cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
homophone: DAG
Forms: form: dags
Etymology: From Old French dague (from Old Occitan dague, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *daca (“Dacian knife”), from the Roman province Dacia (roughly modern Romania); the ending is possibly the faintly pejorative -ard suffix, as in poignard (“dagger”)); cognate with dagger.
Senses: glosses: A skewer.
glosses: A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
examples: text: Even when my dag was levelled at his heart
ref: 1515, Thomas Kyd, Arden of Feversham:
text: Soon after this, however, there were brought into the country these old-time dags, useful weapons which rendered far easier the labors of men and of women. These were employed for many years, but later the company sent in an improved knife, more useful for skinning and for the other purposes of camp life, but not nearly so good for war.
ref: 1899 May 6, “Old Hudson's Bay Dag”, in Forest and Stream, volume 52, number 18, page 347:
text: When we reached the poop-stairs an officer in a blue coat came forward jabbering some jargon; but the captain would have no parley with him, but flung his dag clean into the man's face, and over he went backwards— with his damned high heels in the air.
ref: 1904, Robert Hugh Benson, By what Authority?, page 400:
glosses: A dagger; a poniard.
examples: text: The Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some.
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
text: Powder! No, Sir; my dag shall be my dagger.
ref: 1630, Thomas Dekker, The Whore of Babylon:
text: A sort of pistol, called a dag, was used about the same time as hand guns and harquebuts.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons:
glosses: A kind of large pistol.
glosses: The unbranched antler of a young deer.
dag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
homophone: DAG
Forms: form: dags
form: dagging
form: dagged
form: dagged
Etymology: From Old French dague (from Old Occitan dague, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *daca (“Dacian knife”), from the Roman province Dacia (roughly modern Romania); the ending is possibly the faintly pejorative -ard suffix, as in poignard (“dagger”)); cognate with dagger.
Senses: glosses: To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
dag
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
homophone: DAG
Etymology: N-less (or nonnasal) variant of dang, a euphemism for damn.
Senses: examples: text: Dag, yo.
ref: 2002 December 2, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Teen Girl Squad Issue #1”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad as What's Her Face (Matthew Chapman):
glosses: Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.
dag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
homophone: DAG
Forms: form: dags
Etymology: Perhaps a back-formation from daggy, or, a specialised sense of British dialect dag, a daring feat amongst boys.
Senses: examples: text: 2004 July 25, Debbie Kruger, Melbourne Weekly Magazine, All the World's a Stage,
Now, wide-eyed and unfashionably excited ("I’m such a dag!" she remarks several times), she has the leading role of Viola in the Bell Shakespeare Company’s production of Twelfth Night, opening on August 10 at the Victorian Arts Centre Playhouse.
text: What did you think about Mark calling you a dag?
To me a dag is a person who doesn't have a lot of pride in their appearance or the way they present themselves — the way they sing and how they hold themselves basically. But it didn't really bother me. He said, "You're such a dag, you're cool." I took it as "you're a laidback person". The way they cut it and edited it made it sound on TV like I was grumpy about it, but I wasn't. It was pretty funny how it came across.
ref: 2006 September 26, “Klancie Keough eliminated”, in TV Week:
text: SHE is one of Hollywood's most beautiful leading ladies and has access to any fashion designers, so then why is Catherine Zeta-Jones dressing like a bag lady?
ref: 2009 November 14, “Catherine Zeta - Hollywood's biggest dag?”, in Daily Telegraph:
text: A graduate of film studies in New York, May has had a hand in editing two of his three videos. Each casts him as a bespectacled dag in a world of glamour.
ref: 2010 January 15, Michael Dwyer, “Talented dag plucks up the cool”, in The Age:
glosses: One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
glosses: An odd or eccentric person; someone who is a bit strange but amusingly so.
Synonyms: dirtball
scruffbag
slob
untidy person
Related terms: word: dag out
word: daggy
dag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
homophone: DAG
Forms: form: dags
Etymology: Of North Germanic origin; compare Swedish dagg. Doublet of dew.
Senses: glosses: A misty shower; dew.
dag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
homophone: DAG
Forms: form: dags
form: dagging
form: dagged
form: dagged
Etymology: Of North Germanic origin; compare Swedish dagg. Doublet of dew.
Senses: glosses: To be misty; to drizzle.
dag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
homophone: DAG
Forms: form: dags
Etymology: Abbreviations
* Initialism of directed acyclic graph.
* Clipping of dagwood.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
topics: food
lifestyle
glosses: Ellipsis of dag sandwich.
dag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
homophone: DAG
Forms: form: dags
Senses: examples: text: Mickey: Dags! D' ya like dags?
ref: 2000, Guy Ritchie, Snatch, quoted in, Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino, Translation and Localisation in Video Games: Making Entertainment Software Global, Routledge →ISBN, page 68
text: There it was again, that old Gaelic verb pronounced 'scriss,' that those involved in fighting talk apparently exuded on occasion. It could have been 'D'ya wanna buy a dag?' it was all the same.
ref: 2014, John P Brady, Back to the Gaff, Roadside Fiction, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of dog.
mm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of month, in two-digit numeric format, as in: dd/mm/yyyy.
mm
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mmm.
