cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊnd/
ipa: /ˈbuːnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: bownd
Etymology: From Middle English bound, bund (preterite) and bounden, bunden, ibunden, ȝebunden (past participle), from Old English bund- and bunden, ġebunden respectively. See bind.
Senses: examples: text: You are not legally bound to reply.
text: Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Hocussing of Cigarette”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
glosses: Obliged (to).
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: That cannot stand alone as a free word.
raw_tags: of a morpheme
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Constrained by a quantifier.
raw_tags: of a variable
glosses: Constipated; costive.
examples: text: railbound
glosses: Confined or restricted to a certain place.
examples: text: snowbound
glosses: Unable to move in certain conditions.
Hyponyms: book-bound
culture-bound
dutybound
dynamic-bound
earthbound
egg-bound
fardel-bound
fluid-bound
fogbound
harmonically bound
I/O bound
inbound
late-bound
outbound
pot-bound
prison-bound
railbound
rootbound
rulebound
snowbound
soulbound
spiralbound
strikebound
timebound
time-bound
weatherbound
weather-bound
wheelchairbound
wheelchair-bound
winter-bound
word-bound
Derived terms: airbound
antibound
barkbound
bedbound
boatbound
boundation
bound bailiff
bound form
bound morpheme
boundness
bound property
bound state
boundstone
bound termineme
bound up
bound water
brassbound
browbound
calfbound
casebound
cellbound
chairbound
cliffbound
clothbound
cobound
colourbound
couchbound
cropbound
deathbound
deskbound
dreambound
firbound
flexibound
footbound
frostbound
full-bound
half-bound
handbound
hardbound
hidebound
homebound
hoofbound
horsebound
housebound
icebound
imbound
ironbound
kneebound
landbound
leaps and bounds
leatherbound
mossbound
musclebound
nonbound
oathbound
paperbound
perfect-bound
platebound
prebound
printbound
quasibound
rainbound
rangebound
rockbound
scalebound
screenbound
seabound
shipbound
skinbound
skybound
sleepbound
softbound
spellbound
spiralbound
stagebound
stormbound
traditionbound
treebound
upbound
windbound
wirebound
Related terms: data-bound
early-bound
bound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊnd/
ipa: /ˈbuːnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: more bound
form: most bound
form: bownd
Etymology: From Middle English bownde, alternation (with -d partly for euphonic effect and partly by association with Etymology 1 above) of Middle English boun, from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“to prepare”).
Senses: examples: text: This certain,—that a band of war / Has for two days been ready boune, / At prompt command to march from Doune […].
ref: 1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 4.III:
glosses: Ready, prepared.
examples: text: Which way are you bound? —I'm already homeward bound.
text: Is that message bound for me?
text: Ar. […]and for the reſt o'th' Fleet / (Which I diſpers'd) they all haue met againe, / And are vpon the Mediterranean Flote / Bound ſadly home for Naples, / Suppoſing that they ſaw the Kings ſhip wrackt, / And his great perſon periſh.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4:
glosses: Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
examples: text: They were bound to come into conflict eventually.
text: When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: Don’t go around tonight— / Well, it’s bound to take your life: / There’s a bad moon on the rise.
ref: 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Bad Moon Rising”:
glosses: Very likely (to), certain to
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from the adjective bound ("moving in the direction of")
word: -bound
sense: terms derived from the adjective bound ("moving in the direction of")
word: bound for
sense: terms derived from the adjective bound ("moving in the direction of")
word: homeward bound
Related terms: bound to
I'll be bound
I dare be bound
bound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊnd/
ipa: /ˈbuːnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: bounds
form: bownd
Etymology: From Middle English bounde, from Old French bunne, from Medieval Latin bodina, earlier butina (“a bound, limit”).
Senses: examples: text: I reached the northern bound of my property, took a deep breath and walked on.
text: Somewhere within these bounds you may find a buried treasure.
text: Wyth cry unreverent,
Before the sacrament,
Wythin the holy church bowndis,
That of our fayth the grownd is.
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 11–14:
text: It was sung from the top of the oldest house in the burgh every June at the Common riding, which served both for a perambulation of the bounds of the common pastures or Haughs and to commemorate the young men of Harwick[.]
