cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑːlə
rhymes: -ælə
rhymes: -eɪlə
ipa: /ˈɡɑːlə/
ipa: /ˈɡælə/
ipa: /ˈɡeɪlə/
ipa: /ˈɡɑlə/
ipa: /ˈɡælə/
ipa: /ˈɡeɪlə/
Forms: form: gala
form: galas
Etymology: From Learned borrowing from Sumerian 𒍑𒆪 (gala), related to Akkadian 𒍑𒆪 (kalû). A connection to the similar Phrygian and Roman priests of Cybele called gallae or galli has been suggested, but evidence is lacking.
Senses: examples: text: (6) Some galas/kalûs are mentioned in Pre-Sargonic and Old Babylonian texts in connection with classes of women, maids, and ḫarimtu-women.
(7) The gala is sometimes mentioned in the same context with other functionaries …
ref: 2008, Uri Gabbay, The Akkadian word for "third gender" / the kalû (gala) once again, in Proceedings of the 51st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Held at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, July 18-22, 2005 (edited by Robert D. Biggs, Jennie Myers, Martha Tobi Roth), page 50
glosses: A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna.
Related terms: galla
galena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈliː.nə/
rhymes: -iːnə
Forms: form: galenas
form: galenae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin galēna (“dross from smelting lead”).
Senses: examples: text: You can easily extract lead from galena, a natural mineral which has been used in crystal radio receivers.
ref: 1939 November, Raymond B. Wailes, “Chemical Engineering for Home Experimenters”, in Popular Science, page 207:
text: 1942, G. F. Loughlin, A. H. Koschmann, Geology and Ore Deposits of the Magdalena Mining District, New Mexico, Geological Survey Professional Paper, Issue 200, page 98,
The galena of the ore contains microscopic inclusions of various forms that become visible upon polished surfaces etched with hydrochloric or nitric acid.
text: These samples had higher Pb²⁰⁶ and Pb²⁰⁸ abundances than any other galenas yet examined.
ref: 1953, “Report of the Committee on the Measurement of Geologic Time”, in U.S, National Research Council, page 132:
text: Very little galena has been reported (recovered mostly from burial mounds) in the Great Lakes region indicating that the mineral was not a major interregional exchange commodity during this period. However, numerous galenas have been recovered from the lower Mississippi Valley region and Florida indicating that galena was part of an important north-south exchange system (Walthall 1981).
ref: 2008, Sanghamitra Ghosh, Heavy Stable Isotope Investigations in Environmental Science and Archaeology, page 77:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral, lead sulphide (PbS), mined as an ore for lead.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A remedy or antidote for poison; theriac
Synonyms: galenite
lead glance
Derived terms: false galena
galenic
galenical
galeniferous
galenoid
pseudogalena
gall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːl/
ipa: /ɡɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
homophone: Gaul
Forms: form: galls
Etymology: From Middle English galle, from Old English gealla (“a fretted spot on the skin”), from Proto-West Germanic *gallō, from Proto-Germanic *gallô (“infirmity, swelling, lesion”).
Senses: examples: text: Riding a horse with bruised or broken skin can cause a gall, which frequently results in the white saddle marks seen on the withers and backs of some horses.
ref: 1989 National Ag Safety Database (Centers for Disease Control)
glosses: A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
examples: text: And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and his awkwardness, / And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;
ref: 1892, Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
examples: text: Thou ſhalt be leader of this thouſand horſe,
Whoſe foming galle with rage and high diſdaine,
Haue ſworne the death of wicked Tamburlaine.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:
text: It moves my gall to hear a preacher descanting on dress and needle-work; and still more, to hear him address the British fair, the fairest of the fair, as if they had only feelings.
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, “Animadversions on Some of the Writers who have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt”, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC, page 210:
text: He's sure got a lotta gall / To be so useless and all / Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
ref: 1966, Bob Dylan, “Visions of Johanna”, in Blonde on Blonde:
glosses: A feeling of exasperation.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
Derived terms: navel gall
water-gall
gall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːl/
ipa: /ɡɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
homophone: Gaul
Forms: form: galls
Etymology: From Middle English galle, from Old French galle, from Latin galla (“oak-apple”).
Senses: examples: text: Even so, Redi retained a belief that in certain other cases—the origin of parasites inside the human or animal body or of grubs inside of oak galls—there must be spontaneous generation. Bit by bit the evidence grew against such views. In 1670 Jan Swammerdam, painstaking student of the insect’s life cycle, suggested that the grubs in galls were enclosed in them for the sake of nourishment and must come from insects that had inserted their semen or their eggs into the plants.
ref: 1974, Philip P. Wiener, editor, Dictionary of the History of Ideas:
topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
glosses: A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by various pathogens, especially the burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, such as that of the common oak gall wasp (Cynips quercusfolii).
examples: text: But first for your Line. First note, that you are to take care that your hair be round and clear, and free from galls, or scabs, or frets: for a well- chosen, even, clear, round hair, of a kind of glass-colour, will prove as strong as three uneven scabby hairs that are ill-chosen, and full of galls or unevenness. You shall seldom find a black hair but it is round, but many white are flat and uneven; therefore, if you get a lock of right, round, clear, glass-colour hair, make much of it.
