cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
musher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌʃə/
ipa: /ˈmʌʃəɹ/
rhymes: -ʌʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mushers
Etymology: Origin uncertain, possibly from mush (“cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns), although the word is attested slightly earlier than mush. Mush is possibly derived from mush (“to drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across snow”, verb) (see etymology 1), or mush (“(slang, rare) umbrella”, noun) (a clipping of mushroom, from the similar appearance; referring to drivers shielding passengers with umbrellas in rainy weather).
Senses: examples: text: Nobody knew Old Joe. He was a "musher"—that is to say, he owned his own cab and mostly did night work. He gave no trouble to anybody, and came and went as a rule in the dark hours of the night.
ref: 1927, Edgar Wallace, chapter XXXIV, in The Clever One [The Forger], 1st American edition, Garden City, N.Y.: The Crime Club, Doubleday, Doran & Company, published 1928, →OCLC, page 287:
english: The Forger
translation: The Forger
glosses: Synonym of mush (“a cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well”).
synonyms: word: mush
extra: a cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well
musher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌʃə/
ipa: /ˈmʌʃəɹ/
rhymes: -ʌʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mushers
Etymology: Clipping of musher(oom) or musher(oon), variants of mushroom.
Senses: qualifier: chiefly Hampshire
glosses: A mushroom.
myopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈəʊ.pɪ.ə/
ipa: /maɪˈoʊ.pi.ə/
rhymes: -əʊpiə
Forms: form: myopias
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek μυωπία (muōpía, “shortsightedness”), from μύω (múō, “to shut, close”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”) + -ία (-ía).
Senses: examples: text: The modern rise in myopia mirrored a trend for children in many countries to spend more time engaged in reading, studying or — more recently — glued to computer and smartphone screens.
ref: 2015 March 15, Elie Dolgin, “The myopia boom”, in Nature:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: shortsightedness
nearsightedness
antonyms: hyperopia
coordinate_terms: presbyopia
glosses: A disorder of the vision where distant objects appear blurred because the eye focuses their images in front of the retina instead of on it.
glosses: A lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning.
Derived terms: anisomyopia
compound myopia
heteromyopia
isomyopia
myope
myopiagenic
myopic
myopically
myopist
myopization
pseudomyopia
simple myopia
Related terms: astigmatism
emmetropia
myosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪ.oʊsɪn/
Forms: form: myosins
Etymology: myo- (“relating to muscle”), from Ancient Greek μυός (muós), genitive of μῦς (mûs, “muscle”) + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a large family of motor proteins found in eukaryotic tissues, allowing mobility in muscles.
glosses: An albuminous body present in dead muscle formed in the process of coagulation which takes place in rigor mortis.
Derived terms: actomyosin
cardiomyosin
isomyosin
meromyosin
myosinic
myosinogen
paramyosin
tropomyosin
Related terms: actin
nan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /næn/
rhymes: -æn
homophone: NaN
Forms: form: nans
Etymology: From Nan, pet form of the formerly very common female given names Anne and Agnes. As a nursemaid and grandmother, a clipping of earlier nana, from nanny under the probable influence of mama, also from Nan. Compare Mary.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of maid: a servant girl.
synonyms: word: maid
extra: a servant girl
glosses: Synonym of nancy: an effeminate male homosexual.
synonyms: word: nancy
extra: an effeminate male homosexual
glosses: Synonym of nursemaid.
synonyms: word: nursemaid
examples: text: We had my nan over for Christmas dinner.
glosses: Synonym of grandmother.
synonyms: word: grandmother
Derived terms: nan flap
nannie
nan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /næn/
rhymes: -æn
homophone: NaN
ipa: /næn/
ipa: /nɑːn/
ipa: /næn/
ipa: /nɑn/
ipa: /næn/
rhymes: -æn
homophone: NaN
Forms: form: nans
Etymology: See at naan.
Senses: examples: text: Gerry ordered poppadoms and parathas and then he was interrupted by requests for vindaloos, chicken madrases and sag joshes, rice, raita and nan, from Priest, Morgan and Maria Grazia.
ref: 2002, Desmond Barry, A Bloody Good Friday, page 157:
glosses: Alternative spelling of naan.
nape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /neɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: napes
Etymology: From Middle English nape, naape, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old French hanap (“goblet”), from Frankish *hnapp, from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz ( > Old English hnæpp, hnæp (“cup, bowl, goblet”)), as there is a hollow at the base of the skull. More at nap.
Senses: examples: text: He was still stroking Radar, long glides of his hand from nape to tail.
ref: 2022, Stephen King, chapter 8, in Fairy Tale, page 132:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The back part of the neck.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The part of a fish or bird immediately behind the head.
Synonyms: word: nucha
topics: medicine
sciences
word: nuchal
word: scruff
word: scruff of the neck
english: of a horse
translation: of a horse
word: withers
Derived terms: yellownape
Related terms: hindneck
nape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /neɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: napes
Etymology: From Middle English nape, from Old French nape, nappe (“a cloth”), from Medieval Latin nappa, napa (“cloth, table-cloth, sheet”), alteration of Latin mappa (“a cloth, napkin, towel”). More at map, apron. Doublet of map, mop, and nappe.
