cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
paco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːkəʊ/
Forms: form: pacos
form: pacoes
Senses: glosses: An alpaca.
examples: text: Mr. Ratcliffe has sometimes found them to contain arsenic in an oxidized state, combined with ferric oxide, and once he met with a paco ore mainly composed of antimony ochre.
ref: 1880, John Percy, Metallurgy: the art of extracting metals from their ores, page 652:
glosses: An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver.
pagi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pagus
pagi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pagis
form: puggy
Etymology: Hindi [Term?]
Senses: glosses: A native tracker; a person employed to track thieves by their footprints etc.
Related terms: alt: pawprint
word: pug
word: pugmark
popolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popolos
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian pōpolo from Proto-Polynesian *polo; cognate with Maori poroporo and pōporo (Solanum aviculare), Tongan polo (“Solanum nigrum”) and Tuvaluan 'opolo (“capsicum”). Skin color meaning comes from analogy to the color of its berries.
Senses: examples: text: The only lack of Kalelealuaka and his comrades was animal food (literally fish) but they supplied its place as well as they could with such herbs as the tender leaves of the popolo, which they cooked like spinach, and with inamona made from the roasted nuts of the kukui tree.
ref: 1883, All about Hawaii, page 36:
text: Popolo is a branching green herb with a tendency to being woody at the base. This annual grows one to three feet high on cultivated land and is regarded as a common weed.
ref: 1975, L. R. McBride, Practical folk medicine of Hawaii, page 67:
text: This mite was collected at the Maui Community College agricultural field (Kahului) on popolo berry on 19 July 1995 by C. McGrath.
ref: 1998, Hawaiian Entomological Society, Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society:
text: He turned and went back at the call of the messenger, taking some popolo fruit and leaves in his cloak.
ref: 2011, William D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods, →ISBN:
glosses: black nightshade (Solanum nigrum).
examples: text: Well, I'm a Hawaiian, but my father was a black-assed popolo—a Portuguese from Bravas, Cabo Verde Islands, who changed his name.
ref: 2004, Miles M. Jackson, Social Process in Hawaii - Volume 43, page 92:
text: When he gets to third, Fe'ao is excited. He sees Curaçao's thir baseman, Denjerick Virginie, starting at him as he slaps his hands together. "What you looking at, popolo?" he barks.
ref: 2007, Charles Euchner, Little League, Big Dreams, →ISBN:
text: I think that most people in Hawaii agree with my mother-in-law's view of Barry as a good Hawaiian boy; a popolo Hawaiian boy, but a Hawaiian boy nonetheless.
ref: 2010, Dave Burgess, A Tale of Two Brothers, →ISBN, page 176:
text: There was a racial order that existed even in this group of tweens. They teased that Chad and I were popolo, Hawaiian slang for black people. Popolo are shiny berries that grow in clusters in the islands and are so black that they shine purple on branches.
ref: 2014, Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, →ISBN:
glosses: A black person.
gymno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”).
Senses: glosses: naked
Related terms: gym
gymnasium
gymnastics
cold short
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cold-short
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of metal: brittle at low temperatures.
Related terms: hot short
yard sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yard sales
form: yardsale
Senses: synonyms: garage sale
tag sale
rummage sale
glosses: A sale of used household goods held on the seller's own premises.
examples: text: Pro athletes are expected to be Very Online. Some polish their profiles to a high shine; Courtney rides her own line. There are the obligatory golden-hour shots, but her Insta also has quirky strength-training videos and footage of total yard sales—like her endoing on a training ride this spring.
ref: 2019 December 9, “The 2019 Outsiders of the Year”, in Outside:
text: No yard sales on my watch!
ref: 2021 February 16, Charlie Berens and DudeDad, The 5 People on the Ski Slopes:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The state of a skier, snowboarder, skateboarder, cyclist, etc. and their equipment after a severe crash, laid out across the ground like items in a yard sale.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A notable fall during a sports activity, such as trail running.
Related terms: word: bake sale
word: boot sale
topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: ragdoll
tag sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tag sales
Senses: glosses: A retail sale in which items included in the sale are tagged with a coloured tag.
examples: text: All of a sudden, my legs went to work on their own, sweeping me into my living room and leaving me at the mahogany bookshelf Iʼd purchased from a tag sale shortly after moving to Catskill.
ref: 2021, Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl, Bloomsbury, page 191:
glosses: A domestic sale of second-hand items; a garage sale or yard sale.
pipe cleaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipe cleaners
Senses: glosses: A piece of flexible wire in which tufted fabric is twisted and which is used to clean out the stem of a tobacco pipe or other narrow tube. It can be also used for arts and crafts.
rabbit ears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the shape of the ears of a rabbit.
Senses: examples: text: He wrangled the rabbit ears to the best place for channel 4.
ref: 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 139:
glosses: An indoor dipole antenna consisting of two usually extensible rods connected to a base to form a V shape.
rabbit ears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rabbit ear
nut butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nut butters
Senses: synonyms: word: nutter
glosses: A spread made from some type of seed or nut, similar to peanut butter.
