cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cenobite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕnʹə-bīt'
enpr: sēʹnə-bīt'
ipa: /ˈsɛn.əˌbaɪt/
ipa: /ˈsiː.nəˌbaɪt/
Forms: form: cenobites
form: coenobite
form: cœnobite
Etymology: From Old French cenobite or Ecclesiastical Latin coenobīta, from coenobium, from Ancient Greek κοινόβιον (koinóbion, “community life, convent”), from κοινός (koinós, “common”) + βίος (bíos, “life”).
Senses: examples: text: Lamprecht knew very well how the war was going and was perfunctory in his rounding up of Jews and cenobites.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, page 418:
glosses: A new or recent member of a Greek monastic religious order; a caloyer.
coordinate_terms: eremite
glosses: A monk who lives in a religious community, rather than in solitude.
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A torturous demon creature made famous by the Hellraiser series.
Derived terms: cenobitic
cenobitical
cenobitism
Related terms: monk
nun
religious
religious
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈlɪd͡ʒ.əs/
rhymes: -ɪdʒəs
Forms: form: religious
form: religiouses
Etymology: From Middle English religiouse, religious, religius, religeous, from Anglo-Norman religieus, religius, from Old French religious, religieux, and their source, Latin religiōsus (“religious, superstitious, conscientious”), from religiō. Doublet of religieux.
Senses: examples: text: Towards the end of the seventh century the monks of Fleury [...] clandestinely excavated the body of Benedict himself, plus the corpse of his even more shadowy sister and fellow religious, Scholastica.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 354:
glosses: A member of a religious order, congregation, or certain other forms of consecrated life, i.e. a monk, nun, sister, brother, friar, or other religious priest.
algo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.ɡoʊ̯/
Forms: form: algos
Senses: examples: text: Together, the Masons craft a new algorithm to make an end-run around Axe’s sabotage — or so they want him to believe. With the help of a surveillance photo procured by his dirty-deeds specialist Hall (Terry Kinney), Axe has a copy of the algo he spends a full day attempting to decipher before realizing it has a mistake.
ref: 2019 March 31, Sean T. Collins, “‘Billions’ Season 4, Episode 3: Hurts So Good”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Clipping of algorithm.
Derived terms: algospeak
CAVU
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of ceiling and visibility unrestricted, indicating a ceiling of at least 10,000 feet and visibility of at least 10 miles: ideal flying conditions.
Related terms: CAVOK
gymnosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪmˈnɒsəfi/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪmˈnɑsəfi/
Etymology: From gymno- + -sophy. Compare gymnosophist § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: A philosophy and lifestyle based around the idea that nudity is a natural condition and should be widely acceptable in society.
Derived terms: gymnosophic
Related terms: gymnosophist
estimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛs.tɪ.mət/
ipa: /ˈɛs.tɪˌmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛs.tə.mət/
ipa: /ˈɛs.təˌmeɪt/
Forms: form: estimates
form: æstimate
Etymology: From Middle English estimat, borrowed from Latin aestimātus (“valuing, estimate”, only used in the ablative singular: "aestimātū..." (in valuing...)), from aestimō + -tus (“action noun-forming suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: “They know our boats will stand up to their work,” said Willison, “and that counts for a good deal. A low estimate from us doesn't mean scamped work, but just that we want to keep the yard busy over a slack time.”
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 3, in Well Tackled!:
synonyms: estimation
appraisal
coordinate_terms: esteem#Noun
hypernyms: quote#Noun
glosses: A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.
synonyms: estimation
appraisal
coordinate_terms: esteem#Noun
hypernyms: quote#Noun
glosses: A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.
A document (or verbal notification) specifying how much a job is likely to cost.
raw_tags: in business and construction
examples: text: The desired norm estimate is now obtained from the identity... [referring to an earlier statement saying that a certain norm is less than or equal to a certain expression]
ref: 1992, Louis de Branges, “The convergence of Euler functions”, in Journal of Functional Analysis, →DOI, page 185:
glosses: An upper limitation on some positive quantity.
Derived terms: ballpark estimate
cost estimate
counterestimate
Fermi estimate
guesstimate
guestimate
misestimate
reestimate
subestimate
estimate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛs.tɪ.mət/
ipa: /ˈɛs.tɪˌmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛs.tə.mət/
ipa: /ˈɛs.təˌmeɪt/
Forms: form: estimates
form: estimating
form: estimated
form: estimated
form: æstimate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin aestimātus, perfect passive participle of aestimō (“to estimate”) (see -ate), older form aestumō (“to value, rate, esteem”); from Old Latin *ais-temos (“one who cuts copper”), meaning one in the Roman Republic who mints money. Compare Middle English estymatt (“reputed”) / estimat. See also the doublet esteem, as well as aim.
Senses: examples: text: I estimate that I need 400 board feet of lumber to complete a job, and then order 350 because I do not want a surplus, or perhaps order 450 because I do not want to make any subsequent orders.
ref: 1965, Ian Hacking, Logic of Statistical Inference:
text: Higher real prices for durables are estimated to have reduced their consumption per capita by 1.09% in 1930, […]
ref: 2003, Alexander J. Field, Gregory Clark, William A. Sundstrom, Research in Economic History:
glosses: To calculate roughly, often from imperfect data.
examples: text: It is by the weight of silver, and not the name of the piece, that men estimate commodities and exchange them.
ref: 1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, →OCLC:
text: It is always very difficult to estimate the age in which you are living.
ref: 1870, John Campbell Shairp, Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations:
glosses: To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data.
