cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
waul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
homophone: wall
Forms: form: wauls
form: wauling
form: wauled
form: wauled
form: wrawl
Etymology: From Middle English wraulen, wrawlen (“cry like a cat; roar”). Compare Danish vræle, vråle, Swedish vråla (“to bellow; roar; howl; yell”). See also wrawl.
Senses: examples: text: Thou know’st, the first time that we smell the air, / We waul, and cry.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
text: The Catapult wauled, "What if some poor man's dog was saved, — it was his comfort and defence; — he shared with the faithful creature his bread and butter: and when he dies, who watches his grave, — who, if we may so say, sheds a tear for the departed? — who, who, but his dog?[…]"
ref: 1850, Sylvester Judd, Richard Edney and the Governor's Family, page 298:
text: A cattish ghost-familiar wauls from a monument's bronze shoulder, seeing him see it, and he shrieks back in its own language, pulling a face so horrible that pedestrians scatter out of his path, their white cottons flapping.
ref: 2004, Michael Cisco, The San Veneficio Canon, page 75:
glosses: To wail, to cry plaintively.
Related terms: caterwaul
sparrow-fart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparrow-farts
form: sparrowfart
form: sparrow fart
form: sparrow's fart
Etymology: From sparrow + fart. In the dawn sense, apparently UK dialect (Yorkshire) from ante 1828.
Senses: examples: text: “I was sick of working from sparrow fart as station cook and general dogs-body.”
ref: 1993, Patti Walkuski, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, page 111:
text: ‘Took a girl to the flicks, had to get her back to Birkenhead, some goon in a tin hat and armband ordered us to take shelter in the Underground. No bloody option. So I didn′t get her home until sparrow-fart and her father didn′t believe us, turned quite nasty.’
ref: 2005, Alexander Fullerton, Non-Combatants, Hachette UK, unnumbered page:
ref: 2005, Edward Canfor-Dumas, The Buddha, Geoff and Me: A Modern Story, page 110:
text: It felt unnaturally early, sparrowfart time of day by the feel and sound of it.
ref: 2008, Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News?, page 324:
text: ‘Tomorrow. Sleep over, then off at sparrow-fart. And the car will have plates.’
ref: 2012, Gerald Seymour, The Outsiders, Hachette UK, unnumbered page:
glosses: A time very early in the day; dawn.
examples: text: […] Miss This Miss That Miss Theother lot of sparrowfarts skitting around talking about politics they know as much about as my backside […]
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 18: Penelope]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: ‘The hell with the talented sparrowfarts who write delicately of one small piece of one mere lifetime, when the issues are galaxies, eons, and trillions of souls yet to be born.’
ref: 1965, Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, published 2011, unnumbered page:
glosses: A person or thing of no consequence.
Synonyms: sense: dawn
word: cockcrow
word: crack of dawn
word: sunrise
word: sunup
word: dawn
word: morning
word: loser
raw_tags: of no consequence
word: waste of space
word: worthless person
mid-oceanic ridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mid-oceanic ridges
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: a mid-ocean ridge
sparrowfart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparrowfarts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sparrow-fart.
mid-ocean ridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mid-ocean ridges
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: any of an interconnected system of broad submarine rises formed by plate tectonics
Synonyms: mid-oceanic ridge
sparrow fart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sparrow-fart.
sparrow's fart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sparrow-fart.
homogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + -gamy.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same plant.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The quality of being homogamous.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: inbreeding
antonyms: heterogamy
glosses: Breeding between similar individuals.
examples: text: Surgeons no longer pursue nurses as they did when the former were most likely men and the latter women; now they go for anaesthetists or other surgeons. In one sense homogamy is desirable, because it means women are less dependent on status-asymmetric marriages; in another, it’s dismal because it constitutes a form of social closure […]
ref: 2018 December 21, Stuart Jeffries, “Germany’s Hidden Crisis by Oliver Nachtwey review – social decline in the heart of Europe”, in The Guardian:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
synonyms: word: exogamy
word: extramarriage
word: heterogamy
word: intermarriage
word: mixed marriage
word: outmarriage
antonyms: word: heterogamy
word: endogamy
word: homogamy
word: inmarriage
word: intramarriage
glosses: Marriage or other union between similar people, or people of the same sex.
Derived terms: homogamic
Related terms: homogamous
Arrhenius equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arrhenius equations
Etymology: From Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An equation which approximates the dependence of the rate of any chemical reaction on the temperature.
wikipedia: Svante Arrhenius
stopple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɒpəl/
rhymes: -ɒpəl
Forms: form: stopples
Etymology: From Middle English stopple, stoppel, stoppell, from Old French estopail, estopaille. By surface analysis, stop + -le.
Senses: glosses: A plug; a stopper.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A projection or lid in a pollen grain that falls away to allow the passage of the pollen tube.
stopple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɒpəl/
rhymes: -ɒpəl
Forms: form: stopples
form: stoppling
form: stoppled
form: stoppled
Etymology: From Middle English stopple, stoppel, stoppell, from Old French estopail, estopaille. By surface analysis, stop + -le.
