cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lose one's rag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loses one's rag
form: losing one's rag
form: lost one's rag
form: lost one's rag
Senses: examples: text: 1928, Ethel May Dell, The Gate Marked "Private", G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 248,
[…] he could not have said wherefore. “She was dressed as a bride if you must know,” he said. “But I don’t know what you’ve got to lose your rag about. She’s nothing to you.”
text: c'''1934, in Famous Plays of 1933–1934, page 449,
Doll: Well, I’ll be trotting along. Sorry I lost my rag with […]
text: 1937, Arthur Calder-Marshall, Pie in the Sky, C. Scribner’s sons, page 315,
[…] home now and was I going to come with him or wasn’t I? And I lost my rag and said, no, it was his duty to take me home, not mine to take him.
text: 1944, in William Boyd (Ed.), Evacuation in Scotland: A Record of Events and Experiments, University of London Press, Ltd., page 187,
There is frankness of discussion and remark. For instance, it is quite usual for a visiting member of the staff to ask, ‘How is your temper these days?’ The reply might be, ‘I haven’t lost my rag for a week,’ which is an achievement.
text: 2006, Louise Rennison, Startled by His Furry Shorts, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 127–128,
The last time I went to God’s house, Call-Me-Arnold lost his rag with me. Which is a bit un-Christian. After all, there was no real damage done vis-à-vis the elderly pensioner’s scarf inferno incident.
text: 2007, Patricia Ferguson, Peripheral Vision, Solidus, →ISBN, page 295,
‘Come on, everyone loses their rag occasionally. It can’t be that bad. […] ’
text: E-mail alone didn't make the office passive-aggressive, as we were going that way anyway. It all started a couple of decades ago when the four great forces of modern office life, political correctness, HR, PR, and litigiousness, ruled that it was no longer acceptable to lose your rag.
ref: 2016, Lucy Kellaway on BBC "Business Daily" (April 18)
glosses: To become angry.
Synonyms: blow one's top
go ape
go apeshit
hit the roof
hit the ceiling
lose it
lose one's temper
get one's kit off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's kit off
form: getting one's kit off
form: got one's kit off
form: got one's kit off
Senses: examples: text: The woman in this film is not shy about getting her kit off, is she?
glosses: To undress or be naked.
leg it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: legs it
form: legging it
form: legged it
form: legged it
Senses: examples: text: After snatching my handbag he just legged it.
glosses: To run away, to flee.
examples: text: As soon as I heard about the fire I legged it over here as fast as I could.
glosses: To hurry.
Synonyms: book it
beat it
hightail it
scarper
scram
skedaddle
vamoose
puffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌft/
rhymes: -ʌft
Etymology: From puff + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of puff
puffed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌft/
rhymes: -ʌft
Forms: form: more puffed
form: most puffed
Etymology: From puff + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Inflated or swollen.
glosses: Consisting of a puff.
examples: text: The dress had puffed sleeves.
glosses: Gathered up into rounded ridges.
glosses: Expanded by the use of steam.
raw_tags: of cereals
Derived terms: puffed grain
puffed rice
puffed up
puffed wheat
puffed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌft/
rhymes: -ʌft
Forms: form: more puffed
form: most puffed
Etymology: Shortened from puffed out.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of puffed out (panting from exercise)
synonyms: word: puffed out
extra: panting from exercise
junction
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/
rhymes: -ʌŋkʃən
Forms: form: junctions
form: junctioning
form: junctioned
form: junctioned
Etymology: From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + -tion.
Senses: glosses: To form a junction.
raw_tags: of roads or tracks
puffed out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more puffed out
form: most puffed out
Senses: glosses: Panting because of having exercised.
examples: text: He had his cheeks puffed out as if his mouth was full of water.
glosses: inflated
Synonyms: pooped
puffed
puffed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of puff out
pain in the arse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pains in the arse
form: pain in the ass
Senses: examples: text: You really are a pain in the arse, aren't you (laugh track)? The PM is going up the wall! Hitting the roof! You can't go around making speeches like that.
ref: 1980 February 25, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “Open Government”, in Yes Minister, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Vic Gould (Edward Jewesbury):
qualifier: sometimes considered vulgar
glosses: Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating.
Synonyms: sense: someone or something
word: drag
Related terms: word: pain
word: pain in the bum
word: pain in the butt
word: pain in the neck
word: proctalgia
pap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: paps
Etymology: From Middle English pap. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, German Pappe (“pap, porridge; wheatpaste; cardboard”), Old French papa/pape, Latin pappa, Bulgarian папам (papam, “to eat”) and Serbo-Croatian папати/papati (“to eat”), among others. The relationships between these words are difficult to reconstruct. The Germanic word is either a borrowing from Latin or, perhaps more probably, an independent formation in baby-talk.
