cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
savory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.və.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈseɪv.ɹi/
rhymes: -eɪvəɹi
rhymes: -eɪvɹi
Forms: form: savories
form: savoury
Etymology: From the Middle English savory, savourie, from Old French savouré, from Old French savourer, from Late Latin sapōrāre, from Latin sapor (“taste, flavour”), from sapiō, sapere (“taste of, have a flavour of”).
Senses: examples: text: On Friday the pastry chef Pichet Ong will open his own cafe, with sweets and savories served at tables and a counter.
ref: 2007 April 18, Florence Fabricant, “Off the Menu”, in New York Times:
glosses: A savory snack.
savory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.və.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈseɪv.ɹi/
rhymes: -eɪvəɹi
rhymes: -eɪvɹi
Forms: form: savories
form: savoury
Etymology: From Middle English saverey, possibly from Old English sæþerie, from Latin satureia, influenced by or via Old French savereie.
Senses: examples: text: There are some who advise taking the noxious herb savory; in my judgment it is poison.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 208:
glosses: Any of several Mediterranean herbs, of the genus Satureja, grown as culinary flavourings.
glosses: The leaves of these plants used as a flavouring.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Satureja coerulea
word: blue savory
taxonomic: Satureja hortensis
word: summer savory
taxonomic: Satureja montana
word: winter savory
Breeden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -iːdən
Forms: form: Breedens
Etymology: Variant of Breedon or Bredon.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Marlboro County, South Carolina, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States.
metamorphose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛtəˈmɔːˌfəʊz/
ipa: /ˌmɛtəˈmɔɹˌfoʊz/
ipa: /ˌmɛtəˈmɔɹˌfoʊs/
Forms: form: metamorphoses
form: metamorphosing
form: metamorphosed
form: metamorphosed
Etymology: From French métamorphoser, from Old French metamorphose, from Latin metamorphōsis; see metamorphosis.
Senses: glosses: To undergo metamorphosis.
raw_tags: of a moth or insect
examples: text: In fact, perhaps this is the pure and perfect incest: the brother realising that the sister’s virginity must be destroyed in order to have existed at all, taking that virginity in the person of the brother-in-law, the man whom he would be if he could become, metamorphose into, the lover, the husband; by whom he would be despoiled, choose for despoiler, if the could become, metamorphose into the sister, the mistress, the bride.
ref: 1936, William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!:
text: Environmental problems are not objectively existing physical phenomena amenable to reliable analysis and diagnosis. They are social constructions whose meaning and significance metamorphose and wax and wane according to changeable human interest.
ref: 1995, Ian Robottom, Hart Paul, “Behaviorist EE Research: Environmentalism as Individualism”, in The Journal of Environmental Education, volume 26, number 2, →DOI, page 8:
text: In fresh snow air can pass with little obstruction from the atmosphere through the snowpack to the ground: given life by differences in the temperature gradient, the snowpack breathes. But time changes that. The snow may metamorphose into what is called equitemperature, or ET, snow.
ref: 1995 January 24, Cullen Murphy, “In Praise of Snow”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: To undergo some transformation.
glosses: To transform (something) so that it has a completely different appearance.
Synonyms: metamorphize
metamorphosize
Derived terms: metamorphosable
metamorphoser
unmetamorphosed
Related terms: metamorphism
metamorphosis
dholak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊlək/
ipa: /ˈɖʰoːlək/
Forms: form: dholaks
form: dholaki
form: dholki
Etymology: From Hindi ढोलक (ḍholak).
Senses: examples: text: The men make a circle around the musicians, cheering and whistling with the beat of the dholak.
ref: 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 40:
glosses: A North Indian hand drum.
intracase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + case.
Senses: glosses: Within a single case.
raw_tags: of a comparison
opportunity cost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opportunity costs
Senses: examples: text: Implicit in this fixation with time is the thesis that the opportunity cost of regular shopping is too high – that the hours spent driving to the better bookstore in the next town can be spent doing something more valuable.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
text: Thanks to business school, I can understand how I've actually paid for this time at home with my family—the opportunity cost of my time, my forgone income, etc.
ref: 2004 June 7, “Jeff Pillet-Shore: Second Year Winds Down”, in BusinessWeek, retrieved 30 Oct 2008:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The cost of an opportunity forgone (and the loss of the benefits that could be received from that opportunity); the most valuable forgone alternative.
Related terms: accounting cost
bicycle kick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicycle kicks
Senses: glosses: A form of exercise in which one lies on one's back and makes cycling motions with the legs.
examples: text: Yaya Toure sent over a hopeful cross-field pass that Warnock attempted to clear with a bicycle kick, only to calamitously set Johnson up for a low finish past Given.
ref: 2011 October 15, David Ornstein, “Man City 4 - 1 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
synonyms: overhead kick
scissor kick
glosses: A kick in which the kicker leans backwards and kicks the ball back over his head.
bicycle kick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bicycle kicks
form: bicycle kicking
form: bicycle kicked
form: bicycle kicked
Senses: glosses: To perform a bicycle kick.
kicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪkɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɪkə/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: kickers
Etymology: The southern-U.S. sense referring to a person derives from shitkicker, referring to a cowboy with boots used to kick away cow manure.
