cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lazzarone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lazzarones
form: lazzaroni
Etymology: From Italian lazzarone.
Senses: examples: text: What does he mean by his Rights of Man, and his equality?—What wretched and dangerous doctrine to diſſeminate among the lazzaroni* of England, where they are always ready enough to murmur againſt their betters?
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, “Letter X. To Mr. Bethel.”, in Desmond. […], volume II, London: […] G[eorge,] G[eorge,] J[ohn] and J[ames] Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 121:
text: […] attended by one or two of his band, who intended leaving off business and turning lazzaroni, they all set off for Naples, which they found in an uproar.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 255:
text: […] Brighton, a clean Naples with genteel lazzaroni—[…]
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 189:
text: Marcher said to himself that he ought to have rendered her some service - saved her from a capsized boat in the bay, or at least recovered her dressing bag, filched from her cab, in the streets of Naples, by a lazzarone with a stiletto.
ref: 1903, Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle:
glosses: One of the poorer classes of Neapolitans; a chance-worker or beggar.
howdah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊdə/
rhymes: -aʊdə
Forms: form: howdahs
form: houdah
form: howda
form: howder
Etymology: From Hindi हौदा (haudā), from Arabic هَوْدَج (hawdaj, “litter carried by a camel”) (1774).
Senses: examples: text: They don't ask for palanquins and howdahs.
ref: 1938, Raja Rao, Kanthapura:
text: I shot a couple […] Only from the safety of a howdah, of course.
ref: 1972, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain:
text: I felt the corporeal elephant on whose back my world was supported amble effortlessly along, rather than it being necessary for me to lean out from the howdah of my head and goad him.
ref: 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
glosses: A seat, usually with a canopy, carried on the back of an elephant or camel.
glosses: An ornate carriage which is positioned on the back of elephants or occasionally other animals, used most often in the past for rich people who travelled in India via elephant.
Derived terms: howdahless
hypothetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypothetic
form: most hypothetic
form: hypothetick
Senses: glosses: Based on hypothesis or theory; hypothetical.
examples: text: The thing that was best for her would no doubt be to become the wife of the man to whose suit she should incline her ear. That this would be the best thing for the gentleman in question was however a very different matter, and Sherringham's final conviction was that it would never do for him to act the part of that hypothetic personage.
ref: 1889–1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC:
glosses: Existing as an abstract concept rather than a concrete reality.
Derived terms: hypotheticodeductive
ulster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌlstə/
Forms: form: ulsters
form: Ulster
Etymology: Named after the Ulster Overcoat Company of Belfast, Northern Ireland (Ulster), the original maker of this type of coat.
Senses: examples: text: “That's queer,” said the Tertium Quid. “Where's my ulster?” “What's queer?” said the Man's Wife. “I have got a chill down my back — just as if a goose had walked over my grave.”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 53:
text: I hardened my heart and took the smoke-rocket from under my ulster.
ref: 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia, Norton, published 2005, page 32:
text: “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
text: Off slipped a sodden ulster. He hung it up angrily upon a peg …
ref: 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, X [Uniform ed., p. 102]
text: “By Jove! I’ve left my ulster in the waiting-room,” and hastened off to fetch it.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 97:
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
qualifier: men's attire
glosses: A long, loose overcoat made of wool or other rough material, often called a greatcoat, which sometimes features an attached shoulder cape covering the back and sleeves, and which can sometimes be buttoned in front.
Derived terms: ulsterette
mickle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪk(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈmɪkəl/
rhymes: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: more mickle
form: most mickle
Etymology: From Middle English mickle, michel, mikel, mochel, muchel, mukel (“much; many; large, tall; great”), from Old English miċel, myċel (“big, large; great; much”), from Proto-Germanic *mikilaz (“great, large; many, much”), from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”). The word is cognate with Faroese mikil (“large, great, much”), Icelandic mikill (“large in quantity or number; much; great”), Middle High German michel (“large, much”). Doublet of much and muckle.
For the adverb and noun forms, compare Middle English muchel (“extensively, greatly, much”, adverb) and Middle English muchel (“large amount”, noun).
The noun sense “a small amount” was due to the proverb many a little makes a mickle being incorrectly rendered as many a mickle makes a muckle, leading to mickle being thought to mean “a small quantity” and muckle to mean “a large quantity”, even though muckle is a variant of mickle and both mean “a large quantity”.
