cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
timeline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪmˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: timelines
form: time line
form: time-line
Etymology: From time + line.
Senses: examples: text: I got bitches askin' me about the code for the Wi-Fi / So they can talk about they timeline / And show me pictures of they friends
ref: 2015, “Energy”, in If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, performed by Drake:
text: But, as things stand, there's no timeline in place for reopening.
ref: 2023 February 8, Andrew Mourant, “A serious shuttle service with options to Taunton and beyond”, in RAIL, number 976, page 31:
synonyms: chronology
antonyms: timepoint
coordinate_terms: timespan
time frame
glosses: A graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events (past or future).
synonyms: schedule
timetable
glosses: A schedule of activities; a timetable.
examples: text: on an alternate timeline
text: SISKO: I don't quite know how to say this... but now that we know about the accident that sent the ship back in time, we should be able to avoid it.
WORF: Well if we do that, your timeline will collapse and everything here will cease to exist.
ref: 1997 May 5, Children of Time (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), season 5, number 22 (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:
text: So in that sense, if we want to talk about the timeline of what it would mean for Trump to be winning and reshifting the Constitutional order, part of what I think about is: If the neoliberal order is cracked, as Gerstle says it is, then the question is: What will succeed it?
ref: 2025 May 16, Ezra Klein, “Is Trump Losing? A Debate.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: timestream
time track
glosses: An individual universe or reality, especially a parallel/alternate one in which events differ from actual history, or differ from the established canon of a fictional world.
Derived terms: alternate timeline
alternative timeline
darkest timeline
timeline therapy
worst timeline
Related terms: timeliness
timeline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪmˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: timelines
form: timelining
form: timelined
form: timelined
form: time line
form: time-line
Etymology: From time + line.
Senses: glosses: To analyse a sequence of events or activities.
glosses: To display such a sequence graphically.
portmanteaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔɹtˈmæntoʊz/
homophone: portmanteaus
Senses: glosses: plural of portmanteau
connote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnəʊt/
ipa: /kɒˈnəʊt/
ipa: /kəˈnoʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: connotes
form: connoting
form: connoted
form: connoted
Etymology: From Medieval Latin connotō (“signify beyond literal meaning”), from com- (“together”), + notō (“mark”).
Senses: examples: text: Racism often connotes an underlying fear or ignorance.
coordinate_terms: denote
evoke
allude
glosses: To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
examples: text: Poverty connotes hunger.
text: Doctors should be reminded that absence of evidence does not connote a mental illness …
ref: 2025 March 25, Shreyas Teegala, Simar Bajaj, For Some Women With Serious Physical Ailments, Mental Illness Has Become a Scapegoat Diagnosis:
glosses: To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence.
glosses: To express without overt reference; to imply.
glosses: To require as a logical predicate to consequence.
Synonyms: sense: possess an inseparable condition
word: entail
sense: possess an inseparable condition
word: imply
sense: express without overt reference
word: entail
sense: express without overt reference
word: imply
sense: require as a logical predicate
word: predicate
Derived terms: connotatory
misconnote
Related terms: connotation
connotative
connotatively
connotive
denote
astronomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæs.tɹəˈnɒm.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˌæs.tɹəˈnɑm.ɪ.kəl/
rhymes: -ɒmɪkəl
Forms: form: more astronomical
form: most astronomical
form: astron.
Etymology: Attested since at least 1550, from Middle French astronomique or directly from Latin astronomicus, from Ancient Greek ἀστρονομικός (astronomikós).
Senses: examples: text: Finally, all men saw that astronomical knowledge lied not, and they awaited the comet.
ref: 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion:
text: Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
ref: 2012 March 24, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 106:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to astronomy.
examples: text: At the moment he wondered why anyone would want to visit Khatka, let alone pay some astronomical sum for the privilege.
ref: 1959, Andre Norton, Voodoo Planet - Chapter IV:
text: The cost of such a work now, of course, would be astronomical.
ref: 1962 June, “Letters to the Editor: Diesel suburban services in Bristol”, in Modern Railways, page 430:
glosses: Very large; of vast measure.
Synonyms: sense: relating to astronomy
word: astronomic
Derived terms: archaeoastronomical
archeoastronomical
astronomical clock
astronomically
astronomical refraction
astronomical time
astronomical transient
astronomical twilight
astronomical unit
astronomical year
bioastronomical
ethnoastronomical
massive astronomical compact halo object
nonastronomical
physicoastronomical
radio astronomical
Related terms: astronomic
astronomy
activist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.tɪ.vɪst/
Forms: form: activists
Etymology: From active + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
ref: 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
text: The six activists will now face a retrial at Highbury Magistrates' Court, in front of a new judge.
ref: 2023 January 11, “Network News: Court decision overturned: Six HS2 activists face retrial”, in RAIL, number 974, page 9:
glosses: One who is politically active in the role of a citizen; especially, one who campaigns for change.
glosses: One who is conspicuously active in carrying out any occupational or professional functions.
