cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
louse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
Forms: form: lice
form: louses
Etymology: From Middle English lous, lows, lowse, from Old English lūs, from Proto-West Germanic *lūs, from Proto-Germanic *lūs, from Proto-Indo-European *lewH-.
See also West Frisian lûs, Dutch luis, German Low German Luus, German Laus; also Welsh llau (“lice”), Tocharian B luwo, maybe Sanskrit यूका (yūkā).
Senses: glosses: A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Psocodea.
examples: text: He said: "Thanks, friend; but you're wasting your time. You better warn Crocker. If that louse makes a play for me, he'll get hit with Chicago lightning!"
ref: 1946, Joseph Thompson Shaw, The hard-boiled omnibus: early stories from Black Mask, page 388:
text: It's then that those louses go back to their spouses. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
ref: 1949, Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend (song)
text: […] as she raised her guitar for the last loud chord, an unseen louse let loose a rubber-tipped arrow that landed right on her dark-skinned forehead.
ref: 1965 December, Phil Ochs, “That Was The Year That Weren't”, in Cavalier:
text: After you get finished betraying all your friends, how long do you think it will be before you're all alone? You will age and die all alone. You are attractive but unloving and unlovable. You're the worst louse I have met in a long time. I hope you get what you deserve.
ref: 1983 December 17, “GDMFSOB (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 22, page 17:
glosses: A contemptible person; one who is deceitful or causes harm.
raw_tags: not usually used in plural form
Synonyms: sense: insect
word: arithmetic bug
sense: insect
word: cootie
sense: insect
word: leaping dandruff
sense: contemptible person
word: maggot
sense: contemptible person
word: worm
Derived terms: word: bark louse
word: bee louse
taxonomic: Pediculus humanus
word: body louse
word: booklouse
word: carp louse
word: chewing louse
word: chicken louse
word: clover louse
word: crab louse
word: fish louse
word: fishlouse
word: flea-louse
word: grape-louse
word: green louse
word: head louse
word: headlouse
word: hen louse
word: jumping plant louse
word: lazy louse
word: leaf louse
word: lens louse
word: louse around
word: louseborne
word: louse fly
word: louseless
word: louselike
word: louseling
word: louser
word: louse-ridden
word: louse trap
word: louse up
word: lousewort
word: lousicide
word: lousy
word: pea louse
word: plant louse
word: pricklouse
word: pubic louse
word: sea louse
word: sheep louse
word: sucking louse
word: sugar louse
word: three skips of a louse
word: water louse
word: whale louse
word: woodlouse
louse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /laʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
Forms: form: louses
form: lousing
form: loused
form: loused
Etymology: From Middle English lous, lows, lowse, from Old English lūs, from Proto-West Germanic *lūs, from Proto-Germanic *lūs, from Proto-Indo-European *lewH-.
See also West Frisian lûs, Dutch luis, German Low German Luus, German Laus; also Welsh llau (“lice”), Tocharian B luwo, maybe Sanskrit यूका (yūkā).
Senses: examples: text: There were a few wire-netted enclosures to keep young chickens from the hawks, but the fowls wandered at large, coming about the hut to ruffle their feathers in the dust, and louse themselves, and pick up scraps.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 108:
glosses: To remove lice from; to delouse.
Synonyms: delouse
arthropod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːθɹəpɒd/
Forms: form: arthropods
form: arthropodae
Etymology: From New Latin Arthropoda, from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron, “joint”) + πούς (poús, “foot”), equivalent to arthro- + -pod.
Senses: examples: text: In at least one other arthropod, the Stalk-eyed fly, it is the sheer length of the stalks themselves, which can be longer than the animal's body, which make the male attractive to females.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 107:
text: The arthropods of the forest biome can be divided into two ecological groups: the cryptozoic inhabitants of the soil and leaf litter, and the terrestrial and arboreal forms that live in more exposed localities.
ref: 2012, John L. Cloudsley-Thompson, Evolution and Adaptation of Terrestrial Arthropods, page 85:
hypernyms: critter
glosses: An invertebrate animal of the phylum Arthropoda, characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and multiple jointed appendages.
Synonyms: word: arthropod
Hypernyms: word: invertebrate
word: animal
Hyponyms: word: arachnid
word: crustacean
word: horseshoe crab
word: insect
word: springtail
word: centipede
word: millipede
Meronyms: word: exoskeleton
Derived terms: arthropodal
arthropodic
arthropodization
arthropodologist
arthropodology
macroarthropod
microarthropod
Related terms: arthropodean
japonaise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: japonaises
Etymology: From French japonaise (literally “Japanese”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of almond meringue dessert.
jet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Etymology: Borrowed from French jet (“spurt”, literally “a throw”), from Old French get, giet, from Vulgar Latin *iectus, jectus, from Latin iactus (“a throwing, a throw”), from iacere (“to throw”). See abject, ejaculate, gist, jess, jut. Cognate with Spanish echar.
