cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
blurred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɜːd/
ipa: /blɝd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: blerd
Forms: form: more blurred
form: most blurred
Etymology: From blur + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: blurred image
text: blurred video
text: blurred margins
glosses: Out of focus; partially obscured; smudged.
Synonyms: furry
Derived terms: blurredly
blurredness
nonblurred
preblurred
blurred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɜːd/
ipa: /blɝd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: blerd
Etymology: From blur + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blur
Related terms: blurry
pregnant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛɡnənt/
rhymes: -ɛɡnənt
Forms: form: pregnants
form: prægnant
form: pregnaunt
Etymology: From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), and their source, Latin praegnāns (“pregnant”), probably from prae- (“pre-”) + *gnāscī, an archaic form of nāscī (“to be born”). Displaced Old English bearnēacen (literally "child-enlarged").
Senses: examples: text: The Entbundenen, or those already delivered, are separate from those pregnants awaiting their accouchement
ref: 1843, William Robert Wilde, Austria: Its Literary, Scientific, and Medical Institutions:
glosses: A pregnant person.
pregnant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛɡnənt/
rhymes: -ɛɡnənt
Forms: form: more pregnant
form: most pregnant
form: prægnant
form: pregnaunt
Etymology: Apparently from Middle French pregnant, preignant (“pressing, compelling”), present participle of prembre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).
Senses: examples: text: Peregrine was in a little time a distinguished character, not only for his acuteness of apprehension, but also for that mischievous fertility of fancy, of which we have already given such pregnant examples.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Compelling; clear, evident.
Synonyms: word: big
word: carrying
word: child-great
word: delicate
word: eating for two
word: enceinte
topics: legal
law
word: expectant
word: expecting
word: fertilized
word: full
word: gestating
topics: biology
natural-sciences
word: gravid
word: great
word: have a bun in the oven
word: heavy
word: hormonal
word: in a family way
word: in the club
word: in the pudding club
word: knocked up
word: preg
word: pregs
word: preggers
word: preggie
word: preggo
word: pregnant
word: pupped
word: quick
word: up the duff
word: up the kyte
word: up the stick
word: up the stump
word: up the spout
word: with child
Hyponyms: word: in trouble
word: the rabbit died
word: with young
disgusting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈɡʌstɪŋ/
ipa: /dɪsˈkʌstɪŋ/
ipa: /dɪzˈɡʌstɪŋ/
ipa: /dɪsˈɡʊstɪŋ/
ipa: /dɪsˈkʊstɪŋ/
ipa: /dɪzˈɡʊstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌstɪŋ
Forms: form: disgustinger
form: more disgusting
form: disgustingest
form: most disgusting
Etymology: By surface analysis, disgust + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The taste and digestion are often depraved, anorexia, nausea, inappetence and vomiting supervene, the woman desires innutritious or disgusting food, such as chalk, cinders, putrescent animal food, […]
ref: 1836, Michael Ryan, A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence:
text: But it is much more sensible and much more fun and much more disgusting to assume that the English Leather woman is really saying "All my men wear English leather or nothing at all.".
ref: 1975 December 10, P.J. Bednarski, “Tis the season to be risque in TV spots”, in The Dayton Journal Herald:
text: One guy farted repeatedly and laughed out loud each time he let it out. To top off his disgusting behavior, he constantly picked his nose and thumped the waste in the air.
ref: 2006, C. Lee Thornton, Oath of Office:
synonyms: word: distasteful
word: gro
word: grody
word: grotty
word: repulsive
word: abhorrant
word: abhorrent
word: bad
word: disgusting
word: distasteful
word: foul
word: rancid
word: fulsome
word: grim
word: gro
word: grody
word: gross
word: grotty
word: harsh
word: loathsome
word: munted
word: nasty
word: nauseous
word: obnoxious
word: rank
word: repulsive
word: revolting
word: scabrous
word: sickening
word: strident
word: offensive
word: unpleasant
glosses: Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.
Derived terms: disgrossting
Disgusta
disgustingly
disgustingness
undisgusting
disgusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈɡʌstɪŋ/
ipa: /dɪsˈkʌstɪŋ/
ipa: /dɪzˈɡʌstɪŋ/
ipa: /dɪsˈɡʊstɪŋ/
ipa: /dɪsˈkʊstɪŋ/
ipa: /dɪzˈɡʊstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌstɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, disgust + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disgust
voile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɔɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
Forms: form: voiles
Etymology: Borrowed from French voile (“veil”). Doublet of veil and velum.
