cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
woodshed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊdˌʃɛd/
Forms: form: woodsheds
Etymology: From wood + shed.
Senses: hypernyms: shed
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structure#Noun
glosses: An enclosed, roofed structure, often an outbuilding, used primarily to store firewood.
examples: text: The State Department is incensed, and if this conference fails it will be the woodshed for three Central American presidents.
ref: 1907 November 11, “Latin President’s Plot May Disarrange the Central American Peace Plans”, in New York Times:
text: Were you ever taken to the woodshed? Did anyone say, “Stop disagreeing with the president”?
ref: 2021 January 24, Donald G. McNeil Jr, “Fauci on What Working for Trump Was Really Like”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A place where punishments or reprimands are administered.
Derived terms: something nasty in the woodshed
trip to the woodshed
woodshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊdˌʃɛd/
Forms: form: woodsheds
form: woodshedding
form: woodshedded
form: woodshedded
Etymology: From wood + shed.
Senses: examples: text: Recently, I have taken up the double bass again, but because time and neglect erode ability, calluses turn soft, and muscle memory fades, I need to woodshed (practice) to get back into shape and build up my chops.
ref: 1999 June, Al Stevens, “Jukebox: Covering the Basses”, in Dr. Dobb's Journal, volume 24, number 6, San Francisco, Calif.: Miller Freeman, Inc., →ISSN, page 115:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To practice or rehearse using a musical instrument.
examples: text: In previous chapters, I've covered many ways to woodshed a script and dozens of techniques for bringing the words to life. Now, I'm going to suggest something completely different: Try performing your script completely cold the first time through.
ref: 2023, James R. Alburger, The Art of Voice Acting:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: To practice or rehearse a script.
examples: text: His latest novel sheds light on an émigré writer’s woodshedding period.
ref: 2007 July 23, “A Free Life”, in Publishers Weekly:
glosses: To self-isolate in order to work on one's artistic development or to produce work without interruptions.
Related terms: woodshedding
woodwinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodwind
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The woodwind instruments of an orchestra collectively
woodworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodworkers
Etymology: From wood + worker.
Senses: glosses: A person skilled at woodworking.
Related terms: woodwork
woolens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woollens
Senses: glosses: woolen clothes collectively
woolgathering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolgatherings
form: wool-gathering
Etymology: From wool + gathering.
Senses: glosses: The gathering of fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc.
examples: text: [while fishing] Alone with my tin of bait and my wool-gatherings, I was in a world of my own, localized and satisfying as such world always are.
ref: 1938, Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Century and seven more years, London: Faber, page 109 (1968 edition):
glosses: Indulgence in idle fancies or daydreams.
Derived terms: woolgather
Related terms: wool-gather
wordage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wordages
Etymology: From word + -age.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: language
glosses: Words collectively, considered in a mass sense.
examples: text: But the plates are good, and, in reality, sufficient without all the wordage.
ref: 1829 April, "Article VIII" (review of The Cause of Dry Rot Discovered), The Westminster Review, p. 417 (Google books view)
text: Here, I think, we must class the portmanteau-wordage of James Joyce, in which the use of verbal and syllabic association is carried so far that its power of unconscious persuasion is lost and the reader’s response is diverted by a conscious ecstasy of enigma-hunting, like a pig rooting for truffles.
ref: 1941, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter 10, in The Mind of the Maker, London: Methuen, page 122:
synonyms: wordiness
;
verbiage
;
circumlocution
glosses: The excessive use of words.
examples: text: The official transcript totaled 2,045,000 words—more than twice the wordage of the Bible.
ref: 1951 July 2, “MacArthur Hearing: Curtain”, in Time, retrieved 21 Apr 2015:
text: A work of elucidation couched in a lazily dense style; a biography seemingly concerned with externals but in fact spun from inside the biographer like a spider’s thread; a critical study which exceeds in wordage all the major works of its subject put together…
ref: 2002, Julian Barnes, “Flaubert’s Death-Masks”, in Something to Declare, New York: Knopf:
glosses: The number of words used in a text: synonym of word count.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: phrasing; terminology; phraseology
text: "With the wordage in the contract, we think we have a good case."
ref: 1990 May 15, Jack Curry, “Winfield Case Heads to Arbitrator”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Apr 2015:
synonyms: verbiage
;
wording#Noun
;
diction
glosses: The choice of words used: word choice.
wordless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wordless
form: most wordless
Etymology: From Middle English wordles, equivalent to word + -less. Compare Dutch woordeloos (“speechless, inexpressible in words”), German wortlos (“silent, speechless”), Danish ordløs (“wordless”), Swedish ordlös (“wordless”), Icelandic orðlaus (“wordless, speechless”).
Senses: examples: text: On any given Friday night at the Claremont Colleges, between 15 and 20 Jewish students gather to sing wordless melodies, dive into textual study of Talmud or James Baldwin, or hold workshops on antisemitism.
ref: 2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents:
glosses: Conveyed without the use of words; unspoken or unsaid.
synonyms: speechless
glosses: Unable or unwilling to speak; dumb, silent or inarticulate.
workbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɝk.bʊk/
ipa: /ˈwɜːk.bʊk/
Forms: form: workbooks
form: wkbk
Etymology: From work + book.
Senses: glosses: A book, used by a student, in which answers and workings may be entered besides questions and exercises.
glosses: A book, used by a business, containing a record of work to be done, or work completed.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A collection of spreadsheets stored in the same file.
workfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of work + welfare
Senses: glosses: A form of welfare in which people are required to work as a condition of receiving aid
workforce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɝk.foɹs/
ipa: [ˈwɚk.fo̞ɹs]
ipa: /ˈwɜːk.fɔːs/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈwɝk.fo(ː)ɹs/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈwɜːk.foəs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: workforces
form: work force
Etymology: From work + force.
Senses: examples: text: The rail sector's ageing workforce (28% of workers are over 50 years old) means that about 15,000 people could retire from the industry by 2025.
ref: 2020 December 2, Stefanie Foster, “Network News: Success of major projects hinges on fixing skills crisis”, in Rail, page 8:
text: But much of the federal workforce is located outside the nation’s capital, and Trump’s offer was met with confusion and skepticism in many of those offices.
ref: 2025 February 1, Tami Luhby, Eric Bradner and Rene Marsh, “Federal employees confused, angered by Trump’s offer to quit”, in CNN:
glosses: All the workers employed by a specific organization or state, or on a specific project.
examples: text: “There is no question the US economy will get smaller as you deport a lot of the workforce,” Kent Smetters, professor of business economics and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, said in an interview.
ref: 2025 July 25, Matt Egan, “How Trump’s mass deportations could backfire on the American economy by shrinking paychecks”, in CNN Business:
glosses: The total population of a country or region that is employed or employable.
Synonyms: word: manpower
word: jobforce
word: labour force
word: human resources
word: liveware
word: personnel
word: staff
word: workforce
word: Any plural of the meronyms
Hyponyms: word: consultants
word: contractors
word: temps
word: payrollers
word: womanpower
Meronyms: word: employee
word: worker
working-class
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more working-class
form: most working-class
Senses: examples: text: There is one obvious sense in which working-class politics has declined in the last twenty years or so: the proportion of working-class people involved at various levels of party politics has dropped.
ref: 1971, Barry Hindess, The Decline of Working-Class Politics, page 9:
text: Jean-Baptiste ordered herb soup, potatoes, and cheese along with two glasses of beer — a typical working-class lunch, he said to Aimee with a smile.
ref: 1986, Theresa Conway, A Passion for Glory, page 78:
text: It was a very working-class crowd on the Kop, mainly dockers and the like.
ref: 2001, Stephen Hopkins, Cathy Long, John Williams, Passing Rhythms: Liverpool FC and the Transformation of Football, page 27:
text: But Run Run Shaw and his brothers are sons of a Shanghai textile magnate, Lee Shau-kee comes from a wealthy banking and gold trading family from Shuntak county in Guangdong province, and Henry Fok - though from a genuinely working-class background - was set apart by a British government scholarship to an elite school.
ref: 2007, Joe Studwell, “How to be a post-war godfather”, in Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, 1st American edition, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 55:
text: One of the areas in Hong Kong most profoundly impacted by the city’s third wave of coronavirus is Tsz Wan Shan. The usually bustling streets of the working-class neighbourhood in Kowloon now resemble a ghost town. Tsz Wan Shan has been the epicentre of a recent cluster of Covid-19 cases.
ref: 2020 August 18, “Empty spaces in Tsz Wan Shan amid Hong Kong’s third wave of coronavirus”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2021:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the working class; suggestive of the working class in manner of speaking, outlook, appearance, or other qualities.
Synonyms: sense: relating to working class
word: blue-collar
workingman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workingmen
Etymology: From working + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The workingman, through the invention of many time and labor saving devices, has been freed from much drudgery and now finds his day portionable into eight hours for rest, eight hours for work and eight hours for recreation.
ref: 1917, New Catholic World, volume 105, page 725:
text: To her it seemed indecent that a pregnant woman of her standing (Government Service) should have to board the steamer without a husband to go with her and dispute about her accommodation and whisper anxiously to the doctor and stewardess—almost as indecent as a Government Service woman's having her baby in the hospital in Port Zodiac with the wives of workingmen and Greeks.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia (fiction), D. Appleton & Company, page 131:
text: Every workingman can have his own house.
ref: 1997 May 14, Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson, L.A. Confidential, spoken by Sid Hudgens (Danny DeVito), Regency Enterprises; distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures:
glosses: A man who works in exchange for payment, especially a labourer who does manual labour.
Hypernyms: worker
Coordinate terms: workingwoman
Related terms: working girl
workingwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workingwomen
Etymology: From working + woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who works in exchange for payment, especially one who does manual labour
Related terms: workingman
working girl
slackness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæknəs/
rhymes: -æknəs
Forms: form: slacknesses
Etymology: From Middle English slacnesse, slakenes, slaknesse; equivalent to slack + -ness. Compare Old English slæcness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being slack; the quality of having slack.
glosses: Vulgarity in West Indian culture.
glosses: A subgenre of dancehall music with sexual lyrics.
genocidaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: like French
ipa: /ʒɛn.ə.siˈdɛ(ə)ɹ/
note: anglicized
ipa: /d͡ʒɛn.ə.saɪˈdɛ(ə)ɹ/
Forms: form: genocidaires
form: génocidaire
Etymology: From French génocidaire.
Senses: examples: text: 'There are thousands of genocidaires living in EU countries, with large numbers in almost every European country including the UK,' said Rakiya Omaar, whose organisation, African Rights, has worked since the genocide to track them down.
ref: 2008 September 21, Ally Carnwath, The Observer:
text: When the RPF sent him and a friend back to school in Rwanda […] his friend attacked the Hutu teacher one night, strangling him with a rope, saying that he was a génocidaire.
ref: 2011, Jason K Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, Public Affairs, published 2012, page 73:
text: To take an example from a clear case of genocide—Rwanda—the Hutu génocidaires did not appear to want to destroy all Tutsis everywhere, but only in Rwanda.
ref: 2019, Robert Cryer, Darryl Robinson, Sergey Vasiliev, chapter 10, in An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure, Fourth edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, ‘In whole or in part’ (section 10.4.3), page 224:
text: But the US is completely isolated from the rest of the world in this. Somehow, Rubio in his inexperience thinks that an action like stopping the Palestinian delegates to come spares the US from the opprobrium of being a genocidaire that is complicit in a genocide and being completely isolated in this.
ref: 2025 September 2, Jeffrey Sachs, Andrew Napolitano's Judging Freedom, YouTube:
synonyms: genocider
glosses: A person involved in perpetrating a genocide.
play Old Harry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays Old Harry
form: playing Old Harry
form: played Old Harry
form: played Old Harry
Senses: examples: text: By his accent and innocent style I detected he was not a colonial, so I got him to relate his history. He was an Englishman by birth, but had been to America, Spain, New Zealand, Tasmania, &c.; by his own make out had ever been a man of note, and had played Old Harry everywhere.
ref: 1901, Miles Franklin, “’Possum Gully Left Behind. Hurrah! Hurrah!”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 60:
text: Blenkiron and I have been moving in the best circles as skilled American engineers who are going to play Old Harry with the British on the Tigris.
ref: 1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle:
text: I distinguish five more general classes: but I am far from equally happy about all of them. They are, however, quite enough to play Old Harry with two fetishes which I admit to an inclination to play Old Harry with, viz. (1) the true/false fetish, (2) the value/fact fetish.'
ref: 1962, J. L. Austin, How to do things with words:
glosses: To play the devil; to make mischief.
Old Harry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: 'For if Old Harry's a mind to do a bit o' kindness for a holiday, like, who's got anything against it?'
ref: 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 131:
synonyms: word: Old Nick
word: Old Scratch
word: Old Serpent
word: Aduwallah
word: Adversary
word: Al-Shaytaan
word: Antichrist
word: archfiend
word: Ash-Shaytan
word: Azazel
word: Beast
word: Beelzebub
word: bogey
word: cosmocrat
word: deceiver
word: deuce
word: Devil
word: diablo
word: Diabolus
word: dickens
word: Dragon
word: Enemy
word: Evil One
word: Father of Lies
word: Gog
word: Iblis
word: Jack Ketch
word: leviathan
word: lord of the flies
word: Lucifer
word: Mephistopheles
word: Old Gentleman
word: Old Hairy
word: Old Harry
word: Old Nick
word: Old One
word: Old Scratch
word: Old Serpent
word: Prince of Darkness
word: Prince of Demons
word: Prince of Evil
word: Sam Scratch
word: Satan
word: Serpent
word: shaitan
word: Son of the Dawn
glosses: The Devil.
Derived terms: play Old Harry with
ambassade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambassades
form: embassade
Etymology: From French ambassade. Doublet of embassy.
Senses: examples: text: Sir Henry Killigrew, after Ambaſſades and meſſages, and many other employments of peace and warre, in his Princes ſeruice, to the good of his Countrey, hath made choyce of a retyred eſtate
ref: 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The mission of an ambassador.
examples: 1709-1725, John Strype, Annals of the Reformation in England
[…] thereupon the queen's majesty, trusting that the king of Spain was of the same mind, she did send a solemn ambassade of her privy-counsellors, whereof one was an ancient earl of the realm, the other also an ancient baron of the same, and others of the council of her state […]
glosses: An embassy.
silly string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silly strings
Etymology: From the original brand name.
Senses: glosses: aerosol string
spray can
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spray cans
Senses: glosses: A pressurized canister that ejects its contents from a nozzle when a button is pressed; used for paint, cosmetics, lubricants, insecticide etc.
Synonyms: spray
aerosol can
rattle can
Related terms: spray bottle
otherworldliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: other-worldliness
Etymology: From otherworldly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being otherworldly
pressurized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pressurized
form: most pressurized
form: pressurised
Senses: glosses: Under pressure.
Derived terms: pressurized water reactor
pressurized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pressurize
Related terms: pressurization
pressurize
worktable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worktables
form: work-table
Etymology: From work + table.
Senses: glosses: A table designed for work of a specific type.
glosses: A table designed for work of a specific type.
A small table used by ladies for doing needlework.
Coordinate terms: workbench
table § Hyponyms
workup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workups
form: work-up
Etymology: Deverbal from work up.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A general medical examination to assess a person's health and fitness.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: All the additional procedures and reactions carried out after the main chemical reaction to obtain the desired product.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A period of training or preparation, typically for a specific operation.
examples: text: The first time I saw Amity we were in front of her house playing work-up, a baseball variation where you move from position to position by outs until you get to bat.
ref: 2014, Tom Bentley, Flowering: And Other Stories:
glosses: Synonym of scrub baseball.
synonyms: word: scrub baseball
examples: text: He toured Japan with Judy Collins, and on his return in 1967, he presented the initial work-up on "Alice's Restaurant" at the WNYC Folk Song Festival.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 289:
glosses: An unfinished or unfinalized version; a draft, prototype.
workweek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workweeks
Etymology: From work + week.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Lienemann, the French Housing Minister, sees socialist and ecological forces proposing what she calls “a new culture”—perhaps named “Ecosocialism”—that might, she believes, work for innovations like a 32-hour workweek, more democracy at the workplace, and “a greater stress on quality than quantity in everyday life.”
ref: [1992 November 1, Roger Cohen, quoting Marie-Noelle Lienemann, “Ideology Wanes for Europe, Leaving Politicians Adrift”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: That trial, which began the same week as the elections that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, remains a symbol, to a certain sort of Englishman, of the societywide breakdown of the 1970s, which was a decade of currency devaluations, crippling strikes, uncollected garbage and shortened workweeks.
ref: 2009 December 7, Christopher Caldwell, “Can David Cameron Redefine Britain’s Tory Party?”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: jobweek
working week
glosses: The range of days of the week that are normally worked.
world-class
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)ldˈklæs/
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)ldˈklɑːs/
rhymes: -æs
rhymes: -ɑːs
Forms: form: more world-class
form: most world-class
Senses: examples: text: Chris Green remarks that this "world-class gateway to London and the UK still looks as good as new", [...].
ref: 2022 November 30, Nick Brodrick, “Pride and innovation shine at St Pancras”, in RAIL, number 971, page 69:
glosses: Of a standard that ranks among the best in the world.
examples: text: A world-class idiot
text: Both of you, prepare for a world-class punishment session when we get home!
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Boggly Woods:
glosses: Extraordinary in degree.
Derived terms: worldie
worldy
world-famous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɜːldˈfeɪməs/
ipa: /ˌwɝldˈfeɪməs/
rhymes: -eɪməs
Forms: form: more world-famous
form: most world-famous
Etymology: Compound of world + famous.
Senses: examples: text: Albert Einstein is a world-famous scientist.
text: Mr. Peng said that the world-famous scientist, Sven Hedin, was kidnapped by troops under General Ma in south Sinkiang, but was released later, and is believed to be safe and well at Akosu.
ref: 1934 July 14, “Sinkiang Chief Predicts Early Suppression of Rebels”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 69, number 7, →OCLC, page 257:
text: So what is it that makes SBB (Swiss national railways) tick? In my humble opinion, two things. Firstly, a comprehensive and set-in-stone integrated timetable (incorporating trains, ferries, cable cars and buses, including the world-famous yellow 'post-autos'), compiled four years in advance and which gets tested twice before it becomes operational.
ref: 2025 October 15, Vitali Vitaliev, “The recipe for Swiss bliss”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 68:
synonyms: world-renowned
glosses: Renowned universally; known worldwide.
worldly-wise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more worldly-wise
form: most worldly-wise
form: worldlywise
form: worldly wise
Etymology: Compare the synonym worldwise, which has cognates in various West-Germanic languages.
Senses: examples: text: I had a natural African American impulse to let this worldlywise middle-aged black woman's maternalism wash over me. And as a post-civil rights African American, I assumed that it was a white audience's job to follow suit.
ref: 2014 May 28, John McWhorter, “Saint Maya”, in The New Republic, →ISSN:
synonyms: worldwise
glosses: Experienced in the ways of the world; sophisticated and cosmopolitan.
soople
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soople
form: most soople
Senses: examples: "Anither New Sang" http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/16459/criteria/fishing
Ye think our questions to evade,
An weel ye ken that soople trade,
But Saunder's isna just the blade,
That ye can flam wi' butter.
glosses: supple
examples: Patrick O'Brian, "Master and Commander"
He's a right scholar, can write so small you can scarcely see it; younger nor I am, and more soople, sir, oh, far more soople.
glosses: suitable
worldview
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worldviews
form: world-view
form: world view
Etymology: A calque of German Weltanschauung, equivalent to world + view.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: cosmovision
text: According to the BfV, the JA promotes an ethno-nationalist worldview that ostracizes anyone who is not a native, white German.
ref: 2023 May 24, Nadine Schmidt and Sophie Tanno, “Germany intensifies scrutiny of far-right AfD, labeling its youth wing ‘extremist’”, in CNN:
text: “You have said the actual truth,” Musk tweeted in reply. X users, including many in the tech industry, lambasted the posts, though other users agreed with Musk and said they were gleefully watching him sink into their hateful worldview.
ref: 2023 November 17, Blake Montgomery, “White House condemns Elon Musk’s ‘abhorrent’ antisemitic tweets”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The bombing comes over a week after ISD released a report about how nihilistic worldviews are fueling violence in the US and Europe.
ref: 2025 May 21, Manisha Krishnan, “IVF Clinic Bombing Suspect Was Linked to ‘Anti-Life’ Ideology. Experts Fear Its Growing Influence”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 21 May 2025:
glosses: A person's personal view of the world and how one interprets it; any ingroup's or society's mainstream view thereof.
examples: Near-synonym: cosmology
glosses: The totality of one's beliefs about reality.
examples: text: The Elizabethan worldview differs from a modern worldview.
text: Human beings feel safe and secure when they can stand confidently in the center of things, either in the center of an age or in the center of a class of people with a common world-view, but when they come to an edge, they feel nervous and unsettled.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 7:
text: The Enlightment worldview, which considered the order of "Nature" as a basis and, at the same time, the subject of explorations of scientific natural sciences, has, at the same time, considered this order as a criterion of the artistically-aesthetic qualities of art. From an "ideological" point of view, it liberated art from its feudal religious and courtly servitude.
ref: 1986, Piotr Buczkowski, Andrzej Klawiter, editors, Theories of Ideology and Ideology of Theories, Rodopi, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 57:
text: Some worldviews are based in a belief in God; others are not. Buddhism, Taoism, atheism, Marxism, and existentialism are examples of worldviews that are nontheistic.
ref: 2009 June 2, Ed Gungor, What Bothers Me Most about Christianity: Honest Reflections from an Open-Minded Christ Follower, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: A general philosophy or view of life.
Synonyms: weltanschauung
philosophy
belief system
Related terms: NPOV
point of view
POV
viewpoint
worm-eaten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more worm-eaten
form: most worm-eaten
Senses: examples: text: Once upon a time there was a lad, who went along a road cracking nuts. He happened to find one which was worm-eaten, and shortly afterwards he met the devil.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 36:
glosses: Of fruit or other food, eaten by worms, especially having a worm inside.
glosses: Rotten or decrepit.
Synonyms: maggoty
wormridden
worriment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worriments
form: worryment
Etymology: From worry + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe he feared that himself, John Guthrie, his rage was his worriment with the night […].
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 46:
glosses: The act of worrying; anxiety.
glosses: A worrying situation or thing.
worrywart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌɹ.ɪˌwɔːt/
ipa: /ˈwʌɹ.iˌwɔːt/
ipa: /ˈwʌɹ.iˌwoɹt/
ipa: /ˈwɚ.iˌwoɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: worrywarts
form: worry wart
form: worry-wart
Etymology: From worry + wart, apparently chosen for alliteration. Presumably related to earlier worryguts. Attested 1956, but earlier examples are found in newspapers of the 1930s and 1940s.
Senses: examples: text: It doesn't mean you're a worrywart, a nervous wreck or in need of heavy medication.
ref: 2005, Hal Edward Runkel, Screamfree Parenting: Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool, →ISBN, page 31:
text: On vacation, I'm a worrywart for fretting about third-degree burns and puncture wounds.
ref: 2008 August 17, Nicole L.V. Mullis, “Vacation renders kids, adult males impervious to danger”, in Battle Creek Enquirer:
text: When Biden takes the presidential oath in January, many will write articles scolding those who expressed concern about a coup as worrywarts, or as people misusing terminology.
ref: 2020 December 7, Zeynep Tufekci, “‘This Must Be Your First’”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: word: bundle of nerves
word: worrier
word: bag of nerves
word: bundle of nerves
word: jitterbug
word: nervous Nellie
word: nervous wreck
word: neurotic
word: obsessive
word: tightass
word: wiener
word: worrier
word: worryguts
word: worrywart
glosses: A person who worries excessively, especially about unimportant matters.
Related terms: pessimist
OCD
hypochondriac
worshiper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worshipers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of worshipper. Cf. kidnapper.
wraparound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæp.ə.ɹaʊnd/
enpr: răpˈˈˈˈˈˈˈ -ə-round
Forms: form: wrap-around
Etymology: From wrap + around.
Senses: glosses: Designed to be wrapped around the body and tied.
raw_tags: of clothing
qualifier: sunglasses and eyeglasses lenses
glosses: Extending around a corner or bend.
raw_tags: of windows
examples: text: Ushers announced movie showtimes from the moment the A picture started because the wraparound material was simply not the main attraction.
ref: 1999, Thomas Schatz, Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s, page 397:
glosses: Serving to surround or bookend something else.
Synonyms: wrapround
wrap-round
Derived terms: wraparound host
wraparound mortgage
wraparound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæp.ə.ɹaʊnd/
enpr: răpˈˈˈˈˈˈˈ -ə-round
Forms: form: wraparounds
form: wrap-around
Etymology: From wrap + around.
Senses: glosses: A garment that is wrapped around the body and tied.
glosses: A label or advertising display that wraps around a container.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: A segment where material featuring one person (such as a reporter) is introduced and concluded by another person.
glosses: An extension to a property that combines side and rear additions.
glosses: Synonym of wraparound mortgage.
synonyms: word: wraparound mortgage
examples: See also: autowrap, backwrap, line break, word wrap, and wrapping
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Word wrap, the word processing feature that moves text to the beginning of the next line if it will not fit at the end of the current line.
examples: text: The addition of integers is unchecked, so wraparound occurs if the resulting value is beyond the representable range.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The wrapping of numerical values in case of underflow or overflow.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: An attempt to score by reaching around the side of the net from behind.
wrappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrapping
glosses: wrapping material collectively
wrap-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæpʌp/
Forms: form: wrap-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from wrap up.
Senses: glosses: A brief condensation or recapitulation as a final summary, especially to a news programme.
glosses: A concluding action; a conclusion.
wretchedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛt͡ʃədli/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt͡ʃɪdli/
Forms: form: more wretchedly
form: most wretchedly
Etymology: From Middle English wrecchedly; equivalent to wretched + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Tell my page to ask him to walk with you, for you look wretchedly, and to be sure you have been on your knees a long time rubbing that foot, I must say.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 241:
text: I felt wretchedly old, and worn out, and unfit for my place—and began to wonder, for the first time in my life, when it would please God to take me.
ref: 1868 January 4 – June 6, [William] Wilkie Collins, “First Period. The Loss of the Diamond (1848). […]”, in The Moonstone. A Romance. […], volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1868, →OCLC, chapter XVI, page 268:
glosses: In a wretched manner.
wrongheadedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wrongheadedly
form: most wrongheadedly
Etymology: From wrongheaded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In a movie like The Extra Girl, though Sue is the starring role, Dave is the active role in romantic comedy terms. The happy ending makes them both happy, but he's the one who has pursued Sue unstintingly while Sue has wrongheadedly pursued a career.
ref: 2000, Alan S. Dale, Comedy is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies, U of Minnesota Press, page 128:
glosses: In a wrongheaded manner.
wriggler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrigglers
Etymology: From wriggle + -er.
Senses: glosses: Anything that wriggles (literally or figuratively).
The larva of a mosquito.
synonyms: wiggler
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: Anything that wriggles (literally or figuratively).
Any of several types of tool for center-finding or edge-finding in manufacturing, especially metalworking.
synonyms: wiggler
glosses: Anything that wriggles (literally or figuratively).
A cunning or tricky person.
synonyms: dodger
shyster
Derived terms: collared wriggler
Dorothea's wriggler
wriggly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪɡəli
Forms: form: wrigglier
form: wriggliest
Etymology: From wriggle + -y.
Senses: glosses: That wriggles.
wrinkly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪŋk(ə)li/
Forms: form: wrinklier
form: wrinkliest
Etymology: From wrinkle + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having wrinkles.
Synonyms: bewrinkled
wrinkled
Derived terms: hyperwrinkly
wrinkliness
wrinkly skin syndrome
wrinkly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪŋk(ə)li/
Forms: form: wrinklies
Etymology: From wrinkle + -y.
Senses: glosses: An old person.
Synonyms: crinkly
hoarhead
oldster
old person
wristband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪs(t)ˌbænd/
ipa: /ˈɹɪzbənd/
Forms: form: wristbands
Etymology: From wrist + band.
Senses: glosses: The cuff of a sleeve that wraps around the wrist.
glosses: A strip of material worn around the wrist, e.g. to absorb perspiration, especially in sports.
synonyms: wristlet
glosses: A decorative band or bracelet that encircles the wearer's wrist.
synonyms: watchband
watchstrap
glosses: A band that supports a wristwatch.
synonyms: lanyard
glosses: A cord worn around the wrist, used to hold a small object such as a knife: a lanyard
Coordinate terms: sense: strip of material worn around the wrist
word: wrist wrap
sense: strip of material worn around the wrist
word: wriststrap
sense: strip of material worn around the wrist
word: wristwarmer
Related terms: word: wristbanding
word: armband
word: bracelet
write-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: write-ups
form: writeup
Etymology: Deverbal from write up.
Senses: glosses: A written account of something, as a record.
glosses: An increase made to the book value of an asset that was previously undervalued.
examples: text: The film had poor write-ups, but I ended up enjoying it anyway.
glosses: A review published in the print or online media for a film, book, etc.
wrongfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrongfulnesses
Etymology: From wrongful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being wrongful.
Synonyms: wrength
wrongheadedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wrongheaded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being wrongheaded.
wrongness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒŋ.nəs/
rhymes: -ɒŋ.nəs
Forms: form: wrongnesses
Etymology: From Middle English wrongnesse, equivalent to wrong + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Often, on the plantation, he had seen the white men take drinks. But there was something somehow different in the manner of Borckman’s taking a drink. Jerry was aware, vaguely, that there was something surreptitious about it. What was wrong he did not know, yet he sensed the wrongness and watched suspiciously.
ref: 1917 April, Jack London, chapter IV, in Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 47:
text: It’s not true that I’m always thinking of H. Work and conversation make that impossible. But the times when I’m not are perhaps my worst. For then, though I have forgotten the reason, there is spread over everything a vague sense of wrongness, of something amiss.
ref: 1961, C. S. Lewis, chapter 3, in A Grief Observed, London: Faber & Faber, published 1964, page 30:
synonyms: word: wrength
glosses: The quality of being wrong; error or fault.
examples: text: But your father didnt exactly do wrong things: he said them and thought them: that was what was so dreadful. He really had a sort of religion of wrongness. Just as one doesnt mind men practising immorality so long as they own that they are in the wrong by preaching morality; so I couldnt forgive Andrew for preaching immorality while he practised morality.
ref: 1905, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Major Barbara”, in John Bull’s Other Island and Major Barbara: Also How He Lied to Her Husband, London: Archibald Constable & Co., published 1907, →OCLC, Act I, page 197:
text: 1937, Elizabeth Sparks, Interview transcribed in Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Washington: Library of Congress, 1941, Volume 17, Virginia Narratives,
Old Massa done so much wrongness I couldn’t tell yer all of it.
glosses: Wrong or reprehensible things or actions.
pleasurably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pleasurably
form: most pleasurably
Etymology: From pleasurable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pleasurable manner.
wrought-iron
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The cars, of which there were five, were four-wheelers seating 32, and had wrought-iron railings round the end platforms.
ref: 1954 November, P. W. Gentry, “The Lambourn Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 741:
text: On February 24, 319379 crosses the wrought-iron Carr Mill Viaduct with Northern's 1515 Liverpool Lime Street-Wigan North Western service, viewed from a spillway for the reservoir.
ref: 2023 May 31, “Feature Pictorial”, in RAIL, number 984, page 57, photo caption:
glosses: made from wrought iron
unpleasurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpleasurable
form: most unpleasurable
Etymology: From un- + pleasurable.
Senses: examples: text: Before the advent of resensation there exists neither the known nor the unknown, only pleasurable, comfortable, or unpleasurable sensations which come and go. With resensation there arises the division into the familiar and the new, the unknown.
ref: 1959, Ernest G. Schachtel, Metamorphosis: On the Conflict of Human Development and the Psychology of Creativity, page 151:
glosses: That gives displeasure.
Synonyms: sense: that gives displeasure
word: displeasing
sense: that gives displeasure
word: nasty
sense: that gives displeasure
word: unpleasant
Derived terms: unpleasurably
wrought-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wrought-up
form: most wrought-up
Senses: glosses: excited, stimulated or agitated;
Synonyms: worked up
fraught
distraught
distressed
wryness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnəs
Forms: form: wrynesses
Etymology: From wry + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being wry
spider web
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spider webs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spiderweb.
rod iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of wrought iron.
solomongundy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Hobson-Jobson modification of salmagundi.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of salmagundi (“dish of meat, fish, onions, oil and vinegar, etc”).
wikipedia: Hobson-Jobson#Law of Hobson-Jobson
Solomon Gundy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solomon gundy
Etymology: Hobson-Jobson modification of salmagundi.
Senses: examples: text: [This dish,] Solomon Gundy, is described by Johnson, in his Dictionary, as a compound of chopped meat, pickled herrings, onions, oil, vinegar, and pepper.
ref: 1791, George Edward Griffiths, The Monthly Review, page 439:
text: “Solomon Gundy” is a heavy cold salad of any various meats, boiled eggs, salt fish or anchovies, olives, onions or other vegetables, dressed with oil, ...
ref: 2014, Benerson Little, The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630û1730, Potomac Books, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: Salmagundi (a main dish of chopped meat, fish, onions, oil and vinegar, etc).
examples: text: Walker's Wood produces Solomon Gundy, a fish pâté that's a popular dip and appetizer.
ref: 1999, Paris Permenter, John Bigley, A Taste of Jamaica: Where to Find the Very Best Jamaican Food, Hunter Publishing, Inc, →ISBN, page 265:
text: Solomon Gundy is a traditional Jamaican dish, a pâté made with smoked herring that we eat with crackers.
ref: 2013, Levi Roots, Grill it with Levi: 101 Reggae Recipes for Sunshine and Soul, Random House, →ISBN:
text: “Perhaps she is mistaking salmagundi for Solomon Gundy, a kind of pickled fish paste from Jamaica.” I listened intently. My stepmother did have a lot of information stored under that white mobcap, […]
ref: 2016, Dorothea Jensen, A Buss From Lafayette, BQB Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A pâté of pickled, salted, smoked red herring or other fish, minced and spiced with peppers and seasonings, popular as an appetizer in Jamaican cuisine.
rafting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɑːftɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹæftɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of raft
rafting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɑːftɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹæftɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: The sport of guiding a raft while descending a river, especially through rapids known as white water rafting.