ref: 1653, Izaak Walton, chapter 21, in The Compleat Angler:
glosses: A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
Synonyms: nutgall
Derived terms: Aleppo gall
apple gall
artichoke gall
bedeguar gall
beech gall
cane gall
Chinese gall
cola-nut gall
coral gall
cranberry gall
crown gall
cup gall
currant gall
cypress gall
elm gall
filbert gall
fungus gall
gallapple
gallbush
gallflower
gallfly
gall gnat
gallic
gallicolous
gallification
gall midge
gall mite
gallnut
gall-nut ink
gall oak
gall of glass
gallogen
gallsickness
gall wasp
goldenrod gall
gouty gall
horned oak gall
iron-gall ink
knee gall
knopper gall
leaf-gall
marble gall
meadowsweet rust gall
mossy rose gall
nutgall
oak gall
pineapple gall
pithy gall
plant gall
pocket plum gall
purpurogallin
rams horn gall
red pae gall
rind gall
root gall
rose gall
seed gall
spurgall
stem gall
tomato gall
trumpet gall
Turkish gall
twig gall
vine gall
willow gall
windgall
witch-hazel cone gall
wound gall
gall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːl/
ipa: /ɡɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
homophone: Gaul
Forms: form: galls
form: galling
form: galled
form: galled
Etymology: From Middle English galle, from Old French galle, from Latin galla (“oak-apple”).
Senses: examples: text: Raw silk is not galled, it is dyed at once in the black without any preparation : the liquor should be hot
ref: 1815, Thomas Cooper, A Practical Treatise on Dyeing, and Callicoe Printing:
glosses: To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.
Related terms: gall dang
gam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: gams
Etymology: From Italian gamba (“leg”). Doublet of gamb, gamba, jamb, and jambe. Compare gammon and ham.
Senses: examples: text: Make the salesclerk blush by flashing some gam and asking him to mix a bucket in your flesh tone.
ref: 2010, Home Swell Home: Designing Your Dream Pad, →ISBN, page 19:
text: The women's-liberation movement of the late sixties and the seventies – the so-called second wave of feminism – introduced Americans to the notion that their mothers and sisters and daughters ought not to be "objectified": that there was something wrong with reducing female people to boobs, gams, and beaver.
ref: 2012 September 10, Ariel Levy, “The Space In Between”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: A person's leg, especially an attractive woman's leg.
gam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: gams
Etymology: Uncertain but surely formed within English; etymons may include game or gammon.
Senses: examples: text: Upon getting into a "gam" of whales, this boat, together with that of one of the mates, pulled for a single whale that was seen at a distance from the others, and succeeded in getting square up to their victim unperceived.
ref: 1862, Henry Theodore Cheever, The Whalemen's Adventures in the Southern Ocean, Darton & Hodge, page 116:
text: Breakfast was interrupted as a gam of porpoises surrounded the Argyle, swaying in the foam and singing in gurgles and beeps.
ref: 1985, Dennis Kyte, To the Heart of a Bear: The Last Elegant Bear, →ISBN:
text: Christmas day in 1998, we lived on the Pacific Ocean in Pacific Grove, California and watched a gam of whales breaching in the deep ultramarine water.
ref: 2010, Jack White, Mastery of Self Promotion, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: Collective noun used to refer to a group of whales, or rarely also of porpoises; a pod.
examples: text: But what is a Gam? You might wear out your index-finger running up and down the columns of dictionaries, and never find the word, Dr. Johnson never attained to that erudition; Noah Webster’s ark does not hold it. Nevertheless, this same expressive word has now for many years been in constant use among some fifteen thousand true born Yankees. Certainly, it needs a definition, and should be incorporated into the Lexicon. With that view, let me learnedly define it. Gam. NOUN—A social meeting of two (or more) Whaleships, generally on a cruising-ground; when, after exchanging hails, they exchange visits by boats’ crews, the two captains remaining, for the time, on board of one ship, and the two chief mates on the other.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 53”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: There is still that yearning for news from Nantucket that there was when the whale-ships stopped for a gam out in the far-distant Pacific Ocean […]
ref: 1916, Harry B. Turner, “Nantucket's Early Telegraph Service”, in Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association, page 50:
text: If time was available, whaling prospects poor, and the weather gentle, a gam might last all day and include tea and dinner.
ref: 1997, Gillies Ross, Margaret Penny, This Distant and Unsurveyed Country, →ISBN, page 14:
text: Twice each year, the Russian Navy sent out such ships to provision Russian whalers in the Sea of Okhotsk. In sailing toward the supposed Russian ship, the Abigail’s captain, Ebenezer Nye, was hoping for a gam with the ship's officers […]
ref: 2007, Tom Chaffin, Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah, →ISBN, page 230:
glosses: A social gathering of whalers (whaling ships).
gam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: gams
form: gamming
form: gammed
form: gammed
Etymology: Uncertain but surely formed within English; etymons may include game or gammon.
