cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bezel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛz.əl/
homophone: bezzle
Forms: form: bezels
Etymology: Borrowed from French bisel, a dialectal variant of biseau (“sloping edge”), a variation on bijou (“jewel”), itself from Breton bisou, bizou (“ring worn on the finger”), from biz (“finger”).
Unrelated to similar bevel, which is of a different French origin.
Senses: glosses: The sloping edge or face on a cutting tool.
glosses: The oblique side or face of a cut gem; especially the upper faceted portion of a brilliant (diamond), which projects from its setting.
examples: text: “There,” she went on, “it must be one like to it, and yet never did I see one like to it, for thereto hung a history, and he who wore it prized it much. But the scarab that I knew was not set thus in the bezel of a ring.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
synonyms: collet
glosses: The rim and flange which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, such as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The panel that covers the front of a computer case, or the panel covering each drive bay that can be removed to install a removable drive that requires external access, such as a CD/DVD-ROM drive, which usually has its own preinstalled bezel.
examples: text: Modern smartphones have very thin bezels.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The area on the front of a computing device surrounding the display.
Derived terms: bezelless
Related terms: beazle
bevel
collet
bibb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭb
ipa: /bɪb/
homophone: bib
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: bibbs
Etymology: From bib.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bibcock.
synonyms: word: bibcock
bibber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibbers
Etymology: From bib (“drink heartily”) + -er (agent noun suffix); see bib (“clothing to prevent spills from mouth”). Bib is from Middle English bibben. First attested in the 1530s.
Senses: glosses: One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler.
Synonyms: tippler
Derived terms: winebibber
Related terms: bib
bibble
bilk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪlk/
rhymes: -ɪlk
Forms: form: bilks
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps a variant form of balk.
Senses: qualifier: cribbage
glosses: The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
glosses: A deception, a hoax.
glosses: A cheat or swindler.
bilk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪlk/
rhymes: -ɪlk
Forms: form: bilks
form: bilking
form: bilked
form: bilked
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps a variant form of balk.
Senses: glosses: To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
examples: text: They also perpetrate nonviolent crimes like bilking elderly couples out of their life savings and running a business with ruthless disregard for the welfare of the workforce or stakeholders.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 615:
text: Mr. Gallagher, who went by the nickname Doc, pleaded guilty on Aug. 31 to several charges connected to what prosecutors described as a Ponzi scheme that lasted nearly 10 years and bilked older people of their retirement savings.
ref: 2021 November 2, Maria Cramer, “Texas Radio Host Who Bilked Listeners Out of Millions Is Sentenced to Life”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: abuse
word: counterfeit
word: deceive
word: dissemble
word: dissimulate
word: feign
word: jiff
word: overreach
word: put on
word: spoof
word: sham
word: trick
glosses: To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
glosses: To steal fuel from a self-service filling station by driving away without paying after filling the fuel tank or other container; to commit a drive-off.
glosses: To evade, elude.
Derived terms: bilker
biopsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪɑpsi/
Forms: form: biopsies
Etymology: From French biopsie, from bi- + -opsy.
Senses: examples: text: We will need to perform a biopsy to determine whether the tumour is malignant or benign.
text: All the while he was talking, he took lots of biopsies, small samples of tissue to be examined by pathologists using a microscope.
ref: 2021, Dr Philippa Kaye, Doctors Get Cancer Too, Vie Books, page 22:
glosses: The removal and examination of a sample of tissue, cells, or bodily fluid from a living body for diagnostic purposes.
Derived terms: cone biopsy
cryobiopsy
microbiopsy
needle aspiration biopsy
neurobiopsy
postbiopsy
prebiopsy
rebiopsy
biopsy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪɑpsi/
Forms: form: biopsies
form: biopsying
form: biopsied
form: biopsied
Etymology: From French biopsie, from bi- + -opsy.
Senses: examples: text: They biopsied the lump but it turned out to be non-cancerous.
glosses: To take a sample (a biopsy) for pathological examination.
Derived terms: unbiopsied
Related terms: biopsic
bioptic
biota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈəʊtə/
rhymes: -əʊtə
Forms: form: biotas
Etymology: From New Latin biota, from Ancient Greek βιοτή (biotḗ), from βίος (bíos).
Senses: examples: text: Although the broad macroevolutionary consequences of mass extinctions are well known (as in the dinosaurs-mammals changeover), their long-term effects on the temporal and spatial dynamics of clades and biotas are rarely investigated.
ref: 2009 February 6, Andrew Z. Krug et al., “Signature of the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction in the Modern Biota”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 767–771:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The living organisms of a region.
glosses: A coniferous tree, Oriental arborvitae (Platycladus orientalis, syn. Biota orientalis).
