cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nursing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɝsɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈnɜːsɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: The mother sat there nursing her baby.
glosses: present participle and gerund of nurse
Derived terms: barrier nursing
certified nursing assistant
nursing assistant
nursing bottle
nursing bra
nursing chair
nursing father
nursing home
nursing informatics
nursing pad
lactating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lactate
suckling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sucklings
Etymology: From Middle English sukling, sukeling, sokeling, equivalent to suck + -ling. Cognate with Middle Dutch sogelinc (“suckling”), Dutch zuigeling (“suckling”), German Säugling (“suckling”).
Senses: glosses: An infant that is still being breastfed (being suckled) by its mother.
glosses: A young mammal not yet weaned and still being fed milk by its mother.
Related terms: word: -ling
word: suck
word: sucker
word: sucking reflex
word: suckle
alt: suckler cow
word: suckler
word: suckling calf
word: suckling clover
word: suckling pig
suckling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From suckle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suckle
suckling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sucklings
Etymology: From suckle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of suckling.
ACL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ACLs
Senses: examples: text: Mark Zuckerberg shares photos from the hospital after undergoing knee surgery for a torn ACL suffered during MMA training.
ref: 2023 November 4, “Mark Zuckerberg tears ACL while training for MMA fight early next year”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: PCL
glosses: Initialism of anterior cruciate ligament.
examples: text: He's having a pretty good year, coming off of an ACL.
topics: anatomy
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
sports
coordinate_terms: PCL
glosses: Initialism of anterior cruciate ligament.
An injury to the ACL.
qualifier: by ellipsis
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of access control list.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of action-centered leadership.
Related terms: sense: anterior cruciate ligament
english: anterolateral ligament
translation: anterolateral ligament
word: ALL
sense: anterior cruciate ligament
english: lateral collateral ligament
translation: lateral collateral ligament
word: LCL
sense: anterior cruciate ligament
english: medial collateral ligament
translation: medial collateral ligament
word: MCL
sense: anterior cruciate ligament
english: ulnar collateral ligament
translation: ulnar collateral ligament
word: UCL
poles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊlz/
ipa: /poʊlz/
rhymes: -əʊlz
Senses: examples: text: The distance between the poles was three feet.
glosses: plural of pole
poles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊlz/
ipa: /poʊlz/
rhymes: -əʊlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pole
moisty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: moistier
form: moistiest
Etymology: From Middle English moisti, moysty, equivalent to moist + -y.
Senses: glosses: moist
Synonyms: damp
humid
sodden
wet
undigital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + digital.
Senses: examples: 2000, That a successful high-tech mogul could see bowling as the balm to his ennui raised hopes that bowling might begin shedding its reputation as a shrinking preserve of middle-aged, beer-bellied, hopelessly undigital people. — David Bank, Wall Street Journal 17 January 2000 http://www.careerjournal.com/jobhunting/change/20000117-bank.html
2002, How can the daily theft of hundreds of thousands of creative products be wholly ignored - and even technologically enabled - while the theft of even one product in the undigital world is publicly condemned? — Peter Chernin, press release 19 November 2002, News Corporation
2005, I've been playing the digital disc game since 1984 and this is the best sounding player I have heard in 20+ years. It has a full warm sound that is decidedly undigital. — Audioreview.com
2005, Novak and Hoffman (1998) asserted that a combination of low income and education contributed to the lack of access of a number of groups as largely identified as 'undigital'. Thus, it should be noted that simple digitizing of educational content will not necessarily address the problems faced by those who have neither the technical skills nor the ability to take part in opportunities afforded by e-learning. — Prof. Simon Rogerson & Maggie McPherson, IMIS Journal vol. 15 no. 4, ETHIcol
glosses: Not digital; analog.
gristle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪsəl/
rhymes: -ɪsəl
Forms: form: gristles
Etymology: From Middle English gristel, grystyl, from Old English gristel (“gristle, cartilage”), Proto-West Germanic *gristl, of obscure origin; possibly from a pre-Germanic substrate language. Seemingly equivalent to a diminutive of Old English grist (“a grinding”), equivalent to modern English grist + -le; possibly related to Proto-Germanic *gredaną (“to crunch”). Cognate with Old Frisian gristel, gerstel (“gristle, cartilage”), Middle Low German gristel (“gristle”).
Senses: examples: text: When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best[…]
ref: 1979, Monty Python, “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”:
text: But she was tired of cell culture, tired of meticulously cutting away dead tissue like gristle from a steak […]
ref: 2011, Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, New York: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: Cartilage; now especially: cartilage present, as a tough substance, in meat.
examples: text: And it is a hard and cruel thing thus in early youth to taste beforehand the pangs which should be reserved for the stout time of manhood, when the gristle has become bone, and we stand up and fight out our lives, as a thing tried before and foreseen; for then we are veterans used to sieges and battles, and not green recruits, recoiling at the first shock of the encounter.
