cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
volley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒli/
ipa: /ˈvɑli/
rhymes: -ɒli
Forms: form: volleys
Etymology: From Middle French volée (“flight”), from Vulgar Latin volta, from Late Latin volatus.
Senses: examples: text: Fiery darts in flaming volies flew.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Each volley tells that thousands cease to breathe.
ref: 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza XXXVIII:
text: It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 30, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
glosses: The simultaneous firing of a number of missiles or bullets; the projectiles so fired.
examples: text: a volley of words
text: When we do speak at volley
ref: 1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: A whole volley of furious criticism was poured on the author [Alexander Pope] by those enemies whom his contempt had created, and his honest pride had justly disdained to propitiate.
ref: 1835, G[eorge] Croly, “Memoir of Pope”, in Alexander Pope, The Works of Alexander Pope; […], volume I, London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], →OCLC, page 56:
glosses: A burst or emission of many things at once.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The flight of a ball just before it bounces.
examples: text: But there was nothing he could do about Villa's second when Agbonlahor crossed from the left and Bent finished with a precision volley.
ref: 2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2–0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.
Derived terms: drive-volley
drop volley
half volley
serve and volley
snap-volley
volley
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒli/
ipa: /ˈvɑli/
rhymes: -ɒli
Forms: form: volleys
form: volleying
form: volleyed
form: volleyed
Etymology: From Middle French volée (“flight”), from Vulgar Latin volta, from Late Latin volatus.
Senses: glosses: To fire a volley of shots
examples: text: Boudewijn Zenden hit the post from 25 yards for the home side before Jody Craddock volleyed Wolves ahead from 10 yards against his former club.
ref: 2011 May 14, Peter Scrivener, “Sunderland 1–3 Wolverhampton”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit the ball before it touches the ground
glosses: To be fired in a volley
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To make a volley
glosses: To sound together
Derived terms: half volley
scorpion volley
volleyball
handled the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Describing a way of getting out in which the batsman deliberately touches the ball with the hand not holding the bat.
consecutive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛkjʊtɪv/
Etymology: From French consécutif, from Medieval Latin cōnsecūtīvus, from Latin cōnsecūtus (“followed up”), from Latin cōnsequor (“to travel”).
Senses: examples: text: He follows Frédi Kanouté, who achieved the feat in 2006 and 2007 for Sevilla, in scoring in consecutive Uefa Cup/Europa League finals.
ref: 2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian:
text: It was his 41st goal for England, making him the country's fifth highest international goalscorer and continued an incredible record of scoring in 15 consecutive World Cup and Euro qualifiers.
ref: 2021 September 8, Phil McNulty, “Poland 1-1 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: following, in succession, without interruption
glosses: having some logical sequence
Derived terms: consecutive interpretation
consecutive interpreting
consecutively
consecutiveness
inconsecutive
unconsecutive
negotiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/
ipa: /nɪˈɡoʊ.ʃi.eɪt/
ipa: /nɪˈɡəʊ.si.eɪt/
ipa: /nəˈɡoʊ.ʃi.eɪt/
ipa: /nɪˈɡoʊ.ʃi.eɪt/
ipa: /nɪˈɡəʉ.ʃi.æɪt/
ipa: /nɪˈɡəʉ.si.æɪt/
Forms: form: negotiates
form: negotiating
form: negotiated
form: negotiated
form: negociate
Etymology: c. 1598; borrowed from Latin negōtiātus, perfect active participle of negōtior (“to do business, trade”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from negotium (“business”) + -or, from nec (“not”) + otium (“leisure, ease, inactivity”).
Senses: examples: 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., to the eight fellow clergymen who opposed the civil rights action, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait
"You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue."
glosses: To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.
examples: text: We negotiated the contract to everyone's satisfaction.
text: The client and server computers must first negotiate a network protocol to be used.
text: Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.[…]The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
ref: 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
glosses: To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement.
examples: text: We negotiated the mountain track with difficulty.
text: Although the car was quite rickety, he could negotiate the curves very well.
text: Novak Djokovic earlier had negotiated his own tricky passage through the fifth day.
ref: 2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2016:
glosses: To succeed in coping with, getting over or navigate a hazard or obstacle.
glosses: To transfer to another person with all the rights of the original holder; to pass, as a bill.
examples: text: Jews, Turks, Armenians,[…]negotiating in this famous Emporium.
ref: 1640–1706, John Evelyn, “(please specify the date of the diary entry)”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
glosses: To transact business; to carry on trade.
examples: text: Certaine it is, shee was a busie negotiating woman.
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To intrigue; to scheme.
