cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
uptight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭp-tīt'
ipa: /ʌpˈtaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: uptighter
form: more uptight
form: uptightest
form: most uptight
Senses: examples: text: Don't be so uptight! You won't go to jail for crossing the street against the light.
glosses: Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious.
glosses: Emotionally repressed; nervous and tense.
examples: text: He came from a very uptight religious background, but you wouldn't know that now!
glosses: Sexually repressed.
examples: text: Withnail: Just because the best tailoring you’ve ever seen is above your fucking appendix doesn’t mean anything. / Danny: Don’t get uptight with me, man.
ref: 1987, Bruce Robinson, Withnail and I:
glosses: Unfriendly or rude.
uptight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭp-tīt'
ipa: /ʌpˈtaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: uptights
Senses: glosses: An uptight person.
Related terms: anal-retentive
petty bourgeois
narrow-minded
stuffy
butcher's hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butcher's hooks
form: butchers' hooks
Senses: glosses: A hook used by a butcher for hanging carcasses or meat.
glosses: Synonym of butcher's.
synonyms: word: butcher's
cobblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortened from cobbler’s awls, for balls (testicles or nonsense)http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cob1.htm
Senses: glosses: plural of cobbler
examples: Then she only goes and kicks me right in me cobblers, don’t she!
glosses: testicles.
examples: Stop talking cobblers. Load of old cobblers.
glosses: Nonsense.
Synonyms: sense: testicles
word: testicles
sense: nonsense
word: nonsense
gorgeous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɔː.dʒəs/
ipa: /ˈɡɔɹ.d͡ʒəs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒəs
Forms: form: more gorgeous
form: most gorgeous
Etymology: From Middle English gorgeouse, a borrowing from Middle French gorgias (“elegant, fashionable”), from Old French gourgias, gorgias (“gorgeous, gaudy, flaunting, gallant, fine”), of uncertain origin, but apparently connected with Old French gorgias (“a gorget, ruffle for the neck”), from Old French gorge (“bosom, throat”). See gorge. Semantic evolution probably akin to "swelling of the throat or bosom due to pride, bridling up" to "assume an air of importance, flaunting".
Senses: examples: text: Two or three of them wore polished silk hats, elaborate shirt-fronts, diamond breastpins, kid gloves, and patent-leather boots...The others were more or less loosely clad...One of the gorgeous ones remarked...
ref: 1883, Mark Twain, “Chapter VII: A daring deed”, in Life on the Mississippi, 1883 illustrated edition, Boston MA: James R Osgood & Co, →OCLC, pages 92-93; digitised as part of the UNC-CH digitization project Documenting the American South, 1st edition, Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina, 1999, →OCLC:
glosses: Sumptuously dressed.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: All the contest judges agreed that Brigitt was absolutely gorgeous.
text: The sunsets in Hawaii are gorgeous.
text: Carmiesha "Lil' Muddah" Vernoy had been with me since back in the day. She was more than a dime piece. She was drop-dead gorgeous and had the best pussy in the world.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: Very beautiful.
raw_tags: of a person or place
examples: text: Hummus is absolutely gorgeous.
glosses: Very enjoyable, pleasant, tasty, etc.
Derived terms: beautimous
gorgeosity
gorgeously
gorgeousness
ungorgeous
Related terms: gorge
joanna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəʊˈænə/
rhymes: -ænə
Forms: form: joannas
Etymology: From the name Joanna, which is a rhyme for the dialectal pronunciation of piano as /piˈænə/.
Senses: examples: 2006, "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" (song) by the Scissor Sisters
But I don't feel like dancin'
When the old Joanna plays
qualifier: often "old joanna"
glosses: A piano.
dog and bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog and bones
Senses: examples: text: Oi, keep the noise down! I'm talking to my old lady on the dog and bone.
glosses: A telephone.
Chris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: Chrises
Senses: examples: text: A man named Chris Reynolds was credited $92 quadrillion USD on his paypal account, "This unexpected influx of wealth elevated him to the status of the richest person on the planet and the only quadrillionaire to have ever existed". Following this, after the man reported this error and it was fixed, "PayPal owned up to their mistake and thanked the richest man of all time for understanding the situation, saying: 'This is obviously an error and we appreciate that Mr. Reynolds understood this was the case'".
ref: 2013 July 24, Microsoft Network, Richest Man of All-Time Dramatically Gained and Lost His Entire Fortune in Just 2 Minutes:
text: It had been 2,836 days since Chris Kirk last won on the PGA Tour. Yet after securing his first victory in over seven years on Sunday, that was not the first milestone the American golfer had on his mind.
ref: 2023 February 27, Jack Bantock, “Chris Kirk battled alcoholism and depression – now he has secured his first PGA Tour victory in seven years”, in CNN:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Christopher or (less commonly) Christian.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name (along with other variant forms) Christina.
pen and ink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A stink.
