cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Dacian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪsɪən/
ipa: /ˈdeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˈdeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: Dacians
Etymology: From Dacia + -an, from Latin Dacia (“Dacia”).
Senses: glosses: a member of an ancient Indo-European ethnic group of Dacia.
glosses: a Dane, Denmark having been known as Dacia in Medieval Latin.
glosses: a Romanian.
Dacian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪsɪən/
ipa: /ˈdeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˈdeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From Dacia + -an, from Latin Dacia (“Dacia”).
Senses: glosses: An extinct Indo-European language spoken by the people of Dacia.
Derived terms: Thraco-Dacian
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Dacian terms
Dacian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪsɪən/
ipa: /ˈdeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˈdeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From Dacia + -an, from Latin Dacia (“Dacia”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Dacia or the Dacians.
glosses: Of or pertaining to Romania or Romanians.
glosses: Of or pertaining to Denmark or the Danes.
Synonyms: Daco-
Related terms: Thracian
Dacia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪsɪə/
ipa: /ˈdeɪʃə/
ipa: /ˈdeɪʃə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Dacia, from Ancient Greek Δάοι (Dáoi), Δάκοι (Dákoi).
Senses: glosses: An ancient region and former kingdom located in the area now known as Romania. The Dacian kingdom was conquered by the Romans and later named Romania after them.
glosses: An automobile company based in Romania, Dacia.
Derived terms: Dacian
teleseminar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleseminars
Etymology: From tele- + seminar.
Senses: glosses: A seminar conducted over a telephone, set up as a conference call.
Synonyms: telecall
teleclinic
teleconference
margarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒə.ɹɪn/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒəˌɹin/
ipa: /ˌmɑː.d͡ʒəˈɹiːn/
ipa: /ˈmɑː.d͡ʒə.ɹɪn/
ipa: /ˌmɑː.ɡəˈɹiːn/
ipa: /ˈmaɾ.ɡɐ.ɾɪn/
other: /dʒ/
Forms: form: margarines
Etymology: Borrowed from French margarine, from acide margarique (“margaric acid”), from Ancient Greek μάργαρον (márgaron, “pearl”), in allusion to its pearly lustre, with the suffix -ine, influenced by glycérine (“glycerine”). French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul named margaric acid after its pearl-like crystallization.
Senses: glosses: A spread, manufactured from a blend of vegetable oils (some of which are hydrogenated), emulsifiers etc, mostly used as a substitute for butter.
glosses: The solid ingredient of human fat, olive oil, etc.
Synonyms: word: marg
word: marge
word: oleomargarine
Derived terms: antimargarine
margarined
margarineless
margarinelike
margariney
Related terms: alt: and various forms, q.v.
word: Margaret
word: margarita
word: margarite
word: marguerite
margarine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒə.ɹɪn/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒəˌɹin/
ipa: /ˌmɑː.d͡ʒəˈɹiːn/
ipa: /ˈmɑː.d͡ʒə.ɹɪn/
ipa: /ˌmɑː.ɡəˈɹiːn/
ipa: /ˈmaɾ.ɡɐ.ɾɪn/
other: /dʒ/
Forms: form: margarines
form: margarining
form: margarined
form: margarined
Etymology: Borrowed from French margarine, from acide margarique (“margaric acid”), from Ancient Greek μάργαρον (márgaron, “pearl”), in allusion to its pearly lustre, with the suffix -ine, influenced by glycérine (“glycerine”). French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul named margaric acid after its pearl-like crystallization.
Senses: examples: text: Putting the finishing touches on her party dinner, this attractive hostess does the last minute job of margarining her rolls to serve piping hot to her guests.
ref: 1952 May 15, “Pretty Hostess Adds Finishing Touch”, in C[harles] L[ee] Blanton, Jr., editor, Daily Sikeston Standard, volume 40, number 200, Sikeston, Mo.: Sikeston Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:
text: She is margarining a slice of bread, rubbing the grease carefully into the crumb.
ref: 1993, Helen Dunmore, chapter 16, in Zennor in Darkness, London: Penguin Books, published 1994, →ISBN, page 190:
text: Now that she was back in the land of the living, she took to margarining our toast again.
ref: 1998, Andrea Ashworth, chapter 9, in Once in a House on Fire, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 135:
text: He has been totally occupied since we sat down, margarining every inch of his roll, likewise his baked potato, salting down everything in sight.
ref: 2014, Judith Felsenfeld, “The Fugitive”, in Blaustein’s Kiss: Stories, Rhinebeck, N.Y.: Epigraph Publishing Service, →ISBN, pages 123–124:
synonyms: marge#Verb
glosses: To spread or cover (something) with margarine.
outre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: [Tracey] Emin is so outre in some ways, so conventional in others.
ref: 2024 May 29, Simon Hattenstone, “The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of outré.
Derived terms: outreness
deckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkəl/
rhymes: -ɛkəl
homophone: decal (Canada)
Forms: form: deckles
Etymology: From German Deckel, diminutive of Decke (“covering”).