ref: 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 27:
glosses: A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
raw_tags: used in plural
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from the noun bound ("boundary, limit")
word: Bekenstein bound
sense: terms derived from the noun bound ("boundary, limit")
word: boundary
sense: terms derived from the noun bound ("boundary, limit")
word: Bound Brook
sense: terms derived from the noun bound ("boundary, limit")
word: boundless
sense: terms derived from the noun bound ("boundary, limit")
word: boundsgoer
sense: terms derived from the noun bound ("boundary, limit")
word: Chapman-Robbins bound
sense: terms derived from the noun bound ("boundary, limit")
word: Cramér-Rao bound
sense: terms derived from the noun bound ("boundary, limit")
word: disbound
sense: terms derived from the noun bound ("boundary, limit")
word: Hammersley-Chapman-Robbins bound
sense: terms derived from the noun bound ("boundary, limit")
word: harmonic bounding
sense: terms derived from the noun bound ("boundary, limit")
word: least upper bound
sense: terms derived from the noun bound ("boundary, limit")
word: lower bound
sense: terms derived from the noun bound ("boundary, limit")
word: metes and bounds
sense: terms derived from the noun bound ("boundary, limit")
word: out of bounds
sense: terms derived from the noun bound ("boundary, limit")
word: overbound
sense: terms derived from the noun bound ("boundary, limit")
word: Tsirelson bound
sense: terms derived from the noun bound ("boundary, limit")
word: upper bound
sense: terms derived from the noun bound ("boundary, limit")
word: within bounds
sense: terms derived from the noun bound ("boundary, limit")
word: zero lower bound
bound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊnd/
ipa: /ˈbuːnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: bounds
form: bounding
form: bounded
form: bounded
form: bownd
Etymology: From Middle English bounden, from the noun (see above).
Senses: examples: text: France, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra bound Spain.
text: Kansas is bounded by Nebraska on the north, Missouri on the east, Oklahoma on the south and Colorado on the west.
text: Mexico is bounded on the north by the United States of America, whose frontier is marked as follows: from the mouth of the Rio Bravo, or Rio Grande del Norte, following the course of the river to the parallel of 31° 47'; […]
ref: 1884, Alfred Ronald Conkling, Appleton's Guide to Mexico, page 25:
text: The Scottish Region is issuing a Day Rail-Rover Ticket, available at 12 hours' notice, permitting unlimited travel in an area bounded by Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Dundee, Perth, Comrie, Callander, Stirling and Falkirk for 25s. (children, 12s. 6d.). . . .
ref: 1960 September, “Talking of Trains: News in Brief”, in Trains Illustrated, page 523:
glosses: To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary of.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To be the bound of.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from bound (verb: limit)
word: boundable
sense: terms derived from bound (verb: limit)
word: metes and bounds
sense: terms derived from bound (verb: limit)
word: unbound
sense: terms derived from bound (verb: limit)
word: unbounded
sense: terms derived from bound (verb: limit)
word: underbound
bound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊnd/
ipa: /ˈbuːnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: bounds
form: bownd
Etymology: From Middle English *bounden (attested as bounten), from French bondir (“leap", "bound", originally "make a loud resounding noise”); perhaps from Late Latin bombitāre (“hum, buzz”), frequentative verb, from Latin bombus (“a humming or buzzing”).
Senses: examples: text: The deer crossed the stream in a single bound.
glosses: A sizeable jump, great leap.
glosses: A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
examples: text: Balzo, a bound of a ball
ref: 1598, John Florio, “Balzo”, in A Worlde of Words, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield for Edw[ard] Blount, →OCLC:
glosses: A bounce; a rebound.
Derived terms: by leaps and bounds
bound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊnd/
ipa: /ˈbuːnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: bounds
form: bounding
form: bounded
form: bounded
form: bownd
Etymology: From Middle English *bounden (attested as bounten), from French bondir (“leap", "bound", originally "make a loud resounding noise”); perhaps from Late Latin bombitāre (“hum, buzz”), frequentative verb, from Latin bombus (“a humming or buzzing”).
Senses: examples: text: The rabbit bounded down the lane.
text: But when I turn away, / Thou, willing me to stay, / Wooest not, nor vainly wranglest; / But, looking fixedly the while, / All my bounding heart entanglest, / In a golden-netted smile; […]
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Madeleine”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza 3, page 19:
text: They make love, he hauls her to the bath, washes her, hauls her out and dries her, and twenty minutes later Mary and Magnus are bounding across the little park on the top of Döbling like the happy couple they nearly are, past the sandpits and the climbing frame that Tom is too big for, past the elephant cage where Tom kicks his football, down the hill towards the Restaurant Teheran which is their improbable pub because Magnus so adores the black and white videos of Arab romances they play for you with the sound down while you eat your couscous and drink your Kalterer.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: To leap, move by jumping.
examples: text: to bound a horse
text: […] Or if I might buffet for my Loue, or bound my Horſe for her fauours, I could lay on like a Butcher, and fit like a Iack an Apes, neuer off.
ref: , Act V, Scene II, page 93
glosses: To cause to leap.
examples: text: A rubber ball bounds on the floor.
glosses: To rebound; to bounce.
examples: text: to bound a ball on the floor
glosses: To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
Derived terms: bound ahead
bounder
boundling
overbound
rebound
bitten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪtn̩/
rhymes: -ɪtən
Etymology: Morphologically bit + -en.
