cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
heavens
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛvənz/
rhymes: -ɛvənz
Senses: examples: text: “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Chapter IX: A Novice”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 359:
glosses: An expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, or frustration.
Synonyms: sense: expression of surprise
word: wow
sense: expression of various negative emotions
word: for crying out loud
sense: expression of various negative emotions
word: for Christ's sake
sense: expression of various negative emotions
word: for God's sake
sense: expression of various negative emotions
word: for goodness' sake
sense: expression of various negative emotions
word: for pity's sake
sense: expression of various negative emotions
word: good grief
Derived terms: good heavens
great heavens
heavens above
heavens no
heavens to Betsy
heavens to Murgatroyd
merciful heavens
my heavens
thank heavens
heavens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛvənz/
rhymes: -ɛvənz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of heaven
feu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: few
Forms: form: feus
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman fieu (“fief”).
Senses: topics: law
property
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: Land held in feudal tenure.
Derived terms: feuar
feu duty
subfeu
feu
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: few
Forms: form: feus
form: feuing
form: feued
form: feued
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman fieu (“fief”).
Senses: examples: text: 1813, "Keith", Entry in Nicholas Carlisle, A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, Volume II, unnumbered page,
The Village of OLD KEITH is of ancient date, having been partly feued by the predecessors of the Family of Forbes, and partly feued by the Ministers, and stands upon the glebe: this Village is greatly on the decline, and almost a ruin.—About the year 1750, the late Lord FINDLATER divided a barren Muir, and feued it out in small lots […] .
text: 1841, Alexander Dunlop, J. M. Bell, John Murray, James Donaldson (reporters), Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Volume 3, 2nd Series, page 620,
The prohibition of feuing beyond a certain extent was clearly implied; […] .
text: But in effect, whereas Heriot's knew that their feuing conditions were subordinate to the law of contract, the Earl of Moray knew by 1822 that as a result of the Lords' decision in 1818 estate development could not be controlled by contract law and the feuing plan.[…]The impact on the Moray estate was that[…]despite a recession in the Edinburgh property market generally after 1826, virtually the entire estate was feued by 1836.
ref: 2001, Richard Rodger, “The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century”, in Paperback, Cambridge University Press, published 2004, page 68:
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure.
Derived terms: subfeu
unfeued
Related terms: sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: feu de joie
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: grand feu
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: pot au feu
lieu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /l(j)uː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: lew
homophone: loo
homophone: Lou
homophone: lu
homophone: lue
homophone: Liu
Etymology: Borrowed from French lieu, from Latin locum, accusative of locus (“place”).
Senses: examples: text: “Unfortunately for Interceptor—and any others who have relied upon 3DR’s personal assurances in lieu of federal registrations and the like—the 3DR Declaration makes it clear: 3DR no longer owns the unrestricted rights to Duke Nukem IP,and 3DR has no right or ability to make any agreements in violation of Gearbox’s exclusive rights.
ref: 2014 February 23, Julian Benson, quoting Gearbox spokesperson, “The strange case of Gearbox’s suit against 3D Realms and Interceptor”, in PCGamesN, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2017:
glosses: A place or stead.
Derived terms: in lieu
in lieu of
Related terms: lieu-dit
benzine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzines
Senses: glosses: benzene
glosses: any flammable petroleum distillate used as a solvent or fuel
benzin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzins
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of benzine.
Pushtu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Pashto.
hetty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛti/
rhymes: -ɛti
Forms: form: hetties
form: hettie
Etymology: From het + -y.
Senses: topics: LGBT
glosses: A heterosexual.
hetty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛti/
rhymes: -ɛti
Forms: form: hettier
form: hettiest
form: hettie
Etymology: From het + -y.
Senses: topics: LGBT
glosses: Heterosexual.
hurl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɜːl/
ipa: /hɝl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: hurls
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hurlen, of onomatopoeic origin; compare hurry, hurtle.
Senses: examples: text: He managed a hurl of 50.3 metres.
text: The Gods, with horror and amaze, look’d down,
Beholding rocks from their firm basis rent;
Mountain on mountain thrown,
With threatening hurl, that shook th’ aethereal [var.: aerial] firmament!
ref: 1695, William Congreve, “To the King, on the Taking of Namure. Irregular Ode.”, in Poems Upon Several Occasions, Glasgow, published 1752, page 16:
text: I laid down this law with all the girls and expected to receive a hurl of abuse back.
ref: Benjamin W. Evans, Tales From The Kerb (page 25)
glosses: A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling.
examples: text: Open the window! I've gotta take a hurl.
glosses: The act of vomiting.
examples: text: WAYNE: What I'd really like to do is something extraordinary. Something big. […] But I'll probably end up working at Great America, mopping up hurl and lung butter.
ref: 1993, Wayne's World 2 (film)
glosses: Vomit.
