cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
radiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪdieɪt/
Forms: form: radiates
form: radiating
form: radiated
form: radiated
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin radiātus, perfect passive participle of radiō (“to radiate, furnish with spokes, give out rays, radiate, shine”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from radius (“a spoke, ray”).
Senses: examples: text: Crewe North Motive Power Depot is to be modernised completely. This includes the provision of a new coaling plant, ash handling plant, and two new locomotive sheds of the latest roundhouse type, each with 32 roads radiating from a 70-ft. dia. turntable.
ref: 1948 November and December, “Crewe M.P.D. to be Modernised”, in Railway Magazine, page 372:
text: Oban is not a terminus; its routes radiate by sea, rail and road.
ref: 1994, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates:
text: Doncaster is a rail hub in every sense. Passenger lines radiate in six directions, there are freight lines that bypass the station, extensive freight yards, a major works, and a rolling stock depot.
ref: 2021 May 19, Philip Haigh, “Doncaster enhancements relying on DfT approval”, in RAIL, number 931, page 30:
glosses: To extend, send or spread out from a center like radii.
examples: text: The stove radiates heat.
glosses: To emit rays or waves.
examples: text: The heat radiates from a stove.
text: Light radiates from luminous bodies directly to our eyes.
ref: 1706, John Locke, Elements of Natural Philosophy:
text: She raised her head, and carefully opened her eyes again, staring directly into the orange glow radiating through the thick glass.
ref: 1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 139:
glosses: To come out or proceed in rays or waves.
glosses: To illuminate.
glosses: To expose to ionizing radiation, such as by radiography.
examples: text: Slim, sensual Richard Hell radiates a commanding coolness.
ref: 1978 August 19, Harold Pickett, “New York, New York”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 5, page 8:
glosses: To manifest oneself in a glowing manner.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: To spread into new habitats, migrate.
examples: text: Programmes marked thus will be radiated by Droitwich, but not by London and North National transmitters.
ref: 1938, Radio Times, volume 59, number 761, page 25:
glosses: To broadcast by radio.
Synonyms: sense: to expose to radiation
word: irradiate
Derived terms: radiator
x-radiate
Related terms: radial
radiation
radiative
radio
radius
ray
radiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪdieɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪdi.ət/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪdieɪt/
Forms: form: more radiate
form: most radiate
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin radiātus (see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more).
Senses: examples: a radiate crystal
glosses: Radiating from a center; having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated.
examples: text: […] and (2) the radiate or Eastern crown, usually five rays being shown. The see of Ely bears the apocryphal coat of St. Ethelreda: gules, three open crowns or. Azure, three open crowns or, are the arms of[…]
ref: 1915, Guy Cadogan Rothery, A. B. C. of Heraldry, page 240:
text: On a wreath of the colors argent and tenné four lightning flashes barbed radiate pilewise of the first, a Roman helm or garnished gules.
ref: 2005, Rebecca R. Raines, Signal Corps, Department of the Army, page 117:
glosses: Surrounded by rays, such as the head of a saint in a religious picture; (heraldry) radiant.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having parts radiating from the center, like the petals in many flowers.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Consisting of a disc in which the florets are tubular.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having radial symmetry, like a sea star.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the Radiata.
radiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪdieɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪdi.ət/
Forms: form: radiates
Etymology: From a substantivation of the above adjective through the associated taxon's name (Radiata), see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Radiata.
entice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: entices
form: enticing
form: enticed
form: enticed
Etymology: From Middle English enticen, from Old French enticier (“to stir up or excite”), from a Vulgar Latin *intitiāre (“I set on fire”), from in- + titiō (“firebrand (tool)”), from Proto-Italic *tītjō (“heating”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *teih₁- (“to become hot, melt or to end”).
Senses: examples: text: I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.
text: 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. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.
ref: 2012 March 24, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 106:
glosses: To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.
Derived terms: enticeable
enticeful
enticement
enticer
enticing
Related terms: beguile
tempt
seduce
'e
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: A representation of the pronunciation of he by a speaker who does not use the voiceless glottal fricative or transition ([h]).
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of he
Related terms: 'im
'e
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of 'ee.
'a
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a (“he, she, they”).
'a
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a (“have, had”).
