More at blend.
Alternative etymology connects Frankish *blund to Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“blond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥ndʰ-, *bʰlendʰ- (“blond, red-haired”). If so, then it would be cognate with Sanskrit ब्रध्न (bradhná, “ruddy, pale red, yellowish”).
Senses: glosses: A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color.
glosses: A person with this hair color.
glosses: A beer of a pale golden color.
Synonyms: Traditional terms for light hair are fair(-haired)
fairheaded
flaxen
tow-haired
yellow-haired
and towhead(ed)
blond
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɒnd/
ipa: /blɑnd/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒnd
rhymes: (General American) -ɑnd
Forms: form: blonds
form: blonding
form: blonded
form: blonded
form: blonde
raw_tags: of a woman
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French blond m, from Old French blond, blont, blund, (> Medieval Latin blondus), from Frankish *blund (“a mixed color between golden and light-brown”), from Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“mixed, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to become turbid, see badly, go blind”). Compare Old English blondenfeax (“grey-haired”), Old English blandan (“to mix”). More at blend.
Alternative etymology connects Frankish *blund to Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“blond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥ndʰ-, *bʰlendʰ- (“blond, red-haired”). If so, then it would be cognate with Sanskrit ब्रध्न (bradhná, “ruddy, pale red, yellowish”).
Senses: glosses: To color or dye blond.
Derived terms: ash blond
atomic blond
bleached blond
blond bombshell
blonde
blondie
blondish
blondism
blond lace
blondly
blond metal
blond moment
blondness
blorange
bottle-blond
bottle blond
dirty blond
dishwater blond
dolichoblond
dumb blond
golden blond
honey blond
peroxide blond
platinum blond
sandy blond
strawberry blond
titanium blond
ultrablond
Venetian blond
white blond
Related terms: brunet
brunette
fought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fôt
ipa: /fɔːt/
ipa: /fɔt/
ipa: /fɑt/
ipa: [foːt]
rhymes: -ɔːt
homophone: fort (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fight
Derived terms: unfought
blonde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɒnd/
ipa: /blɑnd/
rhymes: -ɒnd
Forms: form: blondes
Etymology: From Middle French blonde f. See blond.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blond (“person with fair hair”). (Used especially of a woman. See the usage notes in the entry blond.)
glosses: Alternative form of blond (“color”)
glosses: Alternative form of blond (“type of beer”)
examples: text: Most [camera crews] carry two blondes and three redheads or their equivalents. Blondes are 2000 watt lamps traditionally with yellow heads (or shells) used to light fairly large areas — also referred to as 2Ks — and redheads smaller 800 watt lamps traditionally with red shells to light faces.
ref: 2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making, page 63:
coordinate_terms: redhead
glosses: (film, television, theater) A kind of 2,000-watt lamp.
Derived terms: ash blonde
atomic blonde
aviation blonde
blonde joke
blonde moment
blondeness
blondie
blondster
bottle blonde
bronde
dirty blonde
dishwater blonde
dumb blonde
golden blonde
honey blonde
ice blonde
nonblonde
peroxide blonde
platinum blonde
sandy blonde
strawberry blonde
titanium blonde
blonde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɒnd/
ipa: /blɑnd/
rhymes: -ɒnd
Forms: form: blonder
form: more blonde
form: blondest
form: most blonde
Etymology: From Middle French blonde f. See blond.