Senses: examples: text: Oh mickle is the powerfull grace that lies / In hearbes, plants, ſtones, and their true qualities: / For nought ſo vile, that vile on earth doth liue, / But to the earth ſome ſpeciall good doth giue: […]
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Juliet. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, published 1597, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: O Jupiter! whose ſtrength is mickle, / Was ever man in ſuch a pickle!
ref: 1772, [Thomas Bridges], “Homer’s Iliad. Book VIII.”, in A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: Printed for S. Hooper, […], →OCLC, page 325:
text: In the Den of Kinraddie one such beast had its lair […] and at gloaming a shepherd would see it, with its great wings half-folded across the great belly of it and its head, like the head of a meikle cock, but with the ears of a lion, poked over a fir tree, watching.
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon [pseudonym; James Leslie Mitchell], “Prelude: The Unfurrowed Field”, in Sunset Song: A Novel, London: Jarrolds, Limited, →OCLC; republished Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2008, →ISBN, page 1:
synonyms: muckle
glosses: (Very) great or large.
Derived terms: mickle-mouth
mickle-mouthed
mickleness
Mickle Trafford
overmickle
so mickle
somickle
mickle
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪk(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈmɪkəl/
rhymes: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: meikle
form: michel
form: muchell
Etymology: From Middle English mickle, michel, mikel, mochel, muchel, mukel (“much; many; large, tall; great”), from Old English miċel, myċel (“big, large; great; much”), from Proto-Germanic *mikilaz (“great, large; many, much”), from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”). The word is cognate with Faroese mikil (“large, great, much”), Icelandic mikill (“large in quantity or number; much; great”), Middle High German michel (“large, much”). Doublet of much and muckle.
For the adverb and noun forms, compare Middle English muchel (“extensively, greatly, much”, adverb) and Middle English muchel (“large amount”, noun).
The noun sense “a small amount” was due to the proverb many a little makes a mickle being incorrectly rendered as many a mickle makes a muckle, leading to mickle being thought to mean “a small quantity” and muckle to mean “a large quantity”, even though muckle is a variant of mickle and both mean “a large quantity”.
Senses: examples: text: Seek mickle, and get ſomething; ſeek little, and get nothing.
ref: 1721, James Kelly, A Complete Collection of Scotish Proverbs Explained and Made Intelligible to the English Reader, London: Printed for William and John Innys, and John Osborn, →OCLC, paragraph 50, page 291:
glosses: A great extent or large amount.
Arran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɹən/
rhymes: -æɹən
homophone: Aran
homophone: Aaron stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: Derived from Scottish Gaelic Arainn, but the name is ultimately probably of non-Indo-European (substrate) or Pictish origin, along with other uncertain names in Scotland such as Skye, Lewis, and Islay.
Possibly from a Brythonic/Pictish term ancestral or cognate to Middle Welsh aran (“"high place"”).
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Isle of Arran, Scotland.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the place name, of modern Scottish usage.
glosses: A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: Synonym of Arranmore (island in County Donegal, Ireland)
synonyms: word: Arranmore
extra: island in County Donegal, Ireland
glosses: A male given name from Tamil.
Derived terms: Arran brown
Arran-Elderslie
Arran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɹən/
rhymes: -æɹən
homophone: Aran
homophone: Aaron stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: Aran
Etymology: Derived from Middle Persian *ʾldʾn (/⁠arrān⁠/). Cognate with Parthian 𐭀𐭓𐭃𐭀𐭍 (ʾrdʾn /⁠ardān⁠/). Ultimately from an unknown source, underlying also Old Armenian Աղուանք (Ałuankʻ) and Ancient Greek Ἀλβανία (Albanía).
Senses: glosses: In post-Islamic times, a region of eastern Transcaucasia, lying between the Rivers Kura and Araxes, in what is now the Republic of Azerbaijan and the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh, corresponding to the territory of Caucasian Albania on the right bank of the River Kura which was disattached from Greater Armenia in 387 AD. In pre-Islamic times, the term was used for the whole of Caucasian Albania.
Aran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɹən/
rhymes: -æɹən
homophone: Arran
homophone: Erin
homophone: Aaron stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Árainn.
Senses: examples: text: The first thing we noticed going out to Aran was the light. It was coming from the opposite direction and felt strange. To us living in Dublin, on the east coast of Ireland, the world seemed to be turned around a full hundred and eighty degrees
ref: 2007, Hugo Hamilton, The Harbor Boys: A Memoir, page 147:
glosses: An archipelago off the west coast of Ireland, also called the Arans or the Aran Islands.
glosses: The barony which contains these islands.
Derived terms: Aran jumper
Aran weight
Aran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɹən/
rhymes: -æɹən
homophone: Arran
homophone: Erin
homophone: Aaron stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: Arans
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Árainn.
Senses: glosses: A medium weight of yarn.
