cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
evenhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more evenhanded
form: most evenhanded
form: even-handed
Etymology: From even + handed.
Senses: examples: text: The questioners are not evenhanded in dealing with the candidates.
synonyms: word: equitable
word: neutral
word: candid
word: cold
word: clinical
word: detached
word: egal
word: equal
word: equitable
word: evenhanded
word: fairhanded
word: fair-minded
word: disinterested
word: dispassionate
word: impartial
word: imprejudicate
word: indifferent
word: indistinguishing
word: neuter
word: neutral
word: nonaligned
word: nonpartial
word: nonpartisan
word: nonpersonal
word: objective
word: unbiased
word: unbigoted
word: uninterested
word: unpartial
word: unpartisan
word: unprejudiced
word: unprepossessed
glosses: Fair and having no partiality; unbiased; just.
Related terms: evenhandedly
evenhandedness
'bout
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /baʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: bout
Etymology: Aphetic form of about.
Senses: examples: text: That's what I'm talkin' 'bout. I need a man like that.
ref: 2010, Nikki Carter, Not A Good Look, page 20:
glosses: about.
evenhandedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more evenhandedly
form: most evenhandedly
form: even-handedly
Etymology: From evenhanded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Their study raises very few questions or concerns, in large part because they have so thoroughly presented their data and findings and evenhandedly assessed the evidence.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 3, in Illusion of Order:
glosses: In an evenhanded manner.
evenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evennesses
Etymology: From Middle English evennesse, from Old English efennes, equivalent to even + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being even (flat or close in numbers).
Related terms: unevenness
everlastingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more everlastingly
form: most everlastingly
Etymology: From everlasting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: `Curse her, may she be everlastingly accursed.' The arms fell and the flame sank.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Their lives are dedicated to world conquest, but they also know that it is necessary that the war should continue everlastingly and without victory.
ref: 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 9, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001:
synonyms: word: 5ever
word: ad infinitum
word: all the time
word: always
word: aye
word: continually
word: endlessly
word: eternally
word: ever
word: ever after
word: evermore
word: fivever
word: for good
word: forever
word: forevermore
word: for evermore
word: for ever and ever
word: for ever more
word: in perpetuity
word: in saecula saeculorum
word: incessantly
word: lastingly
word: neverendingly
word: permanently
word: perpetually
word: sempiternally
word: until hell freezes over
word: until Kingdom come
glosses: In an everlasting manner; without end; forever.
examples: text: They talk about education, everlastingly, as if it were a cure-all instead of a process for making unfit nations unfitter […]
ref: 1909, Ford Madox Ford, The English Review, volume 2, page 130:
synonyms: word: ceaselessly
word: consecutively
word: constantly
word: continually
word: continuously
word: endlessly
word: eternally
word: everlastingly
word: extendedly
word: incessantly
word: infinitely
word: neverendingly
word: nonstop
word: ongoingly
word: perpetually
word: persistently
word: relentlessly
word: steadily
word: successively
word: unbrokenly
word: unceasingly
word: unendingly
word: unintermittedly
word: uninterruptedly
word: unrelentingly
word: unrelievedly
word: unremittingly
word: unstoppingly
glosses: Perpetually; constantly.
evocatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more evocatively
form: most evocatively
Etymology: From evocative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We have met twice this year and, during our first interview, Mata spoke evocatively when remembering how, having joined Real Oviedo aged 10 in 1998, he was given a previously unimaginable opportunity. Mata sat in a car park in 2003, when he was 14, and watched his father talking to a Real Madrid scout.
ref: 2018 January 1, Donald McRae, “The Guardian footballer of the year 2017: Juan Mata”, in the Guardian:
glosses: In an evocative manner.
evil-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having evil thoughts or intentions.
self-sealing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + sealing.
Senses: examples: text: The engine had self-sealing gaskets to keep the grease in, just tighten the bolts.
glosses: Describing a device with seals that activate without special procedures.
examples: text: Many pilots' lives were saved during World War II by salf-sealing gas tanks that kept their planes from becoming fireballs when riddled with bullets.
text: self-sealing tire
glosses: Describing a container that is capable of automatically closing off leaks that form in it.
self-rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + rule.
Senses: examples: text: Britain resumed direct control of North Ireland after just nine weeks of self-rule.
text: Only two years ago a group of Uighur dissidents were discovered in Xinjiang, planning a province-wide uprising against Chinese rule. The slogan they were using was, "We want self-rule. We don't want to be dominated."
ref: 1985, Tiziano Terzani, The Forbidden Door, Asia 2000 Ltd, pages 223-224:
text: Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warned a security summit Friday that "Ukraine today may be East Asia tomorrow", as concerns grow that China could invade democratic, self-ruled Taiwan.
ref: 2022 June 10, “'Ukraine today could be East Asia tomorrow': Japan PM warns”, in France 24, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2022:
synonyms: self-government
glosses: Rule of a group of people by their own leaders as opposed to rule imposed by a foreign government or people.
