cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
miserly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪ.zə(ɹ).li/
Forms: form: more miserly
form: most miserly
Etymology: From miser + -ly, attested from the 1540s.
Senses: examples: text: It's something that worries me about the book I'm doing about him... In some ways he's just like the racist caricature of the miserly old Jew.
ref: 1991, Art Spiegelman, Maus I: My Father Bleeds History, New York: Pantheon Books, page 131:
text: What could be more selfish, more miserly—this in specific is what gnaws at him—than dying childless, terminating the line, subtracting oneself from the great work of generation? Worse than miserly, in fact: unnatural.
ref: 2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Three”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 20:
synonyms: word: as tight as Dick's hatband
word: cheap
word: cheeseparing
word: chintzy
word: close
word: close as wax
word: close-fisted
word: illiberal
word: mean
word: miserable
word: miserly
word: narrow-fisted
word: niggardly
word: nipcheese
word: parsimonious
word: peddling
word: penny-wise
word: penny-pinching
word: penurious
word: scrooge-like
word: scrubby
word: shabby
word: still got one's communion money
word: stingy
word: swear
word: tight
word: tight-fisted
word: tight as a tick
word: tighter than Dick's hatband
word: ungenerous
word: ungiving
glosses: Like a miser, very or objectionably cautious with money.
Derived terms: miserlily
miserliness
non-miserly
unmiserliness
unmiserly
mismatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsˈmæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: mismatches
form: mismatching
form: mismatched
form: mismatched
Etymology: From mis- + match (verb sense).
Senses: glosses: To match unsuitably; to fail to match
Derived terms: mismatcher
mismatchment
mismatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsˈmæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
ipa: /ˈmɪs.mæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
ipa: /ˌmɪsˈmæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: mismatches
Etymology: From mis- + match (noun sense).
Senses: examples: text: After all the trepidation born of Holland's toils home and away against these opponents in qualification for Euro 2012, and the pockmarked nature of the pitch, this was exposed as a mismatch from the opening exchanges.
ref: 2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Something that does not match; something dissimilar, inappropriate or unsuitable.
Derived terms: impedance mismatch
mismatch repair cancer syndrome
misshapen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈʃeɪ.pən/
note: commonly
ipa: [mɪʃˈʃeɪ.pən]
Forms: form: more misshapen
form: most misshapen
form: mis-shapen
form: mishapen
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English mysshapen, misse shapen, mysshape, mysshap; equivalent to mis- + shapen.
Senses: synonyms: misproportioned
glosses: Having a bad, ugly or awkward shape; deformed; malformed; ill-shapen.
glosses: Morally or intellectually warped.
Synonyms: word: deform
word: deformed
word: disfigured
word: distorted
word: malformed
word: misproportioned
word: misshapen
word: shapeless
word: unfashionable
Hypernyms: word: ugly
Hyponyms: word: asymmetrical
word: asymmetric
word: lopsided
word: unsymmetrical
Derived terms: misshapenly
misshapenness
misshapen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈʃeɪ.pən/
note: commonly
ipa: [mɪʃˈʃeɪ.pən]
Forms: form: misshapens
form: misshapening
form: misshapened
form: misshapened
form: mis-shapen
form: mishapen
Etymology: From Middle English (attested as mysshapend). Probably partly from the adjective and partly from mis- + shapen (verb), though shapen is attested later.
Senses: examples: text: If the feet are well shaped but have some weakness, they will ultimately give way under the strain of use and lose their natural shape, often becoming distorted. This, of coarse, results in the distortion of the shoe. Few persons realize to what extent shoes are misshapened by defective feet.
ref: 1924 January 4, William M[athias] Scholl, “Ten Simple Exercises to Help Strengthen Your Feet”, in The Mexia Daily News, volume XXVI, number 3, Mexia, Tex., page five, column 1:
text: Skin the fish before cooking since the skin shrinks as it cooks and misshapens the fillets.
ref: 1997, Kay Pastorius, Cruising Cuisine: Fresh Food From the Galley, Camden, Me.: International Marine, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, →ISBN, page 87, column 2:
text: Large barrel sponges are misshapened by the strong currents
ref: 2005, Solomon Baksh, Trinidad & Tobago (Macmillan Caribbean Dive Guides), Oxford, Oxon: Macmillan Caribbean, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: Synonym of misshape.
synonyms: word: misshape
mite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mīt
ipa: /maɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: might
Etymology: From Middle English mite, from Old English mīte (“mite, tiny insect”), from Proto-West Germanic *mītā, from Proto-Germanic *mītǭ (“biting insect”, literally “cutter”), from *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small”) or *meh₂y- (“to cut”). Akin to Old High German mīza (“mite”), Middle Dutch mīte (“moth, mite”), Dutch mijt (“moth, mite”), Danish mide (“mite”).
