cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
heretical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈɹɛtɪkəl/
Forms: form: more heretical
form: most heretical
form: hæretical
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Middle French eretical and from Medieval Latin haereticālis, from haereticus, equivalent to heretic + -al. See heretic.
Senses: examples: text: At least as Auxentius reports him in the covering letter which precedes Ulfila’s confession, he is as vehement in his opposition to what he sees as heretical alternatives to his own form of belief as most other participants in the controversies of the time. Heretics are not Christians but antichrists. Homoousians, Homoiousians, and Macedonians are all included in this blanket condemnation.
ref: 1996, Maurice Wiles, “[The End of Arianism] Gothic Christianity”, in Archetypal Heresy: Arianism through the Centuries, Oxford, Oxon: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: Of or pertaining to heresy or heretics.
synonyms: unorthodox
glosses: Contrary to mainstream or accepted opinion.
raw_tags: of ideas or views
Derived terms: antiheretical
arch-heretical
heretically
hereticalness
nonheretical
unheretical
Related terms: heresy
heretic
heterodox
heterodoxy
unorthodox
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈɔɹθədɑks/
ipa: /ʌnˈɔːθədɒks/
Forms: form: more unorthodox
form: most unorthodox
Etymology: From un- + orthodox.
Senses: examples: text: The breakthrough came after 63 minutes as United’s unorthodox defence desperately tried to hold off a spell of sustained pressure.
ref: 2014 November 2, Daniel Taylor, “Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United”, in The Guardian:
text: A driving teacher in China is using an unorthodox method to get his students to drive with more care. He calls it the “fatal blow” method. Basically, students have to manoeuvre the car with skill or risk crushing their smartphones... or those of their classmates.
ref: 2018 April 18, “Chinese driving school makes students put phones on line”, in AP News, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2018:
synonyms: heterodox
inorthodox
nonorthodox
antonyms: orthodox
glosses: Unusual, unconventional, or idiosyncratic.
Synonyms: word: blasphemous
word: haram
word: heretical
word: heterodox
word: inorthodox
word: nonorthodox
word: sinful
word: treyf
word: unkosher
word: unorthodox
word: anarchistic
word: idiosyncratic
word: incongruitous
word: irregular
word: nonconformist
word: odd
word: offbeat
word: strange
word: unconventional
word: unexpected
word: unusual
Hypernyms: word: nonstandard
Derived terms: left arm unorthodox
unorthodox entrepreneur
unorthodoxly
unorthodoxness
brand new
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹænd ˌn(j)uː/
ipa: /ˈbɹæn.n(j)uː/
Forms: form: brand-new
form: bran new
form: bran-new
form: brent new
form: brank new
Etymology: From brand (“firebrand”) + new, implying something that is newly forged (first citation 1570; compare fire-new (“fresh from the fire, brand-new”)). Alternatively, and less likely from brand as in a branding iron (i.e. newly-branded). The first element of the variant bran new, with the post nasal stop deletion common to English (compare the common pronunciation (outside Britain) of hunting as hunning [hʌnɪŋ]), is often back-etymologized as being from bran as if from cases where new items were supposedly “packaged up with unwanted grain (bran) in the 18th century to protect the objects during transit” (source unknown). Both variants are well attested.
Senses: examples: text: New bodies, new minds ... and all thinges new, brande-newe
ref: 1570, John Foxe (source OED)
text: two pair of bran-new plumpers
ref: 1807, Alexander Chalmers, The British Essayists:
text: He ain't no drag / Papa's got a brand new bag
ref: 1965, James Brown, “Papa's Got A Brand New Bag”:
text: Dream on white boy / Dream on black girl / And wake up to a brand new day / To find your dreams have washed away
ref: 1983, Andrew Farriss, Michael Hutchence, “Original Sin”, performed by INXS:
synonyms: word: new
word: all-new
word: brand new
word: brand spanking new
word: cherry
word: fresh
word: freshly made
word: green
word: hot
word: mint
word: nascent
word: newish
word: new-laid
word: novel
word: pristine
word: red-hot
word: unused
word: verdurous
word: virgin
word: virginal
word: youthful
glosses: Utterly new, as new as possible.
examples: text: Man, quit actin' brand new, bruh. You only being this way 'cause there's a girl.
glosses: Acting in a way unusual for oneself.
Related terms: brand spanking new
spanking new
conventional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɛnʃənəl/
Forms: form: more conventional
form: most conventional
Etymology: From convention + -al.