Senses: examples: text: The domestic voile made from imported gray yarns and woven in the United States is the best combination to be had.
ref: 1920, United States Tariff Commission, William Alexander Graham Clark, Henry Chalmers, Blanche C. Howlett, Cotton Yarn: Import and Export Trade in Relation to the Tariff, page 80:
text: Cheap narrow voiles.—Plain color voiles practically are off the market.[…]Better grades of voiles usually come in the 39-inch width,[…].
ref: 1932, Hiram T. Nones, Philippine Cotton Piece-Goods Market, page 14:
text: Pull out the basting thread, gently remove the voile from the three-minute sample, and reshape the sample with a steam iron.
ref: 2006, Jorie Johnson, Feltmaking and Wool Magic, page 84:
glosses: A light, translucent cotton fabric used for making curtains and dresses.
Stancel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstæn.səl/
rhymes: -ænsəl
Etymology: Possibly from:
* Old English stane cell, which means "stone chamber". Or it could be from Stancil, a village in England.
* German Stenzel.
* Polish-Jewish Stencel
* Polish Stanisław, or Russian Станислав (Stanislav)
* Romanian stâncă, meaning rock or cliff
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
flexibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈflɛksɪb(ɪ)lɪʈi/
rhymes: -ɪlɪti
Forms: form: flexibilities
Etymology: From French flexibilité, from Late Latin flexibilitās, from Latin flectō (“I bend, curve”). Equivalent to flexible + -ity = flex + -ibility.
Senses: examples: text: Whether redundancies come and whether they result in industrial action remains to be seen, but it's clear that the RMT is not prepared to show any flexibility towards rail companies.
ref: 2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 63:
synonyms: pliability
suppleness
versatility
glosses: The quality of being flexible, whether physically or metaphorically.
examples: text: I had some flexibility in terms of whether to stay in a hotel or in a bed-and-breakfast.
text: For millions of people like Poteat, pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities have made health care much more accessible. […] “What the flexibility of telehealth allows during Covid was to shift gears extraordinarily rapidly,” said Dr. Shawn Ryan, a regional director of the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
ref: 2022 April 29, Tasnim Ahmed, “Back to the doctor’s office? Here’s what’s next for telehealth after the pandemic”, in CNN:
glosses: The quality of having options.
Derived terms: flexicurity
heteroflexibility
homoflexibility
hyperflexibility
labour market flexibility
low temperature flexibility
neuroflexibility
semiflexibility
ultraflexibility
waxy flexibility
Related terms: flex
comforting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭmʹfərtĭng
ipa: /ˈkʌm.fɚ.tɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkʌm.fə.tɪŋ/
Forms: form: more comforting
form: most comforting
Senses: examples: text: Your comforting words help ease my mind.
text: It's comforting to know that I've always got my Mum when things go wrong.
glosses: Giving comfort, especially in the sense of soothing distress.
Synonyms: word: besoothing
word: consoling
word: reassuring
word: soothing
Derived terms: comfortingly
comfortingness
uncomforting
comforting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭmʹfərtĭng
ipa: /ˈkʌm.fɚ.tɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkʌm.fə.tɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of comfort
comforting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭmʹfərtĭng
ipa: /ˈkʌm.fɚ.tɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkʌm.fə.tɪŋ/
Forms: form: comfortings
Senses: examples: text: Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea[…]
ref: 1836, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, The American in England, page 269:
glosses: The act of giving comfort.
dreaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɛ.dɪd/
ipa: /ˈdɹɛ.dəd/
rhymes: -ɛdɪd
Forms: form: more dreaded
form: most dreaded
Senses: examples: text: I have got the dreaded flu.
synonyms: dread
glosses: Causing fear, dread, or terror.
glosses: Having or wearing dreadlocks.
Derived terms: dreaded diamond
dreadedness
undreaded
dreaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɛ.dɪd/
ipa: /ˈdɹɛ.dəd/
rhymes: -ɛdɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dread
get off with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets off with
form: getting off with
form: got off with
form: got off with
Senses: examples: text: He got off with my sister at the party.
text: "Hero, obviously, has been getting off with a number of young Basques. I hope her parents won't let it go too far."
ref: 1934, Rose Macaulay, Going Abroad, London: Collins, page 222:
glosses: To have a sexual encounter with.