Derived terms: epibiota
macrobiota
microbiota
mycobiota
paleobiota
biotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈɒt.ɪk/
ipa: /baɪˈɑ.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɒtɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βιωτικός (biōtikós, “of life”), from βίος (bíos, “life”). Equivalent to bio- + -otic.
Senses: examples: text: This study and others at Bolinas Lagoon show that a number of variables, both biotic and abiotic, influence individual, local and regional distribution patterns of Dunlin.
ref: 1994, Nils D. Warnock, Biotic and Abiotic Factors Affecting the Distribution and Abundance of a Wintering Population of Dunlin, page 141:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or produced by life or living organisms.
examples: text: The biotic level involves basic, nonthoughtful adjustments made in the struggle for existence.
ref: 1961, George A. Theodorson, Studies in Human Ecology, page 4:
text: Competition, on the biotic level, as we observe it in the plant and animal communities, seems to be relatively unrestricted.
ref: 1988, Roland Leslie Warren, Larry Lyon, New Perspectives on the American Community, page 33:
text: How important is biotic gene-dispersal to the success of the angiosperms?
ref: 1995, South African Journal of Science - Volume 90, page 332:
text: Knowledge of these patterns is essential to developing comprehensive conservation plans that maximize protection of biotic and phyletic diversity.
ref: 2002, Proceedings of the Ninth International Coral Reef Symposium, page 937:
glosses: Misspelling of biontic.
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to life
word: biogenic
sense: pertaining to life
word: biologic
sense: pertaining to life
word: living
sense: pertaining to life
word: organic
Derived terms: abiotic
amphibiotic
anthropobiotic
antibiotic
biotically
bioticity
contrabiotic
epibiotic
eubiotic
eurybiotic
exobiotic
geobiotic
halobiotic
heterobiotic
hypobiotic
immunobiotic
limnobiotic
microbiotic
mycobiotic
neobiotic
oxybiotic
pathobiotic
pharmabiotic
photobiotic
phytobiotic
postbiotic
prebiotic
probiotic
psychobiotic
stygobiotic
synbiotic
thiobiotic
xenobiotic
zoobiotic
Related terms: biology
bisect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bī-sĕkt'
ipa: /baɪˈsɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: bisects
form: bisecting
form: bisected
form: bisected
Etymology: From bi- (“bi-, two”) + Latin secāre (“to cut”).
Senses: examples: text: The quadrennial period of games and festivals in Greece was probably arrived at by bisecting an older octennial period.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 84:
glosses: To cut or divide into two parts.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: To cut or divide into two parts.
To divide an angle, line segment, or other figure into two equal parts.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To cut or divide into two parts.
To perform a binary search on files in source control in order to identify the specific change that introduced a bug etc.
Synonyms: sense: to divide into two parts
word: dichotomize
word: dimidiate
word: bipartition
word: bisect
word: half
word: halve
Hypernyms: word: divide
bisect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bī-sĕkt'
ipa: /baɪˈsɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: bisects
Etymology: From bi- (“bi-, two”) + Latin secāre (“to cut”).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A bisector, which divides into two equal parts.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: An envelope, card, or fragment thereof showing an affixed cut half of a regular issued stamp, over which one or more postal markings have been applied. Typically used in wartime when normal lower rate stamps may not be available.
Related terms: dissect
vivisect
blat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: blats
form: blatting
form: blatted
form: blatted
Etymology: Imitative. First attested in 1846 in the intransitive sense of "bleat". Compare English bleat, Old English blǣtan (“to bleat”).
Senses: glosses: To cry, as a calf or sheep; bleat.
examples: text: A moment later the engine roared into life. Exhaust blatted through the straight-pipes; people stopped on the street to look.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: To make a senseless noise.
glosses: To talk inconsiderately; blab.
glosses: To produce an overrich or overblown sound on a brass instrument such as a trumpet, trombone, or tuba.
glosses: To utter loudly or foolishly; blurt.
blats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blat
bloop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bluːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: bloops
form: blooping
form: blooped
form: blooped
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: The ducks quack,
The birds chirp,
The fish bloop.
ref: 2020, Alex K. Bishop, “The Man, a Bench in the Park”, in Nothing Important: Allegorical poems in the pursuit of meaning, Altona, Manitoba: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: To blow air bubbles or audibly slosh about in water.
raw_tags: of a fish
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To make a hit just beyond the infield.
glosses: To produce a low-pitched beeping sound.
examples: text: Optical track can be blooped by using blooping tape, which is available from motion picture equipment dealers.
ref: 1979, John Mercer, An Introduction to Cinematography, page 96:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: To cover up splices in a soundtrack tape to eliminate the unwanted noise they may produce.
