cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fixed limit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fixed limits
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A form of poker game where bets and raises can only be a single size as specified by the rules.
examples: text: He would, in fact, I assume, always have exercised the same caution in investing in securities his two-thirds of the coin received for notes as it is proposed to use in investing within the fixed limit of four millions.
ref: 1862, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers - Volume 38, page 22:
text: Subparagraph 2.1.7.2 of the B141 therefore may release the architect from responsibility for making an erroneous estimate, unless the parties agree in writing to a fixed limit on construction costs.
ref: 2000, John G. Cameron, A Practitioner's Guide to Construction Law, page 6-15:
text: Devices operating at less than the maximum permitted power will not be required to suppress emissions below the fixed limits we are establishing.
ref: 2012, United States. Federal Communications Commission, FCC Record, page 3703:
glosses: A predetermined limit that cannot be exceeded, as opposed to an amount that depends on circumstances.
pot limit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A form of poker game where bets and raises can be any amount between a fixed minimum and the current size of the pot.
hellhound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlhaʊnd/
ipa: /ˈhɛlˌ(h)aʊnd/
Forms: form: hellhounds
form: hell hound
form: hell-hound
Etymology: From Middle English helle hound; equivalent to hell + hound.
Senses: examples: text: From forth the kennell of thy wombe hath crept / A Hell-hound that doth hunt vs all to death:
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 195, column 2:
text: Barricading serves not: fly fast, ye Bodyguards; rabid Insurrection, like the hellhound Chase, uproaring at your heels!
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter X, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VII (The Insurrection of Women):
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: helldog
hound of hell
glosses: A demonic dog of hell, typically of unnatural size, strength or speed, with black fur, glowing eyes, and ghostly or phantom characteristics.
synonyms: hound of hell
glosses: An evil or otherwise unpleasant person.
Related terms: Cerberus
Orthrus
spread limit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spread limits
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A poker game where bets and raises can be any amount between a specified minimum and a specified maximum.
no limit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A style of poker game where bets and raises can be as large as the player is capable of making them.
table decoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table decorations
Senses: glosses: Any of many diverse articles placed on a dining table principally as ornament though some may have a secondary function.
paper hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper hats
Senses: glosses: Any of several hats made from paper; especially ones made from crepe paper as a party novelty, or ones constructed from newspaper and traditionally worn by printers
social networking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The interaction between a group of people who share a common interest.
glosses: The use of social contacts to network.
topics: business
glosses: The use of Internet communities to network and communicate using shared interests, related skills, or geographical location between consumers and businesses.
examples: text: Should you spend too much time purchasing and installing social networking software and only have 20 percent of your alumni registered, you are wasting your time and money.
ref: 2008, Don Philabaum, Alumni Online Engagement, →ISBN, page 127:
text: As much as possible, avoid the following: • Installing unfamiliar software from shady sources, such as websites you've never heard of or applications posted to forums. • Installing social networking plug-ins.
ref: 2011, Hart-Davis, iMac Portable Genius, →ISBN:
text: The Internet provides an abundant amount of software to access Twitter broadcasts and many mobile phones contain pre-installed social networking applications on the device; however, in this study, students mainly used the Internet to view tweets.
ref: 2012, Catheryn Cheal, Transformation in Teaching: Social Media Strategies in Higher Education, →ISBN:
text: These Social Web Applications can be public, such as Delicious, Facebook, Flickr, SWiK, Twitter, and YouTube, or private, such as a locally-installed social networking engine Elgg.
ref: 2015, George Leal Jamil, Handbook of Research on Information Architecture and Management in Modern Organizations, →ISBN:
glosses: Interaction with other people via a social network
sipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sip
sipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sippings
Senses: examples: text: But, in general, a few days' confinement, abstinence from flesh meat, and frequent sippings of some tepid pectoral drink, sufficed for the cure.
ref: 1852, Theophilus Thompson, Annals of Influenza Or Epidemic Catarrhal Fever in Great Britain from 1510 to 1837, page 107:
glosses: The act of taking a sip.
pikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of pike
wriggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wriggle
wriggling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrigglings
Senses: examples: text: The child's constant wrigglings made her difficult to hold.
glosses: The act of one who wriggles.
rougher
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of rough: more rough
rougher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roughers
Senses: glosses: A worker who shapes something to prepare it for a finishing operation.
glosses: A piece of woollen cloth prepared for fulling.
roughest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: superlative form of rough: most rough
choque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choques
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of shock.
choque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: choques
form: choquing
form: choqued
form: choqued
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of shock.
arroz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrozes
form: arroces
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Iranian *wrinǰišder.
Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza)bor.
Arabic رُزّ (ruzz)
Arabic *رَوْز (*rawz)
Andalusian Arabic روزder.
Spanish arrozbor.
English arroz
Borrowed from Spanish arroz, from Andalusian Arabic روز, from Arabic *رَوْز (*rawz), from رُزّ (ruzz), borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza), from Proto-Iranian *wrinǰiš.
 Doublet of rice.
Senses: examples: text: Reliable, traditional bar-restaurant for dishes of the sierra including […] arrozes (rice dishes).
ref: 2015, The Rough Guide to Spain:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Any Spanish rice-based dish.
Related terms: arroz caldo
four and twenty
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: examples: text: And this courſe was uſed by the Four and twenty Jurators in Kent in Rumney Marſh, who always upon their Oaths ſet down every particular mans ground in certain, and their juſt quantities, and accordingly were the parties ſeverally taxed.
ref: 1622 August, Robert Callis, The Reading of That Famous and Learned Gentleman, Robert Callis Esq; Sergeant at Law, upon the Statute of 23 H. 8. Cap. 5. of Sewers: As It Was Delivered by Him at Grays-Inn, in August, 1622, London: […] William Leak, published 1647, page 97:
text: Sing a Song of Sixpence, / A bag full of Rye, / Four and twenty Naughty Boys, / Baked in a Pye.
ref: 1744, Sing a Song of Sixpence, in Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book (earliest known written version)
text: Enter TOBIAS⸺in Petticoats. Tob. O dear, dear me, what a pickle am I in—bepetticoated—bewigged—bebearded—and belaughed at by the whole houſe⸺I ſhall die with the ſweating ſickneſs—in four and twenty hours I ſhall be dry as a ſqueezed ſpunge—And all this do I endure for the ſake of that dear hard-hearted creature—ſhe’ll break my heart (wiping his eyes)—if I could drive her out of my thoughts, this moment would I quit this unnatural houſe—Oh, hoh (blubbering).
ref: 1791, William Roberts, The Fugitives: A Comedy, Warrington: […] W. Eyres, for John Stockdale, act II, page 40:
text: Four and twenty hours had never passed before, since August began, without bringing them together in some way or other.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 39:
text: Jamba has removed from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials - even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.
ref: 2005 June 20, “My Party This Way | Faustus”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of four-and-twenty.
pMOS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a MOSFET with a p-type channel (a semiconductor doped with an element creating a surplus of holes).
nMOS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A MOSFET with an n-type channel (a semiconductor doped with an element creating a surplus of electron carriers).
misstate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misstates
form: misstating
form: misstated
form: misstated
Etymology: From mis- + state.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: misreport
text: The speaker misstated the year of his grandfather's birth by a hundred years, but it was an honest mistake: how often does one speak of the 1800s?
text: Correction: August 21, 2017
An earlier version of this article misstated the location of Wuhan. It is in Hubei Province, not Hebei.
ref: 2017 August 21 [2017 August 18], Kiki Zhao, “A Chinese Poet’s Unusual Path From Isolated Farm Life to Celebrity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2017, Asia Pacific:
coordinate_terms: miscalculate
glosses: To make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say (something) incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue.
Derived terms: misstater
Related terms: misrepresent
missummarize
missioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missioners
Etymology: From mission + -er.
Senses: glosses: A missionary.
missioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of missioner
missilery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From missile + -ry.
Senses: glosses: The science of missiles.
harvestman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harvestmen
Etymology: From harvest + -man.
(sense 2): There are various hypotheses and folk etymologies for why the arachnids are called harvestmen, but the most likely explanation is the shape of their legs, which resemble sickles or scythes.
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The association with harvesting or haymaking is found across Europe; compare words for “harvest spider” in other languages: Dutch hooiwagen (literally “hay-cart”), Welsh medelwr (literally “reaper, harvester”), Irish Pilib an fhómhair (literally “Philip of the harvest”), Danish mejer (literally “mower, reaper”), French faucheur (literally “scyther”), Spanish segador (literally “reaper, harvester, mower”) and agostero (literally “August-er”), Czech sekáč (literally “reaper, mower; warrior”), Polish kosarz (literally “reaper, mower, haymaker”), Russian сенокосец (senokosec, literally “little haymaker”) and косиножка (kosinožka, literally “little scythe-leg”), Ukrainian косарик (kosaryk, literally “mower”), Hungarian kaszáspók (literally “scyther-spider”), Serbo-Croatian pauk kosac (literally “reaper spider”), and even modern Hebrew קוצר (kotsér, originally “shortener”, literally “reaper, harvester”). Further compare German Schneider (literally “cutter; tailor”), Swiss Zimmermann (literally “carpenter”) and Welsh teiliwr (literally “tailor”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced? )
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: carter
hypernyms: harvester
<
person
coordinate_terms: harvester
;
gatherer
hunter-gatherer
glosses: A male harvester; any harvester (person who works to gather in the crops at harvest time).
