cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæli/
rhymes: -æli
Forms: form: sallies
form: salley
Etymology: Borrowed from French saillie, from sailli, the past participle of the verb saillir (“to leap forth”), itself from Latin salīre (“to leap”).
Senses: examples: text: The rest of his horsemen the Duke sent to his campe, bicause they heard a great noise there, and doubted the enimies sally, and indeede they had issued foorth thrise, but were alwaies repulsed, especially through the valiantns of the English men that the Duke left there behind him [...]
ref: 1596, Philippe de Commynes, The historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton, London: Ar. Hatfield, pages 50-51:
text: The besieged made another Sally, and killed several of the Enemy at Penyburn-Hill, but were forced to Retreat, being pressed by the Enemies Horse, who charged us on all sides.
ref: 1689, George Walker, A true account of the siege of London-Derry by the Reverend Mr. George Walker, London, page 24:
glosses: A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
examples: text: Flocks of these birds stir up flying insects, which can then be picked off in quick sallies.
glosses: A sudden rushing forth.
examples: text: Till then she had never formed an idea of one so gifted and so charming. She listened with astonishment to her companion's gay sallies, and answers, as piquant as they were ready.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The First Doubt”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 39:
text: Bull snuffed; he never paid any attention to her sallies but he heard them.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
text: The stakes are low and the story beats are incidental amid the rush of largely mild visual gags and verbal sallies like “Blood Island! So called because it’s the exact shape of some blood!”
ref: 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
examples: text: Everyone shall know a country better that makes often sallies into it, and traverses it up and down, than he that […] goes still round in the same track.
ref: a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC:
glosses: An excursion or side trip.
glosses: A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
Related terms: english: to leap forth; cognate; both of these military terms come from a verb meaning but in different ways
translation: to leap forth; cognate; both of these military terms come from a verb meaning but in different ways
word: salient
word: sally port
sally
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæli/
rhymes: -æli
Forms: form: sallies
form: sallying
form: sallied
form: sallied
form: salley
Etymology: Borrowed from French saillie, from sailli, the past participle of the verb saillir (“to leap forth”), itself from Latin salīre (“to leap”).
Senses: examples: text: The troops sallied in desperation.
text: A feeding strategy of some birds is to sally out from a perch to snatch an insect and then returning to the same or a different perch.
glosses: To make a sudden attack (e.g. on an enemy from a defended position).
examples: text: So I tucked my violin under my arm, and sallied out after the old budgy ragman, determined to ease him of his load at the very first lonesome corner I could track him to.
ref: 1876, The Shamrock, volume 14:
text: Adverse comment begins with uncomplimentary observations on the somewhat harder seats, then reaches a crescendo when it is discovered that the perverse and unhurried train is actually going to wait for another connection which is running late, instead of sallying forth at once for the benefit of those already on board and leaving latecomers stranded.
ref: 1942 July-August, “The Country Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 194:
text: Along the Manchurian frontier was a 160km strip of land the US pilots dubbed 'MiG Alley'. Beyond it lay the North Korean, Chinese and Russian squadrons. From those airbases, MiGs sallied forth to attack the bombers striking North Korea.
ref: 2007 September 30, Andrew Salmon, “Dogfights and daring in Korea's deep blue yonder”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2024, Latest:
glosses: To set out on an excursion; venture; depart (often followed by "forth").
glosses: To venture off the beaten path.
Derived terms: sally forth
sally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæli/
rhymes: -æli
Forms: form: sallies
form: salley
Etymology: From salvation + -y.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Salvation Army.
Synonyms: Salvo
Related terms: Sally Army
sally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæli/
rhymes: -æli
Forms: form: sallies
form: salley
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A kind of stonefly.
glosses: A wren.
sally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæli/
rhymes: -æli
Forms: form: salley
Senses: topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The crystalline or powdered form of MDA.
tigrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪˌɡɹaɪn/
ipa: /ˈtaɪˌɡɹɪn/
ipa: /ˈtaɪˌɡɹən/
ipa: /ˈtaɪˌɡɹin/
Forms: form: more tigrine
form: most tigrine
Etymology: From Latin tigrīnus.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: tigerlike, tigerish (sometimes synonymous)
hypernyms: pantherine#Adjective
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feline#Adjective
coordinate_terms: leonine#Adjective
leopardine#Adjective
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the tiger.
arboreal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹˈbɔɹi.əl/
ipa: /ɑːˈbɔːɹɪ.əl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: arboreals
Etymology: From Latin arboreus (“tree-like”) + -al, mid-17th century.
Senses: examples: text: So, by learning to use their eyes to more and more advantage the arboreals added another treasure to the foundation of human intelligence.
ref: 1971, Theo Lang, The difference between a man and a woman:
glosses: Any tree-dwelling creature.
Rickenbacker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An electric guitar (of the Rickenbacker brand).
complicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmplɪkeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɑmplɪkeɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more complicated
form: most complicated
Senses: examples: text: It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon.
text: But there always is in my mind something at once ludicrous and mournful in a crowd congregated for the purpose of amusement. What discontent, what vanity, move the complicated wheels of the social machine!