Derived terms: blooper
unblooped
bloop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bluːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: bloops
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: Slowly exhale using short, quick bursts through the mouth, making 'bloop' sounds to mimic a fish each time.
ref: 2018 August 21, Nicola Harvey, Mindful Little Yogis: Self-Regulation Tools to Empower Kids with Special Needs to Breathe and Relax, London: Singing Dragon, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: The sound of a fish blowing air bubbles in water.
examples: text: A loud bloop bloop from the fish tank made me jump, the three-year-old Reader’s Digest almost slipping from my grip.
ref: 2021 March 30, Elizabeth Penney, Bodies and Bows, New York City: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 4:
text: Still, it’s a good place to stand and try to catch sight of a heron or to be quiet to hear the bloop, bloop of fish surfacing to eat a water bug.
ref: 2021 July 6, Susie Finkbeiner, The Nature of Small Birds: A Novel, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Revell, page 107:
glosses: The sound of something, especially a fish, sloshing about in water.
examples: text: The robot produced a series of beeps and bloops before giving its answer to the problem.
text: A fiendish yell then followed / Ev'ry salvo's 'bang' and 'bloop'.
ref: 1992, Bob Magor, Blood on the Board, page 39:
glosses: A low-pitched beeping sound.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of blooper.
synonyms: word: blooper
Derived terms: bloopery
bloopy
bluets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluet
boa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.ə/
ipa: /bɔː/
ipa: /ˈboʊ.ə/
rhymes: -əʊə
Forms: form: boas
form: boæ
Etymology: From Middle English boa, from Latin boa (“large snake”), a species of serpent mentioned in Pliny's Naturalis Historia (Natural History). The scarf was named attributively, for its resemblance to the snake when worn.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily Boinae, or family Boidae, including the boa constrictor and the emperor boa of Mexico.
examples: text: Do not take up your boa as if it were the rope with which you meant to hang yourself; nor wrap your shawl round you as if it were your shroud.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 220:
glosses: A type of long scarf; typically made from synthetic or real feathers (or occasionally fur), and usually worn by being draped across the shoulders with the ends hanging low, sometimes also with a loop around the neck.
Derived terms: banana boa
boaed
emerald tree boa
feather boa
northern eyelash boa
rainbow boa
rosy boa
rubber boa
sand boa
tree boa
water boa
Related terms: Boa
bobble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒbəl/
rhymes: -ɒbəl
homophone: bauble (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: bobbles
Etymology: * (noun): from bob + -le (diminutive suffix).
* (verb): from bob + -le (frequentative suffix).
Compare bauble.
Senses: glosses: A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
glosses: Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie
glosses: A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).
examples: text: From the top the sample shows four stitch popcorns, five stitch bobbles, two rows of bells and a central leaf with leaves sloping to the left and right each side.
ref: 2008, Claire Compton, Sue Whiting, The Knitting and Crochet Bible, page 45:
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.
examples: text: My favourite dubious history of the head bobble was put forward by an Indian management consultant […]
ref: 2013, Elizabeth Chatterjee, Delhi: Mostly Harmless: One woman’s vision of the city:
glosses: A wobbling motion.
Derived terms: bobble hat
bobblehead
bobbly
debobble
hair bobble
head bobble
bobble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒbəl/
rhymes: -ɒbəl
homophone: bauble (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: bobbles
form: bobbling
form: bobbled
form: bobbled
Etymology: * (noun): from bob + -le (diminutive suffix).
* (verb): from bob + -le (frequentative suffix).
Compare bauble.
Senses: glosses: To bob up and down.
glosses: To make a mistake in.
examples: text: A neat interchange between Mikel Arteta and Wilshere set up Podolski and his finish bobbled into the net via Gallas.
ref: November 17 2012, BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278355
glosses: To roll slowly.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To mishandle a ball.
examples: text: You've been cabling, twisting, popcorning and bobbling. See, we told you that they weren't so hard.
ref: 2008, Leisure Arts, I Can't Believe I'm Knitting Cables, page 9:
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: To use the bobble stitch.
Derived terms: bobbler
bock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒk/
ipa: /bɔk/
ipa: /bɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: balk
homophone: bok
Forms: form: bocks
Etymology: From German Bockbier.
Senses: synonyms: bock beer
glosses: A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.
bock
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒk/
ipa: /bɔk/
ipa: /bɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: balk
homophone: bok
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bok (“sound of a chicken”).
bock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒk/
ipa: /bɔk/
ipa: /bɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: balk
homophone: bok
Forms: form: bocks
form: bocking
form: bocked
form: bocked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bok (“make the sound of a chicken”).
bock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒk/
ipa: /bɔk/
ipa: /bɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: balk
homophone: bok
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish bac (“to hinder”).
Senses: examples: text: Bock that.
ref: A NORTH-COUNTY DUBLIN GLOSSARY
glosses: to hinder, stop
bode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊd/
ipa: /boʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
homophone: bowed (in one sense)
Forms: form: bodes
form: boding
form: boded
form: boded
Etymology: Verb from Middle English boden, from Old English bodian (“announce, foretell”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodōn, from Proto-Germanic *budōną (“to proclaim, announce, lere, instruct”). See bid.
