cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nettle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nĕt'(ə)l
ipa: [ˈnɛɾʊl]
rhymes: -ɛt(ə)l
Forms: form: nettles
form: nettling
form: nettled
form: nettled
Etymology: From Middle English netle, netel, from Old English netle, netele, netel, from Proto-West Germanic *natilā (cognate with Old Saxon netila, Middle Dutch netele (modern Dutch netel), German Nessel, Middle Danish nædlæ (“nettle”)), a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *natǭ (of unknown origin, perhaps from the same source as net).
Senses: examples: text: The children were badly nettled after playing in the field.
text: […] I am whipp’d and scourged with rods, / Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear / Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.
examples: text: [T]his is no lavv unto the vvoof of the neat Retiarie Spider, vvhich ſeems to vveave vvithout tranſverſion, and by the union of right lines to make out a continued ſurface, vvhich is beyond the common art of Textury, and may ſtill nettle Minerva the Godeſſe of that myſtery.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter II.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, pages 110–111:
text: His Miſtreſs: vvhoſe Miſtreſs, vvhat Miſtreſs; s'life hovv that little vvord has nettled me!
ref: 1679 April 6 (date licensed; Gregorian calendar), A[phra] Behn, The Feign‘d Curtizans, or, A Nights Intrigue. A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 59:
text: I saw Mr. Williams was a little nettled at my Impatience […]
ref: 1741, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXI”, in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC:
text: Liu, whose political writings had nettled the Taiwanese authorities, was assassinated on October 15, last year, in Daly City […]
ref: 1985, United States, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, numbers 180-189, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, page 42:
glosses: To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.
stimulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪm.jʊ.leɪt/
ipa: /ˈstɪm.jəˌleɪt/
Forms: form: stimulates
form: stimulating
form: stimulated
form: stimulated
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin stimulus
Latin stimulo
Latin stimulatusbor.
English stimulate
Borrowed from Latin stimulātus, perfect passive participle of stimulō (“to urge, goad on”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin stimulus (“a sting or prick; a stimulus, goad”).
Senses: examples: text: stimulate the economy
text: To most others Lord Allerton's obvious preference for Mary would have been an insuperable obstacle; it only served to stimulate her ladyship.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 18:
synonyms: word: encourage
word: induce
word: incite
word: provoke
word: abet
word: actuate
word: goose
word: send
word: sting
word: bring about
word: cheer
word: drive
word: encourage
word: egg on
word: engender
word: evoke
word: excite
word: foment
word: goad
word: grill
word: ignite
word: impel
word: incite
word: induce
word: inflame
word: instigate
word: invoke
word: lash
word: motive
word: motivate
word: move
word: obligate
word: oblige
word: push
word: promote
word: prompt
word: provoke
word: rouse
word: set off
word: spark off
word: spur
word: spur on
word: stimulate
word: stir
word: stir up
word: stoke
word: tempt
word: urge
word: whet
word: whip up
glosses: To encourage into action.
examples: text: stimulate my mind
text: He was sexually stimulated by the dancer's moves.
synonyms: word: animate
word: arouse
word: energize
word: energise
word: excite
word: perk up
word: animate
word: arouse
word: awaken
word: beghast
word: leaven
word: bright
word: brighten
word: cheer
word: energize
word: enliven
word: enthuse
word: exalt
word: excite
word: fire up
word: ginger
word: ginger up
word: inflame
word: invigorate
word: inspire
word: inspirit
word: jazz
word: kindle
word: liven
word: liven up
word: perk up
word: quicken
word: spice
word: spice up
word: stimulate
word: vitalise
word: de-energize
word: sedate
word: stifle
glosses: To arouse an organism to functional activity.
Derived terms: autostimulate
biostimulate
colony-stimulating factor
costimulate
counterstimulate
destimulate
electrostimulate
follicle-stimulating hormone
follicle stimulating hormone
granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
gravistimulate
hyperstimulate
immunostimulate
instimulate
interstimulate
melanocyte-stimulating hormone
microstimulate
neurostimulate
overstimulate
photostimulate
prestimulate
restimulate
self-stimulate
stimulable
stimulancy
stimulatable
stimulatee
stimulater
superstimulate
thyroid-stimulating hormone
understimulate
Related terms: stimulant
stimulation
stimulator
stimulatory
stimulus
stiffen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪfən/
rhymes: -ɪfən
Forms: form: stiffens
form: stiffening
form: stiffened
form: stiffened
Etymology: From Middle English stifnen, equivalent to stiff + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Criminal prosecutions of abusers are generally the responsibility of local authorities, but the act stiffened sentences for stalking under federal law.
