cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
all-a-mort
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: How fares my Kate, what ſweeting all a-mort?
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 223, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of alamort (“dejected”).
Related terms: mort
all holiday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is all holiday at Peckham.
text: It is all holiday with him.
glosses: A saying signifying that the business or person spoken of or alluded to is finished, i.e. that it has no future.
all hollow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He was beat all hollow, i.e. he had no chance of conquering.
It was all hollow, or a hollow thing, it was a decided thing from the beginning.
ref: 1811, Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue:
glosses: As a foregone conclusion.
Five Alls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Five Alls
Etymology: Traditionally pub names had a pictorial representation, and the inn sign for inns named "Five Alls" showed five representative figures, each in appropriate garb with a motto underneath. This has occurred in a number of variations, but usually included a monarch saying "I rule (for) all" or "I govern all", a bishop or minister saying "I pray for all", a soldier saying "I fight for all", and a farmer saying "I pay for all". (In modern signs, often John Bull pays for all.) The fifth figure was often a lawyer saying "I plead for all", or could be omitted, in which case the inn would be named "Four Alls".
Senses: glosses: The name of many pubs.
Dutch reckoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As if all Light of Reasoning were so shut up in Clavius his Brain, that because he does not see, the rest of Mankind must be blind; and what is that way of Reasoning that he betakes himself to, but by huddling the Principles of Geometry into Confusion, without order of method of Reasoning, to make a Conclusion, like a Dutch''' Reckoning of Allem-al?
ref: 1712, Roger Coke, A Detection Of The Court and State Of England During The Four Last Reigns, page 22
text: "You knows we never took Mike's duds till you couldn't pay his charges any longer; and since we comes to that, there's two weeks of three shillings and sixpence due for your lodging in the Star-Chamber, for yourself and Master Lionel Falconer, which I supposes you means to pay with a Dutch reckoning: you sees I can speak some names right enough,—d'ye take me,—hey?" and with an ill-natured leer he left the hall.
ref: 1828, Death on Board-Wages, published in Tales of an Antiquary (volume 2 of 3) by Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, London
text: 'That's better!' he said, still smiling, but very much more pleasantly. 'Rig Jane out in the first style of elegance, and send me a Dutch reckoning: I don't want to know the particulars.'
ref: 2009, Georgette Heyer, Frederica, page 75:
glosses: A (falsified) bill that is not itemised, and that is unjustifiably high.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A false or incorrect reckoning of position.
examples: text: 1 March 1625 in the Dutch reckoning was, in the English reckoning of the time, 19 February 1624.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Dutch, reckoning.
metagrobolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined in translation of Rabelais' works, from Middle French matagrabolisme, from matagraboliser (“mystify”). The first element is from Ancient Greek μάταιος (mátaios, “vain, futile”), but altered to assimilate to the prefix meta-.
Senses: examples: text: [A]ll the autonomatic metagrobolism of the Romish Church, when tottering and emblustricated with the gibble-gabble gibberish of this odious error and heresy, is homocentrically poised.
ref: 1653, François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel:
glosses: Concealment, mystification, obfuscation.
Related terms: metagrobolize
metagrobologist
leave someone high and dry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves someone high and dry
form: leaving someone high and dry
form: left someone high and dry
form: left someone high and dry
Senses: examples: text: He just walked out and left her high and dry with two kids and a mortgage.
text: When the Met first reached Chesham, in 1889, the townsfolk thought the growth of their town would be inexorable as a result. [...] The cry went up 'At last, we are on the main line!' And so they were - for three years, until the Met decided to carry on to Amersham, leaving Chesham high and dry on a branch.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 76, 77:
glosses: To abandon somebody; to stop providing assistance at a crucial moment.
Related terms: leave someone in the lurch
leave to one's own devices
leave someone hanging
hang out to dry
frog in one's throat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I had a frog in my throat and the words didn't come out very clearly.
glosses: Hoarseness or the need to cough.
glosses: Any temporary physical difficulty in speaking.
Related terms: clear one's throat
cat got someone's tongue
loose ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loose end
Senses: examples: text: I would have liked to stay later and tie up some of the loose ends.
glosses: Leftover items that have not been addressed or attended to.
Derived terms: at loose ends
at a loose end
actrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actrice
put one's foot down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts one's foot down
form: putting one's foot down
form: put one's foot down
form: put one's foot down
Senses: examples: text: I finally put my foot down and demanded to talk to someone in charge.
synonyms: dig in one's heels
pound the table
glosses: To insist, demand, or refuse with finality.
synonyms: step on it
floor it
put the pedal to the metal
glosses: To make a vehicle go faster; accelerate.
leftover
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: left over
form: left-over
Etymology: From left (“remaining, abandoned”) + over (“excess”).
