cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Pyrrhic victory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɪɹ.ɪk ˈvɪk.t(ə)ɹ.i/
Forms: form: Pyrrhic victories
Etymology: After Greek king Pyrrhus of Epirus, who suffered heavy losses while defeating the Romans.
Senses: examples: text: Tough pensions regulation designed to protect employees in final-salary occupational schemes will prove a pyrrhic victory for unions and the government, a report warned yesterday.
ref: 2005 October 6, The Guardian:
text: We now know that it [the Six-Day War] was a Pyrrhic victory.
ref: 2002 November 21, Amos Elon, “Israelis & Palestinians: What Went Wrong?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
synonyms: hollow victory
glosses: A very costly victory, wherein the considerable losses outweigh the gain, so as to render the struggle not worth the cost.
wikipedia: Pyrrhic victory
Pyrrhus of Epirus
Stonewall Jackson
Related terms: Cadmean victory
monkey's paw
bottle opener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle openers
form: bottle-opener
Senses: glosses: A device used to remove the cap from a bottle.
synonyms: corkscrew
glosses: A device used to remove the cork from a bottle.
Hypernyms: sense: both senses
word: opener
Coordinate terms: sense: both senses
word: can opener
Related terms: bottle cap
bottlecap
bottle top
bottletop
church key
twist-off
nid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nids
Senses: examples: text: Owing to the size of the enclosure, most of the hens will commence their laying and nesting operations in the same or similar manner to unrestrained birds, forming their nids, and proceeding in the usual way. The aim of the mode of introducing pheasants here described is […]
ref: 1884, William Carnegie, Practical game preserving, page 15:
glosses: Alternative form of nide (“nest of pheasants”).
nid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of noun inanimate dependent.
Related terms: na
nad
ni
nid-nod
cytotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytotoxins
Etymology: From cyto- + toxin.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any substance having a specific toxic effect on certain cells.
Derived terms: anticytotoxin
Related terms: cytotoxic
cytotoxicity
coulda
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊdə/
ipa: [ˈkʰʊd.ə]
rhymes: -ʊdə
Etymology: Written form of a reduction of could have.
Senses: examples: text: You coulda told him the truth.
glosses: Contraction of could have.
wikipedia: reduction (linguistics)
Synonyms: could of
could've
Derived terms: woulda, coulda, shoulda
Related terms: couldna
shoulda
woulda
mighta
musta
shoulda
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʊdə/
rhymes: -ʊdə
Etymology: Written form of a reduction of should have.
Senses: examples: text: You shoulda told him the truth.
glosses: Contraction of should have.
wikipedia: reduction (linguistics)
Derived terms: woulda, coulda, shoulda
Related terms: coulda
shouldna
should've
woulda
mighta
musta
woulda
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊdə/
rhymes: -ʊdə
Etymology: Eye dialect form of a reduction of would have.
Senses: examples: text: You woulda told him the truth.
text: Otherwise I just woulda dunked you instead a bringing you here to my spread.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, →ISBN, page 396:
glosses: Contraction of would have.
wikipedia: reduction (linguistics)
Derived terms: woulda, coulda, shoulda
meu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuː/
ipa: /ˈmju/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: mew
Etymology: From Latin mēum (“umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum”), from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon), probably from μεῖον (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size. The English form came perhaps via Middle French meu, a word with a single isolated attestation from the 14th century which only began to appear consistently from 1568, by which time the word was established in English.
Senses: synonyms: meon
meum
baldmoney
spignel
bearwort
glosses: Meum athamanticum, a European herb.
meu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuː/
ipa: /ˈmju/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: meus
form: Meu
form: mehu
form: Mehu
Etymology: Borrowed from Fon mɛ̀wú (“meu”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: migan
glosses: The second minister of the Kingdom of Dahomey.
to and fro
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtuː ən(d)ˈfɹəʊ/
Forms: form: to-and-fro
Senses: examples: text: A light tossing to and fro and still rapidly advancing showed that one of the newcomers carried a lantern.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 4, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: Article V.—In consideration of the numerous difficulties arising from the authority exercised by local officials over the legal traffic at such places on the boundary as I-chou, Hui-ning, and Ch’ing-yuan, it has now been decided that the people on the frontier shall be free to go to and fro and trade as they please at Ts’e-men and I-chou on the two sides of the Ya-lu River, and at Hun-ch’un and Hui-ning on the two sides of the T’u-men River.
ref: 1882, G. W. Keeton, “Regulations for Maritime and Overland Trade between Chinese and Korean Subjects, 1882”, in The Development of Extraterritoriality in China, volume II, Longmans, Green & Co., published 1928, →OCLC, page 341:
text: But presently the fumes of the wine rising to his head, he became helplessly drunk and his side-muscles and limbs relaxed and he swayed to and fro on my back. When I saw that he had lost his senses for drunkenness, I put my head to his legs and, loosing them from my neck, stooped down well-nigh to the ground and threw him at full length, […]
ref: 1885–1888, 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 (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
text: He bends his knees more than the white man, and oscillates more to and fro, or from side to side.
