cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
jawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɔːn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: jawns
Senses: examples: text: Defiance to thy power, thou rifted jawn! Now, by the loved heaven, sooner thou shalt Rinse thy foul ribs from the black filth of sin That soots thy heart than make me wretched.
ref: 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Obsolete form of yawn.
jawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɔːn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: jawns
Etymology: First attested in the 1990s. Most likely an alteration of joint. Compare junt.
Senses: examples: text: "Then I started thinking of the Scenario remix and was like yo, that jawn was just as good."
ref: 2001, Steve Jackson, “Takin it back B/W BEEF”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet):
text: "Just back from a tour in Australia, he was sitting at a table in the dining car with a group of friends that included members of the hip-hop groups Spank Rock and Plastic Little. 'This,' he said, 'is the jawn.'"
ref: 2007 September 23, Jessica Pressler, “The Bar Car is Rocking”, in New York Times:
text: Jawn can mean anything—person, place, or thing. Sometimes if we’re telling a story and don’t want people to know what we’re talking about, we’ll plug jawn in for everything. The other day I was at the jawn around the corner with the young jawn from down the street. We get to the jawn, right, and the ngh at the door is all on his jawn, not knowing I had that jawn on me. Man, it was about to be on in that jawn.
ref: 2013 August 20, MK Asante, Buck: A Memoir (Spiegel & Grau) http://genius.com/Mk-asante-buck-a-memoir-chap-1-annotated
glosses: Something; a thing; any object, place, or person.
examples: text: MY boi in NY, when he first came to Philly, used to tell me the philly jawns were easy.
ref: 1999 July 16, “da One and Only Jazzman”, “Re: RapCity: UnderHouston”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet):
text: I had a few chicks that I messed around with but this one main jawn stuck out in particular.
ref: 2005, Krystle J. Nutter, Turned Out, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Unlike most of these ghetto jawns who were wrapped up in all kinds of surface shit that didn't mean a damn thing, Muddah was like me in a lotta ways. She was from the streets but she had goals and dreams.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 67:
text: “Who? The jawn sittin’ in the truck wit’ choo? I think I know her.”
ref: 2006, G. D. McCrary, Guerrillas in the Midst, Papyrus & Pen Publishing, →ISBN, page 39:
text: “When it comes to condoms, put two on, and tomorrow night, find a new jawn.”
ref: 2009, Asher Roth, I Love College:
glosses: A woman.
Related terms: shawty
Luannah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
tessera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tesserae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tessera (“a cube, a die with numbers on all six sides”), from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”).
Senses: examples: text: The map was laid using tesserae, small cube-shaped tiles of limestone, marble, or colored stone.
ref: 2014, Jerry Brotton, Great Maps, DK, page 35:
glosses: A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton
examples: text: During the reign of Augustus, Rome imported marble from Egypt and Africa, and games of tali and tessera were played.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 110:
glosses: An ancient Roman die.
Derived terms: tessellate
tesseract
blank
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /blæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: blanker
form: more blank
form: blankest
form: most blank
Etymology: From Middle English blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Anglo-Norman blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Old French blanc, feminine blanche, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”), Spanish blanco. More at blink, blind, blanch. Doublet of blanc.
Senses: examples: text: To the blanc Moone / Her office they preſcrib'd,
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, 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, lines 656–657:
glosses: White or pale; without colour.
examples: text: blank paper
text: a blank check
text: a blank ballot
text: a blank CD
text: Referee Michael Oliver failed to detect a foul in a crowded box and the Canaries escaped down the tunnel with the scoreline still blank.
ref: 2011 December 27, Mike Henson, “Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
examples: text: a blank desert; a blank wall; blank unconsciousness
text: Not a cloud in the blank blue sky.
glosses: Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
examples: text: a blank refusal to cooperate
text: There was a look of blank terror on his face.
glosses: Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
examples: text: Failing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare.
glosses: Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
examples: text: Adam […] Aſtonied ſtood and Blank,
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, 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, lines 888–890:
glosses: Utterly confounded or discomfited.
examples: text: a blank day
glosses: Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
examples: text: The shock left his memory blank.
glosses: Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
examples: text: The recruits were issued blank rounds for a training exercise.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
pugilistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pugilistic
form: most pugilistic
Etymology: From pugilist + -ic, alternatively pugil + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: It was no time for pugilistic chivalry, and my brother laid him quiet with a kick, and gripped the collar of the man who pulled at the slender lady's arm.
ref: 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Penguin Books, published 1962, page 101:
text: Mr. Christie, who as a presidential candidate has frequently suppressed his most pugilistic instincts, cast off any restraint and did what he does best: slice and slash.
ref: 2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In the manner of a pugilist.
glosses: Fighting with the fists.
