cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Quidditch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪdɪt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: quidditch
Etymology: Coined by British author J. K. Rowling in her 1997 book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In Quidditch Through the Ages, Rowling gives some etymological information, hinting that the word evolved from Queerditch (compound of queer + ditch), with some spelling variation as would be expected in real life Middle English, namely Kwidditch, Kweerditch.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe you wish your parents were smarter or funnier or richer or better looking, but you might as well wish for a spot on the local Quidditch team.
ref: 2003, “Universal Lifts the Veil on a Harry Potter Park”, in New York Times:
text: Turn to the south, and you see the Central Acropolis, a five-story palace where the nobles might have sat to watch plaza ceremonies or the famous Quidditch-like Mayan ball games.
ref: 2007 December 16, Ethan Todras-Whitehill, “In Tikal, Temples in the Mist”, in New York Times:
text: Whichever team gets Yegor holds the edge. This is like Quidditch in hell.
ref: 2007, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007:
text: Eton’s playing fields are famous, not least because of the Eton Field Game. It’s played only there. It’s sort of like Quidditch for real people.
ref: 2010 May 8, Brooks Barnes, “Wait, Wait... Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:
glosses: A fictional ball game played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals.
wikipedia: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Quidditch Through the Ages
Coordinate terms: Golden Snitch
quaffle
Derived terms: Muggle quidditch
you-know-who
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: you know who
form: You Know Who
form: You-know-who
form: You-Know-Who
Etymology: From you + know + who.
Senses: examples: text: And 'St—'st—'st and What's-his-name, and also You-know-who / The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to you.
ref: 1885, “The Mikado”, W. S. Gilbert (lyrics), Arthur Sullivan (music):
glosses: Person or entity whose name one does not want to mention but which is known to the person to whom one is speaking.
Synonyms: what's-his-name
Related terms: you know
you-know-what
fluffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌfi/
rhymes: -ʌfi
Forms: form: fluffier
form: fluffiest
Etymology: From fluff + -y. Compare German flauschig (“fluffy”).
Senses: examples: text: Fluffy bunny rabbits are really nice to stroke.
glosses: Covered with fluff.
examples: text: I like my scrambled eggs to be light and fluffy in texture.
glosses: Light; soft; airy.
examples: text: Being in love with my boyfriend gives me a fluffy feeling inside.
glosses: Warm and comforting.
examples: text: Someone sold you the fluffy idea that brains triumphs^([sic]) over strength when you were picked last for the sports team.
ref: 2008, R.Safley, Reagan's Game:
glosses: Not clearly defined or explained; fuzzy.
examples: text: And she is represented reading with great concentration, and not some fluffy novel but the rather politically oriented and literary Le Figaro, its title prominent if upside down in the foreground.
ref: 2006, Linda Nochlin, Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye, page 271:
text: There was, I think, always a fluffy element to the neo-Pagan movement, but since the Internet explosion of the mid-to-late 1990s, it's got much, much worse. Most of it can be blamed on commercial drivers, as the publishers who produced neo-Pagan material (and the authors who work for them) realised that there was a vast market for teen-witch kits, bogus grimoires, etc, and set out to exploit it […]
ref: 2006, Pyromancer, “Re: The nature of the pagan community”, in uk.religion.pagan (Usenet):
glosses: Lightweight; superficial; lacking depth or seriousness.
Synonyms: puffy
bushy
fuzzy
Hyponyms: furry
downy
Derived terms: box of fluffy ducks
floofy
fluffily
fluffy-backed tit-babbler
fluffy duck
foofy
let fluffy off the chain
nonfluffy
unfluffy
Related terms: fluff
fluffiness
fluffy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌfi/
rhymes: -ʌfi
Forms: form: fluffies
Etymology: From fluff + -y. Compare German flauschig (“fluffy”).
Senses: examples: text: Children can pamper the fluffies in the pets' corner […]
ref: 2014, William Gray, Cornwall with Kids, page 119:
glosses: Someone or something that has a fluffy texture.
examples: text: The world is overrun with fluffies. There was, I think, always a fluffy element to the neo-Pagan movement, but since the Internet explosion of the mid-to-late 1990s, it's got much, much worse. Most of it can be blamed on commercial drivers, as the publishers who produced neo-Pagan material (and the authors who work for them) realised that there was a vast market for teen-witch kits, bogus grimoires, etc, and set out to exploit it […]
ref: 2006, Pyromancer, “Re: The nature of the pagan community”, in uk.religion.pagan (Usenet):
hyponyms: fluffy bunny
glosses: A person who is superficial, who lacks depth or seriousness.
glosses: A babycino (frothy milk drink).
smitten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: smĭten
ipa: /ˈsmɪ.tn̩/
rhymes: -ɪtən
Etymology: From Middle English smiten, from Old English smiten, ġesmiten, from Proto-Germanic *smitanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *smītaną (“to hurl; fling”), equivalent to smite + -en (past participle ending).
