cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
oral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈɔ.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈɑ.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈoː.ɹəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈorəl/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: ōrʹəl
ipa: /ˈo(ː)ɹəl/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
homophone: aural
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
rhymes: -ɒɹəl
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁óh₃s
Early 17th century borrowing from Late Latin ōrālis, from ōs (“the mouth”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: oral hygiene
text: oral sex
synonyms: mouthly
glosses: Relating to the mouth.
examples: text: And most neurologists are in the habit of prescribing antispasticity drugs like tizanidine and baclofen, which are oral and inexpensive, but which cause drowsiness and weaken every muscle in the body, not just the target ones.
ref: 2009 March 17, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “After a Stroke, Freeing Muscles With Botox”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2017:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: mouthly
glosses: Relating to the mouth.
Done or taken by the mouth.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: mouthly
glosses: Relating to the mouth.
Pronounced by the voice resonating in the mouth, as the vowels in English.
raw_tags: of a speech sound
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
synonyms: mouthly
glosses: Relating to the mouth.
Relating to or denoting a stage of infantile psychosexual development during which libidinal gratification is derived from intake (as of food), by sucking, and later by biting.
raw_tags: in Freudian theory
synonyms: mouthly
glosses: Relating to the mouth.
Of, relating to, or characterized by personality traits of passive dependency and aggressiveness.
examples: text: an oral presentation
text: an oral French exam
synonyms: spoken
verbal
antonyms: written
glosses: Spoken rather than written.
synonyms: spoken
verbal
antonyms: written
glosses: Spoken rather than written.
Relating to the transmission of information or literature by word of mouth.
synonyms: spoken
verbal
antonyms: written
glosses: Spoken rather than written.
Using speech or the lips especially in teaching the deaf.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociolinguistics
sociology
synonyms: spoken
verbal
antonyms: written
glosses: Spoken rather than written.
Not having reached the stage of literacy.
raw_tags: of a society
Derived terms: aboral
adoral
circumoral
endoral
extraoral
fecal-oral
hyperoral
infraoral
intraoral
juxtaoral
naso-oral
nasoral
nonoral
oral allergy syndrome
oral argument
oral availability
oral candidiasis
oralcare
oral cavity
oral exam
oral examination
oral glucose
oral gratification
oral history
oral hygiene
oralism
oralist
oralistic
orality
oralize
oralise
oral law
oral lore
orally
oralmost
oral mucositis
oral myology
oralnasal
oralness
oral sex
oral stage
oral surgeon
oral surgery
oral test
oral tradition
oral vowel
paroral
perioral
peroral
pharyngo-oral
postoral
post-oral
preoral
pre-oral
suboral
supraoral
transoral
Related terms: oracy
orature
oral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈɔ.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈɑ.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈoː.ɹəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈorəl/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: ōrʹəl
ipa: /ˈo(ː)ɹəl/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
homophone: aural
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
rhymes: -ɒɹəl
Forms: form: orals
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁óh₃s
Early 17th century borrowing from Late Latin ōrālis, from ōs (“the mouth”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: We've got our Spanish oral tomorrow.
glosses: A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class.
glosses: A physical examination of the mouth.
examples: text: I gave my boyfriend oral for the first time on his birthday.
glosses: Ellipsis of oral sex.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Ellipsis of oral steroid.
Related terms: aural
draw
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɔː/
note: Southern England, triggers Intrusive R
ipa: [dɹoː(‿ɹ)]
ipa: /dɹɔ/
ipa: [d͡ʒɹɔ]
note: intrusive r, New England
ipa: [d͡ʒɹɔɹ]
ipa: /dɹɑ/
ipa: /ˈdɹo/
homophone: drawer (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔː
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English drauen, drawen, draȝen, dragen (“to drag, pull; to draw (out); to attract; to entice, lure; to lead; to make a drawing; to move, travel; etc.”), from Old English dragan (“to drag, draw”), from Proto-West Germanic *dragan (“to carry; to haul”), from Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to carry; to pull, draw”); further etymology uncertain, often said to be from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to pull, draw”), but possibly from a non-Indo-European substrate root which is also the source of Latin trahō (“to pull, draw; etc.”). Doublet of drag and draught.
The noun is derived from Middle English drau, draue (“action of shooting with a bow”), from drauen, drawen (verb).
cognates
* Albanian dredh (“to turn, spin”)
* Danish drage
* Dutch dragen
* German tragen (“to carry”)
* Old Armenian դառնամ (daṙnam, “to turn”)
* Sanskrit ध्रजस् (dhrájas, “gliding course or motion”)
* West Frisian drage
Senses: topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Pull back your bowstring in preparation to shoot.
drawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: drô′ĭng
rhymes: -ɔːɪŋ
ipa: /ˈdɹɔː.ɪŋ/
enpr: drä′ĭng
ipa: /ˈdɹɑ.ɪŋ/
note: intrusive R
enpr: drô′rĭng
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
note: sometimes proscribed, most commonly in the UK, Australia, New Zealand
ipa: /ˈdɹɔː.ɹɪŋ/
note: Indic, less commonly
ipa: /ˈɖɾɒ.ɻɪŋɡ/
note: linking W
enpr: drô′wĭng
ipa: /ˈdɹoː.wɪŋ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖɾɒ.wɪŋɡ/
note: linking Y
enpr: drô′jĭng
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖɾɒ.jɪŋɡ/
Etymology: From Middle English drauinge, drawinge, alteration of earlier drawende, drawand, from Old English dragende, from Proto-Germanic *dragandz (“drawing”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to draw; pull”), equivalent to draw + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of draw
drawing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: drô′ĭng
rhymes: -ɔːɪŋ
ipa: /ˈdɹɔː.ɪŋ/
enpr: drä′ĭng
ipa: /ˈdɹɑ.ɪŋ/
note: intrusive R
enpr: drô′rĭng
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
note: sometimes proscribed, most commonly in the UK, Australia, New Zealand
ipa: /ˈdɹɔː.ɹɪŋ/
note: Indic, less commonly
ipa: /ˈɖɾɒ.ɻɪŋɡ/
note: linking W
enpr: drô′wĭng
ipa: /ˈdɹoː.wɪŋ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖɾɒ.wɪŋɡ/
note: linking Y
enpr: drô′jĭng
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖɾɒ.jɪŋɡ/
Forms: form: drawings
form: dwg
Etymology: From Middle English drauing, drawing, equivalent to draw + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
ref: 2012 March 23, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 106:
text: While you see some of our exploration on camera, I also spent many happy hours between shoots with Chris Nix, digging out dozens of wonderful plans, maps and drawings of projects that I never knew existed, and some that never did exist.
ref: 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 50:
glosses: A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.
glosses: The act of producing such a picture.
glosses: Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.
examples: Proverb: An official is great in his office as a well is rich in drawings of water.
glosses: The process of drawing or pulling something.
glosses: An act or event in which the outcome (e.g., designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of a blind draw, notably of lots; especially such a contest in which a winning name or number is selected randomly by removing (or drawing) it from a container, popularly a hat.
examples: text: […] the tea-kettle was presently steaming like an engine, and an extra large "drawing of tea" was steeping on the hearth.
ref: 1853, Alice Cary, Clovernook:
glosses: A small portion of tea for steeping.
Derived terms: drawing board
drawing office
droodle
GPS drawing
indrawing
ledger drawing
life drawing
line drawing
microdrawing
out of drawing
poker drawing
schematic drawing
subdrawing
technical drawing
toothdrawing
underdrawing
working drawing
Related terms: word: draft
word: drawer
word: drawnwork
word: sketch
word: drafter
word: draftsman
english: shortened from withdraw
translation: shortened from withdraw
word: drawing room
polycystine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polycystine
form: most polycystine
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Pertaining to the Polycystina.
polycystine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polycystines
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Polycystina
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a homopolymer of the amino acid cystine
pyramidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪ.ɹəˈmɪd.ɪk/
Forms: form: pyramidical
Etymology: From pyramid + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: [1774, Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature
pyramidical rocks.]
text: Gold in pyramidic plenty piled.
ref: 1743, William Shenstone, Written in Spring:
text: In mockery to the enormous gate which rose / O'er them in almost pyramidic pride
ref: 1821, Lord Byron, Don Juan:
text: all you really need is a little bit of pyramidic help
ref: 1978, “Pyramania”, Eric Woolfson (lyrics), Alan Parsons (music), performed by The Alan Parsons Project:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a pyramid; having the form or imposing presence of a pyramid; pyramidal.
Derived terms: pyramidically
pyramidical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyramid + -ical.
Senses: glosses: pyramidic
unvessel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unvessels
form: unvesseling
form: unvesselling
form: unvesseled
form: unvesseled
form: unvesselled
form: unvesselled
Etymology: From un- + vessel.
Senses: glosses: To cause to be no longer a vessel; to empty.
upbreak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upbreaks
form: upbreaking
form: upbroke
form: upbroken
Etymology: From up- + break.
Senses: glosses: To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.
upbreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upbreaks
Etymology: From up- + break.
Senses: examples: text: The most ignorant will be wiser than the wisest now is by the time these words can be published, but we think this anticipation is likely to be realised: the probability of upbreak in the "Church" itself increases as the hour of the meeting of the Council approaches.
ref: 1870, The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, volume 19, page 134:
glosses: A break-up or division.
examples: text: the upbreak of the fountains of my heart
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Seventh Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: A breaking upward or bursting forth; an upburst.
look
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: lo͝ok
ipa: /lʊk/
homophone: luck stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
note: some Northern Enɡlish dialects, esp. Bolton, Geordie
ipa: /luːk/
note: Liverpool variant
ipa: [luːx]
ipa: /lʉk/
homophone: Luke
rhymes: -ʊk
rhymes: -uːk
Etymology: From Middle English loken, lokien, from Old English lōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn. Further origin unknown, no certain cognates outside Germanic. Cognate with Scots luke, luik, leuk (“to look, see”), West Frisian lôkje, loaitsje (“to look”), Dutch loeken (“to look”), German Low German löken. Likely also related to German lugen (“to peek”), Alemannic German luege (“to look”), Yiddish לוגן (lugn). Possibly related to Sanskrit लोक् (lok, “to see, behold”) (from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”) in the sense of "illuminating" (cf. related word रुच् (ruc) "to shine, illuminate")).
