cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
burke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bûrk
ipa: /bɜː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
homophone: berk
homophone: birk
homophone: Bourke
homophone: burk
homophone: Burke
Forms: form: burkes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of berk.
dot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dŏt
ipa: /dɒt/
enpr: dät
ipa: /dɑt/
ipa: /dɔt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: dots
form: dotting
form: dotted
form: dotted
Etymology: From Middle English *dot, dotte, from Old English dott (“a dot, point”), from Proto-West Germanic *dott, from Proto-Germanic *duttaz (“wisp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dot, Dotte (“a clump”), Dutch dot (“lump, knot, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”), dialectal Swedish dott (“a little heap, bunch, clump”).
Senses: examples: text: His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.
text: Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:
text: Yang Shuo county, in the middle of the Guangxi Autonomous Region, is an area dotted by hundreds of little villages, all looking much alike.
ref: 1988, Bernard Wolf, In the Year of the Tiger, 1st edition, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20, column 1:
glosses: To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
examples: text: Dot your is and cross your ts.
glosses: To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
examples: text: to dot a line
glosses: To mark by means of dots or small spots.
examples: text: to dot a landscape with cottages
text: The switchback road to Diabaig - pronounced 'Jer-vague' - passes through some of the most exhilarating scenery in Scotland. […] With a final swoop, the road plummets down into Diabaig, where cottages are dotted across the slopes of a rocky semi-circle.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 151:
text: Wooden crosses, some drunkenly askew, dot a darkened stage at the start of Vuyani Dance Theater’s “Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero.” There is silence, then the sound of weeping, which escalates to heart-rending, gasping sobs.
ref: 2023 April 14, Rosyln Sulcas, “Review: Grief and Mourning, Delivered With Ecstatic Vitality”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
examples: text: `Which means,' said John, `that someone dotted him a good one, shoved him into the bathtub, ran the water, then opened his mouth and poured champagne into it until he drowned.'
ref: 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 332:
glosses: To punch (a person).
Synonyms: stipple
Derived terms: cross the t's and dot the i's
dot down
dot the i's and cross the t's
dot
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: enpr: dŏt
ipa: /dɒt/
enpr: dät
ipa: /dɑt/
ipa: /dɔt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Etymology: From Middle English *dot, dotte, from Old English dott (“a dot, point”), from Proto-West Germanic *dott, from Proto-Germanic *duttaz (“wisp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dot, Dotte (“a clump”), Dutch dot (“lump, knot, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”), dialectal Swedish dott (“a little heap, bunch, clump”).
Senses: examples: text: The work is equal to F dot Δx.
glosses: Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.
Coordinate terms: cross
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dot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dŏt
ipa: /dɒt/
enpr: dät
ipa: /dɑt/
ipa: /dɔt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: dots
form: dote
Etymology: From French dot.
Senses: examples: text: "Have you the pictures still?" I asked.
"Yes; I am keeping them till my daughter is of marriageable age, and then I shall sell them. They will be her dot."
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 53”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: As a bride, Madame de Talleyrand had brought a small dot of fifteen thousand francs to the family fund.
ref: 1927, Anna Bowman Dodd, Talleyrand: the Training of a Statesman:
glosses: A dowry.
Related terms: dotal
dotation
diameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈæmɪtə(ɹ)/
enpr: dī-ăm'ĭtər
ipa: /daɪˈæmɪdɚ/
ipa: /daɪˈæmədɚ/
Forms: form: diameters
form: diametre
form: ⌀
Etymology: From Old French diametre (French diamètre), from Latin diametrus, from Ancient Greek διάμετρος (diámetros) (γραμμή (grammḗ)) (diametros grammē, “line measuring across”), from διά (diá, “across”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”). By surface analysis, dia- + -meter.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any straight line between two points on the circumference of a circle that passes through the centre/center of the circle; a chord that passes through the center of the circle.
examples: text: In cases without good face contact, the diameter of the toolholder at the front of the flange or the tool itself should not be any larger than the gage diameter of the toolholder shank from a bending stiffness viewpoint.
ref: 2005, David A. Stephenson, John S. Agapiou, Metal Cutting Theory and Practice, page 280:
text: Viable non-malformed singleton pregnancies were selected for cerebellar measurements; transcerebellar diameter, (TCD), left and right cerebellar diameters (LCD, RCD).
ref: 2015 October 23, “Periconception Maternal Folate Status and Human Embryonic Cerebellum Growth Trajectories: The Rotterdam Predict Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The length of such a line.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The maximum distance between any two points in a metric space.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The maximum eccentricity over all vertices in a graph.
Derived terms: aerodiameter
circumdiameter
diameterwise
inner diameter
inside diameter
internal diameter
major diameter
minor diameter
multidiameter
tactical diameter
Related terms: diametric
diametrically
semidiameter
circumference
radius
bilabial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈleɪ.bi.əl/
rhymes: -eɪbiəl
Etymology: From bi- + labial.
Senses: examples: text: "Oh, yes. He talks a lot about phonemes and semantemes and bilabial fricatives. He has a van with recording apparatus in it. He's a good chap."
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 545:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Articulated with both lips.