Senses: glosses: past participle of smite.
ritardando
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: rit
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ritardando, gerund of ritardare (“to delay, to slow down”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Gradually decelerating the tempo of a piece of music, especially at the end of the piece.
ritardando
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rit
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ritardando, gerund of ritardare (“to delay, to slow down”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having a gradually decelerating tempo.
ritardando
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ritardandos
form: ritardandi
form: rit
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ritardando, gerund of ritardare (“to delay, to slow down”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: ritard
glosses: An instance of gradually decelerating the tempo of a piece of music.
tattoo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæˈtuː/
ipa: /təˈtuː/
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰʉw]
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰuː]
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰuː]
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰʊw]
ipa: [tʰaˈtʰʉw]
ipa: [tʰaʔʉw]
ipa: [tʰæˈɾʉw]
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰʉw]
ipa: [t(ʰ)aˈtʰʉː]
ipa: [tɐˈɾ̥uː]
ipa: [tətːʉː]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈʈaʈu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: tattoos
form: tattooing
form: tattooed
form: tattooed
Etymology: From earlier tattaow, tattow, a borrowing from a Polynesian language, e.g. Samoan tatau (“tattoo; to tap, to strike”).
Senses: glosses: To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
examples: text: Jones tattoos one into the gap in left; that will clear the bases.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.
Derived terms: word: screwed, blued and tattooed
word: screwed, glued and tattooed
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb tattoo
word: tattoo artist
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb tattoo
word: tattooer
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb tattoo
word: tattooist
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb tattoo
word: tattoo parlour
tattoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæˈtuː/
ipa: /təˈtuː/
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰʉw]
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰuː]
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰuː]
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰʊw]
ipa: [tʰaˈtʰʉw]
ipa: [tʰaʔʉw]
ipa: [tʰæˈɾʉw]
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰʉw]
ipa: [t(ʰ)aˈtʰʉː]
ipa: [tɐˈɾ̥uː]
ipa: [tətːʉː]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈʈaʈu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: tattoos
Etymology: From earlier tap-to, borrowed from Dutch taptoe, from tap (“tap; faucet on a cask”) + toe (“to; shut”). More at tap, to.
Senses: examples: text: Study goes on until tattoo, which, when Pops was at the Point, was sounded at 9.30, followed by taps at 10.
ref: 2017, Charles King, Cadet Days:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A military display or pageant.
Derived terms: devil's tattoo
Related terms: evening gun
tattoo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæˈtuː/
ipa: /təˈtuː/
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰʉw]
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰuː]
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰuː]
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰʊw]
ipa: [tʰaˈtʰʉw]
ipa: [tʰaʔʉw]
ipa: [tʰæˈɾʉw]
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰʉw]
ipa: [t(ʰ)aˈtʰʉː]
ipa: [tɐˈɾ̥uː]
ipa: [tətːʉː]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈʈaʈu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: tattoos
form: tattooing
form: tattooed
form: tattooed
Etymology: From earlier tap-to, borrowed from Dutch taptoe, from tap (“tap; faucet on a cask”) + toe (“to; shut”). More at tap, to.
Senses: examples: text: He had looked at the clock many scores of times; and at the street, where the rain was pattering down, and the people as they clinked by in pattens, left long reflections on the shining stone: he tattooed at the table: he bit his nails most completely […]
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 22, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: To tap rhythmically on, to drum.
tattoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæˈtuː/
ipa: /təˈtuː/
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰʉw]
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰuː]
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰuː]
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰʊw]
ipa: [tʰaˈtʰʉw]
ipa: [tʰaʔʉw]
ipa: [tʰæˈɾʉw]
ipa: [tʰæˈtʰʉw]
ipa: [t(ʰ)aˈtʰʉː]
ipa: [tɐˈɾ̥uː]
ipa: [tətːʉː]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈʈaʈu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: tattoos
form: tattu
Etymology: From Hindi टट्टू (ṭaṭṭū).
Senses: glosses: A pony of a certain breed from India.
hectare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛk.tɛə/
ipa: /ˈhɛk.tɑː/
ipa: /ˈhɛk.tɛɹ/
ipa: /ˈhektaː/
ipa: /ˈhektɛː/
Forms: form: hectares
form: hektare
Etymology: Borrowed from French hectare, formed from Ancient Greek ἑκατόν (hekatón, “hundred”) + are, equivalent to hect- + are.
Senses: examples: text: With careful planning almost anyone can turn the dream of owning a small farm or a few hectares of country land into a reality.
ref: 1997, “Buying a Rural Property”, in Back to Basics, Surry Hills, NSW: Reader's Digest (Australia) Pty Limited, page 10:
text: One hectare (about 2.5 acres) of forest cleared and converted to ranchland or crops produces a piece of land worth, on average, $200 to $500.
ref: 2007 June 16, William Powers, Glenn Hurowitz, “Home on the Rainforest”, in The New York Times:
text: Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field. In Paris 22 hectares of roof have been planted, out of a potential total of 80 hectares.
ref: 2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 22, page 30:
glosses: A unit of surface area (symbol ㏊) equal to 100 ares (that is, 10,000 square metres, one hundredth of a square kilometre, or approximately 2.5 acres), used for measuring the areas of geographical features such as land and bodies of water.
