cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
internet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntəˌnɛt/
enpr: ĭnʹtərnĕt'
ipa: /ˈɪn(t)ɚˌnɛt/
Forms: form: internets
form: internetting
form: internetted
form: internetted
Etymology: The noun is a variant of Internet. The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Having no idea what that means, I am internetting like mad.
text: We have several groups of Internetters, from Alaska, from New Zealand, and a group from San Francisco interested in deserts as a context where different faiths developed. Internetting with them could stimulate discussion. Internetting with other countries is seen as a way of broadening the students' areas of interest and triggering their questions.
ref: 2002, Soshana Keiny, “The Conceptual Framework of the Book”, in Ecological Thinking: A New Approach to Educational Change, Lanham, Md.; New York, N.Y.: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 14:
text: Most of us, before and after the second uprising, can be found in schools, offices, or factories, going about our everyday lives. Dreaming, working hard for a future. Texting, internetting, entertaining ourselves in the present.
ref: 2005, Vincente L. Rafael, “The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines”, in Daniel Rosenberg, Susan Harding, editors, Histories of the Future, Durham, N.C.; London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 87:
text: I collect cookbooks, too. And recipes, you know, that I've internetted.
ref: 2021, Shirley Goldberg, chapter 15, in Eat Your Heart Out (Starting Over; 2), [Adams Basin, N.Y.?]: The Wild Rose Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To use the internet; specifically, to search for information by using the internet.
Derived terms: word: internetter
word: internetting
ms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mss
form: ms.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of manuscript.
ms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛmz/
rhymes: -ɛmz
Forms: form: m's
Etymology: From m + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of m
pillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪljən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: pillions
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic pillean (“little rug”), from Latin pellis (“animal skin, pelt”).
Senses: examples: text: It was all the greater triumph to Miss Nancy Lammeter's beauty that she looked thoroughly bewitching in that costume, as, seated on the pillion behind her tall, erect father, she held one arm round him, and looked down, with open-eyed anxiety, at the treacherous snow-covered pools and puddles, which sent up formidable splashings of mud under the stamp of Dobbin's foot.
ref: 1861, George Eliot, “Chapter 11”, in Silas Marner:
glosses: A pad behind the saddle of a horse for a second rider.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motorcycling
glosses: A similar second saddle on a motorcycle for a passenger.
synonyms: pillionist
glosses: The person riding in the pillion.
glosses: The cushion of a saddle.
Derived terms: pillionwise
ride pillion
pillion
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪljən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic pillean (“little rug”), from Latin pellis (“animal skin, pelt”).
Senses: glosses: Riding behind the driving rider, as when positioned on the rump of a mount.
pillion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪljən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: pillions
form: pillioning
form: pillioned
form: pillioned
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic pillean (“little rug”), from Latin pellis (“animal skin, pelt”).
Senses: examples: text: When he had gazed at the stars sufficiently as they shone over his mistress's window, and put her candle to bed, re repaired to his own dormitory, and there, no doubt, thought of his Maria andhis horse with youthful satisfaction, and how sweet it would be to have one pillioned on the other, and to make the tour of all the island on such an animal with such a pair of white arms round his waist.
ref: 1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, →OCLC:
text: A ferlie (fairy) he spied with his ee, And there he saw a lady bright, Come riding down by the Elldon tree"— a lady who had "fifty siller bells and nine" on each lock of her horse's mane, and who pillioned Thomas the Rhymer, and took him, "red blude to the knee," thorugh the mirk, mirk night, to the place where "They saw neither sun nor moon."
ref: 1933, The Sussex County Magazine - Volume 7, page 51:
text: I caught the train just after you went (it was a good idea, that pillion ride - though pretty awful pillioning with a suitcase and masterpiece in one's arms!) and dumped the m-p in London on Emery Walker, to be photographed half size and collotyped, 100 copies.
ref: 1935 January 31, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Letter to Pat Knowles:
text: I met a Latvian lass who enjoyed pillioning, showed me her country and best spots - yes, the best way to enjoy a country!
ref: 2011, Al Culler, Motorcycle Travels and Travails:
text: But we thought she could start out by pillioning me, and then she can decide whether she still wants to learn to ride her own little bike.
ref: 2018, Sue McDonagh, Summer at the Art Cafe, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: ride bitch
word: ride pillion
glosses: To ride on a pillion.
examples: text: Accordingly, he saddled and pillioned his horse, thinking he might have the honor of bringing the bride himself.
ref: 1764, Dennis Donovan, Jacob Andrews Woodward, The History of the Town of Lyndeborough, New Hampshire,1735-1905:
text: But ordher one iv yer men to pillion the horse in a jiffy, for onct we get hoult iv the money bags, we must be off, or Tom Riddle won't lave a bone in my body but he'll break into smithereens.
ref: 1871, Paul Peppergrass, The Spaewife ; Or, The Queens̓ Secret: A Story of the Reign of Elizabeth:
text: Noisy congratulations followed ; then the swiftest horse was chosen, and saddled, bridled, and pillioned.
ref: 1872, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates, Temple Bar - Volume 34, page 407:
glosses: To put a pillion on a horse.
jan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jân
form: jann
Etymology: From Arabic جَنّ (jann)
Senses: examples: text: He cast out the demons of possessed persons, and he bound the jân, wellah, in yonder corner.
ref: 1888, Charles Montagu Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta:
glosses: Obsolete form of jinn.
