cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
trappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trapping.
Senses: examples: text: He went through his belongings, gradually shedding the trappings of youth.
glosses: Clothing or equipment.
examples: text: Whether any of the relatives of the seamen whose names appeared there were now among the congregation, I knew not; but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery, and so plainly did several women present wear the countenance if not the trappings of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure that here before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state. It issues its own passports, flies its own flag, prints its own currency (“the duble”), and has a national anthem that’s played on state occasions.
ref: 2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, in CNN:
text: The second half was not a siege of the England goal but it had the trappings of it.
ref: 2024 June 16, David Hytner, “Jude Bellingham gives England winning start but Serbia make Southgate sweat”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Something which gives the appearance of something.
glosses: Ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse; caparisons.
trappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trap.
Senses: glosses: plural of trapping
Related terms: trapping
transmitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: trănsmĭtʹĭd
enpr: trănzmĭtʹĭd
ipa: /tɹænsˈmɪtɪd/
ipa: /tɹænzˈmɪtɪd/
Senses: examples: a telegraphically transmitted message
glosses: That has been transmitted (in a specified manner).
Derived terms: sexually transmitted disease
sexually transmitted infection
transmitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: trănsmĭtʹĭd
enpr: trănzmĭtʹĭd
ipa: /tɹænsˈmɪtɪd/
ipa: /tɹænzˈmɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transmit
supporting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈpɔɹtɪŋ/
ipa: /səˈpɔːtɪŋ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /səˈpo(ː)ɹtɪŋ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /səˈpoətɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tɪŋ
Forms: form: more supporting
form: most supporting
Senses: glosses: That supports.
Derived terms: self-supporting
supporting actor
supporting actress
supporting aircraft
supporting arms
supporting artillery
supporting attack
supporting character
supporting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈpɔɹtɪŋ/
ipa: /səˈpɔːtɪŋ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /səˈpo(ː)ɹtɪŋ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /səˈpoətɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of support
supporting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈpɔɹtɪŋ/
ipa: /səˈpɔːtɪŋ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /səˈpo(ː)ɹtɪŋ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /səˈpoətɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tɪŋ
Forms: form: supportings
Senses: examples: text: But supposing that heaven had a Lord, then all included in its overspreadings and supportings, throughout the myriad of states, and within the four seas, would invariably be under the government of Heaven's Lord […]
ref: 1847, Walter Henry Medhurst, A Dissertation on the Theology of the Chinese, page 252:
text: […] the pumps could he installed at once on the completion of the pump-house supportings.
ref: 1913, Proceedings of the Lake Superior Mining Institute:
glosses: That which supports something else; a support.
have one's work cut out for one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's work cut out for one
form: having one's work cut out for one
form: had one's work cut out for one
form: had one's work cut out for one
form: have one's work cut out
Senses: examples: text: If he plans to translate all the idioms, he has his work cut out for him.
text: While Henry will no doubt earmark areas for improvement, and take into account the weakness of the opposition, it was a far more efficient and focused display than against Tonga and suggests the French will have their work cut out to avoid finishing second in the group in Auckland next week.
ref: 2011 September 16, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 83-7 Japan”, in BBC Sport:
text: Republicans will have their work cut out for them trying to shift blame to Democrats for their own erratic, haphazard and incoherent process.
ref: 2018 January 18, Jennifer Rubin, “How the Republicans are blowing their blame game”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: To face a large task or project.
Related terms: be in for
job of work
run for one's money
spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪɹɪts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spirit
spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪɹɪts/
Senses: glosses: plural of spirit
spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪɹɪts/
Senses: synonyms: word: liquor
english: chiefly American English
translation: chiefly American English
glosses: Distilled alcoholic beverages.
Derived terms: animal spirits
ardent spirits
neutral spirits
wood spirits
Related terms: hard liquor
short drink
shooter
kooky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːki/
ipa: /ˈkʊki/
ipa: /ˈkuki/
rhymes: -uːki
rhymes: -ʊki
Forms: form: kookies
Etymology: Clipping of kookaburra + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kookie (“kookaburra”).
on-side kick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: on-side kicks
form: onside kick
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A play in American football whereby the team performing the kick-off kicks the ball the minimum distance (ten yards in most levels of play) in an attempt to immediately regain possession of the ball.
T-tail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: T-tails
Senses: examples: text: The C-5 Galaxy is the mightiest of all T-tails.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of aircraft that has the horizontal stabilizer situated atop, or near the top of, the vertical stabilizer.
épater le bourgeois
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: épater la bourgeoisie
Etymology: Borrowed from French épater le bourgeois (“amaze the bourgeois”).
