cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
orientate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒɹi.ənteɪt/
Forms: form: orientates
form: orientating
form: orientated
form: orientated
Etymology: From orient + -ate or a back-formation from orientation. Compare French orienter and Italian orientare.
Senses: glosses: To face a given direction.
examples: text: He[…]stood for a moment, orientating himself exactly in the light of his knowledge.
ref: 1961, John le Carré, Call for the Dead:
text: He came out of the station and took some time to orientate himself.
glosses: To determine one's position relative to the surroundings; to orient (oneself).
examples: text: The one preferred is to make the dominant forms first order, that is, orientated in such a way as to intersect both horizontal crystallographic axes.
ref: 1848, James Dwight Dana, Manual of Mineralogy:
glosses: To arrange in order; to dispose or place (a body) so as to show its relation to other bodies, or the relation of its parts among themselves.
examples: text: Try to orientate your students towards the science subjects.
glosses: To position (something), to align relative to a given position.
glosses: To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.
Synonyms: orient
Derived terms: disorientate
misorientate
orientating response
orientative
orientator
reorientate
transgression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænsˈɡɹɛʃən/
Forms: form: transgressions
Etymology: From Middle English transgressioun, from Old French transgression, from Late Latin trānsgressiō, from Latin trānsgressus (perfect active participle of trānsgredior (“I step across”)) + -iō.
Senses: examples: text: And Ioshua said vnto the people, Ye cannot serue the Lord: for hee is an holy God: he is a ielous God, he will not forgiue your transgressions nor your sinnes.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 24:19:
glosses: A violation of a law, duty or commandment.
glosses: An act that goes beyond generally accepted boundaries.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata.
raï
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪ/
ipa: /ɹʌiː/
rhymes: -aɪ
Etymology: From French raï, from Algerian Arabic راي (rāy, “opinion”), from Arabic رَأْي (raʔy, “opinion”).
Senses: examples: text: Rai arrives in the US, in some ways, as the latest rage to hit the World Music record bins, the result of a new post-modern global marketing strategy.
ref: 1991 March-April, David McMurray and Ted Swedenburg, "Rai Tide Rising" in Middle East Report no. 169, page 39 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0899-2851%28199103%2F04%29169%3C39%3ARTR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5
text: 1997: Karen Fog Olwig & Kirsten Hastrup, Siting Culture: The Shifting Anthropological Object — chapter 3: “Which world? On the diffusion of Algerian raï to the West” (by Marc Schade-Poulsen), p59: INTRODUCTION →ISBN (10); →ISBN (13))^†
This chapter deals with raï music from Algeria. Since its emergence in the late 1970s, raï has spread throughout the world and stands today as an exponent of “World Music”. The chapter traces a transnational process that has taken place in the 1980s: the diffusion of raï from the cabarets of Oran (the second largest city of Algeria) to the stereo racks in the West. It evokes the existence of different places and spaces for the consumption of raï.
text: In France, raï’s lack of commercial success was thought to have been caused by hidden French racism and the subsequent de facto absence of raï on commercial radio and prime-time television. All in all, it did seem difficult to “sell an Arab” to a Western audience, as was the case, for example, with Cheb Mami’s U.S.-recorded album “Let me raï”, released during the Gulf War.
ref: 1999: Marc Schade-Poulsen, Men and Popular Music in Algeria: The Social Significance of Raï, p34 →ISBN (10); →ISBN (13))
text: The rise of raï has paralleled the rise of Islamism in Algerian society, despite its mixing the male and female roles of musical production and consumption. Indeed, the paradox is at first glance perplexing because one might expect the critical message of raï to be anti-Islamist. The rhetoric of raï, however, does not contradict the rise of Islamism in Algeria, and therefore it acquires the potential to complement religious fundamentalism. Raï and Islam do not so much occupy the same space as draw a cluster of public discussions and debates about gender into the same discourse (Schade-Poulsen 1996, 148–53; compare Bohlman 2000, 293–96).
ref: 2003: Tullia Magrini, Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean — chapter 14: “‘And She Sang a New Song’: Gender and Music on the Sacred Landscapes of the Mediterranean” (by Philip V. Bohlman), p333 →ISBN (10); →ISBN (13))
text: At least three conflicting varieties of Raï drifted in through the open doorway of the bus, blasting from cafés in the square.
ref: 2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, p33: §2:
glosses: A form of music, originating in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds.
rai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rai
Etymology: From Yapese raay.
Senses: glosses: stone money
Derived terms: rai stone
rai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of raï (“musical style”).
rai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rai
Etymology: Borrowed from Thai ไร่ (râi).
Senses: glosses: A unit of area used in Thailand that is equal, in modern times, to 1,600 square metres (16 ares, 0.16 hectares, 0.3954 acres).
minaret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪnəɹɛt/
ipa: /mɪnəˈɹɛt/
Forms: form: minarets
Etymology: First attested in 1682. Borrowed from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish مناره (Turkish minare), from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra, “lighthouse”). See note on pronunciations and borrowing of words with ـَة (-a). From the same Proto-Semitic root *nūr- (“fire”) as menorah.
