cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
polymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒl.ɨ.mə/
ipa: /ˈpɑ.lɪ.mɚ/
Forms: form: polymers
Etymology: From poly- + -mer, from Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”) + μέρος (méros, “part”). Coined by Jöns Jacob Berzelius in 1833, though his definition was quite different from the modern one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
hypernyms: molecule
;
compound
coordinate_terms: monomer
;
oligomer
;
dimer
trimer
tetramer
pentamer
hexamer
heptamer
septamer
octamer
nonamer
decamer
glosses: A long or larger molecule consisting of a chain or network of many repeating units, formed by chemically bonding together many identical or similar small molecules called monomers. A polymer is formed by polymerization, the joining of many monomer molecules.
examples: text: The water absorbency of the anionically starch-grafted AA/AM absorbent is markedly affected by the pH of the buffer solution at different ionic strengths. The charge of the ionic monomer affects the pH sensitivity of the superabsorbent polymers. An acidic superabsorbent normally ionizes at high pH but unionizes at low pH.
ref: 2000 October 1, Suda Kiatkamjornwong, Wararuk Chomsaksakul, Manit Sonsuk, “Radiation modification of water absorption of cassava starch by acrylic acid/acrylamide”, in Radiation Physics and Chemistry, volume 59, number 4, →DOI, page 423:
text: Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
ref: 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
glosses: A material consisting of such polymer molecules.
Hyponyms: biopolymer
block polymer
copolymer
exopolymer
geopolymer
glycopolymer
graft polymer
heteropolymer
homopolymer
hydropolymer
hydroxypolymer
hyperpolymer
inorganic polymer
interpolymer
intrapolymer
lipopolymer
macropolymer
metallopolymer
micropolymer
monopolymer
multipolymer
nanopolymer
oligopolymer
photopolymer
piezopolymer
ribopolymer
star polymer
stereospecific polymer
technopolymer
terpolymer
thermopolymer
tribopolymer
tripolymer
Derived terms: autopolymer
azopolymer
biopolymer
bipolymer
block polymer
ceramer
colestipol
copolymer
exopolymer
fluoropolymer
geopolymer
glycopolymer
graft polymer
halato-telechelic polymer
halfmer
heteropolymer
hexapolymer
homopolymer
hydropolymer
hydroxypolymer
hyperpolymer
inorganic polymer
interpolymer
intrapolymer
lipopolymer
macropolymer
metallopolymer
micropolymer
monopolymer
multipolymer
nanopolymer
oligopolymer
photopolymer
piezopolymer
polymerase
polymeric
polymerics
polymeride
polymerise
polymerism
polymerization
polymerize
polymerlike
polymerogenic
polymerone
polymerous
polymersome
polyplex
prepolymer
ribopolymer
silane-modified polymer
star polymer
stereospecific polymer
superpolymer
technopolymer
terpolymer
thermopolymer
tribopolymer
tripolymer
Related terms: word: multimer
english: many artificial polymers are plastics
translation: many artificial polymers are plastics
word: plastic
polyethylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyethylenes
Etymology: From poly- + ethylene.
Senses: examples: text: For eons, the debris has contained the same things — flecks from plant and animal carcasses, feces, mucus, dust, microbes, viruses — and transported the ocean’s carbon to be stored on the seafloor. Increasingly, however, marine snowfall is being infiltrated by microplastics: fibers and fragments of polyamide, polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate. And this fauxfall appears to be altering our planet’s ancient cooling process.
ref: 2022 April 3, Sabrina Imbler, “In the Ocean, It’s Snowing Microplastics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2022:
text: The most abundant chemical in the plastics is polyethylene, which is used for single-use packaging, plastic bags and containers such as bottles.
ref: 2023 June 5, Yvonne Gordon, “Microplastics found in every sample of water taken during Ocean Race”, in The Guardian:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: PE
polyethene[IUPAC]] name>
polythene
hypernyms: polyolefin
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polymer#Noun
plastic#Noun
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substance#Noun
compound#Noun
material#Noun
coordinate_terms: polypropylene
polypropene
glosses: A polymer consisting of many ethylene monomers bonded together; used for kitchenware, containers etc.
Derived terms: chlorinated polyethylene
CPE
chlorosulfonated polyethylene
CSPE
cross-linked polyethylene
high-density polyethylene
low-density polyethylene
PE
polyethylene glycol
polyethylene terephthalate
polyethylenic
polywrap
Terylene
Related terms: polymethylene
tenebrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenebrists
Etymology: Back-formation from tenebrism.
Senses: examples: text: Caravaggio was a tenebrist.
glosses: A painter working in the style of tenebrism.
Synonyms: chiaroscurist
baramin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baramins
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew בָּרָא (bārāˀ, “he created”) + מיִן (mīʸn, “kind”) (misunderstood to mean "created kind"), coined by American creationist Frank Lewis Marsh in 1941.
Senses: topics: creationism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A set of organisms descended from some originally created species (based on the Biblical doctrine of Special Creation); a kind.
Derived terms: apobaramin
archaebaramin
baraminic
baraminology
holobaramin
monobaramin
neobaramin
paleobaramin
polybaramin
baraminology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baramin + -ology, coined by American creationist Kurt Wise in 1990.
Senses: glosses: The classification of organisms based on the Biblical doctrine of Special Creation, done mainly by Creationists; the study of the created kinds.
