cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shrove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shrōv
ipa: /ʃɹəʊv/
rhymes: -əʊv
Forms: form: shroves
form: shroving
form: shroved
form: shroved
Senses: glosses: To join in the festivities of Shrovetide.
examples: text: Servant, your counsel's excellent good,
And shall be follow'd, 'twill be rarely strange
To see him stated thus, as though he went
A shroving through the City
ref: 1626 February 13 (licensing date), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Noble Gentleman”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To make merry.
clucky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌki
Forms: form: cluckier
form: cluckiest
Etymology: From cluck + -y, because broody hens usually cluck loudly and continuously if disturbed.
Senses: glosses: Broody.
glosses: Prone to cluck.
examples: text: a clucky sound
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cluck.
kitty litter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪti ˈlɪtɚ/
note: US, Canada, t-flapping
ipa: [ˈkʰɪɾi ˈlɪɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈkɪti ˈlɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: kitty litters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cat litter.
synonyms: word: cat litter
glosses: Any similar mix, used to soak up liquid spills.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A gravel trap (a large area of gravel used to slow cars that leave the track)
peep sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peep sights
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: On some rifles, a type of sight where the shooter looks through a small aperture on the rear sight.
Related terms: aperture sight
greywater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greywaters
Etymology: From grey + water.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gray water.
bilby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪlbiː/
Forms: form: bilbies
Etymology: From Gamilaraay bilbi.
Senses: synonyms: dalgite
pinkie
rabbit bandicoot
rabbit-eared bandicoot
glosses: An Australian desert marsupial of the only extant species Macrotis lagotis with distinctive large ears and approximately the size of a rabbit.
Derived terms: word: Easter bilby
taxonomic: Macrotis lagotis sagitta
word: eastern bilby
taxonomic: Macrotis lagotis
word: greater bilby
alt: †Macrotis leucura — extinct
word: lesser bilby
taxonomic: Macrotis lagotis lagotis
word: western bilby
discredit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkɹɛd.ɪt/
ipa: /dɪsˈkɹed.ɪt/
rhymes: -ɛdɪt
Forms: form: discredits
form: discrediting
form: discredited
form: discredited
Etymology: From dis- + credit.
Senses: examples: text: The candidate tried to discredit his opponent.
synonyms: demean
disgrace
dishonour
glosses: To harm the good reputation of (a person).
examples: text: The evidence would tend to discredit such a theory.
text: Many of our correspondents participated in the discussion, and the upshot was that the alleged record was discredited.
ref: 1944 July and August, Charles E. Lee, “The "City of Truro"”, in Railway Magazine, page 202:
synonyms: disprove
falsify
invalidate
tell against
glosses: To cause (an idea or piece of evidence) to seem false or unreliable.
Derived terms: discreditable
discreditor
pork-barrelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pork barrelling
form: porkbarreling
form: pork-barreling
Etymology: From pork barrel + -ing.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The practice of giving favours or money to voters in connection with a candidate for a current or future election, in order to sway enough voters so that the candidate will win.
topics: government
politics
glosses: The practice of an elected politician giving favours or money to some or all voters in the politician's electorate, or to certain organizations, as compensation or payback for support from those voters or organizations in the past.
Damascus barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Damascus barrels
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A gun barrel formed by twisting and welding strips of metal around a hard die; no longer commonly used now due to its inability to handle high cartridge pressure on modern ammunition.
INMARSAT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Inmarsat
Etymology: Blend of international + marine + satellite.
Senses: glosses: A British satellite telecommunications company.
wikipedia: INMARSAT
babe in the woods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babes in the woods
form: babe in the wood
Etymology: From the ballad "The Children in the Wood".
Senses: examples: text: "Orde, you're all right on the river," said Newmark, with a dry little laugh, "but you're a babe in the woods at this game."
ref: 1908, Stewart Edward White, chapter 11, in The Riverman:
text: Taylor is aware of the perception that he is the innocent, exploitable babe in the woods of the Geelong defence.
ref: 2008, Jake Niall, "‘Weakest link’ no more, Harry shows he's tailor-made," The Age (Australia), 8 Sep. (retrieved 23 May 2009)
synonyms: sweet summer child
ingenue
innocent
naif
glosses: A person who is innocent, naive, inexperienced, or helpless, especially with respect to an unfamiliar situation or environment.
flinching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flinch
Derived terms: flinchingly
unflinching
flinching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flinchings
Senses: glosses: A flinching motion; a flinch.
twenty-twenty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: 20/20
Etymology: From a method of testing vision by reading charts at a distance of 20 feet.
Senses: examples: text: All I want is 20/20 vision / A total portrait with no omissions
ref: 1978, “Picture This”, in Debbie Harry (lyrics), Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie:
glosses: Having normal visual acuity.