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of might.
molly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒli/
ipa: /ˈmɑli/
rhymes: -ɒli
homophone: mollie
homophone: Mollie
homophone: Molly
Forms: form: mollies
Etymology: From Molly, the personal name, a pet form of Mary. In some cases it is possibly derived from mollitia (“softness, weakness”). Drug sense probably influenced by the initial of MDMA.
Senses: glosses: A woman or girl, especially of low status.
glosses: An effeminate male, a male homosexual.
examples: text: So la-da-di-da-di, we like to party / Dancing with Molly / Doing whatever we want
ref: 2013, “We Can't Stop”, in Bangerz, performed by Miley Cyrus:
text: Was pissed now. But also hyper-lit, euphoric almost, given the adrenaline plus molly.
ref: 2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN:
synonyms: mandy
glosses: Pure MDMA powder.
examples: text: So the petrels called to the mollys: but they were so busy and greedy, gobbling and pecking and spluttering and fighting over the blubber, that they did not take the least notice.
ref: 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:
glosses: A mollemoke.
glosses: A female cat, a she-cat (usually spayed)
glosses: A bird, the wagtail.
glosses: A molly bolt.
Derived terms: mollycoddle
mollydooker
molly-dooker
mollyduker
molly-guard
molly-handed
molly house
hairy molly
molly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒli/
ipa: /ˈmɑli/
rhymes: -ɒli
homophone: mollie
homophone: Mollie
homophone: Molly
Forms: form: mollies
form: mollying
form: mollied
form: mollied
Etymology: From Molly, the personal name, a pet form of Mary. In some cases it is possibly derived from mollitia (“softness, weakness”). Drug sense probably influenced by the initial of MDMA.
Senses: examples: text: I said, "I never mollied you." My Lord, I never laid Hands upon him, nor touch'd him.
ref: 1998, Netta Murray Goldsmith, The Worst of Crimes, page 79:
text: On one occasion, Partridge was nearly mobbed in a molly-house when some men called him a 'treacherous, blowing-up, mollying bitch, and swore they'd massacre anybody that should betray them.'
ref: 2007, Matt Cook, A Gay History of Britain:
text: It is a case of the biter bit, or the molly-taker mollied, but it is also an interesting example of the ways in which the criminal underworld and sexual underworld met in eighteenth-century London
ref: 2017, Peter Ackroyd, Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day:
glosses: To engage in (male) homosexual activity with.
Related terms: moll
molly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒli/
ipa: /ˈmɑli/
rhymes: -ɒli
homophone: mollie
homophone: Mollie
homophone: Molly
Forms: form: mollies
Etymology: From Mollienesia, an invalid taxonomic name for the genus, influenced by the personal name Molly.
Senses: glosses: A fish of the genus Poecilia, except for those known as guppies.
Derived terms: molly miller
Related terms: guppy
molly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒli/
ipa: /ˈmɑli/
rhymes: -ɒli
homophone: mollie
homophone: Mollie
homophone: Molly
Forms: form: mollies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mali (“a member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener”).
Related terms: sense: terms containing "molly" (probably etymologically unrelated)
word: hog molly
sense: terms containing "molly" (probably etymologically unrelated)
word: mollydocker
sense: terms containing "molly" (probably etymologically unrelated)
word: molly wop
molly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒli/
ipa: /ˈmɑli/
rhymes: -ɒli
homophone: mollie
homophone: Mollie
homophone: Molly
Forms: form: mollies
Etymology: Clipping of Molotov.
Senses: examples: text: Brimstone, Viper, and Phoenix's mollies were adjusted during a closed beta patch, changing the damage tick speed so players couldn't avoid damage by bunny hopping. Killjoy's Nanoswarm will likely follow suit.
ref: 2020 August 5, Andreas Stavropoulos, “Hiko on Killjoy's Nanoswarm: "I think they do a lot of damage too fast and I think it's hard to even tell you're in a molly sometimes"”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2022:
topics: video-games
glosses: A Molotov cocktail.
moquette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒˈkɛt/
ipa: /mə(ʊ)ˈkɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: moquettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French moquette.
Senses: examples: text: The interior colour scheme departs from the conventional L.T. red and green upholstery and matching paintwork, which has been replaced by a maroon and grey moquette with dove grey paint below the waist rail.
ref: 1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94:
text: A winter of walking about in the rain down snowlit streets; overheated hotel-rooms with the smell of furry moquette […]
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 178:
text: You can buy a bag made out of Tube or bus seat moquette, or commission a sofa made in that moquette, so you can be sitting watching television on the same stuff you rode home from work on ... except that historical moquettes are what interest most people.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 270:
glosses: A kind of fabric with a thick pile used for carpeting or to upholster seating, etc.
glosses: An article covered in such material.
morass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹæs/
ipa: /moˈɹæs/
rhymes: -æs
Forms: form: morasses
Etymology: From Dutch moeras (“marsh, swamp”), an alteration (with influence from Dutch moer (“moor”)) of a direct descendant of Middle Dutch marasch (“marsh”). The Middle Dutch word is a borrowing from Old French mareis, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk. Doublet of marish and marsh, and linked in part to moor. Compare quagmire.