Synonyms: discontinuity systematics
Derived terms: baraminological
baraminologist
eisegesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪsɪˈdʒiːsɪs/
ipa: /aɪsɪˈd͡ʒisɪs/
Forms: form: eisegeses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εἰς (eis, “into”) and English exegesis. Historically unrelated to the Ancient Greek εἰσήγησις (eisḗgēsis, “proposing, advising”).
Senses: examples: text: For the benefit of readers who may have been influenced by certain eisegeses of MacCorquodale and Meehl (1948), let us here emphasize: Whether or not an interpretation of a test's properties or relations involves questions of construct validity is to be decided by examining the entire body of evidence offered, together with what is asserted about the test in the context of this evidence.
ref: 1973, Paul Everett Meehl, Psychodiagnosis: Selected Papers, page 7:
text: To be sure, there are those who are more sophisticated in their dogmatic eisegeses, but the offense is not thereby lessened.
ref: 1984, Kelly Miller Smith, Social Crisis Preaching: The Lyman Beecher Lectures, 1983:
text: This is only one of a plethora of eisegeses by which images of Mary were detected in the OT.
ref: 2003, James Leslie Houlden, Jesus in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia, volume 1, page 599:
text: I include this here in that as well as finding things out of context (eisegesis – things read into a text) I also found errors of accuracy which also contributed to my not trusting other parts of writings of authors for women in leadership.
ref: 2008, [1982], Jacques More, Leadership is Male? eBook, page 28:
glosses: An interpretation, especially of Scripture, that reflects the personal ideas or viewpoint of the interpreter; reading something into a text that is not there.
Related terms: exegesis
septuagenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛptəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/
ipa: /ˌsɛptəwəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/
ipa: /ˌsɛpt͡ʃəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/
ipa: /ˌsɛpt͡ʃəwəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/
ipa: /ˌsɛptjʊəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/
ipa: /ˌsɛpt͡ʃəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/
ipa: /ˌsɛpt͡ʃʊəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/
Forms: form: septuagenarians
Etymology: From Latin septuagenarius (“containing 70”) + -an (suffix forming adjectives and representative nouns), either directly or via French septuagénaire, from Latin septuagenus (“70 each”) + -arius (“-ary”), from Latin septuāginta (“seven tens, 70”).
Senses: examples: text: Mary Moon, she's a vegetarian.
Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon.
Mary Moon, who will outlive all the septuagenarians.
ref: 1994, “New Age Girl”, in A Different Story, performed by Deadeye Dick:
text: For a ley hunter, local people – particularly the elderly – can be mines of information. Devereux and Thomson recount how they asked a septuagenarian in a remote village the location of an elusive stone, without mentioning the subject of leys: […]
ref: 2010, Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate, The Book of English Magic:
text: “Let Them All Talk” is as breezy as an ocean cruise (pre-Covid), and mostly a welcome excuse to enjoy its three septuagenarian leads – Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest – as they banter their way across the Atlantic.
ref: 2020 December 10, Brian Lowry, “‘Let Them All Talk’ takes a breezy boat trip with Meryl Streep and company”, in CNN:
glosses: Synonym of seventysomething: a person between 70 and 79 years old.
synonyms: word: seventysomething
extra: a person between 70 and 79 years old
septuagenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛptəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/
ipa: /ˌsɛptəwəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/
ipa: /ˌsɛpt͡ʃəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/
ipa: /ˌsɛpt͡ʃəwəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/
ipa: /ˌsɛptjʊəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/
ipa: /ˌsɛpt͡ʃəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/
ipa: /ˌsɛpt͡ʃʊəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/
Etymology: From Latin septuagenarius (“containing 70”) + -an (suffix forming adjectives and representative nouns), either directly or via French septuagénaire, from Latin septuagenus (“70 each”) + -arius (“-ary”), from Latin septuāginta (“seven tens, 70”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: vicenarian
tricenarian
quadragenarian
quinquagenarian
semicentenarian
hexagenarian
sexagenarian
octogenarian
nonagenarian
centenarian
supercentenarian
glosses: Of or related to seventysomethings.
Synonyms: septuagenary
snollygoster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snollygosters
Etymology: 19th-century American English. Possibly from snallygaster, a mythical beast that preys on poultry and children; possibly from Pennsylvania German schnelle geeschter, from German schnell (“quick”) + Geist (“spirit”).
Largely obsolete, it briefly resurfaced in 2009 in Britain as part of a debate over MPs' expenses.
Senses: examples: text: […]I called for him to publish his expenses so that all Gloucester voters could see that he isn't a snollygoster[…]
ref: 2009 May 19, “Tory issues apology after calling Labour rival a "c***"”, in Mirror, retrieved 06 Feb 2014:
text: […] I recently discovered the word “snollygoster”: not a character from “Harry Potter”, but an unprincipled person in office motivated by personal rather than public gain.
ref: [2021 May 12, The Hon. Siobhain McDonagh MP, “Fairness at Work and Power in Communities”, in parliamentary debates (Commons Chamber), volume 712, retrieved 13 May 2021:
glosses: A shrewd person not guided by principles, especially a politician.
beneficial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕnəfĭsh'əl
ipa: /ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃəl/
rhymes: -ɪʃəl
Forms: form: more beneficial
form: most beneficial
Etymology: From Late Latin beneficiālis (“beneficial”), from Latin beneficium (“benefit, favor, kindness”).