Senses: glosses: A tablecloth.
Derived terms: napkin
nappie
nape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /neɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Etymology: Short for napalm.
Senses: examples: text: RHAH: They got through Alpha Company! Anything behind you don't identify itself, blow it away. Two - air strike's coming in. They gonna lay snake and nape right on the perimeter so stay tight in your holes and don't leave 'em.
ref: 1986, Oliver Stone, Platoon (film script)
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Napalm.
nape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /neɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: napes
form: naping
form: naped
form: naped
Etymology: Short for napalm.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To bombard with napalm.
nave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nāv
ipa: /neɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
homophone: knave
Forms: form: naves
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin nāvem, singular accusative of nāvis, possibly via a Romance source. Doublet of nef and nau.
Senses: examples: text: Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
topics: architecture
glosses: The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
topics: architecture
glosses: The ground-level middle cavity of a barn.
Derived terms: double-nave
naved
naveless
navelike
nave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nāv
ipa: /neɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
homophone: knave
Forms: form: naves
Etymology: From Middle English nave, from Old English nafu, from Proto-West Germanic *nabu, from Proto-Germanic *nabō (compare Dutch naaf, German Nabe, Swedish nav), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nebʰ- (“navel, hub”) (compare Latin umbō (“shield boss”), Latvian naba, Sanskrit नभ्य (nabhya)).
Senses: examples: text: 'Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune! All you gods,
In general synod take away her power;
Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,
And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven[…]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: A hub of a wheel.
examples: text: Till he faced the slave; / Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, / Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, / And fix'd his head upon our battlements
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: The navel.
Related terms: navel
neap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nēp
ipa: /niːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: neaps
Etymology: Perhaps of Scandinavian origin: compare dialectal Norwegian neip (“forked pole”).
Senses: glosses: The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
neap
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: nēp
ipa: /niːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Etymology: From Middle English neep, from Old English nēp (“scant, lacking”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *nōpiz (“narrow”). Found especially in Old English nēpflōd (“neap tide”, literally “low tide”). Compare Norwegian dialectal nøpen (“scarce, scant, barely enough”).
Senses: glosses: Low; lowest; the ebb or lowest point of a tide.
raw_tags: of a tide
examples: text: Little groups of sailors came swinging along and pushied their way noisily inside the gaudy joints. Sex everywhere: it was slopping over, a neap tide that swept the props from under the city.
ref: 1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer:
glosses: Designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is the least difference between high tide and low tide.
neap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nēp
ipa: /niːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: neaps
form: neaping
form: neaped
form: neaped
Etymology: From Middle English neep, from Old English nēp (“scant, lacking”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *nōpiz (“narrow”). Found especially in Old English nēpflōd (“neap tide”, literally “low tide”). Compare Norwegian dialectal nøpen (“scarce, scant, barely enough”).
Senses: examples: text: At 8, being high water, hauld her bow close ashore, but Keept her stern afloat, because I was afraid of Neaping her, and yet it was necessary to lay the whole of her as near the ground as possible.
ref: 1770, Captain James Cook, Journal During the First Voyage Round the World, entry for 22 June 1770:
glosses: To trap (a ship) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.
examples: text: It is well known that the spring tides happen at the change and full of the moon, at which time she is conjunction with and opposition to the sun. As these retire from their conjunction, the tides neap till about three days after the first quadrature, when the tides begin again to be more and more elevated, and arrive at their maximum about the third day after the opposition.
ref: 1831, Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible, volume II page 860:
glosses: To ooze, to sink, to subside, to tail.
neap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nēp
ipa: /niːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: neaps
Etymology: From Middle English neep, from Old English nēp (“scant, lacking”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *nōpiz (“narrow”). Found especially in Old English nēpflōd (“neap tide”, literally “low tide”). Compare Norwegian dialectal nøpen (“scarce, scant, barely enough”).
Senses: examples: text: Both […] swam not landward, but toward the horizon. Very good luck, for they entered a neap rushing headlong toward shore and into a river beyond.
ref: 2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, Chatto & Windus, page 115:
glosses: A neap tide.
Derived terms: neapy
neap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nēp
ipa: /niːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: neaps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neep.
negate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˈɡeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: negates
form: negating
form: negated
form: negated
Etymology: From Latin negātus, perfect passive participle of negō (“to deny, refuse, decline”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
glosses: To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.
examples: text: Progress on the study has been negated by the lack of funds.
text: Persecution can be negated through exposure.
text: The 'slab track' system negates the need to divert utilities such as gas pipes and telecoms cables by only digging down to a depth of 30cm.
ref: 2025 June 25, “Network News: Public trials of Coventry's Very Light Rail system”, in RAIL, number 1038, page 10:
coordinate_terms: cancel out
counteract
counterbalance
countervail
glosses: To nullify or cause to be ineffective.
examples: text: a pessimism that always negates
glosses: To be negative; bring or cause negative results.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To perform the NOT operation on.