Senses: examples: text: And in the background of the picture, just out of focus behind the man, was a soaring minaret outlined against a shockingly blue sky.
ref: 2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, page 37, paragraph 21:
glosses: The tall slender tower of an Islamic mosque, from which the muezzin recites the adhan (call to prayer).
Derived terms: minaretlike
djellaba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: djellabas
form: djellabah
form: galabea
form: galabeah
form: galabeya
form: galabia
form: galabiah
form: galabieh
form: galabiya
form: galabiyah
form: gallabea
form: gallabeah
form: gallabia
form: gallabiah
form: gallabieh
form: gallabiya
form: gallabiyah
form: gallabiyeh
form: jalabiah
form: jalabiya
form: jalabiyah
form: jellabiya
form: jilaabah
form: jellaba
form: jelab
Etymology: From French djellaba, from Algerian Arabic جلابة (jallāba).
Senses: examples: text: Dignified gentlemen in sober djellabas, of excellent cut and material, their wives in equally sober djellabas, sat in the tea shops with their children and servants, sipping mint tea.
ref: 1988, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, A Street in Marrakech: A Personal View of Urban Women in Morocco:
glosses: A loose-fitting, ankle-length hooded robe worn by men in North Africa.
jellaba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jellabas
Etymology: From Moroccan Arabic جلابة (jallāba).
Senses: examples: text: And it wasn't his suit that worried the people on the green tram, even though most of the other men wore flowing jellabas.
ref: 2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, page 42:
glosses: Alternative form of djellaba.
parkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parkies
form: parky
Etymology: From park + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A parkkeeper; an employee of a public park.
examples: text: Walking into the inner-city Brisbane suburb of West End one morning, I witnessed a group of Aboriginal “parkies” being moved on from a corner of the main road.
ref: 2018 April 9, Jack Latimore, “Indigenous people are being displaced again – by gentrification”, in The Guardian:
text: The health service was a sanctuary for Aboriginal people, especially the “parkies” – a young Roach among them – who were living on the nearby streets, many having gravitated to inner-city Melbourne to try to trace their families after years spent on reserves and missions.
ref: 2022 October 27, Sian Cain, “Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter to be celebrated with statue in Fitzroy”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An Aboriginal who sleeps rough in parks.
glosses: A parking or traffic warden.
examples: text: Some people with Parkinson’s embrace being called a ‘Parkie’, while others hate the term.
ref: 2021 August 26, “What do you think of the term ‘Parkie’?”, in Parkinson's Forums:
glosses: A person with Parkinson's disease.
parky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑrki/
ipa: /ˈpɑːki/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: parkier
form: parkiest
Etymology: From park + -y.
Senses: examples: text: We went to a beautiful parky place over by the river.
glosses: Of, from, or related to a park or parks generally, especially parklike.
examples: text: Yellowstone has always been parky country.
glosses: Having parks or parklike areas.
Hyponyms: parkish
parklike
parky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑrki/
ipa: /ˈpɑːki/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: parkies
Etymology: From park + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of parkie: a parkkeeper.
parky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑrki/
ipa: /ˈpɑːki/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: parkier
form: parkiest
Etymology: Uncertain, but probably from parky above or from dialectical pronunciation of perky.
Senses: examples: text: Gene Hunt: [seeing a woman in a sari] A bit parky to be out in just her nighty.
ref: 2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3:
glosses: Synonym of chilly: somewhat cold but not extremely so.
synonyms: word: chilly
extra: somewhat cold but not extremely so
hamartia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈmɑː.ti.ə/
ipa: /ˌhæˌmɑɹˈtiː.ə/
ipa: /ˌhɑːˌmɑɹˈtiː.ə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: hamartias
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἁμαρτία (hamartía, “tragic failure, sinful nature”), from the verb ἁμαρτάνω (hamartánō, “to miss the mark”).
Senses: examples: text: Creon's main hamartia was his excessive pride.
text: Understanding hamartia as “ignorance of the injurious act,” Lacan distinguishes Greek tragedy from the Renaissance version on the basis that the latter supplants hamartia with the hero's privileged knowledge.
ref: 2006, David Ratmoko, On Spectrality: Fantasies of Redemption in the Western Canon, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 71:
text: The plot and the tragic figure at its center, destroyed through an act of hamartia, should be tailored to the production of pity and fear. Oedipus is not so much a person as he is a hamartia delivery system, a moving, empty center within the motions of the play, who through his vulnerability to hamartia and its disastrous consequences reveals the pitiable and the fearful to the audience.
ref: 2008, Daniel Greenspan, The Passion of Infinity: Kierkegaard, Aristotle and the Rebirth of Tragedy, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 81:
text: But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.
ref: 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years […] ”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):
topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: The tragic flaw of the protagonist in a literary tragedy.
examples: text: As a consequence of the primeval peripety, the Adamic fall narrated in Genesis 3, they have all inherited the catastrophic and tragic hamartia, as it were, of original sin, the engrained powerlessness of the soul to will the good, much less to do it, along with the deep disorientation of the soul's root desire.
ref: 2020, Paul M. Blowers, Visions and Faces of the Tragic […] , Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Sin.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
coordinate_terms: hamartoma
glosses: A focal malformation consisting of disorganized arrangement of tissue types.