Synonyms: sense: SI unit
word: square hectometre
Derived terms: decare
gigahectare
global hectare
hectarage
multihectare
Related terms: acre
Not to be confused with hector
liter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliː.tə/
ipa: /ˈli.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈli.ɾɚ]
homophone: leader
homophone: litre
homophone: lieder
rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: liters
form: lit.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of litre, one cubic decimeter.
Derived terms: attoliter
femtoliter
gigaliter
kiloliter
megaliter
microliter
multiliter
petaliter
ronnaliter
teraliter
yoctoliter
zeptoliter
liter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliː.tə/
ipa: /ˈli.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈli.ɾɚ]
homophone: leader
homophone: litre
homophone: lieder
rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: liters
form: lit.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of litter.
caveat emptor
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ.viˌæt ˈɛmp.tɔ(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkæv.iˌɑt ˈɛmp.tɔɹ/
ipa: /-ˌæt-/
ipa: /-ət-/
ipa: /-təɹ/
Etymology: Latin for “buyer beware”; from Latin caveat (“may he / she / subject-noun beware”), the third-person subjunctive of caveō (“I beware”) + ēmptor (“buyer”).
Senses: examples: text: In an email she wrote that the lack of regulation “leads to difficulty extrapolating available evidence to various products on the consumer market given the differences in chemical composition and purity.” She cautioned the public to weigh “both potential benefits and risks,” to which I would add caveat emptor — buyer beware.
ref: 2021 March 8, Jane E. Brody, “Medical Marijuana Is Not Regulated as Most Medicines Are”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Used as a warning to anyone purchasing something that there may be unforeseen problems or faults with the item that is purchased.
topics: business
commerce
commercial
law
glosses: A provision of Roman law which gave the seller of a house the legal right to keep quiet about any defects of the house.
Related terms: caveat
caveat lector
millibar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millibars
Etymology: From milli- + bar.
Senses: glosses: A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100 pascals, used primarily to report atmospheric pressure.
Synonyms: sense: Symbol
word: mb
sense: Symbol
word: mbar
word: hectopascal
Related terms: atmosphere
millimetre of mercury
pascal
torr
standard atmosphere
fall asleep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls asleep
form: falling asleep
form: fell asleep
form: fallen asleep
Senses: examples: text: She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:
glosses: To pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep.
examples: text: My left leg has fallen asleep!
glosses: To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.
examples: text: And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loud voice, Lord lay not this sinne to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleepe. And Saul was consenting vnto his death.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 7:60:
glosses: To die (often seen on gravestones).
Synonyms: sense: pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep
word: drift off
word: drop off
word: go to sleep
word: nod off
alt: euphemistic: to die
word: pass
word: pass away
word: pass over
word: crash out
word: doze off
word: fall asleep
word: get off
word: go night-night
word: nod out
word: sack out
word: zone
Derived terms: fall asleep in the Lord
Related terms: word: put to sleep
word: faint
word: pass out
word: sleep
word: go to bed
fall ill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls ill
form: falling ill
form: fell ill
form: fallen ill
Senses: examples: text: We come into contact with germ-infested surfaces all day, every day, but we don’t keep falling catastrophically ill.
ref: 2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To become ill, to get sick, to sicken.
fall in love
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls in love
form: falling in love
form: fell in love
form: fallen in love
Senses: examples: text: I fell in love with him the moment I first saw him.
text: Have you ever fallen in love?
text: It only takes a minute girl / To fall in love
ref: 1975, Brian Potter, Dennis Lambert, “It Only Takes a Minute”, in In the City, performed by Tavares:
text: Oh, Ophelia / You've been on my mind, girl, since the flood / Oh, Ophelia / Heaven help a fool who falls in love
ref: 2016 February 5, Wesley Schultz and Jeremy Fraites, “Ophelia”, in Cleopatra, performed by The Lumineers:
text: Often, I am upset / That I cannot fall in love, but I guess / This avoids the stress of falling out of it
ref: 2019, Cavetown, “Home”:
text: It's been a long time since you fell in love / You ain't coming out your shell, you ain't really been yourself / Tell me, what must I do? (Do tell, my love) / 'Cause luckily I'm good at reading / I wouldn't bug him, but he won't stop cheesin'
ref: 2020 February 27, Doja Cat, “Doja Cat - Say So (Official Video)” (00:42 from the start), archived from the original on 27 Feb 2020:
qualifier: animate object following “with”
glosses: To come to have feelings of love, particularly romantic love.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: They met, fell in love, got married, and lived happily ever after.
text: 'Cause we were just kids when we fell in love
Not knowing what it was
I will not give you up this time.
ref: 2017, Ed Sheeran, “Perfect”:
glosses: To come to have feelings of love towards each other.
examples: text: I have just fallen in love with Rome!
qualifier: inanimate object following "with"
glosses: To come to have feelings of intense liking directed at another person or a thing.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: develop feelings
enamour
Derived terms: word: falling in love
word: falling-in-love
fall pregnant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls pregnant
form: falling pregnant
form: fell pregnant
form: fallen pregnant
Senses: examples: text: We were delighted when I fell pregnant with my first son.
synonyms: get pregnant
get into trouble
glosses: To become pregnant.
bar code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar codes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of barcode.
bar chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar charts
Senses: glosses: A data visualization tool (graph) that uses rectangular bars to represent and compare numeric values across different categories, with the length of each bar proportional to the value it represents.
