cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mislay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: mislays
form: mislaying
form: mislaid
form: mislaid
Etymology: From Middle English mysse layen, equivalent to mis- + lay.
Senses: examples: text: He cannot see well, mislays his glasses, and frequently mismends the nets.
ref: 1971, Nancy Anne Dyer, Tokugawa to Meiji Japan: a Resource Guide for Teachers, page 140:
glosses: To leave or lay something in the wrong place and then forget where one put it.
examples: text: [F]ire, if it be well and rightly vſed, burneth in the houſe to the good and pꝛofit of the familie: but if miſlayed oꝛ abuſed, burneth the houſe to the vndoing of the inhabitantes: […]
ref: 1601, William Barlow, A Sermon Preached at Paules Crosse, on the First Sunday in Lent; […], London: […] [R. Read] for Mathew Law, […], signature C iii., recto:
text: You haue miſ-caſt in your Arithmetike, / Miſ-laid your Counters, groapingly yee ſeek / In nights blacke darknes for the ſecret things / Seal’d in the Casket of the King of Kings.
ref: 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His First Week, or Birth of the World: […].] The First Daie of the First Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 12:
text: First, Scio cui credidi, I know whom I have believed in: I have not mislaid my foundation; my foundation is Christ; […]
ref: a. 1632 (date written), John Donne, “Sermon CX. Preached to the King, at the Court. The Second Sermon on Genesis i. 26.”, in Henry Alford, editor, The Works of John Donne, D.D., […], volume IV, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 532:
text: Oh heavens! her grief miſlayes her noble reaſon, what ſhall we do
ref: 1671, J[ohn] Crown, “The Third Act”, in Juliana or The Princess of Poland. A Tragicomedy. […], London: […] Will. Cademan […] and Will. Birch […], page 35:
text: This being ſo that Defects and Weakneſs in Mens Underſtandings, as well as other Faculties, come from want of a right uſe of their own Minds, I am apt to think the fault is generally miſlaid upon Nature, and there is often a Complaint of want of Parts when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.
ref: a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC, § 4, pages 19–20:
glosses: To err in placing something.
Synonyms: misplace
Derived terms: word: mislayal
word: mislayer
word: mislaying
mislaid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈleɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: more mislaid
form: most mislaid
Senses: glosses: That cannot be currently found, put in an obscure place, lost - often temporarily.
Derived terms: mislaid property
mislaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈleɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mislay
mislead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈliːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: misleads
form: misleading
form: misled
form: misled
Etymology: From Middle English mysleden, from Old English mislǣdan (“to mislead”), from Proto-Germanic *missalaidijaną (“to mislead”). By surface analysis, mis- + lead.
Senses: examples: text: City of the dead / At the end of another lost highway / Signs misleading to nowhere
ref: 2004, Green Day, “Jesus of Suburbia”, in American Idiot:
glosses: To lead astray, in a false direction.
glosses: To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
examples: text: The preacher elaborated Satan's ways to mislead us into sin
glosses: To deceptively trick into something wrong.
glosses: To accidentally or intentionally confuse.
Synonyms: sense: lead in a false direction
word: forlead
sense: lead in a false direction
word: misguide
sense: lead in a false direction
word: misinform
sense: deceive by giving a false impression
word: deceive
sense: deceive by giving a false impression
word: delude
sense: deceive by giving a false impression
word: beguile
sense: deceive by giving a false impression
word: cheat
sense: deceive by giving a false impression
word: bluff
sense: trick into something wrong
word: seduce
Derived terms: word: misleadable
word: misleader
word: misleading
mislead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈliːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: misleads
Etymology: From Middle English mysleden, from Old English mislǣdan (“to mislead”), from Proto-Germanic *missalaidijaną (“to mislead”). By surface analysis, mis- + lead.
Senses: examples: text: If all the misleads (incorrect alternatives) are illogical, absurd, or in any way unattractive as possible answers, the student has no difficulty in choosing the correct answer.
ref: 1951, Improvement of Grading Practices for the Air Training, page 31:
glosses: A wrong or bad lead; a leading in the wrong direction.
examples: text: The skinny body, a mislead to make people think that he was captured by someone and tortured. Even the loud gunshot was a mislead to make them ask questions to common citizens. His long untidy hair, also a mislead.
ref: 2021, Aren Bjorgman, Frozen Ashes:
glosses: That which is deceptive or untruthful (e.g. a falsehood, deception, untruth, or ruse).
misled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsˈlɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mislead
Derived terms: unmisled
misled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsˈlɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
ipa: /ˈmɪzəld/
rhymes: -ɪzəld
homophone: mizzled
ipa: /ˌmɪsˈlɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misle
misread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈɹiːd/
ipa: /mɪsˈɹɛd/
ipa: /ˈmɪs.ɹiːd/
rhymes: -iːd
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: misreads
form: misreading
form: misread
form: misread
Etymology: From Middle English misreden, from Old English misrǣdan (“to advise wrongly; read wrongly”), equivalent to mis- + read. Cognate with Saterland Frisian misräide (“to go wrong, fail”), Dutch misraden (“to guess wrongly”), German missraten (“to fail; go wrong; become wayward”). For the noun, compare Old English misrǣd (“misguidance; misconduct”).