Related terms: jan ken po
Atlantic Ocean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ətˈlæntɪk ˈoʊʃən/
Forms: form: the Atlantic Ocean
Etymology: From Middle English occean Atlantyke, a calque of Latin ōceanus Ā̆tlanticus.
Senses: examples: text: But British Airways Flight 112 made the trek in under five hours, setting a new record for the fastest subsonic commercial flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
ref: 2020 February 9, Alina Selyukh, “British Airways Sets Record, Crossing The Atlantic In Under 5 Hours In Strong Winds”, in NPR:
text: No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.
ref: 2024 September 27, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover hidden ancient forest on treeless island”, in CNN:
synonyms: the Atlantic
glosses: The ocean lying between the Americas to the west and Europe and Africa to the east.
Derived terms: english: North Atlantic
translation: North Atlantic
word: North Atlantic Ocean
roman: Proto-Atlantic
alt: Iapetus Ocean (Iapetus)
word: Proto-Atlantic Ocean
english: South Atlantic
translation: South Atlantic
word: South Atlantic Ocean
konnichi wa
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of konnichiwa.
paki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pakis
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Paki.
personal digital assistant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personal digital assistants
Senses: examples: text: The device, about the size of a fat paperback book, represents the most ambitious attempt yet by computer and communications companies to pool their resources in hopes of finally creating a market for what the industry calls "personal digital assistants."
ref: [1994 September 28, Lawrence M. Fisher, “Personal Digital Assistant, Part III”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Already, Sharp owns at least 60 percent of the market for personal digital assistants, or P.D.A.'s, with its Wizard line, ranking far ahead of Hewlett-Packard, Casio, Apple Computer and other competitors past and present.
ref: 1994 December 18, Laurie Flynn, “Sharp Unveils a New Breed of Personal Digital Assistant”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A hand-held computer, mostly used as an organizer.
Synonyms: palmtop
PDA
placed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pleɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of place
Derived terms: malplaced
nonplaced
unplaced
dexterity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛksˈtɛɹɪti/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪti
Forms: form: dexterities
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French dextérité, from Latin dexteritas, from dexter (“on the right”), this is in reference to most people having greater fine motor skills in their right hand. Partially displaced native Old English handcræft, whence Modern English handcraft.
Senses: examples: text: Playing computer games can improve your manual dexterity.
text: She twirled the pencil through her fingers with impressive dexterity.
text: With mutual toil, and intuitive dexterity, we built our commodious habitation in the hollow of a mango tree, that the fruit, which was then in bloſſom, might ſubſiſt our young.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 15:
text: She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination. The elder woman returned with dressings and a sponge, which she placed on a chair.
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
glosses: Skill in performing tasks, especially with the hands.
wikipedia: Modern English
Derived terms: indexterity
sexterity
unidexterity
Related terms: dexterous
ambidextrous
lunate bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunate bones
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the carpal bones of the wrist.
Synonyms: os lunatum
semilunar bone
nasal cavity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasal cavities
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In higher vertebrates, a large air-filled space above and behind the nose in the middle of the face.
nasal fossa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasal fossae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either lateral half of the nasal cavity.
Dick test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dick tests
Etymology: From the name of the US inventor of the test, George Frederick Dick.
Senses: glosses: A test to check whether someone is immune to scarlet fever, by injecting a diluted strain of the streptococci and observing any skin reaction.
Related terms: Dick toxin
nasal concha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasal conchae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any one of the three thin bony plates on the lateral wall of the nasal cavity.
Synonyms: turbinate
turbinate bone
turbinal
waragi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwaɹəɡi/
/ˈwaɹəd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: waragis
Etymology: Borrowed from Luganda waragi, itself from English war + gin.
Senses: examples: text: The two men walk down the hill from Makerere University but get no further than Wandegeya, a cacophonous slum of scrap-iron artisans, blaring radios and ragged-trousered clients frequenting matoke and waragi bars.
ref: 2016, Maya Jaggi, “Memories of Makerere”, in Literary Review, section 449:
glosses: A distilled alcoholic beverage made from bananas or millet, common in Uganda.
sinamay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /siːnəˈmaɪ/
/sɪnəˈmaɪ/
Forms: form: sinamays
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog sinamay.
Senses: glosses: fabric made from banana plant fibers
matoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maˈtəʊkeɪ/
rhymes: -əʊkeɪ
Forms: form: matooke
form: matooka
Etymology: From Luganda matooke.
