cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fair
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛə/
ipa: /fɛː/
ipa: /fɛɚ/
ipa: /feː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /feə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /fiə/
ipa: /feɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /fɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: fare
homophone: fear (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: fir (fair–fur merger)
homophone: fur (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more fair
form: fairer
form: most fair
form: fairest
Etymology: From Middle English fayr, feir, fager, from Old English fæġer (“beautiful”), from Proto-West Germanic *fagr, from Proto-Germanic *fagraz (“suitable, fitting, nice”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to fasten, place”).
Cognate with Scots fayr, fare (“fair”), Danish feir, faver, fager (“fair, pretty”), Norwegian fager (“fair, pretty”), Swedish fager (“fair, pretty”), Icelandic fagur (“beautiful, fair”), Umbrian pacer (“gracious, merciful, kind”), Slovak pekný (“good-looking, handsome, nice”). See also peace.
Senses: glosses: Clearly, openly, frankly, civilly, honestly, favorably, auspiciously, agreeably.
examples: text: "I'm fair moidered to know what to do wid him," she confessed to the rosy-cheeked Bridget one day.
ref: 1913, James Johnston Abraham, The Night Nurse:
text: "I just want to get me blasted boots off and soak me poor feet, they're fair killing me, what with chilblains and corns, me toes are fair screaming."
ref: 2011 June 1, Dorothy Mitchell, Hollybeck, Chipmunkapublishing ltd, →ISBN, page 7:
text: "We were at Egyptian Hall last night and the poor lady was overwhelmed with messages - they fair exhausted her."
ref: 2011 September 5, Mary Hooper, Velvet, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: Almost; to a great extent but not literally.
Derived terms: bid fair
fair and square
fair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛə/
ipa: /fɛː/
ipa: /fɛɚ/
ipa: /feː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /feə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /fiə/
ipa: /feɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /fɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: fare
homophone: fear (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: fir (fair–fur merger)
homophone: fur (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fairs
Etymology: From Middle English feyre, from Old French foire, from Latin fēriae.
Senses: glosses: A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements.
examples: text: The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: An event for public entertainment and trade, a market.
glosses: An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair.
glosses: A travelling amusement park (called a funfair in British English and a (travelling) carnival in US English).
Derived terms: a day after the fair
book fair
boot fair
career fair
careers fair
cattle fair
county fair
fairdom
fairgoer
fairgoing
fairground
fairlike
fairling
fairtime
frost fair
funfair
geography fair
horse fair
job fair
Mayfair
Ren fair
Renaissance fair
ride the fair
science fair
state fair
State Fair
statute fair
Vanity Fair
village fair
world's fair
valley
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: văl'ē
ipa: /ˈvæli/
rhymes: -æli
Forms: form: valleys
form: valleying
form: valleyed
form: valleyed
Etymology: From Middle English valey, valeye, from Anglo-Norman valey, Old French valee (compare French vallée), from Latin vallēs/vallis. Doublet of vlei and vly. Displaced native dene, from dene and partially displaced native dale, from dæl.
Senses: examples: text: These hues of red rose and green and pale green, ruffled and pouted in the billowy white of the dress ballooning and valleying softly, like a yacht before the sail bends low; […]
ref: 1879, George Meredith, chapter XVIII, in The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative. […], volume I, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC, page 323:
text: Over Govino Bay, looking up from the water’s edge, the landscape resembles nothing so much as the hills above Genova, valleying into the sea, […]
ref: 1970, Charles Wright, The Grave of the Right Hand, Middletown, C.T.: Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 25:
text: There must be something atavistic in the male blood that makes it rush, relent, rush with the peaks and the valleys, the roundness of Lia's breasts valleying and peaking, the stretch of her neck, the swaying of her hips.
ref: 2009, Gian Franco Romagnoli, The Bicycle Runner: A Memoir of Love, Loyalty, and the Italian Resistance, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: To form the shape of a valley.
ox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑks/
ipa: /ˈɒks/
rhymes: -ɒks
Forms: form: oxen
form: oxes
Etymology: From Middle English oxe, from Old English oxa, from Proto-West Germanic *ohsō, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô (compare West Frisian okse, Dutch os, German Ochse), from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn.
Cognate with Welsh ych (“ox”), Tocharian A ops, Tocharian B okso (“draft-ox”), Avestan 𐬎𐬑𐬱𐬀𐬥 (uxšan, “bull”), Sanskrit उक्षन् (ukṣán).
Senses: glosses: An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus), especially when used as a beast of burden.
examples: text: Here the same four kinds are mentioned ... These are sheep, goats, camels and oxen.
ref: 1934, commentary on the Qur'an (Sura 39 verse 6) by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
glosses: Any bovine animal (genus Bos). A neat, a beef.