Related terms: self-determination
shapeliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shapelinesses
Etymology: From shapely + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being shapely.
glosses: The result or product of being shapely.
sheepishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃiː.pɪʃ.li/
Forms: form: more sheepishly
form: most sheepishly
Etymology: From sheepish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But Frank Fairbanks, a retired public administrator, had to sheepishly acknowledge that he had grass. “Unfortunately, like many of our central Phoenix neighbors, we have a green lawn which consumes more water than xeriscape,” he told the paper.
ref: 2011 April 9, Marc Lacey, “Spraying to Make Yards Green ... but With Paint, Not Water”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:
text: Renton’s big mistake is sheepishly to offer Sick Boy his stolen share 20 years on: £4,000 in a crumpled brown envelope. “What am I supposed to buy with that?” rages Sick Boy bitterly later. “A time machine?”
ref: 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In a sheepish way; shyly; meekly; bashfully; self-consciously; with embarrassment.
Synonyms: sense: meekly
word: abashedly
sense: meekly
word: meekly
sense: meekly
word: self-consciously
sense: meekly
word: shyly
sense: meekly
word: timidly
sense: meekly
word: bashfully
shell-shocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shell-shocked
form: most shell-shocked
form: shellshocked
form: shell shocked
Senses: examples: text: Glenn Kilbourne had returned from France early that fall, shell-shocked and gassed, and otherwise incapacitated for service in the army—a wreck of his former sterling self.
ref: 1922, Zane Grey, chapter 1, in The Call of the Canyon:
glosses: Stunned or mentally unbalanced by prolonged stress such as experienced in combat or under fire (shell-fire); suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
examples: text: With inflationary pressures easing and economic concerns mounting, shell-shocked investors are seeking the protection of government securities.
ref: 2008 December 18, Luke Mullins, “The Top 5 Housing-Market Hopes for 2009”, in U.S.News & World Report, retrieved 22 Dec 2008:
text: I lay there, momentarily shell-shocked as, hungover and jet-lagged, I tried to remember what I was doing today. Something important.
ref: 2016, Rosie Blake, chapter 15, in How to Find Your (First) Husband, London: Corvus, →ISBN, page 129:
text: A family from Knebworth has been left shell-shocked by the return of their beloved tortoise, more than eight months after she went missing.
ref: 2022 July 13, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 961, page 71:
glosses: Confused as a result of a traumatic experience.
Related terms: battle fatigue
combat fatigue
PTSD
shell shock
snoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɔːɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
Forms: form: snorings
Senses: examples: text: His snoring was so loud that it woke the neighbors.
text: E. E. Cummings
Then he asked if anyone wanted to dispute this assertion (he brandishing his revolver the while) and was answered by peaceful snorings.
glosses: The action or sound of breathing during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate.
snoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɔːɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snore
shiftily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shiftily
form: most shiftily
Etymology: From shifty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a shifty manner.
shiftiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiftinesses
Etymology: From shifty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Henderson's chief trouble seems to be that he cannot forget his old shiftiness of views and his pendulum-like swingings between Liberalism and Independent Labourism[…]
ref: 1973, Socialist Review, volume 8, page 331:
glosses: The property of being shifty.
examples: text: I had the grace or humility sometimes to see myself as a mass of shiftinesses; a few dogmas might help to steady me.
ref: 1918, Allan Noble Monkhouse, Men and Ghosts, page 73:
glosses: The result or product of being shifty.
unguarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unguarded
form: most unguarded
Etymology: From un- + guarded.
Senses: examples: text: The unguarded gatehouse was soon taken by the invading army.
glosses: Having no guard or protection; vulnerable.
examples: text: I let out her secret in an unguarded moment.
glosses: Displaying a lack of caution or thought.
Derived terms: unguardedly
unguardedness
sherbet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɜː.bət/
ipa: /ˈʃɜː.bɪt/
ipa: /ˈʃɝ.bət/
ipa: /ˈʃɝ.bɪt/
ipa: /ˈʃɝ.bɚt/
rhymes: (nonstandard) -ɜː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)t
Forms: form: sherbets
form: sherbert
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic شَرِبَ (šariba)der.
Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba)bor.
Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat)bor.
Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet)bor.
English sherbet
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), borrowed from Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat), borrowed from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba), from شَرِبَ (šariba).
Doublet of sorbet and sharbat, related to syrup.
