cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
transfix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transfixes
form: transfixing
form: transfixed
form: transfixed
Etymology: From Middle French transfixer, from Old French transfixer, from Latin transfigō (“to pierce through”), from trans- (“through”) + figō (“to pierce”).
Senses: examples: text: He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: But we may as well accept her story as true, for it is likely she would have been transfixed by the narcissism of the weight lifters.
ref: 1973, Norman Mailer, Marilyn: A Biography, page 45:
glosses: To render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe.
examples: text: The spear transfixed my arm that was uplifted
In swift expostulation, and the blood
Gushed round its point: I smiled, […]
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 237:
text: There was a little stream that ran not far away, in which he bathed, and down this on occasion would come a shoal of fish. Then the natives would assemble with spears, and with much shouting would transfix the great startled things as they hurried down to the sea.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 52”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
glosses: To pierce with a sharp pointed weapon.
glosses: To fix or impale.
Related terms: transfixation
transfixion
transfixture
transfix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfixes
Etymology: From trans- + -fix.
Senses: examples: text: The Arabic word مكتوب (maktūb, “written”) is built from the root [script needed] (k–t–b, “writing”) and the transfix [script needed] (ma––ū–, “passive participle”).
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A discontinuous affix, typical of Afro-Asiatic languages, which occurs at more than one position in a word, i.e. a combination of prefixes, infixes and/or suffixes.
cut and dried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cut-and-dried
form: cut and dry
Etymology: 1710, from herbs being cut and dried for sale, rather than fresh.
Senses: examples: text: Take care when guessing, since problems do not always have cut-and-dried answers.
text: But if I had not taken things for granted, if I had examined everything with the care which I should have shown had we approached the case de novo and had no cut-and-dried story to warp my mind, should I not then have found something more definite to go upon?
ref: 1904 September, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:
synonyms: clear cut
open-and-shut
res ipsa loquitur
glosses: Simple, straightforward, clear, or certain.
examples: text: Willy: […] In those days there was personality in it. There was respect, and comradeship, and gratitude in it. Today, it's all cut and dried, and there's no chance for bringing friendship to bear—or personality.
ref: 1949, Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, act 2:
synonyms: set
settled
glosses: Decided, not open to change.
glosses: Lacking freshness or spontaneity.
Related terms: all over but the shouting
done deal
cut and dry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Just because it is all cut and dry. Just because it is ready-made. Just because it lies there in reliable, convenient and logical propositions. The moment you appropriate truth in such a shape you appropriate a form. You cannot cut and dry truth. You cannot accept truth ready-made without it ceasing to nourish the soul as the truth.
ref: 1883, Henry Drummond, Natural Law in the Spiritual World:
text: Nowadays, thanks to the irrepressible rise of content marketing, SEO's cut and dry quantitative approach is evolving to incorporate its opposite number: quality.
ref: 2013 May 10, Jonathan Piggins, “Is Google's love affair with content marketing usurping SEO?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of cut and dried.
muckety muck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muckety mucks
form: muckety-muck
form: muckity-muck
Etymology: Either a variant of muckamuck (the short form of high muckamuck), or a shortening of high muckety-muck. See the entry muckamuck.
Senses: examples: text: Consequently, there have been times when the muckety-mucks at Merriam-Webster have requested that we all mark every third or fifth word in at least one source just to fill our files with words that would not usually catch our eye.
ref: 2017, Kory Stamper, Word By Word, Vintage, published 2018, page 88:
synonyms: word: baron
word: big cheese
word: big enchilada
word: big gun
word: big kahuna
word: big man
word: big name
word: big noise
word: big shot
word: bigwig
word: big wheel
word: boss
word: grand poobah
word: head honcho
word: heavy hitter
word: heavyweight
word: high muckamuck
word: high muckety-muck
word: king of all one surveys
word: king of the castle
word: king of the hill
word: kingpin
word: macher
word: mayor
word: muckamuck
word: muckety muck
word: mugwump
word: numero uno
word: poobah
word: rooster
word: somebody
word: top banana
word: top cat
word: top dog
word: top gun
word: very important person
word: VIP
word: wheel
glosses: A high muckamuck; a person (especially self-important) in a position of power, authority, or status.
erratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɹætɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more erratic
form: most erratic
form: erratick
form: erraticke
form: erratique
Etymology: From Middle English erratik, erratyk, from Latin errāticus; compare Old French erratique.
Senses: examples: text: Henry has been getting erratic scores on his tests: 40% last week, but 98% this week.
text: The V-2's directional system was notoriously erratic. In May 1947, a V-2 launched from White Sands Proving Ground headed south instead of north, missing downtown Juarez, Mexico, by 3 miles.
ref: 2010, Mary Roach, “You Go First: The Alarming Prospect of Life Without Gravity”, in Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 90:
synonyms: mercurial
glosses: Unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent.
examples: text: erratic conduct
glosses: Deviating from normal opinions or actions; eccentric; odd.