Senses: glosses: A particular type of Texan who is associated with country/western attire, attitudes, and/or philosophy.
kicking strap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kicking straps
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A piece of rope that connects the lower end of the mast and the boom in order to provide a means for exerting downward force on the boom and thus controlling the shape of the sail.
Synonyms: boom vang
kicker
gybe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒaɪb/
rhymes: -aɪb
Forms: form: gybes
form: gybing
form: gybed
form: gybed
Etymology: Probably from Dutch gijben (obsolete), gijpen; cognate with Danish gibbe, German gieben, giepen, Swedish gipa, gippa.
The noun is derived from the verb; compare Dutch gijb (obsolete), gijp (“act of gybing; a boom”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind.
examples: text: […] I had my Man Friday to teach as to what belong'd to the Navigation of my Boat; for though he knew very well how to paddle a Canoe, he knew nothing what belong'd to a Sail and a Rudder, and was the moſt amaz'd when he ſaw me work the Boat too and again in the Sea by the Rudder, and how the Sail gyb'd, and fill'd this Way or that Way, as the Courſe we ſail'd chang'd: […]
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 271:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom: to shift, often forcefully and suddenly, from one side of a sailing vessel to the other.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Generally of a small sailing vessel: to change tack with the wind crossing behind the vessel.
glosses: Often as gybe at: to balk, hesitate, or vacillate when faced with a course of action, plan, or proposal.
gybe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒaɪb/
rhymes: -aɪb
Forms: form: gybes
form: gibe
form: jibe
Etymology: Probably from Dutch gijben (obsolete), gijpen; cognate with Danish gibbe, German gieben, giepen, Swedish gipa, gippa.
The noun is derived from the verb; compare Dutch gijb (obsolete), gijp (“act of gybing; a boom”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The act of gybing.
A sudden shift of a sail's angle, or a sudden change in the direction that a vessel is sailing in.
examples: text: The key to a good gybe is to bring the spinnaker round to the old weather side before you begin, and then to steer to keep some wind in the kite.
ref: 2014, Tim Davison, “Symmetric Spinnakers”, in Skipper’s Cockpit Racing Guide: For Dinghies, Keelboats and Yachts, London: Adlard Coles Nautical, →ISBN, page 24:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The act of gybing.
A manoeuvre in which the stern of a sailing vessel crosses the wind, typically resulting in the forceful and sudden sweep of the boom from one side of the vessel to the other.
glosses: A sudden change in approach or direction; vacillation.
gybe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒaɪb/
rhymes: -aɪb
Forms: form: gybes
Etymology: See jibe.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jibe (“taunt”).
gybe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒaɪb/
rhymes: -aɪb
Forms: form: gybes
form: gybing
form: gybed
form: gybed
Etymology: See jibe.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jibe (“taunt”).
windward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndwə(ɹ)d/
topics: nautical
transport
ipa: /ˈwɪnə(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: more windward
form: most windward
form: wind'ard
Etymology: From wind + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: The windward boat must give way to the leeward boat.
glosses: Towards the wind, or the direction from which the wind is blowing.
examples: text: the windward bedroom
glosses: On the side exposed to the wind.
examples: text: […] but while they own what G. Fox hath written, and that he writ it with a perfect spirit: I say untill they do make some Recantation or Retractation: or shew the Reasons why they doe not, H. Norton who keeps more plainly to his Principles is to windward of them, and the Foxians do but strip themselves naked to be more derided and scorned as the more notorious Juglers and Dissemblers .
ref: 1872, Publications of the Narragansett Club: George Fox digg'd out of his burrowes, page 257:
glosses: In a position of advantage or superiority.
Synonyms: upwind
Derived terms: Windward Islands
windward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndwə(ɹ)d/
topics: nautical
transport
ipa: /ˈwɪnə(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: wind'ard
Etymology: From wind + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: We beat our way windward.
glosses: In a direction from which the wind blows, against or towards the wind.
Derived terms: eat to windward
lay an anchor to the windward
windward of the law
windward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndwə(ɹ)d/
topics: nautical
transport
ipa: /ˈwɪnə(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: wind'ard
Etymology: From wind + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: A vessel has the weather gage of another when she is to windward of her. A weatherly ship is one that works well to windward, making but little leeway.
ref: 1840, Richard Henry Dana, Two Years before the Mast:
glosses: The direction from which the wind blows.
glosses: The side receiving the wind's force.
Related terms: weather gauge
tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪlə/
ipa: /ˈtɪlɚ/
rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tillers
Etymology: From Middle English tilier; equivalent to till + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In France, Europe's most fertile and cultivated land, the tillers of it suffered more and more hunger.
ref: 2000, Alasdair Gray, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 63:
glosses: A person who tills; a farmer.
glosses: A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
Synonyms: sense: machine
word: cultivator
Derived terms: even hand at the tiller
even hand on the tiller
firm hand at the tiller
firm hand on the tiller
power tiller
steady hand at the tiller
strong hand at the tiller
strong hand on the tiller
sure hand at the tiller
sure hand on the tiller
Tiller
tiller-beam
Tillerson
Related terms: motor plow
tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪlə/
ipa: /ˈtɪlɚ/
rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tillers
form: tillow
Etymology: From Middle English telȝre, telgra, from Old English telgor, telgra, telgre ("twig, branch, shoot") (also telga, telge (whence tillow)), from Proto-West Germanic *telguʀ, from Proto-Germanic *telguz (“twig, branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *delgʰ- (“to split, divide, cut, carve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tälge (“sapling”), Dutch telg (“descendant, scion, offshoot, shoot”), Dutch Low Saxon telge (“twig, branch”), German Zelge (“twig, branch, bough”), Swedish telning (“branch, scion, sapling”), Icelandic tág (“willow-twig”).
