cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
swifter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪftəɹ/
rhymes: -ɪftə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of swift: more swift
swifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪftəɹ/
rhymes: -ɪftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: swifters
Etymology: Compare swivel.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while it is being turned.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The forward shroud of a lower mast.
swifter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪftəɹ/
rhymes: -ɪftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: swifters
form: swiftering
form: swiftered
form: swiftered
Etymology: Compare swivel.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To tighten (e.g. slack standing rigging) by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer.
zipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zip
zipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zipped
form: most zipped
Etymology: From zip + -ed.
Senses: antonyms: unzipped
glosses: Addressed with a zip code.
raw_tags: of mail
robing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of robe
robing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robings
Senses: glosses: The act of putting on ceremonial clothing.
glosses: The trimmings around the neck and bodice of a gown.
stramashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stramash
medicos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medico
zipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zip
swiftest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of swift: most swift
transfiguring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transfigure
mouthwatering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mouthwatering
form: most mouthwatering
form: mouth-watering
Etymology: From mouth + watering: causing the nervous system to trigger production and release of saliva.
Senses: examples: text: Superintendent, I hope you're ready for mouthwatering hamburgers.
ref: 1996, Writing staff, “22 Short Films About Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 7, episode 21, spoken by Principal Skinner (Harry Shearer):
text: If the weather was not too rough at Norfolk Island, the Tulagi took on board some Norfolk Island fish, which arrived frozen in Vila. This fish was heavily in demand in Vila as it had a mouth-watering taste and was safe to eat.
ref: 2006, Ted Freeman, Doctor in Vanuatu, Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: That is pleasing to the sense of taste; appetizing; that makes one salivate.
glosses: Enticing or tantalizing.
Derived terms: mouthwateringly
Related terms: one's teeth water
salivatingly
mouthwateringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mouthwateringly
form: most mouthwateringly
Etymology: From mouthwatering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a mouthwatering manner.
Synonyms: salivatingly
microbicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbicides
Etymology: From microbe + -cide.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that is harmful to and kills microorganisms.
Derived terms: antimicrobicide
microbicidal
nanomicrobicide
Related terms: microbe
mortarboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mortarboards
Etymology: From mortar + board.
Senses: glosses: A rectangular board, with a handle, on which mortar or plaster is carried: a hawk.
glosses: An academic cap that has a flat square top with a tassel.
Synonyms: sense: tool
word: hawk
topics: clothing
textiles
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
business
word: cap
microbicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more microbicidal
form: most microbicidal
Etymology: From microbicide + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or functioning as a microbicide
Derived terms: antimicrobicidal
microbicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbicidals
Etymology: From microbicide + -al.
Senses: glosses: Such a material
Related terms: microstatic
mossback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒsbæk/
ipa: /ˈmɔsˌbæk/
ipa: /ˈmɑs-/
Forms: form: mossbacks
Etymology: From moss + back (in senses 1 (“person with old-fashioned views; one who is very conservative or reactionary”) and 2.3 (“fish that is large and old”) probably a variant of mossyback, which is attested earlier), alluding to someone or something that is so old or has remained so unmoving that it is as if moss has grown on them or it.
Sense 2.4 (“largemouth bass”) may refer to the back of the fish being a dark green colour.
Senses: synonyms: word: conservative
word: reactionary
word: retrograde
word: traditionalist
word: mossyback
extra: a person with old-fashioned views; hence, one who is very conservative or reactionary
glosses: Synonym of mossyback (“a person with old-fashioned views; hence, one who is very conservative or reactionary”).
glosses: A person who stayed hidden to evade conscription (especially by the Confederate States Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865); a mossyback.
glosses: Senses relating to animals.
A turtle that, because of its age, has a growth of algae on its back
glosses: Senses relating to animals.
A common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina).
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Senses relating to animals.
Synonym of mossyback (“a fish that is large and old, especially one that has algae growing on its back”).
synonyms: word: mossyback
extra: a fish that is large and old, especially one that has algae growing on its back
glosses: Senses relating to animals.
A largemouth bass or moss bass (Micropterus salmoides).
Derived terms: mossbacked
Related terms: a rolling stone gathers no moss
mossyback
mossybacked
moorings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mooring
legatos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legato
moonstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmunˌstoʊn/
Forms: form: moonstones
Etymology: From moon + stone.