Aran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɹən/
rhymes: -æɹən
homophone: Arran
homophone: Erin
homophone: Aaron stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Arran (“a region of eastern Transcaucasia”).
didactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + -dactyl.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having only two toes, fingers or claws.
didactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: didactyls
Etymology: From di- + -dactyl.
Senses: glosses: A didactyl animal.
Related terms: didactylism
didactylous
didactyly
overboard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌbɔː(ɹ)d/
Etymology: From Middle English overbord, overborde, equivalent to over- + board.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Outside of a boat; in the water.
Derived terms: man overboard
woman overboard
overboard
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌbɔː(ɹ)d/
Etymology: From Middle English overbord, overborde, equivalent to over- + board.
Senses: examples: text: It was their practice to throw the scraps overboard.
text: Theon Greyjoy is the most well developed character on that stage, and the action comes down to him. Euron, with Yara underneath his ax, goads Theon into attack. But Theon is overwhelmed by the violence all around him, and instead he jumps overboard.
ref: 2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Over the edge; especially, off or outside of a boat.
examples: text: They really went overboard with the party preparations.
text: In reality, brains go overboard with this sort of fear validation. They love any chance to prove a fear is valid while ignoring all the reasons it's not.
ref: 2021, Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, “What is... jealousy?”, in Let's Talk About It, →ISBN, page 190:
glosses: Excessively; too much.
Derived terms: go overboard
throw overboard
overboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌbɔː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: overboards
form: overboarding
form: overboarded
form: overboarded
Etymology: From Middle English overbord, overborde, equivalent to over- + board.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Call home that runt Edmund Bonner. He has trotted after me from Spain into France and I swear the next time we take ship I will overboard him.’
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 565:
glosses: To throw over the edge of a boat into the water.
glosses: To cover (a ceiling) with plasterboard to create a new surface.
Related terms: overboarded
overboarding
do in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does in
form: doing in
form: did in
form: done in
Senses: examples: text: By the eighth mile, I was sure that finishing the 10-mile hike would do me in.
text: We very nearly did in an entire keg of beer that weekend.
text: So if Sunday you're free why don't you come with me and we'll poison the pigeons in the park
And maybe we'll do in a squirrel or two while we're poisoning pigeons in the park
ref: 1959, Tom Lehrer, “Poisoning Pigeons In The Park”, in An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer:
text: Slasher fans rejoiced—for a couple years anyway, until the boom swiftly faded, done in by the same causes that fell so many other eruptions of a style or genre, of any medium: The host of imitators are never as good as what inspired the affection in the first place.
ref: 2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2018:
synonyms: word: bump off
word: do away with
word: feague
word: annihilate
word: bag
word: baptize
word: bereave of life
word: blight
word: bring down
word: bump off
word: bury
word: cack
word: compromised to a permanent end
word: croak
word: crush
word: dash
word: deactivate
word: dead
word: demolish
word: destroy
word: dispatch
word: dispose of
word: do
word: do in
word: dust
word: eliminate
word: end
word: eradicate
word: ex
word: exterminate
word: finish
word: finish off
word: flatten
word: grease
word: knock off
word: lay waste to
word: make away with
word: mortify
word: neutralize
word: obliterate
word: off
word: pay off
word: pick off
word: polish off
word: pop off
word: punch someone's ticket
word: put an end to
word: put down
word: put someone out of their misery
word: put six feet under
word: put to sleep
word: ravage
word: rub out
word: ruin
word: scotch
word: scupper
word: scuttle
word: send to eternity
word: send to hell
word: send to the grave
word: send to the great beyond
word: send to the next life
word: slay
word: slaughter
word: smash
word: smite
word: snuff
word: squash
word: stiff
word: stop someone's clock
word: take
word: terminate
word: terminate with extreme prejudice
word: top off
word: top
word: torpedo
word: take care of
word: take down
word: take out
word: waste
word: wax
word: wet
word: whack
word: wipe out
word: wreck
glosses: To kill or end; to defeat.
examples: text: I’m off to bed. I’m completely done in.
text: I'm exhausted! That 20-mile hike has done me in.
glosses: To exhaust, to tire out.
examples: text: I’m off work at the moment; I’ve done my back in.
glosses: To damage or injure.
glosses: To rob (someone); to steal or pilfer from (someone).
examples: text: I can do in a dozen eggs.
glosses: To eat.
sideline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdlaɪn/
Forms: form: sidelines
form: side line
form: side-line
Etymology: From side + line.