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Masked Ball”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 177:
text: Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
glosses: Difficult or convoluted.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Folded longitudinally (as in the wings of certain insects).
Derived terms: complicated fracture
complicatedly
complicatedness
noncomplicated
overcomplicated
semicomplicated
supercomplicated
complicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmplɪkeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɑmplɪkeɪtɪd/
Senses: examples: text: The process of fixing the car engine was complicated by the lack of tools.
glosses: simple past and past participle of complicate
complicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑmplɪkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɒmplɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: complicates
form: complicating
form: complicated
form: complicated
Etymology: First attested in the early 17ᵗʰ century; borrowed from Latin complicātus, perfect passive participle of complicō (“to fold together”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from con- (“together”) + plicō (“to fold, weave, knit”); see plaid, and compare complex. See also Middle English complicate (“involved”).
Senses: examples: text: Let us, however, put aside for the moment the mendacities and forgeries which complicate the question of Lucifer, and let us approach Palladism from an altogether different side.
ref: 1896, Arthur Edward Waite, “Chapter 14”, in Devil-Worship in France, or the Question of Lucifer:
glosses: To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult.
examples: text: Don't complicate yourself in issues that are beyond the scope of your understanding.
text: John has been complicated in the affair by new tapes that surfaced.
text: The DA has made every effort to complicate me in the scandal.
glosses: To involve in a convoluted matter.
Synonyms: sense: involve in a convoluted matter
word: intricate
sense: involve in a convoluted matter
word: entangle
sense: involve in a convoluted matter
word: embroil
sense: involve in a convoluted matter
word: involve
sense: involve in a convoluted matter
english: in something
translation: in something
word: mix up
sense: involve in a convoluted matter
word: mire
word: complex
word: complexify
word: complicate
word: complify
word: confuscate
word: desimplify
word: elaborate
word: jazz
word: make a meal of
word: perplex
Hyponyms: word: overcomplicate
word: recomplicate
word: simplicate
word: confuse
word: hinder
Derived terms: complicative
complicator
decomplicate
overcomplicate
recomplicate
simplicate
uncomplicate
Related terms: word: complication
word: explicate
word: implicate
word: complex
word: entangle
word: entrap
word: twist
word: complexity
complicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmplɪkət/
Forms: form: more complicate
form: most complicate
Etymology: First attested in the early 17ᵗʰ century; borrowed from Latin complicātus, perfect passive participle of complicō (“to fold together”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from con- (“together”) + plicō (“to fold, weave, knit”); see plaid, and compare complex. See also Middle English complicate (“involved”).
Senses: glosses: Intertwined.
examples: text: How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, / How complicate, how wonderful, is Man!
ref: 1745, Edward Young, Night-Thoughts, section I:
glosses: Complex, complicated.
Derived terms: word: complicate fever
word: complicateness
word: complicately
tripartite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪˈpɑːtaɪt/
ipa: /tɹaɪˈpɑɹtaɪt/
Etymology: From Latin tripartītus.
Senses: glosses: In three parts.
glosses: Done by three parties (as an agreement).
Derived terms: tripartitely
tripartiteness
tripartite soul
tripartite system
Related terms: triatomic
trinary
callous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæləs/
rhymes: -æləs
homophone: callus
Forms: form: more callous
form: most callous
Etymology: From Latin callōsus (“hard-skinned”), from callum (“hardened skin”) + -ōsus.
Senses: examples: text: She was so callous that she could criticise a cancer patient for wearing a wig.
text: Re-watching some of the audition rounds of these shows now, you're struck by how callous the judges' comments often were, and how they presented a cruel spectacle in which the audience were set up to laugh at the "deluded" members of the public who believed they could sing.
ref: 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:
synonyms: word: heartless
word: insensitive
word: callous
word: cold
word: cold-eyed
word: dour
word: flint-hearted
word: forbidding
word: frosty
word: grim
word: hard
word: hard-boiled
word: hardened
word: hardhearted
word: heartless
word: harsh
word: humorless
word: icy
word: iron-hearted
word: insensitive
word: rigorous
word: rockhearted
word: severe
word: stern
word: stonehearted
word: stony
word: stonyhearted
word: strict
word: tough
word: unsympathetic
word: unmoved
glosses: Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.
synonyms: callousy
callusy
calloused
callused
qualifier: literal
glosses: Having calluses, or relating to calluses.
Derived terms: uncallous
Related terms: callously
callousness
callus
callous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæləs/
rhymes: -æləs
homophone: callus
Forms: form: callouses
Etymology: From Latin callōsus (“hard-skinned”), from callum (“hardened skin”) + -ōsus.
Senses: examples: text: Hanson was beginning to feel annoyance at the suddenly cocksure and unsympathetic girl, but he stood fully erect and flexed his muscles. There wasn't even a trace of bedsoreness, though he had been flat on his back long enough to grow callouses.
ref: 1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling:
glosses: Alternative form of callus.
callous
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæləs/
rhymes: -æləs
homophone: callus
Forms: form: callouses
form: callousing
form: calloused
form: calloused
Etymology: From Latin callōsus (“hard-skinned”), from callum (“hardened skin”) + -ōsus.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of callus.
indifferent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɪf.ɹənt/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt/
Forms: form: indifferents
Etymology: From Old French indifferent, from Latin indifferens. By surface analysis, in- + different.