Derived terms: negatability
negatable
negatedness
negater
negatism
negator
unnegated
Related terms: negative
negativeness
negativism
negativity
negation
nereid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪəɹiɪd/
Forms: form: nereids
form: nereides
Etymology: See Nereid.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Nereid.
examples: text: I knew in the back of my mind that the “nereid” wore a bikini intended for photography and that she lived in that bikini all summer.
ref: 2014, John R. Stilgoe, Old Fields: Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape:
glosses: A youthful and pretty bather.
nereid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪəɹiɪd/
Forms: form: nereids
Etymology: See nereidid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: ragworm
clam worm
glosses: Alternative form of nereidid.
neural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʊɹəl/
ipa: /ˈnɝəl/
ipa: /ˈnjʊəɹəl/
ipa: /ˈnjəɹəl/
ipa: /ˈnjʉːɹəl/
rhymes: -ʊəɹəl
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “a sinew, nerve”) + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: neuronal
glosses: Of, or relating to the nerves, neurons or the nervous system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Modelled on the arrangement of neurons in the brain.
Derived terms: abneural
adneural
aneural
antineural
bapineuzumab
bioneural
chordoneural
costoneural
dermoneural
diploneural
ectoneural
electroneural
endoneural
epineural
extraneural
glioneural
hyponeural
interneural
intraneural
microneural
multineural
myoneural
neural arch
neural axis
neural canal
neural crest
neural crest syndrome
neuralization
neuralize
neurally
neuralness
neural net
neural network
neural plate
neural processing unit
neural spine
neural tube
nonneural
oligoneural
onconeural
panneural
paraneural
perineural
postneural
preneural
proneural
sensorineural
spiking neural network
subneural
supraneural
transneural
vasoneural
neuron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈn(j)ʊɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈn(j)uɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈn(j)ɝɑn/
ipa: /ˈnjʊəɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈnjəɹɑn/
rhymes: -ʊəɹɒn
rhymes: -uːɹɒn
rhymes: -ɜːɹɒn
Forms: form: neurons
form: neura
form: neurone
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “nerve”), doublet of nerve and sinew. By surface analysis, neuro- + -on.
Senses: examples: text: The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
ref: 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: neurocyte
nerve cell
glosses: A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A nervure of an insect's wing.
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: A mathematical function serving as an essential unit of an artificial neural network.
Synonyms: word: neuron
Hypernyms: word: cell
Meronyms: word: soma
word: neurite
word: axon
word: dendrite
Derived terms: algoneuron
antimirror neuron
antineuron
clusteron
get someone's neurons firing
input neuron
interneuron
Jennifer Aniston neuron
medium spiny neuron
mirror neuron
motor neuron
motor neuron disease
multineuron
neuron activation
neuronal
neuronally
neuronic
neuronitis
neuronlike
neuronopathic
neuronopathy
neuronophage
neuronophagia
neuronophagy
paraneuron
Purkinje neuron
pyramidal neuron
rosehip neuron
sensory neuron
spindle neuron
spiny projection neuron
von Economo neuron
Related terms: neural
neuralgia
neuritis
neurology
neuroscience
neurosis
neura
neurode
newel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuː.əl/
ipa: /ˈnu.əl/
ipa: /ˈnju.əl/
rhymes: -uːəl
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: newels
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English nowel, *newel, from Old French noel, from either Early Medieval Latin nōdellus (“buckle”, diminutive of nōdus "knot") or Late Latin nucālis (“nut-like”, derivative of nux "nut"). Doublet of noil and noyau.
Senses: topics: architecture
synonyms: spindle
glosses: A central pillar around which a staircase spirals.
examples: text: We went along the hall to the end and up a flight of stairs with a carved handrail and newel post.
ref: 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin, published 2005, page 238:
topics: architecture
synonyms: newel post
glosses: A sturdy pillar at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs, supporting the handrail.
Derived terms: neweled
newelled
newel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuː.əl/
ipa: /ˈnu.əl/
ipa: /ˈnju.əl/
rhymes: -uːəl
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: newels
Etymology: From new + -el, modelled after novel (“new, original”).
Senses: examples: 1882: Edmund Spenser (Alexander Balloch Grosart, ed) The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser
He was so enamoured with the newel.
glosses: A novelty; a new thing.
niacin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪəsɪn/
rhymes: -aɪəsɪn
Etymology: in 1942 derived from nicotinic + acid + vitamin, chosen to dissociate it from nicotine, to avoid the perception that vitamins or niacin-rich food contains nicotine, or that cigarettes contain vitamins.
Senses: examples: text: Mixing the alkali into the recipe in the right way chemically releases the otherwise unavailable niacin in the corn, which stops pellagra in its tracks, and allowed corn-based agricultural populations to grow and spread.
ref: 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 7, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A water-soluble vitamin, a component of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast, and dairy products; it is essential to metabolism.
