cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
crack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: craic
Etymology: Slang first attested 1793, perhaps from the verb in the sense of doing something quickly or with intelligence, or in the sense of "speaking boastingly" and having something to be proud of.
Senses: examples: text: Even a crack team of investigators would have trouble solving this case.
glosses: Highly trained and competent.
examples: text: She's a crack shot with that rifle.
text: Every scratch in the scheme was a gnarled oak in the forest of difficulty, and I went on cutting them down, one after another, with such vigour, that in three or four months I was in a condition to make an experiment on one of our crack speakers in the Commons.
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 38, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
text: Fortunately, it is unusual for the crack transatlantic liners to sail or dock on a Saturday, but it is the custom for most holiday cruises to start on that day, returning on Fridays a fortnight or three weeks later.
ref: 1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 264:
glosses: Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.
Derived terms: crack shot
crackshot
crack train
crack troops
Related terms: crackerjack
crack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: craic
Forms: form: cracks
Etymology: Slang first attested 1793, perhaps from the verb in the sense of doing something quickly or with intelligence, or in the sense of "speaking boastingly" and having something to be proud of.
Senses: examples: text: Stanton had at one time a reputation for inaccessibility, but that has long since become a thing of the past, […] So that the gallops of the cracks' can, in most cases, be regularly watched and their daily doings truthfully chronicled.
ref: 1872, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 21, page 314:
text: 1st Gent. What dost think, Jockey? / 2nd Gent. The crack o' the field's against you.
ref: 1888 [1637], James Shirley, Hyde Park, act IV, scene iii, page 236:
glosses: One who excels; the best, especially a winning racehorse.
eyeglasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.ɡlæsɪz/
Forms: form: eyeglass
form: eye-glasses
Etymology: From eye + glasses.
Senses: examples: text: Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…].
ref: 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Spectacles, glasses.
Derived terms: pair of eyeglasses
Related terms: lorgnette
lorgnon
eyeglasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.ɡlæsɪz/
Senses: glosses: Plural of eyeglass.
credit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɛdɪt/
rhymes: -ɛdɪt
Forms: form: credits
form: crediting
form: credited
form: credited
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: credit
form: credit
form: credited
form: credit
form: creditest
form: credited
form: creditedst
form: credits
form: crediteth
form: credited
form: credit
form: credited
form: credit
form: credited
form: credit
form: -
form: crediting
form: credited
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French crédit (“belief, trust”), from Latin crēditum (“a loan, credit”), neuter of crēditus, past participle of crēdere (“to believe”). The verb is from the noun. Doublet of shraddha, creed.
Senses: examples: text: Someone said there were over 100,000 people there, but I can't credit that.
text: How shall they credit
 A poor unlearned virgin?
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: [T]he Heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slowest to credit another's Treachery.
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii:
text: She said quite naturally, as if nothing had happened, “I want you to go back home, Victor darling. You mustn’t worry about me any more.”’ Victor told me he could hardly credit it, at first, that she could stand there and say this to him.
ref: 1952, Daphne du Maurier, “Monte Verità”, in The Apple Tree:
synonyms: accept
believe
glosses: To believe; to put credence in.
examples: text: Credit accounts receivable with the amount of the invoice.
text: For the payroll period credit employees' tips to their wages paid account and debit their minimum wage payable account.
text: The full amount of the purchase has been credited to your account.
topics: accounting
business
finance
antonyms: debit
glosses: To add to an account.
examples: text: I credit the town council with restoring the shopping district.
text: Credit the point guard with another assist.
glosses: To acknowledge the contribution of.
examples: text: You credit the church as much by your government as you did the school formerly by your wit.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To bring honour or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.
Derived terms: discredit
miscredit
recredit
uncredit
Related terms: credence
credential
credibility
credible
creditable
creditor
creditworthy
credo
creed
cup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭp
ipa: /kʌp/
note: Northern England, Ottawa Valley
ipa: /kʊp/
rhymes: -ʌp
Forms: form: cups
form: cupping
form: cupped
form: cupped
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English cuppe, coppe, from the merger of Old English cuppe (“cup”) and Old English copp (“cup, vessel”).
Old English cuppe is a borrowing from Late Latin cuppa, itself of obscure origin, but probably from earlier Latin cūpa (“tub, cask”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Old English copp, however, is from Proto-West Germanic *kopp (“round object, bowl, vessel, knoll, summit, crown of the head”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch”) (whence also obsolete English cop (“top, summit, crown of the head”), German Kopf (“top, head”)).
The Middle English word was further reinforced by Anglo-Norman cupe and Old French cope, coupe, from Latin cuppa. Compare also Saterland Frisian Kop (“cup”), West Frisian kop (“cup”), Dutch kop (“cup”), German Low German Koppke, Köppke (“cup”), Danish kop (“cup”), Swedish kopp (“cup”). Doublet of coupe, hive, and keeve.
Senses: examples: text: Cup your hands and I'll pour some rice into them.
glosses: To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
examples: text: He cupped the ball carefully in his hands.
glosses: To hold something in cupped hands.
examples: text: We are cupping some new brands of coffee today.
glosses: To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.
examples: text: Cup us, till the world go round.
