cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
murex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjʊɚ.ɛks/
Forms: form: murexes
form: murices
Etymology: From Latin murex.
Senses: examples: text: The bank of crushed murex shell that Professor Bosanquet found here, and again at Palaikastro, in company with a whole mass of Kamáres pottery, shows that the men of Sidon and Tyre were not the first to practise the dying of purple.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 25:
text: The murexes (family Muricidae) are one of the most beautiful and sought-after families by shell collectors.
ref: 1991, John Montroll, Robert J. Lang, Origami Sea Life, page 56:
glosses: Any of the genus Murex of marine gastropods.
Hypernyms: muricine
Hyponyms: woodcock murex
Derived terms: taxonomic: Murex tribulus
word: caltrop murex
alt: Haustellum brandaris
word: purple dye murex
alt: Haustellum brandaris
word: spiny murex
caltrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăl'trəp
ipa: /ˈkæltɹəp/
rhymes: -æltɹəp
enpr: kăl'trəp
enpr: kôl'trəp
ipa: /ˈkaltɹəp/
ipa: /ˈkɔːltɹəp/
rhymes: -æltɹəp
rhymes: -ɔːltɹəp
Forms: form: caltrops
Etymology: From Middle English calketrappe, from Old English calcatrippe, from Medieval Latin calcatrippa (“thistle”), from Latin calx or calcare + trappa.
Senses: examples: text: […] her father, the emperor Alexius, who reigned AD 1081-1118, ordered caltrops to be cast in front of his archers […]
ref: 1858, The journal of the British Archaeological Association:
text: By Sung times, several different types of caltrops had been developed. As in earlier times, both caltrops could be made from both wood and iron...
ref: 1954, Joseph Needham, Ling Wang, Science and civilisation in China:
text: Caltrops, tetrahedrons, and similar devices are designed to puncture vehicle tires or limit foot traffic. The standard design has four points.
ref: 2000, Alan Vick, Aerospace operations in urban environments: exploring new concepts:
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
related: word: caltrap
word: calthrop
word: ;
word: galtrop
word: galthrap
word: galtrap
word: galthrop
hypernyms: weaponry#Noun
weapon#Noun
coordinate_terms: Czech hedgehog
;
punji#Noun
punji stick
;
spike strip
glosses: A metal object, usually small, with spikes arranged so that, when thrown onto the ground, one always faces up as a threat to pedestrians, horses, and vehicles (also used as a heraldic charge).
synonyms: knapweed
glosses: The starthistle, Centaurea calcitrapa, a plant with sharp thorns.
glosses: Any of a number of flowering plants in the family Zygophyllaceae, including several members of the genus Kallstroemia and the species Tribulus terrestris, native to warm temperate and tropical regions.
Derived terms: water caltrop
pundit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌn.dɪt/
ipa: /ˈpan.dɪt/
rhymes: -ʌndɪt
Forms: form: pundits
form: pandit
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Indo-Iranian *pra-
Sanskrit प्र- (pra-)
Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-
Sanskrit ज्ञा (jñā)
Sanskrit प्रज्ञा (prajñā)
Prakrit 𑀧𑀡𑁆𑀡𑀸 (paṇṇā)bor.?
Sanskrit पण्डा (paṇḍā)
Sanskrit -इत (-ita)
Sanskrit पण्डित (paṇḍita)bor.
Hindi पंडित (paṇḍit)bor.
Urdu پَنْڈِٹ (panḍiṭ)bor.
English pundit
Borrowed from Hindi पंडित (paṇḍit) / Urdu پنڈت (panḍit), from Sanskrit पण्डित (paṇḍita, “scholar, learned man, teacher, philosopher”). Doublet of pandit.
Senses: examples: text: This week we introduce Jenny Walker, who will be The Observer's expert pundit for the duration of the World Cup.
ref: 2006 June 4, The Observer:
glosses: An expert in a particular field, especially as called upon to provide comment or opinion in the media; a commentator, a critic.
examples: text: Pundits in black gowns, with spectacles on their noses and undigested wisdom in their insides; bearded headmen of the wards; [...] all these people and more also you might find in the white room.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘On the City Wall’, In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 430:
glosses: A learned person in India; someone with knowledge of Sanskrit, philosophy, religion and law; a Hindu scholar.
examples: text: At every hundredth pace the Pundit would automatically slip one bead. Each complete circuit of the rosary thus represented ten thousand paces.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 295:
glosses: A native surveyor in British India, trained to carry out clandestine surveillance beyond British borders.
Derived terms: pundithood
punditocracy
punditry
punditship
Related terms: word: hafiz
word: hafez
word: influencer
word: pandit
alt: qari
word: qari'
homophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homophone
hippocampus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hippocampi
form: hippocampuses
Etymology: From Late Latin hippocampus, from Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος (hippókampos, from ῐ̔́ππος (hĭ́ppos, “horse”) + κάμπος (kámpos, “sea-monster”)). The anatomy sense is so named from its resemblance to the seahorse.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: hippocamp
sea horse
glosses: A mythological creature with the front head and forelimbs of a horse and the rear of a fish.
examples: text: Holonyms: limbic system < brain < central nervous system, CNS
text: The hippocampus is central to the laying down of memories.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 63:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: HIPP
glosses: A part of the brain located inside the temporal lobe, consisting mainly of grey matter. It is a component of the limbic system and plays a role in memory and emotion.