Senses: examples: text: A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
ref: 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
glosses: Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
examples: text: They wear conventional clothes, eat conventional food, and keep conventional hours.
text: “You’re not conventional?” Isabel gravely asked. “I like the way you utter that word! No, I’m not conventional: I’m convention itself. You don’t understand that?”
ref: 1908, Henry James, chapter XXIX, in The Portrait of a Lady (The Novels and Tales of Henry James; IV), New York edition, volume II, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as The Portrait of a Lady (EBook #2834), United States: Project Gutenberg, 1 September 2001:
text: Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.
ref: 1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage:
glosses: Ordinary, commonplace.
glosses: Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Pertaining to a weapon which is not a weapon of mass destruction.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Making use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
topics: bridge
games
synonyms: artificial
antonyms: natural
glosses: In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to a convention
word: typical
sense: pertaining to a convention
word: canonical
sense: banal
word: stereotypical
Derived terms: anticonventional
conventionalisation
conventionalise
conventionalism
conventionalist
conventionality
conventionalization
conventionalize
conventionally
conventional memory
conventional mortgage loan
conventional oven
conventional PCI
conventional war
conventional warfare
conventional weapon
conventional weaponry
conventional wisdom
counterconventional
non-conventional
nonconventional
postconventional
preconventional
Related terms: convention
conventional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɛnʃənəl/
Forms: form: conventionals
Etymology: From convention + -al.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.
convention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɛn.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌkɒnˈvɛn.ʃən/
Forms: form: conventions
Etymology: Recorded since about 1440, borrowed from Middle French convention, from Latin conventiō (“meeting, assembling; agreement, convention”), from conveniō (“come, gather or meet together, assemble”), from con- (“with, together”) + veniō (“come”). Equivalent to convene + -tion.
Senses: examples: text: The convention was held in Geneva.
text: The CEF and the legal advocacy groups that have been responsible for its tremendous success over the past ten years are determined to "Knock down all doors, all the barriers, to all 65,000 public elementary schools in America and take the Gospel to this open mission field now! Not later, now!" in the words of a keynote speaker at the CEF's national convention in 2010.
ref: 2012 May 30, Katherine Stewart, “How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren”, in the Guardian:
glosses: A meeting or gathering.
examples: text: The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution.
glosses: A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
glosses: The convening of a formal meeting.
glosses: A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
examples: text: The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations.
qualifier: international law
glosses: A treaty or supplement to such.
examples: text: Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention, not binding formal protocol.
text: The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.
text: In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
 placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
(40) VP → V AP (PP)
(Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention, taken to be
 optional.)
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 127:
glosses: A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.
Derived terms: brokered convention
concom
congoing
conreport
conventional
conventionalize
conventionary
convention bump
convention centre
convention center
conventioneer
conventioneering
conventioner
convention-goer
conventiongoer
conventionism
conventionist
convention state
counterconvention
day count convention
miniconvention
naming convention
national convention
nonconvention
open convention
postconvention
preconvention
proconvention
reconvention
stfcon
teleconvention
Related terms: convene
convener
convenient
convent
conventicle
coven
covin
nou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of noh (“classical Japanese music drama”).
ancient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪn.ʃənt/
ipa: /ˈeɪn.t͡ʃənt/
ipa: /ˈeɪŋk.ʃənt/
rhymes: -eɪnʃənt
ipa: /ˈæn.ʃənt/
ipa: /ˈæn.t͡ʃənt/
Forms: form: ancients
form: anchient
form: aunchient
form: auncient
form: auntient
form: awncient
form: awntient
form: ancyent
form: antient
Etymology: From Middle English auncyen, from Old French ancien, from Vulgar Latin *anteānus, composed of Latin ante (“before”) + -ānus (adjective-forming suffix). The non-etymological /t/ is by analogy with the common ending -ent.
Senses: examples: text: Hetty and Mrs. Piper watched them with a lynx-eyed understanding and before the ancient was well upon his road his way was blocked by Hetty.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 131:
glosses: A person who is very old.
examples: text: What is ancient for us was in its own time a reworking of what was ancient for the ancients.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 210:
glosses: A person who lived in ancient times.
topics: law
glosses: One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery.
examples: text: Junius and Andronicus […] in Christianity […] were his ancients.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: A senior; an elder; a predecessor.
Synonyms: sense: person who is very old
word: geriatric
word: oldster
word: senior citizen
word: old person
sense: person who lived in ancient times
word: antique
sense: predecessor
word: antecessor
word: forerunner
word: predecessor
ancient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪn.ʃənt/
ipa: /ˈeɪn.t͡ʃənt/
ipa: /ˈeɪŋk.ʃənt/
rhymes: -eɪnʃənt
ipa: /ˈæn.ʃənt/
ipa: /ˈæn.t͡ʃənt/
Forms: form: ancients
Etymology: Corruption of ensign.