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 II, scene vii]:
glosses: To supply with cups of wine.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To apply a cup or cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
examples: text: to cup the end of a screw
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To make concave or in the form of a cup.
Derived terms: recup
uncup
Jayhawk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From jayhawker. Re-imagined as a half-bluejay, half-sparrowhawk bird (one is the mascot of the University of Kansas).
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the American state of Kansas.
examples: text: Her career as a Jayhawk was marked by many achievements.
glosses: Someone associated with the University of Kansas, for example as a student, alum, or sports team member, or as a fan.
Related terms: jayhawker
jayhawker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jayhawkers
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of Kansas
glosses: An abolitionist raider in the Kansas–Missouri border skirmishes during the American Civil War.
glosses: A bandit or marauder
Derived terms: Jayhawk
Tar Heel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tar Heels
form: Tar heel
form: Tarheel
form: tarheel
Etymology: North Carolina was associated with tar (of which it was a major producer) from the 1700s onwards, and residents were (at first derisively) called "Tarboilers" since at least the 1840s; "Tar Heel" is first attested in 1863 in comments by Confederate soldiers which suggest it was already in common use at that time. One popular theory suggests it refers to North Carolinians having tar on their heels to make them "stick", referring either to their reluctance to join the Confederacy, or to their holding ground during battles when other states' troops retreated.
Senses: examples: text: I'm a Tar Heel born
I'm a Tar Heel bred
And when I die
I'm a Tar Heel dead.
glosses: Synonym of North Carolinian.
synonyms: word: North Carolinian
examples: text: Michael Jordan is one of many Tar Heel basketball standouts.
glosses: A person associated with or supportive of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Derived terms: Tar Heel State
Tar Heel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tar heel
form: Tarheel
form: tarheel
Etymology: North Carolina was associated with tar (of which it was a major producer) from the 1700s onwards, and residents were (at first derisively) called "Tarboilers" since at least the 1840s; "Tar Heel" is first attested in 1863 in comments by Confederate soldiers which suggest it was already in common use at that time. One popular theory suggests it refers to North Carolinians having tar on their heels to make them "stick", referring either to their reluctance to join the Confederacy, or to their holding ground during battles when other states' troops retreated.
Senses: glosses: A small town in Bladen County, North Carolina.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Hickman County, Kentucky.
comfort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌm.fət/
ipa: /ˈkʊm.fət/
enpr: kŭm'fərt
ipa: /ˈkʌm.fɚt/
ipa: [ˈkʰʌɱ.fɚt]
enpr: kŭmfôrt'
ipa: /kʌmˈfɔɹt/
Forms: form: comforts
form: comforting
form: comforted
form: comforted
Etymology: From Middle English comforten, from Old French conforter, from Late Latin confortō (“to strengthen greatly”), itself from Latin con- (“together”) + fortis (“strong”).
Senses: examples: text: Rob comforted Aaron because he was lost and very sad.
text: Shew me a token foꝛ good, that they which hate me may ſee it, and bee aſhamed: becauſe thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comfoꝛted me.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 86:17:
text: Light, above all things, excelleth in comforting the spirits of men.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
synonyms: besoothe
console
glosses: To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.
examples: text: God's own testimony […] doth not a little comfort and confirm the same.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
examples: text: I […] cannot help the noble chevalier: / God comfort him in this necessity!
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: To assist or help; to aid.
Synonyms: word: besoothe
word: cheer
word: comfort
word: console
word: solace
word: soothe
Hypernyms: word: affect
Derived terms: word: comforter
word: comforting
word: uncomfort
Related terms: word: pity
word: consolation
comfortable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭmf'təbl
ipa: /ˈkʌmf.tə.bl̩/
ipa: /ˈkʌmpf.təbl̩/
enpr: kŭm'fətəbl
ipa: /ˈkʌm.fə.tə.bl̩/
enpr: kŭmf'tərbl
enpr: kŭm'fərtəbl
ipa: /ˈkʌmf.tə.bəl/
ipa: /ˈkʌmf.təɹ.bəl/
ipa: /ˈkʌm.fəɹ.tə.bəl/
ipa: /ˈkʌm.fə.tə.bəl/
ipa: /ˈkɐmf.tə.bəl/
ipa: [ˈkʰɐɱf.tɘ.bɫ̩]
ipa: /kəmfɵ(r)ˈʈebəl/
ipa: /ˈkəmfɵ(r).ʈəbɪɭ/
Forms: form: comfortables
form: comfterble / comftorble
Etymology: From Middle English comfortable, from Old French confortable, from conforter. By surface analysis, comfort + -able.
Senses: glosses: A stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter.
copy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒpi/
ipa: /ˈkɑpi/
rhymes: -ɒpi
Forms: form: copies
form: copying
form: copied
form: copied
form: coppy
form: coppie
form: copie
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English copien
English copy
From Middle English copien, from Old French copier and Medieval Latin cōpiō.
