cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
liver
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪvə/
ipa: /ˈlɪvɚ/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English lyvere, lyver, from Old English lifer (“liver”), from Proto-West Germanic *libru, from Proto-Germanic *librō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smear, smudge, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Líeuwer, Lieuwer (“liver”), West Frisian lever (“liver”), Dutch lever (“liver”), German Leber (“liver”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish lever (“liver”) (the last three from Old Norse lifr (“liver”)). Related to live.
Senses: examples: text: His friend Rothwell, who had the use of the best Laveracks for breeding purposes, wrote him that one of his puppies was liver and white.
ref: 2006, Rawdon Briggs Lee, A History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain & Ireland, →ISBN, page 298:
glosses: Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
Related terms: detoxification
fascioliasis
gout
jaundice
foie gras
heparin
hepatic
liver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪvə/
ipa: /ˈlɪvɚ/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈlɪvə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈlɪvə/
ipa: /ˈlɪvɚ/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: livers
Etymology: From Middle English lyvere, livere, equivalent to live + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Ephori of Sparta, hearing a dissolute liver propose a very beneficial advise unto the people, commaunded him to hold his peace, and desired an honest man to assume the invention of it unto himselfe and to propound it.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 31, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: a wicked liver may be reclaimed, and prove an honest man[…].
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 7:
text: Try if life be worth the liver's care.
ref: 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: […] a stately speech; / Such as grave Livers do in Scotland use, / Religious men, who give to God and Man their dues.
ref: 1815 [1802], William Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence:
text: A great lover of the faith, a great defender of the faith, a great lover of life, great liver of life, great defender of life. And yet he plotted and planned over fifty murders, and carried each of one them out—if only on paper, and if only for our pleasure.
ref: 2014, Walter Raubicheck, Anya Morlan, Christianity and the Detective Story, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
examples: text: When as the wandring Scots and Picthts King Marius had subdude, He gave the Liuers dwellings.
ref: 1592, Alb. Eng., Warner, VIII, xliii (1612), 206:
text: Thou king of heaven, which […] Dost see the secret of each livers heart.
ref: 1599, Greene, Alphonsus, Wks. (Rtldg.), page 234
glosses: Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
Someone who is alive: one of the living.
examples: text: They must instantly have been detected by the present Livers that were upon the place.
ref: 1677, Cary, Chronol., II, ii, III, xiv, 252:
text: One, John Powle, a Liver on Sasquehanna River.
ref: 1747, Col. Rec. Pennsylv., V, 87:
text: There is no liver in the country so practical.
ref: 1863, D. G. Mitchell, Sev. Stor., My Farm of Edgewood, section 289:
glosses: Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
Someone who lives in a particular place; an inhabitant, a dweller.
Derived terms: bottom liver
cross-liver
free liver
liver
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪvə/
ipa: /ˈlɪvɚ/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈlɪvə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈlaɪvə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈlɪvə/
ipa: /ˈlɪvɚ/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈlɪvə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
Etymology: From live (adjective) + -(e)r.
Senses: examples: text: Seeing things on a big screen somehow makes them seem liver.
text: […]manslaughter, liver than camcorder
ref: 2001, Adam F featuring MOP, “Stand Clear”:
glosses: comparative form of live: more live
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: liver bird
far
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: fär
ipa: /fɑː/
ipa: /fɑɹ/
ipa: /fɐː/
ipa: /faː/
ipa: /faɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /fɑ(r)/
note: Dublin
ipa: /fæːɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: farther
form: further
form: farthest
form: furthest
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai
Senses: examples: text: You have all come far and you will go further.
text: He built a time machine and travelled far into the future.
text: Over time, his views moved far away from mine.
text: You've gone far enough. Actually, a bit too far.
glosses: To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.
examples: text: He was far richer than we'd thought.
text: The expense far exceeds what I expected.
text: I saw a tiny figure far below me.
text: The Reds were on the back foot early on when a catalogue of defensive errors led to Ramires giving Chelsea the lead. Jay Spearing conceded possession in midfield and Ramires escaped Jose Enrique far too easily before scoring at the near post with a shot Reina should have saved.
ref: 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Very much; by a great amount.
far
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fär
ipa: /fɑː/
ipa: /fɑɹ/
ipa: /fɐː/
ipa: /faː/
ipa: /faɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /fɑ(r)/
note: Dublin
ipa: /fæːɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: fars
form: farring
form: farred
form: farred
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai
Senses: examples: text: But I wish he'd been farred before he ever came near this house, with his “Please Betty” this, and “Please Betty” that, and drinking up our new milk as if he'd been a cat. I hate such beguiling ways.
ref: 1864, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis:
text: […] so Joe come to me and he uz sore as a boil and said you goddam prevert, I don't want no twenny-two-year-old mechanic who still pulls his pood in the toilet, and farred me.
ref: 1962, Thomas Berger, Reinhart in Love:
glosses: To send far away.
far
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fär
ipa: /fɑː/
ipa: /fɑɹ/
ipa: /fɐː/
ipa: /faː/
ipa: /faɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /fɑ(r)/
note: Dublin
ipa: /fæːɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Etymology: From Latin far. Doublet of farro.
