cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
housebreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housebreakers
Etymology: From house + breaker.
Senses: examples: text: […] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Oeconomy and Happy Life among the Houyhnhnms. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 301:
text: [H]e is dressed in such a rapscallion manner that the people would think you were talking to a house-breaker.
ref: 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “Miss Stanbury’s Generosity”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 93:
text: The vicar seized a sword and routed the housebreaker, but it was the vicar's wife in a nightgown and coat who caught up with the fleeing intruder, slapped his face and held him by the neck.
ref: 1968 November 19, “‘Infuriated’ vicar's wife routs interloper”, in Montreal Gazette, Canada, retrieved 21 Sep 2010, page 9:
text: A serial housebreaker who is believed to have stolen from several homes in Ang Mo Kio last month was nabbed on Tuesday.
ref: 2009 May 20, “Serial housebreaker nabbed”, in AsiaOne, Singapore, retrieved 21 Sep 2010:
related: word: house breaker
word: house-breaker
synonyms: drummer
glosses: A criminal who breaks into and enters another's house or premises with the intent of committing a crime.
Related terms: burglar
Mambwe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a tribe of people in northern Zambia
Mambwe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the language of these people
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Cimambwe
Manda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Dravidian language of southern India.
glosses: an aboriginal language of Australia.
glosses: a Bantu language of Tanzania.
Manda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Amanda.
Manda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mandas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi मन्दा (mandā). Also from a Czech derivative of the female personal name Magdalena.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
mandarin fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandarin fishes
form: mandarin fish
form: mandarinfish
Senses: glosses: A carnivorous freshwater fish, Siniperca chuatsi, from China.
glosses: A colorful saltwater fish in dragonet family, Synchiropus splendidus, from the Pacific Ocean.
Synonyms: sense: carnivorous freshwater fish
word: Chinese perch
sense: carnivorous freshwater fish
word: Chinese bass
sense: colorful saltwater fish
word: mandarin dragonet
sense: colorful saltwater fish
word: mandarin goby
Derived terms: golden mandarin fish
mangel beet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mangel beets
Senses: glosses: the mangelwurzel
mangelwurzel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mangelwurzels
form: mangel-wurzel
form: mangle-wurzel
Etymology: From German Mangold (“chard”) + Wurzel (“root”), with the first part reinterpreted as Mangel, whence the archaic English name "root of scarcity".
Senses: examples: text: I have not written to my beloved Amelia for these many weeks past, for what news was there to tell of the sayings and doings at Humdrum Hall, as I have christened it; and what do you care whether the turnip crop is good or bad; whether the fat pig weighed thirteen stone or fourteen; and whether the beasts thrive well upon mangelwurzel?
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Wheat and barley, oats and hay,
Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
glosses: A root vegetable, variety of Beta vulgaris, cultivated chiefly as cattle feed.
Synonyms: topics: vegetable
food
lifestyle
word: mangold
topics: vegetable
food
lifestyle
word: mangold wurzel
topics: vegetable
food
lifestyle
word: root of scarcity
Coordinate terms: beet
chard
mannikin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: homophone: manakin
homophone: mannequin
Forms: form: mannikins
Etymology: From Dutch manneken, Middle Dutch mannekijn.
Senses: glosses: Any of several passerine bird species of the genera Lonchura, Heteromunia, Spermestes, Lepidopygia, and Mayrimunia, of the Old World.
glosses: Alternative spelling of manikin (little man).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Lonchura spp.
word: African mannikin
alt: Spermestes bicolor
word: black-and-white mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura teerinki
word: black-breasted mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura stygia
word: black mannikin
alt: Spermestes cucullata, syn. Lonchura cucullata
word: bronze mannikin
alt: Spermestes bicolor subsp. nigriceps
word: brown-backed mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura melaena
word: buff-bellied mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura castaneothorax
word: chestnut-breasted mannikin
taxonomic: Lepidopygia nana
word: dwarf mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura monticola
word: eastern alpine mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura forbesi
word: Forbes's mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura grandis
word: great-billed mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura vana
word: grey-banded mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura nevermanni
word: grey-crowned mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura caniceps
word: grey-headed mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura spectabilis
word: hooded mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura hunsteini
word: Hunstein's mannikin
word: Madagascan mannikin
taxonomic: Lepidopygia nana
word: Madagascar mannikin
alt: Spermestes fringilloides
word: magpie mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura spectabilis
word: New Britain mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura punctulata
word: nutmeg mannikin
alt: Spermestes griseicapilla
word: pearl-headed mannikin
taxonomic: Heteromunia pectoralis
word: pictorella mannikin
alt: Spermestes bicolor subsp. nigriceps
word: red-backed mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura spectabilis
word: Sclater's mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura montana
word: Snow Mountain mannikin
alt: Mayrimunia spp.
word: streaked mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura striata
word: striated mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura montana
word: western alpine mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura striata
word: white-rumped mannikin
taxonomic: Lonchura flaviprymna
word: yellow-rumped mannikin
Related terms: word: finch
taxonomic: Pipridae spp.
word: manakin
taxonomic: Lonchura spp.
word: munia
maquillage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /makɪˈ(j)ɑːʒ/
Forms: form: maquillages
Etymology: Borrowed from French maquillage.