Synonyms: bar graph
Derived terms: polar bar chart
Related terms: flow chart
pie chart
histogram
contra-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin contrā (“against”). Doublet of counter-.
Senses: glosses: Against; in opposition to.
Synonyms: sense: against
word: anti-
sense: against
word: counter-
sense: against
word: dis-
sense: against
word: ob-
Derived terms: contraband
contraceptive
contraclockwise
contradict
contradiction
contraindication
contrarotating
contrary
Related terms: contra
counter-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊn.tə/
ipa: /ˈkaʊn.tɚ/
ipa: /ˌkaʊn.tɚ/
ipa: /ˈkæɔn.tə/
Etymology: From Middle English counter-, cownter-, countre-, from Anglo-Norman countre-, from Old French contre, ultimately from Latin contra (“against”).
Senses: glosses: In opposition to.
Synonyms: sense: in opposition to
word: anti-
sense: in opposition to
word: contra-
sense: in opposition to
word: dis-
sense: in opposition to
word: ob-
Related terms: counter
contra-
col-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of co- / con- (before l).
Synonyms: sense: together
word: co-
sense: together
word: con-
sense: together
word: com-
sense: together
word: cor-
sense: together
word: syn-
sense: together
word: syl-
sense: together
word: sym-
sense: together
word: inter-
col-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colo- (before a vowel).
com-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ˌkəm/
/ˈkʌm/
/ˌkɑːm/
/ˈkɒm/
Etymology: From Latin com (“with”), an archaic form of cum (“with”).
Senses: examples: Commingle
glosses: The form of con- used before b, m, and p
Synonyms: sense: together
word: co-
sense: together
word: con-
sense: together
word: col-
sense: together
word: cor-
sense: together
word: syn-
sense: together
word: syl-
sense: together
word: sym-
sense: together
word: inter-
cor-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From the Latin cor-, the prerhotic form of con-.
Senses: glosses: prerhotic form of con-
Synonyms: sense: together
word: co-
sense: together
word: con-
sense: together
word: com-
sense: together
word: col-
sense: together
word: syn-
sense: together
word: syl-
sense: together
word: sym-
sense: together
word: inter-
cyber-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪbə/
ipa: /ˈsaɪbɚ/
Etymology: From cybernetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Internet or cyberspace, or to computers more generally.
Coordinate terms: e-
i-
extra-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin extra (“outside, except, beyond”, adverb and preposition), from exter (“being on the outside”).
Senses: examples: text: extramarital: outside of marriage
glosses: Outside of, beyond.
Synonyms: sense: beyond
word: trans-
sense: beyond
word: para-
sense: beyond
word: hyper-
sense: beyond
word: ultra-
sense: beyond
word: out-
sense: beyond
word: preter-
Derived terms: english: outward
translation: outward
word: extro-
package
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæ.kɪd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /pa.ked͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ækɪd͡ʒ
Forms: form: packages
form: packaging
form: packaged
form: packaged
form: pakige
Etymology: Equivalent to pack + -age. Possibly influenced by Anglo-Latin paccagium or Old French pacquage.
Senses: glosses: To pack or bundle something.
glosses: To travel on a package holiday.
glosses: To prepare (a book, a television series, etc.), including all stages from research to production, in order to sell the result to a publisher or broadcaster.
Derived terms: copackage
depackage
mispackage
overpackage
packageability
packageable
packager
prepackage
repackage
underpackage
unpackage
homo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “same”).
Senses: glosses: Same, identical.
Synonyms: sense: identical
word: iso-
sense: identical
word: ipsi-
sense: identical
word: syn-
sense: identical
word: sym-
sense: identical
word: syl-
sense: identical
word: tauto-
Related terms: sense: equivalent
word: equi-
word: iso-
sense: similar
word: homeo-
homo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From homosexual, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “same”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to homosexuality or same-sex relations.
homo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From homologue, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “same”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Used to form the names of compounds derived from simpler ones by addition of a methylene group.
Derived terms: english: and many more
translation: and many more
word: homophenylalanine
Related terms: nor-
kidney stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kidney stones
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A calculus in the kidney.
Synonyms: kidney gravel
nephrolith
renal calculus
Hypernyms: calculus
stone
Related terms: nephrolithiasis
hobo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hō'bō
ipa: /ˈhəʊ.bəʊ/
ipa: /ˈhoʊ.boʊ/
ipa: /ˈhəʉ.bəʉ/
rhymes: -əʊbəʊ
Forms: form: hobos
form: hoboes
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly a contraction of ho, boy or the dialectal English term hawbuck (“lout, clumsy fellow, country bumpkin”).