Senses: examples: text: first you must provide you of a Ladder to ascend the top of your Pit : this they usually make of a curved Tiller fit to apply to the convex shape of the heap
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A young tree.
glosses: A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪlə/
ipa: /ˈtɪlɚ/
rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tillers
form: tillering
form: tillered
form: tillered
form: tillow
Etymology: From Middle English telȝre, telgra, from Old English telgor, telgra, telgre ("twig, branch, shoot") (also telga, telge (whence tillow)), from Proto-West Germanic *telguʀ, from Proto-Germanic *telguz (“twig, branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *delgʰ- (“to split, divide, cut, carve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tälge (“sapling”), Dutch telg (“descendant, scion, offshoot, shoot”), Dutch Low Saxon telge (“twig, branch”), German Zelge (“twig, branch, bough”), Swedish telning (“branch, scion, sapling”), Icelandic tág (“willow-twig”).
Senses: glosses: To produce new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.
tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪlə/
ipa: /ˈtɪlɚ/
rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tillers
Etymology: From Middle English teler, from Anglo-Norman telier (“beam used in weaving”), from Medieval Latin telarium, from Latin tēla (“web”).
Senses: examples: text: You can shoot in a tiller.
ref: c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Philaster: Or, Love Lies a Bleeding”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:
topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A bar of iron or wood connected with the rudderhead and leadline, usually forward, in which the rudder is moved as desired by the tiller (FM 55-501).
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The handle of the rudder which the helmsman holds to steer the boat, a piece of wood or metal extending forward from the rudder over or through the transom. Generally attached at the top of the rudder.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A steering wheel, usually mounted on the lower portion of the captain's control column, which is used to steer the aircraft's nosewheel or tailwheel to provide steering during taxi.
glosses: A handle; a stalk.
glosses: The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
examples: text: But search her cabinet, and thou shalt find
Each tiller there with love-epistles lin'd
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Sixth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: A small drawer; a till.
Derived terms: steady hand on the tiller
tiller extension
tiller truck
tillerman
tiller extension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiller extensions
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An attachment to the tiller that enables the helmsman to steer from further forward on the boat.
man overboard
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: man overboard !
Senses: examples: text: Hazel Strong was looking from her darkened port across the dark sea. Suddenly a body shot past her eyes from the deck above. It dropped so quickly into the dark waters below that she could not be sure of what it was—it might have been a man, she could not say. She listened for some outcry from above—for the always-fearsome call, “Man overboard!” but it did not come. All was silence on the ship above—all was silence in the sea below.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 105:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A cry used to announce that one of the crew or passengers has fallen over the side of the vessel.
signifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪɡnɪfaɪɚ/
ipa: /ˈsɪɡnɪfaɪə/
Forms: form: signifiers
Etymology: From signify + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If commentators have concurred on the characterization of Reagan as a synecdoche, they have also noted his status as a signifier.
ref: 2008, Diane Rubenstein, This is Not a President: Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary:
glosses: Something or someone that signifies, makes something more significant or important.
topics: cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Something or someone that signifies, makes something more significant or important.
A card representing a querent, question, or situation.
examples: text: Here things are getting better and better for women and people of color, and gay men and lesbians, more and more integrated and open, and all you can think about is some stupid, lame problem with signifiers and signifieds.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A sign, such as a written or spoken word, which refers to some concept, object or person, the signified.
Synonyms: topics: cartomancy
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: significator
Derived terms: empty signifier
floating signifier
master signifier
Related terms: signified
referent
unfurl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfəːl/
ipa: /ʌnˈfɝl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: unfurls
form: unfurling
form: unfurled
form: unfurled
Etymology: From un- + furl.
Senses: examples: text: They unfurled the flag at the start of the festival.
text: BEHIND him lay the gray Azores, / Behind the Gates of Hercules; / Before him not the ghost of shores, / Before him only shoreless seas. // The good mate said: “Now must we pray, / For lo! the very stars are gone. / Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?” / “Why, say, ‘Sail on! sail on! and on!’”
“My men grow mutinous day by day; / My men grow ghastly wan and weak.” / The stout mate thought of home; a spray / Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. // “What shall I say, brave Admiral, say, / If we sight naught but seas at dawn?” / “Why, you shall say at break of day, / ‘Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!’”
They sailed and sailed, as winds might blow, / Until at last the blanched mate said: / “Why, now not even God would know / Should I and all my men fall dead. // These very winds forget their way, / For God from these dread seas is gone. / Now speak, brave Admiral, speak and say”— / He said: “Sail on! sail on! and on!”
