cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Berlin green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Berlin greens
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: Prussian green
glosses: Ferric ferricyanide; a complex cyanide with a structure similar to that of Prussian blue, used as a green dye.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A color of oil paint thought to resemble the color of the chemical.
chorred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chor
incalescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnkəˈlɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more incalescent
form: most incalescent
Etymology: From Latin incalēscēns, present participle of incalēscere, from in + calēscere (“to grow warm”).
Senses: examples: text: From some undreamed-of reservoir my body summoned up a gravity tank of incalescent libido.
ref: 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Mordecais' Endgame (Don't Point That Thing at Me), page 119:
glosses: Becoming warmer; heating up; calescent.
ashlar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæʃlə/
ipa: /ˈæʃlɚ/
Forms: form: ashlars
form: ashler
Etymology: From Middle English assheler, acheler, etc., from forms of Old French esselier (“wooden support, traverse beam”), from Medieval Latin ascelāris and assellāris (equivalent to a diminutive of early forms of ais (“plank”)), variant of *axillāris (attested only after the Renaissance), from Latin axilla (“little plank”) + -āris (“-ary: forming adjectives”), from axis (“axle, plank”) + -illa (“-ella: forming diminutives”).
Senses: examples: text: The four main spans across the waterway are carried on ashlar piers founded on Memel timber piles.
ref: 1949 November and December, “Notes and News: The High Level Bridge, Newcastle”, in Railway Magazine, page 407:
text: Even as I babbled, Jock's massy frame filled the doorway, his ill-hewn ashlar head weaving from side to side, eyes blinking at the light.
ref: 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 108:
text: By the Augustan period, however, the old ashlar circuit with its earthen agger was beginning to be dismantled in some places.
ref: 2012, Seth G. Bernard, “Continuing the Deabte on Rome's Earliest Circuit Walls”, in Papers of the British School at Rome, number 80, page 2:
text: The building, in a plain Tudor Gothic style, has a central door in chamfered ashlar surround.
ref: 2024 March 6, Dr Joseph Brennan, “England's booking offices of distinction”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 59:
topics: architecture
glosses: Masonry employing flat and well-squared stone or brick, creating an appearance similar to wooden flooring.
examples: text: And from the choir itself, where the big hoist was working, came the shouts of the men sweating at the great wheel that swung the cut stones skyward, and the men high overhead on the hurdle-walks, waiting to receive the swinging ashlars and guide them into place.
ref: 1970, Rosemary Sutcliff, The Witch`s Brat, Red Fox, published 1990, page 83:
topics: architecture
glosses: Stone hewn and finished to create such masonry, either completely or as a facade over an earthen or rubble core.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A stone intended for hurling by means of a catapult or similar device.
Derived terms: ashlared
ashlaring
bastard ashlar
cushdie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cushdie
form: most cushdie
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cushty.
cushdy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cushdy
form: most cushdy
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cushty.
cush
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʊʃ/
ipa: /kʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
homophone: kush
Forms: form: more cush
form: most cush
Etymology: From cushty, from Romani kushto, kushti (“good”).
Senses: examples: text: That car owwer there is propa cush!
glosses: Excellent, very good.
cush
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʊʃ/
ipa: /kʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
homophone: kush
Etymology: From cushy.
Senses: examples: text: Sherrington recalled that Bush's office in the old ballpark was "not very cush" and not what you would expect for the owner of a major league franchise.
ref: 2006, James E. Mueller, Towel Snapping the Press: Bush's Journey from Locker-room Antics to Message Control, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 109:
text: “The Dimonds have adjoining suites. It's all very cush.” “Who died and made you manager?” Courtney asked. “I told you, we bellhops run the place. We know where all the skeletons are buried.” Courtney quipped, “From what I've heard of that hotel, that's no figure of speech.”
ref: 2009, D.J. MacHale, Pendragon: Raven Rise, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: Adirondack Trailways donated bus tickets, realtors wrote checks, local farmers gave seasonal produce for catered meals. Adopted by multiracial parents, Quinn attended a “very cush” Catholic boarding school in California, […]
ref: 2010, Nina Shengold, River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 173:
text: 2015, Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, Jaguar, Chris Hedlund
A very cush deal in which Pablo would do a small amount of time in a prison his own people designed and built. Then he would go free. The resort-like prison was so luxurious it had the DEA fuming.
text: Mia grinned. “Lyndon got rooms for them at The Wauwinet, which is very cush. I stayed there last night.” She whispered to Jade and J.P., “Rumor has it you two spent a night there a while back.”
ref: 2018, Janna King, The Seasonaires: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: Cushy.
cush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʊʃ/
ipa: /kʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
homophone: kush
Forms: form: cushes
Etymology: From cushion.
