cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hundreds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌndɹədz/
ipa: /ˈhʌndɹɪdz/
Senses: examples: text: The infected number in the hundreds
text: Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
glosses: plural of hundred
Derived terms: hundreds and thousands
hundreds of thousands
C12
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: glosses: the 1100s or twelfth century.
firmness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɝmnəs/
ipa: /ˈfɜːmnəs/
Forms: form: firmnesses
Etymology: From firm + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being firm
security; steadfastness; good grip
examples: text: But many a man who would have stood within a home dismantled, strong in his passion and design of vengeance, has had the firmness of his nature conquered by the razing of an air–built castle.
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 23, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
text: France, for the first time since the death of Charlemagne, was governed by a prince of great firmness and ability.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being firm
strictness; mental strength
glosses: The state of being firm
physical durability; rigidness (of material)
Collop Monday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Collop Mondays
Etymology: Collops (“sliced bacon”) and eggs were traditionally eaten on this day.
Senses: qualifier: northern and east Midlands
glosses: The day before Shrove Tuesday.
Related terms: Ash Wednesday
Lent
collop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒləp/
rhymes: -ɒləp
Forms: form: collops
Etymology: Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from Swedish kalops (“stewed meat”), from Old Swedish kollops (“slices of beef stew”). Cognate to German Klops (“dish of meat made tender by beating”).
Senses: glosses: A slice of meat.
glosses: A slice of bacon, a rasher.
glosses: A roll or fold of flesh on the body.
glosses: A small piece, portion, or slice of something.
Derived terms: colloped
Collop Monday
Scotch collops
collop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒləp/
rhymes: -ɒləp
Forms: form: collops
form: colloping
form: colloped
form: colloped
Etymology: Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from Swedish kalops (“stewed meat”), from Old Swedish kollops (“slices of beef stew”). Cognate to German Klops (“dish of meat made tender by beating”).
Senses: examples: text: This induced me to make a further trial, and to get some of them colloped as we do oysters in shells, I swallowed them up myself.
ref: 1773, Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in many Considerable Parts of the World, page 385:
text: They colloped it, and spitted skilfully, Then roasted carefully and slipped them off.
ref: 1874, Homer (J.B. Rose, translator), Homer's Iliad. Translated [into English Blank Verse] by J. B. Rose, page 433:
text: I neither egged thee nor colloped thee. If I had egged thee, though mights yet chese.
ref: 1979, Lester Barber, Misogonus: Edited with an Introduction:
text: There was one fine bullock already butchered and being colloped by the cooking fires of the Burns and several sheep on the way to the same fate.
ref: 2016, P.F. Chisholm, A Chorus of Innocents:
glosses: To cut into collops (thin slices)
exclusory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exclusory
form: most exclusory
Senses: glosses: having the power or the function of excluding.
glosses: tending to exclude.
Derived terms: nonexclusory
farming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑɹmɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɑːmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mɪŋ
Forms: form: farmings
Etymology: From farm + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Gardening, then, is a sort of refined farming upon a limited scale.
ref: 1833, James Rennie, “The Word Gardening”, in Alphabet of Scientific Gardening for the Use of Beginners, London: William Orr, page 1:
text: Farming was among the earliest of civilized man's occupations, [...]
ref: 1945 April 18, American Historical Association, United States Armed Forces Institute, Shall I Take Up Farming? (GI Roundtable), number 35, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 2:
glosses: The business of cultivating land, raising stock, etc.
examples: text: We discharge them also of all Farmings of Benefices, and Church Lands, or Goods, of which they were spoiled by those who Commanded under their General.
ref: 1692, John Quick, Synodicon in Gallia reformata:
text: After Agricultural Foundation Law was enacted in 1961, the expansion of scale of farm business, the improvement of agricultural foundation, the spread of diversified farming with livestock, the mechanization and the rationalization of farming have accelerated viable farmings.
ref: 1986, Science reports of the Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba., page 24:
text: The problem has been enhanced more so because more agricultural farmings are spreading out leaving but slight margins for cattle farming and fears are expressed by farmers upon the possible cattle intrusion into the farmings ...
ref: 1997, Hamlet Bareh, The History and Culture of the Khasi People, →ISBN, page 433:
glosses: A farming operation; a farm, or instance of farming on a piece of land.