They sailed. They sailed. Then spake the mate: / “This mad sea shows his teeth to-night. / He curls his lip, he lies in wait, / With lifted teeth, as if to bite! // Brave Admiral, say but one good word: / What shall we do when hope is gone?” / The words leapt like a leaping sword: / “Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!”
Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, / And peered through darkness. Ah, that night / Of all dark nights! And then a speck— / A light! A light! A light! A light! // It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! / It grew to be Time’s burst of dawn. / He gained a world; he gave that world / Its grandest lesson: “On! sail on!”
ref: 1892, Joaquin Miller, Columbus
text: Release the line by pulling down and unfurl the jib by pulling on the two jibsheets.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “RS Quest Rigging Instructions”, in California State University, Sacramento, page 2:
synonyms: splay
glosses: To unroll or release something that had been rolled up, typically a sail or a flag.
examples: text: When will we be unfurling the new feature?
text: Befitting the gray-brown clothes, bagged eyes, and licorice hair of its figures, Memoir Of A Snail unfurls the spiraling tale of two orphans persevering on Australia’s fringes.
ref: 2024 October 23, Jacob Oller, “Clay weepy Memoir Of A Snail crawls through a gauntlet of misery”, in AV Club:
glosses: To roll out or debut anything.
glosses: To open up by unrolling.
glosses: To turn out or unfold; to evolve; to progress.
mainsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪnʃiːt/
Forms: form: mainsheets
Etymology: From main + sheet.
Senses: examples: text: Push the rudder down to a vertical position, then tighten the green line and place in the same cam cleat on the tiller shaft; be careful not to wrap or foul the mainsheet traveler line.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Pico Rigging Instructions”, in California State University, Sacramento, page 1:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The rope connected to and controlling the mainsail.
centreboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centreboards
form: centre-board
form: centre board
form: centerboard
form: center-board
form: center board
Etymology: From centre + board.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The adjustable keel on a small yacht or dinghy that acts, among other things, as ballast and to counteract the sideways force of the wind.
Related terms: bilge board
dagger board
leeboard
ready about
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Used by the helm announcing to the crew that (s)he is ready to change tack.
dog-tired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dog tired
Senses: synonyms: word: dog-weary
word: weary
word: bleareyed
word: bleary
word: bleary-eyed
word: bone-tired
word: bushed
word: tired out
word: spent
word: drained
word: dog-tired
word: dog-weary
word: exhausted
word: fatigued
word: forfairn
word: forlagen
word: forworn
word: heavyeyed
word: jaded
word: languid
word: enervated
word: out of gas
word: played out
word: run-down
word: shattered
word: shot
word: sleepy
word: stuffed
word: tired
word: washed out
word: weariful
word: weary
word: whacked
word: whipped
word: worn
word: worn out
word: banjaxed
word: beat
word: buggered
word: busted
word: dead tired
word: cream crackered
word: done
word: done in
word: done up
word: fagged out
word: fried
word: fucked
word: gassed
word: jiggered
word: Kerry Packered
word: knacked
word: knackered
word: nadgered
word: pooped
word: pooped out
word: pumped
word: shagged
word: shagged out
word: tuckered
word: tuckered out
word: wappened
word: zonked
glosses: Exhausted.
Related terms: dogged
dogs are barking
dog slow
land ahoy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Shouted by the ship's watch to inform the crew that land has been spotted.
Synonyms: land ho
americano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: americanos
form: Americano
Etymology: 1970s, from Italian (caffè) americano or American Spanish americano (“American (coffee)”). Cocktail sense from Italian americano.
Senses: examples: text: “No, the coffee. Do you want a cup of Americano?” I groaned. Welcome to Europe. “Can't I just get a cup of regular coffee? A little cream, a little sugar?” […] “An Americano is a shot of espresso with hot water added.” “I don't know why they call it Americano. No one in America drinks espresso and hot water.”
ref: 2017, Ronald H. Balson, The Trust, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 16:
text: And he drank americano. That was interesting. Was he lactose intolerant or did he simply prefer his coffee black?
ref: 2018, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White, “Chapter 4: Sarah”, in The Glass Ocean, William Morrow, →ISBN:
synonyms: cafe americano
caffè americano
coffee americano
glosses: A drink made of espresso coffee diluted with hot water.
examples: text: The waiters wore striped waistcoats and green baize aprons. Bond ordered an Americano and examined the sprinkling of overdressed customers, mostly from Paris he guessed, who sat talking with focus and vivacity, creating that theatrically clubbable atmosphere of l'heure de l'aperitif.
ref: 1953, Ian Fleming, Casino Royale, page 30:
text: An Americano is made of Campari, sweet vermouth, and soda water over ice in a highball glass. […] The drink was so popular among Americans visiting Italy at the turn of the last century that it was named after them.
ref: 2009, Eric Felten, How's Your Drink?: Cocktails, Culture, and the Art of Drinking Well, Agate Publishing, →ISBN, pages 37–38:
glosses: A cocktail made with Campari, sweet vermouth, and club soda.
Derived terms: Americola
Canadiano
Russiano
FQT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of formal qualification testing, used to determine whether an item will be acceptable to a customer.
dog tired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dog-tired.
colombo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of calumba.
