cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bristle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪsəl/
rhymes: -ɪsəl
note: dated, rural folk speech of New England and Upstate New York
ipa: /ˈbɹʌsəl/
note: dated, Southern US rural folk speech
ipa: /ˈbɹɪstəl/
Forms: form: bristles
Etymology: From Middle English bristil, bristel, brustel, from Old English bristl, byrst, *brystl, *byrstel, from Proto-West Germanic *burstilu, diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *bursti, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (compare Dutch borstel, German Borste (“boar's bristle”), Icelandic burst), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥stís (compare Middle Irish brostaid (“to goad, spur”), Latin fastīgium (“top”), Polish barszcz (“hogweed”)), equivalent to brust + -le.
Senses: examples: text: the bristles of a pig
glosses: A stiff or coarse hair on a nonhuman mammal or on a plant.
glosses: A chaeta: an analogous filament on arthropods, annelids, or other animals.
glosses: The hairs or other filaments that make up a brush, broom, or similar item, typically made from plant cellulose, animal hairs, or synthetic polymers.
Derived terms: word: abristle
word: basal bristle
taxonomic: Breda spp.
word: bristlebill
taxonomic: Dasyornis spp.
word: bristlebird
alt: Pinus subsect. Balfourianae spp.
word: bristlecone
english: Merulaxis
translation: Merulaxis
word: bristlefront
taxonomic: Setaria spp.
word: bristlegrass
word: bristlehead
word: bristleless
word: bristlelike
taxonomic: Orthotrichum spp.
word: bristle moss
word: bristlemouth
word: bristler
alt: Austrochloritis
word: bristle snail
word: bristlet
word: bristle-tail
word: bristletail
word: bristleworm
taxonomic: Polychaeta spp.
word: bristle worm
word: bristly
word: nanobristle
word: rebristle
word: yellow bristle grass
brow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: brows
form: browing
form: browed
form: browed
Etymology: From Middle English browe, from Old English brū, from Proto-West Germanic *brāwu, from Proto-Germanic *brūwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs (“brow”).
Cognate with Scots broo (“brow”), Dutch brauw (“brow”), German Braue (“eyebrow”), Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish bryn (“brow”), Faroese, Icelandic brún (“brow”). See also Middle Irish brúad, Tocharian B pärwāne (“eyebrows”), Lithuanian bruvi̇̀s, Serbo-Croatian obrva (“eyebrow”), Russian бровь (brovʹ, “brow”), Ancient Greek ὀφρύς (ophrús, “eyebrow”), Sanskrit भ्रू (bhrū, “eyebrow”)), Persian ابرو (abru, “eyebrow”), Khowar بروُ (bruú, “eyebrow”).
Senses: examples: text: Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts / That brow this bottom glade.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, page 19, lines 531–532:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
glosses: To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
brag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: brags
Etymology: From Middle English braggen (“to make a loud noise; to speak boastfully”) of uncertain origin. Possibly related to the Middle English adjective brag (“prideful; spirited”), which is probably of Celtic origin; or from Old Norse bragr (“best; foremost; poetry”); or through Old English from Old Norse braka (“to creak”).
Senses: examples: text: Caesar […] made not here his brag / Of "came", and "saw", and "overcame".
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
examples: text: Beauty is Nature's brag.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
text: You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
ref: 2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN, page 192:
glosses: The thing which is boasted of.
examples: text: our mixed companies here, which, if they happen to rise above bragg and whist, infallibly stop short of every thing either pleasing or instructive
ref: January 23 1752, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in Letters to His Son, published in 1774
glosses: Short for three card brag.
Derived terms: brag book
bragless
brag sheet
brag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: brags
form: bragging
form: bragged
form: bragged
Etymology: From Middle English braggen (“to make a loud noise; to speak boastfully”) of uncertain origin. Possibly related to the Middle English adjective brag (“prideful; spirited”), which is probably of Celtic origin; or from Old Norse bragr (“best; foremost; poetry”); or through Old English from Old Norse braka (“to creak”).
Senses: examples: text: to brag of one’s exploits, courage, or money
text: Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, / Brags of his substance, not of ornament. / Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi]:
synonyms: boast
beat one's chest
glosses: To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself.