ref: 1886, John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine, page 13:
text: Even charges hopping on a larger array of localized sites than the two sites in (ii) execute normally many more to-and-fro oscillating motions than ...
ref: 1979, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), IEEE Electrical Insulation Society, tAnnual report - Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena, page 396:
glosses: Back and forth; with a reciprocating motion.
to and fro
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtuː ən(d)ˈfɹəʊ/
Forms: form: tos and fros
form: to and fros
form: toing and froing
form: to and froing
form: toed and froed
form: toed and froed
form: to and froed
form: to and froed
form: to-and-fro
Senses: examples: text: "For a while I didn't tell anyone on the ward where I was going, but my toing and froing made people curious and eventually I confided in a few."
ref: 2015, Barbara Taylor, The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times:
glosses: To go back and forth; to alternate.
to and fro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtuː ən(d)ˈfɹəʊ/
Forms: form: to-and-fro
Senses: examples: text: The next day he had more power of moving his limbs, and the to and fro sound was thought to be a little less distinct.
ref: 1847, Peter Mere Latham, Lectures on subjects connected with clinical medicine, comprising diseases, page 90:
glosses: Pertaining to something or someone moving forward and back to the same position.
to and fro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtuː ən(d)ˈfɹəʊ/
Forms: form: to and fros
form: tos and fros
form: to-and-fro
Senses: examples: text: My life's a maze of seeming traps, A scene of mercies and mishaps; A heap of jarring to and fros, A field of joys, A field of woes.
ref: 1849, Ralph Erskine, Gospel sonnets; or, Spiritual songs, page 233:
glosses: The movement (of someone or something) forward followed by a return to the same position. May refer to a concept such as an emotional state or a relationship as well as a physical thing.
hydrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: We took the powdered milk and hydrated it until it was drinkable.
glosses: simple past and past participle of hydrate
hydrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hydrated
form: most hydrated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Combined chemically with water.
examples: text: Stay hydrated.
glosses: Not suffering from dehydration.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: dihydrated
euhydrated
hemihydrated
heptahydrated
hexahydrated
hydrated silica
monohydrated
normohydrated
pentahydrated
prehydrated
trihydrated
husking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌskɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌskɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of husk
husking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌskɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌskɪŋ
Forms: form: huskings
Senses: synonyms: shucking
cornhusking
cornshucking
glosses: Removal of a husk; usually:
The act or process of husking maize.
synonyms: shucking
husking bee
cornhusking
cornshucking
glosses: Removal of a husk; usually:
A meeting of neighbours or friends to assist in this task; a fairground competition inspired by such communal work.
Derived terms: cornhusking
husk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌsk/
ipa: /hʊsk/
rhymes: -ʌsk
Forms: form: husks
Etymology: From Middle English huske, husk (“husk”). Perhaps from Old English *husuc, *hosuc (“little covering, sheath”), diminutive of hosu (“pod, shell, husk”), from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“covering, shell, leggings”), from Proto-Indo-European *kawəs- / kawes- (“cover”). If so, equivalent to hose + -ock.
Alternatively from Middle Low German hûs(e)ken, hü̂seken (“little house, sheath”), Middle Dutch husekijn (“little house, core of fruit, case”), diminutive of hûs (“house”). Compare Dutch huisje, German Häuschen, both also used for “snailshell”.
Senses: examples: text: A coconut has a very thick husk.
glosses: The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside.
examples: text: His attorney was a dried-up husk of a man.
text: Unlike dogs, cats have retractable claws which do not wear down when walking. Instead, cats pull the old husk of nail from their claws by raking them down some convenient piece of wood, to expose a new sharp claw underneath.
ref: 1991, Morgan Kerr, Norman Kerr, An Introduction to Cat Care, page 63:
glosses: Any form of useless, dried up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something.
glosses: The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
Derived terms: cornhusk
dehusk
huskless
husklike
husk tomato
rice husk
unhusk
husk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌsk/
ipa: /hʊsk/
rhymes: -ʌsk
Forms: form: husks
form: husking
form: husked
form: husked
Etymology: From Middle English huske, husk (“husk”). Perhaps from Old English *husuc, *hosuc (“little covering, sheath”), diminutive of hosu (“pod, shell, husk”), from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“covering, shell, leggings”), from Proto-Indo-European *kawəs- / kawes- (“cover”). If so, equivalent to hose + -ock.
Alternatively from Middle Low German hûs(e)ken, hü̂seken (“little house, sheath”), Middle Dutch husekijn (“little house, core of fruit, case”), diminutive of hûs (“house”). Compare Dutch huisje, German Häuschen, both also used for “snailshell”.
Senses: glosses: To remove husks from.
Derived terms: dehusk
husker
husk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌsk/
ipa: /hʊsk/
rhymes: -ʌsk
Etymology: Partly imitative, partly from Etymology 1, above, influenced by husky.
