cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Scot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɒt/
ipa: /ˈskɑt/
ipa: /ˈskɔʔ/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: Scott
Forms: form: Scots
Etymology: From Old English Scottas (“people from Ireland, Irishmen”), from Late Latin Scotti (see Scōtī for more).
See Scoti.
Senses: glosses: A surname
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage, variant of Scott.
Related terms: Scott
Scotus
lav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læv/
rhymes: -æv
Forms: form: lavs
Senses: examples: text: Please, miss, I need to go to the lav.
text: If you had too much slap on when you went out . . . your mates say too much slap on your ecaf. Yeah. Oh really girl? Yes . . . Go in the lavs here and have a look.
ref: Quoted in 2006, Matt Houlbrook, Queer London (page 151)
glosses: Clipping of lavatory.
examples: text: When you’re recording interviews, it’s best to use a lav.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Clipping of lavalier microphone.
Synonyms: bathroom
Derived terms: lavvy
Maggie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæɡi/
rhymes: -æɡi
Senses: examples: text: Maggie. Never in her life had she heard her mother called Maggie. It was a name from her youth, that dead time Jerene had never been allowed to talk about [- - -]. Her mother was Margaret now.
ref: 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, Houghton Mifflin, published 1997, →ISBN, page 127:
text: I could tell that some of the guests were confused by the name of Maggie―no-one had called her by that clunky, unfashionable name in years―
ref: 2004, Joanne Harris, Jigs & Reels, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Margaret.
glosses: Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister.
confound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfaʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: confounds
Etymology: From Middle English confounden (“destroy, ruin, perplex”), from Anglo-Norman cunfundre and Old French confondre, from Latin cōnfundō (“to mingle, mix together”). Related to found (“to melt (metals in a foundry)”) (but not to found (“to start”), nor to find) and to fusion.
Senses: examples: text: The participants certainly differ in how their practice is distributed (1, 2, or 3 days), but they also differ in how much total practice they get (3, 6, or 9 hours). This is a perfect example of a confound—it is impossible to tell if the results are due to one factor (distribution of practice) or the other (total practice hours); the two factors covary perfectly.
ref: 2009, C. James Goodwin, Research In Psychology: Methods and Design, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 175:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
synonyms: confounder
glosses: A confounding variable.
complain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpleɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: complains
form: complaining
form: complained
form: complained
Etymology: From Middle English complaynen, from Old French complaindre, from Medieval Latin complangere (“to bewail, complain”), from Latin com- (“together”) + plangere (“to strike, beat, as the breast in extreme grief, bewail”); see plain, plaint.
Senses: examples: text: Joe was always complaining about the noise made by his neighbours.
text: O loſs of ſight, of thee I moſt complain!
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 12, line 67:
glosses: To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
examples: text: They've complained about me to the police again.
text: Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: If you get cheated by the Better Business Bureau, who do you complain to?
ref: 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 85:
glosses: To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
examples: text: the complaining bed-springs
glosses: To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.
Synonyms: word: beef
word: bellyache
word: bemoan
word: bitch
word: bleat
word: carp
word: chunter
word: complain
word: crab
word: croak
word: dump on
word: frine
word: girn
word: give out
word: grumble
word: grotch
word: grouse
word: grouch
word: grump
word: gruntle
word: gripe
word: harp
word: inveigh
word: kvetch
word: latrate
word: make a stink
word: murmur
word: mutter
word: moan
word: nag
word: nark
word: nudzh
word: pinch
word: piss and moan
word: rail
word: rail out
word: repine
word: ride
word: snivel
word: whine
word: whinge
Hypernyms: word: communicate
Hyponyms: word: yammer
word: groan
Derived terms: can't complain
complainable
complainee
complainer
complainingly
complainingness
complain king
complain queen
complainy
noncomplaining
uncomplained
uncomplaining
you'd complain if you were hung with a new rope
Related terms: word: complainer
word: fastidious
word: peevish
word: utter
compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmpaʊnd/
note: of Canada
enpr: kŏm'pound
ipa: /ˈkɑmpaʊnd/
note: of Canada
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkɒmpaʊnd/
ipa: /ˈkɔmpæɔnd/
ipa: /ˈkɒmpæʊnd/
ipa: /kəmˈpaʊnd/
ipa: /komˈpaʊnd/
Forms: form: compounds
Etymology: Possibly from Malay kampong, kampung (“group of buildings, village”), via Dutch or Portuguese, altered under the influence of Etymology 2. Doublet of kampung.
Senses: synonyms: gaol
jail
pen
pound
prison
glosses: An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
examples: text: A total of 75 cycle spaces are being installed at three Greater Anglia stations - [...]. And a secure compound for bicycles is being built at Cambridge North.
ref: 2020 December 2, “Network News: News in brief: More cycle spaces”, in Rail, page 27:
glosses: An enclosure for secure storage.
examples: text: Shepard: What kind of proof do you have that the major is dangerous?
