cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bās
ipa: /beɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
homophone: base
enpr: băs
ipa: /bæs/
rhymes: -æs
homophone: Bass
rhymes: -æs
enpr: bās
ipa: /beɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
homophone: base
enpr: băs
ipa: /bæs/
rhymes: -æs
homophone: Bass
Forms: form: basses
Etymology: A corruption of bast.
Senses: glosses: The fibrous inner bark of the linden or lime tree, used for making mats.
glosses: Fibers from other plants, especially palm trees
examples: text: BASS, 1, a door mat
ref: [1865, William Stott Banks, A List of Provincial Words in use at Wakefield in Yorkshire, Wakefield: J.R.Smith, page 6:
text: I set off half-heartedly, as best I could sheltering my spare clothes (which were in the straw fish-bass) under my coat. […] The rain made a channel from my trilby down my neck and one handle of the fish-bass gave way.
ref: 1982 [1980], J L Carr, A Month in the Country, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books/Harvester Press, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: Anything made from such fibers, such as a hassock, basket or thick mat.
Derived terms: basswood
beard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪəd/
ipa: [bɪːd]
ipa: /bɪɹd/
ipa: /biɚd/
ipa: /bɜː(ɹ)d/
homophone: beared (cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɪː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: beards
form: bearding
form: bearded
form: bearded
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰardʰéh₂
From Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from Old English beard, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz (compare West Frisian burd, Dutch baard, German Bart). Cognate further to Latin barba, Lithuanian barzda, Russian борода́ (borodá): the word may date to Proto-Indo-European as *bʰardʰeh₂, *bʰh₂erdʰeh₂. Doublet of barb.
Senses: glosses: To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
examples: text: Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.
text: Am I to be bearded in my own castle by an insolent monk?
ref: 1765, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto:
text: No admiral, bearded by these corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: Murphy was a choleric man with a sense of his own importance. He was not to be bearded thus in his own seat of office. He rose with a very red face.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: We need all our operatives to insure the success of my plan to beard this Claus in his den...
ref: 1943 December 6, Crockett Johnson, Barnaby:
text: . . . I bearded the judge in his chambers and told him that it shouldn't be allowed.
ref: 1963, Ross Macdonald, The Chill, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, page 92:
glosses: To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
glosses: To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
glosses: To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
topics: agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
glosses: Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
examples: text: Lesbians and homosexual men bearding one another (i.e. providing each other with the public appearance of being heterosexual); […]
ref: 1993, David Michael Robinson, Mollies are Not the Only Fruit, page 39:
text: Things got weird after I married Jiro. It's like everyone knows I'm a lesbian who is bearding for her gay best friend so we can be rich one day, but they don't want to be reminded of it.
ref: 2017, Hildred Billings, Blown By An Inconvenient Wind:
glosses: Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
Derived terms: beard the lion
beard the lion in his den
Related terms: goatee
hair
merkin
moustache
mustache
pogonophobia
sideburns
sideboards
whiskers
awn
mustache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mustaches
Senses: examples: text: “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, “Zollenstein”, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 41:
text: The fly, named “Daptolestes leei,” has markings on its face reminiscent of Lee’s characteristic sunglasses and white mustache.
ref: 2020 July 29, Jessie Yeung, “Australia names new species after Deadpool, Thor, and other Marvel favorites”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of moustache.
Derived terms: copstache
crustache
horseshoe mustache
milk mustache
molestache
mustachelike
mustache twirling
mustache-twirling
coalesce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkəʊ.əˈlɛs/
ipa: /ˌkoʊ.əˈlɛs/
ipa: /ˌkəʉ.əˈles/
Forms: form: coalesces
form: coalescing
form: coalesced
form: coalesced
Etymology: From Latin coalēscō, from co- + alēscō (“grow up”).
Senses: examples: text: The droplets coalesced into a puddle.
text: […] when a thing's own light and the light from something else coalescing into one on bright and smooth surfaces produce a form which yields a perception reversed from the way a thing normally looks.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown and 2, Sophist:
synonyms: amalgamate
combine
join
merge
unite
fuse
glosses: To join into a single mass or whole.
raw_tags: of separate elements
examples: text: The puddle coalesced from the droplets as they ran together.
glosses: To form from different pieces or elements.
raw_tags: of a whole or a unit
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To bond pieces of metal into a continuous whole by liquefying parts of each piece, bringing the liquids into contact, and allowing the combined liquid to solidify.