Senses: examples: text: Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water.
glosses: Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
glosses: Pablum or nonsense.
examples: text: Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.
glosses: Porridge.
glosses: A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet
examples: text: Treasury pap
glosses: Support from official patronage.
examples: text: I hold it not amisse to take Pills in the pap of a rosted apple.
ref: 1633, James Hart, The Diet of the Diseased:
text: A child's head is naturally as soft as the pap of an apple.
ref: 1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XVI, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 72:
glosses: The pulp of fruit.
Derived terms: pap boat
papescent
paplike
pappy
stywe pap
pap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: paps
form: papping
form: papped
form: papped
Etymology: From Middle English pap. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, German Pappe (“pap, porridge; wheatpaste; cardboard”), Old French papa/pape, Latin pappa, Bulgarian папам (papam, “to eat”) and Serbo-Croatian папати/papati (“to eat”), among others. The relationships between these words are difficult to reconstruct. The Germanic word is either a borrowing from Latin or, perhaps more probably, an independent formation in baby-talk.
Senses: examples: text: But I'll so pap him up - nothing too dear for him : What a sweet scent he has !
ref: c. 1619–1623, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Custome of the Countrey”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To feed with pap.
pap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: paps
Etymology: From Middle English pappe, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Latin papilla; or perhaps compare Old Swedish papp (“breast, nipple”), from Proto-Germanic *pap- (“nipple”), of imitative origin, or from Proto-Indo-European *pap- (“pock mark, nipple”); Swedish dialectal papp, pappe, Swedish patt, Danish patte, North Frisian pap, pape, papke (“breast, pap”).
Senses: examples: text: But th'other rather higher did arise, / And her two lilly paps aloft displayd, / And all, that might his melting hart entise / To her delights, she vnto him bewrayd […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: they doe not onely weare jewels at their noses, in their lip and cheekes, and in their toes, but also big wedges of gold through their paps [translating tetins] and buttocks[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 11:27:
glosses: A female breast or nipple.
examples: text: Adrianus the Emperour made his Physition to marke and take the just compasse of the mortall place about his pap, that so his aime might not faile him, to whom he had given charge to kill him.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 13, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: A man's breast.
examples: text: the paps of Jura
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
pap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: paps
Etymology: Ellipsis of Pap smear.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Pap (“Pap smear”).
pap
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæp/
rhymes: -æp
ipa: /pap/
ipa: /pæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: more pap
form: most pap
Etymology: From Afrikaans pap (“porridge”). Cognate with etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: His chest hangs like soft tits in his vest. He is pap. I could easily hit him. I could kill him if I wanted to.
ref: 1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: Weak, feeble; lacking substance.
examples: text: He is so pap and boring.
glosses: Spineless, wet, without character.
examples: text: I got a puncture and the wheel went pap.
glosses: Flat.
pap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæp/
rhymes: -æp
ipa: /pap/
Forms: form: paps
Etymology: Clipping of paparazzo.
Senses: examples: text: As he made his way from the London hotel to his car, the singer threatened to beat up a pap who got in his way.
ref: 2015, “Justin Bieber's top 10's worst moments”, in OK! Magazine:
text: We turn back onto the main road and I'm relieved to not see any paps. They've got to be somewhere though. They don't just leave.
ref: 2015, Mira Bailee, Broken Strings:
text: The only aspect of his mother’s death that he finds unforgettable is the identity of those who caused it: the press and the paps, variously referred to as ghouls, pustules, dogs, weasels, idiots and sadists, who after “torturing” his mother “would come for me”.
ref: 2023 January 17, Tina Brown, “Spare by Prince Harry review – magical thinking in Montecito”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Clipping of paparazzo.
pap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæp/
rhymes: -æp
ipa: /pap/
Forms: form: paps
form: papping
form: papped
form: papped
Etymology: Clipping of paparazzo.
Senses: examples: text: Look, that pop star’s been papped in her bikini again!
text: The star of Netflix’s Wednesday, 20-year-old Jenna Ortega (another Gen Z actor) was recently papped holding an iPhone and chuffing on a straight cigarette (the fact that this was a pap photo is all the more throwback).
ref: 2023 June 16, Daisy Jones, “Cool, sexy and stinking of smoke: why are TV dramas giving cigarettes a comeback?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: We know everyone else knew he was a Tier 1 sex offender because when the pair got papped on a walk in Central Park, the New York Post published the picture with a front page headline even Andrew could understand: “PRINCE & PERV”.
ref: 2025 October 17, Marina Hyde, “Punish Prince Andrew? This is no meritocracy, I’m afraid – you get the royal family you didn’t vote for”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
qualifier: usually passive voice
glosses: To take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.
pap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæp/
rhymes: -æp
ipa: /pap/
Forms: form: paps
Etymology: Compare pa, papa, pop.