Transmission: Three days ago, we sent two Alliance representatives to meet with him at his compound. They have disappeared. We believe Kyle and his followers killed them.
Transmission: That compound is a cult, Shepard. They call him 'Father Kyle' now. He's set himself up as some kind of religious leader.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:
text: Some 20 supporters managed to get inside the court compounds. About half an hour after the verdict was delivered, they gathered near the Constitutional Court entrance and shouted: "On March 24, use your pen to oust the dictator."
ref: 2019 March 7, Yuda Masayuki, “Thai court: pro-Thaksin party must disband for nominating princess”, in Nikkei Asian Review, Nikkei Inc, retrieved 07 Mar 2019:
glosses: A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.
glosses: A compound of buildings where members of the same extended family live together.
compound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmpaʊnd/
note: of Canada
enpr: kŏm'pound
ipa: /ˈkɑmpaʊnd/
note: of Canada
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkɒmpaʊnd/
ipa: /ˈkɔmpæɔnd/
ipa: /ˈkɒmpæʊnd/
ipa: /kəmˈpaʊnd/
ipa: /komˈpaʊnd/
enpr: kŏm'pound
ipa: /ˈkɒmpaʊnd/
ipa: /ˈkɑmpaʊnd/
ipa: /ˈkɒmpaʊnd/
note: of Canada
enpr: kŏm'pound
ipa: /ˈkɑmpaʊnd/
note: of Canada
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkɒmpaʊnd/
ipa: /ˈkɔmpæɔnd/
ipa: /ˈkɒmpæʊnd/
ipa: /kəmˈpaʊnd/
ipa: /komˈpaʊnd/
Etymology: From Middle English compounen, from Middle French componre, compondre (“to put together”), from Latin componō, from Latin com- (“together”) + ponō (“to put”).
Senses: examples: text: a compound word
text: Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances.
ref: 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:
synonyms: composite
antonyms: simple
glosses: Composed of elements; not simple.
examples: text: compound addition
text: compound proportion
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Dealing with numbers of various denominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
Derived terms: compound animal
compound attack
compound balloon
compound bow
compound butter
compound chocolate
compound common time
compound control
compound crystal
compound curve
compound duple
compound engine
compound eye
compound fracture
compound fruit
compound householder
compound hyperopia
compound imperative
compound interest
compound interval
compound key
compound labour
compound larceny
compound leaf
compoundly
compound machine
compound meter
compound microscope
compound modifier
compound myopia
compoundness
compound pattern
compound pendulum
compound point
compound predicate word
compound proportion
compound sentence
compound symbol
compound tense
compound time
decompound
noncompound
convert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.vət/
ipa: [ˈkʰɒɱ.vət]
enpr: kŏn'vûrt
ipa: /ˈkɑn.vɚt/
ipa: [ˈkʰɑɱ.vɚt]
Forms: form: converts
Etymology: From Middle English converten, from Old French convertir, from Latin converto (“turn around”).
Senses: examples: text: They were all converts to Islam.
text: While still in this relationship, Greene, a convert to Roman Catholicism at 23, was asked to be godfather to Catherine Walston, a 30-year-old married woman, at her own conversion.
ref: 2004, Ted Jones, chapter 3, in The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers, Tauris Parke Paperbacks, published 2007, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: A person who has converted to a religion.
examples: text: I never really liked broccoli before, but now that I've tasted it the way you cook it, I'm a convert!
glosses: A person who is now in favour of something that they previously opposed or disliked.
examples: text: A great advantage of these temporary conversions of a man into a beast is that it enables the convert in his animal shape to pay out his enemy without being suspected.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 207:
glosses: Anyone who has converted from being one thing to being another.
topics: ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
Derived terms: passion of a convert
reconvert
contrary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒntɹəɹi/
ipa: /kənˈtɹɛəɹi/
note: haplology
ipa: /ˈkɒntɹi/
ipa: /ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/
Forms: form: more contrary
form: most contrary
Etymology: From Middle English contrarie, compare French contraire, from Old French contraire, from Latin contrārius (“opposite, opposed, contrary”), from contrā (“against”).
Senses: examples: text: contrary winds
text: And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me[…]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 26:21:
text: We have lost our labour; they are gone a contrary way.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
glosses: Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse.
examples: text: Galileo [Galilei]'s zeal for his opinions soon led him again to bring the question under the notice of the Pope, and the result was a declaration of the Inquisition that the doctrine of the earth's motion appeared to be contrary to the sacred scripture.
ref: 1847, William Whewell, “Sequel to Copernicus—The Reception and Development of the Copernican Theory”, in History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Times. […], new edition, volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, book V (History of Formal Astronomy after the Stationary Period), section 4 (The Copernican System Opposed on Theological Grounds), page 419:
glosses: Opposed; contradictory; inconsistent.
examples: text: a contrary disposition; a contrary child
glosses: Given to opposition; perverse; wayward.
