cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sexless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sex + -less. Compare sexful.
Senses: examples: text: They have a sexless marriage.
text: They’re sexually active and eager throughout the first nine seasons, so this isn’t like the show breathing life into a sexless sitcom couple from the 1950s.
ref: 2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Without sexual activity.
glosses: Without physical or behavioral sexual distinction.
examples: text: A small child is sexless.
text: The more solicitous of the two was Nurse Cramer, a shapely, pretty, sexless girl with a wholesome unattractive face.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:
glosses: Provoking or showing no sexual desire.
glosses: Without sex appeal.
Synonyms: word: sex-free
word: sexfree
sense: without intimacy
word: loveless
sense: without sexual activity since birth
word: virgin
sense: without sexual activity since birth
word: virginal
sense: without sexual activity by choice
word: celibate
sense: without sexual activity by choice
word: chaste
sense: without sexual activity by choice
word: asexual
Related terms: genderless
eschewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eschew
sneller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of snell: more snell
suited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːtɪd/
ipa: /ˈsjuː-/
ipa: /ˈsutɪd/
rhymes: -uːtɪd
Forms: form: more suited
form: most suited
Etymology: From suit + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Particular Forms suited to particular occasions, I have endeavour’d to provide in this Treatise, for general ones, Morning and Evening, you may use these which follow.
ref: 1685, Richard Lucas, The Duty of Servants […], page 55:
text: In saying that London is more suited to me than Birmingham, I mean more suited to me as a missioner; therefore it would absorb my time in mission etc work, while Birmingham does not.
ref: 1849 March 29, John Henry Newman, “[Letter to Frederick William Faber]”, in Charles Stephen Dessain, editor, The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman, volume 13, published 1963, page 94:
text: So I heard AM radio. It seemed to me very suited for the road.
ref: 1978, Edward Dorn, in Edward Dorn; Stephen Fredman, An Interview with Edward Dorn, page 38:
glosses: Suitable.
raw_tags: for or an adverb
with to
examples: text: a three-suited hand
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Having the specified kind or number of suits.
examples: text: Brunson has ace-king suited in the small blind
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Of the same suit.
raw_tags: of two or more cards
examples: text: Skull-caps and alchemical paraphernalia surrounded the seventeenth-century quack, whereas his nineteenth-century equivalent might appear top-hatted and suited, evidently a person of learning and ‘quality’.
ref: 2003, Jonathan Swan, Quack Magic: The Dubious History of Health Fads and Cures, Ebury Press, →ISBN:
text: “Them?” I pointed to a couple of top-hatted, suited men leaning against a building farther down the street.
ref: 2011, Amber Kizer, Wildcat Fireflies, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 36:
text: One of the black-suited drivers nodded at his compatriots and slowly walked up to one of the men on the firing line.
ref: 2017, Jesse J[ames] Holland, Black Panther: Who Is the Black Panther?, Marvel Worldwide, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: Wearing a suit.
Derived terms: birthday-suited
dress-suited
ill-suited
morning-suited
suited and booted
suited-booted
well-suited
well suited
zoot-suited
suited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːtɪd/
ipa: /ˈsjuː-/
ipa: /ˈsutɪd/
rhymes: -uːtɪd
Etymology: From suit + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suit
declined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈklaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decline
declined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈklaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: more declined
form: most declined
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Directed obliquely.
murdered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɝ.dɚd/
ipa: /ˈmɜːdəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of murder
murdered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɝ.dɚd/
ipa: /ˈmɜːdəd/
Senses: examples: text: They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate "psychicism", can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178:
glosses: That has been murdered.
Derived terms: unmurdered
requested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkwɛstɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of request
contributed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɹɪbjuːtɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɒntɹɪˌbjuːtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contribute
depended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɛndɪd/
rhymes: -ɛndɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depend
appealed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpiːld/
rhymes: -iːld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of appeal
gasped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæspt/
ipa: /ɡɑːspt/
rhymes: -æspt
rhymes: -ɑːspt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gasp
termed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɝmd/
ipa: /tɜːmd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)md
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of term
strengthened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɛŋθənd/
note: pre-/ŋ/ tensing
ipa: [ˈstɹeɪŋ(k)θənd]
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strengthen
systematically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪs.təˈmæt.ɪ.kli/
ipa: /ˌsɪs.təˈmæt.ɪ.kli/
ipa: [ˌsɪs.təˈmæɾ.ɪ.kli]
Forms: form: more systematically
form: most systematically
Etymology: From systematic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Taxonomy seeks to systematically name all living organisms; each species has one name and everyone can figure out what that name is.
text: Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,[…]most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
text: Starting from this base list, a number of databases were systematically searched for terms, with especial effort taken to discover the earliest attestation possible[.]
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 5:
glosses: In a systematic manner; organizedly or methodically.