Senses: examples: text: The ladies of his court – and plenty of the men too – adapted their maquillage to take advantage of artificial lighting to draw attention to their rosy cheeks, white bosoms, jet black eyebrows and scarlet lips.
ref: 2011 September 21, Tim Blanning, “The reinvention of the night”, in Times Literary Supplement:
glosses: Makeup, cosmetics, or its application, especially in theatrical or excessive use.
Maragoli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dialect of the Luhya language of western Kenya.
Maragoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A subdivision of the Luhya tribe. The Maragoli speak Luragooli, a language belonging to the Luhya group and very similar to Luganda, Kikuyu, Gishu and several languages in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa.
marriageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marriageable
form: most marriageable
Etymology: From marriage + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Marry money, thought I to myself, who will he marry? then in my own mind I made a review of all the marriageable heiresses, and heiresses apparent, not only in Silveryville, but likewise, in a circuit several miles around it, and I could not find one among them all, who was not already engaged to be married to somebody else.
ref: 1861, G. Fort, “Our First Newspaper”, in We Four Villagers. A Tale of Domestic Life in Pennsylvania., Philadelphia, Pa.: J. S. McCalla, […], page 60:
glosses: Suitable for marriage; nubile.
Derived terms: intermarriageable
marriageability
marriageableness
marriageably
nonmarriageable
unmarriageable
marriageable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marriageables
Etymology: From marriage + -able.
Senses: glosses: One who is suitable for marriage.
Lady McLeod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lady McLeods
Senses: glosses: A local stamp inscribed "L. MCl." to represent the ship Lady McLeod, produced by David Bryce, the owner of the ship, in Trinidad in 1847. It was the first stamp produced in a British colony, but is considered by many to be a Cinderella.
mastercraftsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastercraftsman
mastercraftsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastercraftsmen
Etymology: From master + craftsman.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of master craftsman.
truthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹuːθi/
rhymes: -uːθi
Forms: form: truthier
form: truthiest
Etymology: From truth + -y. In colloquial sense, back-formation from truthiness.
Senses: examples: text: You […] are afraid Theodore your sweetheart shouldn't prove truthy.
ref: c. 1800, J. H. Colls, Theodore:
text: Mindy Lahiri is never one to mince words, and most of the things that come out of her mouth are rife for a gospel. But her sheer overwhelming emotion at her doughnut craving is one of the truthiest truthisms she's ever truthed. Preach, girl.
ref: 2016 June 3, Seija Rankin, “It's National Doughnut Day, so Let's Relive the Best Doughnut Moments in Pop Culture”, in E! Online:
synonyms: faithful
honest
glosses: Faithful; true.
examples: text: Historians today point out that each of these ringing assertions was, at best, truthy.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 595:
synonyms: truthlike
truthful
truthsome
veridical
glosses: Only superficially true; that is asserted or felt instinctively to be true, with no recourse to facts.
examples: text: In JavaScript, any expression or statement that expects a boolean value will work with a truthy or falsy value, so the fact that && does not always evaluate to true or false does not cause practical problems.
ref: 2012, David Flanagan, JavaScript Pocket Reference, page 40:
text: In JavaScript, as well as the true or false Boolean values, other types of variables can be said to be truthy or falsey.
ref: 2013, Dan Wellman, jQuery Hotshot, →ISBN:
text: To remember which values are truthy and which are falsey, just memorize the five falsey values - undefined, null, 0, "" and NaN -- and remember that everything else is truthy.
ref: 2014, Eric T. Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Head First JavaScript Programming: A Brain-Friendly Guide, →ISBN, page 292:
text: Clojure uses the Boolean operators or and and. or returns either the first truthy value or the last value, and returns the first falsey value or, if no values are falsey, the last truthy value.
ref: 2015, Daniel Higginbotham, Clojure for the Brave and True, →ISBN, page 40:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
antonyms: falsy
glosses: Evaluating to true in a Boolean context.
Derived terms: truthiness
Related terms: facty
Mcleod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mcleods
form: Macleod
form: MacLeod
form: McLeod
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of McLeod.
urban boarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sport that involves a board similar to a skateboard but without wheels or trucks. The rider simply flips the board around using the feet or runs and grinds on objects. Duct tape can be put on objects to make them easier to grind on.
precocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈkɒsɪti/
rhymes: -ɒsɪti
Forms: form: precocities
Etymology: From French précocité.