examples: text: It was not a wise thing to enter a close clique, my good madam, until you had examined both them and yourself, and considered how far you were likely to coalesce.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 27:
text: We in the gay male community who are white […] will need to do conscious raising on racism with each other to effectively work with different racial groups. It follows that when attempting to coalesce with women that sexism conscious raising would need to occur.
ref: 1981 August 1, Aurora Corona, “The Dead Line”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
text: The result is that once again, as in 2016, Trump is likely to prevail because Republicans cannot coalesce around an alternative—even though a candidate who is experienced in government, solidly conservative, and acceptable to most factions of the party is right there in front of them.
ref: 2023 August 16, Jonathan Rauch, “Why Not Pence?”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: To merge, to intermingle freely.
raw_tags: of separate groups or persons
examples: text: You can improve the display by coalescing the ID columns. As I note in Chapter 9, the COALESCE expression takes on the value of the first non-null value in a list of values.
ref: 2018, Allen G. Taylor, SQL For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To convert a null value to a defined value.
Synonyms: word: agglomerate
word: aggregate
word: alloy
word: amalgamate
word: blend
word: coalesce
word: combine
word: consolidate
word: conflate
word: embody
word: fuse
word: integrate
word: mass
word: meld
word: merge
word: unite
Hypernyms: word: join
word: mix
Hyponyms: word: reembody
Derived terms: coalescible
electrocoalesce
noncoalescing
recoalesce
uncoalesce
Related terms: word: -esce
word: coalescence
word: coalescent
word: coalition
word: assemble
seam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːm/
homophone: seem
homophone: seme
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: seams
form: seme
Etymology: From Middle English seem, seme, from Old English sēam (“seam”), from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz (“that which is sewn”).
Senses: examples: text: Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
glosses: A suture.
examples: text: He even roused himself to go to the mines once more: […]. He sat there, crippled, in a tub, with the under-ground manager showing him the seam with a powerful torch.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter IX, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 126:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
examples: text: Seams can be made or sealed in a variety of ways, including adhesive bonding, hot-air welding, solvent welding, using adhesive tapes, sealant, etc.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
nautical
transport
glosses: A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
glosses: A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
examples: text: Precepts should be so finely wrought together[…]that no coarse seam may discover where they join.
ref: 1697, Joseph Addison, Essay on Virgil's Georgics:
glosses: A line of junction; a joint.
Derived terms: Bermuda seam
coal seam
devil seam
double lock standing seam
felled seam
field seam
flat-felled seam
flat-fell seam
four-seam fastball
French seam
monk's seam
quarter seam
seam allowance
seam carving
seam lace
seamless
seam presser
seam set
seamster
seamstress
standing seam
two-seam fastball
seam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːm/
homophone: seem
homophone: seme
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: seams
form: seaming
form: seamed
form: seamed
Etymology: From the noun seam.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, seamed with many scars, / Bursting these prison bars, / Up to its native stars / My soul ascended!
ref: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Skeleton in Armor
glosses: To put together with a seam.
glosses: To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
examples: text: Seam'd o'er with wounds which his own sabre gave.
ref: 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 4”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
glosses: To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
examples: text: Later their lips began to parch and seam.
ref: 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ:
glosses: To crack open along a seam.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
seam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːm/
homophone: seem
homophone: seme
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: seams
Etymology: From Old English sēam (“a burden”), from Latin sagma (“saddle”).
Senses: glosses: An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
examples: text: As white glass was 6s. the 'seam', containing 24 'weys' (pise, or pondera) of 5 lb., and 2½ lb. was reckoned sufficient to make one foot of glazing, the cost of glass would be 1½d. leaving 2½d. for labour.
ref: 1952, L. F. Salzman, Building in England, page 175:
glosses: An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
seam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːm/
homophone: seem
homophone: seme
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: saim
Etymology: From Middle English seym (“grease”), from Old French saim (“fat”). Compare French saindoux (“lard”).
Senses: examples: text: shall the proud lord
That bastes his arrogance with his own seam
And never suffers matter of the world
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: scour their rusty shields with seam
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Seventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Grease; tallow; lard.
cheval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɛˈvɑl/
rhymes: -ɑl
Forms: form: chevaux
Etymology: Borrowed from French cheval. See cavalcade. Doublet of caple.
Senses: examples: text: cheval-glass
glosses: A support or frame.
examples: text: "Very well, indeed, exceeding well, for un peu passée, the mother of five young women. 'Tis as well they are not here, perhaps," said Lady Anne, as she examined herself from side to side, in the longest cheval the hotel afforded.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXIX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 192:
glosses: Ellipsis of cheval glass.