Synonyms: mover and shaker
Derived terms: activistic
activist investor
activist judge
activist justice
animal activist
antiactivist
artivist
blacktivist
clicktivist
craftivist
cyberactivist
direct activist
e-activist
ecoactivist
fat activist
hacktivist
inactivist
intactivist
kayaktivist
nonactivist
proactivist
raptivist
slacktivist
transactivist
Related terms: activism
activist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.tɪ.vɪst/
Forms: form: more activist
form: most activist
Etymology: From active + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Even in the area of free speech, Justice Harlan sometimes emerged as more activist than his brother
ref: 1971 September 26, “They Will Affect The Nation For Years To Come”, in New York Times:
text: Now GM has what may well be the most activist board ever.
ref: 2009 December 10, “Angst Over GM's Activist Board”, in BusinessWeek:
text: Gov. Chris Christie has long complained that New Jersey's Supreme Court is too liberal and too activist
ref: 2012 June 1, “Gov. Christie's court pick blocked”, in Cherry Hill Courier Post (NJ):
glosses: Behaving as an activist.
IMNSHO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of In my not-so-humble opinion.
Synonyms: IMNAAHO
denote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈnəʊt/
ipa: /dɪˈnoʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: denotes
form: denoting
form: denoted
form: denoted
Etymology: From Middle French denoter, from Latin denotare, from de- (“complete”) and notare (“to mark out”).
Senses: examples: text: The yellow blazes denote the trail.
text: together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, that can denote me truly
ref: c. 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, act 1, scene 2; republished as Hamlet, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1992, →ISBN, page 9:
text: The letters "SC" inscribed on the smokebox door of a locomotive denote that it is fitted with a self-cleaning smokebox.
ref: 1951 January, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive Markings”, in Railway Magazine, page 73:
text: You'll find the usual holidays — Christmas and New Year's — denoted on this and other feminist calendars and even Jewish holy days and lunar phases, but Lesbian/Gay Pride Day is noticeably (and sadly) absent.
ref: 1982 December 25, J. Grainger, “Gay-by-Gay Calendars at a Glance”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 23, page 9:
glosses: To indicate; to mark.
glosses: To make overt.
examples: text: The prefix pre- denotes "before", as in preview.
coordinate_terms: connote
evoke
allude
glosses: To refer to literally; to convey as objective meaning.
Derived terms: denotability
denotable
denotation
denotative
denotatory
denotee
denotement
denotive
undenoted
Related terms: connote
lb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
homophone: pound
Forms: form: lbs
form: lbs.
form: LB.
form: Lb.
form: lb.
form: Lb
form: LB
Etymology: (unit of weight): Abbreviation of libra.
Senses: examples: text: The slug is defined as the mass which would accelerate at a rate of 1 ft/s² under a force of one pound-force (lbf). Since 1 lbf is the force exerted on a mass of one pound by a standard gravitational field (of exactly 9.80665 meters per square second), a slug is thus exactly equal to 196133/6096 pounds (about 32.1740485564 lb or 14.593902937206 kg).
ref: 2000 October 9, Gérard P. Michon, “What is a slug, in the [engineering] weight measurement system?”, in Numericana.com:
text: The drive system can provide a maximum of 516 lbs ft (700 Nm) at any one time.
ref: 2012 March 9, “Green cars at 2012 Geneva motor show – in pictures”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Abbreviation of pound (“unit of weight”).
Derived terms: word: ft-lb
roman: octothorpe
word: The struck-through abbreviation ℔ simplified to the pound sign #
word: lbf
word: lbm
lb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
homophone: pound
Forms: form: lbs
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: leg bye
big top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big tops
Etymology: From big + top.
Senses: examples: text: As a trapeze performer, she generally worked in the big top, but due to her injury, she was stuck working concessions.
glosses: A circus tent, especially the largest in a given circus, where the central attractions take place.
glosses: A large tent of the style used for circusses.
examples: text: He had been a big top performer in his youth, but in a twist of fate he had run away to become an investment banker.
glosses: The circus; the circus lifestyle.
fraudulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɔː.d͡ʒʊ.lənt/
ipa: /ˈfɹɔː.djʊ.lənt/
ipa: /ˈfɹɔː.d͡ʒə.lənt/
ipa: /ˈfɹɔː.djə.lənt/
ipa: /ˈfɹɔːd͡ʒ.lənt/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈfɹɔ.d͡ʒə.lənt/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈfɹɔd͡ʒ.lənt/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈfɹɑ.d͡ʒə.lənt/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈfɹɑd͡ʒ.lənt/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈfɹɒd͡ʒ.ə.lənt/
note: of the US
ipa: [ˈfɹɒd͡ʒ.lənt]
ipa: /ˈfɹoː.d͡ʒə.lənt/
ipa: /ˈfɹoːd͡ʒ.lənt/
Forms: form: more fraudulent
form: most fraudulent
Etymology: From Middle English fraudulent, from Old French fraudulent, from Latin fraudulentus, from fraus (“fraud”).