Senses: examples: text: All that was needed were the heroes willing to act out the fantasies the public now accepted as reality: the hero, as hedonist, who dares to do in public what the public wants to see. It was épater les bourgeois as a bourgeois calling.
ref: 1987, Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students:
glosses: To scandalize, provoke the middle class.
Chevrolet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʃɛvɹəˈleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: From French Chevrolet. The car company was named after its founder Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941).
Senses: examples: text: Chevrolet has introduced a new model for 1964: the Malibu. See your dealer today!
text: Do you remember back in old L.A. / When everybody drove a Chevrolet?
ref: 1974, “Beach Baby”, performed by The First Class:
text: Settle down, raise a family, join the PTA
Buy some sensible shoes and a Chevrolet
ref: 1985, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Dare to Be Stupid”, in Dare to Be Stupid, performed by "Weird Al" Yankovic:
synonyms: Chevy
coordinate_terms: Saturn#Proper noun
Pontiac#Proper noun
Oldsmobile
Olds
Buick#Proper noun
Cadillac#Proper noun
glosses: A brand of automobile, originally independent and long since a part of GM.
glosses: A surname from French.
Derived terms: Chevy
Chevrolet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʃɛvɹəˈleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: Chevrolets
Etymology: From French Chevrolet. The car company was named after its founder Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941).
Senses: examples: text: I saw a late-model Chevrolet pull around back. That would have been around 10 PM.
synonyms: Chevy#Noun
coordinate_terms: Saturn#Noun
Pontiac#Noun
Oldsmobile#Noun
Olds#Noun
Buick#Noun
Cadillac#Noun
glosses: A vehicle of this make.
kiddo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪdoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪdəʊ
Forms: form: kiddos
form: kiddoes
Etymology: From kid + -o; see kid (“child”).
Senses: examples: text: Okay, kiddo, I gotta run.
text: “Hey, Rick.” “Oh, hey, kiddo. How's your Saturday?” “You know, super chill. W-W-Whatcha doin'?” “Eh, nothing adventurous. You know that race of Underground Dwelling Cannibal Horse People that we're always fighting?” “Yeah, the CHUDs. W-W-What about 'em? “Well, don't tell anybody, but I'm working on a bioweapon to use against them, so I got this barrel of horse semen from your mom's hospital and I'm just gonna, you know, subject it to some otherworldly forces.”
ref: 2021 July 11, Nick Rutherford, “Rickdependence Spray” (1:10 from the start), in Rick and Morty, season 5, episode 4, spoken by Rick Sanchez (Justin Roiland):
glosses: A close friend; especially used as a form of address.
examples: text: The books say it's normal. Toddlers often stop napping around this age, and the average amount of sleep needed by a two-year-old is between nine and thirteen hours. My kiddo cuts logs for twelve hours at a stretch, so she's plenty rested.
ref: 2008, Robin Dutton-Cookston, The Foggiest Idea: Tales of a Displaced Texan in San Francisco Mamaland, page 51:
glosses: A child.
backstabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækˌstæbɚ/
Forms: form: backstabbers
Etymology: From back + stabber.
Senses: synonyms: snake in the grass
antonyms: backstabbee
hyponyms: smiling assassin
glosses: A traitor or hypocrite, such as a co-worker or friend assumed trustworthy but who figuratively attacks when one's back is turned.
Related terms: stab in the back
artsy-fartsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: artsy-fartsier
form: artsy-fartsiest
Senses: examples: text: Also peppered throughout are a few off-kilter and diverse jams that might represent what Spears was talking about when she said she wanted Glory to be “artsy fartsy.”
ref: 2016 August 26, Spencer Kornhaber, “Britney Spears Finds Grace in the Hook-Up on 'Glory'”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Alternative form of arty-farty.
back-to-back
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæk.təˈbæk/
Senses: examples: text: Ruth and Gehrig hit back-to-back home runs.
text: They sat through two back-to-back movies.
text: An injury-time goal from Nikola Zigic against an obdurate Stoke side gave Birmingham back-to back Premier League wins for the first time in 14 months.
ref: 2011 February 12, Les Roopanarine, “Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke”, in BBC:
glosses: Sequential or consecutive.
glosses: With one's back facing that of somebody else.
examples: text: Seen in laboratory frame the photon-jet pair is not any longer back-to-back and the energy balance is distorted.
ref: 2009, R. Fiore, Alessandro Papa, Igor Ivanov, Jacques Soffer, Diffraction 2008: International Workshop on Diffraction in High Energy Physics, Amer Inst of Physics:
text: This produces two back-to-back jets of hadrons that dominate the inclusive high energy cross-section.
ref: 2000, S. Söldner-Rembold, Photon '99: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Structure and Interactions of the Photon, Including the 12th International Workshop on Photon-Photon Collisions, Freiburg, Germany, 23-27 May 1999:
text: Photons at leading order are produced back-to-back with an associated parton with nearly identical transverse momenta.