Senses: examples: text: Recycling and reusing garbage can be beneficial to the environment.
text: Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
ref: 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3:
glosses: Helpful or good to something or someone.
glosses: Relating to a benefice.
Synonyms: sense: helpful or good
word: advantageous
sense: helpful or good
word: behooveful
sense: helpful or good
word: helpful
sense: helpful or good
word: useful
sense: relating to a benefice
word: usufructuary
sense: relating to a benefice
word: usufructuous
Derived terms: beneficial insect
beneficiality
beneficially
beneficialness
beneficial owner
cardiobeneficial
nonbeneficial
renobeneficial
unbeneficial
beneficial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕnəfĭsh'əl
ipa: /ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃəl/
rhymes: -ɪʃəl
Forms: form: beneficials
Etymology: From Late Latin beneficiālis (“beneficial”), from Latin beneficium (“benefit, favor, kindness”).
Senses: examples: text: Daytime temperatures may be too hot for just-released beneficials, and birds and other predators are out in full force during the day.
ref: 1997, Insect Control Guide, volume 9, Meister Publishing, page 29:
glosses: Something that provides a benefit.
sanguinivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪvəɹəs
Etymology: Latin sanguis (blood) + vorare (to devour).
Senses: glosses: Subsisting on a diet of blood.
Related terms: sanguinivore
nonagenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɑnəd͡ʒɪˈnɛriən/
ipa: /ˌnoʊnəd͡ʒɪˈnɛriən/
ipa: /ˌnɒnəd͡ʒɪˈnɛːrɪən/
ipa: /ˌnəʊnəd͡ʒɪˈnɛːrɪən/
Forms: form: nonagenarians
Etymology: From Latin nōnāgēnārius (“containing ninety”) + -an (suffix forming adjectives and representative nouns), either directly or via French nonagénaire, from nōnāgēnī (“ninety each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from nōnāginta (“nine tens, ninety”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ninetysomething: a person between 90 and 99 years old.
synonyms: word: ninetysomething
extra: a person between 90 and 99 years old
nonagenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɑnəd͡ʒɪˈnɛriən/
ipa: /ˌnoʊnəd͡ʒɪˈnɛriən/
ipa: /ˌnɒnəd͡ʒɪˈnɛːrɪən/
ipa: /ˌnəʊnəd͡ʒɪˈnɛːrɪən/
Etymology: From Latin nōnāgēnārius (“containing ninety”) + -an (suffix forming adjectives and representative nouns), either directly or via French nonagénaire, from nōnāgēnī (“ninety each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from nōnāginta (“nine tens, ninety”).
Senses: examples: text: "But what’s that got to do with your health and longevity?" the neighbor inquired.
"Why," said the nonagenarian, "I've spent most of my life in the open air."
ref: 1954, Alben W. Barkley, editor, That Reminds Me, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17:
coordinate_terms: vicenarian
tricenarian
quadragenarian
quinquagenarian
semicentenarian
hexagenarian
sexagenarian
septuagenarian
octogenarian
centenarian
semisupercentenarian
supercentenarian
glosses: Of or related to ninetysomethings.
centenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛnəˈnɛɹiən/
ipa: /ˌsɛntəˈnɛɹiən/
ipa: /ˌsɛntəˈnɛːrɪən/
Forms: form: centenarians
Etymology: From Latin centēnārius + -an, equivalent to centenary (“100 year, 100th anniversary”) + -an (“person”).
Senses: examples: text: The average age of these 203 centenarians was 102 years 5 months and 25 days.
ref: 1894 October 19, “Sex and Long Life”, in Public Opinion: A Comprehensive Summary of the Press Throughout the World on All Important Current Topics, volume LXVI, number 1,726, London:
text: He proposed the formation of the Louisiana Live Oak Association, whose members would be trees at least a hundred years old. First among the centenarians he listed was the Locke Breaux oak, the largest tree he knew, measuring 10.7 m (35 ft.) in circumference, 22.8 m (75 ft.) tall, with a spread of 50.6 m (166 ft.) in 1932.
ref: 2003, Kit Anderson, Nature, Culture, and Big Old Trees: Live Oaks and Ceibas in the Landscapes of Louisiana and Guatemala, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 136:
text: Centenarians may become the norm, rather than rarities who generate a headline in the local newspaper.
ref: 2014 September 18, Gregg Easterbrook, “What Happens When We All Live to 100?”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
glosses: One who or that which is at least 100 years old.
Synonyms: word: hundred-year-old
english: inexact
translation: inexact
word: supercentenarian
word: centenary
Coordinate terms: teen
teenager (13–19)
vicenarian (20–29)
twentysomething (20–29)
tricenarian (30–39)
thirtysomething (30–39)
quadragenarian (40–49)
fortysomething (40–49)
quinquagenarian (50–59)
semicentenarian (50–59)
fiftysomething (50–59)
sexagenarian (60–69)
sixtysomething (60–69)
septuagenarian (70–79)
seventysomething (70–79)
octogenarian (80–89)
eightysomething (80–89)
nonagenarian (90–99)
ninetysomething (90–99)
semisupercentenarian (105–109)
supercentenarian (110+)
Derived terms: centenarianism
semicentenarian
ultracentenarian (100+)
semisupercentenarian (105–109)
supercentenarian (110+)
supracentenarian (110+)
sesquicentenarian (150–159)
bicentenarian (200–299)
multicentenarian (200+)
tricentenarian (300–399)
quadricentenarian (400–499)
quincentenarian (500–599)
centenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛnəˈnɛɹiən/
ipa: /ˌsɛntəˈnɛɹiən/
ipa: /ˌsɛntəˈnɛːrɪən/
Forms: form: more centenarian
form: most centenarian
Etymology: From Latin centēnārius + -an, equivalent to centenary (“100 year, 100th anniversary”) + -an (“person”).