Senses: examples: text: A cataplasm made from any meal is heating, whether it be of wheat, or of far, or barley, or bitter vetch, ...
ref: 1756, Aurelius Cornelius Celsus, Medicine: In Eight Books, page 108:
text: Almost all the rustic writers agree in this, that far is most proper for wet clay land, and triticum for dry land. 'In wet red clays,' says Cato, 'sow far; and in dry, clean, and open lands, sow triticum.'
ref: 1857, John Marius Wilson, The Rural Cyclopedia:
text: Our wedding-cake is the memorial of a practice, that bore a striking resemblance to, if it was not derived from, confarreatio, the form of marriage that had fallen into general disuse amongst the Romans in the time of Tiberius. Taking its name from the cake of far and mola salsa that was broken over the bride's head, confarreatio was attended with an incident that increases its resemblance to the way in which our ancestors used at their weddings objects symbolical of natural plentifulness.
ref: 1872, John Cordy Jeaffreson, “Wedding-Cake”, in Brides and Bridals. […], volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], →OCLC, pages 200–201:
text: The early Romans broke a cake of far and mola salsa (salted meal) over the bride's head, — a symbol of plentifulness, […]
ref: 1919, Carl Holliday, Wedding Customs Then and Now, page 32:
glosses: Emmer (a type of wheat), especially in the context of Roman use of it.
far
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fär
ipa: /fɑː/
ipa: /fɑɹ/
ipa: /fɐː/
ipa: /faː/
ipa: /faɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /fɑ(r)/
note: Dublin
ipa: /fæːɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: fars
Senses: glosses: A litter of piglets; a farrow.
near
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: nîr
ipa: /nɪə̯/
ipa: /nɪː/
enpr: nîr
ipa: /nɪɚ/
enpr: nîr
ipa: /nɪə̯/
ipa: [nɪː]
ipa: [niːɹ]
note: cheer–chair merger
ipa: /nɛə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nearer
form: nearest
Etymology: From Middle English nere, ner, from Old English nēar (“nearer”, comparative of nēah (“nigh”), the superlative would become next), influenced by Old Norse nær (“near”), both originating from Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz (“nearer”), comparative of the adverb *nēhw (“near”), from the adjective *nēhwaz, ultimately from Pre-Proto-Germanic *h₂nḗḱwos, a lengthened-grade adjective derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”).
Cognate with Old Frisian niār (“nearer”), Dutch naar (“to, towards”), German näher (“nearer”), Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”). See also nigh.
Near appears to be derived from (or at the very least influenced by) the North Germanic languages; compare Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”), as opposed to nigh, which continues the inherited West Germanic adjective, like Dutch na (“close, near”), German nah (“close, near, nearby”), Luxembourgish no (“nearby, near, close”). Both, however, are ultimately derived from the same Proto-Germanic root: *nēhw (“near, close”).
Senses: glosses: At or towards a position close in space or time.
examples: text: He was near unconscious when I found him.
text: I jumped into the near-freezing water.
text: I near ruptured myself trying to move the piano.
text: […] he hears for certain that the Queen-Mother is about and hath near finished a peace with France […]
ref: 1666, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence, published 1867:
text: Sir John Friend had very near completed a regiment of horse.
ref: 1825, David Hume, Tobias George Smollett, The History of England, page 263:
text: Peter ran after them as fast as his legs would carry him, but at last he had only one of the hares left, and when this was gone, he was very near burst with running.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 169:
text: Thinking about those pounds and pence, I near forgot my wound.
ref: 2003, Owen Parry, Honor's Kingdom, page 365:
text: "I damn near forgot." He pulled an envelope from his jacket.
ref: 2004, Jimmy Buffett, A Salty Piece of Land, page 315:
text: The fire was almost dead, the chamber near dark.
ref: 2006, Juliet Marillier, The Dark Mirror, page 377:
glosses: Nearly; almost.
Derived terms: near-minimal pair
near-sighted
near
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: enpr: nîr
ipa: /nɪə̯/
ipa: /nɪː/
enpr: nîr
ipa: /nɪɚ/
enpr: nîr
ipa: /nɪə̯/
ipa: [nɪː]
ipa: [niːɹ]
note: cheer–chair merger
ipa: /nɛə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English nere, ner, from Old English nēar (“nearer”, comparative of nēah (“nigh”), the superlative would become next), influenced by Old Norse nær (“near”), both originating from Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz (“nearer”), comparative of the adverb *nēhw (“near”), from the adjective *nēhwaz, ultimately from Pre-Proto-Germanic *h₂nḗḱwos, a lengthened-grade adjective derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”).
Cognate with Old Frisian niār (“nearer”), Dutch naar (“to, towards”), German näher (“nearer”), Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”). See also nigh.