Senses: examples: text: The symptoms of Husk are a constant cough, rapid loss of flesh, difficulty in breathing and, in the later stages, loss of appetite and diarrhœa.
ref: 1876, John Walker, How to Farm with Profit Arable and Pasture Land: A Practical Manual on Modern Agriculture, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, page 78:
glosses: An infection in cattle caused by a species of Dictyocaulus or lungworm
husk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌsk/
ipa: /hʊsk/
rhymes: -ʌsk
Forms: form: husks
form: husking
form: husked
form: husked
Etymology: Partly imitative, partly from Etymology 1, above, influenced by husky.
Senses: examples: text: Back on the veranda he said to Lace gravely, "I do believe that poor child's in the family way." Lace, tracing the pattern of the matting with his boot, husked, and murmured, "Yes — I think so.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 181:
glosses: To cough, clear one's throat.
examples: text: The French captain did not immediately respond; he looked at his men with a miserable expression [...]; still he hesitated, drooped, and finally husked, "Je me rends," with a look still more wretched.
ref: 2006, Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon, Del Rey Books, page 5:
glosses: To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.
Related terms: husky
tillite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪlʌɪt/
Forms: form: tillites
Etymology: From till + -ite, after German Tillit.
Senses: examples: text: The most straightforward example is probably provided by tillites.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 127:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Glacial till cemented into a solid rock.
atomizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæt.əˌmaɪz.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈæt.əˌmaɪz.ɚ/
Forms: form: atomizers
form: atomiser
Etymology: From atomize + -er.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for reducing a liquid to spray or vapor for disinfecting, cooling, medical use or perfume spraying.
Derived terms: cartomizer
Chicago atomizer
clearomizer
microatomizer
Related terms: atomize
invert sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnvɜː(ɹ)t ˈʃʊɡə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: invert sugars
Senses: synonyms: word: saccharum
glosses: An equal mixture of glucose and fructose formed by the enzymatic hydrolysis of sucrose; it is found in honey and some fruits, and also produced industrially.
Derived terms: invert sugar injection
invert sugar syrup
atrocious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-trō′-shəs
ipa: /əˈtɹəʊʃəs/
ipa: /əˈtɹoʊʃəs/
rhymes: -əʊʃəs
Forms: form: more atrocious
form: most atrocious
Etymology: From Latin atrōx (“cruel, fierce, frightful”) + -ious.
Senses: examples: text: Prisons have been the sites of atrocious mistreatment of prisoners.
glosses: Frightful, evil, cruel, or monstrous.
examples: text: I had resolved in my own mind, that to create another like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness; and I banished from my mind every thought that could lead to a different conclusion.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter III, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 55:
glosses: Offensive or heinous.
examples: text: Their taste in clothes is just atrocious.
text: Others of the sailors joined with them in this attempt, and a twisted turmoil ensued; while standing out of harm's way, the valiant captain danced up and down with a whale-pike, calling upon his officers to manhandle that atrocious scoundrel, and smoke him along to the quarter-deck.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Town-Ho’s Story. (As Told at the Golden Inn.)”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 280:
text: The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 58:
glosses: Very bad; abominable, disgusting.
Derived terms: atrociously
atrociousness
monstrocious
vomitrocious
Related terms: atrocity
atrous
antipodean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˌtɪp.əˈdi.ən/
Senses: glosses: diametrically opposed
glosses: relating to the antipodes, or situated at opposite sides of the Earth
examples: text: So there is a certain sense of achievement just in arriving in Australia—a pleasure and satisfaction to be able to step from the airport terminal into dazzling antipodean sunshine[…]
ref: 2000, Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country, pages 10–11:
glosses: of, or pertaining to, Australia or New Zealand
Related terms: antipodes
antipodean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˌtɪp.əˈdi.ən/
Forms: form: antipodeans
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the antipodes.
Related terms: antoecus
ecumenic
perioecus
lanceolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lanceolate
form: most lanceolate
form: lanceolated
Etymology: From Latin lanceolatus.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the general shape of a lance; much longer than wide, with the widest part lower than the middle and a pointed apex.
examples: text: The stone tools in these levels include Still Bay points, beautifully shaped thin lanceolate spear points, flaked on both sides.
ref: 2011, Chris Stringer, The Origin of Our Species, Penguin, published 2012, page 127:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a class of knapped stone points, made without a stem, shoulders, notches, or other features that aid in attachment to a shaft.
Derived terms: lanceolately
oblanceolate
semilanceolate
sublanceolate
lanceolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanceolates
form: lanceolated
Etymology: From Latin lanceolatus.
Senses: glosses: Any such artefact.
smoke explosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke explosions
Senses: topics: firefighting
government
glosses: An explosion of flue gases accumulated inside a burning building.