Derived terms: hippocampal
hippocampectomy
hippocampic
hippocampocortical
parahippocampus
bu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of bushel, a unit of weight or dry measure.
glosses: Clipping of bureau.
lettre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lettres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of letter.
nu body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nu bodies
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: nucleosome
Synonyms: ν body
Ν body
su
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: su
Etymology: See xu.
Senses: examples: text: 100 su = 1 Vietnam dong
ref: 1970, Bernard John Hurren, Airports of the World, page 105:
text: Old people pine for the days when a serving of rice cost a 100 su coin.
ref: 2015, Kim Huynh, Vietnam as if...: Tales of youth, love and destiny, page 4:
glosses: Alternative form of xu (“former Vietnamese currency”).
le
Language: English
Part of speech: article
Pronunciation: ipa: /lə/
ipa: /leɪ/
ipa: /liː/
rhymes: -ə
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -iː
homophone: luh (with /ə/)
homophone: lay
homophone: lei
homophone: ley (with /eɪ/)
homophone: lea
homophone: Lea
homophone: Lee
homophone: leigh
homophone: Leigh
homophone: li (with /iː/)
Etymology: Borrowed from French le (“the”).
Senses: examples: text: Le mew. Le purr.
ref: 1949, Michael Maltese, For Scent-imental Reasons, spoken by Penelope Pussycat:
text: Waiter: 'Bonjour! I am le waiter on this ship! [...] Ah! Le strong silent type!'
ref: 1996 September 28, Game Freak, Pokémon Blue, Nintendo, level/area: S.S. Anne:
text: […]upon arrival, le girlfriend realizes she has left her ID back at my house (a 1 1/2 hour roundtrip on the Metro), […]
ref: 2001 June 24, LaManna, “My Weekend...”, in alt.punk (Usenet):
text: And then le boyfriend perks up and names around 8 different brands (Stila, MAC, Becca, Nars etc..) - I was *SO* proud of him!! :)
ref: 2002 December 27, Amelia, “Re: Neat things SANTA brought me...”, in alt.fashion (Usenet):
text: That was always OUR song (me and le girlfriend of the time).
ref: 2003 January 10, johnny dupe (quoting nowhere man), “Re: I can walk with jezus...”, in alt.fan.wings (Usenet):
text: That's when Waitress Seductress Extraordinaire comes back and gets our order. […] "We're sharing an order of à la Appalachia, he says, handing over the menus and turning his focus back to me. Le waitress stomps off. I ask, "Why are they called that?" "Because when they've got the fries stacked up they're higher than a mountain range." I groan and touch my stomach. "You're funny," he says, his eyes twinkling.
ref: 2012 October 1, Miranda Kenneally, Stealing Parker, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: the
Derived terms: le sigh
Related terms: moi
ze
le
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /lə/
ipa: /leɪ/
ipa: /liː/
rhymes: -ə
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -iː
homophone: luh (with /ə/)
homophone: lay
homophone: lei
homophone: ley (with /eɪ/)
homophone: lea
homophone: Lea
homophone: Lee
homophone: leigh
homophone: Leigh
homophone: li (with /iː/)
ipa: /li/
ipa: /leɪ/
ipa: /lə/
ipa: /leɪ/
ipa: /liː/
rhymes: -ə
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -iː
homophone: luh (with /ə/)
homophone: lay
homophone: lei
homophone: ley (with /eɪ/)
homophone: lea
homophone: Lea
homophone: Lee
homophone: leigh
homophone: Leigh
homophone: li (with /iː/)
Etymology: Borrowed from Old French lez (“side”).
Senses: examples: text: Chester-le-Street is a town in County Durham near an old Roman road.
text: Witton-le-Wear, Dalton-le-Dale, Hetton-le-Hole
glosses: Next to, near (still used in some place names).
block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɒk/
ipa: /blɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: bloc
Forms: form: blocke
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bloc.
cupboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌb.əd/
ipa: /ˈkʌb.ɚd/
ipa: /ˈkɐb.əd/
ipa: /ˈkʌp.boɹd/
note: Indic
ipa: /kəˈbo(ɾ)d/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkəbə(ɾ)d/
ipa: /ˈkʊbəd/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: /ˈkʊbərd/
rhymes: -ʌbə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: cupboards
form: cupboarding
form: cupboarded
form: cupboarded
form: cobbarde
form: cobbourd
form: coberde
form: cobord
form: copbord
form: copborde
form: copbourd
form: copbourde
form: copburd
form: copburde
form: couborde
form: cowbard
form: cubbard
form: cubbarde
form: cubberd
form: cubbert
form: cubboard
form: cubboorde
form: cubbord
form: cubborde
form: cupbert
form: cupbard
form: cupboarde
form: cupboord
form: cupbord
form: cupborde
form: cupbourd
form: cupbourde
form: cupburd
form: cupburde
form: cuppord
form: cupporde
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English cuppeborde, cupbord. Equivalent to cup + board. Phonetic variants show that the /p/ in the original forms had assimilated to the present-day /b/ by the 16th century; the etymological spelling has, however, dominated from the 18th century.
