cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dictionary
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪk.ʃə.nə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈdɪk.ʃən.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈdɪkʃ.nə.ɹi/
enpr: dĭk'shə-nĕr-ē
ipa: /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖɪkʃ(ə)nəri/
rhymes: -ɪkʃənɛəɹi
Forms: form: dictionaries
form: dictionarying
form: dictionaried
form: dictionaried
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti
Proto-Italic *deikō
Medieval Latin dīcō
Proto-Indo-European *-tisder.
Proto-Italic *-tjō
Medieval Latin -tiō
Medieval Latin dictiō
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āsios
Medieval Latin -ārius
Medieval Latin -ārium
Medieval Latin dictiōnāriumlbor.
Middle English dixionare
English dictionary
From Middle English dixionare, a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin dictiōnārium, from Latin dictiōnārius, from dictiō (“a speaking”), from dictus, perfect past participle of dīcō (“to speak”) + -ārium (“room, place”). By surface analysis, diction + -ary.
Senses: glosses: To look up in a dictionary.
examples: text: By a reference to the following dictionaried abbreviations, the simplicity and harmony of each sentence will be manifestly apparent; although it does not embrace everything, and could not, as it would be far too voluminous for general use.
ref: 1866, William Henry Ward, The international day, night, and fog signal telegraph, page 12:
text: Should I use a word that a lot of people use but isn't in the dictionary? Uncle Phil would rather get a root canal than say he was scrapbooking, because the word isn't dictionaried.
ref: 2001, The Michigan Alumnus, page 25:
glosses: To add to a dictionary.
examples: text: They [dictionary-makers] may have had their romance at home—may have been crossed in love, and thence driven to dictionarying; may have been involved in domestic tragedies—who can say?
ref: 1864 September 23, “The Alphabeticals”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 96, number 587, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 334, column 2:
glosses: To compile a dictionary.
Derived terms: undictionaried
free
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: frē
ipa: /fɹiː/
ipa: [fɹɪi̯]
rhymes: -iː
homophone: three (th-fronting)
Forms: form: more free
form: most free
Etymology: From Middle English free, fre, freo, from Old English frēo (“free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frī, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz (“beloved, not in bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (“pleased, loved”), from *preyH- (“to please, love”). Related to friend.
cognates, etc
Germanic cognates include Scots fre (“free”), Saterland Frisian fräi (“free”), West Frisian frij (“free”), Dutch vrij (“free”), German frei (“free”), Low German free (“free”), Luxembourgish fräi (“free”), Vilamovian frȧj (“free”), Yiddish פֿרײַ (fray, “free”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish fri (“free”), Faroese fríur (“free”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 (freis, “free”).
Other cognates include Sanskrit प्रिय (priyá-, “beloved”).
Germanic and Celtic are the only Indo-European language branches in which the PIE word with the meaning of "dear, beloved" acquired the additional meaning of "free" in the sense of "not in bondage". This was an extension of the idea of "characteristic of those who are dear and beloved", in other words friends and tribe members (in contrast to unfree inhabitants from other tribes and prisoners of war, many of which were among the slaves – compare the Latin use of liberi to mean both "free persons" and "children of a family").
Senses: examples: text: I got this bike free.
text: Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.
ref: 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:
synonyms: for free
for nothing
gratis
glosses: Without needing to pay.
examples: text: I as free forgive you / As I would be forgiven.
ref: c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, published 1623:
glosses: Freely; willingly.
free
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: frē
ipa: /fɹiː/
ipa: [fɹɪi̯]
rhymes: -iː
homophone: three (th-fronting)
Forms: form: frees
form: freeing
form: freed
form: freed
Etymology: From Middle English freen, freoȝen, from Old English frēon, frēoġan (“to free; make free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frijōn, from Proto-Germanic *frijōną, from Proto-Indo-European *preyH-, and is cognate with German freien, Dutch vrijen, Czech přát, Serbo-Croatian prijati, Polish sprzyjać.
Senses: examples: text: Pro.[…]Spirit, fine ſpirit, Ile free thee / Within two dayes for this.
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 I, scene ii], page 5:
text: Liberia was founded in 1822 by the American Colonization Society whose goal was to resettle freed slaves in Africa.
ref: 2025 July 9, Mitchell McCluskey and Larry Madowo, “Trump praises ‘good English’ of Liberian president, prompting criticism across Africa”, in CNN:
glosses: To make free; set at liberty; release.
examples: text: Then I walked about, till I found on the further side, a great river of sweet water, running with a strong current; whereupon I called to mind the boat-raft I had made aforetime and said to myself, "Needs must I make another; haply I may free me from this strait. If I escape, I have my desire and I vow to Allah Almighty to forswear travel; and if I perish I shall be at peace and shall rest from toil and moil."