Related terms: fire
firefighting
volatile
knap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /næp/
homophone: nap
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: knaps
form: knapping
form: knapped
form: knapped
Etymology: Origin uncertain; possibly:
* from Middle English *kneppen (compare Middle English knippette (“pincers for cracking nuts”)), from Old Norse kneppa (“to pinch, press, squeeze; to button, clasp; to hug”), from Proto-Germanic *knappijaną (“to clamp; to squeeze”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnebʰ- (“to constrict, tighten; to press”);
* related to knap (etymology 1); or
* imitative of a mouth snapping shut; compare gnap (“to snap at”) (obsolete except Scotland), nab (“to bite gently, nibble”) (obsolete except Southern and Western England).
Senses: examples: text: I vvould ſhee vvere as lying goſſippe in that, as euer knapt Ginger, or made her neighbors beleeue ſhe vvept for the death of a third husband: […]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], signature E2, verso:
text: [H]orses' playful neigh, / From rustic's whips, and plough, and waggon, free, / Baiting in careless freedom o'er the leas, / Or turn'd to knap each other at their ease.
ref: 1821, John Clare, “[Poems.] Sunday Walks.”, in The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems, volume II, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […]; and E[dward] Drury, […], →OCLC, pages 105–106:
glosses: To take a small, quick bite at or of (someone or something); to nibble, to nip, to snap.
examples: text: [In Thomas Elyot's book The Boke Named the Governour (1531)] vvere ſome ſharp and quick ſentences; vvhich many of the ſparks could not vvell bear. They complained of his ſtrange terms, as they called them. Theſe Elyot compared to a galled horſe abiding no plaiſters, that vvere alvvays knapping and kicking at ſuch examples and ſentences as they felt ſharp, or did bite them.
ref: 1721, John Strype, “The King’s Primer; for the Better Instruction of the Laity. Seditious Books Called in. Sir Tho. Eliot’s Letter to Crumwel on this Occasion. Some Account of this Learned Knight.”, in Ecclesiastical Memorials; Relating Chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation of It: Shewing the Various Emergencies of the Church of England, under King Henry the Eighth. […], volume I, London: […] John Wyat, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To take a small, quick bite.
knap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /næp/
homophone: nap
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: knaps
form: knapping
form: knapped
form: knapped
Etymology: See nap (etymology 5).
Senses: examples: text: Some entered the ring in very bad condition, and immediately got a-piping, like hot mutton pies—fell on their own blows, and knapped it every round, till they shewed the white feather and bolted.
ref: 1820 October, “An Hour’s Tete-a-tete with the Public”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume VIII, number XLIII, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Davies, […], →OCLC, page 81:
text: [T]o knap a clout, is to steal a pocket-handkerchief: to knap the swag from your pall, is to take from him the property he has just stolen, for the purpose of carrying it: to knap seven or fourteen pen'worth, is to receive sentence of transportation for seven or fourteen years: to knap the glim, is to catch the venereal disease: in making a bargain, to knap the sum offered you, is to accept it; […]
ref: [1823, [Francis Grose]; Pierce Egan, “Knap”, in Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, […], London: […] [Samuel] Hooper and [Henry] Wigstead, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of nap (“to arrest (someone); to grab or nab (someone or something); to steal (something); (obsolete) to receive (severe punishment), especially during a boxing match or a flogging; (generally) to receive (something)”).
bozo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.zəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊzəʊ
Forms: form: bozos
Etymology: Attested since the 1910s in American English, of uncertain origin. The term may derive from Spanish bozal, a term originally for a recently-imported slave and then "someone who speaks (Spanish) poorly". The term is older than Bozo the Clown, introduced in 1946. It is used as an insult in the 1931 Marx Brothers movie Monkey Business (1931 film). Derivation of the term from French bouseux /bu.zø/, a derogative term for a farmer equivalent to "bumpkin", is phonologically unlikely. Another possibility is Japanese 坊主 (bōzu) in its meaning of "young man", which can be derogatory, depending on the context.
Senses: examples: text: ‘What’s the big bozo up to?’
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 51:
glosses: A stupid, foolish, or ridiculous person, especially a man.
wikipedia: Bozo the Clown
Marx Brothers
Monkey Business (1931 film)
Derived terms: bozo bin
bozo eruption
bozo filter
bozoid
bozon
bozone layer
bozosity
bozotic
Obozo
Slurpee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Slurpees
form: slurpee
Etymology: From slurp + -ee. Originally a brand name.
Senses: synonyms: word: ICEE
word: slosh
word: slush
word: slushie
word: slush puppy
word: Slush Puppie
glosses: A slushie; a partially-frozen drink made of small ice crystals flavored with syrup.
Related terms: 7-Eleven
ice lolly
ice pop
popsicle
slurpy
slurry
snowcone
prorogue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹə(ʊ)ˈɹəʊɡ/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈɹoʊɡ/
rhymes: -əʊɡ
Forms: form: prorogues
form: proroguing
form: prorogued
form: prorogued
Etymology: From Old French proroger, proroguer, from Latin prōrogō (“prolong, defer”).