synonyms: daddy longlegs
harvest spider
grandfather-graybeard
harry-longlegs
shepherd spider
hypernyms: arachnid
<
critter
<
creature
;
see also Opiliones § Hypernyms
glosses: An order of terrestrial, non-venomous arachnids with often very long legs: Opiliones; any individual of this order.
Related terms: english: usually hypernymous
translation: usually hypernymous
word: farmer
english: usually hypernymous
translation: usually hypernymous
word: farmworker
english: usually hypernymous
translation: usually hypernymous
word: farmhand
english: usually hypernymous
translation: usually hypernymous
word: fieldworker
word: manual laborer
word: manual labourer
word: laborer
word: labourer
word: farmboy
word: farmgirl
sense: not to be confused
word: daddy longlegs
sense: not to be confused
word: daddy long-legs spider
sense: not to be confused
word: Pholcidae
mistreatment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistreatments
Etymology: From mistreat + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: There were allegations of mistreatment at the prison.
glosses: Cruel, abusive, unfair, or thoughtless treatment of a person or animal (or rarely an object).
Synonyms: maltreatment
Related terms: mishandling
mistreatments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mistreatment
feticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feticides
form: fetucide
form: foeticide
Etymology: From fetus + -cide or fetus + -icide, from Middle French -cide, from Latin -cīda (“cutter, killer”) and its derivation -cīdium (“killing”), from -cīd (combining form of caedō (“cut, kill”)) + -a (“-er”, forming agent nouns).
Senses: examples: text: Zimra, then, takes an unequivocal stance; favoring Rashi's view over that of Maimonides, he offers little comfort for the rodef approach, holding instead that feticide cannot be regarded as murder becaue the fetus is not a nefesh.
ref: 2002, Daniel Schiff, Abortion in Judaism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 68:
text: Notwithstanding the earnest opposition of writers and lecturers and preachers and legislators, the practice of feticide appears to be on the increase.
ref: 1878, H. Gibbons, "On Feticide" in Transactions of the Session of the Medical Society of the State of California vol. 8; J. Anthony & Co., Printers; page 209
glosses: The killing of a fetus or embryo; an induced abortion.
glosses: One who kills a fetus.
Derived terms: feticidal
unlearned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈlɜːnɪd/
ipa: /ʌnˈlɝnɪd/
Forms: form: more unlearned
form: most unlearned
form: unlearnt
Etymology: From Middle English unlerned (“not taught, uneducated”). By surface analysis, un- (“not”) + learned (“educated”).
Senses: examples: text: How much do I know / To talk out of turn / You might say that I'm young / You might say I'm unlearned / But there's one thing I know / Though I'm younger than you / Even Jesus would never / Forgive what you do
ref: 1963, “Masters of War” (track 3, side 1), in Bob Dylan (lyrics), (traditional)/Jean Ritchie (music), The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, performed by Bob Dylan:
synonyms: word: benighted
word: cimmerian
word: clueless
word: foolish
word: ignorant
word: ill-informed
word: illiterate
word: innocent
word: lack-learning
word: lay
word: lewd
word: loreless
word: nescient
word: oblivious
word: philistine
word: unaware
word: uncultivated
word: uncultured
word: uneducated
word: unenlightened
word: unerudite
word: uninformed
word: unknowing
word: unknowledgeable
word: unlearned
word: unlearnt
word: unlettered
word: unmindful
word: unread
word: unscholarly
word: unschooled
word: untaught
word: untrained
word: untutored
word: unwitting
antonyms: learned
glosses: ignorant, uneducated, untaught, untrained.
unlearned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈlɜːnɪd/
ipa: /ʌnˈlɝnɪd/
ipa: /ʌnˈlɜːnd/
ipa: /ʌnˈlɝnd/
ipa: /ʌnˈlɜːnɪd/
ipa: /ʌnˈlɝnɪd/
Forms: form: more unlearned
form: most unlearned
form: unlearnt
Etymology: From un- (“not”) + learned (“studied”), past participle of learn.