Derived terms: bragability
bragfest
braggable
braggard
braggart
braggatory
braggery
braggie
braggish
braggy
bragworthy
humblebrag
outbrag
Related terms: bragging rights
brag
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: bragger
form: braggest
Etymology: From Middle English braggen (“to make a loud noise; to speak boastfully”) of uncertain origin. Possibly related to the Middle English adjective brag (“prideful; spirited”), which is probably of Celtic origin; or from Old Norse bragr (“best; foremost; poetry”); or through Old English from Old Norse braka (“to creak”).
Senses: glosses: Excellent; first-rate.
examples: text: a woundy, brag young fellow
ref: 1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
brag
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: more brag
form: most brag
Etymology: From Middle English braggen (“to make a loud noise; to speak boastfully”) of uncertain origin. Possibly related to the Middle English adjective brag (“prideful; spirited”), which is probably of Celtic origin; or from Old Norse bragr (“best; foremost; poetry”); or through Old English from Old Norse braka (“to creak”).
Senses: examples: text: Seest how brag yond bullock beare […]his pricked eares?
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Ægloga Secunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Proudly; boastfully.
blind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: blinds
form: blinde
Etymology: From Middle English blynd, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.
Senses: examples: text: A blind bearing the monogram G.V.T. is pulled down over the waiting room window as if still in mourning for the passing of the railway.
ref: 1941 June, “Notes and News: The Derelict Glyn Valley Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 279:
text: Light filtered in through the blinds of the french windows. It made tremulous stripes along the scrubbed pine floor.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 12, in Crime out of Mind:
hyponyms: roller blind
Venetian blind
glosses: A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
glosses: A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
examples: text: a duck blind
text: Field biologists use blinds, and so do hunters.
text: A gang of children […] stampede along a slatted path to a blind beside a watering hole: a wooden hut full of long benches with a slot they can peek through, invisible to the animals.
ref: 2010, Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad, Corsair (2011):
glosses: A place where people can hide in order to observe wildlife.
glosses: Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge, deception.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A blindage.
examples: text: So, when the watchful shepherd, from the blind,
Wounds with a random shaft the careless hind
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A hiding place.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: The blindside.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: No score.
examples: text: The blinds are $10 and $20, and the ante is $1.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
examples: text: The blinds immediately folded when I reraised.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
Synonyms: sense: destination sign
word: rollsign
Derived terms: accordion blind
big blind
blinders
blindless
blind map
chick-blind
miniblind
muscleblind
small blind
sunblind
Venetian blind
Related terms: curtain
jalousie
blind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: blinds
form: blinding
form: blinded
form: blinded
form: blinde
Etymology: From Middle English blynd, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.
Senses: examples: text: The light was so bright that for a moment he was blinded.
text: Don’t wave that pencil in my face—do you want to blind me?
text: A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is […] a much greater.
ref: May 9, 1686 (date of preaching), Robert South, The Fatal Imposture and Force of Words (sermon)
glosses: To make temporarily or permanently blind.
examples: text: If you’re cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,
 Don’t grouse like a woman, nor crack on, nor blind;
 Be handy and civil, and then you will find
 That it’s beer for the young British soldier.
ref: 1890, Rudyard Kipling, The Young British Soldier:
glosses: To curse.
examples: text: Such darkness blinds the sky.
ref: 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.
ref: 1676, Edward Stillingfleet, A Defence of the Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church of Rome:
glosses: To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
glosses: To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
Derived terms: blindability
blindable
blinded by nostalgia
blinder
blinding
blindness
blind with science
blind
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /blaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: more blind
form: most blind
form: blinde
Etymology: From Middle English blynd, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.
Senses: examples: text: It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind - as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 196:
glosses: Without seeing; unseeingly.
examples: text: to swear blind
text: It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind - as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 195:
glosses: Absolutely, totally.
topics: card-games
poker
qualifier: three card brag
glosses: Without looking at the cards dealt.
examples: text: Blind bake your pie case for fifteen minutes, then add the filling. This will help avoid a “soggy bottom”.
text: If the shell is going to be baked without a filling, “baking the crust blind,” prick the bottom and sides of the crust to allow the steam to escape. Another variation: line the bottom of the crust with parchment paper […]
ref: 2012, Frank D. Conforti, Food Selection and Preparation: A Laboratory Manual, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 63:
text: PIE WEIGHTS: When you are baking a crust blind, which means when you are partially or fully baking it without filling (see blind-baking, page 474), you need something to keep the crust from puffing up: weights.
ref: 2013, Dorie Greenspan, Baking: From My Home to Yours, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 490:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: As a pastry case only, without any filling.
raw_tags: with ‘bake’
lazy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪzi/
rhymes: -eɪzi
Forms: form: lazies
form: lazying
form: lazied
form: lazied
Etymology: Attested since 1540, origin uncertain. Probably from Low German and Middle Low German lasich (“slack, feeble, lazy”), from las, from Old Saxon lask, from Proto-Germanic *lasiwaz, *laskaz (“feeble, weak”), from Proto-Indo-European *las- (“weak”).