Senses: glosses: A dessert of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product such as milk added; a sorbet with dairy ingredients.
glosses: An effervescent powder made of bicarbonate of soda, sugar and flavourings, intended to be eaten alone or mixed with water to make a drink.
examples: text: Directly they were trotted off in their little pea-green and gilt carriage, guardian negress and all, I went into the shop, about which I had all this time been loafingly prowling, and called, clapping my hands, for some violet sherbet, […]
ref: 1860, Walter Thornbury, Turkish Life and Character, volume 1, page 137:
text: Tea is becoming a favourite drink in Turkey, not instead of coffee, but of the sherbet or cool drinks that are handed to guests; it comes generally from Russia, and although a trifle dear on account of the carriage, is extremely good, when properly made.
ref: 1895, Oswald Hutton Parry, Six Months in a Syrian Monastery [2004 reprint], page 86
text: The beverages of the Turks were an interesting exception to their reputation for simple foods. While many writers mentioned the Turkish penchant for drinking “cleere water,” in light of the prohibitions against alcohol (although some writers, usually those who were more negatively inclined against the Turks, maintained that they were drunkards in secret), virtually all authors discussed the nonalcoholic drinks made by the Turks to replace alcohol, not only coffee, but also sweet refined drinks such as sherbet, a cold drink that usually included sugar, water, and a fruity or flowery flavoring. Sherbet was considered a delicacy, and it and other refined drinks were mentioned in detail by a number of travelers.
ref: 2008, Anna Suranyi, The Genius of the English Nation: Travel Writing and National Identity in Early Modern England, pages 101–102:
glosses: A traditional West and South Asian sweet drink prepared from fruits or flower petals.
examples: text: All the dealers would steam into his cabin for a few sherbets after work, and to listen to his bollocks.
ref: 2014, Peter Smith, Confessions of a Dice Dealer, page 105:
glosses: An alcoholic drink, especially beer.
Synonyms: sense: sweet drink
word: sharbat
Derived terms: sherbet dabs
sherbet fountain
sherbet straw
unspoiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unspoiled
form: most unspoiled
form: unspoilt
Etymology: From un- + spoiled.
Senses: examples: text: Architecturally the stations of the Tonbridge-Hastings line are of great interest. Wadhurst, Robertsbridge and Stonegate are of simple Italinate^([sic]) style, unspoiled by that necessary evil of a platform awning.
ref: 1957 August 24, H. P. White, “The Tonbridge-Hastings Line and its Traffic”, in Railway Magazine, page 529:
glosses: Not spoiled or touched; pure.
sherbets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sherbet
sherbert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sherberts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sherbet (“food of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product added”).
sherberts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sherbert
superbly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more superbly
form: most superbly
Etymology: From superb + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Despite of the absence of Shaun Derry and Adel Taarabt because of illness and injury respectively, the home side began superbly. Helguson twice threatened early on with shots from the right-hand corner of the box before Anton Ferdinand spurned a great chance at the back post following the Icelandic striker's header back across goal.
ref: 2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: excellently, done to the best possibly degree, admirably.
glosses: haughtily
excellently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more excellently
form: most excellently
Etymology: From excellent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Stephen Ward then had to time his tackle excellently to deny Tarmo Kink as the Wolves winger slid the ball out of play before the Estonian could attempt to beat Given.
ref: 2011 November 11, Rory Houston, “Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, in RTE Sport:
glosses: In a manner that demonstrates excellence; very well.
Synonyms: word: amazingly
word: awesomely
word: beneshiply
word: brilliantly
word: excellently
word: exceptionally
word: fantastically
word: fabulously
word: marvelously
word: splendidly
word: superbly
word: well
word: wickedly
word: wonderfully
Related terms: word: excellent
dielectric absorption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dielectric absorptions
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The retention of polarization of a dielectric material after removal of the electric field.
dielectric heating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The heating of an electrically insulating material by a rapidly fluctuating electric field
induction heater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: induction heaters
Senses: glosses: A heater than employs induction heating
aquaerobics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquarobics
Etymology: From aqua- + aerobics.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of water aerobics.
synonyms: word: water aerobics
boxercise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: * Blend of boxing + exercise
Senses: glosses: A form of physical workout, combining boxing with aerobic exercise.
shadowboxing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shadow + boxing.
Senses: glosses: A form of solo exercise, involving throwing punches at the air, and not at an opponent.
Related terms: shadowbox
shadowboxer
shadowboxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From shadow + boxing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shadowbox
boxing ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxing rings
Senses: glosses: A space, usually square, with elastic ropes around the edge, in which a boxing match is fought.
combat sport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combat sports
Senses: glosses: A sport that involves man-to-man combat.
Related terms: martial art
Ewan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːən/
rhymes: -uːən
Forms: form: Euan
form: Ewen
form: Evin
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Eòghan. Not related to Iwan and Evan.