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 564:
info_templates: extra_data: words: from
expansion: [with from]
glosses: To rid of something that confines or oppresses.
examples: text: There is no way to access that original area of memory, nor is there any way to free it before the program ends.
ref: 2002, Jesse Liberty, SAMS Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours, page 148:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system.
Synonyms: befree
emancipate
let loose
liberate
manumit
release
unchain
unfetter
unshackle
Derived terms: befree
free up
free
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: frē
ipa: /fɹiː/
ipa: [fɹɪi̯]
rhymes: -iː
homophone: three (th-fronting)
Forms: form: frees
Senses: examples: text: Whether deserved or not, the free gave Cresswell the chance to cover himself in glory with a shot on goal after the siren.
ref: 2006, https://web.archive.org/web/20070614233634/http://www.footballlegends.org/daryn_cresswell.htm
qualifier: Australian rules football; Gaelic football; Australian rules football; Gaelic football
glosses: Abbreviation of free kick.
examples: text: Hargreaves, who left Manchester United on a free during the summer, drilled a 22-yard beauty to open the scoring.
ref: 2011 September 21, Sam Lyon, “Man City 2 - 0 Birmingham”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A free transfer.
qualifier: hurling
glosses: The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
examples: text: The team won the 200 meters free relay.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
glosses: Abbreviation of freestyle.
thesaurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɪˈsɔːɹəs/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəs
Forms: form: thesauri
form: thesauruses
Etymology: 16th century, borrowed from Latin thēsaurus, from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “storehouse, treasure”); its current English usage/meaning was established soon after the publication of Peter Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852. Doublet of treasure.
Senses: examples: text: "Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus that lists words under general concepts rather than just close synonyms.
text: As reference books go, the thesaurus has had a somewhat checkered history, in fact, and has probably occasioned as much bad writing as good.
ref: 2008 April 18, Charles Mcgrath, “The Keeper (See: Steward, Caretaker) of Synonyms”, in New York Times:
synonyms: synonymicon
glosses: A publication that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms and other semantic relations) for the words of a given language.
glosses: A dictionary or encyclopedia.
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: catalogue
controlled vocabulary
index
glosses: A hierarchy of subject headings: canonical titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.
Derived terms: metathesaurus
thesaural
thesauruslike
Related terms: ontology
Wiktionary's thesaurus
portmanteau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/
enpr: pôrtmă'ntō
enpr: pô'rtmăntōʹ
ipa: /pɔːɹtˈmæntoʊ/
ipa: /ˌpɔːɹtmænˈtoʊ/
rhymes: -æntəʊ
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: portmanteaus
form: portmanteaux
Etymology: From Middle French portemanteau (“coat stand”), from porte (“carries”, third-person singular present indicative of porter (“to carry”)) + manteau (“coat”), literally “[that which] carries coat”.
Senses: examples: text: Rodolphus therefore finding such an earnest Invitation, embrac'd it with thanks, and with his Servant and Portmanteau, went to Don Juan's; where they first found good Stabling for their Horses, and afterwards as good Provision for themselves.
ref: 1667, Charles Croke, Fortune's Uncertainty:
text: He brought down with him to our haunted house a little cask of salt beef; for, he is always convinced that all salt beef not of his own pickling, is mere carrion, and invariably, when he goes to London, packs a piece in his portmanteau.
ref: 1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Whiting, […], →OCLC, page 7, column 2:
text: I believe that people are like portmanteaux—packed with certain things, started going, thrown about, tossed away, dumped down, lost and found, half emptied suddenly, or squeezed fatter than ever, until finally the Ultimate Porter swings them on to the Ultimate Train and away they rattle. . . .
ref: 1918 February (date written), Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 71:
related: word: portemanteau
word: portmantua
glosses: A large travelling case usually made of leather, and opening into two equal sections.
synonyms: port
school port
glosses: A schoolbag.
examples: text: But before I started that long and rather far-fetched and not frightfully original digression, what I meant to say quite simply was that there are no portmanteaux to be examined here because the clientele of this café, ladies and gentlemen, does not sit down.
ref: 1918 February (date written), Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 72:
glosses: A hook on which to hang clothing.
portmanteau
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/
enpr: pôrtmă'ntō
enpr: pô'rtmăntōʹ
ipa: /pɔːɹtˈmæntoʊ/
ipa: /ˌpɔːɹtmænˈtoʊ/
rhymes: -æntəʊ
rhymes: -əʊ
Etymology: First used by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass to describe the words he coined in “Jabberwocky”.