Senses: examples: jet airplane
glosses: Propelled by turbine engines.
jet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: jets
form: jeat
form: jess
Etymology: From Middle English get, geet, gete, from a northern form of Old French jayet, jaiet, gaiet, from Latin gagātēs, from Ancient Greek Γαγάτης (Gagátēs), from Γάγας (Gágas, “a town and river in Lycia”). Doublet of gagate.
Senses: examples: text: There is also a factitious jeat made of glaſs, in imitation of the mineral jeat.
ref: 1735, [John Barrow], “JEAT”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. […], volume II (I–S), London: […] C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis […], and S[amuel] Austen […], →OCLC:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: lignite
mineraloid
glosses: A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
glosses: The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
Derived terms: jet-black
jet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: jetter
form: more jet
form: jettest
form: most jet
Etymology: From Middle English get, geet, gete, from a northern form of Old French jayet, jaiet, gaiet, from Latin gagātēs, from Ancient Greek Γαγάτης (Gagátēs), from Γάγας (Gágas, “a town and river in Lycia”). Doublet of gagate.
Senses: examples: text: All the direct blacks require working in strong baths to give anything like black shades; they all have, more or less, a bluish tone, which can be changed to a jetter shade by the addition of a yellow or green dye in small proportions, which has been done in one of the recipes given above.
ref: 1901, Franklin Beech, The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics: A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student:
text: She was an ash blonde with greenish eyes, beaded lashes, hair waved smoothly back from ears in which large jet buttons glittered.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 23:
synonyms: jet-black
glosses: Very dark black in colour.
jet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: jets
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: an operation that takes a differentiable function f and produces a polynomial, the Taylor polynomial (truncated Taylor series) of f, at each point of its domain.
inch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪntʃ
Forms: form: inches
form: inching
form: inched
form: inched
form: in
form: in.
Etymology: From Middle English ynche, enche, from Old English ynċe, borrowed from Latin uncia (“Roman inch, various similar units”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”). Cognate with Middle Dutch enke (“thumb, thumb's width, inch”). Doublet of ounce, uncia, onça, onza, oka, ouguiya, and awqiyyah.
Senses: examples: text: Fearful of falling, he inched along the window ledge.
text: On reaching the section under construction they must be capable of inching the train forward on rough track up gradients as steep as 1 in 30.
ref: 1951 October, “London Transport Battery Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 659:
text: The window blind had been lowered — Zooey had done all his bathtub reading by the light from the three-bulb overhead fixture—but a fraction of morning light inched under the blind and onto the title page of the manuscript.
ref: 1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961:
text: Already guarding a 1-0 lead from the first leg, Blackpool inched further ahead when Stephen Dobbie scored from an acute angle on the stroke of half-time. The game appeared to be completely beyond Birmingham’s reach three minutes into the second period when Matt Phillips reacted quickly to bundle the ball past Colin Doyle and off a post.
ref: 2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, in the Telegraph:
glosses: To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
raw_tags: followed by a preposition
examples: text: He gets too far into the soldier's grace / And inches out my master.
ref: 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy:
glosses: To drive by inches, or small degrees.
glosses: To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
Derived terms: inch along
inch away
inch back
inch forward
inch up
inchworm
Related terms: thou
mil
inch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪntʃ
Forms: form: inches
Etymology: From Scots inch, from Scottish Gaelic innis.
Senses: examples: text: The blackening wave is edged with white; / To inch and rock the sea-mews fly.
ref: 1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A small island; an islet.
examples: text: An ivy-clad farmhouse surrounded by trees, it stood on the sunny side of a sloping hill at the foot of which the Darigle river curved its way through gold-furzed inches to disappear under a stone bridge into the woods beyond.
ref: 1988, Alice Taylor, To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood, Brandon Ltd, →ISBN, page 6:
text: As these calves grew older they did not need to return to the farmyard for feeding as they were able to eat sufficient grass for themselves. They were then kept in the fields, known as the inches, along by the river[,] where they grew strong[,] and during the winter cold when grass was scarce[,] hay was carried down to them.
ref: 1988, Alice Taylor, To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood, Brandon Ltd, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
Derived terms: Inchlonaig
Kirkinch
inch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪntʃ
Etymology: Semantic loan from Cantonese 寸 (cyun³, “inch”), which is an alternative form of 串 (cyun³, “cocky; to provoke; etc.”).
Senses: examples: text: I still remember Donald Duck sit next to him after NG dog being 'Done'd to F.2 building... he is still very Inch in Year 1983-4 teaching me RS
ref: 1994 May 29, Albert Ng, soc.culture.hongkong (Usenet):
text: The service was professional but very "inch". We were served by a Cantonese speaking local. The waiter asked if we wanted water without telling us it costs $75 for just water!!
ref: 2006 June 12, killgirl, OpenRice:
glosses: cocky and cheeky
Synonyms: inchy
inch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪntʃ
Forms: form: inches
form: inching
form: inched
form: inched
Etymology: Semantic loan from Cantonese 寸 (cyun³, “inch”), which is an alternative form of 串 (cyun³, “cocky; to provoke; etc.”).