Derived terms: erratical
erratically
erraticism
erraticity
erraticness
glacial erratic
inerratic
knight-erratic
nonerratic
unerratic
erratic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɹætɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: erratics
form: erratick
form: erraticke
form: erratique
Etymology: From Middle English erratik, erratyk, from Latin errāticus; compare Old French erratique.
Senses: examples: text: The term for a displaced boulder is an erratic, but in the nineteenth century the expression seemed to apply more often to the theories than to the rocks.
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 372:
text: During the last ice-age, massive stones were carried for miles by the scouring glaciers, only to be left, like passengers at the end of the line, when the glaciers retreated. Stranded in their new surroundings with rocks with which they share no common geology, their out-of-place-ness is evoked by their name: “erratics”.
ref: 2015 May 4, Dominick Tyler, “10 UK landscape features that you’ve probably never heard of”, in The Guardian:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rock moved from one location to another, usually by a glacier.
glosses: Anything that has erratic characteristics.
Synonyms: sense: glaciers
word: dropstone
change one's tune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: changes one's tune
form: changing one's tune
form: changed one's tune
form: changed one's tune
Senses: examples: text: They say my way of doing things is slower, but I think they'll change their tune as soon as they try it.
text: The heaters, the S.R. now says, will "help tremendously" if there is severe snow and ice—a welcome change of tune from last winter, when the Region was countering criticism of its operation during the January freeze-up with a bland defence of existing precautions [...].
ref: 1962 December, “Talking of Trains: Point heaters on the S.R.”, in Modern Railways, page 371:
text: Labour frontbencher Louise Haigh (Shadow Transport Secretary for heaven's sake!) initially lambasted TOCs before the handful of specialist rail commentators fell on her tweets and she changed her tune, refocusing her fire on Government.
ref: 2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3:
glosses: To reconsider; rethink; to reach a different conclusion.
examples: text: The suspect changed his tune when he learned the police had the evidence.
glosses: To change one's story.
Related terms: change of tune
change someone's tune
come around
change one's mind
change of heart
theurgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθiːˌɜː.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˈθiːˌɝ.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒi
Forms: form: theurgies
Etymology: From Late Latin theūrgia, from Ancient Greek θεουργίᾱ (theourgíā, “sorcery”), from θεός (theós, “god”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). By surface analysis, the- + -urgy.
Senses: examples: text: And from this he concludes that theurgy is a craft which accomplishes not only good but evil among gods and men; and that the gods also have passions, and are perturbed and agitated by the emotions which Apuleius attributed to demons and men, but from which he preserved the gods by that sublimity of residence, which, in common with Plato, he accorded to them.
ref: 1871, Augustine of Hippo, translated by Marcus Dods, The City of God, Book X, Chapter 9:
text: 1873, Matthew Arnold, Literature and Dogma, Chapter VII: The Testimony of Jesus to Himself,
This, again, in our popular theurgy, is materialised into the First person of the Trinity approving the Second, because he stands to the contract already in the Council of the Trinity passed.
text: They therefore devoted themselves to examining the nature of the soul, and taught that its freedom consists in communion with God, to be achieved by absorption in a sort of ecstatic trance. This doctrine reaches its height in Plotinus, after whom it degenerated into magic and theurgy in its unsuccessful combat with the victorious Christianity.
ref: 1911, “Alexandrian School”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:
text: For instance I have heard many people say that Dionysus was a mortal man because he was born of Semele, and that he became a god through his knowledge of theurgy and the Mysteries, and like our lord Heracles for his royal virtue was translated to Olympus by his father Zeus.
ref: 1913, Julian, translated by Emily Wilmer Cave Wright, Oration VII: To the Cynic Heracleios:
text: Spiritual magic or theurgy was based on the idea that one could reach God in an ascent up the scale of creation made possible by a rigorous course of prayer, fasting and devotional preparation.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 261:
glosses: A form of magic designed to allow for worship or conjuration of, or communication with spirits or deities.
glosses: A supernatural intervention in human affairs.
Derived terms: theurgic
theurgical
theurgically
Related terms: theurge
thaumaturgy
cask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːsk/
ipa: /kæsk/
rhymes: -æsk
homophone: casque
Forms: form: casks
Etymology: From Middle French casque. Doublet of casco and casque.
Senses: glosses: A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks. (See a diagram of cask sizes.)
examples: text: A jewel, locked into the woefullest cask / That ever did contain a thing of worth.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], line 409:
glosses: A casket; a small box for jewels.
glosses: A brougham or other private carriage.
glosses: Obsolete form of casque (“visorless helmet”).
Derived terms: cask beer
caskful
casklike
cask wine
casky
gang cask
harness cask
incask
roching cask
uncask
cask
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːsk/
ipa: /kæsk/
rhymes: -æsk
homophone: casque
Forms: form: casks
form: casking
form: casked
form: casked
Etymology: From Middle French casque. Doublet of casco and casque.