Senses: examples: text: On 9 September, when Parliament was prorogued until 14 October [later reversed by the Supreme Court], spelling the end of 12 pieces of legislation, it emerged that the High Speed Rail (West Midlands-Crewe) Bill was one of only three bills which will be carried over into the new parliamentary session.
ref: 2019 October, Dan Harvey, “HS2 costs rise as schedule slips”, in Modern Railways, page 9:
coordinate_terms: adjourn
dissolve
glosses: To suspend (a parliamentary session) or to discontinue the meetings of (an assembly, parliament etc.) without formally ending the session.
glosses: To defer.
examples: text: Mirth[…]prorogues life, whets the wit, makes the body young, lively, and fit for any manner of employment.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv:
text: The King settled to prorogue Parliament until the Christmas holidays, and to do nothing else for the present.
ref: 1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 20, in Friday's Business:
glosses: To prolong or extend.
Synonyms: sense: to defer
word: defer
sense: to defer
word: postpone
sense: to prolong
word: extend
sense: to prolong
word: prolong
sense: to prolong
word: protract
Derived terms: prorogate
prorogation
prorogator
proroguement
cleave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kliːv/
ipa: /kliv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: cleaves
form: cleaving
form: cleft
form: clove
form: cleaved
form: clave
form: cleft
form: clove
form: cleaved
form: clave
form: cloven
Etymology: From Middle English cleven, from the Old English strong verb clēofan (“to split, to separate”), from Proto-West Germanic *kleuban, from Proto-Germanic *kleubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glewbʰ- (“to cut, to slice”).
Doublet of clive. Cognate with Dutch klieven, dialectal German klieben, Swedish klyva, Norwegian Nynorsk kløyva; also Ancient Greek γλύφω (glúphō, “carve”).
Senses: examples: text: The wings clove the foggy air.
text: O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
text: Hee claue the rockes in the wildernes: and gaue them drinke as out of the great depthes.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 78:15:
synonyms: rive
glosses: To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.
examples: text: The truck clove a path through the ice.
glosses: To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
glosses: (chemistry) To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
examples: text: And it came to passe as he had made an ende of speaking all these words, that the ground claue asunder that was vnder them:
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 16:31:
glosses: To split.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.
Derived terms: autocleave
cleavability
cleavable
cleave gag
miscleave
photocleave
recleave
tocleave
uncleave
cleave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kliːv/
ipa: /kliv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: cleaves
Etymology: From Middle English cleven, from the Old English strong verb clēofan (“to split, to separate”), from Proto-West Germanic *kleuban, from Proto-Germanic *kleubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glewbʰ- (“to cut, to slice”).
Doublet of clive. Cognate with Dutch klieven, dialectal German klieben, Swedish klyva, Norwegian Nynorsk kløyva; also Ancient Greek γλύφω (glúphō, “carve”).
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.
examples: text: There are very striking scenes on some of the lesser streams at this portion of their course. The deep gorge of the Lyd is famous. In the "cleaves," or cleft rocky valleys of Lustleigh and of the Tavy, many a long summer day may be spent with delight; and the Erme, which descends by Ivy Bridge, is not less worthy of a pilgrimage. As the rivers leave the moorland they are crossed by venerable and picturesque bridges which, like that of Harford in our illustration, sometimes afford an admirable framework for the distant landscape.
ref: 1876-1879, Picturesque Europe: With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by the Most Eminent Artists, Cassell, Petter, Galpin, page 213:
text: The valley by which the Taw leaves the Moor forms one of the cleaves that add so greatly to the attractions of the place, and this bears the same name as the parish.
ref: 1905, William Crossing, Gems in a Granite Setting; Beauties of the Lone Land of Dartmoor, Plymouth Western Morning News Company, page 48:
text: Early the next morning, when there was a tender pink light upon all the moor, and the gentle wind was filled with the purest odours found upon earth, the smell of firs and peat and dewy heather, and the first sunbeams seemed to be creeping down the side of the cleave to drink of the river, poor ill-used John Petherick was evicted at last from Wheal Dream and went into the immortality which he could not think about.
ref: 1909, John Trevena, Heather, Moffat, Yard and Company, page 447:
glosses: A cut (slash) or a cut location, either naturally or artificially.
Derived terms: cleaver
Related terms: cleavage
cleft
cleave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kliːv/
ipa: /kliv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: cleaves
form: cleaving
form: cleaved
form: cleaved
Etymology: From Middle English cleven, a conflation of two verbs: Old English clifian (from Proto-West Germanic *klibēn, from Proto-Germanic *klibāną) and Old English clīfan (from Proto-West Germanic *klīban, from Proto-Germanic *klībaną), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gleybʰ- (“to stick”). Cognate with Dutch kleven, German kleben (“to stick”).