Related terms: pen-and-ink money
syrup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪ.ɹəp/
ipa: /ˈsɪɹ.əp/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.əp/
ipa: /ˈsɪ.ɹəp/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈsɪ.ɹəp/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈsɪ.ɾəp/
rhymes: -ɪɹəp
rhymes: -ɜːɹəp
Forms: form: syrups
form: sirop
form: sirup
form: syrop
Etymology: From Middle English sirup, from Old French sirop, from Medieval Latin siruppus, syrupus, from Arabic شَرَاب (šarāb, “a drink, beverage, wine, coffee, syrup”), from شَرِبَ (šariba, “to drink”). Doublet of sirop. Related to sorbet, sherbet, sharbat.
Compare French sirop, Italian siroppo, sciroppo, Spanish jarabe, jarope, Portuguese xarope, and Dutch siroop and stroop. The first known use of the spelling sirup was in the 14th century.
Senses: examples: text: maple syrup
text: pancake syrup
text: peaches in syrup
text: With jellies soother than the creamy curd, / And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; [...]
ref: 1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XXX, page 98:
glosses: Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavoring.
examples: text: cough syrup
raw_tags: rosewater
text: rose syrup
glosses: Any viscous liquid.
examples: text: Eventually, he or his staunch public tired of his easy-listening syrup, so Price recorded gospel for the Myrrh label before semi-retiring to his Golden Cross Ranch in Texas.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 266:
glosses: Anything overly sweet or sentimental.
qualifier: shortened from "syrup of figs"
glosses: A wig.
Derived terms: bar syrup
bucket of syrup
Canadian as maple syrup
cane syrup
coffee syrup
corn syrup
cough syrup
glucose-fructose syrup
glucose syrup
golden syrup
green syrup
high fructose corn syrup
high-fructose corn syrup
high-fructose maize syrup
maize syrup
maple syrup
maple syrup urine disease
palm syrup
pancake syrup
refiner's syrup
rose syrup
simple syrup
sizzurp
snail syrup
sorghum syrup
syrup of figs
syrup of ipecac
syrupy
syrup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪ.ɹəp/
ipa: /ˈsɪɹ.əp/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.əp/
ipa: /ˈsɪ.ɹəp/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈsɪ.ɹəp/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈsɪ.ɾəp/
rhymes: -ɪɹəp
rhymes: -ɜːɹəp
Forms: form: syrups
form: syruping
form: syruped
form: syruped
Etymology: From Middle English sirup, from Old French sirop, from Medieval Latin siruppus, syrupus, from Arabic شَرَاب (šarāb, “a drink, beverage, wine, coffee, syrup”), from شَرِبَ (šariba, “to drink”). Doublet of sirop. Related to sorbet, sherbet, sharbat.
Compare French sirop, Italian siroppo, sciroppo, Spanish jarabe, jarope, Portuguese xarope, and Dutch siroop and stroop. The first known use of the spelling sirup was in the 14th century.
Senses: glosses: To convert or process into syrup.
glosses: To add syrup to.
glosses: To sabotage (a vehicle) by pouring syrup into the gas tank.
plates of meat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The feet.
currant bun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: currant buns
Etymology: From currant + bun.
Senses: glosses: A bun containing currants.
currant bun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: currant bun
form: the currant bun
Etymology: From currant + bun.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Currant Bun.
branding iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branding irons
Senses: glosses: A piece of metal bent into a distinctive shape, heated and used to brand livestock.
glosses: Synonym of brandise (“stand for a pot or pan over a fire”).
synonyms: word: brandise
extra: stand for a pot or pan over a fire
blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: blo͞oz
ipa: /bluːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Senses: glosses: plural of blue
blues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: blo͞oz
ipa: /bluːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blue
blues scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blues scales
Senses: examples: text: The blues scale:
{\set Staff.midiInstrument=#"alto sax" c'es'f'ges'g'bes'c2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A minor hexatonic scale originating in the American musical genre blues, consisting of tonic, minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, fifth, and minor seventh, in which notes, particularly the minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, and minor seventh may be bent. It can also be called the minor blues scale when distinguishing it from its only other functional mode the major blues scale.
Related terms: blue note
blue scale
blues
delta blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A form of blues originating in the Mississippi Delta region of the United States, generally featuring minimal instrumentation and song structure.
whistle and flute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A suit.
obfuscatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obfuscatory
form: most obfuscatory
Etymology: From obfuscate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: I can't vote for a resolution with such obfuscatory language.
glosses: Tending to obfuscate; intended to conceal the truth by confusion.
Derived terms: obfuscatorily
whilst
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪlst/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ʍaɪlst/
rhymes: -aɪlst
ipa: /wɪlst/
Etymology: From Late Middle English whilst, whilest, qwhilste (Northern England), quilest (Northwest Midlands) [and other forms], from whiles (“during the time that, while; only so long as; provided that; because, since; until”) + -t (excrescent suffix, perhaps due to a combination of -(e)s and the following word the, or influenced by the superlative suffix -est). Whiles is derived from whiles (“period of time, a while”, noun) (probably from the second element of adverbs and conjunctions like otherwhiles and somewhiles), from while (“period of time, a while”, noun) + -s (suffix forming adverbs of manner, space, and time); and while is from Old English hwīl (“period of time, a while”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hwīlō (“period of time, a while; period of rest, break, pause”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest; peace, rest”). The English word can be analysed as whiles + -t (excrescent suffix appended to words suffixed with -s).