Senses: glosses: To put into a cask.
Related terms: quash
axel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.səl/
rhymes: -æksəl
homophone: axle
Forms: form: axels
Etymology: Named after Norwegian skater Axel Paulsen (1855–1938), who in 1882 became the first to perform the jump.
Senses: examples: text: Wylie, however, landed his Olympic axels beautifully and electrified the crowd as he capped a skating career that began at age three in Aspen, Colorado, when he followed two older sisters onto the ice.
ref: 1991, Harvard Magazine, volume 94, page 44:
text: Men had to do triple Axels or at least attempt them with tenacity.
ref: 1997, Beverley Smith, A Year in Figure Skating, page 115:
text: […]King et al. (1994) and King (1997) compared single, double, and triple axels of junior and senior level skaters; Albert and Miller (1996) compared single and double axels of “good” figure skaters;[…].
ref: 2005, Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology, volume 30, page 746:
synonyms: axel jump
qualifier: figure skating
glosses: A jump that includes one (or more than one) complete turn and a half turn while in the air.
Derived terms: double axel
triple axel
Related terms: loop jump
lutz
quadruple jump
salchow
waltz jump
axel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.səl/
rhymes: -æksəl
homophone: axle
Senses: examples: text: This end of the Axel is to be faſten'd into a Wheel, exactly like thoſe, which are us'd in many Places, for the roaſting Meat.
ref: 1755, “A Country Gentleman”, in A New System of Agriculture; Or, A Plain, Easy, and Demonſtrative Method of ſpeedily growing Rich, page 177:
text: Ten 4-wheel hose wagons, three with ballbearing axels and one with roller-bearing axels, all manufactured in the city.
ref: 1900, Municipal Reports of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, page 85:
text: 1944, Private and Local Acts Passed by the Legislature of Wisconsin, Publisher not identified, page 627,
The gross weight on any 2 or more axels shall not exceed 26,000 pounds plus 1,000 pounds for each foot of distance measured longitudinally to the nearest foot between the foremost and rearmost of the axels under consideration.
glosses: Misspelling of axle.
measuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛʒ.ə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmeɪ.ʒə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmeʒ.ə.ɹɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of measure
Derived terms: measuringly
measuring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛʒ.ə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmeɪ.ʒə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmeʒ.ə.ɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: measurings
Senses: examples: text: The repeated measurings of one monument result in a mean approximation to something actually existing, and this is an excellent definition of an average.
ref: 1899, Self Culture, volume 8, page 683:
glosses: Act of measurement.
Derived terms: measuring chain
Crispin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪspɪn/
rhymes: -ɪspɪn
Etymology: From Latin Crispinus, derivative of the Roman family name Crispus (“curly”).
Alternatively, contraction of Crispus (“hair”) and pinus (“pine”), according to Miraculum Quo Beata Maria Subvenit Guillelmo Crispino
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin.
glosses: A Roman shoemaker, martyr and saint, and brother of Crispinian; patron saint of cobblers and tanners.
Crispin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪspɪn/
rhymes: -ɪspɪn
Forms: form: Crispins
Etymology: From Latin Crispinus, derivative of the Roman family name Crispus (“curly”).
Alternatively, contraction of Crispus (“hair”) and pinus (“pine”), according to Miraculum Quo Beata Maria Subvenit Guillelmo Crispino
Senses: examples: text: The fact is, that the Princess of Wales, having suffered from weakness in the knee, walks with a slight halt, and the apes of fashion have persuaded their Crispins to supply boots with one long and one short heel, in order that they may follow in the footsteps of royalty.
ref: 1870 June 18, “Granny’s Ignorance”, in Sydney Punch, Sydney, N.S.W., page 25, column 2:
text: Boot after boot was tried on until at last a fit was obtained, when in rushed a man, snatched up the customer's hat left near the door, and ran down the street as fast as his legs could carry him. Away went the customer after his hat, and Crispin, standing at the door, clapped his hands, and shouted, “Go it, you'll catch him!”—little thinking that it was a concerted trick, and that neither his boots nor the customer would ever return.
ref: 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary:
glosses: A shoemaker.
glosses: A variety of apple, the Mutsu.
patron saint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪtɹən ˈseɪnt/
Forms: form: patron saints
Senses: examples: text: When Aimé Humbert joined Josephine in Paris, he visited the Inspector of Police, and was so depressed by his meeting that she sent him to the Louvre ‘to look at the wonderful painting of St Marguerite, the patron saint of purity, trampling down the hideous dragon and looking so calm and peaceful’.