'a
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Senses: examples: text: Say, these stripes, stripes sure don’t worry me. But these chains, chains goin’ ’a kill me dead.
ref: 1955, Russell Ames, “The Open Road, the Chain Gang, and the Jail”, in The Story of American Folk Song (The Listener’s Music Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, published 1960, →OCLC, page 248:
text: Well, this one’s ’ere all right. Captain’s wife or somefink, the mate says. Least, that’s what I think he’s tryin’ ’a say, because he can’t speak no English.
ref: 2009, Jennifer Worth, “The Captain’s Daughter”, in Farewell to the East End, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 237:
text: So while we’re all distracted tryin’ ’a fix it all – that’s when they strike.
ref: 2014, R[oger] N. Morris, chapter 11, in The Dark Palace (A Silas Quinn Mystery; 3), Sutton, Surrey: Crème de la Crime, →ISBN, Part 1 (Love), page 50:
glosses: Alternative form of a (“to”).
astrophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From astro- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Presenting 14 unnerving segments, featured phobias include caetophobia (fear of hairs), henophobia (fear of young virgin girls), coprophobia (fear of feces), mysophobia (fear of contamination and germs), mazeophobia (fear of being lost), astrophobia (fear of celestial objects), mageirocophobia (fear of cooking) and oneirophobia (fear of dreams).
ref: 2018 March 7, Chewie, “Artsploitation Acquires ‘A Taste of Phobia’”, in ScareTissue:
glosses: A fear of stars and celestial space.
valet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæleɪ/
ipa: /ˈvælɪt/
ipa: /ˈvæleɪ/
ipa: /væˈleɪ/
ipa: /ˈvælɪt/
rhymes: -ælɪt
rhymes: -æleɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: valets
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas). Doublet of varlet.
Senses: synonyms: butler
gentleman's gentleman
glosses: A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
glosses: A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.
glosses: A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
synonyms: parking attendant
glosses: A person employed to clean or park cars.
glosses: A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
glosses: A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
glosses: A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.
Derived terms: clothes valet
valet-de-chambre
valet-de-place
valet parking
valet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæleɪ/
ipa: /ˈvælɪt/
ipa: /ˈvæleɪ/
ipa: /væˈleɪ/
ipa: /ˈvælɪt/
rhymes: -ælɪt
rhymes: -æleɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: valets
form: valeting
form: valeted
form: valeted
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas). Doublet of varlet.
Senses: examples: text: You can valet me, can you? Bother valeting me! I like to put on my own clothes, and brush them, too, when they are on; and if I only knew how to black my own boots, by George I should like to do it!
ref: 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, London: Smith, Elder & Co., Volume I, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 163:
text: […] the red-haired boy who had valeted me in the morning appeared in a plain suit of black.
ref: 1926, Neville Shute, chapter 7, in Marazan, London: Cassell:
glosses: To serve (someone) as a valet.
examples: text: He revealed: “We had been through a lot and I decided the car needed to be cleaned out after Georgina had to deliver the baby in the car.
“You can imagine the scene when I left the car in for valeting. I got some funny looks and I had to explain to the guy that I wasn’t up to anything illegal because it did look a bit like a crime scene.”
ref: 2017 March 7, Stephen Maguire, “Hero Irish dad reveals he had to tell car valet he ‘wasn’t up to anything illegal’ after wife gave birth on back seat on Donegal road”, in The Irish Sun:
glosses: To clean and service (a car), as a valet does.
examples: text: I asked Giacomo if he ever valeted his car, and he twisted his face into a grimace as he replied, “Rarely, but I have done it. Nervous time.”
ref: 2012 May 30, Jay Weston, “One of the Most Eligible Bachelors in L.A. Has 55 Ferraris.. and Takes Me for a Drive in One!”, in The Huffington Post:
text: “‘Is this a date?’” Ms. Ludbrook recalled thinking during dinner. “I had valeted my car, and he hadn’t. He said, ‘Bye,’ and went to his car. Clearly this was not a date.”
ref: 2017 February 11, Rosalie R. Radomsky, “Emma Ludbrook and Tom Windish: Their First Date Was a Big Production”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To leave (a car) with a valet to park it.
cut red tape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts red tape
form: cutting red tape
form: cut red tape
form: cut red tape
Etymology: from cut "to remove" + red tape "excessive bureaucratic procedures"
Senses: examples: text: This insurance company is an expert at cutting red tape to process your claim faster.
glosses: To reduce bureaucracy.
Related terms: red tape
vanity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvænɪti/
ipa: /ˈvænəti/
ipa: [-ɾi]
Forms: form: vanities
Etymology: From va(i)n + -ity, from Middle English vanite, from Old French vanité, from Latin vānitas, from vānus, whence English vain. Doublet of vanitas.