Near appears to be derived from (or at the very least influenced by) the North Germanic languages; compare Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”), as opposed to nigh, which continues the inherited West Germanic adjective, like Dutch na (“close, near”), German nah (“close, near, nearby”), Luxembourgish no (“nearby, near, close”). Both, however, are ultimately derived from the same Proto-Germanic root: *nēhw (“near, close”).
Senses: examples: text: There are habitable planets orbiting many of the stars near our Sun.
text: Ts'ai Ch'ien 蔡乾 was born in 1908 in Changhua near Taichung, Taiwan (Formosa).
ref: 1957, Edgar Snow, Random Notes on Red China, Harvard University Press, published 1968, →OCLC, page 103:
text: He entered the inn, and asking for dinner, unbuckled his wallet, and sat down to rest himself near the door.
ref: 1820, Mary Shelley, Maurice:
text: This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: It shied, balked, and whinnied, and in the end he could do nothing but drive it into the yard while the men used their own strength to get the heavy wagon near enough the hayloft for convenient pitching.
ref: 1927, H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space:
text: Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
ref: 2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8:
glosses: Physically close to, in close proximity to.
examples: text: The voyage was near completion.
glosses: Close to in time.
examples: text: His opinions are near the limit of what is acceptable.
text: There was no way Brín felt anything anywhere near what I felt for him. He saw me as a friend.
ref: 2019, Emma Lea, A Royal Enticement:
glosses: Close to in nature or degree.
Derived terms: near at hand
near-death experience
near-Earth object
near the knuckle
near
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nîr
ipa: /nɪə̯/
ipa: /nɪː/
enpr: nîr
ipa: /nɪɚ/
enpr: nîr
ipa: /nɪə̯/
ipa: [nɪː]
ipa: [niːɹ]
note: cheer–chair merger
ipa: /nɛə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nears
form: nearing
form: neared
form: neared
Etymology: From Middle English nere, ner, from Old English nēar (“nearer”, comparative of nēah (“nigh”), the superlative would become next), influenced by Old Norse nær (“near”), both originating from Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz (“nearer”), comparative of the adverb *nēhw (“near”), from the adjective *nēhwaz, ultimately from Pre-Proto-Germanic *h₂nḗḱwos, a lengthened-grade adjective derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”).
Cognate with Old Frisian niār (“nearer”), Dutch naar (“to, towards”), German näher (“nearer”), Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”). See also nigh.
Near appears to be derived from (or at the very least influenced by) the North Germanic languages; compare Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”), as opposed to nigh, which continues the inherited West Germanic adjective, like Dutch na (“close, near”), German nah (“close, near, nearby”), Luxembourgish no (“nearby, near, close”). Both, however, are ultimately derived from the same Proto-Germanic root: *nēhw (“near, close”).
Senses: examples: text: The ship nears the land.
text: We started back in the same conditions, and for part of the journey ran through semi-darkness, but the sun appeared once again as we neared London.
ref: 1964 May, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, pages 331–332:
text: As he neared a bridge over the East Coast Main Line near Great Heck, he lost control. His Land Rover left the carriageway and veered onto the hard shoulder before biting into the grass verge.
ref: 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 38:
glosses: To come closer to; to approach.
Derived terms: unneared
Related terms: para-
nigh
near
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nîr
ipa: /nɪə̯/
ipa: /nɪː/
enpr: nîr
ipa: /nɪɚ/
enpr: nîr
ipa: /nɪə̯/
ipa: [nɪː]
ipa: [niːɹ]
note: cheer–chair merger
ipa: /nɛə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nears
Etymology: From Middle English nere, ner, from Old English nēar (“nearer”, comparative of nēah (“nigh”), the superlative would become next), influenced by Old Norse nær (“near”), both originating from Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz (“nearer”), comparative of the adverb *nēhw (“near”), from the adjective *nēhwaz, ultimately from Pre-Proto-Germanic *h₂nḗḱwos, a lengthened-grade adjective derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”).
Cognate with Old Frisian niār (“nearer”), Dutch naar (“to, towards”), German näher (“nearer”), Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”). See also nigh.
Near appears to be derived from (or at the very least influenced by) the North Germanic languages; compare Danish nær (“near, close”), Norwegian nær (“near, close”) Swedish nära (“near, close”), as opposed to nigh, which continues the inherited West Germanic adjective, like Dutch na (“close, near”), German nah (“close, near, nearby”), Luxembourgish no (“nearby, near, close”). Both, however, are ultimately derived from the same Proto-Germanic root: *nēhw (“near, close”).
Senses: synonyms: near side
antonyms: off side
glosses: The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc.