Related terms: mm hmm
dam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæm/
homophone: damn
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: dams
Etymology: From Middle English dam, from Old English *damm, from Proto-West Germanic *damm, from Proto-Germanic *dammaz.
Senses: examples: text: A dam is often an essential source of water to farmers of hilly country.
text: Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins[…]
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
text: Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
ref: 2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8:
glosses: A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding.
examples: text: Boats may only be used at places set aside for boating on the dam.
glosses: The water reservoir resulting from placing such a structure.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band.
glosses: A reservoir.
glosses: A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
Derived terms: antidam
bear-trap dam
beaver dam
Beaver Dam
coffer-dam
coffer dam
cofferdam
dambreak
dam break
damburst
dambuster
dambusting
dam failure
damlike
dammable
dam plate
damside
damsire
dental dam
earthquake dam
gravity dam
hydroelectric dam
ice dam
ice dam membrane
mill dam
sand dam
shutter dam
splash dam
water over the dam
dam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæm/
homophone: damn
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: dams
form: damming
form: dammed
form: dammed
Etymology: From Middle English dam, from Old English *damm, from Proto-West Germanic *damm, from Proto-Germanic *dammaz.
Senses: examples: text: Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […]
ref: 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:
glosses: To block the flow of water.
Derived terms: dam up
redam
undam
dam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæm/
homophone: damn
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: dams
Etymology: Variant of dame. Doublet of domina and donna.
Senses: examples: text: More dear […] than younglings to their dam.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52:
text: The dam runs lowing up and down, / Looking the way her harmless young one went.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: Hunters assure us, that to chuse the best dog, and which they purpose to keepe from out a litter of other young whelps, there is no better meane than the damme herselfe[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: she / Resolved that Juan should be quite a paragon, / And worthy of the noblest pedigree / (His sire was from Castile, his dam from Aragon)[…].
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Part 1:
text: The sky was cloudless—the moon rolled across the surface like a lamb searching for its dam.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, page 112:
glosses: Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals.
glosses: A kind of crowned piece in the game of draughts.
Coordinate terms: sense: male parent
word: sire
dam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæm/
homophone: damn
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: dams
Etymology: Said to be possibly coined from the English phrase "I don't give a dam(n)," referring to its small worth.
Senses: examples: text: […] A small Indian coin; whence comes the saying "I don't care a dam for you," that is I don't value you a farthing, and not as generally given, "I don't care a damn" or a "curse for you." [Possibly a folk etymology.]
ref: 1839, William Holloway, A General Dictionary of Provincialisms, Written with a View to Rescue from Oblivion the Fast Fading Relics of By-gone Days, Lewes, East Sussex: Sussex Press: Printed and published by Baxter and Son, →OCLC, page 42:
glosses: An obsolete Indian copper coin, equal to a fortieth of a rupee.
glosses: A former coin of Nepal, 128 of which were worth one mohar.
dam
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæm/
homophone: damn
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: dam'
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of damn.
Senses: glosses: Damn.
dam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæm/
homophone: damn
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: dam'
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of damn.
Senses: examples: text: Do not get too caught up in individual campism. The Most-High sent your spirits back on earth to fix yourselves, come together and wake up our people, so do your dam job and stop letting your fleshly desires control you.
ref: 2020, Jacie Rowe III, White Lies, Black Truth, The Lost Light, page 196:
glosses: Damn.
hm
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: A shorter variant of hmm.
hm
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: I am selling this shirt.
Hm?
₱50 only.
glosses: Initialism of how much.
xi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: zī
enpr: sī
enpr: ksī
enpr: ksē
ipa: /zaɪ/
ipa: /saɪ/
ipa: /ksaɪ/
ipa: /ksiː/
ipa: /ʃiː/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: xis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ξεῖ (xeî), ξῖ (xî).
Senses: glosses: The 14th letter of Classical and Modern Greek. The 15th in Ancient and Old Greek.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Either of a pair of hyperons having spin 1/2, which decay into a lambda particle and a pion.
Derived terms: xi baryon
Modern French
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: mod.F.
Senses: glosses: French spoken after the fifteenth century.
dl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dls
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Download; Alternative form of DL.
dl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dls
form: dling
form: dled
form: dled
form: DL
form: d/l
form: D/L
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Download; Alternative form of DL.
Related terms: dl trade
dal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
Forms: form: dals
form: dahl
form: dhal
form: daal
form: dholl
form: doll
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi दाल (dāl) or Bengali ডাল (ḍal).