Derived terms: misnegotiate
negotiability
negotiable
negotiating table
negotiation
negotiator
negotiatory
nonnegotiating
prenegotiated
renegotiate
unnegotiated
Related terms: otiose
wog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒɡ/
ipa: /wɔɡ/
ipa: /wɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: wogs
form: wogging
form: wogged
form: wogged
Etymology: The origins are not entirely clear. The term was first noted by the lexicographer F.C. Bowen in 1929, in his Sea Slang: a dictionary of the old-timers’ expressions and epithets, where he defines wogs as "lower class Babu shipping clerks on the Indian coast."
The most common theory is that it is a clipping of golliwog, which was first used as the name of a black-faced doll in Florence Upton’s 1895 book The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg. A variety of folk etymologies exist, with the most common claiming that the word is an acronym for one of either westernized, worthy, wily, or wonderful preceding “Oriental gentlemen”. Another erroneous claim is that it was used in the mid 1800s, with WOGS (meaning Working On Government Service) stencilled on the shirts of Indian workers in Egypt.
The Scientologist sense is from the usage of L. Ron Hubbard, who apparently accepted the folk etymology from “worthy Oriental gentleman” but employed the term to mean “common ordinary run-of-the-mill garden-variety humanoid”.
Senses: qualifier: WWII slang
glosses: (Of soldiers stationed abroad) to sell something, especially illicit or stolen goods, to the local inhabitants.
glosses: To steal.
wog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒɡ/
ipa: /wɔɡ/
ipa: /wɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: wogs
Etymology: Clipping of polliwog (“a tadpole”).
Senses: glosses: Clipping of polliwog.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A pollywog, or sailor who has never crossed the Equator.
wog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒɡ/
ipa: /wɔɡ/
ipa: /wɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: wogs
Etymology: Unknown. Probably from Etymology 2, a clipping of polliwog (“a tadpole”).
Senses: glosses: A bug, an insect.
glosses: A minor illness caused by bacteria, virus, intestinal parasite, etc.
glosses: A toy insect in parts that can be assembled, used in fund-raising games.
teenybopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiniˌbɑpɚ/
ipa: /ˈtiːniˌbɒpə/
Forms: form: teenyboppers
form: teeny-bopper
Etymology: Coined in the 1950s from teeny (“teenage”) + bopper (“one who dances to the form of improvisational jazz popular at the time”).
Senses: glosses: A child, especially a girl in her preteens and early teens, who follows popular clothing fashions, music trends, etc.
Derived terms: teenybopping
teenybopperish
tweenybopper
monger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌŋɡə/
ipa: /ˈmʌŋɡəɹ/
ipa: /ˈmɑŋ-/
rhymes: -ʌŋɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mongers
form: mongering
form: mongered
form: mongered
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English mongere, mangere (“dealer, merchant, trader”), from Old English mangere (“dealer, merchant, trader”), from Proto-West Germanic *mangārī (“dealer, merchant, monger”), from Latin mangō (“dealer, trader”) + Proto-West Germanic *-ārī (suffix forming agent nouns, especially denoting occupations). The further etymology of mangō is uncertain; the following possibilities have been suggested:
* From Ancient Greek μαγγανεύω (manganeúō, “to use charms or philtres; to cheat, play tricks; to dress food artificially to make it appear better”), from μάγγᾰνον (mángănon, “means of bewitching, charm, philtre”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *meng- (“to dress, embellish, trim”); or from Arabic ن ج ل (n j l, root relating to pouring out or thrusting)) + -εύω (-eúō, suffix forming denominative verbs of activity or condition).
* From Latin *manicō, *manigō (“deal, trade; to handle, manage (?)”), from manus (“hand”); further etymology uncertain, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon, signal”), or *mon-u-.
The verb is either derived from the noun, or is a back-formation from mongering (adjective or noun).
Senses: examples: text: There were Mongols hawking sheepskins and Chinese vending calendars and pocket calculators, North Koreans flogging jewelry and Vietnamese mongering shirts and leather jackets.
ref: 1992 May 11, “(please specify the article title)”, in The New Yorker, volume 68, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41, column 1:
synonyms: mong
glosses: To deal in, peddle, or sell (something).
examples: text: She [Grace Kelly] was beautiful and elegant but, above all, good. […] Not even Hedda Hopper could monger scandal in her regard.
ref: 1978–1985 (date written), Anthony Burgess, “Grace”, in Homage to Qwert Yuiop: Selected Journalism 1978–1985, London: Abacus, Sphere Books, published 1987, →ISBN, page 124:
text: [T]he paper towel industry has funded or promoted a rash of studies claiming that hand dryers turn bathrooms into mosh pits of pathogens. […] Once these fears have been mongered, their spread is irresistible.
ref: 2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2025:
synonyms: mong
glosses: To promote (something, especially an undesirable thing); to peddle.