Senses: examples: text: 1817 William Wirt, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, New York: M'elrath, Bangs & Co., 1834, Section I, pp. 23-4, https://books.google.ca/books?id=5vE5AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
I cannot learn that he gave in his youth, any evidence of that precocity which sometimes distinguishes uncommon genius.
text: By the side of many tall and bouncing young ladies in the establishment, Rebecca Sharp looked like a child. But she had the dismal precocity of poverty.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: It was as if his precocity of crookedness (and every vulgar villain is precocious) had for once deceived him, and the man he had sought to entrap as a simpleton had, through his very simplicity, ignominiously baffled him.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 15, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: 1946, Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History, Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell, Oxford University Press, Chapter XII, p. 242, https://books.google.ca/books?id=IbJ-31LPvyoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Anna Comnena, the Byzantine princess turned historian, sees our eleventh-century forebears in just this light, as appears in the mixture of horror with contempt which is her reaction to the mechanical ingenuity of the Crusaders' cross-bow, a Western novelty of her day which—with the characteristic precocity of lethal inventions—preceded by several centuries the invention of clockwork […]
text: How can we explain the relative precocity in political studies that the Greeks demonstrated in contrast to the backwardness of other early peoples?
ref: 1964, William Anderson, Man's Quest for Knowledge: The Study and Teaching of Politics in Ancient Times, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Epilogue, p. 329:
text: Short stature persists into adult life but puberty is usually normal, although sexual precocity has been seen […]
ref: 1999, Leonard Pinsky, Robert P. Erickson, R. Neil Schimke, chapter 15, in Genetic Disorders of Human Sexual Development, Oxford University Press, page 314:
text: 2024 (October 20th) The Simpsons season 36 episode 3 "Desperately Seeking Lisa"
Yes, she's truly a special young person, just brimming with precocity. In fact, I was thinking she might be a good fit for the Horace Frick Academy.
synonyms: precociousness
glosses: The state of being precocious.
corn crib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn cribs
head_nr: 1
Etymology: corn + crib
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: A slatted bin for drying corn (maize).
obstreperousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From obstreperous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being obstreperous.
brazen-faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪ.zənˌfeɪst/
Forms: form: more brazen-faced
form: most brazen-faced
Etymology: From brazen + faced.
Compare typologically French front d’airain, Russian ме́дный лоб (médnyj lob).
Senses: examples: text: It is rude, madam,
To intrude, madam,
With your brood, madam,
 Brazen-faced!
ref: 1882, Gilbert & Sullivan, Iolanthe:
glosses: Impudent; open and without shame.
Related terms: brazenface
brazenly
nemorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛməɹəs/
Forms: form: more nemorous
form: most nemorous
Etymology: From Latin nemus (“grove”).
Senses: examples: text: Even Paradise itself, says Evelyn, was but a kind of ‘nemorous temple or sacred grove,’ planted by God himself.
ref: 1889, Thomas Thisleton-Dyer, The Folk Lore of Plants, Kessinger 2004 edition, page 22:
glosses: Forested; full of trees, dark with shady groves.
Synonyms: forested
wooded
Related terms: nemoral
nemorose
nemorosity
sylvan
galvanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: galvanises
form: galvanising
form: galvanised
form: galvanised
Etymology: From French galvaniser, from galvanisme, named after Italian physiologist Luigi Aloisio Galvani (1737–1798). By surface analysis, galvano- + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: "We have completely rejuvenated the project. Everyone is galvanised. We will get it open - and open means open. [...]."
ref: 2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 53:
glosses: Alternative spelling of galvanize.
Derived terms: galvanisation
deasil
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdjɛʃəl/
ipa: /ˈdɛsəl/
ipa: /ˈdisəl/
ipa: /ˈdizəl/
rhymes: -ɛʃəl
rhymes: -ɛsəl
homophone: diesel
Forms: form: deaseal
form: deisal
form: deasill
form: deisul
form: deasiul
form: deasoil
form: deisheal
form: deshil
form: deosil
Etymology: From 1771, from Scottish Gaelic deiseil, deiseal (“southward, sunward; clockwise”) (adjective and adverb), from Old Irish dessel (“sunwise”), from dess (“right, south”) and sel (“turn”).
Senses: examples: text: It consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the deasil walking three times round the person who is the object of the ceremony, taking care to move according to the course of the sun.
ref: 1827, Walter Scott, “The Two Drovers”, in Chronicles of the Canongate, volume 1, Edinburgh: Cadell and Co.:
text: In Strathfillan, Perthshire, people are cured of insanity by being made to go three times deasil round a certain pool and then being plunged headlong into it.
ref: 1939, Wilson Dallam Wallis, Religion in Primitive Society, New York: F. S. Crofts & Co., page 160:
text: Our clocks and watches turn deasil, and it would seem odd, almost contrary to nature, to have them turn widdershins. We read deasil, and Macaulay's widdershins writing ‘traced from the right on pages white’ was a conscious oddity of priests. Port was circulated deasil; to send it round widdershins was extremely unlucky. Playing cards are dealt deasil; we turn screws deasil. It is possible to trace our right-handedness to the perception of deasil as the normal direction, and widdershins as abnormal, topsy-turvy, unlucky.
ref: 1946, Herbert McKay, The World of Numbers, Cambridge University Press, →OL, page 42:
glosses: Clockwise.