Senses: synonyms: word: inborn
word: inherent
word: connate
word: connatural
word: congenital
word: congenite
word: genetous
word: inborn
word: inbred
word: indigenous
word: ingenite
word: innate
word: native
word: natural
word: to the manner born
word: unlearned
word: unlearnt
glosses: Of a behavior: not learned; innate.
examples: text: Did she ever return? No, she never returned.
Her fate is yet unlearned
Though for years and years there were fond ones watching
For the ship that never returned.
ref: 1865, Henry Clay Work, “The Ship That Never Returned”:
glosses: Of information: that has not (yet) been learned; unknown.
unlearned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈlɜːnɪd/
ipa: /ʌnˈlɝnɪd/
ipa: /ʌnˈlɜːnd/
ipa: /ʌnˈlɝnd/
Forms: form: unlearnt
Etymology: From Middle English unlernyd (“obliterated from memory, forgotten”), equivalent to unlearn + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unlearn (“discard the knowledge of”)
comrade in arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comrades in arms
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A fellow combatant or soldier.
social graces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social grace
glosses: The collective skills for dealing with people and society.
social grace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social graces
Senses: examples: text: His lack of mastery of the social graces made it obvious he had not been raised in upper-class society.
glosses: A skill for dealing with people and society.
examples: text: His lack of social grace made him anathema at dinner parties.
glosses: The ability to fit into polite society and behave properly and with etiquette.
polite society
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [H]e had been brought up in an extravagant family, who considered tradesmen and manufacturers as a caste disgraceful to polite society.
ref: 1803, Maria Edgeworth, The Manufacturers:
text: [I]n the midst of the company assembled the reader's humble servant was present, and in a very polite society, too, of "poets, clergymen, men of letters, and members of both Houses of Parliament."
ref: 1863, William Makepeace Thackeray, Roundabout Papers:
text: […] a club especially favoured by wits, authors, and the flaneurs of polite society.
ref: 1873, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter VI, in The Parisians, book IX:
glosses: The elite or upper crust of society.
examples: text: [S]he managed with considerable effort to keep up a sufficient outward semblance of mourning to satisfy the customs and fashions of polite society.
ref: 1892, F. Marion Crawford, chapter 14, in Pietro Ghisleri:
text: Scenes, Lady Jane had explained—on the occasion of his knocking down an objectionable cabman during their honeymoon trip—were of all things what polite society most resolutely abhorred.
ref: 1909, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 6, in The Gem Collector:
text: It used to be said that in polite society one shouldn't discuss sex or money.
ref: 2002 May 26, Frank Gibney Jr., “Can a Church Go Broke?”, in Time, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016:
glosses: That portion of society that is especially concerned with etiquette, proper behavior, and politeness.
upper crust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌst
Forms: form: upper crusts
Etymology: First known use as an idiom: 1836.
Senses: examples: text: I judged from your remark about the diligence and industry of the high Parisian upper crust that it would have some point.
ref: 1894, Mark Twain, “A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget”, in Essays on Paul Bourget:
text: Some accents reveal the distinctive bray of the upper crust, but most are generic middle class.
ref: 2006 June 18, J. F. O. McAllister, “A New Kind of Elite”, in Time:
text: “You ever see the movie Spotlight?” “About the Boston Globe reporters who uncovered the sexual abuse coverup in the Catholic Church?” “Yeah, exactly.” “No.” “Oh. Well, in that I played Ben Bradlee, Jr. And that character begins with the accent, because the real Bradlee is from Boston. But he's an upper-crust guy. [Boston accent] Not like some jamoke standing around Kelly's Tavern in, uh, Revere Beach, you know what I mean?” “Very good, John Slattery.” “[regular accent] Not bad, right? But I was talking to him.”
ref: 2023 August 10, Sam Johnson & Chris Marcil, “Urgent Care” (11:58 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 6, spoken by John Slattery (John Slattery):
synonyms: upper class
the quality
glosses: The social elite, the highest social class.
raw_tags: with the
examples: text: She went to get her tarts . . . but some one had stolen all the fruit out of them by lifting up the upper crust.
ref: 1871, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “chapter 20”, in Little Men: […], Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see upper, crust. The topmost layer of a bread, pastry dish, or other item with a hardened coating.