Senses: examples: text: My dog has never bitten anyone before.
glosses: past participle of bite
Derived terms: bitten by the same bug
bittenness
fleabitten
flea-bitten
fly-bitten
forebitten
frostbitten
hard-bitten
hungerbitten
once bitten, twice shy
snakebitten
unbitten
windbitten
yeast-bitten
bitten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪtn̩/
rhymes: -ɪtən
Etymology: Morphologically bit + -en.
Senses: examples: text: the postman's bitten leg
glosses: That has received a bite.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: premorse
glosses: Abruptly cut off, as roots or leaves may be.
bleed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbliːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: bleeds
Etymology: From Middle English bleden, from Old English blēdan (“to bleed”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *blōþijaną (“to bleed”), from *blōþą (“blood”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots blede, bleid (“to bleed”), Saterland Frisian bläide (“to bleed”), West Frisian bliede (“to bleed”), Dutch bloeden (“to bleed”), Low German blöden (“to bleed”), German bluten (“to bleed”), Danish bløde (“to bleed”), Swedish blöda (“to bleed”).
Senses: glosses: An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
examples: text: When taking off at high altitude or at near-maximum weight, the bleeds have to be turned off temporarily, as they decrease engine power somewhat.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
qualifier: sound recording
glosses: The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
glosses: The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game.
Derived terms: bench bleed
bleed air
bleed edge
bleed-edge
bleed-sheet
bleed-through
nose bleed
bled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Etymology: See bleed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bleed
Derived terms: nonbled
unbled
bled
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: bleds
Etymology: From French bled, from Algerian Arabic, from Arabic بِلَاد (bilād).
Senses: glosses: Hinterland, field.
raw_tags: in parts of French North Africa
blow
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bləʊ/
ipa: /blɑː/
ipa: /bloʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Etymology: From Middle English blowen, from Old English blāwan (“to blow, breathe, inflate, sound”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāan, from Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”) (compare German blähen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow up”) (compare Latin flō (“to blow”) and Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”)).
Senses: examples: text: [H]e suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said 'Bother!' and 'Oh blow!' and also 'Hang spring-cleaning!' and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, “The River Bank”, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, pages 1–2:
glosses: Used to express displeasure or frustration.
blow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bləʊ/
ipa: /blɑː/
ipa: /bloʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: blower
form: more blow
form: blowest
form: most blow
Etymology: From Middle English blo, bloo, from Old English blāw (“blue”), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue, grey, black”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlēw- (“yellow, blond, grey”). Cognate with Latin flavus (“yellow”). Doublet of blue.
Senses: qualifier: otherwise obsolete
glosses: Blue.
Related terms: black and blue
blow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bləʊ/
ipa: /blɑː/
ipa: /bloʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: blows
form: blowing
form: blew
form: blown
Etymology: From Middle English blowen, from Old English blōwan, from Proto-Germanic *blōaną (compare Dutch bloeien, German blühen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (compare Latin florēre (“to bloom”)).
Senses: examples: text: You ſeeme to me as Diane in her Orbe, / As chaſte as is the budde ere it be blowne:
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 114, column 2:
text: How blows the citron grove.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Boys are at best but pretty buds unblown, / Whose scent and hues are rather guessed than known;
ref: 1784, William Cowper, Tirocinium; or, A Review of Schools:
text: No joy the blowing season gives,
⁠The herald melodies of spring,
⁠But in the songs I love to sing
A doubtful gleam of solace lives.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXVIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 59:
text: Irám indeed is gone with all its Rose,
And Jamshýd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows;
But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields,
And still a Garden by the Water blows.
ref: 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2:
text: Romanesco is slow to blow and more forgiving to grow than most cauliflowers, while being perhaps the most delicious and certainly the nuttiest-flavoured of the lot.
ref: 2015 January 26, Mark Diacono, “How to grow and cook cauliflower, 2015's trendiest veg”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening):
glosses: To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
Derived terms: full-blown
blow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bləʊ/
ipa: /blɑː/
ipa: /bloʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: blows
Etymology: From Middle English blowen, from Old English blōwan, from Proto-Germanic *blōaną (compare Dutch bloeien, German blühen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (compare Latin florēre (“to bloom”)).
Senses: examples: text: roses in full blow
text: [F]lowers that in perennial blow / Round the moist marge of Persian fountains cling; […]
ref: 1820, William Wordsworth, “The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets. Sonnet I.”, in The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets: Vaudracour and Julia; and Other Poems. […], London: […] [Andrew and Robert Spottiswoode] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, […], →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: A state of flowering; a bloom.
examples: text: [H]e believed he could shew me such a blow of tulips as was not to be matched in the whole country.
ref: 1710 September 11 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Joseph Addison], “Thursday, August 31, 1710”, in The Tatler, number 218; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume III, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, →OCLC, page 212:
text: Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards; / Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave, / Night and day journeys a coffin.
ref: 1865 (indicated as 1865–1866), Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps. […] When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d. And Other Pieces, Washington, D.C.: Gibson Brothers, […], →OCLC, canto 5, stanza 8, page 4:
glosses: A display or mass of flowers; a yield.
glosses: A display of anything bright or brilliant.
