cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
either
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ī′thər
enpr: ē′thər
rhymes: -aɪðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -iːðə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈaɪ.ðə/
ipa: /ˈiː.ðə/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.ðɚ/
ipa: /ˈi.ðɚ/
ipa: /ˈi.d̪ʱə(r)/
ipa: /ˈɑj.d̪ʱə(r)/
enpr: ā′thər
note: in use until the 20th c.
ipa: /ˈeɪ.ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɛj.d̪ə(r)/
other: /aɪ/
other: /iː/
other: /iː/
other: /aɪ/
other: /eɪ/
Etymology: From Middle English either, from Old English ǣġhwæþer, from Proto-West Germanic *aiw + *gahwaþar. Akin to Old Saxon eogihwethar, iahwethar (Low German jeed); Old Dutch *iogewether, *iowether, *iother (Dutch ieder); Old High German eogihwedar, iegihweder, ieweder (German jeder).
Senses: examples: text: I don't like him, and I don't like her either.
text: I know a cheap Spanish restaurant. It's not far from here, either.
text: But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
ref: 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
glosses: As well.
raw_tags: after a negative
either
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: enpr: ī′thər
enpr: ē′thər
rhymes: -aɪðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -iːðə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈaɪ.ðə/
ipa: /ˈiː.ðə/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.ðɚ/
ipa: /ˈi.ðɚ/
ipa: /ˈi.d̪ʱə(r)/
ipa: /ˈɑj.d̪ʱə(r)/
enpr: ā′thər
note: in use until the 20th c.
ipa: /ˈeɪ.ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɛj.d̪ə(r)/
other: /aɪ/
other: /iː/
other: /iː/
other: /aɪ/
other: /eɪ/
Etymology: From Middle English either, from Old English ǣġhwæþer, from Proto-West Germanic *aiw + *gahwaþar. Akin to Old Saxon eogihwethar, iahwethar (Low German jeed); Old Dutch *iogewether, *iowether, *iother (Dutch ieder); Old High German eogihwedar, iegihweder, ieweder (German jeder).
Senses: examples: text: Either you eat your dinner or you go to your room.
text: You can have either potatoes or rice with that, but not both.
text: You'll be either early, late, or on time.
text: Either you'll finish your homework or you'll be grounded you home.
text: You can't be a table and a chair. You're either a Jew or a gentile.
ref: 2006 December 5, Jackie Mason, quotee, “Mason drops lawsuit vs. Jews for Jesus”, in USA Today:
text: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language[…]his clerks[…]understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
ref: 1893, Walter Besant, “Prologue”, in The Ivory Gate:
glosses: Introduces the first of two (or occasionally more) options or possibilities, the second (or last) of which is introduced by “or”.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: either do or die
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: either-either
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: either-handed
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: either-or
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: either way
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: either-way offence
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: either … or
Related terms: neither
nor
or
snitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: snitches
form: snitching
form: snitched
form: snitched
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps an alteration of Middle English snacche (“a trap, snare”), snacchen (“to seize (prey)”, whence modern English snatch). Compare also Middle English snik snak (“a sudden blow, snap”). Alternatively, perhaps from a dialectal variant of sneak, from Middle English sniken, from Old English snīcan (“to creep; crawl”). More at sneak.
Senses: glosses: To inform on, especially in betrayal of others.
glosses: To contact or cooperate with the police for any reason.
examples: text: Besides, I shall require your help in snitching the pig. But I was forgetting. You are not abreast of that side of our activities, are you? Emsworth has a pig. The Duke wants it.
ref: 1939, P. G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime:
glosses: To steal, quickly and quietly.
Synonyms: sense: to steal
word: filch
word: nick
word: pilfer
word: pocket
sense: to inform on
word: drop a dime
word: grass up
word: rat out
Derived terms: dry snitch
snitch-jacket
snitch up
snitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: snitches
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps an alteration of Middle English snacche (“a trap, snare”), snacchen (“to seize (prey)”, whence modern English snatch). Compare also Middle English snik snak (“a sudden blow, snap”). Alternatively, perhaps from a dialectal variant of sneak, from Middle English sniken, from Old English snīcan (“to creep; crawl”). More at sneak.
Senses: glosses: A thief.
glosses: An informer, one who betrays their group.
examples: text: 'Yah, I wouldn't git a second-'and dress at a pawnbroker's!'
'Garn!' said Liza indignantly. 'I'll swipe yer over the snitch if yer talk ter me. [...] "
ref: 1897, W.S. Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, chapter 1:
text: He added in conclusion that he strongly disliked the police coming and sticking its nose into his affairs and, since the horror which such actions inspired in him was not far from making him wish to vomit, he extracted from his pocket a silken square of the colour of the lilac flower (the one that isn’t white) but impregnated with Barbouze, the Fior perfume, and with it dabbed his snitch.
ref: 1960, Barbara Wright (tr.), Zazie in the metro, Penguin Classics, translation of Zazie dans le métro by Raymond Queneau, published 2001, →ISBN, page 96:
text: On one level clearly emblematic of her class status, “she’d have really looked down her snitch at me”), Virginia Woolf's nose, both Bennett and his audience would know, signifies as well the far more frightening power, the phallic power, attributed to women, strong women in particular.