Synonyms: sense: castrated male of cattle
word: bullock
sense: castrated male of cattle
word: steer
Derived terms: dumb as an ox
grey ox
grunting ox
have the black ox tread on one's foot
Indian ox
Japanese ox
Javan ox
know someone from Adam's off ox
musk ox
musk-ox
near ox
nox
off ox
one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen
oxback
oxbane
ox beetle
ox bile
oxbird
ox-biter
oxblood
oxbow
ox bow
ox-butt
oxcart
oxeye
ox-eye
ox-eyed
ox-eye daisy
oxflesh
oxfly
Oxford
oxgall
ox gall
oxgang
oxgate
oxgoad
oxhead
oxheart
oxherd
Oxhey
oxhide
oxhind
oxhorn
oxish
ox is in the ditch
oxkind
ox knee
oxland
oxless
oxlike
oxling
oxpecker
ox pith
ox ray
oxshoe
oxskin
oxtail
oxteam
oxtongue
ox tongue spear
ox-tongue spear
ox warbler
play the giddy ox
pulse ox
sea-ox
shrub ox
strong as an ox
whose ox is gored
wild ox
Related terms: english: aurochs; ox
translation: aurochs; ox
alt: from *ūrô + *uhsô ()
word: aurochs
ox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑks/
ipa: /ˈɒks/
rhymes: -ɒks
Forms: form: O
form: O.
form: OX
form: Ox.
form: Ox
form: ox.
form: OXY
form: Oxy
form: oxy
form: oxy.
Etymology: Clipping of oxygen.
Senses: examples: text: I'm super excited to be on the summit of K2! No Ox! (coughs) It was hard.
ref: 2020, Carla Perez, 42:40 from the start, in Breathtaking: K2 - The World's Most Dangerous Mountain | Eddie Bauer, YouTube, Eddie Bauer, archived from the original on 22 May 2020:
glosses: Abbreviation of oxygen.
Coordinate terms: hydrolox
kerolox
methalox
Related terms: gox
heliox
lox
nitrox
triox
fountain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaʊn.tɪn/
ipa: [ˈfaʊn.tn̩]
ipa: [ˈfaʊn.ʔn̩]
rhymes: -aʊntɪn
Forms: form: fountains
form: fountaining
form: fountained
form: fountained
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?]; from Old French fontaine (whence modern fontaine); from Late Latin fontana, from Latin fontanus, fontaneus, adjectives from fons (“source, spring”).
Senses: examples: text: Lava fountained from the volcano.
text: The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like ocean breakers, cascading, fountaining into the air.
ref: 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices:
glosses: To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
festival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛstɪvl̩/
ipa: /ˈfɛstəv(ə)l/
Forms: form: more festival
form: most festival
form: feastiuall
Etymology: From Middle English festival (adjective), from Old French festival (“festive”), from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”). By surface analysis, festive + -al. Displaced native Old English frēols. The noun is shortened from festival day, from Middle English festival dai, festiuall day (“feast day, festival”).
Senses: examples: text: the temple of the Gods […] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
festival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛstɪvl̩/
ipa: /ˈfɛstəv(ə)l/
Forms: form: festivals
form: feastiuall
Etymology: From Middle English festival (adjective), from Old French festival (“festive”), from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”). By surface analysis, festive + -al. Displaced native Old English frēols. The noun is shortened from festival day, from Middle English festival dai, festiuall day (“feast day, festival”).
Senses: examples: text: All your males are to appear three times a year before the Lord your God in the place He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.
ref: 2009, “Deuteronomy 16:16”, in Holman Christian Standard Bible:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A feast or feast day.
examples: text: The Reading and Leeds festivals take place on the August bank holiday.
text: A Welsh eisteddfod is a literary festival.
glosses: An event or series of special events centred on the celebration or promotion of some theme or aspect of the community, often held at regular intervals.
glosses: In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
glosses: Fried cornbread.
Derived terms: Car Festival
Chung Yueng Festival
Da Jiu Festival
Double Fifth Festival
Double Ninth Festival
Double Seventh Festival
Dragon Boat Festival
Dumpling Festival
festie
festivalgoer
festivalist
festivalization
festivalize
festivally
Festival of Light
Festival of Lights
Festival of the Rosary
Festival of Weeks
festival seating
festivalwear
festy
Ghost Festival
harvest festival
Harvest Festival
Kaul festival
Laba Festival
Lantern Festival
macrofestival
Magpie Festival
megafestival
Mid-Autumn Festival
minifestival
nonfestival
prefestival
pride festival
pseudofestival
Pure Brightness Festival
Qingming Festival
Renaissance festival
rocket festival
snow festival
Spring Festival
Sweet Festival
teknival
Tomb Sweeping Festival
Tuen Ng Festival
winter festival
Winterval
Zhongqiu Festival
Related terms: word: festal
word: festive
word: festivity
word: festivities
english: study of festivals
translation: study of festivals
word: heortology
english: treatise on festivals
translation: treatise on festivals
word: festilogy
wheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːt/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ʍiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: wheats
form: wheate
Etymology: From Middle English whete, from Old English hwǣte, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaitī, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz (compare West Frisian weet, Dutch weit, Low German Weten, German Weizen, Danish hvede, Swedish vete, Norwegian Nynorsk kveite, Icelandic hveiti), from *hwītaz (“white”). More at white.
Senses: glosses: Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
glosses: A light brown color, like that of wheat.