Related terms: ablow
elder-blow
blew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bl(y)o͞o
ipa: /bl(j)uː/
ipa: /blɪu̯/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: blue
Etymology: From Middle English blew, from Old English blēow, from Proto-West Germanic *blē.
Senses: glosses: simple past of blow
glosses: past participle of blow
blew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bl(y)o͞o
ipa: /bl(j)uː/
ipa: /blɪu̯/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: blue
Forms: form: blews
Senses: examples: text: Her younger Siſter, that Speranza hight, / VVas clad in blew, that her beſeemed well; […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 139:
glosses: Obsolete form of blue.
blew
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: bl(y)o͞o
ipa: /bl(j)uː/
ipa: /blɪu̯/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: blue
Forms: form: more blew
form: most blew
Senses: examples: text: Straunge was her tyre, and all her garment blew, / Cloſe rownd about her tuckt with many a plight: […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 318:
glosses: Obsolete form of blue.
blown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bləʊn/
ipa: /blɑːn/
ipa: /bloʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: blowne
Etymology: From Middle English blawen, from Old English blāƿen, blāwen, past participle of Old English blāwan.
Morphologically blow + -n.
Senses: examples: text: Cattle are said to be blown when gorged with green food which develops gas.
glosses: Distended, swollen, or inflated.
glosses: Panting and out of breath.
glosses: Formed by blowing.
raw_tags: of glass
glosses: Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
examples: text: [T]wo or three horsemen, [...] appeared returning at full gallop, their horses much blown, and the men apparently in a disordered flight.
ref: 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: Stale; worthless.
glosses: Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: supercharged
coordinate_terms: turbocharged
glosses: Given a hot rod blower.
examples: text: a blown head gasket
text: Attempts by Waterloo signalmen to clear the points by power operation eventually exhausted point motor batteries, which are fed by trickle chargers, and a blown fuse accentuated the problem; thus, even when the points had been cleared of ice, no power was available to operate them until the batteries were sufficiently recharged.
ref: 1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 159:
glosses: Having failed.
Derived terms: ale-blown
blown flap
blown glass
blown-in-the-bottle
blown-off
blown out
endblown
freeblown
full-blown
glassblown
handblown
inblown
mindblown
mouthblown
outblown
sideblown
unblown
windblown
blown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bləʊn/
ipa: /blɑːn/
ipa: /bloʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: blowne
Etymology: From Middle English blawen, from Old English blāƿen, blāwen, past participle of Old English blāwan.
Morphologically blow + -n.
Senses: glosses: past participle of blow
break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brāk
ipa: /bɹeɪk/
ipa: [bɹ(ʷ)eɪ̯k]
ipa: /bɹɛk/
enpr: brēk
ipa: /bɹiːk/
ipa: /brɛːk/
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: brake
Forms: form: breaks
Etymology: Clipping of breakdown (the percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music) and see also breakdancing.
Senses: examples: text: The smooth criminal on beat breaks / Never put me in your box if your shit eats tapes
ref: 1994, “N.Y. State of Mind”, in Illmatic, performed by Nas:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
Derived terms: Amen break
breakcore
break
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: brāk
ipa: /bɹeɪk/
ipa: [bɹ(ʷ)eɪ̯k]
ipa: /bɹɛk/
enpr: brēk
ipa: /bɹiːk/
ipa: /brɛːk/
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: brake
Forms: form: breaks
form: breaking
form: breaked
form: breaked
Etymology: Clipping of breakdown (the percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music) and see also breakdancing.
Senses: examples: text: Let the poppers pop and the breakers break / We're cool, cool cats, it's like that
ref: 1985, “King of Rock”, performed by Run-DMC:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To B-boy; to breakdance.
examples: text: Breaking heavily, now on a 1 in 39 gradient, the train makes as if to cross the Tamar at once, only to swing sharply to the right, […].
ref: 1951 July, R. E. G. Read, “From Bere Alston to Callington”, in Railway Magazine, page 482:
qualifier: mainly historical or a misspelling
glosses: To brake.
Related terms: breaker
broke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: brōk
ipa: /bɹəʊk/
enpr: brōk
ipa: /bɹoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Etymology: Ablauted form of break.