Senses: examples: text: Do you want some of the leftover supplies from the event?
text: I have some leftover spaghetti in the fridge, so I don't plan to cook tonight.
glosses: Remaining; left behind; extra; odd; in reserve.
leftover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leftovers
form: left over
form: left-over
Etymology: From left (“remaining, abandoned”) + over (“excess”).
Senses: examples: text: It's a leftover from yesterday, but it's still perfectly good.
glosses: Something left behind; an excess or remainder.
examples: text: Not leftovers again!
text: The entire wheel of cheese is a leftover from the party.
glosses: Remaining after a meal is complete or eaten for a later meal or snack.
raw_tags: of food
leftovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I had leftovers from yesterday for dinner tonight.
glosses: plural of leftover
Related terms: doggy bag
goody bag
memento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈmɛntoʊ/
rhymes: -ɛntəʊ
Forms: form: mementos
form: mementoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mementō (“remember”), imperative form of meminī (“I remember”).
Senses: examples: text: I kept the shell as a memento of my visit to the seashore.
text: In conclusion, I would remark that the great railway stations of London deserve to be visited every whit as much as St. Paul's Cathedral, the Abbey, or the Tower, and they are as worthy a memento of this century as those buildings are of the days that are gone.
ref: 1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893:
text: Many hospitals have not taken simple steps to lessen the distress and confusion which dementia sufferers' often feel on being somewhere so unfamiliar – such as making signs large and easy to read, using colour schemes to help patients find their way around unfamiliar wards and not putting family mementoes such as photographs nearby.
ref: 2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian:
glosses: A keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event.
Synonyms: word: keepsake
word: souvenir
word: memorabilia
Derived terms: memento dollar
Related terms: memento mori
skinny dipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪni ˈdɪpɪŋ/
Forms: form: skinny-dipping
Senses: examples: text: She took off all her clothes and went skinny dipping in the river.
glosses: Swimming in the nude, as opposed to with a swimsuit.
Derived terms: skinny-dipper
Related terms: clothing optional
nudism
nudist
left over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I had some food left over after the party.
glosses: simple past and past participle of leave over
left over
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leftover.
Related terms: leftovers
double back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doubles back
form: doubling back
form: doubled back
form: doubled back
Senses: examples: text: They doubled back in hopes of finding the road again.
text: And now she has the real dilemma: press on to King’s Landing, where I have no doubt she could get as close to killing Cersei as anyone else, or double back to Winterfell to reunite with her family.
ref: 2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To retrace one's steps; to go back where one has already gone.
eres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ere
Frans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Franses
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Frans.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
gatherer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gatherers
Etymology: From Middle English gaderere, gaderare, equivalent to gather + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who gathers things.
glosses: A person who gathers things.
A person who primarily gathers in a hunter-gatherer social system.
coordinate_terms: hunter
;
harvester
topics: business
glosses: A person who collects rent or taxes.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.
topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A worker who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to blowing.
Derived terms: firewood-gatherer
hunter-gatherer
newsgatherer
pure gatherer
snow-gatherer
taxgatherer
tax gatherer
tollgatherer
skinny-dipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of skinny dipping.
set back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets back
form: setting back
form: set back
form: set back
Senses: examples: text: I expect it will set us back by a day or so, but I think a side trip will be worthwhile.
text: Having the mindset that you "can't" reach your goals is only going to set you back.
text: “Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 51:
coordinate_terms: hold back
glosses: To delay or obstruct.
examples: text: Set it back from the road by twenty or thirty feet.
text: Roads from Machynlleth, Dolgellau and Welshpool meet at Mallwyd, but this tiny village is set back from passing traffic and retains its atmosphere of charm and tranquillity.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 273, about Mallwyd:
glosses: To remove from or allow distance.
examples: text: The statue was set back in a niche.
coordinate_terms: inset#Verb
glosses: To install or position behind a boundary or surface, or in a recess.
examples: text: How much do you suppose that fancy dress set her back?
glosses: To cost money.
examples: text: Before the platforms were extended up to the actual junction, branch trains had to set back into a bay.
ref: 1939 December, John D. Hewitt, “Some Notable British Main Lines: II. Salisbury and Exeter, S.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 412:
coordinate_terms: back out
back up
go back
glosses: To reverse, go backwards.