Senses: examples: text: Then I said in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me and why then was I more wise? Then I said in my heart that this is also vanity. / For there is no more remembrance of the wise than the fool forever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiastes 2:15–16:
glosses: That which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value, use or profit.
examples: text: To make a man in love with you gives an instant hold on his vanity; and with that, you can do any thing. Vanity is the real lever with which Archimedes said he could move the earth; so, try what you can effect with Sir Robert.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Project”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 224:
text: Try to second guess what people see / All the time it's just your vanity / No one's impressed and you wonder why / Well it is, it shows in the eyes
ref: 1981, Ashford & Simpson, “It Shows In the Eyes”, in Performance:
text: Social media hasn’t just weaponized our vanity—it’s transformed us from humans into curated digital performances. Our phones have become portable propaganda machines for our personal brands.
ref: 2024 November 29, Joshua Stylman, How Engineered Dependency Erases Our Autonomy:
glosses: Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own abilities, appearance, achievements, or possessions.
examples: text: She was sitting in front of her vanity, brushing out her hair.
ref: 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 148:
glosses: A dressing table used to apply makeup, preen, and coif hair, in which the table is normally quite low and similar to a desk.
glosses: A washbasin installed into a permanently fixed storage unit, used as an item of bathroom furniture.
examples: text: It is a vanity to say that if two stones are dropped from a tower, the heavier will experience the greater acceleration.
text: To help the matter, the alchemists call in likewise many vanities out of astrology.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Any idea, theory or statement that is without foundation.
Synonyms: arrogance
Derived terms: vanity box
vanity card
vanity case
vanity domain
Vanity Fair
vanity height
vanity item
vanity label
vanity license plate
vanity number
vanity plate
vanity press
vanity publisher
vanity publishing
vanity sizing
vanity surgery
vanity table
Related terms: vain
savoir-faire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsævwɑːˈfɛə/
ipa: /ˌsævwɑɹˈfɛɹ/
Etymology: Borrowed from French savoir-faire (“know-how”), from savoir (“to know (how)”) + faire (“to do”).
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Brighton-Pomfrey had the savoir-faire of a successful consultant; he prided himself on being all things to all men; but just for an instant he was at a loss what sort of thing he had to be here.
ref: 1917, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter IX, in The Soul of a Bishop:
text: I am also deeply thankful to my editor Judy Knipe, whose savoir-faire and perfectionism gave the book its final polish and shape.
ref: 1983, Anne Volokh, “Acknowledgments”, in The Art of Russian Cuisine, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Publishing Company, →ISBN, copyright page:
synonyms: know-how
glosses: The ability to do or say what is appropriate for the occasion.
weakling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːkˈlɪŋɡ/
ipa: /ˈwiːklɪŋɡ/
Forms: form: weaklings
Etymology: From weak + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: “Mon Dieu!” he soliloquized, “but they are all alike. Cheating, murdering, lying, fighting, and all for things that the beasts of the jungle would not deign to possess—money to purchase the effeminate pleasures of weaklings. And yet withal bound down by silly customs that make them slaves to their unhappy lot while firm in the belief that they be the lords of creation enjoying the only real pleasures of existence.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 17:
glosses: A person of weak or even sickly physical constitution.
examples: text: c.1551, Hugh Latimer, a sermon in Lincolnshire
We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy.
text: Donald Trump has lashed out against his own supporters, calling them gullible “weaklings” for questioning the transparency of a secretive government inquiry into the late high-profile socialite and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
ref: 2025 July 17, Oliver Holmes, “Trump calls Epstein conspiracy a ‘hoax’ and turns on Maga ‘weaklings’”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A person of weak character, lacking in courage and/or moral strength.
Synonyms: sense: person of weak constitution
word: twerk
sense: person of weak constitution
word: twerp
word: pushover
raw_tags: of weak character
word: sissy
word: weenie
word: milksop
weakling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːkˈlɪŋɡ/
ipa: /ˈwiːklɪŋɡ/
Etymology: From weak + -ling.
Senses: glosses: weak, either physically, morally or mentally
chiral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kī'rəl
ipa: /ˈkaɪɹəl/
rhymes: -aɪɹəl
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: In the close vicinity of a chiral nanostructure, the circular dichroism of a biomolecule could be greatly enhanced, due to the interaction with the local superchiral fields.
ref: 2016, S. Hamed Shams Mousavi, Sajanlal R. Panikkanvalappil, Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Ali A. Eftekhar, Ali Adibi, “Large Enhancement of Circular Dichroism Using an Embossed Chiral Metamaterial”, in arXiv:
topics: chemistry
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: handed
glosses: that exhibits chirality; as in the left-handed and right-handed versions of a helix, or a molecule with L- and D- stereoisomers.
Derived terms: achiral
amphichiral
chiral center
chiral centre
chiralized
chirally
chiralon
chiral resolution
cryptochiral
equichiral
heterochiral
hexachiral
homochiral
interchiral
intrachiral
magnetochiral
monochiral
nonchiral
prochiral
pseudochiral
semichiral
superchiral
unichiral
chirality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kīrăl'ĭtē
ipa: /kaɪˈɹælɪti/
rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: chiralities
Etymology: From chiral + -ity = chir- + -ality.
