cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
yclept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈklɛpt/
ipa: /-ˈkliːpt/
ipa: /ɪˈkliːpɪd/
ipa: /ɪˈklɛpt/
rhymes: -ɛpt
Etymology: PIE word
 *ḱóm
From Middle English yclept, ycleped, iclept [and other forms] (i-, y- (prefix forming past participles) + clepen (“to say, speak, utter; to call, shout; to name; to address; to appeal to, beg, pray; to ask, request; to appear; to send for, summon; to convene; to call forth, induce; to lay claim”) + -ed, -t (suffix forming past participles of weak verbs)), from Old English ġeclypod, ġeclipod (ġe- (suffix forming past participles or participle adjectives) + clypian, clipian (“to call out, cry; to appeal”) (West Saxon) [and other forms] + -od (suffix forming past participles)). Clipian is derived from Proto-Germanic *klipjaną, *klapjaną (“to be noisy; to chatter”), probably related to *klappōną (“to clap, pound, or strike (especially two things against each other); to make loud noises, especially breathing or pulsating; to chatter”), and ultimately onomatopoeic. Doublet of clap.
Senses: glosses: past participle of clepe
clepe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kliːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: clepes
form: cleping
form: cleped
form: clept
form: cleped
form: clept
form: yclept
form: cleep
form: clip
form: clep
form: clip
form: claip
form: clype
Etymology: From Middle English clepen, clepien, from Old English cleopian, clipian (“to speak, cry out, call, summon, invoke, cry to, implore”), from Proto-Germanic *klipōną (“to ring, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *gal- (“to sound”). Cognate with Old Frisian klippa, kleppa (“to ring”), Dutch kleppen (“to toll, chatter”), Middle Low German kleppen (“to strike, sound”), Middle Low German kleperen (“to rattle”).
Senses: glosses: To give a call; cry out; appeal.
glosses: To call; call upon; cry out to.
glosses: To call to oneself; invite; summon.
examples: text: She clepes him king of graues, & graue for kings, / Imperious ſupreme of all mortall things.
ref: 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC, lines [995–996]:
text: See Borneo's sea-girt shore where ever flow / the perfumed liquor's thick and curded gouts, / the tears of forest-trees men "Camphor" clepe, / wherefore that Island crop of Fame shall reap.
ref: 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 408:
text: Boyden McNair, with his right elbow on his knee and his bent head resting on the hand which covered his eyes, sat near Wolfe's desk in the dunce's chair, yclept that by me on the day that District Attorney Anderson of Westchester sat in it while Wolfe made a dunce of him.
ref: 1937, Rex Stout, chapter 8, in The Red Box:
glosses: To call; call by the name of; name.
examples: text: You tried to mentor someone, teach them the basics of the trade, and they ran off to clype on you.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 173:
glosses: To tell lies about; inform against (someone).
raw_tags: with 'on'
glosses: To be loquacious; tattle; gossip.
glosses: To report; relate; tell.
Synonyms: sense: call by the name of
word: designate
word: dub
word: name
word: denominate
sense: tell lies about; inform against
word: grass
word: snitch
word: rat out
sense: be loquacious; tattle; gossip
word: blab
word: gossip
word: chatter
Derived terms: beclepe
clepe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kliːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: clepes
form: cleep
form: clip
form: clep
form: clip
form: claip
form: clype
Etymology: From Middle English clepen, clepien, from Old English cleopian, clipian (“to speak, cry out, call, summon, invoke, cry to, implore”), from Proto-Germanic *klipōną (“to ring, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *gal- (“to sound”). Cognate with Old Frisian klippa, kleppa (“to ring”), Dutch kleppen (“to toll, chatter”), Middle Low German kleppen (“to strike, sound”), Middle Low German kleperen (“to rattle”).
Senses: examples: text: So bold was I to show my voice that night / With clepes, and cries, to fill the street throughout / With Creuse’ name in sorrow, with vain tears ; / And often-sithes the same for to repeat.
ref: a. 1547, “Virgil’s Æneid”, in Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, transl., edited by Geo. Fred. Nott, The Works of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey and of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, volume I, London: T. Bensley, published 1815, book II, page 124, lines 1021–1024:
glosses: A cry; an appeal; a call.
rasbora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæzˈbɔːɹə/
Forms: form: rasboras
Senses: glosses: Any minnow-like small fish in the cyprinid genus Rasbora.
glosses: Any similar fish formerly classified in that genus.
lionfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪənˌfɪʃ/
Forms: form: lionfish
form: lionfishes
Etymology: Compound of lion + fish.