Synonyms: word: appraise
word: assess
word: approximate
sense: partial synonyms:
word: give
word: put
Derived terms: estimable
estimatable
estimatingly
estimation
estimator
guesstimate
guestimate
misestimate
overestimate
reestimate
subestimate
underestimate
estimate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛs.tɪ.mət/
ipa: /ˈɛs.tɪˌmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛs.tə.mət/
ipa: /ˈɛs.təˌmeɪt/
Forms: form: more estimate
form: most estimate
form: æstimate
Etymology: From Latin aestimātus (“estimated”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 2 for more. Originally used as the past participle of estimate; compare generate or communicate.
Senses: glosses: estimated
estimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛs.tɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɛs.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌes.tɪˈmæɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: estimations
form: æstimation
Etymology: From Middle English estimacioun, estimacion, from Old French estimacion, from Latin aestimatio. Morphologically estimate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: According to my estimations, we should get to the border in five hours, give or take.
text: The publisher made an estimation on the potential value of the new novel.
glosses: The process of making an estimate.
glosses: The amount, extent, position, size, or value reached in an estimate.
examples: text: With that performance last night, you've gone up in the director's estimation.
synonyms: opinion
glosses: Esteem or favourable regard.
Derived terms: ballpark estimation
coestimation
disestimation
estimate
estimation theory
guesstimation
misestimation
overestimation
postestimation
reestimation
re-estimation
subestimation
underestimation
Related terms: esteem
semen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːmən/
rhymes: -iːmən
homophone: seaman
Forms: form: semens
Etymology: From Middle English semen, from Latin sēmen (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow; plant”).
Senses: examples: text: Then add four drops of crocodile semen, and pass the mixture through a filter.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 152:
text: Sharp protein odor of semen fills the air.
ref: 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 80:
text: In the Sumerian language the word for water also means semen, and since Enki is the god of water, he is therefore the god of semen. In this ode to the Great Father, the land of the Sumerians is literally awash with semen.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 162:
glosses: A sticky, milky fluid produced in male reproductive organs that contains the reproductive cells.
Synonyms: sense: male reproductory fluid
word: ejaculate
word: sperm
word: jissom
word: jism
word: jizz
word: balljuice
word: spunk
word: cum
word: seed
word: spurt
word: spooge
word: splooge
word: load
word: skeet
word: squirt
word: nut
word: baby batter
word: baby gravy
word: boy juice
word: cock juice
word: cock snot
word: come
word: cream
word: creme
word: cumload
word: cumshot
topics: pornography
media
sexuality
lifestyle
word: cumwad
word: dick juice
word: dick milk
word: dick snot
word: fuckjuice
word: girl juice
word: knuckle children
word: love custard
word: love juice
word: mad milk
word: man juice
word: man milk
word: milk
word: muck
word: scum
word: seminal fluid
word: spoof
word: sprog
word: wad
word: white pee
Derived terms: semen demon
semenlike
semenologist
semen virile
semeny
seminoma
Related terms: word: semen contra
word: ass juice
word: butt juice
word: Cowper's fluid
word: cumhole
word: cumslut
word: cunt juice
word: penis
word: precum
word: pre-cum
word: pre-ejaculate
word: pussy juice
word: shot spot
promulgate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒml̩.ɡeɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.məl.ɡeɪt/
Forms: form: promulgates
form: promulgating
form: promulgated
form: promulgated
Etymology: From Middle English promulgaten, from Latin prōmulgātus, past participle of prōmulgō (“I make known, publish”), either from provulgō (“I make known, publish”), from pro (“forth”) + vulgō (“I publish”), or from mulgeō (“I bring forth”, literally “I milk”). Compare promulge.
Senses: examples: text: ’Tis yet to know, / Which when I know, that boaſting is an Honour, / I ſhall promulgate. I fetch by life and being, / From Men of Royall Seige.
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 I, scene ii]:
text: Prieſts have invented, and the world admir’d / What knaviſh prieſts promulgate as inſpir’d ; / ’Till reaſon, now no longer overaw’d, / Reſumes her pow’rs, and ſpurns the clumſy fraud ; / And, common-ſenſe diffuſing real day, / The meteor of the goſpel dies away !
ref: 1784 November 6, William Cowper, “Tirocinium: Or, A Review of Schools”, in Poems, page 303:
synonyms: declare
proclaim
publish
antonyms: withhold
glosses: To make known or make public.
examples: text: […] the Statute of Uses was delayed until 1536 and the Statute of Wills until 1540, but both statutes were promulgated in 1532, and formed part of a policy which we may compare, not favourably, with the of Edward I[…]
ref: 1881 June 7, William Stubbs, “The Reign of Henry VIII”, in Seventeen Lectures on the Study of Medieval and Modern History and Kindred Subjects, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1887, page 293:
synonyms: carry out
execute
implement
put into effect
antonyms: abrogate
glosses: To put into effect as a regulation.
synonyms: propagate
promote
disseminate
glosses: To advocate on behalf of (something or someone, especially of an idea); to spread knowledge of and make more widely known.
Derived terms: promogulate
promulgater
promulgation
promulgator
promulgatory
Related terms: promulge
blitzkrieg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blitzkrieg Tanks
form: motor vehicles
form: and aircraft are essential in bringing a blitzkrieg operation into success.
form: blitzkriegs
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Blitzkrieg (literally “lightning war”).