Senses: examples: text: To give light to the presence chamber were seven escarbuncles, great as pumpkins, hung in order down the length of it, and nine fair moonstones standing in order on silver pedestals between the pillars on the dais.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A translucent gemstone, an orthoclase feldspar, that has a pearly lustre.
moonshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonshots
Senses: examples: text: We defined a moonshot as a complex, large-scale objective that can be accomplished only when teams abandon "business as usual." Moonshots require significant breakthroughs in attitude, innovation, leadership, processes, management, and technology. They demand extraordinary execution and are often marked by seemingly unrealistic time lines. […] My first real moonshot was in the 1990s with the creation of the PalmPilot—the precursor to the smartphone. Lisa's most memorable moonshot was Nokia's MOSH, the first big mobile social sharing platform, which swelled to 13 million users in its debut year.
ref: 2016, Lisa Goldman, Kate Purmal, Anne Janzer, “Preface”, in The Moonshot Effect: Disrupting Business as Usual, [Austin, Tx.]: Wynnefield Business Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of moon shot.
moonlighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonlighters
Etymology: From moonlight + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who moonlights, working a second job on the side.
glosses: One who serenades by moonlight.
glosses: A moonshiner, who makes illicit alcohol.
glosses: One of a gang who used violence, especially at night, to promote agrarianism in Ireland during the Land War of the late 19th century.
glosses: A southern Australian marine fish, Tilodon sexfasciatum.
moonless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From moon + -less.
Senses: examples: text: And they played softly in the Aeolian mode a music that was like the wailing of wind through bare branches on a moonless night, and the Red Foliot leaned forth from his high seat and recited this lamentation: […]
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 31:
antonyms: moonlit
moonful
coordinate_terms: starless
glosses: During which no phase of the Moon is visible to provide light, whether because of cloud cover or because of a new moon.
glosses: Having no natural satellite.
raw_tags: of a planet
Derived terms: moonlessly
moonlessness
Monsignor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒnˈsiː.njə/
ipa: /mɒn.siːˈnjɔː/
ipa: /mɑnˈsiː.njɚ/
ipa: /mɑn.siːnˈjɔr/
Forms: form: Monsignori
form: Monsignors
Senses: examples: text: Brother Matteo is a Capuchin, of course, so he eats pretty frugally: bread and water, vegetables and fruit, no meat, no cheese. And poor old Father Bechetti lost his appetite when he lost his teeth. So it’s really the three Monsignors who do the feasting.
ref: 2011, Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders, London: John Murray, →ISBN, page 123:
text: Unlike other previous Prelates, who were swiftly anointed bishops, Francis did not follow suit. Ocáriz remained a Monsignor. In the eyes of many observers, it was a demotion of Opus Dei.
ref: 2024 March 16, Antonia Cundy, “The Opus Dei diaries”, in FT Weekend, page 18:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of monsignor.
monsignori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian monsignori.
Senses: glosses: plural of monsignor
Monsignori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian monsignori.
Senses: glosses: plural of Monsignor
monologuist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monologuists
Etymology: From monologue + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of monologist.
Marthe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Marthe and Norwegian Marthe.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French or Norwegian, equivalent to English Martha.
monologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monologists
form: monologuist
Etymology: From monolog + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: In the lust of a confirmed monologist he conferred on Robert the charm of patronage from an august elder.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 84:
glosses: A person who performs a monologue or monologues.
monogamist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monogamists
Etymology: From monogamy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I maintained with Whiston, that it was unlawful for a priest of the church of England, after the death of his first wife, to take a second, or to express it in one word, I valued myself upon being a strict monogamist.
ref: 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 2, in The Vicar of Wakefield:
text: Suppose, for example, that if polygamy were legal, 10 percent of adult men would take an average of three wives apiece and that all remaining marriages would be monogamous. Among aspiring monogamists, there would then be nine men for every seven women.
ref: 2006 March 16, Robert H. Frank, “Polygamy and the Marriage Market: Who Would Have the Upper Hand?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A person who practices monogamy.
Hypernyms: wedder
Derived terms: nonmonogamist
serial monogamist
monition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnɪʃn̩/
Forms: form: monitions
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman monicion, Middle French monicion, and their source, Latin monitiō (“warning, admonition”).
Senses: examples: text: For if the ſoul of man vvere emancipated by virtue, it vvould not need any regulation or monition, beſides that of its invvard Tribunal; vvhich becauſe ſin does uſurp upon, has ſome relief from thoſe extern adjuments.
ref: 1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter XIV, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 214:
text: I heard something of it, however, and, young as I was, could not help wondering how men who carried the worst passions of life into their retreat, could imagine that retreat was a refuge from the erosions of their evil tempers, the monitions of conscience, and the accusations of God.
ref: 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 191:
text: He cherished the usual wise monitions, such as that one was not to make a fool of one's self and that one should not carry on one's technical experiments in public.
ref: 1889–1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC:
glosses: A caution or warning.
glosses: A legal notification of something.
examples: text: I recognise the first ambiguous monitions of the destiny which afterwards so fully overshadowed me.
ref: 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson:
glosses: A sign of impending danger; an omen.