Senses: examples: text: Pap he hadn't been seen for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me; I didn't want to see him no more. He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around. Well, about this time he was found in the river drowned, about twelve mile above town, so people said. They judged it was him, anyway; said this drowned man was just his size, and was ragged, and had uncommon long hair—which was all like pap—but they couldn't make nothing out of the face, because it had been in the water so long it warn't much like a face at all.
ref: 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
synonyms: word: ayr
word: ba
word: baba
word: da
word: dad
word: dada
word: daddio
word: daddy
word: father
word: Father
word: fatherling
word: old man
word: pa
word: pap
word: papa
word: papaw
word: pappaw
word: pappy
word: Pappy
word: pater
word: patriarch
word: paw
word: pawpaw
word: peepaw
word: pepaw
word: pop
word: poppa
word: poppy
word: pops
word: sire
glosses: Pa; father.
pap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæp/
rhymes: -æp
ipa: /pap/
Forms: form: paps
form: papping
form: papped
form: papped
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of PAP (“post a picture”).
correction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɛkʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: corrections
form: correxion
Etymology: From Middle English correccioun, correction, from Old French correccion (French correction), from Latin corrēctiō. Doublet of correctio.
Senses: glosses: The act of correcting.
glosses: A substitution for an error or mistake.
examples: text: As the facts of the case were investigated, it became apparent that before us was the story of a man whom the entire machinery of law enforcement and correction had conspired against from the beginning to the end.
ref: 1973 December 29, David A. DeNeef, “The Incident At Bridgewater”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 28, page 2:
glosses: Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender.
glosses: An amount or quantity of something added or subtracted so as to correct.
coordinate_terms: bear market
;
crab market
glosses: A decline in a stock market price after a period of rises. Often operationally defined as a market value drop of 10% or more on some specific stock market index.
examples: text: I have four T-80 tanks at grid Three-niner-niner-four-eight-eight, Correction: Grid Three niner-niner-four-eight-five. How copy? Over.
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: procedure word
glosses: a station's indication that previous information was incorrect and will continue with correct information from the last correct transmitted
Hyponyms: hypercorrection
self-correction
Derived terms: autocorrection
Bessel's correction
Bonferroni correction
colorimetric correction
corflu
correctional
correction center
correction centre
correctioner
correction factor
correction fluid
correctionist
correction line
correction officer
correction paper
correction tape
course correction
gamma correction
geocorrection
Heckman correction
house of correction
immunocorrection
incorrection
miscorrection
noncorrection
oblique correction
overcorrection
political correction
precorrection
recorrection
under correction
undercorrection
paparazzi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pă'pə-răʹtsē
ipa: /ˌpæ.pəˈɹæ.tsi/
enpr: pä'pə-räʹtsē
ipa: /ˌpɑ.pəˈɹɑ.tsi/
Etymology: From Italian paparazzi, plural of paparazzo.
Senses: examples: text: A number of paparazzi had gate-crashed, as had a famous tennis-player and a couple of pop-singers.
ref: 1985, Francis King, One Is a Wanderer: Selected Stories, Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 312:
text: A number of paparazzi were there to take pictures, clearly having received a further tip-off about the party’s movements.
ref: 2004, Noel Botham, The Murder of Princess Diana, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, page 168:
text: “Do you know how many paparazzi stalk those midtown hotels? […]”
ref: 2007, Stanley Hart, “Oh, Brother”, in Two Novellas, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: plural of paparazzo
paparazzi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pă'pə-răʹtsē
ipa: /ˌpæ.pəˈɹæ.tsi/
enpr: pä'pə-räʹtsē
ipa: /ˌpɑ.pəˈɹɑ.tsi/
Forms: form: paparazzis
Etymology: From Italian paparazzi, plural of paparazzo.
Senses: examples: text: The job of a paparazzi is, roughly, to ‘reveal the truth’ about the rich and the famous.
ref: 1997, Eeva Joniken, Soile Veijola, “The Disoriented Tourist: The Figuration of the Tourist in Contemporary Cultural Critique”, in Chris Rojek, John Urry, editors, Touring Cultures: Transformations of Travel and Theory, Routledge, →ISBN, page 46:
text: A paparazzi is investigating the lives of a Royal couple.
ref: 2000, David Naccache, Michael Tunstall, “How to Explain Side-Channel Leakage to Your Kids”, in Çetin K. Koç, Christof Paar, editors, Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems — CHES 2000, Springer, →ISBN, page 229:
text: What if someone I know sees me? Or what if a paparazzi is lurking somewhere?
ref: 2005, Jude Idada, “Ouch!”, in A Box of Chocolates, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 221:
glosses: A paparazzo.
examples: text: “Tell Page that PAPARAZZI is here, in my apartment. And then tell her that their offices are right across from us …”
ref: 1989, Carol Muske-Dukes, Dear Digby, Viking, →ISBN, page 148:
text: Rather, the business paparazzi is armoring itself for a backlash campaign against the entrepreneurial big mouths.
ref: 2001, Geert Lovink, “The Rise and Fall of Dotcom Mania”, in Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture, MIT Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 354:
text: Nelishia—You are a special lady with an enormous heart with skills that are off the chains!!! You go girl!!! A definite multi-tasking Diva!! Get your Chanel shades paparazzi is lurking…lol
ref: 2006, Kisha Green, And Even If I Did, iUniverse, →ISBN, page vi:
glosses: Paparazzi taken as a group.