Senses: examples: text: Look, I'm going to explain what to do, so you have to listen closely.
text: ‘Look,’ he began, and she flapped a hand to stop him. ‘For God’s sake don’t say anything that starts with “look”. Sentences like that lead anywhere and they’re always fatal.’
ref: 2001, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, “Not Buried But In Turd”, in Gone Tomorrow, London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: Pay attention.
Synonyms: hey
listen
listen up
look at me
see
so
well
look
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lo͝ok
ipa: /lʊk/
homophone: luck stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
note: some Northern Enɡlish dialects, esp. Bolton, Geordie
ipa: /luːk/
note: Liverpool variant
ipa: [luːx]
ipa: /lʉk/
homophone: Luke
rhymes: -ʊk
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: looks
Etymology: From Middle English loken, lokien, from Old English lōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn. Further origin unknown, no certain cognates outside Germanic. Cognate with Scots luke, luik, leuk (“to look, see”), West Frisian lôkje, loaitsje (“to look”), Dutch loeken (“to look”), German Low German löken. Likely also related to German lugen (“to peek”), Alemannic German luege (“to look”), Yiddish לוגן (lugn). Possibly related to Sanskrit लोक् (lok, “to see, behold”) (from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”) in the sense of "illuminating" (cf. related word रुच् (ruc) "to shine, illuminate")).
Senses: examples: text: Let’s have a look under the hood of the car.
glosses: The action of looking; an attempt to see.
examples: text: She got her mother’s looks.
text: I don’t like the look of the new design.
text: He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle, […]
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:
glosses: Physical appearance, visual impression.
examples: text: He gave me a dirty look.
text: If looks could kill ...
glosses: A facial expression.
Derived terms: afterlook
a good look
black look
dirty look
doggy dinner bowl look
forelook
forthlook
freelook
have a look
hindlook
if looks could kill
inlook
look and feel
look-back
lookbook
lookdown
lookful
look-in
lookism
lookist
lookless
lookoff
looksome
looky-loo
man look
mislook
mouselook
new-look
old-fashioned look
onlook
outlook
overlook
relook
take a look
underlook
wetlook
Related terms: cinéma du look
graffiti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹəˈfiː.ti/
ipa: /ɡɹəˈfi.ti/
rhymes: -iːti
Forms: form: graffiti
form: graffito
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)bor.
Italian graffire
Italian graffito
Italian graffitibor.
English graffiti
Borrowed from Italian graffiti, from graffito, from graffire, borrowed from Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō, “to write”), from Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-.
Senses: examples: text: The underpass is a popular place for graffiti artists.
text: The city council spends thousands of pounds removing graffiti from public buildings.
text: The removal of unsightly graffiti on the sides of railway bridges spanning major roads in the North West is to be handed over to National Highways, to speed up the job.
ref: 2021 October 20, “Network News: NR and NH tackle graffiti vandalism”, in RAIL, number 942, page 9:
glosses: Drawings or words drawn on a surface in a public place, usually made without authorization.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: cave painting
epigraphy
glosses: Informal inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., as opposed to official inscriptions.
Derived terms: antigraffiti
calligraffiti
cybergraffiti
digital graffiti
giraffiti
graffiti art
graffiti artist
graffiti bomber
graffiti knitting
graffitiless
graffitilike
graffitist
graffitology
nongraffiti
reverse graffiti
scratchiti
scratchitti
shoefiti
graffiti
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹəˈfiː.ti/
ipa: /ɡɹəˈfi.ti/
rhymes: -iːti
Forms: form: graffitis
form: graffitiing
form: graffitied
form: graffitied
form: graffito
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)bor.
Italian graffire
Italian graffito
Italian graffitibor.
English graffiti
Borrowed from Italian graffiti, from graffito, from graffire, borrowed from Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō, “to write”), from Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-.
Senses: glosses: To mark a surface with such images.
Related terms: hip-hop
street art
tagging
sgraffito
abassis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abassi
you're
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: yo͝o
note: r
enpr: yô
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /jɔː(ɹ)/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /jʊə(ɹ)/
homophone: ewer (one pronunciation)
ipa: /jə(ɹ)/
note: stressed form
enpr: yo͝or
note: stressed form
enpr: yôr
ipa: /jʊɹ/
note: stressed form
ipa: /joɹ/
note: stressed form
ipa: /jɚ/
homophone: your (unstressed form, also sometimes stressed form)
homophone: yore (sometimes stressed form)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: ur
form: u're
form: ure
form: ya
form: yer
form: you'r
Senses: examples: text: You’re smarter than I am!
text: “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy! —and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: You are.
