cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
curry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭrʹē
ipa: /ˈkʌɹ.i/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkari/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /-ɾi/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
enpr: kûʹrē
ipa: /ˈkɝ.i/
rhymes: -ɜːɹi
Forms: form: curries
form: currey
form: currie
Etymology: 1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English), from Tamil கறி (kaṟi), influenced by existing Middle English cury (“cooking”), from Middle French cuyre (“to cook”) (whence also cuisine), from Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.
Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook Forme of Cury (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of Richard II of England.
Senses: synonyms: word: Ruby Murray
glosses: One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by a spiced sauce.
glosses: A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavored with curry powder.
synonyms: curry powder
glosses: Curry powder.
examples: text: […] while another tells us that white women “are also THE most racist group of foids. they would rather put a bullet through their brain than date a curry or sandcel.”
ref: 2020, Anthony Glyn Burton, "'I would do anything to not call this place home': The black pill, involuntary celibacy, and the neoliberal male grasp in digital incel communities", thesis submitted to Ryerson University & York University, pages 92-93
text: For example, spicycurry says, “STOP THE COPE NOW. The only ones who should be complaining about race are us curries who are literally at the bottom of the pile.”
ref: 2020, Joshua A. Segalewitz, "'You Don’t Understand... It’s Not About Virginity': Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, and Violent Masculinity on an Incel Forum Board", thesis submitted to the University of Dayton, pages 29-30
text: People get mixed up by thinking race is #1 because girls aren't going for asians and curries.
ref: 2024, anonymous, quoted in Václav Báča, "Hierarchy at the Bottom of the Hierarchy: Involuntary Celibates, Identity, and Race", thesis submitted to Charles University, page 40
qualifier: incel slang
glosses: A person of South Asian heritage.
Derived terms: curry bread
currycel
curry chip
currycomb
curry house
curry leaf
curryless
currylike
Curry Mile
curry muncher
curry-muncher
curry nigger
curry paste
curry plant
curry powder
curry puff
curry queen
curry roux
curry stuff
curry tree
currywhore
currywurst
cuzza
give curry
give someone curry
jungle curry
retort curry
Related terms: balti
bhaji
bhuna
biryani
chilli
chutney
dhansak
dopiaza
garam masala
herb
jalfrezi
karahi
korma
madras
makhani
makhonee
moglai
moghlai
Mughlai
naan
pakora
papadum
poppadum
paratha
pasanda
phall
piccalilli
rogan josh
samosa
spice
tandoor
tandoori
tikka masala
vindaloo
curry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭrʹē
ipa: /ˈkʌɹ.i/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkari/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /-ɾi/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
enpr: kûʹrē
ipa: /ˈkɝ.i/
rhymes: -ɜːɹi
Forms: form: curries
form: currying
form: curried
form: curried
form: currey
form: currie
Etymology: 1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English), from Tamil கறி (kaṟi), influenced by existing Middle English cury (“cooking”), from Middle French cuyre (“to cook”) (whence also cuisine), from Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.
Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook Forme of Cury (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of Richard II of England.
Senses: glosses: To cook or season with curry powder.
curry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭrʹē
ipa: /ˈkʌɹ.i/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkari/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /-ɾi/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
enpr: kûʹrē
ipa: /ˈkɝ.i/
rhymes: -ɜːɹi
Forms: form: curries
form: currying
form: curried
form: curried
Etymology: From Middle English currayen, from Old French correer (“to prepare”), presumably from Vulgar Latin *conredare, from Latin com- (a form of con- (“with; together”)) + a verb derived from Proto-Germanic *raidaz. More at ready.
Senses: examples: text: Your short horse is soon curried.
ref: 1610–1614, John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Valentinian”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene i:
text: One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.
glosses: To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
examples: text: I have seen him curry a fellow's carcase handsomely.
ref: c. 1619–1621, John Fletcher, “The Island Princesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii:
text: […]By setting brother against brother / To claw and curry one another.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: To beat, thrash; to drub.
examples: text: A middle-aged woman waves and calls to her, as if she, like the hungry reporters, were currying the girl's favor: Florence Aadland (Sarandon, in a wily, multilayered performance), Beverly's mother, wears an expression of maternal concern, though her self-serving motives become increasingly clear.
ref: 2014 August 27, Stephanie Zacharek, “The Last of Robin Hood Wrestles with a Star's Underage Love”, in The Village Voice, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2014:
glosses: To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.
Derived terms: curry favor
curry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭrʹē
ipa: /ˈkʌɹ.i/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkari/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /-ɾi/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
enpr: kûʹrē
ipa: /ˈkɝ.i/
rhymes: -ɜːɹi
Forms: form: curries
form: currying
form: curried
form: curried
Etymology: Named after American mathematician Haskell Curry.
Senses: examples: text: The easiest way to curry parameters is to create a function that takes a parameter block and returns a function that will call the original function with the presupplied parameters as defaults […].
ref: 2011, Zachary Kessin, Programming HTML5 Applications: Building Powerful Cross-Platform Environments in JavaScript, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 21:
text: Next, we curry the avg function to 3 arguments and put it into an option.
ref: 2015, Leonardo Borges, Clojure Reactive Programming, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 194:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To perform currying upon.