Senses: examples: text: So the great wasteful summer days went by, the glory of the passionate nights of July, the crisper blonde luxuriance of August.
ref: 1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water:
text: Como en aquel bar de Copenhague lleno de hombres rubios y de mujeres rubias que al final resultaron ser también hombres rubios, donde el Torpedero Tucumán se había enfadado porque al meter mano se encontró quinientos buenos gramos de lo que no esperaba; […]
ref: 2001, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, “The Lost Ship”, in The Nautical Chart, San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt, Inc., →ISBN, page 78:
text: The tables are full of blond men and blonde women, the room full of the smells of food and the sound of harsh, clipped Northlander voices.
ref: 2007, Meg Burden, chapter 9, in Northlander (Tales of the Borderlands; 1), Weston, Conn.: Brown Barn Books, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: Alternative form of blond.
raw_tags: of a woman
examples: text: Emma's already huge green eyes widen and she gives me this look like, “Oh my God, sometimes you are just so blonde!”
ref: 2005, Nancy Bartholomew, Lethally Blonde, Silhouette, →ISBN, page 8:
text: I was so blonde I honestly had no idea why he got so angry. He cooled on me for a week or so.
ref: 2014, Aviva Drescher, Leggy Blonde: A Memoir, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: “She was so blonde, she studied for a blood test, when she went to the airport and saw a sign that said, 'Airport Left,' she turned around and went home, when she heard that 90% of all crimes occur around the home, she moved.
ref: 2003, Bennett Fairorth, The Land Where My American Mother Died--Palermo, Sicily, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 201:
glosses: Stupid, ignorant, naive.
raw_tags: of a woman
Derived terms: blonde bombshell
blonde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɒnd/
ipa: /blɑnd/
rhymes: -ɒnd
Forms: form: blondes
form: blonding
form: blonded
form: blonded
Etymology: From Middle French blonde f. See blond.
Senses: examples: text: Most women who blonde their hair today have been doing it for several years.
ref: 1964, LIFE, volume 56, number 10, page 25:
glosses: Alternative form of blond.
raw_tags: of a woman
flaxen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæk.sən/
rhymes: -æksən
Etymology: From Middle English flaxen, flexon, flexin, from Old English fleaxen (“of flax; flaxen”), equivalent to flax + -en (“made of”). Compare Dutch vlassen.
Senses: glosses: Made of or resembling flax fibers.
examples: text: The couple and their children have flaxen hair.
glosses: A pale yellow brown as of dried flax; blonde.
raw_tags: of hair
Derived terms: flaxenish
Related terms: blond
linen
tow
towhead
find
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fīnd
ipa: /faɪnd/
ipa: /fæn(d)/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /fəɪn/
ipa: /faɪnd/
ipa: /fʌɪnd/
ipa: [fəi̯nd]
ipa: /fɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
homophone: fined
Forms: form: finds
Etymology: From Middle English finden, from Old English findan, from Proto-West Germanic *finþan, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną, a secondary verb from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path bridge”).
See also West Frisian fine, Low German finden, Dutch vinden, German finden, Danish finde, Norwegian Bokmål finne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish finna; also English path, Old Irish étain (“I find”), áitt (“place”), Latin pōns (“bridge”), Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos, “sea”), Old Armenian հուն (hun, “ford”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬧𐬙𐬃 (paṇtā̊), Sanskrit पथ (pathá, “path”), Proto-Slavic *pǫtь.
For the meaning development compare Proto-Slavic *najьti > Russian найти́ (najtí), akin to Proto-Slavic *jьti > идти́ (idtí); Russian находи́ть (naxodítʹ), нахо́дка (naxódka), akin to ход (xod), ходи́ть (xodítʹ).
Senses: examples: text: One of the most exciting finds made by Chinese archaeologists within the last twenty years are the sites located in Inner Mongolia and Liaoning Province, particularly the Neolithic Hung-shan culture (c. 3500-2500 B.C.E.).
ref: 2001, Chün-fang Yü, “Feminine Forms of Kuan-yin in Late Imperial China”, in Kuan-yin: The Chinese Transformation of Avalokiteśvara, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 409:
text: Shepard: How did you get these things to your father?
Tali: Sometimes I left packages at secure drops in civilized areas. Someone on Pilgrimage would see that it was shipped home.
Tali: For very valuable finds, I'd signal home, and Father would send a small ship.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Alarei:
glosses: Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
glosses: The act of finding.