Senses: topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pool
snooker
sports
glosses: The cushion, the soft lip around the edge of the table that allows the balls to bounce cleanly.
cush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʊʃ/
ipa: /kʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
homophone: kush
Forms: form: cushes
Etymology: Variant of cuisse; compare cuish.
Senses: examples: text: "[…]a breast and placket, taces, gorget, a burgonet with a buffe or chin peece," and also "Armour richly quilt and graven consisting of a backe, breast, cushes, a paire of kneecops, gorget, a pair of short taces, one burgonet […]"
ref: 1880, “The” Archaeological Journal, page 488:
text: […] quissers or cushes covered with cloth of camaca, for the protection of legs and thighs (I. 649); and lastly, a bequest of a targett or shield (II. 657), and of a bokeler covered with plates of silver ...
ref: 1890, London (England). Court of Husting, Calendar of Wills Proved and Enrolled in the Court of Husting, London, A.D. 1258-A.D. 1688: A.D. 1358-1688
text: One black field armour unfinished compleate
One other field armour unfinished, wanting only a pair of cushes
ref: 1963, Oliver Frederick Gillilan Hogg, The Royal Arsenal: Its Background, Origin, and Subsequent History:
glosses: Synonym of cuisse (“armor for the thigh”).
synonyms: word: cuisse
extra: armor for the thigh
cush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʊʃ/
ipa: /kʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
homophone: kush
Etymology: Variant of kush.
Senses: examples: text: “Got caught smoking cush and making out with Franklin Johnson in the memorial garden.” Ugh. This girl has no class. “Did law enforcement press charges?” Lettie asked, concern seeping into her voice. Leave it to Lettie to actually care.
ref: 2012, Ella Monroe, Secrets and Lies: A Capital Girls Novel, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 39:
text: You got those cigarettes and cush / You don't ever let me down
ref: 2017, “Cigarettes & Cush”, performed by Stormzy ft. Lily Allen and Kehlani:
text: […] there's more life than ice and smoking cush because Christ paid the price for us all so Salvation is available; for there is nothing in the streets that's capable of saving you; death, snitching and prison are your only options[…]
ref: 2017, John H. Anderson III, My Road to Salvation: From Harlem to Heaven, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
text: […] smoked crack in a glass pipe or choose to down play it and mix it with some tobacco in a cigarette or some cush[…]
ref: 2018, Ali Taylor, The Chronicles of WaterWorld After the Hough Riots, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 85:
text: Smoking them up and getting high off the few blunts, it was nothing like when they smoked the purple cush,[…]
ref: 2020, Clifford Lee, When Blood Flows, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kush (“marijuana”).
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: cush-cush
myrmecophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myrmeco- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: pertaining to the anteater
examples: text: "Although I made no further study of stomach contents, the myrmecophagous habits of 'Gastrophryne' have come to my attention frequently in the course of routine field work. Individuals kept in confinement for a day or more almost invariably voided feces which consisted mainly or entirely of ant remains, chiefly the heads, as these are most resistant to digestion."
ref: 1956, Henry S. Fitch, A Field Study of the Kansas Ant-Eating Frog, Gastrophryne olivacea:
synonyms: formicivorous
glosses: feeding on ants
Related terms: myrmecophage
myrmecophagy
daint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪnt/
Forms: form: more daint
form: most daint
Senses: examples: text: […] to cherish him with diets daint,
 She cast to bring him, where he chearen might […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Dainty.
daint
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪnt/
Senses: glosses: do not, don't
glosses: didn't
jazz dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jazz dances
Senses: glosses: Any of several forms of improvised rhythmic dancing to jazz music.
glosses: tap dance
jinricksha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌd͡ʒɪnˈɹɪk.ʃə/
Forms: form: jinrickshas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jinriksha.
jinrikisha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jinrikishas
form: jinrikisha
Senses: examples: text: So we take our way in two jinrikisha to the Temple Rin-ko-ji, on Kuboyama. We roll swiftly through a mile of many-colored narrow Japanese streets; […]
ref: 1894, Lafcadio Hearn, “Jizō”, in Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan […], volume I, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, section VII, page 49:
text: Of course the first thing that struck us were the queer wheelbarrows used by the native population in place of the jinrikishas adopted from Japan for the Europeans.
ref: 1895, Douglas Sladen, “Shanghai”, in The Japs at Home. Fifth Edition: To Which Are Added for the First Time Some Bits of China. […], London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward, Lock & Bowden, […], →OCLC, “Bits of China” section, page 284:
glosses: Alternative form of jinriksha.
boiley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A meal of milk and bread boiled.
jump shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jump shots
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump.
atwix
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: From Middle English atwix, atwixen, from a- + twix, twixt ("among"), from a- + tweox (“twofold”), from Proto-Germanic *twiskaz (“twofold, double”).