Derived terms: mongerer
monger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌŋɡə/
ipa: /ˈmʌŋɡəɹ/
ipa: /ˈmɑŋ-/
rhymes: -ʌŋɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mongers
Etymology: Origin uncertain, possibly from monger (“dealer or trader in a specific commodity”) (etymology 1); or related to Middle English mangbot (“type of fishing boat used on the Thames”).
Senses: examples: text: [C]erteyne Fyſhermen that go a trawlyng for fyſhe in Catches or mongers, and dradgies for Oyſters about the ſandes, […]
ref: 1561, Richard Eden, “To the Ryght Worshypfull Syr Wyllyam Garrerd Knyght, and Master Thomas Lodge, Aldermen of the Citie of London, and Gouernours of the Honorable Felowshyp or Societie, aswell of Certaine of the Nobilitie, as of Marchauntes Aduenturers, for the Discouery of Landes, Territories, Ilandes, and Seignories Vnknowen, and Not before Their First Aduenture or Enterprise by Seas or Nauigations Commonly Frequented: And to the Right Worshypfull the Consulles, Assistentes, and Comminaltie of the Same Societie, Richarde Eden Wyssheth Health and Prosperitie”, in Martin Cortes [i.e., Martín Cortés de Albacar], translated by Richard Eden, The Arte of Nauigation: Conteynyng a Compendious Description of the Sphere, with the Makyng of Certen Instrumentes and Rules for Nauigations: and Exemplified by Manye Demonstrations. […], London: […] Richard Jugge, […], →OCLC, signature [¶.iv.], verso:
text: monger: a small sea-vessel used by fishermen.
ref: [[1790], Robert Wilson, The Seaman’s Manual, Containing All the Technical Words and Phrases Used at Sea and Belonging to a Ship; […], London: […] [F]or the trusters, at the Literary-Press, […], →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small seagoing vessel used for fishing.
semelfactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin semelfactīvus, from to Latin semel (“once, a single time”) + factum (“event, occurrence”) + adjectival suffix -īvus.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: momentane
momentary
instantaneous
punctual
nondurational
coordinate_terms: continuative
durative
experiential
frequentative
habitual
imperfective
iterative
glosses: That denotes a momentary or punctiliar action.
semelfactive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semelfactives
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin semelfactīvus, from to Latin semel (“once, a single time”) + factum (“event, occurrence”) + adjectival suffix -īvus.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The semelfactive aspect.
sesquipedalianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sesquipedalianists
Etymology: From sesquipedalian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who tends to use and enjoy long (sesquipedalian) words.
banana paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana papers
Senses: glosses: Paper made from part of the stem of the banana plant.
glosses: Paper made from banana fibre.
provides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈvaɪdz/
rhymes: -aɪdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of provide
back-bite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: back-bites
form: back-biting
form: back-bit
form: back-bitten
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backbite.
prunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: prunts
Etymology: Unknown. Akin to English print, Scots prent (“a print”), Dutch prent (“a print”).
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A small piece of glass fused to the main body of a piece of glasswork and then shaped or pressed, for decoration
earshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪəˌʃɒt/
ipa: /ˈɪɹˌʃɑt/
Forms: form: earshots
Etymology: From ear + shot.
Senses: examples: text: I'll row out on the lake but stay within earshot.
text: Loola glances about her to make sure that nobody is within earshot, then speaks at last almost in a whisper.
ref: 1948 August, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC:
text: Ananda hit the target, an iron drum, from a distance of two earshots. Devadatta, from a distance of four earshots, Sundarananda from a distance of six earshots, and Dandapani [found his target] from one league.
ref: 2013, Buton Richen Drup, Buton's History of Buddhism in India and Its Spread to Tibet:
glosses: A distance from which sound is still audible.
Derived terms: noseshot
eyeshot
dromos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɒˌmɒs/
ipa: /ˈdɹɑˌmɑs/
Forms: form: dromoi
form: dromi
form: dromus
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δρόμος (drómos, “running; racetrack”).
Senses: glosses: An avenue, especially in Ancient Greece.
examples: text: On the 20th [of December, 1828] they remained an hour at Oudi-Essebours or the Valley of Lions, thus named from the Sphinxes which ornament the dromos of a monument constructed under the reign of Sesostris, but a mere provincial edifice, built of stone cemented with mortar.
ref: 1829 April 23, “Champollion’s Egyptian Expedition”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 351:
text: In Lower Egypt : Busiris (Ruins near el Bahbeyt) ; Heliopolis or On [near Matarieh], only an obelisk still extant ; Tanis (San), a dromos of granite columns ; Sais [Sa el Haggar], considerable ruins, particularly of the Necropolis ; Taposiris [Abusir].
ref: 1847, Karl Otfried Müller, “Egyptian Art”, in John Leitch, transl., Ancient Art and Its Remains; Or, A Manual of the Archæology of Art, new edition, London: A. Fullarton and Co., translation of Handbuch der Archäologie der Kunst (in German), published 1850, page 216:
text: The grave chambers are usually quadrangular, with stone walls, roofs formed by projecting stones, and doors which were walled up. There is no dromos.
ref: 1904, “Thera: An Early Necropolis”, in American Journal of Archaeology, volume VIII, page 108:
glosses: A walkway to a building, (especially) a ceremonial walkway to a temple or tomb in Ancient Greece or Egypt.
glosses: A racecourse, especially in Ancient Greece.