Senses: examples: text: Please copy these reports for me.
text: Don't copy that floppy!
text: [Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.
ref: 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
glosses: To produce an object identical to a given object.
examples: text: Make sure you copy me on that important memo.
glosses: To give or transmit a copy to (a person).
examples: text: First copy the files, and then paste them in another directory.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.
examples: text: Don't copy my dance moves.
text: Mom, he's copying me!
text: We copy instinctively the voices of our companions, their accents, and their modes of pronunciation.
ref: 1793, Dugald Stewart, Outlines of Moral Philosophy:
glosses: To imitate.
examples: text: Do you copy?
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: To receive a transmission successfully.
Synonyms: word: clone
word: copy
word: facsimile
word: replicate
word: reproduce
Hyponyms: word: duplicate
word: triplicate
word: quadruplicate
word: quintuplicate
word: sextuplicate
word: photocopy
word: xerox
Derived terms: copiability
copiable
copyable
copy and paste
copy down
copy-edit
copy-on-write proxy
copy out
copy-paste
copyread
copy that
deep-copyblind-copy
genocopy
miscopy
precopy
recopy
sottocopy
uncopied
kitten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪtn̩/
rhymes: -ɪt(ə)n
Forms: form: kittens
form: kittening
form: kittened
form: kittened
Etymology: From Middle English kitoun, kytton, kyton, keton (“kitten”), of obscure origin. Seemingly from, and usually explained as being from, unattested Anglo-Norman *kitoun, *ketun (compare Old French chitoun, cheton, chaton (“kitten”), diminutive of cat, chat (“cat”)); whence Modern French chaton (“kitten”). Similar words of Germanic origin may have reinforced this word; compare English kitling (“kit, kitten”), Low German Kitten (“kitten”), Icelandic kettlingur (“kitten”), Middle English chitte ("whelp, pup", see chit). The idea that kitoun, rather than being of Anglo-Norman origin, was in fact a purely Germanic derivation from one of these words is etymologically problematic, but cannot be definitively ruled out.
Senses: examples: text: A cat about to kitten, must not be spoken of by its name, but called a witch. (Madagascar.)
ref: 2003, Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans, Encyclopedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World:
text: 'Princess the Lady Regina of Alphington is about to kitten. I must be there to support her.'
ref: 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 319:
glosses: To give birth to kittens.
leveret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛvəɹɪt/
ipa: /ˈlɛvɹɪt/
Forms: form: leverets
Etymology: From Middle English leveret(te), from Old French leveret, diminutive of lievre (“hare”), from Latin leporem, of obscure origin.
Senses: examples: text: […] Shall I die like a leveret,
Without any resistance?—Help, help, help!
I am slain!
ref: 1623, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, act V, scene 5:
text: Fair Hand that can on Virgin-paper write,
 Yet from the stain of Ink preserve it white,
Whose travel o’er that Silver Field does show,
Like track of Leveretts in morning Snow;
ref: 1686, Edmund Waller, “Of a Tree cut in Paper”, in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons by Edmond Waller, London: H. Herringman:
text: As when two skilful hounds the leveret wind;
Or chase through woods obscure the trembling hind;
Now lost, now seen, they intercept his way,
And from the herd still turn the flying prey:
So fast, and with such fears, the Trojan flew;
So close, so constant, the bold Greeks pursue.
ref: 1720, Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, Book 10:
text: They heard Marvel squeal like a caught leveret, and forthwith they were clambering over the bar to his rescue.
ref: 1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 16”, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
synonyms: hareling
glosses: A young hare less than one year old.
Related terms: rabbitling
joey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.i/
enpr: jōˈ.ē
rhymes: -əʊi
Forms: form: joeys
Etymology: Unknown. Older and more general sources state that joey comes from an Australian aboriginal language (cited as joè), but newer sources that focus on Australian English and aboriginal languages say the origin is unknown. The Australian National Dictionary includes a sense of “young possum” with citations predating the earliest “young kangaroo” citations.
Senses: examples: text: As soon as a joey is born, it crawls into its mother's pouch. The joey grows in the pouch.
ref: 2006, Bobbie Kalman, Robin R. Johnson, Koalas and Other Marsupials, Crabtree Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: The immature young of a marsupial, notably a junior kangaroo, but also a young wallaby, koala, etc.
glosses: A young child.
examples: text: Among the kangaroo words that yield the most joviality and joy are those that conceal multiple joeys.
ref: 1998, Richard Lederer, Dave Morice, The Word Circus, page 129:
text: Sometimes a kangaroo word has more than one joey.
ref: 2005, Anu Garg, Another Word a Day, page 132:
glosses: Ellipsis of joey word.
examples: text: "Visit in two days though," said Tommo. "Hang in there mate, got a joey coming, we'll be sweet then."
ref: 2012, John Hoskison, Inside: One Man's Experience of Prison:
glosses: A parcel smuggled in to an inmate.
Derived terms: joey word
wood and water joey
joey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.i/
enpr: jōˈ.ē
rhymes: -əʊi
Forms: form: joeys
Etymology: From Joseph Grimaldi (1778–1837), a popular English entertainer.