Senses: examples: text: I rode a tank, held a general's rank / When the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank
ref: 1968, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, “Sympathy for the Devil”, in Beggars Banquet, performed by Rolling Stones:
glosses: A fast military offensive, typically involving a large and highly mobile tank force with air support.
examples: text: President-elect Donald Trump has promised a blitzkrieg of executive actions and legislation after he takes office Jan. 20.
ref: 2025 January 2, Simon Montlake, “Electing a speaker is first test for GOP with razor-thin control of House”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
text: Many Democrats have felt hopeless during a blitzkrieg of a presidency that is testing the limits of constitutional authority, including over the deportations of migrants, halting of congressionally approved spending, and punishment of universities accused of not protecting the rights of Jews during intense spells of pro-Palestinian activism.
ref: 2025 April 7, Simon Montlake, Caitlin Babcock, Ali Martin, Cameron Pugh, Jingnan Peng, “Is the anti-Trump ‘resistance’ starting to find its voice again?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Sudden activity; a flurry.
Derived terms: blitz
clickskrieg
glitzkrieg
Related terms: sitzkrieg
larking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lark
larking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: larkings
Senses: examples: text: How was I to know that in this scapegrace's larkings about town she had twice encountered a young man who looked like a hero of romance […]
ref: 1869, Ballou's Monthly Magazine, volume 30, page 60:
glosses: A spirited or playful adventure.
muy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /mʊi/
/mui/
/mɔɪ/
/mwiː/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish muy.
Senses: examples: text: Spacehog are a perfectly nice band, with pleasantly strummed guitars, a crisp pop sensibility, and muy cute vocals on this side of awkward, but after Blur, Ride, Lush, Oasis, Stone Roses, Elastica, and what have you, Resident Alien is just the proverbial straw on this overworked and overbroke camel's back.
ref: 1995 November 30, Drema Crist, Janette Park, Marc Sorace, “Last-Second Sound Bites”, in The Chronicle, Duke University:
text: In her rosy two-piece traveling outfit, Adela looks muy cute as she walks toward us.
ref: 1999, Terri de la Peña, Faults, Alyson Books, published 1999, →ISBN, page 163:
text: But such is the case with Enrique Iglesias, the muy handsome son of Julio, who is known to his fans these days simply as Enrique.
ref: 2007 June 9, John Lannert, “Crossover King”, in Billboard:
glosses: Very.
raw_tags: in Latin-American contexts
blitz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Forms: form: blitzes
Etymology: Clipping of blitzkrieg, from German Blitzkrieg (literally “lightning war”).
Senses: glosses: A sudden attack, especially an air raid; usually with reference to the Blitz.
examples: text: We embarked on a publicity blitz, putting posters and flyers all around town.
text: Ultimately, though, Liverpool had inflicted a grievous result in the first leg when they scored three times in a 19-minute blitz and, importantly, did not concede an away goal.
ref: 2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian:
text: He [Yoshihide Suga] seems to be counting on a media blitz with feel-good effects around the Games to improve his sagging popularity.
ref: 2021 March 25, Koichi Nakano, “The Olympics Are On! But Why?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Liberal activists promised a well-funded summertime blitz, replete with home-state rallies and million-dollar ad campaigns, to try to ramp up pressure on a handful of Senate Democrats opposed to changing the rules.
ref: 2021 June 22, Nicholas Fandos, “Republicans Block Voting Rights Bill, Dealing Blow to Biden and Democrats”, in The New York Times:
text: As well as its revamped search bar, Google unveiled a blitz of other innovations that point to the longer-term evolution of the product.
ref: 2025 May 24, Stephen Morris, Melissa Heikkilä, Cristina Criddle, “Defending the high ground”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 7:
glosses: A swift and overwhelming attack or effort.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A play in which additional defenders beyond the defensive linemen rush the passer.
examples: text: What I had played was chess. Specially, I knocked out some 2,000 games of speed (or "blitz") chess in the two months leading up to the tournament. In fact, I played so much that I'm currently in the top half-percent of more than 1.3 million of blitz players at an online chess competition site.
ref: 2013 June 24, Mark Samuelian, “Speed Chess Changed My Brain”, in The Atlantic:
text: In order to avoid misunderstanding, I must note that I object to the attempts to displace normal chess with fast play, not rapid or blitz in general. I love them both, and, if I were to choose which to play, classic or rapid, I would choose rapid.
ref: 2015, Mark Dvoretsky, For Friends and Colleagues, volume 2 (Reflections on My Profession):
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Ellipsis of blitz chess.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: The act of blending or puréeing food using a blender or processor.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: An occurrence in which large numbers of fish, typically striped bass or bluefish, feed on a school of baitfish, typically one in which the occurrence can be seen from the surface.
Derived terms: bioblitz
Blitz
blitzable
blitzar
blitzbuggy
blitz chess
blitzscale
blitz torte
blitz truck
zero blitz
blitz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Forms: form: blitzes
form: blitzing
form: blitzed
form: blitzed
Etymology: Clipping of blitzkrieg, from German Blitzkrieg (literally “lightning war”).