Derived terms: pugilistically
distort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈstɔːt/
ipa: /dɪˈstoɹt/
ipa: /dɪˈstoːt/
ipa: /dəˈstoːt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: distorts
form: distorting
form: distorted
form: distorted
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin distortum, past participle of distorqueō (“to twist, torture, distort”).
Senses: examples: text: This she did with the utmost politeness, though cold by race, and through her politeness ran a sense of what the Teutons call Duty, which would once have repelled me; but I have wandered over a great part of the world and I know it now to be a distorted kind of virtue.
ref: 1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome:
glosses: To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
glosses: To become misshapen.
examples: text: In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.
glosses: To give a false or misleading account of; pervert.
Synonyms: sense: to bring something out of shape
word: deform
Derived terms: distortable
distorter
distortive
undistort
Related terms: word: distorted
word: distortion
distort
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈstɔːt/
ipa: /dɪˈstoɹt/
ipa: /dɪˈstoːt/
ipa: /dəˈstoːt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: more distort
form: most distort
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin distortum, past participle of distorqueō (“to twist, torture, distort”).
Senses: examples: text: Her face was ugly and her mouth distort.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 36:
glosses: Distorted; misshapen.
disfigure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈfɪɡə/
ipa: /dɪsˈfɪɡjɚ/
Forms: form: disfigures
form: disfiguring
form: disfigured
form: disfigured
Etymology: From Middle English disfiguren, from Anglo-Norman desfigurer.
Senses: examples: text: His face was disfigured by a terrible fire many years ago, leaving deep scars across his crooked nose.
text: The North British Railway was always anxious to connect its line to Helensburgh Pier but the local residents would not permit their foreshore or promenade to be disfigured, so the company had to resort further east and on May 18, 1882, opened the railway pier and station at Craigendoran.
ref: 1959 November, G. H. Robin, “Railways to Helensburgh—a pre-electrification retrospect”, in Trains Illustrated, page 544:
glosses: to irreversibly damage the shape or structure of something, negatively affecting its appearance or functionality without completely destroying it.
Synonyms: word: leper
Derived terms: disfiguration
disfigurative
disfigurement
disfigurer
disfiguringly
cowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaʊd/
rhymes: -aʊd
Forms: form: more cowed
form: most cowed
Etymology: * Probable origins are Scandinavian, cf. Danish kue, to subdue.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:cowed.
glosses: Frightened into submission.
Synonyms: intimidated
Derived terms: cowedly
cowedness
uncowed
cowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaʊd/
rhymes: -aʊd
Etymology: * Probable origins are Scandinavian, cf. Danish kue, to subdue.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cow
deplorable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈplɔːɹəbl̩/
ipa: /dəˈplɔɹəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: deplorables
Etymology: PIE word
 *de
The adjective is borrowed from French déplorable (“lamentable, regrettable”), or from its etymon Late Latin dēplōrābilis + English -able (suffix meaning ‘relevant to, suitable to’). Dēplōrābilis is derived from Latin dēplōrō (“to bemoan, complain about; to bewail, lament, deplore”) + -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’); while dēplōrō is from dē- (intensifying prefix) + plōrō (“to cry out; to complain; to lament, deplore”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)- (“to flow; to swim”)). By surface analysis, deplore + -able.
The noun is derived from the adjective. Sense 2 refers to a campaign speech by the American politician and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (born 1947) during the 2016 United States presidential election calling half of the supporters of her Republican opponent Donald Trump (born 1946) a “basket of deplorables”.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hat better is an old fellow, mauled with rheumatism and other deplorables.
ref: 1828 April 10 (date written), Walter Scott, “[Entry dated 10 April 1828]”, in David Douglas, editor, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott […], volume II, Edinburgh: David Douglas, published 1890, →OCLC, page 157:
text: [H]eralding, this season, an end of the most awful of all apparel abominations, that most despicable of all deplorables, the ankle sock.
ref: 1970, Harold Hayes, editor, Esquire, volume 74, Chicago, Ill.: Esquire, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 183, column 1:
glosses: A person or thing that is to be deplored.
examples: text: He [Donald Trump] did not say who “the guys” were—but [John Maguire] Dowd knew he meant the Trump base, the crowds at his rallies, the Fox News watchers, the deplorables.
ref: 2018, Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 355:
text: Trump's fate, [Steve] Bannon declared, rested with the deplorables, who had to be brought to the kind of fearful emotional pitch that would get them to the polls.
ref: 2019 June 4, Michael Wolff, “McCain, Woodward, Anonymous”, in Siege: Trump Under Fire, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
text: The self-image of the deplorables is that of the honest, hardworkin' people of the Christian American heartland and South who have been screwed by Washington, D.C., and the coastal elites since the dawn of time.
ref: 2020, Rick Wilson, Running against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump—And Democrats from Themselves, New York, N.Y.: Crown Forum, Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 265:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A supporter of Donald Trump.
inexperienced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭnəkspîr'ēənst
ipa: /ɪnəkˈspɪəɹi.ənst/
Forms: form: more inexperienced
form: most inexperienced
Etymology: From in- + experienced.