Akin to Dutch leuzig (“lazy”), Old Norse lasinn (“limpy, tired, weak”), Old English lesu, lysu (“false, evil, base”). More at lush.
An alternative etymology traces lazy to Early Modern English laysy, a derivative of lay (plural lays + -y) in the same way that tipsy is derived from tip. See lay.
Senses: examples: text: “Go to sea,” muttered Mr. Unity Peach. “Work for your living—don’t lazy away your time here!”
ref: 1842, George Cruikshank, Omnibus, London: Tilt & Bogue, page 79:
text: You’d see a muddy sow and a litter of pigs come lazying along the street and whollop herself right down in the way, where folks had to walk around her […]
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter 21”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
text: That same afternoon we were lazying around in a boat among the water-lilies at the edge of the bay.
ref: 1908, O. Henry, “The Memento”, in The Voice of the City, New York: McClure, page 239:
glosses: To laze, act in a lazy manner.
lazy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪzi/
rhymes: -eɪzi
Forms: form: lazies
Etymology: Attested since 1540, origin uncertain. Probably from Low German and Middle Low German lasich (“slack, feeble, lazy”), from las, from Old Saxon lask, from Proto-Germanic *lasiwaz, *laskaz (“feeble, weak”), from Proto-Indo-European *las- (“weak”).
Akin to Dutch leuzig (“lazy”), Old Norse lasinn (“limpy, tired, weak”), Old English lesu, lysu (“false, evil, base”). More at lush.
An alternative etymology traces lazy to Early Modern English laysy, a derivative of lay (plural lays + -y) in the same way that tipsy is derived from tip. See lay.
Senses: examples: text: The “lazies” of the party seized the opportunity of remaining behind—wandering, as they said, though all the cross paths were marked.
ref: 1874, David Livingstone, chapter 7, in The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from 1865 to his death, volume I, London: John Murray, page 159:
text: 1898, Jason E. Hammond, “Work and Reward” in Suggestive Programs for Special Day Exercises, Lansing, Michigan: Department of Public Instruction for District Schools, p. ,
The dudes and noodles, cads and snobs, had better move away,
This busy land can’t spare the room for lazies, such as they,
To foreign climate let them go and there forever stay.
Ours is a land for busy workers.
text: Which myth of the Greek crisis would you like to debunk? — That the Greeks are a nation of lazies on a permanent vacation; that austerity measures, as they were implemented, were proportionally distributed or worth the sacrifice.
ref: 2016 May 11, Marta Bausells, Eleni Stefanou, “Meet the Greek writers revolutionising poetry in the age of austerity”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A lazy person.
examples: text: To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in overquietness, and no laboriousness in labour; and to tread a mile after the slow pace of a snail, or the heavy measures of the lazy of Brazilia, were a most tiring pennance, and worse than a race of some furlongs at the Olympicks.
ref: 1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, pages 49–50:
glosses: Sloth (animal).
amputee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ampjʊˈtiː/
Forms: form: amputees
Etymology: From French amputée, (past participle of amputer (“to amputate”)), from Latin amputatus, perfect passive participle of amputare (“to amputate”).
Senses: glosses: A person who has had one or more limbs removed.
Derived terms: amputee identity disorder
amputeeism
congenital amputee
nonamputee
Related terms: amputate
amputation
postie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊsti/
rhymes: -əʊsti
Forms: form: posties
form: posty
Etymology: From post + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Did the postie come this morning?
text: Thank you, postie.
glosses: Diminutive of postman or postwoman.
glosses: Diminutive of postal worker.
Synonyms: word: mailman
word: postman
word: letter carrier
word: posto
jo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒoː/
rhymes: -oː
Forms: form: jos
form: joe
Etymology: From Scots jo (“joy”), from Middle English joye, from Old French joie, from Late Latin gaudia, neuter plural (mistaken as feminine singular) of Latin gaudium (“joy”), from gaudēre (“to be glad, rejoice”). Doublet of joy and gaudy (“Oxford college reunion”).