Senses: examples: text: Clare insisted that Addison decide on a name - they had already drawn up a shortlist of five - and Addison finally settled on Ewan because it seemed Scottish but not too Scottish.
ref: 2002, Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
botty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒti/
rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: botties
Etymology: Clipping of bottom + -y.
Senses: examples: text: There once was a soft luscious botty,
That was spanked very hard and a lotty.
Until one day,
In the month of May,
It was black and blue and looked grotty.
ref: 2010, Zorba Tocks, The Taming of the Twins and a Selection of Illustrated Limericks:
synonyms: word: arse
word: ass
word: bum
word: butt
word: 'tocks
word: arse
word: arse cheeks
word: ass
word: ass cheeks
word: back
word: backside
word: batty
word: behind
word: blessed assurance
word: booty
word: botty
word: bottom
word: bum
word: bum cheeks
word: buns
word: butt
word: butt cheeks
word: buttocks
word: caboose
word: cheeks
word: derriere
word: fanny
word: fourth point of contact
word: gluteus maximus
word: glutes
word: gooseberry-grinder
word: gyatt
raw_tags: used jokingly by generation alpha preteens
word: heinie
word: hiney
word: hinderlin
word: hurdies
word: jacksie
word: keester
word: keister
word: moon
word: moneymaker
word: nates
word: nether cheeks
word: patootie
word: peach
word: posterior
word: rear
word: rear end
word: rump
word: seat
word: sit upon
word: tail
word: toches
word: tush
word: tushie
glosses: Bottom.
Derived terms: botty bandit
botty burp
botty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒti/
rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: botties
Etymology: From bot + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Bye bye, botty.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A term of address for a bot (automated software process).
botty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒti/
rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: more botty
form: most botty
Etymology: From bot + -y.
Senses: examples: text: That email seemed pretty botty; it probably shouldn't be trusted.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Resembling a bot (automated software process); botlike.
botty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒti/
rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: botties
Etymology: Compare boot, booting for shoot, shooting
Senses: examples: text: Sticks and Stones may break my bones
Not when I back this botty
ref: 2017 August 4, “Sticks and Stones”performed by Zone 2 (Kwengface x Trizzac x PS):
text: If Kizz step with a botty
You know it's packed with two big cylinders
ref: 2019 May 21, “Can’t Rate” (0:46 from the start), Yanko (7th) (lyrics):
text: Stepped in a rave with ying and yang, that’s me and bro with the botties
Ride around in the back of a cab, that’s me and this thing from Tottie
ref: 2020 October 17, “Ying Yang”, performed by #TNB MA x Mighty1 x Di, 1:48 and from 2:55:
glosses: Alternative form of shotty, alternative form of dotty (“shotgun”).
botty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒti/
rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: more botty
form: most botty
Senses: examples: text: […] and folk do say he be very fond on her; but for my part, I has I a better opinion o' Mistress Alice, than to allow she can take up with sich a dangerous-looking, botty man as Lieutenant Biddulph be's.
ref: 1834, anonymous author, Barnadiston: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century, volume 2, page 88:
text: Such a nasty biggoty-botty man, 'e were, tew. Us 'eard 'im, more'n once, puttin' on 'is parts with young mistress Mary Emma. But 'twere Wade Southwood 'eared yer bumbaistin' t' maister that day!
ref: 2010, J. A. Noble, The Lime Walk, page 115:
glosses: Conceited, swaggering.
Euan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːæn/
Forms: form: Ewan
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
uakari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑˈkɑːri/
ipa: /wəˈkɑːri/
Forms: form: uakaris
form: uakari
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese uacari, borrowed from Nheengatu wakarí, possibly from Old Tupi akaka'i.
Senses: glosses: Any of several arboreal monkeys, of the genus Cacajao, from the Amazon basin.
lysergic acid diethylamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As surely as that winter of 1970 turned to spring, lysergic acid deithylamide made its grand entrance into my life.
ref: 2004, Martin Torgoff, “Fearless, Immune, and Ready for All”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 8:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: LSD
word: acid
word: headlight
word: LSD
word: LSD-25
word: Lucy
word: lysergic acid diethylamide
glosses: A powerful synthetic hallucinogen.
malbrouck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malbroucks
Senses: glosses: An arboreal monkey from Africa, Chlorocebus cynosuros.
kipunji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪˈpʌndʒɪ/
Forms: form: kipunjis
Etymology: From Nyakyusa kipunji.
Senses: examples: text: “Make a mess, such a mess these kipunji, make a mess, they swing over looking for fruit and make such a mess in me house.”
ref: 2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 582:
glosses: An arboreal Old World monkey of species Rungwecebus kipunji from Tanzania.