Senses: topics: art
arts
qualifier: paper-making
glosses: A frame or edge which limits the pulp and, consequently, the size of the resulting paper.
glosses: A membrane covering the outermost side of a brisket of beef, where it was attached to the rib cage
topics: cuisine
food
lifestyle
glosses: The fattier, smaller point-cut portion of a brisket of beef, being the superficial pectoral muscle.
Synonyms: sense: point-cut portion of a brisket
word: point
deckle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkəl/
rhymes: -ɛkəl
homophone: decal (Canada)
Forms: form: deckles
form: deckling
form: deckled
form: deckled
Etymology: From German Deckel, diminutive of Decke (“covering”).
Senses: glosses: To give deckles to (paper).
Derived terms: deckle edge
deckle-edged
outré
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /uˈtɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: more outré
form: most outré
form: outre
form: outrée
Etymology: French outré, form of outrer (“to go to excess”); see also outre (“beyond”).
Senses: examples: text: I believe I have been very rude; but really Miss Fairfax has done her hair in so odd a way—so very odd a way—that I cannot keep my eyes from her. I never saw any thing so outrée!—Those curls!—This must be a fancy of her own. I see nobody else looking like her!
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 152:
text: He hated people who did not know where to stop. Ernest was always so outré and strange; there was never any knowing what he would do next, except that it would be something unusual and silly.
ref: 1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 50, in The Way of All Flesh:
text: Her career as a performer, a model and a high priestess of the outré has been rooted for decades in catwalk-Kabuki mischief and provocation.
ref: 2015 October 22, Jeff Gordinier, “‘I’ll Never Write My Memoirs,’ Grace Jones’s Memoirs”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Are his patrons simply too giddy in this post-pandemic moment to muster sustained outrage over his outré behavior?
ref: 2021 July 17, Jacob Bernstein, “Keith McNally Stirs the Pot”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Beyond what is customary or proper; extravagant.
examples: 1992, David Littlejohn, The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera, Chapter 16: The Twentieth Century Takes on Shakespeare, page 261,
To begin with, King Lear is the most unconventional, the most nearly hysterical, the most outré and outrageous play Shakespeare ever wrote.
glosses: Very unconventional.
Synonyms: sense: unconventional
word: bizarre
sense: unconventional
word: eccentric
sense: unconventional
word: outlandish
Derived terms: outréness
decoction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɒkʃən/
rhymes: -ɒkʃən
Forms: form: decoctions
Etymology: From Old French decoccion, decoction, from Latin decoctiō, from decoquō (“I boil down”), from de- + coquō (“I cook”).
Senses: examples: text: [I]nſtead of Honey, Rob of Elder, Conſerve of Roſes, or Syrup of Violets; Glyſters, Pedilavia of emollient Decoctions with Nitre; or Elder, Vinegar, or Focus's of the ſame, applied with Sponges behind the Ears, to the Armpits, Groins, Hams, &c. or with Barley-water and a little Roſe-vinegar.
ref: 1749, [Thomas Short], “[Of the Symptoms of Fevers, and Their Cure.] 10th, Of Feverish Heat”, in A General Chronological History of the Air, Weather, Seasons, Meteors, &c. in Sundry Places and Different Times; More Particularly for the Space of 250 Years. Together with Some of Their Most Remarkable Effects on Animal (Especially Human) Bodies, and Vegetables. In Two Volumes, volume II, Printed for T[homas] Longman, in Paternoster-Row; and A[ndrew] Millar, in the Strand, →OCLC, pages 512–513:
text: The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 1:
text: Poley offered a hot decoction of blackberries, saying: Peace?
ref: 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford:
text: Witches and devils no longer threaten you and me. We don’t mind living next door to the harmless lady with her herb garden and decoction still, her black cat and red hair.
ref: 1994, Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies:
glosses: An extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down.
examples: text: Even the fixed principles of vegetables, at least some of them, are injured by long decoction. The extractive matter, for instance, gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, and is converted into a substance nearly insipid and inert.
ref: 1804, The Medical and Physical Journal, page 563:
glosses: The process of boiling something down in this way.
Related terms: decoct
whatnot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒt.nɒt/
ipa: /ˈwʌt.nɑt/
ipa: /ˈʍʌt.nɑt/
Forms: form: whatnots
form: what-not
Etymology: From what + not.