Derived terms: cheval glass
cheval mirror
profile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊfaɪl/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊfaɪl/
note: Indic
ipa: /prɵˈfajl/
Forms: form: profiles
form: profiling
form: profiled
form: profiled
Etymology: From French profil, from Italian profilo (“a border”), later also proffilo (“a side-face, profile”), from Latin pro (“before”) + filo (“a line, stroke, thread”), from filum (“a thread”); see file. Doublet of purfle.
Senses: examples: text: The book The Men with the Pink Triangles, profiling the lives of gay prisoners in the German concentration camp.
ref: 1984 April 7, Warren Blumenfeld, “Boston's Other Voice”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
text: A resource that profiles the important language of secondary disciplines by adapting the methods of EAP research could therefore be very useful for such pedagogy.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106:
glosses: To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
glosses: To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
glosses: To draw in profile or outline.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
examples: text: […] a complete and intuitive profiler that supports numerous types of profiling modes and profilable applications.
ref: 2006, Dr. Dobb's Journal:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
Derived terms: profilable
racially-profile
reprofile
exposé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛkspoʊˈzeɪ/
Forms: form: exposés
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French exposé.
Senses: examples: text: "What shall be said to my sister? We cannot steal from her without saying something, as she would conclude we were murdered, apply to the ambassador, and bring on the very exposé we desire to avoid."
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXVIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 65:
text: Just as with other recent reports by various bodies on HS2 and the ticket office closures, the National Audit Office's effort on the rail reform process is a devastating exposé of the failings and floundering of a dying administration that has failed to understand the value of having an efficient rail network.
ref: 2024 March 20, Christian Wolmar, “NAO report highlights lack of clarity and purpose”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 34:
glosses: The act of exposing somebody or something; a shameful showing up.
glosses: A publication of investigative journalism that reveals hidden and often scandalous truths.
glosses: A formal recital or exposition.
Derived terms: sexposé
convoluted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒnvəˈl(j)uːtɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɒnvəl(j)uːtɪd/
ipa: /-vəʊ-/
ipa: /ˌkɑnvəˈlutəd/
ipa: /ˈkɑnvəˌlutəd/
ipa: [-ɾəd]
Etymology: From convolute + -d.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of convolute
humongous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhjuːˈmʌŋɡəs/
ipa: /ˌhjuːˈmɒŋɡəs/
ipa: [çu̟ːˈmʊŋɡəs]
ipa: [ˌçu̟ːˈmɐŋɡəs]
rhymes: -ʌŋɡəs
Forms: form: more humongous
form: most humongous
form: humungous
Etymology: Of expressive origin, likely inspired by huge, with the termination of monstrous.
Senses: examples: text: Other students make wide detours to avoid the humiliation and fear of being chased and attacked by the humongous numbers of bees in front of Atkinson.
ref: 1964 May 29, The Colonnade:
text: Solomon had pulled this humongous fish that was bigger than anything weʼd ever seen.
ref: 2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen, ONE, page 19:
text: “Thumbs!” ordered Mr Big. “Do your worst with the boy!” Frank looked on in terror as the man bent back his humongous Thumbs, ready to cause damage. CLICK! CLICK! The henchman pressed them hard into the boy’s ears. Frank felt like his brain was going to burst. “ARGH!” he screamed.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “Bursting a Brain”, in Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 238:
synonyms: word: enormous
word: gigantic
word: ginormous
word: huge
word: immense
word: massive
word: ample
word: big
word: bodacious
word: broad
word: commodious
word: considerable
word: expansive
word: good-sized
word: full
word: generous
word: giant
word: grand
word: great
word: hefty
word: hench
word: immense
word: jumbo
word: larger than life
word: largifical
word: leviathan
word: long
word: massive
word: mega-
word: overlarge
word: outsized
word: oversize
word: oversized
word: prodigious
word: roomy
word: rotund
word: sizeable
word: spacious
word: stonking
word: tall
word: vast
word: voluminous
word: wide
word: astronomic
word: behemothic
word: big fat
word: boxcar
word: Brobdingnagian
word: bulky
word: colossal
word: cyclopean
word: Daniel Lambertish
word: elephantine
word: elephantic
word: enormous
word: gargantuan
word: giantesque
word: gigantesque
word: gigantic
word: ginormous
word: great big
word: honkin'
word: huge
word: hulking
word: humongous
word: hunormous
word: immane
word: mahoosive
word: mammoth
word: mastodonic
word: monstrous
word: monumental
word: mountainous
word: pantagruelian
word: pyramidal
word: Pythonic
word: stupendous
word: super-
word: supersized
word: titanic
word: tremendous
word: whopping
word: yuge
glosses: Of an extremely large size.