Derived terms: bilabially
nonbilabial
prebilabial
Related terms: labialized
labiodental
bilabial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈleɪ.bi.əl/
rhymes: -eɪbiəl
Forms: form: bilabials
Etymology: From bi- + labial.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A speech sound articulated with both lips.
bacitracin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌbæs.ɪˈtɹeɪ.sɪn/
Forms: form: bacitracins
Etymology: From translingual Baci(llus subtilis) + Tracy + -in. Named after American child Margaret Tracy (1936–1994), in whose leg infection the compound was first found.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A nonprescription polypeptide antibiotic isolated from a bacillus (Bacillus subtilis or Bacillus licheniformis), usually provided in topical ointment form especially against gram-positive bacteria.
þ
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Pronunciation: enpr: th
ipa: /θ/
ipa: /t̪/
Forms: form: Þ
form: þs
form: þ's
Senses: glosses: Replaces th for an archaic style.
Old English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: Anglo-Saxon
coordinate_terms: Classical English
Middle English
Modern English
New English
glosses: The ancestor language of Modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in most of Britain from about 400 to 1100.
examples: text: Those who claim that they've been reading Shakespeare in Old English betray their ignorance: they haven't.
ref: 2008, Stephen J. Harris, Bryon Lee Grigsby, Misconceptions About the Middle Ages, page 177:
glosses: Archaic English (Early Modern English) or Middle English speech or writing, or an imitation of this: "old" English.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The form of black letter used by 16th-century English printers.
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A historical ethnic group in Ireland descended from Norman invaders from Britain from the 12th century to the 17th century.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Old English terms
Germanic
ʀ
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Indicates non-English R sounds (e.g. IPA [r, ʁ]) in unassimilated loans.
ə
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: examples: (superscript ⟨ᵊ⟩) optional schwa, e.g. \băt′ᵊl\ for battle.
(superscript ⟨ᵊ⟩) French final schwa, as in \bᴀstôn′yᵊ\ for Bastogne.
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: schwa, e.g. \sō′fə\ for sofa.
ð
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Pronunciation: enpr: th
ipa: /ð/
ipa: /d̪/
Forms: form: Ð
form: ðs
form: ð's
Senses: glosses: Replaces th for an archaic style.
crane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: cranes
form: craning
form: craned
form: craned
Etymology: From Middle English crane, from Old English cran (“crane”), from Proto-West Germanic *kran, *kranō, from Proto-Germanic *kranô (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”).
Cognate with Scots cran (“crane”), Dutch kraan (“crane”), German Low German Kroon (“crane”), German Kran (“crane”). The mechanical devices are named from their likeness to the bird.
Senses: examples: text: and my bachelor's hearth is imbedded where by much craning of head and neck I can catch sight of a sycamore in the Square garden,
ref: 1879, George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such:
text: Didcot had one definite pleasure. We knew that little boys would be going up and down the platform singing out, "Banbury cakes! Banbury cakes!" And mother would crane out and buy some, just to encourage the crew.
ref: 1948 November and December, “By Broad Gauge to Cornwall”, in Railway Magazine, page 357:
text: I'm gonna be a star and people will crane necks
To get a glimpse of me and see if I am having sex
ref: 2008, Rivers Cuomo, “Troublemaker”, in Weezer (Red Album), performed by Weezer:
glosses: To extend (one's neck).
examples: text: What engines, what instruments are used in craning up a soul, sunk below the centre, to the highest heavens.
ref: 1693, William Bates, Sermons preach'd on Several Occasions:
text: an upstart craned up to the height he has
ref: 1619, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, The Fatal Dowry:
text: Several overnight weekend possessions were required to crane in new bridges and various other parts of the buildings which were manufactured offsite.
ref: 2024 January 24, Peter Plisner, “Rising to the University challenge”, in RAIL, number 1001, pages 60-61:
glosses: To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane.
glosses: To pull up before a jump.
crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: cranes
Etymology: From Middle English crane, cranee, from Old French cran, from Medieval Latin crānium.
Senses: glosses: The cranium.
crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: cranes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cran (“measure of herrings”).
finch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪntʃ
Forms: form: finches
form: finching
form: finched
form: finched
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping-
Proto-Germanic *finkiz
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping-
Proto-Germanic *finkô
Old English finċ
Middle English fynch
English finch
From Middle English fynch, from Old English finċ, from Proto-West Germanic *finki, from Proto-Germanic *finkiz (compare Dutch vink, German Fink), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pingos (“chaffinch”). Compare Welsh pinc (“finch”), Ancient Greek σπίγγος (spíngos, “chaffinch”), Russian пе́нка (pénka, “wren”), Sanskrit फिङ्गक (phiṅgaka, “drongo, shrike”).
Senses: glosses: To hunt for finches, to go finching.
ʜ
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Used in the digraphs ⟨ᴄʜ ᴋʜ sʜ ᴛʜ ᴛ͟ʜ ᴢʜ⟩ for the sounds /t͡ʃ, x, ʃ, θ, ð, ʒ/.
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Indicates the Scottish or unassimilated German /x/ – e.g. \lôʜ\ for loch or \bâʜ\ for Bach.
ʏ
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Indicates IPA [y, ʏ] in unassimilated French or German loans.