Synonyms: sense: clockwise
word: clockwise
sense: clockwise
word: right-handed
sense: clockwise
word: sunways
Derived terms: make the deasil
deasil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdjɛʃəl/
ipa: /ˈdɛsəl/
ipa: /ˈdisəl/
ipa: /ˈdizəl/
rhymes: -ɛʃəl
rhymes: -ɛsəl
homophone: diesel
Forms: form: deaseal
form: deisal
form: deasill
form: deisul
form: deasiul
form: deasoil
form: deisheal
form: deshil
form: deosil
Etymology: From 1771, from Scottish Gaelic deiseil, deiseal (“southward, sunward; clockwise”) (adjective and adverb), from Old Irish dessel (“sunwise”), from dess (“right, south”) and sel (“turn”).
Senses: glosses: Clockwise motion.
slatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a slat; having slats.
slatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slat
biserial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + serial.
Senses: glosses: Arranged in two series
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Having a correlation between one series and another that is divided into two types
Derived terms: biserially
bedsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛdʃiːt/
Forms: form: bedsheets
form: bed sheet
Etymology: From Middle English bedeschette, bedshete, bed shete, equivalent to bed + sheet.
Senses: glosses: A sheet, a piece of cloth cut and finished as bedlinen.
Hypernyms: sheet
Hyponyms: bottom sheet
Derived terms: bedsheet ballot
flat as a bedsheet
seal on a bedsheet
crib sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crib sheets
form: cribsheet
Etymology: From crib + sheet.
Senses: glosses: A bedsheet, usually nowadays fitted, that fits a crib mattress.
glosses: Synonym of cheat sheet.
synonyms: word: cheat sheet
do a number on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does a number on
form: doing a number on
form: did a number on
form: done a number on
Senses: examples: text: Last night, Harris went the distance and did a number on the Falcons, running for a career-high 141 yards while carrying the ball more often than he ever has.
ref: 1974 October 29, “Sports: Full-time Franco Busts A Couple, Rushes For 141”, in Pittsburgh Press, retrieved 20 Aug 2010, page 26:
text: Hopes have faded lately on Wall Street. . . . "This market is really doing a number on both professionals and the public alike," said Sam Weinstein in his investment advisory letter.
ref: 1988 September 25, Chet Currier, “Obstacles remaining in market's path to revival”, in Reading Eagle, USA, retrieved 20 Aug 2010, page B4:
text: All-night caffeine-fueled video game binges do "a number on your body," says Essenburg.
ref: 2007 August 12, Laura Fitzpatrick, “The Newest Addictions on Campus”, in Time:
text: "No, that won't work." Reynders sighed, not in frustration — she was an excellent pedagogue, and never got frustrated while instructing — but in mental exhaustion. This project was testing the limits of what she could handle, in her state, though that was nothing compared to the number it was doing on Udo's head. "But it doesn't need to work. ATCP doesn't ossify, that's why it's armageddon-proof. We'd never be able to make this function if we were using standard protocols."
ref: 2023 September 24, HarryBlank, “Working Wonders”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
synonyms: take its toll
glosses: To damage, especially to a significant extent; to treat harshly; to produce ill effects in.
SCRAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SCRAMs
Etymology: See scram; the use of uppercase letters may be because the word is thought to be an acronym of phrases like “safety control rod actuator mechanism”, “safety control rod axe man”, and “safety control rods activation mechanism”, but these are most likely backronyms.
Senses: examples: text: She watched as the Marine technical team leader pressed the red SCRAM buttons for each reactor, setting off a chorus of alarms.
ref: 1993, Tom Clancy, Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published November 1996, →ISBN:
text: Although fission stops almost immediately with a SCRAM, fission products in the fuel continue to release decay heat, initially about 6.5% of full reactor power. [...] Corresponding with the SCRAM, emergency generators were automatically activated to power electronics and cooling systems.
ref: 2016, Nabil Abu el Ata, Rudolf Schmandt, “Understanding the Hidden Risk of Dynamic Complexity”, in The Tyranny of Uncertainty: A New Framework to Predict, Remediate and Monitor Risk, Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, part I (Once upon a Time), page 21:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of scram.
SCRAM
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: SCRAMs
form: SCRAMing
form: SCRAMed
form: SCRAMed
Etymology: See scram; the use of uppercase letters may be because the word is thought to be an acronym of phrases like “safety control rod actuator mechanism”, “safety control rod axe man”, and “safety control rods activation mechanism”, but these are most likely backronyms.
