cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pharmacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑːməsi/
enpr: fär'məsē
ipa: /ˈfɑɹməsi/
Forms: form: pharmacies
Etymology: From Middle English pharmacy, borrowed from Middle French pharmacie (“the art of creating drugs; a drug, especially a laxative”), from Old French farmacie, from Medieval Latin pharmacia, from Ancient Greek φαρμακεία (pharmakeía, “the use of drugs”), from φάρμακον (phármakon, “a drug, charm, enchantment”), of uncertain but likely Pre-Greek origin. Attested since late 14th century.
Senses: glosses: A place where prescription drugs are sold or dispensed.
glosses: The science of medicinal substances, inclusive of pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, phytochemistry, and forensics.
glosses: The role or occupation of a pharmacist.
Synonyms: sense: drugstore
word: drugstore
sense: drugstore
word: chemist
sense: drugstore
word: chemist shop
sense: drugstore
word: chemist's
sense: drugstore
word: chemist's shop
sense: drugstore
word: dispensary
sense: drugstore
word: druggist's
sense: drugstore
word: druggist's shop
sense: drugstore
word: apothecary's
sense: drugstore
word: apothecary's shop
sense: drugstore
word: apothecary
Derived terms: community pharmacy
compounding pharmacy
ethnopharmacy
hospital pharmacy
megapharmacy
nonpharmacy
phytopharmacy
polypharmacy
prepharmacy
psychopharmacy
radiopharmacy
retail pharmacy
zoopharmacy
Related terms: pharmacian
pharmacist
pharmacology
pharmacopole
pharmacopolist
apothecary
chemist
drugstore
dispensed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dispense
lunatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːnətɪk/
Forms: form: lunatics
form: lunatick
Etymology: From Middle English lunatik, from Old French lunatique, from Late Latin lunaticus (“moonstruck”), derived from Latin luna (“moon”), the connection stemming from the belief that changes of the moon caused intermittent insanity.
Senses: examples: text: While there are other races (or individuals—heaven forgive me, I am no ethnologist) who think you a criminal or a lunatic unless you carefully plod along from step to step like a hippopotamus out of water.
ref: 1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome:
text: You may be right
I may be crazy
Oh, but it just may be a lunatic you're looking for
ref: 1980 March 7, Billy Joel, “You May Be Right”, in Glass Houses:
synonyms: word: moonling
word: basket case
word: basket weaver
word: crack
word: crackpot
word: crazy
word: crazyhead
word: dingbat
word: eccentric
word: fruit and nut case
word: fruit cake
word: fruit loop
word: fruitloop
word: head case
word: kook
word: loony
word: loony tune
word: lunatic
word: madcap
word: madhead
word: mental case
word: nut
word: nut ball
word: nutbar
word: nutburger
word: nutcase
word: nutjob
word: nutter
word: psycho
word: psychoceramic
word: schizo
word: screwball
word: space cadet
word: space pilot
word: unconventional
word: wackadoo
word: wackadoodle
word: wacko
word: whackjob
word: whacko
word: weirdo
word: wingnut
word: space case
glosses: An insane person.
Derived terms: lunachick
lunacy
lunatical
lunatic asylum
lunatic fringe
lunatics have taken over the asylum
Lunix
saloonatic
lunatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːnətɪk/
Forms: form: more lunatic
form: most lunatic
form: lunatick
Etymology: From Middle English lunatik, from Old French lunatique, from Late Latin lunaticus (“moonstruck”), derived from Latin luna (“moon”), the connection stemming from the belief that changes of the moon caused intermittent insanity.
Senses: glosses: Crazed, mad, insane, demented.
examples: text: As the narrator turns his attention to the moon itself and its Lunatic inhabitants, Heinsius seems to draw on the True History, but is still within the confines of the Icaromenippus.
ref: 1996, Joel C. Relihan, “Menippus in Antiquity and the Renaissance”, in R. Bracht Branham, Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé, editors, The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy, Berkeley, C.A. […]: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 269:
text: That or I might bounce off something I hit and head back out into space, become the light in the eye of some lunatic observer, looking up at the big blue ball and seeing me bang something in their retina.
ref: 2020, Kim Stanley Robinson, chapter 53, in The Ministry for the Future, New York, N.Y.: Orbit Books, →ISBN, page 235:
glosses: Relating to the Moon; lunar.
examples: text: This I remember: she was false as the lunatic sea.
ref: 1956 Summer, David R[ytman] Slavitt, “Partiti da Cotesti che son Morti”, in The Kenyon Review, volume XVIII, number 3, Gambier, O.H.: Kenyon College, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 370:
glosses: Influenced or affected by the Moon.
Synonyms: crazed
insane
mad
demented
maniacal
psychotic
Derived terms: lunatically
Related terms: lunatic soup
de lunatico inquirendo
incision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɪʒən/
rhymes: -ɪʒən
Forms: form: incisions
Etymology: From Middle English inscicioun, from Middle French incision, from Late Latin incisiō from the verb incidō (“I cut into”) + action noun suffix -iō.