ʉ
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: examples: + r
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: û
ė
glosses: An element of the digraph ʉr, a dictionary transcription for the NURSE vowel
ɶ
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Indicates IPA [ø, œ] in unassimilated French or German loans.
herbivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜːbɪvɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈ(h)ɜːɹbɪvɔːɹ/
Forms: form: herbivores
Etymology: From French herbivore. Equivalent to herb (herbage) + -vore.
Senses: examples: text: It is unlikely that any member of the hominin clade was either an obligate herbivore or an obligate carnivore
ref: 2011, Bernard Wood, Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution:
glosses: An organism that feeds chiefly on plants; an animal that feeds on herbage or vegetation as the main part of its diet.
Synonyms: word: phytophage
word: vegetarian
english: of people
translation: of people
word: vegan
Derived terms: antiherbivore
herbivoral
herbivore man
herbivorous
herbivory
macroherbivore
megaherbivore
mesoherbivore
nonherbivore
omniherbivore
Related terms: Herbivora
carnivore
folivore
frugivore
hemovore
insectivore
omnivore
ɴ
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Indicates nasal vowels in unassimilated French loans, e.g. \văɴ blâɴ\ for vin blanc.
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Used in the digraph ⟨ɴɢ⟩ for the /ŋ/ sound.
marsupial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːˈsuː.pi.əl/
ipa: /mɑɹˈsu.pi.əl/
Forms: form: marsupials
Etymology: From Latin marsupium, marsuppium (“pouch, purse”), from Ancient Greek μαρσύπιον (marsúpion) or μαρσύππιον (marsúppion), variants of μαρσίππιον (marsíppion), diminutive of μάρσιππος (mársippos, “bag, pouch”); with English -al.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears its young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.
Synonyms: word: marsupial
word: marsupian
word: marsupiate
Hypernyms: word: mammal
word: metatherian
Hyponyms: word: bandicoot
word: bettong
word: bilby
word: boodie
word: cuscus
word: dingiso
word: dunnart
word: glider
word: kangaroo
word: koala
word: monjon
word: nabarlek
word: numbat
word: opossum
word: pademelon
word: potoroo
word: quokka
word: quoll
word: Tasmanian devil
word: Tasmanian tiger
word: tenkile
word: triok
word: wallaby
word: wallaroo
word: wombat
word: woylie
Derived terms: intramarsupial
marsupial bone
marsupial frog
marsupialisation
marsupialization
marsupialize
marsupial lion
marsupial mole
marsupial mouse
Related terms: word: Marsupialia
word: marsupialoid
word: marsupium
word: :Category:Marsupials
marsupial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːˈsuː.pi.əl/
ipa: /mɑɹˈsu.pi.əl/
Forms: form: more marsupial
form: most marsupial
Etymology: From Latin marsupium, marsuppium (“pouch, purse”), from Ancient Greek μαρσύπιον (marsúpion) or μαρσύππιον (marsúppion), variants of μαρσίππιον (marsíppion), diminutive of μάρσιππος (mársippos, “bag, pouch”); with English -al.
Senses: examples: text: Showing that this animal is marsupial, consists of the following characters.
ref: 1892, The American naturalist, page 125:
text: It seemed to me, meandering around Earls Court, that motors should be more marsupial.
ref: 1952, The Motor, page 520:
text: But there's this pouch just below my belly button, very marsupial, where the kangaroo lives.
ref: 2002, Fiction Fix: First Injection, page 58:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a marsupial.
examples: the marsupial bones
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a marsupium.
mink coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mink coats
Etymology: Compound of mink + coat.
Senses: examples: text: We think we will in no time parlay our abundant love into abundant riches of the mink coat type, so it comes as a major surprise that we could be so poor... for so long.
ref: 1988, Sylvia Harney, Married Beyond Recognition: A Humorous Look at Marriage, page 2:
text: Richard Nixon attempted to clear himself of charges that he had a tapped a secret slush fund by exploiting that symbol of decadent luxury, the mink coat. His wife, Nixon boasted, did not own a mink coat, but rather she owned 'a respectable Republican cloth coat...'
ref: 2004, Alice Bach, Religion, Politics, Media in the Broadband Era, page 106:
glosses: A fur coat made from the fur of the mink, symbolic of membership in a social class of wealthy people.
osprey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑspɹi/
ipa: /ˈɒspɹeɪ/
Forms: form: ospreys
Etymology: From Late Middle English ospray, from Anglo-Norman ospriet, from Medieval Latin avis praedae (“bird of prey”), a generic term apparently confused with this specific bird in Old French on its similarity to ossifrage.
Senses: examples: text: 1594, George Peele (attributed), The Battle of Alcazar
I will provide thee of a princely osprey.
text: But (oh Jove!) your actions, / Soon as they move, as ospreys do the fish, / Subdue before they touch.
ref: 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: A pair of ospreys bred at a confidential nesting site in Co. Fermanagh in what has been described as like finding long-lost treasure.
ref: 2023 August 24, Mairead Sheehy, “'Like finding long-lost treasure': Ospreys breed in Ireland for first time in 200 years”, in Irish Examiner:
glosses: A bird of prey of genus Pandion that feeds on fish and has white underparts and long, narrow wings each ending in four finger-like extensions.
glosses: Aigrette (ornamental feather).