Senses: synonyms: turkeyfish
glosses: Any of various ray-finned fishes of the tribe Pteroini (especially of the genus Pterois) in the family Scorpaenidae.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Dendrochirus zebra
word: zebra lionfish
listlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: listlessnesses
Etymology: From listless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But every thing must have an end. A motion made by this angelic youth, in the listlessness of going off sleep, replac'd his shirt and the bed-cloaths in a posture that shut up that treasure from longer view.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of every thing’s being dull and insipid about the house!— I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not—for a few weeks at least.
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 12:
text: […] lulled into such an opium-like listlessness of vacant, unconscious reverie is this absent-minded youth by the blending cadence of waves with thoughts, that at last he loses his identity; takes the mystic ocean at his feet for the visible image of that deep, blue, bottomless soul, pervading mankind and nature; and every strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him the embodiment of those elusive thoughts that only people the soul by continually flitting through it.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 35”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being listless; apathetic indifference; lethargy.
Siamese fighting fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Siamese fighting fishes
form: Siamese fighting fish
Senses: synonyms: betta
plakat
glosses: A freshwater fish, Betta splendens.
bolshie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒl.ʃi/
Forms: form: bolshies
form: bolshi
Etymology: From Bolshevik (Russian большеви́к (bolʹševík), the socialist party in the 1918 Russian Revolution, from Russian большевики́ (bolʹševikí, “majority faction”), + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A government leftist, especially a communist, socialist, or labour union leader.
bolshie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒl.ʃi/
Forms: form: bolshier
form: bolshiest
form: bolshy
form: bolshi
Etymology: From Bolshevik (Russian большеви́к (bolʹševík), the socialist party in the 1918 Russian Revolution, from Russian большевики́ (bolʹševikí, “majority faction”), + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Kate, don't be so bolshie!
text: Rachel came in, and Nick felt he'd been caught larking about, Catherine squashing him like some bolshie teenage attempt at seduction.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 16, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: Difficult or rebellious.
Synonyms: contrary
contumacious
perverse
recalcitrant
Related terms: Bolshevik
bolshiness
astonished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æ- -d/
ipa: /əˈstɒn.ɪʃt/
other: /-ˈstɑ.nɪ-/
rhymes: -ɒnɪʃt
Forms: form: more astonished
form: most astonished
Senses: examples: text: utterly astonished
text: clearly astonished
text: left astonished
text: She was astonished at how quickly he solved the puzzle.
text: He looked astonished when they told him the news.
glosses: Amazed; surprised.
Synonyms: word: shocked
word: speechless
word: amazed
word: agape
word: bewildered
word: astonished
word: astounded
word: awed
word: awe-struck
word: bemused
word: bowled over
word: deer in the headlights
word: dumbfounded
word: flabagasted
word: flabbergasted
word: flambergasted
word: floored
word: flummoxed
word: gobsmacked
word: mystified
word: overawed
word: overwhelmed
word: slack-jawed
word: startled
word: stunned
word: stupefied
word: surprised
word: taken aback
word: thunderstruck
word: unnerved
word: wide-eyed
Derived terms: astonishedly
astonishedness
unastonished
astonished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æ- -d/
ipa: /əˈstɒn.ɪʃt/
other: /-ˈstɑ.nɪ-/
rhymes: -ɒnɪʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of astonish
planktology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plæŋkˈtɒləd͡ʒi/
Etymology: From plankto- + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of plankton
Derived terms: ichthyoplanktology
planktological
planktologist
lady beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lady beetles
form: ladybeetle
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ladybird.
synonyms: word: ladybird
Derived terms: harlequin lady beetle
lady-bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lady-bugs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ladybug.
lady-bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lady-birds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ladybird.
rainout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainouts
Etymology: From rain + out.
Senses: synonyms: washout#English:_something canceled due to rain
glosses: Something which has been cancelled due to interfering rain.
examples: text: A rainout on the season's second game would be, to say the least, unconvenient.
ref: 2004, Jon C. Stott, Minor Leagues, Major Boom: Local Professional Baseball Revitalized, page 89:
glosses: Such a cancellation.
glosses: Nuclear fallout deposited by means of rain.
Related terms: snowout
alternating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alternate
alternating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That alternates.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a planar diagram whose crossings alternate between "over" and "under" as one travels along the knot.
raw_tags: of a knot
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having terms that alternate between positive and negative.
raw_tags: of a series
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Whose value is zero when any two adjacent arguments are equal.
raw_tags: of a multilinear mapping with all arguments belonging to the same space
Derived terms: alternating caps
alternating case
alternatingly
alternating series test
alternating Turing machine
nonalternating
polyalternating
subalternating
unalternating
alternating current
lecithinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lecithinases
Etymology: From lecithin + -ase.