Synonyms: sense: a plant of the genus Triticum
word: triticum
Coordinate terms: sense: grains in Triticum
word: barley
sense: grains in Triticum
word: fonio
sense: grains in Triticum
word: maize
sense: grains in Triticum
word: corn
sense: grains in Triticum
word: millet
sense: grains in Triticum
word: oats
sense: grains in Triticum
word: rice
sense: grains in Triticum
word: rye
sense: grains in Triticum
word: sorghum
sense: grains in Triticum
word: triticale
witch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭch
ipa: /wɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
homophone: which (wine–whine merger)
homophone: wich
homophone: wych
Forms: form: witches
form: witching
form: witched
form: witched
Etymology: The noun is from Middle English wicche, from Old English wiċċe (“witch (female), sorceress”) and wiċċa (“witch (male), sorcerer, warlock”), deverbative from wiċċian (“to practice sorcery”), from Proto-Germanic *wikkōną (compare West Frisian wikje, wikke (“to foretell, warn”), German Low German wicken (“to soothsay”), Dutch wikken, wichelen (“to dowse, divine”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wik-néh₂-, derivation of *weyk- (“to consecrate; separate”); akin to Latin victima (“sacrificial victim”), Lithuanian viẽkas (“life-force”), Sanskrit विनक्ति (vinákti, “to set apart, separate out”). Possibly related to wicked; see that entry for more. The verb derives from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: And I told him there's a vein down there, I know 'caus I used to—uh, I went out here and witched one for this house, at the corner.
ref: 1964, Hilda E. Webb, Water Witching and Other Folk Talents in the Neighborhood of Bloomington, Indiana:
text: Nothing would make him shut up until I brought my dogwood stick into his office and witched for water.
ref: 2006, Helen Ayers, Appalachian Daughter: The Exodus of the Mountaineers from Appalachia:
text: Eventually, Don and Jim built nice big houses on their lots. We enjoyed watching them being built. I remember Don's builder came out and “witched” for a well.
ref: 2010, C.J. Ott, True Stories: Memories, Musings, Odds and Ends:
glosses: To dowse for water.
Derived terms: witcher
Related terms: sense: other terms of interest
word: athame
sense: other terms of interest
word: black magic
sense: other terms of interest
word: channelling
sense: other terms of interest
word: chiromancer
sense: other terms of interest
word: coven
sense: other terms of interest
word: crystal ball
sense: other terms of interest
word: curse
sense: other terms of interest
word: enchantment
sense: other terms of interest
word: esbat
sense: other terms of interest
word: familiar
sense: other terms of interest
word: fortuneteller
sense: other terms of interest
word: galdur
sense: other terms of interest
word: grimoire
sense: other terms of interest
word: hex
sense: other terms of interest
word: hoodoo
sense: other terms of interest
word: jinx
sense: other terms of interest
word: lamia
sense: other terms of interest
word: medium
sense: other terms of interest
word: necromancy
sense: other terms of interest
word: occultism
sense: other terms of interest
word: palmist
sense: other terms of interest
word: poppet
sense: other terms of interest
word: sabbat
sense: other terms of interest
word: Satanism
sense: other terms of interest
word: scry
sense: other terms of interest
word: shaman
sense: other terms of interest
word: sorcery
sense: other terms of interest
word: spell
sense: other terms of interest
word: talisman
sense: other terms of interest
word: tarot
sense: other terms of interest
word: warlock
sense: other terms of interest
word: Wicca
sense: other terms of interest
word: wizard
witch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭch
ipa: /wɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
homophone: which (wine–whine merger)
homophone: wich
homophone: wych
Forms: form: witches
form: witching
form: witched
form: witched
Etymology: From Middle English wicchen, from Old English wiċċian, from Proto-Germanic *wikkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *wik-néh₂-, derivation of *weyk-. In the senses arising in Middle English and later probably aphetic from bewitch.
Senses: glosses: To practise witchcraft.
examples: text: She has witched the Queen's womb long ago, and witched the whole harvest.
ref: 1900, Gilbert Murray, Andromache: A Play in Three Acts:
text: The little man was seething and shaking, near collapse with fear and anger. “Tell 'em, Alvy.” “A tenday ago, Will came to the Cockatoo acting crazy, so scared he'd pissed hisself. Said the sorcerer had found him in the stables and witched him.”
ref: 2012, Carol Berg, The Daemon Prism: A Novel of the Collegia Magica, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: “Maybe the Mormonhater witched him. There's lot of stories being told around about that old man.” “Them's lies,” denied South Boy hotly. “He may have scared Havek, but he never witched him.”
ref: 2014, Charles L. McNichols, Crazy Weather, Counterpoint Press, →ISBN:
text: Sometime in 1945 he faced an opponent who apparently “witched” him, causing facial paralysis and dizzy spells that rendered him bedridden. An old Indian doctor came to his bedside, looked into his eyes, and proclaimed that he had been witched by his Seminole adversary.
ref: 2017, Benjamin R. Kracht, Kiowa Belief and Ritual, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 134:
glosses: To bewitch.
witch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭch
ipa: /wɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
homophone: which (wine–whine merger)
homophone: wich
homophone: wych
Forms: form: witches
Etymology: Compare wick.