Senses: examples: text: Veteran Wiktionary editors frustrated with inexperienced newcomers should remember that they were once in that position.
text: A group of young, inexperienced volunteers was tasked with securing much-needed medical supplies for hospitals fighting coronavirus, hampering the government’s response to a growing pandemic, according to reports by The New York Times and The Washington Post.
ref: 2020 May 6, Veronica Stracqualursi, “Reports: Inexperience and cronyism slowed Kushner-led efforts to procure medical supplies”, in CNN:
synonyms: nonexperienced
unexperienced
;
green
;
glosses: Not experienced; lacking knowledge because lacking experience.
Synonyms: word: callow
word: experienceless
word: inexperienced
word: unexperienced
word: fresh
word: green
word: new
word: pup
word: raw
word: strange
word: unpracticed
word: unseasoned
word: unversed
Hypernyms: word: lacking
Derived terms: inexperiencedly
Related terms: word: budding
word: immature
word: rusty
word: unfledged
word: unripe
word: beginner
word: unskilled
forfeit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː.fɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.fɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɔrfət/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fɪt
Forms: form: forfeits
Etymology: From Middle English forfait from ca. 1300, from Old French forfait (“crime”), originally the past participle of forfaire (“to transgress”), and Medieval Latin foris factum. During the 15th century, the sense shifted from the crime to the penalty for the crime.
Senses: examples: text: That he our deadly forfeit should release
ref: 1629, John Milton, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity:
glosses: A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.
examples: text: He who murders pays the forfeit of his own life.
text: Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal / Remit thy other forfeits.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, breach of contract, etc.
examples: text: Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of the day.
ref: 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game.
examples: a. 1789, Barry St. Leger, Siege of Nicopolis
to seek arms upon people and country that never did us any forfeit
glosses: Injury; wrong; mischief.
forfeit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː.fɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.fɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɔrfət/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fɪt
Forms: form: forfeits
form: forfeiting
form: forfeited
form: forfeited
form: forfeit
form: forfeit
Etymology: From Middle English forfait from ca. 1300, from Old French forfait (“crime”), originally the past participle of forfaire (“to transgress”), and Medieval Latin foris factum. During the 15th century, the sense shifted from the crime to the penalty for the crime.
Senses: examples: text: He forfeited his last chance of an early release from jail by repeatedly attacking another inmate.
glosses: To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance
examples: text: Because only nine players were present, the football team was forced to forfeit the game.
synonyms: capitulate
surrender
disqualify
forgo
withgo
glosses: To lose a contest, game, match, or other form of competition by voluntary withdrawal, by failing to attend or participate, or by violation of the rules
glosses: To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
examples: text: I will have the heart of him if he forfeit.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: To fail to keep an obligation.
examples: text: After the raid on USPV, Plaintiffs filed claims with the FBI seeking return of their seized property. The government did not return the property in response to these claims; instead, it indicated that it was seeking to forfeit the property.
ref: 2024 January 23, Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr., Snitko v. United States, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2024:
topics: law
glosses: Of government officials: to legally remove property from its previous owners.
Derived terms: forfeitability
forfeitable
forfeiter
forfeits
forfeiture
nonforfeited
nonforfeiting
nonforfeiture
unforfeit
unforfeited
forfeit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː.fɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.fɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɔrfət/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fɪt
Etymology: From Middle English forfait from ca. 1300, from Old French forfait (“crime”), originally the past participle of forfaire (“to transgress”), and Medieval Latin foris factum. During the 15th century, the sense shifted from the crime to the penalty for the crime.
Senses: examples: text: to tread the forfeit paradise
ref: 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-Day:
glosses: Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
temenos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛmənɒs/
Forms: form: temenoi
form: temene
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τέμενος (témenos).
Senses: examples: text: The three spheres – political, commercial, spiritual – intersected, and at the very centre of their conjunction was, and is, the Meccan temenos.
ref: 2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 123:
qualifier: chiefly Ancient Greece
glosses: Ground under, surrounding and adjacent to a temple; a sacred enclosure or precinct.
Related terms: tenemos
illegal combatant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illegal combatants
Senses: glosses: A person who engages in combat without meeting the requirements for a lawful belligerent according to the laws of war as specified in the Third Geneva Convention.