Senses: examples: text: Raising group eight rods and brining a nuclear reactor fully to life for the first time in nearly ten years—everyone was so ready they were all ready to pee in their pants. Andrews did not know he could do it without SCRAMing the reactor—in other words, pushing it into an automatic shutdown that might be too little too late.
ref: 2012 December 12, D. Michael Battey, chapter 35, in Tenacity Gene, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 174:
text: Immediately after the earthquake, following government regulations, the remaining reactors, 1–3, automatically SCRAMed; control rods shut down sustained fission reactions.
ref: 2016, Nabil Abu el Ata, Rudolf Schmandt, “Understanding the Hidden Risk of Dynamic Complexity”, in The Tyranny of Uncertainty: A New Framework to Predict, Remediate and Monitor Risk, Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, part I (Once upon a Time), page 21:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of scram.
gussie up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gussies up
form: gussying up
form: gussied up
form: gussied up
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gussy up.
slosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɒʃ/
ipa: /slɑʃ/
Forms: form: sloshes
form: sloshing
form: sloshed
form: sloshed
Etymology: Onomatopoeic; compare splash, splosh.
Senses: examples: text: The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.
synonyms: slush#Verb
glosses: To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
raw_tags: of a liquid
examples: text: The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath.
glosses: To cause to slosh.
raw_tags: of a liquid
examples: text: His boots were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked.
glosses: To make a sloshing sound.
examples: text: The coffee was nice and hot, so she sloshed some into a cup and went back to her desk.
text: He really sloshed on the sauce- they were a bit strong for my taste.
glosses: To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts.
raw_tags: of a liquid
examples: text: The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school.
glosses: to move noisily through water or other liquid.
examples: text: She greeted me with a bright smile, and said: “Back already? Did you find it?” With a strong effort I mastered my emotion and replied curtly but civilly that the answer was in the negative. “No,” I said, “I did not find it.” “You can't have looked properly.” Again I was compelled to pause and remind myself that an English gentleman does not slosh a sitting redhead, no matter what the provocation.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:
glosses: To punch (someone).
Derived terms: aslosh
slosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɒʃ/
ipa: /slɑʃ/
Forms: form: sloshes
Etymology: Onomatopoeic; compare splash, splosh.
Senses: examples: text: We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce.
glosses: A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.
glosses: A sloshing sound or motion.
examples: text: Shoes and socks, soaked and frozen in the mud and icy slosh, did little to protect their feet.
ref: 2012, Cathy Gohlke, Promise Me This, page 299:
glosses: Slush.
examples: text: In the Midi, Grenache dominates most of the traditional appellations. Corbières, Minervois, Fitou, Faugères — these were once bywords for rough-and-ready red slosh.
ref: 2005, Stuart Walton, Understanding, Choosing, and Enjoying Wine, page 86:
glosses: Inferior wine or other drink.
examples: text: Finally they retired, did you not? said Tetty.
We did indeed, said Goff, we retired to the billiard-room, for a game of slosh.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt:
glosses: A game related to billiards.
Coordinate terms: splash
Derived terms: sloshy
slosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɒʃ/
ipa: /slɑʃ/
Forms: form: sloshes
Etymology: By analogy with slash.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: backslash, the character \.
expectorant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expectorants
Etymology: From expectorate + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: The disease was regarded as pneumonia so far advanced that suppuration seemed to have supervened; bleeding, blisters, expectorants, and cathartics diminished the symptoms; the pulse continued frequent, hard, full, but always regular.
ref: 1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 165:
text: The bedside table is littered with both OTC and prescription expectorants and pertussives and analgesics and Vitamin-C megaspansules[…]
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 60:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An agent or drug used to cause or induce the expulsion of phlegm from the lungs.
Hyponyms: mucolytic
secretolytic
mucokinetic
mucoregulator
Related terms: expectoration
expectorant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From expectorate + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: an expectorant preparation
text: ‘Matchett says there’s old Mr P. who made all the money with ’is cought mixture—’ ‘Not Parkinsons ex . . . something?’ asked Jessamy. ‘That’s it,’ nodded Sarah, ‘ “Hexpectorant Posset”.’
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 84:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: expectorative
glosses: Causing or assisting the expulsion of phlegm.
Related terms: expectorate
cough mixture
crib mattress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crib mattresses
Etymology: crib + mattress
Senses: glosses: A mattress that fits a standard-sized baby crib.
baksheesh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bækˈʃiːʃ/
rhymes: -iːʃ
Forms: form: baksheeshes
form: baksheeshing
form: baksheeshed
form: baksheeshed
form: bachshish
form: bakshee
form: backsheesh
form: backshish
form: backsishe
form: bacsheese
form: bacshish
form: bakhshish
form: bakhshîsh
form: bucksheesh
form: buckshish
form: buksheesh
form: bukshish
form: buxees
form: buxies
form: buxie
Etymology: From Turkish bahşiş, from Persian بخشیش (baxšiš, “present; an honorary or pecuniary gratuity; drink-money”) or بخشش (baxšeš), from بخشیدن (baxšidan, “to give, grant, bestow”).