Senses: glosses: simple past of break
examples: text: Accordingly, he came with a mob the next day; and after they had broke all the windows...
ref: 1853, John Welsey, The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, Volume 7, page 261:
text: The horse was the grey stallion he aye rode, the very beast he had ridden for many a wager with the wild lads of the Cross Keys. No man but himself durst back it, and it had lamed many a hostler lad and broke two necks in its day.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: 1999 October 3, J. Stewart Burns, "Mars University", Futurama, season 2, episode 2, Fox Broadcasting Company
Guenther: I guess the hat must have broke my fall.
glosses: past participle of break
broke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: brōk
ipa: /bɹəʊk/
enpr: brōk
ipa: /bɹoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: broker
form: more broke
form: brokest
form: most broke
Etymology: Ablauted form of break.
Senses: examples: text: He was broke after spending all his money into video games.
text: It seems some of his Creditors have taken notice of it, and he was like to be broke yesterday in his absence.
ref: 1665 July 6, Samuel Pepys, Vol. VI, p. 150
glosses: Financially ruined, bankrupt.
examples: text: dead broke; flat broke
synonyms: word: almsless
word: arm
word: badly off
word: bankrupt
word: beggared
word: beggarly
word: boracic
word: broke
word: broken
word: broker than the Ten Commandments
word: destitute
word: dirt poor
word: disadvantaged
word: down and out
word: down at heel
word: down on one's luck
word: down on one's uppers
word: empty-handed
word: feeling the pinch
word: flat
word: hard up
word: impecunious
word: impoverished
word: in need
word: indigent
word: insolvent
word: lower-class
word: necessitous
word: needy
word: oofless
word: pauperized
word: penniless
word: penurious
word: pinched
word: pok kai
word: poor
word: poor as a church mouse
word: poor as a rat
word: poor as Job
word: possessionless
word: poverty-ridden
word: poverty-stricken
word: shillingless
word: skint
word: stone-broke
word: stony-broke
word: strapped
word: stuck
word: threadbare
word: unwealthy
word: wealthless
glosses: Without any money, penniless.
examples: text: If it ain’t broke, don't fix it.
text: If the farmer is seriously injured by the depressed state of the markets, his spirit is broke, and there must ensue a very general discredit with regard to the farming business;
ref: 1822, William Wolryche Whitmore, A Letter on the Present State and Future Prospects of Agriculture, page 53:
text: I can't get used to living here / While my heart is broke, my tears I cry for you
ref: 1973, “Photograph”, in Ringo, performed by Ringo Starr:
text: Watkins notified the shop foreman immediately, whereupon the car was inspected and found to have a broke axle.
ref: 1983, Chicago Transit Authority, CTA Transit News, volume 36, page 8:
text: A broke horse tries to do anything I want, and that is expected of any horse.
ref: 2011, Mike Major, Fran Devereux Smith, Ranch-Horse Versatility: A Winner's Guide to Successful Rides:
glosses: Broken.
examples: text: He was broke and rendered unfit to serve His Majesty at sea.
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: Demoted, deprived of a commission.
Derived terms: brokeass
broke-ass
brokeness
broker than the Ten Commandments
go for broke
greenbroke
gunbroke
heartbroke
if it ain't broke, don't fix it
nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people
stone broke
stony broke
broke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brōk
ipa: /bɹəʊk/
enpr: brōk
ipa: /bɹoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: brokes
Etymology: From Middle English broce, from Old English gebroc (“fragment”), from brecan (“to break”). Compare broken, past participle of break. Compare also Scots brock (“a scrap of meat or bread”).
Senses: examples: text: If the broke accumulates, a larger proportion can be used in making coloured papers, otherwise the above quantity is sufiicient.
ref: 1880, James Dunbar, The Practical Papermaker: A Complete Guide to the Manufacture of Paper, page 12:
text: Presumably, most of the brokes and waste were used up in this manner, and during the manufacture of the coarse stuff little or no attention was paid to either cleanliness or colour.
ref: 1914, The World's Paper Trade Review Volume 62, page 204:
text: These mills purchase broke from other paper mills through middlemen and use it to make paper.
ref: 2014 September 25, Judge Diane Wood, NCR Corp. v. George A. Whiting Paper Co.:
topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
papermaking
glosses: Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.
examples: text: Why dost though linger, then, / To hear the flatteries of these men of rags? / These bankrupt beggar-men, / Whose riches are the broke meat in their bags?
ref: 1855, January Searle, Poems, page 4:
glosses: A fragment, remains, a piece broken off.
broke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: brōk
ipa: /bɹəʊk/
enpr: brōk
ipa: /bɹoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: brokes
form: broking
form: broked
form: broked
Etymology: Back-formation from broker.