FRIM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Forest Research Institute of Malaysia.
tailor's chalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailor's chalks
form: tailors' chalks
Senses: glosses: A chalk-like material used for marking alterations on fabric in tailoring and dressmaking. The marks are brushed or washed off the material when no longer needed.
Vasey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Of Old French origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French.
catnap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætˌnæp/
Forms: form: catnaps
form: cat nap
form: cat-nap
form: cat nap
form: cat-nap
Etymology: From cat + nap.
Senses: examples: text: Besides, I reflected, Joe might easily have become a catnapper, as so many millions of other Americans had become since Sarah Perkins, during the campaign, had made it so widely known that although the incumbent President slept in a bed with the covers over him for three and sometimes four hours a night, she herself never slept at all except for the catnaps.
ref: 1965, The New Yorker, page 28:
text: A toddler who is still having two day sleeps will generally have one good sleep and one catnap, and a toddler who is around three years of age and getting close to dropping her day sleep will catnap.
ref: 2010, Tizzie Hall, Save Our Sleep: Toddler, page 117:
glosses: A brief, light sleep, usually during the daytime.
catnap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætˌnæp/
Forms: form: catnaps
form: catnapping
form: catnapped
form: catnapped
form: cat nap
form: cat-nap
form: cat nap
form: cat-nap
Etymology: From cat + nap.
Senses: examples: text: A toddler who is still having two day sleeps will generally have one good sleep and one catnap, and a toddler who is around three years of age and getting close to dropping her day sleep will catnap.
ref: 2010, Tizzie Hall, Save Our Sleep: Toddler, page 117:
glosses: To take a catnap (short sleep or nap).
Related terms: nap
shuteye
snooze
catnap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætˌnæp/
Forms: form: catnaps
form: catnapping
form: catnapped
form: catnapped
form: cat nap
form: cat-nap
form: cat nap
form: cat-nap
Etymology: From cat + -nap.
Senses: examples: text: When you suspect your cat's up a tree because he was chased or now locked up in the parked car because someone conspired to catnap him (he is quite the personality), what economic scales could they employ to set ransom?
ref: 1990, Kalliope, page 40:
text: The man thought, if she refuses, I could catnap it early one Wednesday afternoon while she's dozing. Leave a bogus ransom note?
ref: 2002, Joseph Ashby Porter, “A Man Wanted to Buy a Cat”, in Touch Wood: Short Stories, page 12:
text: But the jury was appalled that Amber had stepped over Mort's dead body to steal his cat, and moved by Trish's dignified and heartrending testimony about her suffering when Justine was catnapped.
ref: 2018, Elaine Viets, Catnapped!:
text: Hellen Gravely: 'You ransacked my hotel, captured my staff with that strange vacuum of yours... And to top it all off, you catnapped my sweetie, my little darling... My precious Polterkitty!'
ref: 2019 October 30, Next Level Games, Luigi's Mansion 3, v1.4.0, Nintendo, level/area: Main Observation Room (15F: Master Suite):
glosses: To kidnap a cat.
Derived terms: catnapper
United States minor outlying islands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A collection of islands and archipelagos, consisting of various dependent territories of the United States, including: Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, the Midway Islands, Navassa Island, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island.
invertase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invertases
Etymology: From invert + -ase.
Senses: examples: text: The costs incurred for the processing of sucrose with invertase could be considerably reduced with the introduction of immobilised invertases, by adopting technology similar to that developed for glucose isomerase.
ref: 1995, L. F. J. Woods, S. J. Swinton, “8: Enzymes in the starch and sugar industries”, in Gregory A. Tucker, L.F.J. Woods, editors, Enzymes in Food Processing, page 257:
text: The disaccharide sucrose and the trisaccharide raffinose are both substrates of invertase. Invertase is encoded by the SUC genes from which six unlinked loci have been identified (SUC1-SUC5, SUC7), which are dipersed through the yeast genome (Lampen, 1968; Ouwehand and van Wijk, 1972; Ottolenghi, 1971).
ref: 1997, Karl-Dieter Entian, Hans-Joachim Schüller, “Chapter 13: Genetics of Di- and Trisaccharide Utilization”, in Friedrich K. Zimmermann, Karl-Dieter Entian, editors, Yeast Sugar Metabolism, page 226:
text: Up-regulation of these invertases is a common response to infection (Hall and Williams, 2000).
ref: 2004, J. S. C. Clark, P. T. N. Spencer-Phillips, “The Compatible Interaction in Downy Mildew Infections”, in Peter Spencer-Phillips, Michael J. Jeger, editors, Advances in Downy Mildew Research, volume 2, page 18:
text: 2013, Maria Kamiko Kadowaki, Rite de Cássia Garcia Simão, Jose Luís da Conceição Silva, Clarice Aoki Osaku, Luis Henrique Souza Guimarāes, 1: Biotechnical Advances in Fungal Invertases, Maria de Lourdes T. M. Polizeli, Mahendra Rai (editors), Fungal Enzymes, page 14,
The methods used for the immobilization of fungal invertases include adsorption, covalent binding, cross-linking and entrapment (Uzun et al. 2011).