Senses: examples: text: Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt morass, raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.
ref: 1853, John Ruskin, “Torcello”, in The Stones of Venice, volume II (The Sea-Stories), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § I, page 11:
glosses: A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
examples: text: I wrote to Sacramento about that historical marker, and they've been kicking it around their bureaucratic morass for months.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 4, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.
Derived terms: morass-ore
morass-weed
morassy
moreover
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: môr-ō'vər
ipa: /mɔɹˈoʊvɚ/
ipa: /mɔːˈɹəʊvə/
Forms: form: moreo'er
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English moreover, moreovere, morover, mooreover, more-overe, mare over, equivalent to more + over.
Senses: examples: text: For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war.
ref: 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 61:
text: The characteristics ‘terrestrial’ and ‘two-footed’ are predicated of the species ‘man’, but not present in it. For they are not in man. Moreover, the definition of the differentia may be predicated of that of which the differentia itself is predicated.
ref: 1928, E. M. Edghill, Categories, translation of original by Aristotle:
text: A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put in three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: ‘What is there?’ It can be answered, moreover, in a word—‘Everything’—and everyone will accept this answer as true.
ref: 1948, W.v.O. Quine, On What There Is:
synonyms: furthermore
further
again
additionally
also
as well
;
in fact
as a matter of fact
;
withal
coordinate_terms: and
glosses: In addition to what has been said.
mortgagee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iː
Forms: form: mortgagees
Etymology: From mortgage + -ee.
Senses: hypernyms: lender
loaner
coordinate_terms: mortgager
mortgagor
glosses: One who provides a loan secured upon the borrowers' property: the lender in a mortgage agreement.
Derived terms: comortgagee
submortgagee
mother-of-pearl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmʌðəɹ əv ˈpɜː(ɹ)l/
Forms: form: mother-of-pearls
form: mother of pearl
Etymology: Calque of Latin māter perlārum, with the first element perhaps connected in popular imagination with obsolete mother (“dregs”). Possibly referring to the fact that the nacre-lined shells are the belly (“mother”) in which pearls are produced.
Senses: examples: text: Ah, those Indian warehouses made the morning pass in a charming manner! many a soft confession was whispered over a huge china jar; many a heart has succumbed to a suite of mother-of-pearl card-box and counters; and as to the shawls, why, the whole feminine world has long ago acknowledged them to be irresistible.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Another London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 170:
glosses: The hard pearly inner layer of certain mollusk shells; nacre.
glosses: A butterfly of the genus Salamis.
Synonyms: nacre
mother-of-pearl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmʌðəɹ əv ˈpɜː(ɹ)l/
Etymology: Calque of Latin māter perlārum, with the first element perhaps connected in popular imagination with obsolete mother (“dregs”). Possibly referring to the fact that the nacre-lined shells are the belly (“mother”) in which pearls are produced.
Senses: glosses: Made from or looking like mother-of-pearl; iridescent or pearly.
Related terms: pearl
motive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊtɪv/
ipa: /ˈmoʊtɪv/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊtɪv
rhymes: (General American) -oʊtɪv
Forms: form: motives
Etymology: From Middle English motif, from Anglo-Norman motif, Middle French motif, and their source, Late Latin motivum (“motive, moving cause”), neuter of motivus.
Senses: examples: text: there's something in a woman beyond all human delight; a magnetic virtue, a charming quality, an occult and powerful motive.
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 III, section 2, member 1, subsection ii:
glosses: An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.
examples: text: Many of them at first seemed kind to him, but it turned out their motives were not entirely altruistic.
ref: 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock:
text: “Your job here is to find the good things in your colleagues—the things their state saw—and not focus on the bad.”
I said I understand.
“And, Joe, never attack another man’s motive, because you don’t know his motive.”
ref: 2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep, New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110:
synonyms: motivation
glosses: An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action.
examples: text: every joint and motive of her body
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
glosses: A limb or other bodily organ that can move.
examples: text: What would his motive be for burning down the cottage?
text: No-one could understand why she had hidden the shovel; her motives were obscure at best.
text: “Why should Eldridge commit murder?[…]There was only one possible motive—namely, he wished to avoid detection as James Selby of Anaconda Ltd. […]”
ref: 1931, Francis Beeding, “10/6”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:
topics: law
glosses: Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.
examples: text: If you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive.
topics: architecture
entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: fine arts
glosses: Alternative form of motif.
glosses: A party, gathering, or get-together.
examples: text: What's the motive for tonight, lads?
glosses: One's plans for the day or night.