qualifier: hurling
glosses: The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley.
examples: text: Maybe you can give me a hurl in the Bentley one day, when you're in the vicinity.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 413:
glosses: A conveyance in a wheeled vehicle; a ride in a car, etc.
glosses: Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.
glosses: A table on which fibre is stirred and mixed by beating with a bow spring.
hollow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒl.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɑ.loʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɑlɚ/
rhymes: -ɒləʊ
Forms: form: hollows
form: hallow
form: holler
Etymology: From Middle English holow, holowe, holwe, holwȝ, holgh, from Old English holh (“a hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *holh, from Proto-Germanic *hulhwą, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱólḱwos. Cognate with Old High German huliwa and hulwa, Middle High German hülwe. Related to hole.
Senses: examples: text: He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.
text: c. 1710–20, Matthew Prior, The First Hymn Of Callimachus: To Jupiter
Forests grew upon the barren hollows.
text: This road leads through a sandy hollow shaded by trees for about a quarter of a mile, where it crosses the bridge famous in goblin story, and just beyond swells the green knoll on which stands the whitewashed church.
ref: 1820 March 5, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number VI, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, pages 110–111:
text: I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood, / Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-red heath, / The red-ribb'd hedges drip with a silent horror of blood, / And Echo there, whatever is ask'd her, answers 'Death.'
ref: 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “Maud”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, part I, stanza 1, page 1:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A small valley between mountains.
examples: text: the hollow of the hand
glosses: A sunken area on a surface.
examples: text: a hollow in a tree trunk
glosses: An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
examples: text: a hollow in the pit of one’s stomach
glosses: A feeling of emptiness.
Derived terms: frost hollow
hollow of the knee
Quail Hollow
Sleepy Hollow
tree hollow
hollow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒl.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɑ.loʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɑlɚ/
rhymes: -ɒləʊ
Forms: form: hollows
form: hollowing
form: hollowed
form: hollowed
form: hallow
form: holler
Etymology: From Middle English holow, holowe, holwe, holwȝ, holgh, from Old English holh (“a hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *holh, from Proto-Germanic *hulhwą, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱólḱwos. Cognate with Old High German huliwa and hulwa, Middle High German hülwe. Related to hole.
Senses: glosses: to make a hole in something; to excavate
Derived terms: hollow out
hollow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒl.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɑ.loʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɑlɚ/
rhymes: -ɒləʊ
Forms: form: hollower
form: hollowest
form: hallow
form: holler
Etymology: From Middle English holowe, holwe, holuȝ, holgh, from the noun (see above).
Senses: examples: text: a hollow tree; a hollow sphere
glosses: Having an empty space or cavity inside.
raw_tags: of something solid
examples: text: He let out a hollow moan.
text: Through thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle:
ref: 1903, George Gordon Byron, On Leaving Newstead Abbey:
glosses: Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
raw_tags: of a sound
examples: text: a hollow victory
glosses: Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
examples: text: a hollow promise
glosses: Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
examples: text: To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Concave; gaunt; sunken.
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Pertaining to hollow body position
examples: text: While most 1974s remain hard, tannic, hollow wines lacking ripeness, flesh, and character, a number of the Graves estates did produce surprisingly spicy, interesting wines.
ref: 2002, Robert M. Parker (Jr.), Pierre-Antoine Rovani, Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide (page 175)
topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
glosses: Synonym of empty (“lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish”).
synonyms: word: empty
extra: lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish
Derived terms: all hollow
hollow block
hollow body
hollow book
hollow earther
hollow-eyed
hollow-faced bat
hollow-fiber
hollowfiber
hollowfibre
hollow-fibre
hollowhearted
hollow-hearted
hollow-heartedly
hollow-heartedness
hollow leg
hollowly
hollowness
hollow point
hollow position
hollow post mill
hollow rail
hollowroot
hollow sprint
hollow victory
hollowware
hollowwort
jacketed hollow point
nonhollow
overhollow
ring hollow
semihollow
unhollow
hollow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒl.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɑ.loʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɑlɚ/
rhymes: -ɒləʊ
Forms: form: hallow
form: holler
Etymology: From Middle English holowe, holwe, holuȝ, holgh, from the noun (see above).
Senses: glosses: Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
hollow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒl.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɑ.loʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɑlɚ/
rhymes: -ɒləʊ
Forms: form: hollows
form: hollowing
form: hollowed
form: hollowed
form: hallow
form: holler
Etymology: Compare holler.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Converſation (if it may be called ſo) was ſeldom ſuch as could entertain a Lady. It conſiſted chiefly of Hollowing, Singing, Relations of ſporting Adventures, B—d—y, and Abuſe of Women and of the Government.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IV, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII, page 26:
text: He has hollowed the hounds.