Senses: examples: text: Sorry for changing the intention of the post last time; it was for nothing but the personal joy and satisfaction of "inch"-ing the person who criticized my writing while he/she can't even write. (no hard feelings, alright?!) I'd avoid that in the future. I'll try to make this a constructive discussion and be as objective as possible.
ref: 1994 March 4, tp...@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu, soc.culture.hongkong.entertainment (Usenet):
glosses: to burn (to insult); to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner
bach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæt͡ʃ/
ipa: /bɛtʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
homophone: batch
Forms: form: baches
Etymology: Abbreviation of bachelor (or, in later senses, of bachelor pad).
Senses: glosses: A bachelor.
glosses: A small hut, epecially for a man living alone.
examples: text: She stops the car by an ochre-coloured bach at the end of the beachline, by the shelter of a massive thicket of African thorn.
ref: 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 163:
text: Even before he began his chores he sunbathed naked against the east wall of the bach for half an hour.
ref: 1984, Janet Frame, An Angel at my Table, Virago, published 2024, page 263:
text: From 1931 until his death in 1982, Sargeson lived a monastic life in a bach at Takapuna, writing in the mornings and tending his garden and entertaining friends in the latter part of the day.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 371:
synonyms: word: crib
raw_tags: in southern South Island
glosses: Now specifically, a holiday home, typically a small, simple house of one or two rooms on the beach.
Derived terms: geo-bach
bach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæt͡ʃ/
ipa: /bɛtʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
homophone: batch
Forms: form: baches
form: baching
form: bached
form: bached
Etymology: Abbreviation of bachelor (or, in later senses, of bachelor pad).
Senses: examples: text: I hurried home to the tent—I was batching with a carpenter.
ref: 1900, Henry Lawson, Over the Sliprails:
glosses: To live as a bachelor; (chiefly of a man) to live without women, and do one's own cooking, housekeeping etc.
bach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæt͡ʃ/
ipa: /bɛtʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
homophone: batch
Forms: form: baches
Senses: examples: text: When I ask people how spending money makes them feel, so many of them respond, "Guilty." ¶ They'll give an example of how a rough day at the office led to buying a pair of shoes online or how they got a little carried away at their friend's bach party in Vegas.
ref: 2018 April 30, Dani Pascarella, “Why You Feel Guilty When You Spend Money And How To Stop”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2023:
text: Bachelorette party captions for Instagram […] Babes, baches, bikinis, and boats.
ref: 2020 August 14, Pippa Raga, “50 of the Best IG Captions for Your Bestie's Bachelorette or Hen Party”, in Distractify, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2023:
text: While everyone else is flocking down South for a bach bash, you'll be singing "Oh, Canada," as you spend a weekend immersed in the city's uniquely hip take on old-world European culture.
ref: 2021 November 12, Erin Celletti, “Montreal Bachelorette Party Guide and Itinerary Ideas”, in Brides, archived from the original on 31 May 2023:
text: There are literally thousands of places you could go during a bach weekend in NYC, but take a tip from this New Yorker: Head to Beauty Bar as at least one of your bar-hopping spots.
ref: 2023 May 19, Samantha Grindell, Hannah Chubb, “Only the 21 Best Bachelorette Party Destinations for You and Your "I Do" Crew, Bb”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2023:
text: "Bach parties are a time-honored tradition, but just like weddings, these have become hugely personalized," Lauren Kay, the executive editor of The Knot, said. "Can you get married without one or by taking a solo trip? Absolutely."
ref: 2023 May 25, Stephanie Cain, quoting Lauren Kay, “Why More Brides Are Opting for Solo Bachelorette Trips”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2023:
glosses: Clipping of bachelorette.
eponym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛpənɪm/
Forms: form: eponyms
form: eponyme
Etymology: From Latin eponymus, from Ancient Greek ἐπώνῠμος (epṓnŭmos), from ἐπί (epí, “upon, epi-”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”) + -ος (-os, suffix forming adjectives and nouns). Equivalent to epi- + -nym.