Derived terms: appeal to motive
by-motive
leading motive
motiveless
motive power
motive power depot
motivology
profit motive
submotive
ulterior motive
unmotived
motive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊtɪv/
ipa: /ˈmoʊtɪv/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊtɪv
rhymes: (General American) -oʊtɪv
Forms: form: motives
form: motiving
form: motived
form: motived
Etymology: From Middle English motif, from Anglo-Norman motif, Middle French motif, and their source, Late Latin motivum (“motive, moving cause”), neuter of motivus.
Senses: synonyms: motivate
glosses: To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
motive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊtɪv/
ipa: /ˈmoʊtɪv/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊtɪv
rhymes: (General American) -oʊtɪv
Etymology: From Middle English motif, from Anglo-Norman motif, Middle French motif, and their source, Late Latin motivum (“motive, moving cause”), neuter of motivus.
Senses: examples: text: a motive argument
text: motive power
text: In the motive parts of animals may be discovered mutuall proportions; not only in those of Quadrupeds, but in the thigh-bone, legge, foot-bone, and claws of Birds.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 195:
synonyms: word: moving
word: ambulatory
word: animate
word: kinetic
word: mobile
word: motile
word: motive
word: movable
word: vagile
glosses: Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move
examples: text: Debussy's melody is fractional, fragmentary. But at the core all his music is melodic and melody is its main motive force.
ref: 1929, Arthur Lourié, “An Inquiry into Melody”, in Modern Music, volume VII, number 1, page 10:
synonyms: kinetic
motional
glosses: Relating to motion and/or to its cause
Derived terms: automotive
cytomotive
electromotive
magnetomotive
motiveness
motivity
nonmotive
pedomotive
protonmotive
vasomotive
mound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: mounds
Etymology: From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (“protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart”), from Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundu, from Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂-nt-éh₂ (“the beckoning one”), from *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”).
Cognate with Old Frisian mund (“guardianship”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) (German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“a guardian”)), Old Norse mund (“hand”) (Icelandic mund), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), and possibly Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek μάρη (márē, “hand”). Not related to mount.
Senses: synonyms: bulwark
rampart
glosses: An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
glosses: A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
examples: text: The pitcher was waiting at the mound.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
glosses: A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross.
glosses: The mons veneris.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
qualifier: measurement
glosses: A hand.
glosses: A protection; restraint; curb.
glosses: A helmet.
glosses: Might; size.
glosses: a large amount of something.
Synonyms: sense: part of regalia
word: globus cruciger
sense: part of regalia
word: globe
sense: part of regalia
word: orb
Derived terms: Allegheny mound ant
ant mound
burial mound
cathedral mound
charge the mound
charging the mound
gravemound
intermound
love mound
Mima mound
mound ant
mound bird
moundbird
mound builder
mound-builder
moundbuilding
Mound City
moundlet
moundlike
mound royal
moundsman
Moundsville
moundy
pitcher's mound
pubic mound
Richmond
shaftment
shaftmound
termite mound
Venus mound
Wagon Mound
Western Mound
mound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /maʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: mounds
form: mounding
form: mounded
form: mounded
Etymology: From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (“protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart”), from Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundu, from Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂-nt-éh₂ (“the beckoning one”), from *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”).
Cognate with Old Frisian mund (“guardianship”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) (German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“a guardian”)), Old Norse mund (“hand”) (Icelandic mund), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), and possibly Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek μάρη (márē, “hand”). Not related to mount.
Senses: glosses: To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
examples: text: He mounded up his mashed potatoes so they left more space on the plate for the meat.
glosses: To force or pile into a mound or mounds.
examples: text: When a wave mounds on the outside and takes its shape, a surfer quickly paddles to the peak, positions himself in its evolving momentum, swings his board around, aligns with the peak, and thrusts himself into its cascading shape.
ref: 2011, Rick Hansen, Leadership and The Art of Surfing, page xi:
glosses: To form a mound.