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: To call or urge by shouting; to hollo.
hollow
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒl.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɑ.loʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɑlɚ/
rhymes: -ɒləʊ
Forms: form: hallow
form: holler
Etymology: Compare holler.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hollo.
sialocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sialoceles
Senses: glosses: a ranula
sialolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sialoliths
Etymology: From sialo- + -lith.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Technically, a calculus in the salivary ducts causing an obstruction. There are other obstructions of the salivary ducts that are sometimes also referred to (more broadly) as sialoliths, including infectious blockage, stenosis, etc. There are also other substances besides calcium that may be the cause of the obstruction.
Hypernyms: calculus
stone
Derived terms: sialolithiasis
hoax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊks/
ipa: /hoʊks/
rhymes: -əʊks
homophone: hokes
Forms: form: hoaxes
form: hoaxing
form: hoaxed
form: hoaxed
Etymology: Reportedly a form of hocus. Possibly from hocus-pocus or Latin iocus (“joke”).
Compare hokey.
Senses: glosses: To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated.
Derived terms: word: hoaxable
word: hoaxee
word: hoaxer
word: hoaxster
word: unhoax
hoax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊks/
ipa: /hoʊks/
rhymes: -əʊks
homophone: hokes
Forms: form: hoaxes
Etymology: Reportedly a form of hocus. Possibly from hocus-pocus or Latin iocus (“joke”).
Compare hokey.
Senses: examples: text: The phone call to the police about a tiger in a tree turned out to be a hoax.
text: The news story about the pop singer coming to town, unfortunately for his fans, turned out to be a hoax.
synonyms: canard
glosses: Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.
Derived terms: climate hoax
coronahoax
global hoax
hoaxical
hoaxlike
Hoaxocaust
hoaxter
Holohoax
talk to the hand
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Oh honey, talk to the hand, the ears ain't listening!
ref: 1997, Todd Graff, The Beautician and the Beast, spoken by Joy Miller:
text: Tommy showed Tony the palm of his hand. ‘Tell it to the ’and ’cos the face ain't listening.’
ref: 2002, Ben Elton, High Society, Random House, published 2012, →ISBN, page 172:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Used to dismiss another person's argument by indicating that one is not prepared to hear or read anything further from that person. It is often used while simultaneously holding up the hand with the palm facing the speaker.
Synonyms: talk to the hand 'cause the face ain't listening
tell it to the hand
talk to the hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks to the hand
form: talking to the hand
form: talked to the hand
form: talked to the hand
Senses: examples: text: Girl, you can talk to the hand 'cause I ain't listenin' no more.
text: Of all the hand gestures used by Men and women, "talking to the hand” is a gesture that should be exclusively used by women. There isn't anything Manly by making somebody "talk to the hand."
ref: 2012, Joseph Greene, The ComMANdments; The Official Guide Book to Man Rules, page 161:
text: After his initial reaction and suggestion that she go write a song based on talking to the hand, she played him what she'd come up with, and he responded with his typically laconic "cool," suggesting they put some hand claps here and there and perhaps a minor chord in the verse to make it a bit jangly.
ref: 2016, Donald Brackett, Back to Black: Amy Winehouse's Only Masterpiece:
text: Canceling someone started out in the same way that talking to the hand did, a joke.
ref: 2022, Kelly Mitchell, Clap if You Can Hear Me:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Used to dismiss another person's argument by indicating that one is not prepared to hear or read anything further from that person. It is often used while simultaneously holding up the hand with the palm facing the speaker.
Related terms: talk to the fist
whatever
palate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæl.ət/
rhymes: -ælət
homophone: pallet
homophone: palette
homophone: pallette
Forms: form: palates
Etymology: From Middle English palate, from Latin palātum (“roof of the mouth, palate”), perhaps of Etruscan origin.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
synonyms: uraniscus
glosses: The roof of the mouth, separating the cavities of the mouth and nose in vertebrates.
A part associated with the mouth of certain invertebrates, somewhat analogous to the palate of vertebrates.
topics: anatomy
biology
entomology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: uraniscus
glosses: The roof of the mouth, separating the cavities of the mouth and nose in vertebrates.
The hypopharynx of an insect.
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: uraniscus
glosses: The roof of the mouth, separating the cavities of the mouth and nose in vertebrates.
A projection in the throat of certain bilabiate flowers as the snapdragon.
examples: text: I remember, when he was in Scotland, his praising ‘Gordon's palates’ (a dish of palates at the Honourable Alexander Gordon's) with a warmth of expression which might have done for honour to more important subjects.
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford, page 332:
topics: anatomy
cooking
food
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
synonyms: uraniscus
glosses: The roof of the mouth, separating the cavities of the mouth and nose in vertebrates.