Derived terms: word: setback
throw off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throw offs
Senses: examples: text: Throw off points were first introduced in England , and are used very generally at coal sidings , private sidings etc.
ref: 1900, Bulletin of the International Railway Congress Association, page 3069:
text: The throw off shall be taken within 3 minutes from the centre of the court
ref: 1974, Franko Blazic, Zorko Soric, Team Handball, page 57:
text: In other words, there should not be innuendoes, throw offs, and hints about subject matter.
ref: 2006, Juanita Bynum, Walking in Your Destiny, page 130:
glosses: Alternative form of throw-off.
tread lightly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: treads lightly
form: treading lightly
form: trod lightly
form: treaded lightly
form: trodden lightly
form: trod lightly
form: treaded lightly
Senses: examples: text: He's in a bad mood today, so you might want to tread lightly if you talk to him.
synonyms: tread carefully
glosses: To proceed carefully; especially, to seek to avoid causing offense.
Related terms: walk on eggshells
bottom line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottom lines
Etymology: A reference to the literal bottom line of an income statement or other accounting record.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:bottom line.
topics: business
glosses: The final balance; the amount of money or profit left after everything has been tallied.
examples: text: The bottom line is that there simply are not enough hours in the day to finish all there is to do.
text: I need your lovin' and that's the bottom line / I need your lovin' or just a little time
ref: 1980, Teena Marie, “I Need Your Lovin’”, in Irons in the Fire:
text: When Gorbachev totals up the balance sheet of Soviet strengths and weaknesses, the bottom line is not encouraging. Moscow has put itself into a unique historical position: It does not have a single ally among the major powers of the world.
ref: 1988, Richard Nixon, “The Superpowers”, in 1999: Victory Without War, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38:
text: The bottom line is this - England have little or no chance of beating quality international sides if they defend as shoddily and carelessly as this, if they give possession away as cheaply as this and are as easy to get at as Kosovo made it look.
ref: 2019 September 10, Phil McNulty, “'England horribly fallible in defence' against Kosovo in Euro 2020 qualifying”, in BBC Sport:
text: But the bottom line is that passengers want to see staff at a station and be able to find them easily.
ref: 2023 July 26, Stefanie Foster, “Rebuild trust or it's game over”, in RAIL, number 988, page 3:
synonyms: upshot
net-net
glosses: The summary or result; the most important information.
examples: My bottom line for this job is $125,000; any less and I'll walk away.
synonyms: BATNA
reservation price
glosses: A minimum acceptable result from a negotiation.
Derived terms: english: verbal form
translation: verbal form
word: bottom-line
word: bottom liner
Related terms: at bottom
bottom dollar
rock bottom
English Bluebell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The form of bluebell native to the British Isles, where it flowers in spring giving broad carpets of blue in many woods.
Cristobal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Cristóbal.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Spanish, an anglicized spelling of Spanish Cristóbal.
Derived terms: San Cristobal
long time no see
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: long time, no see
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly a calque of Cantonese 好耐冇見 /好耐冇见 (hou² noi⁶ mou⁵ gin³) or Chinese 很久沒見 /很久没见 (hěnjiǔméijiàn) or Chinese 好久不见 (hǎojiǔbùjiàn), comparable to no can do or chop-chop – if so, most likely US Chinatown origin, alternatively British Far East such as Hong Kong. Alternatively, native American origin, or native coinage as pidgin, particularly in cinematic portrayals of native Americans; compare language used by Tonto (1930s).
Senses: examples: text: Dave! Long time no see! How’s Boston been treating you?
text: This lady had only assumed the reins of government a short time, when one morning Appoo made his appearance.—"Ma-am—long time no see wife—want go to Colombo see wife.[...]"
ref: 1843, James Campbell, Excursions, Adventures, and Field-sports in Ceylon: Its Commercial and Military Importance, and Numerous Advantages to the British Emigrant, volume 1, London: T. and W. Boone, page 256:
text: "Maybe. I think I go see my mamma today. Long time no see," answered Mamie, who from constant association had, like the other girls of the neighborhood, fallen into the habit of talking pigeon English to the Chinamen.
ref: 1892, William Norr, Stories of Chinatown: Sketches from Life in the Chinese Colony of Mott, Pell and Doyers Streets, New York: William Norr, page 16:
text: When we were close enough, I could see that he had a smile on his face, and I knew that he had recognized me. When we rode up to him he said: "Good morning. Long time no see you," and at the same time presented the gun with the breech foremost.
ref: 1899, William F. Drannan, Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains or, the Last Voice from the Plains, Chicago: Rhodes & McClure, page 515:
glosses: I (or we) have not seen you for a long time.
wikipedia: Tonto
Derived terms: long time no hear
evilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːvəli/
ipa: /ˈiːvli/
ipa: /ˈivəli/
ipa: /ˈivli/
rhymes: -iːvli
Forms: form: more evilly
form: most evilly
Etymology: From evil + -ly, replacing earlier evil (“evilly”).