Senses: examples: text: The overall narrator of this portmanteau story - for Dickens co-wrote it with five collaborators on his weekly periodical, All the Year Round - expresses deep, rational scepticism about the whole business of haunting.
ref: 2002 December 14, Nicholas Lezard, “Spooky tales by the master and friends”, in The Guardian (London), page 30:
text: We're so bombarded with images, it's a struggle to preserve our imaginations.' In response, he's turned to cinema, commissioning 11 film-makers to contribute to a portmanteau film, entitled '11'09"01' and composed of short films each running 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame.
ref: 2002 December 11, Nick Bradshaw, “One day in September”, in Time Out, page 71:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Made by combining two (or more) words, stories, etc., in the manner of a linguistic portmanteau.
portmanteau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/
enpr: pôrtmă'ntō
enpr: pô'rtmăntōʹ
ipa: /pɔːɹtˈmæntoʊ/
ipa: /ˌpɔːɹtmænˈtoʊ/
rhymes: -æntəʊ
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: portmanteaus
form: portmanteaux
Etymology: First used by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass to describe the words he coined in “Jabberwocky”.
Senses: examples: text: Well then, ‘mimsy’ is ‘flimsy and miserable’ (there’s another portmanteau for you).
ref: 1871 December 27 (indicated as 1872), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Humpty Dumpty”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, pages 128–129:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: blend
frankenword
portmanteau word
portmantologism
glosses: A word formed by putting two words together and thereby their meaning e.g. shrinkflation.
examples: text: His long-awaited portmanteau, which premiered in Cannes on Monday, is the most Anderson of all Anderson films. It's Anderson distilled, Anderson squared, Anderson to the nth degree.
ref: 2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC:
glosses: A portmanteau film.
Derived terms: portmanbro
portmanteau agreement
portmanteau film
portmanteau word
portmanteau
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/
enpr: pôrtmă'ntō
enpr: pô'rtmăntōʹ
ipa: /pɔːɹtˈmæntoʊ/
ipa: /ˌpɔːɹtmænˈtoʊ/
rhymes: -æntəʊ
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: portmanteaus
form: portmanteauing
form: portmanteaued
form: portmanteaued
form: portmanteau'd
form: portmanteau'd
Etymology: First used by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass to describe the words he coined in “Jabberwocky”.
Senses: glosses: To create a portmanteau word.
Related terms: List of English portmanteau words defined in Wiktionary
encyclopaedia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpi(ː).di.ə/
ipa: /ɛn-/
rhymes: -iːdiə
Forms: form: encyclopaedias
form: encyclopaediae
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin encyclopaedia; the English word is an etymologically restored spelling variant of earlier encyclopedia, q.v.
Senses: glosses: Standard spelling of encyclopedia.
Derived terms: encyclopaedial
encyclopaedian
encyclopaedist
cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăt
ipa: /kæt/
ipa: [kʰæt]
ipa: [kʰæʔ]
text: -
homophone: Cat
homophone: Kat
homophone: khat
homophone: qat
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: cats
Etymology: From concatenate, derived from the program's function of concatenating files. Compare concat.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
Synonyms: word: baudrons
word: cat
word: domestic cat
word: grimalkin
word: housecat
word: kibty
word: kitten
word: kitter
word: kitty
word: kitty-cat
word: kitty witty
word: malkin
word: mog
word: moggy
word: mouser
word: puss
word: pussy
word: pussy-cat
Hypernyms: word: animal
word: creature
word: carnivore
word: feline
word: mammal
word: pet
word: vertebrate
Hyponyms: word: catess
word: gib
word: he-cat
word: queen
word: ram-cat
word: she-cat
word: tom
word: tomcat
word: alley cat
word: barn cat
word: Cheshire cat
word: feral cat
word: farm cat
word: furbaby
word: purrito
word: wild cat
word: hairless
word: longhair
word: shorthair
word: bicolour
word: bluepoint
word: calico
word: calico cat
word: chocolate point
word: colourpoint
word: lilac point
word: red point
word: seal point
word: tabby
word: tabby cat
word: torbie
word: tort
word: tortie
word: tortoiseshell
word: tuxedo
word: tuxedo cat
word: void
Meronyms: word: claw
word: Jacobson's organ
word: paw
cat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kăt
ipa: /kæt/
ipa: [kʰæt]
ipa: [kʰæʔ]
text: -
homophone: Cat
homophone: Kat
homophone: khat
homophone: qat
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: cats
form: catting
form: catted
form: catted
Etymology: From concatenate, derived from the program's function of concatenating files. Compare concat.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăt
ipa: /kæt/
ipa: [kʰæt]
ipa: [kʰæʔ]
text: -
homophone: Cat
homophone: Kat
homophone: khat
homophone: qat
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: cats
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: glosses: A street name of the drug methcathinone.
examples: text: a carrier's bow cats
glosses: Abbreviation of catapult.