The palate of an animal, as an item of food.
examples: text: Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests.
ref: 1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:
glosses: A person's ability to distinguish between and appreciate different flavors.
examples: text: entertain the palates of Nobles
ref: 1656, Thomas Baker, he Wicked Mans Plot Defeated:
glosses: Mental relish; a liking or affinity for something.
glosses: Taste or flavour, especially with reference to wine or other alcoholic drinks.
examples: text: I remember, when he was in Scotland, his praising 'Gordon's palates,' (a dish of palates at the Honourable Alexander Gordon's) with a warmth of expression which might have done honour to more important subjects.
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson:
glosses: A dainty article of food.
Derived terms: word: cleft palate
word: midpalate
word: muscular palate
word: palatal
word: palate cleanser
word: palate expander
word: palateful
word: palateless
word: palatelike
word: palatic
word: palatiform
word: palatitis
word: palative
word: palatize
word: pseudopalate
Related terms: word: palatine
palate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæl.ət/
rhymes: -ælət
homophone: pallet
homophone: palette
homophone: pallette
Forms: form: palates
form: palating
form: palated
form: palated
Etymology: From Middle English palate, from Latin palātum (“roof of the mouth, palate”), perhaps of Etruscan origin.
Senses: examples: text: Not palating the taste of her dishonour
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: "If it’s way out there, it’s hard to palate," said Sreenivasan.
ref: 2013 October 10, Adam Mann, “Number Crunching Shows Old Movies Are More Creative Than New Ones”, in WIRED:
synonyms: stomach
glosses: To relish; to find palatable.
Derived terms: word: palatable
below
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈləʊ/
ipa: /bɪˈloʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Etymology: From Middle English bilooghe, equivalent to be- + low. Compare also earlier Middle English alogh, alow, aloȝ, alowe (“below”), benethen (“beneath”), Dutch omlaag (“downwards”).
Senses: examples: text: The town is situated on a hillside, with a river running below.
text: He was pulled below by a sea monster.
text: But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection.
[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…].
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: In or to a lower place.
examples: text: She lives below, on the ground floor.
glosses: In or to a lower place.
On or to a lower storey.
examples: text: The captain went below to inspect the engine.
text: the landlubbers lying down below
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: In or to a lower place.
On or to a lower deck, especially as relative to the main deck.
examples: text: This point is explained below.
text: By their execution hereof, the Parties incur a legal obligation to pass consideration under this Loan Contract as is set forth below.
glosses: Later in the same text.
examples: text: It was forty degrees below.
glosses: Below zero.
raw_tags: of a temperature
Synonyms: sense: in a lower place
word: beneath
sense: in a lower place
word: under
sense: in a lower place
word: underneath
sense: on a lower storey
word: downstairs
sense: farther down
word: downwards
Derived terms: below average
below decks
belowdecks
below ground
belowground
belowness
below par
below-stairs
below stairs
belowstairs
below the belt
below the breadline
below the fold
below the gangway
below the line
below the radar
below the salt
below the surface
come from below
cut below
down below
fall below
go below
here below
hereinbelow
hit below one's weight
keep one's head below the parapet
macron below
punch below one's weight
scratch below the surface
send below
Tribeca
palette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpælɪt/
ipa: /ˈpælɪt/
ipa: /ˈpælət/
ipa: /pəˈlɛt/
ipa: /ˈpælət/
rhymes: -ælɪt
homophone: palate
homophone: pallet
homophone: pallette
Forms: form: palettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French palette. Doublet of pallet.
Senses: qualifier: painting
glosses: A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.
examples: text: she removed an eyeshadow palette from her bag
text: use your mouse to select the colour you want to use from the circular colour palette
glosses: A set of colours available to be used (or mixed).
examples: text: The unified colour palette of reds, blues, and yellows used throughout the signage matches that of the institution’s logo and letterhead.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5:
glosses: The range of colors in a given work or item or body of work.
glosses: The range of tones or tone colors in a given musical composition or performance.
glosses: A set of makeup including a variety of colors, often packaged together in a tray.
examples: text: It would be extremely beneficial to have the right subassemblies with the parameters already set available on your tool palette.
ref: 2011, James Wedding, Dana Probert, Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009, page 394:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc.
glosses: A plate of armour covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
glosses: A plate against which a person presses their chest to give force to a hand-operated drill.
glosses: Any set or group of limited choices, options, or tasks from all ones that are currently available.
Derived terms: minipalette
paletted
palette knife
palettelike
palette swap
palette window
palettise
palettization
palettize
parallel palette
subpalette
wet palette
gamut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæm.ət/
ipa: /ˈɡæm.ɪt/
rhymes: -æmɪt
Forms: form: gamuts
Etymology: 1520s, original sense “lowest note of musical scale”, contraction of Medieval Latin gamma ut, from gamma (“Greek letter, corresponding to the musical note G”) + ut (“first solfège syllable, now replaced by do”). In modern terms, “G do” – the first note of the G scale. Meaning later extended to mean all the notes of a scale, and then more generally any complete range.