Derived terms: uncurry
curry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭrʹē
ipa: /ˈkʌɹ.i/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkari/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /-ɾi/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
enpr: kûʹrē
ipa: /ˈkɝ.i/
rhymes: -ɜːɹi
Forms: form: curries
form: currying
form: curried
form: curried
Etymology: Possibly derived from currier, a common 16th- to 18th-century form of courier, as if to ride post, to post. Possibly influenced by scurry.
Senses: glosses: To scurry; to ride or run hastily
examples: text: I am not hee that can ... by midnight leape my horse, curry seauen miles.
ref: 1608, George Chapman, The Conspiracie, and Tragedie of Charles Duke of Byron, section 2.245:
text: All these shots shall curry or finish their ranges in times equal to each other.
ref: 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
glosses: To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).
examples: text: A sermon is soon curryed over.
ref: 1676, Andrew Marvell, Mr. Smirke, section 34:
glosses: To hurry.
curry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭrʹē
ipa: /ˈkʌɹ.i/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkari/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /-ɾi/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
enpr: kûʹrē
ipa: /ˈkɝ.i/
rhymes: -ɜːɹi
Forms: form: curries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of quarry.
gab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: gabs
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English gab, gabbe, from Old Norse gabb (“jest, mockery”) (whence also Old French gab, gap (“mockery, derision, scorn”)). Cognate with Icelandic gabb (“hoax”).
Senses: examples: text: Ah, find some chirk in ye, lad. Now is the time for gab and chatter. Y’best be enjoying it. Come a fortnight and the brace of us’ll be wantin’ to be ever silent as the tomb. Even to clap eyes on each other... It’ll make y’hotter than hell!
ref: 2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe):
glosses: Idle chatter.
glosses: The mouth or gob.
examples: text: Loose eccentric reversing gear gave way about 1836 to the early forms of gab motion. [...] In 1840 Stephenson evolved a motion in which the gabs were connected directly to the valve spindle.
ref: 1940 July, S. Richards, “Locomotive Valve gear Development”, in Railway Magazine, page 412:
glosses: One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
Derived terms: bafflegab
begab
gabble
gabby
gabfest
gift of the gab
wide-gab
gab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: gabs
form: gabbing
form: gabbed
form: gabbed
Etymology: From Middle English gabben, from Old English gabban (“to scoff, mock, delude, jest”) and Old Norse gabba (“to mock, make sport of”); both from Proto-Germanic *gabbōną (“to mock, jest”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to be split, be forked, gape”).
Cognate with Scots gab (“to mock, prate”), North Frisian gabben (“to jest, sport”), Middle Dutch gabben (“to mock”), Middle Low German gabben (“to jest, have fun”).
Senses: examples: text: He would chant his own doughty deeds, and “gab,” as the Norman word was, in painful earnest, while they gabbed only in sport, and outvied each other in impossible fanfaronades”
ref: 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 12, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 181:
glosses: To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
examples: text: "That Mrs. Mender gives a bloke the ear-ache; thinks a bloke's got all day to waste listening to her gab."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 26:
glosses: To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
glosses: To speak or tell falsely.
Derived terms: forgab
gabber
gabbing
cembalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cembalos
form: cembali
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cembalo, from Latin. Doublet of cymbal.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: word: clavecin
glosses: A harpsichord.
harpsichord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑː(ɹ)p.sɪ.kɔː(ɹ)d/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹp.sɪˌkɔɹd/
Forms: form: harpsichords
form: harpsicord
form: Cemb.
form: Hpcd.
form: Hpd.
form: Hpsd.
form: Hrpsd.
Etymology: From French harpechorde, from New Latin harpicordium, from harpa (“harp”) + chorda (“string”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical instrument with a keyboard that produces sound through a mechanical process. When the performer presses a key, a corresponding plectrum plucks a tuned string. The harpsichord originated in late medieval Europe and is one of the most important instruments used to perform Baroque music.
Derived terms: harpsichordist
harpsichordlike
lute harpsichord
lyrichord
pedal harpsichord
Related terms: cembalo
spinet
defunct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfʌŋkt/
ipa: /ˌdiˈfʌŋkt/
rhymes: -ʌŋkt
Forms: form: defuncts
form: defuncting
form: defuncted
form: defuncted
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”).
Senses: glosses: To make defunct.
defunct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfʌŋkt/
ipa: /ˌdiˈfʌŋkt/
rhymes: -ʌŋkt
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”).
Senses: examples: text: A small tablet is fixt near the Altar, upon wᶜʰ the friends of yᵉ defunct lay their offerings in mony according to their own ability and the quality of the person deceased.
ref: 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 23:
text: […] he saw Robert Johnston, pannel, come out of the cott-house with the fork in his hand, and pass by Alexander Fall and the deponent; heard the pannell say, he had sticked the dog, and he would stick the whelps too; whereupon the pannell run after the defunct’s son with the fork in his hand, […]
ref: 1817 September, in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, volume 1, page 617
glosses: The dead person (referred to).