ref: 2015, Thomas Schörner-Sadenius, The Large Hadron Collider: Harvest of Run 1, Springer, →ISBN, page 392:
text: In the rest frame of the #92;pi⁰ the photons emerge back-to-back isotropically.
ref: 1992, David Shaw Brown, A Comparison of High Transverse Momentum Direct Photon and Neutral Pion Events in Negative Pion and Proton-nucleus Collisions at 31.5 GeV Center of Mass Energy:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Emerging in exactly opposite directions.
examples: text: We lived in a row of back-to-back houses.
glosses: Having a party wall at the rear.
raw_tags: of a house
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”).
synonyms: word: wired
extra: being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down
back-to-back
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæk.təˈbæk/
Senses: examples: text: A ScotRail Driver: [...] A good friend of mine overshot two stations back-to-back a couple of years ago. He tried to stop at one station and slid by it. Tried to stop at the next station. He slid by that, too.
ref: 2021 December 15, Paul Clifton, “There is nothing you can do”, in RAIL, number 946, page 37:
glosses: Alternative form of back to back.
back-to-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæk.təˈbæk/
Forms: form: back-to-backs
Senses: glosses: A house with a party wall at the rear.
examples: text: "He's been standing-by in town for the last week, talk to his back-to-back on the rig in the morning." ("Back-to-back" is the man on the rig who does your job when you're not there.
ref: 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 101:
qualifier: oil industry
glosses: One of a pair of rig workers who are rostered on alternately.
shucks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃʌks/
rhymes: -ʌks
Etymology: From shuck (“something valueless”).
Senses: examples: text: Shucks. It's too bad you can't make it to the party.
glosses: Exclamatory response to a minor disappointment.
examples: text: Aw, shucks, ma'am, catching those wild horses was easy.
glosses: A bashful expression of thanks.
Derived terms: aw shucks
shucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃʌks/
rhymes: -ʌks
Etymology: From shuck (“something valueless”).
Senses: glosses: plural of shuck
shucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃʌks/
rhymes: -ʌks
Etymology: From shuck (“something valueless”).
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shuck
turbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜː.bəʊ/
ipa: /ˈtɝ.boʊ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bəʊ
Forms: form: turbos
Etymology: From turbine.
Senses: glosses: A turbine.
examples: text: Superchargers are generally heavier and more expensive than turbos […]
ref: 2008 February 17, Don Sherman, “More Power? Add Pressure”, in New York Times:
glosses: Clipping of turbocharger.
glosses: Clipping of turbojet.
glosses: Clipping of turbomolecular pump.
Derived terms: turbo broiler
turbo mode
turbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜː.bəʊ/
ipa: /ˈtɝ.boʊ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bəʊ
Forms: form: turbos
Etymology: From turbocharged (“increased power”). Also figurative, from the action of a turbocharger, which increases the speed of an automobile through the increase in power of an engine.
Senses: examples: text: Controllers with turbo features are banned from most competitive tournaments.
topics: video-games
glosses: Autofire.
turbo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜː.bəʊ/
ipa: /ˈtɝ.boʊ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bəʊ
Etymology: From turbocharged (“increased power”). Also figurative, from the action of a turbocharger, which increases the speed of an automobile through the increase in power of an engine.
Senses: examples: text: This is a turbo tournament: the blinds increase every 5 minutes! Level 1 = 150/300; level 2 = 200/400; etc.
glosses: With rapidly-increasing blind levels.
raw_tags: said of a poker tournament
examples: a turbo button on a controller; a PC equipped with a turbo mode
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
glosses: Causing or relating to increased speed.
examples: text: They act turbo wasted when they have more than a few beers in them.
glosses: Very, super, etc.; usually relating to a qualitative value (as opposed to quantitative).
turbo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜː.bəʊ/
ipa: /ˈtɝ.boʊ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bəʊ
Forms: form: turbos
form: turboing
form: turboed
form: turboed
Etymology: From turbocharged (“increased power”). Also figurative, from the action of a turbocharger, which increases the speed of an automobile through the increase in power of an engine.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: To autofire.
Derived terms: e-turbo
turbo cancer
turbo chook
turbo controller
Turbo Diesel
turbo mode
turbo roundabout
turbo trainer
turbo yeast
turbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜː.bəʊ/
ipa: /ˈtɝ.boʊ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bəʊ
Forms: form: turbos
Etymology: From the New Latin name of the genus Turbo.
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: A turban shell.
corny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːni/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹni/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ni
Forms: form: more corny
form: most corny
Etymology: From Latin cornu (“horn”).
Senses: examples: text: Up stood the cornie Reed.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.
doo-doo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːdu/
Forms: form: doodoo
Etymology: Reduplication of doo.