Senses: examples: text: I must begin with rudiments of Art / To teach you gamoth in a briefer sort, - -
Bian. Why, I am past my gamouth long agoe.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: The entire gamut of the view's changes should have been known to her; its winter aspect, spring, summer and autumn; how storms came up from the sea; how the moors shuddered and brightened as the clouds went over; she should have noted the red spot where the villas were building; and the criss-cross of lines where the allotments were cut...
ref: 1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob’s Room:
text: 1933?, Dorothy Parker, review of Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway play The Lake
She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.
text: THE LONDON BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Ian Allan. 30s. [...] In the course of its pages the author runs through the whole gamut of the locomotives that have during the period under review run on the rails of the L.B. & S.C. and its forebears.
ref: 1960 December, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 776:
glosses: A (normally) complete range.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: All the notes in a musical scale.
glosses: All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.
Derived terms: run the gamut
Related terms: ut
Hettie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛti/
rhymes: -ɛti
Senses: glosses: A variant spelling of Hetty, diminutive of the female given names Henrietta, Esther and Hester.
ridicule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪdɪkjuːl/
Forms: form: ridicules
form: ridiculing
form: ridiculed
form: ridiculed
Etymology: The obsolete adjective is borrowed from French ridicule, from Latin rīdiculus (“laughable, comical, amusing, absurd, ridiculous”), from ridere (“to laugh”).
The noun is either from French, noun use of adjective, or from Latin rīdiculum, noun use of neuter of rīdiculus.
The verb is from the noun or else from French ridiculer, from ridicule.
Senses: examples: text: His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.
glosses: To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.
Synonyms: outlaugh
ridicule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪdɪkjuːl/
Forms: form: ridicules
Etymology: The obsolete adjective is borrowed from French ridicule, from Latin rīdiculus (“laughable, comical, amusing, absurd, ridiculous”), from ridere (“to laugh”).
The noun is either from French, noun use of adjective, or from Latin rīdiculum, noun use of neuter of rīdiculus.
The verb is from the noun or else from French ridiculer, from ridicule.
Senses: examples: text: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, / Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone.
ref: 1738, Alexander Pope, Epilogue to the Satires: Dialogue II:
text: When he was young you'd not find him doing well in school,
His mind would turn unto the waters.
Always the focus of adolescent ridicule,
He has no time for farmer's daughters.
Alienated from the clique society,
A lonely boy finds peace in fishing.
ref: 1989, “John the Fisherman”, performed by Primus:
glosses: Derision; mocking or humiliating words or behavior.
examples: text: [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
ref: 1857, Henry Thomas Buckle, History of Civilization in England:
text: To the people […] but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule.
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
examples: text: to see the ridicule of this monstrous practice
ref: 1710 April 1 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “TUESDAY, March 21, 1709–1710”, in The Spectator, number 18; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
text: More keenly alive perhaps than any of her sisters to the little ridicules that belonged to Mrs. Palmer's character, she yet saw how small was their importance, and that Mrs. Palmer was not only a better but a happier person than most of those with whom she was acquainted.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 65:
glosses: The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
Synonyms: word: ridicule
word: derision
word: scoff
word: mockery
word: katagelasticism
Derived terms: ridicule pole
Related terms: word: deride
word: derision
word: ridiculable
word: ridiculous
word: ridiculosity
word: humiliation
word: disrespect
word: contempt
ridicule
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪdɪkjuːl/
Forms: form: more ridicule
form: most ridicule
Etymology: The obsolete adjective is borrowed from French ridicule, from Latin rīdiculus (“laughable, comical, amusing, absurd, ridiculous”), from ridere (“to laugh”).
The noun is either from French, noun use of adjective, or from Latin rīdiculum, noun use of neuter of rīdiculus.
The verb is from the noun or else from French ridiculer, from ridicule.
Senses: examples: late 17th century, John Aubrey, Brief Lives
This action […] became so ridicule.
glosses: ridiculous
ridicule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪdɪkjuːl/
Forms: form: ridicules
Etymology: Apparently from French ridicule (“reticule”), probably a punning alteration of réticule after ridicule (“ridicule”).
Senses: examples: text: […] while paying her own compliments to Mrs. Bates, and appearing to attend to the good old lady’s replies, she saw her with a sort of anxious parade of mystery fold up a letter which she had apparently been reading aloud to Miss Fairfax, and return it into the purple and gold ridicule by her side, […]
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, pages 295–296:
text: I hastily drew my empty hand from my Ridicule.
ref: c. 1825, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 455:
text: “Tills be blowed!” said Mr. Claypole; “there’s more things besides tills to be emptied.” “What do you mean?” asked his companion. “Pockets, women’s ridicules, houses, mailcoaches, banks,” said Mr. Claypole, rising with the porter.