Derived terms: upper-crust
upper-crusty
upper crust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌst
Forms: form: more upper crust
form: most upper crust
Etymology: First known use as an idiom: 1836.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of upper-crust.
upper crusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upper crust
guache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guaches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gouache.
guaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guache
degenerates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of degenerate
degenerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of degenerate
degenerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of degenerate
bended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He offered his fealty on bended knee.
qualifier: archaic or fossilized
glosses: bent
bended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bend
alces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alce
glosses: genitive of alce
baser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of base: more base
basest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of base: most base
prouder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of proud: more proud
unruffled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unruffled
form: most unruffled
Etymology: From un- + ruffled.
Senses: examples: text: unruffled hair
glosses: Not ruffled or tousled.
examples: text: Mr. Altman, calm and unruffled, tried several times to draw a distinction between A.I. and social media.
ref: 2023 May 16, Cecilia Kang, “OpenAI’s Sam Altman Urges A.I. Regulation in Senate Hearing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: cool-headed
word: placid
word: calm
word: collected
word: composed
word: cool-headed
word: equable
word: equanimous
word: equanimitable
word: even-keeled
word: even-minded
word: even-tempered
word: imperturbable
word: laid-back
word: level-headed
word: mellow
word: pacate
word: pacific
word: peaceable
word: peaceful
word: phlegmatic
word: placid
word: quiescent
word: quiet
word: relaxed
word: roolie
word: sedate
word: serene
word: still
word: tranquil
word: unexcited
word: unfazed
word: unflappable
word: unflustered
word: unperturbable
word: unruffable
word: unruffled
word: untumultuous
glosses: Calm, not ruffled, serene, at peace, unbothered.
unbothered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbothered
form: most unbothered
Etymology: From un- + bothered.
Senses: synonyms: word: laid-back
word: unconcerned
word: airy
word: at ease
word: at peace
word: carefree
word: careless
word: casual
word: chill
word: cool
word: devil-may-care
word: easy-breezy
word: easygoing
word: happy-go-lucky
word: indifferent
word: insouciant
word: laid-back
word: leisurely
word: lighthearted
word: loose
word: mellow
word: nonchalant
word: pococurante
word: relaxed
word: serene
word: solute
word: tranquil
word: unanxious
word: unbothered
word: unconcerned
word: undisturbed
word: unruffled
word: untroubled
word: unworried
word: wanton
antonyms: bothered
upset
glosses: Not bothered, serene.
Related terms: botherless
slashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slæʃt/
rhymes: -æʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slash
slashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /slæʃt/
rhymes: -æʃt
Senses: glosses: Having been slashed, cut or rent.
examples: text: A slashed zero cannot be confused with the letter O.
glosses: Marked with a slash.
Derived terms: slashed velvet
justifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of justify
justifying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: justifyings
Senses: examples: text: So very precocious was the youth's sagacity, and premature his opinions; but of course, so surrounded, so employed, hearing of nothing but oppressions, and complainings, and justifyings, the bias was inevitable.
ref: 1829, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine, page 562:
glosses: A process of justification.
prided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pride
belike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belikes
form: beliking
form: beliked
form: beliked
Etymology: From Middle English beliken (“to simulate, feign”), equivalent to be- + like.
Senses: glosses: To make like; simulate.
examples: text: The most beautiful passages of Arnaut are in the canzo beginning: Sweet cries and cracks and lays and chants inflected By auzels who, in their Latin belikes.
ref: 2000, Helen May Dennis, Ezra Pound and poetic influence:
glosses: To be like; resemble.
belike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belikes
form: beliking
form: beliked
form: beliked
Etymology: From be- + like.
Senses: examples: text: Yea," said King Arthur, " it belikes me more than any horse that I ever beheld before." " Then," quoth Queen Morgana, "consider it as a gift of reconciliation betwixt thee and me. …"
ref: 1903, The story of King Arthur and his knights
glosses: To be pleasing to; please.
glosses: To like; be pleased with.
Derived terms: beliked
belike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belikes
Etymology: From be- + like.
Senses: examples: text: She will always be one of my belikes.
glosses: An object of affection or liking.
belike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From be- + like.
Senses: examples: text: It seems, you lov'd not her, to leave her token: / She's dead, belike.
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
text: For that reason, belike, Homer feigns the three Graces to be linked and tied hand in hand, because the hearts of men are so firmly united with such graces.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 1, member 2, subsection iii:
text: Upon this he brought me a cotton bag and giving it to me, said, "Take this bag and fill it with pebbles from the beach and go forth with a company of the townsfolk to whom I will give a charge respecting thee. Do as they do and belike thou shalt gain what may further thy return voyage to thy native land."