Senses: examples: text: Like a fly to doo-doo / You need me like a bird needs wings
ref: 1993, “El Jefe Speaks”, performed by Clutch:
text: Child: You're a doo-doo head.
glosses: Excrement.
examples: text: Profit margins are down and we're all in deep doo-doo.
glosses: Difficulty; trouble.
Synonyms: poo-poo
Derived terms: doodoohead
doo-doo hole
Related terms: doody
wolfish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊlfiʃ/
ipa: /ˈwʊlviʃ/
homophone: Woolfish
Forms: form: more wolfish
form: most wolfish
form: wolvish
Etymology: From wolf + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of, like, or pertaining to a wolf.
examples: text: a wolfish appetite
text: “[…] Here, Fangs! Fangs!” he ejaculated at the top of his voice to a ragged wolfish-looking dog […]
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter I, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought, and his first experience taught him an unforgetable lesson. It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it.
ref: 1903 July, Jack London, “The Law of Club and Fang”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 44:
glosses: Of, like, or pertaining to a wolf.
Suggestive or characteristic of a wolf.
glosses: Fierce; menacing; savage.
Synonyms: lupine
wolfy
wolflike
imperceptibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imperceptibly
form: most imperceptibly
Etymology: From imperceptible + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: No one noticed that he had moved imperceptibly backwards.
text: It often happens that the most important results in the natural world are brought about by causes which operate silently, if not imperceptibly.
ref: 1838, William Andrus Alcott, chapter I, in The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery, third stereotype edition, Boston: George W. Light, page 21:
text: The moon moved imperceptibly towards setting.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 154:
text: Which means that at the moment Raven entered her, a very small hypodermic needle slipped imperceptibly into the engorged frontal vein of his penis, automatically shooting a cocktail of powerful narcotics and depressants into his bloodstream.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 358:
glosses: Not noticeably; such that it cannot be detected, through being too small or too fast, etc.
noticeably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more noticeably
form: most noticeably
Etymology: From noticeable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We all saw it: he paled noticeably.
topics: manner
glosses: In a noticeable way.
examples: text: It suddenly became noticeably cooler when the sun went behind a cloud.
text: My best subject was the nature table, because I brought in the shiversome newts with their uterine flanged backs. I was moderately bullied. There were kids more noticeably tormentable than me.
ref: 2016, A. A. Gill, Pour Me a Life:
text: A normally bustling border crossing between Tanzania and Malawi was noticeably quieter than usual on Thursday as a result of an escalating regional trade row.
ref: 2025 April 24, Sammi Awami, “Tanzania bans South Africa and Malawi imports as trade row escalates”, in BBC:
qualifier: degree
glosses: To a detectable degree, sufficient to be noticed.
examples: text: Noticeably, what had been merely annoying to her was becoming infuriating.
glosses: In truth and observably.
Synonyms: sense: in a noticeable way
word: clearly
word: evidently
word: plainly
word: obviously
menacing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnɪsɪŋ/
Forms: form: more menacing
form: most menacing
Senses: glosses: Synonym of threatening in its various senses.
synonyms: word: threatening
extra: in its various senses
Derived terms: menacingly
menacingness
nonmenacing
unmenacing
menacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnɪsɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of menace
menacing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnɪsɪŋ/
Forms: form: menacings
Senses: examples: 1824-1826, William Cobbett, History of the Protestant Reformation
They remember his subornings, menacings, bribings, cuttings, maimings, hangings, and burnings.
glosses: The act of making menaces or threats.
detectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɛktəbəɫ/
Forms: form: more detectable
form: most detectable
Etymology: From detect + -able.
Senses: examples: text: There was a detectable pause before he continued. We all noticed it but no one commented.
glosses: That which can be detected, noticeable.
Synonyms: measurable
Derived terms: detectable warning surface
detectably
immunodetectable
indetectable
nondetectable
redetectable
back to nature
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: back-to-nature
Senses: glosses: Turning away from urban environs and attitudes, towards an organic, agrarian lifestyle.
detected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɛktɪd/
Senses: examples: text: The detected submarine was tracked by sonar, it was easy once they knew where to look.
glosses: Having been noticed.
Derived terms: nondetected
detected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɛktɪd/
Senses: examples: text: We detected the submarine long before it observed us.
glosses: simple past and past participle of detect
latch-key child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latch-key children
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of latchkey child.
imperceptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imperceptible
form: most imperceptible
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English imperceptible, from Middle French imperceptible and its etymon Medieval Latin imperceptibilis. By surface analysis, im- + perceptible.