you're
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: yo͝o
note: r
enpr: yô
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /jɔː(ɹ)/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /jʊə(ɹ)/
homophone: ewer (one pronunciation)
ipa: /jə(ɹ)/
note: stressed form
enpr: yo͝or
note: stressed form
enpr: yôr
ipa: /jʊɹ/
note: stressed form
ipa: /joɹ/
note: stressed form
ipa: /jɚ/
homophone: your (unstressed form, also sometimes stressed form)
homophone: yore (sometimes stressed form)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: ur
form: u're
form: ure
form: ya
form: yer
form: you'r
Senses: examples: text: I’ve said it behind your back, and I’ll say it to you’re face; you’re a gentleman from the top of your head to the end of your big-toe nail!
ref: 1845 August 12, “Court-Martial of Mrs. Haycock (Concluded.)”, in Alex H. Arthur, editor, Vicksburg Tri-Weekly Whig, volume VII, number 130, Vicksburg, Miss., →ISSN, →OCLC, front page, column 5:
text: You're ignorance is like a cry of help from the dark - I am multi-tongued and speak five variations of Spanish.
ref: 2004 October 26, Digital Eclipse, Grand Theft Auto Advance, Rockstar Games, Inc., Game Boy Advance, scene: School's Out, level/area: Aspatria:
glosses: Misspelling of your.
vernacular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈnækjələ/
ipa: /vəˈnækjʊlə/
ipa: /vɚˈnækjəlɚ/
rhymes: -ækjʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: vernaculars
Etymology: From Latin vernāculus (“domestic, indigenous, of or pertaining to home-born slaves”), from verna (“a native, a home-born slave (one born in his master's house)”).
Senses: examples: text: The vernacular of the United States is English.
synonyms: vulgate#Noun
vulgar#Noun
coordinate_terms: lingua franca
link language
vehicular language
glosses: The language of a people or a national language.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: basilect, demotic
text: Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.
glosses: Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: jargon, argot, dialect, slang
text: For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.
glosses: Language unique to a particular group of people.
glosses: A language lacking standardization or a written form.
examples: text: Vatican II, a church council in the 1960s, allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.
synonyms: vulgate#Noun
vulgar#Noun
glosses: Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
topics: architecture
glosses: A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.
vernacular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈnækjələ/
ipa: /vəˈnækjʊlə/
ipa: /vɚˈnækjəlɚ/
rhymes: -ækjʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more vernacular
form: most vernacular
Etymology: From Latin vernāculus (“domestic, indigenous, of or pertaining to home-born slaves”), from verna (“a native, a home-born slave (one born in his master's house)”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: common, everyday, indigenous, ordinary, vulgar, colloquial, basilectal, demotic
text: There are blacktips, silvertips, bronze whalers, black whalers, spinner sharks, and bignose sharks. These of course are vernacular names, but this is one case where the scientific nomenclature does not clarify the species, since it is now being revised.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 111:
glosses: Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: native, indigenous; endemic
text: a vernacular disease
glosses: Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature.
topics: architecture
synonyms: folk
coordinate_terms: primitive
naive
glosses: Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
examples: text: An English vernacular name for Rosa multiflora is multiflora rose.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
synonyms: common
hypernyms: nonsystematic
glosses: Not attempting to use the rules of a taxonomic code, especially, not using scientific Latin.
Hyponyms: neo-vernacular
Derived terms: vernacular architecture
vernacular dance
vernacular dialect
vernacularism
vernacularist
vernacular language
vernacular name
vernacular school
vernacular variety
jargon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɑː.ɡən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑɹ.ɡən/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡən
Forms: form: jargons
Etymology: From Middle English jargoun, jargon, from Old French jargon, a variant of gargon, gargun (“chatter; talk; language”).
Senses: examples: text: That’s one of the biggest hurdles of managing a router and your network security in general, it’s a massive chore that is fraught with technical jargon, hurdles and screens saying ‘no’, ‘invalid’ or ‘not available’.
ref: 2022 May 17, “Synology SRM 1.3 Software Review Part 4 – The Safe Access Application”, in NAS Compares:
glosses: A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
examples: text: They [the Normans] abandoned their native speech, and adopted the French tongue, in which Latin was the predominant element. They speedily raised their new language to a dignity and importance which it had never before possessed. They found it a barbarous jargon; they fixed it in writing; and they employed it in legislation, in poetry, and in romance.
ref: 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 11:
text: In fact all the competing theories have developed their own specialized jargons and have a tendency to be difficult to penetrate.
ref: 2014, Ian Hodder, Archaeological Theory Today:
glosses: A language characteristic of a particular group.