Derived terms: hugemongous
humongoid
humongosity
humongously
humongousness
abundant number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbʌn.dn̩t ˈnʌm.bə/
ipa: /əˈbʌn.dn̩t ˈnʌm.bɚ/
ipa: /əˈbn̩.dn̩t ˈnʌm.bɚ/
Forms: form: abundant numbers
Senses: examples: text: The factors of 30 are 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 15 and 30, and 1 + 2 + 3 + 5 + 6 + 10 + 15 = 42, which is greater than 30, so 30 is an abundant number.
text: It has been shown that the largest odd number which cannot be written as the sum of two abundant numbers is 20161.
ref: 1970, Geometric Transformations III, Random House, page 128:
text: 1992, Stanley Rabinowitz (editor), Index to Mathematical Problems, 1980-1984, MathPro Press, page 185,
(a) Let k be fixed. Do there exist sequences of k consecutive abundant numbers?
text: We shall not be concerned with abundant numbers in this book, nevertheless it may be helpful to use this historical example as an illustration. We note the property that any multiple of an abundant number is abundant.
ref: 1996, Richard R. Hall, Sets of Multiples, Cambridge University Press, page xi:
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: A number that is less than the sum of its proper divisors (all divisors except the number itself).
Synonyms: word: number that is less than the sum of its proper divisors
Hyponyms: sense: number that is less than the sum of its proper divisors
word: weird number
Derived terms: extremely abundant number
highly abundant number
superabundant number
Related terms: abundance
abundancy index
amicable number
deficient number
perfect number
semiperfect number
sociable number
brewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹuː.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)
Forms: form: brewers
Etymology: From Middle English brewere, equivalent to brew + -er; cognate with Dutch brouwer, Swedish bryggare.
Senses: examples: text: But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
text: Danish brewer Carlsberg (CABGY)plans to send its CEO, a spokesman confirmed.
ref: 2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Someone who brews, or whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
Derived terms: breweress
brewer's droop
homebrewer
macrobrewer
microbrewer
nanobrewer
underbrewer
Related terms: homebrewed
brew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bro͞o
ipa: /bɹuː/
ipa: /bɹuʊ̯/
note: Wales, Ottawa Valley, Southern US
ipa: /bɹɪʊ̯/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: brews
Etymology: From Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of burn.
Cognate with
Dutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well”), Latin fervēre (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley.
Senses: examples: text: Six great bottles of one of the Hong Kong brews had been brought to wash down the brandy and the fragments of rice and mee and meat-fibres that clung to the back teeth.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 529:
glosses: The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
examples: text: Player, give me some brew and I might just chill / But I'm the type that like to light another joint like Cypress Hill
ref: 1995, “I Got 5 on It”, in Operation Stackola, performed by Luniz:
glosses: The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
A serving of beer.
synonyms: brewski
examples: text: Landlady: You're not stoppin' for a brew?
Gene Hunt: No thanks, love. Better crack on.
ref: 2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3:
glosses: The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
A cup of tea.
examples: text: In the Middle Ages, when witchcraft and thaumaturgic practices were rampant over Europe, sorceresses did a roaring trade in magic brews designed to excite the passion or to preserve affection.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 189:
glosses: A boiled concoction or mixture of liquids and other ingredients.
Derived terms: brewfest
brew-in
brewmaster
brewology
brewpub
brewsky
brewster
broth
cold brew
cold brew coffee
craft brew
hellbrew
homebrew
iron brew
macrobrew
megabrew
microbrew
on the brew
witches' brew
brew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bro͞o
ipa: /bɹuː/
ipa: /bɹuʊ̯/
note: Wales, Ottawa Valley, Southern US
ipa: /bɹɪʊ̯/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: brews
Etymology: From Middle English brewe (“eyebrow”), from Old English bru (“eyebrow”). Doublet of brow.
Senses: glosses: An overhanging hill or cliff.
homebrewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From home + brewed.