Senses: examples: text: He grinned evilly around and then pushed his way to the back of the crowd.
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 63:
glosses: In an evil manner.
ambidexter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ambɪˈdɛkstə/
Forms: form: ambidexters
form: ambodexter
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin ambidexter, from Latin ambi- + dexter.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is ambidextrous.
examples: text: But the thing which in eminent instances signalizes so exceptional a nature is this: though the man's even temper and discreet bearing would seem to intimate a mind peculiarly subject to the law of reason, not the less in his heart he would seem to riot in complete exemption from that law, having apparently little to do with reason further than to employ it as an ambidexter implement for effecting the irrational.
ref: 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “(please specify |chapter=I to XXVI)”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:
glosses: A lawyer who takes fees from both plaintiff and defendant.
examples: text: One takes upon him temperence, holiness […], whenas indeed he, and he, and he, and the rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, outsides, so many turning pictures, a lion on one side, a lamb on the other.
ref: , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.65
glosses: Someone who is two-faced; a double-dealer, such as a cheat or a crook.
ambidexter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ambɪˈdɛkstə/
Forms: form: ambodexter
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin ambidexter, from Latin ambi- + dexter.
Senses: examples: text: He then changed his battery, and being ambidexter, raised such a clatter upon the turnkey’s blind side, that this hero, believing him left-handed, converted his attention that way, and opposed the unenlightened side of his face to the right hand of Pipes […]
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Ambidextrous.
Derived terms: ambidexterity
Related terms: ambidextrous
amen curler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amen curlers
Senses: glosses: A parish clerk.
yes and amen
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I take God at His word and say yes and amen to His plans.
topics: Christianity
glosses: An enthusiastic agreement.
examples: text: My boss expected us to say yes and amen to his cockamamie plans.
glosses: A submissive, uncritical and unquestioning agreement.
within ames ace
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: See ambsace.
Senses: examples: text: […]The possibility that he might prefer the excitement of such an adventure to an expedition into Yorkshire did occur to the Major, but he discarded it: Richmond had been within ames-ace of jumping at the chance offered him,[…].
ref: 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 17, in The Unknown Ajax:
glosses: Nearly, very near.
amuser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amusers
Etymology: From amuse + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who amuses.
glosses: One who diverts attention, usually to distract or bewilder, often for fraudulent purposes; hence a cheat, deceiver or thief.
examples: text: He should have knowed better than to tangle with you, Miss Lindsay. Where did you learn to be an amuser, then?
ref: 1993, Stella Cameron, Only by Your Touch, HarperCollins, page 88:
text: BOSS TWEED — No one important, necessarily. Average men will do. Back alley amusers with no affiliations.
ref: 2002, various authors, Gangs of New York (film), Miramax Films, Entertainment Film Distributors
text: Valentine watches the bunch of amusers close around the politician, the leader already dipping into his pocket for the snuff to fling into the eyes of their victim.
ref: 2013, Michelle Lovric, The Remedy, Bloomsbury, page 59:
qualifier: early 19ᵗʰ century
glosses: One of a class of rogues who carry snuff or dust in their pockets, which they throw into the eyes of people so as to enable their accomplices to rob them while pretending to help them.
hunter-gatherer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunter-gatherers
Etymology: From hunter + gatherer.
Senses: examples: text: He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
ref: 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2012, page 162:
text: […] Wengrow and Graeber argue that the life of hunter-gatherers before widespread farming was nothing like “the drab abstractions of evolutionary theory,” which hold that early humans lived in small bands in which they acted almost entirely on instinct, either brutish (as in Hobbes) or egalitarian and innocent (as in Rousseau).
ref: 2022 July 11, Virginia Hefferman, “Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans”, in Wired, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2022:
text: “DNA from hunter-gatherers is present at higher levels in Northeastern Europe, which means the region has an elevated genetic risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease,” Barrie said.
ref: 2024 January 11, Katie Hunt, “Gene that protected humans 5,000 years ago may be linked to debilitating modern disease”, in CNN:
coordinate_terms: pastoralist
glosses: A member of a group of people who live by hunting animals and gathering edible plants for their main food sources, and who do not keep animals or farm land.