Senses: glosses: Any of many dried husked pulses (legume), including peas, beans and lentils.
examples: text: A stout Burmese woman, wife of a constable, was kneeling outside the cage ladling rice and watery dahl into tin pannikins.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 6, in Burmese Days:
glosses: A dish made from lentils, cooked with spices, tomatoes and onions etc.
glosses: A tropical herb with yellow flowers; the pigeon pea.
Synonyms: legume
pulse
Derived terms: chana dal
dal bhat
dal tarka
masoor dal
urad dal
Related terms: english: different etymology
translation: different etymology
word: dal segno
SWAK
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Even after Bernard returned to school, Jessica's letters kept coming. The perfume and the "SWAK" inscription attracted a lot of attention, and a lot of teasing.
ref: 2008, George Graham, Girlie, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 28:
qualifier: written on an envelope containing a love-letter
glosses: Sealed with a kiss.
STID
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of still true if destroyed.
raw_tags: used in graffiti
premier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛ.mi.ɛː/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛm.jɛː/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛ.mi.ə/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛm.jə/
ipa: /pɹɪˈmɪəɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɹimjɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɹemjə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French premier (adjective), from Latin prīmārius. Doublet of primary.
Senses: examples: text: 2004, Philip Moore, Scouting an Anthropology of Sport, Anthropologica, Volume 46, Number 1, Canadian Anthropology Society, page 40,
This failure, for a team associated with one of the premier Australian Rules Football teams with the longest of traditions, is truly enormous.
text: 2011, Kate Askew, Dot. Bomb Australia, Read How You Want, page 70,
If they′d followed the advice they had received more carefully, they would have paired up with John Fairfax Holdings, later Fairfax Media, Australia′s premier independent media company.
text: South Africa′s golfing greats battle it out on one of the country′s premier courses.
ref: 2011, Pippa de Bruyn, Keith Bain, Frommer′s South Africa, 7th edition, unnumbered page:
glosses: Foremost; first or highest in quality or degree.
examples: text: PREMIER, a. This French word, which signifies first, is used by English Heralds to signify the most ancient Peer of any Degree by Creation; as Premier Baron, &c.
ref: [1777, Antoine Pyron du Marte, Mr. Porny, The Elements of Heraldry:
text: […]dau. of Lord Forbes, Premier Baron of Scotland (the Cumine family were of very ancient date[…])
ref: 1882, Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, page 1390:
text: "THE PREMIER DUKES OF FRANCE. " It will be seen from the autograph appended [...] He was the first to arrive, but it was to his coachman that he owed it that he became the premier Duke of France.
ref: 1890, William Thomas Stead, The Review of Reviews, page 327:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Most ancient; first to hold a specified status.
Derived terms: premier cricket
premier danseur
premier jus
Related terms: preeminent
primary
prime
premier
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛ.mi.ɛː/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛm.jɛː/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛ.mi.ə/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛm.jə/
ipa: /pɹɪˈmɪəɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɹimjɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɹemjə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: premiers
form: premiering
form: premiered
form: premiered
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French premier (adjective), from Latin prīmārius. Doublet of primary.
Senses: examples: text: The composer invited all his friends when they premiered the movie he orchestrated, we got to see it before anyone but the crew.
text: Beethoven at first promised Schuppanzigh the right to premier Opus 127, but Linke, cellist in Schuppanzigh′s Quartet, had also received Beethoven′s permission to premier the work at a special benefit concert for himself.
ref: 1998, John Herschel Baron, Intimate Music: A History of the Idea of Chamber Music, page 231:
text: So what I want to do is try to premier the new piece with the other piece, and have just a big splash in the city.
ref: 2000, W. Royal Stokes, Living the Jazz Life: Conversations With Forty Musicians About Their Careers in Jazz, page 97:
text: To premier the record and to show that they were still able to perform, the Stones made a surprise appearance at the New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert on May 12 in Wembley Stadium.
ref: 2010, Murry R. Nelson, The Rolling Stones: A Musical Biography, page 56:
glosses: To perform, display or exhibit for the first time.
glosses: To govern in the role of premier.
moral panic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moral panics
Etymology: Modern usage appears to originate with Jock Young in 1971 and Stanley Cohen in 1972. Cohen states that "[they] both probably picked it up from Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media".