Senses: topics: arts
circus
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
theater
glosses: A kind of clown.
joey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.i/
enpr: jōˈ.ē
rhymes: -əʊi
Forms: form: joeys
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: jolly
glosses: A member of the Royal Marines.
joey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.i/
enpr: jōˈ.ē
rhymes: -əʊi
Forms: form: joeys
Etymology: From British TV personality Joey Deacon (1920–1981), who was the focus of Blue Peter's 1981 charity campaign. The programme was aimed at children, who then picked the term up and used it as an insult.
Senses: glosses: A person with cerebral palsy.
raw_tags: in British
glosses: A stupid person.
raw_tags: in British
Related terms: spaz
deacon
deak
joey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.i/
enpr: jōˈ.ē
rhymes: -əʊi
Forms: form: joeys
Etymology: Said to have been named after Scottish politician Joseph Hume (1777–1855).
Senses: examples: a joey of brandy
glosses: A fourpenny piece, or its value; fourpence worth.
lion cub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lion cubs
Senses: glosses: A young lion
lionet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lionets
Etymology: From lion + -et.
Senses: glosses: A lion cub.
lamb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /læm/
ipa: [leəm]
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: lambs
form: lambing
form: lambed
form: lambed
Etymology: From Middle English lamb, from Old English lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos, enlargement of *h₁elh₁én, ultimately from *h₁el-.
See also Dutch lam, German Lamm, Bavarian Lamperl, Danish lam, Swedish lamm, Finnish lammas, Scottish Gaelic lon (“elk”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “red deer”). More at elk.
Senses: glosses: Of a sheep, to give birth.
examples: text: The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.
glosses: To assist (sheep) to give birth.
tiger cub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiger cubs
Senses: glosses: A young tiger.
liger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪɡɚ/
rhymes: -aɪɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ligers
Etymology: Blend of lion + tiger
Senses: examples: text: Tigons, ligers and a zeedonk have also been created by miscegenating mammals.
ref: 1985, Hartson & Dawson, The Ultimate Irrelevant Encyclopedia, page 66:
glosses: An animal born to a male lion and a tigress.
Hyponyms: ligress
Derived terms: litigon
Related terms: tigon
tigon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tī'gən
ipa: /ˈtaɪɡən/
rhymes: -aɪɡən
Forms: form: tigons
Etymology: Blend of tiger + lion
Senses: examples: text: Tigons, ligers and a zeedonk have also been created by miscegenating mammals.
ref: 1985, Hartson & Dawson, The Ultimate Irrelevant Encyclopedia, page 66:
glosses: A cross between a male tiger and a lioness.
Related terms: liger
cock-sparrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock-sparrows
form: cock sparrow
form: cocksparrow
Senses: glosses: A male sparrow.
examples: text: Shelley was a young fool; so are these cocksparrow revolutionaries.
ref: 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
glosses: A quarrelsome, cocky person
steward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈst͡ʃuː.əd/
ipa: /ˈstjuː.əd/
ipa: /ˈstuɚd/
Forms: form: stewards
form: stewarding
form: stewarded
form: stewarded
Etymology: From Middle English steward, stiward, from Old English stiġweard (“steward, housekeeper, one who has the superintendence of household affairs, guardian”), from stiġ (“a wooden enclosure; house, hall”) + weard (“ward, guard, guardian, keeper”), equivalent to sty + ward. Compare Icelandic stívarður (“steward”). More at sty, ward.
Senses: examples: text: Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski, a Democrat from Middlesex County, said, “It’s an uncomfortable situation,” but added that Mr. Codey is nevertheless “ably stewarding the state.”
ref: 2007 May 1, Richard G. Jones, “An Acting Governor’s Balancing Act: Taking the Lead Without Stepping on Toes”, in New York Times:
glosses: To act as the steward or caretaker of (something)
cock-robin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock-robins
Senses: glosses: A male robin.
Derived terms: cock-robin shop
aspidistra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aspidistras
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Aspidistra.
Senses: glosses: any of several Asian plants, of the genus Aspidistra, having large leaves and small bell-shaped flowers; widely cultivated as a houseplant
Derived terms: aspidistral
aspidistrin
seismograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪz.mə.ɡɹæf/
Forms: form: seismographs
Etymology: From seismo- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument that automatically detects and records the intensity, direction and duration of earthquakes and similar events.
Related terms: seismogram
seismology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪzˈmɑl.ə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /saɪsˈmɑl.ə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /saɪzˈmɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /saɪsˈmɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From seismo- + -logy.
Senses: synonyms: word: seismics
glosses: The study of the vibration of the Earth's interior caused by natural and unnatural sources, such as earthquakes.