cognates
* West Frisian wylst (“whilst”)
Senses: examples: text: Nay, I prethee put on this gown, & this beard, make him beleeue thou art ſir Topas the Curate, doe it quickly. Ile call ſir Toby the whilſt.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 270, column 2:
text: Hero. Leave, leave, tis novv too late. She is dead, her laſt is breathed. / Cleo[phila]. VVhat ſhall vvee doe. / Her[o]. Goe run, / And tell the Duke; and vvhilſt ile cloſe her eyes.
ref: c. 1607–1611 (first performance), Franc[is] Beaumont, Jo[hn] Fletcher, Cupids Revenge. […], 3rd edition, London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews], published 1635, →OCLC, Act II, scene [v], signature [D4], recto:
text: What money have I bought with me? […] even but a small sum; something in hand the whilst.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter X, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 209:
qualifier: archaic or obsolete except dialectal
glosses: Often preceded by the: During the time; meanwhile.
tardy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːdi/
ipa: /ˈtɑɹdi/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)di
Forms: form: tardies
Etymology: From an earlier tardive, from French tardif, from Late Latin tardīvus, from Latin tardus (“slow”, “sluggish”), of obscure origin.
Senses: examples: text: The teacher gave her a tardy because she did not come into the classroom until after the bell.
glosses: A piece of paper given to students who are late to class.
glosses: An instance of a student's being marked as tardy by a teacher on the teacher's attendance sheet.
Related terms: tardy slip
tardy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːdi/
ipa: /ˈtɑɹdi/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)di
Forms: form: tardies
form: tardying
form: tardied
form: tardied
Etymology: From an earlier tardive, from French tardif, from Late Latin tardīvus, from Latin tardus (“slow”, “sluggish”), of obscure origin.
Senses: examples: text: the good mind of Camillo tardied
My swift command
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: To make tardy.
examples: text: Sitting there on the rock behind the school, I heard nothing but the occasional raised voice of some youngster tardying on his way home, and the joints in the schoolhouse squeaking from the frost.
ref: 2001, Donna Morrissey, Kit's Law, page 86:
glosses: To dawdle.
womaniser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: womanisers
Etymology: From womanise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of womanizer.
iron hoof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iron hoofs
form: iron hooves
Senses: glosses: A poof (a male homosexual).
khyber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪ.bə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: khybers
Etymology: Shortened from Khyber Pass.
Senses: examples: text: That way, you got the perfect four-in-one gauge every time. If you were caught doing it any other way, you got a larrup round the lughole or a kick up the khyber.
ref: 2013, Ken Sears, The Boy From Treacle Bumstead:
synonyms: word: aris
word: 'tocks
word: arse
word: arse cheeks
word: ass
word: ass cheeks
word: back
word: backside
word: batty
word: behind
word: blessed assurance
word: booty
word: botty
word: bottom
word: bum
word: bum cheeks
word: buns
word: butt
word: butt cheeks
word: buttocks
word: caboose
word: cheeks
word: derriere
word: fanny
word: fourth point of contact
word: gluteus maximus
word: glutes
word: gooseberry-grinder
word: gyatt
raw_tags: used jokingly by generation alpha preteens
word: heinie
word: hiney
word: hinderlin
word: hurdies
word: jacksie
word: keester
word: keister
word: moon
word: moneymaker
word: nates
word: nether cheeks
word: patootie
word: peach
word: posterior
word: rear
word: rear end
word: rump
word: seat
word: sit upon
word: tail
word: toches
word: tush
word: tushie
glosses: Ellipsis of Khyber Pass (“the arse”).
nelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛli/
rhymes: -ɛli
Forms: form: nellies
Etymology: Shortened from Nelly Duff, for puff, i.e. breath of life.
Senses: glosses: A person's life.
nelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛli/
rhymes: -ɛli
Forms: form: nellies
Etymology: From the woman's name Nelly.
Senses: glosses: An effeminate homosexual man.
glosses: A silly person.
glosses: A giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus and Macronectes halli.
Hyponyms: sense: petrel
word: Antarctic giant petrel
sense: petrel
word: northern giant petrel
sense: petrel
word: southern giant fulmar
sense: petrel
word: southern giant petrel
Derived terms: high nelly
high-nelly
nervous-nelly
nervous nelly
nice-nelly
wet nelly
nelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛli/
rhymes: -ɛli
Forms: form: nellier
form: nelliest
Etymology: From the woman's name Nelly.
Senses: examples: text: From Christopher Street to Castro Street, these men are peddling the same message. I'm butch, a macho man. Well, it ain't necessarily so. In fact, as a general rule of thumb, the butcher the get-up, the nellier the wearer.
ref: 1979 April 21, Greg Jackson, “He Looks Like Tarzan But He Talks Like Jane”, in Gay Community News, page 17:
text: Some of the nelliest boys unable to get or keep a job, some of the toughest girls breaking their bodies trying to do men's work.
ref: 2012, Lee Lynch, The Raid:
glosses: Unmanly; effeminate.
not on your nelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: not on your Nellie
Etymology: From nelly, Nelly Duff, rhyming slang for puff (of breath = life).