Senses: examples: text: And they lift vp their voyce, and wept againe: and Orpah kissed her mother in law, but Ruth claue vnto her.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ruth 1:14:
text: Neuerthelesse, hee cleaued vnto the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, which made Israel to sinne; he departed not therefrom.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 3:3:
text: Yet not as therefore cruell things ſhould cleave / To gentle; not that vve ſhould Serpents ſee / VVith Doves; or Lambs vvith Tigres coupled be.
ref: a. 1638 (date written), Quintus Horatius Flaccus [i.e., Horace], translated by Ben Jonson, Q. Horatius Flaccus: His Art of Poetry. […], London: […] J[ohn] Okes, for John Benson […], published 1640, →OCLC, page 2, lines 14–16:
text: He was in such a rage that his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth. He could not even swear. He could only splutter.
ref: 1881, Walter Besant, James Rice, “How Will Would Not Be Crossed”, in The Chaplain of the Fleet […], volume III, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, part II (The Queen of the Wells), pages 163–164:
text: "I only know that I love thee as I never loved before, and that I will cleave to thee to the end."
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: In fact everyone is obligated, to this loving cleaving to God as necessary for salvation, in the form of observing the commandments and conforming to the divine will,[…]
ref: 2019 December 7, St. Albertus Magnus, On Cleaving to God, Dalcassian Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: Followed by to or unto: to adhere, cling, or stick fast to something.
comal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comals
form: comales
Etymology: From Mexican Spanish comal, from Classical Nahuatl comālli.
Senses: examples: text: A freshly ground masa tortilla, as it cooks on a comal, inflates as the steam inside pushes apart the sides and releases an intoxicating toasted corn aroma.
ref: 2023 July 7, Rick A. Martínez, “For the Best Tortillas (and Gorditas and Tetelas), You Need Fresh Masa”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A flat, pan-like clay or metal griddle used to cook tortillas or other foods.
Related terms: tenamaste
paresthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpærɪsˈθiːziə
ipa: -ʒə/
Forms: form: paresthesias
form: paresthesiae
form: paraesthesia
form: paræsthesia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παραίσθησις (paraísthēsis). By surface analysis, para- + -esthesia.
Senses: examples: text: Paresthesia occurs when a body part 'falls asleep'.
glosses: A sensation of burning, prickling, itching, or tingling of the skin, with no obvious cause.
Derived terms: acroparesthesia
hemiparesthesia
Related terms: blood runs cold
formication
pins and needles
foramen ovale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foramen ovales
Etymology: Latin for "egg-shaped hole".
Senses: examples: text: The second point, as urged by Dr. Norman Chevere, "That a closed foramen ovale is not a proof in jurisprudence that a child has lived;" for in this case the occlusion must have existed long before birth.
ref: 1846, London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine, volume 38, page 1077:
text: If the blood entering the right atrium from the great veins contains more emboli, some of these may pass into the left atrium by way of the incompletely closed channel at the foramen ovale.
ref: 1953, Sylvester Emanuel Gould, Pathology of the Heart, page 267:
text: Thus in those conditions associated with obstruction to the right side of the heart, such as tricuspid atresia or pulmonary atresia with intactventricular^([sic]) septum, the foramen ovale is necessary to provide systemic blood flow.
ref: 2009, Abraham Rudolph, Congenital Diseases of the Heart: Clinical-Physiological Considerations, Third Edition, 2013, page 282:
topics: anatomy
embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An opening in the septum between the right and left atria of the fetal heart that normally closes after birth.
Derived terms: patent foramen ovale
Related terms: hole in the heart
vincinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, belonging to, or restricted to a limited area or neighborhood; local.
glosses: Relating to or being a local road.
glosses: Mineralogy. Approximating, resembling, or taking the place of a fundamental crystalline form or face.
glosses: Chemistry. Of or relating to the consecutive positions of substituted elements or radicals on an organic compound.
Related terms: vicinity
clockwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɑkwɝk/
ipa: /ˈklɒkwɜːk/
Forms: form: clockworks
Etymology: From clock + -work.
Senses: examples: text: Many contrivances for making model horses move up and down as on roundabouts were patented in 1887, and toy horses pulling toy carts were made to imitate galloping by means of clockwork.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 67:
glosses: A mechanism powered by a coiled spring and regulated by some form of escapement; the power is transmitted through toothed gearwheels and used to drive a mechanical clock, toy, or other device.
examples: text: The mind feeds upon the body: pale sickness, and early decrepitude, overmaster even its spiritual essence. Too late it discovers that this earth is its prison, and not its home: the heart beats, and its pulses are the clockwork of wretchedness:...
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Evening Alone”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 307:
glosses: The action of behaving mechanically in the manner of a clock.
Derived terms: clockworklike
clockwork orange
clockwork radio
clockwork universe
clockworky
like atomic clockwork
like clockwork
regular as clockwork
clockwork
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɑkwɝk/
ipa: /ˈklɒkwɜːk/
Etymology: From clock + -work.