Senses: glosses: A person who is indifferent or apathetic.
indifferent
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɪf.ɹənt/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt/
Etymology: From Old French indifferent, from Latin indifferens. By surface analysis, in- + different.
Senses: examples: text: The face of the Moon appearing to me to be full of indifferent high mountains.
text: Get thee [to] a Nunry, why wouldst thou be a breeder of ſinners, I am my ſelfe indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse mee of ſuch things, that it were better my Mother had not bourne mee […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], signature G3, verso:
synonyms: word: acceptably
word: adequately
word: averagely
word: fairly
word: halfway
word: in a way
word: indifferent
word: mackly
word: moderately
word: middlesome
word: middling
word: middlingly
word: not quite
word: partially
word: passably
word: quite
word: rather
word: reasonably
word: somewhat
word: somewhatly
word: sufficiently
word: tolerably
glosses: To some extent, in some degree (intermediate between very and not at all); moderately, tolerably, fairly.
examples: text: Newton. My Maſters, you that be the chiefeſt of the rout,
The King intreats you kindly here by me,
To come and ſpeake with him a word or two.
Iacke Straw. Sirra, if the King would any thinge with vs,
Tell him the way is indifferent to meete vs.
Newton. You are too many to be talkt with all, […]
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act III:
glosses: Without distinction or preference for some over others.
orotund
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒɹə(ʊ)tʌnd/
ipa: /ˈɔː-/
ipa: /ˈɔɹə(ʊ)ˌtʌnd/
Forms: form: more orotund
form: most orotund
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁óh₃s
The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin ōre rotundō (“with a round mouth; hence, clear; loud”) (whence English ore rotundo), possibly influenced by rotund (“having a curved, round, or spherical shape; (figurative) of sound: full and rich”). Ōre rotundō is composed of ōre (the ablative singular of ōs (“mouth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óh₃s (“mouth”)) + rotundō (the ablative singular of rotundus (“circular, round”) (possibly from rota (“wheel”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run”)) + -undus (suffix forming adjectives)).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: synonyms: word: ore rotundo
word: resonant
word: rotund
word: booming
word: boom-boom
word: canorous
word: orotund
word: remugient
word: resonant
word: resounding
word: reverberant
word: rotund
word: sonoral
word: sonorous
word: tympanic
word: vibrant
glosses: Of a voice: characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound; hence, of a person: having a clear, full, and strong voice, appropriate for public speaking, reading aloud, etc.
glosses: Of writing, etc.: clear, effective, powerful.
examples: text: A series of U.N. and government officials spoke. […] In orotund turns of phrase—indeed, in spiraling helices of phrase; in snarled fishing lines of phrase; in endless small intestines of phrase--the speakers ingeniously explored and invented connections between qwerty, alphabetical filing, and socioeconomic advance.
ref: 1990, Robert Klitgaard, “Beginning to Move”, in Tropical Gangsters, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 124:
text: He would also, you can't help thinking, have approved [Alan] Hollinghurst's discriminating eye and perhaps even enjoyed the half-facetious, half-adoring tributes Nick pays to his famously orotund late style, the "plums of periphrasis" Nick likes to slip into his conversation.
ref: 2004 October 31, Anthony Quinn, “‘The Line of Beauty’: The last good summer [book review]”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2023:
text: When Groucho Marx was once asked a long and orotund question, he replied, "Whom knows?" […] The popularity of "whom" humour tells us two things about the distinction between "who" and "whom". First, "whom" has long been perceived as formal verging on pompous. Second, the rules for its proper use are obscure to many speakers, tempting them to drop "whom" into their speech whenever they want to sound posh.
ref: 2014 August 15, Steven Pinker, “Reference and languages books: Steven Pinker: 10 ‘grammar rules’ it’s OK to break (sometimes)”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2023:
synonyms: grandiloquent
magniloquent
tumid
turgid
glosses: Of speech or writing: bombastic, pompous.
Derived terms: word: ororotundity
word: orotundity
word: orotundly
Related terms: oral
ore rotundo
rotund
orotund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒɹə(ʊ)tʌnd/
ipa: /ˈɔː-/
ipa: /ˈɔɹə(ʊ)ˌtʌnd/
Forms: form: orotunds
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁óh₃s
The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin ōre rotundō (“with a round mouth; hence, clear; loud”) (whence English ore rotundo), possibly influenced by rotund (“having a curved, round, or spherical shape; (figurative) of sound: full and rich”). Ōre rotundō is composed of ōre (the ablative singular of ōs (“mouth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óh₃s (“mouth”)) + rotundō (the ablative singular of rotundus (“circular, round”) (possibly from rota (“wheel”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run”)) + -undus (suffix forming adjectives)).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: glosses: A voice characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound.
glosses: The quality of clarity, effectiveness, and power in speech or writing.
doofus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduːfəs/
rhymes: -uːfəs
Forms: form: doofuses
form: doofi
form: dufus
Etymology: Perhaps an alteration of earlier goofus (first attested in the 1920s), due to influence from Scots doof (“simpleton”). Scots doof is derived from Low German doof (“deaf", with a secondary sense of "idiotic, stupid”). The Low Saxon word is cognate with English deaf.