Senses: glosses: An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of lecithin.
lusciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lusciousnesses
Etymology: From luscious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Property of being luscious.
lusciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lusciously
form: most lusciously
Etymology: From luscious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a luscious manner.
lumpiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumpinesses
Etymology: From lumpy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being lumpy.
luminously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more luminously
form: most luminously
Etymology: From luminous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a luminous manner, brightly, glowingly.
particular integral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: particular integrals
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any solution to a differential equation.
Related terms: complementary function
glowingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more glowingly
form: most glowingly
Etymology: From glowing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The spark hung there glowingly, then suddenly went out.
text: I lay stretching out, glowingly alive all over, and tossing with burning impatience for the renewal of joys that had sinned but in a sweet excess
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: While giving off a glow.
examples: text: He praised her glowingly; it was enough to make her blush.
glosses: With enthusiastic praise.
complementary function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complementary functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: For a nonhomogeneous linear differential equation a_ny⁽ⁿ⁾+a_n-1y⁽ⁿ⁻¹⁾+⋯+a_1y'+a_0y=g(x), the general solution of the associated homogenous linear differential equation a_ny⁽ⁿ⁾+a_n-1y⁽ⁿ⁻¹⁾+⋯+a_1y'+a_0y=0.
Related terms: particular integral
lumberer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumberers
Etymology: From lumber + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who lumbers, who moves in a heavy and ungainly manner.
glosses: One who is involved in the production of lumber.
luckless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more luckless
form: most luckless
Etymology: From luck + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The search party returned dejected from the luckless search.
glosses: Unsuccessful, in a failing manner.
examples: text: The luckless third-class passengers were required to stand in open wagons (or "Stanhopes"), which were of the same length and width as the carriages, and divided into four compartments by two bars running diagonally across the vehicle and crossing in the middle.
ref: 1956 February, B. D. J. Walsh, “"Broad Gauge" in East Anglia”, in Railway Magazine, page 97:
text: Agents of the law, luckless pedestrian
ref: 1976, Donald Fagen with Steely Dan, Don't Take Me Alive:
text: That Wolves reached half-time on level terms had much to do with the ultimately luckless Hennessey, who was in action in the opening minute to tip away Samir Nasri's shot following a City corner.
ref: 2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Without luck, unfortunate.
Derived terms: lucklessly
lucklessness
luckiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luckinesses
Etymology: From lucky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being lucky; good luck.
lumberyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌmbɚˌjɑɹd/
Forms: form: lumberyards
Etymology: From lumber + yard.
Senses: examples: text: I'll just go to the lumberyard and buy some more two by fours so we can finish building this.
text: He got a job at the lumberyard, working the big saw for planks.
glosses: A facility dedicated to the preparation and/or sale of lumber.
dejectedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈdʒɛktədli/
Forms: form: more dejectedly
form: most dejectedly
Etymology: From dejected + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Don't we behave just as stupidly in our pursuit of happiness - don't we?" Simpson nodded dejectedly.
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 154:
text: From his disembodied mind Gargravarr watched dejectedly.
ref: 1995, Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: a Trilogy in Five Parts, →ISBN, page 202:
synonyms: word: dejectly
glosses: In a dejected manner, in a dispirited way.
magis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mŏ'jĭs
ipa: /ˈmɑ.d͡ʒɪs/
rhymes: -ɑdʒɪs
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin magis
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: The philosophy of striving to do more for Jesus Christ, associated with Ignatian spirituality and the Society of Jesus.
Related terms: AMDG
lucrativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lucrative + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The lucrativeness of the business was unquestionable, but it was unethical to make money that way.
synonyms: lucrativity
glosses: The property of being lucrative.
integrand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntɪɡɹænd/
Forms: form: integrands
Etymology: From integral + -and.
Senses: topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The function that is to be integrated
Synonyms: integral kernel
Related terms: word: integration
english: integral
translation: integral
word: antidifferentiation: integral sign, ∫ integrand differential, dx
word: differentiation
ludicrously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːdɪkɹəsli/
ipa: /ˈljuːdɪkɹəsli/
Forms: form: more ludicrously
form: most ludicrously
Etymology: From ludicrous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: That authority has been sharpened by the cavalcade of ludicrously rich tech dorks, like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, who have each paid fealty to the man—forming the framework for a deregulatory free-for-all looting reminiscent of mid-’90s Russia.
ref: 2025 January 8, Luke Winkie, “Boooooooo”, in Slate:
glosses: In a ludicrous manner.
integrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntɪɡɹəbəl/
Etymology: From French intégrable, equivalent to integr(ate) + -able.
Senses: antonyms: nonintegrable
glosses: Able to be integrated.