Synonyms: word: E375 when used as a colour retention agent
word: nicotinic acid
word: vitamin B3
sense: historic names
word: vitamin PP
word: vitamin P-P
word: PP-factor
word: pellagra-preventive factor
Derived terms: niacinamide
niacinate
nib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: nibs
form: knib
Etymology: From a variant of neb, perhaps due to association with nibble.
Senses: examples: text: Slowly welling from the point of her gold nib, pale blue ink dissolved the full stop; for there her pen stuck; her eyes fixed, and tears slowly filled them.
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
text: Ford, whose often acid nib belied a deep love of all things Iberian, is one of 20 British authors profiled in a new Spanish book[…].
ref: 2025 April 20, Sam Jones, “‘Their pursuits are the cigar and the siesta’: how two centuries of British writers helped forge our view of Spain”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
related: word: neb
synonyms: bill
pecker
glosses: A bird's beak.
glosses: Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
glosses: A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
examples: text: the little nib or fructifying principle
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
glosses: A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
synonyms: thole
glosses: One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
glosses: The shaft of a wagon.
Derived terms: denib
nibber
nib-cove
nibless
niblet
niblick
niblike
nibmeister
nib pen
nib sugar
nipple
renib
nib
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: nibs
form: nibbing
form: nibbed
form: nibbed
form: knib
Etymology: From a variant of neb, perhaps due to association with nibble.
Senses: examples: text: In nibbing the pen, place the inside of the point flat upon the nail of your left-hand thumb (holding the quill between the first and second finger of that hand), and let the whole length of the split be extended thereon, to steady the pen as much as possible […]
ref: 1820, James Henry Lewis, The best method of pen-making:
glosses: To fit (a pen) with a nib.
nibbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nibbed
form: most nibbed
Etymology: From nib + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a nib or point.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Of a stamp: having the nib of its perforation removed or damaged.
Derived terms: unnibbed
niched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːʃt/
ipa: /ˈnɪtʃt/
Etymology: From niche + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: They left early, yet the evening had seemed interminable; and considering that Emily was niched between an inlaid table, on which stood a shepherd in a yellow jacket offering a China—Chinese I mean—rose to a shepherdess in green and pink—and a tea-pot, all exquisite Dresden specimens—and an old lady, of whose shawl and shoulders Emily had the full benefit,...
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 253:
glosses: In a niche.
niggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪɡəl
Forms: form: niggles
Etymology: First attested in 1599. Origin uncertain, but likely borrowed from dialectal Norwegian nigla (“to be stingy, to busy oneself with trifles”), ultimately from Old Norse hnøggr (“stingy; miserly”), related to Old English hnēaw (“stingy; niggardly”). More at niggard.
Senses: examples: text: The Olympic medal contender's back problem has been described as a "niggle" by the head coach, Charles van Commenee, but Porter's friend and former team-mate Danielle Carruthers revealed that the injury is playing on the Briton's mind.
ref: 2012, Anna Kessel, “London 2012: Christian Taylor aims high as Phillips Idowu stays away”, in The Guardian:
text: He declared that it would take until the early New Year for all the faults and niggles to be ironed out, and that the rest of 2019 would be deemed to be a 'bedding in' period.
ref: 2020 January 2, Richard Clinnick, “After some alarms, Sleeper awakens”, in Rail, page 47:
synonyms: quibble
split hairs
cavil
glosses: A minor complaint or problem.
glosses: Small, cramped handwriting.
niggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪɡəl
Forms: form: niggles
form: niggling
form: niggled
form: niggled
Etymology: First attested in 1599. Origin uncertain, but likely borrowed from dialectal Norwegian nigla (“to be stingy, to busy oneself with trifles”), ultimately from Old Norse hnøggr (“stingy; miserly”), related to Old English hnēaw (“stingy; niggardly”). More at niggard.
Senses: examples: text: I shall so feed your fierce vexation , And raise your worship ' s storms ; I shall so niggle you , And juggle you , and fiddle you , and firk you
ref: c. 1621, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Pilgrim”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To trifle with; to deceive; to mock.
glosses: To use, spend, or do in a petty or trifling manner.
synonyms: nitpick
split hairs
cavil
glosses: To dwell too much on minor points or on trifling details.
glosses: To fidget, fiddle, be restless.
examples: text: I can see him now with his one eye closed as he came niggling along, and didn't he just give me a grandfather's blessing!
ref: 1893, Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches, page 177:
glosses: To walk with short steps.