Noun from Middle English bod, from Old English bod, from Proto-Germanic *budą (“message, offer”).
Since 1740 also a shortening of forebode.
Senses: examples: text: O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound,
And crown what I profess with kind event
If I speak true; if hollowly invert
What best is boded me to mischief: I,
Beyond all limit of what else i' th' world,
Do love, prize, honour you.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
synonyms: portend
presage
foreshow
glosses: To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell.
examples: text: Whatever now / The omen prove, it boded well to you.
ref: 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
text: Recent investment by Sellafield and DRS in new wagons and more environmentally friendly traction bodes well for the future of one of the UK's last remaining internal rail networks and for the dedicated team who operate and maintain it.
ref: 2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 25:
qualifier: "ill"; "no good"; "ill"; "no good"
glosses: To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future.
raw_tags: followed by "well"
Derived terms: abode
bodeful
bodement
Body
forbode
forebode
misbode
bode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊd/
ipa: /boʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
homophone: bowed (in one sense)
Forms: form: bodes
Etymology: Verb from Middle English boden, from Old English bodian (“announce, foretell”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodōn, from Proto-Germanic *budōną (“to proclaim, announce, lere, instruct”). See bid.
Noun from Middle English bod, from Old English bod, from Proto-Germanic *budą (“message, offer”).
Since 1740 also a shortening of forebode.
Senses: glosses: An omen; a foreshadowing.
bode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊd/
ipa: /boʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
homophone: bowed (in one sense)
Forms: form: bodes
Etymology: From Middle English bod, from Old English bod (“a bidding”), from Proto-West Germanic *bod, from Proto-Germanic *budą (“a bidding, offer”).
Cognate with Swedish bud, Dutch bod, Icelandic boð, Faroese boð, Norwegian Nynorsk bod, Norwegian Bokmål bud. Compare also Old Saxon gibod, German Gebot. See bid.
Senses: examples: text: What bode ye shall to your lord bear?
ref: 1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume (please specify |volume=III or IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: A bid; an offer.
bode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊd/
ipa: /boʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
homophone: bowed (in one sense)
Forms: form: bodes
Etymology: From Middle English bode, from Old English boda (“messenger, forerunner”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodō, from Proto-Germanic *budô (“messenger”); related to the verb (etymology 1). Cognate with Dutch bode (“messenger, harbinger”), German Bote (“messenger”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he fame of the Duke's coming was sent abroad by the bodes or messengers, despatched to prepare the towns through which he was to pass for an arrival sooner than expected, […]
ref: 1848, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter III, in Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings; […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, book II (Lanfranc the Scholar), page 138:
glosses: A herald; a messenger.
bode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊd/
ipa: /boʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
homophone: bowed (in one sense)
Forms: form: bodes
Etymology: From Middle English bod, bode, bade, baide, partially a clipping of Middle English abod (“a stopping”), and partially continuing Old English bād (“a waiting, expectation”), from Proto-West Germanic *baidu, from Proto-Germanic *baidō.
Senses: glosses: A stop; a halting; delay.
bode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊd/
ipa: /boʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
homophone: bowed (in one sense)
Etymology: Inflected form of bide.
Senses: glosses: simple past of bide
bole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bol/
ipa: /bəʊl/
ipa: /bɒʊl/
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /bɒl/
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: bowl
Forms: form: boles
Etymology: From Middle English bole, from Old Norse bolr, akin to Danish bul and German Bohle (“plank”). See also bulwark (“defensive wall”).
Senses: examples: text: Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean / Upon the dusky brushwood underneath / Their broad curved branches, fledged with clearest green, / New from its silken sheath.
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dream of Fair Women”, in Poems, volume 1, page 188:
text: A fine powder filled the air and caressed the cheek with a tingle in its touch, and the black boles of the trees showed up in a light that seemed to come from below.
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
glosses: The trunk or stem of a tree.
Derived terms: boled
bollard
bole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bol/
ipa: /bəʊl/
ipa: /bɒʊl/
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /bɒl/
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: bowl
Forms: form: boles
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βῶλος (bôlos, “clod or lump of earth”): compare French bol. Doublet of bolus.
Senses: examples: text: Good Iznik has strong colours well-contained within their outlines and a very clean, clear white. The red colour, made with Armenian bole (an earthy clay) should be thick and proud of the surface.
ref: 2018 April 14, “8 things to know about İznik pottery”, in Christie's:
glosses: Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
glosses: The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
examples: text: […]or else[…]the churches were very incurious to swallow such a bole, if no pretension could have been reasonably made for their justification.
ref: 1649, Jeremy Taylor, “An Apology for Authorized and Set Forms of Liturgy Against the Pretence of the Spirit”, in Charles Page Eden, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D., volume V, published 1849, page 294:
glosses: A bolus; a dose.