Coordinate terms: 6/6
six-six
Derived terms: twenty-twenty hindsight
dowsing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dowsings
Etymology: dowse + -ing
Senses: synonyms: divining
water divining
water witching
glosses: The practice of seeking water or other substances (usually liquid) with the aid of a forked stick or similar pointing device, as believed by some practitioners to derive from supernatural power.
Derived terms: dowsing rod
dowsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: dowse + -ing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dowse
titi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːtiː/
rhymes: -iːti
Forms: form: titis
Senses: glosses: Any New World monkey of the subfamily Callicebinae, native to South America, distinguished by their long soft fur.
Derived terms: dusky titi
Madidi titi monkey
Orabassu titi
red-bellied titi
titi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːtiː/
rhymes: -iːti
Forms: form: titis
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: Mutton bird.
titi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːtiː/
rhymes: -iːti
Forms: form: titis
Senses: glosses: A tree of the southern United States (Cliftonia monophylla) having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers succeeded by one-seeded drupes.
glosses: Any tree of the related genus Cyrilla.
Synonyms: sense: Cliftonia monophylla
word: black titi
sense: Cliftonia monophylla
word: buckwheat tree
sense: Cliftonia monophylla
word: ironwood
sense: tree of genus Cyrilla
word: white titi
uxoricide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌkˈsɔː.ɹɪˌsaɪd/
Forms: form: uxoricides
Etymology: From French uxoricide or Latin uxor + English -icide.
Senses: glosses: One who murders one's wife.
Hypernyms: english: murder of a human being
translation: murder of a human being
word: homicide
english: murder of one's spouse
translation: murder of one's spouse
word: mariticide
uxoricide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌkˈsɔː.ɹɪˌsaɪd/
Forms: form: uxoricides
Etymology: From French uxoricide or Latin uxōricīdium.
Senses: examples: text: Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).
ref: 2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, pages 205–206:
text: In order for someone to green-light a movie of this story, they’d need to have at least background knowledge of the sexual shenanigans of Sartre and Beauvoir, and of Althusser’s uxoricide – though not necessarily a close acquaintance with their published work.
ref: 2015, Will Self, ‘Man-Eating Philosophers’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12:
glosses: The murdering of one's own wife.
Derived terms: uxoricidal
Related terms: english: murder/murderer of one's family
translation: murder/murderer of one's family
word: familicide
english: murder/murderer of one's brother
translation: murder/murderer of one's brother
word: fratricide
english: murder/murderer of one's child
translation: murder/murderer of one's child
word: infanticide
english: murder/murderer of one's relative
translation: murder/murderer of one's relative
word: parricide
english: murder/murderer of one's father
translation: murder/murderer of one's father
word: patricide
english: murder/murderer of one's mother
translation: murder/murderer of one's mother
word: matricide
english: murder/murderer of one's sister
translation: murder/murderer of one's sister
word: sororicide
english: the act of killing oneself/one who kills oneself
translation: the act of killing oneself/one who kills oneself
word: suicide
english: devoted to one's wife
translation: devoted to one's wife
word: uxorious
english: devoted to one's husband
translation: devoted to one's husband
word: maritorious
filicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪ.lɪ.sʌɪd/
Forms: form: filicides
Etymology: From Latin fīlius (“son”), fīlia (“daughter”) + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: it began by violating nature, and ends in filicide. (I, v)
ref: 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer:
text: Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).
ref: 2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, pages 205–206:
glosses: The killing of one's own child.
examples: text: Ned is running, panicked, […] running for the cold hard road and the sanctuary of the Brunch farm like a filicide caught in the act.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin Books, published 2006, page 287:
glosses: A person who kills his or her own child.
Derived terms: altruistic filicide
filicidal
Related terms: familicide
fratricide
homicide
infanticide
neonaticide
parricide
prolicide
sororicide
suicide
uxoricide
ballpark figure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballpark figures
Etymology: Operating on the themes discussed at in the ballpark § Etymology.
Senses: examples: text: No more stalling. Give me a ballpark figure of our projected losses.
synonyms: ballpark estimate
ballpark estimation
guesstimate
hypernyms: figure#Noun
number#Noun
;
estimate#Noun
estimation
coordinate_terms: SWAG
glosses: An educated guess or estimation within acceptable bounds.
Related terms: in the ballpark
close enough
water witching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water-witching
Etymology: From water + witching.
Senses: glosses: The practice of dowsing.
gopuram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gopurams
form: gopura
Etymology: From Sanskrit गोपुर (gó-pura).
Senses: glosses: A monumental tower, usually ornate, at the entrance of a temple, especially in Southern India.
tiki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːkiː/
ipa: /ˈtɪki/
rhymes: -iːki
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: tikis
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori tiki (“figurine”).