Related terms: nearside
near
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nîr
ipa: /nɪə̯/
ipa: /nɪː/
enpr: nîr
ipa: /nɪɚ/
enpr: nîr
ipa: /nɪə̯/
ipa: [nɪː]
ipa: [niːɹ]
note: cheer–chair merger
ipa: /nɛə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nears
Etymology: From Middle English nēre, neere (“kidney, abdomen; (pl.) seat of emotions”), probably from unattested Old English *nēora, *nīora, from Proto-West Germanic *neurō, from Proto-Germanic *neurô; but alternatively borrowed from Middle Low German nêre. Cognate with Scots nere, neir, German Niere, Dutch nier, Norwegian nyre, Icelandic nýra, and more distantly Latin nefronēs pl (Praeneste dialect), Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós), all meaning both “kidney” and “testicle”.
In most English dialects, this word survived only as a fossil in the second syllable of kidney (earlier kide-nēre), wherein the original r was apparently replaced with y.
Senses: glosses: Kidney.
sharp
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːp/
ipa: /ʃɑɹp/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: sharper
form: sharpest
Etymology: From Middle English scharp, from Old English sċearp, from Proto-West Germanic *skarp, from Proto-Germanic *skarpaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerb-, from *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian skerp, Low German scherp, scharp, schaarp, Dutch scherp, German scharf, Danish skarp. Compare Irish cearb (“keen; cutting”), Latin acerbus (“tart, bitter”), Tocharian B kärpye (“rough”), Latvian skârbs (“sharp, rough”), Russian щерба (ščerba, “notch”), Polish szczerba (“gap, dent, jag, chip, nick, notch”), Albanian harb (“rudeness”). More at shear.
Senses: glosses: In a sharp manner: a less usual alternative to sharply in certain senses.
To a point or edge.
examples: text: The iron plates rang sharp, but turn'd the spear
ref: 1853, Matthew Arnold, Sohrab and Rustum:
glosses: In a sharp manner: a less usual alternative to sharply in certain senses.
Piercingly.
examples: text: You bite so sharp at reasons.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: In a sharp manner: a less usual alternative to sharply in certain senses.
Eagerly.
examples: South of the city the river turns sharp to the east.
sharp left, sharp right
glosses: In a sharp manner: a less usual alternative to sharply in certain senses.
So as to make a sharp, or tight, angle.
examples: text: I'll see you at twelve o'clock sharp.
ref: 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “Open at 9am sharp, Frank had waited until 11.30am for his first visitor of the day – and here I came, not with an empty shopping basket, but a reporter’s notebook.”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Exactly.
raw_tags: of times of day
examples: text: I didn't enjoy the concert much because the soprano sang sharp on all the high notes.
text: 1867, Dutton Cook, Hobson's Choice, Chapter 8, “Music Hath Charms”, p. 72 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Hobson_s_Choice/hwhhEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Matilda+Milner+frequently+sang+sharp%22&pg=PA72&printsec=frontcover
Whereas Matilda Milner frequently sang sharp, in spite of the efforts of Miss Brown, who played the accompaniment, to give her the right note and keep her in tune.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
Synonyms: sense: exactly
word: exactly
english: of time
translation: of time
word: on the dot
word: precisely
word: exactly
Derived terms: brace sharp
look sharp
sharp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːp/
ipa: /ʃɑɹp/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: sharps
form: sharping
form: sharped
form: sharped
Etymology: From Middle English scharp, from Old English sċearp, from Proto-West Germanic *skarp, from Proto-Germanic *skarpaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerb-, from *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian skerp, Low German scherp, scharp, schaarp, Dutch scherp, German scharf, Danish skarp. Compare Irish cearb (“keen; cutting”), Latin acerbus (“tart, bitter”), Tocharian B kärpye (“rough”), Latvian skârbs (“sharp, rough”), Russian щерба (ščerba, “notch”), Polish szczerba (“gap, dent, jag, chip, nick, notch”), Albanian harb (“rudeness”). More at shear.
Senses: examples: text: That new musician must be tone deaf: he sharped half the notes of the song!
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
examples: text: he made a shift yet to pick up a Sorry Living upon the Rook ; and not by Sharping alone , but now and then by downright Stealing
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
glosses: To sharpen.
Related terms: sharp-sharp
dull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌl/
rhymes: -ʌl
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: dulls
form: dulling
form: dulled
form: dulled
form: dul
form: dulle
Etymology: From Middle English dull, dul (also dyll, dill, dwal), from Old English dol (“dull, foolish, erring, heretical; foolish, silly; presumptuous”), from Proto-West Germanic *dol, from Proto-Germanic *dulaz, from earlier *dwulaz, a variant of *dwalaz (“stunned, mad, foolish, misled”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwel-, *dʰewel- (“to dim, dull, cloud, make obscure, swirl, whirl”).
Cognate with Scots dull, doll (“slow to understand or hear, deaf, dull”), North Frisian dol (“rash, unthinking, giddy, flippant”), Dutch dol (“crazy, mad, insane”), Low German dul, dol (“mad, silly, stupid, fatuous”), German toll (“crazy, mad, wild, fantastic”), Danish dval (“foolish, absurd”), Icelandic dulur (“secretive, silent”), West-Flemish dul (angry, furious).