Synonyms: unlawful combatant
unprivileged combatant
moribund
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːɹɪbʌnd/
Etymology: From Latin moribundus (“dying”).
Senses: examples: text: These moribund shapes were free as air—and nearly as thin.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 206, column 2:
glosses: Approaching death; about to die; dying; expiring.
glosses: Almost obsolete; nearing an end.
Derived terms: moribundity
moribundly
moribundness
unmoribund
Related terms: amortal
mortal
mortality
mortify
mortuary
moribund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːɹɪbʌnd/
Forms: form: moribunds
Etymology: From Latin moribundus (“dying”).
Senses: glosses: A person who is near to dying.
syn-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: syl-
form: sym-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συν- (sun-), from σύν (sún, “with, in company with, together with”). Compare Sanskrit सम्- (sam-).
Senses: examples: text: syn- + -onym → synonym
glosses: identical
examples: text: syn- + chron- → synchronize
glosses: with, together
examples: text: syn- + esthesia → synaesthesia
glosses: concomitant
Synonyms: sense: identical
word: homo-
sense: identical
word: iso-
sense: identical
word: ipsi-
sense: identical
word: sym-
sense: together
word: co-
sense: together
word: con-
sense: together
word: com-
sense: together
word: col-
sense: together
word: cor-
sense: together
word: sym-
sense: together
word: syl-
sense: together
word: inter-
Derived terms: syndynamics
synsystematics
syntaxonomy
compliment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑmpləmənt/
ipa: /ˈkɒmplɪmənt/
homophone: complement
Forms: form: compliments
Etymology: Borrowed from French compliment, itself a borrowing of Italian complimento, which in turn is a borrowing from Spanish cumplimiento, from cumplir (“to comply, complete, do what is proper”) + -miento or Latin complēmentum. Doublet of complement. Displaced Old English ġeswǣsnes.
Senses: examples: text: pay someone a compliment
text: […] I met him
With customary compliment; when he,
Wafting his eyes to the contrary and falling
A lip of much contempt, speeds from me and
So leaves me to consider what is breeding
That changeth thus his manners.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: [...] what honour that,
but tedious waste of time, to sit and hear
So many hollow compliments and lies,
Outlandish flatteries?
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 65:
text: Virtue indeed meets many a rhiming friend,
And many a compliment politely penn’d,
ref: 1782, William Cowper, “Table Talk”, in Poems, London: J. Johnson, page 37:
glosses: An expression of praise, congratulation, or respect.
examples: text: He told the Captain, He was heartily sorry for his Misfortunes; tho’ in my Opinion that was nothing but a Compliment: For, as I found afterwards, he was more brutish, and dishonest, than most of the other Kings on the Island […]
ref: 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, page 25:
text: This accomplished man condescended to think of a young girl, and take the pains to talk to her, not with absurd compliment, but with an appeal to her understanding, and sometimes with instructive correction.
ref: 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 48:
glosses: Complimentary language; courtesy, flattery.
glosses: Misspelling of complement.
Synonyms: praise
Derived terms: word: backhanded compliment
english: backwards compliment
translation: backwards compliment
word: backward compliment
word: Chinese compliment
word: complimental
word: complimentary
word: compliment fishing
word: complisult
word: left-handed compliment
word: miscompliment
word: poisoned compliment
word: poisonous compliment
word: pseudo-compliment
word: with compliments
compliment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑmpləmənt/
ipa: /ˈkɒmplɪmənt/
homophone: complement
Forms: form: compliments
form: complimenting
form: complimented
form: complimented
Etymology: Borrowed from French complimenter, from compliment + -er (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: […] She transferr'd the curs'd Advice, / That Monarchs ſhould their inward Soul diſguise, / Diſſemble, and command; be falſe, and wiſe; / By ignominous Arts for ſervile Ends / Should compliment their Foes, and ſhun their Friends.
ref: 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, book II (Pleasure), page 457:
antonyms: insult
glosses: To pay a compliment (to someone); to express a favourable opinion (of someone).
glosses: Misspelling of complement.
Derived terms: complimentable
complimentative
complimentee
complimenter
outcompliment
overcompliment
Related terms: complement
slavish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsleɪvɪʃ/
rhymes: -eɪvɪʃ
Forms: form: more slavish
form: most slavish
form: slaveish
Etymology: From slave + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: “You have freed them from higher restraint, Halbert,” answered the Abbot, “and therein taught them to rebel against your own.” / “Fear not that, Edward,” exclaimed Halbert, who never gave his brother his monastic name of Ambrosius; “none obey the command of real duty so well as those who are free from the observance of slavish bondage.”