bring one's arse to an anchor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings one's arse to an anchor
form: bringing one's arse to an anchor
form: brought one's arse to an anchor
form: brought one's arse to an anchor
form: bring one's arse to anchor
form: bring one's ass to an anchor
form: bring one's ass to anchor
Senses: examples: text: The young Fleming went in search of Smyllie in the Palace Bar, where he and his group were discussing the arguments for and against the Resurrection. "Bring your arse to an anchor, boy," Smyllie instructed Fleming, before ordering him to come for a formal[…].
ref: 1983, Hugh Oram, The Newspaper Book: A History of Newspapers in Ireland, 1649-1983, page 182:
text: ‘Well, in that case,’ said Kelly, ‘bring your arse to an anchor,’ inviting him to sit down.
ref: 1988, J. Nazareth, The Psychology Of Military Humour, page 181:
glosses: To sit down.
windward of the law
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: "[…] drop my anchor to the windward of the law." Adams estimated the distance between them even as he spoke. Ryker gripped his stomach again and more sweat dripped from his unnaturally white face onto his filthy shirt, but he was well enough that any attempt at rushing him would be suicidal.
ref: 1998, Dean Barrett, Hangman's Point:
text: His code was the end justified the means with men who operated windward of the law. Since thieves followed no rules, he played the game accordingly, with a slight variation. He wrote his own rules as he went along.
ref: 2006, Matt Braun, Westward of the Law, page 54:
glosses: Within the letter of the law but not the spirit of the law.
angler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋ.ɡlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈæŋ.ɡlɚ/
rhymes: -æŋɡlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: anglers
Etymology: From Middle English angler, angleer, angeler, equivalent to angle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A throng of anglers lined the trout stream on opening day of trout season.
glosses: A person who fishes with a hook and line.
examples: text: The angler lured a smaller fish into reach with the appendage on its head.
glosses: An angler fish, Lophius piscatorius.
examples: text: Jonas was a consummate angler when it came the company's leave policy; he had it figured so he only needed to work six months out of the year.
glosses: Someone who tries to work an angle; a person who schemes or has an ulterior motive.
examples: text: They are sure to be clyd in the night by the angler, or hooker, or such like pilferers that liue upon the spoyle of other poore people.
ref: c. 1608–1610, Samuel Rid, Martin Mark-all, Beadle of Bridewell:
text: Rogue or rascal, frater, maunderer, / Irish Toyle, or other wanderer; / No dimber damber, angler, dancer, / Prig of cackler, prig of prancer
ref: 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, volume 2, Oath of the Canting Crew, pages 339–340:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A thief who uses a hooked stick to steal goods out of shop-windows, grates, etc.
Synonyms: sense: person who fishes with hook and line
word: fisher
sense: person who fishes with hook and line
word: fisherman
sense: angler fish
word: anglerfish
sense: angler fish
word: frogfish
sense: someone with a scheme or ulterior motive
word: conniver
sense: someone with a scheme or ulterior motive
word: grifter
sense: someone with a scheme or ulterior motive
word: schemer
sense: someone with a scheme or ulterior motive
word: swindler
sense: thief
word: hooker
sense: thief
word: nuthook
Derived terms: anglerette
nonangler
Related terms: angling
angle for farthings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: angles for farthings
form: angling for farthings
form: angled for farthings
form: angled for farthings
Senses: glosses: To beg out of a prison window with a cap, or box, let down at the end of a long string.
huntress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌntɹɪs/
Forms: form: huntresses
form: hunteress
Etymology: A variant of hunteress, from Middle English hunteras, hunteres, hunteresse, equivalent to hunter + -ess, possibly on the model of the likes of mistress.
Senses: examples: text: In those same woods ye well remember may / How that a noble hunteress did wonne [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Ashol-Pan, the daughter of a particularly celebrated hunter, may well be the country's only apprentice huntress.
ref: 2014, William Kremer, “A 13-year-old eagle huntress in Mongolia”, in BBC World Service:
text: Grief and fear cannot rule you;
let them be your faithful servants, protective of their mistress.
Loss serves a huntress like fuel serves fire.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Reminder:
glosses: A female hunter.
Derived terms: bowhuntress
Related terms: hunt
Hunter
hunter
hunting
Huntress
huntsman
Huntsman
huntsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huntsmen
form: huntsmans
Etymology: From hunt + -s- + -man.