Senses: glosses: Aged 100 years or more; extremely old.
glosses: Of or relating to centenarians or a centenary celebration.
Synonyms: sense: aged 100 years
word: hundred-year-old
sense: aged 100 years
word: centenary
epopt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epopts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπόπτης (epóptēs, “initiate into mysteries”).
Senses: glosses: An initiate in the Eleusinian Mysteries; one who has attended the epopteia.
glosses: One instructed in the mysteries of a secret system.
Derived terms: epoptic
epopteia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epopteias
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐποπτεία (epopteía).
Senses: glosses: The final initiation rite in the Eleusinian Mysteries.
oneirocritic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˌnaɪə.ɹəˈkɹɪt.ɪk/
ipa: /oʊˌnaɪ.ɹəˈkɹɪt.ɪk/
Forms: form: oneirocritics
form: oneirocritick
form: onirocritic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀνειροκριτικός (oneirokritikós, “fit for interpreting dreams”), from ὄνειρος (óneiros, “dream”) + κριτικός (kritikós, “fit for judging”), from κριτής (kritḗs, “judge”).
Senses: glosses: An interpreter of dreams.
Synonyms: sense: interpreter of dreams
word: oneirocrite
sense: interpreter of dreams
word: oneiroscopist
Derived terms: oneirocritical
oneirocritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˌnaɪə.ɹəˈkɹɪt.ɪk/
ipa: /oʊˌnaɪ.ɹəˈkɹɪt.ɪk/
Forms: form: oneirocritick
form: onirocritic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀνειροκριτικός (oneirokritikós, “fit for interpreting dreams”), from ὄνειρος (óneiros, “dream”) + κριτικός (kritikós, “fit for judging”), from κριτής (kritḗs, “judge”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the interpretation of dreams.
Synonyms: sense: of the interpretation of dreams
word: oneirocritical
jarrah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæɹə/
rhymes: -æɹə
Forms: form: jarrahs
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, resistance to root rot fungus in jarrah trees has a significant heritability (Box 5.1), so jarrahs can evolve to resist the introduced dieback.
ref: 2002, Richard Frankham, David A. Briscoe, Jonathan D. Ballou, Karina H. McInnes, Introduction to Conservation Genetics, page 103:
text: Right here. At the foot of an enormous old-growth jarrah.
ref: 2009, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, page 8:
glosses: A eucalypt tree of species Eucalyptus marginata, occurring in the southwest of Western Australia.
examples: text: The walls were colonial ramparts—logs of jarrah spiked into masonry—with wings as strong as Church buttresses.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Broken-Link Handicap”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 112:
synonyms: jarrahwood
glosses: The wood of this tree.
Coordinate terms: mahogany gum
Derived terms: Jarrahdale
jarrahwood
wigger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈwɪɡə/
rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wiggers
Etymology: From wig + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I flounder about for my diplomacy and give up; it is simply one man against four wiggers, that much is clear, and they are going to fight me down to the wire. "This girl does not need a wig at all," I am forced to say yet once more.
ref: 1984, Arthur Miller, Salesman in Beijing, page 184:
glosses: A maker of wigs.
wigger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈwɪɡə/
rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wiggers
form: wigga
form: whigger
form: whigga
Etymology: Blend of white + nigger. First use appears c. 1988. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: I have often heard the word "wigger" used to describe a white person who supposedly acts and talks "black," while the same type of taunting is put upon a black person who supposedly acts "white."
ref: 1988 April 20, “How race-conscious are high school students today?”, in The Washington Post, number ?, Washington, D.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, column ?:
text: To some extent wiggers are simply the most visible examples of a very American brand of teenage rebellion.
ref: 1999, Leonard Steinhorn et al., By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race, page 178:
text: And I just do not got the patience
To deal with these cocky Caucasians
Who think I'm some wigger who just tries to be black...
ref: 2000, Eminem, The Way I Am:
glosses: A white person, typically young and male, considered to be overly infatuated with African-American or (UK) Afro-Caribbean culture, a cultural appropriator.
qualifier: imprecise
glosses: A nonblack person of any race considered to be inauthentically appropriating black culture and behavior.
examples: text: The Oprah people were on the phone with my mom. Someone had given them my name as an expert on wiggers. You know, Wiggers. White kids who identify themselves with hip-hop. I was an expert on that.
ref: 1994 July 7, William Upski Wimsatt, “Wigger”, in Chicago Reader:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A white person considered to be sincerely appreciative of black culture, as opposed to poseurs and wannabes.
Hypernyms: word: race traitor
Related terms: white nigger
witch
wapanese
weeaboo
peacemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːsmeɪkə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: peacemakers
Etymology: Compound of peace + maker.