Derived terms: antipaparazzi
hackerazzi
mamarazzi
momarazzi
paparazzied
paparazzification
snaparazzi
stalkarazzi
stalkerazzi
Related terms: Nikon choir
baptism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæptɪzəm/
Forms: form: baptisms
Etymology: From Middle English bapteme, baptesme, from Old French batesme or bapteme, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin baptisma, from Ancient Greek βάπτισμα (báptisma, “dipping, baptism”), from βαπτίζω (baptízō, “I dip in liquid”). Displaced native Old English fulwiht.
Senses: examples: text: The child’s baptism was held at the old church.
text: The ceremony of baptism symbolizes spiritual rebirth.
topics: Christianity
synonyms: christening
glosses: A Christian sacrament, by which one is received into a church and sometimes given a name, generally involving the candidate to be anointed with or submerged in water.
glosses: A similar ceremony of initiation, purification or naming.
Derived terms: word: adult baptism
word: affusion baptism
word: baptism by affusion
word: anabaptism
word: Anabaptism
word: antibaptism
word: aspersion baptism
word: baptism by aspersion
word: baptismal
word: baptismally
english: immersion baptism
translation: immersion baptism
word: baptism by immersing
english: affusion baptism
translation: affusion baptism
word: baptism by pouring
english: aspersion baptism
translation: aspersion baptism
word: baptism by sprinkling
english: submersion baptism
translation: submersion baptism
word: baptism by submerging
word: baptism for the dead
word: baptism by proxy
word: baptism of blood
word: baptism of desire
word: baptism of fire
word: baptism by fire
word: fire baptism
word: baptism of the Holy Spirit
word: baptism in the Holy Spirit
word: baptism with the Holy Spirit
word: Holy Spirit baptism
word: believer's baptism
word: believers' baptism
word: believers baptism
word: blood baptism
word: Catabaptism
word: conditional baptism
word: credobaptism
word: credo-baptism
word: debaptism
word: half-baptism
word: hypothetical baptism
word: immersion baptism
word: baptism by immersion
word: infant baptism
word: infantile baptism
word: paedobaptism
word: pædobaptism
word: pedobaptism
word: paedo-baptism
word: pædo-baptism
word: pedo-baptism
word: prebaptism
word: rebaptism
word: re-baptism
word: se-baptism
word: submersion baptism
word: baptism by submersion
word: unbaptism
word: vicarious baptism
word: water baptism
Related terms: anabaptise
anabaptize
anabaptist
Anabaptist
anabaptistical
Anabaptistical
anabaptistically
Anabaptistically
anabaptistic
Anabaptistic
anti-paedobaptist
anti-pædobaptist
anti-pedobaptist
antipaedobaptist
antipædobaptist
antipedobaptist
baptisand
baptizand
baptisation
baptization
baptise
baptize
baptiser
baptizer
baptising
baptizing
baptist
Baptist
baptistery
baptistry
baptistical
Baptistical
baptistically
Baptistically
baptistic
Baptistic
credobaptist
credo-baptist
paedo-baptist
pædo-baptist
pedo-baptist
paedobaptist
pædobaptist
pedobaptist
rebaptisation
rebaptization
re-baptisation
re-baptization
rebaptise
rebaptize
re-baptise
re-baptize
rebaptising
rebaptizing
re-baptising
re-baptizing
affusion
aspersion
baby dedication
confirmation
dunking
godchild
goddaughter
godfather
godmother
godparent
godson
immersing
immersion
pouring
sprinkling
submersion
over there
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: o'er there
Senses: examples: text: You see that house over there? That's where I used to live.
text: Shepard: I'm looking for an asari.
Dr. Palon: Asari? Well, there's Dr. Iallis over there.
Dr. Palon: There's also our guest, Lady Benezia. Captain Ventralis might know where she is.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria:
glosses: In that place; there (at some distance).
examples: text: Let's head over there.
glosses: To that place; thither (at some distance).
glosses: overseas to Europe (for military engagement), especially to the Western Front in France during World War I
Related terms: over here
as well as
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əz ˈwɛl æz/
ipa: /əz ˈwɛl əz/
ipa: /əˈzwɛlz/
rhymes: -ɛləz
rhymes: -ɛlz
Senses: examples: text: The moon as well as the stars was shining down on them.
text: She has to sing as well as play the piano.
text: Smoking is unhealthy, as well as making you smell bad.
text: You borrowed my car but never gave it back. And as well as that, you stole my bike.
text: Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Basingstoke-Exeter will test this. From Salisbury westwards, it's largely single-track since British Rail downgraded it in 1967. There's a ten-mile loop between Templecombe and Yeovil, as well as shorter loops at Chard, Axminster and Honiton.
ref: 2025 February 5, Philip Haigh, “Where track and train integration will be put to the test”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 51:
glosses: And, in addition; not forgetting
examples: text: As well as I recollect, he was about six feet tall.
text: She sings as well as she plays the piano.
text: [I]n time I got used to every thing, and could do my work as well as my mother.