New World monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New World monkeys
Senses: coordinate_terms: Old World monkey
glosses: Any monkey from any of the superfamily Ceboidea: five families of primates that are found in Central America and South America: Callitrichidae, Cebidae, Aotidae, Pitheciidae, and Atelidae.
Shintoism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shintōism
Etymology: From Shinto + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The origin of the Doll Festival reaches back to the crude days of Shintoism.
ref: 1925, Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, A Daughter of the Samurai, page 237:
glosses: The Shinto religion of Japan.
militaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: militaires
Etymology: From French militaire. Doublet of military.
Senses: examples: text: There hangs something majestic about a man who has borne his part in battles, especially if he is very quiet regarding it when you desire him to unbosom. I am continually lost at the absence of blowing and blowers among these old-young American militaires.
ref: 1999, John Harmon McElroy, editor, The Sacrificial Years: A Chronicle of Walt Whitman's Experiences in the Civil War, page 29:
glosses: A military man; a soldier.
baptism of fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baptisms of fire
form: baptism by fire
Etymology: Derived from English translations of the New Testament, namely the Gospels of Matthew (3:11) and of Luke (3:16); from Ancient Greek through Latin; presumably from Aramaic.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The gift of the Holy Spirit.
examples: text: And the Father's counselor suggested that he invite you along to help: sort of a re–baptism of fire, so to speak.
ref: 2013, “Mammy?”, in Mrs. Brown's Boys, season 3, episode 5, spoken by Father Damien (Conor Moloney):
topics: Christianity
glosses: Tribulation endured as spiritual discipline.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Martyrdom by immolation.
examples: text: Having to deal with a bomb scare on his first day was a real baptism of fire for John.
text: She sat down for four exclusive interviews over the course of several weeks to reflect on her first 100 days in the job. It has been a baptism of fire by many accounts, including hers.
ref: 2023 September 30, Hannah Murphy, “The wildest job in Silicon Valley”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 17:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The first experience of a severe ordeal, especially a first experience of military combat
Related terms: acid test
throw in at the deep end
gendarmerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʒɒn.dɑː.mə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈʒɑn.dɑɹ.mə.ɹi/
Forms: form: gendarmeries
form: gendarmery
Etymology: From French gendarmerie.
Senses: examples: text: We must defend it till the Gendarmerie turn out. Keep after me.
ref: 1908, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, →OCLC, page 259:
glosses: A military body charged with police duties among the civilian population.
Related terms: gendarme
incept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incepts
form: incepting
form: incepted
form: incepted
Etymology: * Originally borrowed from Latin inceptus, past participle of incipio. The term is marked "obsolete" in the first edition of the OED (1905); newer usage is a back-formation from inception.
* (put an idea into someone's mind): Inspired by the film Inception (2010).
Senses: glosses: To take in or ingest.
examples: text: The company was incepted in 2006.
glosses: To begin.
glosses: To accept or to be accepted to the Master of Arts degree at Oxford or Cambridge University.
examples: text: Is the idea really yours? Or was it incepted into your mind by your friend?
glosses: To put an idea into a person's mind so deeply that they believe it was their own.
Related terms: inception
inceptive
inceptor
incipience
incipient
dynasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dynasty
amuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈmjuːzɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of amuse
Rosie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊziː/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊziː/
rhymes: -əʊzi
homophone: rosy
Etymology: Diminutives + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Rose, Rosemary and other female names related to the rose. Also used as a formal given name.
Derived terms: Rosie Lee
Related terms: word: Rosey
word: Rosy
Rosie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊziː/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊziː/
rhymes: -əʊzi
homophone: rosy
Forms: form: Rosies
Etymology: Diminutives + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: […] continued oppression and exploitation of women in the workplace 50 years after the Rosies entered wartime factories.
ref: 2011, Philip C. DiMare, Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia, volume 1, page 1087:
glosses: A female factory worker during World War II (after the 1942 song Rosie the Riveter).
examples: text: Now for a quick lamp over the slag. Ever had someone put some snout ash in your rosie? Makes you put on that wry face, doesn’t it? Well, that’s what the slag does.
ref: 1962, Derek Raymond [Robin Cook], The Crust On Its Uppers, London: Serpent's Tail, published 2000, →ISBN, page 21:
related: word: Rosy
word: Rosey
word: rosie
word: rosy
glosses: Ellipsis of Rosie Lee (“tea”).
Enid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈiːnɪd/
Etymology: From Middle Welsh eneit (“spirit, life; purity”), from Proto-Celtic *anatyom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe, blow”). Cognate with Gaulish anatia (“souls (?)”) attested on the Larzac tablet; see also the modern Welsh anadl (“breath, wind”), from Proto-Celtic *anatlā (“breath, breathing”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Welsh of obscure meaning.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States; see Wikipedia:Enid, Oklahoma
Quentin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɛntɪn/
Etymology: From Old French. The name of a third century French martyr, from Latin Quīntīnus, a derivative of the Roman praenomen Quīntus, from quīntus (“fifth”). It was brought to England by the Normans, but never became particularly popular. Compare Quinton.
