cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ham-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ham-handed
form: most ham-handed
Senses: examples: text: Some of the dishes arrived damaged after their ham-handed moving efforts.
text: The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details.
ref: 2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in New York Times:
synonyms: ham-fisted
heavy-handed
glosses: Clumsy, heavy, or inept; not delicate, light or gentle.
Derived terms: ham-handedness
Related terms: ham-handedly
ham-handedness
fat-fingered
ham-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ham-handedly
form: most ham-handedly
Etymology: From ham-handed + -ly.
Senses: antonyms: gently
glosses: In a ham-handed manner; clumsily or heavily
high jump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-jump
Etymology: From high + jump.
Senses: glosses: An athletics event where a competitor must jump over a bar placed gradually higher and higher.
Derived terms: high jumper
for the high jump
Related terms: Fosbury flop
Western roll
half marathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half marathons
form: half-marathon
Senses: glosses: A running race over the distance of 21.0975 km, half the length of a marathon.
Derived terms: half-marathoner
chawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chaw
chawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chaw
how's your father
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: how's your fathers
Etymology: A popular catchphrase of the 1910s popularised by music-hall entertainer Harry Tate, who used it for comic effect to change the subject away from one about which his character was ignorant (hence sense 1) or a taboo subject (hence sense 2).
Senses: synonyms: word: Sorted by number of Google hits
word: widget
word: hickey
word: gizmo
word: thingy
word: gimmick
word: thingie
word: jigger
word: gismo
word: gubbins
word: whatsit
word: thingamajig
word: doodad
word: whatchamacallit
word: doohickey
word: thingo
word: thingamabob
word: thingummy
word: whatsis
word: thingumajig
word: thingumabob
word: whatchacallit
word: Sorted alphabetically
word: affair
word: bazinga
word: bizzo
word: dealie
word: dealy
word: dinglehopper
word: dingus
word: dohickey
word: dojigger
word: dongle
word: doo-hickey
word: doober
word: doodah
word: doofer
word: doohickus
word: doohinkey
word: doohinkus
word: doojigger
word: doovalacky
word: foobar
word: foo
word: frammis
word: frobnitz
word: gadget
word: geegaw
word: gewgaw
word: gingambob
word: gingumbob
word: hodad
word: hootenanny
word: jawn
word: jimbang
word: jobber
word: jobby
word: joint
word: junk
word: kajigger
word: kludge
word: MacGuffin
word: oojamaflip
word: rigamajig
word: shebang
word: stuff
word: thingabob
word: thingamabobber
word: thingamafuck
word: thingamajigger
word: thingamajiggy
word: thingmabob
word: thingmajig
word: thingmy
word: thingummabob
word: thingummajig
word: thingummyjig
word: thingum
word: thingymabob
word: thingymajig
word: thing
word: ting
word: whachacallit
word: whachamacallit
word: whaddayacallit
word: whatchamahoozie
word: whatdyecallem
word: whatdoyoucallit
word: whatnot
word: whatsaname
word: whatsitsname
word: whiff-whaff
word: whosiewhatsit
word: whosit
word: wossisname
word: wossname
word: wotsit
word: yoke
word: yokibus
glosses: A whatsit; a thing which the speaker is unable or unwilling to specify more precisely.
examples: text: I popped round Mary's for a bit of how's your father.
text: I mean what a buzz, man, me four fans, an’ I'm on the fookin’ telly! They love it! So suddenly it's knickers off and ’ow's your father.
ref: 2002, Ben Elton, High Society, Random House, published 2012, →ISBN, page 226:
glosses: Sexual intercourse.
handcrafter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handcrafters
Etymology: From hand + crafter or handcraft + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who handcrafts or engages in handcraft or handicraft.
God knows
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: God only knows
form: goodness knows
form: gosh knows
form: heaven knows
form: heaven only knows
form: Lord knows
form: Lord only knows
Senses: examples: text: Don't touch that! God knows who else put their hands on that thing!
text: […] Origen himself does not say this. His words are simply, "Who wrote it [i.e. penned it down], God knows, ἡ δὲ εἰς ἡμᾶς φθάσασα ἱστορία", but a report has come to us, that it was either Clement or Luke.
ref: 1837, Moses Stuart, A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews, 4th edition, page 73:
text: I paid the rent, washed your clothes / Cooked your food and only God knows / Only God knows why I stay with you / I guess I'm in love
ref: 1994, Daryl Simmons & Babyface, “Willing to Forgive”, performed by Aretha Franklin:
text: So, you want my father to pay for this? – You saw him. He was fiddling with the engine. God knows what he did there.