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “An Old Acquaintance of Oliver’s, Exhibiting Decided Marks of Genius, Becomes a Public Character in the Metropolis”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 103:
glosses: A small woman's handbag; a reticule.
Synonyms: word: ridicule
word: derision
word: scoff
word: mockery
word: katagelasticism
Related terms: word: deride
word: disrespect
word: contempt
behaviour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: behaviours
Senses: examples: text: After all, it is undeniable that the B.R. standard coach scored highly in comparative trials with other European railway vehicles on the Continent a few years ago, so that B.R. civil engineers must share responsibility for any defects in its behaviour over here.
ref: 1960 December 24, “Talking of Trains: The riding of B.R. coaches”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 705–706:
text: Jonathan Hill, professor of international relations in the School of Security Studies at King’s College London, points to ongoing social unrest among rural youths in Morocco as another key reason why the law was passed. He cites the 2011 Arab Spring as an indicator of where such behaviour might lead if left unchecked.
ref: 2018 October 26, Chris Fitch, “Reintroduction of military conscription in Morocco”, in Geographical, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021:
text: All is well until Treorchy, where the platform is swamped by teenagers who have been attending an event. Around four dozen unescorted 12 to 16 year-olds swarm aboard and begin to run riot through the train. Their behaviour is appalling and the presence of CCTV no deterrent.
ref: 2024 November 13, Paul Bigland, “Much to admire... but pockets of neglect”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 48:
glosses: British standard spelling of behavior.
Derived terms: behaviourwise
health behaviour
interbehaviour
macrobehaviour
microbehaviour
misbehaviour
misbehavioural
neurobehaviour
paleobehaviour
ladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪdiz/
rhymes: -eɪdiz
Etymology: As a lavatory for women, via misspelling of ladies'. Compare gents.
Senses: examples: text: He wet his thumb with saliva pressing on the tongue, ran it up and down faster over the letter 'I' of 'TOILET', the 'LADIES TOILET' was transformed into 'LADIES TO LET' in no time.
ref: 2014, C.S. Walter, Abandoned Bridges, pp. 105 f.:
glosses: plural of lady
examples: text: The morrow next about the wanted howre, / The Dwarfe cald at the doore of Amyas, / To come forthwith unto his Ladies bowre.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 59:
text: Vrge not my fathers anger (Eglamoure) / But thinke vpon my griefe (a Ladies griefe) / And on the iuſtice of my flying hence, / To keepe me from a moſt vnholy match, / Which heauen and fortune ſtill rewards with plagues.
ref: 1589–1593, William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, act IV, scene iii, page 24:
text: And ſince not only a dead Fathers fame, / But more a Ladies honour muſt be touch’d, / Which nice as Ermines will not bear a Soil ; / Let all retire ; that you alone may hear / What ev’n in whiſpers I won’d tell your ear.
ref: 1690, John Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: A Tragedy Acted at the Theatre Royal, London: Jo. Hindmarſh, act V, page 118:
glosses: genitive of lady
topics: card-games
poker
qualifier: Texas hold 'em
glosses: An initial hand consisting of a pair of queens.
Coordinate terms: gents
gentlemen
men
sirs
Derived terms: ladies and gentlemen
ladieswear
ladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪdiz/
rhymes: -eɪdiz
Etymology: As a lavatory for women, via misspelling of ladies'. Compare gents.
Senses: examples: text: Pardon me, I need to visit the ladies.
glosses: A ladies' room: a lavatory intended for use by women.
Synonyms: bathroom
Coordinate terms: gents
gentlemen
men
sirs
men's
Related terms: madams
mesdames
interweb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntəˌwɛb/
ipa: /ˈɪntɚˌwɛb/
Forms: form: interwebs
form: interwebz
form: intarweb
form: Interweb
Etymology: Blend of Internet + web (“World Wide Web”). The first use of this phrase is disputed.
Senses: examples: text: "Web Hopper" is an interweb site that enables you to visualize your Web hopping and that of other Net users.
ref: 1997, Christian Schenck, Christine Schopf, editors, Cyberarts, →ISBN, page 70:
text: Basically anyone who wants to get a license for nefarious purposes, nefarious or at the very least […] unsactioned, they now get to shop around. […] With the interwebs, it's gonna be pretty easy to tell which states […] are the best shopping locations.
ref: 2007 March 26, Phil Libin, Jon Udell (interviewer), “Jon Udell's Interviews With Innovators: Phil Libin”, in IT Conversations, GigaVox Media, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2013:
text: They said I was a fucking psycho / But look at me now, all up in the interweb, world wide
ref: 2010, “Enter The Ninja”, performed by Die Antwoord:
text: Very little exists in the annals of the interwebs about Tostitos Hint of Lime. Many nights I’ve sucked down crusty mossed fingertips and typed away in a green-out (like a blackout, but from eating too much Tostitos Hint of Lime), searching for a like-minded fanclub, historical taxonomy, or even a press release.
ref: 2022 April 20, Mariella Rudi, “Tostitos Hint of Lime has zero lime – but it’s still the perfect chip”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The Internet.