Senses: glosses: Carved talisman in humanoid form, common to the cultures of the Pacific Ocean.
Derived terms: tiki bar
tiki culture
tiki resort
tiki restaurant
tiki torch
Related terms: tiki-taka
tiki tour
make much
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes much
form: making much
form: made much
form: made much
Senses: examples: text: Many readers too, have made much of the signifying force of the connection between Sterne and the starling.
ref: 2004, Markman Ellis, The Politics of Sensibility, page 74:
text: Northern made much of the scrapping of the first of the Pacers (142005), and to date 35 of its Class 142s have been scrapped, with a further 11 off-lease at Gascoigne Wood.
ref: 2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 63:
text: […]Much has been made of Tuchel's decision to exclude Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham, despite the player's wish to be included, but in his absence Villa's Rogers justified that choice with another fine performance.
ref: 2025 September 9, Phil McNulty, “England 3-0 Wales”, in BBC:
glosses: To emphasize, put much value on.
raw_tags: with "of"
examples: text: Usually, on such visits, the colonel made much of the dog. Today he merely glanced up abstractedly from his writing, at sight of Bruce's silken head at his side.
ref: 2012, Albert Payson Terhune, Bruce, page 119:
glosses: To give fond attention to; to cosset.
raw_tags: with "of"
Synonyms: sense: emphasize
word: betone
sense: emphasize
word: stress
sense: emphasize
word: underscore
sense: give fond attention to
word: coddle
word: pamper
word: posset
periodo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From per- + iodo-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a derivative in which all hydrogen atoms have been replaced by iodine
landlubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlænd.lʌ.bə/
ipa: /ˈlænd.lʌ.bɚ/
Forms: form: landlubbers
Etymology: Extension (with land) of earlier lubber. Compare also landloper.
Senses: examples: text: […] the making of sheathing and ship's pumps. This last rather unmarine field included more than a third of the patents before 1800, which may be one explanation for the predominance of landlubbers in early marine patenting.
ref: 1935, S. Colum Gilfillan, The Sociology of Invention, page 84:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: lubber
coordinate_terms: landsman
glosses: Someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship, especially a novice seaman.
Derived terms: groundlubber
landlubberish
landlubberliness
landlubberly
green room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green rooms
form: greenroom
form: green-room
Etymology: First appears c. 1701 in the writings of Colley Cibber.
Senses: examples: text: There are three smaller rooms he can use as rehearsal space or dressing rooms or green rooms, according to need.
ref: 2016, Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed, Chapter 12, page 80:
synonyms: tiring-house
tiring-room
glosses: In a television studio, theatre or concert hall, the room where performers await their entrance.
examples: text: Never quite got covered up, but stood in the doorway to the green room with the lip feathering over my shoulders several times
ref: 1996, Surfer Bob, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2005:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: The inside of a tube (a cylindrical wave).
seafarer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seafarers
Etymology: From Middle English *se-farere (suggested by se-farende, sa farinde (“sea-faring”)) equivalent to sea + farer (“traveler”). Cognate with Middle Dutch seevarer, whence Modern Dutch zeevaarder (“seafarer”), West Frisian seefarder (“seafarer”), German Seefahrer (“seafarer”), Swedish sjöfarare (“seafarer”).
Senses: glosses: A sailor or mariner.
glosses: One who travels by sea.
Related terms: seafare
seafaring
guestimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guestimates
Etymology: Blend of guess + estimate
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of guesstimate.
guestimate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: guestimates
form: guestimating
form: guestimated
form: guestimated
Etymology: Blend of guess + estimate
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of guesstimate.
chugalug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chugalugs
form: chugalugging
form: chugalugged
form: chugalugged
Senses: glosses: To swallow (a container of beer etc.) without pausing.
chugalug
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In continuous gulps
chugalug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chugalugs
Senses: glosses: A glugging sound, especially one made by a person drinking in large gulps
cuttlefish bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkʌtl̩fɪʃ ˈbəʊn/
ipa: /ˌkʌt(ə)lˌfɪʃ ˈboʊn/
ipa: [-ɾ(ə)l-]
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: cuttlefish bones
Etymology: From cuttlefish + bone.
Senses: synonyms: word: cuttlebone
word: sepiostaire
word: sepium
word: osselet
glosses: The calcareous, oval-shaped internal shell of a cuttlefish (order Sepiida), originally used in powdered form as an antacid and for absorbing moisture or polishing objects, and now chiefly as a dietary supplement for cage birds.
Related terms: cuttlefish
gladius
pen
cage bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cage birds
form: cagebird
Etymology: From cage + bird.