Senses: examples: text: Years of misuse have dulled the tools.
text: This […] dulled their swords.
ref: a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:
glosses: To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
examples: text: He drinks to dull the pain.
text: Those [drugs] she has / Will stupefy and dull the sense a while.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi]:
text: Use and custom have so dulled our eyes.
ref: 1850, Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord:
glosses: To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
examples: text: A razor will dull with use.
glosses: To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
glosses: To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
Synonyms: dullen
Derived terms: undullable
undulled
old
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ōld
ipa: /ˈəʊld/
ipa: [ˈɔʊ(ɫ)d]
ipa: [ˈɒʊ(ɫ)d]
ipa: /ɑːd/
ipa: /aʊld/
ipa: /ˈoʊld/
ipa: [ˈoːɫd]
ipa: /əʉld/
ipa: [əʉɫd]
ipa: /ɐʉld/
ipa: [ɒʊ(ɫ)d]
rhymes: -əʊld
Forms: form: olds
form: ol
form: ol'
form: ole
form: owld
form: aad
form: oul
form: oul'
form: ould
form: olde
form: aud
form: aul
form: auld
form: wold
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English old, oold, from Old English ald, eald (“old, aged, ancient, antique, primeval”), from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (“grown-up”), originally a participle form, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós (“grown, tall, big”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots aald, auld (“old”), Yola yola, yolaw, yold, yole (“old”), North Frisian ool, ual, üülj (“old”), Saterland Frisian oold (“old”), West Frisian âld (“old”), Alemannic German altu, oalt, oalts, olt, àltà (“old”), Bavarian oid (“old”), Central Franconian alt, aod, auw, oot (“old”), Cimbrian, German alt (“old”), Dutch oud, oudt (“old”), German Low German old, oolt (“old”), Luxembourgish al (“old”), Mòcheno òlt (“old”), Vilamovian aołd (“old”), Yiddish אַלט (alt, “old”), Danish ældre (“elderly”), Faroese eldri (“elder, older”), Icelandic aldinn (“old”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk eldre (“elderly”), Swedish äldre (“elderly”), Crimean Gothic alt (“old”), Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 (alþeis, “old”), Latin altus (“high, tall, grown big, lofty”). Related to eld.
Senses: examples: text: A civilised society should always look after the old in the community.
glosses: People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
raw_tags: with the
examples: text: Near-synonyms: geezer, oldie, oldster; see also Thesaurus:old person
text: I'm not letting an old wreck my good time today.
text: I'm not letting any olds wreck my good time today.
glosses: A person older than oneself, especially an adult in relation to a teenager.
examples: text: I had to sneak out to meet my girlfriend and tell the olds I was going to the library.
qualifier: most often plural
glosses: One's parents.
examples: text: We crossed to the pub on the corner of Carlisle Street and I ordered two schooners of old for him and one of light for me.
ref: 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 117:
antonyms: new
glosses: A typically dark-coloured lager brewed by the traditional top-fermentation method.
smooth
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /smuːð/
rhymes: -uːð
Forms: form: smoother
form: smoothest
form: smeeth
form: smoothe
Etymology: From Middle English smothe, smethe, from Old English smēþe, smōþ, both from Proto-West Germanic *smanþī, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots smuith (“smooth”), Saterland Frisian smoud (“smooth”), Low German smood and smödig (“smooth, malleable, ductile”), Dutch smeuïg (“smooth”) (from earlier smeudig).
Senses: examples: text: smooth-running, smooth-tongued, smooth-spoken
text: The paths true love never ran smooth(ly).
text: Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: Smoothly.
smooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smuːð/
rhymes: -uːð
Forms: form: smooths
form: smeeth
form: smoothe
Etymology: From Middle English smothe, smethe, from Old English smēþe, smōþ, both from Proto-West Germanic *smanþī, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots smuith (“smooth”), Saterland Frisian smoud (“smooth”), Low German smood and smödig (“smooth, malleable, ductile”), Dutch smeuïg (“smooth”) (from earlier smeudig).
Senses: examples: text: The smooth of his neck.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 27:16:
text: I think you and I will take the ups and the downs , the roughs and the smooths of this daily existence and conversation
ref: 1861 January – 1862 August, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Adventures of Philip on His Way through the World; […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1862, →OCLC:
text: Things are often equalized by roughs and smooths being set against one another.
ref: 1860, Anne Manning, The Day of Small Things, page 81:
glosses: Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily.
examples: text: She brushes down her hair with a little bit of spit and a smooth of her hand and opens the bright green door, walking a few metres, squinting.
ref: 2006, Julienne Van Loon, Road Story, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: A smoothing action.
examples: text: In the 4-toe stock there is a wide gap between the lowest rough and the smooths which come from the same parents.
ref: 1916, William Ernest Castle, Sewall Wright, Studies of Inheritance in Guinea-pigs and Rats, page 104:
glosses: A domestic animal having a smooth coat.
examples: text: By the early 1970s, skinhead culture began to mutate into the variant ‘white ethnic’ styles of the suedeheads and smooths.