Senses: examples: text: Secondly, Philoſophy which we are warned not to take heed of : not that Philoſophy, which is true & ſound knowledge attained by naturall diſcourſe of reaſon ; but that Philoſophy which to bolſter hereſie or error, caſteth a fraudulent ſhew of reaſon vpon things which are indeed vnreaſonable, & by that meane as by a ſtratageme ſpoyleth the ſimple which are not able to withſtand ſuch cunning.
ref: 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, London: William Stansbye, published 1622, book III, page 98:
text: The only reaſon, why men are not always ſufficiently ſenſible of This ; ſo that Many, who are very Juſt in their Dealings between Man and Man, will yet be very fraudulent or rapacious with regard to the Publick ; is becauſe, in this latter caſe, ’tis not ſo obviouſly and immediately apparent uppon Whom the Injury falls, as it is in the caſe of Private Wrongs.
ref: a. 1729, Samuel Clarke, “The Reward of Justice”, in The Works of Samuel Clarke, volume II, London: J. and P. Knapton, published 1738, page 191:
text: One writer gravely assures us that Maurice of Saxony learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume [The Prince].
ref: 1827, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Machiavelli”, in Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, new edition, volume I, London: Printed for Longman et al., published 1850, page 28:
glosses: Dishonest; based on fraud or deception.
examples: text: He tried to pass a fraudulent check.
glosses: False, phony.
Derived terms: antifraudulent
fraudulently
fraudulentness
nonfraudulent
unfraudulent
wannabe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒnəbi/
Forms: form: wannabes
form: wanna-be
form: wannabee
form: want-to-be
Etymology: Written form of a reduction of want to be, analysable as wanna + be. Wannabe can be considered a conversion, category change, or functional shift.
While occasionally appearing in print, usually as a less reduced phrase, the popularity of the word took off in the mid-1980s following the Madonna wannabe fashion trend: “wannabe”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer
Senses: examples: text: Hollywood's restaurants are full of wannabe actors waiting to be discovered.
text: Most of the people Hiro knows are will-bes or wannabes.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 61:
text: Who the hell is that woman messing in my files? GET HER OUT OF HERE! I won't have my system messed up by some wannabe "expert" who'll be gone next week! Damn strangers who think they know it all but don't care about what we're really trying to achieve here.
ref: 2012, BioWare, quoting Sho D'hen, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Mars:
text: He had the reputation of a wannabe hardman, riding his cousin's coattails.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 251:
glosses: Someone who wishes to be someone or do something, but lacks the qualifications or talent; an overeager amateur; an aspirant.
examples: text: Bigger, mongrelly and black, he was clearly a Doberman wannabe.
ref: 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 126:
glosses: Someone who wishes to be part of, or to assimilate to, a majority group of which they are not a member.
Synonyms: tryhard
Coordinate terms: bootlicker
poseur
presumptuous
sellout
suckup
Derived terms: Madonnabe
wannabeism
Related terms: gonnabe
has-been
-to-be
would-be
batting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbætɪŋ/
rhymes: -ætɪŋ
Forms: form: battings
Etymology: From bat + -ing, batt + -ing (“material, collection”).
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: Cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc.
glosses: Special cotton for surgery.
Synonyms: bat
batt
batting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbætɪŋ/
rhymes: -ætɪŋ
Forms: form: battings
Etymology: From bat + -ing (“action”).
Senses: examples: the battings of her eyelashes
glosses: The act of someone who bats.
topics: ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The action of using a bat.
Derived terms: batting average
batting collapse
batting glove
batting order
batting pad
open the batting
batting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbætɪŋ/
rhymes: -ætɪŋ
Etymology: From bat + -ing (“action”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bat
freebie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːbi/
rhymes: -iːbi
Forms: form: freebies
Etymology: From free + -b- (epenthetic) + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: I didn't buy a thing, but they were handing out some neat freebies and samples.
text: I had seen its first show when it was a freebie, but I thought it made multiples in general look silly – no one changes clothes THAT much!
ref: 2010, Ann M. Garvey, Ann's Multiple World of Personality: Regular No Cream, No Sugar:
text: Oh, and one important difference with the zoo’s kid freebies is that the cutoff is 11 years old. So no tweens here, please. On the upside, parents can now inform their eager 12-year-olds that they are “too grown up” to be considered kids. I know a few of my niephlings would dig that.
ref: 2014 October 3, Barbarella Fokos, “Children, children everywhere”, in San Diego Reader, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2014:
glosses: Something which is free; a giveaway or handout.
Synonyms: word: product sample
word: freebie
word: gimme
word: giveaway
word: gizzit
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: handout
word: schwag
word: swag
Hypernyms: word: gift
word: property
word: trifle
Hyponyms: word: advertique
word: covermount
word: junque
word: product sample
word: standee
word: stand-up
Related terms: -bie
giveaway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: give-away
Etymology: Deverbal from give away.
Senses: glosses: free of charge, at no cost.
examples: text: There was also the influx of a third of a million road lorries, sold at giveaway prices after their war roles ceased and used by competing one-man businesses to skim off sundry agricultural freight.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:
glosses: very low.
raw_tags: of prices
on the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: If I had been more on the ball I would have asked when he called me.
glosses: Alert, active, or attentive; on top of things.
examples: text: ...Rovers were also aided by some poor defending from West Brom, whose lapses at the back undid their excellent work on the ball and condemned Roberto di Matteo's Baggies side to a third straight defeat.
ref: 2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Being in control of the ball.