Senses: examples: text: Storage boxes—catchalls for flotsam, jetsam, whatnots and thingamajigs—are gaining new interest as decorative objects for the home.
ref: 1991 May 30, Emily Gwathmey, “Storage Box: Catchall's New Life as Eye-Catcher”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Dec 2024:
text: Do not be distracted by the various novelty bags and whatnots of which Chanel is so fond; instead, prove your aforementioned sensible credentials by buying a boxy rectangular quilted shoulder bag with a chain strap, in black, ideally.
ref: 2010 December 20, Hadley Freeman, “Blowing your bonus on a Chanel bag could be the most sensible purchase you'll make this Christmas”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A small unspecified object; bric-a-brac (in plural).
examples: text: At the lexicography club, we welcome all discussion of words and whatnot.
text: All of the cakes and whatnot have been laid out, ready for the children's birthday party this afternoon.
text: You call that a warrior? My Cobrot's engines will whip the Troopers into whatnot! She is all cobra!
ref: [1994 October 5, Haim Saban, Shuki Levy, “Kaitlin's Front Page”, in VR Troopers, season 1, episode 17, Colonel Icebot (actor), Saban Entertainment:
text: Now, those are valid frustrations, although as a quick side note, “Murder and Whatnot” would be an amazing CSI spin-off. That’s a watchable show right there.
ref: [2016 October 2, Tim Carvell, Josh Gondelman, Dan Gurewitch, Jeff Maurer, Ben Silva, Will Tracy, Jill Twiss, Seena Vali, Julie Weiner, “Police Accountability”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 24, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: Other related objects or ideas.
examples: text: On a whatnot in a corner which had been devoted to the child's belongings were Franky's paint-box and some of his toys.
ref: 1913, Mary E. Mann, Mrs. Day's Daughters, Hodder & Stoughton:
text: Herbert[…] made an elaborate inspection of the chimney-piece, the whatnot, the piano-top.
ref: 1923, Elizabeth Bowen, “The Lover”, in Encounters, page 119:
text: These hefty features were on display together with dry-point engravings, marble busts, and mahogany whatnots, which the guests now squeezed between, plumping themselves down on over-stuffed ottomans beneath gleaming crystal electroliers.
ref: 2015 July 26, Will Self, “Original short story: Architectural Salvage, by Will Self”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: furniture
lifestyle
glosses: A freestanding set of shelves on which ornaments are displayed; an etagere.
Derived terms: and whatnot
Related terms: whatsit
desiderate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɪdəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: desiderates
form: desiderating
form: desiderated
form: desiderated
Etymology: From Latin, from the participle stem of the verb dēsīderāre (“to desire”).
Senses: examples: text: Between our human nature and the nature they desiderate there is a deep and fordless river, over which they can throw no bridge, and all their talk supposes that we shall be able to fly or wade across it […]
ref: 1879, William Hurrell Mallock, Is Life Worth Living?:
text: it put him in thought of that missing link of creation’s chain desiderated by the late ingenious Mr Darwin.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
glosses: To miss; to feel the absence of; to long for.
desiderate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɪdəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: more desiderate
form: most desiderate
Etymology: From Latin, from the participle stem of the verb dēsīderāre (“to desire”).
Senses: examples: text: O Friend of God, know then that London is the desiderate town even of all Earth's cities.
ref: 1916, Lord Dunsany, “A Tale of London”, in Tales of Wonder:
glosses: desired, wished or longed for
penises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːnɪsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpinɪsɪz/
Forms: form: penes
Senses: glosses: plural of penis
desipience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɪpɪəns/
Etymology: From Latin desipientia, from desipere (“to be foolish”).
Senses: examples: text: Half by desipience, half by proclivity, he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling and consuming.
ref: 1965, John Fowles, The Magus:
glosses: silliness, folly
dessiatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dessiatines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dessiatina.
dessiatina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɛsjəˈtiːnə/
Forms: form: dessiatinas
form: dessiatiny
form: desiatin
form: desiatina
form: dessiatin
form: dessiatine
form: dessjatine
form: dessyatin
form: dessyatine
form: desyatin
form: desyatina
Etymology: From Russian десяти́на (desjatína, “tenth, tithe”).
Senses: examples: text: The tract of land given by the emperor contains five hundred and forty-five acres, (twenty dessjatines,) being two thousand two hundred and five feet long, and one thousand five hundred and eighty-two wide at its greatest breadth.
ref: 1849 July, “The Observatory at Pulkowa”, in The North American Review, volume 69, number 144:
text: I go shooting there every year, and it is worth five hundred roubles a desyatina cash down, and he is paying you two hundred on long term.
ref: 1918, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Aylmer and Louise Maude, Anna Karenina, Oxford, published 1998, page 166:
text: Clouds, some in very clear profile, black and jagged, sail in armadas towards the Asian arctic, above the sweeping dessiatinas of grasses […]
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
text: The average peasant allotment, at 2.6 dessyatiny in 1900, was comparable in size to the typical smallholding in France or Germany.
ref: 1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society, published 2013, page 119:
glosses: A Russian measure of land, roughly 1.1 hectares.
dhikr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðikɹ/
rhymes: -ikɹ
Forms: form: dhikrs
form: zikr
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic ذِكْر (ḏikr).
