cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæŋk/
note: /æ/ raising
ipa: [beɪŋk]
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: banks
form: banck
form: bancke
form: banke
Etymology: Probably from French banc. Of Germanic origin, and akin to English bench.
Senses: examples: text: Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.
ref: 1658, Edmund Waller, he Passion of Dido for Æneas:
glosses: A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
glosses: A bench or seat for judges in court.
glosses: The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A kind of table used by printers.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
Derived terms: Bank Royal
Common Bank
Related terms: banc
banquette
frank bank
deficit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfɪsɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɛfəsɪt/
Forms: form: deficits
Etymology: From French déficit, from Latin dēficit.
Senses: examples: text: The crop output this year has been comparatively small, owing to the deficit in rainfall.
glosses: Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.
examples: text: Dr. Beeching's obvious intent is that if Scottish—and similarly unprofitable English and Welsh—railways are to be maintained, it must be done by an unconcealed subsidy; he is determined that the railways shall no longer be preoccupied with—and derided for—immense deficits which include the burden of social services the State must openly underwrite, if it wants them.
ref: 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Passed to you, Mr. Macmillan”, in Modern Railways, page 220:
text: But Wall Street, which has a case of deficit-attention disorder, is no longer focused on a balanced budget. "The bond market only worries about one thing at [a time.]
ref: 1996 August 4, “It's Time for a Reality Check on the Deficit”, in Contra Costa Times, Contra Costa, CA:
text: Economically, too, London is startlingly different. The capital, unlike the country as a whole, has no budget deficit: London’s public spending matches the taxes paid in the city. The average Londoner contributes 70 percent more to Britain’s national income than people in the rest of the country.
ref: 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Sep 2013:
glosses: A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds (e.g. government) revenue.
Synonyms: fiscal deficit
shortfall
Derived terms: antideficit
attention deficit disorder
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
budget deficit
caloric deficit
calorie deficit
deficit good
deficit hawk
deficit spending
democratic deficit
fiscal deficit
information deficit model
nature deficit disorder
nature-deficit disorder
negative deficit
neurodeficit
nondeficit
oxygen deficit
structural deficit
trade deficit
Related terms: defect
defection
defective
defector
deficiency
deficient
fiscal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪskəl/
rhymes: -ɪskəl
Forms: form: more fiscal
form: most fiscal
Etymology: From Middle French fiscal, from Latin fiscus (“treasury”) – see fiscus and fisc.
Senses: examples: text: fiscal matters
text: fiscal lawyer
text: fiscal system
glosses: Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.
glosses: Pertaining to finance and money in general; financial.
examples: text: The allotment is $22 million less than the Pentagon spent on military bands in fiscal 1990.
ref: 1990 August 31, John Zeh, “NEA Session Disrupted”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 7, page 3:
glosses: Being a fiscal year.
Derived terms: discretionary fiscal policy
fiscalamity
fiscal cliff
fiscal conservatism
fiscal conservative
fiscal deficit
fiscal dominance
fiscal drag
fiscalism
fiscalist
fiscalization
fiscalize
fiscal law
fiscally
fiscal office
fiscal policy
fiscal stamp
fiscal tariff
fiscal year
nonfiscal
parafiscal
Related terms: confiscate
confiscation
fisc
fiscal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪskəl/
rhymes: -ɪskəl
Forms: form: fiscals
Etymology: From Middle French fiscal, from Latin fiscus (“treasury”) – see fiscus and fisc.
Senses: examples: text: ‘There I was interrogated by the Fiscal, who was making out a proces verbal […].’
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 149:
glosses: A public official in certain countries having control of public revenue.
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: Procurator fiscal, a public prosecutor.
topics: law
glosses: In certain countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and former colonies of these countries and certain British colonies, solicitor or attorney general.
Related terms: fisc
finance
financial
fiscal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪskəl/
rhymes: -ɪskəl
Forms: form: fiscals
Etymology: From Spanish fiscal, ultimately from Latin fiscus (“treasury”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A public prosecutor (UK) or a district attorney (US).
fiscal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪskəl/
rhymes: -ɪskəl
Forms: form: fiscals
Etymology: After Afrikaans fiskaal (“public official, hangman”).
Senses: glosses: Any of various African shrikes of the genus Lanius.
Derived terms: grey-backed fiscal
Related terms: Lanius
tax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tăks
ipa: /tæks/
homophone: tacks
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: taxes
form: taxing
form: taxed
form: taxed
Etymology: From Middle English taxen, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin taxāre (“to handle, to censure, to appraise, to compute”).