ref: 1999, Peter Childs, Mike Storry, Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture, →ISBN, page 188:
glosses: A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain.
examples: text: A smooth of the potato data set has already been given in Figure 1.2.
ref: 1990, Wolfgang Härdle, Applied Nonparametric Regression, →ISBN, page 17:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure.
smooth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smuːð/
rhymes: -uːð
Forms: form: smooths
form: smoothing
form: smoothed
form: smoothed
form: smeeth
form: smoothe
Etymology: From Middle English smothe, smethe, from Old English smēþe, smōþ, both from Proto-West Germanic *smanþī, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots smuith (“smooth”), Saterland Frisian smoud (“smooth”), Low German smood and smödig (“smooth, malleable, ductile”), Dutch smeuïg (“smooth”) (from earlier smeudig).
Senses: examples: text: She smooths her skirt, looking as composed and ladylike as possible.
ref: 1961, William Gibson, The Miracle Worker, →ISBN, page 37:
synonyms: smoothen
glosses: To make smooth or even.
examples: text: to smooth cloth with a smoothing iron
glosses: To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure; to press, to flatten.
examples: text: Caracas can be a tough place but the tremendously good-natured caraqueños smoothed my passage every step of the way.
ref: 2007, Beth Kohn, Lonely Planet Venezuela, page 379:
glosses: To make straightforward or easy.
examples: to smooth a person's temper
glosses: To calm or palliate.
examples: text: […] the 7-month moving averages provide better smoothing of the data in this case than do the 3-month moving averages.
ref: 1999, Murray R. Spiegel, Larry J. Stephens, Schaum’s Outline of Theory and Problems of Statistics, →ISBN, page 457:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
qualifier: image processing; digital audio; image processing; digital audio
glosses: To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise.
examples: text: Can I smooth your cat?
glosses: To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur.
Derived terms: smooth away
smooth down
smoothen
smooth endoplasmic reticulum
smoother
smoothing circuit
smoothing consumption
smoothing press
smooth out
smooth over
smooth someone's feathers
smooth up
rough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌf/
ipa: /ɹɐf/
ipa: /ɹʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: ruff
Forms: form: roughs
form: ruff
Etymology: From Middle English rough, roughe, roȝe, row, rou, ru, ruȝ, ruh, from Old English rūg, rūh, from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz.
Cognate with Scots ruch, rouch (“rough”), Saterland Frisian ruuch, rouch (“rough”), West Frisian rûch (“rough”), Low German ruuch (“rough”), Dutch ruig (“rough”), German rau(h) (“rough”), Danish ru (“uneven on the surface, "rough", "rugged"”).
Senses: glosses: The unmowed part of a golf course.
examples: text: In Wellington Street my brother met a couple of sturdy roughs, who had just rushed out of Fleet Street with still wet newspapers and staring placards. "Dreadful catastrophe!" they bawled one to the other down Wellington Street. "Fighting at Weybridge!"
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 124:
glosses: A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
glosses: The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
glosses: A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.
examples: text: In calms you fish; in roughs use songs and dances.
ref: 1633, Phineas Fletcher, Eclog 1. Amyntas:
glosses: Boisterous weather.
glosses: A piece inserted in a horseshoe to keep the animal from slipping.
Derived terms: bit of rough
diamond in the rough
putt from the rough
rough-and-tumble
rough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌf/
ipa: /ɹɐf/
ipa: /ɹʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: ruff
Forms: form: roughs
form: roughing
form: roughed
form: roughed
form: ruff
Etymology: From Middle English rough, roughe, roȝe, row, rou, ru, ruȝ, ruh, from Old English rūg, rūh, from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz.
Cognate with Scots ruch, rouch (“rough”), Saterland Frisian ruuch, rouch (“rough”), West Frisian rûch (“rough”), Low German ruuch (“rough”), Dutch ruig (“rough”), German rau(h) (“rough”), Danish ru (“uneven on the surface, "rough", "rugged"”).
Senses: examples: text: Rough in the shape first, then polish the details.
text: On the floor, one beside the other, stood two amphoræ of veined marble-like limestone; one a huge vase 2 feet high and more than 6 feet round, finished and perfect, with two splendid spiral bands; and the other a smaller vase, of the same type, but only just roughed out of the block.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 90:
glosses: To create in an approximate form.
examples: text: […] roughing is not a part of the sport, and will not be tolerated. Referees will not permit unfair practices that may cause injury to a contestant, and are held strictly responsible for enforcing these rules.
ref: 1938, California. State Athletic Commission, Rules, Regulations and Law Regulating Boxing and Wrestling (page 42)
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: To break the rules by being excessively violent.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
glosses: To render rough; to roughen.
examples: text: To Rough Horses, a word in familiar use among the dragoons to signify the act of breaking in horses, so as to adapt them to military purposes.
ref: 1802, Charles James, A New and Enlarged Military Dictionary:
glosses: To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
examples: text: to rough it
text: “[…]Oh, but my husband is never so happy as when he is travelling. He likes roughing it. . . . My husband. . . . My husband. . . .”
ref: 1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Escape”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 280:
text: I was able to help Trudy set up camp and everything else, of course there are different ways to camp the usual comfortable way or roughed we of course roughed it and I did my best to keep warm.
ref: 2013, Anne-Marie K. Kittiphanh, If Life Gave Me LEMONS, I Would Turn It into HONEY, →ISBN:
glosses: To endure primitive conditions.
glosses: To roughen a horse's shoes to keep the animal from slipping.