Senses: examples: text: So the question remains — what to do with ignorance, which I must presume is deliberate, as in this media-blitzed era it is not possible to be truly ignorant after age 12.
ref: 1990 February 4, Chrystos, “Headaches And Ruminations”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 9:
synonyms: charge
glosses: To attack quickly or suddenly, as by an air raid or similar action.
examples: text: The Washington High defense almost always blitzes on third down.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To perform a blitz.
examples: text: To make nut roast, you have to blitz the nuts in the food processor before adding the parsley and breadcrumbs.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: zhoosh
glosses: To purée or chop (food products) using a food processor or blender.
synonyms: word: hurry
word: zoom
word: fly
word: get a move on
word: hasten
word: haul
word: hurtle
word: bustle
word: haul ass
word: haul one's ashes
word: hie
word: hump it
word: hurry
word: hustle
word: make haste
word: make tracks
word: move it
word: rattle one's hocks
word: rush
word: scream
word: shift
word: skedaddle
word: swap
word: speed
word: zip
word: zoom
glosses: To do something quickly or in one session.
Derived terms: blitz out
shoplift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɒplɪft/
Forms: form: shoplifts
form: shop-lift
Etymology: Back-formation from shoplifter.
Senses: examples: 1704, John Dunton, The Athenian Oracle, Athenian Society, Volume III, page 67,
[…] and indeed it seems a Hardſhip in our Laws, that a poor Shoplift ſhou′d be hang′d for breaking in and pilfering a few Goods, […] .
glosses: A shoplifter.
shoplift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɒplɪft/
Forms: form: shoplifts
form: shoplifting
form: shoplifted
form: shoplifted
form: shop-lift
Etymology: Back-formation from shoplifter.
Senses: examples: text: She taught Maddy to sing in Portuguese, to shoplift mascara, to play a drinking game called Spoons
ref: 2004 May 17, Andrew Sean Greer, The New Yorker:
text: Week after week, racist posts appear on Thee Rant, a blog for current or former New York City police officers: African Americans are called “apes;” a retired officer says one of the blessings of retirement is not having to work the Puerto Rican Day parade, with its “old obese tatted up women stuffed into outfits that they purchased or shoplifted at the local Kmart store; […]
ref: 2015 April 19, Joaquin Sapien, “"The worst elements of the department": New York cop blog is home to some of the most vile racism on the Internet”, in Salon:
glosses: To steal something from a shop or store during business hours, usually by means of hiding merchandise.
examples: text: Once, before we had juvenile court here, I made the mistake of putting on probation a boy who had shoplifted, a boy of good family. That boy later shot a man.
ref: 1938 April, William Peery, “Thank Rotary!”, in The Rotarian, page 52:
text: 1969 October, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Mechanisms for Exploiting the Black Community, Negro Digest, 22,
Thus, the teacher shook down the kids, the big kids shook down the little kids, the little kids shoplifted to get money, etc., etc.
text: In other words, New York is a better place to shoplift.
ref: 2002 November 25, The New Yorker:
glosses: To steal from shops / stores during trading hours.
Synonyms: word: shop steal
Related terms: droplifting
shoplifter
shoplifting
steal
bonsai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑnsaɪ/
ipa: /ˈbɑnzaɪ/
ipa: /ˈbɒnsaɪ/
Forms: form: bonsai
form: bonsais
Etymology: From Japanese 盆栽 (bonsai), from Middle Chinese 盆 (MC bwon, “bowl”) + 栽 (MC tsoj|dzojH, “to plant”).
Senses: glosses: A tree or plant that has been miniaturized by planting it in a small pot, restricting its roots, and by careful pruning.
glosses: The art of planting and growing trees or plants in such a manner.
bonsai
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑnsaɪ/
ipa: /ˈbɑnzaɪ/
ipa: /ˈbɒnsaɪ/
Forms: form: bonsais
form: bonsaiing
form: bonsaied
form: bonsaied
Etymology: From Japanese 盆栽 (bonsai), from Middle Chinese 盆 (MC bwon, “bowl”) + 栽 (MC tsoj|dzojH, “to plant”).
Senses: examples: text: Could I be a father who was, so to speak, bonsaiing his children, trimming urban roots, and then twisting the emerging branches?
ref: 2001, Dennis Parks, Living in the Country Growing Weird, page 50:
glosses: To make into a bonsai by restricting the roots and pruning.
Derived terms: bonsai army
prebonsai
bonsai
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑnsaɪ/
ipa: /ˈbɑnzaɪ/
ipa: /ˈbɒnsaɪ/
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of banzai.
geisha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪ.ʃə/
rhymes: -eɪʃə
Forms: form: geisha
form: geishas
form: geisya
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 芸者(げいしゃ) (geisha, “artisan”), from Middle Chinese 藝 (MC ngjiejH, “art, craft”) + 者 (MC tsyaeX, “-er”).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese female entertainer skilled in various arts such as tea ceremony, dancing, singing and calligraphy.
Synonyms: geisha girl
geiko
maiko
Derived terms: geisha ball
geisha girl
futon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːtɒn/
ipa: /ˈfutɑn/
rhymes: -uːtɒn
Forms: form: futons
form: futon
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 布団 (futon), in turn from Middle Chinese 蒲團 (MC bu dwan, “meditation cushion”) (compare Mandarin 蒲团 (pútuán)), from 蒲 (bu, “bulrush, cattail”) + 團 (dwan, “sphere, round object”) from the way the original cushion was round and made from woven bulrushes.