ref: 1978, Brenda R. Silver, quoting Alan Bennett, Virginia Woolf icon, University of Chicago Press, published 1999, →ISBN, Take Seven: British Graffiti: Me ,I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Sammy And Rosie Get Laid, page 158:
text: ‘Yes, I’m a witch! I wiggle my snitch![...]’
ref: 1994, Christine Marion Fraser, Noble Beginnings, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 74:
text: Bluenoze: Blow your nose to clear your snitch of whatever it is you've been snorting and read the postings again.
ref: 1999 September 27, "billy", “Re: Babies Having Babies”, in uk.media.tv.misc (Usenet):
text: Question: do benign bacteria live in one's snitch and keep the other, nastier ones at bay ?
ref: 1999 March 26, G Greenway, “Re: aah-cho!!”, in alt.gothic (Usenet):
text: Have a perpetual dew drop hanging from your snitch
ref: 2001 July 27, catmandoo, “Re: Please help me to be 'correct'.”, in uk.local.isle-of-wight (Usenet):
glosses: A nose.
examples: text: "He pays for the food you eat," said the woman.
"Yeah," said the boy. "And I earn every snitch doing everything ever gets done around here."
ref: 1963, Jack Schaefer, Monte Walsh, page 3:
glosses: A tiny morsel.
glosses: A ball used in the sport of Quidditch: the Golden Snitch.
Synonyms: sense: thief
word: filcher
word: pincher
sense: informer
word: grass
word: mole
word: quisling
word: rat
word: stool pigeon
sense: nose
word: schnozz
word: sneck
sense: morsel
word: bite
sense: morsel
word: snap
sense: morsel
word: snippock
Derived terms: snitch bitch
snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches
snitches get stitches
seeker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːkə/
ipa: /ˈsikɚ/
rhymes: -iːkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: seekers
Etymology: From Middle English sekar, sekere (also sechar, sechere), equivalent to seek + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Säiker (“seeker”), West Frisian syker (“seeker”), Dutch zoeker (“seeker”), German Low German Söker (“seeker”), German Sucher (“seeker”).
Senses: glosses: One who seeks.
examples: text: But these seekers, too, are saved - by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums.
ref: 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 23:
glosses: Especially, a religious seeker: a pilgrim, or one who aspires to enlightenment or salvation.
glosses: In Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, the player who is supposed to catch the snitch.
Derived terms: asylum seeker
attention seeker
boneseeker
comet-seeker
fortune seeker
help-seeker
pleasure-seeker
quote-seeker
rent-seeker
rosette seeker
self-seeker
thrill-seeker
truthseeker
det
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dets
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of determiner.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of detachment.
diazotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diazotrophs
Etymology: di- (“two”) + azo- (“nitrogen”) + -troph
Senses: glosses: Any microorganism that can fix molecular nitrogen (N₂).
Related terms: diazotrophic
diazotrophy
bijection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/
Forms: form: bijections
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From French bijection, introduced by Nicolas Bourbaki in their treatise Éléments de mathématique.
Senses: examples: text: The present text has defined a set to be finite if and only if there exists a bijection onto a natural number, and infinite if and only if there does not exist any such bijection.
ref: 2002, Yves Nievergelt, Foundations of Logic and Mathematics, page 214:
text: Note in particular that a function is a bijection if and only if it's both an injection and a surjection.
ref: 2007, C. J. Date, Logic and Databases: The Roots of Relational Theory, page 167:
text: The basic idea is that two sets A and B have the same cardinality if there is a bijection from A to B. Since the domain and range of the bijection is not relevant here, we often refer to a bijection from A to B as a bijection between the sets, or a one-to-one correspondence between the elements of the sets.
ref: 2013, William F. Basener, Topology and Its Applications, unnumbered page:
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A one-to-one correspondence, a function which is both a surjection and an injection.
wikipedia: Nicolas Bourbaki
Éléments de mathématique
Synonyms: bijective function
one-to-one correspondence
Related terms: injection
surjection
surjection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɜː(ɹ)ˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/
Forms: form: surjections
Etymology: From French surjection, introduced by Nicolas Bourbaki in their treatise Éléments de mathématique.
Ultimately borrowed from Latin superiectiō (“a throwing over or on; (fig.) an exaggeration, a hyperbole”).
Senses: examples: text: In some special cases, however, the number of surjections A#92;rightarrowB can be identified.
ref: 1992, Rowan Garnier, John Taylor, Discrete Mathematics for New Technology, Institute of Physics Publishing, page 220:
text: Let J#61;#92;cap#95;im#95;i be the (irredundant) primary decomposition of J. We associate to the pair (J,#92;omega) the element #92;textstyle#92;sum#95;i(m#95;i,#92;omega#95;i)#92;inG, where #92;omega#95;i is the equivalence class of surjections from L#47;m#95;iL#92;oplus(A#47;m#95;i)#123;n-1#125; to m#95;i#47;m#95;i² induced by #92;omega.