Synonyms: word: against the grain
word: at cross purposes
word: contradictory
word: contrariant
word: contrarious
word: contrary
word: counter
word: cross
word: disagreeable
word: opposed
word: opposing
word: refractory
Hyponyms: word: cheeky
word: hostile
word: opposite
Derived terms: canon by contrary motion
contrarian
contrarily
contrariness
contrarious
contrariwise
contrary to
Related terms: word: obstinate
contrary
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒntɹəɹi/
ipa: /kənˈtɹɛəɹi/
note: haplology
ipa: /ˈkɒntɹi/
ipa: /ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/
Forms: form: more contrary
form: most contrary
Etymology: From Middle English contrarie, compare French contraire, from Old French contraire, from Latin contrārius (“opposite, opposed, contrary”), from contrā (“against”).
Senses: examples: I never act contrary to my principles.
glosses: Contrarily
contrary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒntɹəɹi/
ipa: /kənˈtɹɛəɹi/
note: haplology
ipa: /ˈkɒntɹi/
ipa: /ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/
Forms: form: contraries
Etymology: From Middle English contrarie, compare French contraire, from Old French contraire, from Latin contrārius (“opposite, opposed, contrary”), from contrā (“against”).
Senses: examples: text: No contraries hold more antipathy
Than I and such a knave.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: The opposite.
examples: text: If two universals differ in quality, they are contraries; as, every vine is a tree; no vine is a tree. These can never be both true together; but they may be both false.
ref: 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of a pair of propositions that cannot both be simultaneously true, though they may both be false.
glosses: A type of loaded die.
Synonyms: witherward
Derived terms: by contraries
on the contrary
quite the contrary
to the contrary
Related terms: topics: logic
mathematics
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: subcontrary
word: contrarian
contrary
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒntɹəɹi/
ipa: /kənˈtɹɛəɹi/
note: haplology
ipa: /ˈkɒntɹi/
ipa: /ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/
Forms: form: contraries
form: contrarying
form: contraried
form: contraried
Etymology: From Middle English contrarie, compare French contraire, from Old French contraire, from Latin contrārius (“opposite, opposed, contrary”), from contrā (“against”).
Senses: examples: text: You that be of the court, & eſpecially ye ſworn chaplains beware of a leſſon that a great man taught me at my firſt coming to the court he told me for a good will, he thoughte it wel. He ſayd vnto me. You muſt beware how ſo euer ye do that ye cõtrary not the king, let him haue his ſaiyngs, folow him, go with him. Mary out vpon this counſel, ſhal I ſay, as he ſayes?
ref: 1549 April 29 (Gregorian calendar), Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, […].] The Seuenth Sermon of Maister Hugh Latymer, which He Preached before King Edward [VI], the .19. Day of Aprill.”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 93, recto:
text: The Athenians having left the enemie in their owne land, for to pass into Sicilie, had very ill successe, and were much contraried by fortune[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 47, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: To oppose; to frustrate.
glosses: To impugn.
examples: text: thus wilfully sir Palomydes dyd bataille with yow
& as for hym sir I was not gretely aferd but I dred fore laūcelot that knew yow not
Madame said Palomydes ye maye saye what so ye wyll
I maye not contrary yow but by my knyghthode I knewe not sir Tristram
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter LXXVII, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
text: I finde them everie one in his turne to have reason, although they contrary one another.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: To contradict (someone or something).
glosses: To do the opposite of (someone or something).
glosses: To act inconsistently or perversely; to act in opposition to.
glosses: To argue; to debate; to uphold an opposite opinion.
glosses: To be self-contradictory; to become reversed.
Related terms: contra
counter
resplendant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of resplendent.
constancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑnstənsi/
ipa: /ˈkɒnstənsi/
Forms: form: constancies
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cōnstantia.
Senses: examples: text: A little Water cleares vs of this deed.
How eaſie is it then? your Conſtancie
Hath left you vnattended.
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 II, scene ii], page 137, column 1:
text: Punctuality is a species of Constancy, a very unfashionable quality in a Lady.