Senses: examples: text: In the circumstances the Inspecting Officer concludes that the electric train motorman, despite his assertions to the contrary, misread the up main relief inner home signal for his own and ran past the up main through inner home signal at danger; he must therefore be held responsible for the accident.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of trains: Collision at Waterloo”, in Trains Illustrated, page 138:
text: Now I'm in / over my head, with something I said. / Completely misread I'm better off dead.
ref: 2002, “Over My Head (Better Off Dead)”, in Does This Look Infected? (CD), performed by Sum 41, Island Records, via YouTube, →OCLC:
text: Yet her obsession with remaining inscrutable has the curious effect of making her also unable to read others—for example, she misses entirely the subversive humor of the black garage mechanic, Jimmy, with whom she deals every day, uncertain whether he is "shy or dimwitted" (19). Similarly, she misreads her one black colleague, Pompey, whom she wrongly believes has sabotaged the elevator she is accused of having misinspected.
ref: 2020, Stephanie Brown, Éva Tettenborn, Engaging Tradition, Making It New, page 146:
ref: 2020 August 6, James Vincent, “Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates”, in The Verge:
text: No South African believed it was possible—not to mention desirable—to write about the country’s white people without writing about its Black citizens; everybody’s self-understanding incorporates ideas proposed by people unlike themselves.“That doesn’t matter,” one of the editors told me, warning me I’d be “misread.”
ref: 2022 October 24, Eve Fairbanks, “Why Wasn’t I Canceled?”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: To read wrongly; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of.
Derived terms: misreadable
misreader
misread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈɹiːd/
ipa: /mɪsˈɹɛd/
ipa: /ˈmɪs.ɹiːd/
rhymes: -iːd
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: misreads
Etymology: From Middle English misreden, from Old English misrǣdan (“to advise wrongly; read wrongly”), equivalent to mis- + read. Cognate with Saterland Frisian misräide (“to go wrong, fail”), Dutch misraden (“to guess wrongly”), German missraten (“to fail; go wrong; become wayward”). For the noun, compare Old English misrǣd (“misguidance; misconduct”).
Senses: examples: text: Line fluctuations can cause misreads and miswrites.
ref: 1983, Lawrence Calmus, The business guide to small computers, page 143:
text: To bait the mark, the veteran grifter initially covers one of the three numbers on the clothespin or miscounts the marble tally which serves to award the mark fairbanked points. The grateful mark will not question the grifter's tricky misread or miscount.
ref: 2011, Richard Margittay, Carnival Games: $10,000,000,000 Hoodwink Racket:
glosses: An instance of reading wrongly.
misspell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭs-spĕlʹ
ipa: /mɪsˈspɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: misspells
form: misspelling
form: misspelt
form: misspelt
form: misspelled
form: misspelled
form: mis-spell
Etymology: From mis- + spell.
Senses: examples: text: I think they misspelled "crab" on the menu, because it says "crap soup".
glosses: To spell incorrectly.
Derived terms: misspellable
misspeller
misspelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: misspelt
Senses: examples: text: The ransom letter contained many misspelled words.
glosses: Not spelled correctly.
misspelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misspelt
Senses: examples: text: Trump misspelled Xi’s first name as “Xinping” in the first version of his tweet about China but later corrected it.
ref: 2018 March 10, “Trump believes North Korea will keep word on missile tests”, in AP News, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2022:
glosses: simple past and past participle of misspell
misspelt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈspɛlt/
rhymes: -ɪspɛlt
Forms: form: misspelled
Etymology: From mis- + spelt.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misspell
mistake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈsteɪk/
ipa: [mɪˈsteɪk]
ipa: [mɪˈstɛjk]
ipa: [mɪˈsteːk]
ipa: [mɪˈstæɪk]
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: mistakes
Etymology: From Middle English mistaken, from Old Norse mistaka (“to take in error, to miscarry”); equivalent to mis- + take. Cognate with Icelandic mistaka (“to mistake”), Swedish missta (“to mistake”) (before apocope misstaga).
The noun, which replaced earlier mistaking, is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: There were too many mistakes in the test, that unfortunately you failed.
text: He always did mistakes on purpose.
text: He, that would write exactly, muſt avoid a Barbarous Pronunciation, and conſider for facility, or thorow miſtake, many words are not ſounded after the beſt dialect. Such as […] Wun, one.
ref: 1687, Chriſtopher Cooper, “Chap. XIX: Of Barbarous Speaking”, in The Engliſh Teacher, London: John Richardſon, for the Author, pages 77-78; republished Menston: Scolar Press, 1969:
text: 1877, Henry Heth, quoting Robert E. Lee, in "Causes of the Defeat of Gen. Lee's Army at the Battle of GettysburgOpinions of Leading Confederate Soldiers.", Southern Historical Society Papers (1877), editor Rev. J. WM. Jones http://books.google.com/books?id=iDIFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA292&dq=lee+%22mistakes+were+made%22&hl=en&ei=fchaTbu4L8L98AaVs4n-DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=lee%20%22mistakes%20were%20made%22&f=false
After it is all over, as stupid a fellow as I am can see that mistakes were made. I notice, however, that my mistakes are never told me until it is too late.
synonyms: word: aberration
word: barbarism
word: bloomer
word: blooper
word: blunder
word: boner
word: boo-boo
word: break
word: clanger
word: cock-up
word: error
word: fault
word: faux pas
word: floater
word: flub
word: fluff
word: fuckup
word: gaffe
word: goof
word: howler
word: inaccuracy
word: lapse
word: lapsus
word: mess-up
word: misstep
word: mistake
word: oopsy
word: screwup
word: slip
word: slip-up
word: slipup
word: stumble
word: thinko
word: wrength
word: solecism
word: erroneity
glosses: An error.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.