Derived terms: antifarming
aquafarming
aura farming
baby farming
bee farming
biofarming
dairy farming
data farming
dirt farming
electrofarming
factory farming
farming sim
Farmington
firestick farming
fish farming
gold farming
granny farming
hoe-farming
intensive animal farming
intensive farming
landfarming
microfarming
mixed farming
nonfarming
organic farming
proxy farming
refarming
sharefarming
skyfarming
smart farming
snow farming
strip farming
subsistence farming
tax farming
truck farming
unfarming
vertical farming
windfarming
farming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑɹmɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɑːmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mɪŋ
Etymology: From farm + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the agricultural business.
glosses: Raising livestock or fish.
farming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑɹmɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɑːmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mɪŋ
Etymology: From farm + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of farm
familiarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəmɪliˈæɹɪti/
ipa: /fəmɪˈljæɹɪti/
rhymes: -æɹɪti
Forms: form: familiarities
Etymology: From Middle French familiarité, from Latin familiāritātem. Displaced native Old English hīwcūþnes. Morphologically familiar + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: It is also folly and injustice to deprive children[…]of their fathers familiaritie, and ever to shew them a surly, austere, grim, and disdainefull countenance, hoping thereby to keepe them in awfull feare and duteous obedience.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Do not keep familiarity with any but those, with whom you may improve your time.
ref: 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, page 2:
glosses: The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
examples: text: Murrel did not in the least object to being called a monkey, yet he always felt a slight distaste when Julian Archer called him one.[…]It had to do with a fine shade between familiarity and intimacy which men like Murrel are never ready to disregard, however ready they may be to black their faces.
ref: 1927, G K Chesterton, The Return of Don Quixote, page 5:
glosses: Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.
glosses: An instance of familiar behaviour.
examples: text: The objects around have been seen so often, that they have at last become, as it were, unseen; their familiarity does not carry us out of ourselves, for all their associations are our own.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Influence of the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 269:
glosses: Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.
Derived terms: familiarity breeds contempt
hyperfamiliarity
nonfamiliarity
overfamiliarity
unfamiliarity
snifter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɪftə/
ipa: /ˈsnɪftəɹ/
rhymes: -ɪftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: snifters
form: sniftering
form: sniftered
form: sniftered
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English snifteren, snifter, snyfter (“to sniffle”), possibly from *snift (possibly derived from a Old Norse word—compare Old Danish snifte and Swedish snyfta (“to sniffle; to sob”); probably ultimately imitative) + -er- (frequentative suffix) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: Brouffer. To ſnurt, or ſnifter vvith the noſe, like a horſe.
ref: 1611, Randle Cotgrave, compiler, “Brouffer”, in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, signature [M vj], verso, column 1:
text: Nifler. To ſnifter, or ſnuffe vp ſniuell; to dravv it vp by dravving in the vvind.
ref: 1611, Randle Cotgrave, compiler, “Nifler”, in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, signature Kkk, recto, column 1:
text: I confess when I heard this read out in a strong, mellow and affecting tone, I could not resist crying; the tears ran down my cheeks, and I was obliged to dight them with my sleeve, and snifter like a whipped boy.
ref: 1835, James Hogg, “Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of an Edinburgh Baillie, Written by Himself”, in Tales of the Wars of Montrose. […], volume I, London: James Cochrane and Co. […], →OCLC, page 130:
glosses: To sniff; also, to snivel or snuffle.
glosses: Followed by out: to speak (words) in a nasal, snuffling manner.
Derived terms: word: snifterer
word: sniftering
word: snufter
snifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɪftə/
ipa: /ˈsnɪftəɹ/
rhymes: -ɪftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: snifters
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English snifteren, snifter, snyfter (“to sniffle”), possibly from *snift (possibly derived from a Old Norse word—compare Old Danish snifte and Swedish snyfta (“to sniffle; to sob”); probably ultimately imitative) + -er- (frequentative suffix) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: glosses: A sniff.
glosses: A strong or severe wind.
examples: text: [H]e springs to another wooden vat and turns a valve, filling a snifter with a warm amber liquid. […] Bang holds the liquid up to the light, swirls it around, takes a sniff of the pungent bouquet, puts the glass to his lips—and gives a satisfied smile.
ref: 2003 January 20, “Getting Saucy”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2012:
synonyms: brandy bowl
brandy glass
brandy snifter
cognac glass
whiskey glass
glosses: A small, wide, pear-shaped glass used for drinking aromatic liquors such as bourbon and brandy.
examples: text: "Sit down, bo," invited Soup Face. "I guess you're a regular all right. Here, have a snifter?" and he pulled a flask from his side pocket, holding it toward The Oskaloosa Kid.
ref: 1917 (date written), Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Oakdale Affair”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., published March 1918, →OCLC; republished Doylestown, Pa.: Wildside Press, 2003, →ISBN, page 21:
text: And now, old horse, you may lead me across the street to the Coal Hole for a short snifter.
ref: 1923 June, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “The Début of Battling Billson”, in Ukridge, London: Herbert Jenkins […], published 3 June 1924, →OCLC, page 56:
glosses: Synonym of nip (“a small amount of an alcoholic beverage, especially one equivalent to what a snifter (sense 2.2) might hold”)
synonyms: word: nip
extra: (“a small amount of an alcoholic beverage, especially one equivalent to what a snifter (sense 2.2) might hold”)
glosses: Synonym of cocaine addict; a sniffer.
synonyms: word: cocaine addict
extra: a sniffer
glosses: A small amount of cocaine taken by inhaling through the nose.
glosses: A handheld device used to detect signals from radio transmitters; a sniffer.
