cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Amazon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.ə.zən/
ipa: /ˈæm.əˌzɑn/
ipa: /ˈæm.ə.zɔn/
ipa: /-ɒn/
ipa: /ˈɛm.ə.zɔn/
ipa: /-ɒn/
Forms: form: Amazons
Etymology: From Middle English, from Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζών (Amazṓn); perhaps Ionian Greek pronunciation of Old Persian *hamazan- (“warrior”), as the Amazon women were known warriors. A popular folk etymology, of Ancient Greek provenance, claims that the word derives from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + μαζός (mazós, “breast”), referencing the belief that Amazons cut off their right breast so that it would not hinder their ability to fire a bow or throw a spear.
Senses: examples: text: When, therefore, one envisions a matriarchy, one should not conjure up visions of a gang of Amazons lopping off breasts and testicles to rule by force of arms.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 149:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A member of a mythical race of female warriors inhabiting the Black Sea area.
examples: text: In some parts of Africa, Asia, and South America, amazon cultures still existed during the Middle Ages, such as that ruled by Queen Nzingha in Angola, who led her amazon army against the Portuguese in a series of wars during the first half of the seventeenth century. In Dahomey also in traditionally gynarchal West Africa, the army was made up of amazons even through the nineteenth century.
ref: 1976, Xenia S. Williams, “The Power of History...or History Is Written by the Powerful”, in Dave Peterson, Jonathan Cross, Lyn Rosen, editors, A Gay Person's Guide to New England, 2nd edition:
glosses: A female warrior.
glosses: A tall, strong, or athletic woman.
Derived terms: Amazoness
amazonian
Amazonism
Amazonist
javazon
Related terms: Amazonomachia
Amazonomachy
gladiatrix
shieldmaiden
Valkyrie
Amazon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.ə.zən/
ipa: /ˈæm.əˌzɑn/
ipa: /ˈæm.ə.zɔn/
ipa: /-ɒn/
ipa: /ˈɛm.ə.zɔn/
ipa: /-ɒn/
Forms: form: the Amazon
Etymology: From Spanish, Río Amazonas. It is common belief that the Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana fought a battle against a tribe of Tapuya natives, in which the women fought alongside the men, and that he derived the name from the Amazons in Greek mythology.
Senses: glosses: A river in South America, that flows through Brazil for about 4000 miles to the Atlantic.
examples: text: Amazon milk frog
text: In February, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe in Brazil made brief contact with the outside world before returning to the Amazon rainforest.
ref: 2025 April 4, Lex Harvey and Esha Mitra, “US tourist arrested after allegedly attempting to contact ‘world’s most isolated’ tribe”, in CNN:
glosses: A region including much of this river; specifically, the region of the Amazon Rainforest, or of the Amazon River Basin.
Derived terms: Amazon ant
Amazon Basin
Amazon dolphin
Amazon effect
Amazonian
amazonian
amazonite
Amazon milk frog
Amazon river dolphin
amazonstone
Amazon sword
Amazon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.ə.zən/
ipa: /ˈæm.əˌzɑn/
ipa: /ˈæm.ə.zɔn/
ipa: /-ɒn/
ipa: /ˈɛm.ə.zɔn/
ipa: /-ɒn/
Forms: form: Amazons
Etymology: From Spanish, Río Amazonas. It is common belief that the Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana fought a battle against a tribe of Tapuya natives, in which the women fought alongside the men, and that he derived the name from the Amazons in Greek mythology.
Senses: glosses: Any of the large parrots from the genus Amazona.
Amazon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.ə.zən/
ipa: /ˈæm.əˌzɑn/
ipa: /ˈæm.ə.zɔn/
ipa: /-ɒn/
ipa: /ˈɛm.ə.zɔn/
ipa: /-ɒn/
Etymology: Chosen by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as a word beginning with 'A' which had existing connotations (see meanings listed in etymologies 1 & 2) of being exotic, different, and (as the Amazon River) the largest of its kind in the world.
Senses: examples: text: Google is one of several Big Tech firms that has made an aggressive push into gaming in recent years, along with Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB).
ref: 2021 February 1, Rishi Iyengar, “Google will stop making video games for its Stadia platform”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Amazon.com Inc., a very large Internet retailer.
Derived terms: Amabot
Amazonification
Amazonism
Amazonist
Brithenig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /bɾɪθɛˈniːɡ/
Etymology: Compare with Breton brezhoneg and Welsh Brythoneg.
Senses: glosses: An invented language created by Andrew Smith in 1996, based on the premise of Latin being influenced by Old Celtic.
Related terms: bzt
try
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: trī
ipa: /tɹaɪ/
ipa: [t͡ʃɹaɪ̯]
ipa: [tɹ̝̊aɪ̯]
ipa: [t̠͡ɹ̠̊˔aɪ̯]
ipa: [t̠͡ɹ̠̊˔ʷaɪ̯]
ipa: /tɹaɪ/
ipa: /tɹʌɪ/
ipa: [tɹəi̯]
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: more try
form: most try
Etymology: Probably from Old French trié.