Derived terms: rough in
rough it
rough out
rough up
rough
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌf/
ipa: /ɹɐf/
ipa: /ɹʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: ruff
Forms: form: more rough
form: most rough
form: ruff
Etymology: From Middle English rough, roughe, roȝe, row, rou, ru, ruȝ, ruh, from Old English rūg, rūh, from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz.
Cognate with Scots ruch, rouch (“rough”), Saterland Frisian ruuch, rouch (“rough”), West Frisian rûch (“rough”), Low German ruuch (“rough”), Dutch ruig (“rough”), German rau(h) (“rough”), Danish ru (“uneven on the surface, "rough", "rugged"”).
Senses: examples: text: I will warrant they prove such roaring boys as I knew when I served under Lumford and Goring, [...] —sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in their boats. Ah! those merry days are gone.
ref: 1826, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 93:
glosses: In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
Derived terms: sleep rough
river
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪvɚ/
enpr: rĭv'ər
ipa: /ˈɹɪvə/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rivers
form: rivering
form: rivered
form: rivered
Etymology: From Middle English ryver, from Anglo-Norman rivere, from Early Medieval Latin rīpāria (“littoral, riverbank”), from Latin rīpārius (“of a riverbank”), from Latin rīpa (“river bank”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to scratch, tear, cut”). Unrelated to Latin rīvus (“stream”) (whence rival, derive). Doublet of riviera and rivière. Displaced native Old English ēa.
Senses: examples: text: Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
river
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪvɚ/
enpr: rĭv'ər
ipa: /ˈɹɪvə/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈɹaɪvə/
ipa: /ˈɹaɪvɚ/
rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈɹɪvɚ/
enpr: rĭv'ər
ipa: /ˈɹɪvə/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rivers
Etymology: From rive + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who rives or splits.
Synonyms: word: large
word: river
word: small
word: brooklet
word: burnlet
word: ree
word: rill
word: rith
word: rithe
word: rivulet
word: runlet
word: streamlet
word: unsorted
word: arroyo
word: bayou
word: beck
word: bogan
word: bogue
word: bourn
word: branch
word: anabranch
word: brook
word: burn
word: coulee
word: creek
word: crick
word: distributary
word: drain
word: draw
word: ea
word: eau
word: fork
word: fresh
word: freshet
word: gill
word: kill
word: lake [⇒ thesaurus] "stream of running water"
word: letch
word: lick
word: nahal
word: nailbourne
word: outlet
word: prong
word: pup
word: rine
word: rhine
word: rindle
word: rito
word: run
word: runnel
word: sike
word: sitch
word: stream
word: tributary
word: wadi
word: wash
word: winterbourne
Hypernyms: word: watercourse
word: body of water
word: landform
Hyponyms: word: affluent
Meronyms: word: waterfall
word: rapid
word: delta
word: estuary
word: mouth
word: meander
word: ford
word: source
Related terms: word: water
word: freshwater
word: alluvium
word: sediment
word: riverbend
word: riverbank
word: riverbed
word: riverfront
word: valley
word: canyon
word: glen
word: gorge
word: strath
word: drainage basin
word: confluence
word: channel
word: floodplain
word: riverplain
word: billabong
word: oxbow lake
word: fish
word: amphibian
word: muskrat
word: river dolphin
word: Amazon River dolphin
word: baiji
word: pink river dolphin
word: tucuxi
word: crest
word: flood
word: drought
word: bridge
word: weir
word: dam
word: dock
word: port
word: flatboat
word: pulwar
word: raft
word: riverboat
word: river runner
word: rum-tum
word: showboat
word: struse
word: thalamegos
word: fisher
word: river rat
word: riverkeeper
word: riverman
word: swimmer
word: water bailiff
word: geography
word: hydrology
word: fluvial
word: riparian
word: riverine
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class III § 348. River
word: :Category:en:Rivers
live
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: lĭv
ipa: /lɪv/
rhymes: -ɪv
enpr: līv
ipa: /laɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
enpr: lĭv
ipa: /lɪv/
rhymes: -ɪv
Forms: form: more live
form: most live
Etymology: An aphetic form of alive.