Senses: examples: text: There was a time, when all the bodies members / Rebell'd againſt the Belly; thus accus'd it: / That onely like a Gulfe it did remaine / I'th midd'ſt a th'body, idle and vnactiue, / Still cubbording the Viand, neuer bearing / Like labour with the reſt, where th'other Inſtruments / Did ſee, and heare, deuiſe, inſtruct, walke, feele, / And mutually participate, did miniſter / Vnto the appetite; […]
ref: 1613, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act I, scene i, pages 1–2:
glosses: To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.
wardrobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːdɹəʊb/
ipa: /ˈwɔɹdɹoʊb/
Forms: form: wardrobes
Etymology: From Middle English warderobe, from Old Northern French warderoube, wardereube, northern variants of Old French garderobe, from garder (“to keep safe”) + robe. Subsequently influenced by various senses of garderobe as they developed in French. Doublet of garderobe.
Senses: glosses: A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
glosses: A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
glosses: The building housing such a department.
glosses: Any closet used for storing anything.
glosses: A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
glosses: The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).
examples: text: A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.
glosses: A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom.
examples: text: Now death... crams his store house to the top with bloud,
Might I now and Andrea in one fight,
Make vp thy wardroope
Richer by a knight.
ref: 1605, 1st Pt. Jeronimo
glosses: Anything that similarly stores or houses something.
glosses: The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.
glosses: Any collection of clothing.
glosses: Any collection of anything.
glosses: A private chamber, particularly one used for sleeping or (euphemistic) urinating and defecating.
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Badger feces, particularly used in tracking game.
Synonyms: sense: movable furniture for storing clothes
word: armoir
sense: movable furniture for storing clothes
word: dresser
sense: movable furniture for storing clothes
word: cupboard
sense: movable furniture for storing clothes
word: closet
sense: movable furniture for storing clothes
english: Irish & Scots
translation: Irish & Scots
word: press
sense: movable furniture for storing clothes
word: shrank
sense: department overseeing costumes
word: costume department
sense: sleeping chamber
word: bedroom
sense: lavatory or outhouse
word: bathroom
Derived terms: removing wardrobe
standing wardrobe
walk-in wardrobe
wardrobe account
wardrobe bedstead
wardrobe beetle
wardrobe book
wardrobe dealer
wardrobe keeper
wardrobe maid
wardrobe malfunction
wardrobe man
wardrobe master
wardrobe mistress
wardrobe room
wardrobe stuff
wardrobe trunk
wardrobe woman
Related terms: lowboy
tallboy
wardrobe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːdɹəʊb/
ipa: /ˈwɔɹdɹoʊb/
Forms: form: wardrobes
form: wardrobing
form: wardrobed
form: wardrobed
Etymology: From Middle English warderobe, from Old Northern French warderoube, wardereube, northern variants of Old French garderobe, from garder (“to keep safe”) + robe. Subsequently influenced by various senses of garderobe as they developed in French. Doublet of garderobe.
Senses: examples: text: […] impressed with the quality of the talent and production, good wardrobing and speedy pacing.
ref: 1954 December 11, Billboard, page 20:
glosses: To act as a wardrobe department, to provide clothing or sets of clothes.
examples: text: Wardrobing, the act of buying a nice piece of clothing, wearing it once, and returning it, is an $8.8 billion problem for the retail industry.
ref: 2015, Adam Toporek, Be Your Customer's Hero, AMACOM, →ISBN, page 195:
glosses: Ordering a clothing item online and returning it for a refund after having worn it.
examples: text: Wardrobing is where people will order the same thing in three different sizes to see which one fits and then they return the other two, not realizing that those other two most of the time don’t go back on that retailer’s shelves.
ref: 2022 January 28, Katie Tarasov, “What really happens to Amazon returns”, in CNBC:
glosses: Ordering multiple sizes of the same clothing item online and returning all but the one that fits best.
hot press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot presses
Senses: glosses: An airing cupboard.
hot press
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hot presses
form: hot pressing
form: hot pressed
form: hot pressed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hotpress.
tedious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiː.dɪəs/
ipa: /ˈti.di.əs/
ipa: /ˈti.d͡ʒəs/
rhymes: -iːdiəs
Forms: form: more tedious
form: most tedious
form: tædious
form: teedyus
Etymology: English tedi(um) + -ous, from Old French tedieus, from Late Latin taediōsus, from Latin taedium (“weariness, tedium”).