Nelson and Griffin (1916) reported that invertase was the first enzyme to be immobilized, and it was bound on charcoal and aluminium hydroxide. Subsequently, mant fungal invertases have been immobilized onto a variety of media […] .
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose (invert sugar), used by bees to produce honey and in the food industry to soften chocolate.
Synonyms: sense: enzyme
word: beta-h-fructosidase
sense: enzyme
word: E1103
sense: enzyme
word: glucosucrase
sense: enzyme
word: saccharase
sense: enzyme
word: invert enzyme
three card brag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A card game somewhat like a simplified form of poker, and one of poker's several ancestors
prile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priles
form: prial
Etymology: A corruption of pair royal.
Senses: examples: text: A prile beats a running flush.
glosses: a hand of three cards of the same value in three card brag
running flush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: running flushes
Senses: examples: text: A running flush can only be beaten by a prile.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: a hand containing three cards of consecutive value and the same suit in three card brag; equivalent to a straight flush in poker
Ariah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew אַרְיֵה (“God has promised. Also, lion of God”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
AE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American English.
examples: text: • APO/FPO AE ZIPs 094-098 — Space Available Mail, Nov. 26; Parcel Airlift Mail, Dec. 3; Priority Mail, Dec. 10; First Class Mail Letters and Cards, Dec.10 and Express Mail Military Service, Dec. 18.
• APO/FPO AA ZIP 340 — Space Available Mail, Nov. 26; Parcel Airlift Mail, Dec. 3; Priority Mail, Dec. 10; First Class Mail Letters and Cards, Dec. 10 and Express Mail Military Service, Dec. 18.
• APO/FPO AP ZIPs 962-966 — Space Available Mail, Nov. 26; Parcel Airlift Mail, Dec. 3; Priority Mail, Dec. 10; First Class Mail Letters and Cards, Dec. 10 and Express Mail Military Service, Dec. 18.
ref: 2010 October 29, Bill Shrum, “Shipping to soldiers for the holidays”, in Stuttgart (Arkansas) Daily Leader:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: USPS military code of Armed Forces – Europe.
glosses: Initialism of Armenian Era.
AE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of active euthanasia.
nene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪneɪ/
ipa: /ˈneɪˌneɪ/
rhymes: -eɪneɪ
Forms: form: nenes
form: nene
form: nēnē
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian nēnē, which is imitative of the bird’s call.
Senses: examples: text: Ohelo Vaccinium reticulatum (and V. peleanum) and kukaenene Coprosma ernodeoides […] are the most important berries in the Nenes’ diet, and it is probably from such juicy fruit that much of their water intake comes.
ref: 1980, Janet Kear, A. J. Berger, “The Hawaiian Goose or Nene”, in The Hawaiian Goose: An Experiment in Conservation, Calton, Staffordshire: T. & A. D. Poyser, →ISBN; reprinted London: T. & A. D. Poyser, 2010, →ISBN, page 42:
text: Today, both wild and domestic dogs are a serious threat to Hawai‘i's native wildlife. The dogs prey on both seabirds and open country birds, especially the Hawaiian goose, nēnē. However, feral dogs aren't all bad, because one of their favorite foods is rats.
ref: 1991, Susan Scott, Plants and Animals of Hawai‘i, Honolulu, Hi.: Bess Press, →ISBN, page 123:
text: Scientists think the nēnē descended from Canada geese that landed on Hawai‘i long before humans arrived. As they survived on the isolated islands for generation after generation, the geese gradually changed, becoming a new species. Today's nēnē, unlike its water-loving ancestor, is a land bird.
ref: 1993, Marion Coste, Nēnē (Kolowalu Book), Honolulu, Hi.: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 20:
text: The nene is a handsome bird that almost became extinct in the wild but was reintroduced successfully from ones bred in captivity.
ref: 2004, Richard [Alan] Fortey, The Earth: An Intimate History, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN; republished London: Folio Society, 2011, →OCLC, page 37:
text: Among the iconic flora and fauna found here are […] the endangered nene (Hawaiian goose). After almost going extinct, nene were reintroduced into the national park in 1962 when Boy Scouts carried geese that had been raised in captivity down into Haleakala volcano in their backpacks.
ref: 2011, Sara Benson, “Haleakala National Park”, in Maui: Must-do Hikes for Everyone (Top Trails), Birmingham, Ala.: Wilderness Press, →ISBN, page 197:
glosses: The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.
Synonyms: Hawaiian goose
nēnē goose
USPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌju ɛs pi ˈɛs/
Senses: examples: text: In a letter DeJoy sent to Congress on Thursday, he said DOGE teams will “assist us in identifying and achieving further efficiencies,” saying the Elon Musk-led agency will focus on improving the management of USPS retirement assets and the Workers’ Compensation Program, as well as addressing the agency’s legislative mandates and regulatory requirements.
ref: 2025 March 13, Gabe Cohen, “Head of Postal Service agrees to let DOGE work with USPS”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of United States Postal Service.
typographical error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typographical errors
Senses: examples: text: We're talking high-nitrogen compounds here ... and the question is not whether such things are going to be explosive hazards. (That's been settled by their empirical formulas, which generally look like typographical errors).
ref: 2013 January 9, Derek Lowe, “Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less”, in In the Pipeline:
glosses: A mistake made during the process of typing, especially one caused by a slip of the fingers.
synonyms: misprint
glosses: A mistake made during the process of typesetting.