Senses: examples: text: On Old long syne my Jo,
on Old long syne,
That thou canst never once reflect,
on Old long syne.
ref: 1711, traditional, published by James Watson, Old Long Syne
text: Keek into the draw-well, Janet, Janet;
There ye'll see your bonnie sel',
My jo, Janet.
ref: My Jo Janet (traditional Scottish song)
glosses: Darling, sweetheart.
jo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒoː/
rhymes: -oː
Forms: form: jo
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 杖.
Senses: glosses: The staff used in the Japanese martial art of jodo or jojutsu.
Related terms: jo-jeezly
Satnami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sat (truth) + Nami (named by follower), "follower of truth".
Senses: glosses: Any of several Hindu sects.
Satnami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Satnamis
form: Satnami
Etymology: From Sat (truth) + Nami (named by follower), "follower of truth".
Senses: glosses: A member of one of these sects.
Estland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English Estlond, from Old English Ēstland, equivalent to Est + -land.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, by the middle of the 19th century the Russian Empire had expanded to include extensive parts of Poland, a large part of Livonia and Estland (Estonia).
ref: 2011, Armin G. Stromberg, R. G. Compton, A.G. Stromberg:
text: One summer, he brought out his army, went to Estland, and harried there during the summer in a spot called Stein.
ref: 2012, Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings, page 24:
text: The Russian revolutions of 1917 and the Russian civil war provided the background for this struggle, which resulted in Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian nationhood as the former Russian provinces of Estland (Estonia), Livland (Livonia) and Kurland became the independent republics of Estonia (February 1918) and Latvia (November 1918) and much of the three former Russian provinces of Kaunas, Vilnius, and Suvalkai became independent Lithuania (November 1918).
ref: 2019, David Crowe, The Baltic States And The Great Powers:
glosses: Synonym of Estonia
synonyms: word: Estonia
Related terms: Estish
caff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæf/
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: caffs
Etymology: Clipping of cafeteria.
Senses: examples: text: No one in Mariposa had ever seen anything like the caff. All down the side of it were the grill fires, with great pewter dish covers that went up and down on a chain, […]; you could watch a buckwheat pancake whirled into existence under your eyes and see fowls' legs devilled, peppered, grilled, and tormented till they lost all semblance of the original Mariposa chicken.
ref: 1912, Stephen Leacock, “The Hostelry of Mr. Smith”, in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, page 27:
text: After working his way up in restaurant kitchens, Nick's father bought a caff off the Walworth Road, and named it The Bosphorus in homage to a cultural homeland elsewhere.
ref: 2012, Suzanne Hall, City, Street and Citizen, Routledge, →ISBN, page 52:
text: McCormack dressed in his second-best suit and walked down the hill to a caff on Dumbarton Road.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 200:
synonyms: word: caf
word: automat
word: beanery
word: buffet
word: cafeteria
word: caff
word: canteen
word: cookhouse
word: cookshack
word: diner
word: dining hall
word: eatery
word: hashery
word: hotel
word: luncheonette
word: lunchroom
word: noshery
word: restaurant
glosses: café, cafeteria.
bounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baʊndz/
rhymes: -aʊndz
Senses: examples: text: “Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it.[…]”
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
glosses: plural of bound
bounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /baʊndz/
rhymes: -aʊndz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bound
cannot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænɒt/
ipa: /kænˈɒt/
ipa: /ˈkæ(n.)nɑt/
ipa: /ˈkɛ(n.)nɑt/
ipa: /kə(n)ˈnɑt/
ipa: /kəˈnɑt/
note: Indic
ipa: /kəˈnɔʈ/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: cannet
form: cannit
form: can not
Etymology: From can + not.
Senses: examples: text: I cannot open the window. It is stuck.
glosses: Can not (be unable to).
examples: text: The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Diſcharge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extinguiſh the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and conſequently of all the reſt, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Diſcharged as to one, and ſtand as to all the reſt.
ref: 1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575
text: The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
ref: 2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10:
text: You cannot enter the hall without a ticket.
glosses: Be forbidden or not permitted to
Synonyms: can't
cannot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænɒt/
ipa: /kænˈɒt/
ipa: /ˈkæ(n.)nɑt/
ipa: /ˈkɛ(n.)nɑt/
ipa: /kə(n)ˈnɑt/
ipa: /kəˈnɑt/
note: Indic
ipa: /kəˈnɔʈ/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: cannots
form: cannet
form: cannit
form: can not
Etymology: From can + not.