Senses: glosses: To bribe with a baksheesh.
glued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡluːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glue
unsupportive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsupportive
form: most unsupportive
Etymology: From un- + supportive.
Senses: examples: text: When college campuses closed in March because of the pandemic, having to return home to an unsupportive space was not a safe option for some students.
ref: 2020 June 29, Misha Valencia, “The Challenges of the Pandemic for Queer Youth”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not supportive.
bandeau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbændəʊ/
ipa: /ˈbandəʊ/
rhymes: -ændəʊ
homophone: bandeaux
Forms: form: bandeaux
form: bandeaus
Etymology: Borrowed from French bandeau, from Old French bandel, diminutive form of bande. Doublet of bendel.
Senses: examples: text: She wore a bandeau in her hair.
text: You dress with a square glass before you, and a long glass behind you; your hair trusts to its own brown or black attractions, either curled or braided,—or you put on a wreath, a bunch of flowers, or a pearl bandeau;...
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 221:
text: an elaborate tombstone over a prebendary's widow, a dead lady with a Grecian nose, a bandeau, and an intricate lace veil; lying of course on a marble sofa
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:
text: Fragment of a wool cap, of which only the bandeau is well preserved. It is made in square knotting in alternate directions (see Fig. 79).
ref: 2002, Raoul d'Harcourt, Textiles of Ancient Peru and Their Techniques:
glosses: A band for the hair.
examples: text: 1998, AANS Publications Committee: Setti S. Rengachary, MD, and Edward C. Benzel, MD, Calvarial and Dural Reconstruction: Neurosurgical Topics
The frontal bandeau is then elevated en bloc. A Bi on BC1 (Midas Rex) bit is used to create the osteotomies circumferentially.
text: The supraorbital bandeau is fixed to the nasal structure by a titanium [...]
This bandeau is fixed by microplates. The median bone strip is fixed to the [...]
ref: 1999, Bill C. Terry, Maxime Champy, Franz Härle, et al, Atlas of Craniomaxillofacial Osteosynthesis: miniplates, microplates, and screws:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A band.
examples: text: At Paris fashion week, a few weeks later, Kim’s sister Kendall wore a minimalist black bandeau top that echoed Kim’s look.
ref: 2016 December 13, Jess Cartner-Morley, The Guardian:
glosses: A narrow, tight bra, especially when strapless; hence, any women's top made from a similar band of fabric.
Derived terms: bandikini
bandini
bandkini
kohl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊl/
ipa: /kɔʊl/
ipa: /koʊl/
homophone: coal
homophone: cole
rhymes: -əʊl
Etymology: From Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl, “antimony; kohl, stibnite (powdered antimony)”). Doublet of alcohol and alcool.
Senses: hypernyms: eyeliner
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glosses: A dark powder, usually powdered stibnite (an antimony ore), used as eye makeup, especially in Eastern countries.
Derived terms: kohl pencil
kohl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊl/
ipa: /kɔʊl/
ipa: /koʊl/
homophone: coal
homophone: cole
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: kohls
form: kohling
form: kohled
form: kohled
Etymology: From Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl, “antimony; kohl, stibnite (powdered antimony)”). Doublet of alcohol and alcool.
Senses: examples: text: A plain, big woman with heavily kohled eyes and pudgy arms.
ref: 2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 241:
glosses: To decorate one's eyes with kohl.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: kohl rabi
baccalaureat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bækəˈlɔːɹɪət/
/bækəˈlɔːɹiæ/
Forms: form: baccalaureats
Etymology: From French baccalauréat or its source, Medieval Latin baccalaureatus, from Latin baccalaureus, an alteration of baccalarius (“young man aspiring to knighthood”) to resemble bacca lauri (“laurel berry”) (the ancient symbol of victory). Compare bachelor.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baccalaureate (“bachelor's degree”).
glosses: Alternative form of baccalaureate (“International Baccalaureate”).
deaf-mute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: deaf
glosses: Unable to hear or speak.
Synonyms: word: deaf and dumb
Derived terms: deaf-muteness
deaf-mute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deaf-mutes
Senses: examples: text: This buckling was first noticed by a deaf-mute who was walking over a bridge across the line and he pointed it out to the driver of a steamroller which happened to be passing.
ref: 1959 September, K. Hoole, “The Middlesbrough-Newcastle route of the N.E.R.: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 417:
text: Andrew was studying to become a teacher of deaf-mutes.
ref: 1974 April 20, “Beacon Hill Murder”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
synonyms: deaf person
glosses: A person who is unable to hear or speak.
Related terms: blind
deaf
mute
firs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fir
subtil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subtil
form: most subtil
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of subtle.
brusquerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brusqueries
form: brusquery
Etymology: From French brusquerie.
Senses: examples: text: “Yes? But then the Frenchman is a marquis, and the cleverer of the two,” remarked Polina imperturbably. “Is that so?” I repeated. “Yes; absolutely.” Polina was not at all pleased at my questions; I could see that she was doing her best to irritate me with the brusquerie of her answers. But I took no notice of this.