Senses: examples: text: Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.
text: Taxing the food and chemical industries, which make billions off our food consumption, could be another way to generate revenue for the program.
ref: 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 251:
glosses: To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
examples: text: Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.
glosses: To impose and collect a tax on (something).
examples: text: Do not tax my patience.
text: The people of the southeasterly clusters—concerning whom, however, but little is known—have a bad name as cannibals; and for that reason their hospitality is seldom taxed by the mariner.
ref: 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
text: The heavy freight traffic which shares the double line between Paddington and Wolverhampton with the passenger traffic has taxed the ingenuity of the timetable planners.
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 103:
text: But patent applications are increasingly accompanied by volumes and volumes of data on DVD, which taxes the resources of the patent office.
ref: 2007 January 16, “IBM - Reinventing the invention system - United States”, in IDEAS from IBM:
glosses: To make excessive demands on.
glosses: To accuse.
glosses: To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
Derived terms: taxable
taxation
economics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌikəˈnɑmɪks/
ipa: /ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪks/
ipa: /ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪks/
ipa: /ˌɛkəˈnɒmɪks/
Forms: form: œconomics
Etymology: From econom(y) + -ics, from Latin oeconomia, from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomía, “the management of a household”).
Senses: examples: text: Mary studied economics for five years before going into banking.
text: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
synonyms: dismal science
glosses: The study of resource allocation, distribution and consumption; of capital and investment; and of management of the factors of production.
Synonyms: word: economics
word: dismal science
Meronyms: word: applied economics
word: macroeconomics
word: microeconomics
Derived terms: agroeconomics
applied economics
behavioral economics
bioeconomics
Buddhist economics
burgernomics
Bushonomics
business economics
Carternomics
clinicoeconomics
Clintonomics
countereconomics
counter-economics
demand-side economics
economese
Enronomics
financial economics
Fordonomics
freeconomics
genoeconomics
geoeconomics
Hitlernomics
home economics
hydroeconomics
Johnsonomics
Kennedynomics
Lincolnomics
macroeconomics
mathematical economics
mesoeconomics
microeconomics
nanoeconomics
neuroeconomics
Nixonomics
-nomics
normative economics
Obamanomics
pakodanomics
palaeoeconomics
participatory economics
pharmacoeconomics
picoeconomics
positive economics
Reaganomics
regional economics
socioeconomics
supply-side economics
thermoeconomics
treeconomics
trickle-down economics
Trumanomics
voodoo economics
welfare economics
wikinomics
Related terms: word: economy
word: capital
word: consumption
word: currency
word: demand
word: inflation
word: interest
word: investment
word: loss
word: market
word: money
word: price
word: production
word: profit
word: resource
word: supply
word: yield
word: :Category:Economics
open
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊ.pən/
ipa: /ˈɒ.pɪn/
ipa: /ˈoʊ.pən/
ipa: /ˈəʉ.pən/
rhymes: -əʊpən
Forms: form: opens
Etymology: Adjective from Middle English open, from Old English open (“open”), from Proto-West Germanic *opan, from Proto-Germanic *upanaz (“open”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“up from under, over”).
Cognates
* Scots apen (“open”)
* Saterland Frisian eepen (“open”)
* West Frisian iepen (“open”)
* Dutch open (“open”)
* Low German open, apen (“open”)
* German offen (“open”)
* Danish åben (“open”)
* Swedish öppen (“open”)
* Norwegian Bokmål åpen (“open”)
* Norwegian Nynorsk open (“open”)
* Icelandic opinn (“open”)
 Compare also Latin supinus (“on one's back, supine”), Albanian hap (“to open”). Related to up.
Verb from Middle English openen, from Old English openian (“to open”), from Proto-West Germanic *opanōn, from Proto-Germanic *upanōną (“to raise; lift; open”), from Proto-Germanic *upanaz (“open”, adjective). Cognate with Saterland Frisian eepenje (“to open”), West Frisian iepenje (“to open”), Dutch openen (“to open”), German öffnen (“to open”), Danish åbne (“to open”), Swedish öppna (“to open”), Norwegian Bokmål åpne (“to open”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic opna (“to open”). Related to English up.
Noun from Middle English open (“an aperture or opening”), from the verb. In the sports sense, however, a shortening of “open competition”.
Senses: examples: text: I can't believe you left the lawnmower out in the open when you knew it was going to rain this afternoon!
text: Wary of hunters, the fleeing deer kept well out of the open, dodging instead from thicket to thicket.
glosses: Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
raw_tags: in the definite
examples: text: We have got to bring this company's corrupt business practices into the open.
glosses: Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
raw_tags: in the definite
examples: text: The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A defect in an electrical circuit preventing current from flowing.
examples: text: the Australian Open
glosses: A sports event in which anybody can compete, especially or originally irrespective of amateur or professional status.
examples: text: The total number of opens from original, or unique, subscribers.
ref: 2016, Ian Dodson, The Art of Digital Marketing, page 144:
glosses: The act of something being opened, such as an e-mail message.