Derived terms: word: brandy snifter
word: snifter valve
word: snifters
hardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: härdʹnəs
ipa: /ˈhɑɹdnəs/
ipa: /ˈhɑːdnəs/
Forms: form: hardnesses
form: hardnesse
Etymology: From Middle English hardness, hardnesse, from Old English heardnes, from heard + -nes. Equivalent to hard + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Who can number the cloudes in wiſedom? or who can ſtay the bottles of heauen, / When the duſt groweeh^([sic – meaning groweth]) into hardneſſe and the clods cleaue faſt together?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 38:37–38:
glosses: The quality of being hard.
glosses: An instance of this quality; hardship.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The quantity of calcium carbonate dissolved in water, usually expressed in parts per million (ppm).
glosses: The resistance to scratching, cutting, indentation or abrasion of a metal or other solid material.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The penetrating ability of electromagnetic radiation, such as x-rays; generally, the shorter the wavelength, the harder and more penetrating the radiation.
glosses: The measure of resistance to damage of a facility, equipment, installation, or telecommunications infrastructure when subjected to attack.
examples: text: The hardness of the material was high.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A measure of how hard a material is
Synonyms: word: callosity
word: durity
word: firmness
word: hardness
word: induration
word: inflexibility
word: rigidity
word: renitence
word: renitency
word: stiffness
word: temper
Hypernyms: word: physical property
Hyponyms: word: metallicness
word: rockiness
word: stoniness
Derived terms: hardness of hearing
Knoop hardness
macrohardness
microhardness
nanohardness
total hardness
Vickers hardness
water hardness
Related terms: word: hardiness
word: bone
word: cement
word: concrete
word: crystal
word: oak
word: metal
word: iron
word: steel
word: rock
word: stone
word: diamond
word: flint
word: granite
word: marble
word: hard
word: harden
callop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæləp/
Forms: form: callops
Senses: glosses: an Australian freshwater fish, Macquaria ambigua; the golden perch or yellowbelly
resistantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more resistantly
form: most resistantly
Etymology: From resistant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a resistant manner.
shikiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 仕切り (shikiri).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: the preparation time before a sumo bout during which the rikishi try to gain a psychological advantage by intense staring (niramiai) and when salt is ceremonially thrown (kiyome-jio)
Related terms: shikiri-sen
shikiri-sen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 仕切り線 (shikiri-sen).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The two enamel lines, embedded in the dohyo, behind which the rikishi crouch in preparation for the tachiai.
tachiai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 立合い (tachiai).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: the initial charge towards each other by the rikishi at the start of a sumo bout
Related terms: buchikamashi
buchikamashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buchikamashi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ぶちかまし (buchikamashi).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The heavy collision of the two rikishi during the tachiai at the start of a sumo bout.
shifty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪfti/
Forms: form: shiftier
form: shiftiest
Etymology: From shift + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Off he raced, shuffling his bare feet through the hot, dry, shifty sand.
ref: 1929, Henry Handel Richardson, Ultima Thule, New York: Norton, Part 2, Chapter 3, p. 145:
text: The Helfrich plan is simple and direct, based upon a minute knowledge of Indies waters: to strike & strike again & again at the Japanese supply lines. For most of his naval life, Java-born Admiral Helfrich has done nothing but study war with the Japanese. His Navy was designed for shifty, aggressive action within the narrow East Indian waters. In the first 54 days of war his ships and cooperating Dutch planes sank 54 Japanese vessels. "Ship-a-day Helfrich," the Dutch soon called him. His ideas dominated the enlarging and equipping of Java's main naval base at Surabaya, where heavy cruisers (but not battleships) can be fueled and repaired. For the Helfrich plan to succeed, Surabaya must be held.
ref: 1942 February 23, “Dutchman's Chance”, in TIME, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2008:
text: The Kelsos crowding their horses up against the wagon, bumping it, making things shake inside: everything going shifty, unsteady.
ref: 2002, Guy Vanderhaeghe, chapter 17, in The Last Crossing, New York: Grove, page 190:
glosses: Subject to frequent changes in direction.