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii:
text: And, I do not know that I should be fond of preaching often; now and then, perhaps, once or twice in the spring, after being anxiously expected for half a dozen Sundays together; but not for a constancy; it would not do for a constancy.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 68:
text: Constancy of character is what is chiefly valued and sought for by naturalists.
ref: 1871, Charles Darwin, “On the Races of Man”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Part I (On the Descent of Man), page 214:
text: The overall retention rate of 68 per cent indicates a robust constancy of the linguistic features investigated.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 124:
glosses: The quality of being constant; steadiness or faithfulness in action, affections, purpose, etc.
examples: text: […] yonger ſpirits, […]
whoſe conſtancies
Expire before their faſhions: […]
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 232, column 2:
glosses: An unchanging quality or characteristic of a person or thing.
Derived terms: inconstancy
nonconstancy
Related terms: constant
constantly
resplendent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsplɛn.dənt/
Forms: form: more resplendent
form: most resplendent
form: resplendant
Etymology: From the obsolete sense of the English verb splendish (“to shine”), from Latin splendere (“to shine”), or from resplend + -ent, from Latin resplendere.
Senses: examples: text: Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.
ref: 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:
glosses: Shiny and colourful, and thus pleasing to the eye.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting the property of resplendency in Peano arithmetic.
Derived terms: resplendently
resplendent quetzal
Related terms: word: resplend
word: splendid
word: splendor
word: resplendid
boast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊst/
ipa: /boʊst/
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: boasts
Etymology: From Middle English bosten, from bost (“boast, glory, noise, arrogance, presumption, pride, vanity”), probably of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (“inflated, swollen, puffed up, proud, arrogant, bad”).
Cognate with Scots bost, boist (“to threaten, brag, boast”), Anglo-Norman bost (“ostentation”) (from Germanic). Related to Norwegian baus (“proud, bold, daring”), dialectal German baustern (“to swell”), German böse (“evil, bad, angry”), Dutch boos (“evil, wicked, angry”), West Frisian boas (“bad, wicked, angry, shrewd, clever”). Compare also dialectal Norwegian bausta, busta (“to rush onward, make a noise”). Possible doublet of boost.
Senses: glosses: A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
examples: text: It was his regular boast that he could eat two full English breakfasts in one sitting.
glosses: Something that one brags about.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
squash
glosses: A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
boast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊst/
ipa: /boʊst/
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: boasts
form: boasting
form: boasted
form: boasted
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
glosses: To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
extol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈstəʊl/
ipa: /ɪkˈstɒl/
ipa: /ɪkˈstoʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -ɒl
Forms: form: extols
form: extolling
form: extolled
form: extolled
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin extollō (“elevate, raise high”).
Senses: examples: text: Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 52:13:
text: It not only congratulates the Pope, but panegyrizes his Holiness, extols the college of cardinals and the bishops of Italy, calls upon the ashes of the martyrs to rejoice, apostrophizes Peter and Paul, and pays many fine compliments to happy Britain, although dissentient from the Romish faith;—it then reverts, in conclusion, to the Pope, and ends with intreating his blessing and assuring him of the prayers of his Irish congratulators.
ref: 1814 October 24, “Proceedings of Irish Roman Catholics”, in William Haweis Cooper, editor, The Protestant Advocate, Irish Missionary Magazine and Christian Watchman, volume III, London: Houlston and Stoneman, […]; Dublin: P. D. Hardy & Sons, pages 1–2:
text: Men like Stuart who had no desire to extol Coleridge's virtues, and other witnesses quite as hostile, to whom a moral dereliction could hardly be a mortal offence, were loud in praise of the purity of his walk in life.
ref: 1887, Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, Sir Hall Caine, John Parker Anderson, Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, page 136:
text: Extol thee—could I—then I will / By saying nothing new, / But just the tritest truth / That thou art heavenly.
ref: a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in M[abel] L[oomis] Todd and M[illicent] T[odd] Bingham, editors, Bolts of Melody, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, published 1945, page 173:
text: Maimonides, the 12th century scholar, rabbi and physician also extolled the health benefits of wine in moderation.
ref: 2022 January 22, Jonathan Reiner, “If you think that glass of wine is good for you, it’s time to reconsider”, in CNN:
text: In the meantime, I have an opportunity of extolling the virtues of his Liverpool & Manchester Railway Atlas, which appeared last year and has already had its second print-run.
ref: 2022 February 23, Barry Doe, “Liverpool & Manchester Atlas is excellent value”, in RAIL, number 951, page 60:
text: Instead, we retreat into our gender-segregated media spaces where the manosphere extols stoicism and the womanosphere celebrates emotional vulnerability.
ref: 2024 April 17, David Sasaki, “The emotionally immature lives of men and women”, in The Time Capsule:
synonyms: belaud
flatter
glosses: To praise; to make high.
Derived terms: extollation
extoller
extollingly
extolment
unextolled
curls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)lz
Senses: glosses: plural of curl
curls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)lz
Senses: synonyms: curlies
glosses: Specifically, a body of curly hair on someone's head.
curls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)lz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of curl
choirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choir
boorish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊəɹɪʃ/
Forms: form: more boorish
form: most boorish
Etymology: From boor + -ish.