Senses: examples: text: [D]iſcarded, vniuſt ſeruingmen, yonger ſonnes to yonger brothers, reuolted tapſters, and Oſtlers, tradefalne, the cankers of a calme world, and a long peace, ten times more diſhonourable ragged then an olde fazd ancient, […]
ref: c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: I got all things ready as he had directed, and waited the next morning with the boat washed clean, her ancient and pendants out, and everything to accommodate his guests..
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A flag, banner, standard or ensign.
examples: text: I preſt mee none but such toſtes and butter with hearts in their bellies no bigger then pianes heades, and they haue bought out their ſeruices, and now my whole charge conſiſts of Ancients, Corporals, Lieutenants, gentlemen of companies: ſlaues as ragged as Lazarus in the painted cloth, where the gluttons dogs licked his ſores, and ſuch as indeed were neuer ſouldiours, […]
ref: c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: The bearer of a flag; ensign.
carte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑː(ɹ)t/
homophone: cart
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: cartes
Etymology: Borrowed from French carte, from Latin charta. See card and chart.
Senses: glosses: A bill of fare; a menu.
examples: text: "He only says she is Laura Somerset, and he sends me her carte; here it is." Now this was in the early days of cartes, and the soft ivory finish and delicate tinting of the cartes that now are taken, were unknown.
ref: 1869, Emma Jane Worboise, “Confidences”, in The Fortunes of Cyril Denham, London: James Clarke & Co., […]; Hodder & Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 258:
glosses: A visiting card.
examples: text: Celebrity cartes, and photographic portraits more generally, were valued in Victorian culture for their much-lauded ability to render the sitter as he or she really was.
ref: 2013, C. Boyce, P. Finnerty, A. Millim, Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle:
glosses: A carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person).
examples: text: We’ll take a dram for luck, and as soon as this handless man of mine has the collops ready, we’ll dine and take a hand at the cartes as gentlemen should.
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
text: He had been to the supper of the Forest Club at the Cross Keys in Gledsmuir, a clamjamphry of wild young blades who passed the wine and played at cartes once a fortnight.
ref: 1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 242:
glosses: A playing card.
carte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑː(ɹ)t/
homophone: cart
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: cartes
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Alternative form of quarte.
Related terms: carte anglaise
perambulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perambulators
Etymology: From perambulate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: The reapers were slowly trooping back to their work. The nurse-girl slapped one of her charges and then began to push the perambulator up the hill.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: "That will be all this afternoon," he said to the nurse, who got up with the baby and decanted it into a perambulator which was standing in the fairway.
ref: 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:
text: On Queen Victoria buying numerous perambulators in 1846, their popularity soared, especially among the affluent in society. Faced with carrying growing numbers of them, railways began charging separately for their carriage from the late 1850s. […] Perambulator tickets remained until the late 20th century, although they came to be seen as a restriction on family travel.
ref: 2023 October 18, Dr David Turner, “Family values...”, in RAIL, number 994, page 46:
synonyms: pram
glosses: A baby carriage.
glosses: One who perambulates.
glosses: A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances, consisting of a wheel that rolls over the ground, along with a clockwork apparatus and a dial plate upon which the distance travelled is shown by an index.
Related terms: perambulate
perambulation
perambulatory
chap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: chaps
Etymology: Clipping of chapman (“dealer, customer”) in 16th-century English.
Senses: examples: text: Who’s that chap over there?
text: “Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps.”
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194:
text: A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: bloke
word: boy
word: bro
word: broski
word: bruh
word: cat
word: chap
word: chappy
word: chield
word: cove
word: covey
word: dog [⇒ thesaurus] (slang)
word: dawg
word: dude
word: fella
word: fellow
word: gadgie
word: gate
word: geezer
word: gink
word: gloak
word: gome
word: guy
word: health
word: homeboy
word: homey
word: joe
word: lede
word: nigga
word: ninja
word: omi
word: pillicock
word: punk
word: rooster
word: seg
word: shalk
word: wallah
word: wer
word: were
word: wye
qualifier: dated outside UK and Australia
glosses: A man, a fellow.
examples: text: If you have Blacks of any kind, brought in of late; Mantoes--Velvet Scarfs--Petticoats--Let it be what it will--I am your Chap--for all my Ladies are very fond of Mourning.
ref: 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera, Act 3:
glosses: A customer, a buyer.
glosses: A child.
Derived terms: chapess
chapette
chap-hop
chappie
chappish
Chappism
Chappist
chappo
old chap
chap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: chaps
form: chapping
form: chapped
form: chapped
Etymology: From Middle English chappen (“to split open, burst, chap”), of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English choppen (“to chop”), Dutch kappen (“to cut, chop, hack”). Perhaps related to chip.