glosses: Abbreviation of catalytic converter.
examples: text: These cats are a lot of fun in the harbor, but they're a real thrill on the open ocean riding ground swells.
ref: 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
glosses: Abbreviation of catamaran.
glosses: Abbreviation of category.
examples: text: She missed the fish diet of her own country, and twice every summer she sent the boys to the river, twenty miles to the southward, to fish for channel cat.
ref: 1913, Willa Cather, chapter 2, in O Pioneers!:
text: Fishing for cat is probably, up to a certain stage, the least exciting of all similar sports.
ref: 1916, M. Shults, “Fishing for Yellow Cat in the Brazos”, in Field and Stream, vol. 21, 478:
glosses: Abbreviation of catfish.
glosses: Abbreviation of caterpillar.
Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
glosses: Abbreviation of caterpillar.
A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
glosses: Abbreviation of computed axial tomography; often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”.
Synonyms: word: baudrons
word: cat
word: domestic cat
word: grimalkin
word: housecat
word: kibty
word: kitten
word: kitter
word: kitty
word: kitty-cat
word: kitty witty
word: malkin
word: mog
word: moggy
word: mouser
word: puss
word: pussy
word: pussy-cat
Hypernyms: word: animal
word: creature
word: carnivore
word: feline
word: mammal
word: pet
word: vertebrate
Hyponyms: word: catess
word: gib
word: he-cat
word: queen
word: ram-cat
word: she-cat
word: tom
word: tomcat
word: alley cat
word: barn cat
word: Cheshire cat
word: feral cat
word: farm cat
word: furbaby
word: purrito
word: wild cat
word: hairless
word: longhair
word: shorthair
word: bicolour
word: bluepoint
word: calico
word: calico cat
word: chocolate point
word: colourpoint
word: lilac point
word: red point
word: seal point
word: tabby
word: tabby cat
word: torbie
word: tort
word: tortie
word: tortoiseshell
word: tuxedo
word: tuxedo cat
word: void
Meronyms: word: claw
word: Jacobson's organ
word: paw
cat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kăt
ipa: /kæt/
ipa: [kʰæt]
ipa: [kʰæʔ]
text: -
homophone: Cat
homophone: Kat
homophone: khat
homophone: qat
rhymes: -æt
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: examples: text: The weather was cat, so they returned home early.
glosses: Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.
Derived terms: cat bond
cat melodeon
J-cat
gratis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɑː.tɪs/
rhymes: (UK) -ɑːtɪs
ipa: /ˈɡɹætɪs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gratis.
Senses: examples: text: Really syncophant^([sic]) stuff, but it may help. It's gratis in any case.
ref: 2010 September 27, Ann Charters, Samuel Charters, quoting John Clellon Holmes, Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation, →ISBN, page 162:
synonyms: costless
feeless
free of charge#Adjective
;
free as in beer
antonyms: see at nonfree
coordinate_terms: libre#Adjective
free as in speech
glosses: Free: without charge.
Synonyms: word: complimentary
word: costless
word: chargeless
word: free
word: free of charge
word: gratis
word: gratuitous
Related terms: word: unearned
gratis
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɑː.tɪs/
rhymes: (UK) -ɑːtɪs
ipa: /ˈɡɹætɪs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gratis.
Senses: examples: text: I know not how they sold themselves: but thou, like a kind fellow, gavest thyself away gratis; and I thank thee for thee.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: Reaſon, you roague, reaſon: thinkſt thou Ile endanger my soule, gratis?
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 45:
synonyms: costlessly
free of charge#Adverb
glosses: In a free way: without charge.
Related terms: gratuitous
gratuity
libre
word
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜɹd/
enpr: wûrd
ipa: /wɜːd/
ipa: /wəɹd/
ipa: [wɚ(ɹ)d]
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɛːd/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /weːd/
ipa: /wøːd/
ipa: /wʌrd/
homophone: whirred (wine–whine merger)
homophone: wared (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: words
form: wording
form: worded
form: worded
form: worde
Etymology: From Middle English word, from Old English word, from Proto-West Germanic *word, from Proto-Germanic *wurdą, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰh₁om. Doublet of verb and verve; further related to vrata.