Synonyms: Intertubes
-ade
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish -ado, from Latin -āta, feminine form of -ātus, suffix used to create adjectives and nouns.
Senses: glosses: Used to form nouns denoting action, or a person performing said action.
examples: lemonade, limeade, orangeade
glosses: Indicating a drink made from a given fruit.
Derived terms: ade
-ade
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Used to form collectives; see -ad.
Derived terms: decade
faggot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæ.ɡət/
rhymes: -æɡət
Forms: form: faggots
form: faggoting
form: faggoted
form: faggoted
form: fagot
Etymology: From Middle English fagot, from Old French fagot (“bundle of sticks”), of uncertain origin. Unlikely from Old Occitan fagot or Italian fagotto, as these appear later than the Old French term. Compare also Italian fangotto and Spanish fajo (“bundle, wad”). Perhaps from a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *facus, from Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos, “bundle of wood”).
The senses relating to persons, though possibly originating as an extension of the sense "bundle of sticks", may have been reinforced by faygele, from Yiddish פֿייגעלע (feygele, “homosexual”, literally “little bird”), related to English fowl.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fagot.
glacier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlæs.jə/
ipa: /ˈɡleɪs.jə/
ipa: /ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡleɪs.jɚ/
Forms: form: glaciers
Etymology: Borrowed from French glacier, from Franco-Provençal gllaciér, from Vulgar Latin *glaciārium, a derivative of Latin glaciēs (“ice”), of uncertain origin. First attested in English in 1744 per the OED.
Senses: examples: text: They warned that the effects of glacier melting on water resources are becoming “increasingly serious” for China.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.
examples: text: You can ski down the glacier in both the winter and the summer.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
mountaineering
sports
glosses: An area of a mountain where snow is present year-round.
Derived terms: continental glacier
Doomsday Glacier
East Glacier Park
glacial
glaciation
glacier bird
glacier buttercup
Glacier County
glacier cream
glaciered
Glaciergate
glacier glasses
glacierist
glacierization
glacierized
glacierless
glacierlike
glacier lily
glacier milk
glacier mouse
Hubbard Glacier
palaeoglacier
paleoglacier
rock glacier
Ruth Glacier
salt glacier
Siachen Glacier
snowdrift glacier
Thwaites Glacier
Related terms: glaciate
glaciology
iceberg
glazier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡleɪzjə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɡleɪʒə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɡleɪzi.ə(ɹ)/
enpr: glā'zhər
ipa: /ˈɡleɪʒəɹ/
ipa: /ˈɡleɪzi.əɹ/
Forms: form: glaziers
Etymology: From Middle English glazier, glasier, glasyer, glasiere, variants (due to influence from words in -yer) of Middle English glaser, equivalent to glass + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon,” says an old writer—of whose works I possess the only copy extant—“it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier."
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: One who glazes; a craftsman who works with glass, fitting windows, etc.
Related terms: glazer
glaziery
glazier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡleɪzjə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɡleɪʒə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɡleɪzi.ə(ɹ)/
enpr: glā'zhər
ipa: /ˈɡleɪʒəɹ/
ipa: /ˈɡleɪzi.əɹ/
enpr: glā'zē-ər
ipa: /ˈɡleɪzjə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɡleɪʒə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɡleɪzi.ə(ɹ)/
enpr: glā'zhər
ipa: /ˈɡleɪʒəɹ/
ipa: /ˈɡleɪzi.əɹ/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of glazy: more glazy
conlang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnlæŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɑnˌlæŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɑnˌleɪŋ/
Forms: form: conlangs
Etymology: The noun is a blend of constructed + language, while the verb is derived from the noun. By surface analysis, con- (“constructed”) + lang or -lang (“language”).