ref: 2013 March 7, “President signs Violence Against Women Act”, in CNN:
text: It followed a sequence of functions: a machine cuts cloth panels to be sewn, the panels are drenched with the polymer and stiffened, a robotic arm uses suction cups to lift each panel and position it in a sewing machine. Finally, the robotic arm lifts the stitched T-shirt off the sewing machine. […] The system could work for most fabrics, with the exception of leather and waterproof materials that can't be drenched with the stiffening polymer. […] Zornow has patents pending in 10 countries for the process to stiffen fabric.
ref: 2016 October 11, Parija Kavilanz, “This robot makes a T-shirt from start to finish”, in CNN Business:
glosses: To make stiff.
examples: text: Bewildered by the unexpected greeting, my son stiffened, but managed a polite answer.
ref: 2003, Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor:
text: He does note that fascia, like most connective tissue in the body, stiffens with age, overuse and injury.
ref: 2018 November 8, Dr. Melina Jampolis, “The real science behind fascia ailments”, in CNN:
glosses: To become stiff.
Synonyms: starken
Derived terms: stiffen up
Related terms: stiff
stiffness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stiffnesses
Etymology: From Middle English stiffenes, styffenesse, styfnesse; equivalent to stiff + -ness. Perhaps merging with Middle English stithnesse, stithnysse, from Old English stīþness (“stiffness”).
Senses: glosses: Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
glosses: Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility.
examples: text: His stiffness hampered the conversation.
text: Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
ref: 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations:
text: After years when I met a friend inside the aircraft and could sense stiffness in the conversation, a whiff of mild slang was the ice breaker, followed by loads of campus nostalgia.
ref: 2021 September 3, Charudutta Panigrahi, “The Intimacy Of Slangs”, in Odisha News, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2025:
glosses: Inelegance; a lack of relaxedness.
examples: text: Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States. Inflammation causes redness, swelling, warmth, and soreness in the joints, although many children with JRA do not complain of joint pain.
ref: 2024 September 6, David Zelman, “Understanding Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis -- the Basics”, in WebMD:
glosses: Muscular tension due to unaccustomed or excessive exercise or work; soreness.
Derived terms: death-stiffness
stiff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
Forms: form: stiffs
Etymology: From Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic *stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steypós.
See also West Frisian stiif, Dutch stijf, Norwegian Bokmål stiv, German steif; also Latin stīpes, stīpō, from which English stevedore.
The expected Modern English form would be /staɪf/; /stɪf/ is probably originally from compounds such as stiffly, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster.
Senses: examples: text: working stiff
text: The clerk shrugged: “That's the boss's little girl.” “Why, the lucky stiff!” said Keating. “He's been holding out on me.” “You misunderstood me,” the clerk said coldly. “It's his daughter. It's Dominique Francon.”
ref: 1943, Ayn Rand, chapter IX, in The Fountainhead:
glosses: An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
examples: text: She convinced the stiff to go to her hotel room, where her henchman was waiting to rob him.
glosses: A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
examples: text: This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!
ref: 1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese):
synonyms: word: anatomy
word: body
word: cadaver
word: carcass
word: carrion
word: corpse
word: corse
word: DB
word: dog meat
word: dust
word: lich
word: offal
word: relics
word: reliquiae
word: remains
word: stiff
word: worm food
word: bod
word: body
word: flesh
word: likam
word: quarrons
word: soma
glosses: A cadaver; a dead person.
examples: text: If the movie was a stiff it wasn't any of their specific faults. They were all in it together and they were jobbed in and jobbed out for two weeks and gone and they got a pile of money for their efforts.
ref: 1994, Andy Dougan, The actors' director: Richard Attenborough behind the camera, page 63:
text: They never did sell any records. I don't mean they didn't sell 100,000. I mean they didn't sell 5000. Total. National. Coast-to-coast. The record was a stiff.
ref: 2016, Ralph J. Gleason, Toby Gleason, Music in the Air: The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason:
glosses: A flop; a commercial failure.
glosses: A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
glosses: A customer who does not leave a tip.
topics: blackjack
games
glosses: Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
glosses: A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.
Derived terms: do a bit of stiff
lucky stiff
mission stiff
working stiff
Related terms: bindlestiff
stiff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
Forms: form: stiffs
form: stiffing
form: stiffed
form: stiffed
Etymology: From Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic *stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steypós.
See also West Frisian stiif, Dutch stijf, Norwegian Bokmål stiv, German steif; also Latin stīpes, stīpō, from which English stevedore.
The expected Modern English form would be /staɪf/; /stɪf/ is probably originally from compounds such as stiffly, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster.