ref: 1995, Tom Gammill and Max Pross, “The Gum”, in Seinfeld, season 7, episode 10 (television production):
synonyms: I don't know
who knows
glosses: It is only known to God; it is unknown to people.
examples: text: God knows many kids don't like going to school!
text: […] those therefore that appeal to him^([sic]) upon every trivial occasion, and with a slightly superficial God knows, while they never think of God, nor have any regard to his^([sic]) knowledge, profane his^([sic]) name by taking it in vain[…]
ref: 1700 August 8, Matthew Henry, “A Sermon Preached at the Opening of the New Meeting-House at Chester”, in Misc. Works, published 1830, page 1134:
text: I have my faults, God knows, and I may even be among the first to admit them, but to this very day I know in my bones that I'm a much better person than He is.
ref: 1984, Joseph Heller, God Knows, page 8:
text: No, no, no. Don't do it. Don't do it! For my sake! God knows I don't ask you for much! Now, come on. Please, Jerry. Please! I'm beggin' ya! Please! Come on! Please!
ref: 1992, Larry David, “The Contest”, in Seinfeld, season 4, episode 11 (television production):
synonyms: certainly
of course
obviously
glosses: It is known unto God; it is certainly true.
raw_tags: modifying a parenthetic concession
Derived terms: God knew
fuck knows
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Probably a shortening of "who the fuck knows"
Senses: examples: text: Fuck knows what we'll do now the car's broken down.
glosses: I don't know; nobody knows; it is unclear.
raw_tags: followed by a wh-clause
Synonyms: God knows
who knows
hutzpa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chutzpah.
humorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more humorless
form: most humorless
form: humourless
Etymology: From humor + -less.
Senses: examples: text: He watched the little dog's antics with a humorless stare.
text: At the risk of seeming humorless, we would like to point out some problems with the "bisexuality" insurance cartoon which appeared in the April Fool's issue of GCN.
ref: 1983 April 23, The BiVocals, “Gay-Identified Bisexuals”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
synonyms: word: harsh
word: jokeless
word: mirthless
word: unfunny
word: cheerless
word: comfortless
word: bleak
word: dark
word: depressing
word: desolate
word: dire
word: disconsolate
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: drear
word: drearisome
word: dreary
word: dreich
word: forlorn
word: gayless
word: gray
word: gloomsome
word: gloomy
word: grim
word: joyless
word: lack-laughter
word: lugubrious
word: melancholy
word: mirthless
word: miserable
word: no joke
word: saturnine
word: solemn
word: somber
word: sombre
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: sunless
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unhappy
word: unmerry
word: wintry
word: woeful
glosses: Lacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted.
Synonyms: word: funny as a dose of the clap
word: jokeless
word: humorless
word: irrisible
word: laughless
word: mirthless
word: nonhumorous
word: unhilarious
word: unhumorous
word: unhysterical
word: unjocose
word: unjocular
word: unlaughable
word: unmirthful
Hypernyms: word: cheerless
word: lacking
word: serious
word: stern
Hyponyms: word: agelastic
word: jokeproof
word: unamused
word: nonfunny
word: unamusing
word: uncomic
word: uncomical
word: unfunny
word: unwitty
Derived terms: humorlessly
humorlessness
Related terms: word: lack-laughter
word: misogelastic
word: boring
word: sad
humorlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more humorlessly
form: most humorlessly
Etymology: From humorless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a humorless manner; lacking levity or humor.
humorlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From humorless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of lacking humor.
humorousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humorousnesses
form: humourousness
Etymology: From humorous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The youngsters, not immediately within sight, seemed rather bright and desirable appurtenances than otherwise; the incidents of daily life were not without humorousness and jollity in their aspect there.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 36:
glosses: The state or quality of being humorous.
glosses: The result or product of being humorous.
hoarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔɹdɚ/
ipa: /ˈhoɹdɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɔːdə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Forms: form: hoarders
Etymology: From Middle English horder, hordere (“a keeper of a store of goods”), from Old English hordere (“a treasurer, steward, chamberlain”), equivalent to hoard + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A bill to demonetize existing French gold coinage has been introduced in the Chamber of Deputies by Deputies Lenoir, Bouffandeau, and Eymond. The purpose is to force hoarders to bring out gold estimated at 4,000,000,000 francs which is still kept in hiding in spite of patriotic appeals to the owners to exchange it for notes.
ref: 1917 March 17, “Bill to Demonetize Gold”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Like many lonely people, he was an inveterate hoarder, making and surrounding himself with objects, barriers against the demands of human intimacy.
ref: 2017, Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, New York: Picador, →ISBN, page 6:
synonyms: pack rat
coordinate_terms: declutterer
glosses: One who hoards; one who accumulates, collects, and stores, especially one who does so to excess.