Senses: examples: text: When all had eaten and prayed the first night prayer, they began to recite their dhikr, then they began the musical recital.
ref: 1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 62
text: We prayed together and we practised dhikr, the recitation of the ninety-nine revealed names of God.
ref: 2001, Yann Martel, Life of Pi:
topics: Islam
Sufism
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: A Sufi Islamic prayer whereby a phrase or expression of praise is repeated continually.
zikr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zikɹ/
rhymes: -ikɹ
Forms: form: zikrs
Etymology: From Arabic ذِكْر (ḏikr).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dhikr.
diapason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəˈpeɪzən/
ipa: /daɪəˈpeɪsən/
rhymes: -eɪzən
rhymes: -eɪsən
Forms: form: diapasons
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin diapason, from Ancient Greek διαπασῶν (diapasôn), that is διά (diá, “through”) + πασῶν (pasôn, “all”) (χορδῶν (khordôn, “notes”)), “through all (notes)”.
Senses: examples: text: 2 to 1, which is a duple ratio, forms the [symphony] diapason
ref: 1818, Iamblichus, translated by Thomas Taylor, Life of Pythagoras, page 328:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The musical octave.
examples: text: The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon—forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop, from cataract to bubbling fountain.
ref: 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter XV, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 397:
text: the piano curving like a conch, corollas giving out diapasons of light […]
ref: 1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961:
synonyms: range
scope
glosses: The range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipe organ.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: One of the lowest strings on an archlute, theorbo, chitarrone, or similar bass lute-family instrument, usually unfrettable.
examples: text: That we on Earth with undiscording voice
May rightly answer that melodious noise;
As once we did, till disproportion'd sin
Jarr'd against natures chime, and with harsh din
Broke the fair musick that all creatures made
To their great Lord, whose love their motion sway'd
In perfect Diapason, whilst they stood
In first obedience, and their state of good.
ref: 1645, John Milton, “At a Solemn Musick”, in Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin:
text: he could hear nothing except the rattle of the crickets and the swelling diapason of the frogs […]
ref: 1961, Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case:
glosses: A harmonious outpouring of sound.
Derived terms: diapasonal
disdiapason
open diapason
semidiapason
tridiapason
confronts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of confront
confronting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more confronting
form: most confronting
Senses: glosses: Causing distress; upsetting.
confronting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of confront
diastasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪəˈsteɪsɪs/
Etymology: From New Latin diastasis, from Ancient Greek διάστασις (diástasis, “separation, standing aloof”), from δια- (dia-) + στάσις (stásis, “standing”). Compare diastema.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A separation between two parts, such as separation of a bone, without fracture.
glosses: The property of being diastatic, i.e. having germinated.
Derived terms: adenodiastasis
diastasis recti
disembogue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪs.ɪmˈbəʊɡ/
ipa: /ˌdɪs.ɪmˈboʊɡ/
rhymes: -əʊɡ
Forms: form: disembogues
form: disemboguing
form: disembogued
form: disembogued
Etymology: From Spanish desembocar, from des- + embocar (“run into a creek or strait”), from boca (“mouth”).
Senses: examples: text: The ships disembogued from the harbour.
text: No, no, but you call careening of an old morphewed lady to make her disembogue again – there's roughcast phrase to your plastic.
ref: 1612-1613, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, act II, scene i, lines 36–38:
glosses: To come out into the open sea from a river etc.
examples: text: You yeoman phevvterer, conduct mee to / The Lady of the manſion, or my poniard / Shall diſemboge thy ſoule.
ref: c. 1621–1623 (date written), Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, signatures D2, verso – D3, recto:
text: The river of Behut, near the pergunnah of Shoor, unites with the Chinaub, and then after running twenty-seven coss, they disembogue themselves into the river Sinde, near Ooch.
ref: 1828, Walter Hamilton, “Mooltan”, in The East-India Gazetteer, 2nd edition, volume II, page 240:
text: Keängsoo is easy of approach : but though the two largest rivers of China, the Yellow river, and the Yangtsze keäng, both disembogue themselves into the sea within its confines, yet it possesses but one good port, which is Shanghae heën, near the frontiers of Chekeäng.
ref: 1832 June, “Ta-tsing Wan-neën Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta Tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever." By Le Mingche Tsinglae.”, in The Chinese Repository, volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 36:
text: ‘Oh piffle, Durfeys – it flows to the westward and disembogues along the Pepper Coast.’
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 99:
glosses: To pour out, to debouch; to flow out through a narrow opening into a larger space.
raw_tags: of a river or waters
Synonyms: sense: come out into the open sea
word: debouch
sense: pour out
word: debouch
Derived terms: disemboguement
divaricate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /daɪˈvæɹɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: divaricates
form: divaricating
form: divaricated
form: divaricated
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1623, the adjective in 1788; borrowed from Latin dīvāricātus, perfect passive participle of dīvāricō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from dis- + vāricō (“to straddle, to stretch (the legs) apart”), from vāricus (“straddling”).
Senses: glosses: To spread apart; to (cause to) diverge or branch off.
Derived terms: divaricatingly
Related terms: prevaricate
prevarication
prevaricator
divaricate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /daɪˈvæɹɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: more divaricate
form: most divaricate
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1623, the adjective in 1788; borrowed from Latin dīvāricātus, perfect passive participle of dīvāricō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from dis- + vāricō (“to straddle, to stretch (the legs) apart”), from vāricus (“straddling”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having wide angles between the branches.