Senses: glosses: A bird, such as a canary or budgerigar, kept captive in a cage or aviary for domestic companionship or as a hobby.
matricide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matricides
Etymology: From French matricide, from Latin mātricīda (“person who kills his own mother”) and mātricīdium (“the murder of one's mother”). By surface analysis, matri- + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: Gerald was imprisoned for matricide: he strangled his mother.
glosses: The killing of one's mother.
examples: text: Nancy was a matricide; it happened four years ago.
glosses: A person who kills his or her mother.
Derived terms: matricidal
Related terms: filicide
genocide
homicide
infanticide
patricide
regicide
suicide
uxoricide
cedi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːdiː/
rhymes: -iːdi
homophone: seedy
Forms: form: cedis
Etymology: Ultimately from Fante Akan sedi (“cowrie shell”).
Senses: examples: text: A 25-year-old motorbike rider, Eric Sulley has been sentenced to a fine of 300 Ghana cedis for riding a motorbike without a helmet by the Akim Swedru Circuit Court presided by Mr Yaw Atta Sampong.
ref: 2013 February 4, “Court fines motorbike rider for riding without helmet”, in GhanaWeb:
glosses: The currency of Ghana, divided into 100 pesewas and represented by ₵.
rhabdo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: rhabd-
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥάβδος (rhábdos, “rod, wand”).
Senses: glosses: rod, rod-like
hindsight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪn(d)saɪt/
Forms: form: hindsights
Etymology: From hind + sight, 19th c. Compare Latinate retrospect.
Senses: examples: text: You know what they say, hindsight is twenty-twenty.
text: In hindsight, I realize that I should have studied harder for the exam.
text: Hindsight is more easily acquired than foresight.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 133:
glosses: Realization or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred.
glosses: The rear sight of a firearm.
Hypernyms: sight
Derived terms: hindsight is 20/20
hindsightism
hindsightly
in hindsight
twenty-twenty hindsight
Related terms: afterknowledge
hindlook
retrospect
twenty-twenty hindsight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the term 20/20 which is used in visual testing to refer to normal visual acuity.
Senses: glosses: A perfect understanding of events only after they have happened.
Related terms: hindsight is 20/20
trigger-happy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trigger-happy
form: most trigger-happy
form: trigger happy
form: triggerhappy
Etymology: From trigger + happy.
Senses: examples: text: The bystanders were indiscriminately gunned down by trigger-happy gang members.
text: Crime is increasing / Trigger happy policing / Panic is spreading / God knows where we're heading
ref: 1971, “Inner City Blues”, in What's Going On, performed by Marvin Gaye:
text: Claudine / Don't get trigger happy with me / Don't wave a gun at me
ref: 1980, Jagger–Richards, “Claudine”, performed by The Rolling Stones:
glosses: Having a tendency or desire to shoot a firearm irresponsibly before adequately identifying the target.
examples: text: Be careful when you work near him; he's trigger-happy with that chain-saw.
text: He was so trigger-happy that he wheeled and punched me when I brushed by him in the hall.
text: In a country like Burma, where the trigger-happy ruling elite resorted to arms even against unarmed students on university campuses, we have drawn lessons from history. It has taught us to resort to arms when fighting against fully armed demons.
ref: 2021 December 6, Kenny Coyle, “A new stage of resistance: Burmese communists return to armed struggle”, in Morning Star:
glosses: Inclined to behave recklessly or violently at the slightest provocation.
Related terms: slaphappy
lurgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɜː(ɹ)ɡi/
enpr: lû(r)ʹgē
ipa: /ˈlɝɡi/
enpr: lûrʹge
Forms: form: lurgies
form: lurgi
form: lurgey
form: lurgee
Etymology: A nonsense word popularized by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes, scriptwriters for a 9 November 1954 programme of The Goon Show, “Lurgi Strikes Britain”, about the outbreak of a highly dangerous, highly infectious and—as it turns out—highly fictitious disease known as “the Dreaded Lurgi”.
Folk etymologies include:
* a corruption and contraction of allergy. This is not supported by the use of the hard /ɡ/ in lurgi (rhyming with Fergie), as allergy has a soft 'g' /dʒ/.
* based on the Northern English dialectal phrase fever-lurgy (“lazy or idle”).
Senses: examples: text: the dreaded lurgy
text: He was helped, of course, by his presentational skills, still present here despite a sore throat and what seemed to be a spot of the perennial conference lurgy.
ref: 2011 October 5, Jonathan Freedland, “David Cameron's speech fails to match the gravity of the times”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A fictitious, highly infectious disease; sometimes as a reference to flu-like symptoms.
examples: text: Blocked nose, watering eyes, a sore throat – the signs of a cold are all too familiar. Here are seven ways to dodge the lurgy, or shrug it off sooner[.]
ref: 2019 January 6, Nicola Davis, “Seven ways to dodge a cold – or recover faster”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Any uncategorised disease with symptoms similar to a cold or flu that renders one unable to work.