Senses: examples: text: Although most whalemen looked forward to gamming and enjoyed these ocean-borne gatherings, there were at least a few whalemen who either grew weary of them, or just weary of gamming so often with the same ships over and over.
ref: 2008, Eric Jay Dolin, Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, →ISBN, page 436:
text: This was early in the summer of 1820, after nearly a year at sea, and they had gammed the whaling ship Aurora, which had on board not only plenty of letters but some newspapers as well.
ref: 2011, Paul Schneider, The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, →ISBN, page 255:
text: In chapter 2 we saw how gamming whalers sang songs that tied them to their homelands while emphasizing the transient, cosmopolitan nature of their work, […]
ref: 2014, James Revell Carr, Hawaiian Music in Motion, →ISBN, page 181:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To pay a social visit on another ship at sea.
glosses: To engage in social intercourse anywhere.
Related terms: gam gam
gambit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæmbɪt/
rhymes: -æmbɪt
Forms: form: gambits
form: gambett
Etymology: From Italian gambetto (“act of tripping; gambit”), from Italian gamba (“leg”), from Late Latin gamba.
Senses: examples: text: Her clever gambit gave her an advantage.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: An opening in chess in which a minor piece or a pawn is sacrificed to gain an advantage.
examples: text: Their promise to lower taxes is clearly an election-year gambit.
text: The Red Holocaust is best interpreted in this light as the bitter fruit of an^([sic]) utopian gambit that was socially misengineered into a dystopic nightmare by despots in humanitarian disguise.
ref: 2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:
text: An opening sequence, featuring a de-aged Ford playing a younger Indy, is a bold and nostalgic gambit, offering a glimpse of what you've missed.
ref: 2023 June 29, City AM, London, page 18, column 2:
glosses: Any ploy or stratagem.
glosses: A remark intended to open a conversation.
Derived terms: Botez gambit
countergambit
Evans Gambit
Kings's Gambit
Queen's Gambit
Queen's Gambit Declined
Stafford Gambit
Stafford gambit
Tennison Gambit
Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit
gambit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæmbɪt/
rhymes: -æmbɪt
Forms: form: gambits
form: gambiting
form: gambited
form: gambited
form: gambett
Etymology: From Italian gambetto (“act of tripping; gambit”), from Italian gamba (“leg”), from Late Latin gamba.
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: To sacrifice (a pawn or minor piece) to gain an advantage.
ganger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæŋə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: gangers
Etymology: From Middle English ganger, from Old English gangere (“a ganger, footman”), equivalent to gang + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gunger, West Frisian gonger, Dutch ganger, German Gänger, Danish gjænger, ganger, Swedish gängare, Icelandic gangari.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which walks or goes; a goer; a walker.
glosses: A horse that goes quickly.
examples: text: Primary responsibility must rest with a ganger. He failed to appreciate the danger of disturbing the track, short of ballast, on a very hot day.
ref: 1950 March, “Notes and News: Merstham Quarry Derailment”, in Railway Magazine, page 210:
text: The length ganger saw the train passing with the van derailed and promptly telephoned the Sandbach signalman, who restored his signals to danger, but not in time to stop the train before the final derailment occurred.
ref: 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Derailment near Holmes Chapel”, in Trains Illustrated, page 652:
text: 'My dad was a railway ganger.'
ref: 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 159:
topics: business
rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: One who oversees a gang of workmen.
qualifier: coal mining
glosses: One who is employed in conveying the coal through the gangways.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A length of chain, one end of which is fastened to an anchor when let go, when the other end is fastened to a hawser.
Related terms: black-ganger
chain-ganger
doubleganger
footganger
foreganger
gannet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡænɪt/
rhymes: -ænɪt
Forms: form: gannets
Etymology: From Middle English ganet, gante, from Old English ganot, from Proto-West Germanic *ganat, *ganatō, from Proto-Germanic *ganatuz, *ganutô (“gander”), ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *ganzô.
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch gent, Middle Low German gante, German Ganter, Ganser, all “gander, male goose”.
Senses: glosses: Any of three species of large seabird in the genus Morus, of the family Sulidae. They have black and white bodies and long pointed wings, and hunt for fish by plunge diving and pursuing their prey underwater.
glosses: A voracious eater; a glutton.
Synonyms: sense: voracious eater
word: glutton
Derived terms: Australasian gannet
Morus serrator
Cape gannet
Morus capensis
common gannet
northern gannet Morus bassanus
gannetry
gannet's bath
gannet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡænɪt/
rhymes: -ænɪt
Forms: form: gannets
form: ganneting
form: ganneted
form: ganneted
Etymology: From Middle English ganet, gante, from Old English ganot, from Proto-West Germanic *ganat, *ganatō, from Proto-Germanic *ganatuz, *ganutô (“gander”), ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *ganzô.
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch gent, Middle Low German gante, German Ganter, Ganser, all “gander, male goose”.