Senses: glosses: not on your life, an emphatic form of no.
Synonyms: not in a million years
not likely
not on your life
no way
no way Jose
when pigs fly
a cold day in Hell
pork pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pork pies
form: porkpie
Senses: hypernyms: meat pie
hyponyms: gala pie
Melton Mowbray
picnic pie
stand pie
glosses: A shortcrust pie containing chopped pork.
glosses: Ellipsis of pork pie hat.
synonyms: porker
porky
porky pie
glosses: A lie.
Related terms: hand pie
potpie
porky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔː(ɹ).ki/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: porkier
form: porkiest
Etymology: From pork + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It was tender and delicious, with a kind of porky taste you didn't often get from supermarket meats.
ref: 2010, Victor J. Banis, The Blood of Love, page 113:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of pork.
examples: text: In front of Lister a small red-haired man, with a porky roll of flesh above his towel-top, was examining a line of girls.
ref: 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers:
glosses: Rather fat; chubby.
Synonyms: sense: rather fat
word: chubby
sense: rather fat
word: chunky
sense: rather fat
word: tubby
Derived terms: porkily
porkiness
porky pie
Related terms: porker
pork pie
porky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔː(ɹ).ki/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ki
Etymology: From pork + -y.
Senses: glosses: singulative of pork (“law enforcement”)
porky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔː(ɹ).ki/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: porkies
Etymology: Clipping of pork pie.
Senses: examples: text: When she turned up at the lab, she gave us a sprawling prepared presentation relying heavily on anecdotal evidence, where it wasn't relying on skewed statistics, unfounded claims and outright porkies.
ref: 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 203:
synonyms: porker
porky pie
glosses: A lie.
examples: text: Fucked if I know, I never even clapped my little porkies on him before.
ref: 2015, Jeremy Cameron, Brown Bred in Wengen:
glosses: An eye.
porky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔː(ɹ).ki/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: porkies
Etymology: Clipping of porcupine.
Senses: examples: text: The irate Ranger killed thirteen porcupines chewing away on his front porch, and still they came, the salt proving an irresistible lure. In this same district a porky pulled the most impudent stunt of all.
ref: 1929, Forest and Stream, page 58:
text: Although porcupines lack the ability to throw their quills, they do have the capacity to raise and lower them at will. When threatened, a porky elevates its quills so that it bristles like some sort of mammalian cactus with giant spines.
ref: 2000, Warner Shedd, “A “Pig,” Perhaps, but Not a Hog: The Porcupine”, in Owls Aren’t Wise & Bats Aren’t Blind: A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, page 52:
text: He snarled, and the porky looked to be running away but swung his tail and put about twenty-five quills in the side of our dog’s face.
ref: 2021, Ron Paliskis, “The Beasts at the lake”, in Ron: A Coke Alley Boy, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, section “Porcupines”, page 59:
glosses: A porcupine.
raspberry ripple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raspberry ripples
Senses: examples: text: I shall have tons of cream in silver buckets and raspberry ripples.
ref: 1981, Barry Maybury, Creative writing for juniors:
glosses: A variety of vanilla ice cream containing streaks of raspberry-flavoured syrup.
Rosy Lee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Rosy (“female name”) + Lee (“surname, or female or male given name”), a variant of Rosie Lee.
Senses: examples: text: 'Sit in here a minute,' he says to them. 'I'll go and make the Rosy Lee.' When he had made the tea he brings it in, gets out the cards, and they start to play, carrying on until it is about half past three.
ref: 1973, May Hobbs, “The Arts and Crafts Department”, in Born to Struggle, 1st American edition, Plainfield, Vt.: Daughters, Inc., published 1975, →ISBN, page 133:
text: Seated at our map-covered dining table, Vicks and I drank umpteen cups of Rosy Lee as we worked out the best route to take me across seven provinces in Canada and through twenty-six US states, following the coastline as much as possible.
ref: 2016, Chris Graham, with Wendy Holden, “Spring 2015: Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, England”, in Five Minutes of Amazing: My Journey Through Dementia, London: Sphere, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Rosie Lee (“tea”).
Ruby Murray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ruby Murrays
Etymology: After Ruby Murray (1935–1996), popular singer.
Senses: synonyms: Ruby
glosses: A (meal of) curry.
wikipedia: Ruby Murray
taters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See tater
Senses: glosses: plural of tater
taters
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more taters
form: most taters
Etymology: Shortened from taters in the mould.
Senses: examples: text: Blimey, it's a bit taters this morning, innit?
glosses: Cold.
two and eight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I didn't get home until two in the morning, and me missus got herself into a right two and eight over it!
text: Suddenly, to his horror, Mr Candy found himself in what Ma would have called a terrible two-and-eight.
ref: 1963, H. E. Bates, Oh! To be in England:
glosses: A state (of upset, worry).
Tater Tots
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: What would a school lunch be without Tater Tots?