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 558”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
text: And when the pedants bade us mark / What cold mechanic happenings / Must come; our souls said in the dark, / "Belike; but there are likelier things."
ref: 1904, Gilbert K[eith] Chesterton, “To Hilaire Belloc”, in The Napoleon of Notting Hill, London; New York, N.Y.: John Lane, The Bodley Head, →OCLC, book I, page 7:
text: Some night-bird, belike, or a sea-gull squalling below the headland.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 39:
text: Princess Scarlet fanned herself with the Chinese fan that Supply had provided and, turning to Achmed Ali, said in formal tones, "Belike, sir, I've not seen thy match for overall all-in dancing eftsoons.
ref: 1991, Roger Zelazny, Robert Sheckley, Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, page 205:
glosses: Likely, probably, perhaps, haply.
Derived terms: belikely
upraised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He stood there, with upraised glass, waiting for others to join him in a toast; holding the glass as though it were his upraised sword, challenging others to show disprespect to one he honored.
text: Not all of them, by no means anywhere close to all of them, just the most notable blockheads among them—three altogether, two freshmen and one sophomore, all of whom were among the first to be expelled the next day — masturbated into pairs of stolen panties, masturbated just about as quickly as you could snap your fingers, before each hurled the deflowered panties, wet and fragrant with ejaculate, down into the upraised hands of the jubilant gathering of red-checked, snow-capped upperclassmen breathing steam like dragons and egging them on from below.
ref: 2008, Philip Roth, Indignation:
glosses: Lifted, raised, held high.
upraised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upraise
sauntering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of saunter
sauntering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saunterings
Senses: examples: text: I have seen many strange things in my saunterings around London.
glosses: A casual stroll.
quarreled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quarrel
ravished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæ.vɪʃt/
enpr: răvˈ -ĭsht
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ravish
ravished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæ.vɪʃt/
enpr: răvˈ -ĭsht
Senses: examples: text: [W]henever the person who is possessed of [natural goodness] doth what is right, no ravished or friendly spectator is so eager or so loud in his applause: on the contrary, when he doth wrong, no critic is so apt to hiss and explode him.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
glosses: Delighted; ecstatic
glosses: Having the appearance of having been ravished.
protruded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of protrude
moneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monies
Senses: glosses: plural of money (used in the sense of plural of coins and bills, often with humorous intention)
examples: After my trip to Asia, I have three different moneys in my wallet.
glosses: plural of money (used in the sense of plural of currency) Multiple currencies
examples: All the moneys collected for the poor was wasted in fund raising.
glosses: Collectively money
minutest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of minute: most minute Smallest, littlest, tiniest.
magnifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of magnify
incant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkænt/
Forms: form: incants
form: incanting
form: incanted
form: incanted
Etymology: First attested in 1546; borrowed from Latin incantō. Doublet of enchant and incantate.
Senses: glosses: To state solemnly, to chant.
examples: text: They now remember a tall man wrapped in a cloak [...] incanting to himself as he crossed the road.
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 378:
text: “Did you speak, child?” she whispered, as if she was a witch incanting a spell.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To recite an incantation.
cherishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cherish
cherishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherishings
Senses: examples: text: But home and its cherishings, and revived moral force, restored him[…]
ref: 1859, Richard Henry Dana, To Cuba and Back: A Vacation Voyage, page 130:
glosses: The act by which somebody or something is cherished.
Derived terms: cherishingly
uncherishing
basins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪsɪnz/
Senses: glosses: plural of basin
basins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪsɪnz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of basin
Cossacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cossack
Africans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of African
outlived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outlive
engravings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of engraving
billowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of billow
billowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billowings
Senses: examples: text: The Bible is full of passages designed to meet and relieve those billowings and heavings of the soul, but without a devotional spirit such passages can never be appreciated or comprehended.
ref: 1839, Western Literary Institute and College of Professional Teachers, Transactions, volume 8, page 59:
glosses: The act of something that billows; a billow.
curiosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curiosity
glosses: plural of curiositie
ringlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringlets
Etymology: From ring + -let. Compare Middle English ryngyl, ryngyll, rengel (“ringlet”).