Senses: examples: text: Bleſſed are the peacemakers: foꝛ they ſhall bee called the childꝛen of God.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:9:
text: Mr. Carter has celebrated experience as a peacemaker: he mediated the 1978 peace talks between Israel and Egypt at Camp David.
ref: 1989 September 3, R. W. Apple, Jr., “Carter the Peacemaker Now Turns to Ethiopia”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 May 2015:
text: The peacemakers – clergy, Gray’s family and brave residents – placed themselves in the rioters’ way.
ref: 2015 April 28, Ben Brumfield, “Baltimore riots: A few people tried to stop the unrest”, in CNN:
text: We're not just the law, Joe. We're the peacemakers. Like the old Colts.
ref: 2018, Derek B. Miller, American By Day, page 208:
text: “That’s what I want to be: a peacemaker and a unifier,” he said. His time in office so far has not, at least not yet, been the era of peace.
ref: 2025 June 18, Zachary B. Wolf, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump promised a peacemaker presidency. What happened?”, in CNN:
glosses: A person who restores peace, especially by settling disputes; one who engages in peacemaking.
examples: text: Indeed, although the activity of the heart depends on the intrinsic rhythm of its peacemaker […]
ref: 2010, M. Valderrama, V. Navarro, M. Le Van Quyen, “Heart rate variability as measurement of heart-brain interactions”, in Epilepsies:
text: The “heart’s peacemaker” is the node from which the electrical signal for heart beat are […]
ref: 2014, S. Samad, SA. Khan, A. Haq, A. Riaz, “Classification of arrhythmia”, in International Journal of Electrical Energy:
topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Catachresis for pacemaker.
Related terms: peacemonger
cap and ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An early loading system for handguns where the percussion cap, powder, and bullet were separate components loaded individually into the gun. Typically used in early to mid 1800s.
sight radius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sight radiuses
form: sight radii
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The distance between the front and rear sights of a firearm.
lock time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lock times
form: lock-time
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The time, usually measured in milliseconds, from when the trigger is pulled until the firing pin strikes the primer.
New York minute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New York minutes
Senses: examples: text: In a New York minute, everything can change / In a New York minute, you can get out of the rain
ref: 1989, Don Henley, “New York Minute”, in The End of the Innocence:
synonyms: word: instant
word: New York second
word: bat of an eye
word: bit
word: blink of an eye
word: crack
word: eyeblink
word: flash
word: glimpse
word: half a mo
word: instant
word: jiff
word: jiffy
word: jot
word: minute
word: mo
word: moment
word: New York minute
word: New York second
word: no time
word: sec
word: second
word: span
word: split-second
word: spurt
word: stound
word: tick
word: trice
word: twink
word: twinkle
word: twinkling
word: while
glosses: An instant; an extremely short time.
Related terms: hot minute
SMLE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛs ɛm ɛl ˈiː/
Forms: form: SMLEs
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Initialism of Short Magazine Lee Enfield: any of a series of bolt action rifles used by British and Commonwealth forces during the first half of the 20th century, normally made in .303 calibre.
browning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaʊ.nɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊnɪŋ
Forms: form: brownings
Senses: glosses: The act or operation of giving a brown colour, as to gun barrels, cooked food, etc.
glosses: Any of various preparations used to impart a brown colour to gravy, leather, etc.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.
examples: text: One or two white gyal / Three or four lighties / Five or six darkies / Seven or eight brownings
ref: 2017, “Peng Ting”, performed by Mackareo:
glosses: A brown-skinned person.
Coordinate terms: sense: gun barrels
word: bluing
Derived terms: antibrowning
browning shot
mahogany browning
Maillard browning
Related terms: brownification
embrowning
browning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaʊ.nɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brown
macchia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːkiə/
ipa: /ˈmækiə/
Etymology: From Corsican machja, related to Italian macchia and French maquis; ultimately from Latin macula. Doublet of macula, macule, and maquis.
Senses: glosses: Any shrubland biota in Mediterranean countries, typically consisting of densely-growing evergreen shrubs.
Related terms: maquis
Saturday-night special
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saturday-night specials
form: Saturday night special
Etymology: Attested from 1917, akin to Saturday-night pistol attested from 1915. Not entirely clear, but perhaps from phrases like “Saturday night pistol slaying” and “Saturday night pistol scrape” often found in early 20th century local crime reporting due to the fact that Saturday evening had been the peak time for homicides and similar crimes. Also likely to be enforced by the obsolete meaning of a cheap sale and usage of "Special" in the context of more powerful firearms like Colt Police Positive Special.
Senses: synonyms: junk gun
suicide special
Saturday-night pistol
glosses: An inexpensive, easily obtained handgun.
glosses: An overnight weekend train.
glosses: A seasonal (usually October to December) sale on Saturday evening.
glosses: A girl who can be dated easily on Saturday evenings.
topics: business
glosses: An unexpected takeover bid that gives its opponents little time to respond.
Related terms: dawn raid
solid slug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solid slugs
Senses: glosses: shotgun cartridge with a single projectile
blindfold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪndfəʊld/
Forms: form: blindfolds
Etymology: From Middle English blyndefolde, blyndfuld, blynfold, blindfeld, blindfelt, yblynfeld, variants of y-blyndfalled, blyndfelled, etc. ("stricken blind, blindfolded"), past participle of Middle English blindfellen (“to strike blind”), from blind (“to blind”) and fellen (“to fell”), equivalent to blind + felled. Later influenced by the unrelated verb fold.