Related terms: cootie
ligma
fascinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæsɪneɪt/
Forms: form: fascinates
form: fascinating
form: fascinated
form: fascinated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fascinātus, perfect passive participle of fascinō (“to enchant, bewitch, fascinate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fascinum (“a phallus-shaped amulet worn around the neck in Ancient Rome; witchcraft”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), itself of obscure origin.
Senses: examples: text: The flickering TV fascinated the cat.
glosses: To evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone.
examples: text: We were fascinated by the potter's skill.
text: Leo, too, was strangely touched. Hitherto he had been fascinated against his better judgment, something as a bird is fascinated by a snake, but now I think that all this passed away, and he realised that he really loved this strange and glorious creature, as, alas! I loved her also.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind.
examples: text: Her gait fascinates all men.
glosses: To be irresistibly charming or attractive to.
Derived terms: fascinated
fascinating
fascinator
fascinoma
unfascinating
Related terms: fascination
rock-dumb
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Nothing like a rock-dumb cartoon to speak for non-thinking people!
ref: 2010, Homer A. Taylor, The Last Horse Patrol, page 98:
glosses: Extremely stupid.
bar fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar flies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of barfly.
bar star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar stars
Senses: glosses: A woman who frequents bars or lounges, usually late at night.
Related terms: bar fly
gift of the gab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gifts of the gab
form: gift of gab
Senses: examples: text: "Ay, that he shall," replied Fagin, "and we'll have a big-wig, Charley: one that's got the greatest gift of the gab: to carry on his defence; and he shall make a speech for himself too, if he likes."
ref: 1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 43, in Oliver Twist:
text: I had meant to speak for ten minutes and must now go on for forty, and, though I've been racking my brains for three hours to think of something, I simply cannot last the course. Now you've got to be a good chap and help me. You're a Free Trader and can tell our people what a wash-out Protection is in the Colonies. All you fellows have the gift of the gab.
ref: 1915, John Buchan, chapter 4, in The Thirty-Nine Steps:
text: He is a political chameleon, as charming to business leaders he met privately in Aberdeen on Friday night as he has been inspiring to distressed and desperate Labour defectors in Glasgow and beyond. The ex-oil economist can do it all because he has the gift of the gab and used to be a leftwing tearaway, expelled from the SNP ranks in stuffier times.
ref: 2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The ability to talk readily, glibly, and convincingly, especially on trivial matters and small talk.
Related terms: silver tongue
invite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭnvīt'
ipa: /ɪnˈvaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: invites
form: inviting
form: invited
form: invited
Etymology: From Middle French inviter, from Latin invītō. Displaced native Old English laþian.
Senses: examples: text: We invited our friends round for dinner.
synonyms: ask out
ask
glosses: To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
examples: text: I invite you all to be seated.
synonyms: ask
beseech
entreat
request
glosses: To request formally.
examples: text: I always invite criticism of my definitions.
text: Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.
text: The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.
ref: 1902, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's Second State of the Union Address:
synonyms: ask for
encourage
provoke
glosses: To encourage.
examples: text: to inveigle and invite th' unwary sense
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
text: shady groves, that easy sleep invite
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: There no delusive hope invites despair.
ref: 1782, William Cowper, The Progress of Error:
glosses: To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
Synonyms: lathe
Derived terms: disinvite
e-invite
e-vite
invitable
invited to the cookout
invitement
invitro
reinvite
uninvite
Related terms: invitee
inviter
invite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭnvīt'
ipa: /ɪnˈvaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
enpr: ĭn'vīt
ipa: /ˈɪnvaɪt/
enpr: ĭnvīt'
ipa: /ɪnˈvaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: invites
Etymology: From the verb invite.
Senses: examples: text: An open invite has been given to all UK workers to join in common cause with the union, as more than 40,000 RMT members at Network Rail and 13 train operating companies walked out on June 21 in the first of three 24-hour strikes over pay, conditions and job security.
ref: 2022 June 29, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Strikes set to escalate as RMT issues rallying call”, in RAIL, number 960, page 6:
glosses: An invitation.
barefaced lie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barefaced lies
form: baldfaced lie
form: boldfaced lie
Etymology: barefaced ('unconcealed, audacious, shameless') + lie.
Senses: examples: text: I understand that salespeople try to explain things in a positive way, but that was a barefaced lie.
glosses: A falsehood told with utter confidence and without trying to conceal the fact that it is false, especially a planned or deliberate falsehood.