Senses: examples: text: The psychotherapist Marty Klein likens the current moral panic around online porn to the epidemics of fear and suspicion that sprung up around satanic cults in the 1980s, and even around comic books in the 1950s.
ref: 2016 July 2, Sophie Gilbert, “Is Moral Panic About Online Porn Misplaced?”, in The Atlantic:
text: But maybe the very obscurity of this genuine critical race theory is the point: before it became the object of the American right’s latest moral panic, few people had heard of critical race theory, and even fewer understood what it really was.
ref: 2021 June 17, Moira Donegan, “What the moral panic about ‘critical race theory’ is about”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Moral panics have existed since well before the Salem witch trials — perhaps the paradigm case. But thanks in part to social media, they are increasing in number and changing in nature.
ref: 2023 June 29, Pamela Paul, “Do Not Panic. It’s Just a Moral Panic.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: None of this is new. Moral panics, accompanied by calls for a return to a simpler age, once greeted the advent of frightening “new technologies” such as telephones and trains.
ref: 2024 May 21, Matthew Reisz, “Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Foster review – the past isn’t a foreign place”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: It may come as some relief to hear, then, that for every alarmist headline there are plenty of neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers who believe this moral panic is unfounded.
ref: 2025 January 29, Amy Fleming, “All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A semi-spontaneous or media-generated mass movement based on the perception that an individual, group, community, or culture is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society; a public outcry.
wikipedia: Jock Young
Marshall McLuhan
Stanley Cohen
micrometre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌmiːtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: micrometres
Etymology: From micro- + metre.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: millimetre < centimetre < decimetre < metre < kilometre < megametre < gigametre < terametre < petametre
Meronyms: picometre < nanometre
related: word: micrometer
synonyms: micron
glosses: An SI and mks unit of measure, the length of one-millionth of a metre. Symbol: μm, um, μ.
decametre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkəmiːtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: decametres
form: dekameter
form: NIST
form: decameter
Etymology: Borrowed from French décamètre. Equivalent to deca- + metre.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of length equal to 10¹ metres. Symbol: dam
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: A line in a poem having ten metrical feet.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: A poetic metre in which each line has ten feet.
Synonyms: dam
kilometre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪˈlɒmɪtə/
ipa: /ˈkɪləˌmiːtə/
ipa: /kəˈlɑmɪtəɹ/
ipa: /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/
ipa: /ˈkɪləˌmitəɹ/
ipa: /kɪˈlɔmɪtəɹ/
ipa: /ˈkɪləˌmitəɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɪlo.miʈə(r)/
rhymes: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɪləmiːtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: kilometres
form: chiliometre
form: chilometer
form: chilometre
form: kilometer
Etymology: From French kilomètre, from Ancient Greek χίλιοι (khílioi, “thousand”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”); equivalent to kilo- + metre.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: megametre < gigametre < terametre < petametre
text: Meronyms: picometre < nanometre < micrometre < millimetre < centimetre < decimetre < metre
text: When you fly over an undammed river like the Fraser I grew up with, the plume of silt spewed into the ocean is astonishing, a good three kilometres of brown refusing to mix with the green of the ocean.
ref: 2008, Brian Harvey, The End of the River:
text: The 34.2 kilometre (21.3 mile) pipeline, which will be built by Qinjin Natural Gas Co, is designed to have annual gas transmission capacity of 3.3 billion cubic metres and connect Ji county in Shanxi and Yichuan county in Shaanxi.
ref: 2021 July 5, Muyu Xu, Shivani Singh, “China approves a $55 mln gas pipeline in northern China”, in Louise Heavens, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2021, Energy:
topics: metrology
synonyms: km#Translingual:_Q828224
;
klick
;
klom
glosses: An SI unit of length equal to 10³ metres. Symbol: km
Derived terms: cubic kilometre
kilometre zero
kmph
last kilometre
square kilometre
Related terms: kilometric
cigarette
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪ.ɡə.ɹɛt/
ipa: /sɪ.ɡəˈɹɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: cigarettes
form: cigaretting
form: cigaretted
form: cigaretted
form: cigaret
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish cigarrobor.
French cigare
French -ette
French cigarettebor.
English cigarette
Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette.
Senses: examples: text: Could someone cigarette me?
glosses: To give someone a cigarette, or to light one for them.
Related terms: cigar
cigarillo
smoke
event horizon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɛnt həˈɹaɪ.zən/
ipa: /-zɪn/
ipa: [əˈvɛɾ̃ həˈɹaɪ.zən]
ipa: [əˈvɛn -]
ipa: [-zɪn]
Forms: form: event horizons
Senses: topics: astrophysics
glosses: The gravitational sphere of a black hole within which the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light.
topics: astrophysics
glosses: The furthest distance in the past of the universe from which light signals from an event can reach an observer at later times.
glosses: A point of no return.
Coordinate terms: ergosphere
frame dragging
photon sphere
Schwarzschild radius
singularity
Derived terms: cosmic event horizon
moral event horizon
Related terms: absolute horizon
apparent horizon
Cauchy horizon
dynamical horizon
isolated horizon
Killing horizon
particle horizon
general relativity
special relativity
atomic number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atomic numbers
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The number of protons in an atom. Symbol: Z
Related terms: mass number
neutron number
nucleus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuː.kli.əs/
ipa: /ˈnuː.kli.əs/
Forms: form: nuclei
form: nucleuses
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin nucleus (“kernel, core”). The earliest uses refer to the head of a comet and the kernel of a seed, both recorded in Lexicon Technicum in 1704. The sense in atomic physics was coined by British scientist Michael Faraday in 1844 in a theoretical meaning.