Derived terms: niggler
nigglesome
niggly
niter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: niters
form: nitre
Etymology: From Middle English niter, nitere, nitre, nytre, from Old French nitre, from Latin nitrum (“native soda, natron”), from Ancient Greek νίτρον (nítron). Ultimately from Egyptian nṯrj (“natron”). Doublet of natron and trona. Compare also natrium, nitrogen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral form of potassium nitrate (saltpetre) used in making gunpowder.
glosses: Native sodium carbonate; natron.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from niter (noun)
word: niter bush
sense: terms derived from niter (noun)
word: nitracrol
sense: terms derived from niter (noun)
word: Nitralloy
sense: terms derived from niter (noun)
word: nitramidin
sense: terms derived from niter (noun)
word: nitran
sense: terms derived from niter (noun)
word: nitraniline
sense: terms derived from niter (noun)
word: nitranisic
sense: terms derived from niter (noun)
word: nitrate
sense: terms derived from niter (noun)
word: nitridation
sense: terms derived from niter (noun)
word: nitriding
sense: terms derived from niter (noun)
word: nitrile
sense: terms derived from niter (noun)
word: nitrion
sense: terms derived from niter (noun)
word: nitrite
sense: terms derived from niter (noun)
word: nitryl
sense: terms derived from niter (noun)
word: soda niter
Related terms: sense: terms related to niter (noun)
word: nitric
sense: terms related to niter (noun)
word: nitrifaction
sense: terms related to niter (noun)
word: nitrify
sense: terms related to niter (noun)
word: nitrogen
sense: terms related to niter (noun)
word: nitrous
nitric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪtɹɪk/
Etymology: From nitro- + -ic, compare French nitrique.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of nitric acid, however, the employment of the aræometer introduces far greater errors than when it is used for sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, and in most other cases, as the concentrated nitric acids as a rule always contain nitrogen tetroxide in solution, the quantity being seldom less than 1 per cent., but more generally several per cent., which makes its strength when taken with the aræometer seem greater than it actually is.
ref: 1905, Georg Lunge, Alfred Isaac Cohn, Techno‐Chemical Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, pages 57–58:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen.
Derived terms: hydronitric acid
nitric acid
nitric ether
nitric oxide
sulfonitric
sulfonitric acid
sulphonitric acid
sulphonitric
nitric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪtɹɪk/
Etymology: From nitro- + -ic, compare French nitrique.
Senses: glosses: Nitric acid.
nitty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪtiː/
note: older
ipa: /ˈnɪtɪ/
ipa: /ˈnɪti/
ipa: /-ɾi/
rhymes: -ɪti
Forms: form: nitties
Etymology: From nit + -y. The “foolish, inane” adjective sense is from nit (“fool, nitwit”), possibly under the influence of nutty (“crazy, mad”).
The origin of the noun sense (“dope fiend, druggie”) is unknown, but could refer to a person who is under the influence of drugs to the extent that he or she is careless about personal hygiene and unkempt. Compare the verb nit (“to be a nitty”).
Senses: examples: text: See me breeze in a cream Bentley / Fronting in the sun that’s two-seated / Believe it, pull up to the light and now you looking defeated / Girl, grilling my ice got you heated (yeah) / Yep, beef with the nitty I never needed (wha-wha)
ref: 1998 September 15, “Fiend ’98”, in Respect, performed by Shaquille O’Neal:
text: Trapping ain't dead, the nitty still clucking and ringing my phone / Chilling with bro, talking ’bout money, dough to the dome
ref: 2016 February 22, “Let’s Lurk”, Monkey (lyrics), performed by 67 ft Giggs:
text: I got some nitties on this phone / They ring me consistently / I know the ops hate this face / wanna make me #history
ref: 2017 September 6, “My Kingdom”, performed by Tel Money:
text: And I am whipping off raw, that’s messy / The nitties them call that celly
ref: 2017 December 22, “No Hook”, performed by 61 – Cee Drilla × Beans × Nz × Ruger:
synonyms: word: addict
word: abuser
word: fiend
word: slave
word: wastoid
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A dope fiend, a druggie.
nitty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪtiː/
note: older
ipa: /ˈnɪtɪ/
ipa: /ˈnɪti/
ipa: /-ɾi/
rhymes: -ɪti
Forms: form: more nitty
form: most nitty
Etymology: A clipping of nitid (“bright, lustrous, shining”), or directly derived from Latin nitidus (“glittering, shining”), from niteō (“to glitter, shine; to look beautiful or bright”) (from Proto-Indo-European *ney- (“to shine”)) + -idus (“tending to”).
Senses: examples: text: O dapper, rare, complete, sweet nitty youth! / Jesu Maria! How his clothes appear / Cross'd and recross'd with lace, sure for some fear / Lest that some spirit with a tippet mace / Should with a ghastly show affright his face.
ref: 1598, John Marston, “Satire III. Quædam et sunt, et videntur.”, in The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image. And Certaine Satyres, At London: printed [by James Roberts] for Edmond Matts, […], →OCLC; republished in A[rthur] H[enry] Bullen, editor, The Works of John Marston … In Three Volumes, volume III, London: John C. Nimmo […], 1887, →OCLC, pages 276–277, lines 18–22:
glosses: Shining; elegant, spruce.
nob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nŏb
ipa: /nɒb/
enpr: nŏb
ipa: /nɑb/
homophone: knob
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: nobs
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of knob.
Nobleman sense from white-nob (“white-head”) (18th century), referring to the powdered wigs used by those having or affecting upper middle-class status.