Senses: examples: text: Wrath-kindled gentlemen, be ruled by me;
Let’s purge this choler without letting blood:
This we prescribe, though no physician;
Deep malice makes too deep incision;
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene 1]:
text: Gunch was so humorous that Mrs. Babbitt said he must “stop making her laugh because honestly it was hurting her incision.”
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXIII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
text: In the midst of the men a black upright stove sends out its heat. On the glowing holes at the top Ya‘qub Artin has carefully placed some chestnuts, each with a neat incision in its side.
ref: 1999, Ahdaf Soueif, chapter 28, in The Map of Love, London: Bloomsbury, published 2000, page 470:
glosses: A cut, especially one made by a scalpel or similar medical tool in the context of surgical operation; the scar resulting from such a cut.
examples: text: The parte of Euacuation by lettyng of blud, is incision or cuttyng of the vayne, wherby the bloud, whiche is cause of syckenes or grefe to the hole body, or any particular part therof, doth most aptly passe.
ref: 1539, Thomas Elyot, editor, The Castel of Helthe, London, Book 3, Chapter 6:
text: Never considering […] that these miseries of the people are still his own handy work, having smitt’n them like a forked Arrow so sore into the Kingdoms side, as not to be drawn out and cur’d without the incision of more flesh.
ref: 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes, London, pages 94–95:
text: Mnesarchus, early as a sculptor known,
From nice incision of the costly stone,
ref: 1800, William Hayley, An Essay on Sculpture, London: T. Cadell Junior and W. Davies, Epistle 4, page 89:
text: Slowly, as meticulously as if engaged upon a surgical incision, Mr Nox opened his mail.
ref: 1964, William Trevor, chapter 21, in The Old Boys, Penguin, published 2014:
glosses: The act of cutting into a substance.
glosses: Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines.
examples: text: Riyad Mahrez also dragged wide after a De Bruyne incision.
ref: 2021 March 7, David Hytner, “Manchester United catch City cold as Fernandes and Shaw end winning run”, in The Guardian:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A cut-back
Derived terms: bikini line incision
counterincision
endoincision
incisional
incisionless
Kerr incision
microincision
Pfannenstiel incision
Pfannenstiel-Kerr incision
preincision
reincision
single-incision laparoscopic surgery
subincision
honorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏnʹərəbl
enpr: ŏnʹrəbl
ipa: /ˈɒnəɹəbl̩/
ipa: /ˈɒnɹəbl̩/
enpr: ŏnʹərəbl
enpr: ŏnʹrəbl
ipa: /ˈɑnəɹəbl̩/
ipa: /ˈɑnɹəbl̩/
Forms: form: more honorable
form: most honorable
form: honble
form: Honorable
form: honourable
form: Honourable
Etymology: From Middle English honourable, from Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin honōrābilis, from honōrō (“I honour”); cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable. By surface analysis, honor + -able. In this sense, largely displaced Old English ārfæst.
Senses: glosses: Behaving in a manner that shows honor; decent, having integrity.
examples: text: In confinement ladies are attended, not by the ordinary doctors, but by women especially devoted to the calling, who regard their profession as honorable and humanitary.
ref: 1887, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 31, page 629:
synonyms: noble
venerable
antonyms: contemptible
despicable
mean
glosses: Worthy of respect; respectable.
examples: text: That culture considered it no disgrace to be defeated in honorable combat.
text: Luxury was abolished. People lived in honorable marriage. All the women were chaste, faithful, and far from wantoners.
ref: 1943, Korean Research Bulletin, volumes 1-2, page 20:
glosses: Complying with cultural rules regarding honor; not provoking shame or disgrace.
examples: text: Uncheered by friends, unhissed by foes, the honorable member blandly continued his speech […]
ref: 1872, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, The Unkind Word, and Other Stories, page 145:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: word: Hon'ble
word: Hon.
glosses: A courtesy title, given in Britain and the Commonwealth to a cabinet minister, minister of state, or senator, and in the United States to the president, vice president, congresspeople, state governors and legislators, and mayors.
Derived terms: word: amende honorable
word: Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles
word: Hon.
word: Hon'ble
word: Honourable
word: Honorable Colonel
word: honorable discharge
word: honorable mention
word: honorableness
word: honorably
word: honourably
topics: politics
government
word: right honorable
topics: politics
government
word: right honourable
word: unhonorable
honorable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏnʹərəbl
enpr: ŏnʹrəbl
ipa: /ˈɒnəɹəbl̩/
ipa: /ˈɒnɹəbl̩/
enpr: ŏnʹərəbl
enpr: ŏnʹrəbl
ipa: /ˈɑnəɹəbl̩/
ipa: /ˈɑnɹəbl̩/
Forms: form: honorables
form: honble
form: Honorable
form: honourable
form: Honourable
Etymology: From Middle English honourable, from Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin honōrābilis, from honōrō (“I honour”); cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable. By surface analysis, honor + -able. In this sense, largely displaced Old English ārfæst.