Senses: examples: text: I’m not sure how to word this letter to the council.
synonyms: express
phrase
put into words
state
glosses: To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
examples: text: He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not / be noble to myself.
ref: 1607, William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra, act 5, scene 2:
glosses: To flatter with words, to cajole.
examples: text: […] if one were to be worded to death, Italian is the fittest Language [for that task]
ref: 1621 November 30, James Howell, letter to Francis Bacon, from Turin:
text: […] if a man were to be worded to death, or stoned to death by words, the High-Dutch were the fittest [language for that task].
ref: 1829 April 23, “Webster's Dictionary”, in The North American Review, volume 28, page 438:
glosses: To ply or overpower with words.
examples: text: Against him […] who could word heaven and earth out of nothing, and can when he pleases word them into nothing again.
ref: c. 1645-1715, Robert South, Sermon on Psalm XXXIX. 9:
text: "Postcolonialism" might well be another linguistic construct, desperately begging for a referent that will never show up, simply because it never existed on its own and was literally worded into existence by the very term that pretends to be born from it.
ref: 1994, “Liminal Postmodernisms”, in Postmodern Studies, volume 8, page 162:
text: The being of each person is worded into existence in the Word, […]
ref: 2013, Carla Mae Streeter, Foundations of Spirituality: The Human and the Holy, →ISBN, page 92:
glosses: To conjure with a word.
examples: text: Thus wording timidly among the fierce: / "O Father, I am here the simplest voice, […]"
ref: 1818–1819, John Keats, “Hyperion, a Fragment”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, page 181:
glosses: To speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse.
Derived terms: misword
reword
wordable
worder
word it
word
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜɹd/
enpr: wûrd
ipa: /wɜːd/
ipa: /wəɹd/
ipa: [wɚ(ɹ)d]
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɛːd/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /weːd/
ipa: /wøːd/
ipa: /wʌrd/
homophone: whirred (wine–whine merger)
homophone: wared (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: worde
Etymology: From Middle English word, from Old English word, from Proto-West Germanic *word, from Proto-Germanic *wurdą, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰh₁om. Doublet of verb and verve; further related to vrata.
Senses: examples: text: "Yo, that movie was epic!" / "Word?" ("You speak the truth?") / "Word." ("I speak the truth.")
glosses: Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond."
examples: text: "[…] Know what I'm sayin'?" / "Word!" the other man strongly agreed. "Let's do this — "
ref: 2004, Shannon Holmes, Never Go Home Again: A Novel, page 218:
text: "[…] Not bad at all, man. Worth da wait, dawg. Word." / "You liked it?" I asked dumbly, stoned still, and feeling victorious. / "Yeah, man," said Oral B. "Word up. […]"
ref: 2007, Gabe Rotter, Duck Duck Wally: A Novel, page 105:
text: "[…] I mean, I don't blame you... Word! […]"
ref: 2007, Relentless Aaron, The Last Kingpin, page 34:
qualifier: stereotypically African-American Vernacular
glosses: An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval.
Related terms: allomorph
compound word
grapheme
idiomatic
lexeme
listeme
morpheme
orthographic
phrase
set phrase
syllable
term
word
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜɹd/
enpr: wûrd
ipa: /wɜːd/
ipa: /wəɹd/
ipa: [wɚ(ɹ)d]
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɛːd/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /weːd/
ipa: /wøːd/
ipa: /wʌrd/
homophone: whirred (wine–whine merger)
homophone: wared (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: worde
Etymology: Variant of worth (“to become, turn into, grow, get”), from Middle English worthen, from Old English weorþan (“to turn into, become, grow”), from Proto-West Germanic *werþan, from Proto-Germanic *werþaną (“to turn, turn into, become”). More at worth § Verb.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of worth (“to become”).
livre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːvɹə/
ipa: /ˈliːvə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -iːvɹə
rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: livres
Etymology: Borrowed from French livre. Doublet of arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, lira, litra, litre, and rottol.
Senses: examples: text: They like to see them awarded comfortable pensions. Is it 700,000 livres a year to the Polignac family?
ref: 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 115:
text: He never, it should be noted, totally renounced his inheritance: a critic of the court round, he benefited to the tune of a cool two million livres a year from royal largesse […].
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 30:
glosses: A unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.
glosses: A lira
glosses: An ancient French unit of weight, equal to about 1 avoirdupois pound.
Derived terms: livre tournois
book
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bo͝ok
ipa: /bʊk/
enpr: bo͞ok
note: some speakers from Northern England and Ireland
ipa: /buːk/
ipa: /bʉk/
homophone: buck (without the foot-strut split, when pronounced /bʊk/)
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: books
form: booking
form: booked
form: booked
Etymology: From Middle English booken, boken, from Old English bōcian, ġebōcian, from the noun (see above).