Senses: examples: text: The Greeks and Romans tended to credit nearly every location and ethnicity to a legendary eponym, Hellas to Hellen, Rome to Romulus, Egypt to Aegyptus, etc.
text: Similar to the Greek eponymous archons and Roman consuls, the names of the annually appointed Assyrian limus were used for their years in office and they are accordingly also known as eponyms.
synonyms: namesake
glosses: A person who gave or supposedly gave their name to a people, place, institution, etc.
synonyms: namesake
glosses: Something that is named after a person.
examples: text: Alexandria is an eponym, taken from its founder Alexander the Great.
text: [Mesmer] lives on today as the root of the eponym mesmerize.
ref: 2004, Bill Sherk, 500 Years of New Words, →ISBN:
text: For their dubious contribution to literature, Doctor Bowdler and Henrietta were recognized with the eponym bowdlerize[.]
ref: 2015, Robert B. Taylor, What Every Medical Writer Needs to Know, →ISBN:
text: An eponym was once considered medicine’s highest honor. Like monuments to great generals, they paid tribute to medicine’s most brilliant minds, ensuring their names would live on in perpetuity.
ref: 2023 June 19, Rachel E. Gross, “Should Medicine Still Bother With Eponyms?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: deonym
glosses: A name taken from a person, a namesake toponym, term, etc.
examples: text: "Tangerine" is an eponym in reference to Tangier... The unflattering eponym "shanghai" derived from the behavior of American shippers, not the Chinese themselves...
glosses: A name or term derived from any proper noun, inclusive of places, brands, etc.
examples: text: Rockefeller became the very eponym of wealth.
glosses: Synonym of epitome, a person taken as a symbol or quintessential representative of some trait, school, etc.
synonyms: word: epitome
extra: a person taken as a symbol or quintessential representative of some trait, school, etc
examples: text: It was only posthumously that Julian was distinguished with the eponym "Apostate".
glosses: Synonym of epithet, a distinguishing title.
synonyms: word: epithet
extra: a distinguishing title
Coordinate terms: english: using an eponym as an example of some quality
translation: using an eponym as an example of some quality
word: antonomasia
english: word derived from a proper noun
translation: word derived from a proper noun
word: deonym
Derived terms: eponymic
eponymical
eponymically
eponymism
eponymist
eponymize
eponymy
proprietary eponym
Related terms: aneponymous
eponymous
spade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /speɪ̯d/
ipa: /sped/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: spayed (except Scotland)
Forms: form: spades
Etymology: From Middle English spade, from Old English spada, spade, spadu (“spade”), from Proto-Germanic *spadô. Doublet of spatha, spathe, and épée.
Senses: examples: text: 'Make your mind easy,' Ratsey said; 'I have dug too often in this graveyard for any to wonder if they see me with a spade.'
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
text: "[...] And not a single spade has gone in the ground - not a single mile of track built."
ref: 2021 October 6, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Labour: build HS2 and NPR and end "paper promises"”, in RAIL, number 941, page 25:
glosses: A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
glosses: A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A device for terminating an electrical conductor resembling a small spade.
Derived terms: bucket and spade
call a spade a shovel
call a spade a spade
call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel
call a spade a spade, not a big spoon
peat spade
spade-foot
spade foot
spadefoot
spade fork
spadeful
spade-handed
spadelike
spade-man
spade man
spade mashie
spade money
spade-toothed whale
spadework
spade-worker
spadeworker
turf spade
spade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /speɪ̯d/
ipa: /sped/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: spayed (except Scotland)
Forms: form: spades
form: spading
form: spaded
form: spaded
Etymology: From Middle English spade, from Old English spada, spade, spadu (“spade”), from Proto-Germanic *spadô. Doublet of spatha, spathe, and épée.
Senses: glosses: To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.
Derived terms: spader
spade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /speɪ̯d/
ipa: /sped/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: spayed (except Scotland)
Forms: form: spades
Etymology: Probably from Italian spade, plural of spada (“the ace of spades”, literally “sword, spade”), from earlier *spata, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπᾰ́θη (spắthē). Cognate with Etymology 1. So called for the shape, though what the shape was exactly meant to represent has been debated.
Senses: examples: text: I've got only one spade in my hand.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
examples: text: And as for a divorce, I know plenty spades right here in Harlem get married any time they want to.
ref: 1929, Wallace Thurman, The Blacker the Berry, New York: Collier Books, published 1970, →ISBN, page 161:
text: Example: Max was in a hospital in New York and "the night nurse was a groovy spade, and in the afternoon for therapy there was a chick from Israel who was interesting, but there was nothing much to do in the morning, so I left".
ref: 1968, Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:
text: It had even gotten to the point that Negroes were no longer in the hip scene, not even as totem figures. It was unbelievable. Spades, the very soul figures of Hip, of jazz, of the hip vocabulary itself, man and like dig and baby and scarf and split and later and so fine, of civil rights and graduating from Reed College and living on North Beach, down Mason, and balling spade cats—all that good elaborate petting and patting and pouring soul all over the spades—all over, finished, incredibly.
ref: 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: A black person.