Senses: examples: text: The two men walk down the hill from Makerere University but get no further than Wandegeya, a cacophonous slum of scrap-iron artisans, blaring radios and ragged-trousered clients frequenting matoke and waragi bars.
ref: 2016, Maya Jaggi, “Memories of Makerere”, in Literary Review, page 449:
glosses: Mashed boiled bananas or plantains, a staple food in Uganda.
dining leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dining leaves
Senses: glosses: a leaf of the banana or other plant, used as a plate to serve food in South Asian countries.
banoffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bənˈɒfi/
ipa: /bəˈnɔfi/
Etymology: Blend of banana + toffee
Senses: glosses: A British cream filling made from banana and toffee.
Derived terms: banoffee pie
holey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: UK, wholly-holy split
ipa: /ˈhəʊl.li/
note: UK, wholly-holy split
ipa: [ˈhɒʊli]
note: UK, wholly-holy split
ipa: [ˈhɒʊɫ.li]
note: without wholly-holy split
ipa: /ˈhəʊli/
ipa: /ˈhoʊli/
rhymes: -əʊli
homophone: wholly
homophone: holy (in accents without the wholly-holy split)
Forms: form: holier
form: holiest
Etymology: From Middle English holy, holi, holly, holli (“holey, spongy, hollow”); equivalent to hole + -y. The e was inserted in Modern English to distinguish the word from holy (“hallowed, sacred”).
Senses: examples: text: Fred loved holey Dutch cheese.
text: Steven also acknowledged that his presentation of self—wild locs, nerd glasses, and holey hipster jeans for our first interview—encourages whites to speak to him.
ref: 2014, Zandria F. Robinson, chapter 3, in This Ain't Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 111:
glosses: Having, or being full of, holes.
Derived terms: holey dollar
holeyness
mulching mower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌltʃɪŋ məʊə/
ipa: /mʌltʃɪŋ moʊəɹ/
Forms: form: mulching mowers
Senses: examples: text: If you mow regularly, a mulching mower will be beneficial to your lawn.
glosses: A rotary mower that cuts clippings into small pieces and redistributes them uniformly back into the lawn to act as compost.
Synonyms: mulcher
Related terms: mulch
mow
rotary mower
oleo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oleos
Etymology: Ellipsis of oleo strut.
Senses: examples: text: If the oil leaks out of the oleos, they won't be able to cushion the aircraft against a hard landing.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of energy-absorbing landing gear strut in which sudden compression or extension of the strut causes a gas-filled chamber to push or pull a piston which forces oil through a small orifice, resulting in absorption of energy through viscous effects.
oleo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oleos
Etymology: From oleum (“olive oil”).
Senses: glosses: The various fats and oils that go into the making of margarine.
oleo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oleos
Etymology: Clipping of oleomargarine.
Senses: glosses: Margarine.
Related terms: oleo-
oleo oil
banoffi pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banoffi pies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of banoffee pie.
Pangea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Pangaea: (geology) A former supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana.
Derived terms: Neopangea
New Pangea
Novopangea
Pangea II
Pangean
Pangea Next
Pangea Proxima
Pangea Ultima
Urpangea
Earth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜːθ/
ipa: /ɝθ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)θ
Forms: form: Earths
form: earth
Etymology: From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-Germanic *erþō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (“earth”). More at earth.
Senses: examples: text: It's my theory that we'll keep being reborn on as many Earths as it takes until every person gets it exactly right from the moment they are born until the moment they die.
ref: 2012, Ken Adams, Earth 2... It's Where You Go When You Die:
text: The arrival of the new prefixes means the Earth can now be said to weigh six ronnagrams, and Jupiter about two quettagrams.
ref: 2022 November 18, Ian Sample, “Earth weighs in at six ronnagrams as new prefixes picked for big and small”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The third planet of the Solar System; the world upon which humans live.
glosses: The personification of the Earth or earth, (chiefly) as a fertile woman or (religion) goddess.