Hyponyms: astroseismology
geoseismology
helioseismology
kronoseismology
selenoseismology
Derived terms: archaeoseismology
asteroseismology
asterseismology
astroseismology
helioseismology
kronoseismology
microseismology
paleoseismology
seismologic
seismological
seismologist
teleseismology
Related terms: seismic
seismologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: seismologists
Etymology: From seismology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who is skilled at, professes, or practices seismology.
seismic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪzmɪk/
ipa: /ˈsaɪsmɪk/
ipa: /ˈsismɪk/
rhymes: -aɪzmɪk
Etymology: Based on Ancient Greek σεισμός (seismós, “shaking, earthquake”) + -ic, equivalent to seismo- + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: seismic activity
glosses: Related to, or caused by an earthquake or other vibration of the Earth.
examples: text: a seismic area
glosses: Subject to earthquakes.
raw_tags: of a place
examples: text: With Spurs having avoided a seismic Cup upset, Newport's heroic display will be rewarded with a lucrative replay at Wembley.
ref: 2018 January 27, Dafydd Pritchard, “Newport 1 - 1 Tottenham Hotspur”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2018:
text: But the most seismic change is the shift to being supportive of open access. In practice, most of the industry has collectively opposed this for the past 25 years. The Department for Transport has been particularly hostile, seeing it as little more than cherry-picking.
ref: 2023 February 22, Sir Michael Holden, “Comment: A farewell to micro-management”, in RAIL, number 977, page 3:
text: That the two leading candidates are women is seismic in a country imbued with machismo, where gender violence is rampant and the fight for women’s rights has been especially sluggish under the incumbent president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, who is limited by Mexico’s Constitution to one six-year term.
ref: 2024 March 17, Ilan Stavans, “Will Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, a Jewish Woman, Blaze a Trail or Follow One?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2024:
glosses: Of very large or widespread effect.
Derived terms: anaseismic
antiseismic
archaeoseismic
aseismic
asteroseismic
astroseismic
bradyseismic
coseismic
helioseismic
interseismic
isoseismic
macroseismic
microseismic
nonseismic
paleoseismic
paraseismic
postseismic
preseismic
seismical
seismically
seismic bomb
seismic damper
seismic design
seismicity
seismic line
seismic lithosphere
seismic load
seismic moment
seismic performance
seismic retrofit
seismic risk
seismics
seismic sea wave
seismic shift
seismic stratigraphy
seismic sustainability
seismic wave
seismic zoning
seismograph
seismology
teleseismic
vibroseis
abstract noun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbˌstɹækt naʊn/
ipa: /ˈæbˌstɹækt naʊn/
Forms: form: abstract nouns
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: nomen abstractum
antonyms: concrete noun
glosses: A noun that denotes an idea, emotion, feeling, quality, generalization, representation or other abstract or intangible concept, as opposed to a concrete item, or a physical object.
ring species
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring species
Senses: examples: Ring species demonstrate that "can interbreed with" is not transitive.
glosses: A biological species consisting of overlapping subgroups, each of which can interbreed with the next, but which cannot freely interbreed when taken as a whole
clade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kleɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: clades
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “shoot, branch”). Coined by British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author Julian Huxley in 1957 in a paper titled The Three Types of Evolutionary Process in Nature. Doublet of cladus.
Senses: examples: text: All three clades containing Prunum and “Volvarina” species contain morphological features that do not collectively appear in any other living or fossil marginellid species (see above).
ref: 2001, Ross H. Nehm, “6: Linking Evolutionary Pattern and Development Process in Marginellid Gastropods”, in Alan H. Cheetham, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Scott Lidgard, Frank K. McKinney, editors, Evolutionary Patterns: Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record, page 166:
text: No one has ever tabulated the number or percentage of non-trending clades within larger monophyletic groups. The concept of a non-trending clade — the higher level analog of a species in stasis — has never been explicitly formulated at all. If only one percent of clades exhibited sustained trends, we would still focus our attention upon this tiny minority in telling our favored version of the story of life's history.
ref: 2002, Stephen Jay Gould, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, page 1092:
text: A clade is made up of an ancestral species and all its descendants; think of it as that part of an evolutionary tree that would fall off with a single saw cut.
ref: 2004 September 11, Bob Holmes, Linnean naming system faces challengers, New Scientist, page 13:
qualifier: systematics
glosses: A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.
Derived terms: cladal
cladeless
cladic
cladism
cladist
cladistic
cladistics
cladogenesis
cladogram
crown clade
haploclade
interclade
intraclade
microclade
miniclade
monoclade
multiclade
paraclade
subclade
superclade
clade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kleɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: clades
form: clading
form: claded
form: claded
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “shoot, branch”). Coined by British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author Julian Huxley in 1957 in a paper titled The Three Types of Evolutionary Process in Nature. Doublet of cladus.
Senses: examples: text: The phylogenetic tree for CiCBR shows it clades with the human cannabinoid receptors rather than with those other human GPCRs which most closely resemble the cannabinoid receptors.
ref: 2009, Andrew J. Brown and C. Robin Hiley, "Is GPR55 an Anandamide Receptor?" in Anandamide An Endogenous Cannabinoid (Vitamins And Hormones, Vol. 81), p. 117
glosses: To be part of a clade; to form a clade.
Related terms: monophyletic
phylogenetic
class
family
genus
kingdom
order
phylum
species
taxon
taxonomy
apophenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æpəˈfiːni.ə/
Forms: form: apophenias
Etymology: From German Apophänie, from Ancient Greek ἀποφαίνω (apophaínō, “to appear”), from ἀπο- (apo-) and φαίνω (phaínō, “appear”), coined by German psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in 1958.
