cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wafer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪfə/
rhymes: -eɪfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wafers
Etymology: From Middle English wafre, from Anglo-Norman wafre, waufre (Old French gaufre), from a Germanic source. Compare Middle Low German wāfel, Middle Dutch wafel (“honeycomb”), West Flemish wafer. See also waffle.
Senses: examples: text: I was at the Mathematical School, where the Maſter taught his Pupils after a Method ſcarce imaginable to us in Europe. The Propoſition and Demonſtration were fairly written on a thin Wafer, with Ink compoſed of a Cephalick Tincture. This the Student was to ſwallow upon a faſting Stomach, and for three days following eat nothing but Bread and Water. As the Wafer digeſted, the Tincture mounted to his Brain, bearing the Propoſition along with it.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Permitted to See the Grand Academy of Lagado. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 78:
glosses: A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
topics: Christianity
synonyms: host
glosses: A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.
examples: text: The house supplied him with a wafer for his present purpose, with which, having sealed his letter, he returned hastily towards the brook side, in order to search for the things which he had there lost.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973 edition, page 202:
glosses: A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.
Derived terms: Anzac wafer
communion wafer
Neapolitan wafer
silicon wafer
thin as a wafer
vanilla wafer
wafer ash
waferboard
wafer bread
wafer iron
waferish
waferless
waferlike
wafer prober
waferscale
wafer-scale integration
wafer-thin
wafer trapdoor spider
wafery
wafer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪfə/
rhymes: -eɪfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wafers
form: wafering
form: wafered
form: wafered
Etymology: From Middle English wafre, from Anglo-Norman wafre, waufre (Old French gaufre), from a Germanic source. Compare Middle Low German wāfel, Middle Dutch wafel (“honeycomb”), West Flemish wafer. See also waffle.
Senses: examples: text: [M]y Father, who knew he was well, wafered the paragraph upon a sheet of paper, and sent to his Lodgings.
ref: 1775, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 4 March
text: [T]he beginning of de Barral's end became manifest to the public in the shape of a half-sheet of note-paper wafered by the four corners on the closed door […].
ref: 1913, Joseph Conrad, Chance, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, page 81:
glosses: To seal or fasten with a wafer.
Khmer Rouge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkmɛəɹ ˈɹuːʒ/
/kəˈmɛəɹ ˈɹuːʒ/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French Khmer rouge (“red Khmer”), from Khmer (“Khmer”) + rouge (“red”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: Democratic Kampuchea
glosses: A Cambodian communist guerrilla force active from the 1970s to the 1990s under the leadership of Pol Pot.
Related terms: Killing Fields
Democratic Kampuchea
basilisk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæzɪlɪsk/
ipa: /ˈbæsɪlɪsk/
Forms: form: basilisc
Etymology: From Middle English basilicke, borrowed from Old French basilique, from Latin basiliscus, from Ancient Greek βασιλίσκος (basilískos, literally “minor king or chieftain”), from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”), possibly based on descriptions or rare encounters with different types of cobra which have crown-like patterns on their head; the 'deadly gaze' may have been from the spitting cobra's ability to spit venom into the eyes of predators or prey from a distance. The infohazard sense is a figurative reference to the deadly gaze of the mythical creature.
Senses: examples: text: Well, She is so basilisk; there's no death in her eyes […]
ref: 1870, The British drama: illustrated, volume 4, page 997:
text: her gaze became more basilisk in its expression, and her countenance bore some similitude to that of a handsome fiend
ref: 1884, M. L. O'Byrne, Ill-won Peerages, Or, An Unhallowed Union, page 126:
text: He had never seen her quite like this, so basilisk, so frightening
ref: 2004, Witi Tame Ihimaera, Whanau II, page 167:
glosses: Suggesting a basilisk (snake-like dragon): baleful, spellbinding.
cannon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kăn'ən
ipa: /ˈkæn.ən/
rhymes: -ænən
homophone: canon
Forms: form: cannons
form: cannoning
form: cannoned
form: cannoned
Etymology: Attested from around 1400 as Middle English canon, canoun, from Old French canon, from Italian cannone, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of canyon. This spelling was not fixed until about 1800.
Senses: glosses: To bombard with cannons.
examples: text: The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pool
snooker
sports
glosses: To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.
examples: text: Montenegro had hardly threatened in the second period but served notice they were still potent as Nikola Vukcevic took a smart pass from Jovetic and cannoned a shot off Hennessey's shins.
ref: 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC:
glosses: To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
examples: text: […] he heard the right-hand goal post crack as a pony cannoned into it—crack, splinter, and fall like a mast.
ref: 1898, Rudyard Kipling, “The Maltese Cat”, in The Day's Work:
text: She ran down the stairs which she had come up so nervously that morning and cannoned into Edmund at the bottom.
ref: 1952, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
cannon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăn'ən
ipa: /ˈkæn.ən/
rhymes: -ænən
homophone: canon
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Misspelling of canon.
cannon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kăn'ən
ipa: /ˈkæn.ən/
rhymes: -ænən
homophone: canon
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Misspelling of canon.
muzzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌzəl/
rhymes: -ʌzəl
Forms: form: muzzles
Etymology: From earlier muzle, musle, mousle, mussel, mozell, from Middle English mosel, from Old French musel, museau, muzeau (modern French museau), from Late Latin mūsus (“snout”), probably expressive of the shape of protruded lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgīre (“to moo, bellow”). Doublet of museau. Displaced native Middle English kevel from Old English cæfl (“gag, bit, muzzle”), see English cavel.