Synonyms: sense: third planet of the Solar System
word: the Blue Planet
sense: third planet of the Solar System
word: the globe
sense: third planet of the Solar System
word: God's green earth
sense: third planet of the Solar System
word: Sol III
sense: third planet of the Solar System
word: Terra
sense: third planet of the Solar System
word: the world
sense: world inhabited by mankind
english: archaic or pagan
translation: archaic or pagan
word: Middle Earth
topics: religion
lifestyle
sense: world inhabited by mankind
word: Midgard
sense: personification
word: Mother Earth for female forms
word: Earth
word: world
Hypernyms: word: planet
word: terrestrial planet
word: inner planet
Hyponyms: word: Mother Earth
word: Teegeeack
Meronyms: word: Northern Hemisphere
word: Southern Hemisphere
word: Western Hemisphere
word: Eastern Hemisphere
word: North Pole
word: South Pole
word: Arctic Circle
word: Antarctic Circle
word: Tropic of Cancer
word: Tropic of Capricorn
word: Equator
word: meridian
word: North America
word: South America
word: Central America
word: Africa
word: Antarctica
word: Asia
word: Oceania
word: Australia
word: Europe
word: Afro-Eurasia
word: America
word: Americas
word: Latin America
word: Euramerica
word: Eurasia
word: Arctic Ocean
word: Atlantic Ocean
word: Indian Ocean
word: Pacific Ocean
word: Southern Ocean
word: ocean
word: forest
word: mountain
word: desert
word: wetland
word: plain
word: prairie
word: steppe
Derived terms: Dying Earth
Earthan
Earth current
Earth Day
Earther
Earth-grazer
Earth-grazing
Earth-grazing fireball
Earth Guardian
Earthian
Earthican
Earthite
earthlight
Earthling
earthling
Earthman
Earth-normal
Earth-pointing
Earth radius
earthrise
Earthscape
earth science
earth sciences
earth-shattering
Earthshine
earthshine
Earthship
earthside
Earth-sized
Earth Surface Person
Earthwoman
hell on earth
Middle-earth
Middle Earth
near-Earth
on God's green Earth
sub-Earth
transearth
Related terms: word: ♁
word: 🜨
word: earth science
word: geology
word: geography
word: inhabitant
word: Earthling
CHB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CHBs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of concrete hollow block.
inferior nasal concha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inferior nasal conchae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The largest of the three nasal conchae located within the nasal cavity.
Synonyms: inferior concha
inferior turbinate
inferior turbinate bone
maxilloturbinal
turbinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more turbinate
form: most turbinate
Etymology: From Latin turbinatus.
Senses: glosses: Shaped or spinning like a top (spinning top).
glosses: In the shape of a coil.
examples: a turbinate shell
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Spiral and decreasing sharply in diameter from base to apex.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to, the turbinate bone.
Synonyms: coiling
helical
spiral
spiraling
volute
whorled
turbinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbinates
Etymology: From Latin turbinatus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A turbinal or turbinate bone.
Synonyms: nasal concha
Derived terms: inferior turbinate
inferior turbinate bone
turbinately
turbinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turbinates
form: turbinating
form: turbinated
form: turbinated
Etymology: From Latin turbinatus.
Senses: glosses: To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl.
turbinate bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbinate bones
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A scrolled spongy bone of the nasal cavity.
Synonyms: turbinate
nasal concha
turbinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more turbinal
form: most turbinal
Etymology: Latin turbinis (“a top, whirl”).
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a cone resting on its apex.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Rolled in a spiral; scroll-like; turbinate; applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous plates which support the olfactory and mucous membranes of the nasal chambers.
Derived terms: ethmoturbinal
pseudoturbinal
turbinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbinals
Etymology: Latin turbinis (“a top, whirl”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A turbinate bone.
Related terms: turban
pissabed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pissabeds
form: piss-the-bed
form: pissy-bed
form: pissy bed
Etymology: From piss + bed or piss + abed, so called after the dandelion's supposed diuretic effect. Compare French pissenlit.
Senses: examples: text: Of flowers there was no trace, save of the flowers that plant themselves, or never die […] The chief of these was the pissabed.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: The tufted hillock […] had no buildings on and only golden clumps of piss-the-bed that were not yet gone into misty balls of seed.
ref: 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 139:
glosses: The dandelion, formerly much used for its diuretic properties.
glosses: Any of various other wild plants with diuretic properties; bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.
Related terms: bedwetting
cretaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹəˈteɪ.ʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Etymology: From Latin cretaceus (“chalky”), from Latin creta.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to chalk.
glosses: Consisting of chalk.
Derived terms: cretaceously
noncretaceous
supercretaceous
supracretaceous
Related terms: crayon
carboniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑːbəˈnɪfəɹəs/
homophone: Carboniferous
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more carboniferous
form: most carboniferous
Etymology: From carbon + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing or producing carbon.
Derived terms: noncarboniferous
archaean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archaeans
Etymology: Archaea + -n
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism of the domain Archaea.
gruff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌf/
ipa: /ɡɹɐf/
ipa: /ɡɹʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: gruffer
form: gruffest
Etymology: 16th century, from Dutch grof and/or Middle Low German grof (both “rough, coarse, rude”), from Old Dutch *grof or Old Saxon *grof, both from Proto-West Germanic *grob, from Proto-Germanic *grubaz (“coarse, rough”), possibly from an earlier *gahrubaz and then related with *hreubaz (“scabby, rough, scrubby”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian groaf (“rough, coarse, crude”), West Frisian grof (“rough, coarse, crude”), Low German groff (“rough, coarse, crude”), German grob (“rough, coarse, crude”), Swedish grov (“rough, coarse, crude”).
Senses: glosses: having a rough, surly, and harsh demeanor and nature.
examples: text: a gruff woman
glosses: hoarse-voiced.
examples: text: a gruff voice
glosses: hoarse.