Senses: glosses: The phenomenon, in chemistry, physics and mathematics, in which objects are mirror images of each other, but are otherwise identical; handedness.
Synonyms: handedness
Derived terms: axial chirality
biochirality
biohomochirality
cryptochirality
heterochirality
homochirality
pseudochirality
Related terms: achiral
achirality
chiral
enantiomer
what the fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: What the fuck were you thinking? What the fuck was I thinking? What the fuck are you doing?
text: What the fuck is going on? What the fuck just happened? What the fuck is wrong with you?
synonyms: what in God's name
what in tarnation
what in the world
what on Earth
what the dickens
what the Devil
what the deuce
what the heck
what the hell
what the hey
what the flying fuck
glosses: An intensive form of what.
Derived terms: what the fuck ever
Related terms: dafuq
how the fuck
the fuck
where the fuck
who the fuck
why the fuck
what the fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: The proof is on my computer. It’s on all these people’s computers, and everyone around here is just going along with that. What the fuck? [quoting Emilia Jones as Reality Winner in the film Winner]
ref: 2024 September 11, Richard Brody, ““Winner” Takes Political Comedy Seriously”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Used to express astonishment, shock, incredulity, or disbelief (as an ellipsis of longer expressions).
examples: text: I finally said “eh, what the fuck” and quit my job.
text: Every now and then say, "What the fuck." "What the fuck" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.
ref: 1983, Risky Business, spoken by Miles (Curtis Armstrong):
glosses: Used to express nonchalance or the dismissal of any consequences of something one is about to do.
Synonyms: word: wtf
word: WTF
word: tf
word: wdf
word: what the eff
word: what the fudge
word: what the flip
word: what the heck
word: what the hell
word: what the fish
sense: expresses astonishment, incredulity
word: what the actual fuck
sense: expresses astonishment, incredulity
word: what on Earth
sense: expresses astonishment, incredulity
word: what in the world
sense: expresses astonishment, incredulity
word: what the...
sense: expresses nonchalance
word: fuck it
sense: expresses nonchalance
word: what the hey
sense: expresses nonchalance
word: whatever
sense: expresses nonchalance
word: why not
sense: expresses nonchalance
word: who cares
sense: expresses nonchalance
word: so what
décolleté
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɒləteɪ/
Forms: form: more décolleté
form: most décolleté
form: decollete
form: décolletée
Etymology: Borrowed from French décolleté, from décolleter (“to bare the neck and shoulders”).
Senses: examples: text: "She does not remember my short frocks at all, Lord Henry. But I remember her very well at Vienna thirty years ago, and how décolletée she was then."
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Having a low neckline that reveals the cleavage.
Related terms: décolletage
décolleté
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɒləteɪ/
Forms: form: décolletés
form: decollete
form: décolletée
Etymology: Borrowed from French décolleté, from décolleter (“to bare the neck and shoulders”).
Senses: glosses: A low-cut neckline that reveals the cleavage.
allergy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ălʹər-jē
ipa: /ˈæl.əɹ.d͡ʒi/
ipa: [ˈæl.ə.dʒi]
ipa: [ˈæl.ɚ.d͡ʒi]
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈlɜ(ɾ)dʒi/
Forms: form: allergies
Etymology: Borrowed from German Allergie. Coined by Austrian pediatrician Clemens von Pirquet in 1906 from Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work, activity”), on the model of Energie.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A disorder of the immune system causing adverse reactions to substances (allergens) not harmful to most and marked by the body's production of histamines and associated with atopy, anaphylaxis, and asthma; any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance.
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A disorder of the immune system causing adverse reactions to substances (allergens) not harmful to most and marked by the body's production of histamines and associated with atopy, anaphylaxis, and asthma; any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance.
Specifically, hypersensitivity of class I in the modern classification thereof: the immunoglobulin E–mediated type.
qualifier: strictly
examples: text: He has an allergy to reality TV.
glosses: An antipathy, as toward a person or activity.