Senses: glosses: Driven by clockwork.
examples: text: In their freight, as in their passenger operations, the N.S. present a picture of clockwork efficiency.
ref: 1962 April, J. M. Tolson, “The Nederlands Railways today: III: Signalling and freight”, in Modern Railways, page 244:
glosses: Very smooth and regular.
problema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈblɛmə/
rhymes: -ɛmə
Forms: form: problemata
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek πρόβλημα (próblēma). Doublet of problem.
Senses: glosses: A problem set forth in the Ancient Greek scholarly tradition.
incentre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: incentres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of incenter.
incircle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incircles
Etymology: From in- + circle.
Senses: examples: text: To construct the incircle of ΔABC, we need the center of the circle and a pass-through point.
ref: 2003, Clark Kimberling, Geometry in Action: A Discovery Approach Using the Geometer's Sketchpad, page 16:
text: Having constructed K, the incircle of the quadrilateral can be easily constructed since it is tangent to BA and BC.
ref: 2005, István Reiman, International Mathematical Olympiad: 1959-1975, page 51:
text: For example, in Figure 4.2a only two edges of the polygon are tangent to the incircle. The other four edges do not even touch the incircle, but their extensions, shown by dotted lines, are tangent to the incircle.
ref: 2012, Tom M. Apostol, Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian, New Horizons in Geometry, Mathematical Association of America, page 106:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A circle within a polygon, especially a triangle, that is tangent to each side.
Synonyms: sense: circle tangent to all sides
word: inscribed circle
Related terms: incentre
incenter
inradius
insphere
incircle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incircles
form: incircling
form: incircled
form: incircled
Etymology: From in- + circle.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of encircle.
Related terms: excircle
circumcircle
bleacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: blēʹ-chər
ipa: /ˈbli.t͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈbliː.t͡ʃə/
rhymes: -iːtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bleachers
Etymology: From Middle English blechere, equivalent to bleach + -er. Compare Dutch bleker, Swedish blekare. The seating was so named because the boards were bleached by the sun.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, bleaches.
examples: text: There could be a rough crowd out in the bleachers.
text: It seemed silly for the crowd to applaud or groan over what you had already felt in your fingers or even in your arms as you braced to shoot or for that matter in your eyes: when he was hot he could see the separate threads wound into the strings looping the hoop. Yet at the start of the game when you came out for warm-up and could see all the town clunkers sitting in the back of the bleachers elbowing each other and the cheerleaders wisecracking with the racier male teachers, the crowd then seemed right inside you, your liver and lungs and stomach.
ref: 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 34:
text: Warnings such as "watch your step" can be provided when there is a small step off a bleacher to the pavement or ground level.
ref: 1999, Jim Puhalla, Jeff Krans, Mike Goatley, Sports Fields: A Manual for Design, Construction and Maintenance - Page 371:
text: We prefer bleacher seats to Grandstand Sections 1-9. And in truth, quite a few bleacher seats offer a better view of the action than the Right Field Boxes do. Bleacher seats are made of comfortable plastic, […]
ref: 2004, Josh Pahigian, Kevin O'Connell, The Ultimate Baseball Road-Trip:
synonyms: stand
terrace
glosses: A stand of tiered planks used as seating for spectators, often outdoors.
examples: text: In practice, audience members often have badly obstructed views of the sets—whether due to obstructive camera dollies and production personnel or viewers sitting in the bleachers off to the side of the set that is currently being used.
ref: 2010, Jeremy G. Butler, Television Style:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: The tiered seating provided for the audience at a television filming.
Derived terms: bleachered
bleacherite
bleacherlike
Related terms: bleachery
apple of the eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæp.əl.əv.ðiˈaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: apples of the eye
Etymology: From Middle English appel of the eyȝe, appel of þe ye, perhaps dissimilated from Middle English ij appel (literally “eye-apple”). More at eye-apple.
Senses: synonyms: apple
eye-apple
glosses: The pupil, or pupil and iris, of the eye, originally believed to be spherical; also, the eyeball.
Related terms: apple of someone's eye
Glasgow kiss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Glasgow kisses
Etymology: Sarcastic reference to the supposed stereotypical belligerence of Glaswegians.
Senses: examples: text: In a Glasgow Kiss the hard head butted his huge nose, flattened it with a crunching sound […]
ref: 1962, Frank Bruno, The Black Pearl, page 187:
text: […] the first white Yank glasses the first black Yank so I get in there and gave him the Glasgow kiss and that's that.
ref: 2014, Iain Maloney, First Time Solo, →ISBN, page 60:
synonyms: Gorbals kiss
glosses: A sharp, sudden headbutt to the nose, usually resulting in a broken nose.
Related terms: Glasgow smile
Glaswegian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlazˈwiːdʒən/
rhymes: -iːdʒən
Forms: form: more Glaswegian
form: most Glaswegian
Etymology: From Glasgow, modelled after Galwegian (“inhabitant of Galway”), itself modelled after Norwegian (“inhabitant of Norway”). The noun is from the adjective. Coined by Scottish novelist, poet and playwright Walter Scott.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Glasgow in Scotland.