Senses: glosses: Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
examples: text: Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
ref: 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem:
text: whose fair face neither the summer's blaze can scorch nor winter's blast chap.
ref: 1591, John Lyly, Endymion:
glosses: To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
examples: text: And then it seems that through the open door there came the chapping of a clock.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look […]
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 35:
glosses: To strike, knock.
Derived terms: chap someone's hide
chapped
chapstick
chapt
chap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: chaps
Etymology: From Middle English chappen (“to split open, burst, chap”), of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English choppen (“to chop”), Dutch kappen (“to cut, chop, hack”). Perhaps related to chip.
Senses: glosses: A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
examples: text: Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: A division; a breach, as in a party.
glosses: A blow; a rap.
Derived terms: chappy
chap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: chaps
Etymology: From Northern English chafts (“jaws”). Compare also Middle English cheppe (“one side of the jaw, chap”).
Senses: examples: text: This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: His chaps were all besmear'd with crimson blood.
ref: a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, The Song:
text: He unseamed him from the nave to the chaps.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: The jaw.
glosses: One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
Derived terms: chapfallen
chapless
Related terms: chop
chap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: chaps
Etymology: Shortening
Senses: glosses: Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).
Related terms: chap chye
chap lau chu
chaps
kway chap
numpty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌmpti/
rhymes: -ʌmpti
Forms: form: numpties
form: numptie
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots numpty (“fool, idiot”).
Senses: examples: text: Trust me, he's Pakistani, because that's the average numpty's shorthand for Muslim.
ref: 2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 119:
synonyms: word: alcatote
word: asshat
word: arsehole
word: asshole
word: bayard
word: berk
word: birdbrain
word: blither
word: bobchin
word: bonehead
word: bozo
word: buffoon
word: brickhead
word: Charlie
word: chucklehead
word: chowderhead
word: chump
word: clart
word: clown
word: der-brain
word: dill pickle
word: dim bulb
word: dingleberry
word: dipshit
word: dipstick
word: dirtbrain
word: div
word: divvo
word: divvy
word: dolt
word: donk
word: doodle
word: doofus
word: dope
word: dork
word: dote
word: dotterel
word: dullard
word: dumbass
word: dumbbell
word: dumb fuck
word: dummy
word: dunce
word: dunderhead
word: dupe
word: fathead
word: fenderhead
word: fiddle
word: fuckwit
word: fuzznut
word: geck
word: gig
word: gink
word: goober
word: gooseberry
word: gowk
word: gubbins
word: gump
word: ha'p'orth
word: Homer Simpson
word: ignoramus
word: imbecile
word: jamoke
word: jerk
word: jerkoff
word: jolterhead
word: jolthead
word: juggins
word: jughead
word: knucklehead
word: lamebrain
word: mameluke (US (Italian-American)
word: slang)
word: maroon
word: meathead
word: mong
word: moron
word: mug
word: muggins
word: mushhead
word: nimrod
word: nincompoop
word: nit
word: nitwit
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: numskull
word: numps
word: numpty
word: nupson
word: oaf
word: pillock
word: pinhead
word: plonker
word: prat
word: retard
word: shit for brains
word: shithead
word: shitwit
word: schmo
word: schmuck
word: snapperhead
word: softhead
word: sot
word: stupid
word: sucker
word: thickhead
word: tonto
word: tool
word: tosser
word: tosspot
word: twat
word: twerp
word: twit
word: wally
word: wantwit
word: wazzock
word: yampy
glosses: An idiot, dolt or fool.
Derived terms: numptyish
giddyup
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪdɪˌʌp/
ipa: /ˌɡɪdɪˈʌp/
ipa: /ˈɡɪdiˌʌp/
rhymes: (one pronunciation) -ʌp
Forms: form: giddy-up
form: giddy up
form: gedup
form: geddup
form: giddap
form: giddup
form: giddyap
Etymology: From get up or get ye/thee up.
Senses: qualifier: directed at a horse
glosses: Move on!, go faster!
Synonyms: gee up
giddyup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪdɪˌʌp/
ipa: /ˌɡɪdɪˈʌp/
ipa: /ˈɡɪdiˌʌp/
rhymes: (one pronunciation) -ʌp
Forms: form: giddyups
form: giddyuping
form: giddyupping
form: giddyuped
form: giddyuped
form: giddyupped
form: giddyupped
form: giddy-up
form: giddy up
form: gedup
form: geddup
form: giddap
form: giddup
form: giddyap
Etymology: From get up or get ye/thee up.