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, “chapter II”, in Redburn: His First Voyage. […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: Look at Adam through the rest of the day, as he stands on the scaffolding with the two-feet ruler in his hand, whistling low while he considers how a difficulty about a floor-joist or a window-frame is to be overcome; or as he pushes one of the younger workmen aside and takes his place in upheaving a weight of timber, saying, "Let alone, lad! Thee'st got too much gristle i' thy bones yet"; or as he fixes his keen black eyes on the motions of a workman on the other side of the room and warns him that his distances are not right.
ref: 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “chapter XIX”, in Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
text: 1885, Ada Sarah Ballin, The Science of Dress in Theory and Practice,
It. must be borne in mind that the bones of a young infant are little more than gristle, and are liable to bend, and so become deformed.
text: "The young 'un will make his way," said Belcher, who had come across to us. "He's more a sparrer than a fighter just at present, but when his gristle sets he'll take on anything on the list.
ref: 1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rodney Stone, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Bone not yet hardened by age and hard work.
raw_tags: from obsolete scientific theory
Derived terms: gristled
gristlehead
gristleless
gristliness
gristly
in the gristle
Related terms: english: not to be confused with
translation: not to be confused with
word: grizzle
combustible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈbʌstɪbəl/
Forms: form: more combustible
form: most combustible
Etymology: From Middle French combustible, equivalent to combust + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: Dumping fertilizer on top of whatever mysterious goop was in the storage tank created a combustible mix which caught fire.
text: Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
text: The rest were undergoing special underbody cleaning safety checks at TfW depots, after speculation that the cause of the incidents may have been a build-up of engine oil and combustible material such as fallen leaves and general detritus.
ref: 2023 March 22, “Network News: Class 175s withdrawn for safety checks after fires”, in RAIL, number 979, page 13:
synonyms: flammable
;
inflammable[contranym]]ic senses>
antonyms: incombustible
noncombustible
;
nonflammable
noninflammable
unflammable
;
inflammable[contranym]]ic senses>
fireproof
refractory
coordinate_terms: fire-resistant
fire-retardant
flame-retardant
glosses: Capable of burning.
examples: text: Arnold, however, was a combustible character.
ref: 1855–1859, Washington Irving, The Life of George Washington:
text: The world’s richest man has inserted himself in some of the world’s most combustible conflicts.
ref: 2022 October 26, Cade Metz, Adam Satariano, Chang Che, “How Elon Musk Became a Geopolitical Chaos Agent”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
antonyms: incombustible
noncombustible
glosses: Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
Derived terms: autocombustible
combustibleness
combustibly
multicombustible
non-combustible
noncombustible
polycombustible
uncombustible
Related terms: combust
combustibility
combustion
combustible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈbʌstɪbəl/
Forms: form: combustibles
Etymology: From Middle French combustible, equivalent to combust + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: A wheel, wrapt in combustibles, was kindled and rolled down the hill.
ref: 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 248:
glosses: A material that is capable of burning.
examples: text: In total three-quarters of the western Big Tobacco giants' sales last year came from so-called combustibles as vaping sales are plateauing.
ref: 2025 June 14, “Big Tobacco stock rally reveals smokeless future is still a long way off”, in FT Weekend, Lex., page 16:
qualifier: tobacco industry
glosses: A cigarette or a similar product intended for smoking, as opposed to an electronic cigarette.
lealty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lealties
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman lealté, one of the variants of Old French loiauté.
Senses: examples: text: […] and kissed King Hasan's hands and did homage to him, and swore lealty to him.
ref: 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume V, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
text: 1886, Francis de Sales, The mission of the Church, part 12, translated by Rev. Henry Benedict Mackey
[…] to lead away Christian lealty into rebellion and revolt
glosses: loyalty, fealty
supererogatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːpəɹɛˈɹɒɡətəɹi/
Forms: form: more supererogatory
form: most supererogatory
Etymology: From Latin superērogātōrius (“supererogatory”), from superērogātiō (“payment in addition”), from superērogō (“pay out over and above”), from super (“above”) + ērogō (“pay out, expend”); from ex (“out of, from”) + rogō (“ask; request”).
Senses: examples: text: They passed into the ancient shipyard which lay beyond, and which was now a mere vague, grass-grown approach to the waterside, bestrewn with a few remnants of supererogatory timber.
ref: 1885–1886, Henry James, The Bostonians […], London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 16 February 1886, →OCLC:
text: "In now you come," she ordered, "and we make love." That seemed supererogatory to David Jones, who, under the gaze of the painted deer, got in there and did as he was told.
ref: 1989, Anthony Burgess, “Un”, in Any Old Iron, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Pocket Books, 1990, →ISBN, page 20:
text: It is, for example, not clear whether “love thy enemy” is a precept or a supererogatory counsel.
ref: 2002, David Heyd, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
text: It [capitalism] increasingly deploys not just bureaucratic repression but an invested, overt, supererogatory sadism.
ref: 2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to supererogation; doing more than is required, especially with reference to good works in Roman Catholicism.