Senses: examples: text: Situated in the centre of the largest agricultural basin in northern Formosa, T’ai-pei (population in 1964 was estimated to be 1,117,000) forms the nucleus of a major industrial area. The T’ai-pei industrial complex includes light and heavy industies within the urbanized area and also in several industrial suburbs, including Pan-ch’iao and Nan-chiang.
ref: 1968, Norton S. Ginsburg, “T’AI-PEI”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 21, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 627, column 2:
glosses: The core, central part of something, around which other elements are assembled.
examples: text: This collection will form the nucleus of a new library.
text: This publishing project and the experience Power gained from wartime activities formed the nucleus for the development of the giant enterprise that today is University Microfilms, subsidiary of the Xerox Education Group, Xerox Corporation.
ref: 1972, Carol A. Nemeyer, Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: An initial part or version that will receive additions.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
meronyms: proton
neutron
electron
glosses: The massive, positively charged central part of an atom, made up of protons and neutrons.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A large membrane-enclosed organelle found in eukaryotic cells which contains genetic material.
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A ganglion, cluster of many neuronal bodies where synapsing occurs.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
coordinate_terms: onset
coda
glosses: The central part of a syllable, most commonly a vowel.
Derived terms: active galactic nucleus
antinucleus
atomic nucleus
binucleus
Borromean nucleus
caudate nucleus
cell nucleus
dentate nucleus
Edinger-Westphal nucleus
emboliform nucleus
endonucleus
gameto-nucleus
geniculate nucleus
halo nucleus
hypernucleus
ice nucleus
intermediolateral nucleus
lateral geniculate nucleus
lenticular nucleus
lentiform nucleus
macronucleus
medial geniculate nucleus
meganucleus
micronucleus
myonucleus
nucle-
nuclear
nuclease
nucleate, anucleate
nucleic acid
nuclein
nucleo-
nucleolar
nucleon
nucleotide
nucleus accumbens
nucleus ambiguus
nucleus cowry, nucleus cowrie
nucleus globosus
nucleuslike
nucleus pulposus
nucleus ruber
nuclide
paranucleus
perinucleus
planetary nebula nucleus
prenucleus
pronucleus
red nucleus
rejection nucleus
retrotrapezoid nucleus
sentence nucleus
subnucleus
syllable nucleus
vestibular nucleus
pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: prĕshʹ-ə
ipa: /ˈpɹɛʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈpɹɛʃ.ə(ɹ)]
ipa: [ˈpɹɛʃ.ɚ]
rhymes: -ɛʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pressures
form: pressuring
form: pressured
form: pressured
Etymology: From Latin pressūra.
Senses: examples: text: Do not let anyone pressure you into buying something you do not want.
glosses: To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.
Related terms: sense: units of pressure
english: Pa
translation: Pa
word: pascal
sense: units of pressure
word: bar
sense: units of pressure
english: Ba
translation: Ba
word: barye
sense: units of pressure
alt: psi, lbf/in2, lb/in2
word: pounds per square inch
sense: units of pressure
word: torr
sense: units of pressure
word: mmHg
sense: units of pressure
english: atm
translation: atm
word: atmosphere
decibel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛsɪbɛl/
ipa: /ˈdɛsɪbəl/
Forms: form: decibels
Etymology: From deci- + bel.
Senses: glosses: A common measure of intensity ratio (e.g. for sound) that is one tenth of a bel on the logarithmic intensity scale. It is defined as dB = 10 log₁₀(P₁ / P₂), where P₁ and P₂ are the relative intensities.
Derived terms: megadecibel
subdecibel
wok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒk/
ipa: /wɑk/
homophone: walk (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: woks
Etymology: From Cantonese 鑊 /镬 (wok⁶).
Senses: examples: text: The 'wok' is an efficient, all-purpose metal cooking vessel used by every housewife in China. It has two handles and is shaped like a shallow cone.
ref: 1977, Marguerite Fawdry, Chinese Childhood, →ISBN, page 86:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A large, round-bottomed cooking pan used in East Asian cooking.
glosses: Any dish prepared using such a pan.
Derived terms: wok race
wok racing
Related terms: wok hei
wok
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒk/
ipa: /wɑk/
homophone: walk (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: woks
form: woking
form: wokking
form: woked
form: woked
form: wokked
form: wokked
Etymology: From Cantonese 鑊 /镬 (wok⁶).
Senses: glosses: To prepare oriental cuisine using a wok.
Related terms: stir-fry
archduke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archdukes
Etymology: From Middle French archeduc (modern French archiduc), from Latin archidux. Equivalent to arch- + duke.
Senses: examples: text: World War I traditionally started with the assassination of Archduke Francis (Franz) Ferdinand.
glosses: The son or male-line grandson of an emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
glosses: The ruler of an archduchy, in particular the Archduchy of Austria.