Senses: examples: text: Like most other fishes, the dragonet varies slightly in colour in different individuals, and at different seasons of the year. Mr. Pennant describes the pupils of the eyes to be of a rich sapphirine blue; the irides fine fiery carbuncle; the pectoral fins light brown; the side-line straight; the colours of the fish yellow, blue, and white, making a beautiful appearance when fresh taken.
ref: 1809, William Nicholson, “CALLIONYMUS”, in The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […], volume II (B … E), London: Printed by C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, column 1:
glosses: A line at the side of something.
examples: text: She started the business as a sideline to her regular work and it ended up becoming the greater source of income.
text: Soup need not be just a sideline to a meal; if you like, it can be the main course.
glosses: Something that is additional or extra or that exists around the edges or margins of a main item.
glosses: A line for hobbling an animal by connecting the fore and the hind feet of the same side.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: word: touchline
english: in rugby union, rugby league and association football
translation: in rugby union, rugby league and association football
glosses: A line defining the side boundary of a playing field. Used in Canadian football, field lacrosse and basketball.
examples: text: The coach stood on the sidelines and bellowed commands at the team.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The area outside the playing field beyond each sideline.
examples: text: to relegate to the sidelines
text: She installed the whole fixture while he simply watched from the sidelines.
text: Conservative Catholics, Relegated to Sidelines, Denounce Papal Gathering [title]
ref: 2023 October 3, Jason Horowitz, “Conservative Catholics, Relegated to Sidelines, Denounce Papal Gathering”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The outside or perimeter of any activity.
glosses: A secondary road, especially a byroad at right angles to a main road.
glosses: A side hustle.
Derived terms: sideline cut
sideline reporter
sideline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdlaɪn/
Forms: form: sidelines
form: sidelining
form: sidelined
form: sidelined
form: side line
form: side-line
Etymology: From side + line.
Senses: examples: text: The coach sidelined the player until he regained his strength.
text: Gomez got his chance with Gary Cahill sidelined and took it superbly with an assured performance as part of a three-man defence Southgate now looks certain to use at the World Cup.
ref: 2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-0 Brazil”, in BBC News:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To place on the sidelines; to bench or to keep someone out of play.
examples: text: The illness sidelined him for weeks.
text: Subplots that might have been fun to explore were relegated or eventually sidelined altogether in the case of characters like Gendry, who disappeared for years and finally resurfaces as a blacksmith in King’s Landing, literally waiting for the call to his hero’s journey.
ref: 2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: During 1971-72, spare Type 4s on other regions enabled the whole class to be sidelined, with Class 43s going first.
ref: 2022 January 12, David Clough, “From Germany with love: a Warship retrospective”, in RAIL, number 948, page 49:
text: Prigozhin’s exclusion from Ukraine would sideline one of Russia’s most recognisable war figures.
ref: 2023 June 14, Pjotr Sauer, Andrew Roth, “Putin sides with military chiefs over placing Wagner under direct control”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: At National Review, he [William Buckley] got rid of the Birchites—a conspirational fringe claiming Eisenhower for a communist—tamed the libertarians, dropped (eventually) the magazine's white racism and sidelined its antisemites.
ref: 2025 June 14, Edmund Fawcett, “Writing the right”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 8:
glosses: To remove or keep out of circulation or out of the focus.
Synonyms: word: marginalize
sincerely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnˈsɪəli/
ipa: /sɪnˈsɪɹli/
Forms: form: more sincerely
form: most sincerely
Etymology: From sincere + -ly, from Latin sincērus (“pure, clean, sound”).
Senses: examples: text: I sincerely hope they make it home safely.
glosses: In a sincere or earnest manner; honestly.
examples: text: Please consider the proposal carefully and let me know what you decide.
Sincerely,
Fred
glosses: A conventional formula for ending a letter, used when the salutation addresses the person for whom the letter is intended by his or her name.
Synonyms: sense: in a sincere manner
word: earnestly
word: genuinely
word: honestly
word: truthfully
sense: formula for ending a letter
word: yours sincerely
sense: formula for ending a letter
word: sincerely yours
sense: formula for ending a letter
word: yours truly
sense: formula for ending a letter
word: best regards
sense: formula for ending a letter
word: regards
Hypernyms: sense: formula for ending a letter
word: valediction
Coordinate terms: sense: formula for ending a letter
word: yours faithfully
sense: formula for ending a letter
word: xoxo
Derived terms: sinseriously
yours sincerely
Related terms: faithfully
truly
look after
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks after
form: looking after
form: looked after
form: looked after
Senses: examples: text: The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: To follow with the eyes; to look in the direction of (someone or something departing).
examples: text: My subject does not necessarily oblige me to look after this water, or point forth the place whereunto 'tis now retreated.
ref: 1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], →OCLC:
text: I have sent my intended husband to look after my lover […].
ref: 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, II.4:
text: If they are not married, they should be looking after a wife.
ref: 1893, Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance:
text: Sliding through the world: that is how, in a bygone age, they used to designate lives like his: looking after his interests, quietly prospering, attracting no attention.
ref: 2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Three”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: To seek out, to look for.
examples: text: He asked me to look after his daughter while he was away.
text: The station is clearly well looked after, making it a worthy gateway to the resort.