Some have proposed that perhaps dupe played some kind of role in the development of doofus as well.
Senses: examples: text: Stocks Genius or Dot-Com Doofus? – Wired News
text: Danny is such a doofus!
text: Nichols had called Bonilla a doofus who was too damn stupid to realize that he was being taken by a hooker with a convincing sob story.
Even if Steve was a doofus, Nichols and Rand were quite willing to work for him as long as he had money.
ref: 1998, Ann Rule, “In the Name of Love”, in In the Name of Love and Other True Cases: Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 4, page 185:
text: They weren't excited about acquiring new information; they were relieved to find out they aren't the only doofuses (or maybe the word is "doofi") in the world of rusty machinery.
ref: 2000, Roger L. Welsch, Love, Sex and Tractors, page 16:
text: 2005 October 17, Kevin Amorin, Mewsday, quoted in 2007, Troth Wells, T-Shirt, page 14,
Being too young to attend a show on Bowie's 1983 Serious Moonlight tour, I did what any underage doofus would do. I bought a concert T-shirt – three-quarter-length blue sleeves, image of Major Tom himself on the front.
text: "I never seen so many doofuses in one place!"
"That's doofi, Krakauer. Sorry to correct you."
ref: 2009, B. K. Holway, When Jack Was with Us, page 115:
text: "No problem. You get a bimbo babe who's engaged to a doofus who will fall for the virgin birth line and still marry her.[…]However, I don't think a doofus fiancé will be hard to find; there's no shortage of doofuses on the earth."
ref: 2014, G. Richard Bozarth, Bible Tales for Ages 18 and Up, page 219:
synonyms: dingus#English:_foolish or silly person
qualifier: sometimes affectionately
glosses: A person with poor judgment and taste; a foolish or silly person.
Synonyms: sense: person with poor judgement and taste
word: boob
sense: person with poor judgement and taste
word: dolt
sense: person with poor judgement and taste
word: blockhead
sense: person with poor judgement and taste
word: lowbrow
sense: person with poor judgement and taste
word: oaf
Related terms: doof
doofy
womyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: womyn
form: wymyn
Etymology: From woman and women; respelled so as not to contain the words man or men. Compare myn.
Senses: examples: text: Summoning all my courage, I touched and kissed a womyn for the first time. I cannot describe what I felt at that moment.
ref: 1980, Susan J Wolfe, Julia Penelope, The coming out stories:
text: I dug with my bare hands through the bullshit where beneath I discovered a womyn. She was an incredibly angry womyn, but a womyn nonetheless.
ref: 2004, Misty Marie, I Too was a Child...:
glosses: Feminist spelling of woman.
examples: text: And I'm sure you know that so many straight womyn are so miserable that "going to the shrink" has become their major occupation, if they can afford it.
ref: 1983, Anita Cornwell, Black Lesbian in White America:
text: Likewise, simply dismissing post-operative male-to-female transsexuals as "men," and making an artificial distinction between "women" and "womyn" neither justifies their policy, nor eliminates any of the substantive issues involved.
ref: 1991 December 22, Davina Anne Gabriel, “Still More On Michigan”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 23, page 4:
text: Since the publication of the Random House Webster's College Dictionary (RHWCD) in the spring of 1991, no single dictionary entry has been the subject of more discussion, criticism, and controversy than the entry womyn (an alternative spelling of women).
ref: 1995, Sol Steinmetz, “Womyn: The Evidence”, in American Speech, volume 70, number 4, page 430:
glosses: Feminist spelling of women.
Derived terms: trans womyn
womyn-born-womyn
womynhood
womynkind
womynly
womyn's land
Related terms: humyn
myn
wombyn
womon
cyberanarchism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + anarchism. First coined in 1994 by political science student Tomas Kriha in a paper titled Cyberanarchism.
Senses: glosses: The social organisation on the Internet as one without a centralised monopoly on the exercise of force (i.e. without a state).
Related terms: cyberanarchist
cyberanarchy
seasonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːzənəl/
Forms: form: more seasonal
form: most seasonal
Etymology: From season + -al.
Senses: examples: text: It is a seasonal swimming pool.
text: The cult of the holiday camp has brought seasonal expresses to fresh destinations such as Penychain, in North Wales; over 250,000 people go by train annually to Butlin's holiday camps alone.
ref: 1957 July 24, D. S. M. Barrie, “Sixty Years of British Express Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 456:
text: Skilled foreign farm workers are the backbone of US agriculture and are traditionally in the US on H-2A seasonal visas, which saw its highest ever utilization rate this year, according to the Farm Bureau.
ref: 2022 December 22, Vanessa Yurkevich, “America needs immigrants to solve its labor shortage”, in CNN:
antonyms: unseasonal
glosses: Of, related to, or reliant on a season or period of the year, especially with regard to weather characteristics.