Related terms: drome
-drome
scuttle-butt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scuttle-butts
Senses: examples: text: [S]o they continue to fire as directed, until they are either sent down to the cock-pit themselves, or have a momentary respite from their exertions, when, choaked with smoke and gunpowder, they go aft to the scuttle-butt, to remove their parching thirst.
ref: 1830, [Frederick Marryat], chapter VIII, in The King’s Own. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 93–94:
text: In this way, with an occasional break by relieving the wheel, heaving the log, and going to the scuttle-butt for a drink of water, the longest watch was passed away; […]
ref: 1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., chapter XXXII, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC, page 407:
text: The scuttle-butt is a goodly, round, painted cask, standing on end, and with its upper head removed, showing a narrow circular shelf within, where rest a number of tin cups for the accommodation of drinkers. Central, within the scuttle-butt itself, stands an iron pump, which, connecting with the immense water-tanks in the hold, furnishes an unfailing supply of the much-admired Pale Ale, first brewed in the brooks of the Garden of Eden, and stamped with the brand of our old father Adam, who never knew what wine was.
ref: 1850, Herman Melville, “A Man-of-War Fountain, and Other Things”, in White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers; London: Richard Bentley, published 1855, →OCLC, page 332:
text: It was the middle-watch: a fair moonlight; the seamen were standing in a cordon, extending from one of the fresh-water butts in the waist, to the scuttle-butt near the taffrail. In this manner, they passed the buckets to fill the scuttle-butt.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Hark!”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 217:
text: [T]he scuttle-butts are on the starboard side of the galley. You will find a bottle on one of them that will serve as a dipper. Drink moderately, for your life's sake, and get a pannikin from the galley and bring it aft, filled.
ref: 1880, W[illiam] Clark Russell, “The Survivors of the ‘Waldershare’”, in A Sailor’s Sweetheart. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Searle & Rivington, […], →OCLC, pages 273–274:
glosses: Alternative form of scuttlebutt.
scuttle-butt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scuttle-butts
form: scuttle-butting
form: scuttle-butted
form: scuttle-butted
Senses: examples: text: During the fighting for Manila, it was scuttle-butted among the troops that they must never put pin-up pictures on the walls of the Manila Hotel because Mrs. [Douglas] MacArthur owned fifty per cent of the property and Brigadier General Courtney Whitney, of MacArthur's staff, owned the other half.
ref: 1946, John LaCerda, “Whitecaps on the Moat”, in The Conqueror Comes to Tea: Japan under MacArthur, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →OCLC, pages 97–98:
glosses: Alternative form of scuttlebutt.
water cooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water coolers
form: water-cooler
form: watercooler
Etymology: For the gossip sense, compare scuttlebutt, of similar origin.
Senses: glosses: A dispenser of cooled drinking water.
glosses: A location in the workplace where employees gather to chat or gossip.
Synonyms: water dispenser
Derived terms: water cooler effect
water cooler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more water cooler
form: most water cooler
form: water-cooler
form: watercooler
Etymology: Attributive use of the noun.
Senses: examples: text: In those days The Late Show was Monday water cooler topic du jour.
text: water-cooler gossip, water-cooler talk, water-cooler conversation, water-cooler discussion
glosses: Of the nature of things discussed around a water cooler.
Related terms: barroom
cracker-barrel
water cooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water coolers
Etymology: A category of cooling device.
Senses: glosses: A type of cooling device that uses water as the heat transfer medium.
immaturity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪməˈt͡ʃʊɹɪti/
Forms: form: immaturities
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin immātūritātem.
Senses: examples: text: emotional immaturity
text: childish immaturity
text: stage of immaturity
text: His constant joking showed his immaturity.
text: The plant’s immaturity made it sensitive to frost.
glosses: Youth; the condition of being immature or not fully grown
sassenach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæs.ə.næk/
ipa: /ˈsas.ə.nax/
Forms: form: sassenachs
form: Sassenach
form: sasanach
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Sasannach (“Saxon”).
Senses: examples: text: 'I distinctly heard the barman at that pub last night refer to us as Sassenachs.' 'Well, why not?' said Frank equably. 'It only means "Englishman", after all, or at worst, outsider and we're all of that.' 'I know what it means. It was the tone I objected to.'
ref: 1991, Diana Gabaldon, chapter 1, in Outlander, London: Random House:
glosses: An English person.
examples: text: But the Sassenach tried to starve the nation at home while the land was full of crops that the British hyenas bought and sold in Rio de Janeiro.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A Lowland Scot.