Derived terms: divaricately
divaricated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dʌɪˈvæɹɪkeɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more divaricated
form: most divaricated
Senses: examples: text: The warm impress of her warm form. Even to sit where a woman has sat, especially with divaricated thighs, as though to grant the last favours, most especially with previously well uplifted white sateen coatpans.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
glosses: Spread-out, divergent, especially of a branch etc. which is at nearly ninety degrees to the main stem.
divaricated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dʌɪˈvæɹɪkeɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of divaricate
pannus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panni
form: pannuses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pannus (“cloth”). Doublet of pagne, pan, and pane.
Senses: glosses: A hanging flap of skin or other tissue, especially one covering the cornea (in trachoma) or cartilage (in rheumatoid arthritis).
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of accessory cloud, looking like shreds either attached to, or separated from, the main cloud formation; mainly associated with nimbostratus, cumulus, and cumulonimbus.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A tent for a wound.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A birthmark on the skin.
Synonyms: sense: cloud
word: scud
-ista
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /-ˈiːstə/
/-ˈɪstə/
Etymology: From Spanish -ista in Sandinista (1930s). Doublet of -ist.
Senses: examples: text: fashion + -ista → fashionista
text: Marx + -ista → Marxista
text: Lincoln + -ista → Lincolnista
glosses: Forms nouns denoting one who follows a principle; an adept.
widgie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: widgies
Senses: examples: text: The bodgies and widgies represented a new teenage culture, with an emphasis on fashion (long hair styles for the boys, gabardine skirts for the girls), street presence, dancing, and rock and roll music. From 1950 to 1959, the phenomenon of the bodgies and widgies captured the imagination of the media.
ref: 2006, Rob White, “11: Youth Gang Research in Australia”, in James F. Short, Jr., Lorine A. Hughes, editors, Studying Youth Gangs, page 163:
text: In Toowoomba, Magistrate Kearney was up in arms over the bodgies and widgies in town – those dressed-up teenagers with their spruced hair and polka-dot dresses who loitered around the city streets. They were seen as a threat to society.
ref: 2010, William Stokes, Westbrook, page 183:
text: Nevertheless there was a distinctly gendered dimension - one which demonised the bodgie as delinquent and widgie as sexually immoral.
Stratton (1992) attributes the emergence of bodgies and widgies as Australia′s first post-war working class youth culture to a number of historical changes in the Australian economy.
ref: 2010, Kerry Carrington, Margaret Pereira, Offending Youth: Sex, Crime and Justice, page 82:
glosses: A female bodgie.
qualifier: juvenile
glosses: A penis.
Synonyms: sense: penis
word: penis
dolichophallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɒlɪkəʊˈfælɪk/
Forms: form: more dolichophallic
form: most dolichophallic
Etymology: From dolicho- + phallic.
Senses: glosses: having a long penis
cybersex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + sex.
Senses: examples: text: He went to his office and logged online to have cybersex for more than six hours.
ref: 2001, In the Shadows of the Net (Hazelden Foundation; page 65)
synonyms: compusex
netsex
hyponyms: tinysex
glosses: A virtual sexual encounter in which two or more persons connected remotely by means of a computer network send one another sexually explicit messages simulating a sexual experience.
Related terms: phone sex
cybersex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cybersexes
form: cybersexing
form: cybersexed
form: cybersexed
Etymology: From cyber- + sex.
Senses: glosses: To exchange explicit sexual experiences online via text or multimedia.
glosses: To engage in sexual activity, usually masturbation, while communicating online with another person.
Related terms: cybering
cyber
bodgie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodgies
Etymology: From bodg(er) + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: I comb my hair as best I can. It is in a crew-cut ordered by the chief warder. He must have read that bodgies wear their hair long and decided to do his bit in the fight against juvenile delinquency.
ref: 1965, Mudrooroo, Wild Cat Falling, HarperCollins, published 2001, page 17:
text: Unlike McDonald, Manning noted with dismay that traditional relations between the sexes were broken down in bodgie groups. Bodgies, he argued, were disturbed youth, hooligans, maladjusted.
ref: 1993, Lesley Johnson, The Modern Girl: Girlhood and Growing Up, page 100:
text: The New Zealand public and press largely shared his view of bodgies as juvenile delinquents who posed a social threat. The bodgie soon became a national bogey man, with alarmist newspaper reports about bodgie behaviour.
ref: 2001, Roy Shuker, Understanding Popular Music, page 223:
text: In Toowoomba, Magistrate Kearney was up in arms over the bodgies and widgies in town – those dressed-up teenagers with their spruced hair and polka-dot dresses who loitered around the city streets. They were seen as a threat to society.
ref: 2010, William Stokes, Westbrook, page 183:
hyponyms: milk-bar cowboy
glosses: A member of a 1950s rock subculture; a teddy boy.