Senses: examples: text: But he her ſuppliant hands, thoſe hands of gold, / And eke her feete, thoſe feete of ſiluer trye, […] Chopt off […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 203:
glosses: Fine, excellent.
gnat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /næt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: gnats
Etymology: From Middle English gnat, from Old English gnætt (“gnat; midge; mosquito”), from Proto-West Germanic *gnatt, *gnattu, from Proto-Germanic *gnattaz, *gnattuz (“gnat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰneHdʰn-, *gʰneHd- (“to gnaw; scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰen- (“to gnaw; bite; scratch; grind”). Cognate with Low German Gnatte (“gnat”), dialectal Swedish gnatt (“mosquito”), German Gnatz (“scabs; rash; scabies; stinginess”). Related also gnit and gnaw.
Senses: glosses: Any small insect of the order Diptera, specifically within the suborder Nematocera.
examples: text: "Away thou whining gnat, and trouble me not!"
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 115:
glosses: An annoying person.
Derived terms: box the gnat
Clear Lake gnat
fungus gnat
gall gnat
gnat bug
gnatcatcher
gnateater
gnatlike
gnatling
gnatproof
gnat's
gnat's arse
gnat's ass
gnat's chuff
gnat's prick
gnat-strain
gnat-strainer
gnat-straining
gnat's whisker
gnatty
gnatworm
gnatwren
strain at a gnat
Related terms: gnit
midge
diabolus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diaboluses
Etymology: From Latin diabolus. Doublet of devil, diable, and diablo.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of tritone.
synonyms: word: tritone
auntie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.ti/
ipa: /ˈɑːn.ti/
note: Ghana
ipa: /ˈɐn.ti/
rhymes: -ɑːnti
rhymes: -ænti
homophone: ante
homophone: any
homophone: anti stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: aunties
form: aunty
Etymology: From aunt + -ie.
Senses: coordinate_terms: unkie
glosses: Diminutive of aunt.
qualifier: Asia
glosses: Term of familiarity or respect for a middle-aged or elderly woman.
glosses: Female domestic helper.
glosses: An elderly gay man.
Synonyms: aunt
Derived terms: agony auntie
auntie arm
kopi auntie
summon auntie
Related terms: uncle
auntie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.ti/
ipa: /ˈɑːn.ti/
note: Ghana
ipa: /ˈɐn.ti/
rhymes: -ɑːnti
rhymes: -ænti
homophone: ante
homophone: any
homophone: anti stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: aunties
form: auntying
form: auntied
form: auntied
form: aunty
Etymology: From aunt + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: In the same melodrama, Madame Rotschild, a supporting character plays a similar role by "auntying" all children as a rich and powerful woman who can solve most problems in children's own homes.
ref: 1994, Maria Guadalupe Serna-Perez, Entrepreneurship, Women's Roles, and the Domestic Cycle:
text: More and more children are being "auntied" by women in the community who feel it is their duty as mothers to care for parentless children.
ref: 2003, Richard M. Lerner, Handbook of applied developmental science:
text: She had had only one unmitigated success in bending the girl to her will over the many years she'd auntied her: She had peeled the dialect right olf Lina's tongue.
ref: 2011, Salvatore Scibona, The End, page 72:
text: “I am the best auntie of any auntie that has ever auntied,” she'd say, and in doing so reshape herself into the image her community needed to see.
ref: 2019, Keturah Kendrick, No Thanks: Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone:
glosses: To be or behave like the aunt of.
Beeb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːb/
rhymes: -iːb
Forms: form: the Beeb
Etymology: Clipping of BBC; possibly popularised by Peter Sellers, who is said to have called the corporation the Beeb Beeb Ceeb on The Goon Show in the 1950s.
Senses: glosses: The BBC.
Synonyms: sense: BBC
word: Auntie
sense: BBC
word: Auntie Beeb
Beeb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːb/
rhymes: -iːb
Forms: form: Beebs
Etymology: Clipping of BBC; possibly popularised by Peter Sellers, who is said to have called the corporation the Beeb Beeb Ceeb on The Goon Show in the 1950s.
Senses: examples: text: The BBC Micro (alias the Beeb) is still quite a deluxe machine, with better high-resolution color graphics than any of its competitors.
ref: 1986, Byte:
text: I'm trying to connect an old 2400 modem to my Beeb. I've got the pin-outs for the RS423 and have connected them to the five pins of the RS232. But it still doesn't work.
ref: 1997, Fred Forsyth, “BBC Micro and Modem”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet):
text: I have someone wanting to take Beebs and Masters out to Romania for use in schools out there. So if you have one or more, including monitors and if you could somehow or other get them to Norwich, do please let me know.
ref: 2000, Paul Beverley, “Beebs, please”, in comp.sys.acorn.announce (Usenet):
glosses: A BBC Micro (British home computer).
kit out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kits out
form: kitting out
form: kitted out
form: kitted out
Senses: examples: text: As the soccer mom-ish leader of nefarious crime cartel the Golden Circle, Poppy rules over the entire global drug trade, which she controls from a jungle lair curiously kitted out as a kitsch 50s utopia, featuring gleaming bowling alleys, diners and nail salons, but also, somewhat confusingly, robot dogs and a captive Elton John.
ref: 2017 September 19, Gwilym Mumford, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle review – spy sequel reaches new heights of skyscraping silliness”, in the Guardian:
text: It has been kitted out with horizon scanning and other cameras, radar, 180° thermal imaging software, and acoustic monitors.
ref: 2023 February 8, “Network News: World interest in 'Intelligent Train'”, in RAIL, number 976, page 16:
glosses: To provide with equipment.
glosses: To prepare a boat or vehicle for a voyage or journey.
glosses: To supply with or dress in a uniform, especially a sports kit.