Derived terms: integrable function
superintegrable
lugubriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lugubriously
form: most lugubriously
Etymology: From lugubrious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He glared malevolently at the shining porcelain, and then shook his head lugubriously.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 26:
glosses: In a lugubrious manner.
lugubriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lugubrious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: If you have never beheld or heard a bassoon you are to understand that it is an instrument of wood, of considerable more length than breadth, provided with numerous stops and keys, and capable of producing an infinite variety of tones, ranging from the depth of lugubriousness to the highest pitch of vivacity.
ref: 1896, Eugene Field, “The Platonic Bassoon”, in The Holy Cross and Other Tales, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 198:
text: It is a little difficult for the present generation to gain a clear conception of the New England Sabbath of the time of my boyhood; but this outline at least will give a general impression of its lugubriousness, and it may readily be inferred that the day thus given over to dolorous tasks was not one to which the child would look forward joyously.
ref: 1915, Luther Burbank, chapter 1, in Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries, Their Practical Application, volume 12, New York: Luther Burbank Press, page 29:
text: The neighborhood appealed to me, particularly at night when the full squalor and lugubriousness of it made itself felt.
ref: 1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer:
text: He didn’t have the Hindu delight in tragedy and the details of death, and he had often asked Shama not to sing this cremation song. Now he had to listen while she sang with sweet lugubriousness to the end.
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 4:
glosses: The property of being lugubrious.
lumberman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumbermen
Etymology: From lumber + -man.
Senses: examples: text: And the shoes they weren't shoes, but knee-length leather boots, like a dressy version of lumberman's boots or a rougher version of riding boots. He hadn't seen even pictures of such things since the few silent movies run in some of the little art theaters.
ref: 1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling:
glosses: A man involved in the production or sale of lumber; a lumberjack or logger.
lumbermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lumberman
lubricator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lubricators
Etymology: From lubricate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: The mystery of the dripping lubricators was also explained to him.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: Valve and cylinder lubrication is by atomised oil delivered by mechanical lubricators.
ref: 1951 March, “British Railways Standard "Britannia" Class 4-6-2 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 186:
text: The uniformity of the wheel diameters of diesel and electric locomotives and m.u. trains impairs the spreading of grease from one point fed by the lubricator and the growing traffic of m.u. trains and railcars has increased the need for lubrication and for check rails in certain places. The newer types of rail lubricator apply the grease at four or five points spaced so that the entire wheel flange is greased and even distribution ensured; [...].
ref: 1962 December, “Talking of Trains: Rail and flange lubrication”, in Modern Railways, page 372:
glosses: A device that lubricates, that applies lubricant.
glosses: A person employed to lubricate.
Derived terms: flange lubricator
lukewarmly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lukewarmly
form: most lukewarmly
Etymology: From lukewarm + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a lukewarm manner, tepidly, without enthusiasm.
luxuriantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more luxuriantly
form: most luxuriantly
Etymology: From luxuriant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] here and there a gray rock cropped out of the ground, and over it the yellow stone-crop and scarlet-leaved crane's-bill grew luxuriantly.
ref: 1851, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, The Moorland Cottage:
glosses: In a luxuriant manner.
luxuriance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌɡˈʒʊəɹiəns/
Forms: form: luxuriances
form: luxuriancy
Etymology: From luxuri(ant) + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: Yet such was the luxuriance of the tropical growth that the rats had not attained such numbers as to provide competition among members of the species.
ref: 1949, Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides:
glosses: The property of being luxuriant.
Synonyms: luxuriantness
Derived terms: overluxuriance
possessing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Derived terms: nonpossessing
possessingly
possessingness
possessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of possess
Related terms: possession
possessed
lubberly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lubberly
form: most lubberly
Etymology: From lubber + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a great lubberly boy
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
text: Ponocrates and Eudemon burst out in a laughing so heartily, that they had almost split with it, and given up the ghost, in rendering their souls to God: even just as Crassus did, seeing a lubberly ass eat thistles;
ref: 1693, Thomas Urquhart, translation of Gargantua by Rabelais, Chapter XX
glosses: Clumsy and stupid; resembling a lubber (an inexperienced person).
examples: text: "Do not use such a lubberly expression, my dear Rose, if you respect your father's profession. On a vessel is a new-fangled Americanism, that is neither fish, flesh, nor red-herring, as we sailors say,— neither English nor Greek."
ref: 1848, James Fenimore Cooper, “Captain Spike, Or The Islets of the Gulf”, in Bentley's Miscellany, page 19:
glosses: Lacking in seamanship; of or suitable to a landlubber who is new to being at sea and unfamiliar with the ways of a sailor.
Derived terms: lubberliness
lubberly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lubberly
form: most lubberly
Etymology: From lubber + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I'm not ignorant of these matters, having been many years at sea—and seamen, you must know, are curious in knots; I cannot endure to see anything done lubberly.
ref: 1839, Matthew Henry Barker, Hamilton King, page 105:
glosses: In the manner of a landlubber.
unskillfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unskillfully
form: most unskillfully
Etymology: From un- + skillfully.