Senses: examples: text: Realizing he had forgotten his wallet, he stiffed the taxi driver when the cab stopped for a red light.
text: We asked one girl to explain how she felt when she was "stiffed." She said, You think of all the work you've done and how you've tried to please [them…].
ref: 1946, William Foote Whyte, Industry and Society, page 129:
glosses: To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
examples: text: You see, poor Nonie really was stiffed by Adolph in his will. He really stiffed her, Rose, and I really wanted to right that wrong.
ref: 1992, Stephen Birmingham, Shades of Fortune, page 451:
text: The Donald moved on to how he had spent £100m on expensive plywood while renovating the golf club. The Scottish tradesmen must have seen him coming. It looks like Trump has been stiffed. So much for the art of the deal.
ref: 2025 July 28, John Crace, “Sidekick Starmer can’t get a word in as The Donald dominates world’s most one-sided double act”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To cheat someone.
examples: text: Then he stiffed the waiter with a cheap tip.
ref: 2007, Mary Higgins Clark, I Heard That Song Before, page 154:
glosses: To tip ungenerously.
examples: text: But you know it could be a hassle / Trying to explain myself to a police officer / About how it was your old lady got herself stiffed
ref: 1978, Lou Reed, “Street Hassle”, in Street Hassle:
glosses: To kill.
examples: text: "Come To Me" moved but a few to buy a copy; "My Queen" stiffed in the stall.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: To be unsuccessful.
Derived terms: stiff up
stiff
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
Forms: form: more stiff
form: most stiff
Etymology: From Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic *stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steypós.
See also West Frisian stiif, Dutch stijf, Norwegian Bokmål stiv, German steif; also Latin stīpes, stīpō, from which English stevedore.
The expected Modern English form would be /staɪf/; /stɪf/ is probably originally from compounds such as stiffly, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster.
Senses: examples: text: At Feversham was a very High Tide in the Afternoon, tho' the Wind was Southerly, and blew very stiff, which the Seamen there wondered at.
ref: 1731, John Lowthorp, Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the End of the Year MDCC, 4th edition, volume II, page 282:
text: It soon blew stiff, & we scudded before it under double-reefed topsails, & mainsail hauled up.
ref: 1849 October 23, Herman Melville, edited by Howard C. Horsforth and Lynn Horth, The Writings of Herman Melville: Journals, volume 15, published 1989, page 9:
text: At about 11.30 am it rained tremendously and blew very stiff.
ref: 1871 September 16, W.A. Crowther, Diary:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Of the wind, with great force; strongly.
struck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹʌk/
ipa: /stɹʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: strook
form: strooke
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strike
Derived terms: awe-struck
dumbstruck
grief-struck
horror-struck
light-struck
love-struck
moonstruck
poverty-struck
shock-struck
star-struck
struck measure
sunstruck
stricken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɪkən/
rhymes: -ɪkən
Forms: form: more stricken
form: most stricken
form: striken
Etymology: From Middle English striken, ystriken, from Old English stricen, ġestricen, from Proto-West Germanic *strikan, from Proto-Germanic *strikanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *strīkaną (“to strike”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian strieken, Dutch gestreken, German Low German streken, German gestrichen.
Senses: examples: text: The town was stricken by a devastating earthquake that left many buildings in ruins.
glosses: Struck by something.
examples: text: Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 1:
text: Services had to be diverted, damaged lines restored, and materials for coastal defence and relief supplies conveyed to the stricken areas with all possible speed.
ref: 1953 April, “Flood Damage on British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:
text: At about twenty past three in the afternoon, these aircraft duly began to arrive. The cruiser Northampton was towing Hornet at a stately five knots when, out of the sky, came seven torpedo-armed aircraft. They managed to miss the barely-moving Hornet with all but one drop... but one hit was really all that it took, the location causing additional damage to the stricken carrier and demolishing most of the repairs that had been made to the earlier damage.
ref: 2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 20:43 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:
glosses: Disabled or incapacitated by something.
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Disabled or incapacitated by something.
Having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States Naval Vessel Register.
raw_tags: of a warship
Synonyms: smitten
Derived terms: awe-stricken
grief-stricken
horror-stricken
panic-stricken
planet-stricken
poverty-stricken
stage-stricken
terror-stricken
terrorstricken
stricken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɪkən/
rhymes: -ɪkən
Forms: form: striken
Etymology: From Middle English striken, ystriken, from Old English stricen, ġestricen, from Proto-West Germanic *strikan, from Proto-Germanic *strikanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *strīkaną (“to strike”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian strieken, Dutch gestreken, German Low German streken, German gestrichen.