Synonyms: word: seasonal
Hypernyms: word: appropriate
word: expected
word: normal
word: periodic
word: repetitive
Hyponyms: word: vernal
word: aestival
word: estival
word: serotinal
word: summery
word: autumnal
word: brumal
word: hibernal
word: hiemal
word: wintry
word: aestivoautumnal
word: estivoautumnal
Derived terms: aseasonal
interseasonal
intraseasonal
multiseasonal
nonseasonal
seasonal affective disorder
seasonal constellation
seasonal depression
seasonal hour
seasonality
seasonal lake
seasonally
seasonal mood disorder
seasonal unemployment
seasonal worker
unseasonal
Related terms: word: equinoctial
word: solstitial
seasonal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːzənəl/
Forms: form: seasonals
Etymology: From season + -al.
Senses: glosses: Anything that is seasonal, such as a financial trend, a product for sale, or an employee.
reimburse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːɪmˈbɜː(ɹ)s/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: reimburses
form: reimbursing
form: reimbursed
form: reimbursed
Etymology: 1591, re- (“back”) + imburse (“pay”, literally “put in a purse”) (perhaps after Middle French rembourser or Italian rimborsàre), from Middle French embourser, from Old French en- (“in”) + borser (“to get money”), from borse (“purse”), from Medieval Latin bursa (English purse).
Senses: examples: text: The company will reimburse you for your expenses for the business trip.
text: You can tell this funny monkey story, but please keep and mind and tell people that the man who lost all his fruit to the monkeys was entirely reimbursed.
ref: 2006 May 9, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, quoting Rudy, 15:35 from the start, in Penn Radio:
synonyms: word: imburse
english: one sense, obsolete
translation: one sense, obsolete
glosses: To compensate with payment; especially, to repay money spent on one's behalf.
Synonyms: word: compensate
word: guerdon
word: imburse
word: recompense
word: reimburse
word: reprise
Hypernyms: compensate
pay
Derived terms: reimbursable
reimbursement
reimburser
Related terms: bursa
bursar
bursary
purse
utility
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈtɪl.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /jəˈtɪl.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /juˈtɪl.ə.ti/
ipa: [juˈtɪl.ə.ɾi]
note: Indic
ipa: /jʊʈɪˈlɪʈi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈjuʈɪlɪʈi/
rhymes: -ɪlɪti
Etymology: From Middle English utilite, from Old French utilite, utilitet (“usefulness”), from Latin ūtilitās, from uti (“to use”). By surface analysis, utile + -ity.
Senses: examples: utility line; utility bill
glosses: Having to do with, or owned by, a service provider.
examples: utility room; utility corridor
qualifier: Of a building or its components
glosses: containing or intended for any of a building’s often-utility-related commodity transport, such as pipes or wires, or converting equipment, such as furnaces, water tanks or heaters, circuit breakers, central air conditioning units, laundry facilities, etc.
examples: text: "Chocolate and cream," the standard colours of G.W.R. rolling stock for 21 years, are now being replaced by an all-over utility coating of reddish-brown. This is the third time that a uniform brown has been adopted as the standard livery of G.W.R. carriages.
ref: 1943 March and April, “G.W.R. Rolling Stock Colours”, in Railway Magazine, page 106:
glosses: Functional rather than attractive.
Synonyms: sense: state of being useful
word: usefulness
sense: state of being useful
word: value
sense: state of being useful
word: advantages
sense: state of being useful
word: benefit
sense: state of being useful
word: return
sense: state of being useful
word: merits
sense: state of being useful
word: virtue
sense: state of being useful
word: note
rebore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebores
form: reboring
form: rebored
form: rebored
Etymology: From re- + bore.
Senses: examples: text: If you want to keep using that rifle, you'll have to rebore the barrel.
text: The cylinders of your engine are so worn the rings don't seal any more; you have to have it rebored to stop it from burning oil.
text: Every major bridge, and many of the smaller ones, have been rebuilt, tunnels have been rebored, and long sections of track realigned.
ref: 1950 April, “Notes and News: The Athens-Salonika Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 279:
glosses: To bore through an existing hole, generally to correct its shape, or to enlarge.
rebore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebores
Etymology: From re- + bore.