Senses: examples: text: Shut your mouth, dame, / Or with this paper shall I stopple it.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
synonyms: estop
stanch
glosses: To plug; to stop up.
hypotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypotaxes
Etymology: From hypo- + taxis.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Syntactic subordination of one clause or construction to another.
Derived terms: para-hypotaxis
patent medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patent medicines
Senses: glosses: A medicine that is protected by a patent.
glosses: Any medicine with a proprietary formula which can be bought without a prescription, irrespective of whether it is protected by a patent.
altar screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: altar screens
Senses: topics: Christianity
architecture
glosses: A partition, often richly decorated, separating the nave from the chancel in a church; a rood screen.
Synonyms: rood screen
pasturage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pasturages
Etymology: From Middle French pasturage (modern French pâturage). By surface analysis, pasture + -age.
Senses: synonyms: pastureland
hypernyms: acreage
land
ground
coordinate_terms: arable#Noun
woodlot
woodland
glosses: A pasture; land that is used for pasture.
synonyms: forage#Noun
hypernyms: fodder
glosses: The grass or other vegetation eaten by livestock and found in a pasture.
glosses: The right to graze livestock on a pasture.
Related terms: pasturable
common land
paranoiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæɹəˈnɔɪæk/
Forms: form: more paranoiac
form: most paranoiac
form: paranœac
form: paranoic
Etymology: From paranoia + -ac.
Senses: examples: text: Calm yourselves. The hysteria and opulent paranoiac fantasies that have spread over GCN’s pages in the wake of the general election constitute a reaction both shortsighted and silly.
ref: 1980 December 13, Ray Olson, “Shorct Sighted And Silly”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 4:
glosses: Pertaining to, or exhibiting, paranoia.
Derived terms: paranoiac-critical
paranoiacally
paranoiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæɹəˈnɔɪæk/
Forms: form: paranoiacs
form: paranœac
form: paranoic
Etymology: From paranoia + -ac.
Senses: glosses: Somebody who has paranoia, a paranoid person.
Synonyms: word: paranœic
medfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medflies
form: Medfly
Senses: examples: text: Our efforts are directed against species of African origin because these include several notorious pests (such as medfly, Ceratitis capitata), as well as some of the most poorly known ones (species of Dacus feeding on cucurbits).
ref: (Can we date this quote?), United States Department of Agriculture, AFRICAN TEPHRITIDAE: INVASIVE SPECIES THREATENING U.S. FRUIT & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS:
glosses: Synonym of Mediterranean fruit fly.
synonyms: word: Mediterranean fruit fly
outspan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outspans
form: outspanning
form: outspanned
form: outspanned
Etymology: From out + span. Compare Afrikaans uitspan.
Senses: examples: text: We had outspanned on in a flat covered with close grass about two feet high…The wagons, four in number, were drawn up off the road two abreast.
ref: 1976, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld, Longman, ISBN 058261231, page 126
glosses: To release oxen from a harness.
outspan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outspans
Etymology: From out + span. Compare Afrikaans uitspan.
Senses: examples: text: At the outspan or on the road or footpath he shouldered them aside as one walks through standing corn, not aggressively, but with the superb indifference of right and habit unquestioned.
ref: 1976, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld, Longman, ISBN 058261231, page 202
glosses: The place where one releases oxen from a harness.
glosses: An area on a farm kept available for travellers to rest and refresh their animals.
Related terms: sense: inspan
word: To yoke oxen
bushveld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushvelds
form: bushveldt
Etymology: From bush + veld, partial calque of Afrikaans bosveld.
Senses: glosses: A terrain characterized by thick scrubby trees and dense thickets of bush, interspersed with grassy groundcover.
Rhode Island Red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rhode Island Reds
Etymology: After the state of Rhode Island; the breed was developed in Rhode Island and Massachusetts in the late 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: Like most pure-bred fowls, a flock of Rhode Island Reds is very pleasing to the eye. But more important is the utility side. They deserve to be placed in the "egg machine" class as well as the Leghorn and the Indian Runner duck. My small flock of 60 Rose Comb Reds made an average of nearly two dozen eggs a day all winter, the spells of extra cold weather not affecting them so much as other breeds. In February the average was three dozen a day, and now often get 45 eggs from the 60 hens. They are more active and require less food than any other breed of the American class, and are excellent mothers. […] My hens received no special care, being fed nothing but kafir, oats and corn [that is, sorghum, oats, and maize], with a wheat field near for green food. Plenty of grit and fresh water are important. For a farm flock they are hard to beat. —Mrs. E.F. Lant, Dennis, Kan.
ref: 1913 March 29, Mrs. E.F. Lant, quotee, “Why I Raise Rhode Island Reds”, in Kansas Farmer, volume 51, number 13, page 14:
glosses: A breed of chicken, with various subbreeds, some dual-purpose (for eggs and meat), some primarily layers.
Leghorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛɡhɔːn/
ipa: /ˈlɛɡhɔɹn/
Etymology: From Old Italian Legorno, from Latin Liburnus, from Liburnī, name of the ancient population of Liburnians. Doublet of Livorno.
Senses: examples: text: Leghorn was the nearest port of consequence, […] the most likely of any in Italy to assist their plan. (III, ix)
ref: 1794, Ann Radcliffe, Mysteries of Udolpho:
glosses: The city of Livorno in Italy.
Leghorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛɡhɔːn/
ipa: /ˈlɛɡhɔɹn/
Forms: form: Leghorns
Senses: examples: text: Among the light breeds there are probably more good strains of White Leghorn than any other variety. The Brown Leghorn is not quite so popular but is capable of high yields …. The Black Leghorn is another breed which has enjoyed popularity.
ref: 1962, C. Arthur Pearson, Pictorial Poultry-Keeping, 2nd edition, Cox & Wyman Ltd, page 42:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of leghorn.
Indian Game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: ”Valueless for commercial egg production, the Indian Game is essentially a table breed. See ref. p41.
glosses: A breed of poultry.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A group of chess openings characterized by the moves 1. d4 Nf6.
North Holland Blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A breed of poultry.
and how
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænd ˈhaʊ/
Senses: examples: text: Did it create a disruption? And how!
text: It created a disruption, and how.
text: “You seem to forget I’m going to an audition about a part. Probably by the time Posy is twelve I shall be keeping you all.” Posy put on an American twang. “And how!”
ref: 1936, Noel Streatfeild, Ballet Shoes: A Story of Three Children on the Stage:
text: However, just as Wenger was preparing to introduce Andrey Arshavin and Tomas Rosicky, Van Persie struck - and how.
ref: 2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport:
text: Liverpool have resembled a shadow of their real selves this season. The old guarantees, such as intensity and firepower, have been missing far too often.
They all returned here - and how - in the most spectacular manner as Manchester United, who have been undergoing a revival this season, were blown away by a team in full cry.
ref: 2023 March 5, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 7-0 Manchester United”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Used to strongly confirm the preceding utterance.
Related terms: and a half
and then some
but good
to say the least
Wyandotte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪənˌdɒt/
/ˈwaɪnˌdɒt/
Forms: form: Wendat
form: Wyandot
form: Wyandott
form: Guyandotte
Etymology: From Wyandot Wendat.
Senses: examples: text: As they approached Knaggs recognized among them Jack Brandy, a Wyandotte chief, and George Blue Jacket, a Shawnee chief.
ref: 1902, Robert B. Ross, editor, History of the Knaggs family of Ohio and Michigan, retrieved 22 Jul 2013, page 12:
text: The first Indian woman who ever appeared before the Supreme Court as a lawyer was admitted to practice there today. She is Mrs. Lyda B. Conley of Kansas City, a member of the Wyandotte tribe.
ref: 1915 October 26, “Indian Woman Lawyer in Court”, in New York Times:
qualifier: Native Americans
glosses: Alternative spelling of Wyandot.
glosses: A placename:
A town in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A former city and district of Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A neighbourhood of Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Former name: Oakdale.
glosses: A placename:
Ellipsis of Wyandotte County.
Wyandotte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪənˌdɒt/
/ˈwaɪnˌdɒt/
Forms: form: Wyandottes
form: Wyandotte
form: Wendat
form: Wyandot
form: Wyandott
form: Guyandotte
Etymology: From Wyandot Wendat.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Wyandotte people.
examples: text: The Wyandotte is the classic example of a fine breed which has been spoiled through over-concentration on eggs to the detriment of other characteristics.
ref: 1962, C.Arthur Pearson, Pictorial Poultry-Keeping., 2nd edition, Cox & Wyman Ltd, page 39:
qualifier: plural always with "-s"
glosses: A breed of poultry.
Derived terms: Counyt of Wyandotte
Wyandotte County
Wyandotte language
Wyandotte people
Related terms: Huron
Light Sussex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: “It is only since the first world war that the Light Sussex (above) has been developed as a commercial egg-producer.” See ref. p38.
glosses: A breed of poultry.
cushty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊʃ.ti/
rhymes: -ʊʃti
Forms: form: more cushty
form: most cushty
form: cushdy
form: cushdie
form: cushti
form: kushti
Etymology: From Romani kushto, kushti (“good”). Perhaps influenced by cushy.