Senses: examples: text: Quentin Barry had always wished that he had been called Sean or Brian. It was hard to be called Quentin at a Christian Brothers school in the 1970s. But that was the name they had wanted, his beautiful mother Sara Barry had wanted, she who had always lived in a dream world far more elegant that the one she really lived in.
ref: 2003, Maeve Binchy, Quentins, Orion, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: A male given name from Latin.
glosses: A female given name from Latin occasionally used.
Derived terms: english: from French
translation: from French
word: Saint-Quentin
Related terms: word: Quint
word: Quintin
Selina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Selena
Etymology: First recorded in England in the 17th century, possibly from Latin Caelīna (“heavenly”), or a variant of Selene, the Ancient Greek goddess of the moon.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Randall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹændəl/
rhymes: -ændəl
Etymology: A Middle English variant of Randolph, preserved as a surname and revived in the twentieth century.
Senses: examples: text: “Each time they’d build, they’d try to outbuild all the rest of them,” said Dr. Randall F. Hipple, a retired obstetrician who helped establish a seven-block stretch of the street as a National Historic District.
ref: 2007 July 20, Dave Caldwell, “Williamsport, Pa.: Home of True Small Ball”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A place name:
A community in New Tecumseth, Simcoe County, Canada.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
Former name of White Hall, California.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A former town in Helt Township, Vermillion County, Indiana.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Hamilton County, Iowa.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Jewell County, Kansas.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Morrison County, Minnesota.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Kenosha County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Anderson, Burnett County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Randall County
Randall's puffer
Randall-Sundrum model
Michelangelo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmaɪkəlˈænd͡ʒɪloʊ/
ipa: /ˌmaɪkəlˈænd͡ʒəloʊ/
enpr: mī'kl-ănʹjə-lō
Forms: form: Michelangelos
Etymology: From Italian Michelangelo, from Michele (“Michael”) + Angelo (“Angel”), referring to Michael the Archangel.
Senses: examples: text: In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo.
ref: 1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egoist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 10:
text: There are no evidences in these days of Michelangelos and Titians, who at the age of eighty or ninety could turn out stronger work than our people of thirty and forty today!
ref: 1926 October 11, C. F. B., “Old and New Pictures in Venice”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Atlantic edition, volume XVIII, number 268, Boston, Mass.: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2:
text: Where did Picasso come from? / There's no Michelangelo coming from Pittsburgh
ref: 1990, Lou Reed, John Cale, “Smalltown”, in Songs for Drella:
glosses: A 15th- and 16th-century Italian artist, full name Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564).
wikipedia: Daniele da Volterra
Derived terms: Michelangelesque
Haydn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Haydns
Etymology: Borrowed from German Haydn.
Senses: examples: text: Two years ago I rashly accepted a commission from Tring Chamber Music and Paul Barritt, leader of the Hallé orchestra, to write poems to read between movements of Haydn's quartet Opus 51, which meditates on Christ's "Seven Last Words". Haydn, commissioned in 1785 by Cádiz cathedral, wrote this music to go between words so it's hard to perform and listen to without some.
ref: 2014 April 18, Ruth Padel, “How to do justice to Christ's Last Words”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A surname from German; (music) used specifically of Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), an Austrian composer of the Classical period.
Derived terms: word: Haydnesque
word: Haydnian
Jolyon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Medieval spelling of Julian, revived by Galsworthy in Forsyte Saga.
Senses: examples: text: In that Summer of 1909 the simple souls who even then desired to simplify the English tongue, had, of course, no cognizance of little Jon, or they would have claimed him for a disciple. But one can be too simple in this life, for his real name was Jolyon, and his living father and dead half-brother had usurped of old the other shortenings, Jo and Jolly. As a fact little Jon had done his best to conform to convention and spell himself first Jhon, then John; not till his father had explained the sheer necessity, had he spelled his name Jon.
ref: 1920 October, John Galsworthy, Awakening, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: A male given name from Latin, in quiet use since the 1920s.
Elaine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈleɪn/
ipa: /iːˈleɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Etymology: From Old French Elaine, a variant of Elene, cognate to Helen, ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē). A Celtic origin has also been suggested since the name appears in Arthurian legend. Doublet of Helen.