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “My Breaking In”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part I, page 19:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, well.
as well as
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /əz ˈwɛl æz/
ipa: /əz ˈwɛl əz/
ipa: /əˈzwɛlz/
rhymes: -ɛləz
rhymes: -ɛlz
Senses: examples: text: As well as the obvious financial benefits, the merger will allow us some breathing room with regards to R&D.
glosses: In addition to; further to.
over here
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: o'er here
Senses: glosses: In this place.
Related terms: over there
fortnightly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fortnight + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Occurring once in a fortnight; once every two weeks.
fortnightly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From fortnight + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: That's where my column appears, in the Greenville Herald, fortnightly.
ref: 1970, Lee Smith, "Between the Lines", as reprinted in, 2010, Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger, 2011 paperback edition, page 184 http://books.google.com/books?id=_h_BERi4Js8C&pg=PA184&dq=fortnightly
glosses: once in a fortnight; once every two weeks
fortnightly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fortnightlies
Etymology: From fortnight + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: word: biweekly#Noun
glosses: A publication issued fortnightly (once every two weeks).
sock
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒk/
ipa: /sɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: zock
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare Portuguese soco ("a hit with one's hand; a punch").
Senses: examples: text: Whap, Biff, Ooooof, Sock, Pow, Zok! Batman is back. Gotham City is again leaving its law and order in the hands of a man who wears plastic underpants over his tights.
ref: 1989 June 5, The Canberra Times, Australia Captial Territory, page 10, column 2:
glosses: The sound of a punch or powerful blow.
sock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒk/
ipa: /sɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: socks
form: socking
form: socked
form: socked
form: zock
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare Portuguese soco ("a hit with one's hand; a punch").
Senses: examples: text: "We must get the old dear out," said Lord Roxton to Malone. "He'll be had for manslaughter if we don't. What I mean, he's not responsible - he'll sock someone and be lagged for it."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which Professor Challenger Goes Forth to Battle”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: What you should be is not yellow at all. If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 13, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC:
text: They may let you off the first time because you're new maybe. But the second time they'll sock it to you, give you a couple of days in the Hole, then throw you in Number Two.
ref: 1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, Book Four:
text: He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused or abandoned.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 428:
text: As part of ABC’s coverage of the police “blue riot” that ensued in Chicago – batons cracking student skulls – Vidal calls Buckley a “crypto-Nazi” for justifying the brutality, to which Buckley snaps: “Listen to me you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in the goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered.”
ref: 2015 August 1, Ed Vulliamy, quoting William F. Buckley Jr., “‘Don’t call me a crypto-Nazi!’ The lost heart of political debate”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To hit or strike violently; to deliver a blow to.
glosses: To throw.
Derived terms: sock into
sock it to
socked on the nose
sock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒk/
ipa: /sɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: socks
form: zock
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare Portuguese soco ("a hit with one's hand; a punch").
Senses: examples: text: ‘Say, does that sock in the jaw hurt any more? It was a dinger.’
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 21:
glosses: A violent blow; a punch.
sock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒk/
ipa: /sɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: zock
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare Portuguese soco ("a hit with one's hand; a punch").
Senses: examples: 1960, Billboard magazine reviewer
Sock performance on a catchy rhythm ditty with infectious tempo.
glosses: Extremely successful.
Synonyms: socko
Derived terms: sock in
sockdolager
sock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒk/
ipa: /sɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: socks
Etymology: From French soc.
Senses: examples: text: In the county of Wexford, where the beam was much shorter[…] the sock in general is of cast iron.
ref: 1812, Edward Wakefield, An Account of Ireland, Statistical and Political:
glosses: A ploughshare.
sock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒk/
ipa: /sɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: socks
Etymology: From socket.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of socket.
atomic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: əˈtŏm.ĭk
ipa: /əˈtɒm.ɪk/
enpr: əˈtä.mĭk
ipa: /əˈtɑː.mɪk/
enpr: əˈtŏm.ĭk
ipa: /əˈtɔm.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒmɪk
Forms: form: atomics
Etymology: From atom + -ic.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An atomic operation.
spoon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: spo͞on
ipa: /spuːn/
ipa: /spun/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: spoons
form: spooning
form: spooned
form: spooned
Etymology: Uncertain. Compare spoom.
Senses: examples: text: We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
ref: 1666 August 12 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “August 2nd, 1666”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume V, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of spoom.
Derived terms: spoon-drift
piss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: pisses
Etymology: From Middle English pisse (noun) and pissen (verb), from Old French pissier, possibly from Vulgar Latin *pīssiāre, probably of imitative origin. Compare Old Norse pissa (“to urinate, piss”). Displaced Old English micge.