Derived terms: cold open
in the open
consensus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛnsəs/
Forms: form: consensuses
form: consensus
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cōnsēnsus (“agreement, accordance, unanimity”), from cōnsentiō (“feel together; agree”); see consent.
Senses: glosses: A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members.
examples: text: reach consensus
text: After years of debate over the best wine to serve at Thanksgiving, no real consensus has emerged.
glosses: General agreement among the members of a given group or community, each member of which exercises some discretion in decision-making and follow-up action.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An agreement on some data value that is needed during computation.
examples: text: a financial consensus forecast
glosses: Average projected value.
Derived terms: anticonsensus
consensual
consensus ad idem
consensus conference
consensus national champion
consensus reality
consensus theorem
consensus trance
metaconsensus
nonconsensus
pseudoconsensus
subconsensus
consensus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛnsəs/
Forms: form: consensuses
form: consensusing
form: consensused
form: consensused
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cōnsēnsus (“agreement, accordance, unanimity”), from cōnsentiō (“feel together; agree”); see consent.
Senses: examples: text: I think we are a strongly consensused society. There was a consensus during the 1950's, the Eisenhower years, in our society. Then in the 1960's came a period of division.
ref: 1975, United States Bureau of the Census, The Census Bureau, page 168:
text: None of this consensusing was done with the Manual. There were no national workshops, forums, etc.
ref: 1992, United States House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Environment, The Science of Wetland Definition and Delineation: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Environment of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, November 12, 1991, page 185:
glosses: To seek consensus; to hold discussions with the aim of reaching mutual agreement.
slow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sləʊ/
ipa: /sloʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: sloe
Forms: form: slows
form: slowing
form: slowed
form: slowed
Etymology: From Middle English slow, slaw, from Old English slāw (“sluggish, inert, slothful, late, tardy, torpid, slow”), from Proto-West Germanic *slaiw, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt, dull, faint, weak, slack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleyH-u- (“bad”).
Cognate with Scots slaw (“slow”), West Frisian sleau (“slow, dull, lazy”), Dutch sleeuw (“blunt, dull”), Low German slee (“dull, sluggish”), German schlehe, schleh (“dull, exhausted, faint”), Danish sløv (“dull, torpid, drowsy”), Swedish slö (“slack, lazy”), Icelandic sljór (“dim-witted, slow”).
Senses: examples: text: slow the process
glosses: To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
examples: text: slow the traffic
glosses: To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
examples: text: After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.
ref: 2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2013:
text: As he passed though the station, he slowed to yell to the signalman, Frank 'Sailor' Bridges: "Sailor - have you anything between here and Fordham? Where's the mail?" Gimbert knew the mail train was due, and he didn't want to endanger another train with his burning bomb wagon.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:
glosses: To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
Synonyms: sense: keep from going quickly
word: delay
sense: keep from going quickly
word: hinder
sense: keep from going quickly
word: retard
sense: become slow
word: decelerate
sense: become slow
word: slacken
Derived terms: slow down
slower
slow in
slow off
slow one's roll
slow out
slow up
Related terms: forslow
slow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sləʊ/
ipa: /sloʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: sloe
Forms: form: slows
Etymology: From Middle English slow, slaw, from Old English slāw (“sluggish, inert, slothful, late, tardy, torpid, slow”), from Proto-West Germanic *slaiw, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt, dull, faint, weak, slack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleyH-u- (“bad”).
Cognate with Scots slaw (“slow”), West Frisian sleau (“slow, dull, lazy”), Dutch sleeuw (“blunt, dull”), Low German slee (“dull, sluggish”), German schlehe, schleh (“dull, exhausted, faint”), Danish sløv (“dull, torpid, drowsy”), Swedish slö (“slack, lazy”), Icelandic sljór (“dim-witted, slow”).
Senses: glosses: Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A slow song.
slow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /sləʊ/
ipa: /sloʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: sloe
Forms: form: slower
form: slowest
Etymology: From Middle English slow, slaw, from Old English slāw (“sluggish, inert, slothful, late, tardy, torpid, slow”), from Proto-West Germanic *slaiw, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt, dull, faint, weak, slack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleyH-u- (“bad”).
Cognate with Scots slaw (“slow”), West Frisian sleau (“slow, dull, lazy”), Dutch sleeuw (“blunt, dull”), Low German slee (“dull, sluggish”), German schlehe, schleh (“dull, exhausted, faint”), Danish sløv (“dull, torpid, drowsy”), Swedish slö (“slack, lazy”), Icelandic sljór (“dim-witted, slow”).
Senses: examples: text: That clock is running slow.
text: I want to dance with you nice and slow.
text: Let him have time to mark how slow time goes / In time of sorrow.