Senses: examples: text: She was no longer in the company of her older sister and mother who had often scolded her for ganneting down her food.
ref: Gaynor Kay, Pebble in the Grass (page 115)
glosses: To wolf down, gobble or eat (something) voraciously.
gape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: gapes
Etymology: From Middle English gapen, from Old Norse gapa (“to gape”) (compare Swedish gapa, Danish gabe), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną (descendants Middle English geapen, Dutch gapen, German gaffen), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰеh₂b-. Cognates include Russian зяпа (zjapa).
Senses: examples: text: Now a gen'ral gape goes round,
And vapours cloud each sleepy head.
ref: 1745, Richard Graves, Euphrosyne:
glosses: An act of gaping; a yawn.
glosses: A large opening.
glosses: A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
glosses: The width of an opening.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.
Derived terms: agape
gape for
gapeline
gape-mouthed
gape seed
gapy
gaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gapers
Etymology: From Middle English gaper, equivalent to gape + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who gapes; a starer.
glosses: Any of several species of burrowing clams.
glosses: A comber, a fish of the species Serranus cabrilla.
glosses: A fish of species Champsodon capensis
examples: text: If you want to avoid looking like a gaper, just keep yourself from looking sloppy and you should be okay.
ref: 2017, Brendan Leonard, The Great Outdoors: Everything You Need to Know Before Heading Into the Wild, page 295:
glosses: An inexperienced skier.
Synonyms: topics: fish
ichthyology
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: comber
Hyponyms: sense: burrowing clams
word: king clam
Derived terms: word: blue-billed gaper
word: blunt gaper
word: fat gaper
word: gaper clam
word: gaper pea crab
word: gaper snake-eel
word: gapers' block
taxonomic: Syngamus trachea
word: gapeworm
word: little gaper
word: Pacific gaper
word: redeye gaper
word: sand gaper
word: sickle-billed gaper
garble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑː(ɹ)bəl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bəl
Forms: form: garbles
form: garbling
form: garbled
form: garbled
Etymology: From Middle English garbelen, from Anglo-Norman garbeler (“to sift”), from Medieval Latin garbellare (or a similar Italian word), from Arabic غَرْبَلَ (ḡarbala, “to sift”).
Senses: examples: text: to garble a quotation
text: to garble an account
text: In a word, as the whole relation is carefully garbled of all the levity and looseness that was in it, so it all applied, and with the utmost care, to virtuous and religious uses. None can, without being guilty of manifest injustice, cast any reproach upon it, or upon our design in publishing it.
ref: 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, The Author's Preface:
glosses: To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose not intended by the original author; to mutilate; to pervert.
examples: text: The editor garbled the story.
glosses: To make false by mutilation or addition.
glosses: To corrupt; to make unreadable, incomprehensible, or unintelligible.
examples: text: to garble spices
glosses: To sift or bolt; to separate the fine or valuable parts of (something) from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt.
garble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑː(ɹ)bəl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bəl
Forms: form: garbles
Etymology: From Middle English garbelen, from Anglo-Norman garbeler (“to sift”), from Medieval Latin garbellare (or a similar Italian word), from Arabic غَرْبَلَ (ḡarbala, “to sift”).
Senses: examples: text: The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.
ref: 1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)
glosses: Confused or unintelligible speech.
glosses: Refuse; rubbish.
examples: text: Did not the lady smile upon the garble
ref: 1808, Peter Pindar, letter to Joseph Nollekens:
glosses: Mutilation.
glosses: Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings.
Derived terms: garbleable
garblement
garbler
garbley gook
garbly
ungarble
gasify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæsɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: gasifies
form: gasifying
form: gasified
form: gasified
Etymology: From gas + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.
Derived terms: degasify
gasifiable
gasifier
regasify
Related terms: gas
gasser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gassers
Etymology: From gas + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Poison-gas fortunately proved to be a two-edged weapon when it was used on the battlefield. […] The wind could turn about to gas the gassers.
ref: 1969, John Michael Hinton, Experiences: An Inquiry Into Some Ambiguities, page 292:
glosses: One who gasses, or poisons with gas.
glosses: Something highly entertaining or remarkable.
glosses: A kind of hot rod based on production models from the 1930s to mid-1960s, stripped of extraneous weight and jacked up using a truck beam axle to provide better weight distribution on acceleration.
glosses: A kind of hot rod based on production models from the 1930s to mid-1960s, stripped of extraneous weight and jacked up using a truck beam axle to provide better weight distribution on acceleration.
More generally, any car or truck that runs on pump gas, as opposed to diesel fuel, racing fuel, or a car with an electric motor.
Derived terms: half-gasser
gasser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æsə(ɹ)
Etymology: From gas + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This picture makes me miss seeing my friends every single day and thinking were [sic] gasser than we are ️♥ ♥ muchos lovos galpals
ref: 2015 April 29, "ni_ni_niamh", Photo comment Instagram
text: A gasser night than oxygen [recte Oxegen] 🐮 #ASolidAgCrew #AMess
ref: 2015 August 20, Kate Carr, Photo comment Instagram
glosses: comparative form of gas: more gas
gauger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaugers
Etymology: From Middle English gauger, gager, equivalent to gauge + -er. Compare Old French gaugeur, jaugëor.