ref: 2014, Helen Mathers, Patron Saint of Prostitutes: Josephine Butler and a Victorian Scandal, History Press, →ISBN:
text: My patron saint, St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco—also known as “St. John the Wonderworker”—is particularly noteworthy in this regard […]
ref: 2016 July 8, Wesley J. Smith, “St. John the Wonderworker”, in First Things:
text: Entering the tunnel, we pass a small shrine above our heads which contains a statue of St Barbara, the patron saint of tunnellers. It is traditional to have such shrines on every tunnel site.
ref: 2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 41:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A saint conceived as the patron (protector or supporter) of a particular place, group, person, or activity, for whom or for which his or her intercession is specially invoked.
examples: text: Janet is the patron saint of procrastination. I'm thinking of erecting her a shrine of doughnut boxes in the breakroom.
synonyms: word: archetype
word: byspel
word: case
word: case in point
word: embodiment
word: epitome
word: eponym
word: exemplar
word: exemplification
word: example
word: exemplificator
word: Exhibit A
word: illustration
word: incarnation
word: instance
word: prototype
word: quintessence
word: representative
word: sample
word: specimen
word: symbol
word: ur-type
glosses: An exemplar: an individual who exemplifies some trait or group.
Related terms: tutelary deity
shoemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoemakers
form: shummaker
Etymology: From Middle English shomaker, equivalent to shoe + maker. Compare Dutch schoenmaker, German Schuhmacher, Danish skomager.
Senses: examples: text: He especially recommended the only shoemaker who, to his mind, had an idea of making a shoe; and Lucy had at least half-a-dozen pair made, fitted, and descanted upon, before he was satisfied that they did justice to the shape of her foot, which proved extremely good when it was properly chaussé.
ref: 1833, Arabella Sullivan, Recollections of a Chaperon, volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, page 229:
text: The diseases of shoemakers receive attention as well as the toxicology of shoepolish.
ref: 1911 October, W. R. D., “Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General’s Office, United States Army. Authors and Subjects. Second Series, Vol. XV. S—Skin Grafting. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1910.)”, in American Journal of Insanity, volume LXVIII, number 2, page 327:
synonyms: cordwainer
coordinate_terms: cobbler
glosses: A person who makes shoes.
glosses: The threadfish.
glosses: A fish, Elagatis pinnulatis, the runner.
Derived terms: the shoemaker always wears the worst shoes
the shoemaker's children go barefoot
zoom in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzuːm ˈɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: zooms in
form: zooming in
form: zoomed in
form: zoomed in
Etymology: From zoom + in.
Senses: examples: text: The camera operator will zoom in on the subject for a close-up shot.
text: The photographer decided to zoom in on the details of the flower.
glosses: To increase the focal length of a zoom lens in order to obtain a magnified image, or a close-up.
examples: text: You can zoom in on the map to get a better view of the city.
glosses: To manipulate a display (such as a computer screen) so as to make the image larger.
Related terms: enlarge
magnify
zoom out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzuːm ˈaʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: zooms out
form: zooming out
form: zoomed out
form: zoomed out
Etymology: From zoom + out.
Senses: examples: text: The director asked to zoom out for a wider shot of the landscape.
text: The drone's camera began to zoom out as it ascended higher into the sky.
glosses: To decrease the focal length of a zoom lens in order to obtain a reduced magnification of the image, or a wider-angle view.
examples: text: You can zoom out on the screen to see the entire document.
glosses: To manipulate a display (such as a computer screen) so as to make the image smaller and possibly less detailed.
zoophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzəʊ.əfɪliə/
ipa: /ˈzəʊ.əʊfɪliə/
ipa: /ˈzoʊ.əfiliə/
ipa: /ˈzoʊ.oʊfiliə/
rhymes: -ɪliə
Forms: form: zoophilias
form: zoöphilia
Etymology: From zoo- + -philia.
Senses: glosses: A paraphilia involving the sexual attraction of people to non-human animals.
glosses: The human sexual attraction or arousal to non-sapient animals.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:zoophilia.
glosses: Excessive fondness for animals.
Related terms: zoophile
Owen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊɪn/
ipa: /ˈəʊɪn/
rhymes: -əʊɪn
rhymes: -əʊən
Etymology: From various origins. See below
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
A male given name from Welsh, an anglicization of Welsh Owain.
glosses: A male given name.
A male given name from Irish, an anglicization of Irish Eoghan.
examples: text: Please “Believe” that Jake Owen will not allow people to diss the LGBTQ community.
ref: 2019 June 27, Lisa Respers France, “Country star Jake Owen claps back at anti-LGBTQ commenter”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic] derived from the given name.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic], a variant of McKeown.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from Scottish Gaelic [in turn originating as a patronymic], a variant of MacEwen.
glosses: A place name:
A town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
glosses: A place name:
A rural community in Wakefield council area, South Australia.
glosses: A place name:
An unincorporated community in Indiana; named for county official John Owen.
glosses: A place name:
A ghost town in Lincoln County, Missouri; named for local merchant James W. Owen.
glosses: A place name:
A minor city in Clark County, Wisconsin; named for the John S. Owen Company.
glosses: A place name:
A number of townships in the United States, including one in Illinois, four in Indiana and one in Iowa, listed under Owen Township.