Derived terms: archdukedom
Related terms: archduchess
duke
emperor
grand duke
imperial
noble
prince
royal
archduchess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archduchesses
form: archdutchess
Etymology: From French archiduchesse, feminine of archiduc, corresponding to archduke + -ess or arch- + duchess.
Senses: examples: text: If that weren’t enough, in 1993 she married Karl von Habsburg, otherwise known as Archduke Karl of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, and the couple set up home in Salzburg, producing two archduchesses and an archduke.
ref: 2007 February 25, William Shaw, “We Are Not a Muse”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: archduke
glosses: A daughter or granddaughter of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, or the wife of a son or grandson of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary
Related terms: archbishop
duchess
duke
grand duchess
grand duke
nobility
royalty
mayoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪɚˈɛs/
ipa: /mɛəˈɹɛs/
ipa: /meɪəˈɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: mayoresses
form: maioress
form: maioresse
form: majoresse
form: mayoresse
Etymology: From Middle English meyresse, mayresse, mairasse; equivalent to mayor + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: The blonde mayoress was apparently a member of the MPLA and there were indications that spies in the town were sending radio messages to the enemy. Life was monotonous and the troops took to fishing to supplement their rations.
ref: 1993, Ian S. Uys, Bushman soldiers, their alpha and omega, page 39:
text: With the Spanish port of Cadiz doubling for the Cuban capital Havana, its striking blonde Mayoress Teofila Martinez was offered a small role as a nurse, but she politely declined.
ref: 2002, Andy Lane, Paul Simpson, The Bond Files: An Unofficial Guide, →ISBN, page 276:
glosses: A female mayor.
examples: text: To a Lady Majoress.
WHen I behold your head and limbs all shaking
Much like a Custard newly come from baking,
Your Velvet hood on tipto rais’d upright
As if your Hinch boy challenge would to fight.
Your pretty mouth, like Oyster gaping wide,
As if it did expect ere long the tyde;
Your Chin like Aple, both so red and shrivel’d,
So scalded by a hot rhume hourly drivel’d.
ref: 1658, Iohn Eliot, Poems, or, Epigrams, Satyrs, Elegies, Songs and Sonnets, upon Several Persons and Occasions, London: […] Henry Brome, page 48:
text: Prophets wives were anciently called Prophetesses; like as Bishops wives (saith à Lapide the Jesuit) were also called Bishoppesses, Presbyters wives Presbyteresses, Deacons wives Deaconesses: Jesuits have still their Jesuitesses, as Majors their Majoresses, &c.
ref: 1660, John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon These Following Books of Holy Scripture Proverbs of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel & Daniel: Being a Third Volume of Annotations upon the Whole Bible, London: […] Robert White, for Nevil Simmons, page 42:
text: No Roman-Empress ever did out-shine,
A Lady Majoress when she would be fine.
ref: 1681, The Glory of the English Nation, or An Essay on the Birth-Day of King Charles the Second, London: […] W. Bucknel:
glosses: The wife of a (male) mayor.
glosses: A daughter or female friend of a male mayor chosen by him to hold the title mayoress.
Synonyms: mayor
lady mayor
echo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕkʹō
rhymes: -ɛkəʊ
ipa: /ˈɛkəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɛkoʊ/
homophone: eco (Philippines)
note: Indic
ipa: /ɛkʰ.o/
homophone: eco (spelling pronunciation)
Forms: form: echoes
form: echoing
form: echoed
form: echoed
form: echoe
form: eccho
Etymology: From Middle English eccho, ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ēccō, from Latin ēchō, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as sough.
Senses: examples: text: With each clap of thunder echoing from one high building to another the noise was terrific.
ref: 1953 July, Allen Rowley, “First Impressions of American Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 493:
synonyms: ring
glosses: Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
examples: text: The sense that it takes outrageous fortune to get inoculated echoes here in the Bay Area, where pharmacies have canceled flu-shot clinics, doctors turn away pleading patients and health officials are reduced to telling panicked callers that they should practice good personal hygiene.
ref: 2004 October 29, Marco R. Della Cava, “Vaccine shortage pricks tempers”, in Statesman Journal, volume 152, number 214, Salem, OR, page 2A:
glosses: Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.
examples: text: Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: The wondrous sound / Is echoed on forever.
ref: 1827, John Keble, The Christian Year: Christmas Day:
glosses: To reflect back (a sound).
examples: text: Sid echoed his father’s point of view.
text: ‘I want nothing.’
‘Nor I,’ echoed Sydney.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
text: Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
ref: 2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
text: His views were echoed by The Economist, which feared that the effects of modernisation would be no more than “chromium-plated” inefficiency caused by unimaginative railway management and adverse union reaction.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:
glosses: To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).
examples: text: The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing.
ref: 1991, Martin D. Seyer, RS-232 made easy:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
topics: bridge
games
glosses: To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
Derived terms: echoable
echoingly
nonechoing
outecho
reecho
unechoed
unechoing
echolocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛkoʊloʊˈkeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: echolocations
Etymology: Coined by American zoologist Donald Griffin in 1944, from echo- + location.