Derived terms: supererogatorily
Related terms: supererogate
supererogation
DIL
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of dual-in-line.
Related terms: DIP
lectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛktɪn/
rhymes: -ɛktɪn
Forms: form: lectins
Etymology: From Latin lēctus (“chosen”) + -in. Coined by W.C. Boyd in 1954.
Senses: examples: text: The result proved less about the safety of genetic engineering than it did about the safety of lectins – known animal poisons.
ref: 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 252:
text: Soybeans are another excellent source of plant proteins but they are also on the list of high lectin foods. They are very important to vegans and vegetarians as they make it easy for them to get adequate proteins in their diet.
ref: 2018, Stanley Adamson, Lectin Free Handbook: The Essential Guide To The Lectin Diet Plus A 7-Day Lectin Avoidance Meal Plan And Recipes, PublishDrive:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of proteins that bind specific carbohydrates.
Derived terms: boronolectin
carcinolectin
chimerolectin
chitolectin
chondrolectin
collectin
fucolectin
galactolectin
galectin
hemolectin
hololectin
immulectin
immunolectin
isolectin
lectin affinity chromatography
lectinic
lectinlike
lectinochemical
lectinology
lectinolysin
leukolectin
malectin
merolectin
multilectin
neolectin
odorranalectin
sialolectin
superlectin
tachylectin
thrombolectin
zymolectin
lemniscate of Bernoulli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemniscates of Bernoulli
Etymology: From the name of Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any closed curve described by a Cartesian equation of the form (x²+y²)²=2a²(x²-y²).
foci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊ.kaɪ/
ipa: /ˈfəʊ.saɪ/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.kaɪ/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.saɪ/
rhymes: -əʊkaɪ
rhymes: -əʊsaɪ
Senses: glosses: plural of focus
orangoutang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orangoutangs
Etymology: From Malay orang utan.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of orangutan.
borders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔː.dəz/
ipa: /ˈbɔɹ.dɚz/
homophone: boarders (horse–hoarse merger)
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of border
borders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔː.dəz/
ipa: /ˈbɔɹ.dɚz/
homophone: boarders (horse–hoarse merger)
Senses: glosses: plural of border
betting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛ.tɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈbɛɾɪŋ]
homophone: bedding (t-flapping)
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: If I were a betting man, I'd wager my next pay check he couldn't do that again.
glosses: Describing one who bets or gambles.
betting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛ.tɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈbɛɾɪŋ]
homophone: bedding (t-flapping)
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bet
betting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛ.tɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈbɛɾɪŋ]
homophone: bedding (t-flapping)
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Forms: form: bettings
Senses: examples: text: Once the field was prepared, and preliminaries of the game all settled, the bettings all made and goods all “staked,” night came on without the appearance of any players on the ground.
ref: 1989, Jesse O. McKee, The Choctaw:
glosses: The act of placing a bet.
Derived terms: betting parlor
betting ring
betting shop
betting terminal
nonbetting
sports betting
spread betting
telebetting
what's the betting
coucher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aʊtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: couchers
Etymology: From Middle English coucher, from Anglo-Norman; equivalent to couch + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who couches.
topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
papermaking
glosses: One who couches paper.
examples: text: She [the Herring-Buss] imployeth[…]at Land Viewers, Packers,[…]Couchers to make the Herrings lawful Merchandizes.
ref: 1601, John Keymor, “Observation made upon the Dutch fishing”, in The Phenix:
topics: law
glosses: A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic.
examples: text: bookes, and specially of Grayles, Couchers, Legends, Processionailes[…]
ref: 1559, Iniunctions geven by the Queenes Maiestie […] :
glosses: The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts.
groundskeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹaʊndzˌkipɚ/
Forms: form: groundskeepers
form: groundkeeper
Etymology: From grounds + keeper.
Senses: glosses: Someone who takes care of the upkeep of grounds (gardens, a playing field, woodlands, etc.)
Related terms: greenkeeper
greenskeeper
greenkeeping
groundskeeping
caretaker
caretaking
landscaper
landscaping
maintenance
glam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlæm/
rhymes: -æm
Etymology: Clipping of glamour.
Senses: examples: text: Who wouldn’t be a glamor girl, a certain-to-enamor girl?
What joie de vivre in her life is given her to cram,
The dinkum sex-appealing girl, the subtle-charm-revealing girl,
’Mong men the havoc-dealing girl—in short, the girl with glam.!
ref: 1939 July 19, The Bulletin, Sydney, page 14, column 1:
glosses: Glamour; glamorousness.
examples: text: Blokes sporting make-up and vertiginous platform boots, songs that were precision-tooled melodramas of bubblegum pop and football-terrace stomp, a belief in pop itself as a liberating space for fantasy and shape-shifting: it’s perhaps unsurprising that glam, in whose rise Bowie played a huge part, has never been taken very seriously.
ref: 2016 October 7, Sukhdev Sandhu, “Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy by Simon Reynolds”, in The Guardian:
topics: entertainment
fashion
lifestyle
music
synonyms: glitter
glosses: Ellipsis of glam rock, the fashion and culture associated with this genre.
glam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: glammer
form: glammest
Etymology: Clipping of glamour.