Senses: glosses: between; betwixt
Keavy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Keeva
form: Keevah
form: Kiva
form: Keava
form: Keva
Etymology: Anglicised form of the Irish and Scottish Gaelic Caoimhe (“beautiful, precious”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish used in Ireland and Scotland.
Related terms: Kevin
kiddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪdi/
ipa: [ˈkʰɪɾi]
ipa: [ˈkʰɘɾiː]
rhymes: -ɪdi
homophone: kitty stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: kiddies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kiddie (“a child”).
glosses: A man or boy.
glosses: A low thief.
Derived terms: kiddyish
kiddy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪdi/
ipa: [ˈkʰɪɾi]
ipa: [ˈkʰɘɾiː]
rhymes: -ɪdi
homophone: kitty stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: kiddies
form: kiddying
form: kiddied
form: kiddied
Senses: examples: text: But some of the Swell Mob, on the occasion of this Derby that I refer to, so far kiddied us as to hire a horse and shay; start away from London by Whitechapel, and miles round; come into Epsom from the opposite direction; […]
ref: 1850 September 14, [Charles Dickens], “Three “Detective” Anecdotes”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words. A Weekly Journal., volume I, number 25, London: Office, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To kid; to hoax or tease.
kiddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪdi/
ipa: [ˈkʰɪɾi]
ipa: [ˈkʰɘɾiː]
rhymes: -ɪdi
homophone: kitty stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: kiddier
form: kiddiest
Senses: examples: text: The concept is really old, the graphics look very kiddy, and the creators are making millions off it.
ref: 2013, Nico Vermeir, Windows 8 App Projects - XAML and C# Edition, page 193:
glosses: Childish.
kiddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiddie
glosses: plural of kiddy
parching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parching
form: most parching
Etymology: From parch + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Who can unpitying see the flowery race, / Shed by the morn, their new-flush'd bloom resign, / Before the parching beam?
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
text: The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.
ref: 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
text: The series of these great events began in the year 1333, fifteen years before the plague broke out in Europe: they first appeared in China. Here a parching drought, accompanied by famine, commenced in the tract of country watered by the rivers Kiang and Hoai.
ref: 1888, J. F. C. Hecker, “Causes.-Spread.”, in B. G. Babington, transl., The Black Death and the Dancing Mania, →OCLC, page 24:
text: I began also to feel very hungry, as not having eaten for twenty-four hours; and worse than that, there was a parching thirst and dryness in my throat, and nothing with which to quench it.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
glosses: Causing something or someone to parch; extremely drying.
examples: text: Proceed to nearest canteen and there annex liquor stores. March! Tramp, tramp, tramp the boys are […] parching.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Very thirsty; parched.
Derived terms: parchingly
parching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From parch + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parch
parching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parchings
Etymology: From parch + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I have already told how we parched sunflower seed; and that I used two or three double-handfuls of seed to a parching. I used two parchings of sunflower seed for one mess of four-vegetables-mixed.
ref: 1917, Studies in the Social Sciences, number 9, page 20:
glosses: The process of parching or roasting something, such as corn.
examples: text: Squalid youths with ghastly grin,
In hollow bitter roots shall bring,
Urine of the unsav'ry goat,
To quell the parchings of thy throat.
ref: 1797, Icelandic Poetry: Or The Edda of Sæmund, page 95:
glosses: The condition of being parched; absolute dryness.
parches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parch
kvetching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛtʃɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kvetch
kvetching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛtʃɪŋ
Forms: form: kvetchings
Senses: glosses: Persistent complaining.
hadaway
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Hadaway wi ye!
glosses: Begone, be off, go away.
Derived terms: hadaway and shite
maté
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæteɪ/
ipa: /ˈmɑteɪ/
rhymes: -æteɪ
rhymes: -ɑːteɪ
Forms: form: matés
form: mate
form: matë
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati.
Senses: synonyms: yerba mate
yerba
glosses: An evergreen tree, Ilex paraguariensis, native to South America, cultivated for its leaves.
examples: text: We spent a month in Buenos Aires drinking nothing but maté and Fernet with soda.
synonyms: maté tea
glosses: A beverage, resembling tea, made from the dried leaves of this plant.
glosses: A cup of this drink.
examples: text: The maté is then filled with yerva, after the bombilla has been placed in position.
ref: 1856 July–October, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume IV, A. and C. Black, page 194:
synonyms: gourd
coordinate_terms: bombilla
glosses: The container used to prepare this drink, traditionally a small calabash.
Derived terms: mateine
poppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: text: Audio (US)
Etymology: Amyl nitrites were originally sold in small glass ampoules wrapped in cloth. Recreational users would crush or "pop" these vials between their fingers to release their vapours, which is thought to be the origin of the slang term.