Synonyms: sense: disorder of the immune system
word: type 1 hypersensitivity
sense: hypersensitivity
word: intolerance
Hypernyms: sense: disorder of the immune system
word: hypersensitivity
Derived terms: aeroallergy
allergen
allergic
allergin
allergist
allergoid
allergologist
allergology
allergylike
allergy salute
alpha-gal allergy
antiallergy
autoallergy
cold allergy
food allergy
lone-star-tick meat allergy
mammalian meat allergy
nonallergy
oral allergy syndrome
photoallergy
polyallergy
pseudoallergy
red meat allergy
tick-induced meat allergy
tick meat allergy
total allergy syndrome
water allergy
plimsoll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɪmsoʊl/
Forms: form: plimsolls
form: plimsol
form: plimsole
Etymology: From Samuel Plimsoll, a Bristol merchant who created a system of marks and symbols for the waterline of ships. The shoe was possibly named because the line of its sole resembled the Plimsoll line of ship.
Senses: examples: text: “Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant.
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled!:
text: While here, now, a large boy, a famous bully, swaggered to the front to bend, leering, and offer his satirical backside to be ineffectually beaten with a plimsoll by the gentle Scot.
ref: 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 8:
glosses: A rubber-soled lace-up canvas shoe for sports or onboard ships; a precursor of trainers.
glosses: The plimsoll symbol ⦵ (or o) that is used as a superscript in the notation of thermodynamics to indicate an arbitrarily chosen non-zero reference point.
Synonyms: word: dap
word: pump
word: sandshoe
Derived terms: plimsolled
Related terms: Plimsoll line
Plimsoll mark
dap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: daps
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, from the sound made when a person runs while wearing daps.
Senses: examples: text: I somehow expected them to shout obscenities, and was glad I had come ordinarily dressed, in a sports shirt, an old linen jacket, jeans and daps.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 169:
qualifier: Somerset; Bristol; Somerset; Bristol
glosses: A plimsoll.
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A notch cut in one timber to receive another.
glosses: Vulva or vagina.
dap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: daps
form: dapping
form: dapped
form: dapped
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, from the sound made when a person runs while wearing daps.
Senses: examples: text: I'll just dap down to the shop.
qualifier: Bristol
glosses: To run or go somewhere quickly.
topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To create a hollow indentation.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: To drop the bait gently onto the surface of the water.
dap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: daps
Etymology: US 1971, originally by black soldiers during the Vietnam war, associated with Black Power movement. Originally an elaborate handshake, later specifically a fistbump.
Verb originally give dap. Presumably onomatopoeic, or influenced by tap, dab, etc. Alternatively, from earlier slang usage as abbreviation of dapper. Also explained as an acronym, such as “Dignity for Afro People” or “Dignity And Pride”; this may be a backronym or unrelated, but accords with phrasal use as “give DAP” (compare “give respect”). More speculative etymologies derive it from Vietnamese đẹp (“beautiful”), though this is unlikely.
Senses: examples: text: ... where many officers look the other way when blacks ‘give dap’ (the power shake) ...
ref: 1971, London Magazine, volume 11, page 33:
text: These bloods just give dap just so they won't be called Uncle Toms.
ref: 1972, Sepia, volume 21, page 80:
qualifier: originally
glosses: Elaborate handshake, especially hooking thumbs.
synonyms: dab
glosses: A fist bump.
dap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: daps
form: dapping
form: dapped
form: dapped
Etymology: US 1971, originally by black soldiers during the Vietnam war, associated with Black Power movement. Originally an elaborate handshake, later specifically a fistbump.
Verb originally give dap. Presumably onomatopoeic, or influenced by tap, dab, etc. Alternatively, from earlier slang usage as abbreviation of dapper. Also explained as an acronym, such as “Dignity for Afro People” or “Dignity And Pride”; this may be a backronym or unrelated, but accords with phrasal use as “give DAP” (compare “give respect”). More speculative etymologies derive it from Vietnamese đẹp (“beautiful”), though this is unlikely.
Senses: glosses: To greet with a dap.
Derived terms: dap up
major key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: major keys
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical key based upon a major scale.
Related terms: in a major key
minor key
key signature
bateau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bætˈəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: bateaux
form: batteau
Etymology: Borrowed from French bateau.
Senses: glosses: A small, flat-bottomed type of boat.
Derived terms: bateau bridge
bateau neckline
Vincent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪnsənt/
Forms: form: Vincents
Etymology: Borrowed from French Vincent, from Latin Vincentius, from vincēns (“conquering”), from the verb vincō.
Senses: examples: text: Starry starry night.
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.
ref: 1971, Don McLean, "Vincent" (song)
text: Even their names hinted at a childishness they would never grow out of. When Vincent himself was grown-up, he wondered if this was why they had given their unlooked-for son such a mature name - although later still Vincent suspected that he might have been named for the Vincent Rapide motorbike. As with most things to do with Billy and Georgie, it was too late to ask.
ref: 2002, Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: A male given name from Latin.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Shelby County, St. Clair County and Talladega County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Webster County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Osborne County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Owsley County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Barlow Township, Washington County, Ohio.
glosses: A settlement in Aquin commune, Sud department, Haiti.
glosses: A former commune in Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, now part of Vincent-Froideville commune.
glosses: A suburb in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A local government area in Perth, Western Australia; in full, the City of Vincent.