Senses: examples: text: We all missed the imperceptible shake of his head as he tried to warn us without being seen.
text: For this ſtone may have naturally grown into this very ſhape, and the ſeeming aſhes may be no aſhes, that is no remainders of any ſewell burnt there, but ſome unexplicable and imperceptible Motions of the Aire, or other particles of this fluid Matter that is active every where, have wrought ſome parts of the Matter into the form and nature of aſhes, and have fridg’d and plaid about ſo, that they have alſo figured thoſe intelligible Characters in the ſame.
ref: 1653, Henry More, “What Is Meant by Demonstrating There Is a God, and that the Mind of Man, unlesse He Do Violence to His Faculties, Will Fully Assent or Dissent from That Which Notwithstanding May Have a Bare Possibility of Being Otherwise”, in An Antidote against Atheisme, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, whether There Be Not a God, London: […] Roger Daniel, […], →OCLC, book I, page 3:
text: A narrow, almost imperceptible path led them through the thickest of the wood. Two or three times they had to creep under boughs which, but for the ease with which they gave way, would seem never to have admitted a passage before.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 142:
text: To my unpractised eye, the undulations in the track were quite imperceptible, but the engineer's hand on the throttle was never still.
ref: 1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 425:
text: Very small benefits may be imperceptible. And it is plausible to claim that an 'imperceptible benefit' is not a benefit.
ref: 1986, Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 75:
synonyms: imperceivable
undistinguishable
unperceivable
antonyms: detectable
perceptible
glosses: Not perceptible, not detectable, too small in magnitude to be observed.
synonyms: cosmic#4
antonyms: perceptible
glosses: Beyond the purview of man; too great and all-encompassing to be perceived.
Synonyms: word: imperceivable
word: imperceptible
word: insensible
word: undetectable
word: undistinguishable
word: unperceivable
Hyponyms: word: inaudible
word: insipid
word: intangible
word: invisible
word: scentless
Derived terms: imperceptibility
imperceptibleness
imperceptibly
imperceptible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imperceptibles
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English imperceptible, from Middle French imperceptible and its etymon Medieval Latin imperceptibilis. By surface analysis, im- + perceptible.
Senses: examples: text: The worm that cauſeth it, is it any thing elſe but one of thoſe little Creatures, that hath deprived it ſelf from all ſocitety, to eſtabliſh it ſelf a Gyant in its own Countrey? If you ask me, VVhy they are bigger then other imperceptibles? I muſt ask you, VVhy Elephants are bigger then we?
ref: 1659, Cyrano [de] Bergerac, translated by Tho[mas] Sᵗ Serf, Σεληναρχια. Or, The Government of the World in the Moon: A Comical History. […], London: […] J[ames] Cottrel, and are to be sold by Hum[phrey] Robinson […], →OCLC, signature K2, verso:
text: I come next to ſome other ſtrange Acquirements obtained by the helps of theſe Glaſſes; and particularly for the diſcerning the Imperceptibles of Nature; ſuch as, the Soul, Thought, Honeſty, Religion, Virginity, and an Hundred other nice things, too ſmall for humane Diſcerning.
ref: 1705, [Daniel Defoe], The Consolidator: or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon. […], London: […] Benj[amin] Bragg […], →OCLC, page 91:
text: The Church assures the faithful that in the Eucharist one imperceptible is changed into another: the mind illumined by faith recognizes the change and says, Here is a miracle, here is something out of the usual course of nature.
ref: 1867 August 3, “Essays on Religion and Literature. By Various Writers. Edited by Archbishop Manning. Second Series. (Longmans & Co.)”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 2075, London: […] James Holmes, […] John Francis. […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 139, column 1:
text: It was a lazy Sunday. What made it meaningful were not the facts or details, but the imperceptibles. Inner life. The smell of the beach grass and the feel of sand on a bathroom floor when changing out of a swimsuit. The heat of American summer.
ref: 2016, Noah Hawley, “Gil Baruch: June 5, 1967–August 26, 2015”, in Before the Fall, London: Hodder, published 2017, →ISBN, page 250:
glosses: Something that is imperceptible.
ladyfinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪdiˌfɪŋɡɚ/
Forms: form: ladyfingers
Etymology: From lady + finger.
Senses: examples: text: Ladyfingers soaked in liqueur are the base of tiramisu, but I suppose you could just cut up a sponge cake instead.
glosses: A small sponge cake, shaped approximately like a finger.
glosses: A type of small banana.
glosses: Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.
synonyms: word: okra
extra: the plant or its edible capsules
examples: text: Grandpa would give each of the kids a strip of ladyfingers to light on New Year's Day.
glosses: A variety of small firecracker.