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth:
text: Dorothea looked straight before her, and spoke with cold brusquerie, very much with the air of a handsome boy, in amusing contrast with the solicitous amiability of her admirer.
ref: 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, I.2:
glosses: Brusqueness; abruptness, bluntness.
wooley backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wooley back.
radgie gadgies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radgie gadgie
come up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes up
form: coming up
form: came up
form: come up
Senses: examples: text: I came up the ladder carefully, holding the bucket in my right hand.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, up.
examples: text: I was standing on the corner when Nick came up and asked for a cigarette.
text: Racing around to come up behind you again
ref: 1973 March 1, Roger Waters, “Time”, in The Dark Side of the Moon, performed by Pink Floyd:
glosses: To come towards; to approach.
examples: text: Unless anything comes up, I'll be there every day this week.
glosses: To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
examples: text: The movie didn't come up to our expectations.
text: Hey look Ma, I made it / Hey look Ma, I made it / Everything's comin' up aces, aces / If it's a dream, don't wake me, don't wake me
ref: 2018, Brendon Urie, Michael Angelakos, Sam Hollander, Morgan Kibby, Jake Sinclair, Dillon Francis, “Hey Look Ma, I Made It”, in Pray for the Wicked, performed by Panic! at the Disco:
glosses: To be revealed to have a certain value, quality, or status.
examples: text: At some point in the conversation my name came up, and I readily agreed to their proposition.
text: Be ready for when your turn comes up.
text: The proposal came up before the committee.
text: It is interesting that this argument should have come up at this moment," Mr. Smith adds, "when the subject is being debated so hotly in the field of the petrol-driven internal combustion engine."
ref: 1951 September, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 621:
glosses: To come to attention and present oneself; to arrive or appear.
examples: text: He came up before a judge and was fined a thousand dollars.
glosses: To appear (before a judge or court).
examples: text: The summer holidays are coming up.
glosses: To draw near in time.
examples: text: We're coming up on the interview in the last half-hour of the program.
glosses: To approach a time or scheduled event.
examples: text: You have to come up to here to ride this roller-coaster.
text: He only comes up around this high.
glosses: To reach in height.
examples: text: It'll be warmer once the sun comes up.
glosses: To rise (above the horizon).
raw_tags: of a heavenly body
examples: text: I could tell from her expression that she was coming up already.
glosses: To begin to feel the effects of a recreational drug.
qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: To arrive at the university. (Compare go down, send down.)
examples: text: His shift came up, so he had to go to work.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To happen or occur.
examples: text: I came up in Baltimore.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To grow up; to experience a childhood.
examples: text: Watch out for him, he's been coming up lately.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To do well or be successful.
Derived terms: come up against
comeuppance
come up snake eyes
marry come up
sure as the sun is going to come up tomorrow
sure as the sun is going to come up tomorrow morning
Related terms: come up with
come up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: come ups
Senses: examples: text: I'm gonna pop some tags
Only got 20$ in my pocket
I'm, I'm, I'm huntin', lookin' for a come up
This is fucking awesome
ref: 2012, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, “Thrift Shop”:
glosses: An opportunity
vuvuzela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vuːvuːˈzɛlə/
other: /vuːvuːˈzeɪlə/
other: /vuːvuːˈzeɪlə/
Forms: form: vuvuzelas
Etymology: Borrowed from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.
Senses: examples: text: When the Manchester United squad walked through the arrival gates at Durban International yesterday, most players heard a vuvuzela for the first time.
ref: 2006 July 15, Weekend Argus:
text: I’m talking, of course, about the vuvuzela. Essentially, a metre-long blowhorn, which you may struggle to get past a steward at an English football ground.
ref: 2010 June 1, David Pickthall, “Are you ready to make some noise?”, in North-West Evening Mail, UK, retrieved 02 Aug 2011:
text: For some, the vuvuzelas herald the country’s piercing emergence from the forced racial hush of apartheid.
ref: 2010 August 6, Jeré Longman, “A Bleating Soundtrack for Soccer”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A trumpet-shaped horn, now usually plastic, that produces a loud buzzing sound.
Synonyms: sense: trumpet-shaped horn
word: stadium horn
sense: trumpet-shaped horn
word: stadium trumpet
Hypernyms: sense: trumpet-shaped horn
word: noisemaker
Derived terms: vuvuzelist
coming up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Coming up on the left is a historical building worth noting.
text: The conference is coming up soon and she hasn't finished preparing her presentation for it yet.
text: Breakfast is coming right up, as soon as the toast is done.
glosses: present participle and gerund of come up
doilems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doilem
take to the hills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes to the hills
form: taking to the hills
form: took to the hills
form: taken to the hills
Senses: examples: text: He often took to the hills when his mother-in-law was in town.
glosses: To flee or vanish; to run away.