Senses: synonyms: rude
uncultured
glosses: Behaving as a boor; rough in manners.
Derived terms: boorishly
boorishness
unboorish
blush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: blushes
Etymology: Unknown; attested in the late 15th century.
Senses: examples: text: a blush of boys
text: I took the Red Cross senior lifesaving test, the one girl in a blush of boys taking the course.
ref: 1962, Bette Davis, chapter 3, in The Lonely Life: An Autobiography,, New York: Putnam, page 46:
text: He had come with his own blush of boys. All afternoon they had shimmered upon the lawns.
ref: 2001, Jamie O’Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, London: Simon & Schuster UK, published 2002, page 322:
glosses: The collective noun for a group of boys.
redden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛdn̩/
rhymes: -ɛdən
Forms: form: reddens
form: reddening
form: reddened
form: reddened
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: redden
form: redden
form: reddened
form: redden
form: reddened
form: reddens
form: reddened
form: redden
form: reddened
form: redden
form: reddened
form: redden
form: -
form: reddening
form: reddened
Etymology: From red + -en.
Senses: examples: text: But I will make you blush; nay, I will make you redden all over.
ref: 1769, Plautus, Bonnell Thornton (translation), "The Captives", The Comedies of Plautus, T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, page 341
text: Ere this had redden'd with my odious blood.
ref: 1794, William Hamilton, "Mithridates", Poems on Several Occasions, W. Gordon, page 258
text: 1997, Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid, Faber & Faber, "Phaethon," lines 227-9, p. 32,
When the sun-god saw that, and the reddening sky
And the waning moon seeming to thaw
He called the Hours to yoke the horses.
glosses: To become red or redder.
examples: text: God redden your pale blood!
ref: 1884, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Becket, act I, scene 4:
text: […] If the cloud that hangs
Upon the heart and round the mind
Cleared from the north and in that height
The sun appeared and reddened great
Belshazzar's brow, O, ruler, rude
With rubies then, attend me now.
ref: 1942, Wallace Stevens, “Country Words”, in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, Knopf, published 1971, page 207:
text: Then listen Thebes, nurse of Semele,
Crown your hair with ivy
Turn your fingers green with bryony
Redden your walls with berries.
ref: 1969, Wole Soyinka, The Bacchae of Euripides, Norton, published 1974, page 19:
glosses: To make red or redder.
Derived terms: reddener
Related terms: red
chopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɒp.ə/
ipa: /ˈtʃɔp.ə/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑ.pɚ/
rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: choppers
Etymology: From chop + -er.
Senses: glosses: A tool for chopping wood; an axe/ax.
glosses: A knife for chopping food, especially one with a large oblong blade.
glosses: A thick mitten, usually with yellow leather on the outside.
glosses: A type of road motorcycle, especially as used by biker or bikie gangs.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of various electronic switches used to interrupt one signal under the control of another.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A crude tool with an irregular cutting edge formed by removing flakes from one side of a stone.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A high-bouncing batted ball.
glosses: The penis.
examples: text: My chopper sing like Sia, make a bitch sick diarrhea.
ref: 2019 March 1, Rico Nasty, “Tia Tamera”, in Maria-Cecilia Simone Kelly (lyrics), Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini (music), Amala (FLAC), performed by Rico Nasty, Los Angeles: Kemosabe Records, published 2019:
glosses: An assault rifle or carbine, especially a fully-automatic one (e.g. an AK-47).
glosses: The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
glosses: A rapper who raps in a fast-paced rhyming style.
Synonyms: sense: slang: penis
word: penis
Derived terms: chopper coupling
Choppergate
copper chopper
footchopper
foot chopper
headchopper
helichopper
logic chopper
logic-chopper
meat-chopper
photochopper
woodchopper
wood chopper
chopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɒp.ə/
ipa: /ˈtʃɔp.ə/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑ.pɚ/
rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: choppers
Etymology: From the onomatopoeia for the "chop-chop" sound emitted by the main rotor blades of the Bell 47 'OH-13 Sioux' "Angel of Mercy" helicopter, encountered by troops during the Korean War.
Senses: examples: text: There's armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps
And rigs of every size.
Yeah, them chicken coops was full o'bears
And choppers filled the skies.
ref: 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
glosses: A helicopter.
Synonyms: sense: helicopter
word: whirlybird
Derived terms: Chopper
chopper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɒp.ə/
ipa: /ˈtʃɔp.ə/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑ.pɚ/
rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: choppers
form: choppering
form: choppered
form: choppered
Etymology: From the onomatopoeia for the "chop-chop" sound emitted by the main rotor blades of the Bell 47 'OH-13 Sioux' "Angel of Mercy" helicopter, encountered by troops during the Korean War.