spade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /speɪ̯d/
ipa: /sped/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: spayed (except Scotland)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spay
Derived terms: in spades
royal spade
lexicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛk.sɪ.kən/
ipa: /ˈlɛk.sɪ.kɒn/
note: of Canada
enpr: lĕk'sĭkŏn
ipa: /ˈlɛk.sɪ.kɑn/
note: of Canada
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈlɛk.sɪ.kən/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈlɛk.sɪ.kɒn/
ipa: /ˈlek.sɪ.kən/
ipa: /ˈlek.sɪ.kɔn/
ipa: /ˈlek.sə.kən/
ipa: /ˈlek.sə.kɒn/
ipa: [ˈlek.sə.kɔ̟n]
Forms: form: lexica
form: lexicons
Etymology: Through Middle French or directly from New Latin lexicon, from Byzantine Greek λεξικόν (lexikón, “a lexicon, a dictionary”), ellipsis from Ancient Greek λεξικὸν βιβλίον (lexikòn biblíon, literally “a book of words”), from λεξικός (lexikós, “of words”), from λέξις (léxis, “a saying, speech, word”), from λέγω (légō, “to speak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).
Attested at least since 1583 (in William Fulke's A Defense of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue) in the sense 'a dictionary of a classical language'.
Senses: examples: text: Formalism seeks to correct this deficiency by translating verbal texts into formal, mathematizable lexicons which are then manipulated into general propositions.
ref: 1979, Charles C. Lemert, “Language, Structure, and Measurement: Structuralist Semiotics and Sociology”, in The American Journal of Sociology, volume 84, number 4, page 944:
synonyms: word-hoard
word-stock
coordinate_terms: lexis
glosses: The vocabulary of a language.
examples: text: Sluiter examines a tension inherent in such scholarly works as lexica, scholia, epitomai, and commentaries: although the very titles of these works claim no more than secondary status, their authors engage nonetheless in a rhetoric of self-legitimation.
ref: 2000, Mary Depew, Dirk Obbink, Matrices of Genre: Authors, Canons, and Society, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 10, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: wordbook
glosses: A dictionary that includes or focuses on lexemes.
glosses: A dictionary of Classical Greek, Hebrew, Latin, or Aramaic.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The lexicology of a programming language. (Usually called lexical structure.)
glosses: Any dictionary.
coordinate_terms: idiolect
glosses: The vocabulary used by or known to an individual. (Also called lexical knowledge.)
examples: text: the baseball lexicon
text: Turns, twists, walks, runs, falls, and somersaults, along with many other movements, are the specific vocabularic elements which make up the lexicon of dance.
ref: 2002, Robert Wuthnow, Vocabularies Of Public Life, page 171:
glosses: A set of vocabulary specific to a certain subject.
examples: text: a baseball lexicon
glosses: A set of vocabulary specific to a certain subject.
A list thereof.
synonyms: glossary
Derived terms: generative lexicon
lexicase
lexiconic
lexiconist
lexiconize
lexpionage
mini-lexicon
paralexicon
protolexicon
reflexicon
sublexicon
Related terms: lexical
lexicography
lexicology
lexiconophilia
lexiconophilist
lexicon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛk.sɪ.kən/
ipa: /ˈlɛk.sɪ.kɒn/
note: of Canada
enpr: lĕk'sĭkŏn
ipa: /ˈlɛk.sɪ.kɑn/
note: of Canada
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈlɛk.sɪ.kən/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈlɛk.sɪ.kɒn/
ipa: /ˈlek.sɪ.kən/
ipa: /ˈlek.sɪ.kɔn/
ipa: /ˈlek.sə.kən/
ipa: /ˈlek.sə.kɒn/
ipa: [ˈlek.sə.kɔ̟n]
Forms: form: lexicons
form: lexiconing
form: lexiconed
form: lexiconed
Etymology: Through Middle French or directly from New Latin lexicon, from Byzantine Greek λεξικόν (lexikón, “a lexicon, a dictionary”), ellipsis from Ancient Greek λεξικὸν βιβλίον (lexikòn biblíon, literally “a book of words”), from λεξικός (lexikós, “of words”), from λέξις (léxis, “a saying, speech, word”), from λέγω (légō, “to speak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).
Attested at least since 1583 (in William Fulke's A Defense of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue) in the sense 'a dictionary of a classical language'.
Senses: examples: text: Vocab-wise, medalling and PB-ing are now totally part-and-parcelled, and most experts in South Korea believe podiumed, finalled and all-comered are not far off lexiconing.
ref: 2011 September 1, Harry Pearson, “London 2012 can legacy by verbing the noun”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2024:
glosses: To add to a lexicon.
examples: text: Mrazek’s legislation would discourage time compression, a technique used to speed up a movie, and “lexiconing,” a process of altering the soundtrack to match the shorter, compressed version.
ref: 1991 July 26, Beth Hawkins, “A Call for Legal Action Against Film Alterations : Movies: Six prominent filmmakers join a N.Y. congressman in asking for warning labels if a film has been ‘colorized,’ ‘lexiconed’ or compressed.”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2022:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: To shorten a soundtrack to fit a shortened version of a movie.