examples: text: 1886, George Manville Fenn, This Man’s Wife, Chapter 3, in Littel’s Living Age, Volume 168, No. 2178, 20 March, 1886, p. 761,
[…] his quick, shifty eyes turned from the manager to the lethal weapons over the chimney, then to the safe, then to the bank, and Mr. Thickens’s back.
text: His tinted glasses were not really opaque, but of a blue kind common enough, nor were the eyes behind them shifty, but regarded me steadily.
ref: 1914, G. K. Chesterton, “The Head of Cæsar”, in The Wisdom of Father Brown, London: Cassell, published 1928, page 149:
text: He was thin, unsure of himself, sweet-natured and shifty-eyed; and he was Lata’s favourite.
ref: 1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, Boston: Little, Brown, Chapter 1.4, p. 10:
glosses: Moving from one object to another; not looking directly and steadily at the person with whom one is speaking.
raw_tags: of a person's eyes
examples: text: He was a shifty character in a seedy bar, and I checked my wallet was still there after talking to him.
text: ‘I don’t trust him,’ he goes on. ‘He is shifty. He is like a jackal sniffing around, looking for mischief. […]’
ref: 1999, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 23, in Disgrace, New York: Viking, page 208:
glosses: Having the appearance of being dishonest, criminal, or unreliable.
examples: text: Shifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure.
ref: 1857, Charles Kingsley, chapter 1, in Two Years Ago, volume 1, Cambridge: Macmillan, page 34:
glosses: Resourceful; full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.
Derived terms: shiftily
shiftiness
shifty-eyed
shiko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiko
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 四股.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: One of the basic sumo exercises, in which the rikishi raises a leg high in the air to the side, then brings it down with a stamp. It is also performed on the dohyo to drive away bad spirits.
shiko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shikos
Senses: glosses: A posture of prostration in Burma.
infirm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɜːm/
ipa: /ɪnˈfɜɹm/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: infirmer
form: infirmest
Etymology: * The noun is from Middle English infirme, from Latin infirmus (“weak, feeble”).
* The verb is from Latin īnfirmāre.
Senses: examples: text: He was infirm of body but still keen of mind, and though it looked like he couldn't walk across the room, he crushed me in debate.
text: […] Here I stand your slave,
A poor, infirm, weak, and despis’d old man.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: There will be special drop-off points at all polling stations for vehicles conveying voters who are sick, infirm, or disabled.
ref: 2023 August 30, “Security Advisory For Polling Day”, in Singapore Police Force:
glosses: Weak or ill, not in good health.
examples: text: Infirm of purpose!
Give me the daggers: […]
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: […] vehement passion does not always indicate an infirm judgment.
ref: 1797, Edmund Burke, “Letter III.”, in A Third Letter to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France, London: […] F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […]; sold also by J[ohn] Hatchard, […], →OCLC, page 30:
glosses: Irresolute; weak of mind or will.
examples: text: He who fixes upon false Principles, treads upon Infirm ground, and so sinks […]
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, “The Practice of Religion Enforced by Reason”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London, page 3:
glosses: Frail; unstable; insecure.
Synonyms: crank
ill
sick
unwell
Derived terms: infirmity
infirmly
infirmness
Related terms: infirmary
infirm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɜːm/
ipa: /ɪnˈfɜɹm/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: infirms
form: infirming
form: infirmed
form: infirmed
Etymology: * The noun is from Middle English infirme, from Latin infirmus (“weak, feeble”).
* The verb is from Latin īnfirmāre.
Senses: examples: text: The thought is that you see an episode of observation, experiment, or reasoning as confirming or infirming a hypothesis depending on whether your probability for it increases or decreases during the episode.
glosses: To contradict, to provide proof that something is not.
Synonyms: disconfirm
Derived terms: infirmation
shimekomi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shimekomi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 締め込み (shimekomi).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The silk mawashi worn by sekitori for competition.
shindeshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shindeshi
Etymology: From Japanese 新弟子 (shindeshi).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a young rikishi recruit, not yet professional
shini-tai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shini-tai
Etymology: From Japanese 死に体 (“dead body”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A rikishi who is crushed by his opponent when both fall simultaneously.
ill repute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ill-repute
Senses: examples: text: He was held in ill repute, no one would trust him enough to do business with him.
glosses: Bad reputation; notoriety.
examples: text: His list of sexual contacts was quite long, and included ladies from some of the ritzier establishments of ill repute across the border.
ref: 1997, Aileen Schumacher, Engineering for Murder, page 69:
glosses: Prostitution and the sex industry.