Senses: examples: 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 like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
glosses: past participle of strike
string
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: strings
form: stringing
form: strung
form: stringed
form: strang
form: strung
form: stringed
Etymology: From Middle English stryngen, strengen, from the noun (see above).
Senses: examples: text: You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.
glosses: To put (items) on a string.
examples: text: It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.
glosses: To put strings on (something).
glosses: To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
examples: text: To be honest, you'd be better off trying to string a Skylark as a Richard's Pipit rather than as a Pectoral Sandpiper.
ref: 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 81:
text: For instance he might see a White-eared Honeyeater, a not uncommon bird in the heathy areas at Bunyip, but in his excitement to call it, something in his brain scrambled and came out as: `White-cheeked Honeyeater!' White-cheeked Honeyeater is an absolute stonking crippler in Victoria, but Stu was not actually trying to string a rarity, he'd just got such a flood of new information swirling around his brain that sometimes it got jumbled up.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 67:
topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.
Synonyms: sense: put on a string
word: thread
sense: put strings on
word: lace
Derived terms: string on
stringer
stringified
stringifier
stringify
Related terms: string along
stringed
string out
string up
strung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of string
Derived terms: highly strung
highly-strung
high-strung
Related terms: stringed
strived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹaɪvd/
rhymes: -aɪvd
Forms: form: strove
form: striven
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strive
Synonyms: word: strove
word: striven
swear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /swɛɚ/
ipa: /sweː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /sweə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /swiə/
ipa: /sweɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /swɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: swears
Etymology: From the above verb, or from Middle English sware, from Old English swaru, from Proto-Germanic *swarō.
Senses: examples: text: You might think it funny to hear this Kanaka girl come out with a big swear. No such thing. There was no swearing in her — no, nor anger; she was beyond anger, and meant the word simple and serious.
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá:
text: [A]ccording to his kind the man would smile cynically, or look sad, or let out a swear or two.
ref: 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page v. 27:
synonyms: word: curse
word: expletive
word: four-letter word
word: bad word
word: curse
word: curse word
word: cuss
word: cussword
word: dirty word
word: expletive
word: foul word
word: four-letter word
word: malediction
word: oath
word: obscenity
word: profanity
word: swear
word: vulgarity
glosses: A swear word.
Derived terms: swear box
swear jar
swear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /swɛɚ/
ipa: /sweː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /sweə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /swiə/
ipa: /sweɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /swɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: swearer
form: more swear
form: swearest
form: most swear
form: sweer
form: sweir
form: swere
Etymology: From Middle English swere, swer, swar, from Old English swǣr, swār (“heavy, heavy as a burden, of great weight, oppressive, grievous, painful, unpleasant, sad, feeling or expressing grief, grave, slow, dull, sluggish, slothful, indolent, inactive from weakness, enfeebled, weak”), from Proto-West Germanic *swār, from Proto-Germanic *swēraz (“heavy”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”).
Cognate with West Frisian swier (“heavy”), Dutch zwaar (“heavy, hard, difficult”), German schwer (“heavy, hard, difficult”), Danish svær (“heavy, hard, severe”), Swedish svår (“heavy, hard, severe”), Latin sērius (“earnest, grave, solemn, serious”) and Albanian varrë (“wound, plague”).
Senses: synonyms: massive
massy
weighty
glosses: Heavy.
synonyms: overbalanced
glosses: Top-heavy; too high.
examples: text: Rise up gueedewife, an dinna be sweer, / B'soothan, b'soothan, / An deal yir chirity t' the peer, / An awa b'mony a toon.
ref: 1881, Walter Gregor, chapter XXII, in Notes on the Folk-lore of the North-east of Scotland, London: Folk-Lore Society, page 161:
synonyms: word: idle
word: work-shy
word: lazy
word: fainéant
word: bone-idle
word: idle
word: indolent
word: inert
word: lackadaisical
word: lither
word: slothful
word: work-shy
word: sluggish
word: swear
word: torpid
glosses: Dull; lazy; slow.
examples: text: But faith, to glump ye I'd be sweer / I wish ye luck o' this new year
ref: 1805, John Stagg, “A New Year's Epistle”, in Miscellaneous Poems, Workington: W. Borrowdale, page 139:
text: My father will maybe be a wee sweer to take ye in, but ye maun make your way on him the best gate ye can; he has the best stockit pantry on Teviot head, but a bit of a Laidlaw's fault, complaining aye maist when he has least reason.
ref: 1822, James Hogg, The Three Perils of Man:
synonyms: disinclined
loath
glosses: Reluctant; unwilling.