Glaswegian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlazˈwiːdʒən/
rhymes: -iːdʒən
Forms: form: Glaswegians
Etymology: From Glasgow, modelled after Galwegian (“inhabitant of Galway”), itself modelled after Norwegian (“inhabitant of Norway”). The noun is from the adjective. Coined by Scottish novelist, poet and playwright Walter Scott.
Senses: examples: text: The Glaswegians bore good-humouredly the mishaps which occasionally disrupted the services during the first month.
ref: 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: The Glasgow debacle”, in Trains Illustrated, page 66:
glosses: A native or resident of Glasgow.
Derived terms: Weegie
Simone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: sə-mōn'
ipa: /səˈməʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: Symone
Etymology: From French Simone, feminine form of Simon.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
Simone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: sə-mōn'
ipa: /səˈməʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: Simones
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Simone.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
rebus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rē'bəs
ipa: /ˈɹiːbəs/
ipa: /ˈɹibəs/
rhymes: -iːbəs
Forms: form: rebuses
form: rebusses
form: rebusing
form: rebussing
form: rebused
form: rebused
form: rebussed
form: rebussed
Etymology: From French rébus (“rebus (puzzle); ambiguity; word used in an oblique sense; unintelligible remark”), or directly from its probable etymon Latin rēbus, the ablative plural of rēs (“object, stuff, thing; issue, matter, subject, topic”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“goods; wealth”). The connection between the English word and its Latin etymon is unclear.
further etymology
The following possibilities have been suggested, but according to the Oxford English Dictionary are problematic:
* According to the French scholar Gilles Ménage (1613–1692) in Les origines de la langue françoise (The Origins of the French Language, 1650), it is taken from the phrase de rebus quae geruntur (“concerning the things that are taking place”) which was used in 16th-century Picardy as the name for satirical writings on contemporary subjects containing picture-riddles that were composed for an annual carnival. However, the term rebus de Picardie is first attested later than the word rébus, and so could simply refer to rebuses popular in Picardy at the time.
* Alternatively, it could be from the phrase nōn verbīs sed rēbus meaning “not by words but by things”, but this “encounters difficulties in the chronology of the senses in French”.
Senses: glosses: To represent (a phrase or word) as a rebus.
examples: text: He [John Morton] was a learned man, and had a fair library, (rebussed with more in text and tun under it,) partly remaining in the possession of the late earl of Arundel.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, “Section IV. To John Ferrars, of Tamworth Castle, Esquire.”, in The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI), subsection 34 (The Death of Archbishop Morton. A.D. 1500.), page 539:
glosses: To apply a rebus to (something).
Slush Puppie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Slush Puppies
Etymology: Blend of slush + hushpuppy, a trademark.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Slush Puppie?’ asks Fin.
‘Syrup mixed with piles of crushed ice,’ replies Daniel. ‘Don’t you know it? It looked radioactive and chemically but tasted cool and delicious.’
ref: 2023, H. Gareth Gavin, Never Was, Cipher Press, pages 128-129:
glosses: A slushie, a slush, a nonalcoholic drink made of small ice crystals flavored with syrup.
Synonyms: word: Slurpee
word: slushie
Derived terms: english: not to be confused with Slush Puppy
translation: not to be confused with Slush Puppy
word: slush puppy
Related terms: english: an alcoholic drink; not to be confused with slush puppy
translation: an alcoholic drink; not to be confused with slush puppy
word: Slush Puppy
good length
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good lengths
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The area on a pitch considered to be the best place to pitch the ball in order to either get the batter out, or restrict them from scoring; the length at which the ball bounces just too far away for it to be comfortably played either on the front foot or the back foot.
good length
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Describing a ball so pitched
doss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒs/
ipa: /dɑs/
rhymes: -ɒs
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: dosses
form: dossing
form: dossed
form: dossed
Etymology: Perhaps from Latin dorsum (“the back”), i.e. what one lies on when sleeping; perhaps from English dialect doss (“a hassock”).
Senses: examples: text: I am going to doss tomorrow when the match is on.
glosses: To avoid work, shirk, etc.
examples: text: I normally have to doss in shop doorways or on park benches.
glosses: To sleep, especially in the open or in a derelict building because one is homeless.
Derived terms: dosser
doss off
doss out
overdoss
doss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒs/
ipa: /dɑs/
rhymes: -ɒs
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: dosses
Etymology: Perhaps from Latin dorsum (“the back”), i.e. what one lies on when sleeping; perhaps from English dialect doss (“a hassock”).
Senses: examples: text: I am going to have a doss tomorrow.
glosses: The avoidance of work.
examples: text: Circumnavigating the world in a canoe is no doss.
glosses: An easy piece of work.
glosses: A place to sleep in; a bed.
glosses: Sleep.
Derived terms: dossbag