Synonyms: sense: fortify with a mound
word: bank
sense: fortify with a mound
word: bank up
sense: fortify with a mound
word: bulwark
sense: fortify with a mound
word: rampart
sense: pile into mounds
word: heap up
word: pile
word: pile up
Derived terms: amound
remound
unmounded
Related terms: Mound in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
multifarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmʌltɪˈfɛəɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Forms: form: more multifarious
form: most multifarious
Etymology: From Latin multifārius.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing could well resemble less a typical English street than […] the multifarious awnings, banners, and streamers, the extraordinary number of omnibuses, horsecars, and other democratic vehicles, […]
ref: 1878, Henry James, An International Episode:
text: Now, it is our regretful task to record his death on November 19 after a brief illness, and to include in a short article on page 29 some notes on his multifarious activities.
ref: 1943 January and February, “Charles S. Lake”, in Railway Magazine, page 1:
text: It is divided into parts that are too small and multifarious.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 225c:
synonyms: word: diverse
word: manifold
word: various
word: catholic
word: dishomogeneous
word: diverse
word: diversified
word: eclectic
word: heterogeneous
word: liberal
word: manifold
word: miscellaneous
word: mixed
word: motley
word: multifarious
word: multifold
word: sundry
word: variable
word: varied
word: various
glosses: Having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; made up of many differing parts.
topics: law
glosses: In which a party or a cause of action has been improperly or wrongfully joined together in the same suit, as in a misjoinder, perhaps as a result of a joinder of unrelated, distinct, independent parties or matters.
raw_tags: of lawsuits
Derived terms: multifariously
multifariousness
munificent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuˈnɪfɪsn̩t/
Forms: form: more munificent
form: most munificent
Etymology: Back-formation from munificence, from Latin mūnificentia.
Senses: examples: text: Munificent as he was in his own disposition in the conferring of favours, his acceptance, under the circumstances we have described, of the fortune bestowed by Robert, he found upon reasoning with himself to be perfectly consistent with the most scrupulous principles of uprightness and probity:[…]
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XXI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 272:
text: Tellson's Bank […] was a munificent house, and extended great liberality to old customers who had fallen from their high estate.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 30, in A Tale of Two Cities:
text: [M]ilk producers are among the most munificent backers of political campaigns in the U.S.
ref: 1974 April 8, “Politics: Milkmen Skimming Off More Cream”, in Time, retrieved 05 Sep 2013:
text: An exceptionally munificent benefactor of several institutions, he has given $100 million each to MIT and Harvard.
ref: 2008 March 20, Martin Filler, “Broad-Minded Museum”, in New York Review of Books, retrieved 05 Sep 2013:
glosses: Very liberal in giving or bestowing.
raw_tags: of a person or group
examples: text: On the hill, where kites used to be flown, stood the fine college which Mr Laurence's munificent legacy had built.
ref: 1886, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 1, in Jo's Boys […] , Boston: Roberts Brothers:
text: It was all very well for this casual youth to make her a present of a half million acres of land in this debonair way, but she could not persuade herself to accept so munificent a gift.
ref: 1914, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 25, in A Daughter of the Donss:
text: The machinists finally agreed to a munificent increase averaging 5.7% a year for three years.
ref: 1969 April 11, “Business: Up, Up and Away with Wages”, in Time, retrieved 05 Sep 2013:
qualifier: donation
glosses: Very generous; lavish.
raw_tags: of a gift
Synonyms: bounteous
generous
liberal
Derived terms: munificently
unmunificent
Related terms: municipal
municipality
munificence
remunerate
remuneration
muster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌs.tə/
ipa: /ˈmʌs.tɚ/
rhymes: -ʌstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: musters
form: mustering
form: mustered
form: mustered
Etymology: From Middle English musteren, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mostrer, Middle French monstrer, moustrer (whence the noun monstre, which gave the English noun), from Latin mōnstrō (“to show”), from moneō (“to admonish”). Cognate with French montrer (“to show”), Italian mostrare (“to show”), Spanish mostrar (“to show”). See also monster.
Senses: glosses: To show, exhibit.
examples: text: We were then in the third week of November; but, we took our measures so vigorously, and were so well seconded by the friends in whom we confided, that there was still a week of the month unexpired, when our party all came down together merrily, and mustered in the haunted house.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
text: The whole male population, men and boys, mustered on the top of the hill.
ref: 1900, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 3, page 268:
glosses: To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body.
examples: 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
With the help of some low-end boosting, Dinklage musters a decent amount of kid-appropriate menace—although he never does explain his gift for finding chunks of ice shaped like pirate ships—but Romano and Leary mainly sound bored, droning through their lines as if they’re simultaneously texting the contractors building the additions on their houses funded by their fat sequel paychecks.
glosses: To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.
glosses: To enroll (into service).
glosses: To gather or round up livestock.