Synonyms: english: a misnomer as the osprey is not an eagle, but compare some of the translations below
translation: a misnomer as the osprey is not an eagle, but compare some of the translations below
word: fish eagle
english: a misnomer as the osprey is not a hawk
translation: a misnomer as the osprey is not a hawk
word: fish hawk
word: orfray
english: bone-breaker; from Latin
translation: bone-breaker; from Latin
word: ossifrage
word: osspringer
Derived terms: taxonomic: Pandion cristatus
word: eastern osprey
taxonomic: Pandion haliaetus
word: western osprey
chappy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæpi/
rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: chappies
Etymology: From chap + -y.
Senses: glosses: A chap; a fellow.
Synonyms: man
Derived terms: happy chappy
chappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæpi/
rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: more chappy
form: most chappy
Etymology: From chap + -y.
Senses: glosses: Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.
examples: text: The application was followed at once by terrible pain in the wound; furthermore, there appeared a dry and chappy tongue, intolerable thirst, colics, cramplike contractions of the legs and back, and a weak and irregular pulse.
ref: 1939, National Health Review, volumes 7–9, page 220:
qualifier: perhaps archaic
glosses: Chapped, dry.
raw_tags: of skin
crappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæpi/
rhymes: -æpi
homophone: crappie
Forms: form: crappier
form: crappiest
form: crap
Etymology: From crap + -y.
Senses: examples: text: That is such a crappy car.
text: The referee just made a really crappy call.
text: The food there used to be good but now it's crappy.
text: Think of the content mill as a modern-day literary sweatshop—writers hunkering down at hot keyboards, plowing away at 3,000 word articles for, literally, pennies. Content mills were born because someone figured out that by targeting popular search result terms, they could commission an army of crappy posts catering to these terms and dominate Google's results.
ref: 2015, Zachary Petit, The Essential Guide to Freelance Writing, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: She took a leap in 2019 and bought an investment property, a duplex in Missoula, Mont., intending to live in one unit and rent the other. “It was the crappiest house on the block,” she said.
ref: 2022 July 29, Jennifer Miller, “Investing in Real Estate as Self-Care”, in The New York Times:
text: “Many scientists and historians think we’re entering into a new epoch — one where things are simply … well, crappier,” declares the opening voice-over in a thick northern English accent (regularly used in Britain to indicate no-nonsense, tongue-in-cheek pragmatism).
ref: 2024 February 5, Elizabeth Paton, “Will Shoppers Ever Care About the Destruction of the Planet?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of very poor quality; unpleasant; distasteful.
examples: text: I'm feeling really crappy - I think I need some fresh air.
glosses: Bad, sick, or depressed.
raw_tags: with "feel"
examples: text: Put the crappy diapers in the brown pail and the wet ones in the yellow pail.
glosses: Covered in crap (faeces/feces).
Synonyms: sense: covered in crap
word: shitty
sense: covered in crap
word: poopy
sense: of very poor quality
word: shitty
word: lousy
word: tatty
word: low-quality
Derived terms: crappily
crappiness
craptop
faeces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faex
Senses: examples: text: This paper reports on ingestion of soil by dairy cows using titanium analysis of faeces by the X-ray fluorescence technique, and gives the range of soil intakes of a year on both an individual and a herd basis.
ref: 1968 May, W. B. Healy, “Ingestion of Soil by Dairy Cows”, in New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, page 487:
text: The fact that dogs have a well developed sense of smell suggests that they might be able to use the odour of faeces as a means of communicating.
ref: 1984 April 19, David F. Chantrey, James B. Reid, C. E. Davie, “Dog Business”, in New Scientist, page 48:
text: Urine and faeces are complete fertilizers of high quality with low levels of contaminants such as heavy metals. Urine is rich in nitrogen, while faeces are rich in phosphorous, potassium and organic matter.
ref: 2004, Håkan Jönsson, Håkan Jönsson, Anna Richert Stintzing, Björn Vinnerås, Eva Salomon, Guidelines on the Use of Urine and Faeces in Crop Production, page 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of feces.
Derived terms: palaeofaeces
paleofaeces
pseudofaeces
nappy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæpi/
rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: nappies
Etymology: A diminutive in -y. The base is probably napkin but possibly French nappe directly (note that napkin is already a diminutive).
Senses: examples: text: You will notice that disposable nappies are sold in boy and girl versions. They vary in where the thickest padding is provided.
ref: 1995, Jennie Lindon, Lance Lindon, Leandra Negrini, Caring for Young Children, page 60:
text: Other equipment required was soap for hand washing and washing of nappies, a washing line for the drying of nappies,[…].
ref: 2005, Medical Association of Malawi, “Malawi Medical Journal: The Journal of Medical Association of Malawi”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 17, page 39:
text: You could burn disposable nappies (not a very practical option); otherwise, it′s probably best to take a supply of large plastic bags or nappy sacks with you and to dispose of them as thoughtfully as you can.
ref: 2008, Isabelle Young, Healthy Travel: Asia & India, 2nd edition, Lonely Planet, page 275:
text: In response we mailed hundreds of nappies to students in halls. On the nappy was a simple message, IT'S A LOT EASIER TO PUT ON A CONDOM.
ref: 2009, Chris Arnold, Ethical Marketing and The New Consumer, page 55:
glosses: An absorbent garment worn by a baby or toddler who does not yet have voluntary control of their bladder and bowels or by someone who is incontinent; a diaper.