Senses: examples: text: If I could rule the world, everyone would have a gun / In the ghetto, of course, when giddy-upping on their horse
ref: 1996, “Ready or Not”, in The Score, performed by Fugees:
text: Not expecting any traffic, he giddyuped them onto the main road.
ref: 2011, Janet Dailey, Foxfire Light, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: To cause a horse or similar mount to speed up.
examples: text: But she just kept bopping up and down and telling me to giddyup, so that I had to turn and make my way properly on the stairs for fear of her pulling us both over.
ref: 2012, Celine Kiernan, Into the Grey, →ISBN:
text: “Yeah, been partying since I was fourteen, never thought I'd wind-up in a place like this,” I sat there for a moment in quiet reflection, “been high most of my life . . . on one thing or another . . . guess it's time I giddyuped and got going on this clean up my act thing, I've hit the break point . . . gotta' do something . . . do something or it's going to kill me."
ref: 2012, Thaddeus Deluca, At Bully Hills: Confessions of an American Oxycontin Addict, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: To start moving or move faster; to get a move on.
balian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balians
form: balian
Etymology: From Balinese balian.
Senses: examples: text: A balian may be consulted in order to determine the location of a lost object or the identity of a thief.
ref: 1990, Fred B. Eiseman, Jr., Bali: Sekala and Niskala, Tuttle Publishing, page 136:
text: I had immediate misgivings when Komang, Thomas, and I visited the balian that evening.
ref: 2005, Makara Media, Bali Blues, page 147:
text: A balian has to be careful about what he or she eats and about sexual relations.
ref: 2008, Nancy Connor, Bradford P Keeney, Shamans of the World, page 150:
glosses: A Balinese shaman or traditional healer.
baju
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bajus
form: badjoe
form: badjoo
form: badju
form: bajoo
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰeh₂ǵʰús
From Malay baju.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Malay jacket worn with a sarong.
tali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪ.laɪ/
rhymes: -eɪlaɪ
Senses: glosses: plural of talus
tali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪ.laɪ/
rhymes: -eɪlaɪ
ipa: /t̪aːli/
ipa: /ˈteɪ.laɪ/
rhymes: -eɪlaɪ
Forms: form: talis
Etymology: Ultimately of Dravidian origin, compare Tamil தாலி (tāli) and Telugu తాలి (tāli).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of marriage string.
synonyms: word: marriage string
kuda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːdə/
Forms: form: kudas
Senses: glosses: Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus)
duit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duits
Senses: examples: text: The copper currency for a long time consisted almost entirely of Dutch “duits” or “challis,” which were exported for the eastern currency and circulated freely all along the western coast.
ref: 1912, R.P. Jackson, “The Dominions, Emblems, and Coins of the South Indian Dynasties”, in British Numismatic Journal, page 319:
glosses: Alternative form of (historical) doit (“a small Dutch coin”)
pisang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pisangs
Etymology: From Malay pisang.
Senses: examples: text: The orange crop was good; custard-apples, pisangs and pomeloes fair, the latter were poor in quality.
ref: 1906, Perak, Government Gazette: Supplements, page 3:
glosses: A banana or plantain.
Derived terms: pisang wax
bab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: babs
Etymology: Clipping of babby (“baby”).
Senses: glosses: A baby.
examples: text: The worms were threaded onto the yarn until we had 4 or 5 feet of big juicy worms threaded through. We would coil it all up and put an old rusty nut at the centre and tie it on a bit of string on an old ash pole — this was the bab.
ref: 2006 February 1, John Meiklejohn, “Babbing for eels”, in BBC - WW2 People's War:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A bait for eels, consisting of a bundle of live worms.
Synonyms: sense: baby
word: baby
sense: bait
word: clod
Derived terms: babber
bab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: babs
form: babbing
form: babbed
form: babbed
Etymology: Clipping of babby (“baby”).
Senses: examples: text: The babbers follow the eels, and you may see fifteen boats as close together as possible, babbing away, and catching as much as four stone-weight of eels per boat of a night.
ref: 1884, George Christopher Davies, Norfolk Broads and Rivers, W. Blackwood and sons, page 244:
text: Sometimes we trolled or set liggers for pike, we seldom babbed for eels, it was such a slimy job.
ref: 1948, William Guy, Mostly Memories: Some Digressions, C. J. Cousland, page 24:
text: Another classic example was babbing for eels; he would come along and say — ‘Goodnight for babbing, make you some babs’.
ref: 2006 February 1, John Meiklejohn, “Babbing for eels”, in BBC - WW2 People's War:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: To fish for eels using a bab.
pulau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulaus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pilaf.
kayu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kayu
form: most kayu
Senses: glosses: Stupid; foolish.
film
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪlm/
ipa: [fɪɫm]
rhymes: -ɪlm
ipa: [ˈfɪlm̩]
ipa: [ˈfɪləm]
ipa: /fɪu̯m/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈfɪl(ɪ)m/
Forms: form: films
form: filming
form: filmed
form: filmed
Etymology: From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-West Germanic *filmīn-, from Proto-Germanic *filmīn- (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Middle Dutch velm, vilm (“fleece, film, membrane”), Old High German felm (“peel, skin, wrap”), Old English *felma (in ǣġerfelma (“egg membrane”)). Related also to Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), Borrowed from Latin vēlum (“a cloth, covering, awning, curtain, veil”). German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian plėvē (“membrane, scab”), Russian плева́ (plevá, “membrane”), Ancient Greek πέλμα (pélma, “sole of the foot”). More at fell. Sense of a thin coat of something is 1577, extended by 1845 to the coating of chemical gel on photographic plates. By 1895 this also meant the coating plus the paper or celluloid.