Senses: examples: text: Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable,
Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat,
High in her chamber up a tower to the east
Guarded the sacred shield of Lancelot;
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine:
text: My own mother named me after her best friend, as women did in those days. Elaine, which I once found too plaintive. I wanted something more definite, a monosyllable: Dot or Pat, like a foot set down. Nothing you could make a mistake about; nothing watery. But my name has solidified around me, with time. I think of it as tough but pliable now, like a well-worn glove.
ref: 1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, page 278:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
interruptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interruption
Elisha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɪˈlaɪʃə/
Forms: form: Elishah
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew אֱלִישָׁע (ʾĔlîšāʿ).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A prophet, a disciple and successor of Elijah.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin, in quiet use since the 17th century.
examples: Elisha Cuthbert
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew in occasional use, apparently confused with Elizabeth or Alicia.
Related terms: Elishah
Yelisei
supremely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈpɹimli/
ipa: /ˌsuˈpɹimli/
Forms: form: more supremely
form: most supremely
Etymology: From supreme + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They were supremely confident at the beginning of the season.
text: The second half was a test United passed supremely. They began with an equaliser that again illustrated how ruthless their attacking play can be.
ref: 2021 April 29, Jamie Jackson, “Edinson Cavani and Bruno Fernandes help Manchester United hit Roma for six”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To the greatest, highest, or utmost degree.
mezquita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mezquitas
Etymology: From Spanish mezquita. Doublet of mosque.
Senses: glosses: A Moorish or Spanish mosque.
Jeanie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jeany
Etymology: From Jean + -ie, q.v.
Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Jean.
Gustave
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gustaves
form: Gustav
form: Gustavus
Etymology: From French Gustave. French form of Swedish royal name Gustav; see Gustav for more.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Gustav.
Derived terms: Gus
Francesca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹænˈsɛskə/
ipa: /fɹænˈt͡ʃɛskə/
rhymes: -ɛskə
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Francesca (“Frances”), the feminine form of Francesco (“Francis”), from Late Latin Franciscus, from Francia (“France”) + -iscus (“-ish”). Doublet of Frances.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Italian.
Belgians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛld͡ʒənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Belgian
Felipe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Felipe.
Senses: examples: text: Fr. Felipe Císcar Puig was a Valencian priest who is also also considered a martyr of the sacramental seal because he was martyred after keeping confessions secret during the religious persecution of the Spanish Civil War.
ref: 2017 December 16, “These priests were martyred for refusing to violate the seal of confession”, in Catholic News Agency:
glosses: A male given name from Portuguese or Spanish, equivalent to English Philip.
Related terms: Don Felipe Larrazabal
San Felipe
San Felipe de Aconcagua
Adrienne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /eɪdɹiˈɛn/
/ædɹiˈɛn/
Etymology: From the French Adrienne, the feminine form of Adrien (equivalent to English Adrian).
Senses: examples: text: What I needed was an exciting name and I would give myself one. I was reading a book where the heroine's name was Adrienne. I printed that as my first name. Now what would go well with Adrienne? I peered over my shoulder at the little girl in back of me. Her name was Mary Frances Carroll. Frances...I thought. No, that's not exotic enough. Francine. Francine. That was beautiful. I printed in: FRANCINE.
ref: 1962, Jane Trahey, Life with Mother Superior, page 4:
glosses: A female given name from French.
Related terms: Adriana
Adrianna
Adriane
Adriene
Adrienna
Theodora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹə
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek feminine form of Theodore.
Senses: examples: text: Peter Mathias and the baby, a tiny girl with a ridiculous name, had gathered around their mother. What was her name, something barbaric, an empress, not Cleopatra - Theodora.
ref: 1971, John Updike, Marry Me, Knopf, published 1976, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, most famously borne by two empresses of Byzantium.
Related terms: Theo
Dora
Dorothea
shrugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɹʌɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌɡɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shrug
shrugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɹʌɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌɡɪŋ
Forms: form: shruggings
Senses: examples: text: And in our times, in Philadelphia, there have been specimens of violent shruggings of the shoulders, and brachial twitches, and prodigious wry faces, and thumpings on the pews.
ref: 1824, William Craig Brownlee, A careful and free inquiry into the true nature and tendency of the religious principles of the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers:
text: My crucial mistake was shrugging instead of shaking my head.
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.2, at p.36
glosses: The act of one who shrugs.
loudest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of loud: most loud
Russ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutive of Russell.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Russell.
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Rus
Russ
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Russ
form: most Russ
Etymology: From German Russe etc., from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ). Compare more recent Rus.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Russians.
Russ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Russ
form: Russes
Etymology: From German Russe etc., from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ). Compare more recent Rus.
Senses: examples: text: But time will teach the Russ, ev'n conquering War
Has handmaid arts: aye, aye, the Russ will woo
All sciences that speed Bellona's car,
All murder's tactic arts, and win them too […]
ref: 1831, Thomas Campbell, The Power of Russia:
glosses: A Russian.
Russ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Russe etc., from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ). Compare more recent Rus.