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of tater tots.
barrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɹ.ək/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbæɹ.ək/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbɛɹ.ək/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbeɹ.ək/
ipa: /ˈbæɹ.ək/
Forms: form: barracks
Etymology: Borrowed from French baraque, from Spanish barraca or Catalan barraca, which is of uncertain origin. It is probably either a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *barra (“bar”), of unclear origin, or a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *barrum (“clay, mud”) from Celtiberian or Paleo-Hispanic.
Senses: examples: text: Before the gates of Bari, he lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches, and thatched with straw; a perilous station, on all sides open to the inclemency of the winter and the spears of the enemy.
ref: 1829, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 4, page 67:
text: 1919, House Committee on Military Affairs, Army Reorganization: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, 66th Congress, 1st Session, on H.R. 8287, H.R. 8068, H.R. 7925, H.R. 8870, Sept. 3, 1919-Nov. 12, 1919, Parts 23-43, page 1956,
How do you distinguish between the disciplinary barracks and the penitentiary? Where are the disciplinary barracks ?
text: I know the barracks at the training camp out on the moors.
ref: 1996, Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Brian Murdoch, All Quiet on the Western Front, page 129:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
glosses: A primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes.
glosses: Any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building.
glosses: A (structure with a) movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
glosses: A police station.
Derived terms: barrack buster
barracker
Barrack Hill
barrack-room lawyer
barrack stanchion
barrack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɹ.ək/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbæɹ.ək/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbɛɹ.ək/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbeɹ.ək/
ipa: /ˈbæɹ.ək/
Forms: form: barracks
form: barracking
form: barracked
form: barracked
Etymology: Borrowed from French baraque, from Spanish barraca or Catalan barraca, which is of uncertain origin. It is probably either a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *barra (“bar”), of unclear origin, or a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *barrum (“clay, mud”) from Celtiberian or Paleo-Hispanic.
Senses: examples: text: Where the men were barracked alone, unnatural crime prevailed : where the women were barracked, contrivances were made to render such a place a brothel.
ref: 1825, Richard Carlile, The Republican, volume 11, page 276:
glosses: To house military personnel; to quarter.
glosses: To live in barracks.
barrack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɹ.ək/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbæɹ.ək/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbɛɹ.ək/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbeɹ.ək/
ipa: /ˈbæɹ.ək/
Forms: form: barracks
form: barracking
form: barracked
form: barracked
Senses: examples: text: I knew that he had been barracked at times, but I did not realise that he was so sensitive.
ref: 1934, Herbert Chapman, Herbert Chapman on Football, page 140:
text: Some people stopped concentrating on the piece altogether, some started barracking and heckling, while others began chatting to one another.
ref: 2006, Ramsay Burt, Judson Dance Theater: Performative traces, page 192:
text: Its basic tenet was to say that if those Arsenal supporters who barracked the board at home games could do any better, let them come forward, put some money in the club, and have a go at being directors themselves. In short, ‘Put up or shut up’, which, of course, only encouraged Johnny and One-armed Lou to heckle the Arsenal board even more. Dear old Dennis, he had no idea the barracking he and his fellow Arsenal directors suffered at every home game came from Spurs supporters.
ref: 2009, Jimmy Greaves, The Heart of the Game, unnumbered page:
synonyms: badger
jeer
tease
make fun of
glosses: To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
examples: text: The only really unique aspect of Australian barracking is its idiom, the distinctive language and humour involved.
ref: 1988, J. A. Mangan, editor, Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism: British Culture and Sport at Home and Abroad 1700-1914, page 266:
text: I had by then explained to him my custom of occasionally listening to Australian Rules Football on our shortwave radio of a Saturday afternoon; how, despite my barracking for Essendon, I thought a player from Geelong, Gary Ablett, the best I had ever seen.
ref: 2009, Roger Averill, Boy He Cry: An Island Odyssey, page 115:
text: ‘So to me barracking for the footy I identified with my father, although nobody barracked for Essendon.’
ref: 2010, John Cash, Joy Damousi, Footy Passions, page 75:
synonyms: word: cheer
word: root for
glosses: To cheer for or support a team.
baaing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑːɪŋ
Forms: form: baaings
Etymology: From baa + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The bleating of a sheep.
baaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑːɪŋ
Etymology: From baa + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of baa
Baal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪəl/
ipa: /ˈbeɪl/
ipa: /ˈbɑːl/
ipa: /ˈbeɪəl/
ipa: /ˈbeɪl/
ipa: /ˈbɑl/
ipa: /bɑˈɑl/
rhymes: -eɪəl
rhymes: -eɪl
rhymes: -ɑːl
homophone: bail
homophone: bale
homophone: boll (some US speakers)
homophone: ball
homophone: bawl (some US speakers)
Forms: form: Baals
form: Baalim
form: Baʿal
form: Ba'al
form: Baʻl
Etymology: From Late Latin Baal (as in the Vulgate) and Ancient Greek Βάαλ (Báal); from Hebrew בַּעַל (bá`al, “lord, husband, owner”), Phoenician 𐤁𐤏𐤋 (bʿl, “lord, master, owner”) and Ugaritic 𐎁𐎓𐎍 (baʿlu, “lord, owner”), all from Proto-Semitic *baʿl- (“owner, lord, husband”).