Senses: examples: text: A Hollywood studio was filming on location in NYC.
text: I tried to film the UFO as it passed overhead.
text: It was truly one of the most horrific filming experiences of my career there, contrasting neatly with some of the best of my career - filming in various off-limits storerooms at LTM's Acton Depot.
ref: 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, pages 49–50:
glosses: To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
glosses: To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
examples: text: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], line 146:
text: Her legs folded under her, and her eyes filmed over.
ref: 2012, Nathan Archer, Valhalla:
glosses: To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
Derived terms: filmable
misfilm
nonfilming
refilm
tanah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tanahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thana.
babu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːbuː/
Forms: form: babus
form: baboo
Etymology: From Hindi बाबू (bābū).
Senses: examples: text: I could see Kana-babu’s sweet-shop at the end of their lane with absolute clarity.
ref: 1989, Amitav Ghosh, Shadow Lines:
glosses: A Hindu title of respect, equivalent to Mr., usually appended to the surname of a Hindu man.
examples: text: BBMP doesn’t have any elected representatives right now. So a babu has floated this tender to benefit his favourite businessmen.
ref: 2025 July 10, @MehHarshil, X (Formerly Twitter):
qualifier: chiefly social media
glosses: an archetypical Indian bureaucrat, perceived as being corrupt, lazy or arrogant.
examples: text: The Babu put on his cap and quietly dropped out of the window
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “His Chance in Life”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 57:
text: Office babus are the real rulers of this country now. Our number's up. Best thing we can do is to shut up shop and let 'em stew in their own juice.
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 2”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: From the prevailing colonial perspective, the English of the babus was error-ridden and characterised by over-elaborate ornateness, and for these ‘transgressions’ it became the butt of native-speaker ridicule.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 116:
glosses: Originally, a Hindu gentleman employed to work as a clerk for the colonial administration; now, a clerk or low-ranking government official.
Derived terms: babudom
babu English
babuism
babuji
bangun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banguns
Senses: glosses: An eggplant; a brinjal.
Synonyms: the list at eggplant
nya
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjɑː/
ipa: /ˈnjæ/
rhymes: -ɑː
rhymes: -æ
Etymology: From the Japanese onomatopoeia にゃ (nya).
Senses: synonyms: nyaa
nyan
nyao
glosses: The cry of a cat; meow, miaow.
dan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: Dan
Etymology: From Middle English dan, daun, dam (“lord”), from Anglo-Norman daun, daunz and Old French dan, dam, from Latin dominus. Doublet of don.
Senses: examples: text: Dan Phoebus, he with many a low'ring look / Had her beheld in yore in angry wise.
ref: 1578, George Gascoigne, “A Moonshine Banquet”, in A Hundred Sundry Flowers:
text: Old Dan Geoffrey, in whose gentle spright / The pure well-head of Poesy did dwell.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, dan Cupid.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: The patriarchal age, / What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.
ref: 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: He did—and in a moment press'd / The place—in Paradise the best, / As by Dan Moses said.
ref: 1777, James Perry, The Electrical Eel; or, Gymnotus Electricus:
text: Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath / Preluded those melodious bursts, that fill / The spacious times of great Elizabeth / With sounds that echo still.
ref: 1842, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, A Dream of Fair Women:
text: Dan Neptune says that "ere a twelvemonth pass, / The Senate shall to Ireland go to grass."
ref: 1846, Terence McMahon Hughes, The Biliad:
text: Oh, me' name is Dan Homer, I'm blind, as the Jews, / And I travels around with my head full av news.
ref: 1962, A. D. Hope, The Ballad of Dan Homer:
glosses: A title of honour or respect similar to "master" or "Sir", used of historical and legendary figures of the past.
dan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: dans
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
Related terms: corf
dan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæn/
rhymes: -æn
ipa: /dɑn/
rhymes: -æn
rhymes: -ɑːn
ipa: /dæn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: dans
Etymology: From Japanese 段 (dan).
Senses: hyponyms: shodan
glosses: A rank of black belt in martial arts.
hyponyms: shodan
glosses: Someone who has achieved a level of black belt.
dan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæn/
rhymes: -æn
ipa: /dɑn/
rhymes: -æn
rhymes: -ɑːn
Forms: form: dans
form: dan
Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 担 (dàn) and Chinese 石 (dàn).