Derived terms: compulsive hoarder
Related terms: hoardy
poacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊ.t͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈpəʊ.tʃə/
Forms: form: poachers
Etymology: From poach + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who trespasses in order to take game illegally, one who poaches; a person who illegally takes animals or plants from the wild.
glosses: A vessel with shallow cuplike compartments in which eggs are cooked over boiling water
examples: text: Regular supplier Barton played in another teasing corner, which was headed on towards goal by the impressive Ameobi and flicked in by expert poacher Nolan.
ref: 2011 January 16, Saj Chowdhury, “Sunderland 1 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: An attacker with good movement inside the penalty box, see Wikipedia:Goal poacher.
glosses: Any of type of fish in the family Agonidae, also known as alligatorfish, starsnout, hooknose and rockhead.
glosses: An American wigeon (Anas americana).
Derived terms: poacher turned gamekeeper
poacher's pie
poacher's pot
sea-poacher
Related terms: poaching
hoarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoarder
poaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poach
poaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poachings
Senses: glosses: Illegal procurement of protected wildlife such as fish, game, logging, or plant collecting.
Derived terms: antipoaching
nonpoaching
pockmarked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pockmark
pockmarked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pockmarked
form: most pockmarked
Senses: glosses: having pockmarks
examples: text: After all the trepidation born of Holland's toils home and away against these opponents in qualification for Euro 2012, and the pockmarked nature of the pitch, this was exposed as a mismatch from the opening exchanges.
ref: 2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian:
text: For SAC66 is better known as Batty Moss (or Ribblehead) Viaduct - the magnificent, Grade 2-listed, 24-arch structure that strides over the pockmarked ground between Ribblehead station and Blea Moor signal box.
ref: 2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival”, in Rail, page 26:
glosses: pitted, or scarred with holes
examples: text: The student had, at best, a pockmarked understanding of the subject matter.
glosses: incomplete, lacking, having holes
Hypernyms: marked
Derived terms: Spock-marked
podiatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈdaɪətɹi/
Etymology: From pod- + -iatry.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Chiropody.
Synonyms: podology
chiropody
Derived terms: ballistic podiatry
podiatric
Related terms: podiatrist
chiropody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chiro (“hand”) + pod- (“foot”) + -y.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the feet (and formerly the hands).
Synonyms: word: podiatry
word: podology
Derived terms: chiropodist
state of emergency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: states of emergency
Senses: glosses: An unusually difficult or dangerous situation in which a government gives itself special powers or suspends normal legal procedures so as to regain control.
glosses: A governmental decree declaring such situation.
glosses: The status quo following such declaration.
Related terms: state of alarm
state of siege
curfew
martial law
permacrisis
polycrisis
poignancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔɪnjən(t)si/
ipa: /ˈpɔɪnənsi/
ipa: /ˈpɔɪɡnənsi/
Forms: form: poignancies
Senses: examples: text: The Conan O’Brien-penned half-hour has the capacity to rip our collective hearts out the way the cute, funny bad girl next door does to Bart when she reveals that her new boyfriend is Jimbo Jones, but the show keeps shying away from genuine emotion in favor of jokes that, while overwhelmingly funny, detract from the poignancy and the emotional intimacy of the episode.
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: The quality of being poignant
poignantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔɪnjəntli/
ipa: /ˈpɔɪnəntli/
ipa: /ˈpɔɪɡnəntli/
Forms: form: more poignantly
form: most poignantly
Etymology: From poignant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.
ref: 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: In a poignant manner.
pointedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pointedly
form: most pointedly
Etymology: From pointed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The film echoes a central question from all the Wick films, though: is he a natural-born murderer? Or a good man underneath it all? "This is who you are," the Marquis tells him. "A killer." The question is pointedly unresolved here.
ref: 2023 March 14, Caryn James, “John Wick: Chapter 4: 'Soars above most action films'”, in BBC:
glosses: explicitly; with emphasis; so as to make a point, especially with criticism
glosses: wittily or pithily
pointillist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French pointilliste.
Senses: glosses: of, pertaining to, or in the style of pointillism
pointillist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pointillists
Etymology: From French pointilliste.
Senses: glosses: An artist who paints in this style
Derived terms: pointillistic
poisoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poisoners
Etymology: From Middle English poysener; equivalent to poison + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who poisons something or someone.
Derived terms: lead poisoner
poisonously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more poisonously
form: most poisonously
Etymology: From poisonous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: c. 1900, Thomas Edison, quotation
The x-ray had affected poisonously my assistant, Mr. Dally.
text: To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: In a poisonous manner.
glosses: Using poison.
poky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pokies
form: pokey
Etymology: By shortening from poker machine (“gambling device”).