Senses: glosses: A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.
witch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭch
ipa: /wɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
homophone: which (wine–whine merger)
homophone: wich
homophone: wych
Forms: form: witches
Etymology: Chosen for its euphemistic rhyme.
Senses: glosses: A bitch.
beret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛɹeɪ/
ipa: /bəˈɹeɪ/
rhymes: -ɛɹeɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: berets
form: béret
form: berret
Etymology: Borrowed from French béret, from Occitan (Gascon) berret (“cap”), from Old Occitan berret, from Medieval Latin birretum, from Late Latin birrus (“large hooded cloak”), from Gaulish birrus (“short cloak”), from Proto-Celtic *birros (“short”) (compare Welsh byr, Middle Irish berr). Compare biretta.
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A type of round, brimless cap with a soft top and a headband to secure it to the head; usually culturally associated with France.
Derived terms: bereted
beretlike
blue beret
Green Beret
Atlas Mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈætləs ˈmaʊntɪnz/
Forms: form: the Atlas Mountains
Etymology: Calque of Arabic جِبَال الأَطْلَس (jibāl al-ʔaṭlas), ultimately from the Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), stemming from the belief that the mountain range is actually the body of the Titan Atlas after being turned to stone.
Senses: glosses: A mountain range in northwestern Africa, occupying portions of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
rind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: rinds
form: rinding
form: rinded
form: rinded
Etymology: From Middle English rind, rinde, from Old English rind and rinde (“treebark, crust”), from Proto-West Germanic *rindā, from Proto-Germanic *rindō, *rindǭ (“crust, rind”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to come to rest, support or prop oneself”). Cognate with German Rinde (“bark, rind”). related to English rand.
Senses: glosses: To remove the rind from.
rind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: rinds
form: rynd
form: rine
Etymology: Cognate with Flemish rijne, Low German ryn.
Senses: glosses: An iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill.
horny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːni/
ipa: /ˈhoɹni/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ni
Forms: form: hornier
form: horniest
Etymology: From Middle English horny, equivalent to horn + -y. Compare German hornig. Compare also Dutch hoornachtig, Swedish hornaktig, Old English hyrniġ (“angular”).
Senses: examples: text: Two Dwarfs were at the bellows, another was holding a piece of red-hot metal on the anvil with a pair of tongs, a fourth was hammering it, and two, wiping their horny little hands on a greasy cloth, were coming forward to meet the visitors.
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998, Chapter 6:
synonyms: callous
coarse
hardened
rough
glosses: Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.
examples: text: She could not see, for her whitish eyes were covered with a horny film.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
synonyms: ceratose
glosses: Having the hard consistency and pale colour of an animal's horn.
examples: text: In 1997, 4th and 5th grade Waterville Elementary students told me they saw Short-horned lizards (commonly known as Horny toads) all around their area.
ref: 2006 January 24, Karen M. Dvornich, “Short-horned Lizard”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 28 Oct 2010:
synonyms: horned
glosses: Having horns.
Derived terms: hornify
hornyhead
beration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From berate + -ion, as if it were a Latinate verb.
Senses: examples: text: However, this self-beration had little effect on her eyes as, with a will of their own, they touched on the curve of his lips.
ref: 1983, Lynsey Stevens, Forbidden Wine, Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 8:
text: Seems that there are two Lisa's out there... Lisa 1, Please acknowledge. This is Lisa G. We'll have to keep ourselves straight. I'm not involved in the beration or phone sex thing.
ref: 1992 February 12, Lisa J. Gilmore, “Re: Oh, you sweet thing”, in bit.listserv.words-l (Usenet):
text: There are a few things that I have always found helpful when I am reflecting upon where I am, without it degenerating into a futile exercise in narcissistic navel-gazing or self-beration.
ref: 1999, Farid Esack, On Being a Muslim: Finding a Religious Path in the World Today, Oneworld, →ISBN, page 53:
text: now before the mass beration for slating a religion could I just say, 'who the f...'s Jesus?'
ref: 2000 November 14, Al, “Re: first concert [ot] but who cares”, in alt.music.savage-garden (Usenet):
text: Writing in a post-Waterloo culture that repudiated the trappings of usurping authority and revolutionary time, Austen depicts Sir Walter as the perfect example of a subject born out of ressentiment, affectively retreading the ground of the past with an impotent self-beration that props up his calcified sense of prestige.
ref: 2009, Jacques Khalip, Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 163:
text: See..my constant beration has paid off!
ref: 2009 January 31, ldnayman, “Re: serial killers pinball”, in rec.games.pinball (Usenet):
glosses: Beratement: the act of berating.