Synonyms: sense: anything found
word: discovery
sense: anything found
word: catch
found
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: found
ipa: /faʊnd/
ipa: /fʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Etymology: See find.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of find
Synonyms: word: discovered
english: by chance or upon advice
translation: by chance or upon advice
word: repertitious
Derived terms: all found
found art
found family
found footage
found-in
foundling
found literature
found money
found music
found object
found-on
found poetry
found sound
lost and found
newfound
unfound
well-found
found
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: found
ipa: /faʊnd/
ipa: /fʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Etymology: See find.
Senses: examples: text: I'll only give you the usual payment—say five hundred dollars a year, and found." / "And—what?" / "Found—that is, board, you know, and clothing, of course, also.
ref: 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
text: He moves north through small settlements and farms, working for day wages and found.
ref: 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, page 5:
glosses: Food and lodging; board.
found
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: found
ipa: /faʊnd/
ipa: /fʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: founds
form: founding
form: founded
form: founded
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: found
form: found
form: founded
form: found
form: foundest
form: founded
form: foundedst
form: founds
form: foundeth
form: founded
form: found
form: founded
form: found
form: founded
form: found
form: -
form: founding
form: founded
Etymology: From Middle English founden, from Old French founder (Modern French: fonder), from Latin fundāre. Compare fund.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. …”
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
glosses: To start (an institution or organization).
glosses: To begin building.
examples: text: Being left alone with him after they had dined, he obſerved, that however ſtrongly he was convinced of Zeluco’s being the writer of the letter, yet as he had had the precaution to diſguiſe his hand-writing, it would be fruitleſs to found any legal proſecution upon that circumſtance.
ref: 1789 May 27, [John Moore], chapter XXII, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 203:
text: […] being now out of print, I shall use the freedom to give an extract from it, and in an Appendix to this Pamphlet (No. II.), republish one of the Tables that Author refers to, which will shew the facts he founded his reasoning upon, and the nature of the deductions which were the result of his researches.
ref: 1827, [Alexander] Dirom, Remarks on Free Trade, and on the State of the British Empire, Edinburgh: […] Cadell & Co., […], Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, & Co., London, page 36:
text: His Heir of Line in 1785 claimed the Dignity of Lord Spynie, founding the claim upon the Charter of 1590, but it being certain that a Dignity of the Peerage of Scotland could not, at least in the reign of James the Sixth, be granted by a Charter making no reference to a Seat in Parliament or the Dignity of a Lord of Parliament, Counsel abandoned the claim under the Charter and insisted that the other evidence sufficiently supported the claim of the Heir of Line.
ref: 1867, In the House of Lords. Supplemental Case on Behalf of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, on His Claim to the Dignity of Lord Kinloss in the Peerage of Scotland., page 13:
glosses: To use as a foundation; to base.
Synonyms: sense: to start organization
word: establish
Derived terms: cofound
foundable
foundling
new-founded
refound
Related terms: foundation
founder
found
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: found
ipa: /faʊnd/
ipa: /fʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: founds
form: founding
form: founded
form: founded
Etymology: From Middle English founden, from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere. Cognate with Spanish fundir and hundir, and French fondre.
Senses: glosses: To melt, especially of metal or glass in an industrial setting.
examples: text: Whereof to found their engines.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
Related terms: confound
foundry
foison
fusion
morfound
found
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: found
ipa: /faʊnd/
ipa: /fʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Etymology: From Middle English founden, from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere. Cognate with Spanish fundir and hundir, and French fondre.
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: The period of time when a furnace is at its hottest; the interval in which the furnace is meant to fully melt glass.
found
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: found
ipa: /faʊnd/
ipa: /fʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: founds
Senses: glosses: A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.
fit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: fits
Etymology: Possibly from Middle English fit (“an adversary of equal power”), of uncertain further origin. The original sense appears to have been "to marshal or deploy troops", which shifted to "to suit (troops to a certain location" > "suitable", and may be further related to Icelandic fitja (“to web, knit, cast on”).