Senses: glosses: A hunter.
glosses: A fox hunter.
glosses: One who manages the hounds during a hunt.
examples: text: Although they do not make webs, female huntsmans at least have not lost the ability to produce silk.
ref: 1985, Living Australia, Dangerous Australians: The Complete Guide to Australia's Most Deadly Creatures, page 111:
text: The majority of desert-dwelling spiders are large burrowing spiders; the Barking Spiders Selenoeosmia stirlingi, mouse spiders, wolf spiders (Fig. 5.47), huntsmen and trapdoor spiders (Fig. 5.48).
ref: 1995, Anne Kerle, Ayers Rock, the Olgas & Kings Canyon, Northern Territory, page 129:
text: to say trapdoors and huntsmans
ref: 2002, John Kinsella, “The Wasps”, in Divinations: Four Plays:
text: Two huntsmen spiders prowl Harry′s bedroom ceiling.
ref: 2012, Carrie Tiffany, Mateship with Birds, Pan Macmillan Australia, unnumbered page:
glosses: Any of the many species of large spiders of the family Sparassidae.
Derived terms: huntsmanship
huntsman spider
Related terms: hunt
Hunter
hunter
hunting
huntress
Huntress
Huntsman
huntsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huntsman
tantony pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tantony pigs
Etymology: Contraction of Saint Anthony's pig in honour of St Anthony, patron saint of swineherds, frequently shown with a little pig by his side. For the phonetic evolution, compare tawdry.
Senses: examples: text: And to follow the delicious breeze like a tantony pig .
ref: 1935, Wystan Hugh Auden, O What Is That Sound Which So Thrills The Ear:
text: I'm not going to tankety-tankety after his tail, like a Tantony pig any more.
ref: 1838, Benjamin Webster, Acting National Drama:
text: This system (which had the disadvantage of discouraging good farming, since the worst animal — the 'Tantony pig' — counted for as much as the best) was only applicable when the court was in constant progress.
ref: 1984, Richard Fitzneale, Dialogus De Scaccario: The Course of the Exchequer and Constitutio Domus Regis (the Establishment of the Royal Household):
text: 2002, Murray J Levith, Shakespeare's Merchant and Marlowe's Other Play in The Merchant of Venice: Critical Essays, ed John Mahon, Ellen MacLeod Mahon
A “Tantony pig” is the smallest of a litter, a detail that might recall Antonio's description of himself in Shakespeare's play as the “tainted wether of the flock".
glosses: The favourite or smallest pig in the litter.
Synonyms: Anthony pig
tantony
Anthony
hunt saboteur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunt saboteurs
Etymology: hunt + saboteur
Senses: glosses: A person who does not approve of hunting and tries to sabotage it; used especially in reference to fox hunting.
Related terms: hunt sabotage
ape leader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ape leaders
Etymology: An old maid's punishment after death, for neglecting to increase and multiply, was said to be the leading of apes in Hell.
Senses: glosses: An old maid.
manoeuvre the apostles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: manoeuvres the apostles
form: manoeuvring the apostles
form: manoeuvred the apostles
form: manoeuvred the apostles
Senses: glosses: To rob Peter to pay Paul; that is, to borrow money from one person to pay another.
witch-hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪtʃhʌnt/
Forms: form: witch-hunts
form: witchhunt
form: witch hunt
Etymology: From witch + hunt.
Senses: examples: text: To-night ye will see. It is the great witch-hunt, and many will be smelt out as wizards and slain.
ref: 1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines:
text: The rupturing of British rule over India in the rebellion of 1857 permitted a great witch-hunt, with lethal effects, to occur among the tribes of northern India.
ref: 2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 27:
glosses: A search for people believed to be using sorcery or harmful magic, typically in order to persecute or punish them.
examples: text: Rank-and-file Communists everywhere are led away on a senseless witch-hunt after 'Trotskyists'.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
glosses: An attempt to find and punish or harass a group of people perceived as a threat, usually on ideological or political grounds.
examples: text: Even fewer people could believe that the UNCW administration would actually undertake a witch hunt against me, even going so far as to invoke their right to read my personal e-mails because they were on the university's system.
ref: 2008, Mike Adams, Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" on Campus, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: I defended myself vigorously on that complaint as well; also mentioning that Julie Ann Wilks had always disliked me and had been conducting “a witch hunt” against me. As soon as I said the words “witch hunt” Katy interrupted and wouldn't let me continue […]
ref: 2012, Hugh Maguire, My First 40 Jobs: A Memoir, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 308:
text: The media is really on a witch-hunt against me. False reporting, and plenty of it - but we will prevail!
ref: 2016 May 15, Donald Trump, tweet quoted in 2019, Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming, Hachette Books
text: “It is striking how poorly his usual playbook will work for the Epstein files debacle,” Ford wrote, adding that Trump “cannot credibly claim that he is the victim of some kind of ‘witch hunt,’ even though he is trying to do so.”
ref: 2025 July 22, Jennifer Bowers Bahney, “'Struggling' Trump spirals as 'usual playbook' fails to get him out of jam: report”, in Raw Story:
glosses: A public or political campaign or investigation which smears a person or group.