Related terms: poker face
transit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæn.zɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɹæn.sɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈtɹæn.zət/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈtɹæn.sət/
ipa: /ˈtɹɑːn.zɪt/
rhymes: -ænzɪt
Forms: form: transits
Etymology: From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”).
Senses: examples: text: In France you are now […] in the transit from one form of government to another.
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
text: In the hollow by the park wall it appeared again, distinctly; and here it was plain the transit of the wall had been made, for the traces of the mud were evident enough upon its surface, and the mortar at top was displaced, and a little tuft of grass in the mud, left by the clodded shoesole.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: The act of passing over, across, or through something.
examples: text: the transit of goods through a country
synonyms: transport
glosses: The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
examples: text: I always take transit to work.
synonyms: word: public transport
glosses: Any form of transport that can be used by a member of public (who usually pays a fare), as opposed to private ownership of e.g. cars; short form of public transit or mass transit
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The passage of a celestial body or other object across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The passage of a celestial body in the horoscope, e.g. through a section or in relation to a specific important point in someone's birth chart.
glosses: A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
qualifier: navigation
glosses: An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
examples: text: Beufort road, Birkenhead, about 17.15 June 19 2013, white transit overtakes and swerves left into junction almost taking my front wheel.
glosses: A Ford Transit van, see Transit.
Derived terms: bowel transit time
bus rapid transit
colonic transit time
fabrication-in-transit
interval transit time
in transit
light rail transit
milling-in-transit
rapid transit
transit bus
transit instrument
transit lane
transit lounge
transit telescope
transit tetany
transit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæn.zɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɹæn.sɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈtɹæn.zət/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈtɹæn.sət/
ipa: /ˈtɹɑːn.zɪt/
rhymes: -ænzɪt
Forms: form: transits
form: transiting
form: transited
form: transited
Etymology: From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”).
Senses: glosses: To pass over, across or through something.
glosses: To convey people or goods from one place to another, especially by public transport vehicles.
glosses: To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: To make a transit.
glosses: To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.
Related terms: transience
transiency
transient
transition
transitional
transitionary
transitionist
transitive
transitively
transitory
barnburner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barnburners
form: barn burner
Etymology: From barn + burner, from the idea of burning down a barn to get rid of a rat infestation.
Senses: examples: text: Those deathless twin barnburners return to the Metropolitan Opera tonight.
ref: 2007 January 26, The New York Times, “Classical Music/Opera Listings”, in New York Times:
text: It is hard to know what could convince the barnburners to change their ways. The Maga base rewards them with money and the media lavishes them with airtime.
ref: 2023 October 7, Edward Luce, “The unending Republican revolution”, in FT Weekend, page 6:
glosses: A sensationally exciting or successful event or person.
synonyms: lucifer
antonyms: safety match
qualifier: Maryland
glosses: A strike-anywhere match.
qualifier: literal
glosses: One who burns down a barn.
Related terms: word: barnstormer
sense: exciting event
word: cliffhanger
genocide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛnəsaɪd/
Forms: form: genocides
form: genociding
form: genocided
form: genocided
Etymology: Coined by lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent Raphael Lemkin in 1943 or 1944 in reference to the Armenian Genocide (then known by other names; see: Terminology of the Armenian genocide) and the Jewish Holocaust. From the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) (cognate with Latin gēns (“tribe, clan”), whence genus), corresponding to geno- + -cide (“killing, killer”). Piecewise doublet of gendercide. Compare genticide.
Senses: examples: text: Even though the Soviet constitution and that of the Ukrainian SSR contain provisions guaranteeing freedom of religion and other fundamental liberties, the Soviet government genocided the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the 1930's …
ref: 1986, Oversight of the Board for International Broadcasting: hearing before the Subcommittee on International Operations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, second session, June 17, 1986, volume 4, page 145
text: A clue appears in the Nazis finding the Gypsies dirty and disorderly (for not only Jews were genocided).
ref: 2006, Get 'Em All! Kill 'Em!: Genocide, Terrorism, Righteous Communities, page 8:
text: You just know it makes much more sense to encourage brutal governments to buy our WMD technology than to get them to put food in the empty bellies of their people or quit genociding the populace.
ref: 2007, War on Truth: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Invasion of Iraq, page 66:
text: It is unlikely that Sulla succeeded in genociding the Samnites, since their mountains offered many refuges, but in subsequent centuries the Samnites disappeared, being absorbed into the general population of Italy.
ref: 2016, Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome: The Definitive Political, Social, and Military Encyclopedia, page 1193:
glosses: To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.