Synonyms: sense: small sponge cake
word: boudoir biscuit
sense: small sponge cake
word: lady's finger
sense: small sponge cake
word: savoiardi biscuit
sense: small sponge cake
word: sponge finger
Derived terms: ladyfinger cactus
Related terms: ladies' fingers
leads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛdz/
ipa: /liːdz/
rhymes: -ɛdz
rhymes: -iːdz
Senses: glosses: plural of lead
leads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛdz/
ipa: /liːdz/
rhymes: -ɛdz
rhymes: -iːdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lead
generations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of generation
dreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹiːmz/
ipa: [dɹiːmz]
ipa: [d͡ʒɹiːmz]
rhymes: -iːmz
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of dream
dreams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹiːmz/
ipa: [dɹiːmz]
ipa: [d͡ʒɹiːmz]
rhymes: -iːmz
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dream
archaeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more archaeological
form: most archaeological
form: archæological
form: archeological
Etymology: From archaeology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: A living floor is, in archaeological terms, the floor of a cave upon which people lived and which retains evidence of their activities.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 202:
text: The remains of 62 people were dug up at the previously unknown archaeological site near Garforth.
ref: 2023 March 13, Lianne Kolirin, “Skeletal remains of Roman aristocrat discovered in hidden lead coffin”, in CNN:
glosses: Relating to the science or research of archaeology.
Derived terms: archaeological culture
archaeological horizon
archaeologically
bioarchaeological
dendroarchaeological
ethnoarchaeological
geoarchaeological
ichthyoarchaeological
microarchaeological
nonarchaeological
osteoarchaeological
pseudoarchaeological
quasiarchaeological
pass gas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes gas
form: passing gas
form: passed gas
form: passed gas
Senses: glosses: to flatulate
coger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cogers
Senses: examples: text: Well, thought her parents and the neighbors, the old coger is going to do the handsome thing for little Sally, perhaps when she gets married, in the shape of a nice fit-out; he may give her a snug little cottage, who knows […]
ref: 1851, Carpet-bag: A Literary Journal, volume 1:
glosses: Obsolete form of codger.
gunman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌnmən/
Forms: form: gunmen
Etymology: From gun + -man.
Senses: examples: text: "I've known a heap of gun fighters in my day. An' Jean Isbel don't ran true to class. Shore there never was a gunman who'd risk cripplin' his right hand by sluggin' anybody."
ref: 1921, Zane Grey, chapter 5, in To The Last Man:
glosses: A criminal armed with a gun, especially a professional killer.
glosses: An American.
Derived terms: lone gunman
Related terms: gunwoman
Greek letter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Each Friday we held open house at the Young Women's Christian association for all Greek letter women who could come (if but for an hour) to sew for the French orphans.
ref: 1918, Kappa Alpha Theta, volume 33, page 358:
text: The following national Greek letter fraternities and sororities, served officially by this Company, were listed in our 1927 Blue Book...
ref: 1928, Balfour Blue Book, page 2:
text: Other Greek letter house fires of importance here include the burning of the Pi Kappa Alpha house in the Christmas holidays of 1924 and the burning of the roof and second floor of the Delta Zeta house in the Spring of 1926.
ref: 1934, Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Caduceus, page 500:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Greek-letter.
Greek letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greek letters
Senses: examples: text: Alternatively, they clear when the line is unoccupied to the next signal and when an approaching train occupies a short, normally de-energised, track circuit on the approach side of any of the signals. These normally de-energised track circuits are labelled with a Greek letter to emphasise their difference from the normal track circuits, and are short enough to ensure an adequate restriction of speed being imposed on the train.
ref: 1952 September, Norman Crump, “Camden Town Signalbox, London Transport”, in Railway Magazine, page 585:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Greek, letter. A letter of the Greek alphabet.
garter snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garter snakes
Senses: glosses: Any of various species of nonvenomous snakes of the genus Thamnophis, native to America, with longitudinal stripes.
Synonyms: word: garden snake
english: both of eggcorn origin
translation: both of eggcorn origin
word: gardener snake
Derived terms: Mexican garter snake
Texas garter snake
smooth snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smooth snakes
Senses: glosses: Any of species Coronella austriaca of nonvenomous snakes, native to Eurasia.
non-venomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonvenomous
Etymology: From non- + venomous.
Senses: examples: text: The python is a nonvenomous snake.
glosses: Not producing venom.
medially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiː.di.əl.i/
ipa: /ˈmiː.di.ə.li/
Etymology: From medial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In or relating to the middle.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In a medial direction or location; near or along the midline.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In a medial direction or location; nearer or toward the midline.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Inside a word; neither initially nor finally.
Derived terms: admedially
inferomedially
paramedially
plantomedially
sounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saʊnz/
rhymes: -aʊnz
Senses: glosses: plural of sound
sounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /saʊnz/
rhymes: -aʊnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sound
tuatara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːəˈtɑːɹə/
Forms: form: tuataras
form: tuatara
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori tuatara.