Derived terms: Owen Falls
Owenian
Owenism
Owenist
Owenite
Owensboro
Owen Sound
Owen Stanley Range
Owenton
St Owen's Cross
wer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wers
form: were
Etymology: From Middle English wer, were, from Old English wer (“man”), from Proto-West Germanic *wer, from Proto-Germanic *weraz, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós (“man, freeman”).
Cognate with Middle High German wër (“man”), Swedish värbror (“brother-in-law”), Norwegian verfader (“father-in-law”), Latin vir (“man, husband”), Old Irish fer, Middle Welsh gwr. The original meaning of “man” is now preserved only in compounds like werewolf, were wolf (“man-wolf”) and wergeld, were gild (“man gold (payment)”).
Senses: examples: text: […]the character of a horseman was inseparable connected with the knight—the military attendant of the baron, who was himself nothing more than the Wer, or Man, of the king—even the armiger, […]
ref: 1862, E. William Robertson, Scotland Under Her Early Kings, page 137:
text: Further is this wort of two kinds, wer and wife, or male and female. The wer, or male, hath white blossoms, and the wife, or female, hath red or brown; either is beneficial and wonderlike, and they have on them wondrous virtue.
ref: 1864, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England … from Brit. mus. ms. Cotton. Vitellius C. III, page 205:
glosses: A man; a male; a husband
examples: text: Under the system of money compensation, the kindred of the slain must demand payment of the wer, or prosecute the feud. They had the right to the wer when paid, and must by oath release the slayer and his kindred from the feud.
ref: 1876, Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law, page 144:
text: It was so in the England of Alfred's day; the maternal kinsfolk paid a third of the wer. The Leges Henrici, which about such a matter will not be inventing new rules, tell us that the paternal kinsfolk pay and receive two-thirds, the maternal kinsfolk one-third of the wer; and this is borne out by other evidence.
ref: 1895, Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland, “Inheritance”, in The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: At the University Press; Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, & Company, →OCLC, § 1 (Antiquities), page 239:
glosses: A fine for slaying a man; wergeld.
Related terms: were
were-
werewolf
wergeld
world
wer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of were.
wem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛm/
rhymes: -ɛm
Forms: form: wems
form: weam
form: weem
form: wame
form: wan
Etymology: From Middle English wem, wemme, from Old English womm (“stain, spot”), from Proto-Germanic *wammaz (“stain, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Icelandic vamm (“loss, damage”), Latin vomō (“to vomit”, verb) (whence English vomit), Ancient Greek ἐμέω (eméō, “to spew”) (English emesis), Lithuanian vémti (“to vomit”), Sanskrit वमति (vamati, “to vomit”). The sense development would be "vomit" > "stain", "fault".
Senses: examples: text: Smock, climbe a-pace, that I maie see my ioyes; / Oh heauen and paradize are all but toyes / Compar'd with this sight I now behould, / Which well might keepe a man from being olde. / A prettie rysing wombe without a weame / That shone as bright as anie siluer streame ...
ref: 1593, Thomas Nashe, The Choice of Valentines:
text: "It is even so," he added, as he gazed on the Sub-Prior with astonishment; "neither wem nor wound — not so much as a rent in his frock!"
ref: 1822, sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]), Historical romances of the author of Waverley, page 513
text: The lawe of the lord is without wem, and conuertith soulis : the witnessyng of the lord is feithful, and gyueth wisdom to litle children.
ref: 1846, William Maskell, Monumenta ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae, page 8:
text: That "whole art" consisted in putting together about six strophes of poesy so that the words and the tune should be welded together without joint and without wem.
ref: 1934, Ezra Pound, ABC of reading, page 39:
text: […] but it is a perfect illustration of the vision which haunted Blake all his days,—the vision of Paradise, an earthly Paradise in which there is neither wem nor wrinkle, which basks in the radiance of its own innocence.
ref: 1936, Blanche Mary Kelly, The Well of English:
glosses: A spot, stain, or mark; (by extension) a (moral) blemish or fault.
yachtsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yachtsmen
form: yachtman
Etymology: From yacht + -s- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Irish Sketch Book published together with The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh and Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, New York: Caxton, Chapter 10, p. 379,
[…] and so ended, not without a sigh on my part, one of the merriest six-hour rides that five yachtsmen, one cockney, five women and a child, the carman, and a countryman with an alpeen, ever took in their lives.
text: We knew him already by sight as the owner of a little five-ton cutter, which he sailed alone apparently, a fellow yachtsman in the unpretending band of fanatics who cruise at the mouth of the Thames. But the first time he addressed the waiter sharply as ‘steward’ we knew him at once for a sailor as well as a yachtsman.
ref: 1913, Joseph Conrad, Chance, London: Methuen, published 1914, Part 1, Chapter One, p. 3:
text: […] needless to say, the thing that all the cautious and experienced yachtsmen had warned him against happened. The black squall out of nowhere, the sudden, senseless frenzy of wind and rain and waves…
ref: 1963, Aldous Huxley, chapter 1, in Island, New York: Bantam, page 6:
glosses: A man who sails a yacht.