Senses: examples: text: The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, / The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, […]
ref: 1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egoist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 10:
synonyms: snout
glosses: The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.
glosses: A person's mouth.
glosses: A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
coordinate_terms: breech
glosses: The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.
synonyms: bridle
glosses: A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.
glosses: An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Derived terms: graymuzzle
greymuzzle
muzzle-bag
muzzle blast
muzzle booster
muzzle brake
muzzle compensator
muzzle energy
muzzle flash
muzzleless
muzzlelike
muzzle-loader
muzzleloader
muzzle-loading
muzzleloading
muzzle sweep
muzzle velocity
muzzock
unmuzzle
muzzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌzəl/
rhymes: -ʌzəl
Forms: form: muzzles
form: muzzling
form: muzzled
form: muzzled
Etymology: From earlier muzle, musle, mousle, mussel, mozell, from Middle English mosel, from Old French musel, museau, muzeau (modern French museau), from Late Latin mūsus (“snout”), probably expressive of the shape of protruded lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgīre (“to moo, bellow”). Doublet of museau. Displaced native Middle English kevel from Old English cæfl (“gag, bit, muzzle”), see English cavel.
Senses: examples: text: Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 25:4:
synonyms: bemuzzle
glosses: To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
examples: text: Those who want to muzzle everyone else are likely nothing less than pseudovirtuous.
text: Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.
ref: 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
glosses: To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.
glosses: To veil, mask, muffle.
examples: text: Venus her self would sit Muzzling and Gazing them in the Eyes
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
text: And now, while they are climbing the pole in another part of the field, and muzzling in a flour-tub in another, the old farmer […] announces to all whom it may concern that a half-sovereign in money will be forthcoming to the old gamester who breaks most heads; […]
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
glosses: To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
examples: text: The Bear comes directly up to him, Muzzles and Smells to him.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
Derived terms: muzzler
beet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bēt
ipa: /biːt/
homophone: beat
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: beets
Etymology: From Middle English bete, from Old English bēte, from Latin bēta, possibly of Celtic origin.
Senses: examples: text: The beet is a hardy species.
glosses: Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
examples: text: In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 42:
text: In the past several years, Moonbelly and Faria, two bakeries whose flaky croissants and elegant loaves rival those at Du Pain et des Idées in Paris, have opened, with rotating offerings of buckwheat coffee cake, roasted bok choy-milk bread buns and focaccia sandwiches stuffed with beet and feta sold under the moniker “girl dinner.”
ref: 2023 December 5, Ella Quittner, “How WFH Helped Make Sacramento a Great Restaurant City”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2023:
glosses: A beetroot; a swollen root of such a plant used as a culinary vegetable.
Hyponyms: chard
Derived terms: becurtovirus
beet armyworm
beetball
beetfly
beet greens
beet juice
beetloaf
beet radish
beet red
beet root
beetroot
beet sugar
beeturia
beet Wellington
beetworm
beety
Chioggia beet
field beet
Indian beet
lettucebeet
mangel beet
red as a beet
red beet
sea beet
silverbeet
sugar beet
sugarbeet
table beet
yellow beet
Related terms: chard
mangelwurzel
orach
spinach
beet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bēt
ipa: /biːt/
homophone: beat
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: bete
Etymology: From Middle English beten, from Old English bētan.
Senses: glosses: To improve; to mend.
glosses: To kindle a fire.
glosses: To rouse.
canon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăn'ən
ipa: /ˈkæn.ən/
rhymes: -ænən
homophone: cannon
Forms: form: canons
Etymology: From Middle English canoun, ultimately from Latin canonicus (either by shortening or back-formation from Old English canonic, or via Old Northern French canoine).
Senses: coordinate_terms: abbé
deacon
;
curate
;
priest
reverend
pastor
rector
vicar
glosses: A type of clergymember serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
glosses: A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
Derived terms: Canonbury
canoness
Canon Frome
canonry
Canon's Marsh
Canons Park
Stoke Canon
canon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kăn'ən
ipa: /ˈkæn.ən/
rhymes: -ænən
homophone: cannon
Forms: form: more canon
form: most canon
Senses: examples: text: The franchise's book spinoff is usually not considered canon.
topics: lifestyle
antonyms: non-canon
glosses: Clipping of canonical.
canon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăn'ən
ipa: /ˈkæn.ən/
rhymes: -ænən
homophone: cannon
Forms: form: canons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of qanun.
canon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăn'ən
ipa: /ˈkæn.ən/
rhymes: -ænən
homophone: cannon
Forms: form: canons
Senses: qualifier: now a misspelling
glosses: Alternative spelling of cannon (“weapon”).
glosses: Alternative spelling of cannon (“a carom in billiards”).
canon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăn'ən
ipa: /ˈkæn.ən/
rhymes: -ænən
homophone: cannon
Forms: form: canons
Etymology: From Spanish cañón, spelling it without the diacritics.