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: Playing as a midfielder.
Related terms: off the ball
onballer
on the stick
infotainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnfəʊˈteɪnmənt/
ipa: /ˌɪnfoʊˈteɪnmənt/
rhymes: -eɪnmənt
Forms: form: infotainments
Etymology: Blend of information + entertainment.
Senses: synonyms: soft news
glosses: A form of programming (cinematic, television, live action, etc.) that provides both information and entertainment, consisting of mostly celebrity news and human drama.
examples: text: Unsurprisingly, more people are choosing not to use their car’s native infotainment controls. Only 56 percent of owners prefer to use their vehicle’s built-in system to play audio, down from 70 percent in 2020, JD Power found. Less than half of owners said they like using their car’s native controls for navigation, voice recognition, or to make phone calls.
ref: 2023 July 20, Andrew J. Hawkins, “People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars”, in The Verge:
text: Nakasone added that the NSA does not purchase cellphone location data of Americans or location data generated by automotive infotainment systems in the United States.
ref: 2024 January 26, Brian Fung, “The NSA buys Americans’ internet data, newly released documents show”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Information and/or entertainment facilities.
Derived terms: disinfotainment
Related terms: edutainment
miscegenation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˌsɛd͡ʒ.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: miscegenations
Etymology: Blend of Latin miscēre (“mix”) + Latin genus (“race”) + -ation. Coined by American journalist David Goodman Croly in 1864 and first used in an anonymous pamphlet he coauthored, which claimed to be written by a person who believed in the inherent unity of all racial groups, that marriage between blacks and whites would create a better race, and that the American Civil War was a fight for the latter idea. Later, it was exposed that the pretext of the pamphlet was false and that it had actually been written by a group which hoped to inflame anger, particularly against then-US President Abraham Lincoln who was up for reelection.
Replaced previous amalgamation, from metallurgy.
Senses: examples: text: Anissimov took to posting paranoid white supremacist rants on Twitter. Why, he asked, do “blacks get your own continent”? “European whites are being replaced and destroyed by ‘diversity,’” he cried. He denounced miscegenation and declared that women should be confined to the home.
ref: 2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die, Metropolitan Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
glosses: The mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage.
examples: text: as is clear in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, it has a horror of any spiritual miscegenation between the human and the natural.
ref: 1991, Frederick Turner, Rebirth of Value: Meditations on Beauty, Ecology, Religion, and Education, page 57:
text: ... if a miscegenation of Latin and Sanskrit may be permitted.
ref: 1981, Dale Maurice Riepe, Asian Philosophy Today, page 22:
text: ...'true English' before it was bastardised in its miscegenation with the Norman French.
ref: 2001, Ken Hirschkop, David Shepherd, Bakhtin and Cultural Theory, page 180:
glosses: A mixing or blending, especially one which is considered to be inappropriate.
Synonyms: miscegeny
race mixing
race mixer
Derived terms: word: antimiscegenation
word: miscegenational
word: miscegenationist
word: miscegenist
word: miscegenative
word: miscegenetic
word: miscegenic
word: miscegenistic
word: miscegenous
Related terms: miscegenate
miscellaneous
mestee
one-drop rule
antimiscegenation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-miscegenation
Etymology: From anti- + miscegenation.
Senses: examples: antimiscegenation laws
topics: law
glosses: Against mixing or blending; especially, against the mixing or blending of races in marriage or breeding.
Derived terms: antimiscegenationist
antimiscegenist
Related terms: miscegenation
classify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæs.ɪ.faɪ/
ipa: /ˈklæs.əˌfaɪ/
Forms: form: classifies
form: classifying
form: classified
form: classified
Etymology: From French classifier. By surface analysis, class + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: Should we classify "make up" as an idiom or as a phrasal verb?
glosses: to identify by or divide into classes; to categorize
examples: text: They decided to classify that information.
glosses: to declare something a secret, especially a government secret
glosses: To make classy
Synonyms: word: brand
word: cast
word: categorize
word: classify
word: compartmentalise
word: distribute
word: divide
word: estimate
word: evaluate
word: gauge
word: judge
word: label
word: measure
word: overclassify
word: peg
word: pigeonhole
word: sort
word: subdivide
word: winnow
Hypernyms: word: identify
Derived terms: autoclassify
classifiable
disclassify
interclassify
misclassify
overclassify
preclassify
reclassify
subclassify
transclassify
unclassify
underclassify
Related terms: word: class
word: classification
word: arrange
word: distribute
word: rank
word: alphabetize
word: guess
word: index
classified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæsəfaɪd/
Etymology: From classify + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Make sure all the field observations are classified by species.
glosses: simple past and past participle of classify
classified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæsəfaɪd/
Forms: form: more classified
form: most classified
Etymology: From classify + -ed.
Senses: coordinate_terms: classed
categorized
grouped
glosses: Sorted into classes or categories.
examples: text: We do not discuss specific interrogation techniques because they are classified information.
text: Charlie: Where did you see this?