Senses: glosses: A gambling device based on the card game poker.
poky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pokier
form: pokiest
form: pokey
Etymology: From slowpoke.
Senses: glosses: Slow.
glosses: Stupid; mentally dull.
poky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pokier
form: pokiest
form: pokey
Senses: examples: text: The back door leads to a poky kitchen, tiled brightly in the taste of a previous tenant.
ref: 2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: Small and cramped, and often shabby.
raw_tags: of a room or other enclosed space
Derived terms: pokily
pokiness
poky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pokies
form: pokey
Senses: glosses: Jail.
Related terms: poky bonnet
polemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more polemically
form: most polemically
Etymology: From polemical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a polemical manner.
retail therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This vicious cycle, "the loneliness loop," has been studied by economists for more than a decade. But surely, if retail therapy can be medicine, there must be a way for shopping to make us feel less lonely, right?
ref: 2013 August 7, Derek Thompson, “The Loneliness Loop: Why Feeling Sad Makes Us Shop and Shopping Makes Us Sad”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Shopping that is done purely for pleasure, especially as a distraction from personal difficulties or disappointments.
polemicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlɛmɪsɪst/
Forms: form: polemicists
Etymology: From polemic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who writes polemics.
examples: text: The choice is between a polemicist with deep ties to the alt-right movement, or a conventional policy professional with an open channel to the political establishment that Trump ran against, but which he needs to pass an agenda.
ref: 2016 November 12, Stephen Collinson, “The mystery of Donald Trump’s White House”, in CNN:
text: You know Ann describes herself as a polemicist...
ref: 2020, Pete Davidson, 2:39 from the start, in Pete Davidson Wrecks Rob Lowe’s S**t (Full Set) - Roast of Rob Lowe:
text: A similar impulse sometimes accompanies my reading of the work of Christopher F. Rufo, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and one of the most gifted conservative polemicists of his generation.
ref: 2023 February 10, Graeme Wood, “DEI Is an Ideological Test”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2023:
glosses: A person who puts forward controversial views.
Synonyms: polemist
polemic
polemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlɛm.ɪks/
rhymes: -ɛmɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of polemic
polemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlɛm.ɪks/
rhymes: -ɛmɪks
Senses: glosses: The art or practice of making arguments or controversies.
glosses: The refutation of errors in theological doctrine.
polestar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polestars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pole star.
borescope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borescopes
form: boroscope
Etymology: From bore + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An optical instrument used for seeing inside tight spaces, consisting of a rigid or flexible tube with an optical relay inside so that the view through a lens or window at one end of the tube may be seen from a lens or eyepiece in the opposite end of the tube.
borescope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: borescopes
form: borescoping
form: borescoped
form: borescoped
form: boroscope
Etymology: From bore + -scope.
Senses: examples: text: Maintenance borescoped the jet engine to check for damaged turbine blades.
glosses: To see inside or examine (something) using a borescope.
Related terms: endoscope
periscope
videoscope
pompom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pompoms
form: pom pom
form: pom-pom
form: pompon
form: pompoon
Etymology: Alteration of pompon, from French pompon (“ornamental tuft”); of unknown origin, perhaps related to Old French pomp.
Senses: glosses: A decorative ball made of pieces of soft fabric, tinsel, plastic, or paper streamers bound at the center, most notably held, waved, and shaken in cheerleading.
glosses: A small, fluffy ball made of soft fabric, used in arts and crafts or as colorful elements in clothing or accessories.
Derived terms: pompom girl
pompommed
pom-pom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pom-poms
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A rapid-firing small-calibre cannon used especially as an anti-aircraft gun.
pom-pom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pom-poms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pompom (“decorative fabric ball”).
pom-pom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pom-poms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pum-pum (“vulva”).
pom pom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pom poms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pompom.
muck up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mucks up
form: mucking up
form: mucked up
form: mucked up
Senses: examples: text: The terrorists have really mucked up our holiday plans.
text: That’s why they’re called the Founders? Yes, because it will be their job to repair a world that millennials have mucked up beyond repair.
ref: 2015 December 2, “The Founders, the Plurals, iGen or ReGen – what should we call the post-millennials?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: “Looking at our season so far, we have to be honest and admit that we mucked it up ourselves,” Özil told the German website spox.com. “We did not play to our potential in the games against the so-called smaller teams. You immediately get punished for that in the Premier League.
ref: 2016 March 31, Reuters, quoting Mesut Özil, “Mesut Özil: Arsenal ‘mucked it up ourselves’ as trophy hopes recede”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: He said that this was simply a “historical fact” and that he could “see no reason why every other country in the world should be prevented from feeling pride in itself because the Germans mucked up twice in a century”.