Senses: examples: text: Since there is no convenient term available to describe this process of locating obstacles by means of echoes, I suggest the word echolocation[…]. The meaning of this word, and a corresponding verb to echolocate, are likely to be clear when first heard or read, since they are formed simply by joining echo and locate. It seems best to accent the first syllable in order to make clear that the word echo is employed.
ref: 1944 December 29, Donald Redfield Griffin, “Echolocation by Blind Men, Bats and Radar”, in Science, volume 100, number 2609, →DOI, page 598, columns 1–2:
text: Now similarly with the aquatic mammals, we know that they can make sounds. We are beginning to get information—although no curves yet—on their sensitivity of hearing. These need to be followed up and we should look for this process of echo-ranging or echolocation.
ref: 1953 February 7, Donald Redfield Griffin, “Summary and Discussion of Section III”, in Proceedings of a Conference on Orientation in Animals, Washington, D.C.: Office of Naval Research, page 272:
text: Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
ref: 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:
synonyms: biosonar
glosses: The use of echoes to detect objects as observed in bats and other natural creatures.
Derived terms: active echolocation
echolocational
vibroecholocation
Related terms: echolocate
photolocation
sonar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊ.nɑːɹ/
ipa: /ˈsəʊ.nɑː/
Forms: form: sonars
form: SONAR
Etymology: By anacronymic evolution from SONAR.
Senses: examples: text: They were able to detect the sunken wreck using sonar.
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: ASDIC
hypernyms: imaging#Noun
coordinate_terms: sodar
radar
lidar
;
ultrasonography
glosses: Artificial echolocation by use of electronic equipment, with hydrophones to locate objects underwater, using the same wave-analysis principles that radar uses.
examples: text: They finally bought a new sonar to replace the 40-year-old unit that sometimes didn't work right.
topics: nautical
transport
hypernyms: device#Noun
glosses: A device that provides such echolocation.
examples: text: Submarines and bats both use sonar to navigate.
glosses: Any echolocation.
Derived terms: active sonar
Doppler sonar
milligram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪlɪɡɹæm/
Forms: form: milligrams
form: milligramme
Etymology: Borrowed from French milligramme, equivalent to milli- + gram.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: gram < kilogram < megagram < gigagram
text: Meronyms: picogram < nanogram < microgram
text: The US Food and Drug Administration defines this limit as anything more than 400 milligrams of caffeine daily for healthy adults. This is equivalent to four or five cups of coffee.
ref: 2024 March 11, Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, “Dark roasted and dangerous: Everything you should know about caffeine intoxication”, in CNN:
text: Blue No. 1 and yellow No. 6 may also be toxic to some human cells. And as little as 1 milligram of yellow dye No. 5 may cause irritability, restlessness and sleep disturbances for sensitive children.
ref: 2025 March 29, Kristen Rogers, “Over half of US states are trying to eliminate food dyes. Here’s what you can do now”, in CNN:
topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻³ grams. Symbol: mg
Derived terms: micromilligram
millimilligram
fag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: fags
Etymology: Probably from fag end (“remnant”), from Middle English fagge (“flap”).
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
examples: text: He′d Phase Out Fag Industry
Los Angeles (UPI) - A UCLA professor has called for the phasing out of the cigarette industry by converting tobacco acres to other crops.
ref: 1968 January 25, The Bulletin, Oregon:
text: Oh, rent a flat above a shop / And cut your hair and get a job / And smoke some fags and play some pool / Pretend you never went to school
ref: 1995, Pulp, “Common People”, in Different Class:
text: All of them, like my mother, were heavy smokers, and after warming themselves by the fire, they would sit on the sofa and smoke, lobbing their wet fag ends into the fire.
ref: 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf, section 15:
text: So I started off by asking the shearers if they minded if I took a belly off while they were having a fag. Then after a while they were asking me. They′d say, ‘Do yer wanta take over fer a bit while I have a fag?’ And then I got better and I′d finish the sheep and they′d say ‘Christ, I haven′t finished me bloody fag yet, yer may as well shear anotherie.’
ref: 2011, Bill Marsh, Great Australian Shearing Stories, unnumbered page:
glosses: A cigarette.
examples: text: Fag, s. the worst part or end of anything.
ref: 1788, William Perry, editor, The Royal standard English dictionary:
glosses: The worst part or end of a thing.
Synonyms: sense: cigarette
word: ciggy
sense: cigarette
word: smoke
sense: cigarette
word: oily rag
Derived terms: word: fag break
word: fag end
word: fag lighter
word: fag packet
word: fish-fag
raw_tags: from a different etymology
fag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: fags
Etymology: Akin to flag (“droop, tire”). Compare Dutch vaak (“sleepiness”).