Related terms: nut-brown butter
peanut butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpiːnʌtˈbʌ.tə/
ipa: /ˈpiːnʌtˌbʌ.tə/
ipa: /ˈpi.nʌtˌbʌ.tɚ/
Forms: form: peanut butters
Senses: examples: text: She likes eating peanut butter on toast.
text: So far as we can determine, peanut butter has no effect on the rotation of the earth.
ref: 2003, George August, Ph.D. with Anita Balliro, Ph.D. et al., “The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth”, in Annals of Improbable Research, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2012:
synonyms: peanut paste
PB
glosses: A spread made from ground peanuts.
Coordinate terms: almond butter
cashew butter
tahini
Derived terms: PB
peanut butter and jelly
peanut butter cup
peanut-buttered
peanut-buttery
peanut butter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpiːnʌtˈbʌ.tə/
ipa: /ˈpiːnʌtˌbʌ.tə/
ipa: /ˈpi.nʌtˌbʌ.tɚ/
Forms: form: peanut butters
form: peanut buttering
form: peanut buttered
form: peanut buttered
Senses: glosses: To spread resources too thin
subsidize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbsɪdaɪz/
Forms: form: subsidizes
form: subsidizing
form: subsidized
form: subsidized
form: subsidise
Etymology: From subsidy + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: By the start of the 19th century, Europe was neckdeep in the Napoleonic Wars, which, at various times, amounted to the British Empire against Europe, and, at others, involved Britain subsidising various nations, such as Austria and Prussia, against Napoleon.
ref: 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 1:18 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
glosses: To assist (someone or something) by granting a subsidy.
Derived terms: cross-subsidize
sub
Related terms: subside
vernal equinox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vernal equinoxes
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The moment when the sun appears to cross the celestial equator while tilting towards the observer, taking place in March in the northern hemisphere and September in the southern hemisphere.
Synonyms: March equinox
northward equinox
spring equinox
Coordinate terms: summer solstice
winter solstice
Derived terms: vernal equinoctial
erudition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛɹʊˈdɪʃən/
Forms: form: eruditions
Etymology: First attested in the 15th Century. From Middle French érudition, from Latin eruditio (“an instructing, learning, erudition”), from erudire (“to instruct, educate, cultivate”, literally “free from rudeness”), from e (“out”) + rudis (“rude”).
Senses: examples: text: Professor Archimedes Q. Porter was their only immediate anxiety. Fully assured in his own mind that his daughter had been picked up by a passing steamer, he gave over the last vestige of apprehension concerning her welfare, and devoted his giant intellect solely to the consideration of those momentous and abstruse scientific problems which he considered the only proper food for thought in one of his erudition.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 179:
glosses: Profound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship.
glosses: The refinement, polish and knowledge that education confers.
Synonyms: sense: profound knowledge
word: knowledge
sense: profound knowledge
word: information
sense: profound knowledge
word: learning
sense: profound knowledge
word: lore
sense: profound knowledge
word: scholarship
sense: profound knowledge
word: scholarism
Related terms: erudite
rude
naughty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔːti/
ipa: /ˈnɔti/
ipa: [ˈnɔɾi]
ipa: /ˈnɑti/
ipa: [ˈnɑɾi]
rhymes: -ɔːti
homophone: knotty (cot–caught merger)
homophone: noddy (cot–caught merger, flapping)
Forms: form: naughtier
form: naughtiest
form: noughty
Etymology: From late Middle English noughti, naughty (“evil, immoral, wicked”), from nought (“evil, immoral”) + -ī̆ (suffix forming adjectives). Analysable as naught + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Some naughty boys at school hid the teacher's lesson notes.
glosses: Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).
examples: text: I bought some naughty lingerie for my honeymoon.
text: If I see you send another naughty email to your friends, you will be forbidden from using the computer!
glosses: Sexually provocative; now in weakened sense, risqué, cheeky.
examples: text: You knew I had to include at least one naughty chocolate smoothie, didn't you?!
ref: 2014 November 18, Amber Shea Crawley, Practically Raw: Flexible Raw Recipes Anyone Can Make, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Decadent, had as indulgence, especially an unhealthy one.
raw_tags: of a treat
examples: text: my proneſſe to ſinne, and naughty appetites and desires, woulde drawe me headlong to the pitte of hell
ref: 1589, John Bucke, Instructions for the Use of the Beades:
text: […]How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: Wholesome meats to a vitiated stomack differ little or nothing from unwholesome; and best books to a naughty mind are not unappliable to occasions of evill.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
text: Meowky as naughty folks
ref: 1983, Namco, Mappy:
glosses: Evil, wicked, morally reprehensible.
examples: text: In Cornwall is two speches, the one is naughty Englysshe, and the other is Cornysshe speche.
ref: 1542, Andrew Boorde, The First Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge:
text: One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 24:2:
glosses: Bad, worthless, substandard.