Senses: examples: text: However, any increase in capacity is useful and, if an engine is worn and needs a rebore, it's worth considering boring to a near maximum size rather than simply having it bored to the next oversize.
ref: 2005, Daniel Stapleton, How to Plan and Build a Fast Road Car, page 14:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The process of modifying the bore of an engine.
rebore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And on that day the Lord rebore me and I was reborn.
glosses: simple past and past participle of rebear, generally used in the context of Christianity.
arvo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɐː.vəʉ/
ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ).vəʊ/
rhymes: -ɑːvəʊ
Forms: form: arvos
form: arvy
Etymology: Clipping of afternoon + -o (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: “Rope and tomahawk,” explained Col. “We put them here this arvo when I came down and whistled first time.”
ref: 1960, John Gunn, The Humpy in the Hills, page 46:
text: The usual reaction of a footsoldier observing such incidents is well summed up by the comments of Private Derrick in the Salient at Tobruk: ‘Seen a human side of the war yesterday arvo Red Cross partys [sic] burying dead & treating wounded one of our partys were fired on by enemy & I will always remember it’.⁵⁰
ref: 2000, Mark Johnston, Fighting the Enemy: Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II, page 33:
text: ‘We'll fly you out at seven this arvo—but bring them down a little early, just in case we need to think of something else.’
ref: 2010, Chris Bray, The 1000 Hour Day: Two Adventurers Take on the World's Harshest Island, unnumbered page:
text: “Yeah, he only works on a Saturday arvo,” Kelly told her. “I think the place is packed on that day, because girls come from everywhere just to get a glimpse of him. He's hot as.”
ref: 2010, Rebecca Iannone, The Invisible String: The Secrets That Bind, page 55:
glosses: Afternoon.
Synonyms: afternoon
Derived terms: 'sarvo
sarvo
-o
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊ/
ipa: /əʉ/
ipa: [æ̠ʉ~ɐʉ]
ipa: /oʊ/
homophone: o
homophone: owe
homophone: oh
Forms: form: -os
form: -oes
form: -oh
Etymology: Perhaps from a special use of the interjection O, oh; and/or perhaps from o (“one”), from Middle English o, oo, variant of a, on, oon, an (“one”). See one and -y.
Senses: examples: text: kid + -o → kiddo
text: ugly + -o → uggo
text: Adrian thought it worth while to try out his new slang. ‘I say, you fellows, here's a rum go. Old Biffo was jolly odd this morning. He gave me a lot of pi-jaw about slacking and then invited me to tea. No rotting! He did really.’
ref: 1991, Stephen Fry, chapter III, in The Liar, London: William Heinemann, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: A colloquializing suffix, typically appended to names, abbreviations of long words, or substantive uses of adjectives.
Derived terms: word: agro
word: aggro
word: ambo
word: ammo
word: beano
word: beardo
word: boyo
word: bucko
word: cheapo
word: combo
word: commo
word: convo
word: daddy-o
word: Davo
word: distro
word: doggo
word: friendo
word: hundo
word: inspo
word: journo
word: kiddo
word: lameo
word: lardo
word: lesbo
word: litro
word: neato
word: parmo
word: pinko
word: posho
word: preggo
word: preso
word: psycho
word: rando
word: resto
word: righto
word: sicko
word: stinko
word: thicko
word: thingo
word: uggo
word: wacko
word: weirdo
word: whammo
word: wino
word: wine-o
word: yobbo
sense: Australianisms
word: arvo
sense: Australianisms
word: biffo
sense: Australianisms
word: bizzo
sense: Australianisms
word: bottlo
sense: Australianisms
word: compo
sense: Australianisms
word: deffo
sense: Australianisms
word: dero
sense: Australianisms
word: derro
sense: Australianisms
word: doco
sense: Australianisms
word: druggo
sense: Australianisms
word: favo
sense: Australianisms
word: fisho
sense: Australianisms
word: Freo
sense: Australianisms
word: garbo
sense: Australianisms
word: goodo
sense: Australianisms
word: gyno
sense: Australianisms
word: kero
sense: Australianisms
word: lezzo
sense: Australianisms
word: metho
sense: Australianisms
word: milko
sense: Australianisms
word: muso
sense: Australianisms
word: nasho
sense: Australianisms
word: Nasho
sense: Australianisms
word: rabbito
sense: Australianisms
word: reffo
sense: Australianisms
word: rego
sense: Australianisms
word: relo
sense: Australianisms
word: sammo
sense: Australianisms
word: sando
sense: Australianisms
word: seppo
sense: Australianisms
word: Seppo
sense: Australianisms
word: servo
sense: Australianisms
word: smoko
sense: Australianisms
word: the Salvos
sense: Australianisms
word: veggo
Related terms: -ie
-y
-o
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊ/
ipa: /əʉ/
ipa: [æ̠ʉ~ɐʉ]
ipa: /oʊ/
homophone: o
homophone: owe
homophone: oh
Etymology: From many Spanish or Italian words that end in o. This ending in such Spanish or Italian words generally derives from -um, the accusative singular inflectional ending for masculine and neuter nouns in Latin.
Senses: examples: text: no problemo
glosses: Converts certain words to faux Italian or Spanish. Can be used with Spanish el for expressions such as el stinko.
Derived terms: problemo
stinko
enduro
-o
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊ/
ipa: /əʉ/
ipa: [æ̠ʉ~ɐʉ]
ipa: /oʊ/
homophone: o
homophone: owe
homophone: oh
Forms: form: -os
Etymology: Rebracketing of typo.
Senses: glosses: Added to verb stems to create a noun describing an error relating to the action described by the verb.
Derived terms: clicko
copy-pasto
hearo
printo
scanno
speako
spello
thinko
writo
Salvos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsælvəʉz/
Etymology: From Salv(ation Army) + -o (“diminutive suffix”), analysed as a plural.