Senses: examples: text: He’d heard the word hobo used for travelers, heard it was short for homeward bound, or homeless boy, or Hoboken having something to do with New Jersey.
ref: 2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 55:
glosses: A wandering homeless person, especially (historical) one illegally travelling by rail or (derogatory) a penniless, unemployed bum.
glosses: Any migratory laborer, whether homeless or not.
examples: text: Avoid bulky styles such as duffle sacks, buckets, doctors' satchels, and hobos.
ref: 1989, Susan Ludwig, Janice Steinberg, Petite Style, page 46:
glosses: A kind of large handbag.
Derived terms: hobo bag
hobodom
hobo egg
hoboglyph
hobohemia
hobohemian
hoboish
hoboism
hobo jungle
hobolike
hobosexual
hobo spider
hobo stew
hobo stove
laptop hobo
murderhobo
hobo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hō'bō
ipa: /ˈhəʊ.bəʊ/
ipa: /ˈhoʊ.boʊ/
ipa: /ˈhəʉ.bəʉ/
rhymes: -əʊbəʊ
Forms: form: hobos
form: hoboing
form: hoboed
form: hoboed
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly a contraction of ho, boy or the dialectal English term hawbuck (“lout, clumsy fellow, country bumpkin”).
Senses: examples: text: Joe idly hoboed through half the country till he realized hoboing never gets you anywhere in life.
qualifier: perhaps pejorative
glosses: To be a hobo, tramp, bum etc.
vagabond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: văg'ə-bŏnd
ipa: /ˈvæ.ɡə.bɒnd/
enpr: văg'ə-band
ipa: /ˈvæ.ɡə.bɑnd/
Forms: form: vagabonds
Etymology: From Old French vagabond, from Late Latin vagābundus, from Latin vagari (“wander”). Compare moribund.
Etymology tree
Old French vagabondder.
English vagabond
Senses: glosses: A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
examples: text: Foꝛ when thou tylleſt the grounde ſhe ſhall hẽcefoꝛth not geve hyꝛ power vnto the. A vagabunde and a rennagate ſhalt thou be vpon the erth.
ref: 1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC, Genesis iiij:[12], folio v, verso:
text: "Here is the beastly thing. 'Every person professing to tell fortunes or using any subtle craft, means or device to deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects shall be deemed a rogue and a vagabond', and so on and so forth."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: Anoleis: You will excuse me if I don't stand up.
Anoleis: I have no time to entertain spaceborn vagabonds.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria:
synonyms: vagrant
hobo
glosses: One who usually wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood.
Synonyms: word: bum
word: casual
word: clochard
word: derelict
word: dero
word: down-and-out
word: down-and-outer
word: drifter
word: epithite
word: floater
word: gadling
word: hobo
word: Jack out of doors
word: knight of the road
word: landleaper
word: landloper
word: landlouper
word: nomad
word: paker
word: palliard
word: pike
word: piker
word: ranger
word: rogue
word: rolling stone
word: rough sleeper
word: scatterling
word: skelder
word: skell
word: stroller
word: stumblebum
word: swagman
word: swaggie
word: toerag
word: tramp
word: truant
word: vagabond
word: vagrant
word: wanderer
word: waif
word: yagger
Hypernyms: word: person
word: traveller
Hyponyms: word: dimber damber
word: solivagant
word: sturdy beggar
word: upright man
word: Children
word: gamin
word: gamine
word: guttersnipe
word: street child
word: street urchin
Related terms: word: extravagant
word: vague
word: beggar
word: idler
word: pauper
vagabond
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: văg'ə-bŏnd
ipa: /ˈvæ.ɡə.bɒnd/
enpr: văg'ə-band
ipa: /ˈvæ.ɡə.bɑnd/
Forms: form: vagabonds
form: vagabonding
form: vagabonded
form: vagabonded
Etymology: From Old French vagabond, from Late Latin vagābundus, from Latin vagari (“wander”). Compare moribund.
Etymology tree
Old French vagabondder.
English vagabond
Senses: glosses: To roam, as a vagabond
vagabond
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: văg'ə-bŏnd
ipa: /ˈvæ.ɡə.bɒnd/
enpr: văg'ə-band
ipa: /ˈvæ.ɡə.bɑnd/
Etymology: From Old French vagabond, from Late Latin vagābundus, from Latin vagari (“wander”). Compare moribund.
Etymology tree
Old French vagabondder.
English vagabond
Senses: examples: text: To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.
ref: 1959, Jack London, The Star Rover:
glosses: Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
get knotted
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: You want me to go to the party with you? Get knotted!
glosses: A mildly offensive expression of refusal.
Synonyms: get lost
get out of here
get stuffed
dwell upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dwells upon
form: dwelling upon
form: dwelt upon
form: dwelt upon
form: dwelled upon
form: dwelled upon
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dwell on.
memoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mə-môrʹē-ə
ipa: /məˈmɔɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiə
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin memoria, from memor (“mindful, remembering”). Doublet of memoir and memory.