tool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: to͞ol
ipa: /tuːl/
ipa: /tul/
ipa: /tʉːl/
ipa: /tʉl/
rhymes: -uːl
homophone: tulle
Forms: form: tools
form: tooling
form: tooled
form: tooled
Etymology: From Middle English tool, tol, from Old English tōl (“tool, implement, instrument”, literally “that with which one prepares something”), perhaps borrowed from Old Norse tól, but at any rate ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tōlą (“that which is used in preparation, tool”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”), equivalent to taw (“to prepare”) + -le (agent suffix). Cognate with Scots tuil (“tool, implement, instrument, device”), Icelandic tól (“tool”), Faroese tól (“tool, instrument”). Related to Old English tāwian (“to make, prepare, or cultivate”); see taw, and tow ("fibres used for spinning").
Senses: glosses: To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
glosses: To equip with tools.
examples: text: Do this lab and read this book, now tool, one and all,
And be sure and pass that final quiz or be screwed right to the wall.
ref: 1965, Matt Fichtenbaum, Dan Murphy, “The Institute Screw”, in The Broadside of Boston, volume III, number 22:
glosses: To work very hard.
examples: text: Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.
glosses: To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
volleyball
glosses: To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
glosses: To drive (a coach or other vehicle).
examples: 1850s, Cuthbert M. Bede, The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
Among those who seemed disposed to join in this opinion was the Jehu of the Warwickshire coach, who expressed his conviction to our hero, that "he wos a young gent as had much himproved hisself since he tooled him up to the Warsity with his guvnor."
glosses: To carry or convey in a coach or other vehicle.
examples: text: March 8, 1890, Byron P. Stephenson, "My Trip to Brazil", in Illustrated American
boys on their bicycles tooling along the well-kept roads
text: These are the guys that tool around in Mercedes Sprinter vans with equipment lockers stuffed with everything from riot helmets to tasers.
ref: 2011, Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London, Gollancz, published 2011, page 324:
glosses: To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
Synonyms: topics: volleyball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: use
Derived terms: tool around
omnibus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒmnɪbəs/
ipa: /ˈɑmnɪbəs/
rhymes: -ɪbəs
Etymology: Borrowed from French (voiture) omnibus (“(carriage) for all”), from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”).
Senses: examples: text: The legislature enacted an omnibus appropriations bill.
text: The inventors face a similar uphill battle in their fight against the omnibus bill.
ref: 1996 June 3, Sabra Chartrand, “Patents; Some independent inventors cry foul about an omnibus bill to reshape the patent system”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: […] I guess it's good theatrics to hold up all the pages of the appropriations bills that are gathered there, but I should point out to my colleague that the Republican omnibus appropriations acts were longer in length than the one he has there. So what? I mean, has this debate become so shallow that it's all about the number of pages of the bill?
ref: 2009 December 10, Mr. McGovern, “Providing for Consideration of Conference Report on H[ouse] R[esolution] 3288, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010”, in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 111th Congress, First Session, volume 155, part 23, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 31014, column 3:
text: In 1852, G[eorge] H[enry] Lewes published an omnibus review of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, George Sand's oeuvre, and the work of other nineteenth-century "lady novelists" in the Westminster Review.
ref: 2015, Linda H. Peterson, “Introduction: Victorian Women’s Writing and Modern Literary Criticism”, in Linda H. Peterson, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Writing, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: Containing multiple items.
glosses: Of a transportation service, calling at every station, as opposed to express; local.
SO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SOs
Senses: related: word: S.O.
word: s.o.
word: s/o
glosses: Initialism of significant other.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of shut out.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of shootout.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of strike out.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Initialism of second-order logic.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of symphony orchestra.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: SOG
DSOG
glosses: Abbreviation of singlet oxygen.
topics: government
politics
qualifier: parliamentary
glosses: Abbreviation of standing order.
Related terms: sense: significant other
word: GF
sense: significant other
word: BF
SO
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Initialism of someone.
SO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Imagine that you were creating an application similar to SO but were writing it using web forms.
ref: 2010, Alex Mackey, “ASP.NET MVC”, in Introducing .NET 4.0: With Visual Studio 2010 (The Expert’s Voice in .NET), [Berkeley, Calif.]: Apress, →ISBN, page 290:
text: SO threads are mapped back into QuestionSheets. Information collected from SO includes the answer itself, the contributor’s reputation, and the number of votes (if any) (see Fig. 5).
ref: 2018, Oscar Díaz, Jeremías P. Contell, “Educating Users to Formulate Questions in Q&A Platforms: A Scaffold for Google Sheets”, in John Krogstie, Hajo A. Reijers, editors, Advanced Information Systems Engineering: 30th International Conference, CAiSE 2018, Tallinn, Estonia, June 11–15, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 10816), Cham: Springer, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 163:
text: While using a Python program to query SO’s API helps me gain a better understanding of SO’s software source code, I should note that much uncertainty regarding SO’s programmed arguments still abounds. Part of this uncertainty is a result of limits companies like SO place on programmers who wish to access their data, but a large portion also stems from my choice to use Python.
ref: 2021, Sean McCullough, “Reprogramming Rhetoric: Toward a Diffractive Epistemology of Computer Composition”, in Kai Merten, editor, Diffractive Reading: New Materialism, Theory, Critique, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, part III (Diffracting (in) Music, Visual, and Digital Media), page 302:
glosses: Initialism of Stack Overflow.