Derived terms: gruffish
gruffly
gruffness
gruffy
ungruff
gruff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌf/
ipa: /ɡɹɐf/
ipa: /ɡɹʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: gruffs
form: gruffing
form: gruffed
form: gruffed
Etymology: 16th century, from Dutch grof and/or Middle Low German grof (both “rough, coarse, rude”), from Old Dutch *grof or Old Saxon *grof, both from Proto-West Germanic *grob, from Proto-Germanic *grubaz (“coarse, rough”), possibly from an earlier *gahrubaz and then related with *hreubaz (“scabby, rough, scrubby”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian groaf (“rough, coarse, crude”), West Frisian grof (“rough, coarse, crude”), Low German groff (“rough, coarse, crude”), German grob (“rough, coarse, crude”), Swedish grov (“rough, coarse, crude”).
Senses: examples: text: “Who gave you that?” replied my father angrily. “Did you bribe someone?” “No,” I told him. “It was a gift, from some people who really want me to be on this trip.” “Fine,” he gruffed.
ref: 2001, Benny Hinn, He Touched Me: An Autobiography:
glosses: To speak gruffly.
gruff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌf/
ipa: /ɡɹɐf/
ipa: /ɡɹʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: gruffs
Senses: examples: text: […] Yorkshire and Derbyshire, where [...] the ordinary sportsman has to go "gruffing," as it is called, to game game, i. e., stealing up the "gruffs" or gullies and undulations in the ground, and trying all the clumps of long old twisted heather and broken bogs. […] the open places on the moor, and thus driving the birds forward to deep lying bogs and "gruffs" […]
ref: 1888, Recreation: A Monthly Exponent of the Higher Literature, page 228:
text: They found Uttley's body on the bottom of the gruff.
ref: 1903 August 29, Yorkshire Evening Post, page 6, quoted in the English Dialect Dictionary
text: […] the body […] was found in a 'gruff' or gully about three-quarters of a mile from the Poacher's Leap.
ref: 1926, Emmuska Orczy, Unravelled Knots, page 386:
text: They roost [...] in peaty gruffs and drainage channels, and on moorland tracks and sheep- walks, […]
ref: 1935, British Birds: An Illustrated Magazine Devoted to the Birds, page 231:
glosses: Alternative spelling of grough (“gully in a moor”).
gruff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌf/
ipa: /ɡɹɐf/
ipa: /ɡɹʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Etymology: Perhaps related to Dutch grof (“rough, coarse”).
Senses: examples: text: […] articles that usually compose the gruff cargoes of our outward bound shipping.
ref: 1765, John Zephaniah Holwell, Interesting Historical Events..., page 194:
text: […] which by causing a great export of rice enhances the price of labour, and consequently of all other gruff, piece-goods and raw silk […]
ref: quoted in 1869, James Long, Selections from Unpublished Records of Government... (page 171)
glosses: Of goods: bulky.
abask
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæsk/
note: trap–bath split
ipa: /əˈbɑːsk/
rhymes: -æsk
rhymes: (trap–bath split) -ɑːsk
Etymology: From a- + bask.
Senses: glosses: in the sunshine; basking.
descend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɛnd/
ipa: /dəˈsɛnd/
ipa: /dɪˈsɛnd/
ipa: /diˈsɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: descends
Etymology: PIE word
 *de
The verb is derived from Middle English descenden (“to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to go from a better to a worse condition, decline, degenerate; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”), from Anglo-Norman descendere, descendre, and Old French descendere, descendre (“to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”) (modern French descendre), and from their etymon Latin dēscendere, the present active infinitive of dēscendō (“to come or go down, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant; etc.”), from de- (prefix meaning ‘from; down from’) + scandō (“to ascend, climb; to clamber”) (from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to climb, scale; to dart; to jump”)).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: [I]t ſhall be good if in your iourney you come to the deſcend of anye great Hil, to light from your Horſes backe, and to vvalke dovvne the hill a foote, […]
ref: 1607, Gervase Markham, “Of a Horses Labour or Exercise, and how He shall be Ordered when He is Iourneyed”, in Cauelarice, or The English Horseman: […], London: […] [Edward Allde and W[illiam] Jaggard] for Edward White, […], →OCLC, 5th book, page 33:
glosses: Synonym of descent (“instance of descending; sloping incline or passage; way down; decline, etc.”).
synonyms: word: descent
extra: (“instance of descending; sloping incline or passage; way down; decline, etc.”).
blate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bleɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: blater
form: blatest
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots blate (“timid, sheepish”), apparently a conflation of:
* Northern Middle English *blate, *blait (“pale, ghastly, terrified”), from Old English blāt (“pale, livid, ghastly”), from Proto-West Germanic *blait (“pale, discoloured”), from Proto-Germanic *blaitaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyd- (“pale, pallid”);
* Middle English bleth, bleath (“timid, soft”), from Old English blēaþ (“gentle, shy, cowardly, timid; slothful, inactive, effeminate”), from Proto-Germanic *blauþuz (“weak, timid, void, naked”).
Cognate with German blassen (“to make pale”), bleich (“pale, pallid”). More at bleak, bleach.