Related terms: function
bankrupt
loo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luː/
ipa: /lu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: loos
Etymology: Uncertain, although usually derived in some way from Waterloo, the site of Wellington's 1815 victory over Napoleon, likely via a pun based on water closet. Other suggested derivations include corruptions of French l'eau (“water”), lieu (“place”), lieux d'aisances (“'places of convenience': a lavatory”), lieu à l'anglaise (“'English place': a British-style lavatory”), bordalou (“a diminutive chamber pot”) or gardez l'eau (“'mind the water'”), via Scots gardyloo, formerly used in Edinburgh while emptying chamber pots out of windows; the supposed use of "Room 100" as the lavatory in Continental hotels; a popularisation of lew, a regional corruption of lee (“downwind”), in reference to shepherds' privies or the former use of beakheads on that side of the ship for urination and defecation; or a clipped form of the name of the unpopular 19th-century Countess of Lichfield Lady Harriett Georgiana Louisa Hamilton Anson, who was the subject of an 1867 prank whereby her bedroom's name-card was placed on the door to the lavatory, prompting the other guests to begin speaking of "going to Lady Louisa".
Senses: examples: text: I suppose it is unreal because we have been expecting it [sc. World War II] for so long now, and have known that it must be got over before we can go on with our lives. Like in the night when you want to go to the loo and it is miles away down a freezing cold passage and yet you know you have to go down that passage before you can be happy and sleep again.
ref: 1940, Nancy Mitford, chapter II, in Pigeon Pie, page 27:
text: Ensure that the tents are well-sited and clean, rubbish bins empty, and that the loos have toilet paper.
ref: 2006, Garth Thompson et al., The Guide′s Guide to Guiding, 3rd edition, page 160:
glosses: A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
examples: text: The lack of running water in rural areas often makes Western-style loos hygienic disasters. Suddenly the noncontact squat toilet doesn′t look like such a bad option any more (as long as you roll up your trouser legs).
ref: 2009, Katharina Kane, Lonely Planet: The Gambia and Senegal, page 275:
text: Waterless urinals are a great way of keeping the guys out of the cubicle toilets, keeping the urine separated from the solid waste (when using composting loos) and reducing water consumption if you have flush loos.
ref: 2010, Meegan Jones, Sustainable Event Management, page 206:
glosses: A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
Synonyms: sense: room
word: bathroom
sense: fixture
word: toilet
Derived terms: loo paper
loo roll
loo room
portaloo
superloo
loo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /luː/
ipa: /lu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: 'loo
form: lo
form: lowe
Etymology: Clipped form of halloo.
Senses: examples: text: Edg. Pilicock sate on pelicocks hill, a lo lo lo.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene xi]:
glosses: A cry to urge on hunting dogs.
Derived terms: looky-loo
loo in
loo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /luː/
ipa: /lu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: loos
form: looing
form: looed
form: looed
Etymology: Clipped form of halloo.
Senses: examples: text: And therefore next uncouple either Hound [sc. George Monck and Prince Rupert],
And loo them at two Hares ere one be found.
ref: 1667, John Denham, Directions to a Painter, ll. 21 f:
qualifier: upon or infinitive
glosses: To urge on with cries of loo or (figuratively) by other shouting or outcry.
raw_tags: used with at
loo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luː/
ipa: /lu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: lu
form: liew
form: lue
Etymology: Clipped form of lanterloo.
Senses: examples: text: And my Intreagues ſo baſhfully diſown / That they may doubted be by few or none, / May kiſs the Cards at Picque, Hombre,—Lu, / And ſo be taught to kiſs the Lady too; [...]
ref: 1675, [William] Wycherley, The Country-wife, a Comedy, […], London: Printed for Thomas Dring, […], →OCLC; republished London: Printed for T[homas] Dring, and sold by R. Bentley, and S. Magnes […], 1688, →OCLC, epilogue:
text: Ev'n mighty Pam that Kings and Queens o'erthrew,
And mow'd down Armies in the Fights of Lu.
ref: 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto III:
text: Yet, ladies are seldom at ombre or lue sick.
ref: 1731, Jonathan Swift, To Dr. Helsham, 16
text: On entering the drawing-room, she found the whole party at loo.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 80:
glosses: Alternative form of lanterloo: the card game.
glosses: The penalty paid to the pool in lanterloo for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick.
glosses: An act that prompts such a penalty.
glosses: A game of lanterloo.
glosses: Any group of people.
Derived terms: for the good of the loo
Irish loo
limited loo
loo club
loo table
loo-table
unlimited loo
loo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /luː/
ipa: /lu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: loos
form: looing
form: looed
form: looed
Etymology: Clipped form of lanterloo.
Senses: examples: text: He was seldom indeed without two good trumps, and therefore almost invariably loo'd those who stood.
ref: 1847, Henry Cockton, The Love Match, page 232:
glosses: To beat in the card game lanterloo.
glosses: To pay a penalty to the pool for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick in lanterloo.
glosses: To pay any penalty to any community.
loo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luː/
ipa: /lu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: loos
Etymology: From French loup (“wolf; mask, eyemask”). Doublet of lobo, lupus, and wolf.