Senses: glosses: Glamorous.
glam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: glams
form: glamming
form: glammed
form: glammed
Etymology: Clipping of glamour.
Senses: glosses: To make glamorous or more glamorous.
Derived terms: glam band
Glambert
glamcore
glamfest
glam lesbian
glam-ma
glam metal
glammy
glampire
glam punk
glam rock
neo-glam
Related terms: glitz
curative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjʊɹ.ə.tɪv/
Forms: form: more curative
form: most curative
Etymology: From Middle French curatif.
Senses: examples: text: The curative power of the antibiotics introduced in the 1950s was amazing at the time.
text: Making this request is not considered a curative measure but only for preventive purposes, as the Rambam rights, "A healthy man may read scriptural passages and psalms in order to merit of this reading and be with him and protect him from danger and hurtful influences."
ref: 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 384:
text: He was just as interested in preventive care as he was in curative measures.
ref: 2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 41:
glosses: Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.
examples: text: a curative jury instruction to disregard the sheriff's testimony
glosses: Remediative.
Derived terms: curatively
curativeness
noncurative
subcurative
Related terms: therapeutic
remedial
curative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjʊɹ.ə.tɪv/
Forms: form: curatives
Etymology: From Middle French curatif.
Senses: glosses: A substance that acts as a cure.
curative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjʊɹ.ə.tɪv/
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
hypernyms: causative
glosses: of a verb, conveying the meaning "the agent makes a patient do something"
dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːnsɪz/
ipa: /ˈdænsɪz/
rhymes: (General American) -ænsɪz
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɑːnsɪz
rhymes: -ɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of dance
dances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːnsɪz/
ipa: /ˈdænsɪz/
rhymes: (General American) -ænsɪz
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɑːnsɪz
rhymes: -ɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dance
depressing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɹɛsɪŋ(ɡ)/
ipa: /dɪˈpɹɛsɪŋ/
Forms: form: more depressing
form: most depressing
Senses: examples: text: The television news was depressing, so rather than start crying I turned it off.
synonyms: word: distressing
word: saddening
word: unpleasant
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: deplorable
word: depressing
word: distressing
word: grievous
word: miserable
word: lamentable
word: lachrymable
word: mournful
word: pathetic
word: pathetisad
word: pitiable
word: pitiful
word: pitisome
word: regrettable
word: rueful
word: sad
word: saddening
word: sorrowful
word: tragic
word: unhappy
word: upsetting
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: cheerless
word: comfortless
word: bleak
word: dark
word: depressing
word: desolate
word: dire
word: disconsolate
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: drear
word: drearisome
word: dreary
word: dreich
word: forlorn
word: gayless
word: gray
word: gloomsome
word: gloomy
word: grim
word: joyless
word: lack-laughter
word: lugubrious
word: melancholy
word: mirthless
word: miserable
word: no joke
word: saturnine
word: solemn
word: somber
word: sombre
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: sunless
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unhappy
word: unmerry
word: wintry
word: woeful
glosses: Causing depression or sadness.
examples: text: The policy may have a depressing effect on some branches of industry.
glosses: Causing a reduction in economic activity.
Synonyms: grim
Derived terms: depressingly
depressingness
superdepressing
undepressing
depressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɹɛsɪŋ(ɡ)/
ipa: /dɪˈpɹɛsɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depress
depresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depress
enjoyable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ.jə.bl̩/
ipa: /ənˈd͡ʒɔɪ.jə.bl̩/
ipa: /ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ.jə.bl̩/
Forms: form: more enjoyable
form: most enjoyable
Etymology: From enjoy + -able.
Senses: examples: text: That was an enjoyable day; I had a lot of fun.
glosses: Pleasant, capable of giving pleasure.
Derived terms: enjoyableness
enjoyably
unenjoyable
goth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɒθ/
ipa: /ɡɑθ/
rhymes: -ɒθ
Forms: form: gother
form: gothest
Etymology: From gothic rock, first used by John Stickney in reference to The Doors in 1967 and used by the late 1970s to describe the musical scene that gave rise to the goth subculture, both from a supposed aesthetic similarity to dark and moody 19th century gothic fiction and earlier gothic art and architecture, from Late Latin gothicus (“Gothic, barbaric”), from Ancient Greek Γοτθικός (Gotthikós), from Ancient Greek Γότθοι (Gótthoi, “Goths”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), proposed to derive from unattested Gothic *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰 (*guta).
Senses: examples: text: With her black clothes and dyed hair, Melanie looked very goth compared to her classmates.
text: One of them looked like a total freak who had come straight off a Cirque du Soleil stage, with blue streaks in her hair, goth bracelets up her arm and so much black eyeliner that she could be on the set of Cleopatra.
ref: 2014, Michelle Madow, The Secret Diamond Sisters, page 39:
glosses: Relating to goth music or people.