Senses: examples: text: Have I been doing too much poppers?
ref: 1991, Perry Brass, Mirage, page 161:
text: Amyl nitrate, colloquially called “poppers” has been implicated in the epidemic among gay men.
ref: 1995, California Community Planning Working Group, California HIV Prevention Plan, page 155:
text: Amyl nitrate, or “poppers,” has been popular as a sexual stimulant in male homosexual communities.
ref: 2001, Todd Wilk Estroff, Manual of Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment, page 39:
text: When compared with crystal and its devastating effects, poppers was a relatively mild threat. In fact, many only saw its benefits. “Amyl nitrate is the only drug gay people can claim to know better than straight people"
ref: 2005, The Advocate, numbers 942-953, page 2:
text: People were convinced that 'poppers' was being pumped through the air conditioning units. That the glasses were being rinsed in morphine! They were desperately trying to find some explanation for their excessiveness.
ref: 2005, Helge Janssen, Tell Tale, page 91:
text: Poppers is a solvent which is inhaled, for instance directly from a small bottle.
ref: 2009, Irmgard Eisenbach-Stangl, Jacek Moskalewicz, Betsy Thom, Two Worlds of Drug Consumption in Late Modern Societies:
text: He was a regular at Thursdays, our weekend hangout, and I had fucked his head up one night by encouraging him to sniff way too much poppers […].
ref: 2012, Jodi.C.King, I Was a Killing Joke: A Bird's Eye View:
text: This rhyming lark's not as hard as it seems Just like fucking on too much poppers.
ref: 2020, Jon Bradfield, Martin Hooper, He's Behind You: Eleven Gay Pantomimes:
glosses: Drugs of the alkyl nitrate class used recreationally as a sexual stimulant, especially among gay men.
poppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: text: Audio (US)
Etymology: Amyl nitrites were originally sold in small glass ampoules wrapped in cloth. Recreational users would crush or "pop" these vials between their fingers to release their vapours, which is thought to be the origin of the slang term.
Senses: examples: text: Poppers are used commonly during social events such as dancing and for muscle relaxation during sex. Poppers are most commonly used in the lesbian and gay population , but have been experimented with by others as well.
ref: 1991, Brenda Smith Faison, Laila Moustafa, The AIDS Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Handbook, page 26:
text: Hank Wilson, a gay activist in San Francisco who founded the Committee to Monitor Poppers in 1981 , is candid about why poppers are so prevalent.
ref: 1994 November 24, SPIN, volume 10, number 8, page 87:
text: When the original case-control studies of men with HIV infection were performed, poppers were associated with having AIDS, but there were concerns that this was the result of confounding with indices of sexual activity
ref: 2008, Scott D. Holmberg, Scientific Errors and Controversies in the U.S. HIV/AIDS, page 31:
glosses: plural of popper
Matengo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a language of southern Tanzania
rods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɒdz/
ipa: /ɹɑdz/
Senses: glosses: plural of rod
rods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɒdz/
ipa: /ɹɑdz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rod
mathematizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mathematize
spoons
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /spuːnz/
rhymes: -uːnz
Senses: examples: text: "[…] You look very fit, Grannie, and Jerry says Aunt Mary is too young to be my aunt; I believe he is spoons on her already - what ho! my Uncle Jerry! Come and be introduced."
ref: 1922, Lydia Miller Middleton, The Happy Adventures:
text: […] she will have grown older and wiser by that time; besides, I'm awful spoons on her—she is the sweetest little thing.
ref: 1876, The Young Ladies' Journal, page 548:
glosses: Foolishly infatuated with; having a romantic crush on (used with on).
spoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spuːnz/
rhymes: -uːnz
Senses: glosses: A child's card game.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A pair of spoons used as a musical instrument by tapping them on parts of the body.
Related terms: english: musical instrument
translation: musical instrument
word: bones
spoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spuːnz/
rhymes: -uːnz
Senses: glosses: plural of spoon
Derived terms: spoonist
spoons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spuːnz/
rhymes: -uːnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spoon
Related terms: spoonie
mathematize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mathematizes
form: mathematizing
form: mathematized
form: mathematized
form: mathematise
Etymology: From mathemat(ic) + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To describe in terms of a mathematical equation.
Derived terms: mathematizability
mathematizable
mathematization
Matrixism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From matrix + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A minor modern religion based on the science-fiction franchise The Matrix.
Matumbi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Tanzania.
Synonyms: Kimatuumbi
Kimatuumbi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language of Tanzania
maturable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maturable
form: most maturable
Etymology: From mature + -able.