Senses: examples: text: Agents broking with various other carriers can offer additional options.
text: The only evidence of bill-broking is, that he has often been a party to bills of exchange
ref: 1837, Comprising Reports of Cases in the Courts of Chancery […] :
text: […]because the Spanish equity market was substantially over-broked even at the height of its bull market, with over 50 brokers servicing the market.
ref: 1992, Philippe Moore, The 1992 guide to European equity markets:
glosses: To act as a broker; to transact business for another; synonym of broker.
examples: text: But we do want a certain necessary / Woman, to broke between them CUPID said;
ref: 1655 [1572], Luís de Camões, translated by Richard Fanshawe, The Lusiad, translation of original in Portuguese, Canto IX, stanza 44:
text: And brokes with all that can in such a suit / Corrupt the tender honour of a maid.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
glosses: To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
broke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: brōk
ipa: /bɹəʊk/
enpr: brōk
ipa: /bɹoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: more broke
form: most broke
Etymology: Clipping of broke off.
Senses: glosses: Broke off, rich, wealthy
broken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹəʊ.kn̩/
enpr: brōk'ən
ipa: /ˈbɹoʊ.kɪn/
ipa: /ˈbɹoʊ.kən/
rhymes: -əʊkən
Etymology: From Middle English broken, from Old English brocen, ġebrocen, from Proto-Germanic *brukanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”). Cognate with Dutch gebroken (“broken”), German Low German broken (“broken”), German gebrochen (“broken”). Morphologically broke + -n.
Senses: glosses: past participle of break
breed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: breeds
form: breede
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, from Proto-Germanic *brōdijaną (“to brood”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“warm”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid, Saterland Frisian briede, West Frisian briede, Low German bröden, Dutch broeden, German brüten.
Senses: examples: text: a breed of tulip
text: a breed of animal
glosses: All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
examples: text: And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence
Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 12”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: A race or lineage; offspring or issue.
examples: text: People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed.
glosses: A group of people with shared characteristics.
glosses: Ellipsis of half-breed.
Derived terms: a breed apart
breedism
breedist
different breed of cat
dying breed
half-breed
Half-Breed
intrabreed
misbreed
multibreed
purebreed
subbreed
thoroughbreed
unbreed
underbreed
xbreed
bred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
homophone: bread
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of breed
Derived terms: courtbred
crossbred
earthbred
half-bred
hellbred
highbred
homebred
lowbred
nonbred
purebred
sib-bred
standardbred
straightbred
thoroughbred
true-bred
unbred
underbred
xbred
bred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
homophone: bread
Forms: form: breds
Etymology: From Middle English bred, from Old English bred (“board, plank, tablet, table”). More at braid.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of braid (“board, shelf, plank”).
bring
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Etymology: Onomatopoeia.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: ring-a-ding, ding-a-ling
text: Having a telephone was a novelty; the cat certainly thought so as Charlie would yowl every time it rang, just in case the “bring bring” sound was not sufficient enough to bring to your attention that someone was attempting to contact you telephonically.
ref: 2011, Angela Russell, “Keeping House”, in Thatcher’s Children: An Account of Growing Up and Surviving in the 1980s, [Tyneside]: Grimalhame Press, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Staying In), page 28:
text: A shrill bring bring sounded down the hall. The doorbell? Nope, the phone. I hesitated, drawn by the bath’s enticing promise. Bring bring. Let the phone ring.
ref: 2011, Cate Lord, chapter 7, in Lucky Girl, Fort Collins, Colo.: Entangled Publishing, →ISBN, page 76:
text: I get up from the bed and walk to the wardrobe and all the while the phone keeps on ringing. It’s one of the basic ringtones that you get on every mobile, a bring-bring sound.
ref: 2011 February, Jim Carrington, “Ash”, in In the Bag, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, pages 83–84:
text: A gentle bring-bring sounded with interruption. A phone on a side table next to Victor Zarruq.
ref: 2023, J. A. Bouma, chapter 9, in End of Days (Order of Thaddeus; 13), Grand Rapids, Mich.: EmmausWay Press, →ISBN:
related: word: brring#Interjection
word: brrring#Interjection
synonyms: ringaling
tingaling
hypernyms: ringtone#Noun
glosses: The sound of a telephone ringing.
Related terms: busy signal
dial tone
ding
ding ding
ding-dong
ring
brought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɔːt/
ipa: /bɹɔt/
ipa: /bɹɑt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bring
Synonyms: brang
brung
Derived terms: broughten
unbrought
broadcast
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɔːdkɑːst/
ipa: /-kæst/
ipa: /ˈbɹɔːdkast/
ipa: /ˈbɹɔdkæst/
ipa: /ˈbɹɑdkæst/
rhymes: -ɔːdkɑːst
rhymes: -ɔːdkæst
rhymes: (Canada) -ɑdkæst
Forms: form: more broadcast
form: most broadcast
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.?
Proto-Germanic *braidaz
Proto-West Germanic *braid
Old English brād
Middle English brod
English broad
Proto-Germanic *kas-
Proto-Germanic *kastōną
Old Norse kastabor.
Middle English casten
English cast
English broadcast
From broad + cast.
 First attested in the mid 18th century, in the agricultural use of spreading seeds.