Senses: examples: text: These included a reception for the Congress participants, given by the city of Barcelona in a 14th century palace, with guards making room for the mayor and other honorables, […]
ref: 1959, American Journal of Psychotherapy, volume 13, page 111:
glosses: A politician or other person who bears the title of "honorable".
honourable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more honourable
form: most honourable
Etymology: From Middle English honourable, from Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin honōrābilis, from honōrō (“I honour”); cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable. By surface analysis, honour + -able. In this sense, largely displaced Old English ārfæst.
Senses: examples: text: It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.
ref: 1846, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2, page 474:
glosses: UK standard spelling of honorable.
Derived terms: honourability
honourableness
honourably
unhonourable
honourable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honourables
Etymology: From Middle English honourable, from Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin honōrābilis, from honōrō (“I honour”); cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable. By surface analysis, honour + -able. In this sense, largely displaced Old English ārfæst.
Senses: examples: text: So she invites her father and sister to a second day's dinner (if those sides, or ontrys, as she calls 'em, weren't served yesterday, I'm d—d), and to meet City folks and littery men, and keeps the Earls and the Ladies, and the Honourables to herself.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: UK standard spelling of honorable.
illustrious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlʌs.tɹɪ.əs/
ipa: /ɪˈlʌs.tɹi.əs/
ipa: [-ˈləs-]
Forms: form: more illustrious
form: most illustrious
Etymology: From Latin illūstris (“bright, shining; distinguished, prominent, illustrious”) + -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, to denote possession or presence of a quality in any degree). Illūstris is derived from illūstrō (“to brighten, illuminate; to make famous or illustrious”), from in- (“in, inside”) + lūstrō (“to purify by making a sacrifice; to brighten, illuminate”) (from lūstrō (“purificatory sacrifice”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine”) or *lewh₃- (“to wash”)).
Senses: examples: text: A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down, with a generous neglect, on the censures and applauses of the multitude, and places a man beyond the little noise and strife of tongues. Accordingly we find in ourselves a secret awe and veneration for the character of one who moves above us, in a regular and illustrious course of virtue, without any regard to our own good or ill opinions of him, to our reproaches or commendations.
ref: 1712 January 2 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, December 22, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 255; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, pages 127–128:
text: Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh. The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs!
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Five. The End of It.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 154:
text: The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
ref: 1941, Ogden Nash, “The Ant”, in The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash, reprint edition, Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 224:
text: [Marcus] Rashford showed the fearless streak [Gareth] Southgate so admires with his constant willingness to run at Brazil's defence with pace, even demonstrating on occasion footwork that would not have been out of place from members of England's illustrious opposition.
ref: 2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0 – 0 Brazil”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2018:
glosses: Admired, distinguished, respected, or well-known.
Synonyms: splendent
Derived terms: illustriously
illustriousness
nonillustrious
unillustrious
Related terms: lustrious
dignified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪɡnɪfaɪd/
Forms: form: more dignified
form: most dignified
Senses: examples: text: remain dignified
text: quietly dignified
text: a dignified silence
text: She made a dignified exit after the argument.
text: The old man carried himself in a dignified manner.
glosses: Having an attitude or bearing that connotes respectability and poise.
Synonyms: august
Derived terms: dignifiedly
overdignified
ultradignified
undignified
dignified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪɡnɪfaɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dignify
airway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛə.weɪ/
ipa: /ˈɛɚ.weɪ/
ipa: /ɛɹ.weɪ/
ipa: /ˈeː.wæɪ/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈeə.wæɪ/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈiə.wæɪ/
ipa: /ˈeɹ.we/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈɜː(ɹ).weː/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)weɪ
Forms: form: airways
Etymology: From air + way.
Senses: examples: text: The burners on gas stoves release pollutants including nitrogen dioxide, a key element in smog that can irritate airways and may contribute to the development of asthma, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
ref: 2024 May 23, Michael Copley, “A lawsuit accuses a gas stove manufacturer of failing to warn consumers about pollution risks”, in NPR:
text: David Williams, a scientist who evaluates antivenoms for WHO, says the biggest risk to people who are bitten by these snakes is paralysis, "which can prevent them from being able to control their airway and breathing and they can potentially suffocate and die as a result of that."
ref: 2025 May 2, Ari Daniel, “He let snakes bite him some 200 times to create a better snakebite antivenom”, in NPR:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: trachea
windpipe
glosses: The trachea.
examples: text: But British Airways Flight 112 made the trek in under five hours, setting a new record for the fastest subsonic commercial flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
ref: 2020 February 9, Alina Selyukh, “British Airways Sets Record, Crossing The Atlantic In Under 5 Hours In Strong Winds”, in NPR:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A flight path used by aeroplanes.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A roadway used for ventilation.