Senses: glosses: capable of maturing
Derived terms: maturability
maturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mature
maugre
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔː.ɡə/
ipa: /ˈmɔɡɚ/
rhymes: -ɔːɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: magre
form: malgre
form: mauger
form: maulgre
form: maugree
Etymology: From Middle English maugre, from Anglo-Norman malgré, from mal (“bad”) + gre (“pleasure, grace”) (from Old French, from Latin gratum).
Senses: examples: text: He saugh a mayde walkinge him biforn, / Of whiche mayde anon, maugree hir heed, / By verray force he rafte hir maydenheed; […]
ref: [c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by Skeat, The Wife of Bath's Tale (in Middle English):
text: In my mind it is a ſign of a great deal of natural Integrity and inbred Nobleneſs of ſpirit, that maugre the heavineſs of his Complexion that thus ſtrongly bears him dovvn from apprehending ſo concerning Metaphyſicall Truths, yet he retains ſo vivid reſentments of the more sſolid Morality.
ref: 1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The First Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph II, page 6:
text: He chains the Deev in the centre of the mountain, and at the suit of Merjân hastens to attack another powerful Deev named Houdkonz; but here, alas! fortune deserts him, and, maugre his talismans and enchanted arms, the gallant Tahmuras falls beneath his foe.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 31:
synonyms: word: despite
word: regardless of
word: despite
word: for all
word: irrespective of
word: maugre
word: notwithstanding
word: regardless of
word: in spite of
word: without considering
word: without regard for
glosses: In spite of, notwithstanding.
maugre
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔː.ɡə/
ipa: /ˈmɔɡɚ/
rhymes: -ɔːɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: magre
form: malgre
form: mauger
form: maulgre
form: maugree
Etymology: From Middle English maugre, from Anglo-Norman malgré, from mal (“bad”) + gre (“pleasure, grace”) (from Old French, from Latin gratum).
Senses: examples: text: cruell Mulciber would not obay / His threatfull pride, but did the more augment / His mighty rage, and with imperious sway / Him forst (maulgre) his fiercenesse to relent, / And backe retire […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book III, canto xi:
glosses: Notwithstanding, despite everything.
Synonyms: even so
nonetheless
withal
nevertheless
maugre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔː.ɡə/
ipa: /ˈmɔɡɚ/
rhymes: -ɔːɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: magre
form: malgre
form: mauger
form: maulgre
form: maugree
Etymology: From Middle English maugre, from Anglo-Norman malgré, from mal (“bad”) + gre (“pleasure, grace”) (from Old French, from Latin gratum).
Senses: glosses: Ill will; spite.
Mbunga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language of Tanzania.
MCS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of multiple chemical sensitivity.
glosses: Initialism of minimally conscious state.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of medium close shot.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of mesoscale convective system.
MCS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Marine Conservation Society.
multiple chemical sensitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: a chronic disease caused by a person's inability to tolerate a variety of environmental substances
Synonyms: MCS
mediagenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mediagenic
form: most mediagenic
Etymology: From media + -genic, by analogy with photogenic.
Senses: glosses: thought of by the news media as an attractive subject
Derived terms: mediagenically
mediagenicity
melomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛlə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/
Etymology: From melo- + -mania, after French mélomanie.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An abnormal love of music.
Derived terms: melomaniac
meroblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meroblast + -ic or mero- + -blastic.
Senses: glosses: that undergoes only partial cleavage
raw_tags: of a fertilized egg
Derived terms: meroblastically
Related terms: holoblastic
Meru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit मेरु (Mēru)
Senses: examples: 2003, J. Dina Bagdel, John C. Huntington Buddhist Cosmology: Environment of Meditative Transformation: Mount Meru, John C. Huntington, Dina Bangdel, Robert A. F. Thurman, The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art, page 66,
Buddhist realizations and transformations take place in a sacred meditational space known as Mount Meru, or Sumeru. In Western-language literature, the Mount Meru system is often construed as the "Buddhist universe," but this description is misleading as it implies a singular phenomenon. The Mount Meru system is indeed an expression of Buddhist cosmology, but it describes structure of the cosmos.
2013, Eric Huntington, Portrait of a Landscape: Depictions of the Meru Cosmos in Buddhist Art & Culture, Dissertation, University of Chicago.
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: The abode of the gods at the center of the universe in Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions.
raw_tags: with "Mount"
Synonyms: sense: mountain abode of gods in Buddhist, Hindu and Jainistic traditions
word: Mount Meru
sense: mountain abode of gods in Buddhist, Hindu and Jainistic traditions
word: Sumeru
Meru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Meru Ameru
Senses: glosses: The Ameru people of Kenya.
glosses: The Ameru language.
glosses: A region and county of Kenya where the Ameru people live.