Maverick: That's classified. I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
Charlie: I have Top Secret clearance. The Pentagon sees to it that I know more than you.
ref: 1986, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Top Gun (motion picture):
glosses: Formally assigned by a government to one of several levels of sensitivity, usually (in English) top secret, secret, confidential, and, in some countries, restricted; thereby making disclosure to unauthorized persons illegal.
examples: text: I won't say who I'm going to the prom with; that's classified.
coordinate_terms: private
secret
glosses: Not meant to be disclosed by a person or organization.
Derived terms: classified ad
classified advertisement
declassified
nonclassified
preclassified
reclassified
semiclassified
subclassified
superclassified
unclassified
Related terms: classification
declassification
reclassification
bigot list
on a need-to-know basis
classified
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæsəfaɪd/
Forms: form: classifieds
Etymology: From classified advertisement, by shortening.
Senses: examples: text: He ran a classified for the tools he wanted to sell.
glosses: A classified advertisement in a newspaper or magazine.
categorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/
ipa: /ˈkætəɡəˌɹaɪz/
ipa: /ˈkætəɡɔˌɹaɪz/
Forms: form: categorizes
form: categorizing
form: categorized
form: categorized
form: categorise
Etymology: From category + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: First, categorize incoming messages according to the needed actions.
glosses: To assign a category; to divide into classes.
Derived terms: autocategorize
categorizable
categorizer
decategorize
miscategorize
overcategorize
recategorize
subcategorize
uncategorize
Related terms: category
categorisation
categorization
white slaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white slavers
Etymology: From white slave + -er.
Senses: examples: text: [I]t had occurred to her that Jonquil might have been kidnapped by white-slavers for selling into a den of vice in Egypt, as in a tale she had once read.
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 154:
glosses: A trafficker in white slaves.
white slave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white slaves
Senses: glosses: A woman (of European descent) sold into prostitution, especially when transported to a country primarily inhabited by nonwhites.
Related terms: white slaver
white slavery
white slaving
whitebait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitebaits
form: whitebait
Etymology: From white + bait.
Senses: glosses: The young of various species of fish, especially herrings, sprats or smelts
glosses: Food prepared from such fish, often deep fried and served as a starter or snack.
Derived terms: whitebaiter
whitebaiting
whitebait
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whitebaits
form: whitebaiting
form: whitebaited
form: whitebaited
Etymology: From white + bait.
Senses: glosses: To fish for whitebait.
whiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈʍaɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: whitings
Etymology: From white + -ing.
Senses: examples: 1918, Hannah Teresa Rowley, Mrs. Helen Louise (Wales) Farrell, Principles of Chemistry Applied to the Household
Precipitated calcium carbonate, a very fine powdery form, is used as a basis for many tooth powders and pastes. As whiting it finds a wide use in cleaning metals of their tarnishes.
synonyms: whitening
hyponyms: French white
Paris white
Spanish white
glosses: A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
whiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈʍaɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ
Etymology: From white + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of white
Derived terms: whiting event
whiting-time
whiz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: whizzes
form: whizzing
form: whizzed
form: whizzed
form: whizz
form: wiz
form: wizz
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare huzz, hizz, hiss. In some noun senses perhaps derived from wizard.
Senses: glosses: To make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air.
glosses: To rush or move swiftly with such a sound.
glosses: To throw or spin rapidly.
examples: text: We whizzed in the bushes.
text: The first thing Howard did following Vi's departure was to haul the step-stool over to the kitchen sink and whiz into the drain again.
ref: 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:
synonyms: word: break the seal
word: hit the head
word: micturate
word: pass water
word: pee
word: piddle
word: piss
word: slash
word: take a leak
word: take a piss
word: take a whiz
word: urinate
word: void
word: wee
word: wee wee
word: widdle
word: whiz
glosses: To urinate.
Derived terms: whizzing stick
whizzle
whiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: whizzes
form: whizz
form: wiz
form: wizz
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare huzz, hizz, hiss. In some noun senses perhaps derived from wizard.
Senses: glosses: A whirring or hissing sound (as above).
examples: text: He's a whiz with the computers.
text: The chefs are veritable whizzes at arranging food on your plate to look like happy frog faces and growly clown faces.
ref: 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 77:
text: It didn't take long for New York Magazine's story on a 17-year-old stock whiz with a rumored net worth of $72 million to make a splash. But the story's juicy premise unraveled almost as quickly.
ref: 2014 December 15, Tom Kludt, “Story of the $72 million teen trader unravels”, in CNN:
synonyms: word: adept
word: ace
word: artist
word: buff
word: crackerjack
word: crack hand
word: dab
word: dab hand
word: dabster
word: don hand
word: expert
word: Jedi Master
word: master
word: maven
word: old hand
word: old soldier
word: old stager
word: past master
word: proficient
word: top gun
word: whiz
word: wiz
word: wizard
word: veteran
glosses: Someone who is remarkably skilled at something.
examples: text: I have to take a whiz.