LI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LIs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of love interest.
omega
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊmɪɡə/
ipa: /ˈəʊmiːɡə/
ipa: /ˌoʊˈmeɪɡə/
ipa: /oʊˈmɛɡə/
rhymes: -ɛɡə
rhymes: -eɪɡə
Etymology: From Middle English, from Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα (ô méga), meaning “great ω” (omega is a long vowel in Ancient Greek).
Senses: examples: text: Omega props, dude.
qualifier: largely prepositive
glosses: Ultimate; of the highest degree. Massive, ineffable.
omega
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊmɪɡə/
ipa: /ˈəʊmiːɡə/
ipa: /ˌoʊˈmeɪɡə/
ipa: /oʊˈmɛɡə/
rhymes: -ɛɡə
rhymes: -eɪɡə
Etymology: From Middle English, from Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα (ô méga), meaning “great ω” (omega is a long vowel in Ancient Greek).
Senses: examples: text: Whatever your plan is, I just think this idea's omega stupid. Ain't you got something better?
qualifier: largely prepositive
glosses: Ultimately, most, supremely.
brook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹʊk/
enpr: brŏŏk
text: Audio (Southern England)
ipa: /bɹʉk/
ipa: /bɹuːk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: brooks
Etymology: From Middle English brook, from Old English brōc (“brook; stream; torrent”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōk (“stream”).
Senses: examples: text: empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 8:7:
text: But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,[…].
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: "Most of them don't wash. Those who do usually plunge their head into some brook or rill, if there happens to be one about."
ref: 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 53:
glosses: A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
qualifier: Sussex
glosses: A water meadow.
qualifier: Sussex
glosses: Low, marshy ground.
Synonyms: beck
burn
coulee
creek
stream
Derived terms: Common nouns
American brook char
American brook charr
babbling brook
broker
brook alder
brookie
brook lamprey
brookless
brooklet
brooklike
brooklime
brook mint
brookside
brook springfly
brook trout
brookweed
Proper nouns
Ashbrook
Bessbrook
Bound Brook
Boyup Brook
Brookhaven
Brooksbank
Brook Street
By Brook
Bybrook
Englesea-brook
Grindley Brook
Hazelbrook
Holcombe Brook
Preston Brook
Rea Brook
Saddle Brook
Spencers Brook
Stamford Brook
Stockton Brook
alb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælb/
rhymes: -ælb
ipa: /ɑːlb/
rhymes: -ɑːlb
Forms: form: albs
form: albe
form: aube
Etymology: From Middle English aube, awbe, albe, abbe, from Late Old English albe (but later reinforced by Old French aube, Medieval Latin alba), borrowed from Latin alba (as in tunica alba (“white tunic”), vestis alba (“white garment”)), feminine of albus (“white”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘The confidence of the very rich,’ thought Father Carter watching Binkie shaking out albs and cottas and calling rather loudly to the organist.
ref: 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 131:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
qualifier: chiefly Anglicanism
glosses: A long, white robe worn by priests and other ministers, underneath most of the other vestments.
Synonyms: alba
Derived terms: albed
Related terms: album
albumin
albus
Albion
epigonation
epimanikion
epitrachelion
maniple
omophorion
rhason
sakkos
sticharion
zone
pied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: more pied
form: most pied
Etymology: From archaic pie (“magpie”), from Old French pie, from Latin pica.
Compare typologically Polish srokaty < sroka.
Senses: synonyms: bicolor
nun-coloured
particoloured
piebald
glosses: Having two or more colors, especially black and white.
examples: text: pied coats
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
text: Meadows trim with Daiſies pide,
ref: a. 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: Decorated or colored in blotches.