Bactrian camel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæktɹɪən ˈkæməl/
rhymes: -æməl
Forms: form: Bactrian camels
Senses: glosses: The camel with two humps, Camelus bactrianus, native to the steppes of Asia.
papoose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈpuːs/
Forms: form: papooses
Etymology: Borrowed from Narragansett papoos (“a child”).
Senses: examples: text: […] a half-breed what they nicknamed "Splinters" 'cos of the way he fixed up her papoose which he stole on a raid […]
ref: 1893, Bram Stoker, The Squaw:
text: They say he has Indian blood in him. They say he has an Indian wife somewhere, and a lot of papooses. Cherokee.
ref: 1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 11:
text: In the empty Houston streets of four o’clock in the morning a motorcycle kid suddenly roared through, all bespangled and bedecked with glittering buttons, visor, slick black jacket, a Texas poet of the night, girl gripped on his back like a papoose, […]
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 8, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 2:
glosses: A Native American baby.
glosses: A backpack for carrying a baby, or specifically a cradleboard.
Coordinate terms: squaw
buck
Derived terms: papoose board
papoose root
pooseback
pappoose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pappooses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of papoose.
schmutz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃmʊts/
rhymes: -ʊts
Forms: form: shmutz
Etymology: From Yiddish שמוץ (shmuts) or German Schmutz. Doublet of smut.
Senses: examples: text: “Let's take a look at the News 8 WeatherWall with high Doppler action. And this patch right here, um... well, that's a little schmutz there on the old WeatherWall with high Doppler action.”
ref: 2023 August 3, Sarah Naftalis, “Local News” (21:51 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 5, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch):
glosses: dirt, filth
Derived terms: schmutzy
Related terms: smut
scupper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌp.ə/
ipa: /ˈskʌp.ɚ/
rhymes: -ʌpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scuppers
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English scope (“scoop”) or Dutch schop (“shovel”) + -er; or from Dutch scheppen (“to draw off”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A drainage hole on the deck of a ship.
examples: text: I have said that our roof was decidedly Biblical in style; but to make it a dry one, something of a nautical character was added to its architecture, for on either side were scuppers, and it was slightly arched in the centre[.]
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 111:
topics: architecture
glosses: A similar opening in a wall or parapet that allows water to drain from a roof.
Derived terms: scupper hole
scupper hose
scupper nail
scupper plug
scupper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌp.ə/
ipa: /ˈskʌp.ɚ/
rhymes: -ʌpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scuppers
form: scuppering
form: scuppered
form: scuppered
Etymology: Of unknown origin; possibly verbized form of Etymology 1, but this is unlikely.
Senses: examples: text: The bad media coverage scuppered his chances of being elected.
text: ]The only chance was to get the guns and try a rescue. Of course they may scupper them at once in revenge.[
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: This is the face of American exceptionalism[…] threatening to scupper both the court and, failing that, UN peace-keeping operations in Bosnia and anywhere else the US might have forces deployed on such work.
ref: 2002 July 2, Hugo Young, “We can't allow US tantrums to scupper global justice”, in The Guardian:
text: Anthony Watson’s late interception and Owen Farrell’s 100% kicking contribution also helped scupper the Wallabies, despite the promise of their exciting new centre Jordan Petaia and the roadrunner pace of winger Marika Koroibete.
ref: 2019 October 19, Robert Kitson, “England into World Cup semi-finals after bruising victory over Australia”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media:
text: Pacers should have all been withdrawn by now, but that has been scuppered by a failure to deliver new trains on time and delays to infrastructure projects. The most high-profile withdrawals were to be Northern's Class 142s and '144s' (the latter by the end of 2018, and the '142s' by the end of last year).
ref: 2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in RAIL, page 62:
coordinate_terms: scuttle
glosses: To thwart or destroy, especially something belonging or pertaining to another.
piss-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piss-ups
form: pissup
Senses: examples: text: . . . passed: all bullshitted up for the pictures or a piss-up in the town.
ref: 1950, Jocelyn Greene, The Goose Cathedral, The Bodley Head, page 14:
text: Last night a bunch of them turned out to a pub near Edgeware [sic] Road tube (where a few of them had helped treat the injured on the 7th), and we had a good old-fashioned piss-up courtesy of Europhobia's generous readers.
ref: 2005, Tim Worstall, 2005: Dispatches from the Blogosphere, The Friday Project, p 228
text: Therefore with the blessing of Lizzie (herself too upset to attend) Rupert had arranged a sort of pre-wake piss-up in the function room of his London club with a malt whisky tasting, several real ales on tap and a takeaway curry delivered.
ref: 2010, Ben Elton, Meltdown, page 202:
glosses: A party where people consume alcohol.