Derived terms: esophago-airway
lower airway
positive airway pressure
purple airway
upper airway
Victor airway
marred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːd/
ipa: /mɑɹd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more marred
form: most marred
Etymology: From Middle English marred, merred (“troubled, distressed, vexed, bewildered”), from Old English *mierred, ġemyrred (“disturbed, troubled”), past participle of Old English mierran, ġemyrran (“to hinder, obstruct, force, trouble, err”), equivalent to mar + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Of a person, perplexed or troubled
qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: Spoilt, cosseted, overly indulged, soft.
raw_tags: of a child
Related terms: mard
mardy
marredness
marred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːd/
ipa: /mɑɹd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Etymology: From mar.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mar
vrata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vratas
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit व्रत (vratá). Related to the group word, verb, and verve, from the same Proto-Indo-European root, *werh₁- (“to speak, say”).
Senses: glosses: A pious observance such as fasting and pilgrimage.
omitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of omit
prolonged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈlɒŋd/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈlɔŋd/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈlɑŋd/
Forms: form: more prolonged
form: most prolonged
Senses: examples: text: The landslip followed a period of prolonged rainfall.
ref: 2023 February 22, Paul Clifton, “Network News: All SWR main lines disrupted, but landslip repaired”, in RAIL, number 977, page 9:
glosses: Lengthy in duration; extended; protracted.
Synonyms: enduring
longsome
lasting
Derived terms: prolonged abortion
prolonged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈlɒŋd/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈlɔŋd/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈlɑŋd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prolong
refreeze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈfɹiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: refreezes
form: refreezing
form: refroze
form: refrozen
Etymology: From re- + freeze.
Senses: examples: text: It's not a good idea to refreeze raw meat once it has been thawed.
text: We've had another cold snap and the lake has refrozen.
text: Successive falls of snow had thawed, or partially thawed, seeped into the ballast and, as temperatures dropped again, refrozen.
ref: 1964 April, Warren Smith, “The Midland's accelerated timetable—the first year—II”, in Modern Railways, page 243:
glosses: To freeze again.
sanatorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsænəˈtɔɹiəm/
Forms: form: sanatoriums
form: sanatoria
form: sanitarium
form: sanitorium
form: sanatarium
Etymology: Haplology from Latin sanatus (past participle of sānō (“to cure, to heal”)) + Latin -torium. Alternatively, alteration of sanitarium influenced by words like curatorium and moratorium.
Senses: glosses: An institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence.
undies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌn.dis/
rhymes: -ʌndis
Etymology: und(erwear) + -ies.
Senses: examples: text: I hope so because I can't wear the suit without the shirt. I went to go look in my dresser. I found it and got out my undies and socks.
ref: 2004, T. Fulton, Da Joka: Frisco’s Finest, page 59:
text: Some of us prevent this needless chaotic surge as we hand-wash our uniforms in our sinks or while we shower and, especially, our undies because in this way we are sure of its soapy cleanliness, chlorine scent, microbe safe and heartfelt snuggly sporty.
ref: 2020, Alex Garcia, Psst! Homie!:
glosses: underwear, underpants
Synonyms: word: BVDs
word: drawers
word: gotchies
word: gruds
word: knickers
word: pants
word: panties
word: Reg Grundys
word: skivvies
Derived terms: get one's undies in a bundle
undies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌn.dis/
rhymes: -ʌndis
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undie
violated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪəˌleɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more violated
form: most violated
Senses: glosses: Having been broken or ignored, especially in a flagrant manner.
raw_tags: of a rule or law
glosses: Abused, harmed or sexually victimized.
Synonyms: raped
desecrated
defiled
violated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪəˌleɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of violate
back to the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backs to the wall
Senses: examples: text: From this place—so he told himself—had emanated that policy of extortion, oppression and injustice that little by little had shouldered the ranchers from their rights, till, their backs to the wall, exasperated and despairing they had turned and fought and died.
ref: 1901, Frank Norris, chapter 8, in The Octopus:
text: Bernald felt that his extreme docility in such matters was proportioned to the force of resistance which, for nearly half a life-time, had kept him, with his back to the wall, fighting alone against the powers of darkness.
ref: 1910, Edith Wharton, “The Legend”, in Tales of Men and Ghosts:
text: His back to the wall, Ahmedinajad resorted to the tactic favored by cornered politicians everywhere: distract attention from yourself by pointing to a bogeyman.
ref: 2006 January 14, Bobby Ghosh, “Why Iran Won't Back Down”, in Time:
text: The England international may not have been at his best but it was his intervention when United had their backs to the wall and trailed that dragged them back into a cup final they were in danger of losing.
ref: 2016 May 22, Phil McNulty, “Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester United”, in BBC:
glosses: A very difficult situation with no beneficial options available for action.
Related terms: go to the wall
retreat to the wall
up against the wall
turn of phrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turns of phrase
Etymology: Compare trope, with same sense of turn to mean indirect language.
Senses: examples: text: "I should call it a most nice sort of surprise," remarked the girl with a quaintly un-English turn of phrase which he had already noticed and thought the most delightful thing in the world.
ref: 1922, Dorothy Canfield, “Chapter 43”, in Rough-Hewn:
glosses: An expression which is worded in a distinctive way, especially one which is particularly memorable or artful.
examples: text: This author has a beautiful turn of phrase.
synonyms: style
prose
glosses: A distinctive way of wording things, a distinctive way of writing or speaking.