Derived terms: english: brothel
translation: brothel
word: house of ill repute
word: lady of ill repute
word: woman of ill repute
house of ill repute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houses of ill repute
Senses: glosses: A brothel.
solidify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlɪdɪˌfaɪ/
ipa: /səˈlɪdəˌfaɪ/
ipa: [səˈlɪɾəˌfaɪ]
ipa: /səˈlɪdəˌfɑɪ/
ipa: [səˈlɪɾəˌfɑɪ]
ipa: /səˈlɪdˌfɑɪ/
ipa: [səˈlɪɾˌfɑɪ]
Forms: form: solidifies
form: solidifying
form: solidified
form: solidified
Etymology: From French solidifier. By surface analysis, solid + -ify.
Senses: synonyms: set
glosses: To make solid; convert into a solid body.
examples: text: Emerging from Kennaway Tunnel, the train sweeps to the right, affording views of the recent work to solidify the railway here.
ref: 2023 August 23, Pip Dunn, “The last bastion of the HST 'Castles'”, in RAIL, number 990, page 49:
glosses: To concentrate; consolidate, reinforce.
glosses: To become solid; to freeze, set.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To transform an open compound into a closed compound (solid compound).
Derived terms: solidifiable
solidification
solidifier
Related terms: liquefy
solidifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solidifiers
Etymology: From solidify + -er.
Senses: glosses: someone who or something that solidifies
solidification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solidifications
Etymology: From French solidification, or from solid + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The action of solidifying.
glosses: Concentration or consolidation.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The tendency to transform an open compound into a closed compound (solid compound).
solidifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more solidifiable
form: most solidifiable
Etymology: From solidify + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be solidified.
Derived terms: solidifiability
impertinence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɜː.tɪ.nəns/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɝ.tɪ.nəns/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɝt.nəns/
Forms: form: impertinences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French impertinence, from impertinent (“impertinent”); by surface analysis, im- + pertinent.
Senses: glosses: Lack of pertinence; irrelevance.
examples: text: "Enough, sir! " he thundered with barely restrained fury. "Enough, I say! Once and for all I must endeavour to rid myself of you and your impertinence.
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter VI, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/VI):
glosses: An instance of this; a moment of being impertinent.
glosses: The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness.
examples: text: "Because," interrupted the actress, "I see things exactly as they are. I calculate my effects, but they do not deceive myself; you, on the contrary, live in a world of illusions, where every thing is called by such an exceedingly fine name, that it seems a downright impertinence to ascertain what it really is."
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 198–199:
text: The musical has always had a lightness of touch, an impertinence that resembles gay humor.
ref: 1984 February 4, Michael Bronski, “Cats: Straight and Boring”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 17:
glosses: Insolence; impudence.
pertinence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pertinences
Etymology: Borrowed from French pertinence.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pertinent.
Related terms: pertinent
pertain
pertinency
pertinency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)tɪnənsi/
Forms: form: pertinencies
Etymology: From Latin pertineō.
Senses: examples: text: The fitness and pertinency of the apostle's discourse.
ref: 1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:
glosses: The quality of being pertinent to the matter at hand; relevance.
examples: text: We note the following pertinencies […]
ref: 1902, Chemical, Metallurgical, and Mining Society of South Africa, Proceedings, volume 3, page 450:
glosses: Something that is relevant to the matter at hand.
recognizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recognizabilities
form: recognisability
Etymology: From recognize + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being recognizable.
glosses: The result of being recognizable.
recognisability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recognizability
Etymology: From recognise + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being recognisable.
inappropriateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inappropriatenesses
Etymology: From inappropriate + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The station is seven miles from South Molton, and reference to the inappropriateness of its former name was made in the article on the naming of railway stations, by Mr. M. D. Greville, which appeared in the March issue.
ref: 1951 May, “Notes and News: South Molton Road Station Renamed”, in Railway Magazine, page 351:
text: I suppose thatʼs what I first loved about Marpessa, her unabashed inappropriateness.
ref: 2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 72:
glosses: The quality of being inappropriate; unsuitability.
glosses: The result of being inappropriate.
recognizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recognizable
form: most recognizable
form: recognizeable
form: recognisable
form: recogniseable
Etymology: From recognize + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Pidgin is a combination of expressions and phrases that are recognizable to those who speak it. To non-Pidgin speakers, it may sound like slang. For example, “dat” means that and “fadda” means father or dad.
ref: 2015 November 12, Bu Kerry Chan Laddaran, “Pidgin English now an official language of Hawaii”, in CNN:
text: This variation is strikingly similar to the Work’s so-called “ballooned droplet” within the circle. The figure in the Work is slightly more bulbous, but it is instantly recognizable as a quotation mark.
ref: 2018 August 21, U.S. Copyright Office Review Board, “Second Request for Reconsideration for Refusal to Register Vodafone Speechmark”, in United States Copyright Office, page 4:
antonyms: unrecognizable
glosses: Able to be recognized.