Derived terms: couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
Related terms: piss
pissed
pissup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pissups
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of piss-up.
Viking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: Vikings
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse víkingr (“Viking”). Already in Old English as wīċing and Old Frisian wītsing, but assumed extinct in Middle English and borrowed anew in the 19th century; any survivals in dialect through the Middle Ages are unknown.
Old Norse víkingr itself is from Old Norse vík (“inlet, cove, fjord”) + -ingr (“one belonging to, one who frequents”) (the -r is the nominative desinence). Thus, “one from or who frequents the sea’s inlets”.
The Old English and Anglo-Frisian form, existing since at least the eighth century, could also have been derived from or influenced by Old English wīc (“camp”), on account of the temporary encampments which were often a prominent feature of the Vikings’ raids.
Others proposals were made, like e.g. deriving víkingr from the root related to the verb víkja or deriving both English and Old Norse words to *wīkingaz related to víkja or wīc.
Senses: examples: text: Henchmen had placed, as was their habit, each warrior's gear and trappings above his pile of skins. Thus you could see the burnished helmet of each warrior set in readiness above his head. It was the Viking habit.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 33:
glosses: Scandinavian/Northern European seafarers, most familiarly raiders and pirates during the Viking age.
topics: fantasy
glosses: A stock character common in the fantasy genre, namely a barbarian, generally equipped with an axe or sword and a helmet adorned with horns.
glosses: A Norseman (medieval Scandinavian).
glosses: An ethnic Swede, Norwegian, Dane, Icelander or Faroe Islander.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player on the Minnesota Vikings NFL team.
glosses: buffet; smorgasbord
Derived terms: word: vike
english: short for Vikings sports team
translation: short for Vikings sports team
word: Vikes
word: Viking Age
word: Viking disease
word: viking
word: Vikingism
word: Viking ship
Viking
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪkɪŋ
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse víkingr (“Viking”). Already in Old English as wīċing and Old Frisian wītsing, but assumed extinct in Middle English and borrowed anew in the 19th century; any survivals in dialect through the Middle Ages are unknown.
Old Norse víkingr itself is from Old Norse vík (“inlet, cove, fjord”) + -ingr (“one belonging to, one who frequents”) (the -r is the nominative desinence). Thus, “one from or who frequents the sea’s inlets”.
The Old English and Anglo-Frisian form, existing since at least the eighth century, could also have been derived from or influenced by Old English wīc (“camp”), on account of the temporary encampments which were often a prominent feature of the Vikings’ raids.
Others proposals were made, like e.g. deriving víkingr from the root related to the verb víkja or deriving both English and Old Norse words to *wīkingaz related to víkja or wīc.
Senses: glosses: A sea area between Scotland and Norway
glosses: A town in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A city in Minnesota.
seafaring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seafaring
form: most seafaring
Etymology: From Middle English safarinde, see farand, se farinde, equivalent to sea + faring (“travelling; journeying; going”). Compare Old English sǣ-līþende (“seafaring”). Cognate with Dutch zeevarend (“seafaring”), German Low German seefahrend (“seafaring”),
German seefahrend (“seafaring”), Danish søfarende (“seafaring”), Swedish sjöfarande (“seafaring”).
Senses: examples: text: There was absolutely nothing about the body to suggest that it might possibly in life have known a maritime experience. It was the body of a low type of man or a high type of beast. In neither instance would it have been of a seafaring race. Therefore I deduced that it was native to Caprona--that it lived inland, and that it had fallen or been hurled from the cliffs above.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
glosses: Living one's life at sea.
examples: text: A rowing boat is not a seafaring craft.
glosses: Fit to travel on the sea; seagoing.
seafaring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seafarings
Etymology: From sea + faring.
Senses: glosses: The act, process, or practice of travelling the seas, such as by sailing or steaming.
glosses: The work or calling of a seafarer, especially a sailor.
arsenal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːsənəl/
ipa: /ˈɑːsnəl/
ipa: /ˈɑɹsənəl/
ipa: /ˈɑɹsnəl/
ipa: /ˈɐːsənəl/
ipa: /ˈɐːsnəl/
Forms: form: arsenals
Etymology: From Italian arsenale, from Arabic دَار الصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “manufacturing shop”), from دَار (dār) + صِنَاعَة (ṣināʕa).