Senses: examples: text: You'd say Not them; fine legs, and Ma struggling into her blouse would say You're no blate. Who told you they're fine?
ref: 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 491:
glosses: Bashful, sheepish.
glosses: Dull, stupid.
Derived terms: blateness
blate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bleɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: blates
form: blating
form: blated
form: blated
Senses: examples: text: Away they fly, like a party of Indians after buffaloes; while along the road, it may be, cattle are bellowing, sheep blating, dogs barking, hens cackling, and crows cawing.
ref: 1851, William Maxwell, The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Note Book:
glosses: Archaic form of bleat.
Related terms: blatant
Bronze Star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bronze Stars
Senses: examples: text: His war story was at a very exciting point. An officer was congratulating the Three Musketeers, telling them that he was going to put them in for Bronze Stars.
ref: 1969, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., chapter 2 (pages 19–42), in Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death, Vintage edition (1991 paperback), London: Vintage Books, published 2000, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: A USAF individual military decoration, the fourth-highest award for bravery, heroism or meritorious service.
Coordinate terms: Gold Star
Silver Star
pound the pavement
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pounds the pavement
form: pounding the pavement
form: pounded the pavement
form: pounded the pavement
Senses: examples: text: The joggers pounded the pavement for several miles each day.
synonyms: hit the bricks
hit the pavement
hit the road
glosses: To travel on foot; to walk or run.
examples: text: After a brief and unsuccessful search, he decided it was time to start pounding the pavement.
synonyms: hit the bricks
hit the pavement
;
beat the bushes
glosses: To campaign diligently; to seek something, such as business, employment, or answers.
Related terms: cover ground
legwork
pound a beat
re-dye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-dyes
form: re-dyeing
form: re-dyed
form: re-dyed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of redye.
battering ram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battering rams
Etymology: The heads of some battering rams were carved in the shape of a ram, an animal renowned for butting with its head.
Senses: glosses: A heavy object used for battering down walls and gates or a siege engine that includes such an object.
synonyms: enforcer
glosses: A modern device, usually in the form of a metal bar with handles, chiefly used by police and firefighters to force open locked doors.
examples: text: And in the edition of their party newspaper released last week, [the Tories] pledged to Manitobans that they would continue their battering ram approach this time around.
ref: 1982 December 11, Frances Russell, “Economic performance buoys Pawley’s position”, in The Vancouver Sun (The Weekend Sun), Vancouver, BC, page A6:
text: That was expected, I suppose, because during the Trump era, the GOP was a battering ram against truth and reality.
ref: 2023 January 6, Peter Wehner, “The GOP Is a Battering Ram Against Truth”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Something which acts as a powerful tool against something.
BOFH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BOFHs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of bastard operator from hell.
Related terms: BDFL
LART
incisive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsaɪ.sɪv/
rhymes: -aɪsɪv
Forms: form: more incisive
form: most incisive
Etymology: Late Middle English (in the sense “cutting, penetrating”), borrowed from Medieval Latin incīsīvus, from incīdō (“to cut in, cut through”) + -īvus (“-ive”, adjectival suffix). Compare Middle French incisif.
Senses: glosses: Intelligently analytical and concise. (of a person or mental process)
glosses: Intelligently analytical and concise. (of a person or mental process)
Accurate and sharply focused. (of an account)
examples: text: An incisive producer, who expressed vehement disapproval with my pitch upon my first sentence.
text: She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
synonyms: decisive
forthright
glosses: Quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression. (of an action)
examples: text: An incisive, high voice.
ref: 1862–1863, Mary Ann Evans, Romola:
text: And her incisive smile accrediting / That treason of false witness in my blush.
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Second Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
synonyms: sharp
acute
sarcastic
biting
glosses: Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; trenchant.
examples: text: the incisive bones, the premaxillaries
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the incisors.
Derived terms: incisive bone
incisive canal
incisive fossa
incisively
incisiveness
incisivity
interincisive
maxilloincisive
nasoincisive
unincisive
bawling out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bawl out
buckle up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buckles up
form: buckling up
form: buckled up
form: buckled up
Senses: examples: text: It was eight o'clock to-morrow evening when I buckled up my travelling writing-desk in its leather case, paid my Bill, and got on my warm coats and wrappers.
ref: 1855, Charles Dickens, “The Holly-tree. Third Branch—The Bill”, in Christmas Stories […] (The Works of Charles Dickens; XV), de luxe edition, London: Chapman and Hall, published 1881, →OCLC, page 63:
glosses: To fasten with a buckle.
examples: text: Buckle up every time you drive somewhere in a car, and make sure your passengers buckle up, too.
synonyms: belt up
glosses: To fasten one's seat belt or safety belt.
examples: text: So buckle up for what's coming, readers!
ref: 2019 February 27, Robert Kirkman, Outcast By Kirkman & Azaceta #39, Image Comics:
glosses: To get ready, to prepare oneself.