Senses: examples: text: Apophenia, Win had declared it, after due consideration and in his careful way: the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things. And had never, as far as Cayce knows, said another word about it.
ref: 2004, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: How to recognize something in sheer noise? A striking visual example of pure and conscious apophenia was recently demonstrated by research labs at Google: […]
ref: 2016 April, Hito Steyerl, “A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition”, in e-flux, number 72:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The perception of or belief in connectedness among unrelated phenomena.
wikipedia: Klaus Conrad
Derived terms: apophenic
varnish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɑː(ɹ)nɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nɪʃ
Forms: form: varnishes
form: vernish
Etymology: From Middle English vernisch, vernish, from Old French vernis, from Medieval Latin vernix, veronix, from Byzantine Greek Βερενίκη (Bereníkē, “Berenice”), a town in Cyrenaica, now called Benghazi.
Senses: glosses: A clear or translucent liquid coating composed of resin dissolved in a solvent, which dries by evaporation to form a hard, protective, and typically glossy finish.
examples: text: the varnish of the holly and ivy
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: Anything resembling such a coating; a glossy appearance.
examples: text: And set a double varnish on the fame / The Frenchman gave you.
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 IV, scene vii]:
glosses: A deceptively showy appearance.
examples: text: Every transcontinental but two settled on the simple articulated for freight service, and all of them coupled their varnish to the 4-8-4.
ref: 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co.:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A passenger train, probably derived from the varnished passenger cars used at one time.
Derived terms: desert varnish
Japan varnish
nail varnish
rock varnish
varnishless
varnishlike
varnish polish
varnish tree
varnishy
varnish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɑː(ɹ)nɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nɪʃ
Forms: form: varnishes
form: varnishing
form: varnished
form: varnished
form: vernish
Etymology: From Middle English vernisch, vernish, from Old French vernis, from Medieval Latin vernix, veronix, from Byzantine Greek Βερενίκη (Bereníkē, “Berenice”), a town in Cyrenaica, now called Benghazi.
Senses: glosses: To apply varnish.
glosses: To cover up with varnish.
examples: text: varnish the report
glosses: To make something superficially or deceptively attractive
examples: text: [...] Go love thy infant; love thy wood-chopper: be good-natured and modest: have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.
ref: 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”, in Essays: First Series:
glosses: To gloss over a defect.
Derived terms: revarnish
varnishable
varnisher
varnishing day
varnishment
glottal stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɒtəl stɒp/
ipa: /ɡlɒʔəl stɒp/
ipa: /ɡlɑtəl stɑp/
Forms: form: glottal stops
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A plosive sound articulated with the glottis.
glosses: The glottal stop symbol, ʔ.
Synonyms: glottal plosive
hiatus
Related terms: hamza
ʔ
ʻokina
‘okina
'okina
okina
stød
uh-oh
glottal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɒt.l̩/
ipa: /ˈɡlɑ.tl̩/
ipa: [ˈɡlɑ.ɾl̩]
ipa: /ˈɡlɔt.l̩/
ipa: [ˈɡlɔɾ.l̩]
rhymes: -ɒtəl
Etymology: From glottis + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the glottis.
examples: text: Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 256:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Articulated with the glottis.
Synonyms: glottic
glottidean
Derived terms: glottal catch
glottal fry
glottalic
glottalise
glottality
glottalization
glottalize
glottalling
glottal stop
glottal-stopped
infraglottal
intraglottal
nonglottal
periglottal
pharyngoglottal
subglottal
supraglottal
transglottal
glottal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɒt.l̩/
ipa: /ˈɡlɑ.tl̩/
ipa: [ˈɡlɑ.ɾl̩]
ipa: /ˈɡlɔt.l̩/
ipa: [ˈɡlɔɾ.l̩]
rhymes: -ɒtəl
Forms: form: glottals
Etymology: From glottis + -al.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A sound made with the glottis
fool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fuːl/
ipa: /fʉl/
ipa: /fʊu(l)/
homophone: full (accents with FOOT-GOOSE merger or full-fool merger)
homophone: fall (accents with fool-fall merger)
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: fools
form: fooling
form: fooled
form: fooled
Etymology: From Middle English fole (“fool”), from Old French fol (cf. modern French fou (“mad”)) from Latin follis. Doublet of fals and follis. Displaced native Old English dwæs.