Meru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: It was in 1902, six years after the killings, however, that a church and school were built near Akeri, specifically at Nkoaranga on the slopes of Mount Meru (Baroin 1995, 3).
ref: 2009, Dale C. Williams, Leadership and Leadership Development in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania: An Investigation into Patterns and Processes in the Meru Diocese, page 9:
glosses: A mountain in Arusha, Tanzania.
raw_tags: with "Mount"
glosses: A people of northern Tanzania, of the Arumeru district of Arusha region.
Synonyms: sense: mountain in Tanzania
word: Mount Meru
Meru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain in the Indian section of the Himalayas.
raw_tags: with "Peak"
Synonyms: sense: mountain in India
word: Meru Peak
Meruimenti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language
Merutig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language of Kenya.
mesoblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mesoblastic
form: most mesoblastic
Etymology: From mesoblast + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: of, relating to, or resembling the mesoblast
Namboothiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Namboothiris
form: Namboothiri
form: Nambooree
form: Namboori
form: Nambudiri
form: Namburi
form: Nampoothiri
form: Nampootiri
Senses: examples: text: The Namboothiri are said to be the most orthodox brahmins in India.
glosses: A Malayali Brahmin of the Nambūdiri subcaste, traditionally the most elite in the Indian state of Kerala, and known for extreme orthodoxy.
mesoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoblasts
Etymology: From meso- + -blast.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: the middle, germinal layer of undifferentiated cells of an early embryo; it becomes the mesoderm
Derived terms: coelomesoblast
mesoblastic
messmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: messmates
Etymology: From mess + mate.
Senses: examples: text: Messmates, ahoy! Come here! Come here!
ref: 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC:
text: The cap’n was displeased at that, but my messmates were all of a mind and landed.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An associate with whom one shares a mess (eating place) on a ship.
glosses: Any of various eucalypts with rough bark, specifically Eucalyptus obliqua.
metafiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metafictions
Etymology: From meta- + fiction, coined in 1970 by William H. Gass
Senses: examples: text: Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot (1984) and Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and Chatterton may be described as accomplished examples of historiographic metafiction, the kind of self-conscious, heavily parodic and experimental historical […]
ref: 1999, Susana Onega Jaén, Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd, Camden House, →ISBN, page 1:
text: In the previous chapter, I presented a heuristic explanation of the development of metafiction. In this chapter, I turn to some texts written before the 1980s to demonstrate that the binary between realism and metafiction is not fixed.
ref: 2010, Evan Mwangi, Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: A form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself.
wikipedia: William H. Gass
Derived terms: historiographic metafiction
metafictionist
Related terms: metafictional
metafictive
midfiction
metatext
intertextuality
consilient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consilient
form: most consilient
Etymology: From consilience, from Latin con- (“together”) + salio (“to leap”).
Senses: glosses: Of academic disciplines, displaying consilience.
Derived terms: consiliently
consiliences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consilience
oneironaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˈnaɪɹənɔːt/
ipa: /əˈnaɪɹənɔːt/
ipa: /oʊˈnaɪɹoʊnɔt/
Forms: form: oneironauts
Etymology: From oneiro- + -naut.
Senses: examples: text: During a lucid dream it is possible for the dreamer (or “oneironaut,” as LaBerge puts it) to think reasonably clearly, remember the conditions of waking life and act voluntarily, all while remaining soundly, restfully asleep.
ref: 2004 July 18, Lawrence Osborne, “Inward Bound”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Jun 2015:
text: Without special training, he was a natural “oneironaut” or “dream navigator.” From early childhood, he could control his dreams. He used to “wake up” within a dream. Fully lucid, he was aware he was dreaming.
ref: 2007, Mel Waldman, “Casablanca”, in This Is Not A Murder Mystery, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: A person who explores dream worlds, usually associated with lucid dreaming.
Related terms: oneironautics
lucid dreaming
blackfellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblakfɛləʊ/
Forms: form: blackfellows
form: blackfella
form: blackfellah
form: blackfeller
form: black fellow
form: blackfulla
Etymology: From black + fellow.
Senses: examples: text: "Me like my country — no much too hot, no much too cold. By and bye, white fellow come — soldier-man come. White fellow say, this our land, that our land — ALL country our land. Black fellow say no! my country no white fellow's country, and black fellow take spear.
ref: 1842 February 16, The Inquirer, Perth, page 5, column 2:
text: He was squatting on the ground like a blackfellow, quiet and still and cunning.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 40:
text: It was as if the blackfellas were their property, and the Board could do with them as they saw fit.
ref: 2000, Daryl Tonkin, Carolyn Landon, Jackson's Track: Memoir of a Dreamtime Place, page 256:
text: A blackfella and a whitefella are sitting at the bar. The whitefella says to the blackfella eh boss, whadya reckon?