Senses: examples: text: The girl made a wry little face. "I don't like beer, Mr. Landon," she said. "It's horrid stuff, even when it's homebrewed!
ref: 1914, Marie Corelli, Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:
text: Two common questions are, "How long will a homebrewed beer keep?" and "Will it spoil?" The answer is that homebrewed beer has a fairly long storage life.
ref: 2001, John J. Palmer, How to Brew: Ingredients, Methods, Recipes, and Equipment for Brewing Beer at Home, →ISBN, page 136:
text: She felt dizzy and befuddled, almost like the time she had swiped a drink of her mother's homebrewed mead.
ref: 2015, Tamora Pierce, Wild Magic, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: Brewed at home.
raw_tags: of a beverage
examples: text: It is somewhat characteristic of this aircraft's designer that he found a homebrewed solution to the high cost of fabricating this curved boom section.
ref: 1985, Jim Richard Campbell, Flyer's guide to ultralights:
text: Bob concocts his own homebrewed version of the fuel by mixing old cooking oil, a small amount of gasoline, methanol from an antifreeze called Heet (found at the auto parts store), and a few gallons of Drano (which contains sodium hydroxide).
ref: 2014, Jay Bonansinga, Robert Kirkman, Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Descent, Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: Her tribal doctor also gave her some homebrewed powdered medicine, which he mixed in water.
ref: 2016, Dr. Richard Evans, My Summers in West Africa: The Account of a Medical Missionary, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
glosses: Homemade.
homebrewed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From home + brewed.
Senses: examples: text: They soon made friends again over a pipe and some homebrewed.
ref: 1888, G. Van Hare, Fifty Years of a Showman's Life, Or, The Life and Travels of Van Hare:
text: And they shook hands on it there and then, and Mr. Lang called for a girl to bring out some homebrewed from the cellar to make a bargain of it.
ref: 1936, Francis Rufus Bellamy, Fiction Parade and Golden Book Magazine - Volume 3, page 113:
text: Because you actually came inside and sat down and are drinking homebrewed with a smile on your face. Because you brought your hound in with you and he's drinking homebrewed as well.
ref: 2003, Judith Lansdowne, Just in Time, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: Drink brewed at home.
homebrewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From home + brewed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of homebrew
home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hōm
ipa: /həʊm/
enpr: hōm
ipa: /hoʊm/
ipa: [hoːm]
homophone: Home
homophone: hom
homophone: holm
homophone: heaume
homophone: holme
rhymes: -əʊm
Forms: form: homes
form: homing
form: homed
form: homed
form: hyem
Etymology: From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots hame (“home”), Yola haime, hime, hyme (“home”), Saterland Frisian Heem (“home”), Alemannic German haim, hei, heim, hemmu (“home”), Bavarian hama, hame (“home”), Cimbrian hòam, huam (“home”), Dutch heem, heim (“home”), German Heim (“home”), Limburgish heim, Héïm (“home”), Luxembourgish Heem (“home”), Mòcheno hoa'm (“home”), Vilamovian ham, hām, haom (“home”), Yiddish היים (heym, “home”), Danish hjem (“home”), Faroese, Icelandic heim (“home”), heimur (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål heim, hjem (“home”), Norwegian Nynorsk heim (“home”), Swedish hem (“home”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 (haims, “village”), Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).
Senses: examples: text: The dog homed.
glosses: To return to its owner.
raw_tags: of animals
Related terms: home in
homing pigeon
homebrewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homebrewers
Etymology: From homebrew + -er or home + brewer.
Senses: glosses: One who brews his or her own beer or other alcoholic beverage; one who homebrews.
examples: text: Homebrewer Martin Malý illustrates the slowness of BASIC with the following story: […]
ref: 2018, Jaroslav Svelch, Raiford Guins, Henry Lowood, Gaming the Iron Curtain:
glosses: An amateur who builds radio equipment or develops video games, etc.
commission
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: commissions
form: commissioning
form: commissioned
form: commissioned
Etymology: From Middle English commissioun, from Old French commission, from Latin commissiō (“sending together; commission”), from prefix com- (“with”) + noun of action missiō (“sending”), from perfect passive participle missus (“sent”), from the verb mittō (“to send”) + noun of action suffix -iō.
Senses: examples: text: James Bond was commissioned with recovering the secret documents.
text: Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Afghanistan, is not the first solider^([sic – meaning soldier]) to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.
ref: 2012 August 1, Owen Gibson, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal, Guardian Unlimited:
glosses: To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something.
examples: text: He commissioned a replica of the Mona Lisa for his living room, but the painter gave up after six months.
glosses: To place an order for (often a piece of art).
examples: text: The aircraft carrier was commissioned in 1944, during WWII.
text: The 1.7 mile-long conveyor system was commissioned in November 2022, and will remove one million lorry movements from the roads around West London.
ref: 2023 March 8, Chris Howe, “Building the platform for Old Oak Common's platforms”, in RAIL, number 978, page 60:
glosses: To put (a ship or boat, etc.) into active service.