Senses: examples: text: She bit it gently and found that it resembled a worm in no way whatsoever as to taste although because it was long and slender, a Little Red Hen might easily be fooled by its appearance.
ref: 1918, Florence White Williams, The Little Red Hen:
text: There appears to be no process of gradually fooling oneself while degrading standards so characteristic of the Solid Rocket Booster or Space Shuttle Main Engine safety systems.
ref: 1986 June 6, Richard Feynman, “Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle”, in Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Report to the President:
text: Liara: Do not be fooled by these civilized surroundings. This is a place of secrets and lies.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria:
glosses: To trick; to deceive.
examples: text: 1681/1682, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar
Is this a time for fooling?
text: She's always complaining that she got stuck with the worst possible committee. And that me and Jimmy fool more than we work.
ref: 1972, Judy Blume, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, page 56:
glosses: To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly.
examples: text: They fool me to the top of my bent.
ref: c. 1599 to 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, III.ii.384
glosses: To make a fool of; to make act the fool.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the verb fool
word: befool
sense: Terms derived from the verb fool
word: foolability
sense: Terms derived from the verb fool
word: foolable
sense: Terms derived from the verb fool
word: fool about
sense: Terms derived from the verb fool
word: fool along
sense: Terms derived from the verb fool
word: fool around
sense: Terms derived from the verb fool
word: fooler
sense: Terms derived from the verb fool
word: fool me once
sense: Terms derived from the verb fool
word: shame on you
sense: Terms derived from the verb fool
word: fool me twice
sense: Terms derived from the verb fool
word: shame on me
sense: Terms derived from the verb fool
word: fool up
sense: Terms derived from the verb fool
word: fool with
sense: Terms derived from the verb fool
word: misfool
sense: Terms derived from the verb fool
word: more fool you
sense: Terms derived from the verb fool
word: outfool
sense: Terms derived from the verb fool
word: unfool
sense: Terms derived from the verb fool
word: unfooled
fool
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fuːl/
ipa: /fʉl/
ipa: /fʊu(l)/
homophone: full (accents with FOOT-GOOSE merger or full-fool merger)
homophone: fall (accents with fool-fall merger)
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: fooler
form: more fool
form: foolest
form: most fool
Etymology: From Middle English fole (“fool”), from Old French fol (cf. modern French fou (“mad”)) from Latin follis. Doublet of fals and follis. Displaced native Old English dwæs.
Senses: examples: text: Of all the fool, fruitless jobs, making anything of a creature that begins by deceiving her, is the foolest a sane woman ever undertook.
ref: 1909, Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost:
text: That was a fool thing to do. You could have gotten yourself shot
ref: 2011, Gayle Kaye, Sheriff Takes a Bride:
glosses: Foolish.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the adjective fool
word: damnfool
sense: Terms derived from the adjective fool
word: foolhardy
sense: Terms derived from the adjective fool
word: foolish
fool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fuːl/
ipa: /fʉl/
ipa: /fʊu(l)/
homophone: full (accents with FOOT-GOOSE merger or full-fool merger)
homophone: fall (accents with fool-fall merger)
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: fools
Etymology: From Old French fouler (“to mix or mash”).
Senses: examples: text: an apricot fool; a gooseberry fool
text: Eton is renowned for its "messes," and "strawberry mess" is Empress of them all, with raspberry mess as a very good second. It does not at all convey the joys of a "mess" to say that it consists of iced fruit and cream, and somewhat resembles a "fool." It is a thing apart, and should be approached with bated breath and unimpaired capacity.
ref: 1913, Pearson's Magazine, volume 36, part 2, page 373:
text: Pellaprat [...] invented the dish [of Eton mess] when a load of over-ripe strawberries needed eating up. His disguise was a fluff of whipped cream and the fool was served with sponge fingers. Somewhere along the line, someone else had the idea of stirring chunks of meringue into the fool at the last moment.
ref: 2014, Lindsey Bareham, Just One Pot:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
coordinate_terms: mess
glosses: A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
Synonyms: word: alcatote
word: asshat
word: arsehole
word: asshole
word: bayard
word: berk
word: birdbrain
word: blither
word: bobchin
word: bonehead
word: bozo
word: buffoon
word: brickhead
word: Charlie
word: chucklehead
word: chowderhead
word: chump
word: clart
word: clown
word: der-brain
word: dill pickle
word: dim bulb
word: dingleberry
word: dipshit
word: dipstick
word: dirtbrain
word: div
word: divvo
word: divvy
word: dolt
word: donk
word: doodle
word: doofus
word: dope
word: dork
word: dote
word: dotterel
word: dullard
word: dumbass
word: dumbbell
word: dumb fuck
word: dummy
word: dunce
word: dunderhead
word: dupe
word: fathead
word: fenderhead
word: fiddle
word: fuckwit
word: fuzznut
word: geck
word: gig
word: gink
word: goober
word: gooseberry
word: gowk
word: gubbins
word: gump
word: ha'p'orth
word: Homer Simpson
word: ignoramus
word: imbecile
word: jamoke
word: jerk
word: jerkoff
word: jolterhead
word: jolthead
word: juggins
word: jughead
word: knucklehead
word: lamebrain
word: mameluke (US (Italian-American)
word: slang)
word: maroon
word: meathead
word: mong
word: moron
word: mug
word: muggins
word: mushhead
word: nimrod
word: nincompoop
word: nit
word: nitwit
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: numskull
word: numps
word: numpty
word: nupson
word: oaf
word: pillock
word: pinhead
word: plonker
word: prat
word: retard
word: shit for brains
word: shithead
word: shitwit
word: schmo
word: schmuck
word: snapperhead
word: softhead
word: sot
word: stupid
word: sucker
word: thickhead
word: tonto
word: tool
word: tosser
word: tosspot
word: twat
word: twerp
word: twit
word: wally
word: wantwit
word: wazzock
word: yampy
Hypernyms: word: dotard
word: git
word: mentally deficient person
Derived terms: fumble
Related terms: word: dimwit
word: glaik
word: halfwit
word: idiot
word: retarded
word: foolish
word: insane
word: jester
sneeze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sniːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: sneezes
form: sneezing
form: sneezed
form: snoze
form: sneezed
form: snoze
form: snozen
Etymology: From Middle English snesen (“to sneeze”), alteration of earlier fnesen (“to sneeze”), from Old English fnēosan (“to sneeze, snort”), from Proto-West Germanic *fneusan, from Proto-Germanic *fneusaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe, pant, snort, sneeze”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch fniezen (“to sneeze”), Old Norse fnýsa (“to snort”).