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Slowly.
Derived terms: low and slow
policy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒləsi/
ipa: /ˈpɒlɪsi/
ipa: /ˈpɑləsi/
Forms: form: policies
form: policying
form: policied
form: policied
Etymology: From Middle English policie, from Old French policie, pollicie and police, from Late Latin politia (“citizenship; government”), classical Latin polītīa (in Cicero), from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía, “citizenship; polis, (city) state; government”), from πολίτης (polítēs, “citizen”). Compare police and polity.
Senses: examples: text: Policying of cities.
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒləsi/
ipa: /ˈpɒlɪsi/
ipa: /ˈpɑləsi/
Forms: form: policies
Etymology: From Middle French police, from Italian polizza, from Medieval Latin apodissa (“receipt for money”), from Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis, “proof, declaration”). Doublet of apodixis.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A contract of insurance.
examples: text: Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.
topics: law
glosses: A document containing or certifying this contract.
glosses: An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)
glosses: A number pool lottery
Synonyms: topics: pool
games
word: policy racket
Derived terms: policyholder
mandapa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌndəpə/
Forms: form: mandapas
form: mandap
form: mandapam
form: mantapa
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit मण्डप (maṇḍapa), मण्टप (maṇṭapa, “pavilion, mandapa”), a non-native word likely from the same source as मठ (maṭha, “hut, hermit's cottage”). Probably derived via Hindi मंडप (maṇḍap) or another New Indo-Aryan language.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A pillared hall or porch fronting a Hindu temple. It may be attached or detached from the building.
raw_tags: in south India
examples: text: She led the way inside the house to the mandap.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 44:
text: When she takes her place next to Lakshaya at the wedding mandap, both of them smile at each other.
ref: 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 284:
glosses: A temporary platform or sacred tent used for a wedding or other religious ceremony.
scarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɑːp/
ipa: /skɑɹp/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: scarps
Etymology: Aphetic form of escarp. Doublet of escarp.
Senses: glosses: The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet.
examples: text: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
Sweating under the sun, we scale the barren eastern scarp of the Great Rift Valley (Area B), edging carefully around controversial, razor-wired Israeli settlements (Area C).
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion or faulting; the steeper side of an escarpment.
examples: text: [...] as in the seventh, which is Argent a Scarp Azure.
ref: 1673, Matthew Carter, Honor Redivivus: Or, The Analysis of Honor and Armory, page 211:
text: He beareth Argent, a Scarp, Azure.
ref: 1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry, page 38:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Obsolete spelling of scarpe, scrape.
Derived terms: anti-scarp
counterscarp
fault scarp
scarp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɑːp/
ipa: /skɑɹp/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: scarps
form: scarping
form: scarped
form: scarped
Etymology: Aphetic form of escarp. Doublet of escarp.
Senses: examples: text: to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock
text: From scarped cliff and quarried stone
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “(please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX)”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
text: For thou, O Spring! canst renovate / All that high God did first create. / […] / Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain, / Cleanse the torrent at the fountain, […]
ref: 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “May-Day”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 38:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
qualifier: earth science
glosses: to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment
AM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: A.M.
form: A. M.
form: A M
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Amazonas: a state of Brazil.
glosses: Initialism of Aston Martin.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of Arctic Monkeys.
AM
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: A.M.
form: A. M.
form: A M
Senses: glosses: Initialism of anno mundi
Coordinate terms: english: Anno Domini
translation: Anno Domini
word: AD
english: Before Christ
translation: Before Christ
word: BC
english: Christian/Common Era
translation: Christian/Common Era
word: CE
english: Before Christian/Common Era
translation: Before Christian/Common Era
word: BCE
english: Present; After Present
translation: Present; After Present
alt: = A.D. 1950
word: AP
english: Present; Before Present
translation: Present; Before Present
alt: = A.D. 1950
word: BP
english: Anno Hegirae
translation: Anno Hegirae
word: AH
AM
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: A.M.
form: A. M.
form: A M
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a.m. (“before noon”).
AM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AMs
form: A.M.
form: A. M.
form: A M
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Master of Arts.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Assembly Member, a title similar to MP, placed after the name of a Member of the Welsh National Assembly.
topics: law
property
glosses: Initialism of automated mapping, used in conjunction with Facilities Managements abbreviations (AM/FM).
glosses: Member of the Order of Australia.
topics: broadcasting
communication
communications
media
glosses: Initialism of amplitude modulation; contrasted with FM.
examples: text: The system, says Freeman is currently being used to assess exactly how AM powders pack and flow to ensure process efficiency and consistent product quality.
ref: 2015 September, Steven E. Kuehn, “I'm Printing Your Prescription Now, Ma'am”, in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Putnam Media, page 7:
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: Initialism of additive manufacturing.