Related terms: gothic
Gothic
discussing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈskʌsɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discuss
chavs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃævz/
rhymes: -ævz
Senses: glosses: plural of chav
hints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪnts/
rhymes: -ɪnts
Senses: glosses: plural of hint
hints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪnts/
rhymes: -ɪnts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hint
ihn
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of I hope not.
Goth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɒθ/
ipa: /ɡɑθ/
rhymes: -ɒθ
Forms: form: Goths
form: goth
Etymology: From Middle English Gothes, Gotes (both plural). In turn partly from Old English Gotan, singular Gota, and partly from Late Latin Gothi. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gutô, perhaps from *geutaną (“to pour”). Compare Old Norse Goti (“Gotlander, Goth”), and related also to Gutnish, Gotland.
Senses: glosses: A member of the East Germanic people known for their invasion of the western Roman Empire and subsequent founding of successor states in Italy and Spain during Late Antiquity.
glosses: An uncivilized person, a barbarian, a vandal.
examples: text: For most Mansonites, Goth is only a phase, and their fashion and outlook on life change alongside Marilyn Manson's.
ref: 2007, Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture:
glosses: Alternative form of goth (“member of gothic subculture; or the subculture itself”).
Derived terms: Gothic
Related terms: Geat
goth
Gotlander
Gutan
Gutnish
Guton
Ostrogoth
Visigoth
Goth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɒθ/
ipa: /ɡɑθ/
rhymes: -ɒθ
Forms: form: more Goth
form: most Goth
form: goth
Etymology: From Middle English Gothes, Gotes (both plural). In turn partly from Old English Gotan, singular Gota, and partly from Late Latin Gothi. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gutô, perhaps from *geutaną (“to pour”). Compare Old Norse Goti (“Gotlander, Goth”), and related also to Gutnish, Gotland.
Senses: examples: text: Kayla's look tended to change with the seasons; at the moment it was less Goth than paramilitary, with laced jump boots.
ref: 2003, Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill, James P. Baen, Mad Maudlin:
glosses: Alternative form of goth.
Goth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɒθ/
ipa: /ɡɑθ/
rhymes: -ɒθ
Forms: form: Goths
form: goth
Etymology: From Middle English Gothes, Gotes (both plural). In turn partly from Old English Gotan, singular Gota, and partly from Late Latin Gothi. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gutô, perhaps from *geutaną (“to pour”). Compare Old Norse Goti (“Gotlander, Goth”), and related also to Gutnish, Gotland.
Senses: glosses: A surname
Goths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɒθs/
ipa: /ɡɑθs/
rhymes: -ɒθs
rhymes: -ɑθs
Senses: glosses: plural of Goth
goths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goth
all the rage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She sent me to the theatre to see a dancing-woman who was all the rage; […]
ref: 1868, All the Year Round, volume 19, page 148:
synonyms: word: all the go
glosses: Very fashionable and popular, like a craze.
calender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæləndə/
enpr: kălʹəndər
ipa: /ˈkæləndɚ/
rhymes: -æləndə(ɹ)
homophone: calendar
homophone: qalandar
homophone: Callander
Forms: form: calenders
Etymology: * From Middle French calandre, from Late Latin calendra, altered from Latin cylindrus (“cylinder”), from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros). Doublet of calander and cylinder.
* This spelling calender was introduced in the 17th century to differentiate the machine from the chronological senses of calendar.
Senses: glosses: A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance; it consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating.
glosses: One who pursues the business of calendering.
Synonyms: sense: one in the business or trade of calendering
word: calenderer
Derived terms: calendry
runic calender
supercalender
calender
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæləndə/
enpr: kălʹəndər
ipa: /ˈkæləndɚ/
rhymes: -æləndə(ɹ)
homophone: calendar
homophone: qalandar
homophone: Callander
Forms: form: calenders
form: calendering
form: calendered
form: calendered
Etymology: From Middle English calendren, from Middle French calandrer.
Senses: examples: text: He brought out the placard, which was quite a work of art. It was nearly two feet long, printed on calendered paper, with a selection of colors so bright that they shone even in the moonlight.
ref: 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter IV, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:
glosses: To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper etc., as in a calender.