Derived terms: Saint Vincent
Saint-Vincent
St-Vincent
St. Vincent
St Vincent
St.-Vincent
Vincentian
Vincent's angina
Vincent's infection
Vincent's organism
Vincent's stomatitis
Vincent's ulcer
Related terms: sense: pet forms
word: Vince
sense: pet forms
word: Vinnie
oui
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiː/
homophone: we
homophone: wee
homophone: Wii
homophone: whee (wine–whine merger)
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: Borrowed from French oui (“yes”).
Senses: qualifier: quaint
glosses: Synonym of yes.
synonyms: word: yes
Related terms: langue d'oïl
ouiaboo
ouid
vocative case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vocative cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: case of address, case used for a noun identifying the person or thing being addressed. It corresponds to the archaic English particle "O" as used in solemn or poetic address e.g.: Hear me, O Albion! Languages that regularly employ the vocative include Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Czech, Georgian, Greek, Hawaiian, Hindi-Urdu, Irish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ojibwe, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ruthenian/Rusyn, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Tamil and Ukrainian.
doc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒk/
ipa: /dɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: Doc
homophone: dock
Forms: form: docs
Etymology: Clipping of doctor.
Senses: examples: text: One Nation, a new 501(c)4 linked to the Karl-Rove-backed American Crossroads super PAC, is spending more than $1.9 million on print, radio and digital ads highlighting the efforts of Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey to pass the “doc fix” legislation that realigned payments to Medicare providers with inflation.
ref: 2015 May 12, Alexandra Jaffe, “First on CNN: New Rove-linked group spends $2M to boost GOP incumbents”, in CNN:
glosses: A doctor.
Derived terms: autodoc
doc-in-a-box
robodoc
what's up Doc
doc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒk/
ipa: /dɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: Doc
homophone: dock
Forms: form: docs
Etymology: Clipping of document.
Senses: glosses: A document, especially (in professional jargon) a piece of technical documentation or legal evidence.
Derived terms: date-me doc
docblock
doc drop
docstring
low-doc loan
no-doc
doc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒk/
ipa: /dɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: Doc
homophone: dock
Forms: form: docs
Etymology: Clipping of documentary.
Senses: examples: text: If you think watching a doc about a spelling bee isn't the most entertaining way to spend ninety minutes, think again.
ref: 2003, The Independent Film & Video Monthly, page 38:
text: On the subject of fat men, I was watching a doc about a mountain of flab called Paul last night and Ludo said that he was very proud that the fattest man in the world was English.
ref: 2010, Rachel Johnson, A Diary of The Lady: My First Year As Editor:
text: According to Forbes, Billie [Eilish] earned $53 million in 2020. Half of that was thanks to the Apple doc, and the other half was thanks to music sales. Cool-cool-cool, same!
ref: 2024 September 4, Mehera Bonner, Samantha Olson, “Behold, A Breakdown of Billie Eilish's Massive Net Worth”, in Cosmopolitan:
synonyms: word: docu
word: doccie
word: doco
glosses: A documentary.
doc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒk/
ipa: /dɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: Doc
homophone: dock
Forms: form: docs
Etymology: Clipping of doctorate.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of doctorate.
Derived terms: postdoc
post-doc
grande
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɑndeɪ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹændeɪ/
rhymes: -ɑndeɪ
rhymes: -ændeɪ
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian grande. Doublet of grand and grandee.
Senses: coordinate_terms: tall
venti
glosses: Of a cup of coffee: smaller than venti but larger than tall, usually 16 ounces (~ 455 ml).
grande
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɑndeɪ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹændeɪ/
rhymes: -ɑndeɪ
rhymes: -ændeɪ
Forms: form: grandes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian grande. Doublet of grand and grandee.
Senses: examples: text: As she went to work the only concern prominent in her mind was a strong desire for a couple of grandes from Starbucks.
ref: 1997, J. H. Marks, Conspiracy Theory, Signet, →ISBN, page 148:
text: Kevin considered bumming a cig, but he doubted any of them would part with one. Clutching their Starbucks grandes, guarding their garment bags with practiced eyes—how much sympathy could they be expected to muster?
ref: 1998, Doug Guinan, California Screaming, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 287:
text: “Harrumph,” Daddy said, flipping through the morning’s deliveries – the L.A. Times, the New York Times and two grandes from Starbucks: decaf Colombian for my stressed superior, and a nonfat capp with a double espresso shot for me.
ref: 1999, Elizabeth Lenhard, Bettypalooza, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: A grande cup of coffee.
grande
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɑndeɪ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹændeɪ/
rhymes: -ɑndeɪ
rhymes: -ændeɪ
ipa: /ˈɡɹænd/
rhymes: -ænd
ipa: /ˈɡɹɑndeɪ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹændeɪ/
rhymes: -ɑndeɪ
rhymes: -ændeɪ
Forms: form: more grande
form: most grande
Etymology: From French grande, feminine of grand.