Synonyms: sense: immoral, sexually provocative
word: dirty
sense: mischievous
word: mischievous
Derived terms: naughtily
naughtiness
naughty bit
naughtyish
naughty list
naughty-pack
naughty parts
naughty step
naughty word
naughty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔːti/
ipa: /ˈnɔti/
ipa: [ˈnɔɾi]
ipa: /ˈnɑti/
ipa: [ˈnɑɾi]
rhymes: -ɔːti
homophone: knotty (cot–caught merger)
homophone: noddy (cot–caught merger, flapping)
Forms: form: naughties
form: naughtying
form: naughtied
form: naughtied
Etymology: From late Middle English noughti, naughty (“evil, immoral, wicked”), from nought (“evil, immoral”) + -ī̆ (suffix forming adjectives). Analysable as naught + -y.
Senses: glosses: To perform sexual acts upon.
troublemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌbəlˌmeɪkə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: troublemakers
form: trouble-maker
form: trouble maker
Etymology: From trouble + make + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who causes trouble, especially one who does so deliberately.
synonyms: word: bellyacher
word: carper
word: castigator
word: caviler
word: censurer
word: complainer
word: crabber
word: critic
word: criticizer
word: faultfinder
word: findfault
word: grouch
word: grumbler
word: hafter
word: kvetcher
word: latrant
word: nitpicker
word: pettifogger
word: pick-fault
word: quibbler
word: scolder
word: smellfungus
word: sourpuss
word: squeaky wheel
word: troublemaker
word: vituperator
word: whiner
word: whinger
word: whining Willy
glosses: A complainer.
Synonyms: word: agitator
word: bad boy
word: bad news
word: bear
word: bhoy
word: blackguard
word: booger
word: boot boy
word: bovver boy
word: brat
word: brawler
word: breedbate
word: buffoon
word: bugger
word: bully
word: charva
word: cutup
word: devil
word: elf
word: enfant terrible
word: firebrand
word: gadfly
word: hell-raiser
word: hood
word: hoodlum
word: hool
word: hoolie
word: hooligan
word: hothead
word: imp
word: inciter
word: initiator
word: instigator
word: jackanapes
word: joker
word: jokester
word: kindle-coal
word: kindle-fire
word: knave
word: lout
word: makebate
word: minx
word: mischief
word: mischief-maker
word: miscreant
word: ne'er-do-well
word: pixie
word: pot stirrer
word: practical joker
word: prankster
word: puck
word: rabble rouser
word: rakeshame
word: rantipole
word: rapscallion
word: rascal
word: rogue
word: roly-poly
word: rowdy
word: ruffian
word: scamp
word: scapegrace
word: scoundrel
word: shit disturber
word: shitmonger
word: shit-stirrer
word: tearaway
word: thug
word: titivil
word: tough
word: troublemaker
word: undesirable
word: vandal
word: wag
word: wagpastie
word: wrangler
word: yob
word: yobbo
Hyponyms: word: chav
word: fearmonger
word: fearmongerer
word: lager lout
word: Lycra lout
word: panicmonger
word: Saga lout
word: scaremonger
Related terms: word: troublemaking
word: troubleshooter
word: troubleshooting
word: badness
word: cheeky
word: criminal
word: villain
word: maverick
realia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪˈɑːlɪə/
ipa: /ɹiːˈeɪlɪə/
rhymes: -ɑːliə
rhymes: -eɪliə
Etymology: From Late Latin realia, neuter plural of realis (“real”).
Senses: examples: text: It might be possible, for example, to work backwards from the known realia of Visigothic Spain.
ref: 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 28:
glosses: Objects from real life or from the real world, as opposed to theoretical constructs or fabricated examples.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Words and expressions for culture-specific material elements.
examples: text: "We acquire entire collections of materials for research purposes," explains Saundra Taylor, curator of manuscripts at the Lilly Library at Indiana University in Bloomington. "That inevitably includes something that's not books or manuscripts."
ref: 2002 April 14, Lev Grossman, “Catalog This”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 May 2021, Education Life, page 26:
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: libraries
glosses: Physical objects in a library collection that do not fit into traditional categories of media, whose media are the objects themselves, as opposed to their informational content, such as artifacts, tools, memorabilia, and naturally-occurring specimens.
like shooting fish in a barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Opponents contend that the lumbering creatures are so easy to shoot that a moose hunt is a slaughter, not a sport. "It's like shooting fish in a barrel," they say.
ref: 1982 April 2, Associated Press, “Entrants Gamble For Chance To Stalk Big Game”, in The Dispatch, USA, retrieved 18 Jul 2012, page 20:
text: For a photographer, shooting twins at the annual Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, must be like shooting fish in a barrel.
ref: 2003 October 24, Ken Johnson, “Art in Review: Mary Ellen Mark—‘Twins’”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Jul 2012:
text: Standing on those long straight roads with the speed detection gun was like shooting fish in a barrel, somebody said.
ref: 2005 March 29, John S. Doyle, “We're all sport crazy... but for all the wrong sports”, in Irish Independent, Ireland, retrieved 18 Jul 2012:
synonyms: easy as pie
like taking candy from a baby
qualifier: simile
glosses: Extremely easy; sometimes with a connotation of triumph but at other times with a connotation of being meaningless and unsatisfying.