Senses: qualifier: units of measurement
glosses: Synonym of picul: a traditional unit of weight and mass, chiefly used as a dry measure of grains.
synonyms: word: picul
extra: a traditional unit of weight and mass, chiefly used as a dry measure of grains
qualifier: units of measurement
glosses: A traditional unit of equivalent volume, now officially equal to 100 liters.
dan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæn/
rhymes: -æn
ipa: /dɑn/
rhymes: -æn
rhymes: -ɑːn
Forms: form: dans
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: Carrying away of 25 great-lines, 3 dans, buoys, &c., of steam liner 'Star of the East'[…]
ref: 1913, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers: 1909-1982, page 165:
text: Dumping dans. Dan buoys laid to mark a dumping ground. They are fitted with a topmark in the shape of a St. Andrews cross formed by battens 2 feet in length. Live dan. Dan buoy for which a[…]
ref: 1917, United States. Office of Naval Intelligence, O.N.I. Publications, page 17:
glosses: A dan buoy.
dan
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæn/
rhymes: -æn
ipa: /dɑn/
rhymes: -æn
rhymes: -ɑːn
Senses: examples: text: It's easy. It's nothin'. It's less dan nothin'.
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of than.
Related terms: sense: Other terms with "dan" of unrelated etymology
word: dan bau
sense: Other terms with "dan" of unrelated etymology
word: dan dan noodles
sense: Other terms with "dan" of unrelated etymology
word: dan day
sense: Other terms with "dan" of unrelated etymology
word: dan nguyet
sense: Other terms with "dan" of unrelated etymology
word: dan nhi
sense: Other terms with "dan" of unrelated etymology
word: dan tranh
sense: Other terms with "dan" of unrelated etymology
word: dan ty ba
enam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inam.
gila
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Malay gila.
Senses: examples: text: You gila (mad) or what? Our government good government okay?
ref: 2006, Elangovan, Smegma, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: Mad; crazy; insane.
Synonyms: siao
makan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑkɑn/
ipa: [ˈmakan]
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay makan.
Senses: examples: text: Mdm Zaiton: You makan already? Eat what?
ref: 2023, Alfian Sa'at, “Dreamplay”, in Collected Plays Two, Singapore: Ethos Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To eat.
makan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑkɑn/
ipa: [ˈmakan]
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay makan.
Senses: examples: text: “HDB there already got makan, they want to come here for what? So leceh,” Mr Razali says. He opens his stall only on weekdays, from 6.30 AM to about 3 PM in the afternoon.
ref: 2021 June 8, Sean Lim, quoting Razali, “These Stalls Used To Fuel Workers At Industrial Parks. Now, They Are Barely Surviving”, in ricemedia.co, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2025:
text: It’s not uncommon for Singapore’s F&B landscape to shift in an almost rapid and unsteady fashion. Some businesses morph and transform, closing and reopening spaces to keep up with changes.
ref: 2024 April 14, Daniel Peters, “In Memoriam: Our Makan Places Lost to Time”, in ricemedia.co, archived from the original on 17 May 2025:
glosses: Food.
kaki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːki/
ipa: /ˈkæki/
homophone: khaki
rhymes: -ɑːki
Forms: form: kakis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 柿(カキ) (kaki).
Senses: glosses: A persimmon, specifically a Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki).
kaki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːki/
ipa: /ˈkæki/
homophone: khaki
rhymes: -ɑːki
ipa: /ˈkɑki/
ipa: [ˈkaki]
ipa: /ˈkɑːki/
ipa: /ˈkæki/
homophone: khaki
rhymes: -ɑːki
Forms: form: kakis
Etymology: From Malay kaki (“legs, feet, accomplices”). Unrelated to Hokkien and Teochew 家己人 (ka-kī-lâng / ga¹ gi⁷ nang⁵, “one of us”).
Senses: examples: text: My usual mahjong kaki.
ref: 2000, Dennis Wee, Sylvia Fong, Making Luck with Your Hands, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore, page 59:
text: He has his posse of stylist-kakis.
ref: 2000 July 2, Yeow Kai Chai, The Sunday Times (Sunday Plus), quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, page 5:
text: That’s why gang members always move as a group, because when your group is big … when your enemy sees you with many kakis [peers], they will also think want to attack you or not […]
ref: 2023, Narayanan Ganapathy, quoting an Omega gang member, Gangs and Minorities in Singapore: Masculinity, Marginalization and Resistance, Bristol University Press, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: A close friend, or group of friends with a shared common interest.
kaki
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːki/
ipa: /ˈkæki/
homophone: khaki
rhymes: -ɑːki
ipa: /ˈkɑki/
ipa: [ˈkaki]
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of khaki.
lagi
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑɡi/
Etymology: From Malay lagi (“still more”)
Senses: examples: text: Lagi worse.
translation: Even worse.
english: Even worse.