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 344:
glosses: In the manner of a slave; abject.
examples: text: a slavish reproduction
text: slavish observation of rules
glosses: Utterly faithful; totally lacking originality, creativity, or reflection.
Derived terms: slavishly
comprador
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
ipa: /kɒm.pɹəˈdɔɹ/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /kɒm.pɹəˈdɔː/
Forms: form: compradors
Etymology: From Portuguese comprador (“buyer”), from Late Latin comparator, from Latin comparō (“I buy”), from con- (“with”) + paro (“I furnish”).
In Far East, originally applied to native servants in European households, later to native managers in European businesses.
Senses: glosses: An intermediary.
glosses: A native of a colonised country who acts as the agent of the coloniser.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ship's chandler in the Far East.
Derived terms: comprador bourgeoisie
compradorship
days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: daze
Etymology: From Middle English dayes, dawes, from Old English dagas, from Proto-Germanic *dagōs, *dagōz, plural of *dagaz, equivalent to day + -s (plural ending).
Senses: glosses: plural of day
days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: daze
Etymology: From Middle English dayes, dawes, from Old English dagas, from Proto-Germanic *dagōs, *dagōz, plural of *dagaz, equivalent to day + -s (plural ending).
Senses: examples: text: Things were more relaxed in Grandpa's days.
text: His days of being the king are over.
text: In the old days, […], he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: With Pi’s removal from Honan, Chang lost his backing in the Kuei-te position and was obliged to relinquish it. In the winter we find him in nearby Po-chou, Anhwei, enjoying the hospitality of the magistrate P’ei Chen, who had been a friend since Chang's Peking days.
ref: 1966, David S. Nivison, The Life and Thought of Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng (1738-1801), Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 100–101:
text: The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.
ref: 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
glosses: A particular time or period of vague extent.
examples: text: That's how he ended his days.
glosses: Life.
days
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: daze
Etymology: From Middle English dayes, dawes, from Old English dagas, from Proto-Germanic *dagōs, *dagōz, plural of *dagaz, equivalent to day + -s (plural ending).
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of day
days
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: daze
Etymology: From Middle English daies, from Old English dæġes (“by day”), from Proto-Germanic *dagas, *dagis, genitive of *dagaz, equivalent to day + -s (adverbial ending).
Senses: examples: text: She works days at the garage.
synonyms: by day
antonyms: nights
glosses: During the day.
miles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪlz/
rhymes: -aɪlz
Senses: glosses: plural of mile
examples: text: His final shot missed the bullseye by miles.
text: From the top of the hill you can see for miles.
text: No need to hurry. The deadline is miles away.
glosses: A great distance in space or time.
miles
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪlz/
rhymes: -aɪlz
Senses: examples: text: Her new paintings are miles better than her older ones.
text: The recipe was miles too strong.
ref: 1972, Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Knopf, page 129:
glosses: much; a lot (used to emphasise a comparative)
Kremlinology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kremlin + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Like the Kremlinology of the cold war, the unpacking of Nasrallah’s careful ambiguities is as much art as science. Was he smiling more, some asked last week, as others sought to identify the audiences for different parts of his messaging.
ref: 2024 January 7, “Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, Iran … how far could war in the Middle East spread?”, in the Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The study of the internal politics of the high members of the government of the USSR.
topics: government
politics
glosses: The study of the internal politics of any powerful and secretive organization.
Derived terms: Kremlinologist
Algonquian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˈɡɒŋk(w)i.ən/
ipa: /ælˈɡɑːŋk(w)i.ən/
Forms: form: Algonkian
Etymology: From Algonqui(n) + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a group of North American languages.
Derived terms: Algonquianist
Proto-Algonquian
Related terms: Algonquin
Algonquian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˈɡɒŋk(w)i.ən/
ipa: /ælˈɡɑːŋk(w)i.ən/
Forms: form: Algonquians
form: Algonkian
Etymology: From Algonqui(n) + -an.
Senses: glosses: An Algonquin.
sibilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sibilates
form: sibilating
form: sibilated
form: sibilated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sībilātus, past participle of sībilō. Doublet of siffle.
Senses: glosses: To hiss.
glosses: To speak with a hissing sound.
Synonyms: word: hiss
word: hizz
word: sibilate
Hypernyms: word: make sound
Hyponyms: word: fizzle
word: sizzle
word: swish
word: swoosh
word: whish
word: whisper
word: whistle
word: whiz
word: whizzle
word: whoosh
word: zip
word: zing
fellate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈleɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɛ.leɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
rhymes: -ɛleɪt
Forms: form: fellates
form: fellating
form: fellated
form: fellated
Etymology: Back-formation from fellatio on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from Latin fellō (“suck”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, to suckle”).