Hypernyms: yachtist
yachtsperson
Derived terms: yachtsmanlike
yachtsmanship
Related terms: yachtsperson
yachtswoman
yachtswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yachtswomen
Etymology: From yacht + -s- + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who sails a yacht.
Related terms: yachter
yachtsman
yackety-yak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yackety-yaks
form: yakety-yak
form: yakkety-yak
form: yakity-yak
form: yackety-yack
form: yackedy-yack
form: yackedy yack
Etymology: Resembles yak (“to chatter”) + -ety or yacket + -y with reduplication; all are ultimately imitative or sound-symbolic in origin.
Senses: glosses: prolonged chatter; uninterrupted, idle talk; gossip
Synonyms: gossip
yackety-yak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yackety-yaks
form: yackety-yakking
form: yackety-yakked
form: yackety-yakked
form: yakety-yak
form: yakkety-yak
form: yakity-yak
form: yackety-yack
form: yackedy-yack
form: yackedy yack
Etymology: Resembles yak (“to chatter”) + -ety or yacket + -y with reduplication; all are ultimately imitative or sound-symbolic in origin.
Senses: glosses: To talk pointlessly and uninterruptedly.
yah
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌː/
ipa: /jɑː/
rhymes: -ʌː
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: An alternative pronunciation, equivalent of yeah and yes.
Senses: examples: text: Yah, we did go along but it turned out the wedding was a load of nonsense.
glosses: Yes.
yah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌː/
ipa: /jɑː/
rhymes: -ʌː
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: An alternative pronunciation, equivalent of yeah and yes.
Senses: glosses: An expression uttered to encourage a horse to run faster.
yah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌː/
ipa: /jɑː/
rhymes: -ʌː
rhymes: -ɑː
rhymes: -ɑː
ipa: /jʌː/
ipa: /jɑː/
rhymes: -ʌː
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: yahs
Etymology: From the pronunciation of “yes” which such people use.
Senses: glosses: An upper-class person, especially a Sloane Ranger.
Related terms: gap yah
yah
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌː/
ipa: /jɑː/
rhymes: -ʌː
rhymes: -ɑː
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: From you.
Senses: examples: text: "Hey, Sis, do yah want a Hertz Donut?" one of them sweetly said as the other one held out a donut bag. She reached for it. Her step-sister snatched the bag away and socked her hard in the arm instead.
ref: 2006, Carmen Portnoy, The Money Pie: A Recipe for Women Investors, page 6:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of you.
Related terms: sense: terms containing the word "yah", some of which may be derived from the above terms, i.e. unsorted
word: ai yah
sense: terms containing the word "yah", some of which may be derived from the above terms, i.e. unsorted
word: hi-yah
sense: terms containing the word "yah", some of which may be derived from the above terms, i.e. unsorted
word: kum ba yah
sense: terms containing the word "yah", some of which may be derived from the above terms, i.e. unsorted
word: lau yah
sense: terms containing the word "yah", some of which may be derived from the above terms, i.e. unsorted
word: OK yah
sense: terms containing the word "yah", some of which may be derived from the above terms, i.e. unsorted
word: yah boo
sense: terms containing the word "yah", some of which may be derived from the above terms, i.e. unsorted
word: yah-boo
sense: terms containing the word "yah", some of which may be derived from the above terms, i.e. unsorted
word: yah boo sucks
yardarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yardarms
form: yard-arm
form: yard arm
Etymology: From yard + arm.
Senses: examples: text: Sun's under the yardarm, sis!
ref: 2006, Megan Kelso, “1: The Squirrel Mother”, in The Squirrel Mother: Stories, →ISBN, page 13:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The outer end of a yard, often equipped with blocks for reeving signal halyards.
yardarm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yardarms
form: yardarming
form: yardarmed
form: yardarmed
form: yard-arm
form: yard arm
Etymology: From yard + arm.
Senses: glosses: To be close or nearby each other.