Senses: examples: text: The Japanese bed is the floor, with a wooden box under the neck for a pillow and a futon for a covering. To the foreigner the Japanese landlord allows five or six futons, or cotton-wadded comforters, and they make a tolerable mattress, although not springy, and rather apt to be damp and musty.
ref: 1891, Eliza Scidmore, Jinrikisha Days in Japan, page 145:
text: The futon are easily aired, and may be carried about readily when moving.
ref: 1904, Clarence Ludlow Brownell, The Heart of Japan: Glimpses of Life and Nature Far from the Travellers’ Track in the Land of the Rising Sun, London: Methuen & Co., […], page 54:
text: Normally one or two futon are laid on tatami, several inches of straw matting recessed into the floor, providing a firm but extremely comfortable night’s rest.
ref: 1981, The East, page 66:
text: Some futon (cotton-filled comforters and mattresses) were piled in one corner and few clothing belonging to father hung on some nails on the wall.
ref: 2015, Heidi Kim, editor, Taken from the Paradise Isle: The Hoshida Family Story, University Press of Colorado, →ISBN:
glosses: A thin mattress of tufted cotton or similar material, placed on a floor or on a raised, foldable frame as a bed.
glosses: A round cushion used for Zen meditation, traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves.
examples: text: I was 18 years old, sleeping on a futon, cooking on a George Foreman grill and showering at a friend's house every few days.
ref: 2011 November 18, Ryan Allis, “From Dumpster Diving to Running a $50 Million Company”, in Time:
glosses: A specific kind of sofa-bed, with a fixed cushion that forms a mattress when folded down and a sofa when folded up.
Derived terms: minifuton
seppuku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛˈpuː.kuː/
note: '
enpr: sĕpʹo͞o-ko͞o
enpr: sĕpʹə-
enpr: sĕ-po͞oʹ-
enpr: sə-po͞oʹ-
ipa: /ˈsɛ.pu(ˌ)ku/
ipa: /ˈsɛ.pə-/
ipa: /sɛˈpu-/
ipa: /səˈpu-/
Forms: form: seppukus
form: seppuku
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 切腹 (seppuku), from Middle Chinese 切 (t͡set, “to cut”) + 腹 (pjuwk, “belly”). Compare Cantonese 切腹 (cit³ fuk¹) and Mandarin 切腹 (qiēfù).
Senses: examples: text: “I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” he said during one online news program in late 2021. “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of the elderly?” […] At a panel hosted by Globis, a Japanese graduate business school, Dr. Narita told the audience that “if this can become a Japanese society where people like you all commit seppuku one after another, it wouldn’t be just a social security policy but it would be the best ‘Cool Japan’ policy.”
ref: 2023 February 12, Motoko Rich, Hikari Hida, quoting Yusuke Narita, “A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A form of ritual suicide by disembowelment using a blade, practiced by Japanese samurai, especially to rid oneself of shame, as a means of protest, or, formerly, as a method of capital punishment.
Synonyms: hara-kiri
Related terms: bushido
hara-kiri
kamikaze
suicide
Orion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹaɪ.ən/
ipa: /ɒˈɹaɪ.ən/
ipa: /əʊˈɹaɪ.ən/
ipa: /əˈɹaɪ.ən/
ipa: /oʊˈɹaɪ.ən/
rhymes: -aɪən
Forms: form: Orions
Etymology: From Middle English Orioun, from Latin Ōrīōn, from Ancient Greek Ὠρίων (Ōríōn), speculatively from Akkadian 𒌋𒊒𒀭𒈾 (Uru-anna, “heaven's light”), though without any firm evidence.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A giant-hunter, pursuer of the Pleiades and lover of Eos, and killed by Artemis.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A constellation on the celestial equator close to Gemini and Taurus, containing the stars Betelgeuse and Rigel.
glosses: A surname.
examples: text: In Madge's judgment, her Uncle Orion had suffered most of his life from the name he'd been given, requiring that people ask him to repeat it and boys his own age make fun of it.
ref: 1980, Wright Morris, Plains Song, for Female Voices, Harper&Row, →ISBN, page 113:
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek of modern usage.
glosses: A female given name.
glosses: Place names:
A locality in the Central Highlands, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: Place names:
A hamlet in the Municipal District of County of Forty Mile No. 8, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: Place names:
A commune of Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
examples: Meronyms: Arellano, Bagumbayan, Balagtas, Balut, Bantan, Bilolo, Calungusan, Camachile, Daang Bago, Daang Bilolo, Daang Pare, General Lim, Kapunitan, Lati, Lusungan, Puting Buhangin, Sabatan, San Vicente, Santa Elena, Santo Domingo, Villa Angeles, Wakas, Wawa — barangays of Orion
glosses: Place names:
A municipality of Bataan, Philippines.
glosses: Place names:
An unincorporated community in Pike County, Alabama, United States, also known as Prospect Ridge.
glosses: Place names:
A ghost town in Kings County, California, United States.
glosses: Place names:
A village in Henry County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: Place names:
A town in Richland County, Wisconsin, United States.