Related terms: turn a phrase
figure of speech
speedily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspiːdɪli/
Forms: form: speedilier
form: more speedily
form: speediliest
form: most speedily
Etymology: From Middle English spedily, spedili, from Old English *spēdiġlīċe, ġespēdiġlīċe (“prosperously”), equivalent to speedy + -ly. Cognate with Scots spedely, spedelie (“quickly, speedily”). Compare also Old English spēdlīċe (“effectually, effectively, successfully, efficaciously, powerfully, in a manner which produces a result”).
Senses: examples: text: He was speedily reassured, and with a large, white, rascally grin, and a glance at his charge, seemed to take me into partnership in his exalted trust.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 205:
text: If they keep marching as speedily as they are now, they should reach us within three days."
ref: 1944, H. Lorna Bingham, Tuckonie's Warrior Friend, page 33, column 2:
glosses: In a speedy or fast manner.
guided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaɪdɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of guide
guided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaɪdɪd/
Senses: glosses: Subject to guidance.
Derived terms: bioguided
guided capitalism
guided missile
guided notes
guided tour
nonguided
self-guided
unguided
visuoguided
sarcastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɑː(ɹ)ˈkæstɪkli/
ipa: /sɑː(ɹ)ˈkæstɪkəli/
Forms: form: more sarcastically
form: most sarcastically
Etymology: From sarcastic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: `Sprung!' cried Jeff Basin, the local dubbo. 'Oh, der,' moaned Boardie sarcastically.
ref: 1979, Gabrielle Carey, Kathy Lette, Puberty Blues, page 46:
text: Another pointed out the hypocrisy in the original argument, sarcastically noting, "Amazing how all of these 'free-thinking alpha males' reach the same conclusions on everything."
ref: 2024 September 2, Ellsworth Toohey, “Musk boosts 4chan claim that women are incapable of critical thinking”, in Boing Boing:
text: Figures from both groups – rightwing activist Charlie Kirk and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – boastfully shared these images on X, with the latter sarcastically thanking South Park for helping them in their recruiting efforts. (The show responded on X by asking DHS “Wait, so we ARE relevant? #eatabagofdicks”.)
ref: 2025 August 7, Zach Vasquez, “From puppy murder to racist podcasts: South Park’s anti-deportation episode is utterly ruthless TV”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: In a sarcastic manner.
hon
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: hŭn
ipa: /hʌn/
ipa: /hʊn/
rhymes: -ʌn
homophone: hun
homophone: Hun
ipa: /hɔ̃/
enpr: hŭn
ipa: /hʌn/
ipa: /hʊn/
rhymes: -ʌn
homophone: hun
homophone: Hun
Etymology: The laugh probably originated as a parody of French singer and actor Maurice Chevalier (1888–1972) who was noted for his strong accent in English, and does not represent a typical French laugh. The stereotype was popularized in Internet memes in the mid-2000s and 2010s.
Senses: examples: text: Hon hon hon, oui oui baguette!
text: She's right! We all talk like Maurice Chevalier! Hon hon hon!
ref: 1981 June 12, History of the World, Part I, Mel Brooks (actor):
text: What cinephiles have missed most this spring are the cries of "hon hon hon!" — the bitchy sound of French laughter — bellowing from the Côte d'Azur.
ref: 2020 May 28, “The sex scandals, walkouts and boos of Cannes Film Festival”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2022:
text: [Ridley] Scott once said that forcing French accents on the stars of "The Last Duel" would have been "a disaster," but on that count, I beg to differ. Imagine Ben Affleck winding up to crucial lines with a snooty "a-hon-hon-hon!" Now that you have, you won't want to go without.
ref: 2023 August 18, Kyle Buchanan, “Uma Thurman's 'Red, White & Royal Blue' Accent Is One to Savor”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2023:
glosses: Representing a stereotypical French laugh.
hon
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: hŭn
ipa: /hʌn/
ipa: /hʊn/
rhymes: -ʌn
homophone: hun
homophone: Hun
ipa: /hɔ̃/
ipa: /hmɒn/
ipa: /hɒn/
ipa: [m̥ɑn]
rhymes: -ɒn
enpr: hŭn
ipa: /hʌn/
ipa: /hʊn/
rhymes: -ʌn
homophone: hun
homophone: Hun
ipa: /hɔ̃/
Forms: form: 'hon
form: h'on
Etymology: Clipping of come on with devoicing of /m/. Compare c'mon.