Related terms: buckle down
weltschmerz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [Henry] Koerner's painting did have the heaviness, the harsh humor and the all-pervading weltschmerz which characterized German expressionism in the 1920s.
ref: 1947 April 28, “Art: Berlin’s Best”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2011:
text: The country was fat with peacetime prosperity, but lots of people were afflicted with a postwar funk called weltschmerz. They were depressed by what they'd seen of the "civilized" world. Soon whole bunches of people in their 20s and 30s moved to ski towns, checking out of the mainstream altogether. Their goal was no more lofty than having the freedom to spend day after endless day in a peaceful bubble, close to nature and on snow-covered slopes. Here was the weltschmerz antidote—and the birth of the parallel universe.
ref: 2001 December, Susan Reifer, “Skiing is Good: Carry the Solitude and Peace of the Mountains with You”, in Rick Kahl, editor, Skiing, volume 54, number 4, Boulder, Colo.: Time4 Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 64, columns 2–3:
text: Execution, the band's second record, burns with intense weltschmerz, its existential crises cloaked in buoyant instrumental hooks and shimmery arrangements.
ref: 2002 October, Maya Singer, “Rilo Kiley: The Execution of All Things: Saddle Creek”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, number 106, New York, N.Y.: The CMJ Network, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Weltschmerz.
muckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌkəl/
rhymes: -ʌkəl
Forms: form: muckles
Etymology: From Middle English mukel, muchel, from the same source as (perhaps a variant of) mickle.
Senses: glosses: A great amount.
Derived terms: many a mickle makes a muckle
muckle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌkəl/
rhymes: -ʌkəl
Forms: form: more muckle
form: most muckle
Etymology: From Middle English mukel, muchel, from the same source as (perhaps a variant of) mickle.
Senses: examples: text: She clorts a muckle piece [sandwich] tae me, wi' different kinds o' jam,
ref: c. 1930, George S. Morris, song A Pair o Nicky-tams
roman: An' tells me ilka nicht that she admires my Nicky Tams.
glosses: Large, massive.
glosses: Much.
muckle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌkəl/
rhymes: -ʌkəl
Forms: form: muckles
form: muckling
form: muckled
form: muckled
Etymology: From Middle English mukel, muchel, from the same source as (perhaps a variant of) mickle.
Senses: examples: text: And how'd she get such a holt on you, Terence Campion, let alone the way she's muckled onto those Bennetts?
ref: 1954, Elizabeth Ogilvie, The Dawning of the Day, page 199:
text: Another technique for the baby who is having trouble muckling on involves a breast or nipple shield.
ref: 2002, William G. Wilkoff, The Maternity Leave Breastfeeding Plan, →ISBN, page 87:
text: When an exhausted sucker is hauled to the top of The Wall, usually its muckling circle of a mouth goes into a frenzied sucking spasm.
ref: 2004, William J. Vande Kopple, The Catch: Families, Fishing, and Faith, →ISBN, page 18:
qualifier: Vermont
glosses: To latch onto something with the mouth.
examples: text: I told him all, / Both bad and good; / I bade him call — / He said he would: / I added much — the more I muckled, / The more that chuckling chummy chuckled!
ref: 1896, W.S. Gilbert, “The Grand Duke, or the Statutory Duel”, in The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, published 1941:
glosses: To talk big; to exaggerate.
Synonyms: sense: to talk big
word: mickle
muckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌkəl/
rhymes: -ʌkəl
Forms: form: muckles
Senses: examples: text: Then the caplin moved off, and five minutes later there was no sound except the splash of the sinkers overside, the flapping of the cod, and the whack of the muckles as the men stunned them.
ref: 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
glosses: A maul or hammer.
carry off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carries off
form: carrying off
form: carried off
form: carried off
Senses: examples: text: I need a truck to carry off all this furniture.
glosses: To transport away.
examples: text: Bandits carried off most of the money.
text: In spite of the importance of this route it remained until a few years ago very insecure. Overhung almost its entire length by the inaccessible fastnesses of Lololand, the passing caravans dared journey only with convoy, and even then were frequently overwhelmed by raiders from the hills, who carried off both trader and goods into the mountains, the former to lifelong servitude.
ref: 1913, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A Wayfarer in China:
glosses: To steal or kidnap
examples: text: The actress carried off a difficult performance with dash.
text: Given my general shape I'd look pretty ridiculous in the sort of outfit which, to carry it off, needs rather more height and less bulk than I have.
ref: 2022, Chris Patten, The Hong Kong Diaries, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
glosses: To act convincingly; to succeed at giving the impression of (e.g.) knowledge, confidence, or familiarity.
examples: text: We didn't think they'd finish by the deadline, but they carried it off.
synonyms: pull off
coordinate_terms: carry out
glosses: To achieve (something); to succeed at (something).
examples: text: Malaria carried off many people.
text: I was now entering on my fifteenth year, when the worſt of ills befell me in the loſs of my tender fond parents, who were both carried off by the smallpox, within a few days of each other; […].