Senses: glosses: In an unskilled manner.
low-tech
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes the low-tech ways are best: bash it with a rock, that'll loosen it.
text: Many jihadist plots have been foiled and the security apparatus is getting better, overall, at pre-empting those who would do us ill. But, they say, the nature of the threat and the terrorists’ increasing use of low-tech, asymmetrical tactics such as hire vehicles and knives, make it all but impossible to stop every assault.
ref: 2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer:
text: The control centre of the Shinkansen, the world's first high-speed railway, is surprisingly low-tech.
ref: 2024 December 27, Christian Wolmar, “A mix of modern and traditional on board the Shinkansen”, in RAIL, number 1025, page 40:
glosses: Simple, uncomplicated, primitive, not involving advanced technology.
uncomplicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncomplicated
form: most uncomplicated
Etymology: From un- + complicated.
Senses: glosses: Simple; not complicated; basic.
Synonyms: uncomplex
Derived terms: uncomplicatedly
Related terms: decomplexified
decomplicated
uncomplicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From uncomplicate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncomplicate
low-rise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low-rises
form: lowrise
form: low rise
Etymology: (architecture): A retronym created as an antonym to high-rise.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A building of no more than a few stories.
low-rise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Referring to the low waistline.
Senses: topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Of lower body clothing: whose waistline does not reach the waist, but hangs along the hips.
high-rise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-rises
form: highrise
Etymology: From high + rise.
Senses: glosses: A tall building, one consisting of many storeys.
Related terms: low-rise
high-rise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: highrise
Etymology: From high + rise.
Senses: examples: high-rise jeans
glosses: Designed to sit high on, or above, the wearer's hips.
raw_tags: of clothing
Synonyms: multistory
Related terms: high-riser
lowborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of low-born.
accelerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acceleration
loudmouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loudmouthed
form: most loudmouthed
Etymology: From loud + mouthed.
Senses: glosses: Tending to loud, indiscreet, especially bragging, speech.
Derived terms: loudmouthedness
petrifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petrification
peregrinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peregrination
decolourisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decolourisation
decolonisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decolonisation
stopper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɒp.ə/
ipa: /ˈstɔp.ə/
ipa: /ˈstɑ.pɚ/
rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stoppers
form: stoppering
form: stoppered
form: stoppered
Etymology: From stop + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He tightly stoppered the decanter, thinking the expensive liqueur had been evaporating.
text: The diaphragmatic spasm of his hiccup caused his epiglottis to painfully stopper his windpipe with a loud "hic".
glosses: To close a container by using a stopper.
spuds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spud
logy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊɡi/
rhymes: -oʊɡi
Forms: form: logier
form: logiest
form: logey
Etymology: Attested from the 19th century, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Dutch log (“heavy, dull”).
Senses: examples: text: The steering seems logy; you have to turn the wheel well before you want to turn.
text: Perkins discovered his prize duck in a logy condition.
ref: 1910, “Duck Eats Yeast”, in The Yakima Herald:
text: I was still logy with sleep; I shook my head to try to clear it.
ref: 1956, Robert Heinlein, Double Star:
text: “So then you stumble into another bunch of cocaine in the jungle, and then continue stumbling into a bean bagging arms dealer so that now almost inexplicably we have enough weapons to invade Quebec.” “Wait, literally?” “No, Krieger. Not literally.” “Aw.” “Lame.” “Well, if we ever do, the best time to invade is right after brunch when they're all logy.” “Archer?” “I don't know. I mean, it couldn't hurt, but--” “Still talking about this, not invading Quebec.”
ref: 2014 March 24, Adam Reed, “On the Carpet” (14:09 from the start), in Archer, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Dr. Algernop Krieger (Lucky Yates):
glosses: Slow to respond or react; lethargic.
Derived terms: logily
loginess
logy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊɡi/
rhymes: -oʊɡi
ipa: /lədʒɪ/
ipa: /ˈloʊɡi/
rhymes: -oʊɡi
Forms: form: logies
Etymology: Nominalization of the -logy suffix.