Senses: examples: text: They lifted Catholics. Civil Rights guys, mostly. Low-level nationalists. Choppered them off to some interrogation centre outside Belfast.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 288:
glosses: To travel or transport by helicopter.
embarrassment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbæɹəsmənt/
Forms: form: embarrassments
Etymology: From embarrass + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The desired effect [of affectionate teasing] is a look of pleasurable embarrassment, as if you administered a compliment. Anyone who doesn't stop teasing immediately upon producing real embarrassment, anger or tears is not really teasing.
ref: 1998 February 22, Judith Martin, “Tease and sympathy”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.
examples: text: Jack, you are an embarrassment to this family.
text: Losing this highly publicized case was an embarrassment to the firm.
text: The audacious hijacking in Paris of a van carrying the baggage of a Saudi prince to his private jet is obviously an embarrassment to the French capital, whose ultra-high-end boutiques have suffered a spate of heists in recent months.
ref: 2014 August 21, “A brazen heist in Paris [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another.
examples: text: There are over 5,000 Americans now in Paris, many artists, singers, musicians, writers, and actors, so many, indeed, the committee could hardly pick a program from an embarrassment of volunteers.
ref: 1914, Collier's, page 30:
text: The landscape presented an embarrassment of riches for the industrial archaeologist, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century remains were still visible in abundance
ref: 1996, David Morgan Evans, Peter Salway, David Thackray, The Remains of Distant Times: Archaeology and the National Trust, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 188:
text: At one time, I reflected, we'd had an embarrassment of good, qualified squad leader—ready men in the platoon.
ref: 2013, Frank Boccia, The Crouching Beast: A United States Army Lieutenant's Account of the Battle for Hamburger Hill, May 1969, McFarland, →ISBN, page 256:
glosses: A large collection of good or valuable things, especially one that exceeds requirements or causes some sort of hindrance.
examples: text: […]and render them more intelligible than all the commentaries which have been written on them, for they generally render the authour more obscure, and lead the reader into greater embarrassments, by what they explain, than by what they leave untouched.
ref: 1785, James Ridgway, A Dictionary of Literary Conversation:
glosses: A state of confusion; hesitation; uncertainty.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment.
glosses: Difficulty in financial matters; poverty.
Derived terms: criterion of embarrassment
disembarrassment
e-barrassment
embarrassment of riches
empathic embarrassment
how embarrassment
inductive embarrassment
secondhand embarrassment
unembarrassment
vicarious embarrassment
backward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.wə(ɹ)d/
enpr: băk'wərd
ipa: /ˈbækwɚd/
Forms: form: more backward
form: most backward
Etymology: From Middle English bakwarde, abakward, equivalent to back (adverb) + -ward. Cognate with Old Frisian bekward (“backward”).
Senses: examples: text: The passenger turned around and walked backward, towards the tail of the aircraft.
glosses: At, near or towards the rear of something.
examples: text: He tilted his head backward.
text: The grandfather clock toppled backward and crashed to the ground.
text: Her arm was bent backward at an odd angle.
glosses: In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
examples: text: In reverse gear the wheel turns backward.
glosses: In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
examples: text: This project seems to be going backward.
text: The work went backward.
ref: 1700, John Dryden, Theodore and Honoria:
glosses: Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
examples: text: He had his cap on backward.
glosses: In a reversed orientation; back to front.
examples: text: A palindrome reads the same backward as forward.
glosses: In a reversed order or sequence.
examples: text: As we begin the new millennium, it behoves us to look backward as well as forward.
glosses: Toward or into the past.
glosses: In the past.
examples: text: the Mind can backward caſt
Upon herself, her understanding Light
ref: 1599, John Davies, Nosce Teipsum:
text: It was still possible — perhaps it might be inevitable — for him to accept frankly the altered conditions, and avow Baldassarre's existence; but hardly without casting an unpleasant light backward on his original reticence[…]
ref: 1862, George Eliot, Romola:
glosses: By way of reflection; reflexively.
backward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.wə(ɹ)d/
enpr: băk'wərd
ipa: /ˈbækwɚd/
Etymology: From Middle English bakwarde, abakward, equivalent to back (adverb) + -ward. Cognate with Old Frisian bekward (“backward”).
Senses: examples: text: In the dark backward and abysm of time.
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 I, scene ii]:
glosses: The state behind or past.
backward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.wə(ɹ)d/
enpr: băk'wərd
ipa: /ˈbækwɚd/
Forms: form: backwards
form: backwarding
form: backwarded
form: backwarded
Etymology: From Middle English bakwarde, abakward, equivalent to back (adverb) + -ward. Cognate with Old Frisian bekward (“backward”).