Senses: examples: text: Jack and Jill went up the hill / to fetch a pail of water; / Jack fell down and broke his crown / and Jill came tumbling after. / Up Jack got and home did trot, / as fast as he could caper, / to old Dame Dob / to mend his nob / with vinegar and brown paper.
qualifier: now only in slang
glosses: The head.
examples: text: One for his nob.
synonyms: nibs
qualifier: cribbage
glosses: A jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer.
glosses: The glans penis, the sensitive bulbous structure at the end of the penis also known as the head of the penis. (Also spelled knob.)
glosses: (vulgar, slang, chiefly UK, Ireland) The penis; dick. (Also spelled knob.)
examples: text: Col wasn’t impressed with Dick’s patronising comments and turned his back and rolled his eyes whilst at the same time mumbling “Fucking nob, Dick by name Dick by nature” under his breath.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Philip Mumby, Halfway House, page 85:
text: Christine would help Kelly with her submission so she didn’t look like a complete nob! And in exchange Kelly would introduce and talk Christine through some of her artistic works: giving her a personal guided tour from her earliest through to her latest pieces.
ref: 2012, Laura J. Harris, Splintered, page 40:
text: I was in a garden […]A place no bloody nob could take away
ref: 2019 July 30, Elisa Braden, A Kiss from a Rogue:
glosses: A contemptible person; dick. (Also spelled knob.)
examples: text: The masses have risen up and shot all their nobs.
ref: 1989, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Blackadder Goes Forth:
glosses: A wealthy or influential person; a toff.
examples: text: He spoke with a lisp, occasioned by the loss of two of his large front teeth, which allowed the tongue as he talked to appear through the opening in a round nob like a raspberry.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
glosses: Obsolete form of knob (“rounded protuberance”).
Derived terms: his nob
nobbish
nobby
nobhead
pitch the nob
nob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nŏb
ipa: /nɒb/
enpr: nŏb
ipa: /nɑb/
homophone: knob
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: nobs
form: nobbing
form: nobbed
form: nobbed
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of knob.
Nobleman sense from white-nob (“white-head”) (18th century), referring to the powdered wigs used by those having or affecting upper middle-class status.
Senses: glosses: To hit in the head.
nodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊdəl/
rhymes: -əʊdəl
Etymology: From node + -al.
Senses: examples: text: If the sexual component [in a prosecutorial case] cannot be construed, it must be constructed. It is the nodal point of the prosecutor's comprehension. Up to that point, everything […] may perplex or disturb. But once the sexuality has been imputed, everything that seemed normal can now be made abnormal and perverse.
ref: 1980, Roger Moody, Indecent Assault:
text: Chapter 4 is nodal to the book, not simply because it stands at its very middle. It engages with Kaiserkritik but also it connects the previous chapter’s discussion of working method and sources to what follows in Chapter 5, where Zonaras’ interest in Roman antiquity is discussed in greater detail.
ref: 2023, Dimitris Krallis, “A New Look At Zonaras”, in Histos, volume 17:
text: Freightliner has advocated the long-planned development of Ripple Lane as a nodal yard. Its redevelopment, to accommodate roads up to 700 metres long, was listed in the London Freight Strategy of 2022 but hasn't gone beyond the drawing board.
ref: 2025 August 6, David Stubbings, “Network News: Options sought for more trains to London Gateway”, in RAIL, number 1041, page 10:
glosses: Of the nature of, or relating to, a node.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the nodus.
Derived terms: antenodal
atrionodal
binodal
conodal
dianodal
enodal
extranodal
heminodal
infranodal
internodal
intranodal
multinodal
nodal analysis
nodal fever
nodalise
nodalize
nodally
paranodal
perinodal
polynodal
postnodal
prenodal
quadrinodal
subnodal
trinodal
uninodal
nodder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nodders
Etymology: From nod + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who nods.
glosses: One who nods.
A drowsy person.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Synonym of noddy (“cutaway scene of an interviewer nodding”).
synonyms: word: noddy
extra: cutaway scene of an interviewer nodding
nodule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒdjuːl/
ipa: /ˈnɑd͡ʒul/
rhymes: -ɒdjuːl
rhymes: -ɒdʒuːl
Forms: form: nodules
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nōdulus (“small knot”), from nōdus (“knot”). Doublet of nodulus.
Senses: examples: text: Biotics manipulate mass effect fields using dozens of element zero nodules within their nervous system that react to electric stimuli from the brain. Amplifiers allow biotics to synchronize the nodules so they can form fields large and strong enough for practical use.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Biotics: Biotic Amps Codex entry:
topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A rounded mass or irregular shape; a small knot or lump.