Senses: examples: text: "That's right," said Tom. "You'll be all right, though. The old dame says as how she'll be able to do it cushty. She wouldn't be doing it otherwise. You see, if anything was to happen she'd get done fer murder."
ref: 1937, James Curtis, There Ain't No Justice, page 239:
text: I hadn't felt that cushty since the time I went down Our Lady of the Divine Rosary for confession. As I told Father O'Keith, I'd bought some gear off Sunglasses Ron and Paddy the Greek that wasn't entirely kosher.
ref: 1990, John Haselden, The Trotter Way to Millions, BBC Books, page 81:
text: A blackmailer who bragged on Facebook of his “cushty” life in prison has had time added to his sentence.
ref: 2015 December 9, Gareth Lightfoot, “Prisoner who boasted of 'cushty' life in jail on Facebook has sentence increased”, in The Daily Mirror:
text: Looking back at the season, it’s been a hell of a year for us. I’ve learned a hell of a lot, the team’s learned a hell of a lot and it’s only going to help us moving forwards into next season with a stronger car and a stronger driver. It’s going to be cushty!
ref: 2016 October 5, Ian Gallagher, quoting Tom Ingram, “Tom Ingram to stay with Speedworks Motorsport in 2017”, in Touring Car Times:
text: The Roodee feature has been a happy hunting ground for jump trainers in recent seasons and Alan King looks to have found a cushty opportunity for his five-year-old who was last seen running a blinder in the Coral Cup at the Cheltenham festival.
ref: 2017 May 9, Sam Turner, “Robin Goodfellow's racing tips: Best bets for Wednesday, May 10”, in The Daily Mail:
glosses: Excellent, very good.
Related terms: cush
Marans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marans
Senses: examples: text: The Marans breed deserves inclusion in this review of utility poultry, because of the superb rich brown colour of its eggs.
ref: 1962, C. Arthur Pearson, Pictorial Poultry-Keeping, 2nd edition, Cox & Wyman, page 39:
glosses: A small breed of chicken originating in France popular for poultry shows and its eggs, rather than for its meat.
Marans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Maran
destitution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛstɪˈtuːʃən/
ipa: /dɛstɪˈtjuːʃən/
ipa: /dɛstɪˈtʃuːʃən/
Forms: form: destitutions
Etymology: From Old French destitution, from Latin dēstitūtiō (“abandoning”), from dēstituō.
Senses: glosses: The action of deserting or abandoning.
glosses: Discharge from office; dismissal.
examples: text: He requires of his fellow man obedience to a very creditable code of morals, but he observes without shame or disapproval his God's utter destitution of morals.
ref: 1906, “Mark Twain”, in The Bible According to Mark Twain, published 1996, page 330:
glosses: The condition of lacking something.
examples: text: Destitution forces many asylum seekers to end up working for extremely low wages in catering, cleaning and construction, for example, without any protection against unscrupulous employers.
ref: 2009 August 4, Rahila Gupta, The Guardian:
glosses: An extreme state of poverty, in which a person is almost completely lacking in resources or means of support.
Related terms: destitute
arccos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arccoses
Etymology: From arc- + cos.
Senses: examples: text: arccos (1/2ϕ)=2π/5
text: […]with the appropriate constraint angles measured in terms of the arccoses and arctans.
ref: 1973, The Soviet Economy in Regional Perspective, Praeger Publishers, page 3:
glosses: Abbreviation of arccosine.
Related terms: arcsin
arctan
arcsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arcsins
Etymology: From arc- + sin.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of arcsine.
Related terms: arccos
arctan
arctan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arctans
form: arctg
Etymology: From arc- + tan.
Senses: examples: tan (arctan 2/2)=1/ϕ
glosses: Abbreviation of arctangent.
Related terms: arcsin
arccos
stinginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stinginesses
Etymology: From stingy + -ness.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: cheapness, tightness, miserliness
coordinate_terms: word: frugality#Noun
english: appropriate parsimony
translation: appropriate parsimony
word: thrift#Noun
word: thriftiness#Noun
glosses: The property of being stingy: a lack of generosity; excessive parsimony.
Related terms: word: aporophobia
english: fear or loathing of poverty sometimes motivate stinginess
translation: fear or loathing of poverty sometimes motivate stinginess
word: peniaphobia
word: avarice
word: greed
english: other factors that sometimes motivate stinginess
translation: other factors that sometimes motivate stinginess
word: cruelty
word: stingy
word: frugal
babbitt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæbɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈbæbət/
rhymes: -æbɪt
Forms: form: babbitts
form: babbitting
form: babbitted
form: babbitted
form: babbit
Etymology: The noun is derived from Babbitt, the surname of the American inventor Isaac Babbitt (1799–1862) who invented the alloy.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: The main bearings were babbitted and line-bored.
text: The caps for these journal-boxes or bearings may be Babbited by this same jig, and they would, of course, exactly conform to the other portions of the bearings in the frame. […] This drilling jig is a negative of the interior of the frame. It has two sets of bearings, c d and e f, which are at right angles to each other, and which set in the longitudinal and transverse bearings that have been made and "Babbited" in the cast frame, and thus steady and hold it.
ref: 1867 October 29, John Underwood, Improved Babbitting and Drilling Jig, US Patent 0070294 (PDF version), page 1:
text: These bearings, with their caps, are babbitted with metal of the finest quality, a jig representing the shafting being used to locate and regulate the proportion of the bearing precisely.
