cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
blackbird
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblakbəːd/
ipa: /ˈblækˌbɚd/
rhymes: -ækbə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: blackbirds
form: blackbirding
form: blackbirded
form: blackbirded
Etymology: From Middle English blakebird, blacbrid (“ouzel; Eurasian blackbird”), equivalent to black + bird.
Senses: examples: ref: 2005, Wal F. Bird, Me No Go Mally Bulla: Recruiting and Blackbirding in the Queensland Labour Trade 1863–1906, Ginninderra Press, →ISBN, →ISBN:
text: “At the same time, island communities — especially in coastal areas, where the effect of population loss was often enormous — sometimes retaliated against blackbirding raids.”
ref: 2000, Kate Fortune, Brij V. Lal, The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia – Volume 1, University of Hawaiʻi, →ISBN, page 208:
glosses: To enslave someone, especially through chicanery or force
barn owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːn ˌaʊl/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹn ˌaʊəl/
Forms: form: barn owls
Etymology: From barn + owl.
Senses: synonyms: disc owl
glosses: An owl of the species Tyto alba, often having a white face and commonly found in barns and other farm buildings.
Hyponyms: sense: Tyto alba
taxonomic: Tyto alba delicatula
word: eastern barn owl
sense: Tyto alba
taxonomic: Tyto alba alba
word: western barn owl
sense: Tyto alba
taxonomic: Tyto alba furcata
word: American barn owl
Coordinate terms: sense: owl living in farm buildings
word: flammulated owl
sense: owl living in farm buildings
word: great horned owl
sense: owl living in farm buildings
word: greater sooty owl
sense: owl living in farm buildings
word: tawny owl
vole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəʊl/
ipa: [vɔʊɫ]
ipa: /voʊl/
ipa: [voɫ]
ipa: [voːɫ]
ipa: /vəʉl/
ipa: /vɐʉl/
ipa: /vol/
ipa: [voɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: voles
Etymology: Borrowed from Norn vollj, from Old Norse vǫllr (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”). The Orkney dialectal term vole mouse, lit. “field mouse”, was introduced to general English by George Barry in 1805; John Fleming in 1828 was first to refer to the creature by the epithet vole alone. Displaced earlier names for these species which also classified them as mice, e.g. short-tailed field mouse.
Senses: glosses: Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the tribes Arvicolini, Ellobiusini, Clethrionomyini, Pliomyini, Phenacomyini and Prometheomyini.
Derived terms: Amargosa vole
bank vole
beach vole
Brandt's vole
Buchanan vole
California vole
Clarke's vole
common vole
creeping vole
East European vole
Evorsk vole
field vole
flat-headed vole
Gull Island vole
heather vole
lacustrine vole
Lake Baikal vole
large-eared vole
lemming vole
long-tailed vole
mandarin vole
Marie's vole
Maximowicz's vole
meadow vole
Mexican vole
Middendorff's vole
mogollon vole
mole vole
Mongolian vole
montane vole
mountain vole
Muisk vole
Murree vole
Muskeget vole
Muya Valley vole
narrow-headed vole
Nasarov's vole
north Siberian vole
Olkhon Mountain vole
Oregon vole
Orkney vole
paradox vole
Pere David's vole
Persian vole
pine vole
plateau vole
prairie vole
red-backed vole
redback vole
reed vole
Richardson's vole
rock vole
root vole
royal vole
sagebrush vole
Schidlovsky's vole
Shansei vole
Shikotan vole
sibling vole
singing vole
Smith's vole
snow vole
southern vole
steppe vole
Szechuan vole
taiga vole
Tien Shan vole
Townsend's vole
tree vole
tundra vole
Tyrrhenian vole
volelike
water vole
white-footed vole
woodland vole
yellow vole
vole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəʊl/
ipa: [vɔʊɫ]
ipa: /voʊl/
ipa: [voɫ]
ipa: [voːɫ]
ipa: /vəʉl/
ipa: /vɐʉl/
ipa: /vol/
ipa: [voɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: voles
Etymology: Borrowed from French vole.
Senses: examples: text: Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.
ref: 1731, Jonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift:
text: With humble curate can I now retire,
(While good Sir Peter boozes with the squire,)
And at backgammon mortify my soul,
That pants for loo, or flutters at a vole?
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, Epilogue:
glosses: A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.
vole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəʊl/
ipa: [vɔʊɫ]
ipa: /voʊl/
ipa: [voɫ]
ipa: [voːɫ]
ipa: /vəʉl/
ipa: /vɐʉl/
ipa: /vol/
ipa: [voɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: voles
form: voling
form: voled
form: voled
Etymology: Borrowed from French vole.
Senses: examples: text: no lad shall chuck, or lady vole, But some excising Courtier will have toll.
ref: 1717, Alexander Pope, “The Fourth Satire of Dr. John Donne”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: To win all the tricks by a vole.
American bison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmɛɹɪkən ˈbaɪ̯sən/
Forms: form: American bison
form: American bisons
Senses: examples: text: In the year 1521, when Cortez reached Anahuac, the American bison was seen for the first time by civilized Europeans, if we may be permitted to thus characterize the horde of blood thirsty plunder seekers who fought their way to the Aztec capital.
ref: 1889, William T. Hornaday, The Extermination of the American Bison:
glosses: A bovine mammal, a species of bison, Bison bison.