Derived terms: Armenian bole
bolar
bole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bol/
ipa: /bəʊl/
ipa: /bɒʊl/
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /bɒl/
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: bowl
Forms: form: boles
Senses: examples: text: Take then good Barley newly thrashed and well purged from the Chaff, and put thereof eight Boles, that is about ſix English Quarters, in a Stone - trough
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
bole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bol/
ipa: /bəʊl/
ipa: /bɒʊl/
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /bɒl/
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: bowl
Forms: form: boles
Senses: examples: text: "Open the bole," said the old woman firmly and hastily to her daughter-in-law, “open the bole wi' speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin[…].
ref: 1816, Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Adam and Charles Black, published 1862, page 220:
glosses: An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
glosses: A small closet.
bolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈboʊ.loʊ/
rhymes: -əʊləʊ
Forms: form: bolos
Etymology: From Philippine Spanish bolo, from Tagalog bolo.
Senses: glosses: A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
examples: text: He jerked me off balance and the hand with the brass knucks came around in a looping bolo punch.
ref: 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 141:
glosses: A type of punch; an uppercut.
Related terms: english: Indonesian & Malaysian
translation: Indonesian & Malaysian
word: golok
english: Filipino
translation: Filipino
word: gulok
word: machete
english: Filipino
translation: Filipino
word: palang
word: parang
english: Filipino
translation: Filipino
word: itak
english: Filipino
translation: Filipino
word: kampit
english: Filipino
translation: Filipino
word: sundang
english: Filipino
translation: Filipino
word: tabak
bolo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈboʊ.loʊ/
rhymes: -əʊləʊ
Forms: form: bolos
form: boloing
form: boloed
form: boloed
Etymology: From Philippine Spanish bolo, from Tagalog bolo.
Senses: examples: text: "In the first place," began Drina, "you are to lie down flat on the floor and creep about and show us how the Moros wriggle through the grass to bolo our sentinels." […] Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, pages 13–14:
glosses: To cleave or dismember (a person or an animal) with a bolo knife.
bolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈboʊ.loʊ/
rhymes: -əʊləʊ
Forms: form: bolos
Etymology: Supposedly named after Bolo Pascha, a German agent in France during World War I.
Senses: glosses: A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship.
bolo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈboʊ.loʊ/
rhymes: -əʊləʊ
Forms: form: bolos
form: boloing
form: boloed
form: boloed
Etymology: Supposedly named after Bolo Pascha, a German agent in France during World War I.
Senses: glosses: To fail to meet the minimum standards of marksmanship.
bolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈboʊ.loʊ/
rhymes: -əʊləʊ
Forms: form: bolos
Etymology: From Argentine Spanish boleadora (“lariat”).
Senses: glosses: A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide.
Derived terms: bolo tie
bolo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈboʊ.loʊ/
rhymes: -əʊləʊ
Forms: form: bolos
form: boloing
form: boloed
form: boloed
Etymology: From Argentine Spanish boleadora (“lariat”).
Senses: examples: text: Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To dress (somebody) in a bolo.
bolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈboʊ.loʊ/
rhymes: -əʊləʊ
Forms: form: bolos
form: BOLO
Etymology: An acronym of be on the lookout.
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A request for law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for a suspect.
Synonyms: all-points bulletin
APB
bonito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːtəʊ
Forms: form: bonito
form: bonitos
form: bonitoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish bonito.
Senses: examples: text: Mr Scott, the chief mate, being a capital fisherman, the table was almost daily furnished with an albacore, bonito, or dolphin, and not unfrequently with all three, which he struck with a gig.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 165
glosses: Any of various marine fish of the genus Sarda that are related to and resemble the tuna, but smaller.
examples: text: Making dashi is simple once you have katsuobushi (shaved, dried bonito flakes) and kombu (sea kelp), which have become increasingly easy to find across the United States. (You can also order them online.)
ref: 2022 October 19, J. Kenji López-Alt, “What Kenji López-Alt Makes His Family for Dinner”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A large tropical fish of species Katsuwonus pelamis (skipjack tuna), allied to the tunny.
glosses: The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern of the United States and the West Indies.
glosses: The cobia or crab eater (Rachycentron canadum), an edible fish of warm waters globally.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Sarda sarda
word: Atlantic bonito
taxonomic: Sarda australis
word: Australian bonito
taxonomic: Sarda chiliensis chiliensis
word: eastern Pacific bonito
taxonomic: Katsuwonus pelamis
word: large bonito
taxonomic: Cybiosarda elegans
word: leaping bonito
taxonomic: Sarda chiliensis lineolata
word: Pacific bonito
taxonomic: Orcynopsis unicolor
word: plain bonito
taxonomic: Sarda orientalis
word: striped bonito
Related terms: skipjack
tunny
bonzer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒnzə/
Forms: form: more bonzer
form: most bonzer
form: boncer
form: bonza
Etymology: Entered use 1890s, origin unknown.