Synonyms: sense: member of 50s rock subculture
word: greaser
sense: member of 50s rock subculture
word: rocker
Coordinate terms: word: widgie
doucet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduːsɪt/
rhymes: -uːsɪt
Forms: form: doucets
Etymology: French, diminutive of doux (“sweet”). Doublet of dulcet and dolcetto.
Senses: qualifier: obsolete except in dialects
glosses: A sweetened dish.
glosses: Deer testicles.
doxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒksi/
rhymes: -ɒksi
Forms: form: doxies
form: doxie
Etymology: Perhaps from Middle Dutch *doketje, diminutive of Middle Dutch docke (“a doll”), from Proto-Germanic *dokko (“something round”), related to *dukkǭ (“muscle, strength”). Cognate with Low German dokke (“doll”), Saterland Frisian dok, dokke (“a doll”), Swedish docka (“doll, puppet”).
Senses: examples: text: He did not relish the apparition of that Katherine, for when it appeared it seemed to bring with it a brother shadow that wore ragged clothes and tangled hair and foul linen, that drank from any flagon and drabbed with any doxy, that slept in tavern angles through hours of drunkenness, a thing whose fingers pillaged, filched, and pilfered when and where they could, a creature that once he saw whenever he stared into a mirror.
ref: 1907, Justin Huntly McCarthy, Needles and pins, page 82:
text: Do you think the writer of Antony and Cleopatra, a passionate pilgrim, had his eyes in the back of his head that he chose the ugliest doxy in all Warwickshire to lie withal?
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
text: However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie—did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.
ref: 1936, Anthony Bertram, Like the Phoenix:
text: So then, of course, he paid her in kind...the place is full of his doxies, open a closet at Allington and some wench falls out of it.
ref: 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 328:
related: word: doxie
synonyms: paramour
qualifier: Thieves' Cant
glosses: A sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress.
Derived terms: arch doxy
doxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒksi/
rhymes: -ɒksi
Forms: form: doxies
Etymology: From -doxy in orthodoxy, heterodoxy, etc.
Senses: examples: text: Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
ref: 1759, William Warburton, letter to Lord Sandwich:
glosses: A defined opinion.
doxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒksi/
rhymes: -ɒksi
Etymology: Clipping. From deoxy-.
Senses: examples: text: I know one patient who couldn't take the tabs but could tolerate liquid doxy.
ref: 1996 May 7, Phyllis Mervine, “Re: Tetracycline”, in sci.med.diseases.lyme (Usenet):
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Clipping of doxycycline.
doxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒksi/
rhymes: -ɒksi
Forms: form: doxies
form: doxie
Etymology: Clipping of dachshund + -y.
Senses: glosses: A dachshund.
doxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒksi/
rhymes: -ɒksi
Forms: form: doxies
Etymology: Coined by J.K. Rowling in the Harry Potter series as the name of a species of biting fairy, possibly originally from Etymology 1 or from Etymology 3 (doxycycline is used to treat various diseases caused by insect bites). Likely influenced by pixie.
Senses: examples: text: "Yeah, but she doesn't usually actively sabotage you."
"No worries. I'm used to doxy fairies"
ref: 2010 July 15, Justine Larbalestier, How to Ditch Your Fairy, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 6:
text: The doxies were everywhere. So he just kept swinging, feeling a shudder through his arm each time the racquet made contact with a scaly body. Despite his best efforts, two or three of the nasty, screeching things got close.
ref: 2015 March 10, C.T. Adams, The Exile: Book One of the Fae, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 93:
text: "And I'm a doxy not a fairy, you complete and utter fuckface."
ref: 2021 May 19, Sarah Biglow, Molly Zenk, Captivity The Complete Series: A Dystopian Shifter Fantasy Collection, Biglow & Zenk Fantasy Publishing:
text: Trapped like this, the options are extremely pitiful and the damned doxies bite the way scorpions sting.
ref: 2022 October 11, Doug Moench, Aztec Ace: The Complete Collection, Dark Horse Comics, →ISBN, page 139:
text: A doxy messenger can outfly a pixie by five klicks in optimal conditions. They can span 40 klicks in a little over five hours. Though not particularly good in combat, doxies can turn invisible, kill with a kiss, and cause hallucinations if touched.
ref: 2023 December 12, Claire Wilkins, Courting the Prince of Moonlit Shadows, eGlobal Creative Publishing Inc., →ISBN:
topics: fantasy
glosses: An aggressive creature similar to a fairy.
drogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹəʊɡ/
rhymes: -əʊɡ
Forms: form: drogues
Etymology: Uncertain; probably related to drag in some way.
Senses: examples: text: through the sash window I could see the black truck pulling up the drive towards the main road, the silver caravan coming behind like a drogue that was preventing the gypsies from submerging, escaping into the very centre of the earth.
ref: 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
qualifier: whaling
glosses: A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A conical parachute used as a brake for some kinds of aircraft, or as a means of extracting and deploying a larger parachute, or to slow a rapidly-moving vehicle to a speed where it can safely deploy a larger parachute.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A conical basket or device used variously as a target for gunnery practice, and as a docking point for aerial refuelling.
glosses: A wind cone.