Synonyms: sense: caution or warning
word: caution
sense: caution or warning
word: exhortation
sense: caution or warning
word: warning
Related terms: admonish
admonishment
admonition
commonition
foremonish
monish
monishment
permonish
premonish
premonishment
premonition
submonish
submonition
monist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monists
Senses: glosses: An advocate of monism.
Derived terms: monistic
nonmonist
mongolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mongolisms
Etymology: From Mongol + -ism, coined by John Langdon Down.
Senses: glosses: Down syndrome.
wikipedia: John Langdon Down
Related terms: mongol
mongoloid
mong
moneylender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moneylenders
form: money-lender
form: money lender
Etymology: From money + lender.
Senses: examples: text: Banchiere, a banker or Lombard, or a money lender.
ref: 1598, J. Florio, Worlde of Wordes:
glosses: A person who lends money and charges interest, especially one who is not part of the official financial industry.
Synonyms: word: lender
english: archaic & pejorative
translation: archaic & pejorative
word: usurer
word: moneyer
Hyponyms: word: loan shark
money-grubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more money-grubbing
form: most money-grubbing
form: money-grabbing
form: moneygrubbing
Etymology: From money and grub (“to search for by digging in soil or dirt”).
Senses: examples: text: Nor will you think this ſtrange, when I tell you, that, take him out of his rote of official buſtle, and the jargon of Change-alley, he had not an idea beyond that money-grubbing ſphere, and was ſcarce not a born ideot, with a head as contracted as his heart[.]
ref: 1768, John Cleland, The Woman of Honor, volume 3, page 96:
glosses: Fiercely avaricious for money.
money-grubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: money-grubbers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of moneygrubber.
moneygrubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moneygrubbers
Etymology: From money + grubber.
Senses: glosses: A person who is avariciously and greedily intent on accumulating money.
Related terms: money-grubbing
sederunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈdɪəɹənt/
Forms: form: sederunts
Etymology: From Latin sederunt (“there were sitting”).
Senses: examples: text: They held a sederunt, and were filled with tremulous joy, for, in spite of their familiarity with all the other worlds and cycles, they had a very human awe of things sent from Ghostland.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Sending of Dana Da”, in In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 421:
text: 'Tis pity we have not Burn's own account of that long sederunt.
ref: 1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns:
glosses: A formal meeting, especially of a judicial or ecclesiastical body.
glosses: Those people present at such a meeting.
Derived terms: act of sederunt
smirrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smirr
smirrs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smirr
smirr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smirrs
Etymology: Variant form of smur.
Senses: examples: text: In the November smirr they made his team take off their shirts. He walked up and down the pitch, rubbing at his chest, unsure whether it was frozen or scalding hot from the wind.
ref: 2020, Douglas Stewart, Shuggie Bain, page 269:
text: The man was dead but Kidd aimed the gun once more and a light mist sprayed his cheeks like a cool smirr of rain.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 499:
glosses: Alternative form of smur
smirr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smirrs
form: smirring
form: smirred
form: smirred
Etymology: Variant form of smur.
Senses: examples: text: The queue was about the size of a small football crowd and in the smirring rain it should have been a formula for misery. But the place was jumping joyously.
ref: 2014, William McIlvanney, The Papers of Tony Veitch:
glosses: Alternative form of smur
examples: text: Rain clouds smirred the horizon, but for now the grey mists above were content to drift on.
ref: 2022, John MacKay, The Road Dance:
glosses: To cover with fine rain.
sparras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparra
sparra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparras
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of sparrow, representing Cockney English.
Senses: examples: text: Jason dons a screwed-up accent that Madonna would be proud of. While Martine, loved for being a cockney sparra, unfortunately goes posh.
ref: 2008, Jon Wise, “Double trouble as soap won't wash”, in People:
text: "Ah ! ah ! the fun was, one of the company said it was as like a sparra as one pea is like another; how I did laugh to myself, for she grew quite offended like, and insisted that this was a light brown bird, but that a sparra was next to black"
ref: 1859, Samuel Carter Hall, The book of the Thames: from its rise to its fall, page 351:
glosses: A sparrow.
money bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: money bags
form: moneybag
Senses: glosses: A bag, normally with a drawstring, used for holding money.
examples: text: Near-synonym: cash machine
text: How could these money-bags see east and west?—
Yet so they did—and every dealer fair
Must see behind, as doth the hunted hare.
ref: 1820, John Keats, Isabell; or, The Pot of Basil, section XVIII:
glosses: A wealthy person.
Derived terms: witch's moneybags
monetarist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monetarist
form: most monetarist
Etymology: From monetary + -ist, from Latin monetarius, from monēta.