Synonyms: methodically
systemwise
Related terms: systematic
systematics
lurked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)kt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lurk
spaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spayings
Senses: examples: text: The veterinary surgeon carries out spayings almost every day.
glosses: The act or operation of neutering an animal; normally used in reference to performing the operation on a female.
spaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spay
shrinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɹɪŋkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ
Etymology: From shrink + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shrink
shrinking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɹɪŋkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ
Forms: form: more shrinking
form: most shrinking
Etymology: From shrink + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Shy and retiring.
Derived terms: shrinking violet
shrinking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɹɪŋkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ
Forms: form: shrinkings
Etymology: From shrink + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: […] the silent grief beyond the power of words—the generous consolations of the noble sister—the shrinkings of the poor criminal, and his relapsings into a gentler penitence […]
ref: 1822, The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, volume 6, page 10:
text: The notion of a gently-nurtured girl being at the mercy of that fiend incarnate […] was one which caused me tangible shrinkings of the body.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
glosses: The act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away.
smithy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɪði/
ipa: /ˈsmɪθi/
rhymes: -ɪði
rhymes: -ɪθi
Forms: form: smithies
Etymology: From Middle English smythy, from Old Norse smiðja, from Proto-Germanic *smiþjǭ. Cognate with Old English smiþþe (whence the obsolete modern doublet smithe). See the Proto-Germanic entry for further cognates.
Senses: examples: text: Traditionally a village smithy was a busy place because the smith's work was so necessary.
text: The workshop with its smithy is still intact, also the loading stage where the narrow-gauge wagons tipped their contents into those of the G.W.R.
ref: 1941 June, “Notes and News: The Derelict Glyn Valley Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 278:
text: Close to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade, though decorative wrought-ironwork is now the main product from its glowing forge.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, about Hambleden:
synonyms: forge
smithery
glosses: The location where a smith (particularly a blacksmith) works, a forge.
Derived terms: Smithy Bridge
smithy coal
smithy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɪði/
ipa: /ˈsmɪθi/
rhymes: -ɪði
rhymes: -ɪθi
Forms: form: smithies
form: smithying
form: smithied
form: smithied
Etymology: From Middle English smythy, from Old Norse smiðja, from Proto-Germanic *smiþjǭ. Cognate with Old English smiþþe (whence the obsolete modern doublet smithe). See the Proto-Germanic entry for further cognates.
Senses: examples: text: "That's funny looking mail, Sire," said Eustace.
"Aye, lad," said Tirian. "No Narnian dwarf smithied that. […]
ref: 1956, C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle:
text: So the old smith went out to his smithy and weighed out iron enough to make a stout staff a stone weight, and he smithied it well while his son looked on. […] So they weighed six stone of iron and smithied a great bent club like a shinny, and when that was made and cooled the smith's son said, "that will do."
ref: 1995, John Francis Campbell, The Celtic Dragon Myth, page 59:
glosses: To forge (metal), especially by traditional blacksmith methods.
shareholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛəˌhəʊl.də(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈʃɛɹˌhoʊl.dɚ/
ipa: /ˈʃeːˌhəʉl.də(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈʃeːˌhɐʉl.də(ɹ)/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈʃeəˌhɐʉl.də(ɹ)/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈʃiəˌhɐʉl.də(ɹ)/
Forms: form: shareholders
Etymology: From share + holder.
Senses: examples: text: Shareholders are the real owners of a publicly traded business, but management runs it.
text: Hudson personally would not face the music at that meeting and the business could hardly proceed for groans and hisses and cries of "Hudson! Hudson! Why is Hudson not here?" and so the ungrateful shareholders to whom Hudson had generously paid dividends out of their own capital cast out Hudson bag and baggage, including therein the agreement with the Newmarket Railway.
ref: 1941 December 24, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 533:
text: High prices have swelled profits for energy companies, leaving them flush with cash. And their shareholders are certainly feeling that windfall. Exxon Mobil made a record $59 billion profit in 2022, up 157% from the year prior, and the company plans to spend up to $50 billion buying back shares.
ref: 2023 February 21, Nicole Goodkind, “How oil and gas companies think about their shareholders”, in CNN:
text: As of March 2022, the Qatar Holding LLC, the investment arm of Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) was the single largest shareholder of QIB, owning 16.7% of the bank, while Nasser Al-Khelaifi, president of PSG, is a board member at QIA.
ref: 2023 March 20, Issy Ronald, “Manchester United is for sale, who could buy the world-famous club?”, in CNN:
glosses: One who owns shares of stock in a corporation.
Synonyms: stockholder
Coordinate terms: stakeholder
Derived terms: shareholder rights plan
shareholder value
niggerball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niggerballs
Etymology: From nigger + ball.