Senses: examples: text: “Hon the Banner!” is the single-minded mantra being roared everywhere else.
ref: 2013 September 9, Rosita Boland, “Feelings of relief and anti-climax in Ennis car park”, in The Irish Times:
text: We're not normally impressed by this kind of stuff but h'on the lads! This is pretty good.
ref: 2016 August 17, Jennifer Dollard "Seagulls cover Beastie Boys' 'Sabotage'" Today FM
text: To coincide with the film’s release, GQ recently enlisted the actor to take part in a photoshoot in some of Dublin’s most beloved pubs. ... Hon Dublin!
ref: 2017 March 16, Amy O'Connor, “GQ did a swanky photoshoot in loads of Dublin pubs with the star of Beauty and the Beast”, in Daily Edge:
text: 22:23 BIRDIE: Lowry (-2) can't find the bottom of the cup with his eagle putt but taps in for birdie. Hon the Offalyman. He's one behind the leaders, McGirt and Hoffman
ref: 2017 April 7, Johnny Watterson, John O'Sullivan, “Liveblog: US Masters: Day One”, in The Irish Times:
glosses: ; (typically) cheering a sports team, especially a GAA team; exhortation or encouragement come on; congratulations well done, bravo.
hon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hŭn
ipa: /hʌn/
ipa: /hʊn/
rhymes: -ʌn
homophone: hun
homophone: Hun
ipa: /hɔ̃/
ipa: /hmɒn/
ipa: /hɒn/
ipa: [m̥ɑn]
rhymes: -ɒn
Forms: form: hons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hoon (“Indian gold coin”).
Eochaid Feidlech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The High King of Ireland in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, who deposed the former High King Fachtna Fáthach at the battle of Battle of Leitir Ruadh.
Fachtna Fáthach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The High King of Ireland in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology who was deposed by Eochaid Feidlech at the Battle of Leitir Ruadh.
Fráech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle Irish Fráech, from Old Irish Fróech, from fróech (“heather”), from Proto-Celtic *wroikos.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Connacht hero in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology who wooed Findabair and Treblann, but was drowned in a river in a duel with Cúchulainn.
Nera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A warrior of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.
hade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /heɪd/
ipa: /hed/
rhymes: -eɪd
rhymes: -ed
Forms: form: hades
form: had
form: haid
form: hod
form: hode
Etymology: From Middle English hade, had, hod, hed, from Old English hād (“person, individual, character, individuality, degree, rank, order, office, holy office, condition, state, nature, character, form, manner, sex, race, family, tribe, choir”), from Proto-West Germanic *haidu, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“appearance, kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kāy- (“light, bright, shining”). Cognate with Old Saxon hēd (“condition, rank”), Old High German heit (“person, personality, sex, condition, quality, rank”), Old Norse heiðr ("honour, dignity") (whence Danish hæder (“honour”), Swedish heder (“honour”)), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍃 (haidus, “way, manner”). Same as -hood.
Senses: examples: text: And I tolde the of the good hade of my God which was vpo me:
ref: 1838, The Holy Scriptures, Faithfully and Truly:
text: My name was alle that I there gate, To wynne honour was onely the purpose Whiche that I tooke ; or that I come thereate, Other good hade I none than riche lose ;
ref: 1860, Thomas Occleve, De regimine principum:
text: And I said it was don he wolde not cum in in that furme, for a mon of his hade met me be ye way withe an endenture was not like to be fulfillet.
ref: 1882, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, page 584:
glosses: State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.
hade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /heɪd/
ipa: /hed/
rhymes: -eɪd
rhymes: -ed
Forms: form: hades
form: hading
form: haded
form: haded
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from a dialectal form of head.
Senses: examples: text: It was found, however, that where the coal haded away from the floor towards the face, as in Fig. 2(6), [...]
ref: 1935, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), Transactions, page 60:
text: The author details the benefits arising from arranging the quarry faces to be haded backwards at say 20-25° off vertical and to be of reasonable height, say 50-60ft. These include the reduction of danger ...
ref: 1967, Mining and Minerals Engineering:
text: Plot's observation that the veins haded to the north-east is consistent with the workings around Stone Quarry Mine but not the main Ecton Pipe at depth nor the mines from Clayton Pipe southwards.
ref: 2000, Lindsey Porter, John Albert Robey, The Copper & Lead Mines Around the Manifold Valley, North Staffordshire:
topics: business
geography
geology
mining
natural-sciences
glosses: To slope or incline from the vertical.
hade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /heɪd/
ipa: /hed/
rhymes: -eɪd
rhymes: -ed
Forms: form: hades
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from a dialectal form of head.
Senses: examples: text: The thick and well-growne fogge doth matt my smoother shades,
And on the lower Leas, as on the higher Hades
The daintie Clover growes (of grass the onely silke)
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, quoted in 1914, William Holden Hutton, Highways and Byways in Shakespeare's Country, page 34
roman: That makes each Udder strout abundantly with milke.
text: [...] as he must have done who had proudly passed by Lazarus on earth when he looked up and beheld how he was honoured in the higher hades.
ref: 1885, The Rainbow, a magazine of Christian literature, volume 22, page 449:
text: [...] due to the breaks at different hades, the projection might occur at any point from the floor to halfway up the seam.
ref: 1935, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), Transactions, page 60:
text: The face was developed to a good hade and appeared to be satisfactory ;
ref: 1957, Great Britain. Mines and Quarries Inspectorate, Report of H.M. Chief Inspector of Mines and Quarries, page 34:
text: Laterally continuous normal faulting with differing fault plane dip directions sometimes appears as scissor faulting on plans, but detailed study can show separate throw maxima not coincident with the 'cross-over'; these are better considered as indivicual faults. No good hade information is yet available for faults in this situation.
ref: 1984, Yorkshire Geological Society, Proceedings - Volume 45, page 161:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.
hade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /heɪd/
ipa: /hed/
rhymes: -eɪd
rhymes: -ed
Forms: form: hades
Etymology: Probably a dialectal or variant form of head.