Synonyms: sense: conical parachute
word: drag parachute
sense: conical parachute
word: drag chute
sense: conical parachute
word: drogue chute
sense: conical parachute
word: drogue parachute
Derived terms: drogue anchor
drogueless
droshky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɒʃki/
Forms: form: droshkys
form: droshkies
form: droschke
form: drosky
form: drozhky
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian дро́жки (dróžki), plural diminutive of дро́ги (drógi, “wagon, hearse”), plural of дрога́ (drogá, “centre pole of a carriage”).
Senses: examples: text: Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.
ref: 1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital:
text: Was Tchitcherine there at all? sitting back in the dingy room while the lift cables slapped and creaked through the walls, and down in the street, rarely enough to matter, a droshky rattled whip-snapping over these black old cobbles?
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
glosses: An open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia.
Synonyms: droitzschka
dunam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdʊn.əm/
/ˈduːnəm/
Forms: form: dunams
form: dunum
Etymology: From Hebrew דּוּנָם (dunam) or Arabic دُونُم (dūnum), from Turkish dönüm, from dönmek (“to turn”). A probable calque of Byzantine Greek στρέμμα (strémma, “stremma”, literally “that which is turned”).
Senses: examples: text: You pay eight marks and they plant a dunam of land for you with olives, oranges, almonds or citrons.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre.
glosses: A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m²), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma.
glosses: Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m²).
Synonyms: stremma
old stremma
Turkish stremma
Ottoman stremma
heptane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛpteɪn/
rhymes: -ɛpteɪn
Forms: form: heptanes
Etymology: From hept- + -ane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the nine isomers of the saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon C₇H₁₆, obtained from petroleum, especially n-heptane (CH₃(CH₂)₅CH₃)
Derived terms: azidoheptane
cycloheptane
heptanoic
heptanone
heptyne
n-heptane
Related terms: heptyl
dup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
Forms: form: dups
form: dupping
form: dupped
form: dupped
Etymology: From Middle English don up (“to open”), equivalent to a blend of do + up. Compare don, doff, dout, dub.
Senses: examples: text: Then up he rose and donned his clothes, / And dupped the chamber door;
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
text: He had seen, that Maundy Thursday afternoon, dupping their chamber door in all maaaaaaa innocence.
ref: 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun:
glosses: to open (a door, gate etc.)
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: lub-dup
durzi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəːzi/
Forms: form: durzis
form: darzee
form: darzi
form: durzee
Etymology: From Hindustani درزی / दर्ज़ी (darzī, “tailor”), from Persian درزی (darzi, “tailor”).
Senses: examples: text: Two darzees attended upon the Maharaj Kumar to make last minute adjustments and fittings.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 43:
text: I wanted to instruct the durzi that all my dresses must have a neckline that covered my scar.
ref: 2011, Linda Holeman, The Linnet Bird:
glosses: A tailor, especially a personal one.
dwale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dweɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: dwales
Etymology: From Middle English dwale (“stupor; deception; delusion, evil”), from Old English dwala, dwola (“error, heresy; doubt; madman, deceiver, heretic”) and Old Norse dvala (“sleep, stupor”).
Senses: examples: text: Beneath and around the clumps of ragged moss-grown elder and hoary stunted whitethorn (...) rise thickets of tall nettles and rank hemlock, concealing the deadly but alluring dwale —
ref: 1842, J. van Voorst, The Phytologist, page 595:
text: All parts of the dwale are poisonous, said to resemble snake bite, but the roots are said to be four or five times as virulent as the rest of the plant.
ref: 1934, Chambers's Journal, page 198:
text: It was not bog myrtle at all, it was dwale.
ref: 2014, Jenny Harper, Face the Wind and Fly:
text: Monkshood and dwale belong to Hecate, the moon goddess of the witches, and by their use are witches able to fly.
ref: 2014, Karen Maitland, The Vanishing Witch:
glosses: Belladonna or a similar soporific plant.
examples: text: The authors studied the ingredients and method of administration to try to ascertain whether dwale was effective, and they found it certainly could have worked.
ref: 2007, Barbara S. Bowers, The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice, page 197:
text: 'That is all?' Payne askes. 'You need no salve? No dwale?'
ref: 2016, Toby Clements, Broken Faith, page 258:
text: Dwale was a solution of wine mixed with a number of other ingredients, Some were pretty mile, like lettuce and boar bile. But the recipe also called for hemlock and belladonna, both known to be highly poisonous.
ref: 2018, The World of Lore, Volume 3, The World of Lore, Volume 3:
text: Cadell agrees the vial contains arsenic, not willow bark, and it is no wonder Rollo found relief from what was in the flask since it isn't wine but dwale.
ref: 2020, Sarah Woodbury, Chevalier:
glosses: A sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna.
examples: text: He's in a dwale, a dead sleep; a common expression in the North of England.