Senses: examples: text: [O]n reporting to Captain Thrasher he informed me that his orders were to take a detachment of forty men across the French Broad River and turn them loose to wander broadcast over the country as a protection to foraging parties of quartermasters and commissaries, […]
ref: 1864 January 15, J[oseph] B[enjamin] Polley, “Some ‘Escape’ Stories”, in A Soldier’s Letters to Charming Nellie, New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company, published 1908, →OCLC, page 195:
text: The commercial traveller, a personage unknown to antiquity, is one of the striking figures created by the manners and customs of our present epoch. […] Our century will bind the realm of isolated power, abounding as it does in creative genius, to the realm of universal but levelling might; equalizing all products, spreading them broadcast among the masses, and being itself controlled by the principle of unity,—the final expression of all societies.
ref: 1885, Honoré de Balzac; [Katherine Prescott Wormeley, transl.], “The Illustrious Gaudissart [Scenes from Provincial Life.]”, in The Duchesse de Langeais: With An Episode under the Terror, The Illustrious Gaudissart, A Passion in the Desert, and The Hidden Masterpiece (The Comedy of Human Life), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, 3 Somerset Street, →OCLC, chapter I, page 217:
text: A special letter of warning against the ravages of the potato-tuber moth in the shape of a press notice has been sent broadcast to newspapers, as well as to others, throughout the country.
ref: 1913, F[rank] H[urlbut] Chittenden, “Protection of the Fall Crop and Seed Potatoes”, in The Potato-tuber Moth (U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers’ Bulletin; no. 557), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: Widely in all directions; abroad.
examples: text: When [rape is] grown broadcast the superphosphate may be incorporated with the surface soil by the harrow when preparing the ground for the seed or in covering the same.
ref: 1893, Thomas Shaw, “Fertilizers for Rape”, in The Rape Plant: Its History, Culture, and Uses (U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers’ Bulletin; no. 11), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office; published by authority of the Secretary of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 15:
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: By having its seeds sown over a wide area.
repository
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɒz.ɪ.t(ə.)ɹɪ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɑ.zɪˌtɔɹ.i/
Forms: form: repositories
Etymology: From Latin repositōrium.
Senses: examples: text: Harvard has declined to become the repository of George Segal's controversial sculpture, "Gay Liberation."
ref: 1982 February 13, “Statuary Limitations”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 2:
synonyms: depository
glosses: A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
examples: text: OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April.
ref: 2025 April 1, Thomas Claburn, “Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it”, in The Register:
text: Over the years, openSNP became one of the largest repositories of its kind, used in research, education, and even community-led investigations like debunking flawed CFS genetic studies.
ref: 2025 April 2, Bill Toulas, “Genetic data site openSNP to close and delete data over privacy concerns”, in BleepingComputer:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: depository
archive#Noun
glosses: A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
A storage location for files, such as downloadable software packages, or files in a source control system.
synonyms: depository
glosses: A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
A burial vault.
synonyms: depository
glosses: A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
A person to whom a secret is entrusted.
synonyms: depository
glosses: A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
A place where things are stored for sale; a shop.
Derived terms: content repository
deep geological repository
e-repository
repo
Related terms: deposit
posit
reposit
poop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: poops
Etymology: Uncertain, possibly from Middle English poupen (“to make a gulping sound while drinking, blow on a horn, toot”). Compare Dutch poepen (“to defecate”), German Low German pupen (“to fart; break wind”). Also representing poo pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end.
Senses: examples: text: The dog poop is on the grass.
synonyms: word: boo-boo
word: boom-boom
word: caca
word: cack
word: chocolate
word: chocolate hot dog
word: crap
word: crud
word: danna
word: dejection
word: dirt
word: do do
word: doo-doo
word: doody
word: dook
word: dookie
word: dooky
word: droppings
word: dump
word: dumplings
word: dung
word: Eartha
word: Eartha Kitt
word: excrement
word: faeces
word: faex
word: fecal matter
word: feces
word: flop
word: fudge
word: gong
word: guano
word: ish
word: jobby
word: log
word: merd
word: muck
word: nature
word: night soil
word: number two
word: ordure
word: poo
word: pooh
word: poop
word: poopie
word: poo-poo
word: poopy
word: pure
word: purging
word: scat
word: sharn
word: shit
word: shite
word: soil
word: stool
word: thost
word: tom tit
word: turd
word: waste
glosses: Fecal matter; feces.
examples: text: ‘I’m goin’ down the backyard for me mornin’ poop.’