Related terms: fit out
try-hard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: try-hards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tryhard.
muezzin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /muˈɛ.zɪn/
Forms: form: muezzins
form: mouezzin
form: muadhin
form: muazzin
form: muedhdhin
form: muezin
Etymology: From Turkish müezzin or Ottoman Turkish مؤذن (müezzin), from Arabic مُؤَذِّن (muʔaḏḏin, “one who calls (to prayer), crier”).
Senses: examples: text: approaching the mosque, at the call of the muezzin (III, xvi)
ref: 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer:
text: I was awoken by the voice of a distant muezzin calling the faithful to prayer.
ref: 2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen, ONE, page 266:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
hypernyms: cleric
glosses: The person who issues the call to prayer from one of the minarets of a mosque.
Synonyms: word: provost
Derived terms: muezzinlike
barf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːf/
ipa: /bɑɹf/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)f
homophone: Barff
homophone: bath (non-rhotic, trap–bath split, th-fronting)
Etymology: Uncertain. Probably of imitative origin.
Senses: glosses: Vomit.
Derived terms: barfalicious
barf bag
barfmail
barfogenesis
barfogenic
barftastic
barfworthy
barfy
scarf and barf
unicorn barf
barf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːf/
ipa: /bɑɹf/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)f
homophone: Barff
homophone: bath (non-rhotic, trap–bath split, th-fronting)
Forms: form: barfs
form: barfing
form: barfed
form: barfed
Etymology: Uncertain. Probably of imitative origin.
Senses: glosses: To vomit.
examples: text: The program barfed as a result of the invalid input.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a system: to fail.
Synonyms: sense: to vomit
word: regurgitate
sense: of a software system
word: crash
Derived terms: barfer
barf out
barf
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːf/
ipa: /bɑɹf/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)f
homophone: Barff
homophone: bath (non-rhotic, trap–bath split, th-fronting)
Etymology: Uncertain. Probably of imitative origin.
Senses: examples: 2011, "This is My Jam", season 2, episode 13 of Regular Show
Mordecai: You can't touch music. But music can touch you.
Rigby: Oh, barf.
glosses: An expression of disgust.
arsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːst/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)st
homophone: asked (some non-rhotic accents)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of arse.
arsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːst/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)st
homophone: asked (some non-rhotic accents)
Forms: form: more arsed
form: most arsed
Senses: examples: text: I can’t be arsed to get out of bed today.
text: We asked John if he wanted to come down the pub with us, but he couldn’t be arsed.
ref: 2008, Lynn Broadbent, Infinite Ideas Staff, Be Arsed: 365 Brilliant Ideas for Getting Off Your Backside and Living Life to the Full:
text: You can keep all the macho bollocks that goes with the job. I can’t be arsed who thinks what of me to be perfectly honest and I have no time for those that are.
ref: 2008, Guy Cullen, Loose Ends, page 2:
text: […]but here’s the way you’re supposed to run it: make out like it’ll be a long, drawn out process, that you can’t be arsed and that they shouldn’t be arsed because it’ll probably end up doing fuck all except getting a copper pissed off at them.
ref: 2011, Ray Banks, Beast of Burden, page 133:
synonyms: word: fucked
word: asked
english: minced oath
translation: minced oath
word: sacked
glosses: Bothered; willing to make an effort.
raw_tags: in the negative
examples: text: a big-arsed man
glosses: Having a particular kind of arse
raw_tags: in combinations
Derived terms: duck-arsed
duck arsed
half-arsed
like a blue-arsed fly
rat-arsed
rat arsed
smartarsed
smart-arsed
miscible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more miscible
form: most miscible
Etymology: From Middle English miscible, from Late Latin miscibilis (“that can be mixed”), from Latin miscēre (“to mix”).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Able to be mixed together in all proportions.
raw_tags: of liquids
Derived terms: miscibly
nonmiscible
unmiscible
Related terms: miscibility
mixable
miscellaneous
harangue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈɹæŋ/
ipa: /həˈɹeɪŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: harangues
Etymology: From Middle English arang and French harangue, from Old Italian aringa (modern Italian arringa) from aringare (“speak in public”) (modern Italian arringare), from aringo (“public assembly”), from Gothic *𐌷𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍃 (*hriggs) or a compound containing it, akin to Old High German hring (“ring”) (whence German Ring).
Senses: glosses: An impassioned, disputatious public speech.
examples: text: She gave her son a harangue about the dangers of playing in the street.
text: The priest took thirty minutes to deliver his harangue on timeliness, making the entire service run late.
text: The king addresses his people, and the heaviest impost is levied with acclamations—the general harangues his troops, and thousands rush upon the smoking cannon and the gleaming bayonets—the lover whispers his mistress, and she forgets even herself for his sake.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 203:
text: But he continued his harangue without waiting for a reply.
ref: 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter X, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 103:
synonyms: word: admonition
word: condemnation
word: criticism
word: diatribe
word: polemic
word: rant
word: screed
word: tirade
word: admonition
word: condemnation
word: diatribe
word: dithyramb
word: harangue
word: impugnation
word: j'accuse
word: jeremiad
word: philippic
word: polemic
word: rant
word: screed
word: slanging match
word: tirade
glosses: A tirade, harsh scolding or rant, whether spoken or written.