Senses: examples: text: I put a blindfold over my boyfriend's eyes and told him I had a surprise for him.
glosses: A covering, usually a bandage, for the eyes, blocking light to the eyes.
glosses: Anything that obscures the vision.
Hyponyms: eyeshade
sleep mask
Derived terms: blindfold chess
blindfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪndfəʊld/
Etymology: From Middle English blyndefolde, blyndfuld, blynfold, blindfeld, blindfelt, yblynfeld, variants of y-blyndfalled, blyndfelled, etc. ("stricken blind, blindfolded"), past participle of Middle English blindfellen (“to strike blind”), from blind (“to blind”) and fellen (“to fell”), equivalent to blind + felled. Later influenced by the unrelated verb fold.
Senses: glosses: Having the eyes covered so as to obscure vision
glosses: Thoughtless; reckless.
Derived terms: blindfoldly
blindfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪndfəʊld/
Etymology: From Middle English blyndefolde, blyndfuld, blynfold, blindfeld, blindfelt, yblynfeld, variants of y-blyndfalled, blyndfelled, etc. ("stricken blind, blindfolded"), past participle of Middle English blindfellen (“to strike blind”), from blind (“to blind”) and fellen (“to fell”), equivalent to blind + felled. Later influenced by the unrelated verb fold.
Senses: examples: text: They put all the bits of cake into a bonnet. Every one, blind-fold, draws out a portion.
ref: 1779, James Robertson, edited by John Sinclair, Statistical Account of Scotland, volume 11, page 620:
text: The commuters from the suburbs come unencumbered with luggage, children and prams, and can almost be relied upon to find their way blindfold to their trains.
ref: 1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 258:
glosses: With the eyes covered so as to obscure vision.
glosses: Blindly; without due thought or caution.
blindfold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪndfəʊld/
Forms: form: blindfolds
form: blindfolding
form: blindfolded
form: blindfolded
Etymology: From Middle English blyndefolde, blyndfuld, blynfold, blindfeld, blindfelt, yblynfeld, variants of y-blyndfalled, blyndfelled, etc. ("stricken blind, blindfolded"), past participle of Middle English blindfellen (“to strike blind”), from blind (“to blind”) and fellen (“to fell”), equivalent to blind + felled. Later influenced by the unrelated verb fold.
Senses: examples: text: Children need to be blindfolded before they hit the piñata.
glosses: To cover the eyes, in order to make someone unable to see.
glosses: To obscure understanding or comprehension.
Derived terms: blindfoldee
blindfolder
unblindfold
tweaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tweakers
Etymology: From tweak + -er; the drug addict sense derives from the slang term tweak for methamphetamines, in reference to the punding behavior of addicts.
Senses: examples: text: That attack may damage the homosexual, but even as he is hurt, he also feels superior, because he is not a bull—a blind, stupid animal. Rather, he is an aesthete—a tweaker, not a charger.
ref: 2018, Robert J. Stoller, Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred:
glosses: A person who tweaks something.
glosses: A tool, especially a screwdriver, for making small adjustments.
examples: text: I`ve seen it a lot with stimulant addicts. It`s exactly like tweakers and coke heads. When it gets into the, you know, the advanced stages of addiction of certain stimulants, it sounds exactly like it.
ref: 2015 May 5, Mike Catherwood, quotee, “Discussion of Mental Illness and RedFlag Special”, in CNN:
text: The Spunion: This is the broken wookie. Like Keller said, “there’s a tweaker by the speaker.” It’s not entirely his fault. He just tried to reach for the stars…too much, too soon. And he probably didn’t have a capable doctor to help him augment his prescription. It might just be time for a Jedi mind flip. One certainly doesn’t have to be a wook to be a tweaker. Even the guy who owns his own pressure washing company can eat too many mushrooms and end up in his tent like a little lost kitten. It’s some weird business to get so spun that you get lost in your own forest, but strange things do happen to good people. If it’s your first time at a location and you’re planning on rolling the dice, you can expect to wander around some place like Infinity Downs at five in the morning looking for high field camping. Welcome to the forgotten dance of the dablatures. That’s why God invented Spirit Aid.
ref: 2020 January 26, “The Wook in You”, in Wook Wranglers Magazine, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2023:
glosses: A person addicted to methamphetamine.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A spin bowler.
derringer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛɹɪndʒə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: derringers
form: deringer
form: Deringer
form: Derringer
Etymology: Named after American gunsmith Henry Deringer Junior (1786–1868).
Senses: examples: text: “Afraid? Oh no! they never interfere with me. […] And look here,” and diving her little hand into the bodice of her dress she produced a double-barrelled nickel-plated Derringer, “I always carry that loaded, and if anybody tried to touch me I should shoot him[…]”
ref: 1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter IV, in Allan Quatermain:
glosses: A type of very small, concealable pistol with one or two barrels, but without any loading system or magazine.
rimfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rimfires
Etymology: From rim + fire.
Senses: glosses: A type of firearm cartridge where the primer is in the back rim, rather than a central primer cap. They are cheap to produce but cannot be reloaded with powder.