Derived terms: self-beration
Related terms: berate
beratement
Gothic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒθ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈɡɑ.θɪk/
rhymes: -ɒθɪk
Forms: form: gothic
form: Gothick
form: goffick
Etymology: From Late Latin gothicus (“Gothic, barbaric”), from Ancient Greek Γοτθικός (Gotthikós), from Ancient Greek Γότθοι (Gótthoi, “Goths”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), proposed to derive from unattested Gothic *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰 (*guta). Equivalent to Goth + -ic. The various usages of the adjective are introduced nearly simultaneously in the first half of the 17th century. The literal meaning “of the Goths” is found in the 1611 preface of the King James Bible, in reference to the Gothicke tongue. The generalized meaning of “Germanic, Teutonic” appears in the 1640s. Reference to the medieval period in Western Europe, and specifically the architecture of that period (“barbaric style”, initially a term of abuse), also appears in the 1640s, as does reference to “Gothic characters” or “Gothic letters” in typography.
Senses: glosses: An extinct Germanic language, once spoken by the Goths.
glosses: Certain moths of the family Noctuidae.
glosses: A particular species of moth of the family Noctuidae, Naenia typica.
Derived terms: Crimean Gothic
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Gothic terms
Gothic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒθ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈɡɑ.θɪk/
rhymes: -ɒθɪk
Forms: form: Gothics
form: gothic
form: Gothick
form: goffick
Etymology: From Late Latin gothicus (“Gothic, barbaric”), from Ancient Greek Γοτθικός (Gotthikós), from Ancient Greek Γότθοι (Gótthoi, “Goths”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), proposed to derive from unattested Gothic *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰 (*guta). Equivalent to Goth + -ic. The various usages of the adjective are introduced nearly simultaneously in the first half of the 17th century. The literal meaning “of the Goths” is found in the 1611 preface of the King James Bible, in reference to the Gothicke tongue. The generalized meaning of “Germanic, Teutonic” appears in the 1640s. Reference to the medieval period in Western Europe, and specifically the architecture of that period (“barbaric style”, initially a term of abuse), also appears in the 1640s, as does reference to “Gothic characters” or “Gothic letters” in typography.
Senses: examples: text: One hundred fifty Gothics sold over 1.5 million copies a month last spring.
ref: 1996, Nora Sayre, Sixties going on seventies, page 180:
glosses: A novel written in the Gothic style.
kaput
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈpʊt/
ipa: /kəˈpuːt/
homophone: caput (sometimes)
rhymes: -ʊt
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: kaputt
Etymology: From German kaputt (“broken, out of order”), from French capot (“to be without a trick in the card game Piquet”). Cognate to Dutch kapot. Doublet of capot and capote.
Senses: examples: text: My car went kaput.
text: His career is kaput.
text: Her marriage went kaput.
text: German propaganda loudspeaker: […] The Statue of Liberty is KAPUT.
 Captain Miller: "The Statue of Liberty is kaput" – huh, that's disconcerting.
ref: 1998, Saving Private Ryan (motion picture):
text: In the book, his conclusion is simple: capitalism is kaput, celebrity charity won’t plug holes, revolution is the only solution. Yet it also feels like a bit of a cop-out: he insists all this can be achieved through love, peace and understanding.
ref: 2014 October 11, Simon Hattenstone, “Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: broken
word: bad
word: borked
word: broken
word: broken-down
word: bung
word: busted
word: cactused
word: crocked
word: Donald Ducked
word: down
word: faulty
word: flaky
word: FUBAR
word: fucked
word: fuckered up
word: inoperative
word: janky
word: jiggered
word: kaput
word: knackered
word: malfunctioning
word: munted
word: nonfunctional
word: nonoperational
word: offline
word: off one's feed
word: on the blink
word: on the fritz
word: out of commission
word: out of gas
word: out of kilter
word: out of order
word: out of service
word: out of sorts
word: out of whack
word: screwed up
word: stuffed
word: tits up
word: toes up
word: tore up
word: unfunctional
glosses: Out of order; not working.
wikipedia: Piquet
Derived terms: kapoof
kaputness
kaputski
kaputt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kaput.
apollo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɒləʊ/
ipa: /əˈpɑloʊ/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈpɔlo/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈpolo/
rhymes: -ɒləʊ
Forms: form: apollos
Etymology: From Apollo.
Senses: glosses: A very handsome young man.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several papilionid butterflies of the genus Parnassius, especially Parnassius apollo of Eurasia (also known as the mountain apollo).
template
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛm.plɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɛm.plət/
ipa: /ˈtɛm(ˌ)pleɪt/
ipa: /tɛmˈpleɪt/
ipa: [tʰɛmˈpʰleɪ̯t̚]
Forms: form: templates
Etymology: Alteration of templet, probably from French templet, diminutive of temple (“a weaver's stretcher”), variant of tempe, from Latin tempora (“temple”). Alteration of second syllable due to analogy with plate. Cognate with Faroese tamba (“to stretch out, relax”), Icelandic þamb (“a stretched, bloated, or extended belly”).
Senses: glosses: A physical object whose shape is used as a guide to make other objects.
examples: text: Gaelic also benefits from having a readily available template for Celtic minority language revitalisation, derived from Welsh and Irish.
ref: 2023, Clive Young, “chapter one: How Scots Works”, in Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Luath Press Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 29:
glosses: A generic model or pattern from which other objects are based or derived.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file or document serving as a basis for others.
examples: text: Classically, the functional product of coding genes is a protein whose synthesis is directed by an mRNA-template.
ref: 2002, S. Lottin et al., “Thioredoxin post-transcriptional regulation by H19 provides a new function to mRNA-like non-coding RNA”, in Nature, volume 21, number 10:
qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: A macromolecule which provides a pattern for the synthesis of another molecule.