Senses: examples: text: [page 247:] the most wonderful depressions, gorges, canons, or valleys ever discovered.
[page 249:] Some two miles on we come to where the three canons begin.
[page 329:] the Canons of the Colorado River. This gave Moran his subject for a second painting, which he called the "Grand Chasm of the Colorado" [...]
ref: 1887, Frank McAlpine, Mile-stones of History, Literature, Travel, Mythology, ...:
text: Clarks Canon, […] very sandy, hilly, deep canons (or ravines), river valleys, and no trees or brush […]
ref: 1995, Michael A. Bogan, A Biological Survey of Fort Niobrara and Valentine National ..., page 13, quoting writings by a Bailey in 1890
glosses: Obsolete spelling of canyon.
scilicet
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪlɪˌsɛt/
Forms: form: sc.
form: scil.
form: ss.
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin scīlicet.
Senses: examples: text: As in ejectment, where the declaration is of a demise the second of January, and that the defendant afterwards, scilicet, the first of January ejected him, here the scilicet may be rejected, as being contrary to what went before.
ref: 1792, Dr. Burn's Law Dictionary, volume 2:
glosses: Namely, to wit, as follows.
topics: law
glosses: Done in the appropriate place within a jurisdiction for the documented act.
glosses: Used parenthetically to supply information which is not given in the portion of text being quoted, but is clearly given by its context, such as for quoted pronouns with unquoted antecedents.
raw_tags: in quotations/citations
macadamization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˌkædəmɪˈzeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: macadamizations
form: macadamisation
form: McAdamization
Etymology: From macadamize + -ation.
Senses: qualifier: American and Oxford British spelling
glosses: The process of paving roads with macadam.
formica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formicas
Etymology: A genericization of the trademark Formica, which see.
Senses: glosses: A heat-resistant laminate material used to veneer countertops.
Synonyms: arborite
Hyponyms: english: the trademarked brand name material
translation: the trademarked brand name material
word: Formica
english: the trademarked brand name material
translation: the trademarked brand name material
word: Arborite
vaporware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪ.pə.wɛə(ɹ)/
enpr: vāʹpərwâr
ipa: /ˈveɪpɚwɛɹ/
Forms: form: vapourware
Etymology: From vapor + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: Our hard-and-fast rule was that if we couldn't see it, it still resided in that special zone called "Vaporware."
ref: 1983, Recording Engineer/producer, volume 14, number 3, page 18:
text: Vaporware appeals widely to industrial and consumer buyers.
ref: 2015, Randall G. Chapman, BRANDS: a marketing game:
text: Some would say that Microsoft engaged in a subtle form of vaporware by preannouncing its product before it was actually ready to be delivered, then, at the last minute, announcing a short delay.
ref: 2015, Richard Severson, Ethical Principles for the Information Age:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An advertised product, often computer software, whose launch has not happened yet and might not ever happen.
Related terms: on paper
paper airplane
smoke and mirrors
Londinium
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌnˈdɪn.ɪ.əm/
ipa: /lʌnˈdɪn.i.əm/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin Londinium. Doublet of London.
Senses: glosses: A city in Britannia, Roman Empire: An ancient settlement in the area of modern London.
glosses: Synonym of modern London: A city in England, United Kingdom.
synonyms: word: modern London
extra: A city in England, United Kingdom
Tarentum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Tarentum, from Ancient Greek Τάρᾱς (Tárās), of uncertain origin but probably Pre-Greek and related to Illyrian *darandos (“oak”). Doublet of Taras and Taranto.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Taranto: a city in Italy.
Synonyms: Taras
sabre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.bə/
ipa: /ˈseɪ.bɚ/
rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sabres
form: saber
Etymology: Borrowed from French sabre, from German Säbel, from Polish szabla, from Hungarian szablya. Cognate with Danish sabel, Russian са́бля (sáblja), Serbo-Croatian сабља, Sicilian sciàbbula.
Senses: examples: text: Jewan Sadit, who ſtood before the prince, obſerving his youthful temerity, threw himſelf between him and danger, and with a nervous arm, wielding a ſharp ſabre, of the hard tempered ſteel of Damiſk, ruſhing upon the tyger, he ſtruck him acroſs the forehead.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 6:
glosses: A light sword with a curved blade, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre.