Senses: examples: text: But in the mean time […] it looks all ſo like ſubterfuge and inveagling; it is ſo nauſeating and teadious a task, that no man thinks he ovvs the Author ſo much ſervice as to find out the reaſon of his ovvn Categoricalneſs for him.
ref: 1672, [Andrew Marvell], The Rehearsal Transpros’d: Or, Animadversions upon a Late Book, Entituled, A Preface, Shewing what Grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, pages 57–58:
text: However, upon a ſtrict Review, I blotted out ſeveral Paſſages of leſs Moment which were in my firſt Copy, for fear of being cenſured as tedious and trifling, whereof Travellers are often, perhaps not without Juſtice, accuſed.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Great Storm Described, the Long-Boat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page [176]:
text: John Gilpin's ſpouse ſaid to her dear, / Though wedded we have been / Theſe twice ten tedious years, yet we / No holiday have ſeen.
ref: 1782, William Cowper, “The Diverting History of John Gilpin, […]”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], published 1785, →OCLC, page 343:
text: [pages 24–25] The very fact that these commonplace authors are never more than half-conscious when they write, would be enough to account for their dulness of mind and the tedious things they produce. […] [page 26] The other kind of tediousness is only relative: a reader may find a work dull because he has no interest in the question treated of in it, and this means that his intellect is restricted. The best work may, therefore, be tedious subjectively, tedious, I mean, to this or that particular person; […]
ref: 1891, Arthur Schopenhauer, “On Style”, in T[homas] Bailey Saunders, transl., The Art of Literature: A Series of Essays … Selected and Translated with a Preface (Schopenhauer Series; 4), New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Co.; London: Swan Sonnenschien & Co., Lim., →OCLC, pages 24–25 and 26:
synonyms: word: drudgerous
word: irksome
word: longsome
word: monotonous
word: tedious
word: torporific
word: wearing
word: tiresome
word: wearisome
glosses: Boring, monotonous, time-consuming, wearisome, livelong.
wikipedia: Francesco Brunery
Derived terms: tediously
tediousness
Related terms: tedium
dracology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draconology
Etymology: From Latin dracō (“dragon”) + -logy (“scientific study”).
Senses: synonyms: dragonology
glosses: The study of the mythology surrounding dragons.
dracaena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹəˈkeɪ.nə/
Forms: form: dracaenas
Etymology: From the genus name Dracaena, from Latin dracaena, from Ancient Greek δράκαινᾰ (drákaină, “she-dragon”).
Senses: examples: text: “Again with this?” I groaned to the dracaenae. (“Talk to them!” numerous readers advised.) The plants chuckled and shook their heads. No they didn’t. They’re plants!
ref: 2022 October 29, Melissa Kirsch, “Garden Varieties”, in The New York Times:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Dracaena of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Dracaena fragrans
word: cornstalk dracaena
kine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English kyn, kyne, equivalent to ky + -en (plural ending), a double plural.
Senses: examples: text: Pippin could see all the Pelennor laid out before him, dotted into the distance with farmsteads and little walls, barns and byres, but nowhere could he see any kine or other beasts.
ref: 1955 October 20, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Minas Tirith”, in The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings […], New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December 1978, →ISBN, book V, page 40:
glosses: plural of cow
Derived terms: kine-pox
kinepox
kith and kine
kine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: kines
Senses: examples: text: It may be well to note that a mile per hour is equal to 44.7 kines, and that accordingly a sharp walking pace may attain 200 kines […]
ref: 1890, E/MJ, Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 50, page 169:
text: The Committee on Mechanical Nomenclature suggest the usage of the term Kine, Bole, and Barad thus:– 1 cm. per sec. = 1 kine.
ref: 1888, The Electrical Engineer, volume 2, page 223:
text: In what respect is the expression “a velocity of one kine,” better than “a velocity of one centimetre per second;”
ref: 1888, The Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review, volume 23, number 566, page 330:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The unit velocity in the CGS system, equal to one centimeter per second.
kine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
rhymes: -ɪni
ipa: /kaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: kines
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Clipping of kinescope (“type of recording”).
kine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
rhymes: -ɪni
Forms: form: kines
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In kinesics, any of the individual movements composing a kineme.
Related terms: da kine
kine bud
Troubles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Troubles
Senses: examples: text: Under McGlinchey's leadership, the INLA committed several atrocities and murders during the Troubles, resulting in the Co Derry native's imprisonment both north and south of the border.
ref: 2023 August 1, “Son of slain republicans brings actions”, in The Irish Times, page 4:
glosses: The continued violence and terrorist, military and paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland that happened from the mid 1960s to the late 1990s.
clou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kluː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: clue
homophone: clew
Forms: form: clous
Etymology: From French clou. Doublet of clove.
Senses: examples: text: But had he not refused her the wherewithal to remember him—the pearls she needed as the clou of her dear collection, the great relic among relics?
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
text: Partly because they were constructed of multiple shot-scenes and recorded exclusively in LS, their elaborate decors acquired an even more privileged role — as tableaux and clous of spectacle — much in the manner of late nineteenth-century French stage productions […]
ref: 1994, Richard Abel, The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema, 1896-1914, page 70:
glosses: Something which holds the greatest attention; the chief point of interest.
trouble maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trouble makers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of troublemaker.
hooligan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhuː.lɪ.ɡən/
Forms: form: hooligans
form: hooliganing
form: hooliganed
form: hooliganed
Etymology: Probably a variant of the Irish surname Houlihan, 1890s.