In 2020 James Lambert reviewed previous theories, and supports derivation from:
* boncer (“large marble”) < bouncer (“something prodigiously large”)
Lambert also notes as not supported by evidence:
* bonanza
* French bon (“good”)
* "more fanciful" suggestions:
** born star
** Japanese 万歳 (banzai, “long live..., huzzah, hurrah”)
** bonnie
Senses: examples: text: To see their faces brighten and to hear their 'Thanks Cobber, that was bonzer!' was a joy
ref: 1915, Young Men's Christian Associations. International Committee, For the millions of men now under arms, volume 2:
text: To all the earth she gives the soft glad-eye;
She picks no fav′rits in this world o′ men;
She peeps in nooks, where ′appy lovers sigh,
To make their joy more bonzer still; an′ then,
O′er Spadger′s Lane she waves a podgy ′and,
An′ turns the scowlin′ slums to Fairyland.
ref: 1916, C. J. Dennis, "In Spadger′s Lane", in The Moods of Ginger Mick, 2009, Sydney University Press, page 36
text: You’ll make the bonzerest couple ever seen this side the Tropic.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 220:
text: By cripes, you couldn′t have a more bonzer place for doing the thing in style with girls.
ref: 1945, Douglas Stewart, editor, Coast to Coast: Australian Stories 1945, page 51:
text: Inside sat one of the most bonzer sights she′d ever seen.
ref: 1991, Noel Virtue, Always the Islands of Memory, page 148:
text: The sadness about his father left his face, and he smiled. He seemed pleased to have something positive to do. / 'That's bonzer, Annie. Thanks' he said. 'You're a good sort. And as for Ches, well, he's real bonzer too.'
ref: 2006, Philippa Todd, Dangerous Dating, page 110:
text: If playin' hero is so bonzer, what're you doin' in this job? Y'oughta be workin' for one o' those scandal rags, or with a crowd o' do-gooders, or for some investigation outfit or somethin'.
ref: 2007, Eric Stone, The Living Room of the Dead, page 252:
glosses: Remarkable; wonderful; excellent; terrific.
bonzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒnzə/
Forms: form: bonzers
form: boncer
form: bonza
Etymology: Entered use 1890s, origin unknown.
In 2020 James Lambert reviewed previous theories, and supports derivation from:
* boncer (“large marble”) < bouncer (“something prodigiously large”)
Lambert also notes as not supported by evidence:
* bonanza
* French bon (“good”)
* "more fanciful" suggestions:
** born star
** Japanese 万歳 (banzai, “long live..., huzzah, hurrah”)
** bonnie
Senses: examples: text: King Ned is a "bonzer".
ref: 1904 August 28, The Truth, Sydney, page 1, column 7:
glosses: An excellent person or thing.
Synonyms: sense: remarkable
word: bottler
sense: remarkable
word: ripper
Related terms: bontodger
bontosher
bontoshter
boshter
bosker
borax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔː.ɹæks/
ipa: /ˈbɔɹ.æks/
rhymes: -ɔːɹæks
Forms: form: boraxes
form: boraces
Etymology: From Middle English boras, from Anglo-Norman boreis, from Medieval Latin borax, baurach (“borax”), from Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq), from Middle Persian bwlk' (bōrag), which yielded Persian بوره (bure).
Senses: examples: text: “The best way to clean the machine is to put a pound of borax and a gallon of vinegar in the machine and run the longest, hottest cycle you have,” he says.
ref: 2025 March 13, Jillian Tracy, “Wash your laundry problems down the drain with these 18 expert-approved products”, in CNN:
glosses: A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The sodium salt of boric acid, Na₂B₄O₇, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallization; sodium tetraborate.
examples: text: Furniture isn't made to last thirty years or longer because they took a survey and found that young homemakers like to throw their furniture out and bring in all new, color-coded borax every seven years.
ref: 1977, Harlan Ellison, Jeffty is Five:
glosses: Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.
Synonyms: E285 when used as a preservative
Derived terms: boracic
boraciferous
boracium
borax bead test
borise
borize
boron
poke borax
unboraxed
borax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔː.ɹæks/
ipa: /ˈbɔɹ.æks/
rhymes: -ɔːɹæks
Forms: form: boraxes
form: boraxing
form: boraxed
form: boraxed
Etymology: From Middle English boras, from Anglo-Norman boreis, from Medieval Latin borax, baurach (“borax”), from Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq), from Middle Persian bwlk' (bōrag), which yielded Persian بوره (bure).
Senses: glosses: To treat with borax.
boric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔːɹɪk
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing the element boron.
Derived terms: boric acid
orthoboric acid
boric oxide
fluoboric acid
fluoroboric
hydrofluoboric acid
metaboric
orthoboric
perboric
phenylboric
pyroboric
tetraboric acid
tungstoboric acid
botfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botflies
form: bot fly
form: bot-fly
Etymology: From bot + fly.