ref: 2023 May 17, Adam Robertson, quoting Douglas Murray, “Author sparks backlash with 'Germany mucked up twice' comment”, in The National:
synonyms: word: mess up#Verb
word: blow it
word: bobble
word: boob
word: crap up
word: drop a bollock
word: drop the ball
word: err
word: flub
word: flub up
word: foul up
word: fuck up
word: goof
word: goof up
word: make a mistake
word: mess up
word: misdo
word: misstep
word: put a foot wrong
word: screw up
word: slip up
word: stuff up
word: stumble
word: trip over the wire
word: trip up
glosses: To ruin unintentionally.
examples: text: It's the last day of school and everyone is mucking up.
synonyms: word: muck about
word: muck around
word: ;
word: fuck about
word: fuck around
glosses: To clown around; to have fun, often at the expense of others.
Derived terms: word: muck-up
word: muck-up day
Related terms: mucky
Naomi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪˈəʊmi/
ipa: /ˈneɪəmi/
ipa: /neɪˈoʊmi/
Etymology: From Hebrew נָעֳמִי (no'omí, literally “my pleasantness”), from נועם / נֹעַם (nó'am, “pleasantness”) + ־ִי (-í, “my, of me”).
Senses: examples: text: And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ruth 1:20:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The mother-in-law of the Biblical figure Ruth.
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Walker County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: Former name of Napoleonville, Louisiana.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Marion County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Ohio, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Turner County, South Dakota, United States.
Derived terms: Naomily
Naomi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪˈəʊmi/
ipa: /ˈneɪəmi/
ipa: /neɪˈoʊmi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese なおみ (Naomi).
Senses: examples: text: Naomi Osaka, a Japanese professional tennis player, also responded to the NHK post with a popular gif of “Family Feud” host Steve Harvey expressing bewilderment.
ref: 2020 June 9, Yoko Wakatsuki, Eric Cheung and Jack Guy, “Japanese broadcaster takes down controversial Black Lives Matter anime”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Nathalie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, of rather rare usage, variant of Natalie.
Nattalie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, a rare nonstandard spelling of Natalie.
Nathalee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, a rare nonstandard spelling of Natalie.
Pammela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage. A rare nonstandard spelling of Pamela.
Phebe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea.
ref: Romans 16:1
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek. Alternative spelling of Phoebe.
Raquel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑːˈkɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Raquel, from Biblical Hebrew רָחֵל (rāḥēl). Doublet of Rachel.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Racquel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew; a fanciful spelling of Raquel.
Racquell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew; a fanciful spelling of Raquel.
Raquelle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew; a fanciful spelling of Raquel.
Renée
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈneɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: Renee
Etymology: From French Renée, meaning reborn, stemmed from Latin Renata. Feminine form of male René.
Senses: examples: text: "You don't have to call me Reenie if you don't want," she said. "You can call me Renée if it suits you." Reenie, Julian remembered: sweep her hair high and call her Renée. "No," he answered finally, "I'll take things the way they are."
ref: 1950, Helen Rich, The Willow-Bender, Simon and Schuster, page 120:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
hit-or-miss
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hit-
form: -miss
form: most hit-
form: -miss
form: hit-and-miss
form: hit or miss
form: hit and miss
Senses: examples: text: On the contrary, these cones are made up of materials of all sizes mixed together in the most hit or miss fashion.
ref: 1919, Robert F. Griggs, “The Great Mageik Landslide”, in The Ohio Journal of Science, volume 20, number 8, page 342:
glosses: Inconsistent, unpredictable, erratic; sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing with no apparent pattern.
Synonyms: hitty-missy
Derived terms: hit-or-miss transform
Related terms: go or blow
Renee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Renee Walters and Ashley Scott started the campaign to buy Freedom after Walters saw a viral post about buying a town “for the price of a New York apartment.”
ref: 2020 September 30, Ashley Schwartz-Lavares and Steve Osunsami, “Black Americans are leaving their homes to start their own all-Black communities”, in ABC News:
glosses: A female given name from Latin Alternative spelling of Renée.
Renata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈnɑːtʌ/
ipa: /ɹəˈnɐːtɐ/
Etymology: Feminine form of Latin saint's name Renatus, from renatus (“reborn”)
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Related terms: Renee
Renée
René
Roxeanne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Persian, a rare nonstandard spelling of Roxane.
Rosemarie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, a variant of Rosemary borrowed from continental Europe.