Senses: examples: text: 1972, Contrast, Volume 8, South African Literary Journal
Nigger-balls are the best sweets. You get four for a penny. When the black is sucked off you get pink and blue and blue-green, but you can't bite them until you've sucked them small or you'll chip your teeth.
text: That the words of Jeremy Taylor's Ag Pleez, Deddy have been changed to suit the times? No longer " … how we miss niggerballs and licorice … " but " … how we miss bullseyes and … " Ag pleez, Jeremy.
ref: 1979, Financial Mail, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: niggerballs and liquorice and the soft, brightly-coloured squares that the children loved.
ref: 2006, Jocelyn Howe, Crest of eagles:
glosses: A large black gobstopper (long-lasting candy).
examples: text: It's easy to see how Amerika's so easily turning into a police state, give the unwashed masses their television and some niggerball and they'll ignore the fact that they're slaves.
ref: 2002, Lieberal Death, “Your TV viewing for This Evening”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):
text: […] two-hundred dollar tennis shoes named after some niggerball player […]
ref: 2004, H. A. Covington, A Distant Thunder:
glosses: The sport of basketball.
Related terms: jawbreaker
pocketbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒ.kɪt.bʊk/
ipa: /ˈpɑ.kɪtˌbʊk/
Forms: form: pocketbooks
form: pocket-book
form: pocket book
Etymology: 1610s, from pocket + book, popularized in its sense as a paperback by the success of Pocket Books in the United States after its 1939 launch.
Senses: glosses: A purse or handbag.
glosses: A wallet for paper money.
synonyms: pocket
glosses: One's personal budget or financial capacity; the amount one can afford.
examples: text: The publishers brought out small format pocketbooks of the whole of their nature series.
text: The kit is produced in three parts including a pocket book designed to fit into a shirt pocket for everyday on-the-job use, a more detailed guide and a training CD. The kit includes a hazard reporting and feedback notebook and hazard management process prompt cards to remind workers of common hazards they may encounter in day-to-day operations.
ref: c. 2005, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Risk Management Pocket Guide:
text: "I have now lost", he wrote in his pocketbook, "the last barrier between me and death..."
ref: 2011, Leslie Stephen, Swift, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 10:
text: Dave recorded the information in his pocketbook and looked Gibbs straight in the eye.
ref: 2015, Graham Ison, Whispering Grass, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A small book, particularly (US) a paperback or (UK) notebook able to fit into a pocket (of any genre, from reference work to fine art).
glosses: A small book, particularly (US) a paperback or (UK) notebook able to fit into a pocket (of any genre, from reference work to fine art).
A romance novel published as a small paperback.
Derived terms: champagne taste on a beer pocketbook
pocketbook issue
Related terms: pocketable
pocket-sized
vade mecum
Norma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)mə
Etymology: Coined name of an imaginary Celtic priestess in Bellini's opera Norma (1831). Sometimes explained as Latin norma (“pattern, model”), or as a feminine form of Norman.
Senses: examples: text: I wish I could remember that girl's Christian name. Something connected with a song...Thora? Speak to me, Thora, Thora, Thora. Something like that, or Myra? Myra, oh Myra my love is all for thee... Norma? Or do I mean Maritana? Norma - Norma Restarick. That's right, I'm sure.
ref: 1966, Agatha Christie, Third Girl, page 6:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
Norma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)mə
Etymology: Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin norma (“a carpenter's square”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An inconspicuous constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a carpenter's square. It lies south of the constellations Scorpius and Centaurus.
Derived terms: Normae
norma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normas
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin norma. Doublet of norm.
Senses: glosses: A norm.
glosses: A template.
glosses: A square for measuring right angles.
negligent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛɡ.lɪ.d͡ʒənt/
Forms: form: more negligent
form: most negligent
Etymology: From Middle English necligent, negligent, from Old French negligent, from Latin negligēns.
Senses: examples: text: grossly negligent
text: negligent behavior
text: act in a negligent manner towards his pupils
text: The driver was found negligent in causing the accident.
glosses: Careless or inattentive.
examples: text: prove someone negligent
topics: law
glosses: Culpable due to negligence.
Derived terms: negligent entrustment
nonnegligent
overnegligent
unnegligent
Related terms: negligence
negligently
merrily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛɹɪli/
Forms: form: more merrily
form: most merrily
Etymology: From Middle English merily, from Old English myriġlīċe; equivalent to merry + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: So quickly the poore mans ſubſtance is ſpent,
But merrily with the world it went,
VVhen men eat berries of the hauthorne tree, […]
And old men knew not vſurie:
Now tis come to a wofull paſſe, […]
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
text: Ariell:
Where the Bee ſucks, there ſuck I,
In a Cowslips bell, I lie,
There I cowch when Owles doe crie,
On the Batts backe I doe flie
  after Sommer merrily.