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A partially defined class or function, that can be instantiated in a variety of ways depending on the instantiation arguments.
glosses: A strip of metal used in boiler-making, pierced with a series of holes, and serving as a guide in marking out a line of rivet-holes.
examples: text: The template length is adjusted to the proper fabric width. Then the sharp pins in the template ends are hooked into the selvedge edges (with the template open).
ref: 1987, Paula Simmons, Spinning and weaving with wool, published 1977, →ISBN, page 180:
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: Synonym of temple.
synonyms: word: temple
Derived terms: word: curiously recurring template pattern
word: expression template
word: template metaprogramming
word: template method
word: template method pattern
word: template strand
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: templating
word: templatize
Related terms: word: boilerplate
word: cookie cutter
word: generics
word: macro
english: and scheme
translation: and scheme
word: schema
word: stencil
template
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛm.plɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɛm.plət/
ipa: /ˈtɛm(ˌ)pleɪt/
ipa: /tɛmˈpleɪt/
ipa: [tʰɛmˈpʰleɪ̯t̚]
Forms: form: templates
form: templating
form: templated
form: templated
Etymology: Alteration of templet, probably from French templet, diminutive of temple (“a weaver's stretcher”), variant of tempe, from Latin tempora (“temple”). Alteration of second syllable due to analogy with plate. Cognate with Faroese tamba (“to stretch out, relax”), Icelandic þamb (“a stretched, bloated, or extended belly”).
Senses: examples: text: Only that part of the floor timber that bears on the planking and keel need be templated; […]
ref: 1994, Howard I. Chapelle, Boatbuilding, →ISBN, page 368:
glosses: To set up or mark off using a template.
examples: text: Metal phosphates that are templated by transition-metal complexes are rare.
ref: 2003, Yu Wang et al., “Synthesis and characterization of a new layered gallium phosphate templated by cobalt complex”, in Journal of Solid State Chemistry, volume 170, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: To provide a template or pattern for.
qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: To synthesize by means of a template.
Derived terms: templater
type
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tīp
ipa: /taɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Forms: form: types
form: typing
form: typed
form: typed
Etymology: From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”).
Senses: glosses: To put text on paper using a typewriter.
glosses: To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
examples: text: The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.
glosses: To determine the blood type of.
glosses: To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
examples: text: Let us type them now in our own lives.
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
examples: text: It was a full load, a disparate group that he had already typed and cross-matched with their potential for future crime.
ref: 1998, Dana Stabenow, Fire and Ice, page 1:
glosses: To categorize into types.
Derived terms: search-as-you-type
search as you type
type out
type up
typing
typist
type
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: tīp
ipa: /taɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Etymology: From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”).
Senses: examples: text: I don't think Brooklyn slang is that different from Manhattan slang. But I'm not used to a lot of the slang my friends use. Months ago, I first heard, "There are mad heads here." I was like, "Where did that come from?" For a while they were saying, "That's type funny." I was like: "What? What do you mean by that?" It means "very funny." Or they were like, "That's dumb stupid." I'm like, "That's redundant."
ref: 2007 September 16, Alex Mindlin, quoting David Helene, “'Our Year Is the Most Competitive Year in the History of College Applications. Or Something Like That.'”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2023:
text: Yeah, the fat bitch is type-slow.
ref: 2012, Jason Hooper, Some Things Are Better Left Untold, West Conshohocken, P.A.: Infinity Publishing, →ISBN, page 20:
text: Standing before me was a grown ass woman. She was type thick, with nice size succulent breasts, and a nice plumped ass. Cadence was stacked.
ref: 2017, Treasure Malian, In Love With the King of Miami, Atlanta, G.A.: Royalty Publishing House, →ISBN, page 17:
text: I'm ngl you're type ugly too
ref: 2023 December 19, @chillimnotacop, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2023:
synonyms: word: mad
word: hella
word: wicked
word: dumb
word: dummy
word: odee
word: bare
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Very, extremely.
steel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: stēl
ipa: /stiːl/
ipa: [stiːɫ]
homophone: steal
homophone: stele
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: steele
Etymology: From French Bastille (a French prison).
Senses: examples: text: I was lugged before the beak, who gave me six doss in the steel. [...] six months in the Bastille (the old House of Corrections), Coldbath Fields.
ref: 1862, Havelock Ellis, The Criminal, page 162:
text: He said he had been in the “steel” (Coldbath Fields Prison) eight times.
ref: 1866, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple Bar, volume 16, page 507:
text: This time I got two moon for assaulting the reelers when canon. For this I went to the Steel (Bastile^([sic]) — Coldbath Fields Prison), having a new suit of clobber on me and about fifty blow in my brigh (pocket).
ref: 1879, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 40, page 502:
qualifier: crime
glosses: Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.
can't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: känt
ipa: /kɑːnt/
ipa: [kɑːnt]
ipa: [kɑːnt]
ipa: [käːnt]
ipa: [kɐːnt]
ipa: [kaːɳʈ]
ipa: [kaːnt]
note: some US speakers
ipa: [kɑnt]
rhymes: -ɑːnt
enpr: kănt
ipa: /kænt/
ipa: [kænt~kɛənt~keənt]
ipa: /kæn(ʔ)/
note: New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /kɛənt/
ipa: [käːnt]
homophone: cant
homophone: Kant stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ænt
enpr: kānt
ipa: /keɪnt/
ipa: [kʰẽɪ̃nt]
ipa: [kʰẽɪ̃n(ʔ)]
rhymes: -eɪnt
Forms: form: ca'n't
form: cain't
Etymology: From can + -n't, since 1706 or earlier.