The blackfella says since you ask, I consider it a metaphor of the historic case of the Coorong massacre of 1840.
ref: 2002, James Roberts, “At the Bar”, in Rebekah Clarkson, editor, Forked Tongues: A Delicious Anthology of Poetry and Prose, page 29:
text: Most police officers had no blackfella cultural background, no knowledge of Aboriginal priorities in life, yet they were the power in the town.
ref: 2007, Noel Olive, Enough is Enough: A History of the Pilbara Mob, page 212:
coordinate_terms: whitefellow
qualifier: now usually considered offensive
glosses: A (male) Australian Aboriginal.
when it rains, it pours
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Unfortunate events occur in streaks or clusters, often in short periods of time.
Synonyms: it never rains but it pours
misfortunes never come singly
Sumerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /s(j)ʊˈmɪəɹiən/
ipa: /səˈmɪəɹiən/
ipa: /sʊˈmɛɹiən/
ipa: /səˈmɛɹiən/
homophone: Samarian stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɪəɹiən
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From Sumer + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: "Could be. Anyway, Sumerian culture—the society based on me—was another manifestation of the metavirus. Expect that in this case, it was in a linguistic form rather than DNA."
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, →ISBN, page 371:
glosses: Of, from or pertaining to Sumer.
glosses: Of, from or pertaining to lower Babylonia, which was anciently called Šumer in Akkadian.
Sumerian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /s(j)ʊˈmɪəɹiən/
ipa: /səˈmɪəɹiən/
ipa: /sʊˈmɛɹiən/
ipa: /səˈmɛɹiən/
homophone: Samarian stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɪəɹiən
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Sumerians
Etymology: From Sumer + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A person of Sumer.
glosses: A native of lower Babylonia, called Šumer in Akkadian.
Sumerian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /s(j)ʊˈmɪəɹiən/
ipa: /səˈmɪəɹiən/
ipa: /sʊˈmɛɹiən/
ipa: /səˈmɛɹiən/
homophone: Samarian stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɪəɹiən
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From Sumer + -ian.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The ancient language spoken in Sumer, a language isolate.
Related terms: Sumer
Shinar
Emegir
Emesal
Wiktionary’s coverage of Sumerian terms
dorus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doru
defused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defuse
pediment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛd.ɪ.mənt/
rhymes: -ɛdɪmənt
Forms: form: pediments
Etymology: From the earlier form peremint, perhaps a dialectal alteration of pyramid, under the influence of -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Passing the Congregation Shearith Israel on Central Park West (a white whale of a building with a triangular pediment supported by four count ’em four massive Corinthian columns), Professor Solanka scurrying through the downpour remembered the newly bat-mitzvahed thirteen-year-old girl he’d glimpsed through the side door, […]
ref: 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 5:
topics: architecture
glosses: A classical architectural element consisting of a triangular section or gable found above the horizontal superstructure (entablature) which lies immediately upon the columns; fronton.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A very gently sloping (0.5°-7°) inclined bedrock surface.
Derived terms: gooseneck pediment
pedimental
pedimented
Related terms: frontispiece
tympanum
Father of Lies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Father of Lies
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The devil; Satan.
glosses: Herodotus, so called because of his controversial works.
Related terms: Lucifer
Satan
metagenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: metagenetic
Related terms: metagenics
metagenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + genetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or produced as a result of metagenesis.
glosses: Relating to metagenetics.
Derived terms: ecometagenetic
metagenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɛtəˈd͡ʒɛnəsɪs/
Forms: form: metageneses
Etymology: From meta- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The production of sexual and asexual organisms in alternate generations.
Synonyms: alternation of generations
heterogenesis
Related terms: monogenesis
parthenogenesis
metaphrastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metaphrastic
form: most metaphrastic
Senses: glosses: of, relating to, or produced using metaphrase; literal in translation
Derived terms: metaphrastically
metaphrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaphrases
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μεταφράζομαι (metaphrázomai, “consider after”). By surface analysis, meta- + phrase.
Senses: glosses: A literal, word-for-word translation.
examples: text: I'm somewhat dull still in the manly art
Of phrase and metaphrase. Why, any man
Can carve a score of white Loves out of snow,
As Buonarroti down in Florence there,
And set them on the wall in some safe shade […]
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Eighth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: An answering phrase; repartee.
metaphrase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: metaphrases
form: metaphrasing
form: metaphrased
form: metaphrased
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μεταφράζομαι (metaphrázomai, “consider after”). By surface analysis, meta- + phrase.
Senses: glosses: To make such a literal translation.
Related terms: Translation
metaplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metaplastic
form: most metaplastic
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or produced by metaplasia.
glosses: Relating to metaplasticity.
Derived terms: metaplastic carcinoma
nonmetaplastic
metaplasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaplasias
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The conversion of one type of tissue into another.