Senses: glosses: A small ring.
examples: text: Her hair was in ringlets.
text: For knovv by lot from Jove I am the povvr / Of this fair VVood, and live in Oak'n bovvr, / To nurſe the Saplings tall, and curl the grove / VVith ringlets quaint, and vvanton vvindings vvove.
ref: 1634, John Milton, “Arcades”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, pages 53–54:
text: She was both beautiful and young to their eyes. Her hair was a rich red in color and fell in flowing ringlets over her shoulders. Her dress was pure white but her eyes were blue, and they looked kindly upon the little girl.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
glosses: A lock, tress.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various butterflies with small rings on the wings, in the tribe Satyrini of the family Nymphalidae, such as Aphantopus hyperantus.
Derived terms: common ringlet
Darwin ringlet
mountain ringlet
orange ringlet
ringlet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ringlets
form: ringleting
form: ringleted
form: ringleted
Etymology: From ring + -let. Compare Middle English ryngyl, ryngyll, rengel (“ringlet”).
Senses: examples: text: "It's very becoming!" said Pollie coaxingly, taking his curly head, which she had been brushing and ringleting for the last half hour, all damp, into her arms.
ref: 1877, Ella Farman, Good-for-nothing Polly, page 163:
glosses: To form into ringlets.
examples: text: I think now that if it had gripped me with those suckers, I would have gone out into the mist too. But it didn't. It grabbed Norm. And the third tentacle ringleted his other ankle. Now he was being pulled away from me.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:
glosses: To surround or encircle like a ringlet.
ringlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringlet
scoundrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scoundrel
epistles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epistle
depredations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depredation
smoother
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of smooth: more smooth
smoother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoothers
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, smooths.
glosses: In glass-cutting, an abrading-wheel for polishing the aces of the grooves cut by another wheel.
qualifier: Woodworking
glosses: A hand plane set to cut thin shavings, to create a polished surface.
glosses: A flatterer.
sniffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sniff
sniffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sniffings
Senses: glosses: A sniff sound or action.
Derived terms: glue-sniffing
reclaimed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having been acquired by the process of reclaiming.
reclaimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reclaim
fairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛəz/
ipa: /fɛɹz/
ipa: /fɛɚz/
ipa: /feːz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /feəz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /fiəz/
ipa: /feɹz/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /fɜː(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
homophone: fares
homophone: fears (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: firs
homophone: furs (both fair–fur merger)
Senses: glosses: plural of fair
unknowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unknowing
form: most unknowing
Etymology: From un- + knowing.
Senses: glosses: Without knowing; ignorant.
examples: text: And when they had fulfilled the dayes, as they returned home, the chylde Jesus boode styll in hierusalem, vnknowinge to his father and mother.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke:
glosses: Unknown, unbeknownst (to someone).
unknowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unknowings
Etymology: From un- + knowing.
Senses: examples: text: Only later in the performance do we get that diegetically earlier moment, the moment when still earlier questions, fears, knowings, and unknowings congeal into the medical diagnosis of “positive.”
ref: 2011, E. L. McCallum, Mikko Tuhkanen, Queer Times, Queer Becomings, page 320:
glosses: Absence of knowledge; ignorance of something.
falsehoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falsehood
unstructured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstructured
form: most unstructured
Etymology: From un- + structured.
Senses: examples: text: His unstructured method of planning scared anyone who had to depend on his schedules.
text: Since the day after the 2018 midterm elections, President Donald Trump has spent around 60% of his scheduled time in unstructured “executive time,” Axios reported Sunday.
ref: 2019 February 3, Devan Cole, “Axios: Since midterms, Trump has spent nearly 60% of his scheduled time in unstructured ‘executive time’”, in CNN:
text: Dr. Jessie Voigts, a homeschooler and founder of Wandering Educators, a global community of educators sharing travel experiences, said it doesn’t matter if this time is structured or unstructured, so long as the kids get outside.
ref: 2020 March 16, Matt Villano, “How ‘regular school’ parents can homeschool their kids”, in CNN:
glosses: Lacking structure.
discoloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discoloured
form: most discoloured
Etymology: From dis- + coloured.
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of discolored.
discoloured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From dis- + coloured.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discolour
bargained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bargain
examinee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: examinees
Etymology: From examine + -ee (“object of”).
Senses: glosses: One who is examined, e.g. for medical reasons.
examples: text: Rimmer ducked his body low into his chair, so just his head remained above the table top, and peered past the backs of the examinees in front of him, waiting for the adjudicator to make his move.
ref: 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers:
glosses: One who sits an examination.
examinees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of examinee
obstructions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obstruction
ailments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ailment
observances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of observance
unfitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfitted
form: most unfitted
Etymology: From un- + fitted.