Derived terms: and no mistake
by mistake
calculated mistake
category mistake
honest mistake
make a mistake
make no mistake
misfuck
mistakeful
mistakeless
mistakeproof
mistook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈtʊk/
ipa: /mɪsˈtʉk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Senses: glosses: simple past of mistake
glosses: past participle of mistake
mistaken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈsteɪkn̩/
rhymes: -eɪkən
Etymology: Morphologically mistake + -n.
Senses: examples: text: I'm frequently mistaken for my brother.
glosses: past participle of mistake
mistaken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈsteɪkn̩/
rhymes: -eɪkən
Forms: form: more mistaken
form: most mistaken
Etymology: Morphologically mistake + -n.
Senses: examples: text: A mistaken sense of loyalty.
glosses: Erroneous.
examples: text: I think you must be (very) much mistaken.
text: He admitted he was mistaken about the budget numbers.
glosses: Having an incorrect belief.
raw_tags: with a copula verb
with about
Derived terms: mistaken identity
mistakenly
misunderstand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/
ipa: /mɪs.ʌn.dɚˈstænd/
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: misunderstands
form: misunderstanding
form: misunderstood
form: misunderstood
Etymology: From Middle English mys-understanden, equivalent to mis- + understand.
Senses: examples: text: We found that teen drivers and the public largely misunderstand the legal status of cannabis use and do not fully recognize the risks of cannabis-impaired driving.
ref: 2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:
glosses: To understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly.
Synonyms: english: something
translation: something
word: take the wrong way
Derived terms: misunderestimate
misunderstandable
misunderstander
misunderstanding
misunderstandingly
Related terms: misinterpret
misunderstood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪs.ʌn.dəˈstʊd/
ipa: /ˌmɪs.ʌn.dɚˈstʊd/
rhymes: -ʊd
Senses: examples: text: Am I misunderstood?
glosses: simple past and past participle of misunderstand
misunderstood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪs.ʌn.dəˈstʊd/
ipa: /ˌmɪs.ʌn.dɚˈstʊd/
rhymes: -ʊd
Forms: form: more misunderstood
form: most misunderstood
Senses: examples: text: a misunderstood message
glosses: Not comprehended correctly.
examples: text: Near-synonym: underappreciated
text: a misunderstood loner who turned to a life of crime
text: a misunderstood genius
text: "He posed as the horror of horrors — a misunderstood man. Heaven knows the femme incomprise is sad enough and bad enough — but the other thing!"
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Second-rate Woman”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 101:
glosses: Not viewed with sympathy and understanding despite warranting it.
Derived terms: misunderstoodness
writing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rītʹĭng
ipa: /ˈɹaɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ
homophone: riding (some varieties with flapping)
Forms: form: writings
Etymology: From Middle English writing, writyng, wryting, wrytyng, from Old English wrīting (“writing”), equivalent to write + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Because writing of any kind is no more and no less than a graphic representation of speech[…], to study its nature and history we must often have recourse to the speech, that is, to the language, that the writing writes.
ref: 2003, William G. Boltz, The Origin and the Development of the Chinese Writing System, page 14:
text: Early writing appeared in both societies around 3000 B.C.E., mainly for administrative purposes in Egypt and for accounting and trading in Sumer.
ref: 2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning.
glosses: Something written, such as a document, article or book.
glosses: The process of representing a language with symbols or letters.
examples: text: Congrats, you did an interesting piece of writing.
glosses: A work of an author.
examples: text: I can't read your writing.
glosses: The style of writing of a person.
examples: text: a writing table
glosses: Intended for or used in writing.
raw_tags: as a modifier
Synonyms: sense: written letters or symbols that express some meaning
word: text
sense: something written
word: document
sense: something written
word: manuscript
sense: something written
word: text
sense: work of an author
word: work
sense: the style of writing of a person
word: hand
sense: the style of writing of a person
word: handwriting
sense: intended for or used in writing
word: alphabet
sense: intended for or used in writing
word: character
sense: intended for or used in writing
word: ideogram
sense: intended for or used in writing
word: logogram
sense: intended for or used in writing
word: pictogram
sense: intended for or used in writing
word: script
sense: intended for or used in writing
word: syllabary
sense: intended for or used in writing
word: writing system
Derived terms: automatic writing
bookwriting
brainwriting
creative writing
cyberwriting
e-writing
fanwriting
foodwriting
food writing
food-writing
footwriting
freewriting
gagwriting
handwriting
hymnwriting
hyperwriting
in writing
kickwriting
majuscule writing
metawriting
newswriting
night writing
nonwriting
not worth writing home about
packet writing
patchwriting
playwriting
protowriting
put in writing
scorewriting
screenwriting
scriptwriting
signwriting
skywriting
sky writing
slate writing
songwriting
speechwriting
speedwriting
spirit writing
sportswriting
technical writing
tendency writing
the writing is on the wall
typewriting
wedge-writing
writing arm
writing board
writing book
writing desk
writing hand
writing implement
writing instrument
writing lark
writing machine
writing master
writing obligatory
writing on the wall
writing pad
writing paper
writing school
writing spider
writing table
writing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rītʹĭng
ipa: /ˈɹaɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ
homophone: riding (some varieties with flapping)
Etymology: From Middle English writinge, wrytynge, writende, writand, from Old English wrītende, present participle of Old English wrītan (“to scratch, carve, write”), equivalent to write + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: What are you doing? ― Um, I’m writing. ― You are writing! You are writing a lot!