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations”, in RAIL, number 948, page 27:
text: "And I thought: if muggins here, a 37-year-old government minister who can look after myself, feels that way, then we need to really think about how we're putting in place a level of protection for women.
ref: 2022 April 6, “Network News: Booze ban continues as part of move to prioritise women's safety”, in RAIL, number 954, page 6:
synonyms: take care of
glosses: To care for; to keep safe.
coordinate_terms: look over#English:_survey from above
glosses: To have as one's business; to manage, be responsible for.
examples: text: Mens hearts failing them for feare, and for looking after those things which are comming on the earth; For the powers of heauen shall be shaken.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 21:26:
glosses: To expect, look forward to.
Derived terms: the devil looks after his own
sortes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin plural of sors (“lot, fate, oracular response”).
Senses: examples: text: Book oracles, called sortes (from the Latin sors = lot, indicating that one would obtain the answers by casting lots), allowed for consultation on the spot; the oracle could even come to the petitioner!
ref: 2014, AnneMarie Luijendijk, “Introduction”, in Forbidden Oracles? The Gospel of the Lots of Mary (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity; 89), Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebek, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: divination, or the seeking of guidance, by chance selection of a passage in the Bible or another text regarded as authoritative.
Derived terms: sortes Biblicae
sortes Homericae
sortes Virgilianae
shouting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃaʊtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈʃuːtɪn/
rhymes: -aʊtɪŋ
Forms: form: shoutings
Senses: glosses: An instance of loud or highly audible acclamation, clamor, crying or uproar.
Derived terms: all over bar the shouting
all over but the shouting
shouting dictation
shouting fire in a crowded theater
shouting match
shouting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃaʊtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈʃuːtɪn/
rhymes: -aʊtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shout
riparian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌɪˈpɛːɹɪən/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛːɹɪən/
Forms: form: more riparian
form: most riparian
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rīpārius (“relating to a riverbank”) + -an.
Senses: examples: text: By the time she'd pulled into Bortz's subdivision, a riparian settlement in the style of Fangoso Lagoons, she was only shaking and a little nauseous in the stomach.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 112:
text: A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak, and disappears into a thicket of riparian willow.
ref: 2011 May 28, Jim Perrin, The Guardian:
text: European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
ref: 2013 January 24, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2013, page 59:
text: Relying on the fact that both states are riparian states, the court noted that both have “an equal right to make a reasonable use” of the water in the shared basin and that Florida bore the “heavy burden” of proving its case by clear and convincing evidence.
ref: 2021 April 1, Lara Fowler, “No April Fool’s joke for Florida: Water rights case is dismissed”, in SCOTUSblog:
glosses: Of or relating to the bank of a river or stream.
Derived terms: hydroriparian
mesoriparian
nonriparian
pseudoriparian
riparian buffer
riparianism
riparianness
riparian right
semiriparian
xeroriparian
Related terms: riverain
riverine
riparian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌɪˈpɛːɹɪən/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛːɹɪən/
Forms: form: riparians
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rīpārius (“relating to a riverbank”) + -an.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A person or other entity that lives or owns property along the shore of a river.
contact juggling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by James Ernest in a book of the same name.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: The art of moving a ball or balls over one's body by rolling them, with very few throws.
Related terms: urls: http://www.ContactJuggling.org
word: a contact juggling website
juggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌɡəlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌɡlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌɡlɪŋ
Etymology: From juggle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of juggle
juggling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌɡəlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌɡlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌɡlɪŋ
Forms: form: jugglings
Etymology: From Middle English jogelyng, juglynge, equivalent to juggle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The art of moving objects, such as balls, clubs, beanbags, rings, etc. in an artful or artistic manner.
glosses: An act or instance of juggling; a reshuffle.
Derived terms: contact juggling
foot juggling
joggling
juggling act
nonjuggling
numbers juggling
toss juggling
type juggling
juggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌɡəl/
rhymes: -ʌɡəl
Forms: form: juggles
form: juggling
form: juggled
form: juggled
Etymology: From Middle English jogelen, partly a back-formation of Middle English jogeler (“juggler”), and partly a borrowing from Old French jogler, jongler (“to have fun with someone”), a conflation of Latin joculāri (“to jest; joke”) and Old French jangler (“to regale; entertain; have fun; trifle with; tease; mess around; gossip; boast; meddle”), from Frankish *jangalōn (“to chit-chat with; gossip”), akin to Middle Dutch jankelen (“to murmur; whisper; mumble; grumble”), frequentative of Middle Dutch janken (“to moan; groan; complain”). Related also to Middle Low German janken (“to sigh; moan; lament”), Dutch jengelen (“to whine; whimper”) Dutch janken (“to whine; wimper”).