Synonyms: word: diaper
word: napkin
Derived terms: all-in-one nappy
all-in-two nappy
birth-to-potty nappy
cloth nappy
disposable nappy
fitted nappy
flat nappy
hybrid nappy
nappy bag
nappy bank
nappy bin
nappy bucket
nappy cake
nappy changer
nappy check
nappy cover
nappy cream
nappy fastener
nappy flat
nappyful
nappy insert
nappy library
nappy liner
nappy organiser
nappy pail
nappy pants
nappy pin
nappy pod
nappy rash
nappy service
nappy stacker
nappy table
nappy warmer
nappy wrap
night nappy
nighttime nappy
one-size nappy
OS nappy
overnight nappy
pocket nappy
pool nappy
real nappy
shaped nappy
sleep nappy
snap-in-one nappy
swimming nappy
swim nappy
terry nappy
washable nappy
water nappy
nappy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæpi/
rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: nappies
form: nappying
form: nappied
form: nappied
Etymology: A diminutive in -y. The base is probably napkin but possibly French nappe directly (note that napkin is already a diminutive).
Senses: examples: text: The mother nappied the baby.
glosses: To put a nappy on.
nappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæpi/
rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: nappier
form: nappiest
Etymology: From nap + -y.
Senses: examples: 1950, US District Courts, US Court of Claims, US Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, Federal Supplement, Volume 89, page 438,
The original accused device, as was the patented device, was made of cotton flannel with a nappy surface on each side, […] .
glosses: Having a nap (of cloth etc.); downy; shaggy.
examples: text: They could scarcely bear their knowledge, nor could they have borne the sight of Rufus, but they knew why he was in the streets tonight, why he rode subways all night long, why his stomach growled, why his hair was nappy, his armpits funky, his pants and shoes too thin, and why he did not dare to stop and take a leak.
ref: 1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published January 1963, page 4:
text: We would talk about each other′s ugly, big lips and flat noses. We would call each other pickaninnies and nappy-haired so-and-so′s.
ref: 1987, Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography, page 30:
text: For example, some Black people′s corporeal zones include nappy hair texture, wide noses, thick lips, and darker-than-white skin complexion, all of which come into play when an individual is interacting with a cultural “Other.”
ref: 2006, Ronald L. Jackson II, Scripting the Black Masculine Body, page 52:
text: She had decided to just cover her hair with a scarf because Aunt Bell was “old school” and Zollar did not want to have to explain why she had nappy hair.
ref: 2010, Nadine George-Graves, Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out, page 50:
glosses: Of hair: tightly curled or twisted; frizzy (often specifically in reference to Afro textured hair)
examples: text: After supper I felt nappy and dropped right off to sleep.
ref: 1930, Hubert Evans, H. E. M. Sellen, The Silent Call, page 90:
glosses: Inclined to sleep; sleepy.
Synonyms: sense: tightly curled and frizzy
word: kinky
sense: tightly curled and frizzy
word: frizzy
sense: tightly curled and frizzy
word: fuzzy
sense: tightly curled and frizzy
word: woolly
sense: tightly curled and frizzy
word: fuzzy-headed
sense: tightly curled and frizzy
word: wool-headed
sense: tightly curled and frizzy
word: wool-pated
sense: tightly curled and frizzy
word: woolly-headed
sense: tightly curled and frizzy
word: Afro-textured
Derived terms: nappiness
nappyhead
naptural
nappy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæpi/
rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: nappies
form: nappie
Etymology: From Middle English nap, from Old English hnæp, hnæpp, hnæpf (“cup, bowl”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnapp, from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz (“bowl, goblet, cup”). See hanaper.
Senses: examples: text: Suppose you advertise a “five-inch glass nappy.” It doesn′t tell a reader anything — a woman especially. She can′t tell how big five inches are anyway ; but just say, “large imitation cut glass fruit saucers at thirty cents a dozen,” and get your packers ready.
ref: 1902, Charles Austin Bates, The Art and Literature of Business, volume 4, page 328:
text: The use of a glazed earthenware nesting-dish, or “nappy, ” 9 inches in diameter across the top, is strongly advised.
ref: 1909, Milton Osman Jones, Guide to Successful Squab Raising, page 11:
text: Place a slice of pineapple in a fruit nappy, place on it a No. 10 cone of vanilla ice cream and pour over it a ladle of chop suey dressing, crowning it with a freshly opened lycher nut or a cherry.
ref: 1914, Southern Pharmaceutical Journal, volume 7, page 626:
glosses: A shallow, flat-bottomed earthenware or glass bowl with sloping sides.
nappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæpi/
rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: nappier
form: nappiest
Senses: glosses: Foamy; having a large head.