Derived terms: commissionable
commissioning editor
overcommission
recommission
re-commission
commission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: commissions
Etymology: Compare Italian camicia and Romanian cămeșă.
Senses: examples: As from our beds, we doe oft cast our eyes, / Cleane linnen yeelds a shirt before we rise, / Which is a garment shifting in condition; / And in the canting tongue is a commission.
glosses: A shirt or chemise.
Derived terms: smish
pail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪl/
ipa: [pʰeɪ̯ɫ]
ipa: [pʰeəɫ]
enpr: pāl
rhymes: -eɪl
homophone: pale
Forms: form: pails
Etymology: From Middle English payle (“bucket, pail, milking pail”), of uncertain origin.
Likely from Old English pæġel (“wine vessel, container for liquids, pail; a liquid measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *pagil, from Proto-Indo-European *bak- (“peg, club”), equivalent to peg + -le. Compare West Frisian pegel (“liquid measure, fourth of a litre, half-pint”), German Pegel (“level of liquid, level”), Middle Dutch pegel (“half-pint”), Danish pægl (“half-pint”). Doublet of peil.
Alternatively from Old French paielle (“frying pan, warming pan; a liquid measure”), from Latin patella (“small pan, shallow dish, platter”), diminutive of patina (“broad shallow pan, stewpan”). Perhaps a conflation of both.
Senses: examples: text: The milkmaid carried a pail of milk in each hand.
synonyms: bucket
glosses: A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover).
glosses: A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container.
raw_tags: in technical use
Derived terms: diaper pail
dry pail
garbage pail
hand in one's dinner pail
ice-pail
lunch pail
lunch pail Democrat
nappy pail
pailful
slop-pail
swill-pail
wet pail
upside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpˌsaɪd/
enpr: ŭpʹsīd'
rhymes: -ʌpsaɪd
Forms: form: upsides
form: up-side
Etymology: From up + side.
Senses: glosses: The highest or uppermost side or portion of something.
examples: text: The only upside of being over 35 is that you don't get raped as much.
ref: 2013, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight (motion picture), Julie Delpy (actor):
text: They said we’d be free of all that tedious European red tape and would take back control of our borders, encouraging anyone agitated by immigration to believe that fewer people would come in. There would be no downside, only upsides.
ref: 2023 June 23, Jonathan Freedland, “With even leavers regretting Brexit, there’s one path back to rejoining the EU”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: beauty
antonyms: downside
glosses: A favourable aspect of something that also has an unfavourable aspect.
topics: business
finance
antonyms: downside
glosses: An upward tendency, especially in a financial market etc.
Derived terms: upside down
upside
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpˌsaɪd/
enpr: ŭpʹsīd'
rhymes: -ʌpsaɪd
Forms: form: up-side
Etymology: From up + side.
Senses: examples: text: Ruth Ann clenched her hand around the hairbrush and felt like smacking Ashley upside the head with it. She knew better than to talk that way.
ref: 2002, Pamela Duncan, Moon Women:
glosses: On the top of.
Derived terms: upside the head
upsidedown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of upside down.
Argentinian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹˌd͡ʒənˈtɪ.nɪ.ən/
ipa: /ɑɹˌd͡ʒənˈtiː.nɪ.ən/
rhymes: -ɪnɪən
Forms: form: Argentinians
Etymology: From Argentin(a) + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Fernández acidly notes that the "Malvinas" are 8,700 miles away from London and claims, controversially, that the Royal Navy expelled the Argentinians who originally lived on the remote South Atlantic territory.
ref: 2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian:
glosses: A person from Argentina or of Argentine descent.
Synonyms: Argentine
Argentinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹˌd͡ʒənˈtɪ.nɪ.ən/
ipa: /ɑɹˌd͡ʒənˈtiː.nɪ.ən/
rhymes: -ɪnɪən
Etymology: From Argentin(a) + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The FCO also disputes Fernández's claim that Britain kicked out the island's original Argentinian inhabitants.
ref: 2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Argentina and the Argentine people.
Synonyms: Argentine
Derived terms: Argentinian scarab
Argentinian wood roach
workshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜːk.ʃɒp/
ipa: /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/
ipa: /ˈwɜːk.ʃɔp/
Forms: form: workshops
Etymology: From work + shop.
Senses: examples: text: A gleam of sun shining through the unsashed window, and chequering the dark workshop with a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart.