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: The bitterest loss was of her eldest daughter, carried off by malaria at 40 with a baby still inside her.
ref: 2016 March 31, Celia W. Dugger, “Preventable Disease Blinds Poor in Third World”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To cause the death of.
examples: text: After a closely-fought match, Oxford carried off the trophy.
glosses: To win (a prize, etc.).
cheatsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheatsheets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cheat sheet.
java
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑː.və/
rhymes: -ɑːvə
Forms: form: javas
Etymology: From Java, an island on and near which a particular blend of coffee is made. The US use of the term to refer to any coffee originated in San Francisco, an early center of the US coffee trade.
Senses: glosses: A blend of coffee imported from the island of Java.
examples: text: 45 have some joe Week's almost over—now bring it home. Austrian researchers found that a cup of java resulted in a 45-minute boost of brain activity in the regions responsible for attention, concentration, and short-term memory.
ref: 2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:
glosses: Coffee in general.
Derived terms: jamoke
javalike
Related terms: Java
java
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑː.və/
rhymes: -ɑːvə
Forms: form: javas
Etymology: From French java.
Senses: examples: text: The java is the dance of the moment among a certain less desirable crowd, and this prohibition is enough to keep out the desperadoes who foregather every afternoon at the Petit-Balcon dance hall down the street.
ref: 2015, Luc Sante, The Other Paris: An illustrated journey through a city's poor and Bohemian past, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
glosses: A dance popular in France in the early 20th century.
cut-and-dried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cut and dried.
maler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of male: more male
uncinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin uncīnātus, from uncīnus (“hook, barb”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Hooked at the end.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Hooked in form; possessing a hook.
Derived terms: uncinate fasciculus
uncinate process
Related terms: unciform
uncinal
uncinus
Crystal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chrystal
Senses: examples: text: "Crystal's pretty. The name, I mean."
Jewel shook her head. "It doesn't look like her. She looks like Beaver Cleaver." […]
Crys chuckled. For the first time since she'd planted herself fiercely on Lusa's driveway that morning she sounded clear and transparent, like a child. Like the crystal she was.
ref: 2000, Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer, HarperCollins, →ISBN, pages 121, 298:
text: "No prob. I'm wired, anyway...Christa or Crystal. Why'd Kayla peg her for a stripper?"
"Because Gavin said she was a dancer," I said.
"Well," he said, "name a girl Crystal and what's more likely? That she'll get a Ph.D. in biomechanics, or end up shaking her tail for tips?"
ref: 2004, Jonathan Kellerman, Therapy, →ISBN, page 335:
text: Crystal just stood there with a semisad look on her face.
ref: 2013, Chuck Dozier, The Second Time Around, page 167:
text: CBS, the BBC's US news partner, said that VOA employees were notified in an email by Crystal Thomas, the USAGM human resources director.
ref: 2025 March 16, Thomas Mackintosh & Merlyn Thomas, “Trump moves to close down Voice of America”, in BBC:
glosses: A female given name from English.
examples: text: In this exhilarating and often hilarious book, David Crystal examines why we devote so much time and energy to language games, how professionals make a career of them, and how young children instinctively take to them.
ref: 1998, David Crystal, Language Play:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A ghost town in Gunnison County, Colorado.
glosses: A town in Maine.
glosses: A city in Minnesota.
glosses: A census-designated place in New Mexico.
glosses: A city and town in North Dakota.
glosses: A town in Wisconsin.
meister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪ̯stə(r)/
Forms: form: meisters
Etymology: From German Meister (“master, highly skilled tradesman; champion”), from Old High German meistar, from Latin magister, whence also English master, mister, magister, and maestro, making all these words doublets of each other.
Senses: examples: text: The designated leaders so far include superstars like Harold Varmus, a Nobel laureate, and Eric Lander, genome meister.
ref: 2009 January 20, Natalie Angier, “In ‘Geek Chic’ and Obama, New Hope for Lifting Women in Science”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person of great skill or authority in a particular field
Derived terms: concertmeister
greedmeister
-meister
rapmeister
menschen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mensches
Senses: glosses: plural of mensch
mensches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menschen
Senses: glosses: plural of mensch
sneck-bend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneck-bends
Senses: glosses: A hook-shaped bend in a river, road etc.
sneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: snecks
Etymology: Cognate with Scots sneck.
Senses: examples: text: Lydia jerked about with the blind, fixing it first in one little sneck and then another, finally pulling it right to the bottom and pressing the button into the little brass hole.
ref: 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 2:
text: The graveyard wall was in good repair, although, surprisingly, the narrow gate's sneck was smashed and it was held-to by a loop of binder twine.
ref: 1980, JL Carr, A Month in the Country, Penguin, published 2010, page 3:
glosses: A latch or catch.
glosses: The nose.
glosses: A cut.
Derived terms: Kendal sneck
sneck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: snecks
form: snecking
form: snecked
form: snecked
Etymology: Cognate with Scots sneck.
Senses: glosses: To latch, to lock.
glosses: To cut.
Derived terms: sneck-bend
sneck lifter
sneck posset
sneck up
sneckyeat