Senses: glosses: To act as a hooligan (sense 1).
glosses: To treat (a person) roughly.
hooligan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhuː.lɪ.ɡən/
Forms: form: hooligan
form: hooligans
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinook Jargon ulakan, from Clatsop Chinook, with spelling and pronunciation influenced by the preceding.
Senses: examples: text: One year there was a strong wind. We couldn’t catch herring, but they were there. We caught lots of hooligans (smelt) and got through the year on those.
ref: 1993, James H. Barker, quoting Larry John, “Smelt Running Season, Fish Hitting: Qusiirvik, Kaugun”, in Always Getting Ready: Upterrlainarluta: Yup’ik Eskimo Subsistence in Southwest Alaska, Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 72, column 2:
text: Haines and Klukwan hooligan harvesters reported that they exchanged hooligan products primarily for other food items, especially those unavailable in the Chilkat and Chilkoot area or those which were inaccessible to the harvester for various reasons. Respondents reported that virtually any wild food might be obtained for hooligan oil.
ref: 1994, Martha F. Betts, The Subsistence Hooligan Fishery of the Chilkat and Chilkoot Rivers, page 59:
text: Low-gradient, clear water streams on the western side of Portage Pass provide spawning and rearing habitat for red salmon, silver salmon, pink salmon, chum salmon, hooligan (smelt), and Dolly Varden (U.S. Bureau of Land Management 1977b).
ref: 1995, U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration & State of Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Whittier Access Project, Seward Highway to Port of Whittier, Alaska: Draft Environmental Impact Statement, page 4-8:
text: Hooligan (smelt) are often spotted from the point as they come in with the tide.
ref: 2004, Kenai Peninsula Tour Guidebook, →ISBN, page 4:
synonyms: eulachon
candlefish
glosses: A type of fish, an anadromous smelt, Thaleichthys pacificus, found in the North Pacific.
incident
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.sɪ.dənt/
Forms: form: incidents
Etymology: Recorded since 1412, from Middle French incident, from Latin incidens, the present active participle of incidō (“to happen, befall”), itself from in- (“on”) + -cidō, the combining form of cadō (“to fall”).
Senses: examples: text: She could not recall the time of the incident.
text: It was an incident that he hoped to forget.
text: The suspect was released without further incident.
text: Where else in the world can you pre-order sushi and fondue on some of the trains, travel in family carriages equipped with mini-playgrounds, or use a request stop button at some small stations? Where else can you hear the announcement: "The train at Platform 4 is ten minutes late due to an incident in another country," as I did once at the Swiss station of Spiez?
ref: 2025 October 15, Vitali Vitaliev, “The recipe for Swiss bliss”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 68:
synonyms: word: proceeding
word: affair
word: befalling
word: episode
word: event
word: goings-on
word: happening
word: hap
word: incident
word: occasion
word: occurrence
word: proceeding
glosses: An event or occurrence.
glosses: A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
glosses: An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.
glosses: An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.
An event affecting an aircraft, usually a plane crash.
raw_tags: used in apposition
Derived terms: coincident
critical incident stress management
cyberincident
incidency
incidental
incidentless
incident report
incident room
incident ticket system
nonincident
noodle incident
preincident
seroincident
subincident
vaxident
without incident
incident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.sɪ.dənt/
Etymology: Recorded since 1412, from Middle French incident, from Latin incidens, the present active participle of incidō (“to happen, befall”), itself from in- (“on”) + -cidō, the combining form of cadō (“to fall”).
Senses: examples: text: No major hazards incident to this job.
text: It is at this juncture that Toder launches into the familiar and troubling topic of monogamy versus non-monogamy. She outwardly expresses no preference for either option, considering each to hold certain consequences incident to it.
ref: 1980 December 6, Cindy Rizzo, “Jewish, Lesbian, Feminist, Psychologist, Author—All of the above and more”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 9:
glosses: Arising as the result of an event, inherent.
examples: text: The incident light illuminated the surface.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Falling on or striking a surface.
raw_tags: of a stream of particles or radiation
examples: text: As the ordinary course of common affairs is disposed of by general laws, so likewise men's rarer incident necessities and utilities should be with special equity considered.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
examples: text: All chances incident to mans frail life.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 43:
text: 17th century, Richard Milward, "Preface" to Seldeniana
the studies incident to his profession
text: The Vives, like the strangles, is most incident to young horses, and usually proceeds from the same causes, such as catching cold, being over-heated, or over-worked, about the time of shedding their teeth.
ref: 1816, Richard Lawrence, The complete farrier, and British sportsman, page 245:
glosses: Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
topics: law
glosses: Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
examples: text: The second inequality follows from the fact that all the edges incident with a fixed vertex separate [an arbitrary graph] G.
ref: 2005, Reinhard Diestel, Graph Theory - Electronic Edition, 3rd edition, page 12:
text: If there is only one ideal point U and only one ideal line u, then either (i) every point in u is incident with a line in U, or else (ii) no point in u is incident with any line of U.
ref: 1968, Peter Dembowski, Finite Geometries, page 315:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In a relation of incidence
coup d'œil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coups d'œil
Etymology: Borrowed from French coup d'œil.