Synonyms: word: American buffalo
word: North American buffalo
word: North American bison
word: buffalo
word: bison
Hypernyms: bison
bovine
bovid
Hyponyms: plains bison
wood bison
Related terms: European bison
European bison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʊɹəˌpiːən ˈbaɪsn̩/
Forms: form: European bison
form: European bisons
Senses: synonyms: aurochs
wisent
zubr
glosses: The wisent, species Bos bonasus, Europe's heaviest land animal.
Related terms: American bison
wisent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪzənt/
ipa: /ˈviːzənt/
rhymes: -ɪzənt
Forms: form: wisents
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wisent. Doublet of bison.
Senses: glosses: The European bison, Bison bonasus or Bos bonasus.
Synonyms: European bison
zubr
Hypernyms: english: a member of the genus Bison
translation: a member of the genus Bison
word: bison
english: a cloven-hoofed ruminant mammal of the subfamily Bovinae, cattle
translation: a cloven-hoofed ruminant mammal of the subfamily Bovinae, cattle
word: bovine
english: a hoofed mammal chewing cud
translation: a hoofed mammal chewing cud
word: ruminant
Hyponyms: english: extinct subspecies, Bison bonasus hungarorum
translation: extinct subspecies, Bison bonasus hungarorum
word: Carpathian wisent
english: subspecies only surviving as a hybrid, Bison bonasus caucasicus
translation: subspecies only surviving as a hybrid, Bison bonasus caucasicus
word: Caucasian wisent
english: only surviving purebred subspecies, Bison bonasus bonasus
translation: only surviving purebred subspecies, Bison bonasus bonasus
word: lowland wisent
buffalo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌf.əl.əʊ/
enpr: bŭf'ə-lō
ipa: /ˈbʌf.ə.loʊ/
Forms: form: buffaloes
form: buffaloing
form: buffaloed
form: buffaloed
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish búfalo (“buffalo”), from Late Latin būfalus, from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”). Doublet of bubale and buffle.
Senses: glosses: To hunt buffalo.
examples: text: I'm just gonna let you have it. Probably in the midst of a kiss. Right when you think everything’s been healed up. Right in the moment when you're sure you've got me buffaloed. That's when you'll die.
ref: 1983, Sam Shepard, Fool for Love, San Francisco: City Lights Books, page 20:
text: The nontechnical administrator should never be buffaloed by the esoteric vocabulary and the endless jargon of the computer expert.
ref: 1984, J. Victor Baldridge, The Campus and the Microcomputer Revolution, Macmillan, →ISBN, page xi:
text: He was speaking to an indifferent audience of pale polite faces, in an overheated space on the Northern edge of Europe, a subcontinent whose natives for a few passing centuries had bullied and buffaloed the rest of the world.
ref: 1998, John Updike, Bech At Bay, Random House, →ISBN, page 287:
text: If nonfiction is where you do your best writing, or your best teaching of writing, don't be buffaloed into the idea that it's an inferior species.
ref: 2006, William Zinsser, On Writing Well:
synonyms: word: cow
word: buffalo
word: bulldoze
word: bully
word: browbeat
word: cow
word: dastardize
word: daunt
word: dishearten
word: do down
word: domineer
word: drive
word: hector
word: intimidate
word: menace
word: strong-arm
glosses: To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
examples: text: Whereupon the twelve-inch barrel of the Buntline Special was laid alongside and just underneath the Rachal hatbrim most effectively. The buffaloed cattleman dropped to the walk, unconscious.
ref: 1931, Stuart N. Lake, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, New York: Houghton Mifflin, page 173:
text: He walked arrogant and scornful among the Texans and cavalrymen whom he hazed and buffaloed with the barrels of his guns when they got out of line.
ref: 1975, Cliff Farrell, The Mighty Land, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 111:
glosses: To pistol-whip.
CRO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Croatia.
CRO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CROs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope.
examples: text: This thesis deals in general with mergers & acquisitions in the CRO industry, and more specifically with reasons for M&A, success factors during the M&A process, and why M&A can fail in the Contract Research Organization industry.
ref: 2013, Jakob Miera, Mergers & Acquisitions in the Contract Research Organization Industry, GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, page 1:
qualifier: life sciences
glosses: Initialism of Contract research organization.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of COMSEC responsible officer.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Initialism of conversion rate optimization.
examples: text: The chief risk officer (CRO) title first appeared in a 1988 Peat Marwick study on global capital markets. The first CRO was James Lam of GE Capital, in 1993.
ref: 2009, John Hampton, Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management […] , AMACOM, →ISBN, page 265:
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of chief risk officer.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of chief research officer.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of chief revenue officer.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of chief reputation officer.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of chief restructuring officer.
SMO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SMOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of site management organization; an organization that provides clinical trial related services.
glosses: Initialism of social movement organization.
synonyms: SVO
glosses: Initialism of special military operation.
glosses: Initialism of social media optimization.
glosses: Initialism of sequential minimal optimization.