Derived terms: calenderer
recalender
calender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæləndə/
enpr: kălʹəndər
ipa: /ˈkæləndɚ/
rhymes: -æləndə(ɹ)
homophone: calendar
homophone: qalandar
homophone: Callander
Forms: form: calenders
Etymology: From Classical Persian قلندر (qalandar, “wandering dervish”), from Arabic قَلَنْدَار (qalandār, “wandering dervish”), itself from Early Classical Persian کلندر (kalandar, “uncouth man”), from کلند (kaland, “rough, unshaven”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of qalandar.
calender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæləndə/
enpr: kălʹəndər
ipa: /ˈkæləndɚ/
rhymes: -æləndə(ɹ)
homophone: calendar
homophone: qalandar
homophone: Callander
Forms: form: calenders
Senses: examples: text: […]and maruell it is, that for this cauſe he was not ſainted in the Roman Calender.
ref: 1594, Rob[ert] Abbot, A Mirrour of Popish Subtilties: […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Thomas Woodcocke, […], page 104:
text: To theſe the D. of Wittenberge and the Senate of Ulme ioyned their Embaſſadors, who the 4. day of Iune, which according to the Gregorian Calender was the 14. doo ſo arbitrate the matter, that al faults remitted, they after that throghout the whole Citie, ſhould follow the new Calender, which ſhould be kept in policies, and both the Churches of Religion.
ref: 1602, Simon Patrike, transl., The Estate of the Church, with the Discourse of Times, from the Apostles vntill This Present: […], London: […] Thomas Creede, page 648:
text: The other two we ſearch not by Calculation, but Tables, and this two wayes, viz that we may ſatisfie both the Calenders, as well Julian as Gregorian, which as they do not altogether partake of one forme of year; ſo do they neceſſarily varie in their Indiecs of week dayes, and feaſts. The Tables ſhew how in both the Calenders the Dominicall letters anſwer to the Cycle of the Sun, and the Epacts to the golden number in the old Calender perpetually, but in the new one to the year 1700 excluſive, and in the new Calender to the year 1900 excluſive. Nor will it be difficult, by the help of the Table of anticipation to extend theſe Tables further, if the way how the Calender was corrected be fully known.
ref: 1653, Jeremy Shakerley, Tabulæ Britannicæ: The British Tables: […], London: […] R[obert] and W[illiam] Leybourn, for Robert Boydell, […], page 21:
glosses: Obsolete form of calendar.
glosses: Misspelling of calendar.
foursome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈfɔɹsəm/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈfɔːsəm/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)səm
Forms: form: foursomes
Etymology: From four + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The fired-up foursome takes itself very seriously, singing politically charged lyrics, which, in the tradition of Strife and Damnation AD, are strategically placed in the middle of slamming, moshable breakdowns.
ref: 1999, CMJ New Music Report, volume 59, number 631, page 28:
text: And Ms. Davies’s 7,000-square-foot guesthouse, the only building from the original estate to survive, is already a favorite among card-playing foursomes and others who want to lounge on the second-story deck and watch dolphins bob in the whitecapped waves.
ref: 2009 August 30, Laura M. Holson, “A Dip Into Hollywood”, in The New York Times:
text: Also, since the players teed off simultaneously, the infamous "shotgun start," with several foursomes at each tee box, the tournaments ran notoriously slow.
ref: 2011 October, Mike Nettleton, Shotgun Start, Krill Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A group of four, a quartet or a game (such as golf) played by four players, especially by two teams of two.
glosses: A sex act between four people.
Synonyms: sense: group of four
word: quaternion
word: tetrad
word: quartet
sense: sex act
word: fourgie
Derived terms: foursome reel
greensome
mixed foursome
Related terms: threesome
foothold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊthoʊld/
Forms: form: footholds
Etymology: From foot + hold.
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: footing
glosses: A solid grip with the feet.
examples: text: I’ve always looked for a secure foothold
A secret formula that can free me from myself
ref: 2025 July 19, Pacifik, “Bingo Coppa Child”, in Wonderfool, performed by Pacifik:
synonyms: footing
glosses: A secure position from which it is difficult to be dislodged.
examples: text: Based on status report 16-C, it seems we're no closer to gaining a foothold in any sector. Without decent recon and greater intel on this enemy, I'm starting to think our efforts are futile. The risks involved and continued loss of resources and lives makes it hard to justify.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: APEX Status:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Airhead, beachhead, bridgehead, lodgement.
Related terms: footholder
Chianti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪˈantɪ/
ipa: /kiˈɑnti/
ipa: /kiˈænti/
rhymes: -ænti
rhymes: -ɑːnti
Forms: form: Chiantis
form: chianti
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian chianti, after Chianti, its area of production. Through Latin from the Etruscan 𐌂𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌕𐌄 (clante).
Senses: glosses: A hilly geographic region in central Tuscany, Italy, famous for red wines.
glosses: A Tuscan red wine.
Derived terms: Chiantishire
chianti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiantis
Senses: examples: text: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
ref: 1991, Ted Tally, The Silence of the Lambs (motion picture), spoken by Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins):
text: […] the Spouse scavenged and sold scrap metal for a fistful of lire, ate horse meat without censure and lugged straw baskets home from the neighborhood osteria, where chianti flowed from spigots.
ref: 2007 March 11, S.S. Fair, “Lady Slings the Booze”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Chianti.
canteen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăn-tēnʹ
ipa: /kænˈtiːn/
ipa: /kænˈtin/
ipa: [kʰɛə̯nˈtin]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkaɳʈin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: canteens
Etymology: Borrowed from French cantine, itself borrowed from Italian cantina. Doublet of cantina.