glosses: Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
Synonyms: sense: language characteristic of a group
word: argot
sense: language characteristic of a group
word: cant
sense: language characteristic of a group
word: intalk
sense: language characteristic of a group
word: lingo
word: vernacular
word: jargon
word: language
word: parlance
word: phraseology
word: sublanguage
word: terminology
Hyponyms: word: bureaucratese
word: cant
word: computerese
word: consultantese
word: headlinese
word: corporatese
word: legalese
word: managementese
word: signalese
word: Nerdic
word: econobabble
word: edu-babble
word: psychobabble
word: technobabble
word: artspeak
word: cyberspeak
word: lawyerspeak
word: medspeak
word: weather speak
word: cybertalk
word: slang
Meronyms: word: term
word: buzzword
word: catchphrase
word: term of art
Derived terms: blargon
cyberjargon
Eurojargon
jargonal
jargon aphasia
jargonaphasia
jargonaut
jargoneer
jargoner
jargonese
jargonesque
jargonic
jargonisation
jargonise
jargonish
jargonist
jargonistic
jargonitis
jargonium
jargonization
jargonize
jargonless
jargony
psychojargon
technojargon
Related terms: word: nonsense
word: :Category:Jargon
jargon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɑː.ɡən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑɹ.ɡən/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡən
Forms: form: jargons
form: jargoning
form: jargoned
form: jargoned
Etymology: From Middle English jargoun, jargon, from Old French jargon, a variant of gargon, gargun (“chatter; talk; language”).
Senses: examples: text: Human ill-nature needs but some Homoiousian iota, or even the pretence of one; and will flow copiously through the eye of a needle: thus always must mortals go jargoning and fuming […].
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (Varennes):
text: Prussian Trenck, the poor subterranean Baron, jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Fatherland in Danger”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book III (The Girondins), page 184:
text: [T]he noisy jay, / Jargoning like a foreigner at his food; […]
ref: 1863 November 23, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Poet’s Tale. The Birds of Killingworth.”, in Tales of a Wayside Inn, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 195:
glosses: To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
jargon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɑː.ɡən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑɹ.ɡən/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡən
Forms: form: jargons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”).
Synonyms: word: argot
word: intalk
word: jargon
word: language
word: lingo
word: parlance
word: phraseology
word: sublanguage
word: terminology
Hyponyms: word: bureaucratese
word: cant
word: computerese
word: consultantese
word: headlinese
word: corporatese
word: legalese
word: managementese
word: signalese
word: Nerdic
word: econobabble
word: edu-babble
word: psychobabble
word: technobabble
word: artspeak
word: cyberspeak
word: lawyerspeak
word: medspeak
word: weather speak
word: cybertalk
word: slang
Meronyms: word: term
word: buzzword
word: catchphrase
word: term of art
Related terms: word: nonsense
word: :Category:Jargon
chromosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹəʊ.məˌsəʊm/
ipa: /ˈkɹoʊməˌsoʊm/
ipa: /ˈkɹoʊməˌzoʊm/
Forms: form: chromosomes
Etymology: 19th century: from German Chromosom, ultimately from Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “colour”) + σῶμα (sôma, “body”) (because they are stained under the microscope). Equivalent to chromo- + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Chromosomes store genetic information.
text: A length of DNA is divided into segments called chromosomes and shorter individual units called genes.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 7:
topics: biology
cytology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A linear arrangement of condensed DNA and associated proteins (such as chaperone proteins) which contains the genetic material (genome) of an organism.
Derived terms: B chromosome
chromosomal
chromosome conformation capture
chromosomed
chromosome number
chromosomic
chromosomology
diplochromosome
euchromosome
genome
heterochromosome
idiochromosome
interchromosome
intrachromosome
isochromosome
lampbrush chromosome
macrochromosome
microchromosome
midchromosome
minichromosome
monochromosome
multichromosome
nanochromosome
neochromosome
Ph chromosome
Philadelphia chromosome
pseudochromosome
ring chromosome
sex chromosome
W chromosome
X chromosome
Y chromosome
Z chromosome
Related terms: chromatic
chromato-
-chrome
chromo-
chromosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊməl
Etymology: From chromosome + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to chromosomes.
Derived terms: achromosomal
chromosomal localization
chromosomally
diplochromosomal
epichromosomal
exochromosomal
extrachromosomal
heterochromosomal
interchromosomal
intrachromosomal
isochromosomal
macrochromosomal
microchromosomal
midchromosomal
minichromosomal
monochromosomal
multichromosomal
nonchromosomal
perichromosomal
pseudochromosomal
subchromosomal
transchromosomal
unichromosomal
slang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: slăng
ipa: /slæŋ/
ipa: [sleɪŋ]
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: slangs
form: slanging
form: slanged
form: slanged
Etymology: First use appears c. 1756, meaning "special vocabulary of tramps or thieves", origin unknown. Not believed to be connected with language or lingo.
Possibly derived from a North Germanic source, then possibly related to Nordic language: Danish slænge, Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk slengja, Norwegian slenge, Swedish slänga (“to (carelessly) sling, throw, hurl; throw away, to dispose of; to flail”), with derivational nouns such as slæng, sleng, släng etc. Compare the compound: Danish slængenavn, Norwegian slengenavn, Norwegian Nynorsk slengenamn, Swedish slängnamn (“nickname, byname, informal name”, literally “sling-name”), and the phrases: Norwegian Nynorsk slengja kjeften, Swedish slänga käften (“to abuse verbally”, literally “to sling one's jowl”), Swedish slänga ur sig (“to say something hastily, carelessly, thoughtlessly”, literally “to throw out of oneself”), also Swedish (regional) slänga (“careless, nonchalant girl”, literally “sling + feminine suffix -a”).