Senses: examples: text: I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night.
text: I can book tickets for the concert next week.
text: I haven't booked, so I don't have a clue as to whether the service will be busy or not. Supposedly, reservations are compulsory, but I want to find out what would happen if you just turn up.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
synonyms: reserve
glosses: To reserve (something) for future use.
examples: text: They booked that message from the hill.
synonyms: make a note of
note down
record
write down
glosses: To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
examples: text: I booked a flight to New York.
synonyms: sign up
register
reserve
schedule
enroll
glosses: To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
examples: text: The police booked him for driving too fast.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
examples: text: He was really booking until he passed the speed trap.
synonyms: bomb
hurtle
rocket
speed
shoot
whiz
glosses: To travel very fast.
glosses: To record bets as bookmaker.
examples: text: The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.
qualifier: law student slang
glosses: To receive the highest grade in a class.
examples: text: He was here earlier, but he booked.
glosses: To leave.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the verb “book”
word: block-book
sense: Terms derived from the verb “book”
word: bookable
sense: Terms derived from the verb “book”
word: book away
sense: Terms derived from the verb “book”
word: book in
sense: Terms derived from the verb “book”
word: booking
sense: Terms derived from the verb “book”
word: book into
sense: Terms derived from the verb “book”
word: book off
sense: Terms derived from the verb “book”
word: book on
sense: Terms derived from the verb “book”
word: book up
sense: Terms derived from the verb “book”
word: double-book
sense: Terms derived from the verb “book”
word: overbook
sense: Terms derived from the verb “book”
word: rebook
sense: Terms derived from the verb “book”
word: unbook
sense: Terms derived from the verb “book”
word: underbook
book
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bo͝ok
ipa: /bʊk/
enpr: bo͞ok
note: some speakers from Northern England and Ireland
ipa: /buːk/
ipa: /bʉk/
homophone: buck (without the foot-strut split, when pronounced /bʊk/)
rhymes: -ʊk
Etymology: From Middle English book, bok, from Old English bōc, from Proto-Germanic *bōk, first and third person singular indicative past tense of Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”).
Senses: glosses: simple past of bake
pound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: pounds
form: pounding
form: pounded
form: pounded
Etymology: From Middle English pound, from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), an early borrowing from Latin pondō (“by weight”), ablative form of pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull, stretch”).
Cognate with Dutch pond, German Pfund, Danish pund and Swedish pund. Doublet of funt, pfund, pood, and punt.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Good-bye, my dear!' said Sleary. 'You'll make your fortun, I hope, and none of our poor folkth will ever trouble you, I'll pound it.’
ref: 1854, Dickens, chapter 4, in Hard Times:
text: “He's done,” said the Moocher brutally. “He didn't hear nuffin, I'll pound it.”
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 70:
glosses: To wager a pound on.
Related terms: crown
farthing
florin
guinea
penny
pence
shilling
sovereign
sterling
pound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: pounds
Etymology: From Middle English pounde, ponde, pund, from Old English *pund (“an enclosure”). Related to Old English pyndan (“to enclose, shut up, dam, impound”). Compare also Old English pynd (“a cistern, lake”).
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Sarnoff also sent to the pound one of the best-known dogs in the world. Nipper, the black-and-white terrier usually depicted peering with head cocked into the horn of a Victrola, listening for “His Master's Voice,” was de-emphasized as a corporate symbol.
ref: 1997 February 24, N. R. Kleinfield, “Robert Sarnoff, 78, RCA Chairman, Dies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: animal shelter
glosses: A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
examples: text: (Police officer to a dog owner) "He'd better stay calm or I'll have the pound come and get him."
ref: 2002, 00:27:30 from the start, in 25th Hour:
glosses: The people who work for the pound.
examples: text: Inspector Douglas Todd: Where did you get a truckload of cigarettes from anyway? / Detective Axel Foley: From the Dearborn Hijacking. / Todd: The Dearborn Hijacking? That bust went down weeks ago. That load's supposed to be in the damn pound!
ref: 1984, Beverly Hills Cop, Paramount Pictures:
synonyms: word: impound
word: car pound
word: impound lot
word: impound
glosses: A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
synonyms: reach
glosses: A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
examples: text: Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
synonyms: bulk
glosses: A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
Derived terms: dog pound
fish pound
impound
Lob's pound
lobster pound
pound puller
pound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: pounds
form: pounding
form: pounded
form: pounded
Etymology: From Middle English pounde, ponde, pund, from Old English *pund (“an enclosure”). Related to Old English pyndan (“to enclose, shut up, dam, impound”). Compare also Old English pynd (“a cistern, lake”).
Senses: examples: text: When I short haue shorne my sowce face
& swigg’d my horny barrell,
In an oaken Inne I pound my skin
as a suite of guilt apparrell
ref: c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)
text: And he who were pleasantly disposed, could not well avoid to liken it to the exploit of that gallant man, who thought to pound up the crows by shutting his park gate.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England:
glosses: To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
pound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: pounds
form: poun
form: pown
Etymology: From an alteration of earlier poun, pown, from Middle English pounen, from Old English pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūn- (“broken pieces, rubble”). Related to Saterland Frisian Pün (“debris, fragments”), West Frisian pún (“debris, rubble”), Dutch puin (“debris, fragments, rubbish”), Low German pun (“fragments”).