Senses: examples: text: Loo Mask. An half Mask.
ref: a. 1685, Mary Evelyn, “The Fop-dictionary”, in Mundus Muliebris, page 18:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A half-mask, particularly (historical) those velvet half-masks fashionable in the 17th century as a means of protecting women's complexion from the sun.
Derived terms: loo mask
Related terms: domino mask
loo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luː/
ipa: /lu/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: From Hindi लू (lū), ultmately from Sanskrit उल्का (ulkā, “flame”).
Senses: examples: text: It was a pitchy black night, as stifling as a June night can be, and the loo, the red-hot wind from the westward, was booming among the tinder-dry trees and pretending that the rain was on its heels.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Man Who Would Be King”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, page 78:
glosses: A hot dust-bearing wind found in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and the Punjab.
loo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luː/
ipa: /lu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: loos
Etymology: Clipped form of lieutenant.
Senses: examples: text: I asked my loo to let me escort you in. I wanted a moment to thank you personally.” “There's no need.” “So you said before, but there is. And was. I'll take you in to Lieutenant Ricchio.”
ref: 2012, J. D. Robb, New York to Dallas, Penguin, →ISBN, page 91:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A lieutenant.
Related terms: Lordy loo
extragalactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + galactic.
Senses: examples: text: Extragalactic astronomy is the study of things outside the Milky Way.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
antonyms: galactic
Galactic
glosses: Originating outside of the Milky Way galaxy.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
antonyms: galactic
intragalactic
coordinate_terms: intergalactic
glosses: Originating outside of any galaxy.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
antonyms: galactic
glosses: Originating outside of the local galaxy.
Derived terms: extragalactic background light
Related terms: extraplanetary
extrasolar
extraterrestrial
Galactic
galactic
galaxy
intergalactic
intragalactic
supergalactic
transgalactic
follower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒləʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: followers
Etymology: From Middle English folwer, folwere, folewer, from Old English folgere (“follower; attendant; disciple”), equivalent to follow + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foulger, West Frisian folger, Dutch volger, German Folger, Swedish följare.
Senses: glosses: One who follows, comes after another.
glosses: Something that comes after another thing.
glosses: One who is a part of master's physical group, such as a servant or retainer.
synonyms: adherent#Noun
disciple#Noun
glosses: One who follows mentally, adherer to the opinions, ideas or teachings of another, a movement etc.
glosses: An imitator, who follows another's example.
glosses: A pursuer.
examples: text: I have over 50 followers on Twitter, but all my tweets only get 10 likes.
text: Talking bout these other rappers getting old is even getting old / Worrying about your followers, you need to get your dollars up
ref: 2012, “Amen”, in Dreamchasers 2, performed by Meek Mill ft. Drake:
coordinate_terms: followee
qualifier: social media
glosses: An account holder who subscribes to see content from another account on a social media platform.
glosses: A machine part receiving motion from another.
glosses: A machine part receiving motion from another.
A tappet.
glosses: A man courting a maidservant; a suitor.
glosses: Young cattle.
glosses: A metal piece placed at the top of a candle to keep the wax melting evenly.
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: Any of the three players (the ruckman, ruck rover, and rover) who usually follow the ball around the ground rather than occupying a fixed position.
glosses: A debt collector.
glosses: A tool used to remove the core from a pin-tumbler lock without causing the driver pins and springs to fall out.
Derived terms: camp follower
Christfollower
cult follower
fast follower
followership
nonfollower
rule-follower
Related terms: following
foolishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːlɪʃnəs/
Forms: form: foolishnesses
Etymology: From Middle English folishnesse, follissnesse, equivalent to foolish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: On page 297 [“Queens Not Balled Thru Robbers”], that quotation from a foreign bee-paper, about the foolishness of thinking that robber-bees ball a queen, is probably all right in the main. Robbers are indeed there for honey—not for reginacide—but perchance no one interferes, and after awhile the honey is gone, and the hive is filled with a miscellaneous crowd largely new comers, who are like a city mob, “the more part know not wherefore they are come together.”
ref: 1900 June 14, E. E. Hasty, “The Afterthought: The ‘Old Reliable’ seen thru New and Unreliable Glasses”, in George W. York, editor, American Bee Journal, 40th year, number 24, Chicago, Ill., Robber-Bees and Balled Queens, page 374, column 1:
glosses: The state of being foolish.
glosses: A thing or event that is foolish, or an absurdity.
Synonyms: imprudence
folly
extravagance
irresponsibility
indiscretion
absurdity
ridiculousness
schmuckiness
stupidity
Related terms: fool
rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rōp
ipa: /ɹəʊp/
enpr: rōp
ipa: /ɹoʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: ropes
form: rop
form: rap
Etymology: From Middle English rop (“gut, intestine”), from Old English rop, ropp; compare Middle Dutch rop, roppe (“fish guts”).
The modern pronunciation results from phonological assimilation to Etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: the ropes of birds
glosses: The small intestines.
knick-knack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪkˌnæk/
Forms: form: knick-knacks
form: knickknack
form: nick-nack
form: nicknack
Etymology: Reduplication of knack.