Derived terms: false sabre-toothed cat
lightsaber
lightsabre
rattle a sabre
rattle one's sabre
rattle the sabre
sabrage
sabre carp
sabre leg
sabre-rattle
sabre rattle
sabre-rattling
sabre rattling
sabre saw
sabre-tooth
sabre-toothed
sabre-toothed cat
sabre-toothed tiger
sabre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.bə/
ipa: /ˈseɪ.bɚ/
rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sabres
form: sabring
form: sabred
form: sabred
form: saber
Etymology: Borrowed from French sabre, from German Säbel, from Polish szabla, from Hungarian szablya. Cognate with Danish sabel, Russian са́бля (sáblja), Serbo-Croatian сабља, Sicilian sciàbbula.
Senses: glosses: To strike or kill with a sabre.
glosses: To open (a bottle) via sabrage.
Related terms: en coup de sabre
sabrer
sabreur
morna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mŏrnâ
ipa: /məʊˈɹnɑ/
rhymes: -ɑ
Forms: form: mornas
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese morna.
Senses: examples: text: She [Cesária Évora] is most famous for singing morna, which roughly translates to “songs of mourning.” As with many other kinds of folk music, morna songs are handed down from generation to generation, tracing dominant themes in a people's history.
ref: 2005, Kate Tuttle, “Evora, Cesaria”, in Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates (Jr.), editors, Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 593:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of Cape Verdean music and dance.
glosses: A piece of music in this style.
conversation
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒn.vəˈseɪ.ʃn̩/
ipa: [ˌkʰɒɱ.vəˈseɪ.ʃn̩]
ipa: /ˌkɑn.vəɹˈseɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [ˌkʰɑɱ.vɚˈseɪ.ʃn̩]
ipa: /–ˈzeɪ.ʃən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkɔnvə(r)ˌseʃən/
note: Indic
ipa: /kənvə(r)ˈseʃən/
note: Indic
ipa: /-zeʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: conversations
form: conversationing
form: conversationed
form: conversationed
Etymology: From Middle English conversacioun, from Old French conversacion and its etymon, Latin conversātiōnem, accusative singular of conversātiō (“conversation”), from conversor (“abide, keep company with”). Doublet of conversazione.
Morphologically converse + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Gone now are the "high-minded" style, the "adapted from literature" feel, the voice-over narration, and the abstract conversationing about ideas, values...
ref: 1983, James Frederick Mason, Hélène Joséphine Harvitt, The French review:
text: ...he has breakfasted me, dined me, conversationed me, absolutely caressed me. He has been really most kind and paternal...
ref: 1989, Robert L Gale, A Henry James encyclopedia:
text: After all this conversationing, Scottie, my usual dance partner, was getting antsy and wanted to dance.
ref: 2002, Georgie Nickell, I Only Smoke on Thursdays:
glosses: To engage in conversation (with).
culture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌlt͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ʌltʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cultures
form: culturing
form: cultured
form: cultured
form: culcha
Etymology: From Middle French culture (“cultivation; culture”), from Latin cultūra (“cultivation; culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate, to grow, worship”) (related to colōnus and colōnia), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).
Senses: glosses: to maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)
glosses: to increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate)
Related terms: acculturation
cult
cultivate
cultural
cultural criticism
culturally
cultured
culture shock
horticulture
yogh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɒɡ/
ipa: /jɒx/
ipa: /jəʊɡ/
ipa: /jəʊx/
ipa: /jɔɡ/
ipa: /jɑɡ/
ipa: /jɔx/
ipa: /jɑx/
ipa: /joʊɡ/
ipa: /joʊx/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
rhymes: -ɒx
rhymes: -əʊɡ
rhymes: -əʊx
rhymes: -ɔɡ
rhymes: -ɑɡ
rhymes: -ɔx
rhymes: -ɑx
rhymes: -oʊɡ
rhymes: -oʊx
Forms: form: yoghs
form: ȝogh
form: ȝok
form: yok
form: ȝ
Etymology: From Middle English ȝogh, of unknown origin. Several etymologies have been advanced, such as derivation from Middle English yok (“yoke”) or Old English ēoh (“rune ᛇ”), but all pose serious phonological problems.
Senses: glosses: A letter of the Middle English alphabet (capital Ȝ, small ȝ), in form derived from the Old English shape of the letter g, and used to represent various palatal and velar sounds.
viper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪpɚ/
rhymes: -aɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: vipers
Etymology: From Middle French vipere, from Old French vipre, from Latin vīpera, contracted from vīvipara f (“viviparous”, adj.), from vīvus (“alive”, adj.) + parere (“to bear”, verb). Doublet of weever and wyvern.