Senses: examples: text: He ordered a salad at the canteen.
glosses: A small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work.
glosses: A small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work.
A cafeteria in a school or place of work.
examples: text: Yeah, I worked that bitch. She was buying me all the canteen I wanted.
ref: 1984 December 29, Mykki Balduff, “Prisons and Roles”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 6:
text: “Well, le’me give you some advice,” he continued. “If someone offers you some canteen, don’t take it.”
I instinctively knew what he was warning me against. But I felt slightly disrespected because it wasn’t as if I were a frail young girl who might go out on a date with someone and feel obligated to have sex because the guy had bought me a Happy Meal. The way I saw it, if someone wanted to give me some canteen, I was getting something for nothing!
ref: 2015 November 23, Melvin L. Boone, “Dark Corners”, in Pen America:
text: Administrative Confinement, sort of like a jail inside the prison, this is for those waiting on disciplinary court for a violation, or under investigation, plus other things. 2 man cells, allowed your tablets, some property, some canteen including food, reading books. 4 hours outside exercise weekly after 30 days.
ref: 2024 September 11, Jordangander, “More about solitary: I get conflicting results when I look up what modern solitary is like...?”, in r/Prison:
glosses: A small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work.
Goods purchased from a prison canteen.
glosses: A temporary or mobile café used in an emergency or on a film location etc.
glosses: A box with compartments for storing eating utensils, silverware etc.
glosses: A military mess kit.
examples: text: Come, stack arms, Men! Pile on the rails; stir up the campfire bright; no matter if the canteen fails, we'll make a roaring night. Here Shenandoah brawls along, there burly Blue Ridge echoes strong, to swell the Brigade's rousing song, of “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
ref: 1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way
glosses: A water bottle, flask, or other vessel, typically used by a soldier or camper as a bottle for carrying water or liquor for drink.
Derived terms: amma canteen
canteen cowboy
canteen culture
canteen cup
canteenless
canteen lizard
foursome reel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foursome reels
Senses: glosses: a form of the Scottish highland dance in which groups of four dancers alternate between solo steps facing one another and a figure-of-eight style with intertwining progressive movement.
Related terms: sixsome reel
eightsome reel
canasta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnæstə/
Forms: form: canastas
Etymology: From Spanish canasta. The game originates from Uruguay.
Senses: examples: text: “Do you know something, Fred?” she announced, “I won four dollars and eighty-five cents playing Canasta this afternoon.”
“Canasta!” exclaimed Mr. Grimes, “I didn′t know you could play that silly game.”
ref: 1951 July, Henry F. Tenney, “Per Stirpes and Not Per Capita: Or, What Your Clients Can Never Tell You”, in ABA Journal, page 492:
text: Imagine, first, two players who engage in a game of canasta according to a standard set of rules.[…]We may imagine, however, that at a certain moment the two canasta players cease to play canasta and start a discussion of the rules.
ref: 2004, Gregory Bateson, “15: A Theory of Play and Fantasy”, in Henry Bial, editor, The Performance Studies Reader, page 130:
text: Modern American Canasta is a younger cousin of the game of Canasta I explain here.
ref: 2011, Barry Rigal, Card Games For Dummies, unnumbered page:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A card game similar to rummy and played using two packs, where the object is to meld groups of the same rank.
examples: text: Groups of seven of a kind are called canastas, and before a player can go out he or his partner must have at least one canasta.
ref: 1949 December 19, “The Canasta Craze”, in Life (magazine), page 47:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A meld of seven cards in a game of canasta.
barmaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː(ɹ).meɪd/
Forms: form: barmaids
Etymology: From bar + maid.
Senses: examples: text: At one of the way-stations on his long journey a barmaid at a tavern speaks to Gilgamesh and tries to give him common sense on the human condition.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:
glosses: A woman who serves in a bar.
Related terms: barman
barman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːmən/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹmæn/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹmən/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mən
Forms: form: barmen
Etymology: From bar + -man.
Senses: examples: text: NOT so long ago there was a beer commercial on British TV in which two pointy-headed aliens order a pint in a rural pub. “Up from London, are we?” the barman asks politely.
ref: 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Sep 2013:
glosses: A man who works in a bar.
Synonyms: barkeep
bartender
Related terms: barmaid
astound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstaʊnd/
ipa: /əˈstæɔnd/
ipa: /əˈstæʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: astounds
form: astounding
form: astounded
form: astounded
Etymology: From Middle English astouned, astoned, astuned, past participle of astounen, astonen, astunen (“to astonish”). More at astonish.