Senses: examples: text: This toilet is disgusting. There's piss all over the floor.
text: [among the list of elixir ingredients][…]Of piss and egg-shells
ref: 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), scene II:
text: Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is in great indignation.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: Smells of men. Spat-on sawdust, sweetish warmish cigarettesmoke, reek of plug, spilt beer, men’s beery piss, the stale of ferment.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 8:
text: There in a puddle of piss sat Princess Fatima, her dress up over her knees, vomit dripping onto her bodice
ref: 2005, Richard Connelly Miller, Tanglefoot:
glosses: Urine.
examples: text: I'm desperate for a piss!
text: But the urinal was safe, no unshielded pissing trough, but a nice, modest urinal, with a wall on each side of you so you could have your privacy. … That was one of the best pisses of my life.
ref: 1999, Tin House #2 (→ISBN, Win McCormack, Rob Spillman, Elissa Schappell), page 170
glosses: The act of urinating.
examples: text: Let's dash over to Fisher's for a fifth of that one-fifty-one West Indian. We can't drink this piss, it's degrading.
ref: 1974, Donald Newlove, The Drunks, →ISBN, page 33:
text: ‘Want some advice?’ I said. ‘Stay off the piss. You won't want to be handling this kind of thing with a hangover.’
ref: 1985, Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries 1978-1987, Text Publishing, published 2022, page 140:
glosses: Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality.
examples: text: piss-poor
text: Irene went down to her studio and brought the painting upstairs. She leaned it against a wall and then she and Mary contemplated it from across the room. 'It really is piss-ugly,' said Mary with a note of grudging affection in her voice.
ref: 1989, Kate Pullinger, When the monster dies, Jonathan Cape:
text: “You are piss funny, Caolan O'Donnell, you really are.”
ref: 2007, C. N. Barton, The Cambridge Diaries: A Tale of Friendship, Love and Economics, Janus Publishing Company Lim, →ISBN, page 417:
text: Just watched Black Adder Goes Forth. Can I just say Ben Elton is my bloody hero for ever. If it wasn't for him I would still think voting Tory was OK. And he is piss funny ...
ref: 2016, Rae Earl, My Mad Fat Diary: A Memoir, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 267:
glosses: An intensifier.
xylograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzaɪ.ləʊ.ɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /ˈzaɪ.lə.ɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /ˈzaɪ.lə.ɡɹæf/
ipa: /ˈzaɪ.loʊ-/
ipa: /-ɡɹɑf/
Forms: form: xylographs
Etymology: Back-formation from xylography, corresponding to xylo- (“wood”) + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: First he collected a number of witnesses, including many old prints of the Guhyasamāja Tantra itself and old xylograph prints of the Pradipodyotana from the monasteries of Drepung, Tashilhunpo, Riwo Dangchen, and Nartang.
ref: 2009, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, The Culture of the Book in Tibet, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:
synonyms: woodcut
glosses: An engraving in wood or woodcut, especially one used in printing predating the Western tradition (14th c.).
examples: text: While Walter Gropius had had a reproduction of a xylograph from Lyonel Feininger reproduced on the Bauhaus movement's founding manifesto in 1919 – a symbolic image of a gothic cathedral that was comparatively traditional in both form […]
ref: 2011, Udo J. Hebel, Christoph Wagner, Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies: Approaches, Perspectives, Case Studies from Europe and America, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 143:
text: The restoration process brought to light a sarira box containing an artifact that rewrote that history: the oldest xylograph in the world, reproduced in ink from woodblocks with characters carved in relief, was found inside the box from the second […]
ref: 2014, Sang-jin Park, Under the Microscope: The Secrets of the Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: A print taken from such an engraving.
xylograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzaɪ.ləʊ.ɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /ˈzaɪ.lə.ɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /ˈzaɪ.lə.ɡɹæf/
ipa: /ˈzaɪ.loʊ-/
ipa: /-ɡɹɑf/
Forms: form: xylographs
form: xylographing
form: xylographed
form: xylographed
Etymology: Back-formation from xylography, corresponding to xylo- (“wood”) + -graph.
Senses: glosses: To make a print from an engraving in wood.
Related terms: xylographer
xylographic
xylographica
xylographical
xylography
xylographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylographers
Etymology: Modelled on xylography, corresponding to xylo- + -grapher.
Senses: glosses: a person who makes xylographs
xylography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: Borrowed from French xylographie, corresponding to xylo- (“wood”) + -graphy (“writing”).
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, one ought to mention the xylography that has been attributed to Titian since the eighteenth century and that represents San Rocco e storie della sua vita (fig. 72) (London, British Museum, inv. 1860-4-14-140), circulated as a […]
ref: 1995, Manfredo Tafuri, Venice and the Renaissance, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 236:
text: Xylography involves writing the text to be printed onto thin paper, fixing the paper face down on a flat wooden block and then carving away the white parts to leave the text upstanding in relief. In order to print, it is necessary to […]
ref: 2018, Peter Francis Kornicki, Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: woodblock printing
glosses: The art of making xylographs.
xylographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to xylographs
Synonyms: xylographical
xylographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xylographic + -al.