Senses: glosses: One who gauges.
glosses: An officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
Derived terms: gaugership
gaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaʊ.ə/
ipa: /ˈɡaʊ.əɹ/
Forms: form: gaurs
form: gaur
form: gour
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi गौर (gaur), from Sanskrit गौर (gaura). Attested in English since the early 19th century. Doublet of gayal.
Senses: examples: text: […] I am sure that the American bison is the grandest of them all. His only rivals for the kingship are the Indian bison, or gaur (Bos gaurus), of Southern India, and the aurochs, or European bison, both of which really surpass him in height, if not in actual balk also.
ref: 1889, William T. Hornaday, The Extermination of the American Bison:
text: Of the other ruminants the ox, buffalo, yak, goat, sheep and a few others are domestic animals, while the bison and the gaur, or so-called Indian bison, and a large number of wild goats and sheep have been neglected.
ref: 1914, Edward Hamilton Aitken, Concerning Animals and Other Matters:
glosses: An Asian species of wild bovine (Bos gaurus), of large size and an untamable disposition.
Synonyms: sense: Bos gaurus
english: Indian bison
translation: Indian bison
word: Bos frontalis gaurus
gauss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡaʊs/
Forms: form: gausses
form: gauss
Etymology: Named for Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and physicist.
Senses: glosses: The unit of magnetic field strength in CGS systems of units, equal to 0.0001 tesla.
Derived terms: degauss
gaussage
gigagauss
kilogauss
megagauss
microgauss
milligauss
nanogauss
gecko
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛk.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈɡɛk.oʊ/
rhymes: -ɛkəʊ
Forms: form: geckos
form: geckoing
form: geckoed
form: geckoed
form: chacco
form: geco
form: gekko
form: jackoa
Etymology: The modern form was probably borrowed into English and other European languages from Dutch gekko (1718). Contemporary English forms were chacco (1711) and jackoa (1724). The further origin is not quite clear. Some sources mention a supposed Malay gekok, gekoq, or gekop, which would be imitative of the gecko’s chirping sound. Another theory derives it from Acehnese gèh-gòh (“busy”).
Senses: examples: text: An emergency handpad, geckoed to the expanding bulkhead, slid past to one side. Sarasti grabbed it and tapped commands.
ref: 2006 October, Peter Watts, Blindsight, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 344:
text: And as Dave geckoed his way along the walls, he began seeing more and more skid marks left behind by Damien's Sewer Cruiser.
ref: 2009, Wendelin Van Draanen, The Gecko & Sticky: The Greatest Power, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 33:
text: "H-h-here, boss!" Angelo called, and with that Dave kicked into gear, geckoing across the rest of the ceiling to the safety of the adjacent service room.
ref: 2010, Wendelin Van Draanen, The Gecko & Sticky: Sinister Substitute, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: To move in the manner of a gecko; to attach to a vertical or upside-down surface.
gecko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛk.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈɡɛk.oʊ/
rhymes: -ɛkəʊ
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of get-go.
geyser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡiː.zə/
ipa: /ˈɡaɪ.zə/
ipa: /ˈɡaɪ.zɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡaɪ.sɚ/
rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ)
rhymes: -iːzə(ɹ)
homophone: guiser
homophone: geezer
Forms: form: geysers
Etymology: From the name of a particular Icelandic geyser which is mentioned as early as the 1760s in The Annual Register, as “Geyser, a wonderful spring in the valley of Haukadal”. From Geysir (“Gusher”), the Icelandic name of the hot spring in Iceland (see Wikipedia), from the verb geysa (“to gush”), from Old Norse geysa (“to gush”). Doublet of gusher.
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
planetology
volcanology
glosses: A boiling natural spring which throws forth jets of water, mud, etc., at frequent intervals, driven upwards by the expansive power of steam.
examples: text: Sporting a few war wounds from Japanese destroyer gunfire, The Sullivans had already launched one spread of torpedoes at the Japanese destroyers that were now littering the ocean floor, or, occasionally, making their own retreat, but she still had one left, so a five-torpedo spread was duly sent at near-point-blank range into the listing and burning remains of Yamato, and, shortly thereafter, four large geysers of water were the reward.
ref: 2021 May 5, Drachinifel, 42:03 from the start, in Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2022:
glosses: A momentary vertical jet or fountain of fluid driven upwards by a violent force.
examples: text: Where a Geyser or hot-water heater is used it is a good and wise precaution to see that the bath-room, &c., when it is used is well ventilated.
ref: 1902, William Paton Buchan, Plumbing: A Text-book to the Practice of the Art Or Craft of the Plumber:
text: Water was heated either on the gas stove, or on a wall mounted gas-fired "geyser" heater.
ref: 1998, Gordon S Riess, Confessions of a Corporate Centurion: Tales of International Adventures:
text: It was here I saw a geyser gas water heater in a bathroom for the first time. (I was afraid of it).
ref: 2002, Alaine Polcz, One woman in the war: Hungary, 1944-1945:
glosses: An instantaneous, and often dangerous, hot water heater.
related: word: geezer
glosses: A domestic water boiler.