Senses: glosses: A military establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel; an armoury.
glosses: A stock of weapons, especially all the weapons that a nation possesses.
examples: text: Foremost in her arsenal is that smile – so enormous and so absurdly disarming that someone should have worked out a way to harness its power into international conflict resolution.
ref: 2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' [print version: 'I might actually go to hell for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
glosses: A store or supply of anything.
examples: text: He arrived with a large arsenal of cleansers and tools, and got right to work.
text: Elyse Saugstad, a professional skier, wore a backpack equipped with an air bag, a relatively new and expensive part of the arsenal that backcountry users increasingly carry to ease their minds and increase survival odds in case of an avalanche.
ref: 2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2013:
glosses: Any supply of aid collected to prepare a person or army for hardship
Coordinate terms: armory
armoury
Derived terms: arsenal of democracy
arsenal plane
arsenal ship
cyberarsenal
Redstone Arsenal
meliorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meliorists
Etymology: From Latin melior (“better”) and English -ist. Reportedly coined by British author George Eliot in her letters, published in 1877.
Senses: examples: text: "Who knows but that such age-old customs, rooted in dark, immemorial country lore and probably of pagan origin, may not put shallow urban meliorists out of countenance?".
ref: 2001 August 17, “The Peter Simple Column”, in Daily Telegraph:
glosses: A proponent of meliorism
meliorist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meliorist
form: most meliorist
Etymology: From Latin melior (“better”) and English -ist. Reportedly coined by British author George Eliot in her letters, published in 1877.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to meliorism.
glosses: Supporting the principles of meliorism.
kiboze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kibozes
form: kibozing
form: kibozed
form: kibozed
Etymology: back-formation from kibozing, itself an agglutination of Kibo + bozo + ing http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.kibology/browse_thread/thread/222e8778f60a70b2/4fa5dcbe6d0bfdc8?lnk=st&q=kibozing#4fa5dcbe6d0bfdc8.
Senses: examples: The idiot apparently adds spaces to people's names to prevent kibozing. It doesn't help when you're replying to me in a newsgroup I read; I'll find that article just fine. Besides, I don't kiboze. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/misc.fitness.weights/msg/452e24b785207bb5
glosses: To search the Usenet news for a string, particularly one's name or nickname, especially with the intention of posting a follow-up, as popularized by James "Kibo" Parry.
Synonyms: namesearch
Related terms: Kibological
Kibologist
Kibology
kibozer
kibozo
egosurfing
wrath
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɒθ/
ipa: /ɹɔːθ/
ipa: /ɹɑːθ/
ipa: /ɹæθ/
ipa: /ɹæθ/
ipa: /ɹɔθ/
homophone: wroth
homophone: Roth (some speakers)
rhymes: -ɒθ
rhymes: -ɔːθ
rhymes: -æθ
Forms: form: more wrath
form: most wrath
Etymology: A variant of wroth, probably influenced by wrath (noun) (see etymology 1).
Senses: examples: text: Take heede the Queene come not vvithin his ſight,
 For Oberon is paſſing fell and vvrath:
 Becauſe that ſhe, as her attendant, hath
 A louely boy ſtollen, from an Indian king:
 She neuer had ſo ſvveete a changeling.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature B3, recto:
text: VVhereat the Prince full vvrath, his ſtrong right hand
 In full auengement heaued vp on hie,
 And ſtroke the Pagan vvith his ſteely brand
 So ſore, that to his ſaddle bovv thereby
 He bovved lovv, and ſo a vvhile did lie: […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 43, page 120:
text: And Pharao being a vvrath againſt them (for the one vvas chiefe of the cupbearers, the other chiefe baker) he ſent them into the priſon of the captaine of the ſouldiers, in the vvhich Ioſeph alſo vvas priſoner.
ref: 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Genesis 40:2–3, pages 122–123:
text: Th' old Dragon underground
 In ſtraiter limits bound,
 Not half ſo far caſts his uſurped ſvvay,
 And vvrath to ſee his Kingdom fail,
 Svvindges the ſcaly Horrour of his foulded tail.
ref: 1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 9:
text: Lovel, seldom angry, was violently wrath with his brother-in-law; and, almost always polite, was at breakfast scarcely civil to Lady Baker.
ref: 1860 January–June, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “A Black Sheep”, in Lovel the Widower, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1861, →OCLC, page 165:
text: I felt wrath with her. My heart so cherished my harmless, defenceless Lilian, that I was jealous of the praise taken from her to be bestowed on another.
ref: 1861 September 28 – 1862 March 8, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XXXI, in A Strange Story. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], published 1862, →OCLC, page 229:
glosses: Synonym of wroth (“full of anger; wrathful”).
synonyms: word: wroth
extra: full of anger; wrathful
oilskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔɪl.skɪn/
Forms: form: oilskins
Etymology: From oil + skin.
Senses: glosses: Cloth made from cotton and treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof.
examples: text: I noticed Larry to-day had on two vests, two coats, and an overcoat with his oilskin outside of that.
ref: 1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 230:
text: He was preparing to venture out again, when Gaskin opened a locker and brought out an oilskin.