Senses: synonyms: adder
glosses: A venomous snake in the family Viperidae.
glosses: Any venomous snake.
examples: text: And aggravate my folly who committed / To ſuch a viper his moſt ſacred truſt / Of ſecreſie, my ſafety, and my life.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 62:
text: Consider, for the love of Heaven, to what you run madly: will you take this viper into your bed?
ref: 1879, Francis Beaumont, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions, Volume 1, D. Appleton, page 350:
text: Then there's the heterosexual, open-mined ^([sic]) entourage who loves us dearly and are our best friends. They laugh at our humor and understand our sorrow. For they are rare and unique in prison. But the vipers always ruin things. They refer to our straight friends as "Closet-Cases," "Undercovers," and "Flip-Floppers."
ref: 1990 December 16, Gianni Comes, “Not Just Homophobia”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 4:
glosses: A dangerous, treacherous, or malignant person.
examples: text: Dreamed about a reefer five feet long / Mighty Mezz, but not too strong / You'll be high but not for long / If you're a viper
ref: a. 1936, Stuff Smith, “If You're a Viper”:
glosses: A person who smokes marijuana.
Derived terms: word: blunt-nosed viper
word: carpet viper
word: chain viper
word: dilute Russell's viper venom time
word: eyelash bush viper
word: eyelash viper
word: Gabon viper
word: Gaboon viper
word: gaboon viper
word: green pit viper
word: horned viper
word: lowlands hump-nosed pit viper
word: Nikolsky's viper
word: nourish a viper in one's bosom
word: pitless viper
word: pit viper
taxonomic: Agkistrodon contortrix
word: red viper
word: Russell's viper
word: Russell's viper venom clotting time
word: Russell's viper venom time
word: sand viper
word: saw-scaled viper
word: shore pit viper
word: spider-tailed horned viper
word: temple viper
taxonomic: Chauliodus spp.
word: viperfish
word: viperish
taxonomic: Echium vulgare
word: viper's bugloss
word: viper's grass
wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒsp/
ipa: /wɑsp/
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: /waps/
ipa: /wæsp/
rhymes: -ɒsp
Forms: form: wasps
form: wasping
form: wasped
form: wasped
form: waps
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *wóbʰseh₂
Proto-Germanic *wapsō
Proto-West Germanic *wapsu
Old English wæps
Middle English wasp
English wasp
Inherited from Middle English wasp, waspe, waps, from Old English wæsp, wæps, from Proto-West Germanic *wapsu, from Proto-Germanic *wapsō, from Proto-Indo-European *wóbʰseh₂ (“wasp”), from *webʰ- (“to weave”), referring to the insect's woven nests.
Compare Dutch wesp, German Wespe, Danish hveps. Metathesis of /s/ and /p/ was both a process of some generality within English (compare grasp from Middle English grapsen, and—affecting other plosives—ascian ~ acsian (“to ask”)) and common in the reflexes of *wóps-eh₂ (“wasp”) in particular, as the aforementioned Germanic cognates (and non-Germanic cognates like Latin vespa) evince.
Senses: glosses: To move like a wasp; to buzz.
Derived terms: wasp around
Related terms: bee
hornet
wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒsp/
ipa: /wɑsp/
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: /waps/
ipa: /wæsp/
rhymes: -ɒsp
Forms: form: wasps
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of WASP (“white Anglo-Saxon Protestant”).
Derived terms: waspish
waspishly
waspishness
waspy
fenestra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fenestras
form: fenestrae
form: fenestræ
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin fenestra. Existed in Middle English as fenestre, fenester, from Old English fenester (“window”).
Senses: examples: text: The platinum shaft connecting the ribbon to the piston base is a rounded wire and can be easily angulated after placement of the prosthesis for optimal incus to fenestra reach.
ref: 2010, Aina J. Gulya, Lloyd B. Minor, Michael E. Glasscock, Glasscock-Shambaugh Surgery of the Ear, page 536:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An opening in a body, sometimes with a membrane.
Synonyms: word: vestibular window
english: in reference to the human ear
translation: in reference to the human ear
word: oval window
Related terms: fenestra ovalis
fenestra rotunda
topo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topos
Etymology: Clipping of topographic map
Senses: glosses: A topographic map.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A map or sketch of a climbing route or area.
topo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Clipping of topographic; compare bathy.
Senses: glosses: Topographic.
hippogriff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɪpəɡɹɪf/
Forms: form: hippogriffs
form: hippogryph
Etymology: From French hippogriffe, from Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos, “horse”, English hippo-) + γρύψ (grúps, “griffin”).
Senses: examples: text: To talk of being able to ride with stirrups, is trifling: get on Pegasus, bestride the hippogryph, or mount the white nag in the Revelation.
ref: 1732, July 18, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., volume 12 published 1801, page 478
text: Je crains done qu'il faudra que nous nous contentions de quelque moyen plus simple et plus facile, comme d'un enchanteur à gages, un hippogriffe, ou au moins de quelque génie bienfaisant, …
So I doubt we must be content with some more simple and easy method, such as a magician in our pay, a hippogryph, or at least some kind genius, …
ref: 1753, November 12, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, published with English translation in 1779 in Miscellaneous Works of the Late Philip Dormer Stanhope, second edition, volume 3, lettre LXXIII, pages 298–299
text: Yet the work is surely not a mere map of the hippogryffon wanderings of some disordered imagination…
ref: 1800 Dec, Sir Richard Phillips, The Monthly magazine, volume 10, number 66, page 407:
text: I imagine a Hippogryph. The Hippogryph is at once the object of the act and the act itself. Abstract the one, the other has no existence: deny me the consciousness of the Hippogryph, you deny me the consciousness of the imagination; I am conscious of zero; I am not conscious at all.
ref: 1831, The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume 52, page 164:
text: Oceanus himself follows on a hippogriff, and counsels Prometheus to submit to Zeus.
ref: 1908, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, Four Plays of Aeschylus, Introduction, page xiv:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: a mythical beast, half griffin and half horse, supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a filly.
wikipedia: Harry Potter
Related terms: hippotaur
frog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɒɡ/
ipa: /fɹɑɡ/
ipa: /fɹɔɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
rhymes: -ɔːɡ
Forms: form: frogs
form: frogging
form: frogged
form: frogged
form: frock
form: frosk
form: frosh
Etymology: From Middle English frogge, from Old English frocga, from Proto-West Germanic *froggō (“frog”). Cognate with Old Norse frauki, and Old English frox, frosc, whence Modern English frosh and frosk (“frog”).
Possibly related to Saterland Frisian Poage (“frog”), German Low German Pogg, Pogge (“frog”).
Sense 5 (organ on a horse's hoof) is a calque of Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos).
Senses: glosses: To hunt or trap frogs.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To use a pronged plater to transfer (cells) to another plate.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To spatchcock (a chicken).
glosses: To lie sprawled out like a frog; sploot.
Derived terms: frog stitch
frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɒɡ/
ipa: /fɹɑɡ/
ipa: /fɹɔɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
rhymes: -ɔːɡ
Forms: form: frogs
form: Frog
Etymology: From frog legs, stereotypical food of the French. Compare Kraut (“German person”) and French rosbif (“English person”) (from roast beef), with similar food etymologies.
Senses: examples: text: Yes. Can't trust the frogs.
ref: 1982 November 18, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Challenge”, in Yes, Minister, season 3, episode 2, spoken by Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne):
synonyms: baguette
cheese-eating surrender monkey
Frencher
Frenchy
glosses: A French person.
glosses: A French-speaking person from Quebec.
Derived terms: frogess
froggish
froggy
froglet
Related terms: Frenchie
frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɒɡ/
ipa: /fɹɑɡ/
ipa: /fɹɔɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
rhymes: -ɔːɡ
Forms: form: frogs
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly borrowed from Portuguese froco (“flock”), from Latin floccus (“flock”).
Senses: glosses: A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt.
examples: text: The visitor was about fifty-two years of age, dressed in one of the green surtouts, ornamented with black frogs, which have so long maintained their popularity all over Europe.
ref: 1844, Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo:
glosses: An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button, toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop.
glosses: A device used to secure stems in a floral arrangement, also called a flower frog or kenzan.
frog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɒɡ/
ipa: /fɹɑɡ/
ipa: /fɹɔɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
rhymes: -ɔːɡ
Forms: form: frogs
form: frogging
form: frogged
form: frogged
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly borrowed from Portuguese froco (“flock”), from Latin floccus (“flock”).
Senses: glosses: To ornament or fasten a coat, etc. with frogs.
frog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɒɡ/
ipa: /fɹɑɡ/
ipa: /fɹɔɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
rhymes: -ɔːɡ
Forms: form: frogs
form: frogging
form: frogged
form: frogged
Etymology: Supposedly from ribbit (“sound made by a frog”) sounding similar to "rip it".
Senses: glosses: To unravel part of (a knitted garment), either to correct a mistake or to reclaim the thread or yarn.
frog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɒɡ/
ipa: /fɹɑɡ/
ipa: /fɹɔɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
rhymes: -ɔːɡ
Forms: form: frogs
form: frogging
form: frogged
form: frogged
Etymology: Probably a minced oath alteration of fuck.
Senses: examples: text: If you see a necktie hanging on the door, don't knock. I'll be in there frogging someone.
glosses: To have sex with; fuck.
lammergeier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæməɡaɪə/
ipa: /ˈlæmɚɡaɪɚ/
Forms: form: lammergeiers
form: lammergeyer
form: lämmergeier
Etymology: Borrowed from German Lämmergeier.
Senses: examples: text: According to the Swiss Journal of Ornithology, the Lammergeier, or Alpine vulture, may be regarded as extinct in Switzerland.
ref: 1887 November 25, “The Last Alpine Vulture”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2024:
synonyms: bearded vulture
ossifrage
glosses: A long-winged vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, found in southern Europe, Africa and India.
mountain goat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain goats
Senses: glosses: A sure-footed goat antelope, of species Oreamnos americanus, of the North American mountains, having black curved horns and a shaggy coat.
Synonyms: Rocky Mountain goat
hippogryph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hippogryphs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hippogriff.
chupacabras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chupacabras
Etymology: From Spanish chupa (“it sucks”) + cabras (“goats”).