Synonyms: word: hot spring
word: thermae
Derived terms: geyseral
geyseric
geyserish
geyserite
geyserlike
geysery
red geyser
geyser
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡiː.zə/
ipa: /ˈɡaɪ.zə/
ipa: /ˈɡaɪ.zɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡaɪ.sɚ/
rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ)
rhymes: -iːzə(ɹ)
homophone: guiser
homophone: geezer
Forms: form: geysers
form: geysering
form: geysered
form: geysered
Etymology: From the name of a particular Icelandic geyser which is mentioned as early as the 1760s in The Annual Register, as “Geyser, a wonderful spring in the valley of Haukadal”. From Geysir (“Gusher”), the Icelandic name of the hot spring in Iceland (see Wikipedia), from the verb geysa (“to gush”), from Old Norse geysa (“to gush”). Doublet of gusher.
Senses: examples: text: Four jets of water geysered upward from the sea. Short and wide. He noted it. Ranging salvo. His division was discovered.
ref: 1944, Jacland Marmur, Sea Duty: And Other Stories of Naval Action, page 21:
glosses: To (cause to) rush or burst upward like water from a geyser.
gilder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪldə/
ipa: /ˈɡɪldɚ/
homophone: guilder
rhymes: -ɪldə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gilders
Etymology: From Middle English gilder (“any of various coins (originally gold), especially in use in Flanders, Germany and Holland”) [and other forms], from Middle Dutch gulden, Middle Low German gulden (“guilder”), influenced by Middle English gilden (“made of gold; covered or decorated with gold; of a gold colour; wealthy; glorious; precious; blessed, happy; relating to the middle way or mean”).
Senses: examples: text: The enmity and diſcord which of late / Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your Duke, / To Merchants our well-dealing Countrimen, / Who wanting gilders to redeeme their liues, / Haue ſeal'd his rigorous ſtatutes with their blouds, / Excludes all pitty from our threatning lookes: [...]
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 85, column 1:
text: [N]one ſhall be choſen to be a Commiſſioner in the Court at Amſterdam, vnleſſe he put ſix thouſand gilders ſtocke of his owne in the ſaid Companie; [...]
ref: 1621, Orders and Articles Granted by the High and Mightie Lords the States General of the Vnited Provinces, Concerning the Erecting of a VVest Indian Companie: Together with the Priuiledges and Rights Giuen vnto the Same, [London]: [s.n.], →OCLC, clause 13:
text: On the Spuy is a good Dutch Inn, called the Hoff van Utrecht. The Price is a Gilder a Day, or a Shilling for the Dinner only.
ref: 1743, [Henry Lawson], “The Manner in which Strangers Live at the Hague”, in A Description of Holland: Or, The Present State of the United Provinces. […], London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, […], →OCLC, page 208:
text: In order to restrain excessive and inconsiderate liberality, it was introduced by the written laws, that no present exceeding the amount of five hundred gold gilders of Rome may exist, unless it be made and confirmed publicly and lawfully in writing before the court of justice of the place; [...]
ref: 1820, Simon van Leeuwen, “Of Gifts and Presents”, in Commentaries on the Roman-Dutch Law. Translated from the Dutch, London: Printed by A[ndrew] Strahan, […]; for Joseph Butterworth and Son, […], and J. Cooke, […], →OCLC, §3, page 447:
text: On both sides they will confuse you by explaining that the Dutch gilder is the currency they prefer—a type of coin you are certain to be without.
ref: 1958, Alec Waugh, “Antigua”, in The Sugar Islands. A Collection of Pieces Written about the West Indies between 1928 and 1953, London: Cassell, →OCLC, page 263; republished London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012, →ISBN:
text: [...] i.e. the 11 'legacy' currencies replaced by the euro on 1 January 1999 (Portuguese escudo, Belgian and Luxembourg franc, French franc, Dutch gilder, Italian lira, [...]).
ref: 2002, Richard Portes, Georges de Menil, Hans-Werner Sinn, editors, Economic Policy: 35, London: Blackwell, →ISBN, page 556:
glosses: Alternative spelling of guilder.
gilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪlt/
ipa: [ɡɪɫt]
homophone: guilt
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: gilts
Etymology: Formed in English from the verb gild (“to cover in gold”). Compare gold and German Geld.
Senses: glosses: Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding.
glosses: Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding.
Gold-colored paint or other coating.
examples: text: three corrupted men […]
Have, for the gilt of France,—O guilt indeed!—
Confirm'd conspiracy with fearful France
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, prologue]:
glosses: Money.
examples: text: However, as asset prices slumped over the week – including UK government bonds, or gilts – those banks required more collateral to offset the pension funds’ liabilities, forcing the funds to dump assets and raise cash at short notice.
ref: 2022 September 29, Kalyeena Makortoff, Sarah Butler, “‘I’d never seen anything like it’: how market turmoil sparked a pension fund selloff”, in The Guardian:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged).
examples: text: The parysh of Seint Powle in Norwiche. Thomas Blocke, George Wylson, Churchwardens. Have sold in plate, gylte and parcell gylte, to the summe of iiij ownce, every ownce at the price of iiijs. viijd.
ref: 1864, “Returns of Church Goods in The Churches of the City of Norwich”, in Commission of 6 Edward VI, 1552, quoted in Norfolk Archaeology, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, page 371:
glosses: A gilded object, an object covered with gold.