Senses: examples: text: She can juggle flaming torches.
glosses: To manipulate objects, such as balls, clubs, beanbags, rings, etc. in an artful or artistic manner. Juggling may also include assorted other circus skills such as the diabolo, devil sticks, hat, and cigar box manipulation as well.
examples: text: He juggled home, school, and work for two years.
glosses: To handle or manage many tasks at once.
examples: text: I think they are juggling the company's books.
text: Is't possible the spells of France should juggle / Men into such strange mysteries?
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: Be these juggling fiends no more believed.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene viii]:
glosses: To deceive by trick or artifice.
glosses: To joke or jest.
glosses: To perform magic tricks.
Derived terms: bejuggle
joggle
jugglable
jugglement
juggler
jugglery
jugglesome
juggling
jugglingly
outjuggle
rejuggle
unjuggled
juggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌɡəl/
rhymes: -ʌɡəl
Forms: form: juggles
Etymology: From Middle English jogelen, partly a back-formation of Middle English jogeler (“juggler”), and partly a borrowing from Old French jogler, jongler (“to have fun with someone”), a conflation of Latin joculāri (“to jest; joke”) and Old French jangler (“to regale; entertain; have fun; trifle with; tease; mess around; gossip; boast; meddle”), from Frankish *jangalōn (“to chit-chat with; gossip”), akin to Middle Dutch jankelen (“to murmur; whisper; mumble; grumble”), frequentative of Middle Dutch janken (“to moan; groan; complain”). Related also to Middle Low German janken (“to sigh; moan; lament”), Dutch jengelen (“to whine; whimper”) Dutch janken (“to whine; wimper”).
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: The act of throwing and catching each prop at least twice, as opposed to a flash.
examples: text: Quit the juggle and monotask.
ref: 2018, Catherine Blyth, Enjoy Time, page 100:
glosses: The handling or managing of many tasks at once.
glosses: The performance of a magic trick.
examples: text: I could not believe that she was dead. The lips were red, nay redder than before; and on the cheeks was a delicate bloom. “Is this a juggle?” I said to him.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:
glosses: A deceit or imposture.
Related terms: too many balls in the air
wacko
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwæ.kəʊ/
ipa: /ˈwæ.koʊ/
rhymes: -ækəʊ
Forms: form: more wacko
form: most wacko
form: whacko
Etymology: From wack(y) + -o.
Senses: synonyms: word: kooky
word: oddballish
word: pixilated
word: aberrant
word: abnormal
word: anomalous
word: balmy
word: barmy
word: bizarre
word: crackpot
word: cranky
word: eccentric
word: eccentrical
word: erratic
word: excentrical
word: extraordinary
word: far-out
word: freakish
word: heteroclite
word: idiocentric
word: idiosyncratic
word: irregular
word: kookish
word: kooky
word: nutbar
word: odd
word: oddballish
word: off-centre
word: outlandish
word: outré
word: peculiar
word: pixilated
word: queer
word: quirky
word: quizzy
word: spacy
word: squirrelly
word: uncommon
word: wacky
word: weird
word: whimsical
word: whimsome
word: wifty
word: Wodehousian
word: Wonkaesque
glosses: Amusingly eccentric or irrational.
wacko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwæ.kəʊ/
ipa: /ˈwæ.koʊ/
rhymes: -ækəʊ
Forms: form: wackos
form: wackoes
form: whacko
Etymology: From wack(y) + -o.
Senses: examples: text: “Environmentalist wackos” — Mr. Limbaugh’s phrase — “want man to be responsible for it because they want to control your behavior,” the conservative host said on the show.
ref: 2020 September 15, Michael M. Grynbaum, Tiffany Hsu, quoting Rush Limbaugh, “‘Nothing to Do With Climate Change’: Conservative Media and Trump Align on Fires”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: kook
word: odd duck
word: weirdo
word: bizarro
word: coot
word: crackpot
word: crank
raw_tags: in US
word: eccentric
word: freak
word: glaik
word: hard case
word: kook
word: live one
word: nutbag
word: nutbar
word: nutcase
word: nutter
word: oddball
word: oddity
word: odd bod
word: odd duck
word: odd fish
word: queerdo
word: queer fish
word: rum
word: strange bird
word: strange fish
word: strangeling
word: wack
word: wacko
word: weirdie
word: weirdling
word: weirdo
word: wild man
word: wingnut
glosses: An amusingly eccentric or irrational person.
wacko
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwæ.kəʊ/
ipa: /ˈwæ.koʊ/
rhymes: -ækəʊ
Forms: form: whacko
Etymology: From wack(y) + -o.