Derived terms: geno
homicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒm.ɪˌsaɪ̯d/
enpr: hämʹə-sīdˈ
enpr: hōʹmə-sīdˈ
ipa: /ˈhɑm.əˌsaɪ̯d/
ipa: /ˈhoʊ.məˌsaɪ̯d/
Forms: form: homicides
form: hominicide
Etymology: From Old French homicide, from Latin homicīda (“man-slayer”) and homicīdium (“manslaughter”).
Senses: qualifier: crime
glosses: The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
examples: text: Homicides in general and victorious warriors in particular are often obliged to perform a variety of ceremonies for the purpose of ridding them of the dangerous ghosts of their victims.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 195:
glosses: A person who kills another.
examples: text: “She was a hippie kid. How hard would you work a case like that?”
“As hard as anyone else,” said Goddard. There was an irritated note in his voice. “She was a homicide. She got what every homicide investigation gets.”
ref: 1996, A J Holt, Watch Me:
text: We don't even know the woman was a homicide. Didn't they say it was possible they both jumped?
ref: 2003, Ellen Perry Berkeley, Keith's People, →ISBN, page 58:
text: The medical examiner was behind on autopsies and cranky, so we didn't even know if the old guy in the pool was a homicide.
ref: 2004, Jon Talton, Dry Heat, →ISBN, page 40:
topics: law-enforcement
police
glosses: A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.
glosses: The department within a police force that investigates cases of homicide.
Synonyms: sense: unlawful killing of a person by another
english: intentional
translation: intentional
word: assassination
sense: unlawful killing of a person by another
word: killing
sense: unlawful killing of a person by another
english: US; intentional
translation: US; intentional
word: first-degree murder
sense: unlawful killing of a person by another
alt: unintentional
word: manslaughter
sense: unlawful killing of a person by another
english: intentional
translation: intentional
word: murder
sense: unlawful killing of a person by another
alt: US; unintentional
word: second-degree murder
sense: person who unlawfully kills another person
word: killer
sense: victim of homicide
word: murder victim
Hypernyms: sense: unlawful killing of a person by another
word: crime
Hyponyms: sense: unlawful killing of a person by another
word: autohomicide
sense: unlawful killing of a person by another
word: culpable homicide
sense: unlawful killing of a person by another
word: homeycide
sense: unlawful killing of a person by another
word: justifiable homicide
sense: unlawful killing of a person by another
word: self-homicide
sense: unlawful killing of a person by another
word: wilful homicide
Derived terms: antihomicide
homicidal
homicidogenic
monstricide
nonhomicide
Related terms: deicide
familicide
feticide
filicide
fratricide
genocide
infanticide
mariticide
matricide
omnicide
parricide
patricide
populicide
prolicide
regicide
sororicide
suicide
tyrannicide
unlawful death
uxoricide
muxer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muxers
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A multiplexer.
palatial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈleɪʃəl/
rhymes: -eɪʃəl
Forms: form: more palatial
form: most palatial
Etymology: Borrowed from French palatial, formed from the root of Latin palātium (“a palace”), from Palātium (“Palatine Hill”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a palace.
examples: text: The home where he lived was palatial.
text: But during those two years for some reason or other the house had fallen into premature and rapid decay. With a very few months an air of mustiness began to hang over the once palatial residence of the rich foreign financier.
ref: 1933, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter I, in The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published 1934, →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: On a grand scale; with very rich furnishings.
Derived terms: palatially
palatialness
unpalatial
Related terms: palace
palatine
paleface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palefaces
form: Paleface
form: pale face
form: pale-face
Etymology: From pale + face, a supposed calque from a Native American language. First appears in print c. 1797.
Senses: examples: text: Dere is Great Wicked Spirit, too... Heart grow hard. Great pleasure was to kill pale-face. Dat feeling last, Blossom, till I see you. Feel like fader to you, and don't want your scalp... Still want all udder pale-face scalp. Want Bourdon scalp much as any.
ref: 1848, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter XXVIII, in The Bee-Hunter, or, The Oak Openings:
text: The hearts of the palefaces would not thrill to these superstitions of the red men, though we spoke of them in the centre of the haunted region.
ref: 1889, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Sketches from Memory”, in The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains:
text: The dusky hunters "guyed" the palefaces who could not do as well as they with their primitive weapons, even though the fire spouted from the iron tubes and the balls that could not be seen by the eye carried death farther than did the missiles launched by the natives.
ref: 1905, Edward S. Ellis, Deerfoot in The Mountains:
text: "Yes me big paleface—me come long way toward setting sun—go cross Big Water—go Buckskin—Siwash—chase cougar." The cougar, or mountain lion, is a Navajo god and the Navajos hold him in as much fear and reverence as do the Great Slave Indians the musk-ox.
ref: 1908, Zane Grey, The Last of the Plainsmen:
text: High Jack had been drinking too much rum ever since we landed in Boca. You know how an Indian is—the palefaces fixed his clock when they introduced him to firewater.