Synonyms: sense: constellation
word: the Hunter
sense: constellation
word: ensifer
Derived terms: Orion Arm
Orion drive
Orionid
Orionis
Orion Nebula
Orion's Belt
Related terms: Orion's Belt
Orion Nebula
fugly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌɡ.li/
rhymes: -ʌɡli
Forms: form: fuglier
form: fugliest
Etymology: Blend of fucking + ugly
Senses: examples: text: "Fugly?" "Like extra-double ugly with cheese. It's when ugly goes off the scale. She looked like an angry handbag." Billie squawked in delight.
ref: 1995, Tim Winton, The Riders:
text: Man, but she's one fugly creature, horror-show fugly, I'm sorry.
ref: 1997, Enrico Brizzi, translated by Stash Luczkiw, Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band: A Love Story- with Rock 'n' Roll:
text: This girl is the nastiest skank bitch I've ever met. Do not trust her. She is a fugly slut.
ref: 2004, Mark Waters, Mean Girls, spoken by Regina George (Rachel McAdams), Broadway Video; distributed by Paramount Pictures:
text: “Look at this photo I got with Maddison.” “You look so ---- hot.” “Nah, I'm fugly. But thanks.”
ref: 2020 August 10, Michael Cusack, “Maddison's Birthday Party” (10:57 from the start), in YOLO: Crystal Fantasy, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Rachel (Todor Manojlovic):
glosses: Extremely ugly.
Derived terms: fuggo
fugliness
fugly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌɡ.li/
rhymes: -ʌɡli
Forms: form: fuglies
Etymology: Blend of fucking + ugly
Senses: glosses: An extremely ugly person.
dragomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Formed following the man/men paradigm.
Senses: glosses: plural of dragoman
beriberi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beriberis
form: beri-beri
Etymology: Possibly borrowed from Sinhalese phrase බැරි බැරි (bæri bæri, “I cannot, I cannot”) due to weakness.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An ailment caused by a deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1), leading to lethargy and organ complications.
Synonyms: endemic neuritis
kakke
Derived terms: aberic acid
antiberiberi
antiberiberin
beriberic
beriberoid
dry beriberi
wet beriberi
Related terms: athlete's foot
malnutrition
kakke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 脚気 (kakke).
Senses: glosses: beriberi
guano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡwɑːnəʊ/
rhymes: -ɑːnəʊ
Forms: form: guanos
form: guanoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish guano, from Quechua wanu.
Senses: examples: text: The guano, so extensively used for manure, is full of the most beautiful infusoria, some of them splendidly iridiscent; and there is no better method of testing the genuineness of this useful substance than by the microscope.
ref: 1799, Edwin Sidney, Blights of the Wheat, and Their Remedies, page 175:
text: In the second experiment, a comparative trial was made between guano and bone-dust mixed with coal ashes.
ref: 1844, J. Ridgway, Peruvian and Bolivian Guano, its nature, properties and results, page 22:
text: Low-grade phosphatic guanos can be mixed with coffee hulls and pulp, which contain a small amount of potash.
ref: 1918, Philip Lindsey Gile, The bat guanos of Porto Rico and their fertilizing value, page 60:
text: The great white bat has great white guano!
ref: 1995, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls:
hyponyms: word: birdshit
word: batshit
glosses: Dung from a sea bird or from a bat.
examples: text: A roof made of guano palm fronds will last up to 15 years, although Maya harvesters point out that the leaves must be cut when the moon is full; otherwise, the stems become susceptible to insect damage.
ref: 2010, James D. Nations, The Maya Tropical Forest:
glosses: Coccothrinax borhidiana, a variety of palm tree indigenous to Cuba.
examples: text: The Animals of these Islands, are some Hogs, Lizards, and Guanoes; and some of those Creatures mentioned in Chap. XI. which are like, but much bigger than the Guano.
ref: 1703, William Dampier, A New Voyage round the World, volume 1:
text: Dampier observes, that no part of the globe is so well stocked with guanoes and land-tortoises as the Gallapagos. The guanoes are fat, tame, and of an extraordinary size.
ref: 1764, Lives of illustrious British seamen, etc, page 111:
text: These they call Guanoes, and the dung Guano, the Indian name for excrement in general. These birds, after spending the whole day in catching their food in the sea, repair at night to rest on the islands near the coast […]
ref: 1765, John Barrow, A Collection Of Authentic, Useful, and Entertaining Voyages and Discoveries:
text: The fish consumed by the guanoes, (as the fishing birds are called) are anchovies, the shoals of which are beyond all comparison.
ref: 1850, Annual Report of the American Institute, on the Subject of Agriculture, American Institute in the City of New York:
glosses: A variety of seabird.
Derived terms: guaniferous
guanine
guanite
guanized
guanobious
guanotrophic
guanotrophy
rock guano
guano
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡwɑːnəʊ/
rhymes: -ɑːnəʊ
Forms: form: guanos
form: guanoing
form: guanoed
form: guanoed
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish guano, from Quechua wanu.
Senses: glosses: To fertilize (land) with guano.
Derived terms: unguanoed
kung fu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌŋ ˈfuː/
ipa: /ˈkʊŋ ˈfuː/
ipa: /ˈkɔŋ ˈfuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: kung fu
form: gongfu
form: gong-fu
form: gong fu
form: gungfu
form: gung-fu
form: gung fu
form: kungfu
form: kung-fu
form: Kung Fu
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 功夫 (gōngfu, “skill, accomplishment, martial art”): kung¹-fu⁵.