Senses: examples: text: "Wacko! There's a whole pile of letters for me," Jennings cried excitedly, hopping from one foot to the other.
ref: 1952, Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings and Darbishire:
synonyms: word: get in
word: huzzah
word: woo hoo
word: aah
word: alright
word: 'ave it
word: aww yeah
word: boo-ya
word: booyah
word: cowabunga
word: get in
word: hoo
word: hoorah
word: hooray
word: hurrah
word: hurray
word: huzzah
word: oh yeah
word: OMG
word: result
word: w00t
word: wahoo
word: whee
word: woo hoo
word: woop woop
word: whoo
word: whoop-de-doo
word: whoopee
word: woohoo
word: yahoo
word: yay
word: yeah
word: yeehaw
word: yes
word: yippee
word: you beauty
word: wacko
word: zip-a-dee-doo-dah
glosses: Hurrah!
sors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sor
trapezoid bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trapezoid bones
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the carpal bones of the wrist.
Synonyms: lesser multangular
trapezoid
os trapezoideum
betel nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: betel nuts
form: betelnut
form: beetel nut
form: beetle nut
Senses: glosses: An egg-shaped seed of the betel palm; wrapped in the leaves of the betel pepper and chewed.
Synonyms: areca nut
Derived terms: betel nut beauty
Related terms: momma
intermediate phalange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intermediate phalanges
form: intermediate phalanx
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the phalanx bones in the middle of the fingers or toes; middle phalange
proximal phalange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proximal phalanges
form: proximal phalanx
Senses: glosses: Any of the phalanx bones of the fingers or toes which are nearest the hand or foot.
pisiform bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pisiform bones
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small knobbly, pea-shaped sesamoid bone of the wrist.
Synonyms: os pisiforme
lentiform bone
hobo spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hobo spiders
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of poisonous funnel web spiders, especially Tegenaria agrestis, indigenous to Europe.
nasal bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasal bones
form: nasal
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Either of two bones of the skull of vertebrates above the fishes which lie in front of the frontal bones and in humans are oblong in shape forming by their junction the bridge of the nose and partly covering the nasal cavity.
endearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɪəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ɛn-/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɪɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: more endearing
form: most endearing
Etymology: From endear + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: […] I dare not call him father, nor he, without shame, own me as his issue, I being illegitimate, and therefore deprived of that endearing tenderness and unparalleled satisfaction which a good man finds in the love and conversation of a parent.
ref: 1711 November 3 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “TUESDAY, October 23, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 203; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, pages 26–27:
text: BELIEVE me, if all those endearing young charms, / Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, / Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms, / Like fairy-gifts fading away,— / Thou wouldst stil be ador'd as this moment thou art, / Let thy loveliness fade as it will; / And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart / Would entwine itself verdantly still!
ref: 1808, John [Andrew] Stevenson, Thomas Moore, “Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms”, in A Selection of Irish Melodies. […], second number, London: Printed and sold at J. Power's Music & Instrument Warehouse, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 112:
text: But the humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.
ref: 1907, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “A Defence of Baby-worship”, in The Defendant (The Wayfarer’s Library), 3rd edition, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co. […], →OCLC, page 116:
text: Or what is conveyed to those unversed in railway matters by reports following a shed visit that "the frame of Claud Hamilton lay in the boneyard and had many endearing messages of farewell chalked on it"?
ref: 1951 April, R. S. McNaught, “Railway Enthusiasts”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 269:
text: In legitimate comedy actresses conformed to a Victorian image of coquetry. Most comediennes were termed soubrettes, after their inclination for depicting young women in a variety of situations, in which the soubrettes employed their diverse popular talents to heighten their endearing magnetism.
ref: 1983, Chad Evans, “The Road to British Columbia”, in Frontier Theatre: A History of Nineteenth-century Theatrical Entertainment in the Canadian Far West and Alaska, Victoria, B.C.: Sono Nis Press, →ISBN, page 143:
text: And yet [Nathan] Jones is perfect in Fury Road, a deeply dangerous human weapon who, because of his infantile need for respect from his father, somehow turns out endearing even though we see him ripping an engine from the hood and throwing it at the good guys.
ref: 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road Might Already be the Best Action Movie Ever Made”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2018:
synonyms: cute
antonyms: unendearing
glosses: Inspiring affection or love, often in a childlike way.