Senses: examples: text: Our Cutler, who had now a great Stock of things of his Handy-work, gave them some little Knick Knacks, as Plates of Silver and of Iron, cut Diamond Fashion, and cut into Hearts and into Rings, and they were mightily pleased.
ref: 1720, [Daniel Defoe], The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton, London: […] J[ohn] Brotherton, […], J[ohn] Graves […], A[nne] Dodd, […], and T[homas] Warner, […], →OCLC, page 89:
text: But there was no hitch in the conversation, nevertheless; for one gentleman, who travelled in the perfumery line, exhibited an interesting nick-nack, in the way of a remarkable cake of shaving soap, which he had lately met with in Germany […]
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 9, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 110:
text: The room was small, and densely filled with furniture; it gave an impression of faded silk and little statuettes which might totter if one moved. Rosier got up and wandered about with his careful tread, bending over the tables charged with knick-knacks and the cushions embossed with princely arms.
ref: 1881, Henry James, Jr., chapter XXXVI, in The Portrait of a Lady, New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 313:
text: Is art anything that we have reason to value? Or is it a mere adornment of life which we can do without—a mere knick-knack for Dame Civilization to hang about her wrinkled neck in order to dazzle her neighbours?
ref: 1929, Frederick Philip Grove, “The Aim of Art”, in It Needs to Be Said:
text: 1985, Herbert Kretzmer, "Master of the House" (song) in Les Misérables
Picking up their knick-knacks when they can't see straight
glosses: A small ornament or other object of minor value.
Derived terms: knickknackery
knick-knacky
ed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: eds
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: edition
glosses: editor
glosses: education (uncountable)
Synonyms: topics: education
word: educ.
Derived terms: basic ed
Cath ed
co-ed
driver's ed
gen ed
op-ed
phys ed
special ed
voc-ed
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: come ed
killer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪlə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈkʰɪlə(ɹ)]
ipa: /ˈkɪlɚ/
ipa: [ˈkʰɪɫlɚ]
rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more killer
form: most killer
Etymology: From Middle English killer, kyller. By surface analysis, kill + -er.
Senses: examples: text: killer feature
text: killer view
text: It all says that Elephant's Memory is a killer band.
ref: 1985, Dave Marsh, Fortunate Son: Criticism and Journalism by America's Best-known Rock Writer, Random House, →ISBN, page 224:
text: This is followed by a recipe for that very killer dish: "Eat and remember this, the greediest of all Popes" is their merry exhortation.
ref: 2000, Various authors, The tablet, page 798:
text: “Ahhh, Avery,” shouted the Yurtmeister after a full hour of intense volleyball. “That last serve was absolutely killer.”
ref: 2009, Amy Bryant, The Great Scavenger Hunt, →ISBN, page 122:
text: However, there is something very killer about drinking whatever battery acid and paint thinner concoction it is that they make malt liquor out of, in broad daylight, slumped down on the pavement
ref: 2010, Al Burian, Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One Through Nine, →ISBN:
text: That girl was dynamite. Dark hair with killer blue eyes, bronze skin, and an exquisite full-figured body.
ref: 2016, Kit Moulton, Annabella, page 108:
synonyms: word: ace
word: admirable
word: awe-inspiring
word: awesome
word: bang on
word: bang-up
word: based
word: beneship
word: bitching
word: bomb
word: brilliant
word: bully
word: cher
word: choice
word: chronic
word: chur
word: cock on
word: cool
word: copacetic
word: crackerjack
word: cushty
word: dank
word: def
word: dope
word: excellent
word: exceptional
word: fab
word: fabulous
word: fantabulosa
word: fantastic
word: finger-lickin' good
word: fire
word: fireball
word: first-rate
word: fly
word: frabjous
word: gnarly
word: goated
word: great
word: grouse
word: kicking
word: killer
word: lash
word: lautitious
word: lit
word: marvelous
word: nang
word: outstanding
word: out of sight
word: phat
word: peng
word: phenomenal
word: pukka
word: quality
word: rad
word: radical
word: rum
word: sick
word: slap-up
word: slick
word: spiffing
word: splendid
word: sterling
word: super
word: superb
word: superior
word: sweet
word: swell
word: terrific
word: tight
word: top
word: top-drawer
word: top-hole
word: top-notch
word: top-of-the-range
word: top-shelf
word: topping
word: tubular
word: wicked
word: wicked pissah
word: wonderful
word: worldie
glosses: Excellent, very good, cool.
examples: text: killer bee
text: killer robot
glosses: Causing death, destruction, or obliteration.
examples: text: I had a killer headache this morning.
glosses: Distressing, uncomfortable.
Derived terms: killer app
killer cancel
killer whale
Related terms: anusvara
candrabindu
sukun
visarga
crapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæ.pɚ/
rhymes: -æpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: crappers
Etymology: From crap + -er, although possibly repopularized by barracks employing Thomas Crapper's plumbing fixtures used during the First World War. The occupational surname Crapper derives from a dialectal variant of cropper (“harvester of crops, farmer”).