RMO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of research management organization, an organization functioning as a combination of a CRO and SMO to manage research from the conception and development of a project to the implementation and completion at Investigative Sites.
cattle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kăt'l
ipa: /ˈkætəl/
ipa: [ˈkʰæt(ə)ɫ]
ipa: [ˈkʰæɾ(ə)ɫ]
rhymes: -ætəl
Forms: form: cattles
form: cattling
form: cattled
form: cattled
Etymology: From Middle English catel, from Anglo-Norman catel (“personal property”), from Old Northern French (compare French cheptel, Old French chetel, chatel, also English chattel) from Medieval Latin capitāle, from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (whence also capital, from caput (“head”) + -alis (“-al”)). For the sense evolution, compare pecuniary and fee. Also compare Russian поголо́вье (pogolóvʹje, “total number of livestock”) from Russian голова́ (golová, “head”). Doublet of capital and chattel.
Senses: examples: text: I would talk to rayburn, and the people who converted it..I have assumed from what you said that it was an old coal burner converted...or is it a revamped oil burner? In which case the revampers may have cattled it..
ref: 2002 February 8, The Natural Philosopher, “Re: Rayburn problems”, in uk.d-i-y (Usenet):
glosses: Ellipsis of cattle truck (“to fuck: to break, destroy”).
Related terms: english: fucked
translation: fucked
word: cattled
word: cattle up
camel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæml̩/
ipa: /ˈkæm(ə)l/
rhymes: -æməl
Etymology: From Middle English camel, through Old English camel and Old Northern French camel (Old French chamel, modern French chameau), from Latin camēlus, from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos), from a Semitic source, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal-; compare Arabic جَمَل (jamal), Hebrew גמל (gamál), Aramaic ܓܡܠܐ (gamlā), Coptic ϭⲁⲙⲟⲩⲗ (camoul). As a marine device, from Dutch. As an ethnic slur, short for camelfucker, camel jockey, etc.
Senses: examples: text: […] try to select accessories that are in the same color family as your coat," says millinery designer Patricia Underwood. To pick up the weave of a brown tweed jacket, for instance, choose a camel hat and black gloves.
ref: 1999, New Woman, volume 29, page 212:
glosses: Of a light brown color like that of a camel.
camel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæml̩/
ipa: /ˈkæm(ə)l/
rhymes: -æməl
Forms: form: camels
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans kameel.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of giraffe.
synonyms: word: giraffe
ibex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪbɛks/
rhymes: -aɪbɛks
Forms: form: ibex
form: ibexes
form: ibices
form: ibecks
Etymology: From Latin ībex (“chamois”), possibly from Iberian or Aquitanian; akin to Old Spanish bezerro (“bull”) (modern becerro (“yearling”)).
Senses: glosses: A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species Capra ibex.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: An imaginary creature with serrated horns, somewhat similar to the heraldic antelope.
Derived terms: Alpine ibex
bezoar ibex
Iberian ibex
Nubian ibex
Pyrenean ibex
Siberian ibex
Spanish ibex
roe deer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊˌdɪə/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊˌdɪɹ/
Forms: form: roe deer
form: roedeer
Etymology: From Middle English ro der, roadeor, from Old English rāhdēor (“roe deer”), corresponding to roe + deer. Cognate with Icelandic rádýr, Swedish rådjur, Norwegian and Danish rådyr.
Senses: examples: text: Frightened by the noises approaching them from the rear, and apprehensive of the human silence ahead, the five roe deer were halted, their heads high in nervous alertness.
ref: 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 84:
synonyms: chevreuil
roe
glosses: A small, nimble Eurasian deer with no visible tail, a white rump patch, and a reddish summer coat that turns grey in winter, the male having short three-pointed antlers (Capreolus capreolus and Capreolus pygargus).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Capreolus pygargus
word: eastern roe deer
taxonomic: Capreolus pygargus
word: Siberian roe deer
taxonomic: Capreolus capreolus
word: western roe deer
Related terms: roebuck
beaver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːvə/
enpr: bēʹvər
ipa: /ˈbivɚ/
rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
homophone: Belvoir
homophone: bever
homophone: bevor
Forms: form: beavers
form: beavering
form: beavered
form: beavered
Etymology: From Middle English bever, from Old English befer, from Proto-West Germanic *bebru, from Proto-Germanic *bebruz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus (“beaver”).
Cognate with West Frisian bever, Dutch bever, French bièvre, German Biber, dialectal Swedish bjur. Non-Germanic cognates include Welsh befer, Latin fiber, Lithuanian bẽbras, Russian бобр (bobr), Avestan 𐬠𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬭𐬀 (bauura), and Sanskrit बभ्रु (bábhru, “mongoose; ichneumon”).
Slang use to refer to a woman evolved from use to refer to pubic hair, which evolved from use to refer to beards, which evolved from use to refer to the furry animal or its fur.
Senses: examples: text: Without these attentions the woad will not beaver well, a term descriptive of the fineness of the capillary filaments into which it draws out when broken between the finger and thumb.
ref: 1799, Arthur Young, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Lincoln, London, page 155:
glosses: To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
examples: text: When A. G. Dickens published his English Reformation in 1964 the archival beavering of a generation of graduate students was given its imprimatur in the claim to understand how the English people felt about religious change—largely, according to Dickens, positively.
ref: 2017, Felicity Heal, “Changing Interpretations of the British Reformations”, in Ulinka Rublack, editor, The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 234:
glosses: To work hard.
qualifier: logging
glosses: To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
topics: backgammon
games
glosses: After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
examples: text: Beavering of foreign visitors does not count. This is a rule, but it is never carried out.
ref: 1922 October 13, Roanoke World-News, Roanoke, Virginia, retrieved 02 Dec 2022, page 6:
glosses: To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
Derived terms: beaver away
beaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːvə/
enpr: bēʹvər
ipa: /ˈbivɚ/
rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
homophone: Belvoir
homophone: bever
homophone: bevor
Forms: form: beavers
Etymology: See bevor.