text: I gotta take a whiz test to my PO / I know I failed 'cause I done smoked major weed, bro
ref: 1995, “I Got 5 on It”, in Operation Stackola, performed by Luniz:
synonyms: word: call of nature
word: easement
word: emiction
word: leak
word: making water
word: miction
word: micturition
word: number one
word: pee
word: piss
word: pissing
word: tinkle
word: uresis
word: urination
word: wazz
word: wee
word: wee-wee
word: wiz
word: wizz
word: whiz
word: whizz
glosses: An act of urination.
raw_tags: with the verb "take"
examples: text: And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is / But that's okay cause we're all sorted out for E's and wizz
ref: 1995, “Sorted For E’s and Wizz”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), Different Class, performed by Pulp:
glosses: Amphetamine.
examples: text: This type of pickpocket, it should be noted, is passing from the scene; most class cannons now operating are old-timers. “The only youngsters I see breaking in on the whiz are jigs, and they are coining a bebop lingo that is something. […]
ref: 2003, David W. Maurer, Whiz Mob, page 40:
glosses: Pickpocketing.
Derived terms: gee whiz
take a whiz
whiz kid
whizzer
whiz
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Etymology: See with.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of with.
whoa
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wəʊ/
ipa: /ʍəʊ/
enpr: wō
enpr: hwō
ipa: /woʊ/
ipa: /ʍoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: woe (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: woah
form: whoah
Etymology: Whoa (c. 1843) is a variant of woa (c. 1840), itself a variant of wo (c. 1787), from who (c. 1450), ultimately from Middle English ho, hoo (interjection), probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call). Compare German ho, Old French ho ! (“hold!, halt!”).
Senses: examples: text: Whoa, Nelly!
text: I can see Mickie getting hot, I'm about to grab his arm, hold him back, say, Whoa, whoa, Mick, not here, it ain't worth it what happened inside just now.
ref: 2007, Ron Liebman, Death by Rodrigo, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 134:
glosses: Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
examples: text: Whoa, are you serious?
text: Whoa. Wait a minute, Doc. Are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?
ref: 1985, Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale, Back to the Future, spoken by Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox):
text: Jen: Douglas has asked me to be his PA.
Moss: Oh. My. God! Well, that is something and a half. His PA? How... Whoa! His PA... Shut up! His PA!
Jen: It means "personal assistant".
Moss: Thank you. Right, OK.
ref: 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, season 2, episode 6:
glosses: An expression of surprise.
examples: text: I am the type who is liable to snipe you
With two seconds left to go, whoa.
ref: 2003, "Weird Al" Yankovic, eBay (song)
text: And oh whoa girl, it's a shame.
Oh whoa girl, it's a doggone shame.
ref: 2010, Bruce Springsteen, It's a Shame:
glosses: Used as a meaningless filler in song lyrics.
Derived terms: whoa back
whoa, Nelly
whoa
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wəʊ/
ipa: /ʍəʊ/
enpr: wō
enpr: hwō
ipa: /woʊ/
ipa: /ʍoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: woe (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whoas
form: whoaing
form: whoaed
form: whoaed
form: woah
form: whoah
Etymology: Whoa (c. 1843) is a variant of woa (c. 1840), itself a variant of wo (c. 1787), from who (c. 1450), ultimately from Middle English ho, hoo (interjection), probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call). Compare German ho, Old French ho ! (“hold!, halt!”).
Senses: examples: text: He was whoaing the horses loudly, and they did seem to be going faster than usual—in fact, they were galloping.
ref: 1926, Josephine Demott Robinson, The Circus Lady, page 38:
glosses: To attempt to slow (an animal) by crying "whoa".
wholehearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhəʊlˈhɑː(ɹ)t.əd/
Forms: form: more wholehearted
form: most wholehearted
form: whole-hearted
Etymology: From whole + hearted. First appears before 1628 in the publications of John Preston, a clergyman in the Church of England.
Senses: synonyms: fullhearted
hearty
heartful
;
all in
antonyms: heartless
unhearty
coordinate_terms: halfhearted
glosses: Showing enthusiastic and unconditional commitment; having no reservations.
wikipedia: Church of England
John Preston (priest)
Derived terms: wholeheartedly
wholeheartedness
wholesaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wholesalers
Etymology: From wholesale + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He observed that a wholesaler who supplied my grandfather with goods continued to advertise the implements of a new game, called "Sphairistike."
ref: 1941, Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, Come what may: an autobiography, Little, Brown and company, page 7:
text: Your market gardener is not a well-breeched man, dependant as he is on the imponderables of glut, the inequities of distribution, and the greeds of wholesaler and retailer.
ref: 1954, Thomas Firbank, Log Hut, page 194:
text: Among wholesalers, voluntary and cooperatives carry a far wider range and number of items in private brands than do unaffiliateds.
ref: 1968, Progressive Grocer's Marketing Guidebook, page 13:
text: The packinghouse usually delivers shrimp to a few regular customers, such as breaders, freezers, canners, or wholesalers of fresh shrimp.
ref: 1976, USITC Publication - Issue 773, page A-33:
text: Now it seems parent company Anheuser-Busch is taking steps to help wholesalers who have taken a hit.