Senses: glosses: A chamber pot or toilet, particularly (dated) a flush toilet by Thomas Crapper.
examples: text: I purchased your magazine for the first and last time. What the hell is it? (..) It wasn't even good reading material for the crapper.
ref: 1994 December, Spy, Sussex Publishers, LLC., page 10:
glosses: A lavatory or outhouse.
Synonyms: shitter
chamber pot
toilet
and Thesaurus:bathroom
crapper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæ.pɚ/
rhymes: -æpə(ɹ)
Etymology: From crap + -er, although possibly repopularized by barracks employing Thomas Crapper's plumbing fixtures used during the First World War. The occupational surname Crapper derives from a dialectal variant of cropper (“harvester of crops, farmer”).
Senses: glosses: comparative form of crap: more crap
crapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæ.pɚ/
rhymes: -æpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: crappers
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A half-glass of whiskey.
crapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæ.pɚ/
rhymes: -æpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: crappers
Etymology: Blend of crap + rapper, implying that rap music is inferior.
Senses: glosses: A rapper, or a performer of rap music.
beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beetle
beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beetle
nebula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: neb'jə-lə
ipa: /ˈnɛbjʊlə/
Forms: form: nebulae
form: nebulas
form: nebulæ
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nebula (“little cloud, mist”). Akin to Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”), German Nebel (“mist, nebula”), Old Norse nifl, Polish niebo (“sky, heaven”), Russian не́бо (nébo, “sky”).
Senses: examples: text: Approximately 5 billion years ago, our solar nebula was formed as gravitational forces pulled interstellar gas and dust into a swirling mass around out newly formed sun.
ref: 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A white spot or slight opacity of the cornea.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A cloudy appearance in the urine.
Derived terms: Crab Nebula
dark nebula
diffuse nebula
emission nebula
enormous Lyman-alpha nebula
nebulalike
nebulium
nebulization
planetary nebula
preplanetary nebula
protoplanetary nebula
pulsar wind nebula
reflection nebula
solar nebula
stellar nebula
supernebula
Related terms: nebulosity
nebulous
nebular
plerion
nova remnant
supernova remnant
Herbig-Haro object
Bok globule
interstellar cloud
intergalactic cloud
high velocity cloud
dustbowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustbowls
form: dust bowl
Etymology: From dust + bowl.
Senses: examples: text: Concepts like reform, sanctions or KwaNatal indabas have little meaning in this dustbowl, which is host to more than a million people relocated from "white" farms and "black spots" in Natal, apart from the hundreds of thousands who lived there before the removals started here in the Sixties.
ref: 1986, Sub-Saharan Africa Report - Issues 94-100, page 59:
text: The moment they were unleashed the dogs reached the Hindu graveyard in quick time, and then reached the abandoned hockey playground, now a dustbowl, and from there they ran straight to Pandi's thatched hut and circled it twice.
ref: 2011, Ram Govardhan, Rough with the Smooth, →ISBN:
text: Taking up space in the dustbowl of his bedroom was a Marshall JCM 800 bass amplifier.
ref: 2014, Joseph O'Connor, The Thrill of it All, →ISBN:
glosses: An area which abounds in dust and which is very dry.
examples: text: Because of this general situation, namely, the factor that thousands of citizens in California because of evictions and suspension of income were forced to move into squatter camps, and that these squatter camps were to some extent used by the state and county for the purpose of segregating the destitute unemployed, many such communities were actually in existence in California by 1933 when the dustbowl influx began to make itself felt in this state.
ref: 1940, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor, Violations of free speech and rights of labor, page 21892:
text: It was not until the end of the decade that Hollywood could take a more detached look at the social consequences of the Depression in John Ford's 1940 film of John Steinbeck's dustbowl novel The Grapes of Wrath.
ref: 2004, James Chapman, Cinemas of the World: Film and Society from 1895 to the Present, →ISBN:
text: It's a long way from earlier circuits, such as Woody Guthrie's dustbowl odyssey and Pete Seeger's union halls.
ref: 2011, Mark Slobin, Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction, →ISBN, page 109:
text: When the dustbowl refugees from Arkansas and Oklahoma moved to California, job opportunities for the one million Mexicans who had crossed the border decreased, and about half of these workers returned to their country (Shotwell 1961:74).
ref: 2012, G. Thomas-Lycklama-Nijeholt, On the Road for Work: Migratory Workers on the East Coast of the United States, →ISBN:
glosses: The central region of the United States during the 1930s.
glosses: The 1930s period.
duststorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌst.stɔːm/
ipa: /ˈdʌst.stɔɹm/
Forms: form: duststorms
form: dust storm
Etymology: From dust + storm.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: sandstorm (broadly synonymous), haboob
text: In the 1930s, duststorms in the central U.S. were responsible for crippling damage to countless farms.
text: I saw a dust-storm at Kueichow which lasted for seven hours, burying some hovels and much agricultural country, and even producing a metamorphosis of the rocky bed of the Yangtze. Such storms have been observed as far east as Shanghai, but their occurrence at Kueichow shows that their area is not limited to the Great Plain or even to the region east of the mountain barrier between HUPEH and SZE CHUAN.
ref: [1900, Isabella L. Bird, The Yangtze Valley and Beyond, volume 1, →OCLC, →OL, page 9:
synonyms: duster
hypernyms: storm#Noun
glosses: A phenomenon in which gale- to hurricane-force winds blow soil particles up into a planet's atmosphere.