Senses: examples: text: The royal party had dined in the greenhouse, the coup d'œil of which was as striking as it was new. Vast stands of the most costly exotics reached to the glass roof, which was partly covered by a luxuriant vine, or by a small scarlet creeper.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 54–55:
glosses: Alternative spelling of coup d'oeil.
coup de foudre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coups de foudre
Etymology: Borrowed from French coup de foudre (“lightning strike”).
Senses: examples: text: The encounter with Laura that Good Friday was a coup de foudre, and for the rest of his life he was to adore her, mostly from afar.
ref: 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 84:
text: They immediately fell madly in love. A lightning bolt. Coup de foudre.
ref: 2023, Pamela Anderson, Love, Pamela, →ISBN:
glosses: A sudden unexpected event, especially an emotional one; love at first sight.
love at first sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For the young striker and the fans, it was love at first sight.
synonyms: instalove
glosses: an instantaneous attraction
doux
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /duː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: do
homophone: doo
homophone: dew
homophone: due (yod-dropping)
Forms: form: more doux
form: most doux
Etymology: Borrowed from French doux. Doublet of douce, dolce, and dulce.
Senses: topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
glosses: Sweet.
Related terms: billet-doux
anna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænə/
rhymes: -ænə
Forms: form: annas
form: ana
Etymology: From Hindi अन्न (ann, “food, grain”), आना (ānā), from Sanskrit अन्न (anna).
Senses: glosses: A former Indian coin.
Coordinate terms: pie (1
12 anna)
paisa (1
4 anna)
rupee (16 annas)
Derived terms: annas in the rupee
Hannah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhænə/
rhymes: -ænə
Forms: form: Hannahs
form: Hanna
Etymology: From previous romanizations of Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ), chiefly for the mother of Samuel, from חַנָּה (ḥannâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). As a Wren with the Royal Marines, after Hannah Snell (1723–1792) who disguised herself as a man to serve in the British military. Doublet of Ann, Anne, Anna, and Ana.
Senses: examples: text: Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am I not better to thee than ten sons?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 1:8:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Mother of the prophet Samuel in the Old Testament.
examples: text: "What about Hannah Schreiber?"
He smiled, flashing some gold in his mouth. "How do you like that name? She was only a girl, but she had an old lady's name. - - -
ref: 1959, Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus, and Five Short Stories, Houghton Mifflin, published 1959, page 116:
text: She could buy pretty clothes for a girl and plait her hair with ribbons. And she could call her a nice, old-fashioned, middle-class name like Sarah or Emma or Hannah.
ref: 2002, Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 33:
text: I wish it were like the movies, the name something silly, CanDee or Bambie, something you could roll your eyes at. Misti with two hearts over the I's. But it's Hannah, which is a real woman, presumably like me.
ref: 2012, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Phoenix, published 2013, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A place name in the United States, which could be from the given name or surname:
An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Georgia.
glosses: A place name in the United States, which could be from the given name or surname:
A small town in Mayfield Township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan.
glosses: A place name in the United States, which could be from the given name or surname:
A minor city in Cavalier County, North Dakota.
glosses: A place name in the United States, which could be from the given name or surname:
An unincorporated community in Florence County, South Carolina.
glosses: A hamlet in Hannah cum Hagnaby parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF5079).
Derived terms: holy Hannah
honest-to-Hannah
Hannah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhænə/
rhymes: -ænə
Forms: form: Hannahs
Etymology: From previous romanizations of Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ), chiefly for the mother of Samuel, from חַנָּה (ḥannâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). As a Wren with the Royal Marines, after Hannah Snell (1723–1792) who disguised herself as a man to serve in the British military. Doublet of Ann, Anne, Anna, and Ana.
Senses: glosses: A Wren serving with the Royal Marines.
Hannah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhænə/
rhymes: -ænə
Senses: glosses: An Irish and Scottish surname, a variant of Hanna.
chacun à son goût
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: à chacun son goût
Etymology: Mutation of the French à chacun son goût (“to each his own taste”), typically heard amongst Laurentian, Quebecois and Louisiana Francophones. The well-known aria by this name in the Strauss opera Die Fledermaus may have helped establish the mutation.
Senses: glosses: Used to acknowledge that different people have different tastes or preferences.
Synonyms: to each his own
there's no accounting for taste
Related terms: word: de gustibus non disputandum est
ou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊ.uː/
rhymes: -əʊuː
Forms: form: ous
Etymology: From Hawaiian ʻōʻū.
Senses: glosses: A probably extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea.
ou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊ.uː/
rhymes: -əʊuː
ipa: /əʊ/
ipa: /oʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ˈəʊ.uː/
rhymes: -əʊuː
Forms: form: ous
form: ouens
Etymology: From Afrikaans ou, probably from Dutch ouwe (“old man”).