Senses: examples: text: The Klingon language is a conlang created for use in the Star Trek franchise.
text: You might be familiar with more a priori conlangs than you think: The Klingon language from the television series "Star Trek," the Na’vi language from the movie "Avatar," and the Dothraki language from the television series "Game of Thrones" are all examples of a priori languages. […] Others both inside and outside the academic community feel that conlanging veers too easily into the realm of cultural exploitation (viewers of “Game of Thrones” will remember how the portrayal of the Dothraki race on the show, including the conlang the Dothraki people speak, seemed to many like a portrayal of Native Americans as “barbaric” and “exotic”).
ref: 2012 October 31, Laura Wright, “UT Language Creation Society invites students to learn origins of newer languages”, in The Daily Texan, Austin, Tex.: Texas Student Media, University of Texas at Austin, published 8 April 2013, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2020:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: clong
cloŋ
glosses: Alternative form of constructed language (“a human language consciously devised by an individual or a small group, as opposed to having naturally evolved as a natural language”)
Derived terms: artlang
auxlang
engelang
loglang
romlang
conlang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnlæŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɑnˌlæŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɑnˌleɪŋ/
Forms: form: conlangs
form: conlanging
form: conlanged
form: conlanged
Etymology: The noun is a blend of constructed + language, while the verb is derived from the noun. By surface analysis, con- (“constructed”) + lang or -lang (“language”).
Senses: examples: text: I've been conlanging since I was nine years old.
text: Brithenig was conlanged with the purpose of looking how Welsh might have developed if it were a Romance language.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To create or work on a conlang (constructed language).
Derived terms: conlanger
conlanging
on the game
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: UK late-19th century. However, the game as a euphemism for sexual activity dates to at least Troilus and Cressida (1602): "Set them down / For sluttish spoils of opportunity / And daughters of the game." Compare with the similar euphemism sport.
Senses: examples: text: Oh please go on the game. It's a steady job and you'd be working from home.
ref: 1986 January 9, Ben Elton, Richard Curtis, Bells (Blackadder II), episode 1, spoken by Kate's Father (Edward Jewesbury):
text: What's he want it for anyway? Don't tell me he's going on the game.
ref: 1990 November 18, Andrew Davies, Michael Dobbs, House of Cards, season 1, episode 1:
synonyms: in the racket
on the bash
on the beat
on the turf
glosses: Working as a prostitute.
wikipedia: Troilus and Cressida
Related terms: english: prostitute
translation: prostitute
word: gamester
Kolkata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: Indic
ipa: /kolˈkaːt̪a/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /-ʈa/
ipa: /kɒlˈkɑːtə/
ipa: /kɔːlˈkɑːtə/
ipa: /kolˈkɑtə/
Etymology: From Bengali কলকাতা (kolkata); further etymology disputed. More on the Wikipedia page.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of West Bengal, India, formerly known in English as Calcutta.
Synonyms: english: officially deprecated
translation: officially deprecated
word: Calcutta
DJIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
finance
stock-market
glosses: Initialism of Dow Jones Industrial Average.
bootstrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bootstrap
bootstrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootstrappings
Senses: glosses: The process by which something is bootstrapped.
modello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modellos
form: modelli
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian modello.
Senses: glosses: A preparatory sketch or study for a painting or other artwork.
mohel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔɪ.əl/
ipa: /ˈmɔʊ.ɛl/
rhymes: -ɔɪəl
homophone: moil
Forms: form: mohels
form: mohelim
form: mohalim
Etymology: From Hebrew מוֹהֵל (mohél), but the common pronunciations are borrowed via Yiddish מוהל (moyel).
Senses: glosses: The person who performs the circumcision in a Jewish bris.
Related terms: bris
geek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gēk
ipa: /ɡiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: geeks
form: geeking
form: geeked
form: geeked
Etymology: Started as carnival slang, likely from the British dialectal term geck (“a fool, dupe, simpleton”) (1510s), apparently from Dutch gek or Low German geck, from an imitative verb found in North Sea Germanic and Scandinavian meaning "to croak, cackle," and also "to mock, cheat" (Dutch gekken, German gecken, Danish gække, Norwegian gakke, Swedish gäcka). The root still survives in the Dutch adjective noun gek (“crazy" or "crazy person”). Compare gink and also Old Norse gikkr (“a pert, rude person; jester; fool”).
Senses: examples: text: Geeking, unsurprisingly, was among the first carnival acts to be outlawed as the 20th century unfurled.
ref: 1995, Jack Hunter, Inside Teradome, page 23:
glosses: To perform bizarre and unpleasant feats as part of a carnival.
examples: text: It was our first time at a Star Trek convention and we had an amazing time wandering around and geeking.
glosses: To enthusiastically engage in geek-like or nerdy interests.
examples: text: I ain't nothin' but a clucker, your typical glass dick suckin' basehead, geekin' motherfucker
ref: 1994 August 30, “Stoned Junkee”, in Super Tight, performed by UGK:
text: They know I geek a lot / They don't know I keep a Glock
ref: 2017 January 27, “Slippery”, in Culture, performed by Migos:
text: I'm tweakin', I'm geekin', I'm tweakin', I'm geekin'
ref: 2022 December 2, “I Can't Save You”performed by Metro Boomin and Future:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To be nervous or hyperactive due to using crack cocaine.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To be nervous or hyperactive due to using crack cocaine.
To be under the influence of a mood-altering drug.
Derived terms: geeked
geeker