Merrily, merrily, ſhall I liue now
Vnder the bloſſom that hangs on the Bow.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 17:
text: Then Heidi would sit down and chatter merrily away.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 50:
synonyms: word: joyously
word: mirthfully
word: blessedly
word: bubblingly
word: chearfully
word: cheerfully
word: cheerily
word: cheerly
word: eudaemonically
word: eupeptically
word: gaily
word: gayly
word: genially
word: gladly
word: happily
word: joyfully
word: joyously
word: lightheartedly
word: merrily
word: mirthfully
glosses: In a cheerful or merry way.
carpenter's square
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpenter's squares
form: carpentry square
Senses: glosses: A tool used to measure out right angles.
Synonyms: sense: tool
word: steel square
Hyponyms: sense: tool
word: framing square
inequality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭnĭkwŏl'ĭtē
ipa: /ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/
enpr: ĭn-ĭʹkwŏ-lĭ-tē
ipa: /ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/
ipa: [ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ɾi]
Forms: form: inequalities
form: inæquality
Etymology: From Middle English inequalite, from Old French inequalité, from Medieval Latin inaequālitās, from Latin inaequālis (“unequal”), from in- (“not”) + aequālis (“equal”).
Morphologically inequal + -ity and in- + equality.
Senses: examples: text: The inequality in living standards led to a civil war as the have nots rebelled.
text: The traditional inequalities of marriage, such as changing her surname to his.
ref: 1976 February 14, A. Nolder Gay, “The View from the Closet”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 17:
text: In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
ref: 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
text: With the growing awareness of climate change, congestion, and regional inequality, rail transport has re-emerged as a solution.
ref: 2025 July 9, Oliver Wheeler, “Action stations...”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 68:
glosses: An unfair, not equal, state.
examples: text: The inequality x is less than y, together with that ylt;z, allows us to deduce the inequality xlt;z.
text: I then specify a set of new tight Bell inequalities for arbitrary event spaces -- the "even/odd" inequalities -- which have a straightforward interpretation when expressed in terms of multideviations.
ref: 2015, Brandon Fogel, “Multideviations: The hidden structure of Bell's theorems”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A statement that of two quantities one is specifically less than (or greater than) another. Symbol: < or ≤ or > or ≥ or ne , as appropriate.
examples: text: When we behold a wide, turf-covered expanse, we should remember that its smoothness, upon which so much of its beauty depends, is mainly due to all the inequalities having been levelled by worms.
ref: 1881, Charles Darwin, The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms, page 313:
glosses: unevenness, irregularity
Synonyms: sense: statement in mathematics
word: inequation
word: difference
word: disparity
word: imparity
word: inequality
word: nonequivilence
word: unevenness
Hyponyms: word: Bhatia-Davis inequality
word: Bonferroni inequality
word: Boole's inequality
word: Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
word: Chebyshev's inequality
word: CHSH inequality
word: Jensen's inequality
word: marriage inequality
word: Minkowski inequality
word: periodic inequality
word: Popoviciu's inequality
word: Schwarz inequality
word: triangle inequality
word: von Neumann's inequality
word: inferiority
word: superiority
Related terms: word: ≠
word: disequilibrium
word: imbalance
word: instability
word: prejudice
labored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laboured
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of labor
labored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more labored
form: most labored
form: laboured
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of laboured.
Derived terms: laboredly
nonlabored
dispulsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈpʌl.ʃən/
ipa: /dɪsˈpʊl.ʃən/
Forms: form: dispulsions
Senses: examples: text: The dispulsion of rumors is a difficult process.
glosses: The act of dispelling (e.g. myths or rumors), or the state of being dispelled.
examples: A braking system is used for the dispulsion of a motor vehicle.
glosses: Negative propulsion; reduction in propulsion; deceleration.
Related terms: dispel
lankiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæŋ.kɪ.nɪs/
Etymology: From lanky + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In his civil dress his lankiness and length of limb gave him an awkward appearance, but on horse-back, with his lean, gaunt face looking out from his steel cap, his breastplate and buff jacket filling out his figure, and his high boots of untanned leather reaching to the centre of his thighs, he looked the veteran man-at-arms.
ref: 1888, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 8, in Micah Clarke:
glosses: The state or condition of being lanky.
landward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: landwards
Etymology: From land + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: The seamen furl the canvas, strike the mast,
Then dip their nimble oars, and landward haste.
ref: 1718, Nicholas Rowe, Lucan’s Pharsalia Translated into English Verse, 2nd edition, London: J. Tonson, published 1722, Volume I, Book III, lines 73-74, p. 122:
text: ’Twas the returning tide, that afar from the waste of the ocean,
With the first dawn of the day, came heaving and hurrying landward.