ref: 1872, “[Claims for the Gold Medal for 1870. Second Department.] Statement of Linforth, Kellogg & Co., of San Francisco.”, in Transactions of the California State Agricultural Society during the Years 1870 and 1871, volume III, Sacramento, Calif.: T. A. Springer, →OCLC, page 145:
text: The work of babbitting bearings offers considerable opportunity for the use of different forms of fixtures that are capable of making a material increase in the efficiency with which this operation can be carried on.
ref: 1912 June, J. A. H. Phillips, “Forms of Babbitting Fixtures”, in Wood Craft: A Journal of Woodworking, […], Cleveland, Oh.: Gardner Print Co., →OCLC:
text: The common way may be described as babbitting one-half of the bearing at a time: then by means of pasteboard liners between the halves, making the other half complete. […] It takes half the time required to babbitt the bearings in halves.
ref: 1920 July, R. C. Leibe, “A Quick Way to Babbitt”, in Waldemar Kaempffert, editor, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 97, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Modern Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 98, column 2:
text: To babbitt any kind of box, first chip out all of the old babbitt and clean the shaft and box thoroughly with benzine. […] In babbitting a solid box cover the shaft with paper, draw it smooth and tight, and fasten the lapped ends with mucilage.
ref: 2015, Fred D. Crawshaw, E[mil] W. Lehmann, Byron D[avid] Halsted, James H. Stephenson, Ultimate Guide to Farm Mechanics: A Practical How-to Guide for the Farmer, New York, N.Y.: Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN, page 600:
glosses: To line (something) with babbitt metal to reduce friction.
babbitt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæbɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈbæbət/
rhymes: -æbɪt
Forms: form: babbitts
Etymology: From Babbitt, the surname of George Babbitt, the title character of the novel Babbitt (1922) by the American author Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951). The word was also popularized by the George (1898–1937) and Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) song “The Babbitt and the Bromide”, first featured in the 1927 musical Funny Face and later in the film Ziegfeld Follies (1945).
Senses: examples: text: One speaks of a babbitt habit, a babbitt era. Nothing is more true. America recognized itself in Babbitt, it demurred, but it also admired.
ref: 1930, The Literary digest, volume 105, Funk and Wagnalls, page 21:
text: … a "babbitt" is a person full of self-confident bluster who is nevertheless a narrowminded philistine and a hypocrite.]
ref: 2002 Tamkang review, Volume 33, Tamkang College of Arts and Sciences, p.158
text: Ira relished telling the story that Fred Astaire took him aside and said he knew what a babbitt was, but what was a bromide?
ref: 2003, William Hyland, George Gershwin: a new biography, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 116:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Babbitt (“a person who subscribes complacently to materialistic middle-class ideals”).
Derived terms: babbittry
Babbittry
Babbitt metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Babbitt metals
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of babbitt metal.
babehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From babe + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: There was grave doubt whether her fragile bud of babehood would resist the cold chill of that wintry world into which it had been prematurely ushered
ref: 1882, Maria Wilkin, The Shackles of an Old Love:
glosses: Babyhood.
examples: text: Despite the whole Yummy Mummy trend, I think a lot of women still put their babehood — the flamboyant, sexy, out-in-the-world side of themselves—under wraps when they get married and have kids and move to the suburbs.
ref: 2010, Pamela Redmond, Babes in Captivity:
glosses: The quality of being a babe (attractive woman)
babian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babians
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of baboon.
babion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babions
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of baboon.
baby farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby farms
form: baby-farm
Senses: examples: text: But the bastard son of Fiona and Michael Duffy had been sent to a baby farm.
ref: 2000, Peter Watt, Cry of the Curlew:
text: As he did a little pamphlet fell out. It was kind of pink in color. At the top it said "Rangsit Home for Babies." It was a little booklet that told all about the baby farm at Rangsit. It was printed by the government of the country where Rangsit was.
ref: 2005, Dennis W. Shepherd, The Papaw Diary, page 363:
text: The FBI and police handled the investigation and found where she had delivered the baby, which was a black market baby farm preying on young pregnant women who did not want to keep their babies.
ref: 2012, Daniel M. Avery, Tales of a Country Obstetrician:
text: “Her mother ran a baby farm before she became a whore," Rosemary said. "Put Sage and three other children in here when she got sick. Sage know all about that life. After all, she lived it."
ref: 2013, Carol J Larson, The Baby Farm:
synonyms: baby factory
glosses: An institution that is paid to care for unwanted children, often doubling as an orphanage or home for unwed mothers.
baby farmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby farmers
form: baby-farmer
Senses: examples: text: In that repressive atmosphere, the “baby farmer”—usually a woman—was prepared to help an unwed mother through her time of trial . . . but only for a price.
ref: 2006, Michael Newton, The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, page 12:
text: But in 1926 Mrs. Nat Bass of Brooklyn, New York, felt compelled to confess her deception to her husband, and the district attorney, when the baby farmer from whom she had purchased an infant was investigated for fatally starving and beating twenty-two children.
ref: 2009, Barbara Bisantz Raymond, The Baby Thief:
text: The rudimentary care given to these abused children would deteriorate still further if the baby farmer herself became as addicted to the potion as the babies were – as was the case with Amelia Dyer, the most notorious and prolific of the known baby farmers.
ref: 2014, Gill Rossini, A History of Adoption in England and Wales 1850- 1961:
glosses: One who keeps a baby farm.
baby farming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The business of keeping a baby farm.
baccated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See baccate and -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having many berries.
glosses: Set or adorned with pearls.
bacchant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbækənt/
/bəkant/
Forms: form: bacchants
form: bacchantes
form: Bacchant
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bacchantem, present active participle of bacchor (“to celebrate rites of Bacchus; to revel”), from Bacchus (“the god of wine”), from Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos).