Senses: examples: text: Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling
 We wanna see an ou called Sky High Lee
ref: 1962, Jeremy Taylor, “Ag Pleez Deddy”:
text: I couldn't care that the ous call me rooinek and sometimes whiterat because of my hair and face. At least I am not a hairyback I tell them.
ref: 1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 27:
text: “They're the same good and solid ous they'd been before. Because they managed not to think.”
ref: 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 292:
glosses: A fellow, guy, bloke.
roux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: rue
homophone: roo
Forms: form: roux
Etymology: Borrowed from French roux.
Senses: glosses: A mixture of fat (usually butter) and flour used to thicken sauces and stews.
Derived terms: curry roux
water roux
sous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Senses: glosses: plural of sou
sous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːz/
rhymes: -uːz
ipa: /suː/
rhymes: -uː
ipa: /suːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: sous
Senses: examples: text: The moment I cast my eyes upon him, I was predetermined not to give him a single sous […]
ref: 1802, Laurence Sterne, A sentimental journey through France and Italy, page 28:
text: A tritish maxim and not worth a sous
ref: 1822, The Manchester Iris: A Literary and Scientific Miscellany, page 371:
glosses: Obsolete form of sou (“French coin”).
glosses: plural of sous
sous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːz/
rhymes: -uːz
ipa: /suː/
rhymes: -uː
rhymes: -uː
ipa: /suːz/
rhymes: -uːz
ipa: /suː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: sous
Senses: examples: text: Denise left the Generator [restaurant] in the hands of her sous and took the train to New York to bail out her feckless brother and entertain her parents.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
text: A chef always looks out for his sous chef; a sous is always “under” his chef's wing—guided, nurtured, cared for, long after the stoves are turned off and the aprons are hung up. While other cooks are apprenticed to the kitchen, the sous is the lieutenant, the executor of Chef's wishes.
ref: 2014, Michael Gibney, Sous Chef: 24 Hours in the Kitchen:
glosses: Clipping of sous-chef.
Related terms: sous-vide
sue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: yod-dropping
ipa: /suː/
note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ʃuː/
note: without yod-dropping, without the yod-coalescence, conservative
ipa: /sjuː/
ipa: /sɪu̯/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: Sioux
homophone: sou
homophone: Su
homophone: Sue
Forms: form: sues
form: suing
form: sued
form: sued
Etymology: From Middle English seuen, sewen, siwen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suer, siwer et al. and Old French sivre (“to follow after”) (modern French suivre), from Vulgar Latin *sequere (“to follow”), from Latin sequi. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Doublet of segue. Related to suit.
Senses: examples: text: sue someone for selling a faulty product
text: I plan to sue you for everything you have.
text: He was sued by the late Geo. Walpole Leake for slander, and after two trials, occupying eight days, he was mulcted in heavy damages and costs.
ref: 1897, Warren Bert Kimberly, “W. Horgan”, in History of West Australia:
glosses: To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal (civil) action.
examples: text: The king of Bimsa sued for peace after Nynal's armies overran his territory; he knew any further resistance would only harm the common people.
glosses: To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: To clean (the beak, etc.).
raw_tags: of a hawk
examples: text: to sue a ship
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To leave high and dry on shore.
glosses: To court.
examples: text: And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum iv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XIII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
english: And the old knight said to the young knight, 'Sir, follow me'.
translation: And the old knight said to the young knight, 'Sir, follow me'.
text: though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd, / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To follow.
Derived terms: sue for peace
sue me
sue one's livery
sue out
Related terms: fig-sue
trou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaʊ/
Etymology: From trousers.
Senses: glosses: Trousers.
glosses: Rowing spandex shorts.
Derived terms: drop trou
Related terms: trou-de-loup
trou madame
tout le monde
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: Borrowed from French tout le monde.
Senses: examples: text: And when the aura of sports reaches the stratospheric level of a Michael Jordan, tout le monde takes notice.
ref: 1991 November 20, Chicago Tribune:
text: What's the sample here - a dozen people, a thousand, a million, tout le monde?
ref: 2001 February 4, Star Tribune:
text: Tout le monde is now saying these particular trans fats are so completely and utterly heinous for our tickers and arteries that lard is starting to look good again.
ref: 2005 August 29, New York Observer:
glosses: everyone, everybody
kegger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keggers
Etymology: From keg + -er.
Senses: examples: text: raging kegger
text: In March, Bryan went to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with Spring Break … Here to Party, a collection of songs about getting wasted at oceanside keggers.
ref: 2013 August 11, Jody Rosen, “Jody Rosen on the Rise of Bro-Country”, in New York Magazine:
glosses: Synonym of keg party.
synonyms: word: keg party
Related terms: bush party
Londoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌn.dən.ə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: Londoners
Etymology: From Middle English Londonere, from Old English Lundenware, Lundenwaran pl (“Londoners”), from Lunden (“London”) + -ware pl (suffix denoting inhabitants), equivalent to London + -er (“inhabitant of”, demonymic suffix).