Derived terms: fire gilt
gilt-head
gilt-head bream
gilt silver
gilt-tail
silver-gilt
take the gilt off the gingerbread
gilt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪlt/
ipa: [ɡɪɫt]
homophone: guilt
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: more gilt
form: most gilt
Etymology: Formed in English from the verb gild (“to cover in gold”). Compare gold and German Geld.
Senses: examples: text: The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Golden coloured.
Derived terms: electrogilt
gilthead
giltwood
ungilt
gilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪlt/
ipa: [ɡɪɫt]
homophone: guilt
rhymes: -ɪlt
Etymology: Formed in English from the verb gild (“to cover in gold”). Compare gold and German Geld.
Senses: examples: text: The sun was rising; it gilt the hill tops and gradually threw its lustre over the dark pine forests on the mountain slopes.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 89:
glosses: simple past and past participle of gild
Related terms: parcel gilt
gilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪlt/
ipa: [ɡɪɫt]
homophone: guilt
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: gilts
form: yilt
Etymology: From Middle English gilt, gylt, from Old Norse gyltr; compare geld and yelt.
Senses: glosses: A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.
gimbal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪmbəl/
ipa: /ˈɡɪmbəl/
rhymes: -ɪmbəl
homophone: gimble
Forms: form: gimbals
Etymology: Alteration of gemel, from Old French gemel, jumel (“twin”) (French jumeau), from Latin gemellus.
Senses: examples: text: The lamp wriggled in its gimbals, the barometer swung in circles, the table altered its slant every moment […]
ref: 1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in Typhoon:
text: 1934, A. E. W. Mason, “The Chronometer,” Chapter II, in Dilemmas, London: Hodder & Stoughton,
He lifted the chronometer off the gimbals on which it was slung in the mahogany case and showed the number engraved upon the bottom.
glosses: A device for suspending something, such as a ship's compass, so that it will remain level when its support is tipped.
Derived terms: gimbal lock
gimbal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪmbəl/
ipa: /ˈɡɪmbəl/
rhymes: -ɪmbəl
homophone: gimble
Forms: form: gimbals
form: gimbaling
form: gimballing
form: gimbaled
form: gimbaled
form: gimballed
form: gimballed
Etymology: Alteration of gemel, from Old French gemel, jumel (“twin”) (French jumeau), from Latin gemellus.
Senses: examples: 1918, Richard Dehan (Clotilde Graves), That Which Hath Wings, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Chapter 32,
[…] he conned his course in masterly fashion by aid of the roller-map, protected by its transparent, rainproof casing, or the compass, clock, altimeter, and other instruments gimballed in the wooden frame in front of the pilot’s seat.
glosses: To suspend using a gimbal or gimbals.
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To move a reaction engine about on a gimbal so as to obtain pitching and yawing correction moments.
glosses: To swivel, move on an axis.
gingko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gingkos
form: gingkoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ginkgo.
glazer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡleɪzə/
ipa: /ˈɡleɪzɚ/
rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: glazers
Etymology: From Middle English glaser, variant of glasier; equivalent to glaze + -er; compare glazier.
Senses: glosses: One who applies glazing, as in pottery, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, etc.
glosses: A person who is prone to endless monologuing; derived from the practice of speaking until the listener's eyes "glaze over".
glosses: A glazier; one who fits glass.
examples: text: Weakest president ever. Such a glazer for the most evil tyrants in the world.
ref: 2024 January 21, u/JamIsJam88, “Trump Suggests He'll Leave Taiwan to China”, in Reddit, r/WhitePeopleTwitter, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2024:
text: Genius to maximize revenue from iron man glazers that do not care enough about the goat MF DOOM
ref: 2024 July 28, u/markiroll, “This casting is either the dumbest and most desperate decision ever or the most genius 4D chess move of all time. There is legit no in-between.”, in Reddit, r/shittymoviedetails, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2024:
text: roman's [i.e., Roman Reigns's] n1 glazer is back on tiktok 😭
ref: 2024 August 4, @cantswish, Twitter, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2024:
text: Red Dead Redemption 2 is imho the most overrated game ever made. Story & Characters are top-notch no lie here, but it might be the single most frustrating game to play. Gameplay is genuinely so ass idk how you glazers can't see this fact.
ref: 2024 August 18, @Xepahr, Twitter, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2024:
synonyms: word: adulator
word: apple polisher
word: arse-kisser
word: arse-licker
word: ass-kisser
word: ass-licker
word: bootlicker
word: buttkisser
word: buttlicker
word: brown noser
word: clawback
word: dickrider
word: doormat
word: flatterer
word: flunkey
word: groveler
word: groveller
word: hanger-on
word: kiss-ass
word: lackey
word: lickspittle
word: lick-platter
word: lickpot
word: minion
word: people pleaser
word: pickthank
word: schmoozer
word: simp
word: suck up
word: sycophant
word: throne sniffer
word: toadeater
word: toady
word: white knight
glosses: Someone who glazes (compliments or praises someone excessively in a cringeworthy way); an asskisser or sycophant.
glen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: glĕn
ipa: /ɡlɛn/
enpr: glĭn
ipa: /ɡlɪn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: glens
Etymology: From Middle English glen, borrowed from Irish gleann and Scottish Gaelic gleann, Old and Middle Irish glend, glenn (“mountain valley”), from Proto-Celtic *glendos (“valley”), hypothetically from Proto-Indo-European *glend- (“shore”) but the word may have been borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate language. Compare Manx glion, Welsh glyn. Doublet of glyn.