Book of Mormon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Book of Mormon
Senses: synonyms: Golden Bible
glosses: A sacred text of the Latter-Day Saints movement, published in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr.
Derived terms: BoM
Book of Mormon Belt
Related terms: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormon
armageddon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑː(ɹ).məˈɡɛ.dn̩/
ipa: /-ˈɡɛ.dən/
ipa: /ɑː(ɹ).məˈɡɛd.ʔn/
ipa: /ˌɑɹ.məˈɡɛ.dn̩/
ipa: /-ˈɡɛ.dən/
ipa: [ˌɑɹ.məˈɡɛɾ.ʔn]
rhymes: -ɛdən
Forms: form: armageddons
Etymology: A generalization of Armageddon.
Senses: glosses: The scene of a decisive conflict on a great scale.
examples: text: In comparison to Nixon-Mao, terrorism and armageddon, Anna Nicole Smith may seem lightweight, but it could prove an inspired choice.
ref: 2009 February 13, Mark Lawson, “A tabloid Carmen”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Any great and crucial conflict.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A type of game, usually played when a match would otherwise end in a draw, where black wins drawn games and white is given more time as compensation.
Synonyms: apocalypse
catastrophe
day of reckoning
destruction
disaster
doomsday
judgement day
nuclear holocaust
end times
end of the world
Derived terms: -ageddon
Carmageddon
cicada-geddon
hairmageddon
insectageddon
snowmageddon
devil's advocate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devil's advocates
Etymology: Calque of Latin advocātus diabolī (“the devil’s advocate”), a popular title given to the officer dealing with the canonization process in the 16th c.
Senses: examples: text: I don't really believe all that – I was just playing devil's advocate.
text: Now, play devil's advocate. Can't you live 20 years on $145,000 if you're living out of a motor home and just eating and painting and writing books? I mean, this is what we talked about when we were 19. Remember, we kept saying, "Let's find ourselves," but we didn't have a dollar! So, we watched television instead.
ref: 1985, Albert Brooks, Lost in America (motion picture), spoken by David Howard (Albert Brooks):
glosses: One who debates from a viewpoint which one may not actually hold, usually to determine its validity or simply for the sake of argument.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A canon lawyer appointed by the Church to argue against the canonization of the proposed candidate.
devil's advocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: devil's advocates
form: devil's advocating
form: devil's advocated
form: devil's advocated
Etymology: Calque of Latin advocātus diabolī (“the devil’s advocate”), a popular title given to the officer dealing with the canonization process in the 16th c.
Senses: examples: text: Disclaimer: people shouldn't take things I say too personally, I'm often a bit blunt and like to devil's advocate and debate things (another part of this is that I've typically not bothered to post on things that are correct, but to correct things when they're wrong... if you take everything I don't respond to as an affirmation, I'm extremely nice:)
ref: 2006 September 27, bwross, “Crawl-SS: Weapon & armor changes”, in rec.games.roguelike.misc (Usenet):
text: I don't want to get bogged down devil's-advocating for a position I don't personally hold (I think a government worker should not be allowed to bring religious beliefs into the job, just to be clear), but her position is a little different than the absolute you're making it into.
ref: 2008 May 20, Carl, “Woman: 'I can't go against what it says in the Bible'”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
glosses: To play devil's advocate.
taco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tä′kō
ipa: /ˈtɑ.koʊ/
ipa: [ˈtʰɑ.koʊ]
rhymes: -ɑːkəʊ
ipa: /ˈtɐː.kəʊ/
enpr: tă′kō
ipa: /ˈtæ.kəʊ/
rhymes: -æ kəʊ
ipa: [ˈtʰä(ː).ko(ː)]
ipa: [ˈtʰa.ko(ː)]
note: Indic, Anglicised pronunciation
ipa: /ʈæk.o/
note: Indic, adapted Spanish pronunciation
enpr: thä′kō
note: Indic, adapted Spanish pronunciation
enpr: thă′kō
ipa: /t̪ɑ.ko/
note: Indic, adapted Spanish pronunciation
ipa: /t̪æ.ko/
note: Indic, adapted Spanish pronunciation
Forms: form: tacos
Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish taco, of uncertain origin; see the Spanish entry for more.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A Mexican snack food made of a small tortilla (soft- or hard-shelled) filled with ingredients such as meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables, and salsa.
examples: text: […] while grinding her pink taco into my groin as if trying to gain even more of my sizable ...
ref: 2007, Various, Sex & Seduction: 20 Erotic Stories, Accent Press Ltd, page 130:
text: […] zombies have to eat and the best place to on any female is the pink taco.
ref: 2009, Albert Mudrian, Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces, Da Capo Press, page 159:
text: "[…] was it really necessary to make your maid piss herself? Even if you think your husband is hiding his sausage in her taco, that was brazen. Jesus, Lana."
ref: 2015, Cynthia Dane, A Fragile Wife: A Billionaire Romance, Barachou Press:
synonyms: pink taco
glosses: The vulva.
glosses: A yellow stain on a shirt's armpit caused by sweat or deodorant.