Compare neeze, from Middle English nesen, from Old English *hnēosan (“to sneeze”), cognate with Old High German niosan (“to sneeze”), Old Norse hnjósa (“to sneeze”). See neeze.
It has been suggested that the change could be due to a misinterpretation of the uncommon initial sequence fn- as ſn- (sn- written with a long s), although the change is regular, seen also in snore and snort from Middle English fnoren and fnorten, and in late Middle English snatted from earlier Middle English fnatted (“snub-nosed”). The fn- forms of all these words fell out of use in the 1400s.
Senses: examples: text: To avoid passing on your illness, you should sneeze into your sleeve.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.
glosses: To expel air as if the nose were irritated.
examples: text: Lily shook her head violently and sneezed a large blue-bottle fly from where that insect had perched itself on the tip of her nose.
ref: 1924, Hugh Wiley, The Prowler, page 88:
text: When I crossed the road, I sneezed a big achoo! My nose started to feel itchy.
ref: 2010, Gunleen Deol, Sleepover Disaster, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 15:
text: I sneezed a big sneeze. It was so big I hit my nose on the sidewalk. Bow-ow. There was a smell in my snout that I wanted to get rid of. And it wasn't Muffet's rotten soup odor, either. That was actually kind of delicious.
ref: 2013, Sarah Hines-Stephens, Jane B. Mason, A Dog and His Girl Mysteries #2: Dead Man's Best Friend, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:
text: “Okay,”he said, and sneezed a large drop of pinkish goop. “But you better have a lot to eat! I'll race you upstairs!” Wilmer shook his head. Sherman's hyper energy level seemed to have increased, and that was saying a lot.
ref: 2014, Fowler DeWitt, The Contagious Colors of Mumpley Middle School, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 89:
text: Toothless sneezed a large amount of dragon snot right in Hiccup's face.
ref: 2017, Cressida Cowell, How to Train Your Dragon: How to Betray a Dragon's Hero, Hachette Children's, →ISBN:
glosses: To expel or displace (air, snot, etc) from the nose or mouth by the process above.
Synonyms: sense: to expel air as a reflex
word: neeze
topics: medicine
sciences
sense: to expel air as a reflex
word: sternutate
sneeze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sniːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: sneezes
Etymology: From Middle English snesen (“to sneeze”), alteration of earlier fnesen (“to sneeze”), from Old English fnēosan (“to sneeze, snort”), from Proto-West Germanic *fneusan, from Proto-Germanic *fneusaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe, pant, snort, sneeze”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch fniezen (“to sneeze”), Old Norse fnýsa (“to snort”).
Compare neeze, from Middle English nesen, from Old English *hnēosan (“to sneeze”), cognate with Old High German niosan (“to sneeze”), Old Norse hnjósa (“to sneeze”). See neeze.
It has been suggested that the change could be due to a misinterpretation of the uncommon initial sequence fn- as ſn- (sn- written with a long s), although the change is regular, seen also in snore and snort from Middle English fnoren and fnorten, and in late Middle English snatted from earlier Middle English fnatted (“snub-nosed”). The fn- forms of all these words fell out of use in the 1400s.
Senses: examples: text: Jared's hay fever gives him terrible sneezes.
synonyms: word: sternutation
topics: medicine
sciences
word: ptarmus
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An act of sneezing.
Hyponyms: Dracula sneeze
Derived terms: sense: from all parts of speech
word: dicksneeze
sense: from all parts of speech
word: nothing to sneeze at
sense: from all parts of speech
word: photic sneeze reflex
sense: from all parts of speech
word: sneeze-box
sense: from all parts of speech
word: sneeze gas
sense: from all parts of speech
word: sneezeguard
sense: from all parts of speech
word: sneeze guard
sense: from all parts of speech
word: sneezeless
sense: from all parts of speech
word: sneeze on the truth
sense: from all parts of speech
word: sneezer
sense: from all parts of speech
word: sneezeweed
sense: from all parts of speech
word: sneezewood
sense: from all parts of speech
word: sneezewort
sense: from all parts of speech
word: sneezle
sense: from all parts of speech
word: sneezy
Related terms: achoo
bless you