Related terms: bagatelle
breeze
cakewalk
cinch
doddle
duck soup
piece of cake
piece of piss
turkey shoot
walk in the park
walkover
barrel of monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæɹ(ə)l‿əv ˈmʌŋkiz/
ipa: /ˌbæɹəl‿əv ˈmʌŋkiz/
ipa: /bɛ-/
Forms: form: barrels of monkeys
Etymology: Possibly influenced by barrel of fun or barrel of laughs.
Senses: examples: text: He thinks he’s a barrel of monkeys, but he’s not particularly entertaining.
synonyms: hoot
riot
glosses: Someone or something very amusing or funny, fun, mischievous, etc.
Related terms: monkey about
monkey around
monkeyshine
inasmuch
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnəzˈmʌt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ
Etymology: Univerbation of in + as + much ("to such a degree"), from Middle English in als mikel, a Northern form.
Senses: examples: text: Not only so, but where they see the place of their fathers and of the just, they are hereby punished; for a chaos deep and large is fixed between them, inasmuch that a just man that hath compassion on them, cannot be admitted, nor can an unjust man if he were bold enough to attempt it, pass over it.
ref: 1836, Wilson C. Rider, A Course of Lectures on Future Punishment, page 125:
text: As to what in general respects the life of souls, or spirits lately decease, it was made manifest to me by much experience, that a man, when he comes into another life, does not know that he is in another life, imagining that he is still in the world, yea, in his own body; inasmuch, that when he is informed that he is a spirit, he is filled with wonder and astonishment, as well because he is altogether as a man, as to his senses, desires and thoughts, as from this, that he did not believe, when he lived in the world, that he was a spirit, or (as is the case with some) that a spirit could be such.
ref: 1848, Emanuel Swedenborg, Selections from the Memorabilia of Swedenborg:
text: Inasmuch some desire to hold fast to the counsel or conclusions of the old brethren, which was, that previous to marriage the bans were published three times, which they think is a good order, and not at all inconsistent with the gospel; but now some assert that this publishing at the close of the meeting was against their conscience, and think that the effect of the word preached before was thereby interrupted; while, on the other hand, brethren think that there is danger in solemnizing marriage without publishing before, inasmuch we can not know how matters stand with young fold, and there might be danger, even if they are neighbour's or brother's children and we think, if we were so closely restricted by our conscience not to publish the bans, then we would also marry none.
ref: 1876, Minutes of the Annual Meetings of the Brethren, page 53:
text: It seemed to me that the King was making uncomplimentary remarks about his dead father in the coffin, inasmuch to say that his father in the coffin was the same kind of man as what people were accusing me of being.
ref: 1913, United States. Army Medical Department, Bulletin, page 109:
text: Inasmuch as the phase line has a negative slope at #92;bar#123;k#125;, the equilibrium is readily identified as a stable one […]
ref: 2005, Alpha C. Chiang and Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics, fourth edition, McGraw-Hill, page 500:
glosses: In like degree; in like manner; to the same or similar degree; likewise.
Derived terms: inasmuch as
unabashedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnəˈbæʃɪdli/
Forms: form: more unabashedly
form: most unabashedly
Etymology: From unabashed + -ly or un- + abashedly.
Senses: examples: text: She and her two best friends are choreographing a number for the talent show; she’s applied to California Institute of the Arts; and she flirts unabashedly with a cute pizza server. (The better to land a couple of extra pepperonis on her slice without an upcharge.)
ref: 2019 May 9, Aisha Harris, “‘Jinn’ Review: A Not So Typical Coming-of-Age Story”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2019:
glosses: In an unabashed manner; without embarrassment or hesitation.
just the same
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He didn't like it one bit, but he smiled just the same.
glosses: Anyway; nevertheless.
Synonyms: all the same
even so
nonetheless
withal
nevertheless
chords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: cords
Senses: glosses: plural of chord
no-name
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: They went with a no-name shop on the edge of town.
text: A week after we met we were married in a no-name town in the middle of the night by a justice of the peace whose shingle was hanging in front of his house.
ref: 1999, Barbara Delinsky, chapter 21, in Lake News, Pocket Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 389:
glosses: Lacking a recognizable name, identity, or reputation; not noteworthy.
Related terms: nameless
no-name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no-names
Senses: examples: text: If you hire some no-name for the job, be sure to check references.
glosses: Someone or something lacking a recognizable name, identity, or reputation.
imprudent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹudənt/
Forms: form: more imprudent
form: most imprudent
Etymology: From Middle French imprudent, from Latin imprūdens (“not foreseeing, ignorant”), prefix im- (“not”) + prūdens (“foreseeing, skilled, judicious”).
Senses: examples: text: Here Her Majesty took a great dislike at the imprudent behavior of many of the Ministers and Readers.
ref: 1711, John Strype, Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury:
text: ‘It was a most 'imprudent thing to go up Helvellyn in such weather,’ said Fräulein Müller, shaking her head gloomily as she ate her fish.
ref: 1853, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, chapter 3, in Phantom Fortune, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2012:
text: My uncle, falling back into his absorbing contemplations, had already forgotten my imprudent words. I merely say imprudent, for the great mind of so learned a man of course had no place for love affairs, and happily the grand business of the document gained me the victory.
ref: 1864, Jules Verne, chapter 3, in Journey to the Interior of the Earth, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2012:
synonyms: indiscreet
injudicious
incautious
ill-advised
unwise
heedless
careless
rash
negligent
antonyms: prudent
glosses: Not prudent; lacking prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not paying attention to the consequences of one's actions.