Sabina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Name of early saints, Latin Sabīna, feminine of the Roman cognomen Sabīnus (“a Sabine”), from an ancient tribe from Italy.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin.
examples: text: Nor have our female names fared one bit better; we have discarded them even more ruthlessly than those of our men. Surely Sadhbh (Sive) is a prettier name then Sabina or Sibby; […]
ref: 2000, David Pierce, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader, . Cork University Press., →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Related terms: Sabine
homegrown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: home-grown
Etymology: From home + grown.
Senses: examples: text: Each spring they planted a garden and each summer they enjoyed homegrown vegetables.
glosses: Raised or cultivated at home, on one's own land, or in one's own country; domestic; indigenous.
raw_tags: of produce
examples: text: The young politician is a homegrown talent we are all proud of here.
text: One had never stepped in a rowing boat until 2008, the other will return to serve in the Royal Artillery in September. But Glover and Stanning will now go down in the record books as the first homegrown gold medallists of the London 2012 Olympics.
ref: 2012 August 1, Owen Gibson, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal, Guardian Unlimited:
text: As historian Paul Hanebrink writes, the far-right in Europe could not accept that the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution represented genuine homegrown support for leftist politics, so communism had to be explained as part of "a Jewish plot to overthrow civilization and impose foreign rule on the nations of Europe."
ref: 2020 February 5, Joel Swanson, “Are anti-Semitism fears stopping Jewish Dems from supporting Bernie Sanders?”, in The Forward:
glosses: Produced or coming from one's own country or a particular place; local; native; self-produced.
homegrown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homegrowns
form: home-grown
Etymology: From home + grown.
Senses: examples: text: Union head coach Jim Curtin, a lifelong Philadelphian, has made it clear that signing homegrowns will be a priority for him moving forward.
ref: 2015 July 14, Dave Zeitlin, “Will Philadelphia Union's high-school create USA's next soccer stars?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Someone or something which originated locally.
Related terms: homespun
hide-and-seek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hide and seek.
platteland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plattelands
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans platteland, from Dutch platteland.
Senses: examples: text: 'It's a local fish - tastes just like barracuda,' said Leo from behind the bar as we dug into platteland-size plates of fish. A bunch of boitjies stood resting their boeps against the counter and talking about fish size and breast size.
ref: 2002, Justin Fox, With both hands waving: a journey through Mozambique, page 44:
glosses: The country, the countryside.
higher-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: higher-ups
Senses: examples: text: It's a great plan, but we'll have to get approval from the higher-ups to proceed.
glosses: Somebody with greater authority, seniority, rank, status or position; one who outranks.
higher-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of higher-up
my goodness
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪ ˈɡʊdnəs/
ipa: /maɪ ˈɡʊdnɪs/
Forms: form: oh my goodness
form: oh, my goodness
Etymology: Minced oath for my God.
Senses: examples: text: My goodness, what a loud noise!
qualifier: minced oath
glosses: Used to express surprise, shock, or amazement.
Synonyms: goodness me
my word
oh my
oh my God
wow
maiko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maikos
form: maiko
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 舞妓 (maiko, literally “dancing child”).
Senses: examples: It is our pleasure to introduce a new maiko.
glosses: An apprentice geisha.
shoot down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoots down
form: shooting down
form: shot down
form: shot down
Senses: examples: text: The carnival game involved shooting down tin cans.
text: My grandfather shot down several fighter planes in the war.
text: Stop using your words as weapons / They're never gonna shoot me down / Stop, it's time that you learned a lesson / My love is gonna drown you out
ref: 2022 November 10, Ava Max, Melanie Fontana, Michel Schulz, Ryan Tedder, Madison Love, Cirkut, “Weapons”, in Diamonds & Dancefloors, performed by Ava Max:
text: In China, authorities said they might soon shoot down an unidentified flying object over waters near the northern city of Rizhao, The South China Morning Post reported.
ref: 2023 February 12, Daniel E. Slotnik, Amelia Nierenberg, “Your Monday Briefing: U.S. Destroys U.F.O.s”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2023, Briefing:
glosses: To cause to fall by shooting.
examples: text: Every proposal I made was shot down at once.
glosses: To criticize (a request) to the point of preclusion.
Derived terms: word: shootdown
Related terms: cut down
stanch
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɑːnt͡ʃ/
ipa: /stænt͡ʃ/
ipa: /stænt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɑːntʃ
rhymes: -æntʃ
Forms: form: more stanch
form: most stanch
Etymology: From Middle English stanch, a variant of staunch, staunche (“(adjective) in good condition or repair; solidly made, firm; watertight; of a person or wound: not bleeding; certain; intact; (adverb) firmly, soundly”) [and other forms]; see further at staunch.