Senses: examples: text: the cans and cannots
glosses: Something that cannot be done.
glosses: A person who cannot do (something).
cheater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃiːtɚ/
rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
homophone: cheetah (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: cheaters
Etymology: From cheat + -er. The sense referring to welding hood lenses was inspired by cheaters (plural) as a pair of reading glasses.
Senses: examples: text: The Old Viper's an old cheater, an old hornswoggler.
ref: 1990, Terry Griggs, Quickening, page 131:
text: Wallhacks expose everyone on a map so cheaters get a huge advantage of knowing when you’re about to push a point or turn a corner.
ref: 2020 May 6, Tom Warren, “The world’s biggest PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers”, in The Verge:
synonyms: cheat#Noun
glosses: Someone who cheats; something that cheats.
synonyms: word: cheat#Noun
word: adulterer
glosses: Someone who cheats; something that cheats.
Synonym of adulterer.
coordinate_terms: cheat sheet
crib sheet
glosses: Something that a person uses while cheating (i.e., either literally or figuratively cheating).
An improvised breaker bar made from a length of pipe and a wrench (spanner), usually used to free screws, bolts, etc. that are difficult to remove with a ratchet or wrench alone.
coordinate_terms: cheat sheet
crib sheet
glosses: Something that a person uses while cheating (i.e., either literally or figuratively cheating).
Any of various auxiliary lenses added to the visor of a welding hood to improve visibility, such as by providing refractive correction for presbyopia or providing magnification (e.g., 2×, 5×, 10×).
Derived terms: cheater five
cheater plug
cheaters never prosper
cheatery
micro-cheater
noncheater
pinky cheater
windcheater
cheater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃiːtɚ/
rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
homophone: cheetah (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: cheaters
Etymology: From Middle English chetour, a variant of eschetour, from Old French eschetour, escheteur, equivalent to escheat + -er.
Senses: glosses: An escheater.
Related terms: word: cheaters
overseas
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈsiːz/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈsiːz/
homophone: oversees
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: oversea
Etymology: From earlier oversea, equivalent to oversea + -s. Compare West Frisian oerseesk, Dutch overzees, German Übersee, Danish oversøisk.
Senses: examples: text: Overseas branches of the company are doing well.
synonyms: word: transmarine
word: ultramarine
antonyms: domestic
glosses: Abroad, especially across the sea.
examples: text: Overseas Chinese communities exist in North and South America.
text: The reputations of our universities and our research base are already under threat because of the fallout from the EU referendum result, which is making the UK an unfriendlier place for overseas scholars and students, as well as cutting off access to an important stream of research funding and to a vibrant and well-developed ecosystem for collaborative work.
ref: 2016 October 18, Stephen Curry, “Why the Higher Education and Research Bill must be amended”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Used with ethnicities, nationalities, or religious affiliations: living (being resident) in a foreign country.
examples: text: Her overseas trip went well.
glosses: Across a sea; to or in an area across a sea.
Derived terms: overseas cap
overseas Chinese
overseas territory
overseas
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈsiːz/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈsiːz/
homophone: oversees
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: oversea
Etymology: From earlier oversea, equivalent to oversea + -s. Compare West Frisian oerseesk, Dutch overzees, German Übersee, Danish oversøisk.
Senses: examples: text: He emigrated and now lives overseas.
glosses: Abroad.
examples: text: She travelled overseas.
text: (We are agents of the free.) I've had my fun,
and now it's time to serve
your conscience overseas.
Coming in fast, over me...
ref: 1988 November 8, R.E.M., “Orange Crush”, in Green:
glosses: Across a sea; to an area across a sea.
climb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: klīm
ipa: /klaɪm/
homophone: clime
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: climbs
Etymology: From Middle English climben, from Old English climban (“to climb”), from Proto-West Germanic *klimban, from Proto-Germanic *klimbaną (“to climb, go up by clinging”), believed to be a nasalised variant of Proto-Germanic *klibaną, *klibāną (“to stick, cleave”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick”). Cognate with West Frisian klimme (“to climb”), Dutch klimmen (“to climb”), German klimmen (“to climb”), Old Norse klembra (“to squeeze”), Icelandic klifra (“to climb”). Related to clamber. See also clay, glue.