Senses: glosses: xylographic
xylose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xyloses
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: wood sugar
glosses: One of the pentoses, C₅H₁₀O₅, a white crystalline sugar, derived from wood.
Related terms: xylosyl
xylosylglucoside
xenophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzɛn.əˈfəʊ.bɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˌziː.nəˈfoʊ.bi.ə/
ipa: /ˌzɛn.əˈfoʊ.bi.ə/
rhymes: -əʊbiə
Forms: form: xenophobias
form: xenofobia
Etymology: From xeno- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories. In 1997, he wrote, “The Jew is ambivalence incarnate. And ambivalence is ambivalence mostly because it cannot be contemplated without ambivalent feeling: it is simultaneously attractive and repelling.”
ref: 2020 January 28, Mairov Zonszein, “Christian Zionist philo-Semitism is driving Trump’s Israel policy”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2020:
text: The United States is not the only country where xenophobia pays dividends for politicians.
ref: 2021 March 19, Frida Ghitis, “The GOP’s xenophobia is fueling toxic culture of hate”, in CNN:
text: Like the Communist party before it, the Front National claimed to speak for the “working class”. The class enemy was rebranded from “bourgeoisie” to “elite”, communist xenophobia about “international capital” was supplemented with xenophobia against immigrants, and the proletariat had to ally with former adversaries such as small business owners, but the essential claim of working-class dignity remained intact.
ref: 2025 September 13, Simon Kuper, “How Maga rewrote the Little Red Book”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 18:
glosses: A fear, antipathy, or hatred of strangers or foreigners.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A fear of aliens.
Synonyms: word: xenophoby
Derived terms: xenophobiac
xenophobian
xenoglossophobia
Related terms: xenophobe
xenophobic
aporophobia
racism
xenophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzɛn.əˈfəʊ.bɪk/
ipa: /ˌzi.nəˈfoʊ.bik/
ipa: /ˌzɛn.əˈfoʊ.bik/
rhymes: -əʊbɪk
Forms: form: more xenophobic
form: most xenophobic
Etymology: From xeno- + -phobic, from Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Senses: examples: text: Residents of Plettenberg Bay this week launched violent xenophobic attacks on foreign Africans living in informal settlements, beating them and ransacking their houses
ref: 2006 May 13, Weekend Argus:
text: It has not yet promised much in the way of serious debate about the migrant crisis or the EU’s failure to tackle it in a humane and coordinated manner, in the context of the Italian government’s increasingly xenophobic policies.
ref: 2019 May 17, “The Guardian view on the Venice Biennale’s migrant boat: pushing the limits of art”, in The Guardian:
text: Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, who often spreads xenophobic arguments, has ardently embraced the charge that Democrats are “trying to replace the current electorate – the voters now casting ballots – with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World.”
ref: 2021 April 23, Ronald Brownstein, “The racist ‘replacement theory’ has it all backward”, in CNN:
synonyms: xenophobous
antonyms: xenophilic
glosses: Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or extraterrestial life.
Synonyms: word: xenophobic
Hyponyms: word: Albanophobic
word: Americanophobic
word: Afrophobic
word: Anglophobic
word: Armenophobic
word: Austrophobic
word: Celtophobic
word: Danophobic
word: Egyptophobic
word: Francophobic
word: Gallophobic
word: Germanophobic
word: Hellenophobic
word: Hibernophobic
word: Hispanophobic
word: Hungarophobic
word: Indophobic
word: Iranophobic
word: Israelophobic
word: Italophobic
word: Japanophobic
word: Kurdophobic
word: Negrophobic
word: Nipponophobic
word: Persophobic
word: Polonophobic
word: Prussophobic
word: Romanophobic
word: Russophobic
word: Scotophobic
word: Serbophobic
word: Sinophobic
word: Slovenophobic
word: Turcophobic
word: Ukrainophobic
Related terms: word: axenic
word: xenophilia
word: xenophobe
word: xenophobia
word: anti-American
word: anti-British
word: anti-Chinese
word: anti-Dutch
word: anti-Egyptian
word: anti-German
word: anti-Japanese
word: anti-Polish
word: anti-Russian
word: anti-Semitic
word: anti-Slavic
word: antireligious
word: prejudice
word: racism
word: :Category:English terms suffixed with -phobic
word: Special:Search/intitle:/phobic/
xenophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzɛn.əˈfəʊ.bɪk/
ipa: /ˌzi.nəˈfoʊ.bik/
ipa: /ˌzɛn.əˈfoʊ.bik/
rhymes: -əʊbɪk
Forms: form: xenophobics
Etymology: From xeno- + -phobic, from Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Senses: examples: text: So Buzz Bissinger sees fit that we give up on the ideal of Olympism and give in to xenophobics, terrorists, drug abusers, profiteers and human rights abusers?
ref: 2008 April 16, Martin J. Brown, “Don’t Give Up on the Games, or Olympic Ideals”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A xenophobe.