Derived terms: AM pop
fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [fɹʉwʔ]
enpr: fro͞ot
ipa: /fɹuːt/
ipa: /fɹut/
ipa: /fɹʉt/
homophone: froot
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: fruits
form: fruiting
form: fruited
form: fruited
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin frūctus
Old French fruitbor.
Middle English fruyt
English fruit
From Middle English fruyt, frut (“fruits and vegetables”), from Old French fruit (“produce, fruits and vegetables”), from Latin frūctus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”) and frūx (“crop, produce, fruit”) (compare Latin fruor (“have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to make use of, to have enjoyment of”). Cognate with English brook (“to bear, tolerate”) and German brauchen (“to need”). Displaced native Old English wæstm.
In the derogatory senses of “crazy person” and “homosexual or effeminate man”, possibly a shortening of fruitcake, or of independent origin, compare Fruit (slang).
Senses: examples: text: It may be said, however, that the percentage of green apples among the Fameuse seedlings is much less than among the others as out of 33 Fameuse seedlings which had fruited up to this year, none was green and we recollect but one light coloured Fameuse seedling fruiting this year.
ref: 1910, Canada Experimental Farms Service, Report of the Dominion Experimental Farms:
text: For example, chanterelles and russulas can start fruiting in early to mid summer given sufficient moisture, but other species, such as matsutake, rarely fruit until temperatures cool in the autumn, even if moisture is available earlier.
ref: 1998, Randy Molina, David Pilz, Managing Forest Ecosystems to Conserve Fungus Diversity and Sustain Wild Mushroom Harvests, →ISBN, page 10:
text: The grass and weeds come up to my waist and the plum trees are already fruiting up, though most of the fruit'll go to the wasps and the worms, Vinny says, 'cause he can't be arsed to pick it.
ref: 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.
Derived terms: nonfruiting
refruiting
unfruiting
Related terms: english: in aviation
translation: in aviation
word: fruiting
gratuitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹəˈtjuː.ɪt.əs/
ipa: /ɡɹəˈtu.ɪt.əs/
Forms: form: more gratuitous
form: most gratuitous
Etymology: From Latin grātuītus (“free”), from Latin grātia (“favor”), grātus (“showing favor”).
Senses: examples: text: Also mentioned is the Rev. T. Stock, who has a tablet in St John's church [Gloucester] and "who with Raikes established the four original Sunday schools in this parish ... in 1780. From this small beginning sprung that gratuitous system of Christian instruction which has covered the face of England and Wales with schools."
ref: 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 56:
glosses: Given freely; unearned.
examples: text: gratuitous violence
text: Good to see you Mr. Bond. Things've been awfully dull 'round here. […] Now you're on this. I hope we're going to have some gratuitous sex and violence!
ref: 1983, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Never Say Never Again, spoken by Q (Alec McCowen):
synonyms: uncalled-for
glosses: Unjustified or unnecessary; not called for by the circumstances.
Synonyms: free
gratis
unjustified
groundless
baseless
unfounded
unnecessary
Coordinate terms: superfluous
Derived terms: gratuitously
gratuitousness
gratuitous praise
gratuitous violence
nongratuitous
semigratuitous
Related terms: gratis
gratuity
mammal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæməl/
rhymes: -æməl
Forms: form: mammals
Etymology: From Modern Latin Mammalia, coined 1758 by Linnaeus for the class of mammals, from neuter plural of Late Latin mammalis (“of the breast”), from Latin mamma (“breast”), perhaps cognate with mamma (mother).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An animal of the class Mammalia.
Characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair or fur and producing milk with which to feed its young.
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: An animal of the class Mammalia.
Characterized by having vertebrae and three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.
Synonyms: word: mammal
word: mammalian
Hypernyms: sense: animal of class Mammalia
word: amniote
sense: animal of class Mammalia
word: synapsid
word: vertebrate
word: animal
Hyponyms: word: ruminant
word: cattle
word: sheep
word: goat
word: pig
word: equid
word: horse
word: zebra
word: ass
word: donkey
word: mule
word: elephant
word: rhino
word: hippo
word: feline
word: cat
word: lion
word: puma
word: cheetah
word: tiger
word: canid
word: dog
word: wolf
word: fox
word: coyote
word: jackal
word: bear
word: marsupial
word: kangaroo
word: monotreme
word: platypus
word: koala
word: primate
word: ape
word: monkey
word: man
word: lemur
word: sloth
word: rabbit
word: rodent
word: mouse
word: rat
word: squirrel
word: bat
word: seal
word: pinniped
word: whale
word: dolphin
Derived terms: crown mammal
macromammal
mammaldom
mammalial
mammalian
mammaliferous
mammality
mammalkind
mammallike
mammal-like reptile
mammalogy
mammaloid
mammalophagic
mammalophilic
marine mammal
megamammal
mesomammal
micromammal
neomammal
nonmammal
paleomammal
protomammal
sea mammal
stem mammal
Related terms: word: mammarial
word: mammary
word: :Category:Mammals
hardwareman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardwaremen
Etymology: From Middle English hardewareman, hardwareman; equivalent to hardware + -man.