Senses: examples: text: Make sure that you keep checking to see that everything remains safe throughout the climb.
ref: 2007, Nigel Shepherd, Complete Guide to Rope Techniques:
glosses: An act of climbing.
examples: text: The Mur de Péguère is a savage little climb, its last four kilometres a narrow tunnel of trees and excited spectators urging on the straining riders.
ref: 2012 July 15, Richard Williams, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track, Guardian Unlimited:
text: I guess the room wasn't so bad, except for the climb to get there. The stairs were destined to be a serious health hazard.
ref: 1999, B. Keith Jones, The Roomie Do Me Blues:
glosses: The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
examples: text: After a decade of prosperity, millions of Asians are likely to be pushed into poverty, and the climb out of poverty will stall for millions of others.
ref: 1998 September 30, AP, “Worst May Lie Ahead For Asia, Report Warns”, in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
text: This memorial dedicated to those / Who persished on the climb
ref: 2018, Maddy Makes Games, Celeste, →OCLC, level/area: Forsaken City:
text: An extended climb in Treasury yields risks exacerbating the pressures that have dogged a broad array of assets in recent months.
ref: 2023 October 20, David Randall, Davide Barbuscia, “Relentless climb in Treasury yields may have further to run after surging to 5%”, in Reuters:
glosses: An effort of moving upward.
Derived terms: word: anti-climb
word: climb-down
word: climb-out
word: climb rate
word: cruise climb
word: hill climb
word: rate of climb
word: rate of climb indicator
word: step climb
word: uphill climb
word: zoom climb
sense: derived from noun or verb (unsorted)
word: climbdown
sense: derived from noun or verb (unsorted)
word: climby
sense: derived from noun or verb (unsorted)
word: downclimb
sense: derived from noun or verb (unsorted)
word: freeclimb
sense: derived from noun or verb (unsorted)
word: hillclimb
sense: derived from noun or verb (unsorted)
word: misclimb
sense: derived from noun or verb (unsorted)
word: outclimb
sense: derived from noun or verb (unsorted)
word: reclimb
sense: derived from noun or verb (unsorted)
word: unclimb
sense: derived from noun or verb (unsorted)
word: unclimbable
cloak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkloʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: cloaks
form: cloke
Etymology: From Middle English cloke, from Old Northern French cloque (“travelling cloak”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“travelers' cape, literally “a bell”, so called from the garment’s bell-like shape”), of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos, ultimately imitative.
Doublet of cloche and clock.
Senses: examples: text: ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
examples: text: Night hid her movements with its cloak of darkness.
glosses: A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
examples: text: For neither at any time vſed wee flattering wordes, as yee knowe, nor a cloke of couetouſneſſe, God is witneſſe: […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Thessalonians 2:5, column 1:
text: And no Man is eſteemed any ways conſiderable for Policy, who wears Religion otherwiſe than as a Cloak; that is, as ſuch a Garment as may both cover and keep him warm, and yet hang looſe upon him too.
ref: 1676 May 10 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar); first published 1692, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume I, London: […] J[ohn] H[eptinstall] for Thomas Bennet, […], →OCLC, page 346:
glosses: That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
glosses: A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
Derived terms: becloak
boat cloak
cloak-and-dagger
cloak-and-sworder
cloak bag
cloaked
cloak fern
cloakless
cloaklet
cloaklike
cloakmaker
cloakmaking
cloak room
cloakroom
cloakwise
decloak
discloak
drunkard's cloak
mourning cloak
Newcastle cloak
opera cloak
overcloak
turncloak
uncloak
undercloak
Related terms: burnoose
burnous
burnouse
domino costume
cloak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkloʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: cloaks
form: cloaking
form: cloaked
form: cloaked
form: cloke
Etymology: From Middle English cloke, from Old Northern French cloque (“travelling cloak”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“travelers' cape, literally “a bell”, so called from the garment’s bell-like shape”), of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos, ultimately imitative.
Doublet of cloche and clock.
Senses: examples: text: He would hold her, just hold her, while his hands soothed the bare skin of her arms and the delicate fabric that cloaked her shoulders and her back.
ref: 2008, Bronwyn Jameson, Vows & a Vengeful Groom, Silhouette Books, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: To cover as with or like a cloak.
examples: text: It’s possible that some microbes don’t just take up residence in tumors but help them grow. They may cloak the tumor from the immune system, neutralize drugs or help tumors spread through the body.
ref: 2022 September 29, Carl Zimmer, “A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To cover up, hide or conceal.
examples: text: The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
Derived terms: cloakable
cloaking device
recloak
uncloak
comment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒm.ɛnt/
note: Indic
ipa: /kəˈmɛɳʈ/
Forms: form: comments
Etymology: From Middle English coment, comment, from Old French coment (“commentary”), from Late Latin commentum (“comment, interpretation”), from Classical Latin commentum (“invention, fabrication”).