Derived terms: extranodular
flocculonodular
internodular
intranodular
Lisch nodule
macronodule
manganese nodule
micronodule
milker's nodule
muconodular
multinodular
nodular
nodulate
nodulation
nodulectomy
noduled
noduliferous
noduliform
nodulin
nodulization
nodulize
nodulizing
nodulocystic
nodulose
nodulous
oligonodular
papulonodule
perinodular
pseudonodule
reticulonodular
Rokitansky nodule
root nodule
uninodular
vocal cord nodule
nonce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nŏns
ipa: /nɒns/
ipa: /nɑns/
ipa: /nɔns/
rhymes: -ɒns
Forms: form: nonces
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English nonse, nones, a rebracketing of Middle English to þen anes, for þen anes (to/for the once (i.e., the one occasion or instance)), from the dative singular neuter of þe. The cryptography sense is commonly said to be a contraction of number used once, although this is probably incorrect.
Senses: examples: text: That will do for the nonce, but we'll need a better answer for the long term.
text: [...] Dunce, / Dotard, a-dozing at the very nonce, / After a life spent training for the sight!
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXX:
text: 'Idiot!' exclaimed the doctor, who for the nonce was not capable of more than such spasmodic attempts at utterance.
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, chapter 6, in Barchester Towers:
glosses: The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in for the nonce).
examples: text: I had thought that the term was a nonce, but it seems as if it's been picked up by other authors.
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A nonce word.
examples: text: The protocol opens with A communicating in clear to AS his own claimed identity and the identity of the desired correspondent, B, together with A's nonce identifier for this transaction, I_(A1). ("Nonce" means "used only once.")
ref: 1978 December 24, Roger M. Needham, “Using Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks of Computers”, in Communications of the ACM, volume 21, number 12:
text: The information gained by the eavesdropper would permit a replay attack, but only with a request for the same document, and even that may be limited by the server's choice of nonce.
ref: 1999, Network Working Group, RFC 2617 – HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication, The Internet Society, page 22
text: Both CCM and GCM require a unique nonce (N used once) value to maintain their privacy and authenticity goals.
ref: 2006, Tom St Denis, Cryptography for Developers, page 340:
text: The main idea with the challenge-response type of authentication protocol is that the challenge sent by the server is used only once (referred to as a cryptographic nonce, which means “number used once”).
ref: 2012, Steven Anson, Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation:
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.
Derived terms: for the nonce
nonce borrowing
nonce word
nonce
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: nŏns
ipa: /nɒns/
ipa: /nɑns/
ipa: /nɔns/
rhymes: -ɒns
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English nonse, nones, a rebracketing of Middle English to þen anes, for þen anes (to/for the once (i.e., the one occasion or instance)), from the dative singular neuter of þe. The cryptography sense is commonly said to be a contraction of number used once, although this is probably incorrect.
Senses: examples: text: But particular men are not stereotyped for jobs nor particular desks (as against others) to sit at - the standard here is nonce.
ref: 1977, Robert Anderson Hall, David Morris Feldman, Homenaje a Robert A. Hall, Jr, page 75:
text: Dickinson's association of heliotrope with Mary Bowles was nonce and fleeting, but the subject of gardens was always a safe one on which to address her: “How is your garden – Mary? Are the Pinks true –?”
ref: 2009, Judith FARR, Louise Carter, The Gardens of Emily Dickinson, →ISBN, page 55:
text: Poplack et al. (1988, 57) found that 65% of their types were nonce and only 7% of the types were considered widespread.
ref: 2010, Susana Rivera-Mills, Juan Antonio Trujillo -, Building Communities and Making Connections, →ISBN, page 191:
text: Some of the single-citation terms appeared to be nonce formations, that is, created for the occasion.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 16:
glosses: One-off; produced or created for a single occasion or use. Denoting something occurring once.
nonce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nŏns
ipa: /nɒns/
ipa: /nɑns/
ipa: /nɔns/
rhymes: -ɒns
Forms: form: nonces
Etymology: 1975.
Unknown, derived from British criminal slang. Several origins have been proposed; possibly derived from dialectal nonce, nonse (“stupid, worthless individual”) (but this cannot be shown to predate nonce "child-molester" and is likely a toned-down usage of the same insult), or Nance, nance (“effeminate man, homosexual”), from nancy or nancyboy. The rhyme with ponce has also been noted.
As prison slang also said to be an acronym for "Not On Normal Communal Exercise" (Stevens 2012), but this is likely a backronym.
Senses: examples: 1989 "assorted nonces, ponces and murderers, 'the worst men in the world' … on the nonce wing, where the child-killers, molesters and various perverts have to be protected from the other prisoners." (New Statesman, New Society, Volume 2, Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited)
glosses: A sex offender, especially one who is guilty of sexual offences against children.
examples: text: ‘He's a nonce[. A] nonsense merchant, a paedophile[,’ Terry explained.]
ref: 2004, Jeffery Archer, A Prison Diary, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: A pedophile.
synonyms: snitch
glosses: A police informer, one who betrays a criminal enterprise
examples: text: Shut it, ya nonce!
glosses: A stupid or worthless person.
Derived terms: noncery
noncy
nones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊnz/
rhymes: -əʊnz
ipa: /nʌnz/
rhymes: -ʌnz
ipa: /nəʊnz/
rhymes: -əʊnz
Etymology: See Nones.