Senses: examples: text: Almost symbolically, Lopahin still plays the peasant and Lyubov the grande mistress.
ref: 1972, Russell Sage College, Studies in the Twentieth Century, page 79:
text: A supremely happy family waved goodbye to an elderly grande dame and a namesake who had just enrolled in her first lesson in becoming a grande lady.[…]In Litchfield, Connecticut, the Hutchinson brothers rushed to tell the grande old dame her daughter was making history.
ref: 1993, Donald S. Metz, Madame President, New Saga Publishers, →ISBN, pages 147, 270:
text: In Shannon O’Cork’s The Murder of Muriel Lake, which is about a Writers of Mystery Convention (aka MWA?), grande mistress Muriel Lake was murdered.
ref: 1997, Alzina Stone Dale, Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide: New York, →ISBN, page 217:
text: THIS GRANDE LADY IS
DIS-TIN-GUISH-A-BLE IN HER
DEMURE DELIVERIES.
DELIGHTFUL AND DAZZLING,
THE LADY IS DEFINITELY
A DIVA.
ref: 2011, Richard Allen Brooks, “Dame Johnson”, in From Life to Death, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 28:
text: That made eight deaths in a matter of a few days—all of them tied inexplicably to this “grande lady” herself—Meadowdale Prison.
ref: 2013, Chet Belmonte, Meadowdale: A Saga of Confinement, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 223:
text: Her silence now had the quality of the comfortable silences between friends, not the half-respectful, half-fearful types of a servant not spoken to by her grande mistress.
ref: 2016, Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Knights, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 101:
text: Annabella Kristina Ramona Toaltz was a grande name for a grande woman.
ref: 2016, Jennie Gilbert Ross, The Wrong Side of the Blanket, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of grand.
Related terms: grande école
passé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæ.seɪ/
ipa: /pæˈseɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: more passé
form: most passé
form: passe
Etymology: From French passé (“passed”, past participle of passer (“to pass”)).
Senses: examples: text: I never thought you'd be a junkie, because heroin is so passé.
ref: 1997, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, “Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth”, performed by The Dandy Warhols:
text: We'll paint the town blue 'cause, baby, red is so passé.
ref: 2007, “Turn On Billie”, performed by The Pierces:
text: It is perhaps inevitable that a movement that was the height of fashion in the last decade would start to seem passé in this one. That’s how style works; the young and innovative distinguish themselves by breaking with the conventions of their predecessors.
ref: 2022 June 17, Michelle Goldberg, “The Future Isn’t Female Anymore”, in The New York Times:
text: Then, like side fringes, Smirnoff Ice and tights under denim shorts, smoking was suddenly passé – distasteful, even gross.
ref: 2023 June 16, Daisy Jones, “Cool, sexy and stinking of smoke: why are TV dramas giving cigarettes a comeback?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Dated; out of style; old-fashioned.
examples: text: The coaching stock is in general in a very passé condition, but the ex-royal saloon, though needing a coat of paint outside, as another photograph shows, is spotless inside.
ref: 1939 November, “Pertinent Paragraphs: The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 357:
glosses: Past one's prime; worn; faded.
Synonyms: word: disused
word: outdated
word: outworn
word: obsolete
word: unfashionable
sense: past one's prime
word: raddled
word: wasted
word: worn-out
word: deteriorated
passé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæ.seɪ/
ipa: /pæˈseɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: passés
form: passe
Etymology: From French passé (“passed”, past participle of passer (“to pass”)).
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: An attack that passes the target without hitting.
anthropoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænθɹəpɔɪd/
Forms: form: more anthropoid
form: most anthropoid
Etymology: From anthrop- + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: “And I am sorry for the man she loves,” said the girl, “for he loves her. I never met him, but from what Jane tells me he must be a very wonderful person. It seems that he was born in an African jungle, and brought up by fierce, anthropoid apes.”
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 102:
text: The origin and development of language led to the differentiation of man from all other forms of animal life. Without this form of thought-communication and preservation man would never have achieved any higher degree of cerebration than the anthropoid ape.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 4:
glosses: Having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance.