Senses: examples: text: In May 1979 Margaret Thatcher became prime minister promising to end the inflation that had plagued the country for nearly a decade, by imposing heavy restrictions on the growth of the money supply. Over the next five years, monetarist policies succeeded in plunging the British economy into the deepest recession it had seen since the great depression. […] Fast forward to March 2014, and the Bank of England has begun to bury its monetarist legacy.
ref: 2014 March 22, Philip Pilkington, “Monetarism is the living dead of economic theory – let's kill it off”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2019:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or advocating monetarism.
monetarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monetarists
Etymology: From monetary + -ist, from Latin monetarius, from monēta.
Senses: glosses: An economist who is an advocate of monetarism.
Derived terms: nonmonetarist
Margherita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Margheritas
form: margherita
Etymology: From Italian Margherita, supposedly named after Margherita of Savoy (1851–1926); see margherita pizza. Doublet of Margaret (and various forms, q.v.), margarita, margarite, and marguerite.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of margherita pizza (“A pizza made with tomato, mozzarella cheese, and basil.”).
synonyms: word: margherita pizza
extra: (“A pizza made with tomato, mozzarella cheese, and basil.”).
Related terms: margarine
monetarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monetarisms
Etymology: From monetary + -ism.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that economic systems are controlled by variations in the supply of money.
examples: text: Monetarism, you see, has two components. The first is that the central bank should try to control the money supply. In light of the Bank's report that part of the monetarist doctrine is now a dinosaur fit only to be displayed in the museum of failed economic ideas. […] Indeed, this second component of monetarism is one of the primary culprits behind the economic crisis that we have been living through for the past five years.
ref: 2014 March 22, Philip Pilkington, “Monetarism is the living dead of economic theory – let's kill it off”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2019:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The political doctrine that a nation's economy (in particular inflation) can be controlled by regulating the money supply.
monarchistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monarchistic
form: most monarchistic
Etymology: From monarchist + -ic; compare -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to monarchism
monarchism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monarchisms
Etymology: Borrowed from French monarchisme.
Senses: glosses: Rule by a monarchy.
glosses: The advocacy of such a political system.
Derived terms: antimonarchism
anti-monarchism
Related terms: monarchist
mitoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mitosis
misogamist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misogamists
Etymology: From misogamy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person with a dislike or hatred of marriage
Related terms: misogamy
mise-en-scene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mises-en-scene
form: mise-en-scenes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mise en scène.
misbegotten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsbɪˈɡɒtn̩/
ipa: /ˌmɪsbɪˈɡɑtn̩/
Forms: form: more misbegotten
form: most misbegotten
Etymology: From mis- + begotten.
Senses: examples: text: But as the Deuill would haue it, three miſ-be-gotten Knaues, in Kendall Greene, came at my Back, […]
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 57, column 2:
text: “Foolish woman!” responded the physician, half coldly, half soothingly. “What should ail me to harm this misbegotten and miserable babe? The medicine is potent for good, and were it my child—yea, mine own, as well as thine! I could do no better for it.”
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
glosses: Born out of wedlock; illegitimate.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Many of the strangest, most misbegotten studio films of the last 20 years have been comedies, perhaps because middle-aged executives have no comprehension of what the younger generation finds funny.
ref: 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “Cabin Boy”, in The A.V. Club:
glosses: Ill-conceived.
examples: text: Rather, as there was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of the creature that now faced me—something seizing, surprising and revolting—this fresh disparity seemed but to fit in with and to reinforce it;[…]
ref: 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
text: "Do they not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?"
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 82:
text: There was the guy I spent a misbegotten night with who said he'd call me and never did but came to the party anyway, and I felt primed for a confrontation.
ref: 1994, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: Bad; worthless.
misbegotten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsbɪˈɡɒtn̩/
ipa: /ˌmɪsbɪˈɡɑtn̩/
Etymology: From mis- + begotten.
Senses: glosses: past participle of misbeget
misbegotten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsbɪˈɡɒtn̩/
ipa: /ˌmɪsbɪˈɡɑtn̩/
Forms: form: misbegotten
Etymology: From mis- + begotten.
Senses: glosses: One born illegitimately (i.e., out of wedlock); a bastard.
examples: text: By preserving the incapable and “misbegotten”, and by insisting that they be the object of compassionate attention, it would cause even the strong to be infected with gloom and nihilism.
ref: 1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values”, in Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York, editors, Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 161:
glosses: A person born into infelicitous circumstances.