ref: 2023 May 22, Brian Flood, “Bud Light buying back unsold, expired beer from wholesalers as sales continue to suffer: report”, in Fox News:
text: Do it Best is a member-owned wholesaler that sells hardware, lumber and other home goods to independent stores.
ref: 2024 October 14, Jordan Valinsky, “True Value declares bankruptcy and sells itself to a hardware rival”, in CNN:
glosses: A person or company that buys merchandise from manufacturers, importers, or distributors and resells the merchandise to retail businesses and to business and institutional end users.
make a meal of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a meal of
form: making a meal of
form: made a meal of
form: made a meal of
form: make a meal out of
Senses: examples: text: Some people can make a meal out of the simplest task. If you give it to a busy person, they don’t have time to muck around on the edges and worry about it — they’ll just do it.
ref: 1997, Alison Aprhys, Careers in Publishing and Bookselling: How to Get the Job You Want, Hale & Iremonger, →ISBN, page 191:
text: They both looked good – I would have been happy with either version. There was no point in making a meal of the decision, so I just picked up the one which was nearest to me on the desk and said, ‘We’ll go with this one.’
ref: a. 2004, Kate Williams, Using Information for Decision Making, Second edition, Elsevier, published 2004, →ISBN, page 53:
text: page 131: And if he preferred Viva, fine. She wasn't going to make a meal of it or even give them the satisfaction of a scene.
page 524: Make it quick and painless, she'd told herself, don't make a meal of it.
ref: 2008, Julia Gregson, East of the Sun, Simon and Schuster, published 2009, →ISBN:
text: Ford's character is a bit one-note, and his gravelly intonation suggests a drunken poet more than a respected newsman, yet he makes a meal of the role all the same, and his pronunciation of the word "frittata" may well be the film's high point.
ref: 2010 November 3, Andrew Barker, “Morning Glory (review)”, in Variety:
glosses: To spend more time and energy on some task than it warrants; to make something overly complicated; to make a big thing out of.
examples: text: Don't walk near the tiger: it'll make a meal of you.
glosses: To eat something as a meal.
Wellingtonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɛlɪŋˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌwɛlɪŋˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Wellingtonians
Etymology: From Wellington + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A resident of Wellington, New Zealand.
wholly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊ.li/
ipa: [ˈhəʊ.lɪ]
ipa: /ˈhəʊl.li/
ipa: [ˈhɒʊɫ.lɪ]
ipa: /ˈhoʊ.li/
ipa: [ˈhoʊ.li]
ipa: /ˈhoʊl.li/
ipa: [ˈhoʊɫ.li]
homophone: holey
homophone: holy
rhymes: -əʊli
rhymes: -əʊlli
Forms: form: wholely
form: wholy
Etymology: From Middle English holly, holeliche, holliche (also as halely, hallich, etc.), equivalent to whole + -ly. Doublet of holy.
Senses: examples: text: Wholly, in my opinion, this is wrong.
text: And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet haue troden, shall be thine inheritance, and thy childrens for euer, because thou hast wholly followed the Lord my God.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 14:9:
text: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: ‘You ain't very strong, are you?’ said a neighbour with sympathetic intent, and ‘You don't have very good health, I expect?’ asked another. Mr Colville said, ‘He do look wholly pale, that's a fact.’ The word ‘wholly’ thus used puzzled me for some time. In Suffolk it is used for ‘very’ or ‘really’, and crops up in almost every sentence. But at first I thought Mr Colville was ascribing to me an air of sanctity.
ref: 1930, Adrian Bell, Corduroy, Faber and Faber:
text: With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever. This event and its after-effects, along with the war against the Japanese in the 1940s, was to cast a long shadow over the years ahead, and led to the creation of the wholly unprecedented worship of Kim Il-sung, and his elevation to almost God-like status. It was also to create the system in which his son was to occupy almost as impossibly elevated a position.
ref: 2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian:
text: The explosion rocked the Riteng Computer Accessory Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pegatron, in Shanghai’s Songjiang district.
ref: 2011 December 20, Hayley Tsukayama, “Report: Apple partner Pegatron under scrutiny after blast”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2011, Tech:
glosses: Completely and entirely; to the fullest extent; (loosely, exaggeratedly) very; to a great extent.
examples: text: A creature wholly given to brawls and wine.
glosses: Exclusively and solely.
Synonyms: sense: to the fullest extent
word: completely
word: totally
word: completely
sense: exclusively
word: entirely
word: solely
whooping cough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhuːpɪŋ ˌkɒf/
ipa: /ˈhuːpɪŋ ˌkɔːf/
ipa: /ˈhuːpɪŋ ˌkɔf/
ipa: /ˈwʊpɪŋ ˌkɔf/
Forms: form: whooping coughs
form: whooping-cough
form: hooping-cough
Etymology: From whooping + cough, from the characteristic-sounding cough that is a major symptom.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A contagious disease of the respiratory system that usually affects children caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis, the advanced stage of which is characterised by spasms of coughing followed by a whooping sound during the intake of breath.
Synonyms: word: pertussis
word: chink cough
word: chin cough
whopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒp.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈʍɒp.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈwɑ.pɚ/
ipa: /ˈʍɑ.pɚ/
rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: whoppers
Etymology: From whop + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I’d gone out pike fishing, bless you, never thinking of a trout, and when I saw that whopper on the end of my line, blest if it didn’t quite take me aback. Well, you see, he weighed twenty-six pound.
ref: 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter 17, in Three Men in a Boat […] :
text: I’ve just run down from Ulster County to look at the town, bein’ that the hayin’s over with. Gosh! but it’s a whopper. I thought Poughkeepsie was some punkins; but this here town is five times as big.
ref: 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Poet and the Peasant”, in Strictly Business:
text: There's a storm blowing up, Sylvester—a 'whopper', speaking in the vernacular of the peasantry.
ref: 1939, Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, The Wizard of Oz:
glosses: Something remarkably large.
examples: text: When he got done telling it there was one of them uncomfortable silences that comes, you know, when a person has been telling a whopper and you feel sorry for him and wish you could think of some way to change the subject and let him down easy, […]
ref: 1894, Mark Twain, chapter XII, in Tom Sawyer Abroad:
text: Coming out with a whopper now. Rhapsodies about damn all. Believes his own lies. Does really. Wonderful liar. But want a good memory.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: Isuzu Inc. hit pay dirt in the late '80s with its series of “Joe Isuzu” spots, featuring an oily, Satanic-looking salesman who told whoppers about Isuzu's genuine llama-skin upholstery and ability to run on tapwater.
ref: 1997 [1990], David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
glosses: An outrageous or blatant lie.
Related terms: belly whopper
whopperjawed
whopping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(h)wɒpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈ(h)wɑpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
Etymology: whop (verb) + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: It weighed a whopping 700 pounds when it was full.
text: [H]e went his way rejoicing—an eccentric, sun-browned, good-natured, athletic man, with no strong affection for anything except his rifle, and a predilection for relating "whopping" stories of his travels, and incidents of adventure which no mortal since the days of Baron Munchausen could have experienced under any possible circumstances.
ref: 1852, Henry Howard Paul, “Old Dan of Connecticut River”, in Dashes of American Humour, London: Piper Brothers and Co., Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 37:
text: There are runners in abundance who intercept strangers, strongly recommending certain lodgings as being desirable on account of location and economy, for which they get a handsome percentage. Abraham told a whopping lie to secure our patronage, by saying, our countryman, a gentleman who had preceded us by about a week, had left special directions for him to wait upon us. Such politeness led at once to an engagement. However, he was subsequently dismissed in disgrace.
ref: 1852, Jerome V[an] C[roninsfield] Smith, “Smyrna”, in Turkey and the Turks: Or, Travels in Turkey, Boston, Mass.: F. Gleason's Publishing Hall, corner of Bromfield and Tremont Streets, →OCLC, page 83, column 2:
text: Because of its great length, the snake [a pit viper, Lachesis muta] has a long striking range and is alleged to, on occasion, strike without any warning (unlike a rattlesnake, whose audible vibrating tail signals that the animal is agitated). Long hypodermic fangs deliver a whopping dose of venom.
ref: 2009, John Kricher, “For the Love of Biodiversity (and Stable Ecosystems?)”, in The Balance of Nature: Ecology’s Enduring Myth, Princeton, N.J.; Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, pages 170–171:
text: Weight is actually a measurement of the gravitational pull on an object. If you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, Earth's gravity is pulling you down with 100 pounds of force. […] On our massive Sun, you'd weigh a whopping 2,800 pounds!
ref: 2013, Agnieszka Biskup, “Forcing the Issue”, in Jennifer Besel, editor, The Gripping Truth about Forces and Motion (Fact Finders. LOL Physical Science.), North Mankato, Minn.: Capstone Press, →ISBN, page 13:
text: Defence spending, as promised last week, is headed for a $54bn boost. Now Mr [Donald] Trump has revealed the size of his planned infrastructure programme, and it's a whopping $1 trillion.
ref: 2017 March 1, Anthony Zurcher, “Trump addresses Congress: A kinder, gentler president”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2017:
text: Stay on the balance lift until the rope breaks, and score a whopping 1000 points! Be prepared to jump at the last moment to save your life.
ref: 2022, StrategyWiki:
glosses: Exceptionally great or large.
Synonyms: large
whopping
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(h)wɒpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈ(h)wɑpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
Etymology: whop (verb) + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Is she doing a tango? A buck and wing? A soulful modern ballet? No, Joan Crawford is having a whopping good time learning judo, the Japanese art of self-defense, for her new movie, The Caretakers. Joan plays a nurse who uses judo holds to subdue unruly patients in a mental hospital.
ref: 1962 September 28, “Shall We Dance? Thud!”, in Life, volume 53, number 13, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 57:
text: Doss and I run the house, cooking dinner—whopping great pots of stew and rice, sewing and darning clothes, ironing, bathing the kids, blacking the grate, scrubbing the doorstep, running errands.
ref: 2000, James Riordan, When the Guns Fall Silent, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Exceedingly, extremely, very.
Synonyms: awfully
terribly
whopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(h)wɒpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈ(h)wɑpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
Etymology: whop (verb) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whop.