Senses: glosses: The Russian language.
Huguenots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Huguenot
Olga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈoʊlɡə/
/ˈɒlɡə/
Etymology: Borrowed in the 19th century from Old East Slavic О́льга (Ólĭga), name of a Kievan knyaginya (Saint Olga of Kiev), a medieval form of Helga, Old Norse heilagr (“holy; inviolable, sacred”). Doublet of Helga.
Senses: examples: text: Olga was named after a Russian ballerina whose picture had once appeared in a local advertisement for a ballet company that was to perform in Philadelphia during the weeks of her impending conception, and who was shown pirouetting on a point of light, impressing their mother.
ref: 1993, Oscar Hijuelos, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: A female given name from Russian, Ukrainian, or Belarusian.
examples: text: OLGA YOURIEVNA SOLENSKY and I followed the black-veiled nun through the chaste, white, highly polished salons of the convent while she explained to me the origin of her curious name, with which certain highly considered Russian saints had had to do. In Russia, it seems, they called her Olga, daughter of Youri.
ref: 1910, Lucy de Grasse Martin, “Magnificent Olga”, in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume LXXX, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co.; London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., page 130, column 1:
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian female given name О́льга (Ólʹga).
Related terms: Oleg
fun and games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Being a film director isn't all fun and games.
text: You wouldn't believe the fun and games I had trying to find somewhere to park.
glosses: Recreation; nothing serious; easy, enjoyable activities.
raw_tags: used ironically
Synonyms: shits and giggles
Derived terms: it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye
evolver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evolvers
Etymology: From evolve + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This animal may be a fast runner, but it has been a dreadfully slow evolver.
ref: 1983, Alan Hayward, God's truth, page 254:
glosses: Someone or something that evolves.
diethyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈɛθɪl/
Forms: form: diethyls
Etymology: From di- + ethyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Two ethyl groups attached to the same molecule.
Derived terms: dazopride
diethylamide
diethylaniline
diethyl carbonate
diethyldithiocarbamate
diethyl ether
diethyl maleate
diethylmaleate
diethyl malonate
diethylnitrosamine
diethyl phosphite
diethyl phthalate
diethylpyrocarbonate
diethylstilbestrol
diethyltoluamide
diethyltryptamine
diethylzinc
dihydrodiethylstilbestrol
shintaido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Japanese 新体道 (shintaidō, “new body way”)
Senses: glosses: A form of physical and mental exercise developed from several Japanese martial arts
phosphene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: phosphine
Forms: form: phosphenes
Etymology: From French phosphène, from Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs, “light”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “to appear, shine”).
Senses: glosses: A sensation of lights induced by mechanical, electrical, or magnetic stimulation (rather than optical) of the retina or visual cortex, or by random firing of cells in the visual system.
Derived terms: magnetophosphene
phosphenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphene
paronyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paronymes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of paronym.
paronymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paronyme
laser-plasma accelerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laser-plasma accelerators
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A kind of plasma accelerator that uses an amplitude-modulated intense laser beam to excite a large-amplitude plasma wave that propagates at near the speed of light with a longitudinal acceleration electric field.
inchworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnt͡ʃ.wɜːm/
ipa: /ˈɪnt͡ʃ.wɚm/
Forms: form: inchworms
Etymology: From inch + worm. So called because their gradual movement seems to be measuring the ground; compare measuring worm.
Senses: glosses: The larva of a moth of the family Geometridae.
inchworm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnt͡ʃ.wɜːm/
ipa: /ˈɪnt͡ʃ.wɚm/
Forms: form: inchworms
form: inchworming
form: inchwormed
form: inchwormed
Etymology: From inch + worm. So called because their gradual movement seems to be measuring the ground; compare measuring worm.
Senses: glosses: To move in a looping fashion, like an inchworm.
glosses: To crawl or creep slowly.
Synonyms: sense: larva
word: geometrid
sense: larva
word: looper
sense: larva
word: measuring worm
sense: larva
word: spanworm
collaborates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of collaborate
collaborating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of collaborate
collaborated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of collaborate
perinormal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + normal. Sense 2: by analogy with paranormal, and apparently coined by Richard Dawkins, though he does not claim to have been its sole originator.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Prepathological; lying between normal and pathological.
examples: 2007 March 3, Sam Vaknin, Ph.D., “Parapsychology and the Paranormal”, The Paranormal & Ghost Society, Google Groups
The eventual acceptance by the scientific community and incorporation into the mainstream of science of phenomena that were once considered paranormal and then perinormal (e.g., hypnotism).
glosses: Having previously been thought to be a paranormal phenomenon, but having since been scientifically verified as natural.
jammies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæm.iːz/
rhymes: -æmiːz
Senses: glosses: plural of jammy