raw_tags: of a drink
examples: text: ‘He's a mutton-fisted beggar; but the horse is a bit nappy, and young Roger'll be the man to keep him going at his fences.’
ref: 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 161:
text: I do feel, however, that in talking lightheartedly of making rearing, pulling or nappy horses into useful members of equine society I am treading on very dangerous ground.
ref: 1948, John Edward Hance, Better Horsemanship, page 73:
text: Note that it is possible that a horse is not in fact being nappy at all, but is suffering the onset of muscle disorders: it is up to the rider to interpret the signs correctly.
ref: 2006, Karen Coumbe, Karen Bush, The Complete Equine Emergency Bible, page 151:
text: When riders are too dominant various problems can arise: a horse may become nappy, or refuse to go forward.
ref: 2007, Michael Peace, Lesley Bayley, The Q and a Guide to Understanding Your Horse, page 66:
glosses: Nervous, excitable.
raw_tags: of a horse
nappy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæpi/
rhymes: -æpi
Senses: examples: 1827, R. Charlton, Newcastle Improvements, in T. Thompson, et al. A Collection of Songs, Comic and Satirical, Chiefly in the Newcastle Dialect, page 151,
Aw′ve seen when we′ve gyen iv a kind, freenly way / To be blithe ower a jug o′ good nappy
1857, Hugh Miller, The Cruise of the Betsey, 2009, Echo Library, page 248,
Weel do I mind that in a′ our neeborly meetings—bridals, christenings, lyke-wakes an′ the like,—we entertained ane anither wi′ rich nappy ale; […] . But the tea has put out the nappy; an′ I have remarked, that by losing the nappy we lost baith ghaists an′ fairies.
glosses: A kind of strong ale; nappy ale.
nappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæpi/
rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: nappier
form: nappiest
Etymology: Related to knap.
Senses: glosses: Brittle.
diaper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ(ə)pə/
ipa: /ˈdaɪ(ə)pɚ/
rhymes: -aɪpə(ɹ)
rhymes: -aɪəpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: diapers
form: diapering
form: diapered
form: diapered
form: dyaper
form: diapre
form: dyapre
form: dieper
form: dyoper
form: dyeper
form: dioper
form: dipar
Etymology: From Middle English dyaper, diapre, dyapre, from Old French diapre, dyapre, a variant of dyaspre, diaspre (“ornamental silk cloth embellished with floral or decorative geometrical patterns”), from Medieval Latin diaspra, diasprum (“a type of rich, valuable silken cloth”), probably from Byzantine Greek δίασπρος (díaspros, “very white; pure white”, adjective), from δια- (dia-, “across”) + ἄσπρος (áspros, “white”).
Senses: examples: text: Diapering a baby is something you have to learn fast.
text: I diaper myself or she helps Diaper me and sometimes I get to wet them, she knows I like that.
ref: 2019, Michael Bent, Rosalie Bent, Understanding Adult Babies: Their Psychology and Lifestyles:
glosses: To put diapers on someone.
examples: text: If you diaper upon folds, let your work be broken.
ref: 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman:
glosses: To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
Related terms: sense: absorbent garment
word: plastic pants
word: training pants
word: more at Thesaurus:diaper
sense: textile
word: damask
sense: textile
word: twill
yappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjæ.pi/
rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: yappier
form: yappiest
Etymology: From yap + -y.
Senses: examples: text: yappy puppy
glosses: Of a dog, yapping in an annoying manner.
glosses: Very talkative; talking foolishly or at length.
Derived terms: yappily
yappiness
yap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: yaps
Etymology: Probably of imitative origin. Alternatively, from dialectal yap, yaup, yalp (“to yap, yelp”), from Middle English ȝælpen, variant of yelpen (“to yelp”). More at yelp.
Senses: glosses: The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
examples: text: Had I taken his accusations seriously I might have recommended a change in my under-managership, but I never could translate our jammy products into gas or explosives or even poison. Still yap, at least as concerned Beldite's.
ref: 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 59:
text: They couldn’t rise above their calls for peace. Those who weren’t “defenders of the fatherland” were incapable of anything except yap and blather about “stopping the war.”
ref: 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 190:
glosses: Casual talk; chatter.
examples: text: Shut your yap!
glosses: The mouth, which produces speech.
glosses: A badly behaved person, especially a child.
glosses: A fool.
yap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: yaps
form: yapping
form: yapped
form: yapped
Etymology: Probably of imitative origin. Alternatively, from dialectal yap, yaup, yalp (“to yap, yelp”), from Middle English ȝælpen, variant of yelpen (“to yelp”). More at yelp.
Senses: glosses: Of a small dog, to bark.
examples: text: You’re always yapping, I wish you’d shut up.
glosses: To talk, especially excessively; to chatter.
examples: text: Ante up! Yap that fool!
ref: 2000, M.O.P., Ante Up:
glosses: To rob or steal from (someone).
Derived terms: yapaholic
Yapanese
yappatron
yapper
yappily
yappuccino
yappy
shortening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shortenings
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Fat that is solid at room temperature, especially hydrogenated vegetable oil (known as vegetable shortening), used to make shortcrust pastry and in deep fat frying.
antonyms: extension
lengthening
glosses: verbal noun of shorten: the process by which something is made shorter; a reduction in length.