Senses: examples: text: But you vvill loſe your Labour, and vvhat is more, their Love and Reverence too, if they can receive from others, vvhat you deny them. This is to be kept very ſtanch, and carefully to be vvatched.
ref: 1693, [John Locke], “§102”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC, page 119:
glosses: Possibly strictly.
stanch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɑːnt͡ʃ/
ipa: /stænt͡ʃ/
ipa: /stænt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɑːntʃ
rhymes: -æntʃ
Forms: form: stanches
Etymology: See staunch (etymology 3).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of staunch (“that which stanches; act of stanching”).
stanch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɑːnt͡ʃ/
ipa: /stænt͡ʃ/
ipa: /stænt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɑːntʃ
rhymes: -æntʃ
Forms: form: stanches
form: staunch
Etymology: From Old French estanche (“pond; tank”), from estanc (“pond”) (modern French étang (“pond; lagoon”)), from estanchier (verb): see further at etymology 2.
Senses: glosses: A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release; also, a dam or lock in a river.
ecchymosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛk.ɪˈməʊ.sɪs/
ipa: /ˌɛk.ɪˈmoʊ.sɪs/
Forms: form: ecchymoses
Etymology: From New Latin ecchymōsis, from Ancient Greek ἐκχύμωσις (ekkhúmōsis), from ἐκχέω (ekkhéō, “I pour out”), from ἐκ- (ek-, “out”) + χέω (khéō, “I pour”).
Senses: examples: text: A diseased condition of the skin has often been mistaken for stigmatic marks. Such, for instance, is ecchymosis, a discoloration of the skin due to the extravasation of subcutaneous blood.
ref: 1978, Benjamin Walker, Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine, Routledge, page 273:
glosses: A skin discoloration caused by bleeding underneath the skin, especially one that is remote from a site of trauma or caused by a nontraumatic process (such as neoplasia).
Synonyms: english: differentiated in some terminologies
translation: differentiated in some terminologies
word: bruise
Hypernyms: hematoma
harpsichordist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harpsichordists
Etymology: From harpsichord + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: […] on Sunday four more violinists, a second violist and a harpsichordist were added to give the ripieno sections of the fast movements a heftier punch than the smaller group delivered.
ref: 2009 January 20, Allan Kozinn, “Shafts of Sun in Winter From the Italian Baroque”, in The New York Times:
text: Some harpsichordists might have dismissed these works as not “authentic” Handel, Mr. Cooper said, though he surmised that the arrangements could have been prepared by Handel’s students.
ref: 2021 March 19, Anthony Tommasini, “Kenneth Cooper, Harpsichordist With Improviser’s Gift, Dies at 79”, in The New York Times:
glosses: One who plays the harpsichord.
harpsichordists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harpsichordist
archipelagoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archipelagos
Senses: glosses: plural of archipelago
fall off the wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls off the wagon
form: falling off the wagon
form: fell off the wagon
form: fallen off the wagon
Etymology: Originally fall off the water wagon or fall off the water cart, referring to carts used to hose down dusty roads: see the 1901 quotation below. The suggestion is that a person who is “on the wagon” is drinking water rather than alcoholic beverages. The term may have been used by the early 20th-century temperance movement in the United States; for instance, William Hamilton Anderson (1874 – c. 1959), the superintendent of the New York Anti-Saloon League, is said to have made the following remark about Prohibition: “Be a good sport about it. No more falling off the water wagon. Uncle Sam will help you keep your pledge.”
Senses: examples: text: Though he fell off the wagon several times, he eventually succeeded in quitting.
text: In 2006, he checked himself into the Hazelden center in Springbrook, Ore., to be treated for an addiction to alcohol, having fallen off the wagon after some 20 years of sobriety.
ref: 2014 August 11, Dave Itzkoff, “Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide”, in New York Times:
text: After nearly 17 years of sobriety, Zevon fell off the wagon hard when he was diagnosed.
ref: 2018 September 8, Steven Hyden, “His Sh*t’s F***ed Up: The Complicated Legacy of Warren Zevon”, in The Ringer, retrieved 08 Sep 2018:
glosses: To cease or fail at a regimen of self-improvement or reform; to lapse back into an old habit or addiction.
wikipedia: Michael Quinion
New York Anti-Saloon League
William Hamilton Anderson
temperance movement in the United States
Synonyms: relapse
Related terms: off the wagon
on the wagon
chillingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chillingly
form: most chillingly
Etymology: From chilling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And I'll never forget the chillingly instinctive racism. "Sure is pretty countryside. Pity it's spoiled by the niggers picknickin."
ref: 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 71:
text: His warning was chillingly resonant of late 20th century clashes between two ideologically opposed superpowers.