Senses: examples: text: Everybody was kung-fu fighting / Those kicks were fast as lightning
ref: 1974, Carl Douglas, “Kung Fu Fighting”, performed by Carl Douglas:
synonyms: wushu
glosses: A Chinese martial art.
examples: text: Along the way, they meet Master Wong, who teaches them kung fu and imparts nuggets of Chinese philosophy, knowledge and training that they eventually use to defeat their nemesis and save their village.
ref: 2021 March 31, Melissa Chen, “Opinion ‘Kung Fu Cavemen’ isn’t racist — just the victim of moral panic by a self-righteous few”, in New York Post:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
synonyms: wushu
glosses: The Chinese martial arts collectively.
glosses: A mastery of or expertise in a skill
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mastery of or expertise in a skill
A mastery of or expertise in computer programming, hacking, or cracking
Derived terms: -fu
gun fu
kung flu
wire fu
kung fu
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌŋ ˈfuː/
ipa: /ˈkʊŋ ˈfuː/
ipa: /ˈkɔŋ ˈfuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: kung fus
form: kung fuing
form: kung fued
form: kung fued
form: gongfu
form: gong-fu
form: gong fu
form: gungfu
form: gung-fu
form: gung fu
form: kungfu
form: kung-fu
form: Kung Fu
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 功夫 (gōngfu, “skill, accomplishment, martial art”): kung¹-fu⁵.
Senses: glosses: To perform kung fu.
Great Britain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Of the island of Great Britain, to disambiguate Britain from Brittany, i.e. Lesser Britain. From Middle English Great Brittaigne, Grete Britaigne, Grete breteygne, grete Bretayne, grete breteyne, paralleling Anglo-Norman Grande Brettayne and c. 12th-century Medieval Latin Britannia Maior. Equivalent to Great + Britain.
King James VI and I in 1604 proclaimed himself “King of Great Britain, France and Ireland”.
Senses: synonyms: GB
Gramarye
holonyms: British Isles
glosses: A large island (sometimes also including some of the surrounding smaller islands) off the north-west coast of Western Europe, made up of England, Scotland, and Wales.
glosses: The United Kingdom, a kingdom and country in Northern Europe including the island of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland on the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland.
glosses: A former kingdom existing on the island of Great Britain from 1707 to 1801, consisting of England, Scotland and Wales; it was in personal union with the Kingdom of Ireland and later merged with it. Official name: Kingdom of Great Britain.
topics: government
law
politics
glosses: England, Scotland and Wales in combination, to the exclusion of Northern Ireland.
examples: text: The manager of the London Cup hockey tournament must apologise for playing apartheid anthem "Die Stem" before South Africa's clash with Great Britain, SA Hockey Association chief executive Marissa Langeni said on Wednesday.
ref: 2012, “'Apologise' for Die Stem”, in Sport24, South Africa:
text: Great Britain apologizes to South Africa for playing apartheid anthem before field hockey game
ref: 2012, Chris Chance, “Great Britain apologizes to South Africa for playing apartheid anthem before field hockey game”, in Yahoo! Sports:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The United Kingdom national team (often inclusive of Northern Ireland).
Synonyms: word: Albion
word: Blighty
word: England
word: Great Britain
word: Old Blighty
word: Old Dart
word: sceptred isle
Meronyms: word: Scotland
word: Wales
Derived terms: Kingdom of Great Britain
GB
Great Britainer
Team GB
Related terms: Little Britain
United Kingdom
dapper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæpə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dapperer
form: dapperest
Etymology: From Middle English daper (“pretty, neat”), from Middle Dutch dapper (“stalwart, nimble”), Old Dutch *dapar, from Proto-Germanic *dapraz (“stout; solid; heavy; bold”) (compare German tapfer "bold", Norwegian daper "saddened, dreary"), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeb- ‘thick, heavy’ (compare Tocharian A tpär ‘high’, Latvian dàbls ‘strong’, Serbo-Croatian дебео (dèbeo) ‘fat’).
Senses: examples: text: This entrance is through a little courtyard, in which is the stable and coach-house combined, where Madame Perinere, a lady who paints the magic word "Modes" beneath her name on the door-post of number seventeen, keeps the dapper little cart and pony which carry her bonnets to the farthest corner of Paris.
ref: 1892, Henry Seton Merriman, The Slave Of The Lamp:
glosses: Neat, trim.
examples: text: “It is too bad that monsieur has been troubled,” said Tarzan, turning to the newspaper man. “I bid monsieur good evening,” and he bowed the dapper young man out of the room, and closed the door in his face.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Plot That Failed”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 71:
text: Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert.
ref: 1917, P. G. Wodehouse, The Man With Two Left Feet:
glosses: Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.
glosses: Quick; little and active.
Derived terms: Dapper Dan
dapperling
dapperly
dapperness
undapper
collaboration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˌlæbəˈɹeɪʃən/
ipa: [kʰəˌlæbəˈɹeɪ̯ʃən]
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: collaborations
Etymology: Originated 1855–60 from French collaboration, from Late Latin collaboratus + -ion, from Latin con- (“with”) + labōrō (“work”). Morphologically collaborate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Collaboration can be a useful part of the creative process.
text: During the interwar period, fascists proposed class collaboration as a response to communist class struggle.
glosses: The act of collaborating.
examples: text: The husband-and-wife artists will release their new collaboration in June this year.
related: word: collab#Noun
glosses: A production or creation made by collaborating.
examples: text: He has been charged with collaboration.
glosses: Treasonous cooperation.
Hyponyms: adversarial collaboration
social collaboration
telecollaboration
Derived terms: adversarial collaboration
anticollaboration
collab
collaborational
collaborationism
collaborationist
noncollaboration
social collaboration
telecollaboration
Related terms: collaborate
collaborator
collaborative
collaboratively
Gavin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡævɪn/
rhymes: -ævɪn
Forms: form: Gavins
Etymology: Medieval variant of Gawain, the name of an Arthurian knight, first recorded as Old French Gauvain. The form Gavin survived in Scotland and spread to other English-speaking countries in the 1960s. Doublet of Gawain.