Derived terms: recognizability
recognizableness
recognizably
recognisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛkə(ɡ)naɪzəbəl/
ipa: /ˈɹɛkəɡnaɪzəbəl/
ipa: /ˈɹɛkənaɪzəbəl/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkɒɡnɪzəbəl/
Forms: form: more recognisable
form: most recognisable
form: recognizable
Etymology: From recognise + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Whistle's creation stems from an internal colleague competition run by Northern to design a recognisable and approachable character to act as a mascot.
ref: 2022 November 30, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 971, page 87:
text: The Forth Rail Bridge, which spans the Firth of Forth seven miles to the north west of Edinburgh, is arguably one of the most recognisable bridges in the world.
ref: 2025 October 1, Chris Howe, “Top 10: Britain's most significant rail bridges”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 56:
glosses: Able to be recognised.
Derived terms: recognisability
recognisably
unsuitability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsuitabilities
Etymology: From unsuitable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unsuitable.
shokkiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shokkiri
Etymology: From Japanese 初っ切り (shokkiri).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A comical display of fouls etc performed by deshi during tours.
payable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪəbl̩/
Forms: form: more payable
form: most payable
Etymology: From pay + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Is value-added tax payable on planning application fees?
glosses: Due to be paid.
glosses: Able to be paid.
glosses: Of a mine etc.: capable of yielding profit; profitable.
Derived terms: account payable
accounts payable
bills payable
due and payable
note payable
payableness
prepayable
unpayable
payable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪəbl̩/
Forms: form: payables
Etymology: From pay + -able.
Senses: antonyms: receivable
glosses: Debts owed by a business; liabilities.
examples: text: […] money paid under it is to be returned, and money payable shall cease to be so.
ref: 2003, Richard Stone, Contract Law Q and A 2003-2004:
glosses: A thing that may be paid.
Related terms: payability
payably
shozoku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shozoku
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 装束.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The garment worn by the gyoji, derived from court dress.
payability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From payable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The ability or willingness to pay; profitability.
profitability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɒf.ɪ.təˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˌpɹɔf.ɪ.təˈbɪl.ɪ.tɪj/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌpɹɑ.fɪ.təˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
note: of Canada
ipa: [ˌpɹɑ.fɪ.təˈbɪl.ɪ.ɾi]
note: of the US
ipa: /pɹɒf.ɪ.təˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
note: of the US
ipa: [pɹɒf.ɪ.təˈbɪl.ɪ.ɾi]
ipa: /ˌpɹɔf.ɪ.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/
ipa: [ˌpɹɔf.ɪ.təˈbɪl.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /ˌpɹɒf.ə.təˈbəl.ə.ti/
ipa: [ˌpɹɔ̟f.ə.təˈbəl.ə.ɾi]
Forms: form: profitabilities
Etymology: From profitable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being profitable; capacity to make a profit.
shusse hiro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shusse hiro
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 出世披露.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The ceremonial introduction of new rikishi at a tournament.
Synonyms: shinjo shusse hiro
suna-kaburi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 砂被り (suna-kaburi, literally “covered by sand”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The six rows of single seats closest to the dohyo.
tachimochi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tachimochi
Etymology: From Japanese 太刀持ち (tachimochi, “sword bearer”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A rikishi who participates in the dohyo-iri ceremony of a yokozuna by carrying a sword behind him.
tachi-seki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 立ち席 (tachi-seki, literally “standing seat”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: tickets to stand at the back of the arena.
distrust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈtɹʌst/
ipa: /dɪsˈtɹʊst/
rhymes: -ʌst
Forms: form: distrusts
Etymology: From dis- + trust, alteration of the earlier term wantrust.
Senses: glosses: Lack of trust or confidence.
Synonyms: word: mistrust
word: untrust
word: wantrust
Derived terms: distrustful
distrustless
memory distrust syndrome
self-distrust
distrust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈtɹʌst/
ipa: /dɪsˈtɹʊst/
rhymes: -ʌst
Forms: form: distrusts
form: distrusting
form: distrusted
form: distrusted
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: distrust
form: distrust
form: distrusted
form: distrust
form: distrustest
form: distrusted
form: distrustedst
form: distrusts
form: distrusteth
form: distrusted
form: distrust
form: distrusted
form: distrust
form: distrusted
form: distrust
form: -
form: distrusting
form: distrusted
Etymology: From dis- + trust, alteration of the earlier term wantrust.
Senses: examples: text: Lord Baelish, perhaps I was wrong to distrust you.
Petyr Baelish (Aidan Gillen): Distrusting me was the wisest thing you've done since you climbed off your horse.
ref: 2011 May 8, Bryan Cogman, “Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things”, in Game of Thrones, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Eddard Stark (Sean Bean):
glosses: To put no trust in; to have no confidence in.