Senses: glosses: To keep back, to delay, to retard.
Related terms: backwards
lorra
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒɹə/
rhymes: -ɒɹə
Etymology: Reduction of lot of. Representing a clipped or slurred pronunciation, especially associated with a stereotypical Liverpudlian pronunciation popularised by British singer and TV personality Cilla Black.
Senses: examples: text: We're gonna have a lorra fun tonight, chuck!
qualifier: espcially Liverpool
glosses: Contraction of lot of.
Related terms: berra
birra
gerra
gorra
norra
worra
Liverpudlian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪvəˈpʌdlɪ.ən/
Forms: form: more Liverpudlian
form: most Liverpudlian
Etymology: Blend of Liverpool + puddle (as a pun on a puddle being a small pool) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Liverpool in England.
Synonyms: word: Scouse
word: Liver
Liverpudlian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪvəˈpʌdlɪ.ən/
Forms: form: Liverpudlians
Etymology: Blend of Liverpool + puddle (as a pun on a puddle being a small pool) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of Liverpool in England.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: someone connected with Liverpool Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
Synonyms: word: Liverpolitan
word: Scouser
word: Dickey Sam
pensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛn.sɪv/
rhymes: -ɛnsɪv
Forms: form: more pensive
form: most pensive
Etymology: From Middle English pensif, pensyfe, pencyve, from Old French pensif (“thoughtful”), from penser (“to think”) (from Latin pēnsō) + -if (English -ive).
Senses: glosses: Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought.
glosses: Having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking.
examples: text: Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce
ref: 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 4:
text: Through the deep grass the faces of the three children glowed like pensive moons.
ref: 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 21:
glosses: Looking thoughtful, especially from sadness.
Derived terms: overpensive
pensively
pensiveness
Related terms: poise
pansy
peso
be bothered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is bothered
form: being bothered
form: was bothered
form: been bothered
Senses: examples: text: I can't be bothered to clean the house today.
text: He can't be bothered drying all those dishes.
text: An egg and rasher of bacon for breakfast supply quite enough nitrogenous food for the day. Sometimes I have a treat. A cauliflower, etc. But generally I can't be bothered.
ref: 1986, Vladimir Naumovich Zharkov, translated by William B. Hubbard, Interior Structure of the Earth and Planets, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 273:
text: This takes effort. It can be a lot of work. So, you see, magick is not an easy short-cut to achieving something because you can't be bothered to get it any other way.
ref: 1991, Raymond Buckland, Scottish Witchcraft: The History and Magick of the Picts, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 81:
text: I've been using a computer instead of a typewriter for four years now, but I can't speak the language at all. I don't need it, and I can't be bothered unless it's going to be useful. The only kind of mouse I recognize is the four-legged variety, and I can't tell a bit from a byte.
ref: 1992, Victoria Branden, In Defence of Plain English: The Decline and Fall of Literacy in Canada, Dundurn, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: To have the enthusiasm (to do something).
raw_tags: in the negative
calcinosis cutis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a group of disorders wherein calcium deposits form in the skin
Synonyms: cutaneous calcinosis
cutaneous calcification
Derived terms: calcinosis cutis circumscripta
calcinosis cutis universalis
dystrophic calcinosis cutis
iatrogenic calcinosis cutis
idiopathic calcinosis cutis
metastatic calcinosis cutis
Related terms: tumoral calcinosis
dystrophic calcification
bovver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒvə/
rhymes: -ɒvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bovvers
Etymology: Represents a nonstandard or dialectal (in particular Cockney) pronunciation of bother.
Senses: examples: text: No need to tell me, I'd recognize that Cockney accent anywhere! “I'm in a bit of bovver,” he said. “Do me a favour and go to the shelter and do the necessary for Trixie.”
ref: 1997, Patricia Guiver, Delilah Doolittle and the Purloined Pooch, page 27:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of bother.
examples: text: In London there are some thirty gangs of “bovver birds,” violence-prone girls who roam the streets in packs attacking almost any vulnerable object for no apparent reason other than the sheer thrill of it.
ref: 1976, Freda Adler, Herbert Marcus Adler, Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal, page 100:
glosses: Violence, especially that associated with youth gangs.
Derived terms: bovver bird
bovver boots
bovver boy
bovver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒvə/
rhymes: -ɒvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bovvers
form: bovvering
form: bovvered
form: bovvered
Etymology: Represents a nonstandard or dialectal (in particular Cockney) pronunciation of bother.