Senses: examples: text: This shirt is a bad fit.
text: Since he put on weight, his jeans have been a tight fit.
glosses: The degree to which something fits.
examples: text: It's hard to get a good fit using second-hand parts.
glosses: Conformity of elements one to another.
glosses: The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
examples: text: The Wonder Bread advertising research results showed the “White Picket Fence” commercial had strong fit ratings.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: Measure of how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Goodness of fit.
examples: text: During the auction, it is often a partnership's goal to find an eight-card major suit fit.
topics: bridge
games
glosses: The quality of a partnership's combined holding of cards in a suit, particularly of trump.
Derived terms: fit and finish
fit factor
fit rod
gunfit
line of best fit
nonfit
photofit
videofit
fit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: fits
Etymology: Unknown, possibly from Old English fitt (“song”), or from the sense of fitted to length. Compare Old Saxon *fittea (attested in the borrowed Latin vittea).
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Percy has written a long ballad in many fits.
ref: 1771, Samuel Johnson, "Letter to Bennet Langton, Esq. (March 20)," in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol 2
glosses: A section of a poem or ballad.
fit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: fits
Etymology: Unknown, possibly from Old English fitt (“conflict”). Compare Cornish fit (“game match, bout”); or else, probably cognate with Italian fitta (“pain, especially sudden and stabbing pain”).
See more at Latin fīgere.
Senses: examples: text: My grandfather died after having a fit.
glosses: A seizure or convulsion.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
examples: text: He had a laughing fit which lasted more than ten minutes.
text: She had a fit and threw all of his clothes out through the window.
text: He threw a fit (of temper) when his car broke down.
synonyms: spell#Noun
moment
glosses: A sudden outburst of emotion.
examples: text: A fit of spring-cleaning led Eric Brooks to a box of old newspaper clips from 1997.
ref: 2007 July 9, Ryan J. Foley, “Wisconsin city's largest employer threatens to leave over ethanol”, in Associated Press:
synonyms: flurry
frenzy
paroxysm
glosses: A sudden burst (of an activity).
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from fit (noun)
word: bitchfit
sense: Terms derived from fit (noun)
word: blue fit
sense: Terms derived from fit (noun)
word: canary fit
sense: Terms derived from fit (noun)
word: catfit
sense: Terms derived from fit (noun)
word: conniption fit
sense: Terms derived from fit (noun)
word: fifth-day fits
sense: Terms derived from fit (noun)
word: fit-bush
sense: Terms derived from fit (noun)
word: fitless
sense: Terms derived from fit (noun)
word: fits and starts
sense: Terms derived from fit (noun)
word: fitweed
sense: Terms derived from fit (noun)
word: give someone a fit
sense: Terms derived from fit (noun)
word: have a fit
sense: Terms derived from fit (noun)
word: headfit
sense: Terms derived from fit (noun)
word: hissy fit
sense: Terms derived from fit (noun)
word: pitch a fit
sense: Terms derived from fit (noun)
word: rum fit
sense: Terms derived from fit (noun)
word: shit fit
sense: Terms derived from fit (noun)
word: snit fit
sense: Terms derived from fit (noun)
word: throw a fit
fit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: fits
form: fitting
form: fitted
form: fitted
Etymology: Unknown, possibly from Old English fitt (“conflict”). Compare Cornish fit (“game match, bout”); or else, probably cognate with Italian fitta (“pain, especially sudden and stabbing pain”).
See more at Latin fīgere.
Senses: examples: text: A spokesman said: "It is believed they (the dogs) got into the lake and drank from it. They came out and started fitting. Shortly after that three of them died and vets are attempting to resuscitate the other one."
ref: 2016 May 18, “Three dogs die and seven more ill after drinking from the same Kent lake amid contamination fears”, in The Telegraph:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To suffer a fit.
fit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology: Formed from fight on the model of bite:bit and light:lit.