Senses: glosses: One of the five canons of classical rhetoric: the discipline of memory and recall.
Related terms: pro memoria
dispositio
elocutio
inventio
pronuntiatio
arrive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-rīvʹ
ipa: /əˈɹaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Forms: form: arrives
form: arriving
form: arrived
form: arrived
Etymology: From Middle English arriven, ariven, from Old French ariver, from Early Medieval Latin adrīpāre (“to land, come ashore”), derived from Latin rīpa (“shore, river-bank”). Displaced native oncome, tocome.
For the semantic evolution, compare Old English ġelandian, ġelendan, lendan (“to arrive at land; land”) > Middle English alenden, landen (“to arrive; arrive at shore; land”).
Senses: examples: text: We've just arrived at the hotel to book in, so we should arrive at Mike’s in time for lunch.
text: He arrived home for two days.
text: In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
ref: 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
glosses: To reach; to get to a certain place.
examples: text: He had finally arrived on Broadway.
text: Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes.
ref: 2002, Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921, page 58:
glosses: To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.
examples: text: The time has arrived for us to depart.
glosses: To come; said of time.
examples: text: Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.
ref: 1666, Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter:
glosses: To happen or occur.
glosses: To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
examples: text: Ere he arrive the happy isle.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Ere we could arrive the point proposed.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: Arrive at last the blessed goal.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “(please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX)”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To reach; to come to.
examples: text: and made the sea-trod ship arrive them
ref: 1618, George Chapman, A Hymn to Apollo:
glosses: To bring to shore.
Derived terms: arrivance
arrivant
arrive at
it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive
rearrive
unarrived
unarriving
Related terms: arrival
depart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭ-pät'
ipa: /dɪˈpɑːt/
enpr: dĭ-pärt'
ipa: /dɪˈpɑɹt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Etymology: From Old French departir, from Late Latin departiō (“to divide”), from dē- (“away from”) + partiō (“part, divide”).
Senses: glosses: Division; separation, as of compound substances.
examples: text: at my depart for France
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: Of that short Roll of friends writ in my heart
Which with thy name begins, since their depart,
Whether in the English Provinces they be,
Or drinke of Po, Sequan, or Danubie,
ref: 1633, John Donne, “To M. I. L.”, in Poems, London: John Marriot, page 101:
glosses: A going away; departure.
taxation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tăk-sā'shən
ipa: /tækˈseɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: taxations
Etymology: From Middle English taxacioun, from Anglo-Norman taxacion, from Latin taxātio (“rating, appraisal”).
By surface analysis, tax + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Some of this will be down to breakthrough science and technology, breakthrough business models and breakthroughs in behaviour change, but we also need an intensifying focus on public policy, in areas like accounting, reporting and taxation, the last spotlighted by Shaxson.
ref: 2012 May 29, John Elkington, “Common threads in the Breakthrough Booklist”, in the Guardian:
glosses: The act of imposing taxes and the fact of being taxed.
glosses: A particular system of taxing people or companies
glosses: The revenue gained from taxes
Derived terms: antitaxation
detaxation
double taxation
ecotaxation
e-taxation
hypertaxation
maltaxation
nontaxation
overtaxation
pretaxation
retaxation
stealth taxation
taxational
Related terms: render unto Caesar
inox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French inox.
Senses: examples: inox steel
glosses: stainless steel
ironing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪənɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of iron
ironing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪənɪŋ
Forms: form: ironings
Senses: examples: text: I hate ironing.
glosses: The act of pressing clothes with an iron, such as a steam iron.
examples: text: I really should make a start on the ironing soon.
glosses: Laundry that has been washed and is ready to be ironed.
examples: text: I really should put the ironing away.
glosses: Laundry that has recently been ironed.
Derived terms: breast ironing
extreme ironing
ironing basket
ironing board
ironing cloth
ironing machine
ironing pad
ironing room
Related terms: presser
pressing
perfect number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfect numbers
Etymology: Calque of Latin numerus perfectus, with this use of perfectus itself a semantic loan from Ancient Greek τέλειος (téleios).
Senses: examples: text: The factors of 6 are 1, 2, 3 and 6, and 1 + 2 + 3 = 6, so 6 is a perfect number.
text: The factors of 28 are 1, 2, 4, 7, 14 and 28, and 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 = 28, so 28 is a perfect number.
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: A number that is the sum of all of its divisors except itself.
Derived terms: hyperperfect number
Related terms: abundant number
amicable numbers
deficient number
Mersenne prime
sociable numbers
long-winded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔŋˌwɪndəd/
Forms: form: more long-winded
form: most long-winded
form: longwinded
Etymology: Figurative, from long + winded
Senses: examples: text: He launched into a long-winded discussion of the relative merits of asphalt and concrete.
text: But which analysis is the right one? Well, as in any serious field of research, the consequences of making different assumptions about a particular phenomenon are often so complex and far-reaching that the full implications of the decision to adopt one analysis rather than another are not always immediately apparent. Thatʼs a rather long-winded way of saying that itʼs not always obvious what the right answer is!