Derived terms: shortening time
vegetable shortening
shortening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shorten
pais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪ/
homophone: pay
Etymology: From Old French, equivalent to French pays (“country”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The country (ie: the jury); also, the people living in the district from where the jury is taken.
raw_tags: in set phrases as mentioned below
necessary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛsəsɹi/
ipa: /ˈnɛsəˌsɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈnɛsəˌsɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈnɛsəɹi/
ipa: /nᵻˈsɛs(ə)ri/
ipa: /ˈnɛsəs(ə)ri/
Forms: form: necessarier
form: more necessary
form: necessariest
form: most necessary
Etymology: From Middle English necessarye, from Old French necessaire, from Latin necessārius (“unavoidable, inevitable, required”), variant of necesse (“unavoidable, inevitable”), probably from ne or non cessum, from the perfect passive participle of cēdō (“yield; avoid, withdraw”); see cede.
Older use as a noun in reference to an outhouse or lavatory under the influence of English and Latin necessārium, a medieval term for the place for monks’ “unavoidable” business, usually located behind or attached to monastic dormitories.
Senses: examples: text: Although I wished to think that all was false, it was yet necessary that I, who thus thought, must in some sense exist.
text: It is absolutely necessary that you call and confirm your appointment.
text: 1.Sen. ...The faults Bloody:
'Tis necessary he should dye:
Nothing imboldens sinne so much, as Mercy.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi], lines 1258-60:
synonyms: word: essential
word: indispensable
word: necessar
word: necessary
word: needed
word: prerequisite
word: required
word: requisite
antonyms: unnecessary
glosses: Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.
examples: text: If it is absolutely necessary to use public computers, you should plan ahead and forward your e-mail to a temporary, disposable account.
text: Cæs. Cowards dye many times before their deaths,
The valiant neuer taste of death but once:
Of all the Wonders that I yet haue heard,
It seemes to me most strange that men should feare,
Seeing that death, a necessary end
Will come, when it will come.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], lines 1020-25:
synonyms: inevitable
natural
antonyms: evitable
incidental
impossible
glosses: Unavoidable, inevitable.
examples: text: But that a necessary being should give birth to a being with any amount, however limited, of moral freedom, is infinitely less conceivable than that parents of the insect or fish type should give birth to a perfect mammal.
ref: 1871, Richard Holt Hutton, Essays, volume I, page 53:
glosses: Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
Derived terms: equinecessary
innecessary
necessarian
necessarily
necessary condition
necessary evil
necessary room
necessary woman
nonnecessary
seminecessary
socially necessary labour time
Related terms: necessariness
necessitate
necessitation
necessitousness
necessitude
necessity
necessary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛsəsɹi/
ipa: /ˈnɛsəˌsɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈnɛsəˌsɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈnɛsəɹi/
ipa: /nᵻˈsɛs(ə)ri/
ipa: /ˈnɛsəs(ə)ri/
Forms: form: necessaries
form: necessarys
Etymology: From Middle English necessarye, from Old French necessaire, from Latin necessārius (“unavoidable, inevitable, required”), variant of necesse (“unavoidable, inevitable”), probably from ne or non cessum, from the perfect passive participle of cēdō (“yield; avoid, withdraw”); see cede.
Older use as a noun in reference to an outhouse or lavatory under the influence of English and Latin necessārium, a medieval term for the place for monks’ “unavoidable” business, usually located behind or attached to monastic dormitories.
Senses: examples: text: It soon became fashionable for even the poorest families to have a necessary not far from their cabin. […] The more affluent settlers painted their necessarys in bright colors and carved their names on the doors.
ref: 2009, Don Corbly, The Last Colonials, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 67:
synonyms: word: bathroom
word: latrine
word: necessarium
word: toilet
word: toilet room
word: urinal
word: water closet
word: WC
word: cloaca
word: closet
word: jacques
word: kocay
word: siege
word: cludgie
word: neddy
word: netty
word: shield
word: six
word: facilities
word: ladies and gentlemen
word: lavatory
word: lavabo
word: necessary
word: necessary room
word: office
word: office of ease
word: place
word: potty
word: privy
word: small room
word: smallest room
word: throne room
word: cottage
word: geography
word: House of Lords
word: khazi
word: usual offices
word: restroom
word: teahouse
word: tearoom
word: washroom
raw_tags: used in Canada
word: closet of decency
word: closet of ease
word: house of office
word: necessary place
word: purging place
word: vault
word: withdraught
word: wardrobe
word: shitter
word: urination station
word: bog
word: carsey
word: crapper
word: karzy
word: lats
word: lav
word: lavvy
word: loo
word: thunderbox
raw_tags: in Australia
word: can
word: john
word: johnny
word: bogger
word: brasco
word: dike
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: dunny
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: jacks
word: jakes
qualifier: Rhode Island; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Massachusetts
glosses: A place to do the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory.
raw_tags: with the definite article
examples: text: […] loss of that whole dominion of New England, and consequently of their Majesties' other American Plantations, endangered not only by the want of provisions, but by the many ships, vessels, seamen and other necessarys in New England, ...
ref: 1858, Rhode Island, Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England: 1678-1706, page 285:
ref: 1922, Massachusetts Commission on the Necessaries of Life, Report of the Special Commission on the Necessaries of Life:
glosses: Necessity.