Senses: examples: text: "You specials," Nigel said disgustedly. "I don't know why I bovver, really I don't."
ref: 1990, Linda Svendsen, Words We Call Home: Celebrating Creative Writing at UBC, University of British Columbia Press, page 38:
text: "I don't bovver," he said, with a cross look in the direction of his brother and sister Rochesters.
ref: 2007, Hugh Walpole, The Golden Scarecrow, page 83:
text: […] in Brighton & Hove, where the council were not above attempting a sort of half-hearted, class-based ethnic-cleansing-without-violence, wherein families who have been in Brighton for generations—who could probably even trace their lineage right back to Brighthelmstone if they could be bovvered […]
ref: 2007, Julie Burchill, Daniel Raven, Made in Brighton […] , Virgin Books, pages 60–61:
text: “Playgrounds and canteens are denied catchphrases,” he writes in the Radio Times, fretting that “the art will be lost.” Which begs the question: am I bovvered?
ref: 2018 September 18, Brian Logan, “Catchphrase comedy is dead. Am I bovvered?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of bother.
bovver
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒvə/
rhymes: -ɒvə(ɹ)
Etymology: Represents a nonstandard or dialectal (in particular Cockney) pronunciation of bother.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of bother.
rozzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒzə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rozzers
form: rosser
Etymology: Late 19th century UK. Etymology unknown. Possibly a play on the given name of Sir Robert Peel, founder of the Metropolitan Police Service. Compare peeler, bobby.
Senses: examples: text: "Another wrong un," says the carman. "Hi, Mr. Graham!"—and up walks a rozzer and buckles me tight.
ref: 1888 May 26, The Sporting Times:
text: If the rozzers was to see him in bona clobber they'd take him for a gun.
ref: 1893, P. H. Emerson, Signor Lippo, Burnt-Cork Artiste:
text: ‘I was never frightened of any job yet,’ he said, ‘and I'd do this job to-night if the house was full of rozzers,’ Hill pretended that he wasn't particular whether the thing came off or not that night, but all the while he kept egging Fred on to do it.
ref: 1916, Arthur J. Rees, John R. Watson, The Hampstead Mystery:
text: Jed Mercurio’s corrupt cop hit remains one of the best shows on TV, but surely every rozzer in the Midlands knows who Kate Fleming is by now?
ref: 2017 March 25, Errigo Angie, “Dodgy detectives, Twitter trolls and whistleblowers: Line of Duty is back”, in The Guardian, TV & Radio blog:
synonyms: word: 5-O
word: alphabet
word: barney
word: beatsman
word: bizzie
word: bluebottle
word: bluecoat
word: blue heeler
word: blue meanie
word: bobby
word: body snatcher
word: bogey
word: boy in blue
word: bull
word: bullyman
word: buttons
word: centenier
word: charpering omi
word: chazzer
word: cobbler
word: cop
word: copper
word: cozzer
word: cracker
word: crusher
word: crowns
word: dibble
word: fed
word: filth
word: finest
word: finger
word: five-o
word: flatfoot
word: flatty
word: fuzz
word: garda
word: gendarme
word: glowie
word: guardian of the peace
word: harman
word: harman-beck
word: jack
word: jackboot
word: jake
word: John Law
word: John Q. Law
word: Johnny Hopper
word: lawman
word: mee-maw
word: monarch
word: Mr Plod
word: mutton shunter
word: nuthook
word: oinker
word: Officer Friendly
word: Old Bill
word: PC Plod
word: pig
word: piggy
word: peeler
word: plod
word: police
word: police officer
word: policeman
word: policeperson
word: polis
word: po-po
word: raw lobster
word: roller
word: rozzer
word: scufter
word: slop
word: swine
word: statie
word: twelve
word: tyre biter
word: unboiled lobster
word: walloper
word: wooden-top
glosses: A police officer.
dystrophic calcification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dystrophic calcifications
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The mineralization of soft tissues occurring without a systemic mineral imbalance.
Related terms: calcinosis cutis
ranine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪˌnaɪn/
Forms: form: more ranine
form: most ranine
Etymology: From Latin rānīnus, from rāna (“frog”) + -īnus (“of or pertaining to”).
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or resembling a frog.
glosses: Relating to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, relating to the region where the swelling occurs, especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein.
Synonyms: sense: relating to a frog
word: froggish
sense: relating to a frog
word: froggy
sense: relating to a frog
word: froglike
sense: relating to a frog
word: frogly
Related terms: sense: relating to a frog
word: anuran
sense: relating to a frog
word: batrachian
sense: relating to a frog
word: salientian
sense: relating to a frog
word: toadish
sense: relating to a frog
word: toadlike
sense: relating to a frog
word: toadly
sally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæli/
rhymes: -æli
Forms: form: sallies
form: salley
Etymology: From Middle English saly, from Old English saliġ, sealh (“willow”). More at sallow.
Senses: glosses: A willow.
glosses: Any tree that resembles a willow.
glosses: An object made from the wood of a willow.
Derived terms: sally-picker
sally rod