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
glosses: present participle and gerund of write
handiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handinesses
Etymology: From handy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: All of She Came Too Late is delightfully well-written: one of the most commendable things about it is Wings' handiness with metaphor — she writes of a character who's "a good co-worker, but with as much sense of humor as a cardboard box." Or, "The night came back to me, like a bolt shooting into a lock."
ref: 1988 December 11, Georgia Cotrell, “A Lezbeen Sam Spade”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 8:
glosses: The quality or state of being handy.
Related terms: left-handiness
right-handiness
handiwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændiˌwɜːk/
ipa: /ˈhændiˌwɝk/
Forms: form: handiworks
form: handywork
Etymology: From Middle English hondywerk, handiwerc, from Old English handġeweorc (“work done by hand, creation”), from hand (“hand”) + ġeweorc (“work”). Equivalent to hand + work, though it may now reinterpreted as handy (“skilful”) + work. Compare Saterland Frisian Hondwierk, Dutch handwerk, German Handwerk.
Senses: glosses: Work done by the hands.
examples: text: The Museum of Popular Arts showcases Portugal's finest handiworks.
glosses: A handmade object; a handicraft.
examples: text: The firmament showeth his handiwork.
ref: 1901, Bible (American Standard) - Psalms 19:1
glosses: Work done personally.
examples: text: Brunel's associations with the area have left a few examples of his handiwork or teaching in South Wales.
ref: 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 163:
text: As a primary architect of the draft Constitution that emerged from Philadelphia in 1787, Madison substantially bore the burden of defending his handiwork in his home state.
ref: 2004 Fall, Laurence Claus, “The Antidiscrimination Eighth Amendment”, in Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, volume 28, number 1, pages 119–168:
glosses: The result of personal efforts.
Synonyms: sense: work done by the hands
word: handwork
handkercher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handkerchers
Senses: examples: text: When your head did but ake,
I knit my hand-kercher about your browes.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: Obsolete form of handkerchief.
back
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæk/
ipa: [bæk]
ipa: [bak]
ipa: [-k̚]
ipa: [-ˀk]
note: Liverpool
ipa: [bax]
ipa: [bak]
ipa: [bäk]
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: more back
form: most back
Etymology: From Middle English bak, from Old English bæc, from Proto-West Germanic *bak, from Proto-Germanic *baką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to bend”). The adverb represents an aphetic form of aback.
Compare Middle Low German bak (“back”), from Old Saxon bak, and West Frisian bekling (“chair back”), Old High German bah, Swedish and Norwegian bak. Cognate with German Bache (“sow [adult female hog]”).
Senses: examples: text: Go in the back door of the house.
text: Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: At or near the rear.
examples: text: He was on vacation, but now he’s back.
text: The office fell into chaos when you left, but now order is back.
glosses: Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
examples: text: I’d like to find a back issue of that magazine.
glosses: Not current.
examples: text: They took a back road.
text: He lives out in the back country.
text: It's OK that the highway is jammed, because I know a back way. It's another good way to get there.
glosses: Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
examples: text: They still owe three months’ back rent.
text: Several of the former Hotel York workers have filed with the California Labor Division to collect what they feel is owed them in the way of back overtime.
ref: 1980 December 20, David Lamble, “Workers, Owners Battle It Out At SF Gay Hotel”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 22, page 9:
glosses: In arrears; overdue.
examples: text: back action
glosses: Moving or operating backward.
examples: text: The vowel of lot has a back vowel in most dialects of England.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
Synonyms: sense: near the rear
word: rear
sense: not current
word: former
sense: not current
word: previous
Derived terms: back alley
back door
back room
backway
Related terms: back vowel
back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæk/
ipa: [bæk]
ipa: [bak]
ipa: [-k̚]
ipa: [-ˀk]
note: Liverpool
ipa: [bax]
ipa: [bak]
ipa: [bäk]
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: backs
Etymology: Borrowed from French bac.
Senses: glosses: A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
glosses: A ferryboat.
archaic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːˈkeɪ.ɪk/
ipa: /ɑɹˈkeɪ.ɪk/
ipa: /ɐːˈkæɪ.ɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɑ(r).ke.jɪk/
Forms: form: archaics
form: archaeic
form: archæic
form: archaïc
form: archaick
Etymology: From archaism (“ancient or obsolete phrase or expression”) or from French archaïque, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀρχαϊκός (arkhaïkós, “old-fashioned”), from ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “from the beginning, antiquated, ancient, old”), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “beginning, origin”), from ἄρχω (árkhō, “I am first”), from ἄρχω (árkhō, “I begin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ- (“to begin, rule, command”).