Senses: examples: text: Also, he had to keep his temper when he was slanged in the theatre porch by a policeman.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Miss Youghal's Sais”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2007, page 26:
text: Stephen feared that he would yell louder, and was hostile. But they made friends and treated each other, and slanged the proprietor and ragged the pretty girls …
ref: 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XII [Uniform ed., p. 130]
text: "If they had been a row of his favorite Pressmen he could not have slanged them worse."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: To vocally abuse, or shout at.
slang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: slăng
ipa: /slæŋ/
ipa: [sleɪŋ]
rhymes: -æŋ
Senses: examples: text: Before he slang the all-deciding stone[…]
ref: 1836, Edward Bagnall, Saul and David:
glosses: simple past of sling
slang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: slăng
ipa: /slæŋ/
ipa: [sleɪŋ]
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: slangs
form: slanket
Senses: examples: text: There runneth forth into the sea a certaine shelfe or slang, like unto an out~thrust tongue.
ref: 1610, William Camden, translated by Philémon Holland, Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC:
glosses: Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
slang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: slăng
ipa: /slæŋ/
ipa: [sleɪŋ]
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: slangs
Etymology: Compare sling.
Senses: glosses: A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
glosses: A counterfeit weight or measure.
glosses: A travelling show, or one of its performances.
glosses: A hawker's license.
glosses: A watchchain.
slang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: slăng
ipa: /slæŋ/
ipa: [sleɪŋ]
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: slangs
form: slanging
form: slanged
form: slanged
Etymology: The same as sling which is also used in this sense. The vowel exhibits the lowering of /ɪ/ before /ŋ/ distinguishing for African American Vernacular English, as in thang for thing, but the word has spread with this pronunciation outside the accents that exhibit this feature.
Senses: examples: text: Everyday I wake up gotta get back to the gwop
Just another fuckin day in that gangway slangin rocks
ref: 2014, “Bail Out”, Cdai (lyrics), performed by RondoNumbaNine ft. Cdai:
text: Whip, whip in the trap do up kitchen that's food (that's food)
Cookin up grub
Fuck, these niggas cookin up soup (uhhhhh)
Slang the crack or the black
Put the light and dark on the move
Gold and brown and cute
Gyal love me and I love them too (too)
ref: 2016, “Call Me A Spartan”, TG Millian (lyrics), performed by Harlem Spartans (Blanco, Zico, Bis, TG Millian, MizorMac):
text: Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumbling
They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody
Hold that properly when I bang that dotty
I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby
ref: 2017, “Next Up?”, Digga D (lyrics), performed by 1011 (Digga D x Sav'O x T.Y):
text: Bro is in the kitchen, know he can’t cook
He is whipping shit that we use to slang
This fat prick wanna chat on YouTube
still had to cheat to deny he’s gang
ref: 2019 October 18, “Feed' Em”performed by #SG Jibbzy, 1:17–1:23:
synonyms: sling
flog
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To sell (something, especially illegal drugs).
pedantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pa-dăn'tĭk
ipa: /pəˈdæn.tɪk/
rhymes: -æntɪk
Forms: form: more pedantic
form: most pedantic
form: pedantick
Etymology: From pedant + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.
examples: text: The style is pedantic and reviewish: but I can easily fancy states of mind to which it may be no less salutary on that account.
ref: 1838, Richard Hurrell Froude, John Henry Newman, John Keble, Remains of the Late Reverend Richard Hurrell Froude, page 416:
glosses: Tending to show off one’s knowledge, often in a tiresome manner.
Synonyms: word: pedantical
sense: like a pedant
word: anal-retentive
sense: like a pedant
word: fussy
sense: like a pedant
word: nit-picky
sense: showy of one's knowledge; sometimes applicable
word: nit-picky
sense: showy of one's knowledge
word: ostentatious
sense: showy of one's knowledge
word: pedagogical
sense: showy of one's knowledge
word: pretentious
Derived terms: non-pedantic
overpedantic
pedantically
pedanticate
pedanticism
pedanticize
pedanticly
pedanticness
pedantics
unpedantic
Related terms: pedant
pedantical
pedantry
inkhorn
pedant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pĕdʹənt
ipa: /ˈpɛdənt/
Forms: form: pedants
form: pædant
Etymology: From Middle French pedant, pedante, from Italian pedante (“a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant”), associated with unrelated Italian pedagogo (“teacher, pedagogue”). Compare French pédant.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.
glosses: A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
examples: text: I have in my youth oftentimes beene vexed to see a Pedant [tr. pedante] brought in, in most of Italian comedies, for a vice or sport-maker, and the nicke-name of Magister to be of no better signification amongst us.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 24, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: A teacher or schoolmaster.