Synonyms: mistrust
Derived terms: distruster
distruster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distrusters
Etymology: From distrust + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who distrusts.
taiko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪkəʊ/
ipa: /ˈtaɪkoʊ/
rhymes: -aɪkəʊ
Forms: form: taikos
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 太鼓 (たいこ taiko), from 太 (tʰàj, “great”) + 鼓 (kú, “drum”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A traditional drum, beaten by yobidashi to announce the beginning of a tournament, and at the end of each day
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A Japanese drum or a performance of several drummers in an ensemble (also called kumi-daiko).
taiko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪkəʊ/
ipa: /ˈtaɪkoʊ/
rhymes: -aɪkəʊ
Forms: form: taikos
Senses: examples: text: The taiko, a gadfly petrel from the Chatham Islands near to New Zealand, was well known to islanders during the nineteenth century, being used by them as a food resource.
ref: 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 61:
glosses: The Chatham Island taiko (Pterodroma magentae).
distrustful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distrustful
form: most distrustful
Etymology: From distrust + -ful.
Senses: qualifier: active sense
glosses: Experiencing distrust, showing distrust, wary, sceptical, suspicious, doubtful.
qualifier: passive sense
glosses: Causing or giving rise to distrust.
Derived terms: distrustfully
distrustfulness
undistrustful
tategyoji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tategyoji
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 立行司 (tate-gyōji).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: Either of the two highest-ranked gyoji who referee matches involving a yokozuna.
appurtenances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appurtenance
glosses: equipment used for a specific task or purpose; gear
conspicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of conspicuous.
disastrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈzɑː.stɹəs/
ipa: /dɪˈzæs.tɹəs/
ipa: /dɪˈzaː.stɹəs/
Forms: form: more disastrous
form: most disastrous
form: disastress
Etymology: From disaster + -ous, after Middle French desastreux (modern French désastreux; from desastre (modern French désastre, “disaster”; from des- + astre, a calque of Italian disastro) + -eux), itself after Italian disastroso, from disastro + -oso, from dis- (“away, without”) (from Latin dis-) + astro (“star, planet”) (from Latin astrum (“star, celestial body”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́στρον (ắstron)).
Senses: examples: text: In addition, he was also able to reinforce the unease among progressive Democratic-leaning voters over Clinton’s disastrous pro-interventionist positions, thereby suppressing turnout and encouraging third party support in some key swing states that made the difference in his Electoral College victory.
ref: 2024 August 21, Daniel Falcone, “Trump Was Never a “Moderate” on Foreign Policy”, in Truthout:
synonyms: cataclysmic
catastrophic
glosses: Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
examples: text: A fearsome sight it was to behold how he swelled in his wrath, and his eyes blazed like disastrous stars at midnight, and being wood with anger he gnashed his teeth till the froth stood at his lips and slavered down his chin.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 27:
synonyms: word: baleful
word: ill-boding
word: inauspicious
word: ominous
word: sinister
word: augurous
word: baleful
word: bodeful
word: boding
word: dire
word: disastrous
word: fatal
word: foreboding
word: ill-boding
word: ill-fated
word: ill-omened
word: ill-starred
word: inauspicate
word: inauspicious
word: nefastous
word: omenic
word: ominous
word: brooding
word: portentous
word: presageful
word: presagious
word: prodigious
word: sinister
word: star-crossed
word: sullen
antonyms: word: auspicious
word: fortunate
word: foreboding
word: inauspicious
word: ominous
word: portentous
glosses: Foreboding disaster; ill-omened.
Synonyms: word: apocalyptic
word: calamitous
word: cataclysmal
word: cataclysmic
word: catastrophic
word: deadly
word: debacular
word: destructive
word: devastating
word: disadventurous
word: disastrous
word: eradicative
word: extirpative
word: fatal
word: harmful
word: lethal
word: pernicious
word: ruinous
word: woeful
Derived terms: disastrously
disastrousness
nondisastrous
undisastrous
Related terms: word: disaster
word: disastrously
price out of the market
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prices out of the market
form: pricing out of the market
form: priced out of the market
form: priced out of the market
Etymology: Usage began in the first half of the 1900s.
Senses: examples: text: He's pricing out of the market, asking for $100,000 for that shack!
glosses: To charge an exorbitant price for a service or product so that no one will purchase it.
examples: text: Supermarkets are trying to price farmers' markets out of the market by offering lower prices.
glosses: To force competition out of business by offering lower or discount prices.