Senses: examples: text: There wonst was two cats in Kilkenny;
 And aich thought there was one cat too many.
 So they quarrelled and fit;
 And they scratched, and they bit;
 Till, excepting their tails
 And some scraps of their nails,
 Instead of two cats there wan't any.
ref: 1867 November, unknown author, The Galaxy, volume 4, New York: W.C. & F.P. Church, retrieved 27 Oct 2023, page 883:
text: c. 19th century, unknown author, Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho and the walls came tumbling down
text: He didn't just set around and try to out sweettalk^([sic]) somebody; he got out and out-fit somebody. He wouldn't be blowing when he told his boys how he fit for the woman he got.
ref: a. 1940, Mildred Haun, “Shin-Bone Rocks”, in The Hawk's Done Gone, page 218:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: simple past and past participle of fight; fought.
fit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: fits
Etymology: Clipping of outfit.
Senses: examples: text: How do you like the fit?
text: Piker had already shown off his “cozy-ass ’fit” (sweatpants with kitschy bald eagles, a custom pair of platform Crocs), and recounted his experience the previous night at the Streamer Awards, a red-carpet event honoring A-listers on Twitch—the popular live-streaming site where he is one of the biggest stars, and the only prominent leftist.
ref: 2025 March 17, Andrew Marantz, “The Battle for the Bros”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
glosses: An outfit, a set of clothing.
Related terms: fit-fit
fitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪtɪd/
rhymes: -ɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past of fit ("to tailor, to change size")
examples: text: Even though in a way you let him freeze to death in the water, because the way I see it...
I agree. Y'know, I think he actually could have fitted on that bit of door.
There was plenty of room on the raft.
I know. I know, I know.
ref: 2016 February 2, Kate Winslet et al., Jimmy Kimmel Live!:
glosses: simple past of fit (other senses)
glosses: past participle of fit (“to tailor, change size”)
glosses: past participle of fit (other senses)
fitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪtɪd/
rhymes: -ɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: Tailored to the shape of a person's body.
raw_tags: of clothing
antonyms: unfitted
qualifier: bathroom
glosses: Incorporating all of the fittings into connected units.
raw_tags: of a kitchen
Derived terms: fitted carpet
fitted nappy
fittedness
fitted sheet
fully-fitted
nonfitted
retro-fitted
semifitted
well-fitted
fitted
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪtɪd/
rhymes: -ɪtɪd
Forms: form: fitteds
Senses: examples: text: For niggas plottin, I might blow it at your fitted
Get your bitch-ass slimed out, it ain't no kiddin
Ain't no kiddin, got that semi
ref: 2023 April 28, “Got Dat Muneh” (track 10, 1:05 from the start), in Summrs (lyrics), GHOST:
text: Late night, on a drill, aimin for his fitted
ref: 2022 October 31, “Doomsday” (track 7, 1:35 from the start), in Thunder Bklu & Dougie B (lyrics), F L O C K A:
glosses: A fitted cap.
examples: text: Fitteds have elastic around the back of the diaper and the legs of the diaper to get a better fit and sometimes they also have snap closures so that you don't have to use a diaper fastener.
ref: 2017, Madi Haire, Crunchy Parenting, HowExpert, →ISBN, page 51:
text: Pocket diapers are my favorite because they're a little easier to use than fitteds, flats, and prefolds, and they're cheaper than all-in-twos and all-in-ones.
ref: 2019 September 27, Alicia Betz, “Cloth diapers are an eco-friendly alternative to traditional diapers - here's how to use them and what you need to buy”, in Business Insider India:
text: Many natural fibres wear down with use. This is called edge wear. Depending on the wash routine (detergent strength, agitation, water pH, and more factors) edge wear happens quicker for some people. This happens with fitteds too.
ref: 2021, Bailey Bouwman, Cloth Diapers: The Ultimate Guide to Textiles, Washing & More, Simply Bailey Social Marketing, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: A fitted diaper.
flee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fliː/
rhymes: -iː
homophone: flea
Forms: form: flees
form: fleeing
form: fled
form: fled
form: fleed
form: fleed
Etymology: From Middle English flen, from Old English flēon, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”).