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. (please specify the chapter number)”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.
examples: text: On any given Friday night at the Claremont Colleges, between 15 and 20 Jewish students gather to sing wordless melodies, dive into textual study of Talmud or James Baldwin, or hold workshops on antisemitism.
ref: 2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents:
glosses: A brief, intensive course of education for a small group, emphasizing interaction and practical problem solving.
glosses: An academic conference.
Derived terms: idle hands are the devil's workshop
Santa's workshop
sheltered workshop
workshop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜːk.ʃɒp/
ipa: /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/
ipa: /ˈwɜːk.ʃɔp/
Forms: form: workshops
form: workshopping
form: workshopped
form: workshopped
Etymology: From work + shop.
Senses: glosses: To help a playwright revise a draft of (a play) by rehearsing it with actors and critiquing the results.
examples: text: Some in-class tutorial time was set aside for workshopping the entries.
ref: 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 146:
glosses: To work on or revise something, especially collaboratively, in a workshop.
topics: business
glosses: To improve through collaboration.
funnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌnəl/
rhymes: -ʌnəl
Forms: form: funnels
Etymology: From Middle English funell, fonel, probably through Old French *founel (compare Middle French fonel, Old Occitan fonilh, enfounilh), from Latin fundibulum, infundibulum (“funnel”), from infundere (“to pour in”);
in (“in”) + fundere (“to pour”); compare Breton founilh (“funnel”), Welsh ffynel (“air hole, chimney”). See fuse.
Senses: glosses: A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening.
glosses: A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like.
examples: text: top of (the) funnel marketing
translation: awareness stage marketing
english: awareness stage marketing
text: Then there's the funnel. Marketing usually spends most of their time at the top of the funnel with a quantity strategy. On the other hand, Sales spends their time trying to convert, accelerate, or close accounts that are in the middle or bottom of the funnel.
ref: 2019, Chris Golec, Peter Isaacson, Jessica Fewless, Account-Based Marketing: How to Target and Engage the Companies That Will Grow Your Revenue, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 41:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Ellipsis of purchase funnel (“the process of customer acquisition conceptualized as a series of stages, from initial awareness (top) to sale or conversion (bottom)”).
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of funnel cloud.
Derived terms: araneomorph funnel-web spider
Büchner funnel
cytofunnel
dung funnel
Emlen funnel
filter funnel
funnel box
funnel cake
funnel chanterelle
funnel chart
funnel chest
funnel cloud
funnelform
funnelless
funnellike
funnel mark
funnel plot
funnel-shaped
funnelshaped
funnel stay
funnel trap
funnel weaver
funnel-web
funnel web
funnel-web spider
funnelwise
Hirsch funnel
metafunnel
pie funnel
purchase funnel
separating funnel
Sydney funnel-web spider
thistle funnel
weighing funnel
Related terms: tundish
funnel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌnəl/
rhymes: -ʌnəl
Forms: form: funnels
form: funneling
form: funnelling
form: funneled
form: funneled
form: funnelled
form: funnelled
Etymology: From Middle English funell, fonel, probably through Old French *founel (compare Middle French fonel, Old Occitan fonilh, enfounilh), from Latin fundibulum, infundibulum (“funnel”), from infundere (“to pour in”);
in (“in”) + fundere (“to pour”); compare Breton founilh (“funnel”), Welsh ffynel (“air hole, chimney”). See fuse.
Senses: glosses: To use a funnel.
examples: text: Expect delays where the traffic funnels down to one lane.
text: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
A line of clocks in our cheap hotel displays the time in Lagos, Bucharest, Kiev: the capitals of pilgrims who come to kneel at the birthplace of Christ. In reality the entire world funnels through the Church of the Nativity.
glosses: To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel; to condense or narrow.
examples: text: Our taxes are being funnelled into pointless government initiatives.
text: Like so many others, I was awestruck by the first season, which captured a moment in time and successfully funnelled its rage outwards at a world in which women are indeed silenced, controlled and killed by men.
ref: 2018 June 16, Fiona Sturges, “Cattleprods! Severed tongues! Torture porn! Why I’ve stopped watching the Handmaid’s Tale”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2020:
text: The Soviet Union had a substantially larger land army, considerably larger than NATO and the U.S.,” Sharpless said. […]So, one strategy was to block various access routes and perhaps funnel them into an area where you could use larger weapons against them.
ref: 2019 January 7, Paul Srubas, “His job was to place atomic bombs. Place them, not drop them. Set the timer. Run like hell.”, in Green Bay Press-Gazette:
text: He was alive to every creak and dunt, the thinness of the walls, as if the tenement block was a kind of aural panopticon that funnelled every sound to the other residents, let everyone eavesdrop on their business.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 274:
glosses: To channel, direct, or focus (emotions, money, resources, etc.).
examples: text: The first time he did it was to this freshman Kevin Ryers and we all just burst out laughing, watching Kevin try to funnel a beer.
ref: 2013, Jonathan Caren, The Recommendation, page 31:
glosses: To consume (beer, etc.) rapidly through a funnel, typically as a stunt at a party.