Senses: glosses: A priest of Bacchus.
glosses: A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
bacchant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbækənt/
/bəkant/
Forms: form: more bacchant
form: most bacchant
form: Bacchant
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bacchantem, present active participle of bacchor (“to celebrate rites of Bacchus; to revel”), from Bacchus (“the god of wine”), from Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos).
Senses: synonyms: bacchanalian
glosses: fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.
Related terms: bacchante
bacchante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacchantes
form: Bacchante
Senses: synonyms: maenad
coordinate_terms: bacchant
glosses: A priestess of Bacchus.
examples: text: “… There was a man who always painted marble seats and another who did nothing but sheep. So a fellow I knew determined only to paint backs. Men's backs, women's backs, girls' backs and boys backs. […] his best known bacchante was described by a critic as all back and no ante, but his backs became famous. […]”
ref: 1936, Herbert Adams, chapter 2, in A Word of Six Letters:
synonyms: maenad
coordinate_terms: bacchant
glosses: A female bacchanal.
bacchantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Bacchantic
Senses: examples: text: The orchestra played bacchantic music, and in bacchantic madness the dancers rushed by each other.
ref: 1878, Friedrich Spielhagen, Through Night to Light, page 70:
text: There is a passage from chaos to cosmos marked by the "bacchantic" riots of Nature and even ourselves.
ref: 1916, Edward Douglas Fawcett, The World as Imagination, page 469:
text: Yet nature is Spirit only in its otherness— self-alienated Spriit: "A bacchantic god innocent of restraint and reflection has merely been let loose into it " ( E §247z ) .
ref: 1992, David Kolb, New Perspectives on Hegel's Philosophy of Religion, page 87:
text: the reason for this was twofold: insufficient acquaintance with the metaphors applied to public life and, on the other hand, sublimation on principle of all erotic and bacchantic elements into mystic allegory.
ref: 2014, Julie Scott Meisami, Medieval Persian Court Poetry, page 279:
text: Indeed the Tereus episode resembles the Hecuba even more closely because it combines the motif of a conspiracy of women (a motif also parodied in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae, Lysistrata, and Ecclesiazusae) with the motif of bacchantic rage and collective violence . It is even possible that this bacchantic motif entered Ovid's tale via Sophocles' lost Tereus, though this is only conjecture.
ref: 2018, J.P. Sullivan, Irene J.F. de Jong, Modern Critical Theory and Classical Literature, page 274:
glosses: Bacchanalian; drunken or frenzied and unrestrained; orgiastic.
examples: text: His friend Ted dancing the can-can trouserless with his shirt-tails flying, is an absurd equivalent to the bacchantic worshippers, who were supposed to don female dress during the rite.
ref: 1996, Contemporary Drama in English - Volumes 4-6, page 61:
text: In this way the spectators were contextualized as participants in a rite (the chorus of bacchantic dancers and those assisting were originally not separated, either spatially or in their pragmatic roles), who had to perform rite (rightly) that which lay beyond them all.
ref: 2011, Johannes Ehrat, Power of Scandal: Semiotic and Pragmatic in Mass Media, page 93:
text: As am ecstatic city text it exemplifies the tendency to community, to festival, to love; and its bacchantic allusions remind us that Greek ecstatic religions were in part a protest against the restrictions of the urban, an effort to return to a more intense mode of existence.
ref: 2021, Edward Ahearn, Rimbaud: Visions and Habitations, page 294:
glosses: Pertaining to the clergy or worship of Bacchus.
bacchical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bacchical
form: most bacchical
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous, with intoxication.
bacchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bacchic
form: most bacchic
Etymology: From Latin Bacchicus.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: Dionysiac, Dionysian
glosses: Of or relating to Bacchus.
examples: Near-synonyms: bacchanalian, bacchian; dionysiac, dionysian
glosses: By extension, drunken.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: Relating to a bacchius.
Related terms: dionysiac
bacchius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbækiəs/
Forms: form: bacchii
Etymology: So called because used in hymns to Bacchus.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.
Related terms: antibacchius
bacchic
palimbacchius
capon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪpən/
Forms: form: capons
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English capoun, from Old English capūn, from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon), from Latin cāpō, cāpōnem (Vulgar Latin *cappō).
Senses: examples: text: […] You cannot feed capons so.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.