Derived terms: imprudently
imprudentness
Related terms: imprudence
day in, day out
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: day-in-day-out
Senses: examples: text: Even if you like peanut butter sandwiches, eating the same sandwiches day in, day out will get old.
text: There were derailments happening day in and day out, due in part to 'shunting mishaps' but more frequently involving wagons in freight trains due to a combination of poor track and speed.
ref: 2022 January 26, John Crosse, “When the tide turned to a safer railway...”, in RAIL, number 949, page 52:
synonyms: day after day
glosses: Every day; daily; constantly or continuously (especially, of something that has become routine or monotonous).
Related terms: week in, week out
year in, year out
night in, night out
month in, month out
retool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rē-to͞ol
ipa: /riːˈtuːl/
ipa: /riˈtʉl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: retools
form: retooling
form: retooled
form: retooled
Etymology: From re- + tool.
Senses: examples: text: He decided it was time to retool last year's marketing brochure.
text: The coronation of a British ruler is, of course, a political ritual and a religious ceremony. But it is also, as the crowning of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 established, a TV show. It’s an anachronistic assertion of divine right retooled to recognize that, in the electronic era, even hereditary rulers have to argue their relevance.
ref: 2023 May 6, James Poniewozik, “Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To adjust; to optimize; to rebuild.
gewgaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡjuːɡɔː/
ipa: /ˈɡuɡɔ/
ipa: /ˈɡuɡɑ/
Forms: form: gewgaws
form: geegaw
form: gew-gaw
form: gee-gaw
Etymology: From earlier gugaw, gygaw, from Middle English givegove (“gewgaw, trifle”), a reduplication of Middle English give, geove (“gift”), from Old English giefu, geofu, geafu (“gift”), from Proto-Germanic *gebō (“gift”). Compare Icelandic gyligjöf (“showy gifts, gewgaw”). More at give.
Senses: examples: text: A heavy gewgaw called a crown.
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Tenth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
text: It was a Saxon ornament. […] Some Puritan, before his departure, may have thought himself doing God service by filching the old golden gewgaw.
ref: 1883, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 15, in Doctor Grimshawe's Secret:
text: “I am not of the neighbourhood,” said Mallow, calmly, “but the matter is irrelevant. I have had the honour to send you a little gift yesterday ——” [¶] The tech-man’s nose lifted. “I received it. An interesting gewgaw. I may have use for it on occasion.” [¶] I have other and more interesting gifts. Quite out of the gewgaw stage.”
ref: 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 11, page 163, ¶¶ 2–4
text: You or I may well view our desire to push buttons and order new electronic gewgaws as the mere reflex spasms of consumerism, but to this dynamic duo the future of the earth depends on our instant gratification more than anything else.
ref: 2011, Will Self, “The frowniest spot on Earth”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.9:
glosses: A showy trifle, a toy; a showy trinket, ornament or decoration.
Derived terms: gewgawed
gewgawry
gewgawy
gewgaw
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡjuːɡɔː/
ipa: /ˈɡuɡɔ/
ipa: /ˈɡuɡɑ/
Forms: form: geegaw
form: gew-gaw
form: gee-gaw
Etymology: From earlier gugaw, gygaw, from Middle English givegove (“gewgaw, trifle”), a reduplication of Middle English give, geove (“gift”), from Old English giefu, geofu, geafu (“gift”), from Proto-Germanic *gebō (“gift”). Compare Icelandic gyligjöf (“showy gifts, gewgaw”). More at give.
Senses: examples: text: The rattle of a globe to play withal,
This gewgaw world, and put him cheaply off;
ref: 1678, Dryden, John, All for Love, Scene II:
text: Seeing his gewgaw castle shine,
New as his title, built last year.
ref: 1855, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Maud; A Monodrama, X, stanza 1:
glosses: Showy; unreal; pretentious.
Synonyms: gewgawish
Derived terms: word: Jew's harp
unearthly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈɜːθ.li/
ipa: /ʌnˈɝθ.li/
Forms: form: unearthlier
form: unearthliest
Etymology: From un- + earthly.
Senses: examples: text: They were, I now saw, the most unearthly creatures it is possible to conceive.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 205:
text: In the hard glare of the Searchlight, which had been manned by Seaman 2nd class Evans W. Watkins, the rock had the unearthly look of a miniature satellite in space.
ref: 2012, Charles Lockwood, Tragedy at Honda, page 65:
glosses: Not of the earth; non-terrestrial.
examples: text: I believe that we are the last human beings who will ever see that unearthly sight.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: As a fourth finger snapped, Cacus gave an unearthly scream and relented.
ref: 2011, Steven Saylor, Roma: The Epic Novel of Ancient Rome:
glosses: Preternatural or supernatural.
examples: text: I then set out to survey the town in the self-same palankeen. The houses had all of them an unearthly appearance, by no means consonant to our ideas of Oriental splendor.