Synonyms: sense: gather, unite
word: rally
sense: gather troops for review
word: parade
Derived terms: musterable
musterer
muster in
muster out
muster up
remuster
unmustered
muster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌs.tə/
ipa: /ˈmʌs.tɚ/
rhymes: -ʌstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: musters
Senses: examples: text: The next, the Quadroon, from the white and mulatto woman. The third descent, from a white and quadroon, is called a muster; from the fourth, between a white and a muster, springs the musteephinas and the fifth descent, viz. from a white and musteephina, is white by law, and of free birth; indeed the two latter classes are as white as a European.
ref: 1825, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 4:
text: Mixed bloods, they are suspended between two races, — mulattoes, quadroons, musters, mustafinas, cabres, griffies, zambis, quatravis, tresalvis, coyotes, saltatras, albarassados, cambusos, — neither white nor black, but Negroes.
ref: 1925, Charles Spurgeon Johnson, Elmer Anderson Carter, Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, page 291:
glosses: Synonym of mustee.
synonyms: word: mustee
triceps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪ.sɛps/
Forms: form: triceps
form: tricepses
Etymology: From Latin trīceps (“triple-headed”), from trēs (“three”) + caput (“head”). See there for more details.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any muscle having three heads.
examples: text: Kickbacks work the triceps muscle at the back of your arm. Exercising these muscles helps eliminate arm jiggle.
ref: 2010, Christina T. Loguidice, Bill Loguidice, Wii Fitness For Dummies:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Specifically, the triceps brachii.
Synonyms: sense: muscle in the arm
word: triceps brachii
sense: muscle in the arm
word: triceps extensor cubiti
Derived terms: side triceps
triceps surae
Related terms: biceps
tricep
quadriceps
mutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌtə/
ipa: /ˈmʌtɚ/
ipa: [ˈmʌɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈmɐtə/
rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mutters
Etymology: From Middle English muteren, moteren, of imitative origin.
Compare Low German mustern, musseln (“to whisper”), German muttern (“to mutter; whisper”), Old Norse muðla (“to murmur”). Compare also Latin muttīre, mutīre.
Senses: examples: text: The prisoners were docile, and accepted their lot with barely a mutter.
glosses: A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.
mutter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌtə/
ipa: /ˈmʌtɚ/
ipa: [ˈmʌɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈmɐtə/
rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mutters
form: muttering
form: muttered
form: muttered
Etymology: From Middle English muteren, moteren, of imitative origin.
Compare Low German mustern, musseln (“to whisper”), German muttern (“to mutter; whisper”), Old Norse muðla (“to murmur”). Compare also Latin muttīre, mutīre.
Senses: examples: text: You could hear the students mutter as they were served sodden spaghetti, yet again, in the cafeteria.
text: The beggar muttered words of thanks, as passersby dropped coins in his cup.
text: This set – the set of Rosol's life – was studded with aces and menacing ground-strokes that left Nadal an impotent spectator often muttering to himself and at the umpire regarding a perceived misdemeanour by his opponent.
ref: 2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in the Guardian:
glosses: To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath.
examples: text: The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over.
text: Meantime your filthy foreigner will stare, / And mutter to himself.
ref: 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.
examples: text: April could hear the delivery van's engine muttering in the driveway.
text: Thick lightnings flash, the muttering thunder rolls.
ref: 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book VIII”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.
Synonyms: sense: speak under one's breath
word: growl
sense: speak under one's breath
word: grumble
sense: speak under one's breath
word: mumble
sense: speak incoherently
word: babble
sense: speak incoherently
word: mumble
sense: speak incoherently
word: murmur
sense: speak incoherently
word: ramble
sense: speak incoherently
word: stutter
sense: make a low sound
word: growl
sense: make a low sound
word: putter
sense: make a low sound
word: rumble
word: fumfer
word: mutter
Hypernyms: word: utter
word: communicate
Derived terms: amutter
mutterance
mutteration
mutterer
mutteringly
muttersome
muttery
unmuttered
mutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌtə/
ipa: /ˈmʌtɚ/
ipa: [ˈmʌɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈmɐtə/
rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: matar
Etymology: From Hindi मटर (maṭar).
Senses: qualifier: Indian cuisine
glosses: Peas.
Derived terms: mutter paneer
myrmidon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜː.mɪˌdɒn/
ipa: /ˈmɜː.mɪ.dən/
ipa: /ˈmɝ.mɪˌdɑn/
ipa: /ˈmɝ.mɪ.dən/
Forms: form: myrmidons
Etymology: From Myrmidon, from Latin Myrmidones, from Ancient Greek Μυρμιδόνες (Murmidónes).