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 8, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 403:
antonyms: short-winded
glosses: Tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; unnecessarily verbose.
Synonyms: garrulous
Derived terms: long-windedly
long-windedness
excessive number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excessive numbers
Senses: topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: An abundant number.
deficient number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deficient numbers
Senses: examples: text: The factors of 22 are 1, 2 and 11 and 22, and 1 + 2 + 11 = 14, which is less than 22, so 22 is a deficient number.
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: A number that is greater than the sum of all of its divisors except itself.
Synonyms: defective number
Related terms: abundant number
amicable numbers
sociable numbers
perfect number
defective number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defective numbers
Senses: topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: A deficient number.
psychologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: psychologists
Etymology: From psycholog(y) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: In 2009, the Obama Administration released guidelines on enhanced interrogation written in 2003 and 2004 by the CIA Office of Medical Services. ^((OMS).1-3(appendix F)) The OMS guidelines, even in redacted form, and opinions from the US Department of Justice's (DOJ’s) Office of Legal Counsel show that CIA physicians, psychologists, and other health care personnel had important roles in enhanced interrogation.
ref: 2010 August 4, Leonard S. Rubenstein, JD; Stephen N. Xenakis, MD, “The Ethics of Enhanced Interrogations and Torture: A Reappraisal of the Argument”, in JAMA, volume 304, number 5, American Medical Association, →DOI, pages 569–570:
text: Investigating why IBM salespeople were so successful, researchers found that IBM set easy targets for their salespeople rather than targets that were difficult to reach and so most of their salespeople achieved their targets. IBM had hired psychologists to define optimum motivational goals for their salespeople and it was discovered that if the targets were achievable the salespeople became very confident and motivated (unlike their demotivated cousins in rival companies) and went out and sold even more computers.
ref: 2012, Christine Wilding, chapter 2, in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Croydon, UK: CPI Group (UK) Ltd, page 18:
text: Self-help programs can give people the nudge they need to see a psychologist or encourage healthy changes, but that is not always the case, experts say. […] Redding’s study asked four psychologists with expertise in anxiety and depressive disorders to rate each self-help book on five criteria: […]
ref: 2019 May 2, Nina Avramova, “When you should use self-help programs and when to skip them”, in CNN:
glosses: An expert in the field of psychology.
Derived terms: antipsychologist
armchair psychologist
biological psychologist
biopsychologist
clinical psychologist
cod psychologist
criminal psychologist
cyberpsychologist
developmental psychologist
differential psychologist
ecopsychologist
ethnopsychologist
forensic psychologist
geropsychologist
industrial psychologist
neuropsychologist
paedopsychologist
parapsychologist
political psychologist
positive psychologist
protopsychologist
psychologistlike
robopsychologist
school psychologist
social psychologist
sociopsychologist
telepsychologist
zoopsychologist
Related terms: alienist
psychiatrist
psychology
psychopathology
marcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːtʃə/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹt͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: marchers
Etymology: From Middle English marcher, marchere, marcheyre, marchier, marchowrys pl; equivalent to march (from Anglo-Norman and Old French; akin to Old English germearc, Gothic marka (“boundary”)) + -er (inhabitant suffix).
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of a march (border country); specifically, a marcher lord.
examples: text: Here is a scene of the marcher state of which they were margraves being turned into a duchy under Henry II Jasomirgott, who has made his capital at Vienna.
ref: 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 42:
glosses: A border territory, a march (now only in (attributive) use).
Derived terms: Earl Marcher
Lord Marcher
Lordship Marcher
marchership
marcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːtʃə/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹt͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: marchers
Etymology: From march + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Nelson covered the Selma-to-Montgomery freedom marches, including Bloody Sunday, on March 7, 1965, when 600 marchers were attacked with billy clubs and tear gas.
ref: 2009 October 21, Dennis Hevesi, “Jack Nelson, Journalist, Dies at 80”, in The New York Times, retrieved 12 Jun 2014:
glosses: One who marches; one who participates in a march.
Derived terms: hunger marcher
nightmarcher
peace marcher
shithouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪtˌhaʊs/
Forms: form: shithouses
Etymology: From shit + house. Compare Middle Low German schîthûs, German Scheißhaus, Swedish skithus, Icelandic skíthús.
Senses: examples: text: He would rather slop out his Punjabis' shithouses than kiss the arse of some limp-wristed war profiteer in Civvy Street, thank you.