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “V”, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part I, lines 661-662:
text: The intertidal mud or sand flat habitat is continuous with many other habitats. Landward, it may be bordered by a beach, marsh, bulkhead, or stretch of riprap.
ref: 1984, Alice Jane Lippson, Robert L. Lippson, chapter 3, in Life in the Chesapeake Bay, 2nd edition, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, published 1997, page 50:
text: 2014, “Is Australia responsible for asylum seekers detained on Manus Island?” ABC News, 27 February, 2014,
“The position of successive Australian Governments has been that the Refugees Convention only applies to persons within Australia’s territorial boundaries (that is, landward of the outer limits of the territorial sea),” the report said.
glosses: Toward the land.
landward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From land + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: The Generall then being at supper, and hearing that call, and looking out to landward, sawe those savage people comming after [Fernan Veloso], and presently imagined they meant him harme, and therefore forthwith he commaunded the whole to put themselves in battaile araye, and he himselfe with certaine others, went to landward without anye weapons, deeming verely that those blacke men meant him no harme, nor would offer annye force […]
ref: 1582, chapter 2, in Nicholas Lichefield, transl., The First Booke of the Historie of the Discoverie and Conquest of the East Indias […] set foorth in the Portingale language by Hernan Lopes de Castaneda, London: Thomas East:
text: The Town is large, containing about five hundred well-built Houses, built with Dutch-Brick, and the meanest not valued under one hundred Pounds; to the landward it is encompassed with a Wall of a good thickness, and fortified at the entrance of the River, so as to command any Ship which passeth that way, by a Fort, called James-Fort […]
ref: 1687, Richard Blome, “A Description of New-York”, in The Present State of His Majesties Isles and Territories in America, London: D. Newman, page 203:
text: He sailed along, still northward, day after day; several important people joined him; but the news from landward grew daily more ominous […]
ref: 1875, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 10, in The Early Kings of Norway, London: Chapman & Hall, page 139:
text: Rude and bare hills embraced the inlet upon either hand; it was enclosed to the landward by a bulk of shattered mountains.
ref: 1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas, Part 1, Chapter 1:
glosses: The side facing land.
laboured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.bɚd/
ipa: /ˈleɪ.bəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of labour
laboured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.bɚd/
ipa: /ˈleɪ.bəd/
Forms: form: more laboured
form: most laboured
Senses: examples: text: At the end of the marathon, her laboured breathing told us she was exhausted.
glosses: Expressive of strenuous effort.
glosses: Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production.
Derived terms: labouredly
unlaboured
drifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪftɪd/
rhymes: -ɪftɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drift
matzo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmætsə/
ipa: /ˈmætsəʊ/
ipa: /ˌmɑːˈtsɑː/
ipa: /ˈmɑtsə/
ipa: /ˈmɑtsoʊ/
ipa: /ˌmɑˈtsɑ/
rhymes: (UK) -ætsə
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: matzos
form: matzot
form: matzoth
form: matsah
form: matza
form: matzah
form: matzoh
Etymology: Back-formation from matzos, which is borrowed from the Ashkenazi pronunciation of Hebrew מצות (matsót), the plural of מַצָּה (matsá).
Senses: examples: text: Matzo is eaten by Jews on Passover.
text: Like the Kopelmans, they have a Christmas tree with dreidel ornaments and a menorah, which they light each night. Pham learned to cook matzo ball soup.
ref: 2012 December 14, Emanuella Grinberg and Christina Zdanowicz, “Celebrating Chrismukkah: Shalom stockings and Hanukkah bushes”, in CNN, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2013:
glosses: Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine.
examples: text: [W]hen a Hamas spokesman recently stood by his statement that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children for their matzos – one of the oldest anti-Semitic canards around – European elites were largely silent.
ref: 2014 August 20, “Why Jews are worried [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:
glosses: A piece of the above bread.
Derived terms: egg matzo
matzo ball
shmurah matzo
ghoulish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡuː.lɪʃ/
rhymes: -uːlɪʃ
Forms: form: more ghoulish
form: most ghoulish
Etymology: From ghoul + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Ay, even the droll humour and solidity of Khalid, are shaken, aroused, by the ghoulish greed, the fell inhumanity of these sharpers.
ref: 1910 January 12, Ameen Rihani, “Via Dolorosa”, in The Book of Khalid, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published October 1911, →OCLC, book the first (In the Exchange), page 29:
synonyms: ghouly
glosses: Of or pertaining to ghouls.
examples: text: We had that afternoon dug a grave in the cellar, and would have to fill it by dawn -- for although we had fixed a lock on the house, we wished to shun even the remotest risk of a ghoulish discovery.
ref: 1922, H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West: Reanimator:
glosses: Of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing.
examples: text: We’ll be neither ghoulish nor squeamish about death; it happens, the chances increase with age, and we need to take the possibility into consideration.
ref: 2024 October 25, Elie Honig, “How the 2024 Election Will Reshape the Supreme Court”, in New York:
text: At times it seemed almost an afterthought, during an extended trial subject to ghoulish fascination, that Don Patterson, Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson died terrible deaths.
ref: 2025 July 7, Nino Bucci, “Australian mushroom murders: Erin Patterson guilty verdict ends weeks of laborious detail and ghoulish fascination”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Fascinated by corpses; morbid.