Senses: topics: biblical
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: A storm and fertility god of the Phoenician and Canaanite pantheons, reckoned as chief of the gods by the 1st millennium BC.
topics: biblical
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: Various other Baalim, understood as distinct patron gods or as local patron aspects the great god Baal.
topics: Christianity
glosses: One of the demons or fallen angels of Satan.
Derived terms: Baal-gad
Baalism
Baalist
Baalite
Baalzebub
Related terms: Bel
Beelzebub
Beelzebul
Baal-Shem-Tov
Baal Shem
Baalism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Baal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A pagan religion centred on the worship of Baal.
Baalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baalists
Etymology: From Baal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A worshiper of Baal; a member of the pagan religion of Baalism.
babble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæb.(ə)l/
rhymes: -æbəl
Forms: form: babbles
form: babbling
form: babbled
form: babbled
Etymology: From Middle English babelen, from Old English *bæblian, also wæflian (“to talk foolishly”), from Proto-West Germanic *bablōn, *wablōn, variants of *babalōn, from Proto-Germanic *babalōną (“to chatter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰa-bʰa-, perhaps a reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say”), or a variant of Proto-Indo-European *baba- (“to talk vaguely, mumble”), or a merger of the two, possibly ultimately onomatopoeic/mimicry of infantile sounds (compare babe, baby).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian babbelje (“to babble”), West Frisian babbelje (“to babble”), Dutch babbelen (“to babble, chat”), German Low German babbeln (“to babble”), German babbeln (“to babble”), Danish bable, bavle (“to babble”), Swedish babbla (“to babble”), Icelandic babla (“to babble”). Unrelated to Babel.
Senses: examples: text: The men were babbling, so we couldn't make sense of anything.
glosses: To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds
glosses: To talk incoherently; to utter meaningless words.
examples: text: She babbled on for hours about the importance of some new gadget.
text: Radical rather than rhetorical, babble like an oracle
ref: 2022, Slipknot, The Dying Song (Time To Sing)
glosses: To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle.
examples: text: Hounds are said to babble, or to be babbling, when they are too noisy after having found a good scent.
text: In every babbling brook he finds a friend.
ref: 1815, William Wordsworth, “Extracts from Descriptive Sketches”, in Poems […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], published 1815, →OCLC:
glosses: To make a continuous murmuring noise, like shallow water running over stones.
examples: text: All this vvhile John had conn'd over ſuch a Catalogue of hard VVords, as vvere enough to conjure up the Devil; theſe he uſed to babble indifferently in all Companies, eſpecially at Coffee-houſes; ſo that his Neighbour Tradeſmen began to ſhun his Company as a Man that vvas crack'd.
ref: 1733, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], Alexander Pope, compiler, “Law is a Bottomless Pit. Or, The History of John Bull. […]. [The First Part.] Chapter VII. How John Bull was so Mightily Pleas’d with His Success, that He was Going to Leave Off His Trade, and Turn Lawyer.”, in Miscellanies, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] Benjamin Motte, […], →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat words or sounds in a childish way without understanding.
glosses: To reveal; to give away (a secret).
Derived terms: babblative
babbledom
Babbledom
babblemouth
babbler
babbling brook
outbabble
babble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæb.(ə)l/
rhymes: -æbəl
Forms: form: babbles
Etymology: From Middle English babelen, from Old English *bæblian, also wæflian (“to talk foolishly”), from Proto-West Germanic *bablōn, *wablōn, variants of *babalōn, from Proto-Germanic *babalōną (“to chatter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰa-bʰa-, perhaps a reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say”), or a variant of Proto-Indo-European *baba- (“to talk vaguely, mumble”), or a merger of the two, possibly ultimately onomatopoeic/mimicry of infantile sounds (compare babe, baby).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian babbelje (“to babble”), West Frisian babbelje (“to babble”), Dutch babbelen (“to babble, chat”), German Low German babbeln (“to babble”), German babbeln (“to babble”), Danish bable, bavle (“to babble”), Swedish babbla (“to babble”), Icelandic babla (“to babble”). Unrelated to Babel.
Senses: examples: text: This is mere moral babble.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, line 823:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
synonyms: gabble
twaddle
glosses: Idle talk; senseless prattle
examples: text: [M]an has an instinctive tendency to speak, as we see in the babble of our young children; whilst no child has an instinctive tendency to brew, bake, or write.
ref: 1871, Charles Darwin, “Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Part I (On the Descent of Man), page 55:
glosses: Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.
examples: text: [T]he babble of the stream / Fell, and without the steady glare / Shrank the sick olive sere and small.
ref: 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “Mariana in the South”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: A sound like that of water gently flowing around obstructions.