Senses: examples: text: Tobias (to Jonas Fogg, manager of a madhouse): "I will die ere I submit to you or your vile myrmidons."
ref: 1847, George Dibdin Pitt, The String of Pearls; or, The Fiend of Fleet Street (play), act III, scene II:
text: When the day came round for my return to the scene of the deed of violence, my terrors reached their height. Whether myrmidons of Justice, especially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate; […]
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 197:
text: He cared no more for the Devil and all his myrmidons, for he kenned brawly he was damned.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: My heart wells up in admiration of the man, as I think of his participation in the memorable struggle of Homestead. He fought the Pinkertons, the myrmidons of Capital.
ref: 1912, Alexander Berkman, chapter 6, in Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist:
text: […]headed for a revelation to the District Attorney that would probably result in my having the pleasure of meeting H. R. Corbett or some other flatfooted myrmidon[…]
ref: 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam edition, published 1992, →ISBN, pages 177–178:
synonyms: word: acolyte
word: adjutant
word: aide
word: bootlicker
word: disciple
word: flunkey
word: footman
word: follower
word: henchman
word: hireling
word: inferior
word: lackey
word: lap dog
word: lickspittle
word: man Friday
word: minion
word: myrmidon
word: poodle
word: retainer
word: right-hand man
word: right-hand woman
word: servant
word: stooge
word: subordinate
word: sycophant
word: toady
word: underling
word: vassal
word: yes man
glosses: A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes orders of a superior without protest or pity (sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc).
Derived terms: myrmidonian
Related terms: catchpole
catchpoll
nacre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪkə/
ipa: /ˈneɪkəɹ/
rhymes: -eɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nacres
form: naker
form: nacker
Etymology: From Middle French nacre, from Medieval Latin nacchara, from Arabic نَقَّارَة (naqqāra). Doublet of nagara. Also present in nacarat.
Senses: examples: text: The shell-fish called a Nacre, liveth even so with the Pinnotere, which is a little creature like unto a Crabfish[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl.
examples: text: On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly encrusted with nacre, […]was lying a note from Lord Henry, and beside it was a book bound in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn and the edges soiled.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray:
glosses: A pearly substance made mainly of stacked layers of aragonite and organic matter which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl.
Derived terms: nacred
nacrein
nacreous
nacrite
nacrous
nacry
nag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæɡ/
ipa: /neɪɡ/
ipa: /nɛɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
homophone: Knagg
Forms: form: nags
Etymology: From Middle English nagg, nage, nagge (“horse, small riding horse, pony”), cognate with Dutch negge, neg (“horse”), German Nickel (“small horse”). Perhaps related to English neigh.
Senses: glosses: A small horse; a pony.
examples: text: We used to lure the nags into the back of our truck with oats and sugar, then we'd drive back to town to this warehouse and inject the nags with small quantities of morphine I'd stolen.
ref: 2011, James Ellroy, Clandestine, →ISBN, page 245:
synonyms: word: aver
word: dobbin
word: hack
word: jade
word: plug
glosses: An old, useless horse.
examples: text: Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt – Whom leprosy o'ertake!
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene x], line 11:
glosses: A paramour.
Coordinate terms: topics: racing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sense: old useless horse
word: bum
Derived terms: padnag
shanks' nag
nag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæɡ/
ipa: /neɪɡ/
ipa: /nɛɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
homophone: Knagg
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of knack.
Related terms: nag champa
nailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪlɚ/
rhymes: -eɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nailers
Etymology: From Middle English nayler; equivalent to nail + -er.
Senses: glosses: One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker.
glosses: One who fastens with, or drives, nails.
glosses: A nailgun.
glosses: A piece of dimensional lumber and/or plywood secured to the deck or wall which provides a receiving medium for the fasteners. (Sometimes referred to as blocking.)
Derived terms: naileress
work like a nailer
namer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪm.ə/
ipa: /ˈneɪm.ɚ/
rhymes: -eɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: namers
Etymology: From name + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "Tony, I'm the executive director of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Strategic Homeland Intelligence, Enforcement, and Logistics Division," explained Fury.
Tony nodded. […] "Want a tip? Fire your namer of things, because that's a mouthful."
ref: 2010, Alexander Irvine, Iron Man 2: The Junior Novel, page 77:
text: It was that veteran namer of geological periods Charles Lyell who coined the term Pleistocene.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 145:
glosses: One who names, or calls by name.
Related terms: name-caller
name names
invoker
onomastician
onomatologist
nanny
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæni/
rhymes: -æni
Forms: form: nannies
form: nannying
form: nannied
form: nannied
Etymology: From nan (“grandmother; nursemaid”) + -y. The root is from nana (“grandma; nanny”), which is from nanna (“grandmother”), which is possibly derived from Proto-Celtic *nana (“grandmother”). See also Proto-Brythonic *nanī, Welsh nain (“grandmother”), Galician nana (“mama”), Spanish nana (“granny; nanny; mommy; housekeeper”), Sicilian nanna (“grandma”), Italian nonna (“granny”), Late Latin nonna (“nun; tutoress; old woman”), Norman nonne (“nun”), Old French nonain (“nun”). All probably ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European root imitative of a child babbling, similar to Ancient Greek νάννα (nánna).