Senses: examples: text: […] semen is a gift, and the relation between the one who is fellated and the one who fellates is a relation between one who gives and one who receives.
ref: 1997, Henning Bech, When Men Meet: Homosexuality and Modernity, page 11:
text: At trial, the precise content of the sexual activity which subsequently occurred, as well as the Complainant’s state of consciousness at the material time, were matters of dispute between the Prosecution and the Defence. What was not disputed was that sometime between 4.02am and 5.43am, the Accused fellated the Complainant.
ref: Paragraph 14, Public Prosecutor v Jeffrey Pe ([2023] SGHC 313)
hypernyms: blow
suck
glosses: To stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth.
examples: text: Can she only come when a White woman kneels before her fellating her dildo? Or does the Black woman just see another dyke she fancies, who fancies her? I'm attracted to White women because my White lover is Other to me […]
ref: 1995, Lynne Pearce, Jackie Stacey, Romance Revisited - Volume 1995, part 2, page 186:
text: Leina went on fellating her finger, making faces of exquisite ecstasy.
ref: 2004, Edmund White, Don Weise, FRESH MEN (tr), →ISBN, page 66:
glosses: To suck in a manner suggestive of fellatio.
examples: text: If you thought the German government was going to be a lapdog for Sarcozy, or worse, was going to fellate Brussels and the ECB, you got a rude shock today.
ref: 2010, Karl Denninger, The German Government Has Had Enough:
glosses: To suck up to, to flatter or be shamefully subservient to.
Derived terms: autofellate
fellatee
fellatio
fellator
fellatrix
Clara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɑːɹə/
ipa: /ˈklɛəɹə/
ipa: /ˈklæɹə/
rhymes: -ɑːɹə
rhymes: -ɛəɹə
rhymes: -æɹə
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin clāra, feminine of clārus (“bright, shining, clear”), a post-classical name made famous by the 13th century Saint Clara (Clare) of Assisi. Doublet of Clare and Claire.
Senses: examples: text: But the fashion spreads deeper and wider; the village is infected and the village green; Amelias and Claras sweep your rooms and cook your dinners, gentle Sophias milk your cows, and if you ask a pretty smiling girl at a cottage door to tell you her name, the rosy lips lisp out Caroline.
ref: 1830, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names::
text: My mother called me Clara. And everybody else called me Clara until I was fourteen years old. Then I got sick of it. Clara! Sounds like breaking glass. Did you ever stop to think of that, Frank? Say it fast and hit the C.
ref: 1956, Tad Mosel, Other People's Houses. Six Television Plays., page 123:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
glosses: A town in Pyrénées-Orientales department, France; named Clara-Villerach since 2017.
glosses: A town in County Offaly, Ireland.
glosses: An area of Taylor County, Florida, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Wayne County, Mississippi, United States.
Derived terms: Clara Vale
Maria Clara gown
Santa Clara
Related terms: Clare
Claire
Claribel
Clarice
Clarissa
ICAO spelling alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, Zulu.
glosses: The ICAO radiotelephony spelling alphabet of the International Civil Aviation Organization. This alphabet assigns names to letters of the alphabet for clearer enunciation (and for the same reason pronounces the numeral 9 as "niner")
Synonyms: NATO phonetic alphabet
Charlie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɑɹli/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)li
Forms: form: Charlies
form: Charley
form: charley
form: charlie
Senses: examples: text: Heaven only knows why a man with a strong biblical name like James wants to be a president named Jimmy. I'm certain that if he were called Charles, he wouldn't fool around that way. Charles is not so bad, but Charlie is a terrible burden to bear.
ref: 1979 Charles Kuralt, Dateline America, Harcourt Brace Jovanocich, page 184
text: People were seen exiting a building on Utah Valley University after Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, was shot Wednesday at an event on campus.
ref: 2025 September 10, Hannah Schoenbaum, Alanna Durkin Richer and Mark Sherman, “Conservative activist Charlie Kirk dies after being shot at Utah college event”, in AP News:
glosses: A unisex given name.
A diminutive of the male given name Charles; also used as a formal given name.
examples: text: 'Can I call you Charlotte?'
'No. I hate the name, makes me sound like a Victorian aunt. I'm Charlie, and no, you can't call me that either.'
ref: 2007, Sophie Hannah, Hurting Distance, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 225:
glosses: A unisex given name.
A diminutive of the female given name Charlotte or Charlene, also used as a formal given name, although less common than the male name.
examples: text: [I]t is a land of large, rich pastures bounded by ox-fences, and covered with fine hedgerow timber, with here and there a nice little gorse or spinney, where abideth poor Charley, having no other cover to which to betake himself for miles and miles, when pushed out some fine November morning by the old Berkshire.
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
glosses: A name for a fox in fables and folk literature.