Cognate with Dutch vlieden, German fliehen, Icelandic flýja, Swedish fly, Gothic 𐌸𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽 (þliuhan). Within English, related to fly and more distantly to flow.
Senses: examples: text: The prisoner tried to flee, but was caught by the guards.
text: The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 28:1:
text: As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
text: When, however, the plant spirits were not strong enough in themselves, then the family called in the Medicine Man. He appeared, a "monster of so frightful mien", with noise making apparatus which produced such a terrifying din that even the hardiest demon was likely to flee.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 254:
synonyms: run for it
glosses: To run away; to escape.
examples: text: Many people fled the country as war loomed.
text: Thousands of people moved northward trying to flee the drought.
text: The Government, having lit the fuse, is not going to be allowed to flee the explosion.
ref: 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Passed to you, Mr. Macmillan”, in Modern Railways, page 220:
glosses: To escape from.
examples: text: Ethereal products flee once freely exposed to air.
glosses: To disappear quickly; to vanish; to fleet.
Synonyms: word: absquatulate
word: amscray
word: beat a retreat
word: beat it
word: beat feet
word: blow this popsicle stand
word: bolt
word: book it
word: dine and dash
word: do a bunk
word: do a flit
word: do a moonlight flit
word: do a runner
word: flee
word: fly the coop
word: jump
word: gas and dash
word: get lost
word: get out
word: gnash
word: head for the hills
word: hightail
word: hightail it
word: hit the road
word: kick rocks
word: leg it
word: make a break for it
word: make a run for it
word: make tracks
word: namous
word: peg it
word: rabbit
word: run a mile
word: run away
word: run for the hills
word: run off
word: scamper
word: scat
word: scarper
word: shemozzle
word: scram
word: skedaddle
word: smash and dash
word: take a powder
word: take flight
word: take off
word: take to one's heels
word: take to the hills
word: tear off
word: turn tail
word: vamoose
Hypernyms: word: escape
word: leave
word: retreat
word: run
word: rush
word: walk
Derived terms: beflee
everfleeing
fill and flee
fleeable
fleer
outflee
unfleeing
Related terms: word: flight
word: flow
word: fly
word: abandon
fled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flee
fling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: flings
Etymology: From Middle English fling, from the verb (see below). Compare Icelandic flengur (“a fast sprint”).
Senses: glosses: An act of throwing, often violently.
examples: text: the fling of a horse
glosses: An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.
examples: text: When I was as young as you, I had my fling. I led a life of pleasure.
ref: 1838, Douglas William Jerrold, Men of Character:
text: "I am inclined to go and have a fling with them. Why not all of us — just for a minute or two — it will not detain us long?"
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), page 23:
text: Here again steam is having its last fling, and the "dual link" drivers at Brunswick shed, Liverpool, already are alternating steam and diesel duties.
ref: 1960 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 113:
glosses: An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.
examples: text: a summer fling
text: I had a fling with a girl I met on holiday.
text: Because I've noticed one thing / This ain't no summer fling
ref: 1976, “Oh Lori”, in Alessi, performed by Alessi Brothers:
synonyms: affairette
dalliance
hookup
liaison
glosses: A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.
examples: text: give it a fling
glosses: An attempt, a try.
examples: text: I, who love to have a fling, / Both at senate house and king.
ref: c. 1732, Jonathan Swift, Epistle to a Lady:
glosses: A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe or taunt.
examples: text: the Highland fling
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A lively Scottish country dance.
examples: ante 1800, old proverb
England were but a fling / Save for the crooked stick and the grey goose wing.
glosses: A trifling matter; an object of contempt.