Related terms: misbeget
misbegetten
misbegot
Reeta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Reetas
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant of Rita.
ill-conceived
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ill-conceived
form: most ill-conceived
Senses: examples: text: Elegant brick and stone buildings, with iron and glass canopies and decorative wooden scalloping and fencing—all evidencing care on the part of the architect to produce a pleasing, well-planned building—were submerged beneath a profusion of ill-conceived additions and camouflaged by vulgar paint schemes; and the original conception was lost.
ref: 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, pages 250–251:
synonyms: misbegotten
glosses: Not properly planned or thought through.
thought through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of think through
mind-body
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mindbody
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Describing the physical action of the mind on the body, especially the mode in which a thought can cause an action.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing the interrelationship between physical and mental health.
crabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹabɪt/
Forms: form: more crabbit
form: most crabbit
Etymology: From Scots crabbit, from crab.
Senses: examples: text: Auntie Maureen said how me and Mattie would have liked him but Uncle Eric said, Oh ye would not, he was just a crabbit old b****r.
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 65:
synonyms: word: crabby
word: ornery
word: atrabilious
word: liverish
word: bad-tempered
word: fractious
word: bilious
word: bitchy
word: brainish
word: cantankerous
word: carnaptious
word: crabbit
word: crabby
word: cranky
word: crotchety
word: dyspeptic
word: edgy
word: fantoddish
word: fiery
word: fretful
word: grumpy
word: grotchy
word: grouchy
word: hissy
word: hot-livered
word: hot-tempered
word: hotheaded
word: huffy
word: humpy
word: ill-natured
word: ill-tempered
word: irascible
word: irritable
word: out of sorts
word: ornery (chiefly US)}
word: peevish
word: pettish
word: petulant
word: prickly
word: quick-tempered
word: querulous
word: raspy
word: ratty
word: short-tempered
word: snappish
word: snappy
word: snippety
word: snippish
word: snippy
word: snitchy
word: splenetic
word: stressy
word: surly
word: testy
word: tetchy
word: tetty
word: thin-skinned
word: thorny
word: touchy
word: twitchy
word: umbrageous
word: waspish
glosses: Grouchy, cantankerous.
dee'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of dead.
think through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thinks through
form: thinking through
form: thought through
form: thought through
Senses: examples: text: The fact that North America was the epicenter of the cataclysm, though acknowledged, has profound implications for our understanding of the human past that archaeologists have never thought through—in part because the scale of the cataclysm is only now beginning to be fully mapped out.
ref: 2020, Cory Doctorow, Attack Surface, Tor Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To fully consider, so as to understand all the consequences of.
emmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emmer
mind-blowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mind-blowing
form: most mind-blowing
Senses: glosses: Hallucinogenic.
glosses: Having an overwhelming effect on the imagination; mind-boggling.
Derived terms: mind-blowingly
mind-blowingness
Related terms: blow someone's mind
mind-bending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mind-bending
form: most mind-bending
Senses: glosses: Hallucinogenic.
examples: text: The book contains fifteen mind-bending mazes.
glosses: Mentally taxing or confusing.
Derived terms: mind-bendingly
Related terms: mind-expanding
millstream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪlstɹiːm/
Forms: form: millstreams
form: mill stream
form: mill-stream
Etymology: From mill + stream.
Senses: glosses: The water that runs through a millrace to power a mill.
millpond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millponds
Etymology: From mill + pond.
Senses: examples: text: When I came to the saw-mill at Brække, the sky was overcast, it was already growing dark, only above the level of the north-western horizon there appeared a streak of light, which threw a subdued glimmer on the tranquil surface of the mill-pond.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 152:
glosses: A pond or reservoir produced by damming a river or stream in order to provide a steady source of water for a millrace.
Derived terms: calm as a millpond
Related terms: milldam
millrace
mill dam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪldam/
Forms: form: mill dams
form: milldam
form: mill-dam
Senses: examples: text: the which, once being brust, / Like to a great Mill-damb forth fiercely gusht, / And powred out of her infernall sinke / Most ugly filth […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: He looked so joyy and so good— / While fishing in the milldam-water, / I laughed to see him as he stood, / And dreamt not of the miller's daughter.
ref: 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Miller’s Daughter”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 33:
text: I sat down on the wooden side of a mill-dam and thought over the past night and the strange adventure in the entrance-hall of Agnes' house.
ref: 1960, Gottfried Keller, translated by AM Holt, Green Henry, Calder Publications, published 2010, page 456:
glosses: A dam constructed across a river or stream to raise the water level so that it can turn a millwheel; also, the millpond so created.
Related terms: millpond
millrace
milkweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milkweeds
Etymology: From milk + weed.
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants that have a milky sap and have pods that split to release seeds with silky tufts.
Principally of the genus Asclepias in order Gentianales, family Apocynaceae
glosses: Any of several plants that have a milky sap and have pods that split to release seeds with silky tufts.
Also of the genus Calotropis in order Gentianales, family Apocynaceae
glosses: Any of several plants that have a milky sap and have pods that split to release seeds with silky tufts.
Euphorbia peplus and Euphorbia heterophylla, in order Malpighiales.
glosses: A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp).