Senses: glosses: An ironmonger.
metadata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛt.əˌdeɪ.tə/
ipa: /ˈmɛt.əˌdeɪ.tə/
ipa: [ˈmɛɾ.əˌdeɪ.ɾə]
ipa: /ˈmet.əˌdæɪ.tə/
ipa: [ˈmet.əˌdæɪ.ɾə]
note: Indic
ipa: /mɛʈa.deʈa/
Etymology: From meta- + data.
Senses: examples: text: Most websites contain metadata to tell the computer how to lay out the content on the screen.
glosses: Data that describes other data, serving as an informative label.
examples: text: That photo's metadata suggests it was edited using Photoshop.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Structured information about a file (date created, creator, software used to create, last modified, file format, file fingerprint, etc).
Derived terms: metadata registry
Related terms: metainformation
tag
nag screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nag screens
Senses: examples: text: WinRAR shows a nag screen once its 40-day trial is over to encourage users to buy a license.
text: The first screen to pop up is the nag screen; be patient, it disappears after 5 seconds. (Have you ever wondered why nag screens are mandatory for shareware?)
ref: 1996, New and improved stupid Windows tricks, page 17:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A message displayed by a nagware program to encourage the user to purchase the full version.
vapourware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪ.pə.wɛə(ɹ)/
enpr: vāʹpərwâr
ipa: /ˈveɪpɚwɛɹ/
Etymology: From vapour + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vaporware.
webmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛbmæstɚ/
Forms: form: webmasters
form: Web master
form: web master
form: Webmaster
Etymology: From Web + master.
Senses: glosses: A person responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining a website or websites.
Coordinate terms: webmistress
Related terms: webmastery
webmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛbmæstɚ/
Forms: form: webmasters
form: webmastering
form: webmastered
form: webmastered
form: Web master
form: web master
form: Webmaster
Etymology: From Web + master.
Senses: glosses: To design, develop and maintain a website.
Aborigine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ə.ni/
ipa: /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/
Forms: form: Aborigines
Etymology: Back-formation from Aborigines.
Senses: glosses: An Aboriginal person from Australia (descending from, or a member of, one of the indigenous people(s) before British colonisation), Aboriginal Australian.
Synonyms: word: Aboriginal
word: Aboriginal people
english: neutral term
translation: neutral term
word: Aboriginal Australian
Hypernyms: word: Australoid
word: Indigenous Australian
raw_tags: of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia
AA
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
related: word: a/a
word: A-A
word: A/A
glosses: Initialism of anti-aircraft or anti-air.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of air-to-air.
examples: text: AA joint; AA instability
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of atlantoaxial.
examples: text: AA anastomosis
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of arterioarterial.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Afro-Asiatic.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Austroasiatic.
AA
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: AAs
form: AAing
form: AAed
form: AAed
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, edge AA in EF2000 didn't make much difference because only the objects were AAed and they made up only a very small percentage of the screen area.
ref: 1999 September 12, Darin Genereux, “Re: "Anti-Aliasing vs. More Polygons" teapot page has been UPDATED”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video (Usenet):
text: Vector images can be considered to have extremely high resolution, so it is possible to AA them.
ref: 2003 June 25, Ilari Liusvaara, “Re: I have a Linux Desktop dream, desktoplinux.com”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of antialias.
Related terms: Kenya AA
husband
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌz.bənd/
Forms: form: husbands
form: husbanding
form: husbanded
form: husbanded
Etymology: From Middle English husbonde, from Old English hūsbonda (“head of household”), from Old Norse húsbóndi, from hús + bóndi, corresponding to Proto-Germanic *hūsą (“house”) and *būandz (“dwelling, residing”, present participle). Compare English house and bond³.
Senses: examples: text: And for my meanes, I'll husband them so well,
They shall go farre with little.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
glosses: To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
examples: 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
...I found pens, ink, and paper, and I husbanded them to the utmost; and I shall show that while my ink lasted, I kept things very exact, but after that was gone I could not, for I could not make any ink by any means that I could devise.
glosses: To conserve.
examples: text: Land so trim and rarely husbanded.
ref: 1672 May 29 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 19 May 1672]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
glosses: To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.
examples: text: Thinke you, I am no ſtronger then my Sex
 Being ſo Father'd, and ſo Husbanded?