ref: 1819, [publ. Sep 1858], James Morton, “The Poetical Remains of the late Dr. John Leyden, with Memoirs of his Life”, in The Calcutta Review, volume 31, page 25:
glosses: Strange, enigmatic, or mysterious.
examples: text: By the late sixteenth century Elizabeth had become the icon-like Virgin Queen of legend, an image created, to a large extent, by her extraordinary, unearthly costume and appearance.
ref: 2000, Aileen Ribeiro, The Gallery of Fashion, page 42:
glosses: Ideal beyond the mundane.
examples: text: I see my boys all wearing the same unearthly trousers, the same hair cuts, garish ties and sweaters, all rolling their socks and entertaining the same crazy notions about everything.
ref: 1927, The Walther League Messenger, volume 36, page 225:
text: Two daily freight trips are run between Bristol West Depot and Wells. The first leaves Bristol at the unearthly hour of 3.50 a.m. and enters the branch at Yatton an hour later, over two hours before the first passenger train.
ref: 1961 May, Mark B. Warburton, “Yatton and its branches to Clevedon and Wells”, in Trains Illustrated, page 281:
glosses: Ridiculous, ludicrous, or outrageous.
itsy-bitsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪtsi ˈbɪtsi/
Forms: form: itsy-bitsier
form: itsy-bitsiest
form: itsy bitsy
form: itty-bitty
Etymology: From itty (baby-talk form of little) and/or bitsy.
Senses: examples: text: The itsy-bitsy spider climbed up the water spout.
text: She wore an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny yellow polka-dot bikini.
text: So if five noahs got trapped in that itsy bitsy net, then how many are out there along the other 20 miles of beaches?
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 108:
synonyms: incy wincy
itty-bitty
teeny-weeny
glosses: Very small; minuscule.
Derived terms: itsy
itsy-bitsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪtsi ˈbɪtsi/
Forms: form: itsy-bitsies
form: itsy bitsy
form: itty-bitty
Etymology: From itty (baby-talk form of little) and/or bitsy.
Senses: glosses: A very small thing; something tiny or insignificant.
telluric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more telluric
form: most telluric
Etymology: A borrowing of French tellurique, from Latin tellus (“earth; earthy”) and Tellus (“Earth, Gaia”) and -ique (forming adjectives). Subsequently also from tellurium, originally in telluric oxide from German Telluroxyd.
Senses: examples: text: My sister always says she loves novels where you feel an elemental strength, primordial, telluric.
ref: 1981, Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler:
synonyms: earthly
terrestrial
tellurian
terrene
glosses: Pertaining to the Earth, earthly.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing tellurium in a lower valency than in tellurous compounds.
Derived terms: hydrotelluric
telluric acid
telluric bismuth
telluric current
telluric gold
telluric iron
telluric ocher
telluric ochre
telluric oxide
telluric planet
telluric silver
telluric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tellurics
Etymology: A borrowing of French tellurique, from Latin tellus (“earth; earthy”) and Tellus (“Earth, Gaia”) and -ique (forming adjectives). Subsequently also from tellurium, originally in telluric oxide from German Telluroxyd.
Senses: examples: text: Other projects in progress at CRPL involve the study of audiofrequency tellurics (current induced in the earth) and earth conductivity measurements using atmospherics.
ref: 1964, United States. National Bureau of Standards, Technical News Bulletin, volumes 48-49, page 131:
glosses: Synonym of telluric current.
synonyms: word: telluric current
Related terms: tellurous
direct inward dialing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The ability to make an external telephone call to an internal extension within an organization.
Derived terms: DID
cockle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒkl̩/
ipa: /ˈkɑk(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɒkəl
Forms: form: cockles
Etymology: From Middle English cokel, cokkel, kokkel, cocle, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a diminutive of Middle English cokke, cok (“cockle”), from Old English cocc (found in sǣcocc (“cockle”)) + -le; or perhaps from Old French coquille, from Vulgar Latin *cocchilia, from conchylia, from Ancient Greek κογχύλιον (konkhúlion), diminutive of κογχύλη (konkhúlē, “mussel”), of Pre-Greek substrate origin.
Senses: examples: text: His wife, a small woman who walked always on high heels, borrowed Gerhardie's primus stove several times a day to cook her husband gargantuan meals of cockles, mussels, snails, and other such unpalatables.
ref: 1990, Dido Davies, Andrew Davies, William Gerhardie: A Biography, page 164:
glosses: Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
glosses: The shell of such a mollusk.
qualifier: directly from French coquille
glosses: A wrinkle, pucker
glosses: A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
glosses: Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
glosses: The dome of a heating furnace.
glosses: The fire chamber of a furnace.
glosses: A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
topics: business
mining
glosses: The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
Derived terms: blood cockle
cockle-bread
cockleman
cockler
cockleshell
cocklestove
cockle wife
cocklewoman
cockly
common cockle
corn cockle
corncockle
earcockle
ear cockle
hotcockles
moulding of cockle bread
warm the cockles of someone's heart
Related terms: scallop
cockle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒkl̩/
ipa: /ˈkɑk(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɒkəl
Forms: form: cockles
form: cockling
form: cockled
form: cockled
Etymology: From Middle English cokel, cokkel, kokkel, cocle, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a diminutive of Middle English cokke, cok (“cockle”), from Old English cocc (found in sǣcocc (“cockle”)) + -le; or perhaps from Old French coquille, from Vulgar Latin *cocchilia, from conchylia, from Ancient Greek κογχύλιον (konkhúlion), diminutive of κογχύλη (konkhúlē, “mussel”), of Pre-Greek substrate origin.