Synonyms: silkweed
Hyponyms: sense: plants in genus Asclepias
taxonomic: Asclepias syriaca
word: common milkweed
sense: plants in genus Asclepias
taxonomic: Asclepias amplexicaulis
word: clasping milkweed
sense: plants in genus Asclepias
taxonomic: Asclepias tuberosa
word: butterfly milkweed
sense: plants in genus Asclepias
taxonomic: Asclepias quadrifolia
word: fourleaf milkweed
sense: plants in genus Asclepias
taxonomic: Asclepias viridiflora
word: green comet milkweed
sense: plants in genus Asclepias
taxonomic: Asclepias exaltata
word: poke milkweed
sense: plants in genus Asclepias
taxonomic: Asclepias purpurascens
word: purple milkweed
sense: plants in genus Asclepias
taxonomic: Asclepias rubra
word: red milkweed
sense: plants in genus Asclepias
taxonomic: Asclepias variegata
word: redring milkweed
sense: plants in genus Asclepias
taxonomic: Asclepias incarnata
word: swamp milkweed
sense: plants in genus Asclepias
taxonomic: Asclepias verticillata
word: whorled milkweed
Derived terms: heartleaf milkweed
milkweed bug
milkweed butterfly
orange milkweed
sandhill milkweed
tropical milkweed
clarty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)ti
Forms: form: clartier
form: clartiest
form: clartie
form: clerty
form: clorty
form: clurty
Etymology: From clart + -y.
Senses: examples: text: CLART. To spread, smear, or daub. A flake of snow, when it is large and sticks to the clothes, is called a clart. So we have clarts, mud; clarty, muddy, sticky. Clarty-paps, a dirty sloven of a wife.
ref: [1846, James Orchard Halliwell, “CLART”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. […], volume I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 252, column 1:
synonyms: word: befouled
word: besmirched
word: clarty
word: cruddy
word: dirtsome
word: dirty
word: foul
word: grotty
word: grubby
word: horry
word: icky
word: manky
word: nasty
word: seamy
word: soiled
word: sordid
word: squalid
word: sullied
word: unclean
word: unwashed
word: yucky
glosses: Sticky and foul; dirty, filthy, muddy.
Derived terms: clarty-paps
Related terms: clatty
clats
bykes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of byke
byke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bykes
Etymology: Blend of bi (“bisexual”) + dyke (“lesbian”).
Senses: examples: text: Why do I wear a biker jacket? I like making people scared of me. I get treated better by the servers in the coffeehouses in the gaybourhood. Not to mention getting looked at by the dykes/bykes. :) Without the jacket, I get pushed around more on the subway, people don't get out of my way on crowded sidewalks, and men try to intimidate me -- I'm a wee femmy thing, most of the time.
ref: 1999 March 12, A, “Re: bisexual attire”, in soc.bi (Usenet):
synonyms: bi-dyke
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: A bisexual woman.
byke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bykes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bike (“wasps' or hornets' nest”).
milepost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪlˌpoʊst/
Forms: form: mileposts
Etymology: From mile + post.
Senses: topics: automotive
road
transport
vehicles
synonyms: milepole
glosses: A post on a highway, often with one or more fingerposts, showing the distance in miles to nearby places.
examples: text: But beyond these cut-offs, to avoid the wholesale alteration of all mileposting and mileages—of bridges and culverts, for example—the original mileposts have remained unaltered.
ref: 1946 July and August, “Mileposts and their Peculiarities”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:
text: [...] the 4 miles at 1 in 180 up to Sanquhar were mounted with no greater fall in speed than from 65 to 59 m.p.h., after which, possibly as a result of easing the engine or because the strain on steam supply was beginning to tell, the final 3½ miles up at 1 in 200 up to milepost 59½ were surmounted at a minimum of 49½ m.p.h.
ref: 1960 April 24, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 212:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A sign or post beside a railway marking the distance from the (actual or nominal) start of a line (usually the principal terminus or junction with a more major line).
milepost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪlˌpoʊst/
Forms: form: mileposts
form: mileposting
form: mileposted
form: mileposted
Etymology: From mile + post.
Senses: glosses: To place mileposts along (a road, etc.).
Related terms: milestone
fingerpost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪŋ.ɡə(ɹ)ˌpəʊst/
Forms: form: fingerposts
Etymology: From finger + post.
Senses: glosses: A board that shows the direction (and often distance) to a named place; especially one of several attached to a milepost.
examples: text: ...some hint, which, besides confirming him in the theory of virtue, may, likewise, serve for a finger-post to virtuous action.
ref: 1857, Herman Melville, The Confidence Man, Dix, Edwards & Co, published 1857, page 108:
glosses: The milepost itself.