examples: text: For if my Pen shall turn as Sweir's their Purse / I fear this is the last I'll write in Verse
ref: 1714, Robert Smith, Poems of Controversy Betwixt Episcopacy and Presbytery, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: R. Syme & Son, published 1853, page 61:
synonyms: word: miserly
word: penurious
word: as tight as Dick's hatband
word: cheap
word: cheeseparing
word: chintzy
word: close
word: close as wax
word: close-fisted
word: illiberal
word: mean
word: miserable
word: miserly
word: narrow-fisted
word: niggardly
word: nipcheese
word: parsimonious
word: peddling
word: penny-wise
word: penny-pinching
word: penurious
word: scrooge-like
word: scrubby
word: shabby
word: still got one's communion money
word: stingy
word: swear
word: tight
word: tight-fisted
word: tight as a tick
word: tighter than Dick's hatband
word: ungenerous
word: ungiving
glosses: Niggardly.
Derived terms: swearness
swearock
sweary
swear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /swɛɚ/
ipa: /sweː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /sweə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /swiə/
ipa: /sweɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /swɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: swears
form: sweer
form: sweir
form: swere
Etymology: From Middle English swere, swer, swar, from Old English swǣr, swār (“heavy, heavy as a burden, of great weight, oppressive, grievous, painful, unpleasant, sad, feeling or expressing grief, grave, slow, dull, sluggish, slothful, indolent, inactive from weakness, enfeebled, weak”), from Proto-West Germanic *swār, from Proto-Germanic *swēraz (“heavy”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”).
Cognate with West Frisian swier (“heavy”), Dutch zwaar (“heavy, hard, difficult”), German schwer (“heavy, hard, difficult”), Danish svær (“heavy, hard, severe”), Swedish svår (“heavy, hard, severe”), Latin sērius (“earnest, grave, solemn, serious”) and Albanian varrë (“wound, plague”).
Senses: synonyms: nap
undermeal
glosses: A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta.
swear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /swɛɚ/
ipa: /sweː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /sweə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /swiə/
ipa: /sweɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /swɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: swears
form: swearing
form: sweared
form: sweared
form: sweer
form: sweir
form: swere
Etymology: From Middle English swere, swer, swar, from Old English swǣr, swār (“heavy, heavy as a burden, of great weight, oppressive, grievous, painful, unpleasant, sad, feeling or expressing grief, grave, slow, dull, sluggish, slothful, indolent, inactive from weakness, enfeebled, weak”), from Proto-West Germanic *swār, from Proto-Germanic *swēraz (“heavy”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”).
Cognate with West Frisian swier (“heavy”), Dutch zwaar (“heavy, hard, difficult”), German schwer (“heavy, hard, difficult”), Danish svær (“heavy, hard, severe”), Swedish svår (“heavy, hard, severe”), Latin sērius (“earnest, grave, solemn, serious”) and Albanian varrë (“wound, plague”).
Senses: synonyms: laze about
loaf
take it easy
glosses: To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.
Synonyms: word: swear
word: blaspheme
word: curse
word: curse like a pagan
word: curse like a trooper
word: curse like a sailor
word: cuss
word: eff and blind
word: eff and jeff
word: execrate
word: imprecate
word: swear like a cutter
word: swear like a pagan
word: swear like a trooper
word: swear like a sailor
word: turn the air blue
word: vilify
Hyponyms: word: drop the f-bomb
word: outswear
Related terms: word: cuss up a blue streak
word: pardon my French
word: potty mouth
word: swearing
word: swear word
swore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: swô
ipa: /swɔː/
enpr: swôr
ipa: /swɔɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: swōr
ipa: /swo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /swoə/
note: nonstandard but traditional, several locations
enpr: swo͝or
ipa: /swʊɹ/
note: nonstandard but traditional, several locations
ipa: /swʊə/
note: nonstandard but traditional, several locations
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: simple past of swear
examples: text: If that were all, for some have swore / As false as they, if th' did no more[…]
ref: 1663 (indicated as 1664), [Samuel Butler], “The Second Part of Hudibras. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 133:
text: "[…]I have 'swore off' smoking. But you shall have your pipe (the old tobacco) or cigars among the books. It will be quite a delight."
ref: 1990 [1875], R. H. Super, quoting Anthony Trollope, The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope, page 337:
text: “Were it not for the fancy French and Latin in it, I'd have swore it was the sort of thing I do not print as a rule, but being as how the order was from one of the members upstairs...”
ref: 2014 January 14, Roberta Rogow, The Problem of the Surly Servant, →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: past participle of swear
sworn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɔːn/
ipa: /swɔɹn/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /swo(ː)ɹn/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /swoən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Etymology: From Middle English sworen, isworen, from Old English sworen, ġesworen, from Proto-West Germanic *swaran, *giswaran, from Proto-Germanic *swaranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swarjaną (“to swear”), equivalent to swear + -en.