Derived terms: agnogenic myeloid metaplasia
chondrometaplasia
cytometaplasia
metaplasic
sialometaplasia
syringometaplasia
metazoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From metazoa + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the metazoa.
metazoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metazoan
glosses: plural of metazoon
Derived terms: metazoic
micrometazoa
middie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪdi
homophone: midi
Forms: form: middies
form: middy
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a midshipman
glosses: A measure of 285 ml (10 fl oz) of beer; a pot.
midshipman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midshipmen
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An officer of the lowest rank in several navies; especially, a trainee officer.
glosses: A midshipman fish.
Derived terms: middie
midshipman fish
midshipmanship
midshipman's hitch
midshipmite
plainfin midshipman
Related terms: shipmaster
shipman
navies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of navy
Related terms: navvies
navvies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of navvy
glosses: plural of navvie
navvies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of navvy
Related terms: navies
middleaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of middle-aged.
middle ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middle grounds
form: middle-ground
Senses: examples: text: You need to find the middle ground between the two extremes.
text: But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which [Justin] Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).
ref: 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020:
text: " [...] I want to work with the unions, I want to listen to their demands. We're not always going to agree, of course, but they want public ownership of the railways to work, and we want public ownership of the railways to work, so actually there's a middle ground here."
ref: 2022 April 6, Conrad Landin, “ScotRail in the public eye...”, in RAIL, number 954, page 40:
text: This is not a land of blowouts. It’s a middle ground, and that’s reflected in voter registration rolls. Nearly 2.6 million North Carolinians declare themselves unaffiliated, while just over 2.4 million identify as Democrats and just under 2.2 million as Republicans. We don’t tilt. We teeter.
ref: 2023 May 4, Frank Bruni, “Republicans Are Running Wild in My State”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A compromise position between extremes.
topics: art
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: The middle distance.
Derived terms: middle-grounder
Related terms: golden mean
compromise
mid-morning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + morning.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or occurring in the midmorning.
mid-morning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mid-mornings
Etymology: From mid- + morning.
Senses: examples: text: As with other tourist lines, actual peak demand is from mid-morning to late afternoon - 'off peak' in conventional fares jargon. This can (and does) result in overcrowding at off-peak times and near empty trains at 'peak' hours. National one-size-fits-all simply does not apply on the S&C.
ref: 2021 October 20, Mark Rand, “S&C: a line fit for tourists... and everyone?”, in RAIL, number 942, page 42:
glosses: Alternative form of midmorning.
midmorning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midmornings
form: mid-morning
Etymology: From mid- + morning. Compare Middle English midmorwen, midmorwe (“midmorning”).
Senses: glosses: The middle of the morning.
mill around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mills around
form: milling around
form: milled around
form: milled around
Senses: examples: text: "I hope you don't think you're going to mill around out here alone," Rowdy said tartly.
ref: 1907, B. M. Bower, chapter 2, in Rowdy of the Cross L:
text: There were a few eager teens milling around in the parking lot.
ref: 2008 April 30, Matt Selman, “Grand Theft Auto IV: The 6.24% Review”, in Time:
glosses: To move or circulate in a confused or disorderly manner within a limited area.
raw_tags: of a group of people
Inari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 稲荷 (Inari).
Senses: topics: Shinto
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: The god of harvests, fertility, rice, agriculture, foxes, industry, and worldly success.
Inari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A lake in Lapland, Finland.
glosses: A municipality of Lapland, Finland.
glosses: A village in the municipality of Inari, Lapland, Finland.
glosses: A Saami language: the Inari Sami.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 1532 Inari, a main belt asteroid.
Kildin Sami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the languages spoken by the Sami people, written using the Cyrillic alphabet (http://www.omniglot.com/writing/saami.htm).
scurfy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɜː(ɹ)fi/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fi
Forms: form: scurfier
form: scurfiest
form: scurvy
Etymology: From scurf + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Many of these natives, especially the lower classes, and fishermen, have their skins disfigured in a singular manner, by a sort of scurfy disease, similar to the ring-worm, or rather to a person whose skin was peeling off from the effects of the sun.
ref: 1848 December, “Pacific Ocean: The Island of Bornabi”, in The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, volume 17, number 12, page 647:
text: "[A]nd who do you think were sittting there? Why, my mother and your father of course, both mending boots; and all of a sudden my mother gave your father such a blow with an old boot, that the scurf flew out of his hair!" "There you tell a lie," shouted the princess; "my father never was scurfy!"
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 247:
glosses: Characterized by scurf; covered with scurf.
Derived terms: northern scurfy Quaker moth
scurfy pea
scabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scab
scabs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scab
chiggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chigger
time-line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-lines
Senses: glosses: Dated form of timeline.