Derived terms: word: Atlas pied flycatcher
word: Australian pied imperial pigeon
word: European pied flycatcher
alt: †Damaliscus dorcas dorcas
word: pied antelope
taxonomic: Recurvirostra avosetta
word: pied avocet
taxonomic: Niumbaha superba
word: pied bat
word: pied-bill
taxonomic: Podilymbus podiceps
word: pied-billed grebe
word: pied bushchat
word: pied crested cuckoo
word: pied crow
word: pied cuckoo
taxonomic: Strepera graculina
word: pied currawong
english: male Fringilla coelebs
translation: male Fringilla coelebs
word: pied finch
word: pied flycatcher
taxonomic: Ceryle rudis
word: pied kingfisher
taxonomic: Arses kaupi
word: pied monarch
word: piedness
word: Pied Piper
word: pied piper
word: pied-piping
word: pied starling
taxonomic: Motacilla alba
word: pied wagtail
word: pied wheatear
word: unpied
Related terms: piebald
pied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pi
pied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pie
Related terms: en pied
pied-à-terre
Vulcan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvʌlkən/
Etymology: From Vulcan (etymology 1), from the Star Trek TV series of the 1960s. The adjective is by analogy with -an.
Senses: examples: text: Steve and I explained the new program to our children, who looked at us as if we had just announced that we were from the planet Vulcan.
ref: 1998, Harriet Goldhor Lerner, The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life, London, page 159:
glosses: An inhabited planet, the homeworld of the Vulcan species.
glosses: A language constructed for the Star Trek franchise, spoken by the fictional Vulcan species.
Vulcan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvʌlkən/
Forms: form: Vulcans
Etymology: From Vulcan (etymology 1), from the Star Trek TV series of the 1960s. The adjective is by analogy with -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the planet Vulcan; a species that values a personal emphasis on logic and strict personal emotional control.
examples: text: It’s a personality thing more than anything else, as [Barack] Obama has a tendency to appear cold – unwilling or unable to act anything like a father figure.
ref: 2011 January 15, Dylan Jones, “Is there a Vulcan in the White House?”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2011:
synonyms: Spock
glosses: A person who, like the fictional Vulcans, seems to lack emotion or is overly analytical and boring.
Vulcan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvʌlkən/
Forms: form: Vulcans
Etymology: From Vulcan (etymology 1).
Senses: qualifier: aircraft
glosses: The Avro Vulcan, a type of jet-powered British bomber aircraft built by Avro during the Cold War.
simoom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭmo͞omʹ
ipa: /sɪˈmuːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: simooms
Etymology: From Arabic سَمُوم (samūm, “hot wind”), from سَمَّ (samma, “to poison”).
Senses: examples: text: The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
ref: 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
text: Stephen's heart had withered up like a flower of the desert that feels the simoom coming from afar.
ref: 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 101:
glosses: A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind of the desert, particularly of Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.
lief
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːf/
rhymes: -iːf
homophone: leaf
Forms: form: liefer
form: liever
form: liefest
form: lievest
Etymology: From Middle English lef, leve, leef, from Old English lēof, from Proto-West Germanic *leub, from Proto-Germanic *leubaz.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian ljo, ljoo, ljoof, West Frisian leaf, Dutch lief, German Low German leev, German lieb, Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk ljuv, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍆𐍃 (liufs), Russian любо́вь (ljubóvʹ), Polish luby.
For the adverb, compare German lieber, Dutch liever (“preferably, rather”).
Senses: glosses: Beloved, dear, agreeable.
glosses: Ready, willing.
Synonyms: sense: beloved
word: beloved
Derived terms: liefly
liefsome
unlief
Related terms: alderliefest
leeftail
leman
lemman
lever
liefling
livelong
lief
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːf/
rhymes: -iːf
homophone: leaf
Forms: form: liefer
form: liever
form: liefest
Etymology: From Middle English lef, leve, leef, from Old English lēof, from Proto-West Germanic *leub, from Proto-Germanic *leubaz.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian ljo, ljoo, ljoof, West Frisian leaf, Dutch lief, German Low German leev, German lieb, Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk ljuv, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍆𐍃 (liufs), Russian любо́вь (ljubóvʹ), Polish luby.
For the adverb, compare German lieber, Dutch liever (“preferably, rather”).
Senses: examples: text: I'd as lief have one as t'other.
text: 1. Gent. And thou the Veluet; thou art good veluet;
thou'rt a three pild-peece I warrant thee: I had as liefe
be a Lyst of an English Kersey, as be pil'd, as thou art
pil'd, for a French Veluet. [...]
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: As far as physiognomy goes, the winners protest that they would as lief have foregone the double points, and the money.
ref: 1826, Thomas Byerly, John Timbs, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction:
text: these great masters of the art, who would far liefer see us little ones practice it, than themselves engage [...].
ref: 1869, RD Blackmoore, Lorna Doone, section II:
text: Since sware the Parcæ unto me, their friend, / they shall adore my name, my favour prize; / and, as their feats of armèd prowess shend / all feats of rival Rome, I lief devise / some mode of aidance in what things I may, / far as our force o'er man extendeth sway.
ref: 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 339:
text: I'd as lief put on my hat and cane and help you if you think they'll be too heavy.
ref: 1902, Josephine Spenser, Corner in Chrysanthemums:
glosses: Readily, willingly, rather.
Derived terms: liefer
liever