Related terms: get out of Dodge
run for the hills
take a powder
take to one's heels
stone deaf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Years of working under such noisy conditions ultimately left him stone deaf.
glosses: Utterly deaf.
Synonyms: deaf as a doorknob
deaf as a doorpost
deaf as a post
Related terms: tone-deaf
bokmakierie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bokmakieries
Etymology: From Afrikaans bokmakierie.
Senses: examples: text: The remarkable Bokmakierie is endemic to the Southern African region, and is found on broken ground in the cooler parts of the country. It has adapted to the urban environment, and is a common garden bird in many towns and cities. The Bokmakierie has a wide range of ringing duets.
ref: 1998, Andy Swash, http://www.birding.co.za/gallery/746.htm
glosses: A shrike endemic to Southern Africa, with olive upper parts, a yellow underside, and a deep black gorget.
Sangamon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsæŋ(ɡ)əmən/
Senses: glosses: A river originating in central Illinois, United States, a tributary to the Illinois River.
glosses: A township in Piatt County, Illinois.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Oakley Township, Macon County, Illinois.
Derived terms: Sangamon County
Sangamonian
alee
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈliː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: more alee
form: most alee
Etymology: From a- + lee.
Senses: glosses: On the lee side of a ship, to the leeward side (vs aweather)
Teesside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiː(z)ˌsaɪd/
Etymology: From Tees (“River Tees”) + -side.
Senses: glosses: A conurbation in North East England encompassing the towns of Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar and surrounding settlements.
glosses: A county borough of North Riding of Yorkshire which had a brief existence between 1968 and 1974, being absorbed into the County of Cleveland.
Derived terms: Teessider
khanjar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkand͡ʒə/
Forms: form: khanjars
Etymology: From Arabic خَنْجَر (ḵanjar). Doublet of kindjal.
Senses: examples: text: The small khanjar is a curved dagger, and it was with this very one Nuri had killed in single combat a minor chieftain of the Muntefiq.
ref: 2003, Carl S Raswan, Black Tents of Arabia, Xlibris, page 6:
glosses: A kind of dagger used in certain Arabian countries.
normalized yield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normalized yields
Senses: glosses: the mᵗʰ root of the rolled throughput yield
raw_tags: for an m-step process
obscurification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obscurifications
Etymology: From obscure + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The act of making something obscure, or (in computing) obfuscating source code etc.
raw_tags: used as a nonce only
Related terms: obscurify
obfuscation
tilleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of till
firstling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firstlings
Etymology: From first + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:4:
text: The seasons bring the flower again,
⁠And bring the firstling to the flock;
⁠And in the dusk of thee, the clock
Beats out the little lives of men.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto II”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The first produce or result, notably firstborn offspring.
glosses: The first of a class or kind.
examples: text: From this moment the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: The thing first thought or done.
firstling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From first + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 15:19:
glosses: Firstborn.
Related terms: endling
shy bairns get nowt
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃaɪ bɛənz ɡɛt naʊt/
ipa: [ʃaɪ bɛːnz ɡɛʔ naʊʔ]
ipa: [nəʊʔ]
Forms: form: shy bairns get noot
Etymology: Literally “shy children get nothing”, a reference to the shyness of children when making requests.
Senses: examples: text: A' forgot te ask 'er fo' me money back!
Wye, shy bairns get nowt.
text: Aye, Mary, we heard you. How could we not? Ah well, shy bairns get nowt. Will we let her at the microphone and give me a bit peace?
ref: 1994, Fiona Cooper, A Skyhook in the Midnight Sun, London; New York, N.Y.: Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, page 121:
text: Ask questions, enquire, and push for more information and care. As the saying goes in the north-east, ‘shy bairns get nowt’! Know your rights and what you are entitled to by pushing and not taking no for an answer.
ref: 2007, “Rob [Rob has a Six-year-old Son who was Infected with Cytomegalovirus as a Baby]”, in Jill Harrison, Matthew Henderson, Rob Leonard, editors, Different Dads: Fathers’ Stories of Parenting Disabled Children, London; Philadelphia, Pa.: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 37:
text: An old Geordie saying says: ‘Shy bairns get nowt!’ It literally means ‘shy children get nothing’, but is used to emphasise that people should speak up for themselves. I think that this saying applies to leaders.
ref: 2011, John Marrin, “Ten Tips on Taking the Lead”, in Leadership for Dummies (For Dummies Series), Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley, →ISBN, page 297:
glosses: If you're too shy, or don't ask, you will not get what you want.
wikipedia: Hermann von Kaulbach
Related terms: faint heart never won fair lady
nothing ventured, nothing gained
the squeaky wheel gets the grease
bearded vulture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearded vultures
Senses: glosses: a long-winged vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, found in southern Europe, Africa and India.
Synonyms: lammergeier
lammergeyer
ossifrage
bairns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bairn
bairns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bairn
shy bairns get noot
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shy bairns get nowt.
lammergeyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaməɡaɪə/
Forms: form: lammergeyers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lammergeier.