Senses: examples: text: Lord Stafford’s father, Duke of Buckingham,
Is either slain or wounded dangerously;
I cleft his beaver with a downright blow:
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: With trembling hands her beaver he untied, / Which done, he saw, and seeing knew her face.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lxvii
text: Without alighting from his horse, the conqueror called for a bowl of wine, and opening the beaver, or lower part of his helmet, announced that he quaffed it, “To all true English hearts, and to the confusion of foreign tyrants.”
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
text: 1951 Adaptation of the 1885 Ormsby translation of Cervantes’ Don Quixote, correcting Ormsby as to the portion of the helmet referred to by Cervantes (see note 11 to chapter II) at the suggestion of Juan Hartzenbusch, a 19th-century director of the National Library of Spain.
They laid a table for him at the door of the inn for the sake of the air, and the host brought him a portion of ill-soaked and worse cooked stockfish, and a piece of bread as black and mouldy as his own armour; but a laughble sight it was to see him eating, for having his helmet on and the beaver up, he could not with his own hands put anything into his mouth unless some one else placed it there, and this service one of the ladies rendered him.
text: As each one brings a little of himself to what he sees you brought the trappings of your historic preoccupations, so that Monsieur flattered you by presenting himself with beaver up like Hamlet's father's ghost!
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 128:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”).
beaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːvə/
enpr: bēʹvər
ipa: /ˈbivɚ/
rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
homophone: Belvoir
homophone: bever
homophone: bevor
Senses: examples: text: Butter – Beaver.
ref: [1754, The Scoundrel’s Dictionary, London, page 15:
glosses: Butter.
fallow deer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæl.əʊˌdɪə/
Forms: form: fallow deer
Etymology: Derived from the deer's pale brown color, fallow.
Senses: coordinate_terms: roe deer
red deer
glosses: A ruminant mammal of the genus Dama belonging to the family Cervidae.
Derived terms: Persian fallow deer
hedgehog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛd͡ʒ.hɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈhɛd͡ʒ.hɔɡ/
Forms: form: hedgehogs
form: hedgehogging
form: hedgehogged
form: hedgehogged
Etymology: From Middle English heyghoge; equivalent to hedge + hog. Eclipsed non-native Middle English yrchoun, irchoun (“hedgehog”), from Old French hirchoun, herichon (“hedgehog”); and displaced earlier Middle English il, from Old English īl, iġil (“hedgehog”).
In the philosophical sense, from the 1953 essay The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin.
Senses: examples: text: Hedgehogging means — let us call a spade a spade — that we're were encircled: It's something that has been forced upon us, a predicament from which we ought to try to escape as fast as possible.
ref: 1966, Theodor Plievier, Stalingrad, page 43:
text: Luettwitz hedgehogged his regiment and held his positions until the rest of the division arrived two days later.
ref: 2012, Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., Gene Mueller, Hitler's Commanders, →ISBN:
text: During the night of May 27 the 90th Light Division hedgehogged south of El Adem.
ref: 2007, Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., Rommel's Desert War: The Life and Death of the Afrika Korps, →ISBN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To make use of a hedgehog barricade as a defensive maneuver.
examples: text: All around were styrofoam cups hedgehogged with butts, and the threebar electric heater was encrusted with bits of charcoaled tobacco and frazzled stands of hair where people had stooped down to spark up.
ref: 2008, Antonia Quirke, Choking on Marlon Brando, →ISBN:
text: The walls were pockmarked with fragments of stone and hedgehogged with jagged daggers of glass, while in the street below there were sickening splodges on the pavement which a workman was covering with sawdust.
ref: 2008, Max Hennessy, Back to Battle, →ISBN, page 300:
text: I think they're from different faculties,” I reply, taking a step back to peruse the table filled with assorted snacks, my hand hovering over the hedgehogged tray of cheese and pineapple cocktail sticks.
ref: 2014, George Ryder, Last Action Zero, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: To array with spiky projections like the quills of a hedgehog.
examples: text: You try for his head, but he's hedgehogged round now, elbows beside his ears and you can't get him.
ref: 2008, A.L. Kennedy, Day, →ISBN, page 229:
text: I stayed hedgehogged in my ball, listening for movement and trying to ignore the cramp in my legs, the ache in my gut and — encore — the throbbing in my temples.
ref: 2011, Edwin Thomas, The Blighted Cliffs, →ISBN, page 13:
text: The dead man was lying on a pile of the blankets, curled up, his hands interlocked behind his head, knees drawn up to his chest. Hedgehogged, just like the others.
ref: 2014, Robert Ryan, The Dead Can Wait, →ISBN, page 287:
glosses: To curl up into a defensive ball.
Related terms: echidna
porcupine
erinaceous
wildcat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪldˌkæt/
ipa: /ˈwaɪ.əldˌkæt/
ipa: [ˈwaɪ.əlʔˌkæt]
Forms: form: wild-cat
form: wild cat
Etymology: From Middle English wyld cat, wylde cat (in the plural as wild cattes, wylde catis, wyle cattes), equivalent to wild + cat. Cognate with Middle Low German wiltkatte, German Wildkatze, Swedish vildkatt.