Derived terms: refunnel
funnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌnəl/
rhymes: -ʌnəl
Forms: form: funnels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fummel (“hybrid animal”).
connoisseur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑnəˈsɝ/
ipa: /ˌkɑnəˈsʊɹ/
ipa: /ˌkɒnəˈsɜː/
ipa: /ˌkɒnəˈsʊə/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: connoisseurs
form: connaisseur
Etymology: Around 1705–1715, from French connoisseur, from the verb connoître (obsolete pre-1835 spelling of connaître (“to know”)).
Senses: examples: text: beer connoisseur
text: chocolate connoisseur
text: wine connoisseur
text: It is evident, in spite of his frequent attention to her while she draws, that in fact he knows nothing of the matter. He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: No; nonsense, Naumann! English ladies are not at everybody’s service as models. And you want to express too much with your painting. You would only have made a better or worse portrait with a background which every connoisseur would give a different reason for or against.
ref: 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XIX, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII):
text: This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: Real connoisseurs know that to nose and taste properly you have to add still water to your tulip-shaped glass so that the alcohol doesn't overwhelm you.
ref: 2002 October 20, Bob Morris, “The Age of Dissonance”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A specialist in a given field whose opinion is highly valued, especially in one of the fine arts or in matters of taste.
Synonyms: maven
cognoscente
Coordinate terms: word: connoisseuse
Derived terms: cannabisseur
connoisseurdom
connoisseurial
connoisseurish
connoisseurly
connoisseurship
kinosseur
pornoisseur
stir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɜː/
ipa: /stɝ/
ipa: /stɪr/
ipa: /støː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /steː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /stɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /stɜː(ɹ)/
ipa: /stɪr/
ipa: /stʊr/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: stair
homophone: stare (both fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: stirs
Etymology: From Middle English stiren, sturien, steren, from Old English styrian (“to be in motion, move, agitate, stir, disturb, trouble”), from Proto-Germanic *sturiz (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), related to Proto-West Germanic *staurijan (“to destroy, disturb”). Cognate with Old Norse styrr (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), German stören (“to disturb”), Dutch storen (“to disturb”).
Senses: examples: text: Can you give the soup a little stir?
glosses: The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)
examples: text: 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem).
Why all these words, this clamour, and this stir?
text: Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.
ref: 1693, [John Locke], “§107”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:
text: Meantime, the train went on to Brighton without further incident. No small stir was caused by its arrival with No. 61 at its head, resplendent with "East London Line Special" head boards, which at once caught the eye of William Stroudley, who was observing the traffic working from his office window.
ref: 1951 May, J. Pelham Maitland, “A Memorable Run by a Brighton "Terrier"”, in Railway Magazine, page 347:
text: When the long, hot journey drew to its end and the train slowed down for the last time, there was a stir in Jessamy’s carriage. People began to shake crumbs from their laps and tidy themselves up a little.
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
examples: text: Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.
ref: 1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued:
glosses: Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
glosses: Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
Derived terms: cause a stir
stirless
upstir
stir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɜː/
ipa: /stɝ/
ipa: /stɪr/
ipa: /støː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /steː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /stɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /stɜː(ɹ)/
ipa: /stɪr/
ipa: /stʊr/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: stair
homophone: stare (both fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: stirs
Etymology: From Romani stariben (“prison”), nominalisation of (a)star (“seize”), causative of ast (“remain”), probably from Sanskrit आतिष्ठति (ātiṣṭhati, “stand or remain by”), from तिष्ठति (tiṣṭhati, “stand”).
Senses: examples: text: He's going to be spending maybe ten years in stir.
text: The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
ref: 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:
text: Sing Sing was a tough joint in those days, one of the five worst stirs in the United States.
ref: 1928, Jack Callahan, Man's Grim Justice: My Life Outside the Law, page 42:
glosses: Jail; prison.
Derived terms: stir-crazy