ref: 2022 January 10, Stephen Collinson, “Biden confronts challenges to democracy at home and abroad this week”, in CNN:
glosses: In a chilling manner.
denuded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of denude
denuded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Harvester ants have brilliantly carved an enormous niche for themselves in nature and etched indelible images in mankind: images from cartoon depictions of a backyard volcano erupting with angry ants when their home is trespassed, to images of vast stretches of the American West marred with ant castles surrounded by denuded moats of dirt.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 102f:
glosses: exposed by erosion
Derived terms: undenuded
drastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more drastically
form: most drastically
Etymology: From drastic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: drastically reduced prices
text: This recession has been drastically different.
text: The corn ration was drastically reduced, and it was announced that an extra potato ration would be issued to make up for it.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
text: On Christmas Day itself there will be no trains, for recent experience has shown that few wish to travel then, even on services which had been drastically reduced: earlier closing of shops and offices on Christmas Eve is the chief reason for this change in the pattern of travel.
ref: 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 30:
text: The proposed cuts mean that the agency could be forced to drastically shrink its workforce from about 10,000 to 294 employees.
ref: 2025 February 7, Alice Tecotzky and Allie Kelly, “Photos show crew removing USAID signage amid the agency's uncertain future”, in Business Insider:
glosses: To a drastic degree.
examples: text: Lisa always wore shorts and a T-shirt, which clashed drastically with her brother's thick winter coat.
text: It explains why a Democratic Congress foisted Prohibition on the country and a Republican Congress drastically legislated to enforce it, when ordinarily the two parties are only too anxious for any political stick to beat each other with.
ref: 1920, America, volume 22, page 255:
text: Seldom have democratic principles been so drastically enacted into law.
ref: 1928, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 141, page 558:
text: A uniform marriage and divorce law must be drastically enacted by the Central Government and rigidly administrated by the higher courts.
ref: 1933, The China Critic, volume 6, page 428:
glosses: In a drastic manner.
fringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fringe
fringing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fringings
Senses: glosses: A fringe or border.
glosses: The appearance of false colours in an image as the result of poor registration of component monochrome images.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any anomalous electric or magnetic effect at the edges of a region.
Derived terms: fringing reef
fringing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That fringes.
invasionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more invasionary
form: most invasionary
Etymology: From invasion + -ary.
Senses: glosses: that take part in a military invasion
glosses: invasive
fierceness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiercenesses
Etymology: From Middle English fersnesse; equivalent to fierce + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I stroked it gently, on which the mutinous rogue seemed to swell, and gather a new degree of fierceness and insolence; so that finding it grew not to be trifled with any longer, I prepar'd for rubbers in good earnest.
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: Travellers over the London & North Western main line in bygone days will need no reminder of the pattering of cinders on the carriage roofs, the fountains of sparks from the chimneys at night and the distance from which the exhaust of approaching locomotives could be heard, due to the fierceness of their blast in such conditions.
ref: 1962 June, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 399:
glosses: The state of being fierce.
Synonyms: fiercity
neatness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neatnesses
Etymology: From neat + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Both engines and carriages were maintained in admirable cleanliness, and a very high standard of neatness characterised the permanent way and lineside buildings.
ref: 1946 May and June, J. Alan Rannie, “The Midland of 35 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 137:
glosses: The state of being neat.
kaleidoscopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From kaleidoscopic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a kaleidoscopic, continuously changing manner.
Related terms: kaleidoscope
kaleidoscopic
suddenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suddennesses
Etymology: From sudden + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The suddenness with which the solemn quiet had been broken in upon, had chaced from his remembrance the horrid phantom;—it now recurred to it, with two-fold force, and a shudder crept all over him.
ref: 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter VI, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 124:
text: The suddenness of this shock must prove irresistable; the Count and those about him will be borne down; the rest will take to flight; the friends of Bernabò will rise and liberate his sons, while I seize one of the gates and secure a retreat […]
ref: 1830, David Syme, The Fortunes of Francesco Novello Da Carrara, Lord of Padua:
text: "Well," said the Duc, with that outward calmness of manner which anger often affects; "so you do not like me? I am sorry for your bad taste! and I bid you good night, quite convinced that you will repent your refusal; and I dare say you will never get married at all." So saying, he left the terrace; while Francesca remained for a few minutes, bewildered by the suddenness of the scene, and half inclined to laugh at the Duc's parting denunciation.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 50:
glosses: The state of being sudden.
Synonyms: word: abruptness
word: subitaneousness
word: precipitantness
word: precipitousness
word: spontaneity
word: spontaneousness
word: suddenness
Hypernyms: word: instantaneity
Related terms: word: haste
word: urgency
word: sudden