Related terms: witch hunter
witch-hunting
witch-hunty
witch-hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪtʃhʌnt/
Forms: form: witch-hunts
form: witch-hunting
form: witch-hunted
form: witch-hunted
form: witchhunt
form: witch hunt
Etymology: From witch + hunt.
Senses: glosses: To perform a witch-hunt.
Related terms: harassment
McCarthyism
peine forte et dure
Salem
tracklog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracklogs
Etymology: From track + log.
Senses: glosses: An ordered sequence of GPS coordinate measurements stored by a satellite navigation system.
Related terms: waymark
talk like an apothecary
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks like an apothecary
form: talking like an apothecary
form: talked like an apothecary
form: talked like an apothecary
Senses: examples: text: As to Clement of Alexandria, I shall pass him by, as he knew nothing about the matter. He talks like an apothecary on the subject; and when did ever an apothecary talk to any purpose?
ref: 1824, Naso., Sneezing, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume X, page 152
text: "And you have so little of the former left," said the old woman, as she presented him with a plate of the aliment and a glass of the menstruum, "that without we have a fresh supply, I foresee that you will be reduced to live upon your own medicines."
"You do not talk like an apothecary," said Nadir, "if you expect that I could exist upon them in the way you suggest."
ref: July, 1807, Omar and Fatima; or, the Apothecary of Ispahan, published in the Literary Magazine and American Register, volume VIII, number 46, page 6
glosses: To prattle.
Related terms: apothecary's Latin
consumed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She was consumed with hatred.
glosses: construed with with Full of, exuding (also figuratively).
Derived terms: consumedly
unconsumed
consumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of consume
bounty hunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bounty hunters
Senses: examples: text: Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.
ref: 2014 July 31, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: A person who catches criminals and brings them to the police in return for a reward.
Related terms: bail bondsman
apothecary's Latin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As this bit of apothecary's Latin was quoted to the town-clerk at a corporation dinner, and was by him translated to the mayor to mean that the municipal body had not a leg to stand upon, it gave very serious offence indeed.
ref: 1842, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 333:
glosses: barbarous Latin; badly-spoken Latin.
Synonyms: law Latin
dog Latin
bog Latin
Related terms: pig Latin
talk like an apothecary
greengrocer's apostrophe
follows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒləʊz/
ipa: /ˈfɑloʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of follow
follows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒləʊz/
ipa: /ˈfɑloʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: plural of follow
law Latin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Latin language as used in law and legal documents, being a mixture of Latin with Old French and Latinized English words.
glosses: Barbarous Latin.
Synonyms: sense: barbarous Latin
word: apothecary's Latin
sense: barbarous Latin
word: bog Latin
sense: barbarous Latin
word: Dog Latin
apple dumpling shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple dumpling shops
form: apple-dumpling shop
Senses: examples: text: Instinctively Nell glanced to her bosom to make sure it was adequately exposed before she remembered he couldn't see her. He couldn't appreciate the sight of her apple dumplin' shop because, to him, she was invisible.
ref: 1997, Casey Claybourne, A Spirited Seduction, page 121:
text: You're neither of you exactly what you'd call short in the apple-dumpling shop.
ref: 2010, Aishling Morgan, Devon Cream:
text: When she noticed a gentleman surveying her bosom as well as her oranges, she said pertly, “Sixpence for anything in the basket, sir, but the goods in the apple dumpling shop are not for sale.”
ref: 2011, Gillian Bagwell, The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn:
glosses: The bosom of a woman, especially a fat or large-breasted woman.
jocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒkjʊlə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑkjəlɚ/
Forms: form: more jocular
form: most jocular
Etymology: From Latin iocularis, from ioculus (“a little jest”), diminutive of iocus (“a jest”).
Senses: examples: text: He was in a jocular mood all day.
text: All we had was a short and jocular conversation.
text: From the tone of the speaker, the last words might be understood to be jocular.
ref: 1865, Horatio Alger, “chapter IV”, in 'Paul Prescott's Charge:
text: Sometimes he would notice it, pat it, call it half-mocking, half-jocular names, and so make it caper with extraordinary delight.
ref: 1896, H. G. Wells, “chapter 15”, in The Island of Dr. Moreau:
text: Then papa began to get very tired of Jones, and fidgeted and finally said, with jocular irony, that Jones had better stay all night, they could give him a shake-down.
ref: 1910, Stephen Leacock, The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones:
glosses: Humorous, amusing or joking.