Related terms: word: necessary house
word: necessary place
word: necessary stool
word: necessary vault
pre-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɛ/
ipa: /pɹiː/
ipa: /pɹɛ/
ipa: /pɹi/
ipa: /pɹɪ/
Forms: form: prae-
form: præ-
form: p͛-
Etymology: From Middle English pre-, borrowed from Latin prae-, from the preposition prae (“before”).
Senses: glosses: Before; physically in front of.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Before; physically in front of.
Synonym of anterior.
synonyms: word: anterior
glosses: Before; earlier in time; beforehand.
Synonyms: word: ante-
word: fore-
sense: beforehand
word: ante-
sense: beforehand
word: fore-
Derived terms: pré-
precocious
precognition
predate
pre-existing
prefix
preheat
premonition
pre-op
pre-operative
preposition
prequel
presage
preview
previous
pre-war
Related terms: fore
pre
sorbitol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔː.bɪ.tɒl/
ipa: /ˈsɔɹ.bɪˌtɔl/
Forms: form: sorbitols
Etymology: From earlier sorbite (from sorb + -ite) + -ol. By surface analysis, sorb + -itol.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A faintly sweet alcohol C₆H₁₄O₆ that occurs in some fruits, is made synthetically, and is used especially as a humectant and softener and in making ascorbic acid.
Synonyms: english: as a sweetener
translation: as a sweetener
word: E420
Hypernyms: sugar alcohol
bulldog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊl.dɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈbʊl.dɔɡ/
ipa: /ˈbʊl.dɑɡ/
Forms: form: bulldogs
form: bulldogging
form: bulldogged
form: bulldogged
Etymology: From bull + dog, in reference to bullbaiting.
Senses: examples: text: So to give you some idea, we had scenarios where Yamato came steaming over the horizon and just bulldogged its way straight through the American battleline, and the whole thing was done and dusted inside of an hour, with 18-inch shells just blowing apart anything in sight.
ref: 2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 14:01 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2022:
synonyms: bull
glosses: To force oneself (in a particular direction).
raw_tags: with into or through
glosses: To chase (a steer) on horseback and wrestle it to the ground by twisting its horns (as a rodeo performance).
ahlspiess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ôul'spēsh
ipa: /ˈɔːl.spiːʃ/
Forms: form: ahlspiessen
Etymology: From German Ahlspieß.
Senses: glosses: A polearm used in Germany in the 15th century.
Related terms: awl pike
javelin
lance
spear
cicada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈkeɪ.də/
ipa: /sɪˈkɑː.də/
ipa: [sɪˈkʰeɪ̯.də]
ipa: [sɪˈkʰɑː.də]
ipa: /sɪˈkeɪ.də/
ipa: /sɪˈkɑ.də/
ipa: [sɪ̈ˈkʰeɪ̯.ɾə]
ipa: [sɪ̈ˈkʰɑ.ɾə]
rhymes: -eɪdə
rhymes: -ɑːdə
Forms: form: cicadas
form: cicadae
form: cicadæ
form: cicad
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cicāda, ultimately onomatopoeic. Doublet of cicala.
Senses: examples: text: Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
ref: 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 172:
glosses: Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings.
examples: text: The emergence years of the principal cicada broods have now been recorded for a long time, and the oldest record of a swarm is that of the appearance of the “locusts” in New England two hundred and ninety-five years ago.
ref: 2011, Robert Evans Snodgrass, Insects: Their Ways and Means of Living, page 217:
text: Last year, the Brood I cicadas were found in Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee. The cicadas that will emerge in New Jersey this year are part of Brood II or The East Coast Brood. They will also be found in Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
ref: 2013 May 16, Laura Kroon, “Magicidada coming to New Jersey on May 27”, in Hunterdon County Democrat:
glosses: Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings.
The periodical cicada.
Synonyms: word: cicala
word: harvest fly
word: jarfly
word: lyreman
Hyponyms: sense: periodical cicada
word: seventeen-year locust
sense: periodical cicada
word: decim periodical cicada
Derived terms: bladder cicada
cicadabird
cicada case
cicada-geddon
cicada hawk
cicada killer
dog-day cicada
evening cicada
hairy cicada
periodical cicada
resh cicada
Related terms: cricket
grasshopper
locust
pease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːz/
homophone: peas
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: peasen
Etymology: From Middle English pese (“pea”), from Old English pise (“pea”), from Late Latin pisa, variant of Latin pisum (“pea”), from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson), variant of πίσος (písos).
Senses: examples: text: Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, […]
ref: c. 1760, “Pease Porridge Hot”:
text: It was fiercely cold, but I was a good deal warmed when the lad who drove me, talking of the crops of the country, spoke of “the peasen.” Thank God! I said to myself, there is still some smack of old England left in the land.
ref: 1924, Arthur Machen [pseudonym; Arthur Llewellyn Jones], chapter IV, in The London Adventure or The Art of Wandering, London: Martin Secker, page 113:
glosses: Alternative form of pea (“common plant; its edible seed”).