Senses: topics: biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas dating from the 1990s, supposed to attack and drink the blood of livestock, especially goats.
chupacabras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish chupa (“it sucks”) + cabras (“goats”).
Senses: glosses: plural of chupacabra
puppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌpi/
ipa: [ˈpʰɐpi]
rhymes: -ʌpi
Forms: form: puppies
form: puppie
Etymology: From earlier puppie (“a woman's pet dog”), of uncertain origin, but probably from Middle English *puppee, *poupee, from Old French poupée, popée (“a doll; puppet”). More at puppet.
Mostly displaced native Middle English whelp (“puppy”), from Old English hwelp, whence Modern English whelp and whelpie.
Senses: glosses: A young dog, especially before sexual maturity (12–18 months)
glosses: A young rat.
glosses: A young seal.
glosses: A dog with a youthful appearance, or any dog.
examples: text: Unclasp your bra and set those puppies free.
ref: 2007, Rodney Carrington, Show Them To Me (from the album King of the Mountains)
glosses: A woman’s breast.
examples: text: I have another two dozen of these puppies to finish before I can go home.
glosses: A (generic) thing; particularly something that is a nuisance; a sucker.
examples: text: I found my place taken by an ill-bred, awkward puppy with a money bag under each arm.
ref: 1711 July 24 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, July 13, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 106; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
text: I ne'r vvith VVits and VVitlings paſt my days, / To ſpread about the Itch of Verſe and Praiſe, / Nor like a Puppy daggled thro' the Tovvn, / To fetch and carry Sing-ſong up and dovvn; […]
ref: 1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1734), [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 12, lines 218–221:
text: I think him a very handsome young man, and his manners are precisely what I like and approve—so truly the gentleman, without the least conceit or puppyism. You must know I have a vast dislike to puppies—quite a horror of them.
ref: 1816, Jane Austen, Emma:
glosses: A conceited and impertinent person, especially a young man.
Synonyms: sense: young dog
word: dogling
sense: young dog
word: pup
sense: young dog
word: whelp
sense: young dog
word: whelpie
sense: young seal
word: pup
Derived terms: bumble puppy
common mud puppy
common mudpuppy
dog puppy
forest puppy
Hush Puppies
hush puppy
hushpuppy
mudpuppy
mud puppy
orange puppy
porta-puppy
pupkus
puppihood
puppily
puppyboy
puppychino
puppy dog
puppy-dog eyes
puppy dog eyes
puppy eyes
puppydom
puppy-eyed
puppy fat
puppy foot
puppygirl
puppy guarding
puppyhood
puppy hood
puppyish
puppyism
puppyless
puppylike
puppy love
puppy-lovey
puppy mill
puppy milling
puppy pad
puppy pile
puppy pregnancy syndrome
puppy school
puppyship
puppysit
puppysitter
puppytooth
puppy water
purse puppy
sand puppy
sick puppy
slush puppy
stress puppy
stud puppy
swamp puppy
sweater puppies
teacup puppy
underpuppy
watchpuppy
werepuppy
wolf puppy
puppy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌpi/
ipa: [ˈpʰɐpi]
rhymes: -ʌpi
Forms: form: puppies
form: puppying
form: puppied
form: puppied
form: puppie
Etymology: From earlier puppie (“a woman's pet dog”), of uncertain origin, but probably from Middle English *puppee, *poupee, from Old French poupée, popée (“a doll; puppet”). More at puppet.
Mostly displaced native Middle English whelp (“puppy”), from Old English hwelp, whence Modern English whelp and whelpie.
Senses: glosses: To bring forth whelps or give birth to pups.
Synonyms: pup
whelp
sow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sou
ipa: /saʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: sough (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: sows
form: swine
form: zew
form: soo
Etymology: From Middle English sowe, from Old English sugu, from Proto-West Germanic *sugu, from Proto-Germanic *sugō, probably from Proto-Indo-European *su(H)kéh₂, from *suH- (“pig”).
See also West Frisian sûch, Dutch zeug, Low German Söög, German Sau, Swedish sugga, Norwegian sugge; also Welsh hwch (“pig”), Sanskrit सूकर (sūkará, “swine, boar”); also Danish so, German Sau, Latin sūs, Tocharian B suwo, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Albanian thi, Avestan 𐬵𐬏 (hū, “boar”). See also swine. Doublet of soor.