Derived terms: the sun is over the yardarm
yardarm and yardarm
yardarm it
yardarm to
yardarm to yardarm
yardarm with
Related terms: yard
yawning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɔːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yawn
yawning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɔːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːnɪŋ
Forms: form: yawnings
Senses: examples: text: Her vivacity appeared as graceful as it was buoyant; her gay spirit seemed the musical overflowings of youth and happiness; her eye and cheek brightened together; and her sweet glad laugh was as catching as yawning.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 189:
glosses: The action of the verb yawn.
yawning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɔːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːnɪŋ
Forms: form: more yawning
form: most yawning
Senses: examples: text: yawning commuters
glosses: That yawns or yawn.
examples: text: a yawning chasm; the shark's yawning jaws
text: That experience really taught me something. That deep down inside, I am broken, and that I'm using work to plaster over some yawning gap within myself.
ref: 2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 122:
text: The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what.
ref: 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
text: But always and ever there is a yawning chasm below[.]
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 1:
glosses: Wide open.
Derived terms: yawningly
yawningness
yearbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yearbooks
form: year-book
Etymology: From year + book. Compare Saterland Frisian Jierbouk (“yearbook”), West Frisian jierboek (“yearbook”), Dutch jaarboek (“yearbook”), German Low German Johrbook (“yearbook”), German Jahrbuch (“yearbook”), Swedish årsbok (“yearbook”), Faroese árbók (“annal, record, yearbook”).
Senses: glosses: A reference book, published annually.
examples: text: A New Jersey high school will issue new yearbooks after pro-Trump slogans and logos were removed from photos that some students submitted.
ref: 2017 June 16, Doug Criss and Ellie Kaufman, “School issues new yearbooks after Trump’s name is removed from photos”, in CNN:
text: A 2017 yearbook photograph obtained by CNN shows Robert Westman, later known as Robin Westman, then a student at Annunciation Catholic grade school in Minneapolis.
ref: 2025 August 27, Casey Tolan, Audrey Ash, Allison Gordon, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Rob Kuznia, John Miller, “Police examine online videos, writings possibly linked to Minneapolis church shooting suspect”, in CNN:
topics: education
glosses: A publication compiled by the graduating class of a high school or college, recording the year's events and containing photographs of students and faculty.
topics: education
glosses: A school subject in which students learn journalistic skills by compiling a yearbook.
Derived terms: yearbooker
yearbookish
yearbooklike
yearbooky
yearn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɜːn/
enpr: yûrn
ipa: /jɝn/
homophone: yern
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: yearns
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English yernen, yern (“to express or feel desire; to desire, long or wish for; to lust after; to ask or demand for”) [and other forms], from Old English ġeornan (“to desire, yearn; to beg”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *girnijan (“to be eager for, desire”), from Proto-Germanic *girnijaną (“to desire, want”), from *gernaz (“eager, willing”) (from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to yearn for”)) + *-janą (suffix forming factitive verbs from adjectives).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: ref: 1917 August 12, “A YEARN FOR PEACE; Pan-Germanism Denounced”, in Sunday Times, Perth, WA, page 1:
text: Gibbs now said he wasn't going to pull any punches with Gary when he knew how jealous a man could get, so he also wanted to tell him that Phil Hansen was reputed to have a yearn for attractive ladies.
ref: 1979, Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song:
text: "After he had made a record date with us in 1935, I always had a yearn for Ben," he said years later.
ref: 2010, Frank Buchmann-Moller, Someone to Watch Over Me: The Life and Music of Ben Webster, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 57:
text: "My guess, however, is that it has because there are many people who have a yearn for sex outside their relationship but wouldn't have the slightest idea about how to do it or do it safely," Prof Schwartz added.
ref: 2014 February 13, AFP, “Why internet adultery numbers are soaring”, in New Zealand Herald:
synonyms: word: lust
word: urge
word: ache
word: appetency
word: appetite
word: craving
word: hankering
word: hunger
word: impulse
word: itch
word: jones
word: letch
word: lickerish
word: longing
word: lust
word: pining
word: thirst
word: urge
word: yearning
word: yen
glosses: A strong desire or longing; a yearning, a yen.
yearn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɜːn/
enpr: yûrn
ipa: /jɝn/
homophone: yern
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: yearns
form: yearning
form: yearned
form: yearned
Etymology: Probably either:
* a variant of earn (“to curdle, as milk”) (though this word is attested later), from Middle English erne, ernen (“to coagulate, congeal”) (chiefly South Midlands) [and other forms], a metathetic variant of rennen (“to run; to coagulate, congeal”), from Old English rinnan (“to run”) (with the variants iernan, irnan) and Old Norse rinna (“to move quickly, run; of liquid: to flow, run; to melt”), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”); or
* a back-formation from yearning (“(Scotland, archaic) rennet; calf (or other animal’s) stomach used to make rennet”).
Senses: synonyms: word: earn
word: run
glosses: Of milk: to curdle, especially in the cheesemaking process.
glosses: Of cheese: to be made from curdled milk.
glosses: To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.
examples: text: Also his Honour the Duke will accept ane of our Dunlop cheeses, and it sall be my faut if a better was ever yearned in Lowden.