Derived terms: hamartiological
hamartiology
hamartoma
Related terms: hubris
peripeteia
break-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: break-ins
Etymology: Deverbal from break in.
Senses: examples: text: There was a break-in at the shop; everything was taken.
glosses: The act of entering a place with the intent to steal or commit some other offense; an instance of breaking and entering.
break-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: break-ins
Etymology: Coined by Bill Buchanan and Dickie Goodman to describe their then-new song The Flying Saucer, referring to how material from one song would break into their song.
Senses: examples: text: Described by Ken Simpson as a ... novelty record where ‘snippets of current hits’ are inserted into ‘a little melodrama almost set up as a newscast’ (Simpson 2016), the first example of a break-in record that I am aware of is ... The Flying Saucer.
ref: 2021, Justin Morey, “UK Sampling Practice”, in Ewa Mazierska, editor, The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music, page 66:
glosses: A novelty record where a question is asked or a comment is raised, and the replies are lyrics from other songs, sampled from the recordings.
monkey business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌŋkɪ ˌbɪznɪs/
ipa: /-nɪz/
ipa: [-nəs]
ipa: [-nəz]
ipa: /ˈmʌŋki ˌbɪznɪs/
ipa: /ˈməŋ-/
ipa: /-nɪz/
ipa: [-nəs]
ipa: [-nəz]
Etymology: From monkey + business, probably a calque of Bengali বাঁদরামি (bãdrami, “mischief”, literally “monkey-behaviour”), from বাঁদর (bãdor, “monkey”) + -আমি (-ami, suffix forming nouns referring to the properties, qualities, or states of the words to which it is attached), from the perception that monkeys behave mischievously.
Senses: examples: text: Stop all this monkey business and do your homework!
text: I’m going to take off the cuffs, Slim, and off you, Jerry. But don’t try any monkey business. When Peters answers the door, you tell him everything’s O. K., and that you’re the committee, see? Once the door’s open, we’ll do the rest.
ref: 1918 December 10, J[oseph] Allan Dunn, “The Man With the Mole”, in Detective Story Magazine, volume XIX, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Street & Smith Corporation, →OCLC, chapter VIII (The End of Baldy), page 39, column 1:
ref: 2008 May 1, “Monkey Business With ‘Bigfoot’ And ‘Big Monkey’”, in Malaysia Today:
text: I'm looking for monkey business / Just playing around / I'm here on monkey business / And look what I found
ref: 2020 January 24, Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe, “Monkey Business”, in Hotspot, performed by the Pet Shop Boys:
synonyms: word: badness
word: delinquincy
word: devilishness
word: devilment
word: devilry
word: deviltry
word: elfishness
word: goings-on
word: hanky-panky
word: impishness
word: impropriety
word: knavery
word: misbehavior
word: mischief
word: mischievousness
word: misconduct
word: misdemeanor
word: monkey business
word: naughtiness
word: prankishness
word: pranksomeness
word: puckishness
word: rascality
word: roguery
word: roguishness
word: scampishness
glosses: Activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting.
examples: text: She wondered what sort of monkey business her neighbour was up to, sneaking out of his house at 1:00 am.
text: If you ever hear a man talking about his duty as a citizen, by the Living Jingo dont trust him. … He's up to some kind of monkey business nine times out of ten. You dont know what a relief it is to me that you and Joe are comfortably settled in life.
ref: 1925, John Dos Passos, “Revolving Doors”, in Manhattan Transfer, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, 3rd section, page 328:
synonyms: word: hanky-panky
word: bad manners
word: badness
word: delinquency
word: devilishness
word: devilment
word: devilry
word: deviltry
word: disobedience
word: elfishness
word: goings-on
word: hanky-panky
word: impishness
word: impropriety
word: misbehavior
word: mischief
word: mischievousness
word: misconduct
word: misdemeanor
word: monkey business
word: naughtiness
word: prankishness
word: pranksomeness
word: puckishness
word: rascality
word: roguery
word: roguishness
word: scampishness
word: wrong
word: wrongness
glosses: Activity that is morally questionable or even mildly illegal.
Related terms: I'll be a monkey's uncle
monkey
monkey around
monkeyshine
min
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: mins
form: min.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of minute.
examples: text: Dinner's ready, darling! – Be there in a min!
glosses: Clipping of minute.
min
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: myn
form: minne
form: mynne
Etymology: From Middle English min, from Old English min (“less; small, mean”), from Proto-Germanic *minniz (“less”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small, little”). Cognate with Scots min (“less, lesser”), West Frisian min (“small, bad”), Dutch min (“less, small”), Low German minn (“small, low, lean”), German minder (“less”), Icelandic minna (“less”), Latin minus (“less”).