Related terms: guidepost
signpost
waymark
metier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metiers
Etymology: From French métier.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of métier.
microdot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdots
Etymology: From micro- + dot.
Senses: glosses: A text or photographic image that has been reduced in size to that of a typographical dot in order to escape detection by unintended recipients.
glosses: A small-sized tablet containing lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).
microdot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microdots
form: microdotting
form: microdotted
form: microdotted
Etymology: From micro- + dot.
Senses: glosses: To mark with a microdot.
glosses: To make into a microdot.
metricate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: metricates
form: metricating
form: metricated
form: metricated
Etymology: From metric + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To express physical quantities using the metric system.
glosses: To convert to the use of the metric system.
Synonyms: sense: jurisdictional conversion to using metric
word: metrify
Related terms: metrication
metricize
metrification
metrication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metrications
Etymology: From metric + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: In these days of decimalization and metrication it is a pity that SI units were not used as this will date a very useful little book prematurely.
ref: 1971 April 30, “Research by Experiment”, in Nature, volume 230, number 5296, →DOI, page 603:
glosses: Conversion to the use of the metric system; metrification.
Synonyms: word: metrification
word: metric conversion
Related terms: metricate
metricization
metallurgist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌməˈtæləd͡ʒɪst/
ipa: /ˈmɛtəˌlɝd͡ʒɪst/
note: t-flapping
ipa: [ˈmɛɾɫ̩ˌɝd͡ʒəst]
Forms: form: metallurgists
Etymology: From metallurgy + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: metalworker
glosses: A person who works in metal (the type of material).
glosses: A person skilled in metallurgy.
Derived terms: archaeometallurgist
electrometallurgist
hydrometallurgist
nonmetallurgist
pyrometallurgist
laverock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlævəɹək/
ipa: /ˈlævəɹək/
ipa: /leɪvɹək/
ipa: /levɹək/
ipa: /levəɹək/
Forms: form: laverocks
form: lavrock
Etymology: From Middle English laveroc, laverke, from Old English lāferce, variant of older lāwerce, lǣwerce. More at lark.
Senses: examples: text: She was young and blithe, with a face like an April morning, and a voice in her that put the laverocks to shame.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: lark (bird).
Derived terms: sandy laverock
laverocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laverock
wah lau
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ˈwɑː ˌlaʊ/
[ˈwɑ˦˨ ˌlaʊ˨˧]
[ˌwɑ̽ˈlaʊ˨˦˧]
Forms: form: wahlau
form: walao
form: walau
Etymology: From Teochew and Hokkien. Ultimate origin uncertain: first element equivalent to Hokkien 我 (óa, “my”) + lau, possibly from 老爸 (lāu-pē, “father”). Originated in the 1990s.
Senses: examples: text: "Wah lau! You tekan him, ah? But he bigger than you, man!"
ref: 1992 February 22, soc.culture.asean (Usenet):
text: Zion Mansion... Wah lau, wasn’t that built in the Qing Dynasty or something.
ref: 2009, Jean Tay, Boom, Epigram Books, →ISBN, Act I, scene iv:
glosses: An exclamation of annoyance or exasperation.
Derived terms: wahlau-eh
dwining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dwine
dwined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dwine
rone pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rone pipes
form: rone-pipe
form: ronepipe
Etymology: From rone + pipe.
Senses: examples: text: The pipe that went up the wall beside the balcony was a ronepipe.
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 134:
glosses: A downpipe; a drainpipe.
kaypoh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌk˭eɪ ˈp˭o/
ipa: [k˭eˑ˨ p˭oː˨˦]
Forms: form: more kaypoh
form: most kaypoh
form: kepo
form: kepoh
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 家婆 (ke-pô).
Senses: examples: text: Hey hey two different matters okay? Our SM already paid so why you so kaypoh?
ref: 2003 December 13, Kaypoh, “SIA air rage passenger ordered to pay diversion cost”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):
text: “My elder sister and mother don’t like me doing this. They would scold me and say I’m kaypoh.
ref: 2007 March 26, Yeng Ai Chun, “A task for a ‘busybody’”, in The Star, Malaysia, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2019:
text: The slightest noise eg.^([sic]) me opening an envelope, will have him running up to investigate, being very kaypoh (nosey) by nature.
ref: 2007 October 6, William K. C. Kee, “My diva dog, Chai Chai”, in The Star, Malaysia, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2019:
synonyms: nosy#Adjective
glosses: Being a busybody, prying into the business of others.
kaypoh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌk˭eɪ ˈp˭o/
ipa: [k˭eˑ˨ p˭oː˨˦]
Forms: form: kaypohs
form: kepo
form: kepoh
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 家婆 (ke-pô).