Senses: examples: text: The concert was broadcast live by radio.
glosses: Of an event, as it happens; in real time; direct.
examples: text: He'll be appearing live at the auditorium.
glosses: Of making a performance or speech, in person.
fear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪə/
ipa: /fɪəɹ/
ipa: /fɪɹ/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /fɛː/
ipa: /fiə/
ipa: /fiɹ/
homophone: fair
homophone: fare (both cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more fear
form: most fear
form: feer
Etymology: From Middle English fere, feore, from Old English fēre (“able to go, fit for service”), from Proto-Germanic *fēriz (“passable”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to put across, ferry”). Cognate with Scots fere, feir (“well, active, sound”), Middle High German gevüere (“able, capable, fit, serviceable”), Swedish för (“capable, able, stout”), Icelandic fær (“able”). Related to fare.
Senses: examples: text: hale and fear
glosses: Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.
guts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Senses: glosses: plural of gut
guts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Senses: synonyms: entrails
guttings
innards
insides
viscera
glosses: The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
examples: text: It must have taken some guts to speak in front of that audience.
text: She doesn't take any nonsense from anyone—she's got guts.
synonyms: word: pluck
word: balls
word: nerve
word: audacity
word: balls
word: bield
word: boldhead
word: boldness
word: bravehood
word: braveness
word: bravery
word: courage
word: courageousness
word: daring
word: fearlessness
word: grit
word: guts
word: heart
word: intrepidity
word: intrepidness
word: mood
word: nerve
word: ovaries
raw_tags: for women
word: pecker
word: pluck
word: spunk
word: steel
word: undauntedness
word: valour
glosses: Courage; determination.
examples: text: His speech had no guts in it.
glosses: Content, substance.
examples: text: He knew all about the guts of the business: how things actually get done.
text: The guts of this Rolex watch are rock-solid.
synonyms: word: bowels
word: marrow
word: bowels
word: brass tacks
word: core
word: crux
word: essence
word: gist
word: drift
word: guts
word: gravamen
word: heart
word: heart and soul
word: heartstring
word: heartstrings
word: inwardness
word: kernel
word: marrow
word: meat
word: moral of the story
word: nitty-gritty
word: nub
word: nuts and bolts
word: pith
word: punctum saliens
word: quintessence
word: soul
word: spirit
word: stuff
word: substance
word: tenor
glosses: The essential, core parts.
examples: text: If you need someone to spill your guts out to, I'm here.
glosses: One's innermost feelings.
glosses: The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates; the centre.
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: The center of the field.
Derived terms: black as a dog's guts
black guts
blood and guts
blood-and-guts
bubble guts
drop one's guts
ducks' guts
ducks guts
duck's guts
fight one's guts out
greedyguts
guts out
gutsy
hate someone's guts
have someone's guts for garters
misery guts
miseryguts
play one's guts out
puke one's guts out
rearrange someone's guts
rusty guts
slog one's guts out
spill one's guts
spill one's guts out
sweat one's guts out
tub of guts
work one's guts out
worryguts
guts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gut
guts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Forms: form: gutses
form: gutsing
form: gutsed
form: gutsed
Senses: glosses: To eat greedily.
examples: text: He gutsed out a 6-1 win.
glosses: To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).
vomit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vŏm'it
ipa: /ˈvɒmɪt/
rhymes: -ɒmɪt
enpr: vŏm'it
ipa: /ˈvɑmɪt/
Forms: form: vomits
Etymology: From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre (“vomit repeatedly”), frequentative form of vomō (“be sick, vomit”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Old Norse váma (“nausea, malaise”), Old English wemman (“to defile”). More at wem.
Senses: examples: text: For all tables are full of vomite and filthinesse, so that there is no place cleane.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 28:8:
glosses: The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.
glosses: The act of regurgitating.
examples: text: He removes his hat without misgiving, he unbuttons his coat and sits down, proffered all pure and open to the long joys of being himself, like a basin to a vomit.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of vomiting.
examples: text: "[Y]ou've spent so much of your life writing romantic vomit for morons that the mushy bit of the brain you did have has gone rancid."
ref: 1936, John Wyndham, Stowaway to Mars, published 1972, page x. 81:
glosses: Anything that is worthless; rubbish; trash.
examples: text: He gives your Hollander a vomit.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: That which causes vomiting; an emetic.
Synonyms: word: barf
word: bait
word: boke
word: boot
word: chunder
word: honk
word: pavement pizza
word: puke
word: purging
word: ralph
word: sick
word: spew
word: sprog
word: throwup
word: throw-up
word: upchuck
word: yak
word: liquid laugh
word: multicolour yawn
word: Technicolor yawn
word: vomit
word: vomitus
Coordinate terms: word: dry heaves
Derived terms: all retch and no vomit
black vomit
dog vomit slime mold
dry vomit
sea vomit
unicorn vomit
vom
vomit comet
vomit fraud
vomit green
vomit nut
vomitous
word vomit
Related terms: word: emetic
word: heave
word: retch
word: emesis
word: hurl
word: launch lunch
word: launch one's lunch
word: lose one's lunch
word: throw up
word: regurgitate
word: nauseated