Senses: examples: text: […] let us suppose a small number of persons settled in some sequestered part of the earth, unconnected with the rest […]. In this state of natural liberty, society will be their first thought. A thousand motives will excite them thereto, the strength of one man is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual solitude, that he is soon obliged to seek assistance and relief of another, who in his turn requires the same.
ref: 1776, Thomas Paine, “On the Origin and Design of Government in General”, in Common Sense:
text: You have both warm hearts and benevolent feelings; and, Fanny, who that heard him read, and saw you listen to Shakespeare the other night, will think you unfitted as companions?
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 82–83:
text: Society should study reasonable and just ways of discouraging parenthood on the part of those who are seriously unfitted to cope with its responsibilities.
ref: 1946 February 4, “Protestant Babies”, in Time:
text: His lack of editorial knowledge makes him doubly unfitted for the role for which he is reportedly being groomed.
ref: 2016 August 26, Stephen Glover, The Daily Mail, London:
glosses: Not suited, not fit (for something).
examples: text: As popularized by Jackie Kennedy, the little nothing, its partisans explain, also aims for the look of unostentatious but expensive elegance that goes beyond mere chic. Most little nothings today are essentially grown-up versions of sleeveless, high-necklined junior dresses, unfitted, but figure-suggesting.
ref: 1961 February 26, “Nothing, Something, Everything”, in Time:
text: In the Eighties, the unfitted suits, flat-cut in the style of traditional kimonos and proposed by Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, formed the baggy blueprint for a decade of men’s designs, and the outfit of choice for a generation of creative directors and male fashion editors.
ref: 2015 May 17, Alexander Fury, “Man from Japan: How to dress like a Tokyo Joe”, in The Independent, London:
glosses: Not customized, tailored or cut to fit.
raw_tags: of a garment
examples: text: Basically, heavy unfitted trains are hauled by ex-G.W.R, ex-L.M.R. or ex W.D. 2-8-0s and fast freights by "Halls" and "Granges", [...].
ref: 1963 January, Jeffrey P. Burke, “Railway crossroads of the north-west: Shrewsbury”, in Modern Railways, page 55:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
antonyms: fully-fitted
glosses: Of trains, or wagons in the train, not having a through brake pipe, or brakes on the wagons that can be operated from the locomotive (the wagons did have handbrakes however).
unfitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unfit.
Beltane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bealtine
form: Bealtaine
form: Beltaine
form: Beltene
form: Beltein
form: Beltin
form: Bealtuinn
Etymology: From the Celtic *belo-tanos (“bright fire”).
Senses: examples: text: And quhair it be tainted that they big, and the Birdes be flowin, and the nest be funden in the Trees at Beltane the trees sal be foirfaulted to the King (bot gif they be redeemed fra him, throw them that they first perteined to) and hewin downe, and siue schillings to the King is unlaw.
ref: 1424, James I of Scotland, The lawes and actes of parliament maid be King James the first and his successours kinges of Scotland, Edinburgh edition, Robert Waldegrave, published 1597, page A3:
glosses: The first day of May (since 1752); May Day, a Scottish quarter day, sometimes associated by Christians with the nearest Church Feast, the Invention of the Cross (3 May), and Whitsunday (15 May).
examples: text: For it was approaching that uncanny time of year, the festival of Beltane, when the auld pagans were wont to sacrifice to their god Baal. In this season warlocks and carlines have a special dispensation to do evil, and Alison waited on its coming with graceless joy.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: An ancient Gaelic/Celtic May Day holiday celebration, at which large bonfires were built on the hilltops, revived by Celtic neopagans.
Related terms: Hallowmas
Candlemas
Lammas
Whitsunday
Bealtaine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Beltane.
windings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winding
whosever
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhuzˌɛvəɹ/
ipa: /ˌhuzˈɛvəɹ/
Forms: form: whoseever
Etymology: From whose + ever.
Senses: examples: text: Whosever sunglasses these are, they will have to pick them up tomorrow.
text: "And she is not wholesome, whosever word it was. She was there, hanging about him when he was so bad, before the worst came."
ref: 1866, Mark Twain, The Galaxy, W.C and F.P. Church, page 584:
glosses: Of whomever; belonging or related to whichever person or persons; whoever's.
whosever
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhuzˌɛvəɹ/
ipa: /ˌhuzˈɛvəɹ/
Forms: form: whoseever
Etymology: From whose + ever.
Senses: examples: text: Whosever it is, it will be seized.
glosses: That of whomever; that which belongs or is related to whatever person or persons; whoever's.
Related terms: whosesoever