Senses: examples: text: To get problems rectified, Lim who admits to being a “kaypoh” (busybody), would hassle the relevant authorities.
ref: 2007 March 26, Yeng Ai Chun, “A task for a ‘busybody’”, in The Star, Malaysia, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2019:
glosses: A busybody.
kaypoh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌk˭eɪ ˈp˭o/
ipa: [k˭eˑ˨ p˭oː˨˦]
Forms: form: kaypohs
form: kaypohing
form: kaypohed
form: kaypohed
form: kepo
form: kepoh
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 家婆 (ke-pô).
Senses: examples: text: I thought through every angle, then Jesus decides to kaypoh and mess everything up.
ref: 2000, Hwee Hwee Tan, Foreign Bodies, →ISBN, page 236:
text: Don't kaypoh so much. Locked door, not allowed to go inside, means don't go—understand?
ref: 2014, Mānoa - Volume 26, page 38:
text: Puay Sim interrupted, clacking her chopsticks decisively over a slice of fried fish. “If you don't know them, don't kaypoh, Mum.
ref: 2016, Jason Erik Lundberg, The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories, →ISBN:
glosses: To act as a busybody, to pry into the business of others.
gahmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑːmən/
ipa: [ˈɡɑː˧.mən(˦)]
Forms: form: gahmens
Etymology: Variant pronunciation of government with second syllable omitted.
Senses: examples: text: Without doubt, gahmen must medically subsidise the lowest 10% of the population.
ref: 2006 January 30, George Soros, “Should Singapore subsidise medical care?”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):
topics: government
politics
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of government.
Related terms: gomen
longkang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈlɔŋ˧.kaŋ˦]
ipa: [-˦˧]
Forms: form: longkangs
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay longkang, from Min Nan 壟溝 /垄沟.
Senses: glosses: Ditch, street drain
siam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sjɑm˦˨/
Etymology: From Hokkien 閃 /闪 (siám, “to dodge”).
Senses: examples: text: Jenny: […] Then on the way back, Sunny crashed the car into the side of the road.
Irene: I thought he race car driver?
Jenny: (shrugs) He said he saw a dog.
Irene: A dog?
Jenny: […] Maybe it's an invisible dog. Or very good at hiding. So he siam [avoid] lor.
ref: 2018, Jean Tay, Sisters & Senang: The Island Plays, Epigram Books, →ISBN, Scene 12, page 73:
text: One of the uncles who had restrained the man then approached James, who said: "Never mind, you siam lah. Not your daiji ['business' in Hokkien]."
ref: 2018 June 7, Cherlynn Ng, “Man beaten unconscious for stopping alleged groping now gets scolded vulgarities for filming guy”, in stomp.straitstimes.com, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2018:
head_nr: 2
glosses: To move aside; to get out of the way.
head_nr: 2
glosses: To leave hastily, to run off.
head_nr: 2
glosses: To dodge or evade (an unwanted situation or responsibility).
siam
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sjɑm˦˨/
Etymology: From Hokkien 閃 /闪 (siám, “to dodge”).
Senses: glosses: Out of the way!; get lost!
Related terms: siam diu
Siam weed
chope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃəʊp/
ipa: /t͡ʃoʊp/
ipa: /-ɒp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: chopes
form: choping
form: choped
form: choped
Etymology: From Malay chup (“a cry in a game requesting a halt or the retraction of a stroke”), possibly from Hindi चुप (cup, “silence!”).
Senses: examples: text: Place a packet of tissues on a table and people will assume it is taken by someone in an act referred to as chope. Others may chope their table with a bag, knowing.
ref: 2022 May 15, Jonty Tan, The Local Immigrant, Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd, →ISBN:
glosses: To reserve (a place), such as a seat in a fast food restaurant, sometimes by placing a packet of tissue paper on it.
thiam
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From Hokkien 恬 (tiām, “quiet”), as in Hokkien 恬去 (tiām--khì, “shut up”) or 恬喙 (tiām chhùi, literally “silence the mouth”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of diam; shut up!
talk cock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks cock
form: talking cock
form: talked cock
form: talked cock
Etymology: Either a calque of Hokkien 講𡳞鳥話 /讲𡳞鸟话 (kóng lān-chiáu-ōe), from 講話／讲话 (kóng-ōe, “talk”) + 𡳞鳥／𡳞鸟 (lān-chiáu, “cock (penis)”), or influenced by the English phrase cock-and-bull story.
Senses: examples: text: It was at this Parliament sitting, during an intense 40-minute exchange between Ling How Doong and Lee Hsien Loong, that Ling uttered the phrase "Don't talk cock," which became famous for all the wrong reasons in the annals of Singaporean parliamentary history.
ref: 2019, Loke Hoe Yeong, “14: Regrouping”, in The First Wave:
glosses: To talk nonsense.
glosses: To engage in idle chatter.