Coordinate terms: centerfire
cupfire
lipfire
pinfire
over and under
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: over and unders
Senses: synonyms: over-under
under and over
glosses: A double-barreled shotgun (or infrequently a rifle), with one barrel placed on top of the other.
glosses: An obstacle in obstacle-course racing composed of multiple bars, with bars set at various heights, where the competitor must pass over high bars and pass under low bars.
glosses: Synonym of speedball (“type of illicit drug”).
synonyms: word: speedball
extra: type of illicit drug
Gatling gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡætlɪŋ ˌɡʌn/
Forms: form: Gatling guns
Etymology: Named after American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling.
Senses: glosses: A type of gun, similar to a modern machine gun, with several barrels on a rotating frame.
Synonyms: sense: machine gun with several barrels
word: rotary machine gun
sense: machine gun with several barrels
word: rotary cannon
sense: machine gun with several barrels
word: minigun
carbine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.bin/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.baɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑː.bin/
ipa: /ˈkɑː.baɪn/
homophone: carbene stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: carbines
form: carabin
form: carabine
Etymology: Ca. 1600, from French carabine. Doublet of carabine.
Senses: examples: text: "Caught at last, and by those rascally Roundheads, whom you call patriots and saints, in a few minutes more I shall be shot—that is, if their clumsy carbines take good aim—to be sure they can fire near enough their mark not to miss...
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 69:
text: The lock-up was upstairs, a cage surrounded by six-inch wooden bars, guarded by a constable armed with a carbine.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 6, in Burmese Days:
text: Inside the wall they found "a small cannon aimed at the entrance of the gate, and all along the street soldiers were stationed and a few on horseback were riding up and down. One of these had his carbine strapped on his back, and swung under his arm was a three-foot beheading sword wrapped in red cloth. That section had been terrorized by robbers, and they were prepared."
ref: December 2010, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, →ISBN, page 45:
text: The man who fired the carbine, who fired the gun with the scope, who brought the lead horse down, was discovered sitting cross-legged in a cargo van.
ref: 2017, Sam Shepard, chapter 27, in Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: A rifle with a short barrel.
Derived terms: carbineer
Jungle Carbine
saddle carbine
foxhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foxholes
form: fox-hole
Etymology: From Middle English foxhol, from Old English foxhol, equivalent to fox + hole.
Senses: glosses: The burrow in the ground where a fox lives.
examples: text: The statement made during the Second World War that “there are no atheists in foxholes” is absurd. Foxholes teem with atheists—who, to be sure, frequently infringe the Third Commandment in their desperation.
ref: 1962, Hoxie Neale Fairchild, Religious Trends in English Poetry: 1880-1920: Gods of a Changing Poetry, Columbia University Press, page 378:
text: Four pilots from the St. Lo, returning from a strike, land at the Dulag Airstrip and are promptly handed carbines, given a foxhole, and told to help repel a Japanese infantry counterattack. With that job done, with the aid of some stacked boxes and buckets full of petrol, they rearm and repair their aircraft, and then head back out to land on other ships.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 36:27 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A small pit dug into the ground as a shelter for protection against enemy fire.
Synonyms: dugout
fighting hole
spider hole
Derived terms: Foxhole Circuit
foxhole radio
foxhole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foxholes
form: foxholing
form: foxholed
form: foxholed
form: fox-hole
Etymology: From Middle English foxhol, from Old English foxhol, equivalent to fox + hole.
Senses: examples: text: Trogh and Charlie have started foxholing one corner of our tent, and I helped them a little.
ref: 1985, Luther H. Wolff, Forward surgeon: the diary of Luther H. Wolff, M.D., page 70:
text: The line was not foxholed in. This is one weakness of the Nungs. They resent digging and so they do not carry entrenching tools into the field.
ref: 1988, Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, A. L. Marshall, Ambush: The Battle of Dau Tieng, page 43:
glosses: To dig a military foxhole into, or convert into a foxhole by digging.
examples: text: […] the vet recalled with terrible anguish a scene where he and his friend had been foxholed several dozen yards apart, with a small group of enemy soldiers (Viet Cong) coming toward them over the crest of a hill.
ref: 2015, Teri Quatman, Essential Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Acquired Art:
glosses: To drive into a military foxhole.
-bloody-
Language: English
Part of speech: infix
Senses: examples: text: Absobloodylutely!
text: Were it not for the tattoos, honestly, they'd be able to stand on one foot for hours and truly focus and not think once about how they forgot to set the Sky+ for The Daily Show a-bloody-gain.
ref: 2010 October 17, Hadley Freeman, “Tattoos: what makes one spiritual and another Katona-esque?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An intensifier.
Synonyms: -fucking-
-goddamn-
Derived terms: absobloodylutely
abso-bloody-lutely
Related terms: bloody
Twofish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuˌfɪʃ/
Etymology: Blend of two + Blowfish
Senses: glosses: An encryption algorithm, related to the earlier Blowfish, used in modern cryptographic software.
Related terms: Threefish
blowfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbloʊˌfɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈbləʊˌfɪʃ/
Forms: form: blowfish
form: blowfishes
Etymology: From blow + fish.
Senses: examples: text: Where the waves wish-wash, and the foghorn blows, And the blowfish nibble at your toes - oes - oes, The blowfish nibble at your toes.
ref: 1945, Harold Wallace Ross, William Shawn, Tina Brown, The New Yorker - Volume 21, Issues 21-37, page 20:
glosses: Any species of fish of the family Tetraodontidae that have the ability to inflate themselves to a globe several times their normal size by swallowing water or air when threatened.
examples: text: Fugu, the blowfish or globefish, offers taste, health and adventure in every bite.
ref: 1981 November 29, Steve Lohr, “ONE MAN'S FUGU IS ANOTHER'S POISON”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2021:
glosses: A delicacy popular in Japan, consisting of the fish served raw as sushi or perhaps fried. It may, if improperly prepared, contain considerably deadly levels of neurotoxins.