Senses: synonyms: pounding
glosses: A hard blow.
GDP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒiːdiːˈpiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: GDPs
Senses: examples: text: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 25 Oct 2020:
text: Or take Wikipedia. Supported by investments of time rather than money, it has left the old Encyclopedia Britannica in the dust – and taken the GDP down a few notches in the process.
ref: 2017, Rutger Bregman, chapter 5, in Elizabeth Manton, transl., Utopia for Realists, Kindle edition, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 104:
text: Global GDP is projected to grow by 3.1% this year, and by just 2.2% in 2023, according to the latest forecast from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
ref: 2022 November 22, Hanna Ziady, “If the world avoids a recession, it’ll have India and China to thank”, in CNN:
topics: economics
sciences
coordinate_terms: GNP
GNI
GPI
glosses: Initialism of gross domestic product.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: nucleotide
coordinate_terms: GTP
glosses: Initialism of guanosine diphosphate, a nucleotide.
rain cats and dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rains cats and dogs
form: raining cats and dogs
form: rained cats and dogs
form: rained cats and dogs
form: rain dogs and cats
Etymology: Unknown, but see examples of early use in Citations.
Senses: examples: text: ["]Those weather-gaws aren't out for nothing. It'll rain cats and dogs to-morrow." Marigold wondered what weather-gaws were—and then forgot in thinking how interesting it would be in it really rained cats and dogs. Little silk-eared kittens everywhere by the basketful—loads of darling pudgy puppies.
ref: 1929, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Marigold Entertains”, in Magic for Marigold, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →OCLC, section 4, page 190:
synonyms: word: bucket
word: bucket down
word: chuck it down
word: come down cats and dogs
word: rain buckets
word: rain pitchforks
word: pelt
word: piss down
word: piss it down
word: pour
word: pour cats and dogs
word: storm cats and dogs
word: stream
word: teem
word: tip it down
glosses: To rain very heavily.
Derived terms: cats and dogs
Related terms: come down in stair rods
pond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pŏnd
ipa: /pɒnd/
enpr: pänd
ipa: /pɑnd/
ipa: /pʌnd/
homophone: pawned (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒnd
Forms: form: ponds
Etymology: From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound.
Senses: examples: text: But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
glosses: An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.
examples: text: I wonder how they do this on the other side of the pond.
text: I haven’t been back home across the pond in twenty years.
glosses: Chiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean.
Derived terms: across the pond
ball pond
big fish in a little pond
big fish in a small pond
big-fish-little-pond effect
Chinese pond turtle
detention pond
dewpond
drop in the pond
dry pond
duckpond
duck pond
ducks on the pond
earth pond
European pond terrapin
European pond turtle
fishpond
fish-pond
fish pond
fog-pond
hammer pond
headpond
herring pond
horsepond
infiltration pond
Japanese pond smelt
Leftpondia
lilypond
melt pond
millpond
mist-pond
nursepond
pondage
pond apple
pond cypress
pond damselfly
pondfish
pondful
pondhawk
pond heron
pond hockey
pondian
pondless
pondlet
pondlife
pond life
pondlike
pondlily
pond lily
pond liner
pond loach
pondman
pondness
pondscape
pond scum
pondside
pond-skater
pond slider
pond snail
pondspice
pondstead
pond turtle
pondward
pondwards
pondwater
pondweed
pondwort
pondy
retention pond
Rightpondia
sag pond
sliding pond
stew pond
stewpond
stock pond
Sussex pond pudding
yellow pond lily
yellow pond-lily
pond
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pŏnd
ipa: /pɒnd/
enpr: pänd
ipa: /pɑnd/
ipa: /pʌnd/
homophone: pawned (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒnd
Forms: form: ponds
form: ponding
form: ponded
form: ponded
Etymology: From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound.
Senses: examples: text: The rate of fall of the surface of water ponded over the soil within the ring gives a measure of the infiltration rate for the particular enclosed area.
ref: 2004, Calvin W. Rose, An Introduction to the Environmental Physics of Soil, Water and Watersheds, →ISBN, page 201:
glosses: To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.
glosses: To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
glosses: To form a pond; to pool.
pond
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pŏnd
ipa: /pɒnd/
enpr: pänd
ipa: /pɑnd/
ipa: /pʌnd/
homophone: pawned (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒnd
Forms: form: ponds
form: ponding
form: ponded
form: ponded
Etymology: Clipping of ponder.