Its adjectival senses were originally American and derived from the "wildcat banks" of Michigan, following its elevation to statehood in 1837. Two laws—one easing the requirements for establishing a new bank and another occasioned by the Panic of 1837 that removed the need for payment in specie—led to the creation and collapse of around 50 banks within two years. The term is apocryphally derived from a wildcat supposedly featured on the currency printed by one of these banks, but more probably derived from the remote locations "where the wildcats roamed" chosen by these banks to avoid oversight and minimize redemption of notes.
Senses: examples: text: Then the development of the home country was neglected for some wildcat idea of bringing up the backward people of other lands.
ref: 1946, Sigurd Jay Simonsen, The Mongrels:
text: […] the Tank being a small arena theatre located out between a traffic analysis firm and a wildcat transistor outfit that hadn't been there last year and wouldn't be this coming but meanwhile was underselling even the Japanese and hauling in loot by the steamshovelful.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: Of or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially
glosses: Of or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially:
Of or concerning irresponsible banks or banking, (particularly) small, independent operations.
glosses: Of or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially:
Of or concerning oil exploration in new areas, (particularly) small, independent operations.
qualifier: oil industry
glosses: Of or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially:
Of or concerning actions undertaken by workers without approval or in defiance of the formal leadership of their trade unions.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Of or concerning customized or hand-made cartridges.
examples: 2003 June 15, CNN
Jewish settlers have also been active putting up five new wildcat outposts on hilltops in the West Bank to try to thwart their Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
glosses: Unauthorized by the proper authorities.
Derived terms: semiwildcat
wildcat bank
wildcat banking
wildcat currency
wildcat money
wildcat note
wildcat strike
wildcat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪldˌkæt/
ipa: /ˈwaɪ.əldˌkæt/
ipa: [ˈwaɪ.əlʔˌkæt]
Forms: form: wildcats
form: wildcatting
form: wildcatted
form: wildcatted
form: wild-cat
form: wild cat
Etymology: From Middle English wyld cat, wylde cat (in the plural as wild cattes, wylde catis, wyle cattes), equivalent to wild + cat. Cognate with Middle Low German wiltkatte, German Wildkatze, Swedish vildkatt.
Its adjectival senses were originally American and derived from the "wildcat banks" of Michigan, following its elevation to statehood in 1837. Two laws—one easing the requirements for establishing a new bank and another occasioned by the Panic of 1837 that removed the need for payment in specie—led to the creation and collapse of around 50 banks within two years. The term is apocryphally derived from a wildcat supposedly featured on the currency printed by one of these banks, but more probably derived from the remote locations "where the wildcats roamed" chosen by these banks to avoid oversight and minimize redemption of notes.
Senses: examples: text: You'd have to be very rich or very desperate to go wildcatting that far east.
text: His pitch was that fracking had transformed the production of gas from a hit-or-miss proposition to one that operated with an on and off switch. It was manufacturing, not wildcatting.
ref: 2018 August 30, Bethany McLean, “How America's ‘most reckless’ billionaire created the fracking boom”, in The Guardian:
qualifier: oil industry
glosses: To drill for oil in an area where no oil has been found before.
Derived terms: wildcatter
wilkies
Related terms: sense: Eurasian wildcat
alt: F. lunensis
word: Martelli's wildcat
sense: Eurasian wildcat
word: sand cat
sense: Eurasian wildcat
word: jungle cat
sense: Eurasian wildcat
word: black-footed cat
sense: American wildcat
word: bobcat and lynx
hare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛə/
ipa: /hɛː/
ipa: /hɛɚ/
ipa: /heː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /heə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /hiə/
ipa: /heɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /hɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: hair
homophone: here (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: her (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: hares
form: haring
form: hared
form: hared
Etymology: From Middle English hare, from Old English hara (“hare”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasō ~ *haʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *hasô, from *haswaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂s-én-.
Cognates
See also West Frisian hazze, Dutch haas, German Hase, Norwegian and Swedish hare, Icelandic heri), Old English hasu, Middle High German heswe (“pale, dull”); also Welsh cannu (“to whiten”), ceinach (“hare”), Latin cānus (“white”), cascus (“old”), Old Prussian sasnis (“hare”), Pashto سوی (soe, “hare”) and Sanskrit शश (śaśa, “hare”).
Senses: examples: text: But Wales somehow snaffled possession for fly-half Jones to send half-back partner Mike Phillips haring away with Stoddart in support.
ref: 2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC:
text: Desperate, Kim hurls his phone overarm at the creature's forehead. It's a solid chunk of metal and it's a dead hit. Grey reels backwards and cracks his skull against the wall. By the time he recovers, Kim is out of sight, haring away down the left corridor, just echoing, fading footsteps on concrete.
ref: 2015–2021, qntm, “Introductory Antimemetics”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: To move swiftly.
Synonyms: rabbit
race
speed
tear
Related terms: english: hare's home
translation: hare's home
word: form
english: young hare
translation: young hare
word: leveret
english: type of hare
translation: type of hare
word: jackrabbit
hare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛə/
ipa: /hɛː/
ipa: /hɛɚ/
ipa: /heː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /heə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /hiə/
ipa: /heɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /hɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: hair
homophone: here (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: her (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: hares
form: haring
form: hared
form: hared
form: harr
Etymology: From Middle English harren, harien (“to drag by force, ill-treat”), of uncertain origin. Compare harry, harass.