Hyponyms: astrobabble
bizbabble
econobabble
edu-babble
neurobabble
niggerbabble
psychobabble
sociobabble
technobabble
Derived terms: babblesome
babble-word
babble word
babbly
Babeldom
bibble-babble
cryptobabble
cyberbabble
ecobabble
Eurobabble
mathbabble
niggerbabble
yoga-babble
Related terms: babblement
babblery
babbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈbæb(ə)lə(ɹ)]
Forms: form: babblers
Etymology: From Middle English babeler, babler, equivalent to babble + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Great babblers, or talkers, are[…] not fit […]for trust.
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: Someone who babbles.
glosses: Any of several passerine birds, of the families Timaliidae and Paradoxornithidae (both found in Asia, Africa) and Pomatostomidae (found in Australia).
glosses: A hound who is too noisy on finding a good scent.
Derived terms: Australo-Papuan babbler
Bengal babbler
black-capped babbler
glissando babbler
grey-chested babbler
ground babbler
jewel-babbler
jungle babbler
psychobabbler
rail-babbler
scimitar babbler
shrike-babbler
Sikkim wedge-billed babbler
striated babbler
tit-babbler
white-headed babbler
wren-babbler
babblery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbæb.əl.ɹi/
/ˈbæb.lə.ɹi/
Forms: form: babbleries
Etymology: From babble + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: They have also certain papers, wherin is painted some babblerie or other of imagery woork
ref: 1596, John Payne Collier, Miscellaneous Tracts:
glosses: Babble
babblement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babblements
Etymology: From babble + -ment.
Senses: glosses: babble
babery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Perhaps originally for baboonery. Compare baboon, and also babe.
Senses: examples: text: So have I seen trim books in velvet dight, / With golden leaves, and painted babery / Of silly boys, please unacquainted sight.
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: Finery of a kind to please a child.
babillard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babillards
Etymology: From French babillard (“a babbler”).
Senses: glosses: The lesser whitethroat of Europe
Synonyms: babbling warbler
babingtonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named for Dr. Babington
Senses: glosses: A mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, manganese, and lime.
Derived terms: scandiobabingtonite
babiroussa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babiroussas
Etymology: From French babiroussa, from Malay babi rusa (“babiroussa, deer hog”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of babirusa.
babish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪb.ɪʃ/
rhymes: -eɪbɪʃ
Forms: form: more babish
form: most babish
Etymology: From babe + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Spoons, you know, are to feed us with weak and thin food, even with that which best suiteth with weak stomachs, or with a babish temper.
ref: 1782–1784? [17th century], The Whole Works of that Eminent Servant of Christ, the late Reverend and much Esteemed Mr. John Bunyan, London: printed for the proprietors, and published by Alex. Hogg, at the King's-Arms, No. 16, Paternoster-Row:
text: For, if a young gentleman be demure and still of mature, they say he is simple and lacketh wit; if he be bashful, and will soon blush, they call him a babish and ill brought up thing;
ref: 1864, Roger Ascham, The Whole Works of Roger Ascham, page 125:
text: The rot of schools Of medieval time Is Christmas, a pleasing mime To babish minds, Its tinsel blinds The eyes of Thought, 'Tis rot, rot, all rot; And not for me !
ref: 1919, Charles Louis Henry Wagner, Cradled Moons: A Book of Poems, page 233:
glosses: Like a babe; childish; babyish.
Derived terms: babishly
babishness
babish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪb.ɪʃ/
rhymes: -eɪbɪʃ
Forms: form: babishes
form: babishing
form: babished
form: babished
Etymology: From babe + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The Pharisees had babished the simple people with fained and colde religion, and had tangled theyr consciences with.
ref: late 16th century, John Udall, Richardson:
text: The truth is, what with passing those hard years of Mary's reign in obscurity, without all conference or such manner of study as now might do me service, and what with my natural viciosity of overmuch shamefastness, I am so babished in myself, that I cannot raise up my heart and stomach to utter in talk with other, which (as I may say) with my pen I can express indifferently, without great difficulty.
ref: 1563, Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, Letter to Sir William Cecil:
text: And therefore, in that God by this Office hath advanced you so high, as to set you over his Houshold, Be exhorted so far to know your Place, and the dignity and worth of it, as not to be ashamed of it, nor to be babished in the Execution of it.
ref: 1676, Jonathan Tuckney, Forty Sermons Upon Several Occasions, page 635:
text: Thay excusyd hir thus, sothly, To make hir clene of hir foly, And babished me that was old.
ref: 2012, “The Annunciation”, in David Bevington, editor, Medieval Drama, page 365:
glosses: To make or treat as babish.
Babism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Babisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bábism.
Babist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Babists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bábist.
bablah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bablahs
form: babulah
Etymology: Compare Persian ببول (babul, “a species of mimosa yielding gum arabic”), Sanskrit बब्बुल (babbula), बब्बूल (babbūla, “species of acacia used for tanning”).
Senses: glosses: The rind of the fruit of several East Indian species of acacia, especially Vachellia nilotica, formerly Acacia arabica; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for dyeing drab.