Senses: glosses: One of several dipterous insects of the family Oestridae, the larvae of which are parasites on many animals, including humans.
Synonyms: oestrus
Derived terms: horse bot fly
human botfly
bourn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːn/
ipa: /boɹn/
note: rhotic
ipa: /boːɹn/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /boən/
Forms: form: bourns
Senses: examples: text: My little boat can safely passe this perilous bourne.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10:
glosses: Alternative form of bourne (“small stream or brook”).
bourn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːn/
ipa: /boɹn/
note: rhotic
ipa: /boːɹn/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /boən/
Forms: form: bourns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bourne (“destination; limit”).
Derived terms: bournless
bowfin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊfɪn/
Forms: form: bowfins
Etymology: From bow + fin.
Senses: glosses: Any of the two extant elongated fish of the genus Amia, native to North America, previously thought to be the same species.
especially, a ruddy bowfin (Amia calva).
glosses: Any of the two extant elongated fish of the genus Amia, native to North America, previously thought to be the same species.
an eyespot bowfin (Amia ocellicauda).
Synonyms: sense: Amia calva
word: John A. Grindle
sense: Amia calva
word: Johnny Grindle
sense: Amia calva
word: dogfish
sense: Amia calva
word: mudfish
sense: Amia calva
word: choupique
boyar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔɪɑː/
ipa: /ˈbəʊjɑː/
ipa: /bəʊˈjɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: boyars
form: boiar
form: boiarin
form: boyard
form: bolyard
Etymology: From Russian боя́ре (bojáre), plural of боя́рин (bojárin).
Senses: examples: text: Boris had abdicated in 889, leaving the throne to his son Vladimir, who had immediately identified himself with the boyar aristocracy which Boris had done his utmost to crush.
ref: 1997, John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium, Penguin, published 1998, page 159:
text: A long series of wars was fought in the sixteenth century to keep Polish influence at bay in the West Russian lands, and prevent it from seducing Muscovy's restless boyars, the warrior-barons whose independence the grand dukes were determined to crush.
ref: 2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin, published 2008, page 68:
text: some of his family looked to Orthodox Christianity to sustain them, and not only many of his boyars but most of his subjects were Orthodox Christians.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 514:
text: To understand Russia, you have to dive deep into its history — boyars and czars, Pushkin and Pasternak, Stalin and Stalingrad.
ref: 2016 December 12, Editorial Team, “Editorial: Trump, Putin and the risks of a reset”, in Chicago Tribune, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2016:
glosses: A member of a rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia and Romania.
Synonyms: barin
Derived terms: boyardom
boyaress
boyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boyards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boyar.
bract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bracts
form: bracte
form: bractea
Etymology: From Latin bractea (“a thin plate of metal; gold leaf”).
Senses: examples: text: In this vegetable monster the bractes, or divisions of the spike, become wonderfully enlarged; and are converted into leaves.
ref: 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 9:
text: A Verticil or Whirl may be[…]Naked; that is without involucre, bracte or brittle. Bracted - or Involucred
ref: 1793, Thomas Martyn, The Language of Botany:
text: Great dense patches of them grew, four and five and six feet deep, impenetrable swathes of dark green bracts that advertised their danger.
ref: 2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 31:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises.
Derived terms: bracteal
bracted
bractiform
bractless
bractlet
brad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹad/
ipa: /bɹæd/
rhymes: -æd
Forms: form: brads
Etymology: Late Middle English brad, variant of brod(d), from Old Norse broddr (“spike, shaft”), from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz (compare Old English brord, Old High German brort), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusdʰos (compare Welsh brath (“sting, prick”), Albanian bredh (“fir-tree”), Lithuanian bruzdùklis (“bridle”), Czech brzda (“brake”). Doublet of prod.
Senses: examples: text: Into the middle arch of each desk silver-headed brads had been hammered to form a lion, a bear, a ram, a dove, and in the midst a flaming torch.
ref: 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 5:
glosses: A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
qualifier: elementary school usage
glosses: A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.
Derived terms: bradawl
brads
brad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹad/
ipa: /bɹæd/
rhymes: -æd
Forms: form: brads
form: bradding
form: bradded
form: bradded
Etymology: Late Middle English brad, variant of brod(d), from Old Norse broddr (“spike, shaft”), from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz (compare Old English brord, Old High German brort), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusdʰos (compare Welsh brath (“sting, prick”), Albanian bredh (“fir-tree”), Lithuanian bruzdùklis (“bridle”), Czech brzda (“brake”). Doublet of prod.