Senses: examples: text: To hare and rate them thus at every turn, is not to teach them, but to vex, and torment them to no purpoſe.
ref: 1693, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education:
glosses: To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.
hare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛə/
ipa: /hɛː/
ipa: /hɛɚ/
ipa: /heː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /heə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /hiə/
ipa: /heɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /hɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: hair
homophone: here (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: her (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: hoar
Etymology: From Middle English hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”).
Senses: examples: text: a hare old man
glosses: Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people).
examples: text: a hare day
glosses: Cold, frosty (of weather).
otter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒt.ə/
enpr: ŏtʹər
ipa: /ˈɑtɚ/
ipa: [(ʔ)ɑɾɚ]
homophone: odder stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: otters
form: otter
Etymology: From Middle English oter, otir, otur, otyre, from Old English otor, from Proto-West Germanic *otr, from Proto-Germanic *utraz, from Proto-Indo-European *udrós (“aquatic, water-animal”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Otter, Dutch otter, German Otter, Swedish utter, Norwegian oter, Icelandic otur, Sanskrit उद्र (udrá), Russian вы́дра (výdra), and Ancient Greek ὕδρα (húdra, “water snake”). Doublet of Hydra and hydra. More etymology under English water.
Senses: glosses: An aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal in the subfamily Lutrinae.
examples: text: 'The Aleuts come from a country far to the north,' he said. 'Their ways are not ours nor is their language. They have come to take otter and to give us our share in many goods which they have and which we can use.
ref: 1960, Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Puffin Books, page 11:
glosses: An aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal in the subfamily Lutrinae.
The flesh or fur of this animal
topics: LGBT
glosses: A hairy man with a slender physique, in contrast with a bear, who is more thickset.
Derived terms: word: bear otter
taxonomic: Lutra lutra
word: European otter
taxonomic: Pteronura brasiliensis
word: giant otter
word: King Otter
taxonomic: Lontra felina
word: marine otter
word: Maxwell's otter
word: otter board
word: otter civet
word: Otter Creek
word: Otterhound
word: ottering
word: otterish
word: otterless
word: otterlike
word: otterly
word: ottermode
word: otter shell
word: otter shrew
word: otterskin
word: Otter Tail County
word: ottery
taxonomic: Lontra spp.
word: river otter
taxonomic: Enhydra lutris
word: sea otter
word: snot otter
otter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒt.ə/
enpr: ŏtʹər
ipa: /ˈɑtɚ/
ipa: [(ʔ)ɑɾɚ]
homophone: odder stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Etymology: Corruption of annotto.
Senses: glosses: annatto (dye)
otter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒt.ə/
enpr: ŏtʹər
ipa: /ˈɑtɚ/
ipa: [(ʔ)ɑɾɚ]
homophone: odder stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: […] the precious perfume called otter of roses.
ref: 1809, William Jones, A Grammar of the Persian Language, page 8:
glosses: Archaic form of attar.
lynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lĭngks
ipa: /lɪŋks/
homophone: links
rhymes: -ɪŋks
Forms: form: lynx
form: lynxes
Etymology: From Middle English lynx, linx, lenx, lynce, from Latin lynx, from Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx), from Proto-Hellenic *lúnks, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“white; light; bright”), because of the cat's glowing eyes and ability to see in the dark.
Displaced English los; Middle English lusk (“lynx”), from Old English lox (“lynx”) as the animal died out in Britain during the Middle Ages.
Senses: glosses: Any of several medium-sized wild cats of the genus Lynx.
Hyponyms: bobcat
Canada lynx
Eurasian lynx
Iberian lynx
Derived terms: African lynx
bay lynx
blynx
Canada lynx
Canadian lynx
common lynx
desert lynx
Eurasian lynx
European lynx
green lynx spider
Iberian lynx
Issoire lynx
jungle lynx
lynx-eyed
lynxlike
lynx spider
marsh lynx
Persian lynx
red lynx
Spanish lynx
marmot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑː.mət/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.mət/
rhymes: -ɑɹmət
Forms: form: marmots
Etymology: From Middle French marmote, from Old French marmotaine, marmontaine, murmontain, from Old Franco-Provençal marmotan, from Vulgar Latin *mures montani, the plural form of Latin mus monti (“mountain rat”); akin to Engadin Romansch murmont, Old High German muremunto (dialectal German Murmentel, standard Murmeltier).
Senses: glosses: Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.
wikipedia: Engadin
Derived terms: Alaska marmot
alpine marmot
black-capped marmot
bobak marmot
gray marmot
Himalayan marmot
hoary marmot
long-tailed marmot
marmot squirrel
Menzbier's marmot
olympic marmot
prairie marmot
tarbagan marmot
Vancouver Island marmot
Vancouver marmot
whistling marmot
yellow-bellied marmot
Related terms: groundhog
woodchuck
marten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑː.tɪn/
ipa: /ˈmɑː.tən/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.tən/
ipa: [ˈmɑɹ.ʔn̩]
homophone: martin
homophone: Martin stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪn
Forms: form: martens
Etymology: From Middle English martren, martryn, from Old French martrine (“marten fur”), from Old Dutch *marthrīn (“of marten fur”), from *marthar (“marten”). Displaced related Old English mearþ, from Proto-Germanic *marþuz.