Related terms: dust bowl
dust devil
hurricane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hŭr′ĭ-kən
enpr: hŭr′ĭ-kān'
ipa: /ˈhʌɹɪkən/
ipa: /ˈhʌɹɪkeɪn/
note: without the hurry–furry merger
enpr: hŭr′ĭ-kān'
ipa: /ˈhʌɹɪkeɪn/
note: without the hurry–furry merger
note: General American, Canada, hurry–furry merger
enpr: hûr′ǐ-kān'
ipa: /ˈhɝɪkeɪn/
note: General American, Canada, hurry–furry merger
Forms: form: hurricanes
Etymology: Coined by Jeret Peterson.
Senses: topics: aerial-freestyle
hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: "full—triple-full—full" – an acrobatic maneuver consisting of three flips and five twists, with one twist on the first flip, three twists on the second flip, one twist on the third flip
Related terms: sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: rudy
sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: randy
sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: daffy
sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: full
sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: double-full
sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: triple-full
sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: lay
sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: back
sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: slap-back
sense: freestyle aerial skiing
word: stretch
typhoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪˈfuːn/
enpr: tīfo͞onʹ
ipa: /taɪˈfun/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: typhoons
form: touffon
form: tuffon
form: tufon
form: typhon
form: tuffoon
form: tiffoon
form: tifoon
form: tyfoon
form: tufan
form: toofan
form: touffan
form: tyfoong
form: ty-foong
form: tyfung
form: ty-fung
Etymology: English texts mention typhon, tiphon as a Greek word for "whirlwind" since at least the 1550s, referring to Ancient Greek τυφῶν (tuphôn), τυφώς (tuphṓs, “whirlwind”) (the latter attested since Aeschylus), Τυφῶν (Tuphôn, “Typhon, father of the winds”). (French typhon (“whirlwind”) is said to be attested since 1504.)
However, the first use of it as an English word for a whirlwind or storm dates to 1588, in the spelling Touffon, in the specific sense "giant storm in the Pacific"; this sense first appears in Europe in the mid 16th century in Portuguese tufão (attested since at least 1560), whence it entered English. Portuguese sailors likely got the word from Arabic طُوفَان (ṭūfān) (compare Persian طوفان (tufân), Hindi तूफ़ान (tūfān)), and some spellings of the English word (like tufan) seem to derive from that Arabic word.
The Arabic word's origin is sometimes thought to be Sinitic 大風／大风 ("big wind", Mandarin dàfēng, Cantonese daai6 fung1 /taːi̯²² fʊŋ⁵⁵/, Hakka thai-fûng /tʰai̯⁵⁵ fuŋ²⁴/), and some English forms like tyfoong, tyfung are from or were modified based on Chinese. However, the Arabic word may be entirely Semitic from the native root ط و ف (ṭ w f) in the sense of the wind circling around, or it might derive from Greek. (Some sources even suggest the term originated in Greek and travelled via Arabic to Chinese before making its way back into Arabic and back to Europe.) Over time, the spelling of the word in English was influenced by the Greek word.
Senses: glosses: A severe tropical cyclone; an intense, rotating storm.
examples: Near-synonyms: cyclone (narrow sense), hurricane
hypernyms: tropical cyclone
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cyclone
storm#Noun
glosses: A weather phenomenon in the northwestern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane except for its geographical region, typically resulting in wind speeds of 64 knots (119 km/h) or above. Equivalent to a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and Indonesia and Australia.
raw_tags: in particular
Derived terms: landphoon
supertyphoon
Typhoon Alley
typhoon chaser
typhoon fifth
typhoon hunter
typhoonic
typhoonlike
typhoonproof
typhoon shelter
typhoon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪˈfuːn/
enpr: tīfo͞onʹ
ipa: /taɪˈfun/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: typhoons
form: typhooning
form: typhooned
form: typhooned
Etymology: English texts mention typhon, tiphon as a Greek word for "whirlwind" since at least the 1550s, referring to Ancient Greek τυφῶν (tuphôn), τυφώς (tuphṓs, “whirlwind”) (the latter attested since Aeschylus), Τυφῶν (Tuphôn, “Typhon, father of the winds”). (French typhon (“whirlwind”) is said to be attested since 1504.)
However, the first use of it as an English word for a whirlwind or storm dates to 1588, in the spelling Touffon, in the specific sense "giant storm in the Pacific"; this sense first appears in Europe in the mid 16th century in Portuguese tufão (attested since at least 1560), whence it entered English. Portuguese sailors likely got the word from Arabic طُوفَان (ṭūfān) (compare Persian طوفان (tufân), Hindi तूफ़ान (tūfān)), and some spellings of the English word (like tufan) seem to derive from that Arabic word.