Senses: examples: text: We are sadly off in the country; not but what we have very good shops in Salisbury, but it is so far to go—eight miles is a long way; Mr. Allen says it is nine, measured nine; but I am sure it cannot be more than eight; and it is such a fag—I come back tired to death.
ref: 1853, Sarah Josepha Hale, Woman's Record: or Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from Creation to A.D. 1854, page 188:
glosses: A chore: an arduous and tiresome task.
examples: text: I had the character at ſchool of being the very beſt fag that ever came into it.
ref: 1791, Richard Cumberland, The Observer, volume 4, page 67:
text: “He was my fag at Eton,” Warrington said. “I ought to have licked him a little more.”
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: A gang of fags was mobbing about by the notice-boards. They fell silent as he approached. He patted one of them on the head. ‘Pretty children,’ he sighed, digging into his waistcoat pocket and pulling out a handful of change. ‘Tonight you shall eat.’ Scattering the coins at their feet, he moved on.
ref: 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 18:
topics: education
glosses: A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
Derived terms: brain fag
fag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: fags
form: fagging
form: fagged
form: fagged
Etymology: Akin to flag (“droop, tire”). Compare Dutch vaak (“sleepiness”).
Senses: glosses: To make exhausted, tired out.
raw_tags: used mainly in passive form
examples: a. 1829, G. Mackenzie, Lives, quoted in 1829, "Fag", entry in The London Encyclopaedia: Or, Universal Dictionary, Volume 9, page 12,
Creighton with-held his force 'till the Italian began to fag, and then brought him to the ground.
glosses: To droop; to tire.
topics: education
glosses: (of a younger student) To act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
examples: text: It is everywhere observed that a liberated slave is apt to make a merciless master, and that boys who have been cruelly fagged at school are cruel faggers.
ref: 1887, Francis Bacon, Richard Whately, Essays, page 63:
topics: education
glosses: To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
examples: text: This state of things should have been to me a paradise of peace, accustomed as I was to a life of ceaseless reprimand and thankless fagging; but, in fact, my racked nerves were now in such a state that no calm could soothe, and no pleasure excite them agreeably.
ref: 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 1, in Jane Eyre, HTML edition:
text: I walked about the streets where the best shops for ladies were, I haunted the Bazaar like an unquiet spirit, I fagged through the Park again and again, long after I was quite knocked up.
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
glosses: To work hard, especially on menial chores.
Derived terms: sense: to act as a servant
word: fagger
sense: to act as a servant
word: faggery
sense: to act as a servant
english: as a noun
translation: as a noun
word: fagging
sense: to act as a servant
word: fagmaster
sense: to tire
word: fag out
sense: to tire
word: fagged out
fag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: fags
Etymology: Clipping of faggot.
Senses: examples: text: 1921 John Lind, The Female Impersonators (Historical Documentation of American Slang v. 1, A-G, edited by Jonathan E. Lighter (New York: Random House, 1994) page 716.
Androgynes known as “fairies,” “fags,” or “brownies.”
text: In schizophrenics, however, the homosexual outlet is sooner or later ... ideas that strangers call them "cs," "fairy," "woman," "fag," " fruit," etc.). ...
ref: 1926, American Neurological Association with New York Neurological Association et al., Journal of nervous and mental disease, volume 94, page 467:
text: When they pick out a set of clubs for him to rent, he is so indifferent and silent the freckled kid in charge stares at him as if he's a moron. The thought flits through his brain that Eccles is known as a fag and he has become the new pet.
ref: 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 111:
text: A couple of days later, Trisha tells Madelyn there is a rumor going around that she's a fag.
ref: 2006, Lynn Mickelsen, Confusion Turned to Chaos:
text: ... what appeared to be overt appeals to anti-gay sentiment. When House Majority Whip Dick Armey referred to fellow Congressman Barney Frank as "Barney Fag" in 1995, he suffered a barage of negative publicity that prompted him to explain his choice of words as a slip of the tongue.
ref: 2008, Paul Ryan Brewer, Value war: public opinion and the politics of gay rights, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an effeminate or unusual one.
examples: text: Why did you do that, you fag?
glosses: An annoying person.
Synonyms: sense: male homosexual
word: homosexual person
sense: annoying person
word: jerk
Derived terms: antifag
cashfag
douchefag
-fag
fagazine
fag-bash
fag basher
fagboy
fagbutt
fag cash
fagcent
fagdom
fagface
faggify
faggish
faggy
fag hag
fagless
faglet
faglike
fagling
fag mag
fag marriage
fagmo
fagness
fag rag
fag stag
fag tag
fagtard
fishfag
girlfag
San Fagcisco
Muganda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Luganda language.
Senses: glosses: A person of the Baganda people
Related terms: sense: kingdom
word: Buganda