Synonyms: word: nitpicker
word: pedant
word: pettifogger
word: priss
word: smart aleck
word: smartass
word: wiseass
word: wise guy
Derived terms: outpedant
pedancy
pedantess
pedantic
pedantical
pedantise
pedantism
pedantize
pedantly
pedantocracy
pedantocrat
pedantry
Related terms: word: buzzkill
word: caviler
word: formalist
word: fusser
word: hairsplitter
word: nazi
word: neatnik
word: perfectionist
word: precisian
word: precisianist
word: precisionist
word: purist
word: rulemonger
word: stickler
word: tightass
word: fastidious
word: complainer
pedant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pĕdʹənt
ipa: /ˈpɛdənt/
Forms: form: pædant
Etymology: From Middle French pedant, pedante, from Italian pedante (“a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant”), associated with unrelated Italian pedagogo (“teacher, pedagogue”). Compare French pédant.
Senses: glosses: Pedantic.
us
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭs
ipa: /ʌs/
ipa: /ʌz/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /ʊs/
ipa: /əs/
ipa: /əs/
ipa: /əz/
ipa: /ɪz/
rhymes: -ʌs
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé
Proto-Germanic *uns
Old English ūs
Middle English us
English us
From Middle English us, from Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥swé, alteration of *n̥smé (“us”). The compensatory lengthening was lost in Middle English due to the word being unstressed when used. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uus (“us”), West Frisian us, ús (“us”), Low German uns, us (“us”), Dutch ons (“us”), German uns (“us”), Danish os (“us”), Latin nōs (“we, us”).
Senses: examples: text: It's not good enough for us teachers.
glosses: Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (objective case).
examples: text: Us gays and lesbians in here got a reason to be bitching about the conditions.
ref: 1988 February 7, Mike Riegle, quoting John Royal, “Why Does GCN Have A Prisoner Project?”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 10:
glosses: Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (subjective case).
examples: text: We'll have to throw us food out.
glosses: Our.
Related terms: we
us
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭs
ipa: /ʌs/
ipa: /ʌz/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /ʊs/
ipa: /əs/
ipa: /əs/
ipa: /əz/
ipa: /ɪz/
rhymes: -ʌs
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of u's.
twit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /twɪt/
ipa: [tʰw̥ɪt]
homophone: TWT
rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology: Imitative of a bird’s call.
Senses: examples: text: Midnights bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, / Then dogs doe hovvle, and not a bird does ſing: / But the Nightingale, and ſhe cries tvvit, tvvit, tvvit, tvvit, / Ovvles then on euerie bovve doe ſit.
ref: 1601–1602 (date written), attributed to Thomas Dekker and/or Thomas Middleton, Blurt Master-Constable. Or The Spaniards Night-walke. […], London: […] [Edward Allde] for Henry Rockytt, […], published 1602, →OCLC, signature F3, recto:
text: Twit twit twit / Jug jug jug jug jug jug / So rudely forc'd. / Tereu
ref: 1922 October, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “Part III. The Fire Sermon.”, in The Waste Land, 1st book edition, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, published December 1922, →OCLC, page 30, lines 203–206:
coordinate_terms: tuwhit tuwhoo
glosses: Used to represent the short, high-pitched call of a small bird, or a similar sound made by something else: cheep, tweet.
twit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twɪt/
ipa: [tʰw̥ɪt]
homophone: TWT
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: twits
Etymology: Imitative of a bird’s call.
Senses: examples: text: The minutes seem'd hours—with impatience she heard / The flap of a leaf, and the twit of a bird; […]
ref: 1820, John Clare, “[Sonnets.] Crazy Nell. A True Story.”, in Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […]; and E[dward] Drury, […], →OCLC, page 210:
glosses: A short, high-pitched call of a small bird, or a similar sound made by something else; a cheep, a chirp, a tweet.
twit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twɪt/
ipa: [tʰw̥ɪt]
homophone: TWT
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: twits
Etymology: Clipping of twitter.
Senses: glosses: Chiefly in the form in a twit: clipping of twitter (“a state of excitement or nervousness”).
twit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twɪt/
ipa: [tʰw̥ɪt]
homophone: TWT
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: twits
Etymology: Clipping of twitter.
Senses: examples: text: [I]s't a cursed wab o' yarn / That winna work, for knots and twits, / Spun by some thoughtless drabby sluts, / Whase minds on naething else is carried, / But thinking when they will be married; […]
ref: 1819, James Thomson, “Verses Addressed to Mr John Wright, Tailor in Collington, on the Author’s Being Invited to the Wedding of Mr Joseph Thomson, Builder”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, new edition, Leith, Edinburgh: […] William Reid & Co. for the author, →OCLC, page 27:
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: Clipping of twitter (“a knot or other defect in a thread or yarn which hinders spinning or weaving”).
Derived terms: twitty
gibberish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪ.bə.ɹɪʃ/
Forms: form: gibberishes
Etymology: First attested mid-16th century. Origin obscure. Possibly from *gibber, of onomatopoeic origin imitating to the sound of chatter, possibly from or influenced by jabber, + -ish denoting the name of a language (compare English, Finnish, Spanish, etc.). The verb gibber, first attested circa 1600, is usually regarded as a back-formation from gibberish.
Senses: examples: text: Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 12, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
text: Could it be, after all, that the whole story was true, and the writing on the sherd was not a forgery, or the invention of some crack-brained, long-forgotten individual? And if so, could it be that Leo was the man that She was waiting for - the dead man who was to be born again! Impossible! The whole thing was gibberish! Who ever heard of a man being born again?