Derived terms: caponet
caponization
caponize
Yarmouth capon
capon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪpən/
Forms: form: capons
form: caponing
form: caponed
form: caponed
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English capoun, from Old English capūn, from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon), from Latin cāpō, cāpōnem (Vulgar Latin *cappō).
Senses: glosses: To castrate; to make a capon of.
bacciferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bækˈsɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From Latin baccifer (“bearing berries”), bacca (“berry”) + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: bacciferous plant
text: bacciferous shrub
glosses: Producing berries.
Related terms: bacciform
baccivorous
bacciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæksɪfɔːm/
Forms: form: more bacciform
form: most bacciform
Etymology: From Latin baca (“berry”) + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a berry.
baccivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bækˈsɪvəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪvəɹəs
Etymology: Latin bāca (“berry”) + -vorous
Senses: examples: baccivorous birds
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Eating, or having a diet based on, berries
Related terms: bacciferous
toucha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌt͡ʃə/
rhymes: -ʌtʃə
Forms: form: touchas
form: toucher
Etymology: From the Standard English touch, as in "touching someone for money".
Senses: examples: text: Yer a toucha, yee just somthin for nothin aall the time!
glosses: A person who tries to get something out of others for nothing in return.
Bacharach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in the Rhine Gorge, Mainz-Bingen Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
glosses: A surname from German.
Bacharach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.
tortious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔːʃəs/
ipa: /ˈtɔɹʃəs/
Forms: form: more tortious
form: most tortious
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English torcious, from Anglo-Norman torcious.
Senses: examples: text: he found great store of hoorded threasure, / The which that tyrant gathered had by wrong / And tortious powre […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Wrongful; harmful.
topics: law
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts.
Synonyms: sense: wrongful
word: wrongful
Derived terms: tortious interference
tortiously
tortiousness
Related terms: tort
tortious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔːʃəs/
ipa: /ˈtɔɹʃəs/
Forms: form: more tortious
form: most tortious
Senses: examples: text: Burr continued to preside over the Senate with matchless grace and dignity, addressed it finally in the farewell speech which moved his enemies to tears, and wandered off into the tortious windings of political intrigue.
ref: 1900, Thomas E. Wilson, Thomas Jefferson, Small, Maynard & Company, page 131:
text: The very existence of article 23 was regarded as indicating that the Convention was not mandatory, on the rather tortious argument that if the Convention had been intended to replace the broad discovery powers previously exercised by the United States, acceptance of article 23 (which enables other states to refuse to operate the Convention in this area) ‘would have been most anomalous’.
ref: 2002, John David McClean, International Co-operation in Civil and Criminal Matters, page 140:
text: Such argument is a weak one and suggests that future legislation may never cover those individuals or groups given the fact that legislation is a lengthy and tortious process.
ref: 2023, Jo Carby-Hall, “Sexual Harassment in the Britsh Workplace”, in Jo Carby-Hall, Aneta Tyc, Zbigniew Góral, editors, International Workplace Discrimination Law, page 232:
glosses: Misspelling of tortuous
teed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of tee
Arianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛəɹɪənɪzəm/
Etymology: Eponym from its chief proponent Arius, a priest in Alexandria circa 323 CE: Arian + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A Christological doctrine, condemned as heretical by the First Council of Nicaea, which holds that Jesus was created by God, rather than being God himself.
Synonyms: Arian heresy
Related terms: Semi-Arianism
monophysitism
Nestorianism
trinitarianism
unitarianism
orchidaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more orchidaceous
form: most orchidaceous
Etymology: From Orchidaceae; equivalent to orchid + -aceous.
Senses: examples: text: In keeping with the orchidaceous theme of the wedding, the decorator draped the walls with lavenders and pinks.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: orchidean
orchideous
glosses: Of or pertaining to orchids.
examples: text: These stories were variously received. […] J. D. found them “charged with Corvonian idiosyncrasy, a jumble-jargon composed of modern slang, old English, Latin, Italian and Greek,” adding: “The Corvo vocabulary is orchidaceous.”
ref: 1923 September, Shane Leslie, “Frederick Baron Corvo”, in J[ohn] C[ollings] Squire, editor, The London Mercury, volume VIII, number 47, London: The London Mercury Ltd, →OCLC, page 510:
glosses: Exotic in a rare, mysterious, alluring, or sensual way.
Rolls-Royce
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The original company was established in 1904 by the partnership of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce.
Senses: glosses: Any of several British companies that make motor cars, aero engines, etc.
Derived terms: sense: Rolls-Royce maker of aero engines
word: R-R
sense: Rolls-Royce maker of aero engines
word: R.-R.
sense: Rolls-Royce maker of aero engines
word: RR
sense: Rolls-Royce maker of aero engines
word: R.R.
sense: Rolls-Royce maker of aero engines
word: R. R.
Rolls-Royce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rolls-Royces
form: Rolls Royce
Etymology: The original company was established in 1904 by the partnership of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce.