Senses: glosses: To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
cockle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒkl̩/
ipa: /ˈkɑk(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɒkəl
Forms: form: cockles
Etymology: From Middle English cockil, cokil, cokylle, from Old English coccel (“darnel”), of unknown origin, perhaps from a diminutive of Latin coccus (“berry”).
Senses: examples: text: But cockle, spurge, according to their law / Might propagate their kind, with none to awe, / You'd think; a burr had been a treasure trove.
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section X:
glosses: Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
Synonyms: sense: Lolium temulentum
word: darnel
sense: Lolium temulentum
word: false wheat
Related terms: aquatic cockle
cocklebur
corncockle
cheat
ryegrass
tare
vetch
cockle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒkl̩/
ipa: /ˈkɑk(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɒkəl
Forms: form: cockles
form: cockling
form: cockled
form: cockled
Etymology: Origin uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: Israel Wilde arrived last, his ankle swollen and already berry-blue after cockling at the top of Hatherself Scout.
ref: 2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 32:
glosses: To wobble, shake; to be unsteady.
cockle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒkl̩/
ipa: /ˈkɑk(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɒkəl
Forms: form: cockles
Etymology: Rhyming slang, from cock and hen for ten.
Senses: glosses: A £10 note; a tenner.
trompe l'oeil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trôɴp löy
ipa: /ˈtɹɔ̃p ˈlœj/
ipa: /ˈtɹɔmp ˈlɔɪ/
ipa: /-ˈleɪ/
Forms: form: trompe l'oeil
form: trompe l'oeils
form: trompe l’œil
form: trompe-l’oeil
form: trompe-l’œil
Etymology: Borrowed from French trompe-l’œil (literally “deceives the eye”), from trompe (“deceives”, third-person singular present indicative of tromper) + l’ (“the”, prevocalic form of le) + œil (“eye”).
Senses: examples: text: It looked like a private apartment, and yet it seemed also to be a place of business. It was furnished in decorative style with plastic, trick art objects hanging on the walls, geometrical forms of the trompe l'oeil type that intrigue business people. They are peculiarly vulnerable to art racketeers.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 74:
text: In 2008 they moved to New York, where they made waves at the 2010 Whitney Biennial with their “Fold” paintings, spray-painted canvases that were flat but seemed crumpled, a trompe l’oeil trick that reflected the artist’s enduring preoccupation with interdimensionality.
ref: 2023 March 16, Julia Felsenthal, “An Artist Whose Work Might (Possibly) Have Its Own Free Will”, in The New York Times Style Magazine:
glosses: A genre of painting that exploits human vision to create the illusion that the subject of the painting is real.
glosses: A painting of this kind.
Synonyms: quodlibet
docent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊ.sənt/
ipa: /ˈdoʊ.sənt/
Forms: form: more docent
form: most docent
Etymology: From Latin docēns, present participle of doceō (“to teach”). In the meaning of a university grade, as used in some Central European countries, it is clipped version of private docent, privat-docent, from German Privatdozent, from German Dozent.
Senses: glosses: Instructive; that teaches.
docent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊ.sənt/
ipa: /ˈdoʊ.sənt/
Forms: form: docents
Etymology: From Latin docēns, present participle of doceō (“to teach”). In the meaning of a university grade, as used in some Central European countries, it is clipped version of private docent, privat-docent, from German Privatdozent, from German Dozent.
Senses: examples: text: Zermelo had been a docent at Göttingen when Kit was there and, like Russell, had been preoccupied with the set of all sets that are not members of themselves.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 1212:
glosses: A teacher or lecturer at some universities (in central Europe, etc.)
examples: text: The docent greeted the visitors and welcomed them to the Smithsonian.
text: She was listening distractedly as an elderly docent intoned to a circle of listless children.
ref: 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 149:
glosses: A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc.
Related terms: docile
doctor
doctorate
doctrinaire
doctrinal
doctrine
document
indoctrinate
class action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: class actions
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: class action lawsuit
class suit
representative action
glosses: A lawsuit brought by a single plaintiff or small group of plaintiffs as a representative of a large group of others having a common interest, with everyone in the large group eligible to receive damages if the plaintiff is successful.
musaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuːˈseɪʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more musaceous
form: most musaceous
Etymology: From the family name Musaceae + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Now there grows among all the rooms, replacing the night’s old smoke, alcohol and sweat, the fragile, musaceous odor of Breakfast: flowery, permeating, surprising
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
glosses: Pertaining to a banana or plantain.
reprieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹiːv/
Forms: form: reprieves
form: reprieving
form: reprieved
form: reprieved
form: repryve
form: reprive
Etymology: First use appears c. 1513 in the writings of Robert Fabyan. In the sense of “to take back to prison”, from Middle English repryen (“to remand, detain”) (1494), possibly from Middle French repris, in the form of reprendre (“take back”); a cognate to reprise. The sense has become generalized, but does retain connotations of punishment and execution. The noun's first use appears c. 1592.