Senses: examples: text: I can’t quite get it to work.
text: Shut up, can’t you?
text: Shepard: Mordin, walk away.
Mordin: Can't do that, Shepard.
Shepard: I don't have a choice here. Walk away, or I will fire.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Tuchanka:
antonyms: be able to
can
glosses: Cannot (negative auxiliary); is unable to; does not have the ability to.
examples: text: You can’t enter the hall without a ticket.
antonyms: be able to
can
have to
must
glosses: Is forbidden to; is not permitted to.
examples: text: The butler can’t be the murderer because he was in London that evening.
text: To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done; […]
ref: 1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion: Or Profitable Directions for Whatever Relates to the Management and Good Œconomy of the Domestick Concerns of a Country Life, According to the Present Practice of the Country Gentleman's, the Yeoman's, the Farmer's, &c. Wives, in the Counties of Hertford, Bucks, and Other Parts of England: Shewing how Great Savings may be Made in Housekeeping: … With Variety of Curious Matters … The Whole Founded on Near Thirty Years Experience, London: Printed for James Hodges, at the Looking-glass, facing St. Magnus Church, London-Bridge; and B. Collins, bookseller, at Salisbury, →OCLC, page 157:
antonyms: be able to
can
have to
must
glosses: Often followed by be: is logically impossible.
Coordinate terms: couldn't
mayn't
mightn't
oughtn't
shan't
shouldn't
won't
wouldn't
Derived terms: Republicant
you can't say fairer than that
aren't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːnt/
ipa: /ɑɹ(ə)nt/
note: Indic
ipa: /aː(rɨ)ɳʈ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nt
homophone: aunt (some non-rhotic dialects)
Etymology: are + -n’t
Senses: glosses: are not (negative auxiliary)
Synonyms: word: ain’t
aren't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːnt/
ipa: /ɑɹ(ə)nt/
note: Indic
ipa: /aː(rɨ)ɳʈ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nt
homophone: aunt (some non-rhotic dialects)
Etymology: Spelling replacement of the homonym an’t.
Senses: examples: text: I’m a nasty-tempered dog if any one tries to take my bone away; aren’t I, my sons?
ref: 1904, George Manville Fenn, To Win Or To Die: A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze:
text: Aren’t I supposed to tell you how I feel?
ref: 2008 July 1, “Falling in Love”, in The Secret Life of the American Teenager, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Ricky Underwood (Daren Kagasoff):
ref: 2010 October 26, “Why Aren’t I Home?”, in Athletics (music), Why Aren’t I Home?:
glosses: A contraction of “am not”, used e.g. in the construction "aren’t I?"
Synonyms: word: ain't
word: amn't
compass point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compass points
Senses: glosses: Any of the horizontal directions indicated on a compass. There may be 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, or even 128 compass points on a compass, depending on its size and accuracy.
wikipedia: Points of the compass
Related terms: all points of the compass
every point of the compass
prep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prĕp
ipa: /pɹɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: preps
Senses: glosses: Preparation.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A preparatory race or workout.
glosses: Abbreviation of preposition.
glosses: A prep school.
glosses: A student or graduate of a prep school, a preppy.
glosses: A student or graduate of a prep school, a preppy.
A person using the styles and mannerisms (especially in terms of fashion) associated with prep students.
qualifier: chiefly private schools
glosses: Homework; work set to do outside class time.
glosses: Nursery school; preschool.
glosses: Preparatory level; the last two levels or the fourth and fifth years of preschool; the two levels before first grade.
glosses: Alternative form of PrEP.
Derived terms: meal prep
prep room
prep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: prĕp
ipa: /pɹɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: preps
form: prepping
form: prepped
form: prepped
Senses: examples: text: prep someone for something
synonyms: prep up
glosses: To prepare.
Derived terms: prep out
demo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛm.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈdɛm.oʊ/
rhymes: -ɛməʊ
Etymology: Clipping of demonstration and various other words beginning with "demo-".
Senses: examples: text: This Nutty Kid leavin' 'Crazy Face Selfies' On Demo Products...
ref: December 21, 2022, u/[deleted], Reddit r/peopleofwalmart:
glosses: designed to test consumers' interest in a retail item prior to purchasing.
raw_tags: of a commercial product
demo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛm.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈdɛm.oʊ/
rhymes: -ɛməʊ
Forms: form: demos
form: demoing
form: demoed
form: demoed
Etymology: Clipping of demonstrate.