Related terms: racist
Xavier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzæv.i.eɪ/
ipa: /ˈzeɪ.vɪə/
ipa: /ˈzæv.ɪə/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzeɪ.vɪə/
ipa: /ˈzeɪ.vjɚ/
ipa: /ˈzeɪ.vi.ɚ/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzeɪ.vjɚ/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzeɪ.vi.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɑvi.ɛɹ/
ipa: /hɑviˈɛɹ/
rhymes: -eɪvjə(ɹ)
Etymology: Toponymic surname of a 16th-century saint born in the Kingdom of Navarre, Francis de Xavier, from a place name in the Kingdom of Navarre, originally from Basque Xabier. Doublet of Echeverría.
Senses: examples: text: "Full name please." "Maurice Xavier Wu." "Where did you get the Xavier?" "My father was a missionary," he said.
ref: 1976, Don DeLillo, Ratner's Star, Knopf, →ISBN, page 337:
text: 'I keep telling you to call me Xavier,' he interjected silkily, aware that her reluctance to do so intrigued him. 'Xavier,' Laura agreed, and then hesitated. How could his name be so...so...enticing? Because it was foreign to her lips―lingering there like the juice of a fruit she had never tasted before? Or because it was impossible to say without first softening your voice?
ref: 2007, Sharon Kendrick, The Sheikh's English Bride, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: A male given name from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
examples: text: A plaque commemorating the memory of British Rail guard Asquith Xavier, who broke the colour bar at Euston station in 1966, was unveiled at Chatham station on September 24.
ref: 2020 October 7, “Network News: Plaque at Chatham honours colour bar pioneer”, in Rail, page 26:
glosses: A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque], found chiefly among people of Spanish and Portuguese descent.
glosses: Any of various notable people with this name as given name or surname, especially Saint Francis Xavier, a Spanish Catholic saint and missionary (1506–1552).
Derived terms: X
Xavierian
Xavierite
X-Verse
tablespoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪbəlˌspuːn/
ipa: [-bɫ̩-]
ipa: /ˈteɪbəlˌspun/
ipa: [-bɫ̩-]
Forms: form: tablespoons
form: table spoon
form: table-spoon
Etymology: From table + spoon.
Senses: examples: text: Their eggs were deposited on a few bits of straw, and great caution was necessary in attempting to procure them, as the slightest touch crumbled their frail tenement into dust. By means of a tablespoon, I was enabled to procure many of them.
ref: 1840, John James Audubon, The Birds of America, volume 1, page 178:
synonyms: word: dessertspoon
word: dessert spoon
glosses: A large spoon, used for eating food from a bowl.
glosses: A spoon too large for eating, usually used for cooking or serving.
examples: text: 1995 May 22, Salad Recipes, New York, page 51,
Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a nonstick skillet until hot and quickly saute the goat-cheese buttons on both sides until brown.
text: In Australia, 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml, and there are 4 teaspoons in the Australian tablespoon.
ref: 2003, Better Homes and Gardens, Biggest Book of Bread Machine Recipes, page 416:
text: 2006, Tempted: 150 Very Wicked Desserts, Murdoch Books, UK, copyright page,
If you are using a 15 ml (3 teaspoon) tablespoon, for most recipes the difference will not be noticeable.
text: 2012, James Armstrong, Kellee Hollyman, General, Organic, and Biochemistry: An Applied Approach, Cengage Learning, US, page 27,
The problem gives us a number of tablespoons of cooking oil and asks us to convert this amount into milliliters. We are also told that one tablespoon equals 3 teaspoons, but this is a relationship between two units, not an actual measurement.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: word: tablespoonful
word: tbsp
word: tbs
word: f℥ss
english: apothecaries' notation
translation: apothecaries' notation
word: f℥ß
english: apothecaries' notation
translation: apothecaries' notation
glosses: A unit of volume, the value of which varies regionally; in the US: three teaspoons or one half fluid ounce or roughly 15 ml; in Britain and Canada: exactly 15 ml; in Russia 18 ml; in Australia: four teaspoons or 20 ml.
Related terms: tablespoonful
cutlery
dessertspoon
dessert spoon
silverware
soupspoon
soup spoon
teaspoon
tea spoon
teaspoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːˌspuːn/
ipa: /ˈtiˌspun/
Forms: form: teaspoons
Etymology: From tea + spoon.
Senses: glosses: A small spoon used to stir the contents of a cup or glass.
glosses: A unit of measure, equivalent to one-third of a tablespoon or roughly five milliliters.
Synonyms: sense: unit of measure
word: teaspoonful
sense: unit of measure
word: tsp
sense: unit of measure; apothecaries' notation
word: f℥j
Related terms: dessert spoon
dessertspoon
soup spoon
soupspoon
tablespoon
teaspoon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːˌspuːn/
ipa: /ˈtiˌspun/
Forms: form: teaspoons
form: teaspooning
form: teaspooned
form: teaspooned
Etymology: From tea + spoon.
Senses: examples: text: I teaspooned some sugar into my cup.
glosses: To serve with a teaspoon