Senses: examples: text: Thank God for the Salvos. — marketing tagline
text: 2006, Amanda Lohrey, Voting for Jesus: Christianity and Politics in Australia, Quarterly Essay, Issue 22, page 25,
At the Salvos, the writer claimed, she found emotional support and got her electricity bill paid. But the Salvos are often dealing with the desperate – “losers” – and their emergency needs for food and shelter, while the focus of the megachurches is unapologetically middle class […] .
text: At the bottom lay Betty Laurie, Mavis′s favourite battered doll. She was not going to the Salvos, she deserved better than that.
ref: 2007, Dominie Whyntie, Love and War and All that Stuff, page 173:
text: Some years before DW Griffith premiered the art of the feature film, the Salvation Army in Melbourne was inadvertently playing a truly unheralded pioneer role in the incipient Australian film industry. The Salvos were intent to spread their blend of Christianity to the Australian public and thus made Soldiers of the Cross, a series of Biblical re-enactments on film.
ref: 2010, Robert Cettl, Australian Film Tales, page 35:
glosses: The Salvation Army.
Synonyms: word: Sallies
Novocastrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin novus (“new”) + castra (“castle, fort”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Newcastle upon Tyne or Newcastle, New South Wales.
Novocastrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Novocastrians
Etymology: From Latin novus (“new”) + castra (“castle, fort”).
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of Newcastle upon Tyne or Newcastle, New South Wales.
niece-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nieces-in-law
Etymology: From niece + -in-law.
Senses: glosses: Someone's nephew's wife.
glosses: Someone's niece's wife (where same-sex marriage is recognised).
Someone's sibling's daughter-in-law.
Someone's brother's daughter-in-law. (fraternal niece-in-law)
glosses: Someone's niece's wife (where same-sex marriage is recognised).
Someone's sibling's daughter-in-law.
Someone's sister's daughter-in-law. (sororal niece-in-law)
glosses: Someone's niece's wife (where same-sex marriage is recognised).
Someone's spouse's sibling's daughter-in-law.
Someone's wife's brother's daughter-in-law.
glosses: Someone's niece's wife (where same-sex marriage is recognised).
Someone's spouse's sibling's daughter-in-law.
Someone's wife's sister's daughter-in-law.
glosses: Someone's niece's wife (where same-sex marriage is recognised).
Someone's spouse's sibling's daughter-in-law.
Someone's husband's brother's daughter-in-law.
glosses: Someone's niece's wife (where same-sex marriage is recognised).
Someone's spouse's sibling's daughter-in-law.
Someone's husband's sister's daughter-in-law.
glosses: Someone's spouse's niece.
Someone's husband's niece. (Usually called a niece.)
glosses: Someone's spouse's niece.
Someone's wife's niece. (Usually called a niece.)
Hypernyms: in-law
Related terms: aunt-in-law
nephew-in-law
uncle-in-law
phaeton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: non-merged vowel
ipa: /ˈfeɪ.ɪtən/
note: merged vowel
ipa: /ˈfeɪ.ətən/
ipa: /ˈfeɪtən/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -eɪtən
Forms: form: phaetons
form: phæton
Etymology: Borrowed from French phaéton.
Senses: examples: text: It had been settled that Lorraine was to drive Emily in his phaeton. It is true the sun was full in her eyes, the wind high, and the dust, which is just mud in high spirits, flew round them in clouds; but Emily found her ride delightful.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 260:
text: ...I saw the girls of Nob Hill on their way to school, kicking pebbles at each other and laughing; I saw young ladies coming home past curfew in their beaus' phaetons...
ref: 2004, Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 43:
topics: transport
vehicles
glosses: a light four-wheeled open carriage drawn by four horses
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: a large open touring motorcar with a folding top
Derived terms: phaetoneer
spider phaeton
melee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛˌleɪ/
ipa: /ˈmɛ.li/
ipa: /ˈmeɪˌleɪ/
ipa: /meɪˈleɪ/
ipa: /ˈmɛˌleɪ/
ipa: /məˈleɪ/
rhymes: -ɛleɪ
rhymes: -ɛli
homophone: Malay stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: melees
form: meleeing
form: meleed
form: meleed
form: mêlée
form: melée
Etymology: Borrowed from French mêlée, from Old French meslee, feminine past participle of mesler (“to mix”), derived from Latin misceō (“mix”). Doublet of medley.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: To physically hit in close quarters, as opposed to shooting, blowing up, or other ranged means of damage. Often refers to the usage of a hand-to-hand weapon.
melee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛˌleɪ/
ipa: /ˈmɛ.li/
ipa: /ˈmeɪˌleɪ/
ipa: /meɪˈleɪ/
ipa: /ˈmɛˌleɪ/
ipa: /məˈleɪ/
rhymes: -ɛleɪ
rhymes: -ɛli
homophone: Malay stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: mêlée
form: melée
Etymology: Borrowed from French mêlée, from Old French meslee, feminine past participle of mesler (“to mix”), derived from Latin misceō (“mix”). Doublet of medley.