The Arabic word's origin is sometimes thought to be Sinitic 大風／大风 ("big wind", Mandarin dàfēng, Cantonese daai6 fung1 /taːi̯²² fʊŋ⁵⁵/, Hakka thai-fûng /tʰai̯⁵⁵ fuŋ²⁴/), and some English forms like tyfoong, tyfung are from or were modified based on Chinese. However, the Arabic word may be entirely Semitic from the native root ط و ف (ṭ w f) in the sense of the wind circling around, or it might derive from Greek. (Some sources even suggest the term originated in Greek and travelled via Arabic to Chinese before making its way back into Arabic and back to Europe.) Over time, the spelling of the word in English was influenced by the Greek word.
Senses: glosses: To swirl like a hurricane.
Related terms: cyclone
hurricane
tornado
cyclone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.kloʊn/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.kləʊn/
Forms: form: cyclones
Etymology: Coined by Henry Piddington, probably in the 1840s, and based on some term in Ancient Greek. Sources disagree on the date and on which Ancient Greek term, though it had to be something derived from either κύκλος (kúklos, “circle, wheel”) or κυκλόω (kuklóō, “go around in a circle, form a circle, encircle”), for example the present active participle κυκλῶν (kuklôn). See cycle and wheel.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: storm
glosses: Any weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure; a low pressure system.
examples: Near-synonyms: typhoon, hurricane
hypernyms: tropical cyclone
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cyclone
storm
glosses: A tropical cyclone occurring in the South Pacific or Indian Ocean.
glosses: The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils.
glosses: A strong wind.
glosses: A cyclone separator; the cylindrical vortex tube within such a separator
Derived terms: anticyclone
bomb cyclone
cyclone cellar
cyclone chaser
cyclone fence
cyclone hunter
cyclonelike
cyclone pit
cyclone sandwich
cyclonic
cyclonoscope
ex-tropical cyclone
hydrocyclone
mesocyclone
misocyclone
multicyclone
news cyclone
subtropical cyclone
supercyclone
tropical cyclone
monsoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒnˈsuːn/
ipa: /mɑnˈsuːn/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɔn.sun/
note: father-bother merger
ipa: /mɑn.sun/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: monsoons
Etymology: From Portuguese monção and Dutch moesson, from Arabic مَوْسِم (mawsim, “season”), from وَسَمَ (wasama, “to mark, to brand”).
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of winds associated with regions where most rain falls during a particular season.
examples: text: Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
ref: 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
glosses: Tropical rainy season when the rain lasts for several months with few interruptions.
glosses: The rains themselves.
glosses: Entire meteorological systems with such characteristics.
glosses: Any heavy rainstorm.
Derived terms: antimonsoon
intermonsoon
monsoonal
monsoon bucket
monsoon forest
monsoonish
monsoonlike
monsoon season
northeast monsoon
palaeomonsoon
postmonsoon
premonsoon
southwest monsoon
El Niño
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛl ˈniːn.joʊ/
Forms: form: El Niños
form: Los Niños
form: El Nino
Etymology: From Spanish El Niño (literally “The Little Boy”), used by South American fishermen in the 17th century, referring to the Christ child, as the phenomenon is observed around Christmas time.
Senses: examples: text: Additionally, scientists aren’t expecting to be surprised again by El Niño, a warming of the Pacific Ocean that tends to dampen Atlantic hurricane activity.
ref: 2007 May 23, Houston Chronicle:
text: The odd weather phenomenon that many blame for the suffering here — the drought and sudden storm pattern known as El Niño — is expected to become more frequent as the planet warms.
ref: 2020 July 23, Abrahm Lustgarten, “The Great Climate Migration”, in New York Times:
text: In part, that’s because the planet is entering a natural climate phenomenon known as El Niño, which typically brings warmer oceans. But now, El Niño is coming on top of long-term warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
ref: 2023 July 12, Catrin Einhorn, Elena Shao, “How Hot Is the Sea Off Florida Right Now? Think 90s Fahrenheit.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: El Niño is also partially responsible for the ongoing catastrophic rainfall in east Africa, which began in March and has caused devastating flooding in Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia, Rwanda and Burundi.
ref: 2024 May 6, Lauren Herdman, “Weather tracker: torrential rainstorms cause death and destruction in Brazil”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: An invasion of warm water into the surface of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru and Ecuador, the positive phase of the multi-year ENSO cycle, which causes changes in local and regional climate.
Hyponyms: super-Niño
Alfredo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alfredos
form: alfredo
Etymology: From Alfredo alla Scrofa, an Italian restaurant in Rome where the pasta dish fettuccine Alfredo was originally served, named after its founder Alfredo Di Lelio. Doublet of Alfred.
Senses: examples: text: Two days after kicking three field goals against the New Orleans Saints to help the Bears reach Super Bowl XLI, Gould was standing over a gas stove, stirring the alfredo sauce that was simmering in a pot.
ref: 2007 January 30, Karen Crouse, “Dash of Success Spices Up Gould’s Neighborhood”, in The New York Times, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2015:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
qualifier: noun adjunct
glosses: The sauce made from butter and Parmesan cheese used in dishes such as fettuccine Alfredo, or any dish of this type.
Derived terms: Alfredo sauce
fettuccine Alfredo