Senses: examples: text: New Zealand registration officials apparently blocked other questionable names in the past, including Fish and Chips and Sex Fruit, but allowed others, such as Number 16 Bus Shelter and Violence. […] I’m fine with the Gavins and the Masons and the Chloes, but the Poppy Honeys and the Banjos and the Sex Fruits simply have to go.
ref: 2009 April 25, “Meet Number 16 Bus Shelter”, in Austin Daily Herald, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2025:
text: Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Sunday banning the sale at grocery checkouts of all plastic bags, regardless of thickness. The only option for customers who lack their own reusable shopping bags will be buying paper bags for 10 cents each.
ref: 2024 September 23, Soumya Karlamangla, “California Bans All Plastic Bags After Its First Effort Backfired”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2024:
glosses: A male given name from the Celtic languages.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Related terms: Gawaine
Gawain
Gavino
crikey
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹaɪki/
ipa: /ˈkɹɑeki/
ipa: /ˈkɹaɪki/
ipa: /ˈkɹɑe̯ki/
rhymes: -aɪki
Forms: form: crickey
form: cricky
Etymology: Euphemistic substitute for Christ, perhaps a corruption of Christ King. Compare criminy, cripes, crivvens. Attested from the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: Crikey, mate, that ain't a knife, this is a knife!
text: The label is based on the word “crikey” the famous catchphrase of Steve Irwin, and “core,” meaning the essential part of anything, according to dictionary.com.
ref: 2023 February 16, Erielle Sudario, “Australia gets its own online aesthetic with 'crikeycore'”, in We Got This Covered, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2023:
glosses: An exclamation of astonishment.
Synonyms: wow
Derived terms: crikeycore
euphemistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more euphemistically
form: most euphemistically
Etymology: From euphemistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Sex was the primary ingredient of the gatherings, which were euphemistically called "free house parties".
ref: 1964, James Holledge, Sex and the Australian Teenager, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 124:
glosses: In a euphemistic manner.
dykey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪki/
rhymes: -aɪki
Forms: form: dykier
form: more dykey
form: dykiest
form: most dykey
form: dyky
Etymology: From dyke + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Let it all hang out. Let it seem bitchy, catty, dykey, Solanisesque, frustrated, crazy, nutty, frigid, ridiculous, bitter, embarrassing, man-hating, libelous, pure, unfair, envious, intuitive, low-down, stupid, petty, liberating.
ref: 1970 January, Robin Morgan, “Goodbye to All That”, in Rat:
text: […] when Torrence is elected captain of the cheerleading team, another girl supports the subplot of girl cattiness by calling her a slut and calling the “real” gymnast who joins the team (emphasizing to the audience that cheering can't be “real” gymnastics), an uberdyke and a big dykey loser.
ref: 2006 August 8, Sharon Lamb with Lyn Mikel Brown, Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 230:
glosses: Of a woman, whether actually lesbian or not, having stereotypically lesbian characteristics; that looks like a dyke.
Synonyms: butch
masculine
Mikey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪki/
ipa: [ˈmɐɪ.kʰiː]
rhymes: -aɪki
Forms: form: Mikeys
Etymology: From Mike + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Michael.
Kylie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪli/
rhymes: -aɪli
Forms: form: Kylies
form: Kylee
form: Kyleigh
Etymology: Possibly from kylie (“boomerang”). Originally popular in Australia, the name has gained popularity elsewhere in the English-speaking world due to the fame of Kylie Minogue. Unrelated to Kyle, though often seen as a feminine form of it.
Senses: examples: text: Kylie and her parents had been driving through the outback for hours. They had taken a five-hour flight from Sydney, where they lived, to Perth, in Western Australia. From Perth, they had to drive another seven hours to get to Kylie′s aunt and uncle′s sheep station.
ref: 2002, Erinn Banting, Australia: The People, page 30:
text: Emily. Em-il-y, three syllables, like a knock on the door of destiny. Such an odd, old-fashioned name, compared to those Kylies and Traceys and Jades — names that reeked of Impulse and grease and stood out in gaudy neon colours —
ref: 2010, Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday,, →ISBN, page 102:
text: Finnley is the fourth daughter of Jason and Kylie Kelce, having already welcomed Wyatt, Elliotte and Bennett to the family.
ref: 2025 April 2, Ben Morse, “‘Whoop, there she is!’: Jason and Kylie Kelce announce birth of fourth daughter”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
wikipedia: Kylie Minogue
Derived terms: Ky
Related terms: Kyle
waldo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːl.dəʊ/
Forms: form: waldos
head_nr: 1
form: waldoes
head_nr: 1
Etymology: From the Robert A. Heinlein story Waldo, published in Astounding in 1940, derived from the name of the eponymous protagonist, Waldo F. Jones, who invented remote manipulators to overcome his own myasthenia gravis.
Senses: examples: text: Waldo flexed and extended his fingers gently; the two pairs of waldoes in the screen followed in exact, simultaneous parallelism.
ref: 1940, Robert A. Heinlein, Waldo:
head_nr: 1
glosses: Synonym of telefactor.
synonyms: word: telefactor
Synonyms: master-slave manipulator
telemanipulator
telefactor