Senses: examples: text: The band demoed thirty songs. Their manager thought that ten of the songs would make a good record.
glosses: To record a demo version of a song, usually not intended for commercial release.
glosses: To demonstrate.
demo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛm.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈdɛm.oʊ/
rhymes: -ɛməʊ
Forms: form: demos
form: demoing
form: demoed
form: demoed
Etymology: Clipping of demolish.
Senses: examples: text: This means we are going to demo the house to the dirt, or hopefully leave one wall standing.
ref: 2004 June 29, Sonja, Salvage Materials before Demolition of House, quoted in The Owner-Builder Book: Construction Bargain Strategies →ISBN, page 336
glosses: To demolish (especially a house or fixture).
spool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spuːl/
ipa: /spʉl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: spools
Etymology: From Middle English spole (possibly via Old Northern French spole, espole), from Middle Dutch spoele, from Old Dutch *spōla, *spuola, from Proto-Germanic *spōlǭ (“spool”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to cleave, split”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Spoule (“spool”), Dutch spoel (“spool”), German Spule (“spool”), Swedish spole (“spool”), Icelandic spóla (“spool; reel”). The aviation usage is based on the visual similarity of one of the spools of a turbine engine to a spool used for thread (especially in cross-section). See also spill.
Senses: examples: text: If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.
ref: 2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice:
glosses: A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
examples: text: The high-pressure spool rotates faster than the intermediate- and low-pressure spools, as the high-pressure turbine is driven by superheated combustion gases straight out of the burners, while the high-pressure compressor has to spin very fast to compress air that has already been compressed and heated by the low- and intermediate-pressure compressors.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.
glosses: A splinter caught in the skin.
Derived terms: pipe spool
spool-and-line
spool brush
spool cannon
unspool
spool down
spooldown
spool up
spoolup
spool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spuːl/
ipa: /spʉl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: spools
form: spooling
form: spooled
form: spooled
Etymology: From Middle English spole (possibly via Old Northern French spole, espole), from Middle Dutch spoele, from Old Dutch *spōla, *spuola, from Proto-Germanic *spōlǭ (“spool”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to cleave, split”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Spoule (“spool”), Dutch spoel (“spool”), German Spule (“spool”), Swedish spole (“spool”), Icelandic spóla (“spool; reel”). The aviation usage is based on the visual similarity of one of the spools of a turbine engine to a spool used for thread (especially in cross-section). See also spill.
Senses: glosses: To wind on a spool or spools.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To send files to a device or a program (a spooler or a daemon that puts them in a queue for processing at a later time).
Derived terms: respool
spool out
spooler
spool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spuːl/
ipa: /spʉl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: spools
Etymology: From blend of spa + pool.
Senses: glosses: A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.
Prosecco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈsɛkoʊ/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈsɛkoʊ/
rhymes: -ɛkəʊ
Forms: form: prosecco
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian prosecco, named after the area where the variety was grown, Prosecco near Trieste, in the Veneto region.
Senses: examples: text: The earliest documentation concerning the cultivation of Prosecco variety in the Veneto region dates back to 1754, with Aureliano Acanti, and to 1773, with Cosimo Villafranchi, who stated that the grape came from the Carso Triestino area, where there is a small town called Prosecco and where the Prosecco cultivars are still widely grown, under the name of Glera.
ref: 2014, Diego Tomasi, Federica Gaiotti, Gregory V. Jones, The Power of the Terroir: the Case Study of Prosecco Wine, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 7:
synonyms: Glera
glosses: A variety of white grape grown in the Veneto region of Italy.
Prosecco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈsɛkoʊ/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈsɛkoʊ/
rhymes: -ɛkəʊ
Forms: form: Proseccos
form: prosecco
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian prosecco, named after the area where the variety was grown, Prosecco near Trieste, in the Veneto region.
Senses: examples: text: Prosecco is the perfect vehicle for the white peaches. Contrary to what most people think, Prosecco is not commonly sweet. While there are some sweet versions, more often than not Prosecco is dry with a touch of grassy character and citrus-like acidity.
ref: 2010 July 28, Derek Brown, “The Bellini: A Two-Ingredient Marvel”, in The Atlantic:
text: ‘Itʼs Prosecco, champagneʼs Italian cousin!’
ref: 2019, Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie, Trapeze, page 96:
text: Luciano Fregonese, the mayor of Valdobbiadene—a rural town of 10,000 people in Italy’s picturesque northeast, famous for its Prosecco—has lived such truths. “It’s not easy, because every weekend there is one or two or three or maybe more events to attend to, and every event it is common to drink wine, or Prosecco, and also to eat,” the mayor said in an interview, with the help of a translator.
ref: 2024 August 1, Ali Watkins, “In an Italian Village, a Mayor Walks Off the Wine and Everyone Joins In”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
related: word: prosecco
glosses: A dry, slightly sparkling Italian white wine made from that grape; also a geographical indication.
Related terms: english: Prosecco-peach cocktail
translation: Prosecco-peach cocktail
word: Bellini
english: Prosecco-vodka cocktail
translation: Prosecco-vodka cocktail
word: sgroppino