Synonyms: sense: Vachellia nilotica
word: babool
sense: Vachellia nilotica
word: babul
baboonery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babooneries
Etymology: From Middle English babwynrie (“grotesque”). Equivalent to baboon + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: You smiled with satisfaction when you saw how great the improvement was that baboonery had made toward manhood.
ref: 1838, Edward Howard, Frederick Marryat, chapter XIX, in Rattlin, the Reefer:
glosses: Baboonish behavior.
baboonish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baboonish
form: most baboonish
Etymology: From baboon + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a baboon.
babyhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪbihʊd/
Forms: form: babyhoods
Etymology: From baby + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Radulph hid his face in his hands and for the first time since babyhood, prayed […]
ref: 1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, page 129:
glosses: The state or period of infancy.
Related terms: babyship
infanthood
baby-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby-houses
Etymology: From baby + house.
Senses: glosses: A doll's house.
babyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪbiɪʃ/
Forms: form: more babyish
form: most babyish
Etymology: From baby + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: For a young man, he has the most babyish voice I've heard.
text: Clothes like these are too babyish for a child his age.
text: As soon as the King and the rest of the hunting party had set off, she began making a tour of the whole castle and asking questions, but all in such an innocent, babyish way that no one could suspect her of any secret design.
ref: 1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 9, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998:
synonyms: word: puerile
word: simple
word: babish
word: babyish
word: bairnish
word: childish
word: dootsie
word: hissy
word: lactifluous
word: infantile
word: infantine
word: immature
word: kiddish
word: juvenile
word: milky
word: puerile
glosses: Like or suitable for a baby or a young child; childish
Derived terms: babyishly
babyishness
babyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babyisms
Etymology: From baby + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a baby.
glosses: A babyish manner of acting or speaking.
baby jumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby jumpers
Senses: glosses: A hoop suspended by an elastic strap, in which a young child may be held secure while amusing itself by jumping on the floor.
Babylonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæbɪˈləʊnɪ.ən/
ipa: /bæbɪˈloʊnɪ.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Latin Babylōnius (“of Babylon, Babylonian”) (from Ancient Greek Βαβυλώνιος (Babulṓnios)) + -an; corresponding to Babylon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the city of Babylon, or the Babylonian Empire.
examples: text: [W]e, on our parts, have learned to speak only the primitive language of the law, and not the confused jargon of their Babylonian pulpits.
ref: 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 29:
glosses: Roman Catholic (with reference to e.g. Revelation 14–18).
glosses: Characteristic of Babylon or its civilization and inhabitants; huge, decadent, indulgent. .
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to Babylon
word: Babylonic
Derived terms: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Middle Babylonian
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæbɪˈləʊnɪ.ən/
ipa: /bæbɪˈloʊnɪ.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Babylonians
Etymology: From Latin Babylōnius (“of Babylon, Babylonian”) (from Ancient Greek Βαβυλώνιος (Babulṓnios)) + -an; corresponding to Babylon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the city of Babylon.
glosses: An inhabitant of Babylonia, which included Chaldea; a Chaldean.
glosses: An astrologer; so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
Babylonian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæbɪˈləʊnɪ.ən/
ipa: /bæbɪˈloʊnɪ.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Latin Babylōnius (“of Babylon, Babylonian”) (from Ancient Greek Βαβυλώνιος (Babulṓnios)) + -an; corresponding to Babylon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A later form of Akkadian language spoken in Babylonia in 1950 BC – 100 AD.
Derived terms: Assyro-Babylonian
Babylonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌbæbɪˈlɒnɪk/
Forms: form: more Babylonic
form: most Babylonic
Etymology: From Latin Babylōnicus.
Senses: examples: Babylonic garments, carpets, or hangings
glosses: Pertaining to Babylon, or made there.
examples: text: Pipes of port, hogsheads of claret, cases of champagne, gallons of spirituous liquors, are unaccountably added up, subtracted, and divided, by the rule of three and the rule of contrary, into Babylonic confusion, such as worse confounds the confusion of the proprietor of all this intolerable quantity of sack.
ref: 1846, Catherine Grace Frances Gore, Sketches of English Character - Volumes 1-2, page 199:
text: From confusion and subsequent descent into Babylonic chaos and alterity , God's spirit — his saving , incarnate Word—prepares to enter man's heart and to transform the utter alienation and otherness of nature and society into blessed unity.
ref: 1995, James Joseph Bono, The Word of God and the Languages of Man, page 163:
text: We'd strain to touch those lang'rous Length of thighs; And hear your short sharp modern Babylonic cries.
ref: 2016, Djuna Barnes, Katharine Maller, Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes, page 238:
text: The neighboring computers also pick up on this disturbance of their collective chant, and as each is associatively connecting the new words to its own knowledge base, we hear the voices enter into a Babylonic confusion—or, as Rokeby calls it, "a party-like chaos of voices,"
ref: 2016, Andreas Broeckmann, Machine Art in the Twentieth Century, page 91:
text: If Evelina had no use for Luke Wavering, still less had she for his daughter, Daphne, brought up by him in this atmosphere of Babylonic miasma.
ref: 2021, William J. Locke, The Kingdom of Theophilus:
glosses: Tumultuous; disorderly.
Synonyms: word: pertaining to Babylon