(1795) It has often been assumed that the English term was originally a widespread child's word for "female adult other than mother" (compare Greek νάννα (nánna, “aunt”), nanna).
On the other hand, according to recent research of the Dutch historical linguists Hans Beelen and Nicoline van der Sijs (published in Onze Taal, September 2018), on which see also etymologiebank.nl, in Dutch), the term nanny (and the British colloquial nan for "grandmother") may actually be eponymous, viz. being originally an affective form (i.e. a hypocoristic) of the popular female name Anne. The Dutch statesman and scientist Constantijn Huygens Jr. made the following observation during one of his many sojourns in England (noted in his Journaal, dated 13 December 1692): "Yesterday I received 10lb of chocolate again, from niece Becker, and she had Nanny, her maid, bringing me the money that she had owed me" (Gisteren kreegh 10 ℔ choccolate wederom van nicht Becker, en had Nanny, haer meidt, geweest om mij 't geldt, dat van haer hebben most, te brengen). Beelen and van der Sijs therefore assumed that "since many female domestic servants were named "Nan" or "Nanny", the name became a sobriquet for the profession of "maid, childminder" in the 18ᵗʰ century". ("Omdat veel vrouwelijke huisbedienden in het Engels de voornaam Nan of Nanny hadden, verschoof de betekenis in de achttiende eeuw naar die van een beroepsaanduiding: ‘meid, kindermeisje’")
Senses: glosses: To serve as a nanny.
examples: text: In real life, says a Democratic campaign aide, members of Congress are too nannied by staff to stride about hatching plots, one-on-one.
ref: 2013 February 21, “Unreality television”, in The Economist:
text: All politicians seem worried. After 40-plus years of being nannied by the EU they are now faced with having to stand on their own two feet.
ref: 2016 June 24, Angie Willems, “'A drastic change was necessary' - Coventry reacts to Brexit vote”, in Coventry Telegraph:
glosses: To treat like a nanny's charges; to coddle.
Related terms: nanny nanny boo boo
nativist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nativists
Etymology: From native + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The growers’ rebellion against E-Verify, and Mr. Smith’s contortions to buy them off, is further proof that the country cannot live without immigrant labor—no matter what the nativists may claim.
ref: 2011 October 27, “So Much for the Nativists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2025:
text: In short, mainstream parties no longer offer an element that every successful political project requires: a promise of a better world. But nativists still offer it. They solve the problem of climate change by pretending it doesn't exist.
ref: 2025 October 11, Simon Kuper, “A utopian future is still, just about, possible”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 20:
glosses: An advocate of nativism.
nativist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nativist
form: most nativist
Etymology: From native + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: When you add the unprecedented engagement of growing numbers of Latino voters in 2008, it becomes clear that the nativist path is the path to permanent political irrelevance. Unless you can find a way to get rid of all the Latinos.
ref: 2009 February 1, “The Nativists Are Restless”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2013:
text: “I would describe it as isolationist, protectionist and, to a certain extent, nativist,” Mr. Bush said in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show that aired on Tuesday, promoting his new book of paintings and essays honoring immigrants in America.
ref: 2021 April 20, Glenn Thrush, quoting George W. Bush, “George W. Bush calls the current G.O.P. ‘isolationist, protectionist’ and ‘nativist.’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2021:
text: Alchemizing media power into political influence, Mr. Carlson stands in a nativist American tradition that runs from Father Coughlin to Patrick J. Buchanan.
ref: 2022 April 30, Nicholas Confessore, “How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2022:
text: Most Britons and most elected officials have recoiled at the anti-immigrant violence, indicating that for now, it has hurt the nativist cause more than helped it.
ref: 2024 August 8, Amanda Taub, “Trying to Capitalize on Anti-Migrant Riots Could Backfire on U.K.’s Far Right”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2024:
glosses: Related to nativism.
Derived terms: antinativist
nativistic
neat
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːt/
rhymes: -iːt
homophone: NEET
Etymology: From Middle English nete, net, nette, from Anglo-Norman neit (“good, desirable, clean”), a variant of Old French net, nette (“clean, clear, pure”), from Latin nitidus (“gleaming”), derived from nitēre (“to shine”). Doublet of net and nitid. Cognate with German nett (“nice, kind”). Compare also nait.
Senses: glosses: Used to signify a job well done.
glosses: Used to signify approval.
neat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːt/
rhymes: -iːt
homophone: NEET
Forms: form: neats
Etymology: From Middle English nete, net, nette, from Anglo-Norman neit (“good, desirable, clean”), a variant of Old French net, nette (“clean, clear, pure”), from Latin nitidus (“gleaming”), derived from nitēre (“to shine”). Doublet of net and nitid. Cognate with German nett (“nice, kind”). Compare also nait.
Senses: glosses: An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.