ref: 1909, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “He Also Serves”, in Options:
text: Some Blackfeet Indians, with a taste and a respect for Nature that shames the paleface, have protested to the Secretary of the Interior[…]
ref: 1916 March 11, “Silly Place-Names”, in Saturday Evening Post:
text: Speed is whitey's drug, from the palefaces who cook it to the Caspers who deal it to the ofay vanilla wafers who snort or spike it.
ref: 1998, Jim Goad, The Redneck Manifesto, page 128:
synonyms: word: ang moh
word: Angrez
word: balanda
word: béké
word: bule
word: Caucasian
word: cracker
word: cumskin
word: farang
word: firangi
word: gringo
word: gora
word: gussuk
word: gweilo
word: haole
word: honky
word: hoogie
word: hoojah
word: ice monkey
word: ivory
word: joganosh
word: kabloona
word: laowai
word: leucoderm
word: mayo
word: mayonnaise face
word: melanin-challenged
word: migaloo
word: mlungu
word: mzungu
word: ofay
word: oyinbo
word: paddy
word: Pakeha
word: paleface
word: pigskin
word: pinky
word: roundeye
word: saltine
raw_tags: for cracker
word: snow bunny
word: toubab
word: umlungu
word: vazaha
word: white
word: white bread
word: white devil
word: whiteface
word: white man
word: whitey
word: wigger
word: wonderbread
word: Yankee
glosses: A white person, a person of European descent, particularly in Native American contexts.
Related terms: palefaced
belie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈlaɪ/
ipa: /bəˈlaɪ/
ipa: /bɪˈlaɪ/
ipa: /bəˈlaɪ/
ipa: /biˈlaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: belies
form: belying
form: belay
form: belain
form: bely
Etymology: From Middle English belyen, beliggen, from Old English beliċġan, biliċġan (“to lie around, surround, hedge in, encompass”), from Proto-West Germanic *biliggjan, from Proto-Germanic *biligjaną (“to lie around”). Equivalent to be- (“around, by”) + lie (“to be positioned”).
Senses: glosses: To lie around; encompass.
glosses: To surround; beleaguer.
raw_tags: of an army
paintbrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪntˌbɹʌʃ/
Forms: form: paintbrushes
Etymology: From paint + brush.
Senses: glosses: A thin brush for applying paint.
Derived terms: devil's paintbrush
Flora's paintbrush
Indian paintbrush
commotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈməʊ.ʃən/
ipa: /kəˈmoʊ.ʃən/
rhymes: -əʊʃən
Forms: form: commotions
Etymology: From Middle French commocion, from Latin commōtiōnem, accusative singular of commōtiō, from commoveō + -tiō.
Senses: glosses: A state of turbulent motion.
examples: text: It would seem as if calm were necessary to convulsion; for the tranquillity of the last few months was again to be disturbed by political commotion.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 97–98:
text: When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: An agitated disturbance or a hubbub.
examples: text: and now, glancing my eyes towards that part of his dress which cover'd the essential object of enjoyment, I plainly discover'd the swell and commotion there
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: Sexual excitement.
Synonyms: word: ado
word: argy-bargy
word: bangarang
word: bobbery
word: brouhaha
word: bunfight
word: bustle
word: bust-up
word: chaos
word: clamour
word: clatter
word: commotion
word: disruption
word: disturbance
word: flap
word: foofaraw
word: fracas
word: furor
word: fuss
word: hobbleshaw
word: hoo-ha
word: hoo-hah
word: hubbub
word: hullabaloo
word: hurly-burly
word: kerfuffle
word: mayhem
word: merry hell
word: outcry
word: palaver
word: pandemonium
word: pother
word: quarrel
word: riot
word: rowdydow
word: ruckus
word: rumpus
word: shemozzle
word: shindy
word: splatterdash
word: stir
word: stooshie
word: three-ring circus
word: to-do
word: tomfoolery
word: trouble
word: tumult
word: turmoil
word: unrest
word: uproar
word: upstir
Meronyms: word: din
Derived terms: commotion lotion
commotional
Related terms: word: bedlam
word: disorder - a disturbance of civic peace or of public order
word: fight
painter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪntə/
ipa: /ˈpeɪntɚ/
rhymes: -eɪntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: painters
Etymology: From Middle English paynter, peyntere, equivalent to paint + -er.
Senses: glosses: An artist who paints pictures.
glosses: A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
Derived terms: action painter
dialpainter
field painter
fingerpainter
housepainter
house painter
lazy painter
nonpainter
painterish
painterless
painterlike
painterly
painter's colic
paintership
painter-stainer
paintery
paintress
paintrix
shank-painter
signpainter
Sunday painter
word painter