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: The Game of Thrones novels were best sellers without fleshed-out Dothraki; the languages in Star Wars, one of the most successful franchises ever, are mostly gibberish, even if Han Solo claims to understand Chewbacca’s bestial warbling.
ref: 2022 December 31, Matteo Wong, “Hollywood’s Love Affair With Fictional Languages”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.
glosses: Needlessly obscure or overly technical language.
glosses: A language game, comparable to pig Latin, in which one inserts a nonsense syllable before the first vowel in each syllable of a word.
Synonyms: gibber
Derived terms: gibberishlike
gibberishy
Related terms: double Dutch
framis
gobbledygook
gobbledegook
galimatias
jargon
mumbo jumbo
nonsense
rhubarb rhubarb
gibberish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪ.bə.ɹɪʃ/
Forms: form: more gibberish
form: most gibberish
Etymology: First attested mid-16th century. Origin obscure. Possibly from *gibber, of onomatopoeic origin imitating to the sound of chatter, possibly from or influenced by jabber, + -ish denoting the name of a language (compare English, Finnish, Spanish, etc.). The verb gibber, first attested circa 1600, is usually regarded as a back-formation from gibberish.
Senses: glosses: unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless
tout de suite
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: to͞ot'swētʹ
ipa: /ˌtuːt ˈswiːt/
enpr: to͞o'dəsweetʹ
ipa: /ˌtuː də ˈswiːt/
Forms: form: tout suite
form: toot sweet
Etymology: Borrowed from French tout de suite.
Senses: examples: text: If you want to catch the bus, you'd better leave tout de suite!
text: I’ve got some decent Margaux in the cellar. Let’s get back to my place tout de suite and crack it open.
ref: 2017, Simon Kernick, chapter 49, in The Hanged Man, London: Century, →ISBN, page 295:
synonyms: pronto
glosses: Immediately, right away.
gaffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæfɚ/
ipa: /ɡæfə/
rhymes: -æfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gaffers
Etymology: From gaff (“hook”) + -er.
* (cinema): The natural lighting on early film sets was adjusted by opening and closing flaps in the tent cloths, called gaff cloths or gaff flaps.
* (glass)
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.
examples: text: The apprentice carries a gather of glass on the blowpipe to the gaffer's bench […]
ref: 2003, Jennifer Bosveld, Glass Works, page 18:
glosses: A glassblower.
glosses: Someone aboard a boat whose duty is to gaff a (large) fish once the angler has reeled it in.
Derived terms: gaffer grip
gaffer tape
gaffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæfɚ/
ipa: /ɡæfə/
rhymes: -æfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gaffers
Etymology: Likely a contraction of godfather, but with the vowels influenced by grandfather. Compare French compère, German Gevatter.
Senses: examples: text: If thou return not, Gammer o'er her pail
Will sing in sorrow, 'neath the brinded cow,
And Gaffer sigh over his nut-brown ale […]
ref: 1845, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides, Book the Fourth, Stanza IX:
glosses: An old person, usually a man.
examples: text: And you're here to tell me what's what. Just like your bloody gaffer promised.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 117:
glosses: The leader of a group or team, such as a boss, foreman, coach, or publican.
glosses: A sailor.
glosses: The baby in the house.
Related terms: gammer
banshee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bænˈʃiː/
ipa: /ˈbænʃiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: banshees
form: banshie
form: benshee
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish bean sí, from Old Irish ben síde (literally “woman of the fairy mound”). The term banshee entered English in 1771.
Senses: examples: text: Late had he heard, in prophet's dream, / The fatal Ben-Shie's boding scream […].
ref: 1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 3.VII:
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glosses: A female spirit, usually taking the form of a woman whose mournful wailing warns of an impending death.
examples: text: Where's this old banshee that runs the place?
ref: 1936, John Thomas McIntyre, Steps Going Down, page 15:
glosses: A noisy or ill-tempered woman.
Derived terms: bansheelike
Related terms: sidhe
gracias
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɑ.θi.əs/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɑ.si.əs/
Forms: form: grassy arse
form: grassy ass
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish gracias (“thank you”).
Senses: examples: text: Muchos gracias, my friend. —The girls are in the kitchen, Bimbo told Vera.
ref: 1993, Roddy Doyle, The Van, link:
text: "Gracias, my friend. I owe you a great debt.
ref: 2000, Linda Ladd, Midnight Fire, link:
text: “No, gracias, my friend. This will do fine.”
ref: 2010, Tina Rosenberg, Glenapp Castle: A Scottish Intrigue, page 154:
glosses: Thank you.
Related terms: muchas gracias
muchos gracias
khutbah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊtbə/
rhymes: -ʊtbə
Forms: form: khutbahs
form: khotbah
form: khotbeh
form: khutba
form: khutbeh
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic خُطْبَة (ḵuṭba).
Senses: examples: text: Save your khutbah for another time.
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer, or at other special occasions.