Derived terms: Highland fling
flung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fling
Derived terms: far-flung
misflung
outflung
unflung
fly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: flī
ipa: /flaɪ/
ipa: [flaɪ]
ipa: [flɑj]
ipa: [flaɪ]
ipa: [fləj]
ipa: [flɑɪ]
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: flies
form: flying
form: flied
form: flied
Senses: examples: text: Jones flied to right in his last at-bat.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: flī
ipa: /flaɪ/
ipa: [flaɪ]
ipa: [flɑj]
ipa: [flaɪ]
ipa: [fləj]
ipa: [flɑɪ]
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: flies
Etymology: Related to German Flügel (“a wing”), Dutch vleugel (“a wing”), Swedish flygel (“a wing”).
Senses: examples: text: The bullet barely grazed the wild fowl's fly.
qualifier: rustic
glosses: A wing.
fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: flī
ipa: /flaɪ/
ipa: [flaɪ]
ipa: [flɑj]
ipa: [flaɪ]
ipa: [fləj]
ipa: [flɑɪ]
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: flies
Senses: examples: text: June 8, 1708, John Cock and William Nottingham desire 100 acres each [...] Isaac Davis desied a conveyance for the "greenbush" fly or swamp that he hath drained near his land, in the Jaagh Creupel-bosh.
ref: 1880, Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, History of Ulster County, New York: With Illustrations and..., page 185:
text: […] one certain Lot of the Long fly, or swamp situate lying and being [in] the Township of Flatlands […] recorded June 15, 1876, Liber 1244 of Conveyances, at page 494, Kings County. The "East Division" was the Long Vly, […]
ref: 1924, Frederick Van Wyck, Keskachauge: Or the First White Settlement on Long Island, page 321:
text: […] to a white maple stake standing in a fly or swamp , thence N [...] to a Hemlock Stake, […]
ref: 1961, William Gideon Closson, The Josiah Closson Family of New England, page 110:
glosses: Alternative form of vly (“swamp (in New York)”).
flew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fluː/
ipa: /fluʊ̯/
ipa: /fljuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: flu
homophone: flue
Etymology: From Middle English flew, flow, from Old English flēag, flug-, from Proto-Germanic *flaug, *flug-, past tense forms of Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”). Compare Saterland Frisian flooch (“flew”), West Frisian fleach (“flew”), Dutch vloog (“flew”), German flog (“flew”), Danish fløj (“flew”), Swedish flög (“flew”), Icelandic flaug (“flew”).
Senses: glosses: simple past of fly
flew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fluː/
ipa: /fluʊ̯/
ipa: /fljuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: flu
homophone: flue
Forms: form: flews
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: The raging hound's flews were twisted upwards in an angry snarl.
text: He petted the dog. 'These little guys are pretty expensive and this one looks like a good specimen.' He lifted a flew. 'Well cared for, too - these teeth have been scaled pretty recently and his ears are clean - these upright ears can be receptacles for all kinds of stuff […].' anyway, what seems to be your problem with him?'
ref: 1994, Jonathan Kellerman, Bad Love (Alex Delaware; 8):
text: During the recitation, Eltie remained on her haunches, as she looked into Ralph's eyes, pulled down an eyelid, flipped up a flew, felt around his ribcage.
ref: 2014, Melanie Forde, “SIX — Goblins”, in Hillwilla: A Novel, Mountain Lake Press:
text: Gently go over your dog's face with the washcloth until it's clean. Be sure to wash the flews, or the hanging skin around the mouth.
ref: 2010, Dogs All-in-One For Dummies, →ISBN, page 347:
text: In the case of the Gordon Sette, the flews are not pendulous. The lip line from the nose to the flews shows a sharp, well-defined, square contour.
ref: 2013, Edward M. Gilbert, Jr; Patricia H. Gilbert, “Flews”, in Encyclopedia of K9 Terminology, →ISBN:
glosses: The thick, dangling upper lip of certain breeds of dog, or the canine equivalent of the upper lip.
Related terms: flewed