Senses: examples: text: The many Logies and Isms that have lately come into vogue.
ref: 1856, Joseph Young, Demonology; or, the Scripture doctrine of Devils, page 372:
glosses: A term formed with the -logy suffix.
logically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑd͡ʒɪˌkli/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈlɔdʒɪk(ə)li/
rhymes: -ɒdʒɪkli
Forms: form: more logically
form: most logically
Etymology: From logical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A world, then, is a state of affairs W of this sort: For every state of affairs p, either W logically implies p or W logically implies the negation of p, and there is no state of affairs q such that W logically implies both q and the negation of q.
ref: 1986, Roderick M. Chisholm, “Self-Profile”, in Radu J. Bogdan, editor, Profiles: Roderick M. Chisholm, Springer, page 30:
glosses: In a logical manner, with logic.
spangled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæŋ.ɡəld/
rhymes: -æŋɡəld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spangle
spangled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæŋ.ɡəld/
rhymes: -æŋɡəld
Forms: form: more spangled
form: most spangled
Senses: examples: text: I cycled the three miles each morning between hedges draped with spangled cobwebs and berried bryony.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 216:
antonyms: unspangled
glosses: Having spangles.
glosses: drunk or high.
Derived terms: beryl-spangled tanager
spangled coquette
spangled kookaburra
Star-Spangled Banner
logged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of log
Derived terms: unlogged
logbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑɡ.bʊk/
ipa: /ˈlɔɡ.bʊk/
ipa: /ˈlɒɡ.bʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: logbooks
form: log-book
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti
Proto-Germanic *ligjaną
Old Norse liggjader.?
Middle English logge
English log
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?
Proto-Germanic *bōks
Proto-West Germanic *bōk
Old English bōc
Middle English bok
English book
English logbook
Compound of log + book, originally a record of a ship’s speed and progress, from a wooden float (chip log, or simply log) used to measure speed. First attested in the 1670s.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A book in which measurements from the ship's log are recorded, along with other salient details of the voyage.
examples: text: "If you're accused of profiling or pretextual stops, you can bring your daily logbook to court and document that pulling over motorists for 'stickler' reasons is part of your customary pattern," Remsberg writes, "not a glaring exception conveniently dusted off in the defendant's case."
ref: 2019, Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers:
glosses: A book in which events are recorded; a journal, especially of travel.
glosses: A record of the ownership, and licensing of a motor car.
Derived terms: logbook service
lockout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lockouts
form: lock-out
Etymology: Deverbal from lock out.
Senses: antonyms: strike#Noun
walkout#Noun
industrial peace
industrial action
labor action
labour action
qualifier: labour
glosses: The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.
glosses: The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.
examples: text: It's another front-row lockout for Mercedes on the starting grid of the Japanese Grand Prix.
antonyms: lock-in
glosses: The exclusion of certain people from a place, event, situation, etc.
glosses: The restriction of a population to a certain area, but allowing free movement within that region, in order to prevent the spread of disease. Compare lockdown.
examples: text: a locksmith who is willing to deal with emergency lockouts
glosses: The situation of being locked out of a building.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A situation where the system is not responding to input.
examples: text: lockout–tagout
coordinate_terms: tagout
qualifier: industrial operations
glosses: A safety device designed to prevent touching a moving part when it is under operation; a safety device to keep the power supply turned off during repairs; the standardized practice and method whereby such devices are deployed.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: The final portion of a weightlifting motion where all applicable limbs or joints are fully extended or "locked out".
examples: text: Tip: For Bigger Triceps, Do Heavy Lockouts
ref: 2016, Christian Thibaudeau, “Tip: For Bigger Triceps, Do Heavy Lockouts”, in T-Nation:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: An exercise meant to increase strength in the lockout portion of a lifting motion.
Derived terms: postlockout
prelockout
regional lockout
towhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towheads
Etymology: From tow + -head.
Senses: examples: text: You've got a swell chance to make this [baseball] team, you have, not! Third base is my job, Freshie. Why, you tow-head, you couldn't play marbles.
ref: 1911 March, Zane Grey, “Out on the Field”, in The Young Pitcher, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 64:
text: Then he noticed that the scar ran back into her hair, and Lower Appalachian towhead is the nearest thing in nature you will get to platinum blond, barring albinos.
ref: 1959, Robert Penn Warren, The Cave, The University Press of Kentucky, published 2006, page 54:
text: 2010, Joseph A. West, Richard Compton (byline), Death of a Hangman, New American Library (Signet), page 103,
“Hell, I never did cotton to an uppity whore anyhow," the towhead said.
text: 2012, Ann M. Paulson, Stepping Stones for the Heart, Hay House (Balboa Press), page 88,
The courtyard was lit with bright sunlight and Asenath and the two towheads were there amusing themselves.
glosses: A blond person whose very pale, almost white hair resembles tow; the hair of such a person.
examples: text: Well, the second night a fog begun to come on, and we made for a towhead to tie to, for it wouldn't do to try to run in a fog; but when I paddled ahead in the canoe, with the line to make fast, there warn't anything but little saplings to tie to.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An alluvial deposit in a river, such as a sandbar, or a small island formed from silt, often permanent enough to have vegetation.