Senses: glosses: past participle of swear
sworn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɔːn/
ipa: /swɔɹn/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /swo(ː)ɹn/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /swoən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Etymology: From Middle English sworen, isworen, from Old English sworen, ġesworen, from Proto-West Germanic *swaran, *giswaran, from Proto-Germanic *swaranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swarjaną (“to swear”), equivalent to swear + -en.
Senses: examples: text: His sworn statement convinced the judge.
glosses: Given or declared under oath.
examples: text: I'm sworn to secrecy.
text: Swum ashore, man, like a duck. I can swim like a duck, I'll be sworn.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: Bound as though by an oath.
examples: text: a sworn foe
text: a sworn socialist
glosses: Ardent, devout.
Derived terms: sworn broker
sworn virgin
swept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: swĕpt
ipa: /swɛpt/
ipa: /swept/
ipa: /swɛpʈ/
rhymes: -ɛpt
Senses: examples: text: Having survived the seemingly-random attacks through the day, and now under the cover of night, the Germans seem to have a clear run to safety. However, back when the route became clear thanks to the Enigma intercepts, Bomber Command had laid more mines in the swept channel. And now, along comes Gneisenau!
ref: 2019 January 9, Drachinifel, 32:48 from the start, in The Channel Dash / Operation Cerberus - How to win through refuge in audacity, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2022:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Cleared of mines (explosive devices).
raw_tags: of a body of water or part thereof
Derived terms: clear-swept
swept path
windswept
swept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: swĕpt
ipa: /swɛpt/
ipa: /swept/
ipa: /swɛpʈ/
rhymes: -ɛpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sweep
Derived terms: storm-swept
swept-back
sweptback
swept wing
swept-wing
sweptwing
windswept
swell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: swĕl
ipa: /swɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: sweller
form: swellest
Etymology: From the noun "swell" (a person dressed in an elegant manner).
Senses: examples: text: We pay the express, $5 a day our new agents are making and wearing the swellest clothes besides; old agents after one season make twice as much.
ref: 1912, Popular Mechanics, page 20:
glosses: Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
examples: text: ...you are my devoted friend too. You do more and work harder and oh shit I'd get maudlin about how damned swell you are. My god I'd like to see you... You're a hell of a good guy.
ref: 1927 Mar. 31, Ernest Hemingway, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald
text: Jeff swaggered over to Ned Beaumont, threw his left arm roughly around his shoulders, seized Ned Beaumont’s right hand with his right hand, and addressed the company jovially: “This is the swellest guy I ever skinned a knuckle on and I’ve skinned them on plenty.”
ref: 1931, Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key, page 176:
text: He was telling us all about what a swell guy he was, what a hot-shot and all, […]
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 23:
text: […] we’re league champions in basketball and our square-dance team is state runner-up and we have a swell sock hop every Wednesday.
ref: 1958, Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel, page 8:
text: Orgasms are swell, but they are not the remedy to every injustice.
ref: 2012 September 10, Ariel Levy, “The Space In Between”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Excellent.
swell
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: swĕl
ipa: /swɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Etymology: From the noun "swell" (a person dressed in an elegant manner).
Senses: examples: text: “That lousy ring wasn’t worth no grand. I did swell to get two centuries for it.”
ref: 1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 12, in Red Harvest:
text: “[…] Last August, when I left The Walls, I figured I had every chance to start new. I got a job in Olathe, lived with my family, and stayed home nights. I was doing swell—”
ref: 1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Modern Library, published 2013, Part 3, p. 251:
glosses: Very well.
swelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɛld/
rhymes: -ɛld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swell
swollen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswəʊ.lən/
ipa: /ˈswɒ.lən/
ipa: /ˈswoʊ.lən/
rhymes: -əʊlən
Forms: form: more swollen
form: most swollen
Etymology: From Middle English swollen, i-swolle, y-swolle, yswolle, ȝeswollen, from Old English swollen, ġeswollen, from Proto-Germanic *swullanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”). Cognate with West Frisian swollen (“swollen”), Dutch gezwollen (“swollen”), German geschwollen (“swollen”), Swedish svullen (“swollen”).
Senses: examples: text: swollen ankle
text: swollen knee
text: swollen salaries
text: swollen thumb
glosses: protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).