Synonyms: sense: given name
word: Charley
sense: diminutive of Charles
word: Chas
sense: diminutive of Charles
word: Chuck
sense: female given name
word: Charlee
sense: female given name
word: Charli
sense: female given name
word: Charleigh
Derived terms: Charlee
Charleigh
Charley
charley horse
Charli
Charlie bar
Charlie Brown tree
CharlieCard
Charlie Chaplin mustache
Charlie Farnsbarns
Charlie Foxtrot
Charlie McCarthy
Charlie Noble
Charlie Papa
Charlieplex
Charlieplexing
cheap Charlie
creeping Charlie
good-time Charlie
Mister Charlie
Regulation Charlie
Tail End Charlie
Uncle Charlie
Victor Charlie
Charlie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɑɹli/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)li
Forms: form: Charlies
form: Charley
form: charley
form: charlie
Senses: qualifier: World War II era; joint US/RAF; World War II era; joint US/RAF
glosses: radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter C.
examples: text: I learned a thing or two from Charlie, don't you know? You better stay away from Copperhead Road.
ref: 1988, Steve Earle, “Copperhead Road”:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The Vietcong (Victor Charlie); (by extension, sometimes) any enemy.
glosses: Cocaine.
examples: text: You look a right Charlie in that clown outfit! — Yes, we make a right pair of Charlies.
text: He looked a right Charlie in those tails and striped trousers.
ref: 2009, Ruth Rendell, The Best Man To Die, page 26:
glosses: A fool.
raw_tags: with "right" and/or "proper"
examples: text: There's not a man she won't go with. She lets even the small boys feel her charlies.
ref: 1959, Michel del Castillo, tr. Humphry Hare, The Billsticker:
text: […]being turned on by a woman who was also a person and had stuff going for herself, and knowing that even if my Wurlitzer rotted and fell off, even if her Charlies sagged and turned to empty baggies, we'd still be buddies and craft companions
ref: 1975, Harlan Ellison, No Doors, No Windows:
text: 'Hullo, Jacob.' She grins at him over her counter as he eyes her charlies sticking through her sweater.
ref: 1986, John Hooker, Jacob's Season, page 115:
glosses: A woman's breast
glosses: A nightwatchman.
examples: text: […] the sons are adorned in the very height of the fashion, with white pantaloons, watch chains and Wellingtons, and a charley at their under lip […]
ref: 1834, “Hampden in the 19th Century”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, London: John Bowyer Nichols, page 295:
text: That square, short man... wearing a moustache and Charlie is William Laud [F&H].
ref: 1861, J.W. Taylor, Antiquities Falkland, page 43:
text: This Cholly guy wants to do a brodie off the rattler.
ref: 1913, “Lord Ballyrot in Slangland”, in The Tacoma Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A short, pointed beard, like that of King Charles I.
topics: blackjack
games
glosses: The situation in some blackjack variants where a player wins automatically by showing a hand with the correct number of cards.
Synonyms: sense: cocaine
word: snow
sense: fool
word: fool
foxtrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒkstɹɒt/
Forms: form: foxtrots
Etymology: From fox + trot.
Senses: examples: text: The tango, the Texas Tommy, Walking the Dog, the one step, the fox trot, the shimmy, and all their out-growths, had their origin in the palaces of lust on the Barbary Coast of San Francisco.
ref: 1930, Jefferis & Nichols, Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, page 200:
glosses: A ballroom dance with a slow-slow-quick-quick rhythm.
glosses: A pace with short steps, as in changing from trotting to walking.
qualifier: international standards
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Foxtrot from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
Derived terms: foxtrot oscar
slowfox
whiskey tango foxtrot
whisky tango foxtrot
foxtrot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒkstɹɒt/
Forms: form: foxtrots
form: foxtrotting
form: foxtrotted
form: foxtrotted
Etymology: From fox + trot.
Senses: glosses: To dance the foxtrot.
Related terms: turkey trot
Oscar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑs.kɚ/
ipa: /ˈɒs.kə/
Etymology: Exact origin uncertain. Resuscitated by James Mcpherson in The Works of Ossian (1765). Napoleon, an admirer of the Ossianic poems, chose it for his godson Oscar Bernadotte, who became a king of Sweden.
The modern given name is a conflation of two unrelated names: first, Middle Irish Oscar (the name of Fionn Mac Cumhaill's grandson in Irish mythology), from Middle Irish os (“deer”) + cara (“friend”); and second, Old English Ōscār, Ōsgār (personal name, literally “spear of the gods/spear of God”), from Old English ōs (“god”) and gār (“spear”) (see Oswald). Compare German Ansgar (personal name), Danish Asker, Asger (personal name), Norwegian Asgeir (personal name), Icelandic Ásgeir (personal name).