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 24:
glosses: To make (cheese) from curdled milk.
yearning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɝnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈjɜːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nɪŋ
Forms: form: yearnings
Etymology: From Middle English yerning, from Old English ġierning, ġierninge. Equivalent to the gerund (yearn + -ing). yearn comes from Proto-West Germanic *girnijan, from Proto-Germanic *girnijaną, from *gernaz (“eager, willing”) + *-janą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to yearn for”). By surface analysis, yearn + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.
glosses: A wistful or melancholy longing.
Related terms: yearn
yearning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɝnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈjɜːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English yerning, from Old English ġierning, ġierninge. Equivalent to the gerund (yearn + -ing). yearn comes from Proto-West Germanic *girnijan, from Proto-Germanic *girnijaną, from *gernaz (“eager, willing”) + *-janą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to yearn for”). By surface analysis, yearn + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yearn
yearning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɝnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈjɜːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nɪŋ
Forms: form: yearnings
Etymology: PIE word
 *ḱóm
From earlier yerning, from Middle English yernyng, erning, renning. From Old English rynning and gerunnen, geurnen (“run together, coagulated, curdled”), past participles of gerinnan, geirnan, respectively. Influenced by Middle English yern (“to (cause to) coagulate or curdle”), Old English iernan (“to run, flow”), metathesized forms derived from the same origin. From verbal prefix ge- + rinnan (“to run”). First element is from Proto-West Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“with, by”); second element is from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃r̥-néw-ti, from *h₃er- (“to move”). Doublet of rennet, run.
Senses: glosses: Rennet (an enzyme to curdle milk in order to make cheese).
Related terms: yearn
earn
rennet
yellow fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The town up the road was overcome by yellow fever, he said. All travelers warned away.
ref: 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 257:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: black vomit
word: yellow jack
word: Bulam fever
hypernyms: mosquito-borne disease
glosses: An acute febrile illness of tropical regions, caused by a flavivirus (Yellow fever virus) and spread by certain mosquitoes, characterised by jaundice, black vomit and the absence of urination.
examples: text: Your girl want me, we both know / Cause she got yellow fever
ref: 2015, “In This B*tch”, in WORLDWIDE, performed by Jay Park:
synonyms: Asian fever
hyponyms: Japanese fever
coordinate_terms: Arab fever
black fever
blue fever
jungle fever
white fever
Indian fever
glosses: An attraction to ethnically East Asian men or women, expressed by non-East Asian (especially white European male or white American) people.
examples: text: He's got the yellow fever; Once get the sight of gold and you are poisoned.
ref: 1910, Giacomo Puccini, La Fanciulla Del West: The Girl of the Golden West:
text: An onze a day, two a day, or three—every one has the gold or yellow fever. Last night several of the most respectible American residents of this town arrived home from a visit to the gold regions.
ref: 1951, George Peter Hammond, The Larkin Papers, Univ of California Press:
text: But the true yellow fever that has abounded in the lower gold-bearing valleys around Guanay can possibly illustrate in sickness what takes place in actuality among the sons of men who are seduced by the lust for gold.
ref: 1963, Robert Raine Geyer, Death Trails in Bolivia to Faith Triumphant:
text: In the stories he wrote and published about the gold rush, Dickens does not resolve characters' feelings of class resentment so much as explain them in non-political terms […] Dickens spreads this strain of 'yellow fever' among his characters, making their labour unrest seem both understandable and pathological.
ref: 2000 October 10, W. Jacobson, Dickens and the Children of Empire, Springer, →ISBN, pages 68–69:
synonyms: gold fever
glosses: A lust for gold; an obsession with seeking gold ore.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Aedes aegypti
word: yellow-fever mosquito
Related terms: sense: sexual preference
word: banana
sense: sexual preference
word: egg
sense: sexual preference
word: rice king
sense: sexual preference
word: sideways
sense: sexual preference
word: twinkie
sense: sexual preference
word: weeaboo
Huang He
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhwɑŋ hə/
ipa: /ˈhwæŋ hə/
enpr: hwängʹ hǔʹ
Forms: form: Huang Ho
form: Hwang Ho
form: Hoamho
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 黃河 /黄河 (Huáng Hé, literally “Yellow River”).
Senses: examples: text: Temüjin was about 66 years old. His hair and beard had long since turned white. He had come to lay siege to Ningxia (now called Yinchuan), the fortified capital of the Minyak empire of the Xixia, against whom he had been waging war for over a year, and he had retreated to the other side of the Yellow River (Huang He), not far from the Great Wall, on high ground, a place where he could find some refreshment, for he was already aware that it would not be long before he entered the realm of his brave ancestors.
ref: 1990, Michel Hoang, translated by Ingrid Cranfield, Genghis Khan, Saqi Books, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: Synonym of Yellow River: a major river in northern China, passing through Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong provinces as well as Ningxia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions; the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Yellow River
extra: a major river in northern China, passing through Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong provinces as well as Ningxia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions; the Mandarin Chinese-derived name