Senses: glosses: To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution.
examples: text: Company […] may reprieve a man from his melancholy, yet it cannot secure him from his conscience.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To bring relief to someone.
glosses: To take back to prison (in lieu of execution).
examples: text: At the time of writing the halts have been reprieved due to doubts as to the legality of the withdrawal of services. It is feared that this reprieve may not outlast the summer timetable which, on the section in question, provides only a skeleton of the former service.
ref: 1960 August, L. Hyland, “The Irish Scene”, in Trains Illustrated, page 468:
glosses: To abandon or postpone plans to close, withdraw or abolish (something).
Derived terms: reprieval
Related terms: reprehend
reprisal
reprise
reprieve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹiːv/
Forms: form: reprieves
form: repryve
form: reprive
Etymology: First use appears c. 1513 in the writings of Robert Fabyan. In the sense of “to take back to prison”, from Middle English repryen (“to remand, detain”) (1494), possibly from Middle French repris, in the form of reprendre (“take back”); a cognate to reprise. The sense has become generalized, but does retain connotations of punishment and execution. The noun's first use appears c. 1592.
Senses: examples: text: The prisoner was saved from execution; the governor had requested a reprieve.
glosses: The cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
glosses: A document authorizing such an action.
examples: text: Yet it was not easy, on the balance of play, to be convinced by Pellegrini and his defeated players that the reprieve might somehow be a defining moment over the two legs.
ref: 2015 February 24, Daniel Taylor, “Luis Suárez strikes twice as Barcelona teach Manchester City a lesson”, in The Guardian (London):
glosses: Relief from pain etc., especially temporary.
examples: text: At the time of writing the halts have been reprieved due to doubts as to the legality of the withdrawal of services. It is feared that this reprieve may not outlast the summer timetable which, on the section in question, provides only a skeleton of the former service.
ref: 1960 August, L. Hyland, “The Irish Scene”, in Trains Illustrated, page 468:
text: And it said there was no reprieve for 435 stations already approved for closure before the report appeared.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53:
glosses: A cancellation or postponement of a proposed event undesired by many.
inked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪŋkt
Etymology: From Middle English inked, ynkid (“written in ink”), equivalent to ink + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a tattoo or tattoos.
Derived terms: beinked
uninked
inked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪŋkt
Etymology: From ink + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ink
goat antelope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goat antelopes
form: goat-antelope
Senses: synonyms: caprid
glosses: Any of a group of herbivore mammals, the subfamily Caprinae, that includes domestic sheep and goats.
cognac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.jæk/
ipa: /ˈkəʊn.jæk/
homophone: konjac
Forms: form: cognacs
Etymology: Borrowed from French cognac, from Cognac, a city in France, from Medieval Latin Comniacum, from the name Cominius + Gallo-Roman suffix -acum, from Proto-Celtic *-ākom.
Senses: examples: text: Major manufacturers add a small proportion of caramel to color their cognacs.
text: Cognac, with the addition of a little paprika and the yolk of an egg, is considered an effective aphrodisiac aid.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 156:
text: We’d have a script meeting for the next day’s shooting that lasted until two in the morning, and he’d be up again at six for a breakfast meeting. I survived on cognac. I have no idea how he did it.
ref: 2012, Pete Townshend, Who I Am, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 265:
text: David Mason, Beverage and Bar Manager at St. Regis, describes the complex aromas and layered palate of the cognac thus: “It’s kind of autumn flavors. Really nutty, almondy – kind of fig, plum, dried fruits. But it finishes off really smoothly but with a little bit of tobacco leaf.”
ref: 2016 December 16, Peter Shadbolt, “What does a $22,000 cognac actually taste like?”, in CNN:
glosses: A brandy distilled from white wine in the region around Cognac in France.
Hypernyms: brandy
liquor
Derived terms: cognac glass
Related terms: Armagnac
Cognac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Cognac, from Occitan Conhac, from Medieval Latin Comniacum, from the name Cominius, Cominia + Gallo-Roman suffix -acum (from Latin -ācea).
Senses: glosses: A city and commune of Charente department, region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; famous for cognac brandy.
wikipedia: Cominia gens
Derived terms: cognac
département
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: départements
Etymology: From French département. Doublet of department.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, the political–territorial pattern has been maintained but also redirected at the départemental level by the transformation of former ministerial départemental directorates into inter-ministerial units, under the supervision of the prefects of the département.
ref: 2016, Philippe Bezes, “Challenges to French Public Administration: Mapping the Vitality of Its Knowledge Sources”, in Robert Elgie, Emiliano Grossman, Amy G[ale] Mazur, editors, The Oxford Handbook of French Politics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part III (Institutions), page 265:
glosses: An administrative unit in various French-speaking countries, smaller than a région, similar to an English county.
Related terms: départemental
Rabbie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæb.i/
rhymes: -æbi
Senses: glosses: A Scottish form of Robbie, a short form of the male given name Robert.