Derived terms: French taco
Indian taco
Navajo taco
pink taco
street taco
taco-bender
taco bender
taco bumper
taco fest
Taco Hell
taco nigger
taco rice
taco salad
Taco Smell
Taco Tuesday
taco vampiro
tuna taco
vampire taco
walking taco
taco
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tä′kō
ipa: /ˈtɑ.koʊ/
ipa: [ˈtʰɑ.koʊ]
rhymes: -ɑːkəʊ
ipa: /ˈtɐː.kəʊ/
enpr: tă′kō
ipa: /ˈtæ.kəʊ/
rhymes: -æ kəʊ
ipa: [ˈtʰä(ː).ko(ː)]
ipa: [ˈtʰa.ko(ː)]
note: Indic, Anglicised pronunciation
ipa: /ʈæk.o/
note: Indic, adapted Spanish pronunciation
enpr: thä′kō
note: Indic, adapted Spanish pronunciation
enpr: thă′kō
ipa: /t̪ɑ.ko/
note: Indic, adapted Spanish pronunciation
ipa: /t̪æ.ko/
note: Indic, adapted Spanish pronunciation
Forms: form: tacos
form: tacoing
form: tacoed
form: tacoed
Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish taco, of uncertain origin; see the Spanish entry for more.
Senses: examples: text: The boat tacoed — the front and rear bent in — and I was holding onto a strap on the frame, sitting more on the tube than the frame, and I was catapulted forward.
ref: 1996, Arizona Highways - Volume 72, page 9:
text: J.T. was in full scoop mode and whaling down the descent and he creamed into the dude, tacoed his front wheel, sheared off his front brake, and came as close to cursing as he ever has.
ref: 2003, Bob Roll, Bobke II, →ISBN, page 91:
text: I'd left it in neutral and it rolled straight back into the barn and tacoed that door.
ref: 2008, Sally Stenhouse Kneidel, Going Green: A Wise Consumer's Guide to a Shrinking Planet:
text: He turned off the light and laid on the couch, tacoing the pillow behind his head and inhaling the smell of Melanie Owen.
ref: 2016, Jennifer Moore, Safe Harbor, →ISBN:
glosses: To fold or cause to buckle in half, similar to the way a taco is folded.
extortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈstɔːʃən/
ipa: /ɛk-/
ipa: /ɪkˈstɔɹʃən/
ipa: /ɛk-/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ʃən
Forms: form: extortions
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman extorcion, extorcioun, extorsioun, from Late Latin extortiō, from extorqueō.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: blackmail
text: Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?
ref: 1986 February 17, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
glosses: The practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats.
Derived terms: antiextortion
cryptoviral extortion
cyberextortion
extortioner
extortionist
extortionous
nonextortion
sextortion
double extortion
Related terms: extortionary
extortionate
extortive
Grammy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æmi
Forms: form: Grammys
form: Grammies
Etymology: From gramophone.
Senses: glosses: Any of the statuettes awarded by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievements in the music industry.
All Hallows' Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: All Hallows’ Day
form: All Hallows Day
Senses: glosses: A Christian feast day, 1st November, honouring the saints (or, as the name implies, "hallows"); the day after Halloween.
Synonyms: All Saints' Day
All Saints’ Day
All Saints Day
Related terms: All Souls' Day
All Souls’ Day
All Souls Day
Halloween
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌha.ləˈwiːn/
ipa: /ˌha.ləʊˈiːn/
ipa: /ˌhæ.ləˈwiːn/
ipa: /ˌhɑ.ləˈwiːn/
ipa: /ˌhæ.loʊˈiːn/
note: Indic
ipa: /halo.win/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: Halloweens
form: Hallowe'en
form: Halloweven
Etymology: A Scottish shortening of Allhalloweven, from Allhallowmas (the obsolete earlier name of All Saints' Day) + even (an archaic or poetic variant of eve; see also een).
For the American pronunciation with /ɑ/, compare the Southern English traditional dialect pronunciations fallow /ˈfɒ.lə/ and tallow /ˈtɒ.lə/.
Senses: examples: text: They all get dressed up in scary costumes at Halloween.
text: 1987, Kai Hansen, "Halloween", Helloween, Keeper Of The Seven Keys: Part 1.
Black is the night full of fright / You'll be missing the day / What will be here very soon / Changing your way / A knock at your door / It is real or is it a dream / On trembling legs you open the door / And you scream... on Halloween
glosses: The eve of All Hallows' Day; October 31st; celebrated (mostly in English-speaking countries) by children going door-to-door in costume and soliciting candy with menaces.
Derived terms: anti-Halloween
Halloweekend
Halloween crab
Slutoween
Summerween
Related terms: All Hallows' Day
Reformation Sunday
Samhain
trick-or-treat
trick or treat
trick-or-treat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trick-
form: -treats
form: trick-
form: -treating
form: trick-
form: trick-
form: -treated
form: -treated
Etymology: From trick or treat, the phrase stated as a greeting when accosting a household.
Senses: coordinate_terms: word: soul
alt: All Souls Day
glosses: To go door-to-door requesing candy on Halloween night while wearing a costume.
Derived terms: trick or treat
trick-or-treater
trick-or-treating