Derived terms: endearingly
endearingness
unendearing
unendearingly
Related terms: endear
endearer
endearment
endearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɪəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ɛn-/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɪɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: endearings
Etymology: From endear + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: It was arms around, and perpetual endearings, and all that I had missed for a weary twelve-month.
ref: 1919 September, Jack London, “On the Makaloa Mat”, in On the Makaloa Mat, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: Synonym of endearment.
synonyms: word: endearment
endearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɪəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ɛn-/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɪɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Etymology: From endear + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of endear.
aftermath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæf.tɚˌmæθ/
ipa: /ˈɑːf.təˌmæθ/
ipa: /ˈɑːf.təˌmɑːθ/
ipa: /ˈæf.təˌmæθ/
Forms: form: aftermaths
Etymology: From after- + math (“a mowing”).
Senses: examples: text: They were cutting aftermath on all sides, which gave the neighbourhood, this gusty autumn morning, an untimely smell of hay.
ref: 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A second mowing; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; lattermath.
examples: text: In contrast to most projections of the aftermath of nuclear war, in this there is no rioting or looting.
glosses: That which happens after, that which follows, usually of strongly negative connotation in most contexts, implying a preceding catastrophe.
Related terms: beforemath
jr
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jr.
internet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntəˌnɛt/
enpr: ĭnʹtərnĕt'
ipa: /ˈɪn(t)ɚˌnɛt/
Forms: form: the internet
Etymology: The noun is a variant of Internet. The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing", "share the things you love with the world" and so on.
ref: 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “Conscious computing: How to take control of your life online”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2022:
text: He was able to do this because the internet, which had been publicly available since January 1983, enabled it.
ref: 2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Internet (“the specific internet consisting of a global network of computers that communicate using Internet Protocol (IP) and that use Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to identify the best paths to route those communications”).
examples: text: As soon as the trailer was released, the internet went nuts.
text: In 2014, a hot dog entrepreneur, Laura Ustick, general manager of Superdawg in Chicago, Illinois, asked the internet to get behind her in support of the Emoji Hot Dog.
ref: 2015, Emojis: the secret behind the smile, page 41:
text: On Friday, as the internet reacted to the video of Thomas getting arrested for walking in the street, the city rushed out a statement explaining what happened around noon last Wednesday.
ref: 2016, Star Tribune 2016-10-19, page 5:
text: One of their most recognised challenges was posting a photo of an animal from their collection and challenging users to Photoshop that image into other paintings. @TheMERL gave the call to action and the internet answered.
ref: 2021, The Complete Guide to Digital Marketing for Museums, page 64:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Internet (“global community of individuals communicating via the Internet”).
internet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntəˌnɛt/
enpr: ĭnʹtərnĕt'
ipa: /ˈɪn(t)ɚˌnɛt/
Forms: form: internets
Etymology: The noun is a variant of Internet. The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Do you have internet at your place? My internet is down and I want to check my email.
glosses: Internet access or connection; internet connectivity.
glosses: Any set of computer networks that communicate using the Internet Protocol; an intranet.
examples: text: You did a nice job there Patty … you came off as intelligent, well-spoken, and concerned about the well being of the victims, in stark contrast to the self-serving, uncaring, unconcerned attitude of the Narconon spokeswoman. 100 internets for you!
ref: 2008 April 5, “Anonology”, “Narconon Exposed tonight on Canadian TV”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: I have been looking through CupOJoes and kind of want something dark with a silver band between the bit and the bowl [of the pipe]. That's not a must, but 1000 internets go to the first person to find one.
ref: 2010 August 7, “Bilbo”, “Looking for a Billiard”, in alt.smokers.pipes (Usenet):
text: You win one internet.
ref: 2011 November 12, David Johnston, “What Did You Watch? 2011-11-10 (Thursday)”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):
text: I hope this is sarcastic. Otherwise -100 internets for you.
ref: 2011 October 14, Unifarva@sticklerboi.com, “10 Not So Insanely Great Things Apple Released Under Steve Jobs”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):
text: Do I win an internet?
ref: 2013 February 26, Devon H. O’Dell, “[9fans] Ancient History: ‘Electronic Mail Without Aliases’”, in comp.os.plan9 (Usenet):
glosses: A fictitious unit of scoring awarded for making outstanding posts on the internet.
Derived terms: alive internet theory
anternet
cable internet
dead internet theory
internet linguistics
internet of things
internetty
interweb
interwebs
postinternet
splinternet
Related terms: Web