Senses: examples: text: In New Zealand the dinosaurs had perished 65 million years before, as they had elsewhere on the globe; but the sphenodons or tuataras who had been their contemporaries from Jurassic times persisted, in New Zealand but nowhere else, for reasons that remain obscure.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 4:
glosses: A reptile, Sphenodon punctatus, native to New Zealand, that resembles a lizard and is the only surviving specimen of the order Rhynchocephalia.
Related terms: Sphenodon
let-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛtdaʊn/
Forms: form: let-downs
form: letdown
Etymology: Deverbal from let down.
Senses: examples: text: After seeing all the advertisements, the show itself was quite a let-down.
text: Journalists aside, are we so used to people looking glossier and younger in their profile photos—whether on social media or for work—that a certain percentage of “let-down” is baked into our expectations of meeting them in person?
ref: 2023 November 25, Rebecca Rose, “How old is too old for a profile pic?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 22:
glosses: A disappointment or anticlimax.
examples: text: The majority of peasant farmers in the tropics allow the calf to suckle before milking in order to obtain a let-down of milk.
ref: 1990, WJA Payne, An Introduction to Animal Husbandry in the Tropics:
text: Occasionally a baby will be caught off-guard by mother's strong let-down and he will choke and sputter a bit.
ref: 2004, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, 7th edition, Penguin, page 54:
text: Through oxytocin mediation, these afferent pathways become so well established that letdown can occur even when the mother merely thinks of her baby.
ref: 2010, Jan Riordan, Karen Wamback, Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, 4th edition, Jones & Bartlett, page 91:
glosses: The neurohormonal release of milk in dairy cows or in breastfeeding human mothers.
examples: text: The flight received a radar letdown from air traffic control.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The clearance of an aircraft to descend through clouds to clear air below, or the process of granting such a clearance.
Related terms: word: let down
let down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets down
form: letting down
form: let down
form: let down
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, down.
examples: text: They let down the rope and I fastened it to the basket.
glosses: To allow to descend.
examples: text: I promised him I would meet him there, and I will not let him down.
text: Just as they left, the younger of the two turned around and said, "Mr. President, I just want you to know that we're praying for you," and quickly closed the door behind him.
I thought about these two men, and about the office workers that afternoon, and about the millions of others like them all across the country who still had faith in me. I knew that by resigning I would let them down.
ref: 1978, Richard Nixon, “The Presidency 1973–1974”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1065:
text: Sooner or later / You hit the deck, you get found out / Save it for later / Don't run away and let me down
ref: 1982, The English Beat, “Save It for Later”, in Special Beat Service:
text: ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan said: "AWC has continued to cancel services and, every day, continued to let passengers down. But the Government doesn't seem to care.
ref: 2023 April 5, “Network News: Conservatives accused of "rewarding Avanti's failure"”, in RAIL, number 980, page 6:
glosses: To disappoint; to betray or fail somebody.
antonyms: take in
coordinate_terms: let out
glosses: To lengthen by undoing and resewing a hem.
raw_tags: of clothing
glosses: To reduce one's level of effort.
examples: to let down tools or cutlery
glosses: To soften in tempering.
examples: let the sauce down with a little pasta water if it starts to become too thick; if the soup is too thick, you can let it down with a little milk; let the sauce down with a dash of the pickling liquor; use some of the stock to let down the onion sauce
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To thin; to reduce the thickness or viscosity of.
Derived terms: word: let-down
word: letdown
word: let one's hair down
word: let someone down gently
slowworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsləʊwɜː(ɹ)m/
Forms: form: slowworms
form: slow worm
form: slow-worm
Etymology: From Middle English sloworm (possibly influenced by slow), from Old English slāwyrm (“slow-worm, blindworm”), from *slā, related to Norwegian slo (“slow-worm”), Swedish slå (“slow-worm”) + wyrm (“worm, snake”). Compare Swedish ormslå.
Senses: examples: text: Well, sir, it may be we shall have some better orations of it anon: well, Ile watch you as narrowly as ever you were watcht, and Ile play with you as the nightingale with the slowworme;[…]
ref: c. 1588, Robert Greene, “Scene Eleventh. Frier Bacons cell.”, in The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay:
synonyms: blindworm
deaf adder
hazelworm
long-cripple
steelworm
hypernyms: lizard
glosses: A small Old World lizard, Anguis fragilis, often mistaken for a snake, having no legs and small eyes.
fado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑːdoʊ/
rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ
Forms: form: fados
Etymology: From Portuguese fado (“fate”), from Latin fātum. Doublet of fate.
Senses: glosses: A Portuguese folk song, usually featuring a single vocalist, Portuguese guitar and sometimes classical guitar. Lyrical themes are often melancholic in nature; the structure of the song is of greater importance.
luminousity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of luminosity.
low bono
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of low + pro bono.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Of legal work: offered at a discounted rate, especially to underrepresented communities.
low bono
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Blend of low + pro bono.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Of legal work: offered at a discounted rate, especially to underrepresented communities.
luminosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒsɪti
Forms: form: luminosities
Etymology: Borrowed from French luminosité or else a native formation from luminous + -ity.