Senses: glosses: Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Martes.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Martes americana
word: American marten
taxonomic: Martes foina
word: beech marten
taxonomic: Martes martes
word: European marten
taxonomic: Mustela putorius
word: foul marten
taxonomic: Martes foina
word: house marten
taxonomic: Martes caurina humboldtensis
word: Humboldt marten
taxonomic: Martes melampus
word: Japanese marten
taxonomic: Martes gwatkinsii
word: Nilgiri marten
taxonomic: Martes caurina
word: Pacific marten
word: palm marten
alt: Pekania pennanti, syn. Martes pennanti
word: Pennant's marten
taxonomic: Martes martes
word: pine marten
taxonomic: Martes foina
word: stone marten
taxonomic: Martes foina
word: sweet marten
taxonomic: Martes martes
word: tree marten
taxonomic: Martes foina
word: white-breasted marten
taxonomic: Martes foina
word: yellow-breasted marten
taxonomic: Martes flavigula
word: yellow-throated marten
Related terms: badger
ermine
ferret
fisher
mink
mustelid
otter
sable
stoat
weasel
wolverine
marten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑː.tɪn/
ipa: /ˈmɑː.tən/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.tən/
ipa: [ˈmɑɹ.ʔn̩]
homophone: martin
homophone: Martin stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪn
Forms: form: martens
Senses: examples: text: Towards the end of the month, swallows and house martens congregate, and are often seen resting on the ridges or sloping roofs of buildings.
ref: 1829, Magazine of Natural History, volume 1, page 402:
glosses: Archaic form of martin (the bird).
badger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæd͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˈbæd͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -ædʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: badgers
Etymology: From Middle English bageard (“marked by a badge”), from bage (“badge”), referring to the animal's badge-like white blaze, equivalent to badge + -ard. Displaced earlier brock, from Old English brocc.
Senses: glosses: Any mammal belonging to the genera Meles, Arctonyx, Mellivora and Taxidea.
glosses: A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
glosses: A brush made of badger hair.
qualifier: cant
glosses: A gang of robbers who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A person who is very fond of cricket.
Synonyms: sense: animal
word: brock
sense: native or resident of Wisconsin
word: Wisconsinite
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
taxonomic: Taxidea taxus
word: American badger
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
taxonomic: Meles leucurus
word: Asian badger
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
word: badgerbrush
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
word: badger dog
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
word: badger game
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
word: badgerhood
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
word: badger-legged
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
word: badgerlike
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
word: badgerly
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
taxonomic: Meles meles
word: Eurasian badger
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
taxonomic: Meles meles
word: European badger
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
english: Melogale
translation: Melogale
word: ferret-badger
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
taxonomic: Arctonyx collaris
word: hog badger
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
taxonomic: Mellivora capensis
word: honey badger
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
taxonomic: Mellivora capensis
word: Indian badger
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
word: merit badger
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
word: overdraw the badger
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
taxonomic: Procavia capensis
word: rock badger
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
taxonomic: Meles leucurus
word: sand badger
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
word: stink badger
sense: Terms derived from badger (noun)
taxonomic: Mydaus spp.
word: stinking badger
Related terms: word: cete
word: meline
word: sett
word: set
sense: Appendix
word: Animals
badger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæd͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˈbæd͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -ædʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: badgers
form: badgering
form: badgered
form: badgered
Etymology: From Middle English bageard (“marked by a badge”), from bage (“badge”), referring to the animal's badge-like white blaze, equivalent to badge + -ard. Displaced earlier brock, from Old English brocc.
Senses: examples: text: He kept badgering her about her bad habits.
text: "Yeah? Cool. Just a warning: people are going to badger you about that. It's practically inevitable for gay trans people."
ref: 2013 September 17, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 426 - Trans AND Gay:
synonyms: word: bait
word: hound
word: badger
word: bait
word: bedevil
word: beleaguer
word: persecute
word: bug
word: beset
word: chevy
word: give someone grief
word: harass
word: harry
word: hound
word: pester
word: pick at
word: plague
word: vex
glosses: To pester; to annoy persistently; to press.
Derived terms: badgerer
badger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæd͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˈbæd͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -ædʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: badgers
Etymology: Unknown (Possibly from "bagger". "Baggier" is cited by the OED in 1467-8)
Senses: glosses: An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
weasel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːz(ə)l/
enpr: wēʹzəl
enpr: wēzʹl
ipa: /ˈwizəl/
ipa: /ˈwizl̩/
rhymes: -iːzəl
Forms: form: weasels
form: weaseling
form: weaselling
form: weaseled
form: weaseled
form: weaselled
form: weaselled
form: weazel
form: weazle
Etymology: From Middle English wesele, from Old English weosule, from Proto-West Germanic *wisulā, from Proto-Germanic *wisulǭ.
The verb is from c. 1900, from the supposed cunningness of the weasel.