ref: 2004, John Le Carre, Absolute Friends, page 36:
synonyms: word: craphouse
word: shitter
word: shouse
word: boghouse
word: bathroom
word: latrine
word: necessarium
word: toilet
word: toilet room
word: urinal
word: water closet
word: WC
word: cloaca
word: closet
word: jacques
word: kocay
word: siege
word: cludgie
word: neddy
word: netty
word: shield
word: six
word: facilities
word: ladies and gentlemen
word: lavatory
word: lavabo
word: necessary
word: necessary room
word: office
word: office of ease
word: place
word: potty
word: privy
word: small room
word: smallest room
word: throne room
word: cottage
word: geography
word: House of Lords
word: khazi
word: usual offices
word: restroom
word: teahouse
word: tearoom
word: washroom
raw_tags: used in Canada
word: closet of decency
word: closet of ease
word: house of office
word: necessary place
word: purging place
word: vault
word: withdraught
word: wardrobe
word: shitter
word: urination station
word: bog
word: carsey
word: crapper
word: karzy
word: lats
word: lav
word: lavvy
word: loo
word: thunderbox
raw_tags: in Australia
word: can
word: john
word: johnny
word: bogger
word: brasco
word: dike
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: dunny
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: jacks
word: jakes
glosses: An outhouse, an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
synonyms: word: bottler
word: caitiff
word: candy-ass
word: candy-arse
word: coistril
word: coward
word: chicken
word: chicken liver
word: chickenshit
word: cocktail
word: cowardy custard
word: craven
word: dog
word: fraidy cat
word: funker
word: gutless wonder
word: invertebrate
word: jessie
word: lizard
word: milquetoast
word: nancy
word: niddering
word: nidering
word: nidget
word: niding
word: nithing
word: piece of crap
word: piece of shit
word: pisspants
word: pullet
word: punk
word: pussy
word: pussyhole
word: quiche-eater
word: quakebreech
word: quakebuttock
word: recreant
word: scaredy cat
word: scaredy pants
word: shithouse
word: sissy
word: slag
word: sluggard
word: snool
word: sook
word: weak sister
word: wheyface
word: yellow belly
word: yellow back
glosses: A coward; one who is overly fearful or timid.
examples: text: You will be less amused when I ask you when you will take your turn cleaning out this shithouse.
ref: 1987, Martin Caidin, Exit Earth, page 559:
text: It immediately caught my attention that the area was a total shithouse. Open C-ration cans, cardboard boxes, discarded socks and underwear, you name it, it was scattered all over the damn place.
ref: 2022, Frank McCarthy, LIMA-3: And the Mustang Grunt, page 76:
glosses: A filthy place.
Derived terms: bang like a shithouse door
brick shithouse
built like a brick shithouse
crazier than a shithouse rat
crazy as a shithouse rat
shouse
s'house
shithouse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪtˌhaʊs/
Etymology: From shit + house. Compare Middle Low German schîthûs, German Scheißhaus, Swedish skithus, Icelandic skíthús.
Senses: examples: text: The stupefied bus driver kept ranting and raving at him. “You could have been stuffed, mate! Once the water splits it would have been the most shithouse moment in your life, and the last one! This beach is for crocs only![…]”
ref: 2005, Eckhard Otto Hardy Marthen, Otto, page 334:
text: The story goes that when she applied for the job, they were fearful of hiring her because she was ‘much more shithouse than them’. I cannot imagine anyone being worse than those two but she did give it a good go.
ref: 2010, Brian Cadd, From This Side of Things, page 255:
synonyms: word: shitty
glosses: Of poor quality.
shithouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪtˌhaʊs/
Forms: form: shithouses
form: shithousing
form: shithoused
form: shithoused
Etymology: From shit + house. Compare Middle Low German schîthûs, German Scheißhaus, Swedish skithus, Icelandic skíthús.
Senses: examples: ref: 2021, Harry Diamond, “Five times El Cholo’s Atleti sh*thoused their way to famous Champions League wins”, in The Football Faithful:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To engage in persistent unsporting behaviour or gamesmanship; to play in a cynical, ugly manner; to cheat without being punished.
Derived terms: shithousery
quart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɔːt/
ipa: /kwɔɹt/
ipa: /kɔɹt/
homophone: court stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: quarts
Etymology: From Middle English quart, quarte, from Old French quarte, carte, from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Cognate with Spanish cuarto (“quarter; room, quarters”).
Senses: glosses: A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.
examples: text: A tierce major is good against any other tierce; a quart minor is good against a tierce major.
ref: 1908, Cavendish, The laws of piquet adopted:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Four successive cards of the same suit.
examples: text: Camber did possesse the Westerne quart.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14:
glosses: A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
examples: text: [W]e behold two men with lion-look, with alert attitude, side foremost, right foot advanced; flourishing and thrusting, stoccado and passado, in tierce and quart; intent to skewer one another.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
topics: fencing
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glosses: The fourth defensive position; quarte.
Derived terms: reputed quart
quart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɔːt/
ipa: /kwɔɹt/
ipa: /kɔɹt/
homophone: court stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: more quart
form: most quart
Etymology: From Middle English quarte, querte, from Old Norse kyrt, *kvirt, neuter of Old Norse kyrr, kvirr (“quiet, still, peaceful”), from Proto-Germanic *kwerruz (“calm, satisfied, pacified”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₂- (“heavy”). Cognate with Scots quert, quart (“alive, in good health, sound”), Scots querty (“vivacious, active, in good spirits”), Danish kvær (“quiet”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvar, kvær, kverr (“still, quiet”), Icelandic kyrr (“still, calm, unmoving”).
Senses: glosses: Safe, sound; healthy.