Senses: examples: text: I have no comment on that.
text: Pay attention to the teacher's comments in the margin of your marked essay.
text: “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).
ref: 2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: A spoken or written remark.
examples: text: People bled to death like gentlemen in an operating room or expired without comment in an oxygen tent.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:
glosses: The act of commenting.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: rheme
glosses: The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A remark embedded in source code in such a way that it will be ignored by the compiler or interpreter, typically to help people to understand the code.
Derived terms: block comment
commentize
commentless
commentworthy
conditional comment
C-style comment
fair comment
fairy comment
honest comment
letter of comment
metacomment
miscomment
no comment
notice and comment
public comment
sidebar comment
subcomment
Related terms: pragma
comment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒm.ɛnt/
note: Indic
ipa: /kəˈmɛɳʈ/
Forms: form: comments
form: commenting
form: commented
form: commented
Etymology: From Middle English commenten, comenten, from Latin commentārī (“to consider thoroughly, think over, discuss, write upon”).
Senses: examples: text: “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.[…]."
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: I think Mamet always comments that commerce really comes down to just a confidence game
ref: 2003 July 5, Pierre Salinger, ABC News, “Analysis: Top film choices”, in NPR_Saturday:
text: As Cambridge historian Mervyn James commented, "silly quarrels escalated into battles in the streets."
ref: 2009 Winter, John M. Kang, “Manliness and the Constitution”, in Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, volume 32, number 1, page 261:
glosses: To remark.
examples: text: He commented about your proposal.
text: The movie comments on race relations.
glosses: To make remarks or notes; to express a view regarding.
raw_tags: with "on" or "about"
examples: text: […]who have expounded Scripture out of its Senses, and have so Commented the Laws thereof
ref: 1677, Lancelot Addison, A Modest Plea for the Clergy:
glosses: To comment or remark on.
examples: text: I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: To insert comments into (source code).
raw_tags: of code
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.
raw_tags: of code
Derived terms: sense: remark
word: commentable
sense: remark
word: commentary
sense: remark
word: commentate
sense: remark
word: commentator
sense: remark
word: miscomment
sense: remark
word: recomment
sense: remark
word: undercommented
sense: programming: insert comments
word: commentize
sense: programming: insert comments
word: comment out
sense: programming: insert comments
word: uncomment
Related terms: document
concord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnkɔːd/
ipa: /ˈkɒŋkɔːd/
ipa: /ˈkɑnkɔɹd/
ipa: /ˈkɑŋkɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɒnkɔː(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɒŋkɔː(ɹ)d
homophone: Concorde
ipa: /ˈkɒnkəːd/
ipa: /ˈkɒŋkəːd/
ipa: /ˈkɑnkɚd/
ipa: /ˈkɑŋkɚd/
rhymes: -ɒnkəː(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɒŋkəː(ɹ)d
homophone: conquered
ipa: /ˈkɒnkɔːd/
ipa: /ˈkɒŋkɔːd/
ipa: /ˈkɑnkɔɹd/
ipa: /ˈkɑŋkɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɒnkɔː(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɒŋkɔː(ɹ)d
homophone: Concorde
Forms: form: concords
Etymology: After Concord, Massachusetts, where the variety was developed.
Senses: glosses: A variety of sweet American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters; a Concord grape.
concord
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnkɔːd/
ipa: /ˈkɒŋkɔːd/
ipa: /ˈkɑnkɔɹd/
ipa: /ˈkɑŋkɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɒnkɔː(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɒŋkɔː(ɹ)d
homophone: Concorde
ipa: /ˈkɒnkəːd/
ipa: /ˈkɒŋkəːd/
ipa: /ˈkɑnkɚd/
ipa: /ˈkɑŋkɚd/
rhymes: -ɒnkəː(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɒŋkəː(ɹ)d
homophone: conquered
ipa: /kənˈkɔːd/
ipa: /kəŋˈkɔːd/
ipa: /kənˈkɔɹd/
ipa: /kəŋˈkɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
ipa: /ˈkɒnkɔːd/
ipa: /ˈkɒŋkɔːd/
ipa: /ˈkɑnkɔɹd/
ipa: /ˈkɑŋkɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɒnkɔː(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɒŋkɔː(ɹ)d
homophone: Concorde
ipa: /ˈkɒnkəːd/
ipa: /ˈkɒŋkəːd/
ipa: /ˈkɑnkɚd/
ipa: /ˈkɑŋkɚd/
rhymes: -ɒnkəː(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɒŋkəː(ɹ)d
homophone: conquered
Forms: form: concords
form: concording
form: concorded
form: concorded
Etymology: From French concorder, from Latin concordō.