Senses: examples: text: … certeine arable landes some of them havinge hades of meadow and grasse grounde lieinge in the Southe fielde of Einsham.
ref: 1615, in a Map in Corpus Christi College, Oxon, quoted in Wright's English Dialect Dictionary
text: 6 rodes with hades at both ends. 2 Landes 4 ro. with hades.
ref: 1635, Terrier, quoted in Wright's English Dialect Dictionary
text: And oxen wyl plowe in tough cley … And whereas is now suerall pastures, there the horse plowe is better, for the horses may be teddered, or tyed upon leys, balkes, or hades, whereas oxen may not be kept: and it is used to tedder them, but in fewe places.
ref: 1534 [original], Anthony Fitzherbert, Husbandry, republished as Ancient Tracts concerning the Management of landed Property, republished, in The Monthly Review, or Journal (1767), page 270
text: [Item] . . . . . [w]th hades at both endes in the furlong called longe Furlonge of Thomas Vades on the north side and the aforesaide Mr [Bury] [so]wth side.
ref: 1955, Ecclesiastical Terriers of Warwickshire Parishes, volume 22, page 36:
glosses: A headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned.
festive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛstɪv/
rhymes: -ɛstɪv
Forms: form: more festive
form: most festive
Etymology: From French festif, from Latin festivus (“pertaining to a feast, gay, lively, joyous”). Equivalent to feast + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The room was decked out in festive streamers, with flowers everywhere.
text: On festive occasions away from home we softened under the influence of Christmas trees, bran pies, and conjurors.
ref: 1938, Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Century and seven more years, London: Faber, page 35 (1968 edition):
glosses: Having the atmosphere, decoration, or attitude of a festival, holiday, or celebration.
examples: text: Please put the Christmas decorations away, I'm really not in a festive mood.
glosses: In the mood to celebrate.
Synonyms: feastful
feastly
Derived terms: festively
festiveness
festive season
festivous
nonfestive
postfestive
unfestive
extricate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛks.tɹɪ.keɪt/
Forms: form: extricates
form: extricating
form: extricated
form: extricated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin extrīcātus, past participle of extrīcō. Compare intricate.
Senses: examples: text: I finally managed to extricate myself from the tight jacket.
text: The firefighters had to use the jaws of life to extricate Monica from the car wreck.
glosses: To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.
examples: text: Your argumentation ... is invelloped with certain intricacies, that are not easie to be extricated.
ref: 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
glosses: To free from intricacies or perplexity.
Derived terms: unextricated
Related terms: extricable
extrication
inextricable
intricate
intrigue
untangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈtæŋ.ɡəl/
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
Forms: form: untangles
form: untangling
form: untangled
form: untangled
Etymology: From un- + tangle.
Senses: examples: text: With gentle combing, untangle your hair.
glosses: To remove tangles or knots from.
examples: text: It took a while, but he finally untangled the problem.
glosses: To remove confusion or mystery from.
Synonyms: disentangle
cubism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuː.bɪz.əm/
Forms: form: cubisms
form: Cubism
Etymology: From French cubisme. One story is that, in 1908, as a new canvas by Braque was being carried past, someone said, “Encore des cubes! assez de cubisme!”. The quotations below ascribe the coinage to Matisse. Sometimes attributed to French art critic Louis Vauxcelles who popularized the term.
See also the word cube (from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos)).
Senses: examples: text: Matisse coined the name Cubism as a derisive joke.
ref: 2003 March 3, The New Yorker:
text: A few recall that, in 1908, he [Matisse] inspired the coinage of the term “cubism,” in disparagement of a movement that would eclipse his leading influence on the Parisian avant-garde.
ref: 2005 August 29, The New Yorker, page 78:
glosses: An artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes.
wikipedia: Georges Braque
Henri Matisse
Louis Vauxcelles
Derived terms: neocubism
Related terms: cubist
cubistic
cubistically
gerontophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From geronto- + -phobia.
Senses: synonyms: gerascophobia
glosses: An abnormal and persistent fear of aging or growing old.
glosses: An abnormal and persistent fear of elderly individuals or people.
glosses: An aversion or hatred towards elderly people.
Related terms: gerontophobe
gerontophobic
speedy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspiː.di/
rhymes: -iːdi
Forms: form: speedier
form: speediest
Etymology: From Middle English spedy, spedi, from Old English spēdiġ (“having good speed, lucky, prosperous; having means, wealthy, opulent, rich in material wealth; rich in, abounding in, abundant, plenteous, copious; powerful”), from Proto-Germanic *spōdigaz (“successful, hurried”), equivalent to speed + -y. Cognate with Scots speedy (“speedy”), Dutch spoedig (“speedy, swift, rapid, quick”), German sputig, spudig (“industrious, speedy”).