Senses: examples: text: A melee weapon is used to attack a target within 5 feet of you, whereas a ranged weapon is used to attack a target at a distance.
ref: 2018, Wizards of the Coast, Basic Rules for Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) Fifth Edition (5e):
topics: games
gaming
glosses: Of a weapon: used in close-range combat, e.g. a sword. Compare with ranged.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: Of a character, using melee weapons.
suss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
homophone: sus
Forms: form: susses
form: sus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soss (“miry place”).
suss
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
homophone: sus
Forms: form: more suss
form: most suss
form: sus
Etymology: Clipping of suspicious.
Senses: examples: 2001, Mo Hayder, The Treatment, 2008, Bantam, UK, page 244,
‘Yes – OK, OK. Try not to struggle, Tracey. It just makes you look even more suss.’
2009, Barbara Ward Smith, Dead Centre: Murder Mystery, AuthorHouse, UK, page 191,
I think it was Amber Johnson dressed up said Marc, but its proving it, we don′t have much to go on according to her said Jan her friend has been driving her car, yes very convenient said Marc and it′s even more suss that this friend has gone on holiday, did she ever give us the name of this mystical friend? Asked Jan.
glosses: Suspicious.
suss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
homophone: sus
Forms: form: sus
Etymology: Clipping of suspicious.
Senses: glosses: Suspicious behaviour; the act of loitering with intent.
Related terms: suss law
suss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
homophone: sus
Forms: form: susses
form: sussing
form: sussed
form: sussed
form: sus
Etymology: Clipping of suspicious.
Senses: glosses: To arrest for suspicious behaviour.
suss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
homophone: sus
Forms: form: susses
form: sussing
form: sussed
form: sussed
form: sus
Etymology: From suspect; originally suss out (“to discover or figure out”).
Senses: examples: text: Think we're standing for injustice / White gets two and black gets five years / Well it took me quite a while to suss this
ref: 1993, “Emergency On Planet Earth”, performed by Jamiroquai:
text: This David did without the crook knowing he had been sussed out.[…]When David returned home after sussing this new crook, he made sure one or two key people were informed about his true nature, and they were all then further protected.
ref: 2007, Alex Caldon, The Quest for Truth, page 107:
text: For some other guys who′ve sussed me out, it′s taken them quite some time. A certain regular of mine comes through three or four times a night, but not every night.[…]That said, this regular never sussed for a hell of a long time.
ref: 2007, Jenny Ainslie-Turner, Jolene: A Fiery Redhead Who Loves Talking Dirty: True Life Autobiography of a 1-2-1 Chat Girl, page 43:
text: 2008, David Burchell, Trying to find the sunny side of life, Tony Jones, Best Australian Political Writing, page 275,
It occurred to me that Matt′s mates, far from being proper objects of solicitation and sympathy, actually must feel they had life sussed.
glosses: To discover, infer or figure out.
raw_tags: with "out"
glosses: To study or size up, to check out (examine).
Derived terms: suss out
Related terms: word: sussed
suss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
homophone: sus
Forms: form: sus
Etymology: From suspect; originally suss out (“to discover or figure out”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘I′m surprised at you, Danny Weston! I thought you had a bit more suss than this. I never thought you were capable of something so ... silly.’
ref: 1995, Philip Caveney, Skin Flicks, published 2012, unnumbered page:
text: The next painter the sultan approached was a sly old dog with more suss than a Cockney two-card trickster.
ref: 1996, Phil Healey, Rick Glanvill, Now That′s What I Call Urban Myths, page 138:
text: ‘I always was the true fucking star of this band. They uaed to say I was the fifth member ... I′m the first fucking member. Always was and always will be a star ... that′s me. Fucking Wythenshawe taking over Washington, that′s what this is, miles more suss we have than any of these bastards.’
ref: 1996, Mick Middles, Factory: The Story of the Record Label, published 2011, unnumbered page:
text: No, not cynicism, just fucking suss, David Bowie has more suss than the fucking people that are trying to put him through the mincer.
ref: 2001, Victoria Mary Clarke, A Drink With Shane MacGowan, published 2012, unnumbered page:
glosses: Social nous.
suss out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: susses out
form: sussing out
form: sussed out
form: sussed out
Etymology: Clipping of suspect + out.
Senses: examples: text: We've sussed him out—he only drinks on Fridays and only in that bar in town.
text: In essence, security experts most familiar with this breach believe that a nation-state — likely China or Russia — stole the data in order to suss out current spies and pick out potential targets they could recruit as spies.
ref: 2019 March 19, Mike McKee, “The Case of the Missing Data”, in Dark Reading:
glosses: To come to understand (a person).
examples: text: We've sussed out how to open the lock.
text: You sussed it out, didn't you?
ref: 1997, “Hunter”, in Homogenic, performed by Björk:
text: As far as electric cars are concerned, motorists have sussed out that they do not make particularly good financial sense, even with a $7,500 handout from the federal government.
ref: 2012 April 20, “Electric cars: Difference Engine: Tailpipe truths”, in The Economist:
glosses: To manage to work (something) out, to discover or determine (something).