ref: 1999, M. Pavaman Murthy, “A survey of obstruction theory for projective modules of top rank”, in Tsit-Yuen Lam, Andy R. Magid, editors, Algebra, K-theory, Groups, and Education: On the Occasion of Hyman Bass's 65th Birthday, American Mathematical Society, page 168:
text: In Banach space theory, a mapping u#58;E#92;rightarrowF (between Banach spaces) is called a metric surjection if it is onto and if the associated mapping from E#47;#92;text#123;ker#125;(u) to F is an isometric isomorphism. Moreover, by the classical open mapping theorem, u is a surjection iff the associated mapping from E#47;#92;text#123;ker#125;(u) to F is an isomorphism.
ref: 2003, Gilles Pisier, Introduction to Operator Space Theory, Cambridge University Press, page 43:
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A function for which every element of the codomain is mapped to by some element of the domain; (formally) Any function f:X→Y for which for every y∈Y, there is at least one x∈X such that f(x)=y.
wikipedia: Nicolas Bourbaki
Éléments de mathématique
Synonyms: surjective function
onto function
Related terms: bijection
injection
surject
confluence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.flu.əns/
ipa: /ˈkɑnˌflu.əns/
ipa: /kənˈflu.əns/
rhymes: -ɒnfluəns
rhymes: -uːəns
Forms: form: confluences
form: confluency
Etymology: From late Middle English confluence, from Late Latin cōnfluentia (“a flowing together, conflux”), from cōnfluēns (present participle of cōnfluō (“to flow or run together”)) + -ia (nominal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The confluence of the rivers produced a great rush of water.
glosses: The act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet.
examples: text: We encountered an abandoned boat at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.
glosses: The act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet.
The place where two rivers, streams, or other continuously flowing bodies of water meet and become one, especially where a tributary joins a river.
synonyms: watersmeet
antonyms: fork
branch
glosses: The act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet.
The stream or body formed by the junction of two or more streams; a combined flood.
examples: text: The confluence of our skills resulted in a successful home renovation project.
text: The political turmoil was the result of a confluence of factors, and the corollary of years of misrule, as evidenced by a low home ownership rate incommensurate with the economic growth.
synonyms: coinfluence
glosses: A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.
raw_tags: in rewriting systems
Synonyms: conflux
Derived terms: hyperconfluence
nonconfluence
overconfluence
postconfluence
preconfluence
subconfluence
Related terms: affluence
confluent
confluently
effluence
influence
refluence
confluence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.flu.əns/
ipa: /ˈkɑnˌflu.əns/
ipa: /kənˈflu.əns/
rhymes: -ɒnfluəns
rhymes: -uːəns
Forms: form: confluences
form: confluencing
form: confluenced
form: confluenced
form: confluency
Etymology: From late Middle English confluence, from Late Latin cōnfluentia (“a flowing together, conflux”), from cōnfluēns (present participle of cōnfluō (“to flow or run together”)) + -ia (nominal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: CHN 082 flows for approximately 304.8 meters (1,000 feet) before confluencing with the North Bald Eagle Creek.
ref: 1996 December, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, US Route 220 Transportation Improvements Project, Bald Eagle Village to I-80, Blair County, Centre County: Environmental Impact Statement, volume 3, page 41:
text: I added a third manhole to my model so you can see how a junction might look. It just provides a nice way to confluence two streams into one pipe, which is an important job in a sewer system since a sewershed all has to flow to one place.
ref: 2025 February 4, Grady Hilhouse, “What’s Inside a Manhole?” (5:59 from the start), in Practical Engineering:
glosses: To join together into one stream.
Latino sine Flexione
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Latino Sine Flexione
form: Latino sine flexione
Etymology: Coined by Giuseppe Peano in 1903.
Senses: glosses: An artificial language based on a simplified version of Latin without inflections; also known as Interlingua
tongue-twister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongue-twisters
form: tongue twister
Senses: examples: text: The present name being a translation, "in brief," of the original tongue-twister, meaning "the river of the rock"
ref: 1855, H. Taylor with J. H. Beech, “Report of the Committee on Dysentery”, in The Transactions of the American Medical Association, volume viii, Philadelphia: Collins, page 568:
glosses: A phrase that is deliberately designed to be difficult to say correctly, usually because of varying combinations of similar phonemes.
Coordinate terms: finger-fumbler
porta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin porta (“a gate”). See port.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilum.
examples: text: the porta permits the passage of injection mass from the aula into the procælia
ref: 1882, Burt Green Wilder, Anatomical Technology:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The foramen of Monro.
Related terms: portal
yob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yŏb
ipa: /jɒb/
enpr: yŏb
ipa: /jɑb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: yobs
Etymology: Backslang for boy. The second sense was likely influenced by hobnob and/or yokel.
Senses: examples: text: And you bet that each gal, not to mention each yob,
Didn't care how much ooftish it cost 'em per nob.
ref: 1897, A. R. Marshall, Pomes^([sic]) from the Pink 'Un, page 76:
text: As we left the cemetery, I heard an elderly gravedigger muttering back slang to himself before Lucien's headstone. "Bloody shame, ain't it? Doubt the yob did much living by eighteen."