Related terms: corner the market
disastrously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈzæs.tɹəs.li/
Forms: form: more disastrously
form: most disastrously
Etymology: From disastrous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It has frequently been found that these [timber dry] docks have been incapable of successfully resisting this force, and in many instances the altars have been forced off, the sides of the entrance works have been forced inward, the bottom of the dock has been uplifted, and, where defects in the work have existed, an inflood of water once set up has resulted very disastrously and endangered the entire structure.
ref: 1899, “Maintenance of Yards and Docks”, in Annual Reports of the Navy Department for the Year 1899: Report of the Secretary of the Navy. Miscellaneous Reports, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 230:
text: Mr. Dukakis charged that when it came to advising President Reagan on Iran, Mr. Bush was "disastrously and completely and unforgivably wrong."
ref: 1988 September 13, Andrew Rosenthal, “Dukakis Stresses Defense, Ridicules Bush and Quayle”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a disastrous way. (Of the nature of a disaster; calamitously.)
Synonyms: word: apocalyptically
word: calamitously
word: cataclysmically
word: catastrophically
word: destructively
word: devastatingly
word: disastrously
word: perniciously
word: ruinously
Related terms: word: disaster
word: disastrous
disappeared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈpɪəd/
ipa: /dɪsəˈpɪɹd/
ipa: /dɪsəˈpiːɹd/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: Caused to disappear by someone, often for political reasons.
disappeared
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈpɪəd/
ipa: /dɪsəˈpɪɹd/
ipa: /dɪsəˈpiːɹd/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: disappeareds
Senses: glosses: A desaparecido.
disappeared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈpɪəd/
ipa: /dɪsəˈpɪɹd/
ipa: /dɪsəˈpiːɹd/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: examples: text: In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.
ref: 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75:
glosses: simple past and past participle of disappear
price on someone's head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the earlier punishment of beheading criminals. The usage of this idiom began in the mid-1700s.
Senses: examples: text: The police put a price on his head after he killed four innocent women.
text: "The price on our respective heads has more zeros in it than Pearl Harbor in 1941. Certainly there are safer places to 'get out.'"
ref: 2005 February 6, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2023:
glosses: A compensation for capturing or killing someone, especially a criminal.
deprived
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɹaɪvd/
Forms: form: more deprived
form: most deprived
Senses: examples: text: London attracts some of the richest people in the world, but it is home also to some of the poorest people in the land. The three most deprived areas in Britain are all in London — Tower Hamlets, Newham and Hackney.
ref: 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Sep 2013:
glosses: Subject to deprivation; poor.
Derived terms: deprivedly
immunodeprived
nondeprived
person deprived of liberty
sleep-deprived
undeprived
deprived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɹaɪvd/
Senses: glosses: past participle of deprive
cured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kjʊəd/
ipa: /kjɔːd/
enpr: kyo͝ord
enpr: kyûrd
ipa: /kjʊɹd/
ipa: /kjɝd/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cure
Derived terms: dry-cured
noncured
photocured
uncured
deprivedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more deprivedly
form: most deprivedly
Etymology: From deprived + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a deprived manner.
teppo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teppo
Etymology: From Japanese 鉄砲.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a wooden pillar that is slapped repeatedly by a rikishi as a sumo wrestling exercise.
Related terms: english: possibly etymologically related
translation: possibly etymologically related
word: teppo snapping shrimp
visited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪzɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: past participle of visit
visited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪzɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more visited
form: most visited
Senses: glosses: That has received a visit or visits.
Derived terms: unvisited
teuchi-shiki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teuchi-shiki
Etymology: From Japanese 手打ち式 (teuchi-shiki, literally “clapping ceremony”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A welcoming ceremony to new rikishi.
ill-omened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ill-omened
form: most ill-omened
Senses: examples: text: Ill betide those foul birds that delight to file their own nest, and disgust the ear with perpetual discord of ill-omened croak.
ref: 1845 July and August, John O’Sullivan, “Annexation”, in United States Magazine and Democratic Review, volume 17, number 1, page 2:
text: From the first day of our ill-omened attachment, I was conscious that Agnes's passion was a stronger, a more dominant, and—if I may use the expression—a purer sentiment than mine.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 10:
synonyms: word: foreboding
word: portentous
word: augurous
word: baleful
word: bodeful
word: boding
word: dire
word: disastrous
word: fatal
word: foreboding
word: ill-boding
word: ill-fated
word: ill-omened
word: ill-starred
word: inauspicate
word: inauspicious
word: nefastous
word: omenic
word: ominous
word: brooding
word: portentous
word: presageful
word: presagious
word: prodigious
word: sinister
word: star-crossed
word: sullen
antonyms: happy-omened
well-omened
promising
auspicious
glosses: Having a bad omen; inauspicious; unlucky.
tokei-gakari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tokei-gakari
Etymology: From Japanese 時計係 (tokei-gakari, literally “one who is responsible for the clock”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The shimpan who acts as timekeeper.