Synonyms: word: jokey
word: silly
word: joculous
word: witty
Derived terms: jocularism
jocularity
jocularly
jocularness
joculous
overjocular
semi-jocular
unjocular
Related terms: joke
apron-string hold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apron-string holds
Senses: examples: text: He resided at Staleck and the fief made was converted into an "apron-string hold" and hereditary fief, for the benefit of his wife and daughter; for that in opposition to the Emperor himself, he had remained firm to the Archbishop in a Diet held at Mainz.
ref: 1872, W. O. von Horn, The Rhine: History and Legends of Its Castles, Abbeys, Monasteries, and Towns, J. Niedner, page 270:
glosses: An estate held by a man during his wife's life.
aqua pumpaginis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The term mimics the Latin terms for other everyday things that apothecaries used.
Senses: glosses: Pump water.
arbor vitae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbor vitae
form: arbor vitaes
form: arbores vitae
Senses: examples: text: Next spring the owner of the hedge will be very much surprised to find a number of his arbor vitae deceased, and he will straightway blame himself and his horse? Not he! The nurseyman, sir, must have delivered him some poor stock!
ref: 1882, Annual Report of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, page 27:
glosses: Alternative form of arborvitae.
Derived terms: arbor vitae uteri
at arm's length
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Iceland were defiant, as they always are, rigid in defence and lacking in attacking ambition, willing to simply keep England at arm's length and maybe land a counter-punch.
ref: 2020 September 5, Phil McNulty, “Iceland 0-1 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: At a distance, away from one's body.
examples: text: She's been keeping me at arm's length all the time. She doesn't want to get involved.
glosses: Avoiding a close relationship.
Derived terms: keep at arm's length
arch rogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arch rogues
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of archrogue.
rapt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæpt/
rhymes: -æpt
homophone: rapped
homophone: wrapped
homophone: wrapt
Forms: form: rapts
form: rapting
form: rapted
form: rapted
form: rapt
form: rapt
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin raptus, past participle of rapio (“to seize”).
Senses: examples: text: The Bards with furie rapt, the British youth among,
Unto the charming Harpe thy future honor song
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 6 p. 89:
glosses: To transport or ravish.
examples: text: 1819-20, Washington Irving, The Spectre Bridegroom, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., reprinted in 1840, The Works of Washington Irving, Volume 1, page 256,
His only daughter had either been rapt away to the grave, or he was to have some wood-demon for a son-in-law, and, perchance, a troop of goblin grandchildren.
text: Out-rushing from his denne rapts all away
ref: 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: To carry away by force.
rapt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæpt/
rhymes: -æpt
homophone: rapped
homophone: wrapped
homophone: wrapt
Forms: form: rapts
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin raptus, past participle of rapio (“to seize”).
Senses: examples: text: the soul then is in rapt
ref: 1671, The Life Of The Mother S. Teresa:
glosses: An ecstasy; a trance.
examples: text: […] like the great exemplary wheeles of heaven, we must observe two Circles: that while we are daily carried about, and whirled on by the swinge and rapt of the one, we may maintain a naturall and proper course, in the slow and sober wheele of the other.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 2nd edition, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Preface:
glosses: Rapidity.
arch dell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arch dells
Senses: glosses: The head of a gang of female canters or gypsies.
Synonyms: arch doxy
arch doxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arch doxies
Senses: glosses: The head of a gang of female canters or gypsies.
Synonyms: arch dell
Anabaptist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anabaptists
form: anabaptist
Etymology: From New Latin anabaptista, from the Ancient Greek ἀναβαπτισμός (anabaptismós), itself from ἀνα- (ana-, “re-”) and βαπτισμός (baptismós, “baptism”).
Senses: examples: text: Were the Anabaptists right? Was happiness Satan’s allure, his tantalizing deceit?
ref: 2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, Chatto & Windus, page 95:
glosses: A member of a radical wing of Christians during the Protestant Reformation, with a tenet of adult baptism.
glosses: A member of any of several present-day churches descended from that origin.
Derived terms: Anabaptistic
Anabaptistical
Anabaptism
Anabaptist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Anabaptist
form: most Anabaptist
form: anabaptist
Etymology: From New Latin anabaptista, from the Ancient Greek ἀναβαπτισμός (anabaptismós), itself from ἀνα- (ana-, “re-”) and βαπτισμός (baptismós, “baptism”).
Senses: glosses: Relating to Anabaptism or the Anabaptists during the Protestant Reformation.
glosses: Relating to Anabaptism or the Anabaptists of the present-day.