Senses: examples: text: Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.
ref: 1579, Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:
glosses: To ponder.
pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of pie
pies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pie
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pi
nonsense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒn.səns/
ipa: /ˈnɑn.sɛns/
rhymes: -ɒnsɛns
rhymes: -ɒnsəns
Forms: form: nonsenses
form: nonsensing
form: nonsensed
form: nonsensed
form: nonsence
form: non-sense
Etymology: From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).
Senses: examples: text: At the Haymarket all this is nonsensed by an endeavor to steer between Mr. Stanley Weyman's rights as author of the story and the prescriptive right of the leading actor to fight popularly and heroically against heavy odds.
ref: a. 1909, Bernard Shaw, “The Red Robe”, in James Huneker, editor, Dramatic Opinions and Essays by G. Bernard Shaw, volume 2, page 73:
glosses: To make nonsense of;
examples: text: "They haven't nonsensed these workouts. They've taken them and used them very well. I didn't know how they'd respond, but they've responded."
ref: 1997 June 3, “Rockies respond to whip”, in Denver Post:
text: Very commanding: very much 'end of this nonsensing'. Mister Fared spread his hands and shook his thin head imperceptibly, as if to say he understood.
ref: 2000, Leon Garfield, Jason Cockcroft, Jack Holborn, page 131:
text: He further nonsensed press suggestions that the Petroleum Unit was set up to assist in the administration of sporting activities.
ref: 2006 March 17, “Sierra Leone: Petroleum Unit Calls for Auditing”, in AllAfrica.com:
synonyms: belittle
dismiss
pooh-pooh
rubbish
glosses: To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
examples: text: When he meant "go and get one" he said to go and get one, with no nonsensing around about "liking" to get one.
ref: 1963, C. F. Griffin, The Impermanence of Heroes, page 170:
glosses: To joke around, to waste time
nonsense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒn.səns/
ipa: /ˈnɑn.sɛns/
rhymes: -ɒnsɛns
rhymes: -ɒnsəns
Forms: form: more nonsense
form: most nonsense
form: nonsence
form: non-sense
Etymology: From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).
Senses: glosses: Nonsensical.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
nonsense
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒn.səns/
ipa: /ˈnɑn.sɛns/
rhymes: -ɒnsɛns
rhymes: -ɒnsəns
Forms: form: nonsence
form: non-sense
Etymology: From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).
Senses: examples: text: The operators present this as a passenger benefit by claiming it provides early notice. Nonsense! This just means that passengers can't find any information about the train they thought they were catching. It simply disappears.
ref: 2023 January 11, Philip Haigh, “Comment: The worst chaos for 40 years”, in RAIL, number 974, page 4:
glosses: An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.
Related terms: missense
non-sense
pie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pī
ipa: /paɪ/
ipa: /pɑɪ/
homophone: pi
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: pies
form: pieing
form: pied
form: pied
Etymology: From Middle English pye, pie, pey, perhaps from Old English *pīe (“pastry”) (compare Old English pīe, pēo (“insect, bug”)), attested in early Middle English piehus (“bakery”, literally “pie-house”) c. 1199. Relation to Medieval Latin pica, pia (“pie, pastry”) is unclear, as there are no similar terms found in any Romance languages; therefore, like Irish pióg (“pie”), the Latin term may have been simply borrowed from the English.
Some sources state the word comes from Latin pīca (“magpie, jay”) (from the idea of the many ingredients put into pies likened to the tendency of magpies to bring a variety of objects back to their nests), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”), though this has its controversies. However, if so, then it is a doublet of pica.
Senses: examples: text: I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.
glosses: To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
glosses: To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
examples: text: Some of my friends drop everyone out as soon as they get a girlfriend, and they alienate people. Or they stop going out to the gym and doing things they love because they're all about the other person. When you do that you're sacrificing yourself and you will be left with nothing if you split up. You'll have to start again and get back in contact with all your mates you've pied off. Shame.
ref: 2017, Marcel Somerville, Dr Marcel's Little Book of Big Love: Your Guide to Finding Love, the Island Way, London: Blink Publishing, →ISBN, page 50:
text: just my luck been put in a presentation group at uni with a guy I pied on tinder last week HAHA gud
ref: 2018 September 18, @_kirstenanna, Twitter, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2024:
glosses: To ignore (someone).
raw_tags: followed by off
pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pī
ipa: /paɪ/
ipa: /pɑɪ/
homophone: pi
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: pies
Etymology: From Middle English pye, from Old French pie, from Latin pīca, feminine of pīcus (“woodpecker”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”). Cognate with speight. Doublet of pica.
Senses: examples: text: Joe looked as if he thought this talk was like the chattering of a pie.
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Which the Genteel Reader is recommended to Skip, Low Persons being here Introduced”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 174:
glosses: Magpie.
Derived terms: piebald
pied
sea pie