I corrected the man, saying, “No fear, that yob did plenty of living.”
ref: 2010, Paul R. Wilson, The Birthday of Eternity, page 209:
qualifier: costermongers; back slang; costermongers; back slang
glosses: A boy.
examples: ref: 2005 January 10, Melissa Jackson, “Music to deter yobs by”, in BBC News:
text: Yes, it's holiday time again for British yobs – and the rest of us can flee to those parts of Abroad which the louts ignore, or just cringe in shame at home.
ref: 2009 August 8, Janet Daley, “The real reason for all those louts on holiday”, in The Telegraph:
text: But while doing 70mph on the A1, a hooded yob threw rock^([sic – meaning a rock]) from a grass verge onto the windscreen of the family’s Jeep, causing it to swerve.
ref: 2017 March 27, Keiran Southern, “'We could have been killed': Fury at yobs who bricked windscreen with baby girl in car”, in Chronicle Live, retrieved 28 Mar 2017:
text: Three local yobs have also joined, but they have not reckoned on a redoubtable Conductor and two local revenue protection officers who soon escort them off the train!
ref: 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57:
glosses: A person who engages in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness.
Synonyms: sense: boy
word: boy
sense: antisocial person; standard register
word: hooligan
sense: antisocial person
word: tearaway
sense: antisocial person
word: chav
sense: antisocial person
word: yobbo
sense: antisocial person
word: charva
word: bully
word: hooligan
word: roughneck
word: rowdy
word: ruffian
Derived terms: sense: antisocial person
word: yobbish
sense: antisocial person
word: yobbo
Related terms: sense: boy
english: girl
translation: girl
word: elrig
flighty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaɪti/
rhymes: -aɪti
Forms: form: flightier
form: flightiest
Etymology: From flight + -y. Compare Dutch vluchtig (“volatile; fleeting; cursory”), German flüchtig (“volatile; fleeting; momentary; quick”), Danish flygtig (“elusive; evasive”), Swedish flyktig.
Senses: glosses: Given to unplanned and silly ideas or actions.
examples: text: "We know that flighty birds suffer from greater risk of raptor predation, and I assume that it is useful to understand the effects of urbanization because flighty species may be more vulnerable to anthropogenic disturbance."
ref: 2013, Diego Gil, Henrik Brumm, Avian Urban Ecology:
glosses: That flies easily or often.
raw_tags: of a bird
examples: text: Permanent way and other checks then somewhat slowed down this flighty progress.
ref: 1962 July, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 44:
glosses: Swift.
Derived terms: flightily
flightiness
unflighty
whelp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛlp/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ʍɛlp/
rhymes: -ɛlp
homophone: welp (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whelps
Etymology: From Middle English whelp, from Old English hwelp, from Proto-West Germanic *hwelp, from Proto-Germanic *hwelpaz (compare Dutch welp, German Welpe, Welfe, Old Norse hvelpr, Norwegian Nynorsk kvelp, Danish hvalp), from pre-Germanic *kʷelbos, of uncertain origin.
Senses: examples: text: […]And fared like a furious wyld Beare, / Whose whelpes are ſtolne away, ſhe being otherwhere.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Pro. […]Then was this Iſland / (Saue for the Son, that he^([sic]) did littour heere, / A frekelld whelpe, hag-borne) not honour'd with / A humane ſhape.
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], page 4:
glosses: A young offspring of a various carnivores (canid, ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.
examples: July 13, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian
That awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance.
October 22, 2011, Princess Luna, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "Luna Eclipsed"
Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!
glosses: An insolent youth; a mere child.
glosses: A kind of ship.
glosses: One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
glosses: A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog).
Derived terms: word: bear-whelp
word: fox whelp
word: fox-whelp
alt: foxling
word: fox's whelp
word: whelpie
word: whelping ice
word: whelpling
word: whelpy
word: wolf whelp
word: wolf-whelp
word: wolf's whelp
Related terms: Guelph
whelp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛlp/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ʍɛlp/
rhymes: -ɛlp
homophone: welp (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whelps
form: whelping
form: whelped
form: whelped
Etymology: From Middle English whelpen, from Old English hwelpian, derived from hwelp.
Senses: examples: text: The bitch whelped.
text: The she-wolf whelped a large litter of cubs.
qualifier: she-wolf
glosses: To give birth.
raw_tags: of she-dog
whelp
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛlp/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ʍɛlp/
rhymes: -ɛlp
homophone: welp (wine–whine merger)
Etymology: Variant of welp.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of welp (“well”).
swine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: swine
form: swines
Etymology: From Middle English swyn, swin, from Old English swīn, from Proto-West Germanic *swīn, from Proto-Germanic *swīną, from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig”). By surface analysis, sow + -en.
Cognates
Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish and Swedish svin, and more distantly to Polish świnia, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá), Latin sūinus, Latin sūs, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Persian خوک (xuk).
Senses: qualifier: plural swine
glosses: A pig (the animal).
qualifier: plural swine
glosses: A pig (the animal).
The Zimmerman farm introduced swine to their husbandry.
The Zimmerman farm introduced swine to their husbandry.
glosses: A contemptible person (plural swine or swines).
glosses: A police officer; a "pig".
examples: text: That old car is a swine to manoeuvre.
glosses: Something difficult or awkward; a pain.
Derived terms: African swine fever virus
cast pearls before swine
Gadarene swine
giant thorny-headed worm of swine
go the entire swine
mereswine
microswine
pearls before swine
seaswine
sea swine
sea-swine
swinebread
swine-bread
swinecote
swine fever
swine flesh
swineflesh
swine-flesh
swine flu
swineherd
swineherder
swineherding
swinehood
swine-hound
swinehound
swine influenza
swinelike
swineling
swineman
swinepox
swinery
swinestone
swinesty
swineyard
swinish
throw pearls before swine
swine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Etymology: From Middle English swyn, swin, from Old English swīn, from Proto-West Germanic *swīn, from Proto-Germanic *swīną, from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig”). By surface analysis, sow + -en.
Cognates
Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish and Swedish svin, and more distantly to Polish świnia, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá), Latin sūinus, Latin sūs, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Persian خوک (xuk).
Senses: glosses: plural of sow
draconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹəˈkɒnɪk/
ipa: /dɹəˈkɑnɪk/
ipa: /dɹæk-/
other: /-ˈkoʊnɪk/
other: /dɹeɪˈkɑnɪk/
Forms: form: more draconic
form: most draconic
Etymology: From Latin dracō (“dragon”, stem dracōn-) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: There are amongst the constellations four great draconic or serpent-like forms.
ref: 1908, E. Walter Maunder, chapter V, in The Astronomy of the Bible, New York: Mitchell Kennerley, page 196:
synonyms: draconical
dragonish
glosses: Relating to or suggestive of dragons.
Derived terms: draconically
draconic chart
draconic month
draconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹəˈkɒnɪk/
ipa: /dɹəˈkɑnɪk/
ipa: /dɹæk-/
other: /-ˈkoʊnɪk/
other: /dɹeɪˈkɑnɪk/
Forms: form: more draconic
form: most draconic
form: Draconic
Etymology: From Latin Dracō (stem Dracōn-) + -ic, after the Athenian lawmaker Draco, known for making harsh laws.
Senses: examples: text: […] they no land / Doom'd to bewail the blasphemy of laws / Making kings' rights divine, by some Draconic clause.
ref: 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXIV, page 37:
text: The sexual instinct can hardly be changed by prescriptions; I doubt whether all laws against homosexual intercourse, even the most draconic, have ever been able to extinguish the peculiar desire of anybody born with homosexual tendencies.
ref: 1932, Edvard Westermarck, chapter VIII, in Ethical Relativity, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, page 248:
text: In the first months after the October Revolution Lenin was already demanding "the most decisive, draconic measures to tighten up discipline."
ref: 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Thomas P. Whitney, The Gulag Archipelago, Harper & Row, published 1973, Vol. 2, Part III, pp. 9-10:
synonyms: draconical
glosses: Very severe or strict; draconian.
Derived terms: draconically
cretin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɛtɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɹiːtɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɹɛtɪn/
rhymes: -ɛtɪn
rhymes: (US) -iːtɪn
homophone: Cretan stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: cretins
Etymology: From French crétin (“cretin, idiot”), likely from crestin, an Alpine dialectal form of chrétien, from Latin christiānus in the lost sense of “anyone in Christendom”, often with a sense of “poor fellow”. Doublet of Christian.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.
examples: text: When I challenged the symbolism, tried to make the professor consider the book as a piece of realism, he regarded me as if I were an absolute cretin. He got very supercilious and condescending […]
ref: 1969, Irving Wallace, The Seven Minutes:
glosses: An idiot.
Derived terms: cretinic
cretinism
cretinize
cretinoid
cretinous
reave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
homophone: reeve
Forms: form: reaves
form: reaving
form: reaved
form: reaved
form: reft
form: reft
form: reive
form: rieve
Etymology: From Middle English reven, from Old English rēafian, from Proto-West Germanic *raubōn.
Germanic cognates include West Frisian rave, Old English rēaf (“spoils, booty”)), and Old English past participle rofen (“torn, broken”), Norwegian rjuva, German rauben, Danish røve, and Swedish röva. Outside of Germanic, related to Latin rumpō (“to break”), Lithuanian rùpti (“to roughen”), Sanskrit रोपयति (ropayati, “to make suffer”)). See rob and reif.
Senses: examples: text: And I for one am not convinced of the innocence of the model: it is as if we let a criminal make up the law as he or she ambles along, reaving right and left.
ref: 1997, Lawrence R. Schehr, Rendering French Realism, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
examples: text: Few of the chroniclers of Nero’s reign have been accurate when relating the situation that obtained between the Emperor and his mother from the time when, reft of her German and Pannonian guards, she lived in a more or less solitary rage on one estate or another.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
glosses: To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.
Derived terms: border reiver
Related terms: bereave
reaver
rip
rob
reave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
homophone: reeve
Forms: form: reaves
form: reaving
form: reft
form: reft
form: reive
form: rieve
Etymology: Alteration of rive by confusion with the above.
Senses: examples: text: There was the same enforced composure on her face, that there had been when she was dressing; and the wreath upon her head encircled the same cold and steady brow. But it would have been better to have seen its leaves and flowers reft into fragments by her passionate hand, […]
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: To split, tear, break apart.
Related terms: rive
unreaved
finger-fumbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɪŋɡəˈfʌmbəl/
ipa: /ˌfɪŋɡɚˈfʌmbəl/
Forms: form: finger-fumblers
Etymology: From finger and fumble.
Senses: glosses: The sign language equivalent of a tongue-twister; a phrase that is very difficult to sign correctly.
unco
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌŋkəʊ
Forms: form: more unco
form: most unco
Etymology: From Scots unco, shortening of uncouth.
Senses: examples: text: It was noted by them that kenned best that her cantrips were at their worst when the tides in the Sker Bay ebbed between the hours of twelve and one. At this season of the night the tides of mortality run lowest, and when the outgoing of these unco waters fell in with the setting of the current of life, then indeed was the hour for unholy revels.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: And the second quean was Hope and she was near as unco as Faith, but had right bonny hair, red hair, though maybe you'd call it auburn […].
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 18:
glosses: Strange, weird.
unco
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌŋkəʊ
Etymology: From Scots unco, shortening of uncouth.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Ye should tear up this carpet, Robbie,’ Uncle Peter called back over his shoulder. ‘It's most unco wearisome when a body′s leg-weary.’
ref: 1920, Tod Robbins, “Who Wants a Green Bottle?”, in Freaks And Fantasies, published 2007, page 70:
text: Jamie has met only two kids of women: the mainly elderly and unco good who belong to his father's congregation, and those who drink in pubs and shebeens used by nearly penniless medical students.
ref: 1996, Alasdair Gray, “The Story of a Recluse”, in Every Short Story 1951-2012, Canongate, published 2012, page 267:
glosses: Very.
unco
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌŋkəʊ
Forms: form: more unco
form: most unco
Etymology: From uncoordinated.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Aren′t he the most unco kid you ever come across?’ Norm refused to have Kevin on his boat even if he begged to be taken because he was too clumsy.
ref: 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, page 106:
synonyms: unco-ordinated
glosses: Uncoordinated.
dissimilar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɪmɪlə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: more dissimilar
form: most dissimilar
Etymology: From dis- + similar.
Senses: glosses: Not similar; unalike; different.
Derived terms: dissimilarity
dissimilarly
dissimilarness
Related terms: dissimilation
dissimilitude
dissimilar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɪmɪlə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dissimilars
Etymology: From dis- + similar.
Senses: examples: text: Whether or not the primary function of a good metaphor is the appreciation of the similarity of dissimilars, the naturalist philosopher, reacting to Platonic transcendence, insists that […]
ref: 2012, Kathleen Lennon, Margaret Whitford, Knowing the Difference: Feminist Perspectives in Epistemology, page 35:
antonyms: similar
glosses: That which is dissimilar to, or does not resemble, something else.
Limburgian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Limburgians
Senses: glosses: A native or resident from Limburg.
Limburgian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Limburgish language.
theodicy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: thēŏʹdĭsi
ipa: /θiːˈɒd.ɪ.si/
ipa: /θiˈɑd.ɪ.si/
Forms: form: theodicies
form: theodicity
Etymology: Borrowed from French théodicée, from Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god”) + δίκη (díkē, “justice”), coined by German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in his 1710 work Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal (Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil), commonly known as Théodicée.
Senses: examples: text: 2000 [Kluwer Academic], Charles Seymour, A Theodicy of Hell, 2010, Springer, Softcover reprint, page 195,
In general, my theodicy of hell is more congenial to those denominations with less rigidly defined doctrinal systems.
Does this mean I have allowed theodicy to encroach on theology, contrary to my avowed purpose?
text: Distilling the characteristic features of the theodicies of the world religions, Weber identified five varieties or forms that the answers to this problem take, which in his view speaks to the varieties of forms that religion itself takes: a messiah who initiates the end of the world as we know it, the transmigration of souls, a universal day of judgment, predestination, or dual divinities of good and evil.
ref: 2002, Kevin J. Christiano, William H. Swatos, Peter Kivisto, Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments, Rowman & Littlefield (Altamira Press), page 129:
text: God was now nothing more than a distant cause of causes; what mattered was matter, and man acting in nature. The theodicy, the master-narrative, had become secularized.
ref: 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin 2004, page 388:
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
theology
glosses: A justification of a deity or of particular attributes of a deity; specifically, a justification of the existence of evil and suffering in the world; a work or discourse justifying the ways of God.
wikipedia: Théodicée
Related terms: anthropodicy
cosmodicy
goalodicy
sociodicy
apologism
dystheism
eutheism
brand spanking new
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Apparently a blend of brand new + spanking new, with spanking coming to serve as an intensifier.
Senses: glosses: Utterly new, as new as possible.
Derived terms: brand spankers
Related terms: brand new
spanking new
public policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌb.lɪk ˈpɔ.lɪ.si/
Forms: form: public policies
Senses: examples: text: 1993 Henry H. Perritt, Jr. "Knowbots, Permissions Headers and Contract Law", paper for the conference on Technological Strategies for Protecting Intellectual Property in the Networked Multimedia Environment
"The licensee exceeding the use restrictions would argue that it violates public policy to enforce the restrictions and therefore that state contract law may not impose liability for their violation."
text: "Construction contract provisions against public policy.
"(A) Any provision of a construction contract, agreement, or understanding that waives rights under a surety bond is void and unenforceable as against public policy."
ref: 2001 Ohio Revised Code TITLE [41] XLI LABOR AND INDUSTRY» CHAPTER 4113: MISCELLANEOUS LABOR PROVISIONS 4113.62
text: "In Johnson v. Superior Court, the California Court of Appeal determined that a provision of a contract limiting the discovery of the identity of a sperm donor was against public policy and that the privacy interest did not protect against disclosure of this information. Although the court's analysis of the public policy exception to the enforcement of contracts was unnecessary, the opinion properly balances California's and petitioners' interests against an anonymous donor's privacy right."
ref: 2001 Plosker, JA "Privacy on thin ice? Considering the California Court of Appeal decision in Johnson v. Superior Court". Jurimetrics 2001 Fall;42(1):73-83
topics: law
glosses: The set of policies (laws, plans, actions, behaviors) of a government; plans and methods of action that govern that society; a system of laws, courses of action, and priorities directing a government action.
Coordinate terms: privacy policy
Related terms: govern
government
policy
political science
public affairs
social policy
tatterdemalion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tætədəˈmeɪliɒn/
Forms: form: more tatterdemalion
form: most tatterdemalion
Etymology: First attested circa 1608. An early spelling was tatter-de-mallion, rhymed with Italian. The first part of the word is tatter; the origin of the second part is uncertain; Ebenezer Cobham Brewer suggested it might be from de maillot (“shirt”).
Senses: examples: text: The house, on his arrival, seemed in some confusion, as if a catastrophe had happened in the family; and the servants clustered together in the hall, and were unable, or perhaps not altogether anxious, to suppress their merriment at the tatterdemalion figure of the secretary.
ref: 1878 June–October, Robert Louis Stevenson, “[The Rajah’s Diamond.] Story of the Bandbox.”, in New Arabian Nights […], volume I, London: Chatto & Windus, […], published 1882, →OCLC, page 174:
text: For the same reason the kings of Europe could not resist the tatterdemalion soldiers of the Convention.
ref: 1913 [1912], Bernard Miall, transl., The Psychology of Revolution, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, translation of La Révolution Française et la Psychologie des Révolutions by Gustave Le Bon, page 18:
text: Thus, too, we have the woman social reformer, trailing along ridiculously behind a tatterdemalion posse of male utopians, each with something to sell.
ref: 1918, H. L. Mencken, In Defense of Women:
synonyms: word: shabby
word: tacky
word: scroungy
word: beat
word: beat up
word: beaten up
word: bedraggled
word: broken-down
word: crumbling
word: derelict
word: dilapidated
word: draggled
word: neglected
word: ramshackle
word: ruinous
word: run-down
word: seedy
word: tatterdemalion
word: timeworn
word: tumbledown
glosses: Tattered.
tatterdemalion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tætədəˈmeɪliɒn/
Forms: form: tatterdemalions
Etymology: First attested circa 1608. An early spelling was tatter-de-mallion, rhymed with Italian. The first part of the word is tatter; the origin of the second part is uncertain; Ebenezer Cobham Brewer suggested it might be from de maillot (“shirt”).
Senses: examples: text: […] we haue ordeined that through euery ward […] there be erected one sound, sufficient, and well painted whipping poste, the very sight of which wil not only scarre them, worse then the scowting face of a Serieant being seen peeping through a red lettice, frights a yong gallant, but also in time driue the whole band of Tatterdemalions from poste to piller.
ref: 1606, Thomas Dekker, The Seven Deadly Sinnes of London, London: Nathaniel Butter:
text: St. Martin [of Tours] looks round, first, deliberately;—becomes aware of a tatterdemalion and thirsty-looking soul of a beggar at his chair side, who has managed to get his cup filled somehow, also—by a charitable lacquey. St. Martin turns his back on the Empress, and hobnobs with him!
ref: 1884, John Ruskin, “By the Rivers of Waters”, in “Our Fathers Have Told Us.”: Sketches of the History of Christendom for Boys and Girls who have been Held at Its Fonts, part I (The Bible of Amiens), Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, pages 30–31:
text: She took romantic fancies to vagabonds of either sex, attempted to establish social relations with them, and was the cause of infinite agitation to the gentleman who lived near her in the Crescent, who was always smoking at the window, and who reminded Hyacinth of Mr. Micawber. She received visits that were a scandal to the Crescent, and Hyacinth neglected his affairs, whatever they were, to see what tatterdemalion would next turn up at her door.
ref: 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:
text: Rags mounted guard over the treasure. Virtue rendered these tatterdemalions resplendent.
ref: 1887, Isabel F. Hapgood, transl., Les Misérables, translation of original by Victor Hugo:
text: […] we found hundreds of Cuban insurgents, a crew of as utter tatterdemalions as human eyes ever looked on, armed with every kind of rifle in all stages of dilapidation. It was evident, at a glance, that they would be no use in serious fighting.
ref: 1899, Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders:
text: Whenever his name was mentioned, she had a vague impression of a bearded tatterdemalion like Ben Gunn in Treasure Island, leading a lonely existence on some bleak, salty islet, his pants in rags and his wristwatch corroded from the seawater.
ref: 2002, Donna Tartt, The Little Friend, page 66:
synonyms: ragamuffin
glosses: A person with tattered clothing.
Derived terms: tatterdemalionism
cyclopean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪkləʊpi.ən/
ipa: /ˌsaɪkləˈpiː.ən/
Forms: form: more cyclopean
form: most cyclopean
form: Cyclopean
form: cyclopian
Etymology: From cyclops + -ean.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Suggestive of a cyclops.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: Fitted together of huge irregular stones.
examples: 2006, Fernando Pessoa, "Salutation to Walt Whitman," in A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems, edited and translated by Richard Zenith, Penguin, pp. 198-9,
You were cyclopean and muscular, not pretty, / Yet your attitude toward the world was feminine, / And for you each leaf of grass, each stone and each man was the Universe.
See also quotation under cyclopian.
glosses: Massive in stature.
examples: text: When he wrote the word, / the o's were joined / like eyeglass lenses without / a bridge. Cross-eyed, hypnotic, / they threatened to merge, / become Cyclopean. […]
ref: 2001, Sharan Strange, “Looking”, in Ash, Boston: Beacon Press, page 50:
glosses: Created by combining two images.
raw_tags: of an image
Derived terms: Cyclopean architecture
cyclopean stairs
hypercyclopean
visage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪzɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪzɪd͡ʒ
Forms: form: visages
Etymology: From Middle English visage, from Anglo-Norman visage, from Vulgar Latin *vīsāticum, derived from Latin vīsus (“appearance, sight”), derived from vidēre (“to see”). Compare vision.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he monſter, rouſed by the noiſe, ſtarted forward, preſented ſuch a viſage of horror, and raiſed ſuch a hideous roar, that the hearts of the bold were contracted, and the nerves of the valiant unſtrung.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 6:
text: Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XX, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 334:
synonyms: word: boat
word: complexion
word: countenance
word: chevy chase
word: dial
word: ecaf
word: eek
word: George Best
word: face
word: favor
word: kisser
word: look
word: map
word: mug
word: mush
word: pan
word: physiognomy
word: phiz
word: phizog
word: punim
word: visage
glosses: Countenance; appearance; one's face.
Related terms: envisage
evidence
visaged
vision
visionary
visual
visualization
visualize
labyrinthine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlab.əˈɹɪn.θʌɪn/
ipa: /ˌlæb.əˈɹɪn.θɪn/
ipa: /ˌlæb.əˈɹɪnˌθaɪn/
ipa: /ˌlæb.əˈɹɪnˌθin/
rhymes: -ɪnθaɪn
rhymes: -ɪnθɪn
rhymes: -ɪnθiːn
Forms: form: more labyrinthine
form: most labyrinthine
Etymology: From labyrinth + -ine from Ancient Greek λᾰβύρῐνθος (lăbúrĭnthos, “a maze”).
Senses: examples: text: As our train to Paris dashed through the labyrynthine flyovers at Porchefontaine, barely a mile from Versailles, the 75 m.p.h. limit was already almost attained.
ref: 1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, volume 14, number 158, page 670:
text: In the pyloric canal, muscular ridges are more fixed than elsewhere and produce quite a labyrinthine surface.
ref: 1996, Venkataraman Srinivasan, André Dubois, “Non-Human Primates”, in Steen Lindkær Jensen, Hans Gregerson, Mohammad Hosein Shokouh-Amin, Frank G. Moody, editors, Essentials of Experimental Surgery: Gastroenterology, page 27/4:
text: Crane trotted along the labyrinthine corridors of deck 3, accompanied by a young marine with close-cropped blond hair.
ref: 2011, Lincoln Child, Deep Storm, section 29, page 185:
synonyms: labyrinthal
labyrinthean
labyrinthed
labyrinthial
labyrinthian
labyrinthic
labyrinthical
labyrinthiform
labyrinthlike
glosses: Physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the labyrinth of the inner ear.
examples: text: Mamet, like one of his characters, invents a labyrinthine, convoluted spiel leading nowhere, and like a magician distracts us with his words while elaborately not producing a rabbit from his hat.
ref: 1996 September 13, Roger Ebert, “American Buffalo movie review (1996)”, in Roger Ebert:
text: Any attempt to answer that question would carry us into the labyrinthine corridors of Jefferson's famously elusive mind.
ref: 2000, Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, page 51:
text: By coupling "essence" with "name" within a series of contraposed pairs of names, Socrates indicates the point to which he thinks his labyrinthine argument has led so far in the Cratylus.
ref: 2005, Michael W. Riley, Plato's Cratylus: Argument, Form, and Structure, page 103:
text: Northrop Frye called the novel “a kind of ‘midrash’ on the book of Job,” one that reimagines the opaque nature of divine justice as a labyrinthine modern bureaucracy.
ref: 2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 12, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN:
synonyms: baffling
confusing
convoluted
glosses: Convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing.
Derived terms: intralabyrinthine
labyrinthine artery
labyrinthinely
nonlabyrinthine
perilabyrinthine
retrolabyrinthine
translabyrinthine
Related terms: labyrinth
labyrinthal
labyrinthean
labyrinthed
labyrinthial
labyrinthian
labyrinthic
labyrinthical
labyrinthically
labyrinthiform
labyrinthlike
gibber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪbə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gibbers
Etymology: Uncertain; usually regarded as a back-formation from gibberish (see gibberish for more).
Senses: glosses: Gibberish, unintelligible speech.
gibber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪbə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gibbers
form: gibbering
form: gibbered
form: gibbered
Etymology: Uncertain; usually regarded as a back-formation from gibberish (see gibberish for more).
Senses: glosses: To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently.
Derived terms: agibber
gibberer
gibberish
gibbersome