Of the pelvis, having an anteroposterior diameter equal or exceeding the transverse diameter.
raw_tags: in pelvimetry
glosses: Having characteristics of an ape.
anthropoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænθɹəpɔɪd/
Forms: form: anthropoids
Etymology: From anthrop- + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The tribe of anthropoids over which Kerchak ruled with an iron hand and bared fangs, numbered some six or eight families, each family consisting of an adult male with his females and their young, numbering in all some sixty or seventy apes.
ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 1, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
text: Here and there a little group of shattered Indians marked where one of the anthropoids had turned to bay, and sold his life dearly.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: Imagine for a moment that mankind, together with the printed and artistic lore of all the ages, were suddenly destroyed. Any new race of anthropoids which might arise would be in precisely the same position as the primitive races of mankind were in the days of Adam and Eve, and little better than the animals of to-day.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 6:
glosses: An anthropoid animal.
Related terms: humanoid
rollback
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rollbacks
form: rollbacking
form: rollbacked
form: rollbacked
Etymology: The noun is a deverbal from roll back. The verb is a back-formation from the noun despite being redundant to roll back.
Senses: examples: text: The server is unstable, we need to rollback the changes.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To return to the previous state.
examples: text: The first test involved placing the restriction immediately upstream of the FOHE. As it was known that the engine would almost certainly rollback during the first acceleration attempt, only the fourth accident acceleration was attempted: the rollback occurred as predicted. Testing was also conducted with the restriction at the LP pump inlet, with the rollback also occurring as predicted during the fourth acceleration.
ref: 2010 February 9, Air Accidents Investigation Branch, “1.16.4.2 Full-scale engine testing (L12)”, in Report on the accident to Boeing 777-236ER, G-YMMM, at London Heathrow Airport on 17 January 2008, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2022, page 92:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To reduce thrust without having been commanded to do so.
raw_tags: of a jet engine
Synonyms: roll back
commit point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commit points
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In a DBMS, a point in time at which all updates to a database, or group of records in a database, are guaranteed to have been written to disk, and the journal or log records of that action have also been so committed. Future updates may be undone to that point if necessary.
fall of wicket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The second fall of wicket was 250 runs.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The side's total score when a particular batsman was out.
Synonyms: FOW
arrangement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒmənt/
Forms: form: arrangements
Etymology: From French arrangement. Morphologically arrange + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of arranging.
glosses: The manner of being arranged.
glosses: A collection of things that have been arranged.
examples: text: The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It’s therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement.
ref: 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:
glosses: A particular way in which items are organized.
glosses: Preparations for some undertaking.
glosses: An agreement.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An adaptation of a piece of music for other instruments, or in another style.
Synonyms: sense: particular way in which items are organized
word: configuration
word: constitution
word: composition
Derived terms: disarrangement
flower arrangement
individual voluntary arrangement
malarrangement
microarrangement
misarrangement
overarrangement
phyllotactic arrangement
prearrangement
rearrangement
re-arrangement
subarrangement
wheel arrangement
Related terms: arrange
drizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪz.l/
rhymes: -ɪzəl
Forms: form: drizzles
form: drizzling
form: drizzled
form: drizzled
Etymology: Perhaps a back-formation from dryseling, a dissimilated variant of Middle English drysning (“a falling of dew”), from Old English drysnan (“to extinguish”), related to Old English drēosan (“to fall, to decline”), making it cognate to modern English droze and drowse. Compare also dialectal Swedish drösla.
Senses: examples: text: We had planned a picnic for Joe's birthday, but it ended up drizzling all day.
synonyms: sprinkle
glosses: To rain lightly.
examples: text: And from mine eyes the drizling teares descend,
As on your boughes the ysicles depend.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Ianuarye. Ægloga Prima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
text: When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew;
But for the sunset of my brother’s son
It rains downright.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
glosses: To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
examples: text: The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle olive oil on it.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: dribble
glosses: To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking.
examples: text: The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle it in olive oil.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To cover by pouring in this manner.
examples: text: She'll be right back, had to drizzle before we leave.
glosses: To urinate.
examples: text: She found that all those ladies who did not play at cards occupied their fingers with parfilage.[...] Here, the work was called drizzling. Ladies begged their friends to give them pieces of the gold lace used on uniforms and the gold tassels of sword-belts, they picked out the metal threads, and by selling these they realised considerable sums. Prince Leopold himself drizzled continually[...]
ref: 1908 January 24 – June 24, James Knowles, “Extracts from the Journal of Lady Mary Coke”, in The Nineteenth Century And After, volume 63, New York, N.Y.; London: Leonard Scott Publication Co.; Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., Printers, →OCLC, page 433:
glosses: To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling.