cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
debauched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbɔːtʃt/
rhymes: -ɔːtʃt
Forms: form: more debauched
form: most debauched
form: deboist
Senses: examples: text: When a woman debauched from her youth, nay, even being the offspring of debauchery and vice, comes to give an account of all her vicious practices, and even to descend to the particular occasions and circumstances by which she ran through in threescore years, an author must be hard put to it wrap it up so clean as not to give room, especially for vicious readers, to turn it to his disadvantage.
ref: 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, The Author's Preface:
text: He was a man made for the exteremes of life; from the most debauched of men he had become the most ascetic.
ref: 1900 April, Willa Cather, “Eric Hermannson's Soul”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Indulging in or characterised by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; corrupted; immoral; self-indulgent.
Synonyms: degenerate
degraded
dissipated
dissolute
fast
libertine
licentious
profligate
riotous
Derived terms: debauchedly
debauchedness
debauchery
undebauched
debauched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbɔːtʃt/
rhymes: -ɔːtʃt
Forms: form: deboist
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debauch
latitudinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lætɪˈtud(ɪ)nəl/
Etymology: From Latin lātitūdin- (stem of lātitūdō) + -al. By surface analysis, latitude + -in- + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to latitude.
Derived terms: heliolatitudinal
interlatitudinal
latitudinally
nonlatitudinal
palaeolatitudinal
paleolatitudinal
pseudolatitudinal
lawmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawmakings
Etymology: From law + making.
Senses: glosses: The process of passing or enacting laws; legislation.
Related terms: lawmaker
leafage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leafages
Etymology: From leaf + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Color change in New England is the tourist time, when people come to see the leafage turn brilliant colors.
text: She came towards me, half feeling her way between the tree boles, and though a child, it seemed, clung to her skirt, it swerved into the leafage like a rabbit as she drew nearer.
ref: 1932, Rudyard Kipling, They:
glosses: The leaves of plants collectively; foliage.
diluvian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈljuːvɪən/
ipa: /daɪˈluvɪən/
ipa: /dɪˈluvɪən/
rhymes: -uːviən
Etymology: From Latin dīluvium + -an.
Senses: synonyms: diluvial
glosses: Pertaining to a deluge, or flood.
Derived terms: antediluvian
postdiluvian
prediluvian
learning-disabled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a condition that impedes learning.
lighterman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightermen
Etymology: From lighter + -man.
Senses: examples: text: 1622, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Augurs, The First Antimasque, in The Works of Ben Jonson, London: D. Midwinter et al., 1756, Volume 6, p. 122,
A poor lighterman, sir, one that hath had the honour sometimes to lay in the king’s beer there […]
text: One Dobson, a lighterman, undertook, for a wager of five guineas, to swim on his back from Westminster bridge to Putney bridge in an hour and three quarters, without turning himself in the water; which he performed 19 minutes within the time.
ref: 1766 July, The Annual Register, page 115:
text: At that the Pool became a scene of mad confusion, fighting, and collision, and for some time a multitude of boats and barges jammed in the northern arch of the Tower Bridge, and the sailors and lightermen had to fight savagely against the people who swarmed upon them from the riverfront.
ref: 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book One, Chapter 17:
text: [ Alex Smith ] was a lighterman on the Thames at the time Bligh was signing on the Bounty men, but he hated the business and was only waiting for a suitable opportunity to go to sea again.
ref: 1934, Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall, chapter 2, in Pitcairn’s Island:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: One employed on, owning, or managing a lighter.
left-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lefthandedness
Etymology: From left-handed + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: mancinism
sinistrality
antonyms: dextrality
right-handedness
glosses: The state of being left-handed.
Hypernyms: ambidexterity
ambidextrousness
handedness
Related terms: eyedness
footedness
lousily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lousily
form: most lousily
Etymology: From lousy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a lousy manner, poorly or vilely.
vilely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪl.li/
other: /ˈvaɪl.i/
rhymes: -aɪli
rhymes: -aɪlli
Forms: form: more vilely
form: most vilely
Etymology: From Middle English vyly, vileliche, fijlliche, villiche, equivalent to vile + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We broke off diplomatic relations with Russia
Ukraine is defending itself and will not give up its freedom, no matter what Moscow thinks[...]
Russia vilely and suicidally attacked our state in the morning
Just like fascist Germany did during the Second World War
ref: 2022 February 24, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 4:58 from the start, in Ukraine Special: Putin's Russia launches full-scale invasion, Channel 4 News:
glosses: In a vile manner, evilly, despicably.
examples: text: The chauffeur must, as it seemed to me, have been a novice or else have lost his nerve in this disturbance, for he drove vilely on the way to the station.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Terribly, awfully.
saurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːɹiən/
ipa: /ˈsɔɹiən/
Forms: form: saurians
Etymology: From Sauria (suborder of lizards) + -an (suffix forming adjectives), under influence from earlier French saurien.
Senses: examples: text: I took heart, however, as I recalled a conversation between Challenger and Summerlee upon the habits of the great saurians.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
qualifier: properly
glosses: A reptile of the suborder Sauria.
examples: text: After dinner we all went on deck and watched the unfamiliar scenes of a Capronian night--that is, all but von Schoenvorts. There was less to see than to hear. From the great inland lake behind us came the hissing and the screaming of countless saurians. Above us we heard the flap of giant wings, while from the shore rose the multitudinous voices of a tropical jungle--of a warm, damp atmosphere such as must have enveloped the entire earth during the Palezoic and Mesozoic eras.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VI, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
text: Good evening, fellow saurians, and welcome once again to the Tri-Sports Arena! I'm your host, Raz Charkov...
ref: 1986, Kevin Eastman & al., Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vol. I, No. 6, page 15
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
qualifier: popularly
glosses: Any large reptilian animal, including crocodiles and reptilian aliens.
examples: text: He was one of the very few larger saurians in the émigré marshes.
ref: 1974, Vladimir Nabokov, Look at the Harlequins!, page 130:
glosses: A lizardlike person.
Hypernyms: neodiapsid
Hyponyms: archosauromorph
choristoderan
choristodere
lepidosauromorph
pantestudine
sauropterygian
saurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːɹiən/
ipa: /ˈsɔɹiən/
Forms: form: more saurian
form: most saurian
Etymology: From Sauria (suborder of lizards) + -an (suffix forming adjectives), under influence from earlier French saurien.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or related to the members of the suborder Sauria.
glosses: Synonym of lizardlike or reptilian.
synonyms: word: lizardlike or reptilian
lovableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovablenesses
form: loveableness
Etymology: From lovable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Papa is just one by himself for lovableness, goodness, kindness—oh, everything that is admirable!
ref: 1894, Martha Finley, chapter XX, in Elsie at the World’s Fair (Elsie Dinsmore; 20), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 247:
synonyms: lovability
glosses: The property that makes someone or something lovable.
Wyandot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪ.ənˌdɒt/
ipa: /ˈwaɪ.ənˌdɑt/
Forms: form: Wyandots
form: Wyandot
form: Wendat
form: Wyandott
form: Wyandotte
form: Guyandotte
form: Guyandot
Etymology: From Wyandot Wendat (“islander”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a Native American people, formed from the Huron confederacy, that lived in and around Ohio.
Wyandot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪ.ənˌdɒt/
ipa: /ˈwaɪ.ənˌdɑt/
Forms: form: Wendat
form: Wyandott
form: Wyandotte
form: Guyandotte
form: Guyandot
Etymology: From Wyandot Wendat (“islander”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Wyandots; a Native American people.
synonyms: word: Wyandots
extra: a Native American people
glosses: The now-extinct Iroquoian language of this people.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Wyandot County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A placename:
Ellipsis of Wyandot County.
Derived terms: County of Wyandot
Wyandot County
Wyandot Point
Wyandot Ridge
Related terms: Huron
legislating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of legislate
like the new time
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He was running like the new time when the dog chased him.
qualifier: simile
glosses: Furiously or vigorously, repeatedly.
Related terms: to beat the band
redbrick university
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redbrick universities
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of red brick university.
redbrick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: red-brick
Etymology: From red + brick.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to a red brick university
examples: text: And stolid, True Blue, Protestant Rangers in their redbrick cotadel south of the Clyde.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 205:
glosses: made of red brick
redbrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redbricks
Etymology: From red + brick.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of red brick university.
inspan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inspans
form: inspanning
form: inspanned
form: inspanned
Etymology: From in + span.
Senses: examples: text: There was no time to inspan the oxen[…]
ref: 1917, H. Rider Haggard, Finished, Kessinger, published 2004, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: To yoke (oxen).
glosses: To bring or force into service.
Cath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæθ/
rhymes: -æθ
Etymology: Clipping of Catherine.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Catherine.
Related terms: Cathy
Kate
Missy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪs.i/
rhymes: -ɪsi
Forms: form: Missys
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Melissa.
Related terms: Misty
Eleanor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛlənɚ/
Etymology: The first known bearer was Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122–1204), Provençal Aliénor, perhaps from Latin alia (“other”) and her mother's name Aenor, its meaning thereby said to be “the other Aenor”. This Aenor seems to come from earlier Adenordis, which might be some corruption of Adamardis, feminine form of Ademar or Adamarus, from Proto-West Germanic *Audamār, from the Proto-Germanic elements *audaz (“riches”) + *mēraz (“fame”).
An Arabic origin from نُور (nūr, “light”) has also been suggested. Eleanor has often been erroneously interpreted as a variant of Helen.
More at Eleanor. Also see Aenor.
Senses: examples: text: Nay, Eleanor, then must I chide outright: / Presumptuous dame! ill-nurtured Eleanor! / Art thou not second woman in the realm, / And the protector's wife, belov'd of him?
ref: Act I, Scene II
text: When you hear a young lady called Eleanor, you think of a tall, beautiful, interesting creature directly - the very opposite of me! With my personal appearance, Eleanor sounds ridiculous - and Neelie, as you yourself remarked, is just the thing. No! no! don't say any more - - -
ref: 1866, William 'Wilkie' Collins, Armadale, Kissinger Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 288:
glosses: A female given name.
wikipedia: Aenor
Related terms: Eleonora
Elinor
Ellie
Lenore
Leonora
Leonore
Nell
Nellie
Nelly
Rory
Nora
Norah
Lizzie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪzi/
rhymes: -ɪzi
Etymology: From Liz + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
Derived terms: tin Lizzie
Holy Saturday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Holy Saturdays
Senses: examples: Holonyms: Holy Week < Eastertime
synonyms: Black Saturday
related: word: Palm Sunday
word: ;
word: Holy Monday
word: ;
word: Holy Tuesday
word: ;
word: Holy Wednesday
word: Good Wednesday
word: Spy Wednesday
word: ;
word: Holy Thursday
word: Maundy Thursday
word: Green Thursday
word: Sheer Thursday
word: White Thursday
word: ;
word: Holy Friday
word: Good Friday
glosses: The Saturday immediately after Good Friday and before Easter.
Related terms: english: one week later; sometimes confused
translation: one week later; sometimes confused
word: Easter Saturday
Debbie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛbi/
rhymes: -ɛbi
Etymology: From Deborah + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Deborah.
micromolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + molar.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a concentration of one millionth of a mole per litre
Derived terms: submicromolar
Related terms: micromole
millimolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mM
Etymology: From milli- + molar.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a concentration of one thousandth of a mole per litre
raw_tags: of a solution
Derived terms: submillimolar
IPTG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside.
clachan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæx(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈklæk(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈklax(ɪ)n/
ipa: /ˈklæxɒːn/
rhymes: -ækən
Forms: form: clachans
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic clachan.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Now, Penpunt, you may tell me all that passed between you and the wives of the clachan.’
ref: 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
text: But if you looked south in the dusty forenoon or at hot midday, you saw the far-off glimmer of a white road, the roofs of the ugly little clachan of Kilmaclavers, and the rigging of the fine new kirk of Threepdaidle.
ref: 1918, John Buchan, “The Rime of True Thomas: The Tale of the Respectable Whaup and the Great Godly Man”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, US edition, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 239:
text: Of the miserable Highland clachan, to which Sir Walter Scott brought Bailie Nicol Jarvie and Frank Osbaldistone for their meeting with the redoubtable Rob Roy, little or nothing remains, and Aberfoyle is now a bright and clean holiday resort, standing on historic ground, where the Highlands and Lowlands meet.
ref: 1951 September, M. D. Greville, “From Glasgow to Aberfoyle”, in Railway Magazine, page 580:
glosses: A small village or hamlet, especially in the Highlands or Western Scotland.
Derived terms: Clachan of Campsie
adventurously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ăd′-vĕn′-chər-əs-li′
ipa: /ˌædˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.əsˌli/
enpr: əd-vĕn′-chər-əs-li′
ipa: /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.əsˌli/
Forms: form: more adventurously
form: most adventurously
Etymology: From Middle English auntreousliche, equivalent to adventurous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In a short time, however, philosophy gave way to humanity, and he zealously and adventurously employed his galley in saving the inhabitants of the various beautiful villas which studded that enchanting coast.
ref: 1822, John M'Diarmid, The Scrapbook: A Collection of Amusing and Striking Pieces in Prose and Verse, page 323:
text: Having lived adventurously, fate placed the pair of them in situations which would secure their unique notch in our imaginations.
ref: 2004, Michael Martin, From Crockett to Custer, page 5:
glosses: In an adventurous manner.
accidents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accident
abominations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abomination
accomplices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accomplice
appointments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appointment
seltzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛltsɚ/
Forms: form: seltzers
Etymology: A toponym from 1735–45 German Selterser (“of Selters”), after Selters, a village known for its carbonated mineral springs.
Senses: examples: text: His youth, his good looks, his charm made the sinister savagery hinted in the smile the more disconcerting. He poured whiskey from a bottle into each of the two tall glasses, filled them up with seltzer, extended one toward Susan.
ref: a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise:
glosses: Ellipsis of seltzer water.
Derived terms: bromo-seltzer
hard seltzer
seltzer bottle
seltzerita
seltzertini
sexual congress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sexual intercourse
cell line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cell lines
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A biological tissue or group of individual cells that are genetically identical as a result of dividing mitotically from a single progenitor cell.
Lovecraftian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌvˈkɹæfti.ən/
Forms: form: more Lovecraftian
form: most Lovecraftian
Etymology: From Lovecraft + -ian, in reference to H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives.
Senses: examples: text: The tip of the thing was equipped with long whiplike appendages that writhed around a loose, drooling, toothless mouth large enough to swallow a man whole...Perhaps this was the only thing that the escaping Lovecraftian entity had thus far been able to extrude between the opening Gates — this one finger.
ref: 1984, Dean R. Koontz, Darkfall, page 362:
glosses: Frighteningly monstrous and otherworldly, sometimes with terrifyingly unnatural anatomy.
examples: text: Lovecraftian horror
text: Lovecraftian fiction
text: The present story, "Born of the Winds", is one of the best. For one thing, the vision of the story is pure Lovecraftian cosmic pessimism.
ref: 2006, A. Blackwood, August Derleth, The Ithaqua Cycle, page 102:
text: That abandonment, incidentally, compelled Sam’s mother to fill her young son’s head with H. P. Lovecraftian horror-style lies about the interior of Emily Dickinson’s house, lies that motivated her son’s break-in to begin with.
ref: 2007 September 23, David Bowman, “Torchlit Crit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).
Lovecraftian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌvˈkɹæfti.ən/
Forms: form: Lovecraftians
Etymology: From Lovecraft + -ian, in reference to H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives.
Senses: examples: text: For zealous Lovecraftians there are a few choice tidbits—a short autobiography, his commonplace book, and his “History and Chronology of the Necronomicon.”
ref: 1944, The New York Times Book Review, page 19:
text: Finally, we can draw a definitive fourth circle, at the absolute heart of HPL’s myth, which contains what most rabid Lovecraftians continue to call, almost in spite of themselves, the “great texts.”
ref: 2005, Michel Houellebecq, translated by Dorna Khazeni, H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, Cernunnos, Abrams Books, published 2019, →ISBN:
text: Everyone is a “creative anachronist,” but we Lovecraftians, like our cousins in other Buddha-fields of fandom, have elected to live a minority, sectarian existence in what sociologists Berger and Luckmann (The Social Construction of Reality) call a “finite province of meaning.”
ref: 2014, Gaiman Neil, Acolytes of Cthulhu, Titan Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A fan of American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).
Related terms: Cthulhu
Necronomicon
Lovecraft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌvˌkɹæft/
rhymes: -æft
ipa: /ˈlʌvˌkɹɑːft/
rhymes: -ɑːft
Etymology: Compound of love + craft.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Lovecraftian
lovecrafty
Related terms: H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)
American author of fantasy
horror
and science fiction
Telescopium
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The constellation was named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763, from New Latin telescopium (“a telescope”)
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A small faint constellation of the southern winter sky, said to resemble a telescope. It lies south of the constellation of Corona Australis.
wikipedia: Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
Derived terms: Telescopii
satay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæt.eɪ/
ipa: /ˈsɑː.teɪ/
rhymes: -æteɪ
ipa: /sæˈteɪ/
ipa: /sɑːˈteɪ/
homophone: sauté (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: satays
form: satai
form: saté
form: sate
form: sateh
Etymology: From Malay sate (“satay”), ultimately from Tamil சதை (catai).
Senses: examples: text: Crabbe bought sateh for all: tiny knobs and wedges of fire-hot meat on wooden skewers, to be dipped in a lukewarm sauce of fire and eaten with slivers of sweet potato and cucumber.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 107:
glosses: A dish made from small pieces of meat or fish grilled on a skewer and served with a spicy peanut sauce, originating from Indonesia and Malaysia.
Derived terms: satay stick
saté
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satés
Etymology: From Malay sate (“satay”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of satay.
satai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satais
Etymology: From Malay sate (“satay”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of satay.
reticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛtɪkəl/
Forms: form: reticles
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin rēticulum, diminutive of Latin rēte (“net”). Doublet of reticulum, Reticulum, and reticule.
Senses: glosses: A grid, network, or crosshatch found in the eyepiece of various optical instruments to aid measurement or alignment
examples: text: On the following day Mrs. Kent went into the bed-room; and laid a reticle, which contained the money, upon her bed; and afterwards returned into the sitting-room; leaving the door between that and the bed-room open. After she had remained in the sitting-room about five minutes, she sent Miss S. for the reticle; and it was not to be found.
ref: 1833, Francis Vesey, A General Digested Table and Index of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, volume 20, page ix:
glosses: Alternative form of reticule (“a little bag”).
Related terms: graticule
reticule
Reticulum
Reticulum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From later Latin rēticulum (“reticle”). The meaning is often wrongly interpreted as "net", which is an older meaning of the Latin root word. Doublet of reticle, reticule, and reticulum.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A small constellation of the southern summer sky, said to resemble a reticle. It lies between the constellations of Horologium and Dorado.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Classified as two of 23 "Southern Asterisms" (近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngqū)
Derived terms: Reticuli
reticulum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reticula
form: reticulums
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rēticulum (“net”). Doublet of reticle, reticule, and Reticulum.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A network. For example, the endoplasmic reticulum forms a network of cellular components that functions as a transportation system within the cell.
glosses: A pattern of interconnected objects.
examples: text: As the young ruminant consumes forages, the reticulum, and particularly the rumen, develop rapidly.
ref: 2013 [1966], Robert E. Hungate, The Rumen and Its Microbes, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 162:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: honeycomb
honeycomb stomach
coordinate_terms: abomasum
omasum
rumen
glosses: The second compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: honeycomb tripe
glosses: The tripe made from the second compartment of the stomach of a cow (or other ruminant).
Derived terms: rough endoplasmic reticulum
sarcoplasmic reticulum
smooth endoplasmic reticulum
Related terms: reticle
reticulate
reticulated
reticulation
doings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doing
synonyms: word: enterprise
word: undertaking
word: activity
word: doings
word: endeavor
word: enterprise
word: pursuance
word: pursuit
word: undertaking
word: venture
glosses: deeds, achievements
glosses: social events
glosses: sewage.
cookery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊk(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: cookeries
Etymology: From Middle English cokerie, kokery, equivalent to cook + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned.
text: together with excellent directions for cookery, as also for preserving, conserving, candying, &c.
ref: 1475, Kenelm Digby, The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened, subtitle:
synonyms: cooking
glosses: The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
examples: text: I've got a bit of cookery that will astonish him — my marinated pheasants' poults a la braise imperiale.
ref: 1839, John Espy Lovell, “Fish out of water”, in Rhetorical Dialogues, page 335:
glosses: A delicacy; a dainty.
examples: text: She directed the servants, inspected both the cookery and arrangements of the table, held council with an old steward...
ref: 1800, Charlotte Yonge, The Little Duke, page 3:
text: ...and would not be just dead weight, as on the trail it could conveniently be filled with the cookery and other odds and ends...
ref: 1934, Gray Owl, Pilgrims of the Wild, page 101:
glosses: Cooking tools or apparatus.
examples: text: Mr. Weller produced upon the little dining-table, a roast leg of mutton and an enormous meat-pie, with sundry dishes of vegetables, and pots of porter, which stood upon the chairs or the sofa bedstead, or where they could, everybody felt disposed to do justice to the meal, notwithstanding that the meat had been purchased, and dressed, and the pie made, and baked, at the prison cookery hard by.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: A place where cooking is done.
Synonyms: sense: art of preparing food
word: culinary art
Derived terms: cookery book
cookery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊk(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: cookeries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of kukri.
Orion Nebula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A diffuse nebula visible in the night sky below Orion's Belt; it is approximately 40 light years across. It is one of the brightest nebulae visible to the naked eye and is the closest region of stellar formation to Earth.
Synonyms: M42
NGC 1976
Orion's Belt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A bright asterism located near the celestial equator, consisting of three bright stars lined up and visibly close together.
Synonyms: word: Saucepan
word: the Three Kings
word: or
word: the Magi
Related terms: Alnilam
Alnitak
Mintaka
Orion
Triangulum Galaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Triangulum, a constellation.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A relatively nearby spiral galaxy in the Local Group, together with the Milky Way galaxy. It is at a distance of approximately 2.6 million light years from Earth, in the direction of the constellation Triangulum, and is also known as M33 and NGC 598.
Related terms: galaxy
Local Group
weltanschauungen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weltanschauung
Triangulum Australe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From Latin triangulum (“triangl”) + australe (“southern”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A winter constellation of the southern sky, which has three bright stars that form a triangle. It lies north of the constellation Apus, between Ara and Circinus.
Derived terms: Trianguli Australis
Related terms: Triangulum
pace-egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pace-eggs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pace egg.
paste-egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paste-eggs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pace egg.
wyte
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wytes
form: wyting
form: wyted
form: wyted
Senses: examples: text: [U]niuſtly thou doeſt vvyte them all, / For that vvhich thou miſlikedſt in a fevv.
ref: 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature D3, verso:
glosses: Alternative spelling of wite.
wyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wite.
pace egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /peɪs ɛɡ/
Forms: form: pace eggs
form: pace-egg
form: paste-egg
form: paste egg
Senses: glosses: A hard-boiled coloured egg traditionally made at Easter, often given to relatives and friends as a token of goodwill. It was traditional to jarp with the eggs before eating them.
Derived terms: pace-egger
Related terms: urls: http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/durhamdialect/shildon.htm
word: County Durham website dedicated to preservation of dialect terms
jarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɑːp/
ipa: /d͡ʒɑɹp/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: jarps
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots jaup (“(noun) dash or splash of mud, water, etc.; broken piece, fragment; light blow, slap; (verb) of water: to dash; to splash; to cause a splash by striking the surface of or throwing water; to bespatter or splash (mud, water, etc.); (obsolete) to knock about, manhandle”), perhaps from jalp, jilp (“to spill, splash, squirt”), probably originally imitative of a splash.
Senses: examples: text: Making these Easter or anytime decorated hard-boiled eggs is a tradition in northern England where they are known as paste eggs (or pace eggs as they are called in other areas). They are used in jarping competitions, in which each child holds an egg pointy end up and tries to crack their opponent's egg with one jarp, without breaking their own. Then everyone eats the eggs.
ref: 2017, Linda Tubby, “Flower-power Paste Eggs”, in Cracked: Creative and Easy Ways to Cook with Eggs, London: Kyle Books, →ISBN:
topics: games
qualifier: Northumberland
glosses: The act of knocking one's pace egg (“a coloured hard-boiled egg traditionally made at Easter”) against that of an opponent, with the aim of cracking the other's egg and leaving one's own intact, an Easter custom in many countries.
jarp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɑːp/
ipa: /d͡ʒɑɹp/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: jarps
form: jarping
form: jarped
form: jarped
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots jaup (“(noun) dash or splash of mud, water, etc.; broken piece, fragment; light blow, slap; (verb) of water: to dash; to splash; to cause a splash by striking the surface of or throwing water; to bespatter or splash (mud, water, etc.); (obsolete) to knock about, manhandle”), perhaps from jalp, jilp (“to spill, splash, squirt”), probably originally imitative of a splash.
Senses: examples: text: Many of the lads, however, have a much speedier method of either adding to their store of food or losing their egg. They jaup or jarp them together, i.e. one lad strikes his egg against that of his opponent, when one or both are broken; if only one, it is forfeited and becomes the property of the conqueror.
ref: 1898, Richard Blakeborough, “Customs of the Year and Folklore”, in Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire […], London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press […], →OCLC, page 77:
text: Jarping hard-boiled eggs (sometimes the painted ones, but often we didn't want to sacrifice our laboriously decorated works of art) on Easter Monday; it was like conkers – you jarped one end of your pace egg against the end of someone else's and the winner was the egg that hadn't cracked, or still had one end intact.
ref: 1960s, Steve Roud, quoting a person from Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, “The Children’s Year”, in The Lore of the Playground: One Hundred Years of Children’s Games, Rhymes & Traditions, London: Random House Books, published 2010, →ISBN, part 7 (Superstition and Tradition), page 481:
text: Here he [Sid Chaplin] learnt to swim and how to jarp Easter eggs; he played with penkers, and shutty ring with glass alleys, and sometimes the men joined in games of tipcat.
ref: 1987, Sid Chaplin, “The Night of the News”, in Michael Chaplin, Rene Chaplin, editors, In Blackberry Time, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Bloodaxe Books, →ISBN, page 72:
topics: games
qualifier: Northumberland
glosses: To knock (a pace egg) against that of an opponent, with the aim of cracking the other's egg and leaving one's own intact.
Derived terms: word: jarping
Pasch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: păsk
enpr: päsk
ipa: /pæsk/
ipa: /pɑːsk/
rhymes: -æsk
Forms: form: Paschs
form: pasch
Etymology: From Middle English Pask, Paske, Paskes, from Old French pasches (modern French Pâques), from Ecclesiastical Latin pascha, from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha), from Aramaic פַּסְחָא (pasḥā), from Hebrew פֶּסַח (pésaḥ). Doublet of Pascha, paska, paskha, and Pesach.
Senses: glosses: Passover
glosses: Easter
Derived terms: Pasch egg
paste egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paste eggs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pace egg.
supports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of support
supports
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of support
accessories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əkˈsɛs(ə)ɹiz/
ipa: /ækˈsɛs(ə)ɹiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of accessory
Related terms: paraphernalia
xanthochroic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /zænθəˈkɹəʊɪk/
Forms: form: more xanthochroic
form: most xanthochroic
Etymology: From New Latin Xanthochroi (from ξανθός (xanthós, “fair", "yellow", "golden", "blond”) and χρώς (khrṓs, “skin”)). By surface analysis, xantho- + -chroic.
Senses: glosses: pertaining to people or races with light hair and pale complexions
supercede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: supercedes
form: superceding
form: superceded
form: superceded
Etymology: From Middle English superceden, from Middle French superceder, from Latin supersedēre: super- (“over-”) + sedēre (“to sit”).
Senses: examples: text: To it a new species of conveyancing owes its origin, which dispenses with livery of seisin, and almost entirely supercedes, in practice, the employment of common law deeds.
ref: 1857, The American Law Register - On the Doctrine of Uses as an Element of our Law of Conveyances, Vol. 6, № 2/3:
text: They saw themselves as providing a freestanding “ideal language” or “concept-language,” what W. V. Quine has called a first-grade conceptual scheme, which in some sense supercedes ordinary language.
ref: 2000, Juliet Floyd, Hilary Putnam, The Journal of Philosophy - A Note on Wittgenstein’s “Notorious Paragraph” about the Godel Theorem, Vol. 97, № 11:
text: The DoD may contend that the consolidated Solomon Amendment, passed in 1999, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 § 549, supercedes the regulations.
ref: 2002, Amy Kapczynski, The Yale Law Journal - Queer Brinksmanship: Citizenship and the Solomon Wars, Vol. 112, № 3:
glosses: Misspelling of supersede.
xeriscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛ.ɹɪ.skeɪp/
ipa: /ˈzɛɹ.ə.skeɪp/
ipa: /zɪɹ-/
Forms: form: xeriscapes
Etymology: From 1980s Xeriscape, a term coined (and trademarked) by Denver Water. From xeri- + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: Randy looks up over the Impala and the retaining wall and the ice-clogged xeriscape above that and into the lobby of Waterhouse House, where Amy Shaftoe has her feet up on a coffee table and is looking through some of the extremely sad Cayuse-related literature that Randy bought for Avi.
ref: 1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon, London: Heinemann; republished London: Arrow Books, Random House, 2000, page 628
text: But Frank Fairbanks, a retired public administrator, had to sheepishly acknowledge that he had grass. “Unfortunately, like many of our central Phoenix neighbors, we have a green lawn which consumes more water than xeriscape,” he told the paper.
ref: 2011 April 9, Marc Lacey, “Spraying to Make Yards Green ... but With Paint, Not Water”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:
text: Small, shrubby yuccas give your landscape a characteristic Southwest flavor. Their size adapts them to limited areas, such as patio and pool gardens or corner plantings. The blade-like leaves add variety to a cactus or xeriscape garden. Small yuccas make ideal accent plants, and when they send up their stalk of flowers, they become the center of attention.
ref: 2013, George Oxford Miller, “Native Plant Profiles”, in Landscaping with Native Plants of Texas, 2nd edition, Minneapolis, Minn.: Voyageur Press, →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: A kind of landscape design for arid regions, minimising the need for irrigation.
xeriscape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛ.ɹɪ.skeɪp/
ipa: /ˈzɛɹ.ə.skeɪp/
ipa: /zɪɹ-/
Forms: form: xeriscapes
form: xeriscaping
form: xeriscaped
form: xeriscaped
Etymology: From 1980s Xeriscape, a term coined (and trademarked) by Denver Water. From xeri- + -scape.
Senses: glosses: To landscape in a water-friendly manner.
Related terms: xeric
xerophyte
xerophytic
xerophytically
xerophytism
southbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From south + -bound.
Senses: examples: text: The truck raced southbound, then careened into the ditch.
glosses: Toward the south.
southbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From south + -bound.
Senses: examples: text: We took the southbound train to Barcelona.
glosses: Which is (or will be) travelling south.
Related terms: southward
eastbound
northbound
westbound
sober up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sobers up
form: sobering up
form: sobered up
form: sobered up
Senses: examples: text: She's in no state to go home by herself, so make sure she doesn't drink anything else, and she'll soon sober up.
text: A pot of black coffee ought to sober him up.
text: When the irrational exuberance finally ended and the central bank took away the punch bowl, the business world belatedly sobered up.
coordinate_terms: get right#Etymology_2
get real#Verb
glosses: To become sober; to cause to become sober (usually in terms of alcohol or drugs; sometimes figuratively).
snowmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowman
snook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sno͞ok
ipa: /snuːk/
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: snooks
form: snoek
Etymology: From Dutch snoek (“pike, Esox”).
Senses: glosses: A freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes.
glosses: A freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes.
Centropomus undecimalis (common snook).
glosses: Any of various other ray-finned fishes in several families.
snook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sno͞ok
ipa: /snuːk/
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: snooks
form: snooking
form: snooked
form: snooked
form: snoek
Etymology: From Dutch snoek (“pike, Esox”).
Senses: glosses: To fish for snook.
Derived terms: bay snook
common snook
snook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sno͞ok
ipa: /snuːk/
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: snooks
form: snoek
Etymology: From the 19th century. Unknown origin, possibly related to snoot or snout.
Senses: glosses: A disrespectful gesture, performed by placing the tip of a thumb on one's nose with the fingers spread, and typically while wiggling the fingers back and forth.
raw_tags: as a gesture
Derived terms: cock a snook
cocking of a snook
snook-cocker
snook-cocking
snook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sno͞ok
ipa: /snuːk/
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: snooks
form: snooking
form: snooked
form: snooked
form: snoek
Etymology: From the 19th century. Unknown origin, possibly related to snoot or snout.
Senses: glosses: To sniff out.
glosses: To lurk; to lie in ambush.
oblique-swimming triplefin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oblique-swimming triplefins
Senses: glosses: A blenny fish, Obliquichthys maryannae
senility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈnɪlɪti/
rhymes: -ɪlɪti
Forms: form: senilities
form: sinility
Etymology: From senile + -ity.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: second childhood
antonyms: juvenescence
juvenility
glosses: The bodily and mental deterioration associated with old age: Synonym of senescence.
examples: text: He was entering his years of senility and not liking it a bit.
antonyms: juvenility
glosses: The losing of memory and reason due to senescence.
examples: text: There was no need for George Playford to talk as if they were doddering senilities.
ref: 1934 May, Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, page 117:
antonyms: juvenile#Noun
glosses: An elderly, senile person.
Related terms: word: senile
scummy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌmi/
rhymes: -ʌmi
Forms: form: scummier
form: scummiest
Etymology: From scum + -y.
Senses: examples: text: We have to wash your trousers: they're all scummy.
text: Now that the sun was getting high it drew thin sickly looking clouds of poisonous vapour from the surface of the marsh and from the scummy pools of stagnant water.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Covered in scum.
examples: text: And what a scummy man / just give him half a chance / I bet he'll rob you if he can.
ref: 2006, Arctic Monkeys, “When the Sun Goes Down”:
glosses: sleazy, worthless, no good
Derived terms: scuzzy
scissor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪzə/
ipa: /ˈsɪzɚ/
rhymes: -ɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scissors
Etymology: From Middle English cysour, cysoure, cysowre, altered from sisours (“scissors”), from Old French cisoires, cisours, cisur, from Latin caedere (“to cut”); current spelling influenced by Latin scindere, scissus (“to split”).
Senses: examples: text: I had clipped out the photo, feeling pathetic about the act from the moment I slipped my thumb into the scissor hole.
ref: 2005, Jason Anderson, Showbiz, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 21:
text: The records of the Cutlers’ Company of London (1624) refer to scissor-making in the city, although the quality of English-made scissors did not match that of continental scissors for another 100 years. A few English firms of scissor-makers, notably those of Beach, Macklin and Neesham, established a small but notable industry at Salisbury, Wilts, from the mid-17th century until the early 20th.
ref: 2006, Gordon Campbell, editor, The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 298, column 1:
text: The doctor came over and peeled off the makeshift bandage, cleaned what he could and looked at it. / “Well, I know what I have to do.” He nodded at me and picked up a scissor-type tool. / “Oh, ho, ho! Don’t you do that; don’t do it; don’t you be cutting that thing off. You stitch it up. I need that finger to chord a guitar!”
ref: 2008, Clay Walker, Sir Long Chain Charles, Indianapolis, Ind.: Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 43:
text: He put his two fingers in the scissor holes. He pulled a stray wisp of hair from the thick braid that reached her waist. The small scissors sheared right through it.
ref: 2010, Jennifer Maruno, Warbird, Napoleon Publishing, →ISBN, page 85:
glosses: Attributive form of scissors.
glosses: One blade on a pair of scissors.
glosses: Scissors.
qualifier: noun adjunct
glosses: Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.
Derived terms: scissorbill
scissor binoculars
scissor bite
scissor cross
scissor door
scissored
scissor kick
scissor lift
scissorlike
scissor sister
scissor statement
scissor switch
scissor tackle
scissor-tailed flycatcher
scissor tooth
scissorwise
rulebook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹulˌbʊk/
Forms: form: rulebooks
form: rule book
form: rule-book
Etymology: From rule + book.
Senses: examples: text: In our rapidly changing business environment, rulebooks swiftly become redundant, and businesses must rely on their senior executives to be confident in their decisions.
ref: 2012 August 30, Rose Hoare, “How seeing the big picture could bring success, fulfillment”, in CNN:
text: The main tool Rogue-likes bring to creating interesting gameplay through randomness is algorithmic complexity far beyond that provided by a few 1D100 tables in the back of the D&D rulebook.
ref: 2013, Greg Costikyan, Uncertainty in Games, Cambridge, Mass.; London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 47:
text: The ATP rulebook defines unsportsmanlike conduct as “any misconduct by a player that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the success of a tournament, ATP and/or the sport” and carries a fine of up to $20,000.
ref: 2022 February 23, Matias Grez, “Alexander Zverev is withdrawn from Mexican Open after striking umpire’s chair multiple times”, in CNN:
glosses: A book containing a set of rules.
Related terms: ruleset
throw the rulebook at
yex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
Forms: form: yexes
form: yexing
form: yexed
form: yexed
form: yesk
Etymology: From Middle English yexen, yixen, yesken, from Old English ġeocsian, ġiscian (“to hiccup”), from Proto-West Germanic *giskōn (“to yawn”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeys- (“gaping, cracked”). Cognate with Middle Low German gischen (“to sob, sigh”), Middle High German geschen, gischen (“to yawn, gape”).
Senses: glosses: To hiccup.
glosses: To belch or burp.
Derived terms: yexing
yex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
Forms: form: yexes
form: yesk
Etymology: From Middle English ȝeoxe, ȝoxe, from Old English ġeoxa, ġeocsa, ġicsa (“hiccup; sobbing”).
Senses: synonyms: yexing
glosses: A hiccup.