Derived terms: towheaded
sculpt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skʌlpt/
Forms: form: sculpts
form: sculpting
form: sculpted
form: sculpted
Etymology: From French sculpter, from Latin sculpō (“to cut out, carve in stone”).
Senses: examples: text: They sculpted a statue out of clay.
glosses: To form by sculpture.
examples: text: What do you do?
-I used to box, but now I sculpt.
glosses: To work as a sculptor.
examples: text: Landforms sculpted by the wind.
glosses: To carve out gradually.
Derived terms: resculpt
Related terms: sculptor
sculpture
sculpt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skʌlpt/
Forms: form: sculpts
Etymology: From French sculpter, from Latin sculpō (“to cut out, carve in stone”).
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A modification that can be applied to an object, like a texture, but changes the object's shape rather than its appearance.
absolute monarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absolute monarchies
Senses: glosses: A state over which a sole monarch has absolute and unlimited power.
glosses: The rule of such a monarch, as a form of government.
Hypernyms: absolutism
autocracy
despotism
dictatorship
monarchy
Coordinate terms: constitutional monarchy
parliamentary monarchy
roadshow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadshows
form: road show
Etymology: From road + show.
Senses: glosses: A show that travels from place to place.
examples: text: In 2004, Gibson’s roadshow tour for The Passion of the Christ saw him visiting church groups and giving impassioned speeches about the film (which Hollywood studios refused to fund or distribute).
ref: 2016 August 22, David Sims, “Why ‘Ben-Hur’ Was Hollywood's $100M Mistake”, in The Atlantic:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The showing of a film in selected cinemas prior to its general release.
examples: text: I thought Equity had a pretty quick and easy way of illustrating what happens when a company decides to go public: from the pitch, to the due diligence, to the pricing, to the roadshow.
ref: 2016 July 29, Gillian B. White, Bourree Lam, “‘Equity’: Finally, a Movie About Women Who Love Money”, in The Atlantic:
topics: business
glosses: A series of meetings across different cities in which executives from a company have the opportunity to talk with current or potential investors.
roadshow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roadshows
form: roadshowing
form: roadshowed
form: roadshown
form: road show
Etymology: From road + show.
Senses: glosses: To show in various places as part of a travelling excursion.
loggerheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loggerhead
glosses: Fisticuffs; fighting.
examples: text: Loggerheads is a local term for a harmless plant called the knapweed (centaurea nigra) […]
ref: 1912, Arnold Bennett, “Why the Clock Stopped”, in The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories, page 262:
glosses: The knapweed.
Derived terms: at loggerheads
loads
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊdz/
ipa: /loʊdz/
homophone: lodes
rhymes: -əʊdz
Senses: examples: text: The price of living is loads less expensive in Thailand than in Singapore
text: The sequel is loads worse than the original
glosses: Lots, much, plenty, a great deal.
Synonyms: a lot
a thing or two
tons
loads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊdz/
ipa: /loʊdz/
homophone: lodes
rhymes: -əʊdz
Senses: glosses: plural of load
loads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊdz/
ipa: /loʊdz/
homophone: lodes
rhymes: -əʊdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of load
live-in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪvˌɪn/
Etymology: From live + in.
Senses: examples: text: A live-in maid is a true luxury, but even a maid once a week is great.
text: The Air Force veteran fatally shot by police during last week’s US Capitol riot had been in a “throuple” with her husband and their live-in girlfriend, according to reports.
ref: 2021 January 14, Tamar Lapin, “Ashli Babbitt, Air Force vet killed at Capitol, was in a ‘throuple’”, in New York Post, retrieved 22 Jul 2021:
glosses: Living on the premises; usually said of a household employee or a domestic partner.
Derived terms: live-in son-in-law
live-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪvˌɪn/
Forms: form: live-ins
Etymology: From live + in.
Senses: examples: text: 30, Camb seeks one man lover 20-32: shd lke domestic evenings, books, edc people, travel. Possible live-in for right guy.
ref: 1974 February 2, “ATTRAC, WELL OFF HARV-ED GWM (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 14:
text: […] but that doesn't stop families from hiring live-ins; nor does it stop newly arrived Latina migrant workers from taking jobs they urgently need.
ref: 2001, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Doméstica, page 31:
glosses: A household employee or domestic partner who lives on the premises of the employer or partner.
glosses: A firefighter who lives at the fire station.
racehorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racehorses
Etymology: From race + horse.