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glosses: More, even more.
muka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: Prepared fibre of harakeke, used in traditional Maori weaving.
Provencal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Provençal.
Romansch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹə(ʊ)ˈmanʃ/
ipa: /ɹoʊˈmænʃ/
ipa: /ɹoʊˈmɑnʃ/
Forms: form: Romanche
form: Romansh
form: Rumansch
form: Rumantsch
Etymology: Borrowed from Romansch romansch, romontsch, rumantsch et al., from Medieval Latin rōmānicē, from Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (“in the Roman manner; in a Romance language”, adverb), from Latin rōmānicus. Perhaps influenced by the Germanic suffix seen in English as -ish (German -isch, -sch). Doublet of romance.
Senses: examples: text: Romansch (Ger. Churwalsch, from the town of Chur), a name applied to the Romance dialect, or rather agglomeration of cognate dialects, spoken from the Grisons to Friuli on the Adriatic. ]
ref: [ 1892, Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge: New Edition: Vol. VIII.: Peasant to Roumelia, p. 779, s.v. Romansch
glosses: Synonym of Rhaeto-Romance.
synonyms: word: Rhaeto-Romance
glosses: A Rhaeto-Romance language (or dialect continuum) spoken in the Graubünden/Grisons canton of Switzerland; it is one of the four official languages of Switzerland.
Related terms: Friulian
Ladin
Rhaeto-Romance
Romany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romany
form: Romanies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Romani (“a member of the Roma people”).
Romany
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Romani (“the Indo-Aryan language of this people”).
Romany
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Romani (“of or belonging to the Roma nation”).
Ruanda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rwanda.
Derived terms: Ruanda-Urundi
Scottish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɒt.ɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈskɑ.tɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈskɔt.ɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈskɔt.ɪʃ/
ipa: [ˈskɔɾ.ɪʃ]
Forms: form: more Scottish
form: most Scottish
Etymology: From Middle English Scottich, from Old English Sċyttisċ, equivalent to Scot + -ish. Compare West Frisian Skotsk (“Scottish”), Dutch Schots (“Scottish”), German schottisch (“Scottish”), Danish skotsk (“Scottish”), Icelandic skoskur (“Scottish”). Doublet of Scotch and Scot.
Senses: glosses: Of a thing or concept, of or pertaining to Scotland.
examples: text: In the factory, a colourful woodland of knitted trees points towards a collection of bookends commissioned from Scottish designers and inspired by the globetrotting travels in 1894 of Dundee Courier journalists Marie Imandt and Bessie Maxwell.
ref: 2024 September 21, Eve Livingston, “‘Students want to stay here now rather than disappear to London’: how design transformed the city of Dundee”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of a person, native to, born in or whose ancestors originally came from Scotland.
Derived terms: Scottish acre
Scottish bluebell
Scottish pint
Scottish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɒt.ɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈskɑ.tɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈskɔt.ɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈskɔt.ɪʃ/
ipa: [ˈskɔɾ.ɪʃ]
Etymology: From Middle English Scottich, from Old English Sċyttisċ, equivalent to Scot + -ish. Compare West Frisian Skotsk (“Scottish”), Dutch Schots (“Scottish”), German schottisch (“Scottish”), Danish skotsk (“Scottish”), Icelandic skoskur (“Scottish”). Doublet of Scotch and Scot.
Senses: qualifier: i. e. the Scottish
glosses: the people of Scotland.
Related terms: Scot
Scotch
Scotchman
Scotchwoman
Scots
Scotsman
Scotswoman
Scottie
Scottishman
Scottish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɒt.ɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈskɑ.tɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈskɔt.ɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈskɔt.ɪʃ/
ipa: [ˈskɔɾ.ɪʃ]
Etymology: From Middle English Scottich, from Old English Sċyttisċ, equivalent to Scot + -ish. Compare West Frisian Skotsk (“Scottish”), Dutch Schots (“Scottish”), German schottisch (“Scottish”), Danish skotsk (“Scottish”), Icelandic skoskur (“Scottish”). Doublet of Scotch and Scot.
Senses: glosses: Scottish English, the varieties of English spoken in Scotland.
glosses: Short for Scottish Gaelic
stodge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɒd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒ
Forms: form: stodges
form: stodging
form: stodged
form: stodged
Etymology: Late 17th century, of "symbolic" origin, suggested by stuff and podge. Compare stog.
Senses: glosses: To stuff; to cram.
Derived terms: stodgy