Senses: examples: text: … Archaic Stage … the stage of migratory hunting and gathering cultures continuing into environmental conditions approximately those of the present.
ref: 1958, Wiley, Gordon R., and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, page #107
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, etc.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).
examples: text: [...] prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.
ref: 2009, The Human Lineage, page 432:
topics: anthropology
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleoanthropology
paleontology
sciences
glosses: (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.
cliché
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkliː.ʃeɪ/
ipa: /kliˈʃeɪ/
rhymes: -iːʃeɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: clichés
form: cliche
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French cliché.
Senses: examples: text: The villain kidnapping the love interest in a film is a bit of a cliché.
text: I know it's a bit of a cliché, but love really does conquer all.
text: Clever got me this far
Then tricky got me in
Eye on what I'm after
I don't need another friend
Smile and drop the cliche
Till you think I'm listening
Take just what I came for
Then I'm out the door again
ref: 2003, “The Package”, performed by A Perfect Circle:
text: Don’t believe what they’re saying everything’s is gonna change How could it be ever the same? It’s just a cliché fading Till we go our separate ways
ref: 2023, “Remember All The Girls”, performed by The Sherlocks:
synonyms: word: platitude
word: stereotype
word: byword
word: saying
word: adage
word: saw
word: proverb
word: maxim
word: apothegm
word: apophthegm
word: dictum
word: gnome
word: gnomic saying
word: mantra
word: paroemia
glosses: Something, most often a phrase or expression, that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost. A trite saying; a platitude.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A stereotype (printing plate).
Derived terms: clichéd
clichély
cliché-ridden
cliché verre
line cliché
thought-terminating cliché
tired cliché
Related terms: click
cliché
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkliː.ʃeɪ/
ipa: /kliˈʃeɪ/
rhymes: -iːʃeɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: more cliché
form: most cliché
form: cliche
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French cliché.
Senses: glosses: Clichéd; having the characteristics of a cliché.
cliché
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkliː.ʃeɪ/
ipa: /kliˈʃeɪ/
rhymes: -iːʃeɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: clichés
form: clichéing
form: clichéd
form: clichéd
form: clichéed
form: clichéed
form: cliche
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French cliché.
Senses: examples: text: He clichéd at me. He clichéd at me in a perky, condescending tone.
ref: 2015, Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person:
glosses: To use a cliché; to make up a word or a name that sounds like a cliché.
bull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊl/
ipa: /bʉl/
rhymes: -ʊl
Etymology: From Middle English bole, bul, bule, from a conflation of Old English bula (“bull, steer”) and Old Norse boli, both from Proto-Germanic *bulô (“bull”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥no-, from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell up”). Cognate with West Frisian bolle, Dutch bul, German Low German Bull, German Bulle, Swedish bulla; also Old Irish ball (“limb”), Latin follis (“bellows, leather bag”), Albanian bolle (“testicles”), Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós, “penis”).
Senses: synonyms: beefy
hunky
robust
antonyms: feeble
puny
weak
glosses: Large and strong, like a bull.
examples: text: a bull elephant
text: With the low, guttural snarl of the bull ape he sprang for the Frenchman.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 45:
synonyms: male
antonyms: female
glosses: Adult male.
raw_tags: of large mammals
examples: text: a bull market
topics: business
finance
antonyms: bear
glosses: Characterized by rising prices or belief that prices will rise.
synonyms: stupid
glosses: Stupid.
bull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊl/
ipa: /bʉl/
rhymes: -ʊl
Forms: form: bulls
form: bulling
form: bulled
form: bulled
Etymology: From Middle English bole, bul, bule, from a conflation of Old English bula (“bull, steer”) and Old Norse boli, both from Proto-Germanic *bulô (“bull”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥no-, from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell up”). Cognate with West Frisian bolle, Dutch bul, German Low German Bull, German Bulle, Swedish bulla; also Old Irish ball (“limb”), Latin follis (“bellows, leather bag”), Albanian bolle (“testicles”), Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós, “penis”).
Senses: examples: text: He bulled his way in.
glosses: To force oneself (in a particular direction); to move aggressively.
raw_tags: with into or through
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.
raw_tags: of a cow or heifer
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To mate with (a cow or heifer).
raw_tags: of a bull
examples: text: to bull railroad bonds
topics: business
finance
glosses: To endeavour to raise the market price of.
examples: text: to bull the market
topics: business
finance
glosses: To endeavour to raise prices in.