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 116, column 2:
glosses: To provide with a husband.
glosses: To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
Derived terms: husband up
husbandable
husbandry
derecho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈɹeɪ.t͡ʃoʊ/
Forms: form: derechos
form: derechoes
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Spanish derecho (“straight”). First used by Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs in 1888, apparently coined to distinguish the winds from tornadoes, which rotate; compare tornado. Doublet of direct.
Senses: examples: text: Combining all of the above, the Arkansas Valley, Ouachita Mountains, Interior Plateau, and Southwest Appalachian ecoregions have the greatest risk of wind damage from tornadoes and derechos, whereas weakening hurricanes are an important disturbance, especially in the Piedmont ecoregion.
ref: 2015, Chris J. Peterson, Jeffery B. Cannon, Christopher M. Godfrey, “5: First Steps Toward Defining the Wind Disturbance Regime in Central Hardwoods Forests”, in Cathryn H. Greenberg, Beverly S. Collins, editors, Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation, Springer, page 116:
text: Derechos have winds as powerful as those of some hurricanes and tornadoes. "Derecho" comes from the Spanish word meaning "straight."
ref: 2016, Bill Streever, And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind, Hachette, unnumbered page:
text: A derecho can be as destructive as a weak to moderate tornado, but the damage is mainly the result of straight-line rather than rotating winds.
However, tornadoes can also form along the bow of a derecho. Derechos can sometimes be recognized as a bank of ominous-looking "shelf" clouds that appear darker than normal clouds.
ref: 2022, Alexander Gates, Earth's Fury, Wiley, unnumbered page:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A windstorm characterized by strong, straight-line winds.
wikipedia: Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs
big
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭg
ipa: /bɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: bigger
form: biggest
Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English big, bigge (“powerful, strong”), possibly from a dialect of Old Norse. Ultimately perhaps a derivative of Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”), in which case big would be related to bogey, bugbear, and bug.
Compare dialectal Norwegian bugge (“great man”), Low German Bögge, Boggelmann.
Senses: glosses: In a loud manner.
examples: text: He's always talking big, but he never delivers.
glosses: In a boasting manner.
examples: text: He won big betting on the croquet championship.
text: Don't miss our November sale — it's your last chance to save big before Christmas!
synonyms: greatly
hugely
largely
massively
;
bigly
glosses: In a large amount or to a large extent.
examples: text: I've always been big into sport, but I'm especially big into football.
synonyms: greatly
hugely
largely
massively
;
bigly
glosses: In a large amount or to a large extent.
(modifying a preposition)
examples: text: You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.
text: 'You've got to put it over big,' he was saying in a loud nasal voice.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 3, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 25:
glosses: On a large scale, expansively.
examples: text: He hit him big and the guy just crumpled.
glosses: Hard; with great force.
big
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭg
ipa: /bɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: bigs
Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English big, bigge (“powerful, strong”), possibly from a dialect of Old Norse. Ultimately perhaps a derivative of Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”), in which case big would be related to bogey, bugbear, and bug.
Compare dialectal Norwegian bugge (“great man”), Low German Bögge, Boggelmann.
Senses: examples: text: You could throw out everything else, but I had the speed to split double-teams. Like, go at double-teams numerous times in a possession, on consecutive possessions where I'm testing your endurance, your bigs.
ref: 2019, Derrick Rose, Sam Smith, I'll Show You:
glosses: Someone or something that is large in stature.
synonyms: big shot
glosses: An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
examples: text: In the Appalachian League, where Cal Ripken once played in Bluefield, W.Va., a ballplayer's chances of making it to the bigs are less than one in six.
ref: 2004 June 23, Michelle Boorstein, “Ballclub’s Pullout Caps Va. Town’s Run of Woes; Struggling Martinsville No Longer Celebrates Its Boys of Summer”, in Washington Post:
synonyms: big leagues
glosses: The big leagues, big time.
examples: text: He was there the night of Cristoph's party. All the littles were assigned to their bigs. Ian and Christoph had rushed the same fraternity. When they became upperclassmen, they both ended up on the board.
ref: 2018, Kelly Ann Gonzales, Through an Opaque Window:
text: She added that the relationship between bigs and littles is "what each pair makes of it," and that a lot of the pairs often get dinner together and become close friends.
ref: 2019 April 1, Audrey Steinkamp, “Sororities pair new members with "bigs"”, in Yale Daily News:
text: Some traditions of the chapter include lineages with bigs and littles, receiving of paddles from a big, and a national stroll, Wolsch-Gallia said.
ref: 2022 September 27, Shreya Varrier, “Gamma Rho Lambda provides LGBTQIA+ community in greek life”, in Iowa State Daily:
qualifier: university slang
glosses: An initiated member of a sorority or fraternity who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
antonyms: little
glosses: The participant in ageplay who acts out the older role.
big
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭg
ipa: /bɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: bigs
form: bigging
form: bigged
form: bigged
Etymology: From Middle English biggen, byggen, from Old Norse byggja, byggva (“to build, dwell in, inhabit”), a secondary form of Old Norse búa (“to dwell”), related to Old English būan (“to dwell”). Cognate with Danish bygge, Swedish bygga.