Derived terms: ghoulishly
ghoulishness
unghoulish
Related terms: ghastly
macabre
DipIT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Diploma in Information Technology.
spritely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɹaɪtli/
rhymes: -aɪtli
Forms: form: spritelier
form: spriteliest
Etymology: From sprite + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a sprite.
examples: text: Many of Porter's lyrics display a charming, playful irony, a sense of amused mischief and the insight of an outsider, a romantic observer. All that and more is cleverly and meticulously wedded to inventive music and rhythms, a unique blend of spritely intelligence and artful craftsmanship.
ref: 1991 December 1, Rudy Grillo, “Who's The Top?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 8:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sprightly.
spritely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɹaɪtli/
rhymes: -aɪtli
Forms: form: more spritely
form: most spritely
Etymology: From sprite + -ly (adverb suffix).
Senses: glosses: In a manner reminiscent of a sprite.
calligraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkælɪˈɡɹæfɪk/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek καλλιγραφικός (kalligraphikós).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
glosses: Written in an artistic style or manner, as calligraphy.
Derived terms: anticalligraphic
calligraphically
calligraphic projection
noncalligraphic
Related terms: calligrapher
calligraphy
Leo Minor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1687. From Latin leō, a "lion" + minor, "lesser"
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a small lion. It lies north of the constellation Leo and south of Ursa Major.
Derived terms: Leonis Minoris
Related terms: Leo
lacertus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈsɝː.təs/
Forms: form: lacerti
form: lacert
Etymology: From Late Latin lacertus (“muscle”), from Classical Latin lacertus (“upper arm”), possibly from lacerta (“lizard”). For the semantics, compare muscle from mūsculus (“little mouse”), derived from a supposed resemblance to little mice.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A bundle or fascicle of muscular fibres.
close in on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: closes in on
form: closing in on
form: closed in on
form: closed in on
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes it feels like the walls are closing in on me.
glosses: To enclose around; to tighten or shrink; to collapse.
examples: text: The police closed in on the suspect.
glosses: To catch up with in a chase; to near the end of a pursuit.
examples: text: I think we are closing in on the end of this project.
glosses: To near a goal or completion.
pizazz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æz
Senses: examples: text: Pizazz, to quote the editor of the Harvard Lampoon, is an indefinable dynamic quality, the je ne sais quoi of function; as, for instance, adding Scotch puts the pizazz into a drink. Certain clothes have it, too. 1. There's pizazz in this rust evening coat, swinging wide in back, jutting crazily over the shoulders, clasped with a cord at the throat.
ref: 1937, Harper’s Bazaar, volume LXXI, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Corp., →OCLC, page 116:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pizzazz.
Derived terms: pizazzy
mustard gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mustard gases
Etymology: Calque of German Senfgas.
Senses: examples: text: The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
text: The necessarily elaborate precautions taken to decontaminate vehicles and trains which have been in contact with mustard gas were shown, and examples of the board's breakdown and ambulance vehicles were available for inspection.
ref: 1939 June, “What the Railways are Doing: London Transport Air Raid Precautions”, in Railway Magazine, page 462:
text: With the cessation of hostilities, the military traffic declined considerably, although at least two years will be required to remove the many thousands of tons of explosives still stored at the depot. The supplies of mustard gas have already been despatched to Stranraer to be dumped in the sea, and the disposal of ¾-million land mines has called for the provision of 17 special trains.
ref: 1947 January and February, “Wartime Traffic at Tanfield, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 47:
glosses: A highly cytotoxic vesicant, C₄H₈Cl₂S, used in World War I that is known to cause skin burns, blisters, inflammation, edema, and potentially other respiratory effects.
Synonyms: dichlorodiethyl sulfide
sulfur mustard
sulphur mustard
yellow cross liquid
yperite
Summer Triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Summer Triangle
Senses: topics: astronomy
cartography
geography
natural-sciences
uranography
glosses: A bright asterism of the northern summer sky. Its corners are the three 1st-magnitude stars Altair (α Aql), Deneb (α Cyg), and Vega (α Lyr).
Related terms: Winter Triangle
pull-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊl.ʌp/
Forms: form: pull-ups
form: pullup
form: pull up
Etymology: Deverbal from pull up.
Senses: examples: text: DeWitt compared the average number of pullups college men can do grasping the bar with palms toward the face (supinated) and palms away from the face (pronated), and with kicking and kipping while raising the body. The subjects averaged 2.08 more pullups with the palms supinated than with the palms pronated.
ref: 1978 Physical Fitness Research Digest page 3
ref: 1983, An Electromyographic Study of the Latissimus Dorsi and Pectoralis Major During the Performance of Pronated and Supinated Pull-ups:
text: 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
I did lots of push-ups and pull-ups, and my only regret is that I stopped doing them as a young adult when I finally got to work out in health clubs instead of my basement or garage.
glosses: An exercise done for strengthening the arms and back in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar. Palms may be facing in any direction.