Senses: examples: text: " Without further parley, upon their knees they fell most devoutly, and for helpe on heaven never ceased extensively to intercessionate God, for his speedie recoverie.
ref: 1594, Thomas Nash, “The Terrors of the Night”, in Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, volume I, published 1807, →OCLC, page 270:
text: They turned out to be speedy machines and earned the sobriquet "Greyhounds", giving excellent performances on the Exeter run.
ref: 1951 November, David R. Webb, “The Drummond 4-4-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 774:
text: After some quite speedy constructional work the line was opened to traffic on January 2, 1865.
ref: 1961 October, ""Voyageur"", “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 598:
synonyms: swift
fast
quick
glosses: Proceeding with or characterized by high speed; rapid.
Synonyms: word: cursory
word: express
word: fast
word: expeditious
word: feverish
word: fleet
word: fleeting
word: greased lightning
word: hasty
word: hectic
word: hectical
word: hyperactive
word: immediate
word: lightning fast
word: nimble
word: post haste
word: precipitant
word: quick
word: quick as a flash
word: quicksome
word: rapid
word: speedful
word: speedy
word: spit-spot
word: swift
word: tripsome
word: zippy
Derived terms: speedily
speediness
speedy delete
speedy deletion
Speedy Gonzales
Related terms: word: quickly
word: active
word: rush
word: animated
word: enthusiastic
word: ephemeral
speedy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspiː.di/
rhymes: -iːdi
Forms: form: speedies
form: speedying
form: speedied
form: speedied
Etymology: From Middle English spedy, spedi, from Old English spēdiġ (“having good speed, lucky, prosperous; having means, wealthy, opulent, rich in material wealth; rich in, abounding in, abundant, plenteous, copious; powerful”), from Proto-Germanic *spōdigaz (“successful, hurried”), equivalent to speed + -y. Cognate with Scots speedy (“speedy”), Dutch spoedig (“speedy, swift, rapid, quick”), German sputig, spudig (“industrious, speedy”).
Senses: examples: text: “[…] the Treaty between the King and the Parliament may be speedied; and that Care may be taken, to prevent the casting of the Two Kingdoms into War and Blood.”
ref: 1647, [uncredited], Journals of the House of Lords (House of Lords), volume 10, page 389:
text: […] for the purpose of proceeding to the immediate sale of the goods under seizure, with the view of speedying the exercise of their rights on the proceeds of the sale of the goods seized.
ref: 1871, The Mauritius Reports, page 46:
synonyms: speed up
glosses: To process in a faster than normal, accelerated way.
examples: text: The guy is *not* so obviously insignificant that speedying him is appropriate.
synonyms: speedy delete
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: To apply the speedy rule in an online community (often the deletion rule); to speedy delete.
cave in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: caves in
form: caving in
form: caved in
form: caved in
form: cave-in
Senses: examples: text: The roof caved in under the weight of the snow.
text: He caved in the side of the barrel with a single well-placed kick.
text: It was to assist in the filling-in of the tunnel on the disused Patricroft-Clifton Junction line, which was the scene of a disaster in 1953 when part, below some houses in Swinton, caved in.
ref: 1955 June, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: London Midland Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 439:
synonyms: cave
break
crush
give way
stave
stave in
glosses: To collapse inward or downward.
examples: text: After he asked me a few times, I finally caved in and had a slice of cake.
text: Eventually the NUR overplayed its hands with an all-out strike. And when Peter Parker, the then-chairman of BR, who was well regarded among his staff, called their bluff by threatening to close down the entire network, they caved in.
ref: 2022 December 14, Christian Wolmar, “Productivity should play no part in pay negotiations”, in RAIL, number 972, page 46:
synonyms: cave
assent
give in
give up
relinquish
yield
comply
acquiesce
glosses: To relent; to grant approval against one's initial will.
cave in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cave-in
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of cave-in.
bent on
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒn
Forms: form: more bent on
form: most bent on
Senses: examples: text: He was bent on reaching the end of the book, even if it meant staying up all night.
text: A colossal bipartisan investment of American force, treasure and diplomacy to defeat a hostile ideology bent on the creation of an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has failed.
ref: 2021 August 17, Roger Cohen, “For America, and Afghanistan, the Post-9/11 Era Ends Painfully”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: However, Mr. Ryan and other analysts cautioned that despite the nature of the attacks, they are unlikely to alter the political calculus of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who remains bent on achieving his war aims.
ref: 2025 June 2, Marc Santora, Devon Lum, “In Russia Airfield Attacks, Ukraine Aims for Strategic and Symbolic Blow”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Completely determined; obstinate.
Related terms: hell-bent
esperanza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish esperanza (“hope”).
Senses: synonyms: yellow trumpetbush
yellow bells
glosses: yellow bells (Tecoma stans)
porphyrogeniture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the principle of royal succession in which the first son born after his father's accession to the throne has the first claim, even if he has older brothers who were born before the father's crowning.
Related terms: porphyrogenite
porphyry
primogeniture
born in the purple