Senses: glosses: To inhabit; occupy.
glosses: To locate oneself.
glosses: To build; erect; fashion.
glosses: To dwell; have a dwelling.
Derived terms: unbigged
big
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭg
ipa: /bɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: bigg
form: bygg
form: bygge
Etymology: From Middle English byge, from Old Norse bygg (“barley, probably Hordeum vulgare, common barley”), from Proto-Germanic *bewwuz (“crop, barley”). Cognate with Old English bēow (“barley”).
Senses: glosses: One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.
wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔːl/
ipa: /waːl/
ipa: /wɔl/
ipa: /wɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: walls
form: walling
form: walled
form: walled
Etymology: From Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-West Germanic *wall (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”).
Perhaps conflated with waw (“a wall within a house or dwelling, a room partition”), from Middle English wawe, from Old English wāg, wāh (“an interior wall, divider”), see waw.
Cognate with North Frisian wal (“wall”), Saterland Frisian Waal (“wall, rampart, mound”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”). More at wallow, walk.
Senses: examples: text: He walled the study with books.
glosses: To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.
topics: video-games
glosses: To use a wallhack.
examples: text: I walled her. She's low [health].
topics: video-games
glosses: To wallbang.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb wall
word: wall in
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb wall
word: wall off
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb wall
word: wall up
wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔːl/
ipa: /waːl/
ipa: /wɔl/
ipa: /wɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: walls
form: walling
form: walled
form: walled
Etymology: From Middle English wallen, from Old English weallan (“to bubble, boil”), from Proto-West Germanic *wallan, from Proto-Germanic *wallaną (“to fount, stream, boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“wave”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch wallen (“to boil, bubble”), Dutch wellen (“to weld”), German wellen (“to wave, warp”), Danish vælde (“to overwhelm”), Swedish välla (“to gush, weld”). See also well.
Senses: glosses: To boil.
glosses: To well, as water; spring.
Related terms: well
overwhelm
wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔːl/
ipa: /waːl/
ipa: /wɔl/
ipa: /wɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: walls
Etymology: From Middle English walle, from Old English *wealla, *weall (“spring”), from Proto-Germanic *wallô, *wallaz (“well, spring”). See above. Cognate with Old Frisian walla (“spring”), Old English wiell (“well”).
Senses: glosses: A spring of water.
wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔːl/
ipa: /waːl/
ipa: /wɔl/
ipa: /wɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: walls
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔːl/
ipa: /waːl/
ipa: /wɔl/
ipa: /wɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: walls
form: walling
form: walled
form: walled
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).
wall
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔːl/
ipa: /waːl/
ipa: /wɔl/
ipa: /wɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Senses: examples: text: Wall, they spoke up, 'n' says to her, s'd they, "Why, look a-here, aunty, Wus't his skin, 't was rock?" so s's she, "I guess not." (Well, they spoke up and says to her, said they, "Why look a-here, aunty, was it his skin that was rock [referring to the Apostle Peter]?" So says she, "I guess not.")
ref: 1858, Robert Lowell, The New Priest in Conception Bay:
text: Wall, be that as it may, ol' Hosshead was a purty good citizen in his day, an' he shore did make Juneybell toe the mark.
ref: 1988, Herbert M. Sutherland, Tall Tales of the Devil's Apron, The Overmountain Press, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of well.
OMC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OMCs
Senses: examples: text: OTOH, if an OFC or OMC is written to further the story, well, if you can make me believe it, congratulations.
ref: 1999 September 28, Sigrid H., “NEW: Wonder Of Wonders/speechification/Laura/Karmen”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):
text: It involves archaeology, the mysterious death of an immortal and the development of a menage a trois between Mac, Methos and a very well developed OMC.
ref: 2000 January 2, Shomeret, “My Favorite HL Fics of 1999”, in alt.tv.highlander.creative (Usenet):
text: However, especially in the Romeo and Juliet cases, they go all fan-wanky and the stories don't have the effectiveness because you recognize them as simply efforts to make a way to keep R & J alive if not happy together (often by the introduction of an OFC or OMC to replace the other character in another's life).
ref: 2004 August 8, Jillun, “Re: What ratings are acceptible^([sic]) here?”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of original male character.
glosses: Initialism of outlaw motorcycle club.
Hypernyms: original character
OC