“Hit'll 'elp you keep dry, sir,” holding up the garment.
ref: 1917, Thomas Sigismund Stribling, The Cruise of the Dry Dock, The Last of the Vulcan:
glosses: A raincoat made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof.
synonyms: oilies
glosses: Foul-weather gear worn by sailors, whether of natural or synthetic materials.
Derived terms: oilskinned
Archimedes screw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Archimedes screws
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Archimedes' screw.
materiel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mətɪəɹɪˈɛl/
ipa: /mətɪɹiˈɛl/
ipa: /mətɪɹˈjɛl/
Forms: form: materiels
form: matériel
Etymology: Borrowed from French matériel. Doublet of material.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, it was a 1941 Volkswagen Kübelwagen Type 82, the first acquisition in a collection of war matériel begun 10 years ago by Mr. Coffman, a refrigeration service technician from Marengo, Ill.
ref: 2012 December 15, Tudor Van Hampton, “Check-to-Check Combat Over Vintage War Matériel”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Military equipment, apparatus, and supplies.
Derived terms: antimateriel
matériel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matériels
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of materiel.
attenuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛn.juˌeɪt/
ipa: /əˈten.jʉˌæɪt/
Forms: form: attenuates
form: attenuating
form: attenuated
form: attenuated
Etymology: The verb if first attested in 1530, the adjective in 1626; borrowed from Latin attenuātus, the perfect passive participle of attenuō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + tenuo (“to make thin”), itself from tenuis (“thin”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: A manor-house clock from the far depths of shadow struck the hour, one, in a small, attenuated tone.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 40, in Far From the Madding Crowd:
glosses: To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
examples: text: Clumps of attenuated turkeys were suspended here and there.
ref: 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 4, in His New Mittens:
text: Lovell, wan and hollow-eyed, his arm in a sling, his once burly frame gaunt and attenuated with disease, nodded.
ref: 1906, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 1, in The Malefactor:
glosses: To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
glosses: To become thin or fine; to grow less.
examples: text: We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagreness.
ref: 1851, Sir Francis Palgrave, chapter IV, in The History of Normandy and of England:
glosses: To weaken.
examples: text: "It speedily became apparent that the entire strangeness of our circumstances and surroundings—great loss of weight, attenuated but highly oxygenated air, consequent exaggeration of the results of muscular effort, rapid development of weird plants from obscure spores, lurid sky—was exciting my companion unduly."
ref: 1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 23, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC:
glosses: To rarefy.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.
examples: text: A beer which does not attenuate to the expected level in fermentation will have more residual sugar and thus be sweeter and heavier-bodied.
ref: 2009 July–August, John Palmer, “Attenuation: Advanced Brewing”, in Brew Your Own, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2013:
topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: (of a beer) To become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol.
Derived terms: attenuable
attenuation
attenuative
attenuator
deattenuate
disattenuate
hyperattenuating
hypoattenuating
isoattenuate
reattenuate
Related terms: extenuate
tenuities
tenuity
tenuous
attenuate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛn.juˌeɪt/
ipa: /əˈten.jʉˌæɪt/
Forms: form: more attenuate
form: most attenuate
Etymology: The verb if first attested in 1530, the adjective in 1626; borrowed from Latin attenuātus, the perfect passive participle of attenuō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + tenuo (“to make thin”), itself from tenuis (“thin”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Slender, thin.
glosses: Rarefied, thin, refined.
raw_tags: in consistency
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Gradually tapering into a petiole-like extension toward the base.
raw_tags: of leaves
Derived terms: subattenuate
workbench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɝk.bɛnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: workbenches
Etymology: From work + bench.
Senses: glosses: A sturdy bench or table at which manual work is done by a carpenter, machinist, etc.
examples: text: Mr Plumptre was lying on the work bench with the back of it 'slightly up' when it suddenly collapsed down causing the weights to 'crash' down on his upper abdomen and lower chest.
ref: 2019 July 9, Amie Gordon, “Hospital IT worker, 39, died after gym bench collapsed and he dropped 132lb barbell on his stomach causing deep tears to his liver and spleen, inquest hears”, in Daily Mail:
text: yeah i have been lightly following quite a few of them so far and progress has deff been good but im always afraid of fucking up deadlifts. will be getting adjustable weights soon and a work bench and mainly do squats, presses, and incline situps
ref: 2023 October 25, @Drokar_LDMM, X:
glosses: A horizontal padded surface, usually adjustable in height and inclination and often with attached weight rack, used for proper posture during exercise.
Coordinate terms: worktable
bench § Hyponyms
Samian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin Samian, from Samos.
Senses: examples: text: Fill high the cup with Samian wine.
ref: 1819–1824, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London, (please specify |canto=I to XVII):
synonyms: Samiot
glosses: Of or pertaining to the island of Samos.
Derived terms: Samian earth
Samian ware
Samian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Samians
Etymology: From Latin Samian, from Samos.
Senses: synonyms: Samiot
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Samos.