Senses: glosses: To attach using a brad.
glosses: To upset the end of a rod inserted in a hole so as to prevent it from being pulled out, as when riveting.
brad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹad/
ipa: /bɹæd/
rhymes: -æd
Forms: form: brads
Senses: glosses: A binary radian.
brae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪ/
ipa: /bɹɪə/
ipa: /bɹiː/
ipa: /bɹeɪ/
homophone: bray
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: braes
Etymology: From Middle English bro, bra (“bank of a stream; raised edge of a ditch or pit”), from Old Norse brá (“eyebrow; eyelash”) (probably in the sense of the brow of a hill), from Proto-Germanic *brēwō (“eyebrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs (“eyebrow”).
The English word is cognate with Old English brǣw, brēaw (“eyelid”), Old High German brāwa (Middle High German brā, modern German Braue (“eyebrow”)), Old Saxon brāwa, brāha (“eyebrow; eyelash”); and is a doublet of bree (“(Scotland) brow; forehead; (obsolete or dialectal, Scotland) eyebrow; eyelid”) and brow.
Senses: examples: text: Was it not Wat the Devil, who drove all the year-old hogs off the braes of Lanthorn-side, in the very recent days of my grandfather's father?
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 77:
text: Ye banks, and braes, and ſtreams around / The caſtle of Montgomery, / Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, / Your waters never drumlie!
ref: 1791, Robert Burns, “Ye Banks, and Braes, and Streams around. Air.—Katharine Ogie.”, in Songs, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, volume IV, Kilmarnock, Scotland: […] James M‘Kie, published 1886, →OCLC, page 77:
text: Degged with dew, dappled with dew / Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, / Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, / And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.
ref: 1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 53:
text: By yon bonnie banks, and by yon bonnie braes, / Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomon', / Where me and my true love were ever wont to gae, / On the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomon'.
ref: 1899, “The Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond”, in Robert Ford, editor, Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland: With Many Old and Familiar Melodies […], Paisley, Renfrewshire; London: Alexander Gardner […], →OCLC, page 161:
glosses: The sloping bank of a river valley.
examples: text: You are directed to the particular part of the brae where the Covenanters stationed themselves, (at the time of my visit it was a field of pasture, on which some cows were quietly feeding,) and the eminence behind, [...]
ref: 1828 August 1, “A.”, “A Visit to the Covenanters. (Concluded.)”, in The Paisley Magazine, volume I, number 8, Paisley, Renfrewshire: David Dick, →OCLC, page 392:
text: The party was in a big bungalow with an enormous brae for a garden.
ref: 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN; republished London: Vintage Books, 2015, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: Any hillside or slope.
Derived terms: braeface
Braehead
braehead
braeman
braeside
Orchard Brae
brant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹænt/
rhymes: -ænt
Forms: form: brants
form: brant
Etymology: From New Latin/Medieval Latin Branta, latinized form of Old Norse brandgás (“sheldrake”), literally "burnt (black) goose," from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“burning”) + *gans (“goose”).
Senses: examples: text: I have given you roe and reindeer, / I have given you brant and beaver, / Filled the marshes full of wild-fowl, / Filled the rivers full of fishes; / Why then are you not contented? / Why then will you hunt each other?
ref: 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Book I”, in The Song of Hiawatha:
glosses: Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.
Derived terms: brant-fox
brant goose
sea brant
brant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹænt/
rhymes: -ænt
Forms: form: more brant
form: most brant
form: brent
Etymology: From Middle English brant, from Old English brant (“high, steep”), from Proto-West Germanic *brant, from Proto-Germanic *brantaz (“steep, towering”). Cognate with Scots brent, Old Norse brantr, brattr (Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian Bokmål bratt, Swedish brant).
Senses: examples: text: Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them.
ref: 1551, Roger Ascham, letter to Mr. Edward Raven:
glosses: steep, precipitous.
examples: text: Your bonnie brow was brent.
ref: 1828, Robert Burns, John Anderson:
glosses: smooth; unwrinkled
brassy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɑː.si/
ipa: /ˈbɹæs.i/
enpr: brăsʹē
ipa: /ˈbɹæs.i/
rhymes: -ɑːsi
rhymes: -æsi
Forms: form: brassier
form: brassiest
Etymology: From brass + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning “having the quality of”).
Senses: examples: text: The cup had a brassy color.
glosses: Resembling brass.
examples: text: Don’t get brassy with me, young lady!
text: There's more than one way to declare independence, after all, and whereas Beyoncé announced hers with a brassy single, Ashanti tucks a similar spirit into every not-quite-heartbroken lyric.
ref: 2003 July 6, Kelefa Sanneh, “The Solo Beyoncé: She's No Ashanti”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2021:
glosses: Impudent; impudently bold.
glosses: Unfeeling; pitiless.
examples: text: an organ stop with a brassy tone
glosses: Harsh in tone.
Synonyms: brassish
brazen
sassy
Coordinate terms: bronzish
bronzy
Derived terms: brassily
brassiness
Related terms: brass
brazen