Senses: examples: text: They were bosker horses. Until I went to work for Bill I didn't know how good racehorses are.
ref: 1946, Frank Sargeson, That Summer, and Other Stories, page 31:
text: Long before you see the lean, handsome heads peering mildly over the half-doors of the loose boxes, you know that East Ilsley's business is training racehorses.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164:
text: Picture yourself betting on a racehorse, seeing the animal take the lead, and then watching the horse suddenly stop because it pulled a muscle not properly warmed up by its trainers. You’d get pretty heated under the collar, and that’s not the kind of warm-up that’s very beneficial. Horseflesh and humanflesh alike need to be warmed up before strenuous activity.
ref: 1984, Steven Adcock, “[Breathing and Form, Warm-up, and Freebody Exercises] Warm-up”, in Steve Adcock’s Partner Workout: A Two-Person Exercise System that Provides Aerobic Benefits, Strength Building, and Flexibility Techniques Without the Need for a Gym or a Single Piece of Equipment, New York, N.Y.: M. Evans and Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 27:
text: Clearly, it’s that Secretariat is overrated. OK, exhale. I’m not trolling you. I’m just being extremely nitty about the marginal shades of “really, really great.” By “overrated,” I certainly don’t mean to imply that Secretariat isn’t the best 3-year-old American racehorse in history – he is.
ref: 2015 June 12, Benjamin Morris, “Where Have You Gone, Secretariat?”, in FiveThirtyEight, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2016:
glosses: A horse that competes in races.
Derived terms: pee like a racehorse
piss like a racehorse
piss like a Russian racehorse
poor man's racehorse
racehorse goanna
racehorse keno
low-cal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of low-calorie.
Synonyms: diet
low-calorie
dietetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəˈtɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: diætetic
Etymology: From Latin diaeteticus, from Ancient Greek διαιτητικός (diaitētikós).
Senses: glosses: Relating to diet.
glosses: Relating to preparation for those on a restricted diet.
Synonyms: word: dietetical
Derived terms: dietetician
dietetics
nondietetic
lettered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Marked with letters.
glosses: Literate (able to read writing in letters).
glosses: Educated, especially having an academic degree.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing spots or blotches that resemble letters.
Derived terms: blacklettered
multilettered
unlettered
lettered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of letter
prospectus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəsˈpɛktəs/
Forms: form: prospectuses
form: prospectus
Etymology: From French prospectus (“a prospectus”), borrowed from Latin prospectus. Doublet of prospect.
Senses: glosses: A document, distributed to prospective members, investors, buyers, or participants, which describes an institution (such as a university), a publication, or a business and what it has to offer.
glosses: A document which describes a proposed endeavor (venture, undertaking), such as a literary work (which one proposes to write).
examples: text: The Manchester, Buxton, Matlock & Midlands Junction Railway, which was the title of this project, issued its prospectus on May 30, 1845, and announced that "this Company is formed to complete the communication by Railway between Lancashire and the East Districts. [...]". The capital to be raised was £800,000.
ref: 1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 148:
text: Just in case, Oatly’s prospectus gives it the option of listing in Hong Kong if the foreign ownership becomes a problem in the United States.
ref: 2021 May 18, Jack Ewing, Lauren Hirsch, “The Big Money Is Going Vegan”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A booklet or other document giving details of a share offer for the benefit of investors.
Derived terms: pathfinder prospectus
red herring prospectus
liberalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From liberal + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His liberalness in dispensing the bonuses displayed his generousity.
text: A convention of conservatives is not the place to display your liberalness.
glosses: The property of being liberal.
nut job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nut jobs
Senses: examples: text: Some nut job from the government actually thought he could tax our moonshine!
text: She told me that she knew she sounded like a “nut job,” but she stressed that she had a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s in social work and knew what mental illness looks like.
ref: 2025 June 13, Kashmir Hill, “They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Someone who is crazy (insane).
Synonyms: sense: someone who is insane
word: eccentric
sense: someone who is insane
word: headcase
sense: someone who is insane
word: nutter
sense: someone who is insane
word: oddball
sense: someone who is insane
word: wacko
sense: someone who is insane
word: nutcase
Derived terms: LWNJ
RWNJ
nearsighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nearsighted
form: most nearsighted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of near-sighted.
Derived terms: nearsightedly
nearsightedness
lightheartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: ē
enpr: lītʹhär't(ĭ)d-l
Forms: form: more lightheartedly
form: most lightheartedly
form: light-heartedly
Etymology: From lighthearted (adjective) (any sense) + -ly (suffix forming adverbs).
Senses: synonyms: word: gaily
word: mirthfully
word: blessedly
word: bubblingly
word: chearfully
word: cheerfully
word: cheerily
word: cheerly
word: eudaemonically
word: eupeptically
word: gaily
word: gayly
word: genially
word: gladly
word: happily
word: joyfully
word: joyously
word: lightheartedly
word: merrily
word: mirthfully
glosses: In a lighthearted manner, cheerfully, with joy.
Related terms: word: lightheartedness