Derived terms: Adoribull
Banbury story of a cock and a bull
Banbury story of a cock and bull
big as bull-beef
blue bull
Brahminy bull
brazen bull
bull and cow
bull ant
bullbaiting
bull-baiting
bull bar
bull-bitch
bullbleep
bull butter
bull con
bullcrap
bullcrud
bull-dagger
bull daisy
bull denim
bulldog
bulldoze
bulldozer
bulldung
bulldust
bull dust
bull dyke
bull elephant
buller
bullet
bullfaced
bull feast
bull feathers
bull fiddle
bull fiddler
bullfight
bullfighter
bull-fighting
bullfighting
bullfinch
bull-finch
bull-fly
bullfrog
bullfuck
bull-fuck
bullgine
bull gravy
bullhead
bull headed
bull-headed
bullheaded
bullhook
bullhorn
bull horn
bull-horn
bull in a china shop
bullish
bull kelp
bull ladle
bull-like
bull market
bull-mobile
Bull Moose
bullneck
bullnecked
bull-necked
bullnose
bullnosed
bullock
bullpen
bullplop
bullpoo
bullpoop
bullpucky
bull pump
bull-pup
bullpup
bull rail
bullrail
bull ring
bullroarer
bull roast
bull rope
bull run
bull runner
bull-running
bullscheisse
bullscutter
bull session
bullseye
bull shark
bullshit
bullshot
bullsnake
bull snake
bullsnot
bullspeak
bull-speak
bull stag
bullswool
bull-terrier
bull terrier
bull thistle
bull-thrower
bull trap
bull trout
bull up
bull week
bullwhack
bullwhacker
bull wheel
bull-whip
bullwhip
bullwort
Bulstrode
charge like a wounded bull
chrysobull
cock-and-bull story
crusade bull
fit as a Mallee bull
golden bull
grab the bull by the horns
hog bull
Irish bull
like a bull at a gate
like a bull in a china shop
load of bull
mechanical bull
mess with the bull and you get the horns
nearly never bulled a cow
permabull
pit bull
pit bull terrier
Red Bull
red flag in front of a bull
red flag to a bull
red rag to a bull
scrub bull
shoot the bull
stingbull
strong as a bull
superbull
take the bull by the horns
throw the bull
throw the bull around
trust someone as far as one could fling a bull by the tail
Turnbull
ugly as bull-beef
useful as tits on a bull
useless as tits on a bull
bull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊl/
ipa: /bʉl/
rhymes: -ʊl
Forms: form: bulls
Etymology: From Middle English bulle, from Old French bulle, from Latin bulla, from Gaulish. Doublet of bull (“bubble”) and bulla.
Senses: coordinate_terms: brief
glosses: A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
glosses: A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.
bull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊl/
ipa: /bʉl/
rhymes: -ʊl
Forms: form: bulls
form: bulling
form: bulled
form: bulled
Etymology: From Middle English bulle, from Old French bulle, from Latin bulla, from Gaulish. Doublet of bull (“bubble”) and bulla.
Senses: glosses: To publish in a papal bull.
bull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊl/
ipa: /bʉl/
rhymes: -ʊl
Etymology: From Middle English bull, bul, boule (“falsehood, deceit”), probably from Old French boul, boule, bole (“fraud, deceit, cunning”), from Old French bouler, boler (“to deceive, delude, lure, take in”), from Middle Low German bôlen (“to woo, court”), related to German buhlen (“to woo”), English bully. Often reanalyzed by surface analysis to be an expurgated clipping of bullshit.
Senses: glosses: A lie.
glosses: Nonsense.
Derived terms: bull session
cock and bull
bull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊl/
ipa: /bʉl/
rhymes: -ʊl
Forms: form: bulls
form: bulling
form: bulled
form: bulled
Etymology: From Middle English bull, bul, boule (“falsehood, deceit”), probably from Old French boul, boule, bole (“fraud, deceit, cunning”), from Old French bouler, boler (“to deceive, delude, lure, take in”), from Middle Low German bôlen (“to woo, court”), related to German buhlen (“to woo”), English bully. Often reanalyzed by surface analysis to be an expurgated clipping of bullshit.
Senses: glosses: To mock; to cheat.
glosses: To lie, to tell untruths.
examples: text: We were to repeat our normal practise of me bulling his boots and him ironing my kit.
ref: 2014, Sean Connolly, British Army on the Rampage (B.A.O.R.) (page 118)
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To polish (boots) to a high shine.
bull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊl/
ipa: /bʉl/
rhymes: -ʊl
Forms: form: bulls
Etymology: From Middle English bowle, boule, from Old French boule (“ball”), from Latin bulla (“round swelling”), of Gaulish origin. Doublet of bull (“papal bull”) and bulla.
Senses: glosses: A bubble.
bog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bôg
enpr: bäg
ipa: /bɔɡ/
ipa: /bɑɡ/
enpr: bäg
ipa: /bɑɡ/
enpr: bŏg
ipa: /bɒɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: bogs
form: bogging
form: bogged
form: bogged
form: bogg
form: bogue
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English bog (originally chiefly in Ireland and Scotland), from Irish and Scottish Gaelic bogach (“soft, boggy ground”), from Old Irish bog (“soft”), from Proto-Celtic *buggos (“soft, tender”) + Old Irish -ach, from Proto-Celtic *-ākos.
The frequent use to form compounds regarding the animals and plants in such areas mimics Irish compositions such as bog-luachair (“bulrush, bogrush”).
Its use for toilets is now often derived from the resemblance of latrines and outhouse cesspools to bogholes, but the noun sense appears to be a clipped form of boghouse (“outhouse, privy”), which derived (possibly via boggard) from the verb to bog, still used in Australian English. The derivation and its connection to other senses of "bog" remains uncertain, however, owing to an extreme lack of early citations due to its perceived vulgarity.