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 8:
glosses: An act of defecation.
examples: text: Two minutes passed - five - seven - ten. "Poop! Poop!" Everyone knew that whistle, and a mighty cheer went up as the Queen's train glided into the station.
ref: 2001, Rev. W. Awdry, Thomas the tank engine collection : a unique collection of stories from the railway series - p. 157 - Egmont Books, Limited, Aug 15, 2001:
glosses: The sound of a steam engine's whistle, typically low-pitched.
examples: text: The resulting video (called a “poop”) subverts its original content by slicing and dicing the video and audio, adding visual effects, and mashing several videos into one.
ref: 2012 November 3, Brad Evan Rosen, “YouTube Poop: Meme as Art, Community – by “William A – YLT2012””, in Yale Law Tech:
text: And nobody really set out to design YTP to work this way—only a fraction of YTPs ever succeed in releasing enough neurochemicals, and those are the videos that get elevated and then remixed into a new round of poops.
ref: 2020 March 3, Zack O'Malley Greenburg, “YouTube Poop And The ‘Sanic’ Boom: Digesting The Strangest Slice Of Google’s $15B Video Business”, in Forbes:
related: word: Poop
glosses: Ellipsis of YouTube poop (“video mashup”).
Derived terms: batpoop
beat the poop out of
bullpoop
get one's poop together
horsepoop
hot poop
micropoop
nuttier than squirrel poop
piece of poop
poopbag
poop bag
poop chute
pooper
pooper scooper
poopetrator
poop factory
poophead
poophole
poopie
Poopism
poopless
pooplike
poopload
poop machine
poop pipe
poop sandwich
poop scoop
poop shoot
poopsicle
poopskin
poopsock
poop stoop
pooptard
poop water
poopy
Repooplican
YouTube poop
poop
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Etymology: Uncertain, possibly from Middle English poupen (“to make a gulping sound while drinking, blow on a horn, toot”). Compare Dutch poepen (“to defecate”), German Low German pupen (“to fart; break wind”). Also representing poo pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end.
Senses: examples: text: Poop. The copier's broken again.
text: I don't need him for a friend. I can have fun by myself! ... Poop.
ref: 1986 July 29, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
glosses: Expressing annoyed disappointment.
poop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Etymology: Recorded in World War II (1941) Army slang poop sheet (“up-to-date information”), itself of uncertain origin, perhaps toilet paper (referring to etymology 1).
Senses: examples: text: Here’s the info paper with the poop on that carburetor.
text: If Exxon has already made a find, and someone knows about it, they'd be the most likely to be directing the show. We just need to discover who has ties to the D.O.F and is close enough to Exxon to have the inside poop.
ref: 2002, J. Sander, Runoff, page 236:
glosses: A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.
poop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: poops
form: pooping
form: pooped
form: pooped
Etymology: Uncertain, perhaps sound imitation.
Senses: examples: text: I'm pooped from working so hard.
synonyms: word: beleaguer
word: exhaust
word: fatigue
word: fordo
word: do for
word: gas out
word: get down
word: jade
word: knock up
word: poop
word: run someone ragged
word: tire
word: tire out
word: wear
word: wear down
word: wear out
word: weary
glosses: To tire, exhaust.
examples: text: He pooped out a few strides from the finish line.
synonyms: poop out
glosses: (with out) To become tired and exhausted.
Derived terms: party pooper
poop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: poops
form: poup
form: poupe
form: puppe
Etymology: From Middle English poupe, pope, from Old French pope, poupe, pouppe, from Italian poppa, from Vulgar Latin *puppa, from Latin puppis, all meaning “stern of a ship”.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: watercraft < vessel
For quotations using this term, see Citations:poop.
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: stern
aft
antonyms: bow
stem
forestem
fore
prow
prore
glosses: The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
examples: text: Omens thicken upon us […] Next, the stumbling of the King whenas he went upon the poop of the long ship which bare us on this voyage to these islands.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 18:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The poop deck.
Derived terms: apoop
poop deck
poop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: poops
form: pooping
form: pooped
form: pooped
form: poup
form: poupe
form: puppe
Etymology: From Middle English poupe, pope, from Old French pope, poupe, pouppe, from Italian poppa, from Vulgar Latin *puppa, from Latin puppis, all meaning “stern of a ship”.
Senses: glosses: To break seawater with the poop (stern) of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
examples: text: We were pooped within hailing of the quay and were nearly sunk.
text: Another night, as we were scudding before a heavy gale of wind, and a tremendous sea rolling after us, we had the misfortune to be pooped, as the phrase is, by a wave or sea striking our stern, which stove in the cabin-windows, and rushing impetuously through the cabin, and along the main-deck, bore down all before it.
ref: 1819, James Hardy Vaux, chapter 18, in Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux, volume 1, page 207:
text: Pooping is a hazard of another nature, and is also peculiar to the process of scudding. It merely means the ship's being overtaken by waters while running from them, when the crest of a sea, broken by the resistance, is thrown inboard over the taffrail or quarter.
ref: 1838, Robert Walsh, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art: Volume 33, page 376:
glosses: To break over the stern of (a vessel).
Derived terms: pooping wave