Senses: examples: text: Prisoners are notorious for weaseling day passes to get out of lockup […] .
ref: 2010 (publication date), Tony Dajer, "Vital Signs", Discover, ISSN 0274-7529, volume 32, number 1, January–February 2011, page 10
glosses: To achieve by clever or devious means.
examples: text: He's weaseled himself into a position where he can influence the outcome of this election.
ref: 2006, Tony Ruggiero, Alien Deception:
text: Within just a couple of days, she [a dog] had weaseled her way into our hearts.
ref: 2010, Susie Davis, Uncovered: Revealing the Secrets of a Sexy Marriage, page 147:
glosses: To gain something for oneself by clever or devious means.
examples: text: Authority figures have a history of weaseling on this topic.
ref: 1996, Stefan Bechtel, Larry Stains, Sex: A Man's Guide, page 151:
glosses: To engage in clever or devious behavior.
Related terms: weasel into
weasel one's way
weasel out
ferret
mink
polecat
stoat
ermine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜːmɪn/
ipa: /ˈɝmɪn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mɪn
Forms: form: ermines
form: ermine
Etymology: From Middle English ermine, ermin, ermyn, from Old French ermin, ermine, hermine.
There are two main theories for the origin of Old French ermine. Germanic origin is suggested via Old Dutch *harmino (“stoat skin”), from *harmo (“stoat, weasel”) (compare Dutch hermelijn and dialectal herm), from Proto-Germanic *harmǭ, *harmô (compare Old English hearma, Old High German harmo (harmin (adjective), obsolete German Harm), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱormō (compare Romansch carmun, obsolete Lithuanian šarmuõ). Romance sources identify the animal with the corresponding word for Armenian, possibly from Medieval Latin mūs Armenius (“Armenian mouse”) or a posterior compound.
Senses: glosses: A weasel found in northern latitudes (Mustela erminea in Eurasia, Alaska, and the Arctic, Mustela haidarum in Haida Gwaii, Mustela richardsonii in the rest of North America); its dark brown fur turns white in winter, apart from the black tip of the tail.
glosses: The white fur of this animal, traditionally seen as a symbol of purity and used for judges' robes.
glosses: The office of a judge.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: The fur of this animal, used as a heraldic tincture: a white field with a repeating pattern of stylized black spots.
glosses: Any of various moths, especially in the family Yponomeutidae
Synonyms: word: stoat
english: American
translation: American
word: short-tailed weasel
Derived terms: bird-cherry ermine
counter-ermine
counterermine
erminelike
ermine moth
erminette
raise to the ermine
Related terms: erminee
ermine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜːmɪn/
ipa: /ˈɝmɪn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mɪn
Etymology: From Middle English ermine, ermin, ermyn, from Old French ermin, ermine, hermine.
There are two main theories for the origin of Old French ermine. Germanic origin is suggested via Old Dutch *harmino (“stoat skin”), from *harmo (“stoat, weasel”) (compare Dutch hermelijn and dialectal herm), from Proto-Germanic *harmǭ, *harmô (compare Old English hearma, Old High German harmo (harmin (adjective), obsolete German Harm), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱormō (compare Romansch carmun, obsolete Lithuanian šarmuõ). Romance sources identify the animal with the corresponding word for Armenian, possibly from Medieval Latin mūs Armenius (“Armenian mouse”) or a posterior compound.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: In blazon, of the colour ermine (white with black spots).
ermine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜːmɪn/
ipa: /ˈɝmɪn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mɪn
Forms: form: ermines
form: ermining
form: ermined
form: ermined
Etymology: From Middle English ermine, ermin, ermyn, from Old French ermin, ermine, hermine.
There are two main theories for the origin of Old French ermine. Germanic origin is suggested via Old Dutch *harmino (“stoat skin”), from *harmo (“stoat, weasel”) (compare Dutch hermelijn and dialectal herm), from Proto-Germanic *harmǭ, *harmô (compare Old English hearma, Old High German harmo (harmin (adjective), obsolete German Harm), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱormō (compare Romansch carmun, obsolete Lithuanian šarmuõ). Romance sources identify the animal with the corresponding word for Armenian, possibly from Medieval Latin mūs Armenius (“Armenian mouse”) or a posterior compound.
Senses: glosses: To clothe with ermine.
stoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstəʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: stoats
Etymology: From Middle English stote (“the ermine, especially in its brown summer coat”), of uncertain origin. The word bears some resemblance to Old Norse stutr (“bull”), Swedish stut (“bull, steer”) and Danish stud (“steer”) (see also English stot), but the semantic link is difficult unless a common origin is from “(brown?) male mammal”. First attested in the mid 1400s.
Senses: examples: text: I have never seen Stoats hunt in packs, but it is certain both Weasels and Stoats do so.
ref: 1886, Transactions of the Edinburgh Naturalists' Field Club, volume 1, page 135:
text: In 1953 it was reported that the stoat had increased to a high population level, but that the weasel introduced at the same time had disappeared (de Vos et al. 1956).
ref: 2003, John Long, Introduced Mammals of the World: Their History, Distribution and Influence, page 272:
text: European stoats were long ago introduced to New Zealand (along with ferrets and weasels!) in the mistaken belief that they would control the burgeoning populations of introduced rabbits.
ref: 2005, T. C. R. White, Why Does the World Stay Green?: Nutrition and Survival of Plant-eaters, page 91:
synonyms: word: clubster
word: ermine
english: especially when in white winter coat
translation: especially when in white winter coat
word: short-tailed weasel
glosses: Mustela erminea, the ermine or short-tailed weasel, a mustelid native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip.