cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Dewar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdjuːwə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: Dewars
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic deoradh (“pilgrim, stranger”), an occupational surname for a custodian of holy relics. It could also be an habitational surname, from Dewar, Scottish Borders. The flask is named for James Dewar, who is credited with its invention.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A city in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, United States.
Derived terms: dewar
Dewar bottle
Dewar bulb
Dewar flask
Dewar vessel
Dewar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdjuːwə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: Dewars
form: dewar
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic deoradh (“pilgrim, stranger”), an occupational surname for a custodian of holy relics. It could also be an habitational surname, from Dewar, Scottish Borders. The flask is named for James Dewar, who is credited with its invention.
Senses: glosses: A glass or metal double-walled flask for holding a liquid without much loss or gain of heat; a vacuum bottle or thermos. Generally used for scientific purposes and in particular for cryogenic work.
Synonyms: Dewar bottle
Dewar bulb
Dewar flask
Dewar vessel
dey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: day
Forms: form: deys
form: dai
form: dei
form: deye
Etymology: From Middle English deye, deie, daie, from Old English dǣġe (“maker of bread; baker; dairy-maid”), from Proto-West Germanic *daigijā, from Proto-Germanic *daigijǭ (“kneader of bread, maid”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, build”). Cognate with Swedish deja, Icelandic deigja (“dairy-maid”); compare dairy, dough, lady.
Senses: glosses: A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
Related terms: dairy
lady
dey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: day
Forms: form: deys
Etymology: From French dey, from Algerian Arabic داي from Ottoman Turkish دایی (modern Turkish dayı).
Senses: examples: text: […] the reigning Dey of Algiers (half of whose twenty-eight predecessors are said to have met violent ends) lost his temper with the French consul, struck him in the face with a fly-whisk, and called him ‘a wicked, faithless, idol-worshipping rascal’.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 29:
glosses: The ruler of the Regency of Algiers (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.
dey
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: day
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of their, representing African-American Vernacular English.
examples: text: “Boy, is horrors over dey, for so,” he said, obviously excited and anxious to be the bearer of extraordinary news. “Wat happen, somebody dead?”
ref: 2012, G. Modele Dale Clarke, Up in Mahaica: Stories from the Market People (ebook), Xlibris:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of there, representing African American Vernacular English or Caribbean English.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of they, representing dialects with th-stopping in English
dey
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: day
ipa: [ˈde(ː)]
ipa: /deɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: day
Forms: form: deh
form: dei
Etymology: From Tamil டேய் (“hey!”).
Senses: examples: text: Dey! Did you press the lift button? What? You have pressed the button for the tenth time?
ref: 2007, Elangovan, P, Singapore, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 46:
text: Dei, you think what, President’s Star Charity ah?
ref: 2012 February 7 [2007], Laremy Lee, Radio Silence, →ISBN:
text: If a player makes a silly mistake, he doesn’t wail when told to “wake up lah, dey”.
ref: 2007 September 10, Sandra Leong, The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: An informal Tamil-language term of address used when trying to get someone's attention.
diatom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ə.təm/
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.əˌtɔm/
Forms: form: diatoms
Etymology: From (deprecated) genus name Diatoma, from Ancient Greek διάτομος (diátomos, “cut through, cut in half”).
Senses: examples: text: Diatoms are enclosed in two shells that fit together like a pillbox.
ref: 1967, George K. Reid, edited by Herbert S. Zim and George S. Fichter, Pond Life, New York: Golden Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 31:
text: Diatoms are characterized by a cell wall called a fistula made of silica, which usually has two overlapping sections.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 287:
glosses: Any of a group of minute unicellular algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, now categorized as class Diatomophyceae or division Bacillariophyta.
Derived terms: diatomaceous
diatomic
diatomist
diatomite
diatomivorous
Related terms: infusorium
diatom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ə.təm/
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.əˌtɔm/
ipa: /daɪˈæ.təm/
ipa: /daɪˈæ.təm/
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ə.təm/
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.əˌtɔm/
Forms: form: diatoms
Etymology: From di- + atom.
Senses: examples: text: We show here, through a systematic study of the covalent chemical bond covering the entire periodic system, that the maximum bond multiplicity is six. The maximum value is reached by the tungsten diatom, W₂. No other pair of atoms in the periodic system (atomic numbers smaller than about 100) reaches a higher bond order.
ref: 2007, Björn O. Roos, Antonio C. Borin, Laura Gagliardi, “Reaching the Maximum Multiplicity of the Covalent Chemical Bond”, in Angewandte Chemie, volume 46, number 9, →DOI, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2024, pages 1469–1472:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A molecule composed of two atoms of the same element; a homonuclear diatomic molecule.
dibble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪb(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: dibbles
Etymology: Possibly dib (“to dab lightly”) + -le (frequentative suffix indicating repetition or continuousness); however, the word dibble is attested earlier than dib.
Senses: examples: text: Pol[ixenes] Then make you[r] Garden rich in Gilly'vors, / And do not call them baſtards. / Per[dita] Ile not put / The Dible in earth, to ſet one ſlip of them: […]
ref: c.''' 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act IV, scene iv, page 292, column 1:
text: Earth'd up, here lies an imp o' hell, / Planted by Satan's dibble— / Poor silly wretch, he's damned himsel', / To save the Lord the trouble.
ref: 1794, Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham, “LX. On a Suicide.”, in The Works of Robert Burns; with His Life, by Allan Cunningham. … In Eight Volumes, volume III, London: James Cochrane and Co. 11, Waterloo Place, published 1834, →OCLC, page 325:
text: In sowing time ne'er would I dibble take, / Or drop a seed, till thou wast wide awake; […]
ref: 1818, John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 93, Fleet Street, →OCLC, book III, page 112, lines 153–154:
synonyms: dibbler
dibber
dib
glosses: A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which to set out plants or to plant seeds.
dibble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪb(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: dibbles
Etymology: From the character of Officer Charlie Dibble, a New York Police Department officer, in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Top Cat (first broadcast in the US in 1961, and in the UK in 1962 under the title Boss Cat).
Senses: examples: text: Remember this story about police hunting a metal detector enthusiast suspected of digging 20 holes in a school playing field in Cornwall? It’s taken a rather unusual twist. Pop superstar Robbie Williams appears to have ’fessed up to the crime. The former Take That star, who is a keen metal detecting enthusiast, retweeted the West Briton newspaper’s version of the story, telling ‘Dibble’ – a Mancunian slang term for the police which comes from the character Officer Dibble in the cartoon Top Cat – to ‘do one’, vowing the police will never catch him alive.
ref: 2016 May 12, “maxc73”, “Robbie Williams ‘confesses’ to digging holes in school’s playing field”, in The Herald, Plymouth, Devon, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2017:
glosses: A police officer, especially one serving with Greater Manchester Police.
examples: text: Watch out, lads! Here comes the dibble!
text: In Moss Side they called the police Dibble, after Officer Dibble in the cartoon Top Cat, so the name had sprung from that.
ref: 2002, Colin Ward, 'Chubby' Chris Henderson, “Revelling in It”, in Who Wants It?, Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Bein' in the dibble [police] is no cakewalk when you're black. / If you don't get fitted, then you'll prob'ly get the sack.
ref: 2008, Theodore Dalrymple [pseudonym; Anthony Malcolm Daniels], “How Not to Do It”, in Not with a Bang but a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline, Chicago, Ill.: Ivan R. Dee, →ISBN, pages 125–126:
text: They shoved me in the back of a police van and started driving to the cop shop. I was sitting in the sweatbox, wondering how the Dibble had got onto me so quickly, when I heard a voice from another section of the van say, 'Are you P from Macclesfield?'
ref: 2013, Colin Blaney, Hotshot: The Story of a Little Red Devil:
glosses: Preceded by the: the police.
Synonyms: sense: a police officer
word: police officer
sense: the police
word: police
Related terms: ibble dibble
dickey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪki/
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: dickeys
Etymology: From Dickey.
Senses: examples: text: ...and she was just in time to see Mr. Boyne Sillery hand her aunt into a carriage, jump in himself, when it drove off with a rapidity which scarcely allowed her to observe that a large imperial was on the top, and her aunt's servant, with a huge bandbox, on the dickey.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 134–135:
glosses: Alternative form of dicky.
dickey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪki/
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: dickier
form: dickiest
Etymology: Unknown; see the main entry.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dicky (“doubtful, troublesome, in poor condition”).
dimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪmə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dimers
Etymology: From di- + -mer.
Senses: examples: text: Non-polymerized lamins are dimers and they can polymerize to structures such as head to tail or by unparallel dimers which aggregate in tetramers and polymerize to thick fibers.
ref: 2015 March 25, Anna Skoczyńska et al., “New look at the role of progerin in skin aging”, in Przegla̜d Menopauzalny = Menopause Review, volume 14, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: oligomer
;
molecule
;
compound
coordinate_terms: monomer
trimer
tetramer
pentamer
hexamer
heptamer
septamer
octamer
nonamer
decamer
;
polymer
glosses: A molecule consisting of two identical halves, formed by joining two identical molecules, sometimes with a single atom acting as a bridge.
Derived terms: codimer
cyclodimer
D-dimer
dehydrodimer
dimeric
dimerise
dimerization
dimerize
dimerous
dimery
excimer
hemidimer
heterodimer
heterodimeric
holodimer
homodimer
homodimeric
hydrodimer
interdimer
intradimer
nanodimer
oligodimer
oxodimer
phosphodimer
photodimer
pseudodimer
dint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
Forms: form: dints
form: dunt
Etymology: From Middle English dint, dent, dünt, from Old English dynt (“dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe; the mark left by a blow; the sound or noise made by a blow, thud”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“a blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to strike, hit”). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt, Icelandic dyntr (“a dint”). Doublet of dent.
Senses: examples: text: Much daunted with that dint, her sence was dazd […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Between them cross-bows stood, and engines wrought / To cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart, // From whence, like thunder's dint, or lightnings new, / Against the bulwarks stones and lances flew.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, xxxi
glosses: A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
examples: text: O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length.
ref: 1805, Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, section XVIII:
glosses: Force, power; especially in by dint of.
examples: text: and read the naked shield,[…] Of every dint a sword had beaten in it, / And every scratch a lance had made upon it
ref: 1860, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Lancelot and Elaine”, in Idylls of the King:
text: His hands had made a dint, and hurt his maid; / Explored her limb by limb, and feared to find / So rude a gripe had left a livid mark behind.
ref: 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “Book 10”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
Derived terms: by dint of
dintless
dint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
Forms: form: dints
form: dinting
form: dinted
form: dinted
form: dunt
Etymology: From Middle English dinten, from the noun. Compare Old Norse dynta.
Senses: examples: text: Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot.
ref: 1854, W. Harrison Ainsworth, The Star-Chamber, Volume 2:
text: And, in that moment came one, fierce and wild of aspect, in dinted casque and rusty mail who stood and watched--ah God!
ref: 1915, Jeffery Farnol, Beltane The Smith:
glosses: To dent.
Derived terms: undinted
dint
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of didn’t.
diode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.əʊd/
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.oʊd/
rhymes: -aɪəʊd
Forms: form: diodes
Etymology: From di- (“two”) + -ode. Learned formation, coined by William Henry Eccles in 1919, after Ancient Greek δίοδος (díodos, “passage through”), which however is formed not with δι- (di-, “two”) but with δια- (dia-, “through”).
Senses: examples: text: I propose to give the name diode to a tube with two electrodes.
ref: 1919 April 18, William Eccles, Electrician, page 475:
text: If a crystal or a diode is used, the amplifier-voltmeter combination may be used with an amplitude-modulated source; or with a c-w source, the detector may be connected to a microammeter or galvanometer as an indicating device.
ref: 1949, Samuel Silver, Microwave Antenna Theory and Design, page 593:
text: In this circuit when the diode is forward biased, the voltage across the diode remains fairly close to the diode's barrier potential.
ref: 2005, Robert Diffenderfer, Electronic Devices: Systems and Applications, page 69:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier.
wikipedia: William Henry Eccles
Coordinate terms: bias
capacitor
conductor
drain
emitter
inductor
insulator
memristor
resistor
source
transistor
Derived terms: diodelaser
diodelike
diodic
Gunn diode
junction diode
laser diode
light-emitting diode
LED
microdiode
nanodiode
photodiode
Schottky diode
tunnel diode
Zener diode
Related terms: anode
cathode
electrode
heptode
hexode
nonode
octode
pentode
tetrode
triode
dipole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌɪpəʊl/
ipa: /ˈdaɪˌpoʊl/
Forms: form: dipoles
Etymology: From di- + pole.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any object (such as a magnet, polar molecule or antenna) that is oppositely charged at two points (or poles).
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any molecule or radical that has delocalised positive and negative charges.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A dipole antenna.
Derived terms: dipole moment
dipole wave
electric dipole
interdipole
macrodipole
microdipole
molecular dipole
nondipole
distal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪs.təl/
rhymes: -ɪstəl
Forms: form: more distal
form: most distal
Etymology: From distant + -al.
Senses: examples: text: the distal end of a bone or muscle
topics: anatomy
geography
geology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
antonyms: proximal
glosses: Remote from the point of attachment or origin.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Facing the wisdom tooth or temporomandibular joint on the same side of the jaw.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Far or farther from the speaker.
Derived terms: anterodistal
apicodistal
buccodistal
caudodistal
centralodistal
craniodistal
distal convoluted tubule
distal goal
distality
distalization
distally
distalmost
distal phalange
distal phalanx
distalward
distomedial
dorsodistal
ectodistal
femorodistal
interdistal
labiodistal
laterodistal
linguodistal
mediodistal
mesodistal
naviculodistal
nondistal
palmarodistal
plantodistal
posterodistal
proximodistal
subdistal
ultradistal
ventrodistal
dobbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒbɪn/
ipa: /ˈdɑbɪn/
rhymes: -ɒbɪn
Forms: form: dobbins
Etymology: From Dobbin, a common name given to workhorses.
Senses: synonyms: hack
jade
nag
glosses: An old jaded horse.
glosses: Sea gravel mixed with sand.
qualifier: among students
glosses: Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)
synonyms: word: horse
extra: illegitimate study aid
doer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduː.ə/
ipa: /ˈduː.ɚ/
rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)
homophone: dewar
homophone: Dewar (yod-dropping)
Forms: form: doers
Etymology: From Middle English doer, doar, doere, from Old English dōere (“a doer; worker”), equivalent to do + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The doer and the thinker
No allowance for the other.
ref: 1972, “Thick As A Brick”, Ian Anderson (lyrics), performed by Jethro Tull:
text: Though his name was closely linked to that of Physiocrats, he was less an armchair intellectual like Quesnay or the elder Mirabeau than a doer in the vein of Bertin and Trudaine [...].
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 295:
text: In schools, submission, not curiosity, was a highly valued virtue. Thinkers were out, doers were in.
ref: 2008 March 25, Aleksandra Lojek-Magdziarz, The Guardian:
antonyms: word: doee
english: versus agent
translation: versus agent
word: ;
word: patient
english: versus active person
translation: versus active person
word: ;
word: idler
word: achiever
word: doer
word: dynamo
word: go-getter
word: overachiever
coordinate_terms: be-er
glosses: Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.
Synonyms: word: agent
word: doer
word: dynamo
word: gunner
word: self-starter
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: life and soul of the party
word: life of the party
word: party animal
Derived terms: can-doer
doerless
doership
doer-upperer
evildoer
evil-doer
ill-doer
poor doer
rightdoer
welldoer
wrongdoer
Related terms: word: ball of fire
word: bundle of energy
word: bundle of nerves
word: busy beaver
word: eager beaver
word: go-getter
word: live wire
word: actively
word: proactive
word: active
word: lazy
word: maverick
word: worker
doff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒf/
ipa: /dɔf/
ipa: /dɑf/
rhymes: -ɒf
Forms: form: doffs
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₂epó
The verb is derived from Late Middle English doffen (“to take off (clothing); to remove (headwear) as a sign of respect; to remove (grease) by skimming”), a contraction of Middle English do off, don off, from Old English dōn of, from dōn (“to do; to put; to take off, remove”) + of (“from; off”). Dōn is derived from Proto-West Germanic *dōn (“to do; to place, put”), from Proto-Germanic *dōną (“to do; to make; to place, put”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place, put”). By surface analysis, do + off. Compare don (by surface analysis, do + on), dout (do + out), dup (do + up).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: Faith, Lelia has een giuen him the doff off here, and has made hir father almoſt ſtarke mad.
ref: 1606, A Pleasant Comedie, Called Wily Beguilde. […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Clement Knight; […], →OCLC, [scene xi], page 38, lines [1221–1222]:
glosses: Followed by off: an act of putting off or turning away someone with an excuse, etc.
doge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəʊdʒ/
ipa: /dəʊʒ/
ipa: /ˈdəʊ.dʒeɪ/
ipa: /doʊd͡ʒ/
ipa: /doʊʒ/
ipa: /ˈdoʊ.d͡ʒeɪ/
rhymes: -əʊdʒ
rhymes: -əʊʒ
rhymes: -əʊdʒeɪ
Forms: form: doges
form: dogi
form: Doge
Etymology: Partly from Middle French doge and partly from its etymon, Italian doge, from Venetan doxe, from Latin ducem, accusative of dux (“leader; commander; ruler”). Doublet of duc, duce, duke, and dux.
Senses: examples: text: In the thirteenth century, a new method of appointing the doge, by the famous ballot of Venice, a complicated mixture of choice and chance, was adopted.
ref: 1797, John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States, page 62:
text: This reply was one of the first important pronouncements to be made by Antonio Grimani, who on 6 July had been elected seventy-fourth Doge of Venice in succession to Leonardo Loredan.
ref: 1982, John Julius Norwich, chapter 34, in A History of Venice, page 346:
text: The doge and the Venetian Senate might still be the servants (douloi) of the emperor, but nonetheless they were able to fix the price of their naval aid.
ref: 2013, Judith Herrin, “The Collapse of the Byzantine Empire in the Twelfth Century: A Study of a Medieval Economy”, in Margins and Metropolis: Authority Across the Byzantine Empire, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, page 114:
glosses: The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
Derived terms: dogal
dogedom
dogeless
dogeship
dogess
Related terms: dogaressa
doge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəʊdʒ/
ipa: /dəʊʒ/
ipa: /ˈdəʊ.dʒeɪ/
ipa: /doʊd͡ʒ/
ipa: /doʊʒ/
ipa: /ˈdoʊ.d͡ʒeɪ/
rhymes: -əʊdʒ
rhymes: -əʊʒ
rhymes: -əʊdʒeɪ
ipa: /dəʊɡ/
ipa: /ˈdɒɡ.i/
ipa: /ˈdəʊ.ɡi/
ipa: /doʊdʒ/
ipa: /doʊɡ/
ipa: /ˈdɑɡ.i/
ipa: /ˈdoʊ.ɡi/
rhymes: -əʊdʒ
rhymes: -əʊʒ
rhymes: -əʊɡ
rhymes: -ɒɡi
rhymes: -əʊɡi
ipa: /dəʊdʒ/
ipa: /dəʊʒ/
ipa: /ˈdəʊ.dʒeɪ/
ipa: /doʊd͡ʒ/
ipa: /doʊʒ/
ipa: /ˈdoʊ.d͡ʒeɪ/
rhymes: -əʊdʒ
rhymes: -əʊʒ
rhymes: -əʊdʒeɪ
Forms: form: doges
Etymology: From dog, probably as a sensational spelling of doggy like monke. First attested in the 2005 episode "Biz Cas Fri 1" from Homestar Runner.
Senses: glosses: Deliberate misspelling of doggy.
examples: text: Bobsled wasn't the only Dogecoin-backed sporting success. Fans of Nascar will recognise the car driven by Josh Wise, emblazoned, as it is, with the adorable little doge on its bonnet (pictured above).
ref: 2015 July 23, Dave Lee, “Six times Reddit wasn't completely awful”, in BBC:
glosses: Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme.
Derived terms: dogecoin
DOGE
doge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəʊdʒ/
ipa: /dəʊʒ/
ipa: /ˈdəʊ.dʒeɪ/
ipa: /doʊd͡ʒ/
ipa: /doʊʒ/
ipa: /ˈdoʊ.d͡ʒeɪ/
rhymes: -əʊdʒ
rhymes: -əʊʒ
rhymes: -əʊdʒeɪ
ipa: /dəʊɡ/
ipa: /ˈdɒɡ.i/
ipa: /ˈdəʊ.ɡi/
ipa: /doʊdʒ/
ipa: /doʊɡ/
ipa: /ˈdɑɡ.i/
ipa: /ˈdoʊ.ɡi/
rhymes: -əʊdʒ
rhymes: -əʊʒ
rhymes: -əʊɡ
rhymes: -ɒɡi
rhymes: -əʊɡi
Forms: form: doges
form: dogeing
form: doged
form: doged
Etymology: See DOGE.
Senses: examples: text: Since the lab has been "doged," a petition posted to Change.org by Evgeny Stambulchik asked for signatures to oppose the layoff of the NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Group and has garnered 2,500 signatures as of reporting time. There is also a campaign website.
ref: 2025 March 28, Andrea Fox, “Lab critical to medical device development 'DOGEd'”, in Healthcare IT News:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of DOGE.
dogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒ.ɡə/
ipa: /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/
rhymes: -ɒɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: doggers
Etymology: From Dutch, from dogger (“codfish”).
Senses: glosses: A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch until around the 18th century.
Derived terms: doggerman
dogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒ.ɡə/
ipa: /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/
rhymes: -ɒɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: doggers
Etymology: From dog (verb) + -er.
Senses: glosses: A participant in the sexual activity of dogging.
dogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒ.ɡə/
ipa: /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/
rhymes: -ɒɡə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron.
dogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒ.ɡə/
ipa: /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/
rhymes: -ɒɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: doggers
Etymology: From dog + -er.
Senses: glosses: A wild dog trapper employed in the pastoral industry.
dogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒ.ɡə/
ipa: /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/
rhymes: -ɒɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: doggers
Etymology: From dog (“part of a crane that holds the items to be lifted”) + -er, from the fact that such a person would often ride on the load lifted by the crane when carrying out their duty. Created as a gender-neutral substitute for the older term dogman.
Senses: glosses: A dogman.
dogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒ.ɡə/
ipa: /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/
rhymes: -ɒɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: doggers
Etymology: dog + -er but using this suffix playfully in a way it is not normally used; essentially just a nonsense substitution of syllable -er where the diminutive suffixes -o or -ie or -y would normally stand, while also facetiously construable as the agent noun for being a dog, if to dog meaning to be a dog were a unitary English verb: thus, the agent noun would denote one who exhibits dogness. More at Wikipedia at DoggoLingo § Structure and usage.
Senses: examples: text: Howsabout I feed all you little doggers some dinner?!
text: Get over here you little dogger! That belly needs some scritchin!
glosses: Synonym of doggo (“a dog”).
synonyms: word: doggo
extra: a dog
Related terms: anti-dogger
dole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəʊl/
ipa: [dɒʊl]
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /dɒl/
ipa: /dol/
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: dhole
homophone: doll (doll–dole merger)
Forms: form: doles
form: doling
form: doled
form: doled
Etymology: From Middle English dol, from Old English dāl (“portion, share, division, allotment”), from Proto-Germanic *dailą (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰayl- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic дѣлити (děliti, “divide”). More at deal.
Senses: glosses: To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.
Derived terms: dole out
dole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəʊl/
ipa: [dɒʊl]
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /dɒl/
ipa: /dol/
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: dhole
homophone: doll (doll–dole merger)
Etymology: From Middle English dole (“grief”), from Old French doel (compare French deuil), from Late Latin dolus, from Latin doleo.
Senses: examples: text: Syr said sir gyngalyn I wote not what knyȝt he was / but wel I wote that he sygheth and maketh grete dole.
"Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole."
ref: 1485, Thomas Malory, William Caxton, Le Morte Darthur, Book IX, Chapter xvii, leaf 183r:
text: But ten slow mornings past, and on the eleventh / Her father laid the letter in her hand, / And closed the hand upon it, and she died. / So that day there was dole in Astolat.
ref: a. 1885, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Lancelot and Elaine”, in Idylls of the King:
text: These knights he keepeth there in great dole and misery, for it is said that their groans may be heard by the passers along the high-road below the castle.
ref: 1905, Howard Pyle, “The Story of Launcelot”, in The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 46:
glosses: A sorrow or grief; dolour.
topics: law
glosses: Dolus.
Derived terms: doleful
dolesome
dolewave
dole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəʊl/
ipa: [dɒʊl]
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /dɒl/
ipa: /dol/
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: dhole
homophone: doll (doll–dole merger)
Forms: form: doles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dhole (“Asian wild dog”).
dopant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdəʊpənt/
Forms: form: dopants
Etymology: From dope + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: It should be noted that even though both types of disorder can be annealed at temperatures well below those where diffusion of the dopant species occurs, there are still defects present.
ref: 1970, James W[alter] Mayer, Lennart Eriksson, John A[rthur] Davies, “General Features of Ion Implantation”, in Ion Implantation in Semiconductors: Silicon and Germanium, New York, N.Y.: Academic Press, →OCLC, page 5:
qualifier: materials science
glosses: A substance added in small amounts to a pure material, such as semiconductor, to alter its original electrical or optical properties; a doping agent.
Derived terms: codopant
nondopant
dor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: door
Forms: form: dors
form: dorr
Etymology: From Middle English dorre, dore, from Old English dora (“humming insect”), from Proto-West Germanic *dorō, from Proto-Germanic *durô (“bumblebee, humming insect”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-, *dʰreh₁n- (“bee, hornet, drone”). Related to Saterland Frisian Doarne (“hornet”), Middle Low German dorne (“bumblebee”), Middle Dutch dorne (“bumblebee”), Dutch dar (“drone”), Old English drān (“drone”). More at drone.
Senses: glosses: Any of species Geotrupes stercorarius of large European dung beetles that make a droning noise while flying.
glosses: Any flying insect which makes a loud humming noise, such as the June bug or a bumblebee.
Derived terms: dorbeetle
dorbug
dorfly
dorrfly
dorhawk
dumbledore
dumble-dor
dor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: door
Forms: form: dors
Etymology: Compare dor (“a beetle”), and hum, humbug.
Senses: examples: text: To say you were impotent! I am ashamed on 't! To make yourself no man? to a fresh maid too, A longing maid? upon her wedding-night also, To give her such a dor?
ref: 1624 June 6 (licensing date), John Fletcher, “A Wife for a Moneth”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A trick, joke, or deception.
dote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dōt
ipa: /dəʊt/
ipa: /doʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: dotes
form: doting
form: doted
form: doted
form: doat
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English doten, from Middle Low German doten (“to be foolish”) or Middle Dutch doten (“to be silly”). Doublet of doit (Scottish English).
The noun in the sense of "imbecile" is derived from Middle English dote (“simpleton”), itself from doten (see above). The noun in the sense of "darling" and "decay" is derived from the modern verb.
Senses: examples: text: Little Bill's parents just keep doting on him.
text: Jules doted on Chris, spending hours while Chris was at school assembling vast cities out of microscopic Lego pieces to surprise him when he returned.
ref: 2010, Jennifer Egan, “A to B”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:
synonyms: adore
love
glosses: To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.
examples: text: He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, “Ill-disposed Affections […] ”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
text: Time has made you dote, and vainly tell / Of arms imagined in your lonely cell.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.
glosses: To rot, decay.
raw_tags: of trees
Derived terms: sense: be foolishly fond of
word: dote over
sense: act in a foolish manner
word: dotard
sense: act in a foolish manner
word: dotterel
word: dotage
word: fordote
dote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dōt
ipa: /dəʊt/
ipa: /doʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: dotes
form: doat
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English doten, from Middle Low German doten (“to be foolish”) or Middle Dutch doten (“to be silly”). Doublet of doit (Scottish English).
The noun in the sense of "imbecile" is derived from Middle English dote (“simpleton”), itself from doten (see above). The noun in the sense of "darling" and "decay" is derived from the modern verb.
Senses: examples: text: But to be sure baby was as good as gold, a perfect little dote in his new fancy bib.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A darling, a cutie.
examples: text: How did his death-bed make him a doate!
ref: 1630, Tinker of Turvey:
glosses: An imbecile; a dotard.
glosses: Decay in a tree.
Synonyms: sense: dotard
word: dobby
word: mimmerkin
word: dotard
Derived terms: dodipole
dotary
dotel
dotery
dotish
doty
dote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dōt
ipa: /dəʊt/
ipa: /doʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: dotes
form: doat
Etymology: From Middle English dote (“endowment”) (c. 1450), from Middle French dote (modern dot), from Latin dos.
Senses: glosses: Dowry.
dote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dōt
ipa: /dəʊt/
ipa: /doʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: dotes
form: doting
form: doted
form: doted
form: doat
Etymology: From Middle French doter, Latin dōtāre.
Senses: glosses: To endow, donate.
doter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -əʊtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: doters
Etymology: From dote + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “Hold thy tongue! old doter; how should my daughter resemble thy son?”
ref: 1843, Astolphe marquis de Custine, The Empire of the Czar, page 103:
glosses: Synonym of dotard (“old person with impaired intellect”).
synonyms: word: dotard
extra: old person with impaired intellect
glosses: Synonym of dotard (“one who dotes on another, showing excessive fondness”).
synonyms: word: dotard
extra: one who dotes on another, showing excessive fondness
Synonyms: sense: dotard
word: dodipole
word: mimmerkin
word: dotard
dourer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of dour: more dour
dow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: dows
form: dowing
form: dowed
form: dowed
form: dought
form: dought
Etymology: From Middle English douen, from Old English dugan, from Proto-West Germanic *dugan, from Proto-Germanic *duganą.
Senses: glosses: To be worth.
glosses: To thrive, prosper.
Derived terms: dowless
dowsome
dow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: dows
form: dowing
form: dowed
form: dowed
Etymology: From Middle English dowen, from Old French douer, from Latin dōtō.
Senses: glosses: To furnish with a dower; to endow.
Derived terms: dowable
dow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: dows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dhow (“sailing vessel”).
dow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: dows
Senses: examples: text: The fauconer then was prest,
Came runnynge with a dow,
And cryed, ‘Stow, stow, stow!’
But she [his hawk] wold not bow.
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 71–74:
glosses: Obsolete form of dove (“pigeon”).
dow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: dows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dah (“Burmese knife”).
dow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: dows
Senses: examples: text: This day my Julia thou must make
For Mistresse Bride, the wedding Cake:
Knead but the Dow, and it will be
To paste of Almonds turn’d by thee:
Or kisse it thou, but once, or twice,
And for the Bride-Cake ther’l be Spice.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “The Bride-Cake”, in Hesperides:
glosses: Obsolete form of dough
dow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: dows
Senses: glosses: Initialism of day of the week
dram
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: drams
form: dramming
form: drammed
form: drammed
Etymology: From Middle English dragme, dramme, from Old French dragme, drame, from Late Latin dragma, from Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ, “unit of weight; a handful”). Doublet of drachma, diram, dirham, dirhem, and adarme.
Senses: examples: text: What I contend against is, this dramming, dramming, dramming, at all hours of the day. There are some men who take a glass at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and at four in the afternoon.
ref: 1857, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Recollections of a Lifetime:
glosses: To drink drams.
examples: text: The parents[…]are getting ready their daughter for sale[…]praying her, and imploring her, and dramming her, and coaxing her.
ref: 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To ply with drams of drink.
dram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹæm/
rhymes: -æm
ipa: /dɹɑm/
ipa: /dɹæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: drams
Etymology: From Armenian դրամ (dram), from Middle Persian 𐭦𐭥𐭦𐭭 (zʿzn /⁠drahm⁠/), from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ, “unit of weight, a handful”), from δράσσομαι (drássomai, “I hold, seize”).
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: The currency of Armenia, divided into 100 luma.
drib
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: dribs
form: dribbing
form: dribbed
form: dribbed
Etymology: From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from Middle English drepen (“to hit, strike, slay”), from Old English drepan (“to strike, kill, overcome”), from Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to hit, strike”).
Senses: glosses: To cut off; chop off.
glosses: To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
examples: text: With daily Lies ſhe dribs thee into Coſt; / That Ear-ring dropt a Stone, that Ring is loſt: / They often borrow what they never pay; / What e'er you lend her think it thrown away.
ref: a. 1701, [John] Dryden, “Book I”, in Ovid, Ovid’s Art of Love. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 32:
glosses: To entice step by step.
examples: text: He who drives their bargains dribs a part.
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Charles Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Seventh Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: To shoot directly at short range.
topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: To shoot at a mark at short range.
examples: text: Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot, / Love gave the wound […]
ref: c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, sonnet 2, page 519:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
glosses: To beat; thrash; drub.
glosses: To scold.
qualifier: marbles
glosses: To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.
Derived terms: dribber
drib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: dribs
Etymology: From a variant of drip.
Senses: examples: text: squandering his money in dribs to the poor
ref: a. 1772, Rupert Barber, An Answer to the Christmas-Box:
glosses: A drop.
Derived terms: dribs and drabs
dribble?
druid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹuː.ɪd/
rhymes: -uːɪd
Forms: form: druids
Etymology: Borrowed from French druide, from Old French, via Latin Druidae, from Gaulish *druwits, from Proto-Celtic *druwits (literally either “oak-knower” or “firm knower, great sage”), from either Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”) or *drew- (“solid, firm, hard”) and *weyd- (“to see, to have knowledge”) (whence also English wizard; Proto-Slavic *vědьma (> Russian ве́дьма (védʹma))).
The earliest record of the term in Latin is by Julius Caesar in the first century B.C. in his De Bello Gallico. The native Celtic word for "druid" is first attested in Latin texts as druides (plural) and other texts also employ the form druidae (akin to the Greek form). Cognate with the later insular Celtic words, Old Irish druí (“druid, sorcerer”) and early Welsh dryw (“seer”).
Senses: glosses: One of an order of priests among certain groups of Celts before the adoption of Abrahamic religions.
topics: fantasy
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A priest or mage who uses magic based on nature or trees.
Derived terms: archdruid
druidcraft
druidess
druidic
druidish
druidism
Druidry
neo-druid
dubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌbə/
ipa: /ˈdʌbɚ/
ipa: /ˈdʊbə/
ipa: /ˈdʊbəɹ/
ipa: /ˈdʌbəɹ/
rhymes: -ʌbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dubbers
Etymology: From dub + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […]thus to knight someone lacking in virtue dishonoured the dubber.
ref: 2002, Peter R. Coss, Maurice Hugh Keen, Heraldry, Pageantry, and Social Display in Medieval England, page 199:
glosses: One who dubs, or gives a name.
glosses: A person who records or adds a dubbed soundtrack to a film.
examples: text: "Well, Sal, you mum your dubber pretty generally, but when you do slacken your glib you may as well do it civilly."
ref: 1857, Hidden Links; Or the Schoolfellows. A Tale, volume 2, page 233:
text: "Shut your dubber. Think you're a regular duchess, you do, eh? I ain't answering no more questions."
ref: 2010, Emily Hendrickson, The Fashionable Spy:
glosses: A person's mouth or tongue.
dubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌbə/
ipa: /ˈdʌbɚ/
ipa: /ˈdʊbə/
ipa: /ˈdʊbəɹ/
ipa: /ˈdʌbəɹ/
rhymes: -ʌbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dubbers
form: dabbah
form: dubba
form: dubbah
Etymology: From Arabic دُبَّاء (dubbāʔ, “bottle gourd”).
Senses: glosses: A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: jigger-dubber
ducker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: duckers
Etymology: From duck + -er. Piecewise doublet of duiker.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver.
ducker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: duckers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doucker.
duff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌf/
ipa: /dɐf/
ipa: /dʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: duffs
Etymology: Representing a northern England and Scots pronunciation of dough.
Senses: glosses: Dough.
examples: text: Later on, all the tinned meat came to an end, likewise the potatoes, and we lived on salt meat, biscuit, and duff; this fare was served out to all the messes on board, and we, I was going to say, saloon-folk, fared no better than the fo'castle hands.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 196:
text: The storekeeper had sent them an unbroken case of canned plum pudding, and probably by this time he was wondering what had become of that blanky case of duff.
ref: 1901, Henry Lawson, short story The Ghosts of Many Christmases, published in Children of the Bush http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7065
text: Who bravely stuff
Themselves with Duff,
May laugh at Doctor's bills.
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 87:
text: Dessert is as substantial as the main course, and none more so than the absolute favorite, guava duff.
ref: 2000, Robert Barlas, Bahamas, page 118:
glosses: A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.
examples: text: They must live on sea food—a deal more of salt beef, pork, beans, and hard tack is than of any thing else, but of the food at sea well as in port it may here be said that it is ample in quantity and good enough anybody, though by no means all strawberry shortcake and cream or plum duff.
ref: 1891, John R. Spears, “The Life of a Naval Apprentice”, in The Chautauquan, volume 13:
text: With Christmas well on its way let's take a look at a modern version of an old favourite dessert more often than not reserved for the day we celebrate the birth of Christ: plum duff. It is just as well Christmas falls during the summer school holidays as a nipper this allowed me to be at my grandmother's home when the true traditional plum duff was made.
ref: 2009, Graham Hawkes, Plum duff updated:
glosses: A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums or (in the Bahamas) guavas.
Derived terms: figgy duff
plum-duff
duff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌf/
ipa: /dɐf/
ipa: /dʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: duffer
form: duffest
Etymology: Uncertain; probably related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).
Senses: examples: text: Why do I always get a shopping trolley with duff wheels?
text: From its surface, he insisted, plain food became ambrosia, water nectar, and the duffest dope would blow your mind.
ref: 1996, Catherine Merriman, State of Desire, page 155:
text: The band developed its sound, shamblingly at first, on the road, in an era before thousands of blog or YouTube users could form an opinion of a band based on some MySpace demos and a duff early gig in Tacoma.
ref: 2008 May 18, R J Smith, “Death Cab Is Up for the Long Haul”, in New York Times:
text: All the other parts were played by a gallery of Dickensian character actors, including Thorley Walters, Francis Matthews and, yes, Michael Ripper, who lent gravitas to the duffest dialogue lines.
ref: 2009, Christopher Fowler, Paperboy, page 225:
glosses: Worthless; not working properly, defective.
Synonyms: word: bum
Derived terms: duffo
duff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌf/
ipa: /dɐf/
ipa: /dʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: duffs
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps the same as Etymology 1, above.
Senses: glosses: The buttocks.