Coordinate terms: chin-up
muscle-up
Derived terms: Australian pull-up
pull-up bar
Related terms: pull-up boy
push-up
sit-up
pull-up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊl.ʌp/
Forms: form: pull-ups
form: pull-upping
form: pull-upped
form: pull-upped
form: pullup
form: pull up
Etymology: Deverbal from pull up.
Senses: examples: 2012, The Young Despondents. Jason M. Burns.
With a sleek yet muscular build, Nick out pullupped everyone during physical fitness week
2010, Designation Gold Rogue Warrior. Richard Marcinko
From there, things were easy—well, relatively easy. I stood on the rail, reached up, grasped the floor of the balcony above, fingertip pull-upped onto the lip, found another four inches of finger purchase, raised myself high enough […]
glosses: To do a pull-up or pull oneself up similarly.
pull-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊl.ʌp/
Forms: form: pull-ups
form: pullup
form: pull up
Etymology: Genericized trademark: from the Pull-Ups brand of training pants sold by Huggies.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of training pants (“undergarments worn by incontinent people, typically infants, to aid in toilet training during the transition between diapers and underpants”).
synonyms: word: training pants
extra: undergarments worn by incontinent people, typically infants, to aid in toilet training during the transition between diapers and underpants
pull-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊl.ʌp/
Forms: form: pull-ups
form: pullup
form: pull up
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A pull-up resistor.
chin-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɪn.ʌp/
Forms: form: chin-ups
Etymology: From chin + up, but not a deverbal, unlike pull-up. The chin-up and the muscle-up as variations of pulling oneself upward were named later than the pull-up, with influence from its name.
Senses: examples: text: Compare the actions of the humerus during the performance of a chin-up with supinated grip with those during the performance of a chin-up with pronated grip. Are the chin-ups alike or different with respect to muscle involvement?
ref: 1973 Marilyn M. Hinson, Kinesiology, page 63
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: (US) An exercise done for strengthening the arms and back, in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar. It can be defined more restrictively on criteria like the arms starting at lock-out, or the chin requiring contact with the bottom of the bar, or touching the neck to the bar. Palms may be facing in any direction.
Coordinate terms: muscle-up
pull-up
Derived terms: chin-up bar
Sextans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1690. From Latin sextans, a "sextant" (nautical measuring implement)
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A dim spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a sextant. It lies south of the constellation of Leo.
Derived terms: Sextantis
push-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊʃˌʌp/
Forms: form: pushup
Etymology: Deverbal from push up.
Senses: examples: text: Talk about lucky stripes: This push-up top features pads to provide oomph and make sure the girls stay sunny-side up.
ref: 2008, Women's Health, page 141:
text: I paused to say, “Good,” then returned to breathing and vocalizing while I repeatedly bent over, stretched, and rolled up slowly, warming up my spine—and ignoring the way the wires of my push-up corset poked and squeezed me.
ref: 2011, Laura Resnick, Vamparazzi: Book Four of Esther Diamond, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: In the sharper light of his hotel room, the woman's skin looked overpowdered; her bra was push-up, a pendant nestled in the cleavage.
ref: 2015, Robin Kirman, Bradstreet Gate: A Novel, Crown, →ISBN:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Supporting the breasts to increase their apparent size.
examples: text: Season's most popular blouses feature push-up sleeves, little- boy collars, dainty ties.
ref: 1952, Jet, page 41:
text: These intriguing outfits feature harem pants with long draped front-panel belts, slinky, sleeveless coats, flowing dresses that cling, trousers with push-up legs and deep-cut pants that reveal a whole lot of slim, smooth belly- button and all!
ref: 1971, Ebony, page 121:
text: A lovely body-skimming blouson with flattering full sleeves and wide push-up cuffs.
ref: 1992, The American Legion:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Designed to be worn rolled up.
Derived terms: push-up bra
push-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊʃˌʌp/
Forms: form: push-ups
form: pushup
Etymology: Deverbal from push up.
Senses: examples: 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
I did lots of push-ups and pull-ups, and my only regret is that I stopped doing them as a young adult when I finally got to work out in health clubs instead of my basement or garage.
synonyms: press-up#Noun
hypernyms: exercise#Noun
coordinate_terms: chin-up#Noun
pull-up#Noun
sit-up#Noun
glosses: An exercise done to improve upper body strength, performed by resting on one's toes and hands and pushing one's weight off the floor.
examples: text: Push-ups give girls with smaller breasts an extra bit of lift and shape.
ref: 2004, Katie Meier, A Girl's Guide to Life, page 93:
glosses: A push-up bra.