ref: 1874, Charles Mackay, The Lost Beauties of the English Language, page 54:
text: I stayed up there in a dwale – not seeing, not even thinking – until suddenly the wind got up and its chill woke me.
ref: 2008, Mary Leared, A Horseshoe Clown, page 44:
glosses: A torpor.
examples: text: Consume us; shake the darkness like a tree, And fill the night with mischiefs, — blights and dwales, Weevils, and rots, and cankers!
ref: 1856, Sydney Dobell, England in Time of War - Issue 34, page 72:
text: Tickle under their chins microscopical djinns or tease geloscopical dwales who live in The Tree That Can Never Be and fish for chocolate whales?
ref: 1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat, page 384:
glosses: A bugbear.
dwale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dweɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: dwales
form: dwaling
form: dwaled
form: dwaled
Etymology: From Middle English dwalen, from Old English dwalian, from Proto-Germanic *dwalōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwelH- (“to make turbid”).
Senses: glosses: To mutter deliriously.
Related terms: english: a dreamy
translation: a dreamy
word: dwaal
word: dazed
word: or absent-minded state
dwimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdwɪmə/
ipa: /ˈdwɪmɚ/
Forms: form: dwimmers
form: dweomer
Etymology: From Middle English dwimmer, from Old English ġedwimor, dwimor (“illusion, delusion, sleight, magic”).
Senses: examples: text: "It is ill dealing with such a foe: he is a wizard both cunning and dwimmer-crafty, having many guises."
ref: 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers:
text: “The Lych and his dark dwimmer spell have you resisted—even defeated, defeated for the present. But you have not destroyed. They shall return in time, I fear.”
ref: 2010, W. R. Cooper, Oriana Oakley and the Primrose Path:
text: The soldiers peered into the deep dark shaft In which lay the monk with tonsorshorn A victim of the sorcerous lady's dwimmer craft
ref: 2011, John Henson, Broken Wings:
glosses: Magic, magic arts; sorcery; spell; occult art.
Derived terms: dwimmercraft
Related terms: dwimmery
STR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: STRs
Senses: examples: text: These observations lead us to predict that structural genomic variants are as important as SNPs, short tandem repeats (STRs) and other small changes in their contribution to genome variation.
ref: 2006, Lars Feuk et al., “Structural variation in the human genome”, Nature, 7:85
text: We estimated that the following percentage of elements were correctly assembled: 95.4% of alpha satellites; 91.5% of human satellites 2 and 3; 97.7% of segmental duplications (SDs); 94.3% of variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs); 94.2% of short tandem repeats (STRs); and 98.8% of all human repeats²⁶.
ref: 2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of short tandem repeat.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of suspicious transaction report.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of suspend to RAM.
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: Initialism of strength point.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of sell-through rate.
CNV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CNVs
Senses: examples: text: "During the past year alone, fast on the heels of two breakthrough studies, hundreds of submicroscopic copy-number variants (CNVs) and inversions have been described in the human genome."
ref: 2006, Lars Feuk et al., “Structural variation in the human genome”, in Nature, 7:85:
text: 2006, Freeman et al., "Copy number variation: New insights into genome diversity" Genome Res 2006; 16: 949-61.
"DNA copy number variation has long been associated with specific chromosomal rearrangements and genomic disorders, but its ubiquity in mammalian genomes was not fully realized until recently. Although our understanding of the extent of this variation is still developing, it seems likely that, at least in humans, copy number variants (CNVs) account for a substantial amount of genetic variation."
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of copy-number variant or copy number variation.
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of choroidal neovascularization.
copy-number variant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copy-number variants
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A DNA sequence, 1000 nucleotides (or synonymously base pairs) in length or longer, that is present a variable number of times as copies in a genome relative to a reference genome.
Synonyms: CNV
demi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demis
Etymology: From Middle English demi, from Anglo-Norman demi, from Latin dimidius. Literally, “half”.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of demy.
glosses: A fifty pence piece.
glosses: A bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters of fluid, half the volume of a standard bottle; a split.
examples: text: The place was empty save for a big man who was sitting opposite drinking a demi of dark beer.
ref: 1928, Jean Rhys, Quartet, Penguin, published 2000, page 34:
text: A croque-monsieur will set you back €6, a steak €12.50, and a demi of Stella €3.
ref: 2012, Time Out Paris, London: Time Out Guides, →ISBN, page 234:
glosses: A small glass used chiefly in France (especially for beer) holding 250 mililiters.
demi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more demi
form: most demi
Etymology: From Middle English demi, from Anglo-Norman demi, from Latin dimidius. Literally, “half”.
Senses: examples: text: “[...] I totally think she's demi.” “What?” “Demisexual? She only likes fucking people she's in love with, whereas I,” Maddie said, moving closer to Jordan, “like fucking anything and anyone. Everyone has such hang-ups about sex, it's like pathetic, you know? We are just, like, totally animals after all, evolved monkeys. I'm all for giving in to my primal instincts.”
ref: 2017, Tayari Jones, Atlanta Noir, →ISBN:
glosses: Demisexual.