Synonyms: topics: fish
ichthyology
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: balloonfish
topics: fish
ichthyology
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: globefish
topics: fish
ichthyology
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: puffer
topics: fish
ichthyology
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: pufferfish
topics: fish
ichthyology
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: swellfish
topics: food
lifestyle
word: fugu
VoIP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: vŏy'p
enpr: vē'ō'ī'pē
enpr: vō'ī'pē
enpr: vō'ip
enpr: vois ōvər ī'pē
rhymes: -ɔɪp
Forms: form: VOIP
Senses: examples: text: The VoIP Forum is dedicated to enabling and promoting industry-wide interoperability between products that send telephony over the Internet and private IP enterprise networks. This interoperability will allow seamless transmission of Internet phone calls regardless of the telephony application used by callers and call recipients. At present, applications from different vendors are incompatible due to fundamental differences in voice coding, silence suppression, addressing and dialing plans, call management and other related functions.
ref: 1996 November 12, IMTC, Inc., comp.dcom.telecom (Usenet), retrieved 03 Nov 2016, message-ID <telecom16.627.2@massis.lcs.mit.edu>:
text: VoIP "represents a group of competing companies who've gotten together to agree on standards," Pulver says. "It's very important," and is good news for users, because their co-operation will move Internet telephony forward, he says.
ref: 1996 November 13, Rebecca Sykes, “Group forms to spur Internet telephony”, in Computerworld New Zealand, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2016:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Voice over Internet Protocol, a telecommunications system that uses the Internet or other Internet Protocol network to transmit telephone calls.
Related terms: VoSIP
SVoIP
SVoSIP
shoo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: shoe
homophone: SHU
Forms: form: shoos
form: shooing
form: shooed
form: shooed
Etymology: From Middle English schew, schowe, show, showe, scou (“shoo!”, interjection). Compare Middle High German schū, schuo (“shoo!”, interjection) (modern German scheu! (“shoo!”)), Dutch schuwen (“to shun”), German scheuchen (“to scare, drive away”).
Senses: examples: text: Don't just shoo away mosquitoes, kill them!
text: See if you can shoo off the insurance salesmen.
glosses: To induce someone or something to leave.
examples: text: You kids had better shoo before your parents get a call.
glosses: To leave under inducement.
examples: text: Shoo the visitor in.
glosses: To usher someone.
Derived terms: shoo away
shoofly pie
shoo-fly plant
shoo-in
shoo off
shoo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: shoe
homophone: SHU
Forms: form: shoo!
Etymology: From Middle English schew, schowe, show, showe, scou (“shoo!”, interjection). Compare Middle High German schū, schuo (“shoo!”, interjection) (modern German scheu! (“shoo!”)), Dutch schuwen (“to shun”), German scheuchen (“to scare, drive away”).
Senses: examples: text: Shoo, fly, don't bother me!
synonyms: word: amscray
word: away with you
word: be off with you
word: beat it
word: begone
word: bite me
word: bog off
word: bug off
word: bugger off
word: buzz off
word: clear off
word: do one
word: don't let the door hit you on the way out
word: forget you
word: fuck off
word: gertcha
word: get to fuck
word: get bent
word: get fucked
word: get knotted
word: get lost
word: get out of here
word: get outta here
word: get out of my face
word: get screwed
word: get stuffed
word: get you gone
word: git
word: go and boil your head
word: go and eat coke
word: go away
word: go chase yourself
word: go climb a tree
word: go fly a kite
word: go fuck your mother
word: go fuck yourself sideways
word: go fuck yourself
word: go jump in the lake
word: go play in the traffic
word: go play with yourself
word: go shit yourself
word: go suck an egg
word: go tell your mother she wants you
word: go to hell
word: go to Halifax
word: go to the devil
word: hadaway and shite
word: hence
word: hit the road
word: hop it
word: kick rocks
word: jog on
word: leave
word: leave me alone
word: make like a banana and split
word: make like a tree and leave
word: make yourself scarce
word: naff off
word: nick off
word: now go away
word: off you fuck
word: on with you
word: on yer bike
word: on your bike
word: piss off
word: pound sand
word: push off
word: rack off
word: scram
word: screw off
word: screw you
word: shoo
word: shove off
word: shit off
word: skedaddle
word: sling one's hook
word: sod off
word: split
word: spread out
word: take a flying fuck at a rolling donut
word: take a flying fuck
word: take a hike
word: take a long walk on a short pier
word: up yours
word: Entries in Thesaurus:leave
word: used as imperative verbs.
word: Entries in :Category:English dismissals.
glosses: Go away! Clear off!
shoo
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: shoe
homophone: SHU
Etymology: From Middle English scho, sheo, scheo, sȝheo, from Old English hēo (“she”). More at she.
Senses: examples: text: Hearken, hearken, shoo’s cursing on em!” muttered Joseph, towards whom I had been steering.
ref: 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter II, in Wuthering Heights, New York: Harper Brothers, published 1855, →OCLC, page 15:
glosses: Alternative form of she.
Related terms: honk-shoo