Senses: examples: text: Both the religiously dis-identified ("nones") and the religiously committed report mystical experiences.
ref: 2003, Jacob A. Belzen, Antoon Geels, Mysticism: A Variety of Psychological Perspectives, page 50:
text: Stable nones, that is, people who report in both years that they have no religious affiliation, are, in fact, much less religious
ref: 2010, Robert D. Putnam, David E Campbell, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, page 591:
text: we have grouped people into nones (no religion), Jews, Catholics, mainline Protestants, and evangelical protestants.
ref: 2013, Michael Corbett, Politics and Religion in the United States:
glosses: Alternative form of Nones: atheists or those without religious affiliation.
notate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊˈteɪt/
ipa: /ˈnəʊteɪt/
Forms: form: notates
form: notating
form: notated
form: notated
Etymology: First attested in 1871; back-formation from notation or from Latin notātus, perfect passive participle of notō; either way, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, note + -ate.
Senses: glosses: To mark with spots or lines, which are often colored.
glosses: To add notes to; to annotate
glosses: To create notation (e.g. music or mathematics); to record/put down in the form of notation
Derived terms: notatable
notator
notate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊˈteɪt/
ipa: /ˈnəʊteɪt/
Etymology: First attested in 1857; borrowed from Latin notātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Marked with coloured spots or lines.
Nubia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːbiə
Etymology: The origin of this word is contested. At root it is probably a geographical rather than an ethnic designation. (See Nubians § Etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia). The related term Noba was used (with some uncertainty even among the writers as to its meaning) both for a people already living in the area and for those who conquered it in the 4th century CE.
Senses: glosses: The region of the upper Nile valley now part of Sudan and far-southern Egypt.
examples: text: Except date trees, and a few grape vines which I saw at Derr, there are no fruit-trees in Nubia.
The climate of Nubia, though intensely hot in summer, particularly in the narrow rocky parts of the country, is very healthy, owing perhaps to the extreme aridity of the atmosphere.
ref: 1819, John Lewis Burckhardt, Travels in Nubia, Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa, page 144:
text: Our knowledge of Nubia at the end of the 19th dynasty gradually becomes sparser. It appears that the Egyptians withdrew to the north, while the local population emigrated to the south.
ref: 1978, Friedrich W. Hinkel, Exodus from Nubia, Akademie Verlag, page 27:
text: Nubia is part of this landscape, created, formed and sustained by the Nile in complex interplays of geology and river hydrology.
ref: 2019, Johannes Auenmüller, “Topography and Regional Geography of Nubia: River, Cataract and Desert Landscapes”, in Dietrich Raue, editor, Handbook of Ancient Nubia, volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, page 39:
glosses: The former polity ruling that region.
Hyponyms: Lower Nubia
Upper Nubia
Related terms: Nubian
Nubiology
nubile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnubaɪl/
ipa: /ˈnjuːbaɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: more nubile
form: most nubile
Etymology: From French nubile, from Latin nūbilis (“marriageable”), from nūbō (“marry, to take as husband”), from Proto-Indo-European *snewbʰ- (“to marry, to wed”). Possibly cognate with Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride, young wife, nymph”) (English nymph), but this is disputed.
Senses: examples: text: "Pretty little thing, isn't she?" said Mrs. Budge huskily, and panted two or three times. "Yes," Denis nodded agreement. Sixteen, slender, but nubile, he said to himself, and laid up the phrase in his memory as a happy one.
ref: 1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 28, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus, page 292:
synonyms: eligible
marriageable
wifeable
glosses: Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable (principally of a young woman).
synonyms: word: foxy
word: alluring
word: arousing
word: attractive
word: bangable
word: beautiful
word: beddable
word: bedworthy
word: bonable
word: bonerific
word: buff
word: delicious
word: desirable
word: doable
word: dreamy
word: effable
word: fanciable
word: fappable
word: fapworthy
word: fine
word: fit
word: fuckable
word: gorgeous
word: hittable
word: horny
word: hot
word: humpable
word: peng
word: provocative
word: raunchy
word: rootable
word: salacious
word: screwable
word: seductive
word: sensual
word: sexable
word: sexalicious
word: sexy
word: shaggable
word: swoonsome
word: tasty
word: toothsome
glosses: Sexually attractive (especially of a young woman).
Derived terms: nubility
prenubile
Related terms: connubial
nuptial
nuptials
nubile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnubaɪl/
ipa: /ˈnjuːbaɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: nubiles
Etymology: From French nubile, from Latin nūbilis (“marriageable”), from nūbō (“marry, to take as husband”), from Proto-Indo-European *snewbʰ- (“to marry, to wed”). Possibly cognate with Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride, young wife, nymph”) (English nymph), but this is disputed.
Senses: glosses: A young sexually attractive woman.
nulled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌld/
rhymes: -ʌld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of null
nulled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌld/
rhymes: -ʌld
Senses: glosses: Turned so as to resemble nulled work.
nurser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nursers
Etymology: From nurse + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.
Derived terms: nickel nurser