Senses: examples: text: To be 'bogged down' or 'mired down' is to be mired, generally in the 'wet valleys' in the spring.
ref: 1928, American Dialect Society, American Speech, volume IV, page 132:
glosses: To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
raw_tags: with "down"
examples: text: […] Bogg'd in his filthy Lusts […]
ref: 1605, Ben Jonson, Seianus His Fall, act IV, scene i, line 217:
text: […] whose profession to forsake the World... bogs them deeper into the world.
ref: 1641, John Milton, Animadversions, page 58:
glosses: To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
examples: text: Duncan Graham in Gartmore his horse bogged; that the deponent helped some others to take the horse out of the bogg.
ref: a. 1800, The Trials of James, Duncan, and Robert M'Gregor, Three Sons of the Celebrated Rob Roy, page 120:
glosses: To sink and stick in bogland.
raw_tags: with "down"
glosses: To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
glosses: To defecate, to void one's bowels.
glosses: To cover or spray with excrement.
glosses: To make a mess of something.
Derived terms: bog down
bogged
bog in
bog into
bog off
bog up
de-bogging
mud bogging
bog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bôg
enpr: bäg
ipa: /bɔɡ/
ipa: /bɑɡ/
enpr: bäg
ipa: /bɑɡ/
enpr: bŏg
ipa: /bɒɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: bogs
form: bogge
Etymology: See bug
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror.
Derived terms: take bog
bog
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: bôg
enpr: bäg
ipa: /bɔɡ/
ipa: /bɑɡ/
enpr: bäg
ipa: /bɑɡ/
enpr: bŏg
ipa: /bɒɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: bogger
form: boggest
form: bug
Etymology: Uncertain, although possibly related to bug in its original senses of "big" and "puffed up".
Senses: examples: text: The Cuckooe, seeing him so bog, waxt also wondrous wroth.
ref: 1592, William Warner, chapter XXXVII, in Albions England, volume VII, page 167:
text: Bogge, bold, forward, sawcy. So we say, a very bog Fellow.
ref: 1691, John Ray, South and East Country Words, page 90:
glosses: Bold; boastful; proud.
Derived terms: boggish
boggishly
bog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bôg
enpr: bäg
ipa: /bɔɡ/
ipa: /bɑɡ/
enpr: bäg
ipa: /bɑɡ/
enpr: bŏg
ipa: /bɒɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: bogs
form: bug
Etymology: Uncertain, although possibly related to bug in its original senses of "big" and "puffed up".
Senses: examples: text: Their bog it nuver ceases.
ref: 1839, Charles Clark, John Noakes and Mary Styles, l. 3:
glosses: Puffery, boastfulness.
bog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bôg
enpr: bäg
ipa: /bɔɡ/
ipa: /bɑɡ/
enpr: bäg
ipa: /bɑɡ/
enpr: bŏg
ipa: /bɒɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: bogs
form: bogging
form: bogged
form: bogged
form: bug
Etymology: Uncertain, although possibly related to bug in its original senses of "big" and "puffed up".
Senses: examples: text: If you had not written to me... we had broke now, the Frenchmen bogged us so often with departing.
ref: 1546, State Papers King Henry the Eighth, volume XI, published 1852, page 163:
text: A Frencheman: whom he [Manlius Torquatus] slew, being bogged [Latin: provocatus] by hym.
ref: 1556, Nicholas Grimald's translation of Cicero as Marcus Tullius Ciceroes Thre Bokes of Duties to Marcus His Sonne, Vol. III, p. 154
glosses: To provoke, to bug.
bog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bôg
enpr: bäg
ipa: /bɔɡ/
ipa: /bɑɡ/
enpr: bäg
ipa: /bɑɡ/
enpr: bŏg
ipa: /bɒɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: bogs
form: bogging
form: bogged
form: bogged
Etymology: From bug off, a clipping of bugger off, likely under the influence of bog (coarse British slang for "toilet[s]").
Senses: glosses: To go away.
raw_tags: with "off"
Derived terms: bog off
bog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bôg
enpr: bäg
ipa: /bɔɡ/
ipa: /bɑɡ/
enpr: bäg
ipa: /bɑɡ/
enpr: bŏg
ipa: /bɒɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: bogs
form: bogging
form: bogged
form: bogged
Etymology: From an abbreviation of Bogdanoff, in reference to Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff.
Senses: glosses: To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial facial appearance.
examples: text: My nose is already pretty good and I don't want to bog myself.
ref: 2023 August 4, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/:
glosses: To have excessive cosmetic surgery performed on oneself, often with a poor or conspicuously unnatural result.
Related terms: spag bog
means
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːnz/
ipa: /minz/
rhymes: -iːnz
Etymology: From mean (“method or course of action used to achieve some result”). Compare French moyens, German Mittel.
Senses: glosses: plural of mean
means
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːnz/
ipa: /minz/
rhymes: -iːnz
Forms: form: means
Etymology: From mean (“method or course of action used to achieve some result”). Compare French moyens, German Mittel.