Derived terms: girl push-up
Hindu push-up
knee push-up
modified push-up
push-up bar
push-up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊʃˌʌp/
Forms: form: push-ups
form: push-upping
form: push-upped
form: push-upped
form: pushup
Etymology: Deverbal from push up.
Senses: examples: text: Jenk kept off to the side, but joined the class as they started their push-ups.[…] Jenk push-upped, eyes on the ground.
ref: 2006, Suzanne Brockmann, Into the Storm, page 154:
glosses: To perform a push-up, or to lift oneself off the ground in a push-up–like manner.
sextans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sextantes
Etymology: From Latin sextāns, from sex (“six”).
Senses: glosses: A Roman coin worth one sixth of an as.
Berber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːbə/
ipa: /ˈbɝ.bɚ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Berbers
form: Berber
Etymology: From Arabic بَرْبَرِيّ (barbariyy, “Berber”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek, foreign, barbarian”), apparently imitative of foreign speech. Cognate of English barbarian.
Senses: qualifier: potentially offensive; occasionally proscribed; potentially offensive; occasionally proscribed
glosses: A member of a particular ethnic group indigenous to northwest Africa.
examples: text: Berbers are the best example of looped carpet […]
ref: 2009, Jean Nayar, Staged to Sell (or Keep) (page 55)
qualifier: plural only "Berbers"
glosses: A kind of traditional rug manufactured by the Berber people.
Synonyms: english: singular: Amazigh
translation: singular: Amazigh
word: Imazighen
Berber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːbə/
ipa: /ˈbɝ.bɚ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Arabic بَرْبَرِيّ (barbariyy, “Berber”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek, foreign, barbarian”), apparently imitative of foreign speech. Cognate of English barbarian.
Senses: glosses: A group of closely related Afroasiatic languages spoken in northern Africa, particularly Morocco and Algeria.
Derived terms: Proto-Berber
Berber
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːbə/
ipa: /ˈbɝ.bɚ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Arabic بَرْبَرِيّ (barbariyy, “Berber”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek, foreign, barbarian”), apparently imitative of foreign speech. Cognate of English barbarian.
Senses: glosses: Of the Berber people, their culture, or their language.
Related terms: Berberophone
lay the groundwork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays the groundwork
form: laying the groundwork
form: laid the groundwork
form: laid the groundwork
Senses: examples: text: The introductory mathematics courses will lay the groundwork for all your subsequent engineering studies.
text: Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law. It is estimated that 2,000 Jordanians have fought and 250 of them have died in Syria – making them the third largest Arab contingent in Isis after Saudi Arabians and Tunisians.
ref: 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To create a foundation; to provide the basics or fundamentals.
daily grind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daily grinds
Senses: examples: text: As soon as he has the money to retire, he plans to leave the daily grind and travel more.
text: “Why bother with the daily grind when you can go to Mosul, get paid $400 a month, get a wife – and live an Islamic way,” went an exchange between two men overheard by a fellow passenger in a taxi. Rumour has it that a woman whose husband died fighting with Isis now receives a generous widow’s pension from jihadi coffers.
ref: 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The difficult, routine, or monotonous tasks of daily work.
Related terms: nose to the grindstone
day in, day out
nine to five
not on your life
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Do you think I will ever go back after that? Not on your life!
synonyms: no chance
not a chance
by no means
no fear
nothing doing
no way
chance'd be a fine thing
not on your nelly
glosses: Absolutely not; under no circumstances.
Related terms: not touch something with a ten foot pole
over my dead body
no way
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I suppose that meanes meerely humane can no way be capable of it[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: I get it. No way can me and Mickie talk to Rodrigo about what just happened up at the bench he's standing in the big holding cell, other mopes standing around waiting for their cases to be called, eavesdropping on what we're telling him.
ref: 2007, Ron Liebman, Death by Rodrigo, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 133:
glosses: in no way; not at all
no way
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: no ways
Senses: examples: text: Touch that weird rock over there, I dare you! —No way!
glosses: Absolutely not; under no circumstances.
examples: text: You failed your exam again? No way!
text: He's hitting 400 for two months? Uh-uh! No way!
glosses: Indicates astonished disbelief.
Synonyms: word: no
sense: absolutely not
word: no chance
sense: absolutely not
word: fat chance
sense: absolutely not
word: not a chance
sense: absolutely not
word: not on your life
sense: absolutely not
word: by no means
sense: absolutely not
word: no fear
sense: absolutely not
word: chance'd be a fine thing
sense: indication of disbelief
word: unbelievable
sense: indication of disbelief
word: no kidding
sense: indication of disbelief
word: what the fuck
sense: indication of disbelief
word: what the
Coordinate terms: yes way
Derived terms: no way Jose
no way, no how
Related terms: no dice