Senses: examples: text: But the raw material that the Underground had to work on - Londoners themselves - was possibly not of the best. In 1905 Charles Yerkes had said:
Londoners are the worst people to get a move on I ever knew. To see them board and get off a train one thinks they had a thousand years to do it in; still they are getting better, and in the end I shall work them down to an allowance of thirty seconds.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 214:
text: Khan countered this by alleging that 'unfair' conditions, such as raising council tax, are being attached to any new funding deal that would "punish Londoners" for the effect the pandemic has had on passenger numbers. He added: "These short-term deals are trapping TfL on life support rather than putting it on the path to long-term sustainability."
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Further extension to Transport for London emergency funding”, in RAIL, number 948, page 8:
synonyms: Londonite
glosses: A person from, or an inhabitant of, London.
Related terms: Cockney
hardcore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑː(ɹ)dˈkɔː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: more hardcore
form: most hardcore
form: hard-core
Etymology: From hard + core: hard to the core; 1936 (n.); 1951 (adj.)
Senses: examples: text: He's a hardcore gamer.
synonyms: diehard
steely-eyed
tough as nails
gung ho
glosses: Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity.
glosses: So hard as to require extreme dedication to complete.
examples: text: That show was hardcore, dude.
glosses: Particularly intense; thrillingly dangerous or erratic; desirably violent in appearance; pleasing or "cool" due to intensity or danger.
glosses: Resistant to change.
glosses: Obscene or explicit.
topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
glosses: Depicting penetration and abnormal sexual activity.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Faster or more intense than the regular style.
hardcore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑː(ɹ)dˈkɔː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: hard-core
Etymology: From hard + core: hard to the core; 1936 (n.); 1951 (adj.)
Senses: examples: text: You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.
ref: 2014 August 24, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: gravel paths and cutting heating bills [print version: Cold comfort in technology, 23 August 2014, p. P5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property):
glosses: Broken bricks, stone and/or other aggregate used as foundations, especially in road and path laying.
examples: text: Fields began recording the hardcore punk bands in 1978 when few others would.
ref: 1981, Cary Darling, Billboard, page 10:
glosses: Several music genres, including:
Hardcore punk.
glosses: Several music genres, including:
Gangsta rap.
glosses: Several music genres, including:
Hardcore techno.
examples: text: Always more multiracial than other post-Rave scenes, Hardcore got “blacker” as hiphop, Ragga, dub and Soul influences kicked in, and by 93 it had evolved into Jungle. By this point, Hardcore/Jungle (the terms remain interchangeable) was universally scorned by dance hipsters and banished from the media.
ref: 1994 September, Simon Reynolds, “Above The Treeline”, in The Wire:
glosses: Several music genres, including:
Jungle.
glosses: Several music genres, including:
Outlaw country.
Derived terms: Christian hardcore
-core
digital hardcore
emocore
emotional hardcore
emotive hardcore
happy hardcore
hardcore breaks
hardcore porn
hardcore pornography
hardcore punk
hurtcore
melodic hardcore
nonhardcore
posthardcore
post-hardcore
trancecore
UK hardcore
hardcore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑː(ɹ)dˈkɔː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: hard-core
Etymology: From hard + core: hard to the core; 1936 (n.); 1951 (adj.)
Senses: glosses: In a hardcore manner; intensely or extremely.
oral sex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Beard’s climactic scene, an oral sex act, is not as startling or fresh as McClure apparently thinks. It is a continuation of the second act curtain of Albee's Tiny Alice, in which Irene Worth, shielded from the audience by her robe, seemingly displayed her nude body to John Gielgud, who dropped to his knees before her while she uttered orgiastic cries.
ref: 1967 November 3, “Off Broadway”, in Time:
text: What Ms Whitaker did is no longer a crime in Georgia. The state’s sodomy laws, which in 1996 barred oral sex even between willing spouses, were struck down by court rulings in 1998 and 2003.
ref: 2009 August 6, “Unjust and ineffective”, in The Economist:
text: Oral sex for men can last forever, but when women's turn comes it lasts 10 seconds.
ref: 2011 March 22, Catalina May, “Porn made for women, by women”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Stimulation of another person's genitals or anus using the mouth, lips, and/or tongue.
Synonyms: word: brain
word: dome
word: head
word: mouth music
Hyponyms: word: sixty-nine
word: sloppy toppy
word: road head
word: autocunnilingus
word: carpet munching
word: clitsucking
word: cunnilingus
word: cuntlicking
word: eat out
word: gamahuche
word: give lip
word: lip service
word: muff diving
word: mustache ride
word: pussy eating
word: autofellatio
word: blowjob
word: cocksucking
word: deepthroat
word: fellatio
word: gobby
word: gob job
word: hummer
word: irrumatio
word: irrumation
word: nosh
word: penilingus
Related terms: anilingus
blowjob
cocksucker
cunnilingus
fellatio
go down on
irrumatio
mouth job
pussy eating
rim job
sixty-nine