Senses: examples: text: And she pondered the first of Miss Seeton’s sketches, the one Delphick had been coerced into showing her: the sleek cat reflected in the mirror, with the ram—the ram from the wrong, confusing case—beneath it on the bonnet of the Rolls-Royce in which Ferencz Szabo, of the Stentorian voice, rode so proudly.
ref: 1994, Hamilton Crane [pseudonym; Sarah J. Mason], chapter 32, in Miss Seeton Undercover (Miss Seeton; 17), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 256:
synonyms: word: Rolls
word: Roller
word: R-R
glosses: A car made by this manufacturer.
examples: text: the Rolls-Royce of chocolate
text: But for an aspiring animation cartoonist, getting a job at Walt Disney was like hitting the major leagues—the Rolls Royce of animation. Now here we were walking down Dopey Drive and making a right at Mickey Avenue.
ref: 2013, Floyd Norman, Animated Life:
synonyms: word: all that and a bag of chips
word: antelope's cantaloupes
word: ant's pants
word: bee's knees
word: bollocks
word: cat's ass
word: cat's meow
word: cat's pajamas
word: cat's pyjamas
word: cat's whiskers
word: cream of the crop
word: crème de la crème
word: da bomb
word: dog's bollocks
word: dog's dangly bits
word: finger-lickin' good
word: finger-licking good
word: flea's eyebrows
word: fox's socks
word: greatest thing since sliced bread
word: gold standard
word: kitty's titties
word: llama's pajamas
word: mutt's nuts
word: ne plus ultra
word: spider's ankles
word: the bomb
word: the business
word: the shit
word: the tits
glosses: Anything that is the best of its type; the best quality product possible.
middlemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of middleman
hafnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: hafnium oxide, HfO₂
maladroit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæl.əˈdɹɔɪt/
Forms: form: more maladroit
form: most maladroit
Etymology: From French maladroit, from mal- (“bad, badly”) + adroit (“skilful”).
Senses: examples: text: Like the maladroit boy himself, the director does not believe in warming his audience up with narrative foreplay, and it's the same story when we cut to the family home of Julio's girlfriend, whose parents allow him into her bedroom to help her look for her passport, and she gleefully wrenches her tracksuit bottoms down.
ref: 2002 April 12, Peter Bradshaw, “Three go mad in Mexico”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Do you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a big audience, but seems awkward in groups and maladroit at small talk? Who has to be dragged to parties and then needs the rest of the day to recuperate?
ref: 2003 March, Jonathan Rauch, “Caring for Your Introvert”, in The Atlantic Monthly, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2010:
glosses: Not adroit; awkward, clumsy, inept.
Derived terms: maladroitly
maladroitness
maladroit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæl.əˈdɹɔɪt/
Forms: form: maladroits
Etymology: From French maladroit, from mal- (“bad, badly”) + adroit (“skilful”).
Senses: glosses: Somebody who is inept, or lacking in skill, or talent.
dodderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodderers
Etymology: From dodder + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "Take no notice of yon dodderer whatever," he said.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 43:
glosses: Somebody who dodders.
octoroon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octoroons
form: octaroon
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish octorón; compare quadroon from cuarterón (“quadroon”).
Senses: examples: text: Yet the least drop of Spanish blood, if it be only of quadroon or octoroon, is sufficient to raise them from the rank of slaves, and entitle them to a suit of clothes—boots, hat, cloak, spurs, long knife, and all complete, though coarse and dirty as may be,—and to call themselves Españolos, and to hold property, if they can get any.
ref: 1840, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, ch. XIII:
text: There would have been no legal barrier to their union; there would have been no frightful menace to white supremacy in the marriage of the negro and the octoroon: the drop of dark blood bridged the chasm.
ref: 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, ch. XVIII:
text: I dare say he has some Italians with him, but our amiable friends are not Italians. They are octoroons and African half-bloods of various shades, but I fear we English think all foreigners are much the same so long as they are dark and dirty.
ref: 1914, G. K. Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown, chapter 9:
text: Grandmother Baxter was a quadroon or an octoroon, or in any case she was nearly white.
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 10, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 50:
text: That's Balthios, the octoroon great grandson of Lebron James. He doesn't like to talk about himself, but he's a good guy.
ref: 2008, Tales of Game's Studios, quoting Charles Barkley, Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Tales of Game's Studios:
text: It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race. […] Protectors took the mixed-race children, ‘half-castes’, ‘quarter-castes’, ‘octoroons’, from their parents, from their culture, raised the light-skinned ones white, at an orphanage, and trained the darker-skinned ones to be domestic servants for the colonisers.
ref: 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2021:
glosses: Someone having one-eighth black ancestry.
examples: text: Quintoon: child of mustiphini and white male
Unspeakable: child of mustiphini and white woman
Octoroon: child of quintoon and white man
Unspeakable: child of quintoon and white woman
ref: 2005, Donald Harman Akenson, Irish History of Civilization, page 353:
glosses: Someone having 1/64th black ancestry: the child of a quintoon and a white man.
Synonyms: mustee
Coordinate terms: sense: person of mixed race
word: list in mulatto
Related terms: quadroon
quintroon
terceroon