Derived terms: swollen assets theory
swollen-headed
swollenly
swollenness
swollen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswəʊ.lən/
ipa: /ˈswɒ.lən/
ipa: /ˈswoʊ.lən/
rhymes: -əʊlən
Etymology: From Middle English swollen, i-swolle, y-swolle, yswolle, ȝeswollen, from Old English swollen, ġeswollen, from Proto-Germanic *swullanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”). Cognate with West Frisian swollen (“swollen”), Dutch gezwollen (“swollen”), German geschwollen (“swollen”), Swedish svullen (“swollen”).
Senses: glosses: past participle of swell
Related terms: swole
swim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: swims
Etymology: From Middle English swymmen, from Old English swimman (“to swim, float”) (class III strong verb; past tense swamm, past participle geswummen), from Proto-West Germanic *swimman, from Proto-Germanic *swimmaną (“to swoon, lose consciousness, swim”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to be unsteady, move, swim”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots sweem, soom (“to swim”), Saterland Frisian swimme (“to swim”), West Frisian swimme (“to swim, float”), Dutch zwemmen (“to swim”), German schwimmen (“to swim”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish svømme (“to swim”), Swedish simma (“to swim”), Norwegian Nynorsk symja (“to swim”).
Senses: examples: text: I'm going for a swim.
text: She had a quick swim in the bay.
glosses: An act or instance of swimming.
glosses: The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
glosses: A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
examples: text: C'mon everybody! C'mon in!
Bobby's goin' to show you how to do the swim.
ref: 1964, “C'mon and Swim”, Thomas Coman and Sylvester Stewart (Sly Stone) (lyrics), performed by Bobby Freeman:
glosses: A dance or dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in imitation of various swimming strokes, such as freestyle, breaststroke, etc.
examples: text: With the road ahead now clear, Mann […] is plunging back into the swim of business in a hurry.
ref: 1948 September 18, Billboard, page 104:
glosses: The flow of events; being in the swim of things.
Derived terms: in the swim
in the swim of things
polar bear swim
swim bladder
swim brief
swim briefs
swim cap
swim diaper
swim fin
swim-in
swim lane
swim meet
swim-off
swim platform
swim ring
swim trunks
wim nappy
swim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: swims
Etymology: From Middle English swime, sweme, swaime (“a dizziness, swoon, trance”), from Old English swīma (“a swoon, swimming in the head”). Cognate with Swedish svimma (“to swoon, faint”) and Danish svime (“to swoon, faint”) / Danish besvime (“to swoon, faint”).
Senses: glosses: A dizziness; swoon.
swim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: swims
form: swimming
form: swam
form: swum
form: swum
Etymology: From Middle English swime, sweme, swaime (“a dizziness, swoon, trance”), from Old English swīma (“a swoon, swimming in the head”). Cognate with Swedish svimma (“to swoon, faint”) and Danish svime (“to swoon, faint”) / Danish besvime (“to swoon, faint”).
Senses: examples: text: My head was swimming after drinking two bottles of cheap wine.
text: She snatched the letter from Sir Jasper, who started as her icy hand touched his: she attempted to read the passage herself, but the letters seemed to swim before her gaze: they turned to fire; the paper dropped from her grasp; a thick mist appeared to gather over the room; she gave a convulsive shudder, and dropped on the floor perfectly insensible.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The End of Doubt”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 291:
glosses: To be dizzy or vertiginous; have a giddy sensation; to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion.
swim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Etymology: Abbreviation of someone who isn't me.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of someone who isn't me, used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination, especially in online drug forums.
Related terms: friend of mine
swam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swæm/
rhymes: -æm
Senses: glosses: simple past of swim
swum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Senses: glosses: past participle of swim
glosses: simple past of swim
swung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swing
took
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: to͝ok
ipa: /tʊk/
ipa: /tuːk/
ipa: /tʉk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Senses: examples: text: When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: simple past of take
examples: text: A gracious perſon ; But yet I cannot loue him : / He might have tooke his anſwer long ago
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], page 259:
text: "There you're right," said Bill, "especially as it was all in paper, and he might have took care of it so very easy, by folding it up into a small parcel."
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “Showing what became of Martin and his desperate resolve […] ”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 165:
text: Linda: It was being there — if you could have took the work home I would have been alright, but being there, people watching over you, you know, you couldn't do anything wrong.
ref: 2012 November 11 [1981], “'Now that I'm married...'”, in Angela McRobbie, Trisha McCabe, editors, Feminism for Girls: An Adventure Story, Routledge, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: past participle of take
taken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪ.kn̩/
rhymes: -eɪkən
Forms: form: ta'en
form: tane
Etymology: From Middle English taken, takenn, from Old English tacen, *ġetacen, from Old Norse tekinn, from Proto-Germanic *tēkanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (“to take; grasp; touch”). Cognate with Scots takin, tane, Danish tagen, Swedish tagen, Icelandic tekin.