(Academy Award): Disputed. Said to have been named by actress Bette Davis after her first husband, Harmon Oscar Nelson, or by secretary Margaret Herrick after her cousin Oscar Pierce.
Senses: examples: text: My son, though alone, is brave. Oscar is like a beam of the sky: he turns around, and the people fall.
ref: 1765, James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, Tauchnitz, published 1847, page 192:
text: Had a funny first name, like Oscar or maybe - no! I remember now. It was Felix. Felix Tanner.
ref: 2005 Marc Cerasini, etc, Operation Hell Gate, HarperEntertainment, page 134
glosses: A male given name from Irish or Old English.
glosses: A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic], a rare anglicization of Mac Oscair (“son of Oscar”) (McCusker).
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Kentucky; named for Kentucky Representative Oscar Turner.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Louisiana.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for early settler Oscar Bradford.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Oklahoma; named for local rancher Oscar W. Seay.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Pennsylvania.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
Derived terms: Oscar the Grouch
Oscar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑs.kɚ/
ipa: /ˈɒs.kə/
Forms: form: Oscars
Etymology: Exact origin uncertain. Resuscitated by James Mcpherson in The Works of Ossian (1765). Napoleon, an admirer of the Ossianic poems, chose it for his godson Oscar Bernadotte, who became a king of Sweden.
The modern given name is a conflation of two unrelated names: first, Middle Irish Oscar (the name of Fionn Mac Cumhaill's grandson in Irish mythology), from Middle Irish os (“deer”) + cara (“friend”); and second, Old English Ōscār, Ōsgār (personal name, literally “spear of the gods/spear of God”), from Old English ōs (“god”) and gār (“spear”) (see Oswald). Compare German Ansgar (personal name), Danish Asker, Asger (personal name), Norwegian Asgeir (personal name), Icelandic Ásgeir (personal name).
(Academy Award): Disputed. Said to have been named by actress Bette Davis after her first husband, Harmon Oscar Nelson, or by secretary Margaret Herrick after her cousin Oscar Pierce.
Senses: examples: text: Primarily seen as a publicity vehicle for late-year releases, the awards show and its promoters have lately made pretensions to Oscar oracling: Jamie Foxx won the “breakthrough actor of the year” prize for “Ray” in 2004, after all, and Paul Haggis and his ensemble cast were honored for “Crash” four months before it won best picture.
ref: 2006 October 18, David M. Halbfinger, “Hollywood Film Chain’s Latest Link”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2025:
text: The gulf between cinephiles and the public has grown wide. There are pictures that make a lot of money, but seldom win big Oscars or attract young people to the show
ref: 2016 March 3, David Thomson, “Biggest lesson of the 2016 Oscars? The Academy should be scrapped”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An Academy Award.
glosses: A statuette awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Derived terms: legacy Oscar
Oscar bait
Oscared
Oscarless
Oscarlike
Oscarworthy
Oscar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑs.kɚ/
ipa: /ˈɒs.kə/
Etymology: Shortened form of Oscar Asche.
Senses: glosses: cash; money.
Related terms: sense: award
word: Academy Awards
Nagoya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 名古屋(なごや) (Nagoya). The Indonesian district was nicknamed "Nagoya" by Japanese workers from Taisei Corporation who were working on a construction project in Batam in the 1970s.
Senses: examples: text: The first phase of the project, connecting Tokyo and Nagoya, is scheduled to be completed in 2027 and is expected to cut traveling time between those cities by half.
ref: 2019 March 4, Maggie Hiufu Wong, “China to introduce new generation of driverless trains in 2020”, in CNN:
glosses: The capital city of Aichi Prefecture, in central Honshu, Japan.
glosses: Synonym of Lubuk Baja: a district of Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia.
synonyms: word: Lubuk Baja
extra: a district of Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia
sierra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siˈɛɹə/
rhymes: -ɛɹə
Forms: form: sierras
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish sierra, from Latin serra (“saw”), referring to the saw-tooth profile of the crestline of the range seen from a distance.
Senses: examples: Holonym: cordillera
Meronym: sawback
glosses: A rugged range of mountains.
qualifier: international standards
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Sierra from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
glosses: A scombroid fish.
examples: text: Mancha selecto is the world's best saffron: deep-red stamens, as long as the first joint of your thumb, packed and date-stamped. Lesser types, like sierra saffron, have shorter stamens and a quantity of white and yellow flower parts.
ref: 2005, Karen Anand, International Cooking With Karen Anand, page 77:
glosses: A relatively low-quality grade of Spanish saffron.
Derived terms: Sierra County
Sierra Leone
Sierra Nevada
Related terms: Montserrat
serrated
serration