Senses: glosses: the state of being luminous, or a luminous object; brilliance or radiance
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the ratio of luminous flux to radiant flux at the same wavelength; the luminosity factor
examples: text: We recognize the same pattern as in the left panel, with dM stars being much less frequent flarers than dMe stars of similar luminosity.
ref: 2012, O. Havnes, B. R. Pettersen, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, Activity in Cool Star Envelopes: Proceedings, page 56:
text: We derive rotation periods, photometric activity indices, flaring energies, mass loss rates, gyrochronological ages, X-ray luminosities and consider implications for the planetary magnetospheres and habitability.
ref: 2015, D. J. Armstrong, C. E. Pugh, A.-M. Broomhall, D. J. A. Brown, M. N. Lund, H. P. Osborn, D. L. Pollacco, “The Host Stars of Keplers Habitable Exoplanets: Superflares, Rotation and Activity”, in arXiv:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The rate at which a star radiates energy in all directions.
Derived terms: Eddington luminosity
high-luminosity
low-luminosity
luminosity distance
luminosity function
nonluminosity
overluminosity
solar luminosity
superluminosity
underluminosity
slips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slip
slips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Senses: glosses: plural of slip
slips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: the area of the field covered by fielders in the slip positions; the slip fielders collectively
slog-sweep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slog-sweeps
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a shot played, on one knee, with a horizontal bat, hitting the ball hard into the air on the leg side
slog-sweep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slog-sweeps
form: slog-sweeping
form: slog-swept
form: slog-swept
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: to play such a shot
preceding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈsiːdɪŋ/
ipa: /pɹiːˈsiːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Forms: form: præceding
Etymology: From Middle English precedyng, precedenge, present participle of Middle English preceden (“to precede”), equivalent to precede + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: On the preceding Monday Shobana had gone on vacation.
glosses: Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.
Synonyms: prevenient
antecedent
preceding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈsiːdɪŋ/
ipa: /pɹiːˈsiːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Forms: form: præceding
Etymology: From Middle English precedyng, precedenge, present participle of Middle English preceden (“to precede”), equivalent to precede + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precede
posting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpoʊstɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊstɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of post
posting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpoʊstɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊstɪŋ
Forms: form: postings
Senses: glosses: The action of the verb to post.
glosses: An item inserted into a register, ledger or diary.
examples: text: […] Internet postings, speeches, heckling, cartoons, faxes, composites, noises, threats, incitements, videos, ads, prayers, classes, live and filmed nudity (frontal, sideal, backal), defamation, blasphemy, and digital communication [...]
ref: 2013, Alan M. Dershowitz, Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law, Crown, →ISBN, page 106:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: post
glosses: A message posted to a computerized bulletin board, a newsgroup, a blog, etc.
glosses: The place where a soldier or airman is posted for duty; the time spent there.
Derived terms: billposting
bottom-posting
crossposting
cross posting
doomposting
fly-posting
past-posting
posting date
posting house
posting inn
rage-posting
top-posting
wildposting
garter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑːtə/
ipa: /ˈɡɑːɹtɚ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Forms: form: garters
Etymology: From Middle English garter, from Old Northern French gartier, from Old French garet (compare Old French jartier, from jaret), from Gaulish *garrā, from Proto-Celtic *garros (“calf, shank”) (compare Cornish gar, Cornish gar,Middle Welsh garr, Old Irish gairr). Cognate with French jarretière.
Senses: glosses: A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
coordinate_terms: bendlet
cost
riband
glosses: A bendlet.
glosses: An elastic band encircling any article of clothing.
Derived terms: arm garter
Chinese garter
garter belt
garterless
garterlike
garter snake
garter stitch
have someone's guts for garters
jazz garter
Order of the Garter
prick the garter
sleeve garter
ungarter
garter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑːtə/
ipa: /ˈɡɑːɹtɚ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Forms: form: garters
form: gartering
form: gartered
form: gartered
Etymology: From Middle English garter, from Old Northern French gartier, from Old French garet (compare Old French jartier, from jaret), from Gaulish *garrā, from Proto-Celtic *garros (“calf, shank”) (compare Cornish gar, Cornish gar,Middle Welsh garr, Old Irish gairr). Cognate with French jarretière.
Senses: glosses: to fasten with a garter
examples: text: Lady Hester loathed the coarse, deluded and lecherous Princess Caroline, who showed off to Smith by 'dancing about, exposing herself, like an opera girl', and even gartering below the knee:
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 385:
glosses: To wear a garter