Senses: examples: text: She treated him as a means to an end.
text: A car is a means of transport.
text: And by this means also he had them the more at vantage, being tired and harassed with a long march; and more at mercy, being cut off far from their country, and therefore not able by any sudden flight to get to retreat, and to renew their troubles.
ref: 1622, Francis Bacon, History of the reign of King Henry VII:
text: Our hope in him is dead: let us return,
And strain what other means is left unto us
In our dear peril.
ref: 1623, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, act V, scene 1:
text: In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
ref: 2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:
glosses: An instrument or condition to achieve a result.
raw_tags: with of/to
Synonyms: wherewithal
Derived terms: by all means
by any means
by fair means or foul
by means of
by no manner of means
by no means
k-means clustering
means of exchange
means of grace
means of labor
means of production
production means
means of transport
means of transportation
means test
means to an end
not by any manner of means
not by any means
of means
of modest means
the end justifies the means
the ends justify the means
within one's means
means
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːnz/
ipa: /minz/
rhymes: -iːnz
Etymology: From mean (“method or course of action used to achieve some result”). Compare French moyens, German Mittel.
Senses: examples: text: a person of means; independent means
text: He was living beyond his means.
text: Where there is much means to be used, and conditions yet to be performed, for the continuation and Consummation of our Justification, there it is not yet continued or consummate.
ref: 1676, Richard Baxter, A Treatise of Justifying Righteousness, page 163:
text: Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce
ref: 1888, Karl Marx, edited by Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, page 5:
text: Then the other 12 packers […] were men without much means, who lived in Fresno
ref: 1921, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Authorizing association of producers of agricultural products, page 99:
glosses: Financial resources; wealth.
raw_tags: with of/to
examples: text: She is a woman of means.
text: Hotels that are so priced that only people of means can stay.
text: Some kind of writer. He didn't have to make a living; he had means.
ref: 1955, Rex Stout, “Die Like a Dog”, in Three Witnesses, Bantam Books, published 23 October 1994, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: Financial resources; wealth.
Substantial wealth.
raw_tags: with of/to
Derived terms: independent means
live beyond one's means
man of means
woman of means
not by any manner of means
of means
private means
ways and means
means
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːnz/
ipa: /minz/
rhymes: -iːnz
Etymology: From mean (“method or course of action used to achieve some result”). Compare French moyens, German Mittel.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mean
raw_tags: with of/to
tomorrow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈmɒɹəʊ/
ipa: /təˈmʌɹəʊ/
ipa: /təˈmɒɹə/
ipa: /təˈmɒɹəʊ/
ipa: /ðəˈmɒɹæ/
ipa: /təˈmɑɹoʊ/
ipa: /tʊˈmɑɹoʊ/
ipa: /təˈmɑɹə/
ipa: /təˈmɒɹoʊ/
ipa: /təˈmɑɹə/
ipa: /təˈmɔɹoʊ/
ipa: /təˈmɒɹoʊ/
ipa: /təˈmɑɹoʊ/
ipa: /tʊ-/
rhymes: -ɒɹəʊ
Forms: form: to morrow
form: to-morrow
form: tomorrah
form: tomorra
Etymology: From Middle English tomorwe, tomorwen, from Old English tō morgne (“tomorrow”, adverb), from tō (“at, on”) + morgne (dative of morgen (“morning”)), from Proto-Germanic *murganaz (“morning”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mergʰ- (“to blink, to twinkle”), equivalent to to- + morrow.
Senses: examples: text: He has vamp'd an old speech, and the court to their sorrow, / Shall hear him harangue against Prior to morrow.
ref: 1711 [December?] (date written), Jonathan Swift, “An Excellent New Song. Being the Intended Speech of a Famous Orator against Peace [i.e., Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham].”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume VII, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 72:
text: It was eight o'clock to-morrow evening when I buckled up my travelling writing-desk in its leather case, paid my Bill, and got on my warm coats and wrappers.
ref: 1855, Charles Dickens, “The Holly-tree. Third Branch—The Bill”, in Christmas Stories […] (The Works of Charles Dickens; XV), de luxe edition, London: Chapman and Hall, published 1881, →OCLC, page 63:
glosses: On the day after the present day.
examples: text: If you don’t get your life on track today, you’re going to be very sorry tomorrow.
glosses: At some point in the future; later on
examples: text: Resolved, &c. That the House be Called over again on Tomorrow Month, being the Six-and-twentieth Day of April next.
ref: 1664 March 28, debate in Great Britain's House of Commons, printed in 1803 in the Journals of the House of Commons, page 538
text: 'You shall go to it on to-morrow week, so make haste and get well!'
ref: 1840, “Melancholy Death of Amelia V”, in The Christian Guardian (and Church of England magazine), page 60:
glosses: On next (period of time other than a day, such as a week or a month), following the present (period of time).
examples: text: To prevent this, a committee for peace was proposed for to-morrow, who heard the ministers and Mr. Anderson upon the heads of the affair, but in vain; when their complaint was given in in Synod, and referred to the next Synod […]
ref: 1717 October 8, Robert Wodrow, in a letter to Mr. James Hart, printed in 1828, Robert Wodrow, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, page xxii
text: […] after he hade drunk liberally in the Advocate's house that same day, went to bed in health, but was taken up stark dead to-morrow morning; and such was the testimony of honour heaven was pleased to allow Montrose's pompuous funerals.
ref: 1817, James Kirkton, The Secret and True History of the Church of Scotland, page 126:
glosses: On the next day (following some date in the past).