Derived terms: black-water rafting
timber rafting
whitewater rafting
raggedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more raggedly
form: most raggedly
Etymology: From ragged + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: At Ickwell Green, in Bedfordshire, there is a permanent maypole. There, the May Queen is accompanied by moggies (raggedly dressed women) carrying besoms - birch-twig brooms.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 263:
glosses: In a ragged manner, unevenly, especially not in unison
rapaciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rapaciously
form: most rapaciously
Etymology: From rapacious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a rapacious manner, greedily, with great appetite
rancher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranchers
Etymology: From ranch + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who operates a ranch.
examples: text: By the 1960s in North America sprawling ranchers and backsplits with attached garages had become common […]
ref: 1987, E. C. Relph, The Modern Urban Landscape: 1880 to the Present, page 174:
text: We know that if a realtor got a listing for a rancher in the neighborhood of property one: that similar houses there will sell, with some effort, for about $59,000.
ref: 2009, Thomas Collins, How to Invest in Real Estate, page 21:
topics: business
real-estate
glosses: A ranch-style house, a ranchhouse.
Related terms: dude rancher
guest rancher
ranchgirl
ranchboy
ranchman
ranchwoman
random-access
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of being accessed in any order, not required to be sequential.
Related terms: random access memory
rankness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranknesses
Etymology: From Middle English rankenesse, equivalent to rank + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 1578, Raphael Holinshed et al., Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, Volume I, Book 3, Chapter 1 “Of cattell kept for profit,” p. 222,
[…] the bowels of the beast are commonlie cast awaie because of their ranknesse […]
text: A match scratched and the sweet rankness of his corn-cob pipe drifted through the rooms.
ref: 1933, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, chapter 34, in South Moon Under:
glosses: The quality of being rank, of having a repulsive or pungent odor.
examples: text: Tam’d us to Manners, when the Stage was rude;
ref: 1706, John Dryden, “To my Dear Friend Mr. Congreve, On His Comedy, call’d, The Double-Dealer” in The Double Dealer by William Congreve, London: Jacob Tonson, Like Janus he the stubborn Soil manur’d, With Rules of Husbandry the Rankness cur’d
roman: And boistrous English Wit, with Art indu’d.
text: […] a wilderness of weeds, to be sure, whose rankness far over-topped their neglected growth; yet, notwithstanding, evidence of a wealthy soil, that might yield luxuriant crops under other and favourable circumstances.
ref: 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter 18, in Wuthering Heights:
text: […] briar and bramble shoots lay athwart one’s path with thorns like arrowheads often concealed in tangles of grass and willowherb and cow parsley, while underlying this rankness, like a reminder of a more elegant epoch, one was aware at times of Howard’s cultivation, rose and magnolia and peony continued to flower […]
ref: 1970, Barry Unsworth, The Hide, New York: Norton, published 1997, page 139:
glosses: Exuberant or uncontrolled growth.
examples: text: First Gentleman. God save you, sir! where have you been broiling?
Third Gentleman. Among the crowd i’ the Abbey; where a finger
Could not be wedged in more: I am stifled
With the mere rankness of their joy.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: Exuberance, excessiveness.
examples: text: I will physic your rankness […]
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Insolence.
ratifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratifiers
Etymology: From ratify + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who ratifies.
glosses: One who is in favor of ratification.
ratifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ratify
ratifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ratify
raven-haired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more raven-haired
form: most raven-haired
Etymology: From raven + haired.
Senses: examples: text: `Attractive, raven-haired, about twenty-three and with a figure like Diana Dors.'
ref: 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 101:
glosses: Having hair that is very black and lustrous.
razor-sharp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: razor sharp
Senses: examples: text: The executioner was proud that he kept his axe razor-sharp, so no prisoner would feel any pain when his head was cut off.
text: [flavor text of the card "Zera The Mant"]
A huge, brutal monster that attacks with razor-sharp claws.
ref: 2002 March 20, Kazuki Takahashi, Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories (PlayStation video game, North American version), Konami:
text: A lot of people stress out about getting crows' feet, but personally I would be more concerned about their long, razor-sharp beaks.
ref: 2018, Norm Macdonald Has a Show, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Norm Macdonald:
glosses: As sharp as a razor; extremely sharp.
glosses: Very clever or quick-witted.