Senses: examples: text: What riches too, of gold and jewels, might not be hidden among those forest-shrouded glens and peaks? And beyond, and beyond again, ever new islands, new continents perhaps, an inexhaustible wealth of yet undiscovered worlds.
ref: 1871, Charles Kingsley, “Down the Islands”, in At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. […], volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 41:
glosses: A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a depression between hills; a dale.
wikipedia: North Ayrshire
Derived terms: Campsie Glen
Forest Glen
Glenalmond
Glen Alpine
Glen Bain
Glendale
Glendora
Glen Douglas
Glen Eira
Glen Ellyn
Glen Falloch
Glen Fiddich
Glen Gardner
Glen Iris
glenlike
Glen Lyon
Glen Ogle
Glen Parva
Glen Ridge
Glen Rock
Glen Rose
Glenrothes
Glen Shee
Glen Waverley
Great Glen
Groudle Glen
Watkins Glen
Related terms: word: defile
word: gully
word: strath
english: probably etymologically unrelated
translation: probably etymologically unrelated
word: glen plaid
glom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɒm/
rhymes: -ɒm
Forms: form: gloms
form: glomming
form: glommed
form: glommed
Etymology: Variant of glaum, gloom (“to frown, scowl, stare at”).
Senses: examples: text: She glommed at herself from every angle that could be achieved by twisting her neck, backing off from the mirror with her hands on her overalled hips and tossing back the tumble of dark curls that, like Birdie's, lay thick and hot[…]
ref: 1945, Manning Long, Short Shrift:
text: Its black, withered-up, pinholes for eyes glommed at little Isabel. And with great anticipation it began to speak. “Why Gelp, that's a fine fat little one you have there. You always find the good ones. Are you on your way to market[…]"
ref: 2015 April 14, A.K. Ashic, Book One of Weird and Wacky Tales & Other Such Nonsense, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
text: I apologized for disturbing her and said I would deeply appreciate it if she would let me take a picture of a painting […] It would have been a pleasure, and also instructive, to do a little glomming at the rugs and furniture and other miscellaneous objects, especially the dozen or more pictures on the walls, but that would have to wait.
ref: 1994 September 1, Rex Stout, Three Witnesses, Crimeline, →ISBN, page 190:
text: […] at last, he would be using his Leica again, […] to shamelessly strip them to their underclothes in an attempt to eternise them in flagranti, after which, in his darkroom, he would seen what intimate details would emerge from the developing pans, captured by his camera... and perhaps he would play with those intimate details under the enlarger... (The private eye had his own private collection of intimate details, worked up by the enlarger. Should anyone take those large format obscenities in hand, they'd never guess that he was glomming at a stable of prominent highly placed promiscuous mares.)
ref: 2021 December 3, Jiří Kratochvil, The Vow: A Requiem for the Fifties, Glagoslav Publications, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of glaum (“look, stare”).
glom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɒm/
rhymes: -ɒm
Forms: form: gloms
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of glomerulus.
glycol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlaɪ̯.kɒl/
Forms: form: glycols
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γλυκύς (glukús, “sweet”) + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aliphatic diol.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A thick, colourless liquid, C₂H₄(OH)₂, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds and used as an antifreeze; ethylene glycol.
Derived terms: butyleneglycol
butylene glycol
chloramphenicol
diethylene glycol
glycol ether
glycolic
glycolmethacrylate
glycol nucleic acid
glycoluric
macrogol
methoxypolyethylene glycol
monoethylene glycol
monomethoxypolyethylene glycol
monopropylene glycol
neopentyl glycol
nitroglycol
polyethylene glycol
polyglycol
polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride
polypropylene glycol
propylene glycol
thiodiglycol
thioglycol
trigly
gnarl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑː(ɹ)l/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: gnarls
Etymology: Back-formation from gnarled.
Senses: glosses: A knot in wood; a knurl or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
glosses: Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.
Derived terms: gnarly
gnarley
gnarl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑː(ɹ)l/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: gnarls
form: gnarling
form: gnarled
form: gnarled
Etymology: Back-formation from gnarled.
Senses: glosses: To knot or twist something.
gnarl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑː(ɹ)l/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)l
Etymology: Back-formation from gnarled.
Senses: glosses: Gnarled, knotty, twisted.
gnarl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑː(ɹ)l/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: gnarls
form: gnarling
form: gnarled
form: gnarled
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: To snarl or growl; to gnar.