Senses: examples: 1660-1667, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon
too many of their old Friends and Associates, ready to concord with them in any desperate Measures
glosses: To agree; to act together.
roger
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒd͡ʒə/
enpr: rŏjʹər
ipa: /ˈɹɑd͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Roger, used circa 1940 in UK and US military communication to represent "R" when spelling out a word. "R" is the first letter in received, used to acknowledge understanding a message. "Roger" for "received" was in spoken usage in air traffic radio parlance by 1950.
Senses: examples: text: Pilot: CESSNA TWO THREE FOUR—ROGER—OUT.
ref: 1950 May, Flying Magazine, page 46:
topics: broadcasting
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
radio
telecommunications
qualifier: procedure word
glosses: Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood)
Synonyms: roger that
Derived terms: roger beep
Related terms: ack
over
over and out
ten-four
wilco
roger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒd͡ʒə/
enpr: rŏjʹər
ipa: /ˈɹɑd͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rogers
form: rogering
form: rogered
form: rogered
Etymology: From Roger, used circa 1940 in UK and US military communication to represent "R" when spelling out a word. "R" is the first letter in received, used to acknowledge understanding a message. "Roger" for "received" was in spoken usage in air traffic radio parlance by 1950.
Senses: examples: text: The Explorer radio operator rogered receipt of the War Room's signal.
ref: 2011, Charles Ryan, Phoenix Strike:
topics: broadcasting
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
radio
telecommunications
glosses: To acknowledge by saying "roger".
roger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒd͡ʒə/
enpr: rŏjʹər
ipa: /ˈɹɑd͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rogers
form: rogering
form: rogered
form: rogered
Etymology: Possibly from Old High German Hrotger via Shelta roger.
Senses: glosses: Of a man, to have sexual intercourse with (someone), especially in a rough manner.
glosses: To have sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: sense: to have sexual intercourse with someone
word: bone
word: dick
word: knob
word: copulate with
sense: to have sexual intercourse
word: bang
word: do it
word: get some
word: copulate
Derived terms: rogering
roger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒd͡ʒə/
enpr: rŏjʹər
ipa: /ˈɹɑd͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rogers
Etymology: Possibly from Old High German Hrotger via Shelta roger.
Senses: examples: text: ALAN: Lynn, if I have to put back my roger with Sonja one more time, I'll be fit to burst.
ref: 2002, I'm Alan Partridge (series 2, episode 5)
glosses: An act of sexual intercourse.
lodger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑd͡ʒɚ/
ipa: /ˈlɒd͡ʒə/
rhymes: -ɒdʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lodgers
Etymology: From lodge + -er.
Senses: examples: text: paying lodger
text: family lodger
text: accept a lodger
text: They took in a lodger to help cover the rent.
text: The police questioned the lodger after the incident.
glosses: A person who lodges in another's house (compare tenant).
Derived terms: lodgerdom
lodgerless
costly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒst.li/
Forms: form: costlier
form: more costly
form: costliest
form: most costly
Etymology: From Middle English costly, costely, costeley, equivalent to cost + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a costly activity
text: a costly error
text: In the early days troubles were experienced with oscillation from the rod drive and with the transformers, but were overcome later, and these machines performed useful service until superseded by more modern locomotives less costly in maintenance.
ref: 1960 December 24, Cecil J. Allen, “Operating a mountain main line: the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 743:
text: Individual mistakes proved costly for Wigan who, particularly after the half-time introduction of Hugo Rodallega, dominated for long periods.
ref: 2011 October 15, Michael Da Silva, “Wigan 1 - 3 Bolton”, in BBC Sport:
text: Since sexual relationships are more costly for female primates – they bear the kids – females are the choosier sex.
ref: 2012 March 2, Elizabeth Landau, “Beholding beauty: How it’s been studied”, in CNN:
glosses: Of high cost; expensive.
Synonyms: dear
expensive
prohibitive
Derived terms: costlily
costliness
costly colours
overcostly
uncostly