Derived terms: harangueful
harangue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈɹæŋ/
ipa: /həˈɹeɪŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: harangues
form: haranguing
form: harangued
form: harangued
Etymology: From Middle English arang and French harangue, from Old Italian aringa (modern Italian arringa) from aringare (“speak in public”) (modern Italian arringare), from aringo (“public assembly”), from Gothic *𐌷𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍃 (*hriggs) or a compound containing it, akin to Old High German hring (“ring”) (whence German Ring).
Senses: examples: text: The angry motorist leapt from his car to harangue the other driver.
text: He has vamp'd an old speech, and the court to their sorrow, / Shall hear him harangue against Prior to morrow.
ref: 1711 [December?] (date written), Jonathan Swift, “An Excellent New Song. Being the Intended Speech of a Famous Orator against Peace [i.e., Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham].”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume VII, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 72:
text: This picture of her consequence had some effect, for no one loved better to lead than Maria;—and with far more good humour she answered, "I am much obliged to you, Edmund;—you mean very well, I am sure—but I still think you see things too strongly; and I really cannot undertake to harangue all the rest upon a subject of this kind.—There would be the greatest indecorum I think."
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 293:
text: It's a tradition that when you harangue the multitudes, you stand on a soapbox.
ref: 1993 July 7, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
synonyms: admonish
berate
lecture
glosses: To give a forceful and lengthy lecture or criticism to someone.
Derived terms: unharangued
Related terms: haranguer
boner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.nə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈboʊ.nɚ/
rhymes: -əʊnə(ɹ)
homophone: bona (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: boners
Etymology: From bone + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Boys often refer to their enlarged penis as an "erection," a "boner," or a "hard on."
ref: 1973, Sol Gordon, Facts about sex for today's youth, →ISBN, page 20:
text: Why do guys get boners when they wake up in the morning?
glosses: An erect penis.
examples: text: Why do politicians have such a boner for meaningless memorials?
glosses: An erect penis.
An often perverse sense of enjoyment from or predilection towards something.
glosses: One who or that which removes bones.
examples: text: He really pulled a boner that time!
text: SO! THEY LAUGH AT MY BONER, WILL THEY?? I'LL SHOW THEM! I'LL SHOW THEM HOW MANY BONERS THE JOKER CAN MAKE!
ref: 1951 August 24, Bill Finger, “The Joker's Comedy of Errors!”, in Batman, volume 1, number 66, Burbank, California: DC Comics, panel 1, page 5:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A blunder; a silly mistake.
glosses: A trombonist
Synonyms: word: erect penis
sense: erect penis
word: erection
sense: erect penis
word: hard-on
sense: erect penis
word: stiffy
sense: one that removes bones
word: deboner
sense: mistake
word: blooper
sense: mistake
word: blunder
Derived terms: bonerific
bonerism
boneritis
boner-killer
boner pill
boner-shrinker
euphoria boner
hate-boner
ladyboner
perma-boner
permaboner
rage boner
semiboner
Related terms: boned
Muslimize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Muslimizes
form: Muslimizing
form: Muslimized
form: Muslimized
form: Muslimise
form: Moslemize
form: Moslemise
Etymology: From Muslim + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: These captives are all christians when caught, but are immediately Moslemised.
ref: 1845, Elliot Warburton, The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, volume 1, page 310:
text: In 1878, two years after Gordon had been appointed governor-general of the whole Sudan, Emin Effendi (he had Moslemized himself) was appointed governor of the Equatorial Province, which he found completely disorganized and demoralized, the happy hunting-ground of the slave raider.
ref: 1890, J. Scott Keltie, “What Stanley Has Done for the Map of Africa”, in Science, volume 15, number 364, page 51:
text: As for the Muslimized Malays, they live mainly in the sourthernmost changwads (provinces) that border on Malaysia, although there are small communities of them in and near Bangkok.
ref: 1964, Hugh H. Smythe, “Thailand Minority Groups”, in Phylon, volume 25, number 3, page 282:
glosses: To make Muslim; to increase the Muslim character of.
Synonyms: word: Muslimify
Derived terms: de-Muslimize
un-Muslimize
reboot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːbuːt/
ipa: /ɹiːˈbuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: reboots
Etymology: From re- + boot.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: bootup#Noun
restart#Noun
glosses: An instance of rebooting.
examples: text: That’s why we don’t just need a bailout. We need a reboot. We need a build out. We need a buildup. We need a national makeover.
ref: 2008 December 24, Thomas L. Friedman, “Time to Reboot America”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Other reboots of beloved restaurants, like the Four Seasons, have failed.
ref: 2020 February 14, Florence Fabricant, “The Beloved West Village Restaurant Barbuto Gets a Reboot”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A fresh start.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: The restarting of a series' storyline, discarding all previous continuity.
examples: text: HBO Max has issued a straight-to-series order for “Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin,” a reboot of the original Freeform series... “We’re such huge fans of what I. Marlene King and her iconic cast created, we knew that we had to treat the original series as #CANON"
ref: 2020 September 24, “Pretty Little Liars Reboot Ordered To Series at HBO Max”, in Variety:
text: As well as Ari Parker’s starring role, the reboot will introduce three characters played by people of colour, with Sara Ramirez, Karen Pittman and Sarita Choudhury to join the quartet.
ref: 2021 August 22, Clea Skopeliti, “Nicole Ari Parker to join Sex and the City reboot in place of Kim Cattrall”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: sequel
spin-off
coordinate_terms: remake
qualifier: widely considered a misuse
glosses: The restarting of a series' storyline without discarding previous continuity.
reboot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːbuːt/
ipa: /ɹiːˈbuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: reboots
form: rebooting
form: rebooted
form: rebooted
Etymology: From re- + boot.
Senses: examples: text: We need to reboot the system after installing these updates.
text: The system reboots every weekend after updates are installed.
text: NASA is once again trying to reboot the Hubble Space Telescope, agency officials said. The telescope’s instruments have been shut down since the end of September, when a router that formats science data for transmission to the ground had an electrical failure.
ref: 2008 October 24, Dennis Overbye, “Another Effort to Reboot Telescope”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To execute a computer's boot process, effectively resetting the computer and causing the operating system to reload, commonly after a system failure.
examples: text: They rebooted the TV series, but it's even worse than the original.
text: What are the first steps to rebooting your business?
ref: 2013 May 21, Dan Schawbel, “Mitch Joel: How To Reboot Your Business And Your Life”, in Forbes:
text: As the Republican National Convention kicks off Monday, Donald Trump has a tremendous opportunity to rebrand and reboot his campaign, to make it look and feel more professional and less petulant.
ref: 2016 July 18, Charles M. Blow, “Trump’s Chance to Reboot”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To start afresh.
examples: text: Egg farmers do this to reboot birds' internal clocks so they start laying valuable eggs faster and, crucially, at the same time.
ref: 2011, J. Morris Hicks, Healthy Eating, Healthy World, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: Restart; to return to an initial configuration or state.
Synonyms: word: rebegin
word: recommence
word: reinitiate
sense: broad sense and literal sense
word: restart
Related terms: bootstrap
bun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌn/
ipa: /bʊn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: buns
form: bunning
form: bunned
form: bunned
form: bunn
Etymology: From Middle English bunne (“wheat cake, bun”), from Anglo-Norman bugne (“bump on the head; fritter”), from Old French bugne (hence French beignet), from Frankish *bungjo (“little clump”), diminutive of *bungu (“lump, clump”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“clump, lump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Dutch bonk (“clump, clot, cluster of fruits”). More at bunch.
Senses: examples: text: Bunning her hair, she left her childhood bedroom for the hall.
ref: 2014, A. A. Garrison, The Long Short Story: Novellas, page 39:
glosses: To form (the hair) into a bun.
bun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌn/
ipa: /bʊn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: buns
Etymology: Probably from Scots bun (“tail of a rabbit or hare”), which is probably from Scottish Gaelic bun (“bottom, butt, stump, stub”).
Senses: examples: text: She brought home two new buns to join the menagerie!
synonyms: bun-bun
glosses: Clipping of bunny (“rabbit”).
glosses: A bunny: a rabbit.
glosses: A squirrel.
glosses: The scut or tail of a hare.
glosses: A dry stalk.
Derived terms: sea-bun
bun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌn/
ipa: /bʊn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: buns
form: bunning
form: bunned
form: bunned
Etymology: Caribbean pronunciation of burn.
Senses: glosses: To smoke cannabis.
examples: text: 2004, MC Forcer, guest on Lethal Bizzle, "Pow!"
Don't care about your crew, bun them any day
text: Some man acting dumb, think's he's a gun-man, wanna bring me drama. How you gonna bun me?
ref: 2011, Jme, Mike Lowery:
text: Look, come round, come round gunning, I still look try to bun him
Don't chat on the net ’bout bunnin, oh my God why the fuck you runnin?
ref: 2017, “Fire in the Booth”, performed by Taze, reused in ”Usual Suspects”:
text: The K in the back, the glock in the front
It’s one in the head, you know how we bun
ref: 2018, “Slatt Season”, in Sorry For The Get Off, performed by Drego & Beno, track 15:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To shoot.
glosses: To forget.
bun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌn/
ipa: /bʊn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: buns
Etymology: Caribbean pronunciation of burn.
Senses: examples: text: Man say that they spray the fire
I fuck that shit, I drop the bun
ref: 2018, “Rolling Round”, HL8 and SimpzBeatz (music), performed by Sparko of OMH:
glosses: marijuana cigarette, joint
bun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌn/
ipa: /bʊn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: buns
form: bun
form: p'un
form: pun
Etymology: From the Revised Romanization of Korean 분 (bun), from Chinese 分 (fèn, “fen”). Doublet of fen.
Senses: glosses: A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.
Germanic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɜːˈmæn.ɪk/
ipa: /d͡ʒɝˈmæn.ɪk/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin germānicus, equivalent to German + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: Ur-Germanic
Proto-Germanic
Common Germanic
glosses: The early, undocumented ancestral language from which other Germanic languages developed, such as Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Frisian, English, German, Faroese, Icelandic, Yiddish, Norwegian and Swedish.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The group of Indo-European languages that developed from (Ur-)Germanic.
Derived terms: non-Germanic
Related terms: word: Proto-West Germanic
word: Proto-West-Germanic
word: Proto-North-West Germanic
word: East Germanic
word: North Germanic
word: West Germanic
word: German
word: Germanish
word: Teutonic
Germanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɜːˈmæn.ɪk/
ipa: /d͡ʒɝˈmæn.ɪk/
Forms: form: more Germanic
form: most Germanic
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin germānicus, equivalent to German + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: a Germanic tribe
glosses: Relating to the Germanic peoples (such as Germans, Scandinavians or Anglo-Saxons).
examples: text: a Germanic language
text: Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic, Germanic, and Celtic names were all of this type, but there are also shorter names formed from the compound ones; […].
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xii:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: Teutonic
glosses: Relating to the language or group of languages known as Germanic.
examples: text: He arrived with Germanic punctuality.
synonyms: German
Teutonic
glosses: Having German characteristics.
Germanic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɜːˈmæn.ɪk/
ipa: /d͡ʒɝˈmæn.ɪk/
Forms: form: Germanics
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin germānicus, equivalent to German + -ic.
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Germanian
glosses: A native of Germania.
frag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹæɡ/
enpr: frăg
homophone: phrag
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: frags
Etymology: Clipping of fragmentation grenade
Senses: examples: text: Police up your extra ammo and frags, don't leave nothing for the dinks.
ref: 1986, Oliver Stone, Platoon, spoken by Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe):
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A fragmentation grenade.
examples: text: I'd been fighting him for ages, and then you stole my frag!
text: Oh, man. Did you play Online Gaming last night? No, yeah, no? I did. I got so many frags.
ref: 2004 August 16, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #111: other days”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Homestar Runner (Matthew Chapman):
topics: video-games
glosses: A successful kill in a deathmatch game. A point or score (when considered collectively) gained by successfully killing opponents in a deathmatch game.
Derived terms: fragfest
parafrag
frag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹæɡ/
enpr: frăg
homophone: phrag
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: frags
form: fragging
form: fragged
form: fragged
Etymology: Clipping of fragmentation grenade
Senses: examples: text: One guy? I fragged a couple of hundred in 'Nam.
ref: 1974 January 13, Peter S. Fischer, “Publish or Perish” (00:03:23 from the start), in Columbo, season 3, episode 5, spoken by Eddie Kane:
text: Cowboy says in a low voice: “Never turn your back on Mother. Never cut him any slack. He fragged Mr. Shortround.”
ref: 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 173:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade.
examples: text: I fragged him once and then meleed him for the kill.
topics: government
military
politics
video-games
war
glosses: To hit with the explosion of a fragmentation grenade.
examples: text: I fragged him but he fell off the ledge afterwards.
text: I have pistol-fragged far superior players coming at me with a shotgun with 100% health.
ref: 1996, Martin Cox, “Stupid frags ...”, in rec.games.computer.doom.playing (Usenet):
topics: video-games
glosses: To kill.
Derived terms: bottom frag
fraggable
fragger
fragging
telefrag
Related terms: gib
gib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪb/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: gibs
Etymology: Unknown (14th century). Perhaps abbreviated from Gilbert, the name of the cat in the medieval fables of Reynard the Fox, Romaunt of the Rose, and so on.
Senses: glosses: A castrated male cat or ferret.
glosses: A male cat; a tomcat.
glosses: A hooked prolongation on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.
glosses: The lower lip of a horse.
Derived terms: gib-cat
gib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪb/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: gibs
Etymology: Unknown (late 18th century).
Senses: glosses: A strip, wedge, or bolt made from metal or wood and used for holding a machine part in place; usually with features (such as a taper and/or set screws) that allow for fine adjustment of the part's position.
gib
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪb/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: gibs
form: gibbing
form: gibbed
form: gibbed
Etymology: Unknown (late 18th century).
Senses: glosses: To fasten in place with a gib.
gib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪb/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
rhymes: -ɪb
ipa: /ɡɪb/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: gibs
Etymology: Shortened from giblet.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A piece of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.
examples: text: The object is to get the most frags(with some extra enjoyment for quality frags/gibs) […]
ref: 1996 July 25, Jace Dinehart, “Player review, thread jump, reg. Ver bugs.”, in rec.games.computer.quake.misc (Usenet):
topics: video-games
glosses: An instance of gibbing something.
gib
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪb/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
rhymes: -ɪb
ipa: /ɡɪb/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: gibs
form: gibbing
form: gibbed
form: gibbed
Etymology: Shortened from giblet.
Senses: examples: text: Johnny Turbo has a chainsaw leg he can use to slide around and gib enemies […]
ref: 2023 August 10, Austin Suther, “Turbo Overkill Review - Become Chainsaw Man”, in TechRaptor:
topics: video-games
glosses: To destroy an in-game object so that it turns into gibs.
examples: text: Weapons like the Devastator and other explosives make enemies gib into a bloody gore, while the auto shotgun can easily mow down hordes of, well, anything.
ref: 2020 September 24, Antal Bokor, “Review: Over the Top Serious Sam 4 Is More of What you Want”, in Third Coast Review:
topics: video-games
glosses: To be turned into gibs.
Derived terms: gibbable
gibber
instagib
gib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪb/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
rhymes: -ɪb
ipa: /dʒɘb/
rhymes: -ɘb
ipa: /ɡɪb/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
rhymes: -ɪb
Etymology: From the trademark GIB, registered by Fletcher Building Holdings Limited, the major brand of plasterboard in New Zealand.
Senses: glosses: plasterboard.
gib
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪb/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
rhymes: -ɪb
ipa: /dʒɘb/
rhymes: -ɘb
ipa: /ɡɪb/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: gibs
form: gibbing
form: gibbed
form: gibbed
Etymology: From the trademark GIB, registered by Fletcher Building Holdings Limited, the major brand of plasterboard in New Zealand.
Senses: examples: text: As the wallpaper stripping progresses the damage to walls becomes more apparent. It may require more variation orders for gibbing of walls as well as ceilings.
ref: 2014 October 4, Chris Hutching, “An earthquake repair story from the south”, in NBR:
glosses: To install plasterboard.
gib
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪb/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
rhymes: -ɪb
ipa: /dʒɘb/
rhymes: -ɘb
Senses: examples: text: Only gib me some few shingles an’ a flo’, an’ dar yer hev jes ez good a church ez de ’postles ebber hed ter preach in.
ref: 1880, Albion W. Tourgee, “Red Wing”, in Bricks Without Straw, New York, N.Y.: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert; London: Sampson Low & Co.; Montreal, Que.: Dawson Bros., page 87:
text: I has gib you licker an’ I has gib you music, an’ wife, dar, is cookin’ supper fur you, an’ it ain’ no mo’ den reason dat I’d wanter know whut we gwine git fur it.[…]“Yo’ supper is done an’ ef you’ll jest gib me room I’ll fix de table,” the woman remarked, taking the bread off the griddle.
ref: 1896, Opie Read, chapter VIII, in The Jucklins, Chicago, Ill.: Laird & Lee, pages 105 and 107:
text: De kindest heartedest little boy in de worl’ would forget to gib his cat its dinner if he had a new toy to play wid, or a new suit o’ party dress to put on to show his poppy when he come home.
ref: 1902, John Kendrick Bangs, Bikey the Skicycle & Other Tales of Jimmieboy, New York, N.Y.: Riggs Publishing Company, page 181:
text: Please, Mars’ Gineral, do gib me dime fer snack.
ref: 1938, Hervey Allen, Action at Aquila, New York, N.Y.: Farrar & Rinehart, page 98:
text: Don’t your mommy gib you bacoln?
ref: 1988, Lynda Barry, The Good Times Are Killing Me, published 2020, →ISBN:
text: “My daddy doesn’t gib me guns, ’cause he doesn’t like dem. But Pop will gib me one when I gets ten.”
ref: 2002 July, Patricia Sprinkle, Who Invited the Dead Man?, Signet, →ISBN:
text: “Maybe you could jus’ gib me one, then,” she suggested sweetly.
ref: 2007, Victoria Pade, A Family for the Holidays, Silhouette Books, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Hooman you is nice, / You gib me bath so I no hab lice.
ref: 2021 March, Srashti Behure, Unconditional: Pets Over Peeps, Spectrum of Thoughts (an affiliate of FanatiXx), →ISBN:
text: “Gib us our toy bacc!” reads the caption accompanying this dog video [by @lifewithkleekai].
ref: 2022 February 8, Sohini Sengupta, “Dogs react to human freezing their favourite toys. Watch hilarious video”, in Hindustan Times:
text: “I be model for fotos, now you gib treats”
ref: 2022 February 10, Steve Rouge, “The Cutest Puppies of the Day”, in Medium:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of give.
Related terms: gnaB giB
arse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːs/
ipa: /ɐːs/
ipa: /aɹs/
ipa: /äːɹs/
ipa: /ɑɹs/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: arses
form: arsing
form: arsed
form: arsed
form: ass
Etymology: From Middle English ars, ers, from Old English ærs, ears, from Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz (compare Dutch aars and German Arsch), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁órsos (“backside, buttocks”).
Senses: examples: text: Stop arsing around!
text: He was university material, just arsing about as a rigger, arsing about, killing time with bohunks like me[…].
ref: 1985, Sam McAughtry, McAughtry's War, page 10:
text: Pi, upset, roars, "Quit arsing around there and get cracking," and a dozen heads turn their way.
ref: 2005, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, page 291:
text: He was half-expecting a call from the lingua, telling him to stop arsing around, but his com stayed silent, so it looked like a certain amount of arsing around was allowed.
ref: 2011, Jaine Fenn, Bringer of Light, unnumbered page:
glosses: To be silly, act stupid or mess around.
Derived terms: word: arse about
word: arse around
word: arse up
word: candy-arsed
word: can't be arsed
word: half-arsed
arse
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːs/
ipa: /ɐːs/
ipa: /aɹs/
ipa: /äːɹs/
ipa: /ɑɹs/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: ass
Etymology: From Middle English ars, ers, from Old English ærs, ears, from Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz (compare Dutch aars and German Arsch), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁órsos (“backside, buttocks”).
Senses: examples: (euphemistic)
synonyms: bum
glosses: An expression of frustration.
morning wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morning woods
Senses: synonyms: word: morning woody
word: morning tent
word: morning glory
word: nocturnal penile tumescence
english: medical
translation: medical
glosses: An erection of the penis upon waking up, usually unrelated to erotic thoughts or dreams.
synonyms: morning sticks
glosses: Kindling used to light a fire in the morning.
Synonyms: word: morning glory
word: morning tent
word: nocturnal penile tumescence
word: piss proud
word: morning brick
Related terms: word: morning glory
word: morning bean
word: piss proud
word: erection
chivalrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪv.əl.ɹəs/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪv.əl.ɹəs/
Forms: form: more chivalrous
form: most chivalrous
Etymology: From Middle English chivalerous, from Old French chevalerous; see chivalry.
Senses: examples: text: Among boys there are laws of honour and chivalrous codes, not written, or formally taught, but intuitively understood by all, and invariably acted upon by the loyal and the true.
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter 5, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
text: “I would then never have known what minute, or by whom, I was to be attacked next. But the brutes are more chivalrous than man—they do not stoop to cowardly intrigue.”
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 96:
text: It amazed me that I could have allowed myself to be let in for a binge of this description simply because a woman wished it. Too bally chivalrous for our own good, we Woosters, and always have been.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “VII AND XXI”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
synonyms: chivalric
glosses: Honourable, especially to women; gallant.
raw_tags: of a man
synonyms: chivalric
glosses: Involving chivalry.
Derived terms: chivalrously
chivalrousness
nonchivalrous
semichivalrous
superchivalrous
cataract
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætəɹækt/
ipa: /ˈkætəˌɹæk(t)/
Forms: form: cataracts
form: cataracting
form: cataracted
form: cataracted
Etymology: PIE word
 *ḱóm
The noun is derived from cataracts (noun (plural only)), from Late Middle English cataract, cataracta, cateract, cateracte (“floodgate of heaven”), from Old French cataracte (modern French cataracte), and from its etymon Latin cataracta (“floodgate; waterfall”), from Ancient Greek καταρ(ρ)άκτης (katar(rh)áktēs, “(noun) waterfall; (adjective) rushing downwards”), from καταρ(ρ)ᾱ́σσω (katar(rh)ā́ssō, “to pour down; to rush downwards”) + -της (-tēs, suffix forming nouns denoting a state of being). Καταρ(ρ)ᾱ́σσω (Katar(rh)ā́ssō) is derived either:
* from κᾰτᾰ- (kătă-, prefix meaning ‘downwards’) + ἀρᾰ́σσω (arắssō, “to dash to pieces; to strike”) (further etymology unknown, possibly onomatopoeic) or ῥᾱ́σσω (rhā́ssō, “to dash; to strike”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wreh₂ǵʰ- (“to pound, strike”)); or
* from καταρρηγνύναι (katarrhēgnúnai, “to break down”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: [N]o river should cataract larger than the Clyde.
ref: 1832 July, [John Wilson], “Christopher [North] at the Lakes. Flight Second.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XXXII, number CXCVI, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 125:
text: After a short rest, we moved on over a quiet space of water to the third and greatest fall, where the whole body of the Nile precipitates itself from between two towering cliffs, foaming and plashing, and, in short, cataracting very respectably.
ref: 1844, Eliot Warburton, “The Cataract and Philæ”, in The Crescent and the Cross; or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1845, →OCLC, page 285:
glosses: Of a river, etc.: to fall in the form of a waterfall.
examples: text: My Poems have been reviewed. The Monthly has cataracted panegyric on me; the Critical cascaded it, and the Analytical dribbled it with civility.
ref: 1796 July 4 (date written), Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Biographical Supplement to the Biographia Literaria. Chapter III. [1795 to 1796].”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions […], 2nd edition, volume II, part II, London: William Pickering, published 1847, →OCLC, page 370:
glosses: To cause (something) to pour or rush like a waterfall.
dirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dû(r)t
ipa: /dɜːt/
enpr: dûrt
ipa: /dɝt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: dirts
form: dirting
form: dirted
form: dirted
form: durt
Etymology: From Middle English drit (“excrement”), from Old Norse drit (“excrement”), from Proto-Germanic *dritą, *dritō (“excrement”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd-, *treydʰ- (“to have diarrhea”). Cognate with Norwegian dritt (“excrement”), dialectal Swedish dret (“shit”), Icelandic drit (“bird excrement”), Dutch drijten (“to defecate”), drits (“dirt, mud, filth”) and drijt, dreet (“excrement”), Low German drieten (“to defecate”), Driet (“shit”), regional German Driss (“shit”), Old English ġedrītan (“to defecate”).
Senses: glosses: To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty
stain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /steɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: stains
Etymology: From Middle English steinen, steynen (“to stain, colour, paint”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse steina (“to stain, colour, paint”), from steinn (“stone, mineral blue, colour, stain”), from Proto-Norse ᛊᛏᚨᛁᚾᚨᛉ (stainaʀ), from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”), from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”). Cognate with Old English stān (“stone”). More at stone.
Replaced native Middle English wem (“spot, blemish, stain”), from Old English wamm (“spot, stain”).
In some senses, influenced by unrelated Middle English disteynen (“to discolor, remove the colour from"; literally, "de-colour”), from Anglo-Norman desteindre (“to remove the colour from, bleach”), from Old French destaindre (“to remove the color from, bleach”), from des- (“dis-, de-, un-”) + teindre (“to dye”), from Latin tingo.
Senses: glosses: A discolored spot or area caused by spillage or other contact with certain fluids or substances.
glosses: A blemish on one's character or reputation.
examples: text: The wood will darken whether it is stained or not—the main function of a stain is to enhance the wood's natural color and emphasize its grain.
ref: 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
glosses: A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
coordinate_terms: color
metal
fur
glosses: One of a number of non-standard tinctures used chiefly in post-medieval heraldry, especially tenné, murrey, or sanguine.
Derived terms: bloodstain
blue stain
Colorado brown stain
cumstain
Feulgen stain
Giemsa stain
Gömöri stain
green stain
green-stain
hit a stain
Kinyoun stain
Leishman stain
pet stain
port-wine stain
Romanowsky stain
sap stain
shit stain
stainless
stain lifter
stain remover
Wright-Giemsa stain
Wright-Giemse stain
Wright's stain
Ziehl-Neelsen stain