Senses: examples: text: 1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 8,
These thoughts may startle well, but not astound
The vertuous mind […]
text: The yell which Isaac raised at this unfeeling communication made the very vault to ring, and astounded the two Saracens so much that they let go their hold of the Jew.
ref: 1820, Walter Scott, chapter 22, in Ivanhoe:
text: The vices of the poor sometimes astound us here; but when the secrets of all hearts shall be made known, their virtues will astound us in far greater degree. Of this I am certain.
ref: 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 6, in Mary Barton:
text: 1982, Paul Auster, “On the High Wire” in The Art of Hunger, Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1992, p. 240,
A young man had strung a wire between the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral and walked and juggled and danced on it for three hours, astounding the crowds of people below.
glosses: To astonish, bewilder or dazzle.
Derived terms: astoundable
astounded
astounder
astounding
astoundment
astound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstaʊnd/
ipa: /əˈstæɔnd/
ipa: /əˈstæʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: more astound
form: most astound
Etymology: From Middle English astouned, astoned, astuned, past participle of astounen, astonen, astunen (“to astonish”). More at astonish.
Senses: examples: text: […] his hollow eyne
Lookt deadly dull, and stared as astound;
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 129:
text: For some Moments the Esquire stood astound, he rubb’d his Eyes, look’d on his Sister, stared at the Maid:
ref: 1760, George Alexander Stevens, chapter 2, in The History of Tom Fool, volume 2, London: T. Waller, page 9:
text: Thus Ellen, dizzy and astound,
As sudden ruin yawned around,
By crossing terrors wildly tossed,
Still for the Douglas fearing most,
Could scarce the desperate thought withstand,
To buy his safety with her hand.
ref: 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto II. The Island.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XXXI, page 36:
glosses: Stunned; astounded; astonished.
weeny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: weenier
form: weeniest
Etymology: Possibly imitative from teeny weeny, or from wee + -y
Senses: glosses: Minuscule.
Derived terms: eeny-weeny
teeny-weeny
weeny-bopper
weeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: weenies
Etymology: From German wiener (“of Vienna”).
The penis term is from its resemblance to a wiener, sometimes thought of as small by influence from teeny weeny.
Senses: glosses: A wiener, a hot dog.
glosses: A penis
watcha
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whatcha.
shish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Etymology: From Turkish şiş (“skewer”).
Senses: examples: text: Ketty wanted one of those healthy kebabs, so we walked down to the kebab shop on Hanmore Park High Street. She ordered shish chicken and salad in a pitta.
ref: 2013, Sophie McKenzie, The Medusa Project Collection:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: On a skewer.
Derived terms: shish kebab
shish taouk
shish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Forms: form: shishes
Etymology: From Turkish şiş (“skewer”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The spine of a shish kebab structure.
gogo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡəʊɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɡoʊɡoʊ/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊɡəʊ
rhymes: (US) -oʊɡoʊ
Forms: form: gogos
Senses: glosses: An elasticated hair band.
Synonyms: scrunchie
scrunchy
gogo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡəʊɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɡoʊɡoʊ/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊɡəʊ
rhymes: (US) -oʊɡoʊ
Forms: form: gogos
Etymology: From Zulu ugogo.
Senses: examples: text: On the weekdays she and Bawinde worked for the South Africans, but as the weekend approached Elizabeth was anxious to get home to see if James had come to visit his gogo in the village.
ref: 2009, Debra Liebenow Daly, The Kingdom of Roses and Thorns, page 112:
glosses: Grandmother; elderly woman.
Related terms: à gogo
Lenz's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Heinrich Lenz, German physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a law of electromagnetic induction which states that an electromotive force, induced in a conductor, is always in such a direction that the current it would produce would oppose the change which caused it; it is a form of the law of conservation of energy
scorching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scorching
form: most scorching
Senses: examples: text: It was a scorching summer, and the ice-cream sellers plied a roaring trade.
glosses: Very hot.
examples: text: Very probably he resolved never to repeat the request which had drawn forth such a scorching rebuke; but there is no evidence of his determination to forsake his iniquitous practices generally.
ref: 1860, Lucius Robinson Paige, A Commentary on the New Testament, volume 3, page 130:
glosses: Bitterly sarcastic; scathing; withering.
examples: text: A ton of scorching content gets released all the time, and it turns out the newest sex movies of 2022 could basically double as (ethical!) porn; they’re that hot.
ref: 2022 November 22, Katherine J Igoe, Rachel Varina, “20 Sexiest Movies of 2022 and Where You Can Stream ’Em All Yourself”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Sexy, sexual, attractive.
examples: text: Dan Patch clocked a scorching 1:55.5 flat.
ref: 1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 186:
glosses: Of speed when driving, running, etc.: Very high.
Derived terms: scorching hot
scorching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scorch
scorching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorchings
Senses: examples: text: There were several slight scratches and scorchings about the face, sides of the neck and shoulders[…]
ref: 1839, The Lancet, volume 2, page 682:
text: Green wood hardens after about four or five scorchings in the fire, but several scorchings are required to drive out the sap.
ref: 1997, Larry Dean Olsen, Outdoor Survival Skills, page 76:
glosses: The act or result of something being scorched.
rosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ross
rosses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ross
Bret
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Brett, ultimately meaning "a Breton".