Senses: glosses: A female pig.
examples: text: Lucky he wasn't a sow. They've usually just dropped a cub this time of year. A sow would have been cranky as hell.
ref: 1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: A female bear, she-bear.
glosses: A female guinea pig.
glosses: A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
examples: text: In England, it was generally termed a 'sow', if the weight was above 10 cwts., if below, it was termed a 'pig' from which the present term 'pig iron' is derived.
ref: 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 160:
glosses: A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
glosses: A contemptible, often fat woman.
glosses: A sowbug.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
Synonyms: sense: mass of metal solidified in a mold
word: ingot
sense: contemptible woman
word: bitch
sense: contemptible woman
word: cow
Derived terms: brood sow
bucksow
drunk as a sow
drunk as David's sow
make a silk purse of a sow's ear
sow stall
sow thistle
Related terms: boar
hog
pig
sow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sou
ipa: /saʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: sough (one pronunciation)
ipa: /səʊ/
ipa: /soʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: seau
homophone: sew
homophone: so
homophone: soe
homophone: soh
enpr: sou
ipa: /saʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: sough (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: sows
form: sowing
form: sowed
form: sown
Etymology: From Middle English sowen, from Old English sāwan, from Proto-West Germanic *sāan, from Proto-Germanic *sēaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-. Compare Dutch zaaien, German säen, Danish så, Norwegian Bokmål så.
Senses: examples: text: When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.
glosses: To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
examples: text: As you sow, so shall you reap.
text: Euen as I haue seene, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickednsse, reape the same.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 4:8:
text: And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 6:
text: Not surprisingly, it has sown doubt among other operators of diesel-hydraulics; […].
ref: 1963 June, G. Freeman Allen, “The success of diesel-hydraulics on the German Federal Railway”, in Modern Railways, page 386:
text: ‘Laying claim to nature’s work’: plant patents sow fear among small growers [title]
ref: 2024 January 25, Marin Scotten, “‘Laying claim to nature’s work’: plant patents sow fear among small growers”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To spread abroad; to propagate. (usu. negative connotation)
examples: text: The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, […] and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
text: [He] sowd with Starrs the heav'n.
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: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sew.
Derived terms: as you sow, so shall you reap
besow
intersow
oversow
reap what one sows
self-sown
sow dragon's teeth
sower
sown
sow one's oats
sow one's wild oats
sow the seeds of
sow the wind, reap the whirlwind
sow wild oats
tigress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪ.ɡɹɪs/
ipa: /ˈtaɪ.ɡɹəs/
Forms: form: tigresses
Etymology: From French tigresse, corresponding to tiger + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: So-al was a mighty fine-looking girl, built like a tigress as to strength and sinuosity, but withal sweet and womanly.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, part II, number 12, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, March 1927, →OCLC, page 1164, column 1:
text: Indestructibly seductive at 79, this greatest and wittiest of all singing tigresses has lasted even longer on the stage than the original glamorous grandmother, Marlene Dietrich.
ref: 2006 October 6, Stephen Holden, “Fabled Feline Charms, in Fine Working Order”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A female tiger; a she-tiger.
Derived terms: tigresslike
cob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑb/
enpr: kŏb
ipa: /kɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: cobs
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly onomatopoeic, but it has also been suggested that the word could be a continuation of Middle English cobbe (“fight”), a borrowing of Welsh cob (“blow”), or a cognate of Icelandic kubba (“chop”).
Senses: examples: text: Such negro so offending shall receive fifteen cobbs or paddles for every such offence.
ref: October 28 1828/9?, J. Ross, Cherokee Laws:
glosses: A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
cob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑb/
enpr: kŏb
ipa: /kɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Senses: examples: text: Habitats were sand, cobble (cob), sand with macrophytes (s\m) and muck with macrophytes (m\m).
ref: 1994, Anna M. Hill, David M. Lodge, “Diel Changes in Resource Demand: Competition and Predation in Species Replacement among Crayfishes”, in Ecology, volume 75, page 2122:
text: List and short characteristics of sampling sites (br = bedrock, cob = cobble, gra = gravel, peb = pebble, sa = sand).
ref: 2002, Christian Vogt & Wolfhard Symader, "Evaluation of Small Rivers by Combining Biological Sampling with a Structure Analysis of River Beds", in Fiona J. Dyer, Martin C. Thomas, & Jon M. Olley (eds.), The Structure, Function and Management Implications of Fluvial Sedimentary Systems, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, page 71
text: Surface substrate is expressed as the dominant particles (cob cobble, peb pebble, boul boulder)….
ref: 2008, Cécile Claret, Andrew J. Boulton, “Integrating Hydraulic Conductivity with Biogeochemical Gradients and Microbial Activity along River–Groundwater Exchange Zones in a Subtropical Stream”, in Hydrogeology Journal, volume 17, page 153:
glosses: Abbreviation of cobble.
glosses: Alternative form of COB.
cygnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪɡ.nɪt/
homophone: signet
Forms: form: cygnets
Etymology: From Middle English cignet, signet, from Anglo-Norman cignet, diminutive of Old French cigne (“swan”), from Latin cygnus, cycnus (“swan”), from Ancient Greek κύκνος (kúknos, “swan”).
Senses: examples: text: I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,
Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,
And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings
His soul and body to their lasting rest.
ref: 1623, William Shakespeare, King John:
glosses: The young of a swan.
Synonyms: swanling
Related terms: cygnicide
cygnine
dendrocygnid