Senses: examples: text: The more and the minne
ref: Le Bone Florence (late 1300s)
glosses: Less; smaller; lower.
Derived terms: minnock
min
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: mins
Etymology: From Middle English min, minne, partly from Old English myne (“mind, intent, desire, love”), from Proto-West Germanic *muni, from Proto-Germanic *muniz (“mind, memory”); and also from Old Norse minni (“memory”), from Proto-Germanic *gaminþiją (“memory, remembrance”); both from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Related to Icelandic minni (“memory”), German Minne (“love”).
Senses: examples: text: […] and faith I've done that same and found me min; […]
ref: 1875, Joshiah Gilbet Holland, Sevenoaks:
glosses: Memory; remembrance.
min
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: mins
form: minning
form: minned
form: minned
Etymology: From Middle English minnen, mynnen, from Old Norse minna (“to bring to mind”), from minni (“memory”). See above.
Senses: glosses: to bring to the mind of; remind
glosses: to remember
glosses: to mention
min
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: mins
form: min.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of minimum.
examples: text: He's gotta be at least 60, min!
antonyms: max
glosses: Clipping of minimum.
Derived terms: max-min fairness
min-entropy
min-max
min pay
bucktooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌkˌtuθ/
Forms: form: buckteeth
Etymology: From buck + tooth.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: An upper tooth that protrudes further than the bottom teeth.
Derived terms: bucktoothed
Related terms: loose-toothed
snaggletooth
monkey bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey breads
form: monkey's bread
Senses: glosses: A type of gourd, the fruit of a baobab tree (Adansonia digitata), eaten by monkeys.
glosses: The tree itself.
glosses: A soft, sweet, sticky pastry sprinkled with cinnamon, often served at fairs and festivals.
monkey-faced owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey-faced owls
Senses: synonyms: common barn owl
glosses: A barn owl, Tyto alba.
monkey wrench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey wrenches
form: monkeywrench
form: monkey-wrench
Etymology: Already in use, and not unfamiliar among mechanics, by 1832; see discussion and references at Monkey wrench § Etymology and history.
Senses: examples: text: Did you ever stop to think whether or not you knew how a monkey wrench should be used?
ref: 1903, Shop Talk, volumes 1-3, page 21:
text: With a monkey wrench on the hexagonal part of the stuffing box unscrew the stuffing box from the body of the faucet.
ref: 1948, George M. Warren, Simple Plumbing Repairs in the Home: Farmers' Bulletin, number 1460, page 2:
text: There were two monkey wrenches for that, sitting in a bucket. Lisa held one wrench and I applied the other and in a few minutes we had removed the motor head and set it on the ground.
ref: 2010, A. M. Murray, The Secret of the Serpent Mound, unnumbered page:
glosses: A wrench (spanner) with an adjustable jaw.
examples: text: Professor Miller's careful research has thrown a monkey-wrench into the Einstein wheel, although it has far from discouraged the enthusiastic exponents of Einsteinism.
ref: 1926, New Outlook, volume 142, page 58:
text: Meanwhile the killer, either knowing for sure or by instinct that the police have incorrectly profiled him, throws monkey wrenches into the task force investigation by changing his modus operandi (MO) for no other reason than to trick the police.
ref: 2003, Robert D. Keppel, William J. Birnes, The Psychology of Serial Killer Investigations: The Grisly Business Unit, page 130:
text: It has been suggested that myocilin missense mutations that cause severe disease are monkey wrenches, causing disease through actively causing a problem rather than through a lack of the gene product or function.
ref: 2005, Julia E. Richards, R. Scott Hawley, Catherine A. Mori, The Human Genome: A User's Guide, page 159:
text: Therefore, even if the author is a celebrity, something may throw a monkey wrench in an event's success.
It is here where I must mention the monkey wrench that dramatically hurt events I scheduled during the period of 1996–2001.
ref: 2007, Carol Hoenig, The Author's Guide to Planning Book Events, page 59:
text: Girard had programmed some electronic "monkey wrenches" into the control panel that with the stroke of a key, would render the device inoperable.
ref: 2009, Ken Reamy, The Balaam Surrogate, page 210:
glosses: An unexpected or troublesome problem, obstacle or dilemma.
Synonyms: word: gas grips
sense: wrench with adjustable jaw
word: adjustable spanner
sense: wrench with adjustable jaw
english: with serrated jaws
translation: with serrated jaws
word: pipe wrench
sense: wrench with adjustable jaw
word: bobbejaan spanner
Derived terms: left-handed monkey wrench
monkey-wrencher
monkeywrenching
throw a monkey wrench in the works
throw a monkey wrench into the works
monkey wrench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monkey wrenches
form: monkey wrenching
form: monkey wrenched
form: monkey wrenched
form: monkeywrench
form: monkey-wrench
Etymology: Already in use, and not unfamiliar among mechanics, by 1832; see discussion and references at Monkey wrench § Etymology and history.
Senses: glosses: To apply a monkey wrench, e.g. to tighten or loosen nuts.
examples: text: I think it’s possible that [US Vice President J.D.] Vance didn’t intend to monkey wrench [the meeting with US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky].
ref: 2025 February 28, Jonah Goldberg, “Dishonor and Incompetence in the Oval Office”, in The Dispatch:
glosses: To introduce problems, to create unexpected trouble, to sabotage.
decilitre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛsɪliːtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: decilitres
form: deciliter
Etymology: From French décilitre, deci- + litre.
Senses: examples: text: When the boy was admitted, Carter said, the haemoglobin count was 8.3 grams per decilitre.
ref: 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 66:
topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of fluid equal to 10⁻¹ liters. Symbol: dl.
Synonyms: dl
professed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈfɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: more professed
form: most professed
form: profest
Senses: examples: text: His professed religion was Catholicism.
glosses: Openly declared or acknowledged.
examples: text: She is a professed expert in mechanics.
text: […] flowers, which, if not identical with our violets, sufficiently correspond to them for the purposes of readers who are not professed botanists.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 128:
glosses: Professing to be qualified.
examples: text: The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so strict that it horrifies; novices hold back, and the order is not recruited. In 1845 a few lay sisters were still found here and there, but no professed nuns.
ref: 1887, chapter XI, in Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, transl., Les Misérables, volume II, Little, Brown, and Company, translation of original by Victor Hugo:
glosses: Admitted to a religious order.
Derived terms: self-professed
professed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈfɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: profest
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of profess
chump change
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the idea that only chumps would fall for it. The neutral sense is an extension from the sense concerning indignation.
Senses: examples: text: If you sell one of those cars, your commission will be chump change.
text: I don't work for chump change. I quit!
text: It was hard to get two dollars out of either of them, and whatever chump change they gave Mere'maw they expected her to squeeze it until it hollered.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 76:
text: "First of all, there's no we. You're talking me, solo, busting my hump slinging shards. I got profile now. Don't you get that? DEA's up my ass. No, I'm not exposing myself to that level of risk for chump change. No way."
ref: 2009, Breaking Bad (season 2), 'Breakage' (Episode 5 of Season 2) at 22 minutes. Jesse Pinkman to Walter White in the RV, making drugs, discussing Pinkman selling them direct rather than go through a dealer
glosses: An amount of remuneration, reward, or other monetary recompense considered to be insultingly small.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: pocket money, walk-around money, walking-around money; small change, pocket change, loose change, spare change; pittance
text: He spent $300,000 for his new car, but that's chump change for a billionaire like him.
glosses: A sum of money considered to be insignificant.
Related terms: word: chump-change
rekey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iː
Forms: form: rekeys
form: rekeying
form: rekeyed
form: rekeyed
Etymology: From re- + key.
Senses: examples: text: She had to rekey the security code.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To enter information into a device, such as a keyboard or keypad, after it has been done at least once before.
glosses: To modify (a lock or its cylinder) to change which keys will open it.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: To change the key or tenor of; to reframe.
Synonyms: sense: enter information
word: reenter
sense: enter information
word: reinput
chump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: chumps
form: chumping
form: chumped
form: chumped
Etymology: Origin uncertain; probably a blend of chunk and lump or stump, or perhaps a nasalised variant of chub (“someone chubby, something thick”). Compare Icelandic kubbur (“block of wood, chip (computing)”), Old Norse kumbr for kubbr (“block of wood”), English chop.
Senses: synonyms: chump off
glosses: To treat (someone) as a chump; to defraud or swindle (someone).
chump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: chumps
form: chumping
form: chumped
form: chumped
Etymology: Variant of chomp, itself a variant of champ (“to bite”). More at champ.
Senses: examples: text: At a neighbouring table two Germans were making a hearty meal, chumping the meat and smacking their lips in a kind of heavy ecstasy.
ref: 1922, Arthur Machen, The Secret Glory:
glosses: Dated form of chomp.
mystique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈstiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: mystiques
Etymology: Borrowed from French mystique (“a mystic”), from Latin mysticus. See also the doublet mystic.
Senses: examples: text: THE LONDON BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Ian Allan. 30s. [...] In an opening chapter entitled "Portrait", he ends by asking whether there was a mystique about the L.B. & S.C.
ref: 1960 December, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 776:
text: The mystique spelled out a choice—love, home, children, or other goals and purposes in life. […] The baby boom of the immediate postwar years took place in every country. But it was not permeated, in most other countries, with the mystique of feminine fulfillment.
ref: 1963, Betty Friedan, “The Mistaken Choice”, in The Feminine Mystique:
text: Through male bonding, the subculture of the hunt caught up in the mystique of the chase, the hunting party became a military force, and men discovered that they need not stop at defense: they could go out to hunt for other people's wealth.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 134:
text: Rediker looks not at that bigger picture but at the slave ship itself, as a microeconomy where the captain was chief executive, jailer, accountant, paymaster and disciplinarian, exercising these roles by maintaining, from his spacious captain’s cabin in a very unspacious ship, the mystique of what later military leaders would call command isolation.
ref: 2007 October 21, Adam Hochschild, “Voyage of the Damned”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2017:
glosses: An aura of heightened interest, meaning or mystery surrounding a person or thing.
pelican crossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelican crossings
Etymology: Short for pedestrian light-controlled crossing.
Senses: glosses: A pedestrian crossing with traffic-lights operated by pedestrians
Hyponyms: toucan crossing
plonker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɒŋ.kə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: plonkers
Etymology: From plonk + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “You kept the hat! You bloody plonker!” “Fuck me.” “And now look at you, bouncing off the cars like a bouncing idiot.” “Fucking hell!” “Is he gonna be alright?”
ref: 2020 May 20, Jemaine Clement, “The Return” (: from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 2, episode 7, spoken by Nadja (Natasia Demetriou):
glosses: A fool.
glosses: A penis.
glosses: A man who sanctions sexual relationships between his girlfriend and his male friends.
Synonyms: sense: fool
word: fool
word: idiot
sense: penis
word: penis
sense: man who sanctions cuckoldry
word: mari complaisant
sense: man who sanctions cuckoldry
word: wittol
Derived terms: pull someone's plonker
twonk
thwart
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /θwɔːt/
enpr: thwôrt
ipa: /θwɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Early Middle English thwert, thwerte, thuart, thurt, thurte, thwart, thwarte, twart, twarte, twhart, twhert, twort, þuert, þwerrt, þwert, þwerte, ðwert (“crosswise, transverse; counter, opposing; contrary, obstinate”), borrowed from Old Norse þvert (“across, athwart”), originally the neuter form of þverr (“across, transverse”), from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz (“cross; adverse”) (altered or influenced by Proto-Germanic *þweraną (“to stir; to swirl; to turn”)), from Proto-Germanic *þerh-, probably from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to spin; to turn”).
The English adjective is cognate with Danish tvær (“sullen, sulky”), Gothic 𐌸𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍃 (þwairs, “angry”), Middle Dutch dwers, dwars (modern Dutch dwars (“crosswise, transverse; slantwise, askew; stubbornly disobedient”)), Norwegian tvert, tvært, Old Frisian þweres, dwers (Saterland Frisian twars, West Frisian dwers, dwerz (“across, to the other side of; beyond”)), Middle Low German dwers, dwars (Low German dwars (“contrary; cross-grained”)), Old English þweorh (“transverse; perverse; angry, cross”), Old High German twer (Middle High German twer, quer, modern German quer (“crosswise; cross”)), Swedish tvär (“across, transverse; of a curve: sharp; immediate, sudden; grumpy, stubborn”). It is related to queer; also Proto-West Germanic *þwerh,
The adverb is derived from Middle English thwert, ywerte (“crosswise; across the grain”); the Middle English Dictionary suggests the adverb was derived from the adjective, while the Oxford English Dictionary notes that the adverb is attested earlier than the adjective.
The verb is derived from Middle English thwerten, thwert, thwarten, þwerten (“to lie across; to oppose, to thwart”), and further from the adverb and perhaps also the adjective.
Noun sense 1 (“a seat across a boat on which a rower may sit”) may be derived from the adverb or adjective, from the position of the seat across the length of the boat, while noun sense 3 (“(rare) an act of thwarting”) is derived from the verb. Compare Middle English thwert (“in in thwert: crosswise”), from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: With adverſe blaſt up-turns them from the South
 Notus and Afer black with thundrous Clouds
 From Serraliona; thwart of theſe as fierce
 Forth ruſh the Levant and the Ponent VVindes
 Eurus and Zephir with their lateral noiſe,
 Sirocco, and Libecchio.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 701–706:
glosses: Across the direction of travel or length of; athwart, crosswise, obliquely, transversely.
thwart
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /θwɔːt/
enpr: thwôrt
ipa: /θwɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Early Middle English thwert, thwerte, thuart, thurt, thurte, thwart, thwarte, twart, twarte, twhart, twhert, twort, þuert, þwerrt, þwert, þwerte, ðwert (“crosswise, transverse; counter, opposing; contrary, obstinate”), borrowed from Old Norse þvert (“across, athwart”), originally the neuter form of þverr (“across, transverse”), from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz (“cross; adverse”) (altered or influenced by Proto-Germanic *þweraną (“to stir; to swirl; to turn”)), from Proto-Germanic *þerh-, probably from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to spin; to turn”).
The English adjective is cognate with Danish tvær (“sullen, sulky”), Gothic 𐌸𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍃 (þwairs, “angry”), Middle Dutch dwers, dwars (modern Dutch dwars (“crosswise, transverse; slantwise, askew; stubbornly disobedient”)), Norwegian tvert, tvært, Old Frisian þweres, dwers (Saterland Frisian twars, West Frisian dwers, dwerz (“across, to the other side of; beyond”)), Middle Low German dwers, dwars (Low German dwars (“contrary; cross-grained”)), Old English þweorh (“transverse; perverse; angry, cross”), Old High German twer (Middle High German twer, quer, modern German quer (“crosswise; cross”)), Swedish tvär (“across, transverse; of a curve: sharp; immediate, sudden; grumpy, stubborn”). It is related to queer; also Proto-West Germanic *þwerh,
The adverb is derived from Middle English thwert, ywerte (“crosswise; across the grain”); the Middle English Dictionary suggests the adverb was derived from the adjective, while the Oxford English Dictionary notes that the adverb is attested earlier than the adjective.
The verb is derived from Middle English thwerten, thwert, thwarten, þwerten (“to lie across; to oppose, to thwart”), and further from the adverb and perhaps also the adjective.
Noun sense 1 (“a seat across a boat on which a rower may sit”) may be derived from the adverb or adjective, from the position of the seat across the length of the boat, while noun sense 3 (“(rare) an act of thwarting”) is derived from the verb. Compare Middle English thwert (“in in thwert: crosswise”), from the adjective.
Senses: glosses: Across, athwart.
prat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹat/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: prats
form: pratt
Etymology: From Middle English prat, from Old English præt, prætt (“trick, prank, craft, art, wile”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattu, from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *brodno- (“to wander about”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian prat, Dutch pret (“fun, pleasure, gaity”), obsolete Dutch prat (“cunning, strategem, scheme, a prideful display, arrogance”), Low German prot, Norwegian prette (“trick”), Icelandic prettur (“a trick”). Related to pretty.
Senses: glosses: A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
Related terms: pretty
prat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹat/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: more prat
form: most prat
form: pratt
Etymology: From Middle English prat, from Old English præt, prætt (“trick, prank, craft, art, wile”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattu, from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *brodno- (“to wander about”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian prat, Dutch pret (“fun, pleasure, gaity”), obsolete Dutch prat (“cunning, strategem, scheme, a prideful display, arrogance”), Low German prot, Norwegian prette (“trick”), Icelandic prettur (“a trick”). Related to pretty.
Senses: glosses: Cunning, astute.
prat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹat/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: prats
form: pratt
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1 (see above).
Senses: examples: text: Pratt, a Buttock.
ref: 1608, Thomas Dekker, The Canters Dictionarie in The Belman of London (second part Lanthorne and Candlelight)
text: No gentry mort hath prats like thine, / No cove e'er wap'd with such a one.
ref: 1707, John Shirley, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in The Triumph of Wit:
text: Burt shook his head, wanting to tell Mac what a pain in the prat he was when he went on a take, but instead, repeated his instruction, keeping his voice at a whisper, moving his fingertips along the table […]
ref: 1952, Leonard Bishop, Down All Your Streets, page 218:
text: Mungo didn't like their attitude. Nor did he like exposing his prat in mixed company.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 5:
glosses: A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom.
examples: text: Those protestors will have achieved nothing good. They are stupid prats.
ref: 2023 June 29, Metro, London, page 10, column 3:
glosses: A fool, contemptible person.
examples: text: "She's a far better piece
Than the Viceroy's niece,
Who has also more fur on her prat."
ref: 1967 (sourced to 1942), William A. Schwartz, The Limerick: 1700 Examples with Notes, Variants and Examples Vol 1, Greenleaf Classics 1967, p. 124
text: ...they would kidnap a girl and take her back to their camp where they would pull down her knickers, hoping to find hairs on her prat.
ref: 1984 John Murray, ed, Panurge, Vol 1–3, p. 39
text: "My prat was sore from the unfamiliar activities of the night before, but my virgin bleeding had ceased, and we rode most of the day in that unworldly haze that comes with lack of sleep."
ref: 2005, Sherrie Seibert Goff, The Arms of Quirinus, iUniverse, page 135:
glosses: The female genitals.
Derived terms: word: prat about
word: prat around
word: prat boy
word: prat digger
word: pratfall
word: prattery
word: prattish
pratfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pratfalls
form: prat-fall
form: pratt-fall
Etymology: From prat + fall.
Senses: glosses: A fall onto the buttocks.
glosses: A humiliating mistake.
examples: text: The motivational speaker started with a pratfall so he could speak about the importance of getting back up.
glosses: A staged trip or fall, often for comedic purposes.
Synonyms: sense: a humiliating mistake
word: blunder
sense: a humiliating mistake
word: howler
Derived terms: pratfall effect
pratfall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pratfalls
form: pratfalling
form: pratfell
form: pratfallen
form: prat-fall
form: pratt-fall
Etymology: From prat + fall.
Senses: glosses: To fall on to the buttocks.
Derived terms: prat-fallen
prat-falling
pud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʊd/
rhymes: -ʊd
Forms: form: puds
Etymology: Clipped form of pudding.
Senses: glosses: Pudding (either sweet or savoury).
pud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʊd/
rhymes: -ʊd
rhymes: -ʊd
ipa: /pʊd/
rhymes: -ʊd
Forms: form: puds
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps from Scots pud (“little fat man”, a term of endearment) (see podge) or from pudendum.
Senses: examples: text: Standing there, half-awake, pud in hand, he feels washed out and hungover, though he hasn't touched a drop in weeks.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 387:
glosses: Penis.
Derived terms: pudknocker
pull one's pud
pud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʊd/
rhymes: -ʊd
rhymes: -ʊd
ipa: /pʌd/
ipa: /pʊd/
rhymes: -ʊd
rhymes: -ʊd
Forms: form: puds
Etymology: According to the OED, a nursery word. Perhaps from or related to Dutch poot (“hand”).
Senses: examples: text: The kangaroos — your Aborigines — do they keep their primitive simplicity un-Europe-tainted, with those little short fore puds, looking like a lesson framed by Nature to the pickpocket!
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Child's hand; child's fist.
pud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʊd/
rhymes: -ʊd
rhymes: -ʊd
ipa: /pʌd/
ipa: /puːd/
ipa: /pʊd/
rhymes: -ʊd
rhymes: -ʊd
ipa: /pʌd/
Forms: form: puds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pood (“Russian weight”).
pushchair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊʃ.t͡ʃɛə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: pushchairs
Etymology: From push + chair.
Senses: examples: text: He reversed the pushchair out of the shop and continued towards his errands.
ref: 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 41:
text: The Key Train Requirements document, released in July by the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB), includes a new clause covering people travelling with pushchairs. It highlights the need for space in carriages for unfolded pushchairs or prams, separate from areas for wheelchairs and cycles. It also recommends extending seat reservations to include pram spaces.
ref: 2023 August 9, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Family-friendly travel: new standard covers pushchairs”, in RAIL, number 989, page 26:
synonyms: stroller
baby buggy
coordinate_terms: pram
perambulator
glosses: A small carriage in which a baby or child sits and is pushed around.
reverse the charge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reverses the charge
form: reversing the charge
form: reversed the charge
form: reversed the charge
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reverse the charges.
ides of March
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The 15th of March in the Ancient Roman calendar, on which day Julius Caesar was assassinated.
abiyuch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abiyuches
Senses: glosses: A tropical Asian and African flowering tree, Crateva religiosa, of the caper family.
glosses: The edible fruit of this plant
stalking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔːkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːkɪŋ
homophone: stocking (cot–caught merger)
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stalk
stalking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔːkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːkɪŋ
homophone: stocking (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: stalkings
Etymology: From Middle English stalkynge, stalkyng, from Old English stealcung, from Proto-West Germanic *stalkungu, equivalent to stalk + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: A tiny cub is learning the art of stalking a little too well it seems. A video posted on social media shows the cub surprising its mamma and giving her a huge fright. The short clip makes for a delightful watch.
ref: 2019 October 9, "Tiny cub gives lion a huge fright", Hindustan Times
glosses: The act of going stealthily.
glosses: Hunting for game by moving silently and stealthily or by waiting in ambush.
glosses: The crime of following or harassing another person, causing that person to fear death or injury.
Derived terms: deer stalking
face-stalking
stalking horse
stalking-horse
stalking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔːkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːkɪŋ
homophone: stocking (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: stalkings
Etymology: From stalk (“the stem of a plant”) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The removal of stalks from bunches of grapes prior to winemaking.
commencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commencers
Etymology: From commence + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who commences.
disregard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsɹɪˈɡɑːd/
ipa: /dɪsɹɪˈɡɑɹd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: disregards
Etymology: From dis- + regard. Compare misregard.
Senses: examples: text: The government's disregard for the needs of disabled people is outrageous.
text: The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.
ref: 1956 September, “Notes and News: The Barby Sidings Accident Report”, in Railway Magazine, page 638:
text: The Trump administration’s disregard for due process has been a pattern in the legal disputes over his immigration policies.
ref: 2025 April 8, John Fritze, “Supreme Court ruling on Alien Enemies Act raises new due process concerns for migrants”, in CNN:
synonyms: misregard
glosses: The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about something.
disregard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsɹɪˈɡɑːd/
ipa: /dɪsɹɪˈɡɑɹd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: disregards
form: disregarding
form: disregarded
form: disregarded
Etymology: From dis- + regard. Compare misregard.
Senses: examples: text: If you break the law, they will send you a letter. You disregard that they will send someone with a suit to your house. If you disregard Suit-Boy, you will be sent a subpoena. You disregard that they will send men with guns and dogs to your house.
ref: 2012, Augusto Vieira, How to Build a New Government: A Guide for the Coming Revolution, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 15:
text: Half of the mock jurors that were told he had insurance were told to disregard that information. Mock jurors who were instructed to disregard the information awarded the defendant more money than participants who did not know the defendant had insurance, or knew that he had insurance but were not told to disregard this information.
ref: 2013, Jonathan M. Golding, Colin M. MacLeod, Intentional Forgetting: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: To ignore; to pay no attention to.
Synonyms: misregard
unheed
unmind
ignore
Derived terms: disregardable
disregarder