Morphologically take + -n.
Senses: examples: text: He was very taken with the girl, I hear.
glosses: Infatuated; fond of or attracted to.
examples: text: I can't ask her out, she's taken.
glosses: In a serious romantic relationship.
Derived terms: is this seat taken
taken aback
taken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪ.kn̩/
rhymes: -eɪkən
Forms: form: ta'en
form: tane
Etymology: From Middle English taken, takenn, from Old English tacen, *ġetacen, from Old Norse tekinn, from Proto-Germanic *tēkanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (“to take; grasp; touch”). Cognate with Scots takin, tane, Danish tagen, Swedish tagen, Icelandic tekin.
Morphologically take + -n.
Senses: examples: text: No doubt many a journey you have rode and gone, and many a hard daies labour you have taken, and ſharpened perhaps with care and grief[…]
ref: 1662, John Baxter, A Saint Or a Brute […] , page 26:
glosses: past participle of take
teach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tiːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: teaches
Etymology: Clipping of teacher.
Senses: glosses: teacher
taught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tôt
ipa: /tɔːt/
enpr: tôt
ipa: /tɔt/
enpr: tät
ipa: /tɑt/
ipa: /t̪ɒːt/
homophone: taut
homophone: tort (non-rhotic)
homophone: tot (cot–caught merger)
homophone: thought (th-stopping)
rhymes: -ɔːt
Etymology: From Middle English taught(e), tau(h)t(e), from Old English tāhte, tǣhte, from Proto-Germanic *taihtē.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of teach
taught
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: tôt
ipa: /tɔːt/
enpr: tôt
ipa: /tɔt/
enpr: tät
ipa: /tɑt/
ipa: /t̪ɒːt/
homophone: taut
homophone: tort (non-rhotic)
homophone: tot (cot–caught merger)
homophone: thought (th-stopping)
rhymes: -ɔːt
Senses: examples: text: The bevel of the needle should be up and the injection should be made through taught skin.
ref: 2010 March 11, Deborah MacFarlane, Skin Cancer Management: A Practical Approach, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: Misspelling of taut.
tore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: tô
ipa: /tɔː(ɹ)/
enpr: tôr
ipa: /tɔɹ/
enpr: tōr
ipa: /toːɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: tōr
ipa: /to(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /toə/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /toː/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: tor (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: taw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: tour (pour–poor merger)
Forms: form: more tore
form: most tore
form: tor
Etymology: From Middle English tor, tore, toor, from Old Norse tor- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”, prefix), from Proto-Germanic *tuz- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *dus- (“bad, ill, difficult”). Cognate with Old High German zur- (“mis-”, prefix), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌶- (tuz-, “hard, difficult”, prefix), Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad, ill, difficult”, prefix). More at dys-.
Senses: glosses: Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
glosses: Strong, sturdy; great, massive.
glosses: Full; rich.
Derived terms: torely
tore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tô
ipa: /tɔː(ɹ)/
enpr: tôr
ipa: /tɔɹ/
enpr: tōr
ipa: /toːɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: tōr
ipa: /to(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /toə/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /toː/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: tor (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: taw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: tour (pour–poor merger)
Senses: glosses: simple past of tear (“rip, rend, speed”).
examples: text: […]that a Spirit came into him that did make him quake and tremble ſo exceedingly that he thought it would have tore him, &c[…]
ref: 1661, George Whitehead, Edward Burroughs, The Son of Perdition Revealed […] , London, page 39:
text: Upon my honor, Sir, you have tore every bit of ſkin quite off the back of both my hands with your forceps, cried my uncle Toby[…]
ref: 1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XVI, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 71:
text: "Would've tore your head clean off," Dudley was bellowing. "Would've snapped it off your neck like wet toilet paper[…]
ref: 1999 May 11, Rick Bass, Where the Sea Used to Be, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 393:
glosses: past participle of tear (“rip, rend, speed”)
tore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tô
ipa: /tɔː(ɹ)/
enpr: tôr
ipa: /tɔɹ/
enpr: tōr
ipa: /toːɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: tōr
ipa: /to(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /toə/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /toː/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: tor (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: taw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: tour (pour–poor merger)
Forms: form: tores
Etymology: See torus.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Alternative form of torus.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
glosses: The solid enclosed by such a surface; an anchor ring.