Synonyms: word: make out with
word: hook up with
word: go with
word: get with
word: score with
sine qua non
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪnɪ kweɪ ˈnɒn/
ipa: /ˌsɪn(e)ɪ kwɑː ˈnəʊn/
ipa: /ˌsɪn(e)ɪ kwɑː ˈnɒn/
ipa: /ˌsɪni kwɑ ˈnɑn/
ipa: /ˌsɪni kwɑ ˈnoʊn/
ipa: /ˌsaɪni kweɪ ˈnɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: sine qua nons
form: sine quibus non
form: sinequanon
form: sine quâ non
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin [condiciō] sine quā nōn (“[condition] without which not”), an expression which originated in the works of Boethius as a translation of some Aristotelian expression (perhaps Ancient Greek οὗ οὐκ ἄνευ (hoû ouk áneu); compare also Modern Greek εκ των ων ουκ άνευ (ek ton on ouk ánef) / Katharevousa ἐκ τῶν ὧν οὐκ ἄνευ (ek tón ón ouk ánef)), and was later popularized by scholastics.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: dealbreaker, necessary condition
text: it is hardly likely he would have found any one so singularly interesting and fascinating as Margarita Riccardini; for the striking and animated beauty of her father was softened and relieved by that peculiar something, half modesty, and half pride, which is the characteristic of English loveliness, and which every Englishman requires as a sine qua non ere he resigns himself to a bondage it is the habit of his nature, or the result of his privileges, to admit reluctantly.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXIX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 79:
text: Beauty, grace, and accomplishments are, as I said before, a sine qua non, but as Basil is already the colonel of a crack cavalry corps, and has other military honours promised him in the near future, as also by reason that his father is Governor-General of the gubernium of Odessa, and will leave his son abundant wealth as well as his title of count, I think I have a right to expect something more in his future wife than mere accomplishments and good looks.
ref: 1883 January 12, James S[kipp] Borlase, “Darker than Death; a Tale of the Russia of To-day”, in The Hull Packet and East Riding Times, number 5,126, Kingston upon Hull, E.R.Y., chapter XVI (The Countess Takes Precautions and the Count Drives Bargains), page 3, column 3:
text: Literature, instead of being an accessory, is the fundamental sine qua non of complete living.
ref: 1909, Arnold Bennett, chapter I, in Literary Taste: How to Form It:
text: […] whereas some degree of political freedom is a sine qua non condition for contestation, democracy cannot be sufficiently defined in terms of “liberties”[…]
ref: 2000, A. Przeworski, M. Alvarez, J. Cheibub, F. Limongi, Democracy and Development, Cambridge University Press, page 34:
synonyms: nonnegotiable
prerequisite
glosses: An essential or indispensable element, condition, or ingredient.
wikipedia: Aristotle
Boethius
scholasticism
rigging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪɡɪŋ
Forms: form: riggings
Etymology: From Middle English riggyng, ryggyng, riggynge, equivalent to rig + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The moon was full and shone down on us through the masts and rigging of an old fishing wreck, which had been grounded just off the beach where we were sitting.
ref: 1941 March 12, Charles A. Lindbergh, The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1970, page 461:
text: For a time the apostis glowed like a forge; gradually it dimmed and went out, and our ship resumed a more conventional position, though the wind still screamed in the rigging and the clouds scudded under us like flecks of foam in a mill race.
ref: 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVII, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 162:
glosses: Dress; tackle; especially (nautical), the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a sailing vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc.
examples: text: […]or even, daring, spent the night up some pole in a lineman's tent like caterpillars, swung among a web of telephone wires, living in the very copper rigging and secular miracle of communication, untroubled by the dumb voltages flickering their miles, the night long, in the thousands of unheard messages.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 6, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 135:
glosses: Similar supporting material used for construction work, or in film, theater, etc.
examples: text: Max Factory presents a figma of Nagato Kai-II from "Kantai Collection -KanColle-"! Her rigging has been carefully recreated in figma form, featuring loads of articulation to create perfect poses!
ref: 2021 April 21, GoodSmile_US (@GoodSmile_US), X, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2025:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: The shiplike mechanical components and weaponry attached to a shipgirl.
Hyponyms: sense: tackle of a sailing vessel
word: running rigging
sense: tackle of a sailing vessel
word: standing rigging
Meronyms: word: cordage
word: deadeye
word: gooseneck
word: horse
word: stay
Derived terms: bid rigging
election-rigging
jury rigging
rigging monkey
rigging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪɡɪŋ
Etymology: From rig + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rig
reign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪn/
homophone: rain
homophone: rein
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: reigns
form: raygne
Etymology: From Middle English regnen, from Old French reignier, from the Latin verb rēgnō, and the noun rēgnum. Doublet of regnum. Displaced native Old English rīċe (“a reign”) and ricsian (“to reign”).
Senses: examples: text: England prospered under Elizabeth I's reign.
text: Throughout history, no single dictator has successfully upheld their reign forever, no matter how powerful they seemed to be.
ref: 2020 December 6, Xin Yan, “The Seemingly Impossible Is Possible”, in Minghui:
glosses: The exercise of sovereign power.
examples: text: The reign of Victoria was a long one.
glosses: The period during which a monarch rules.
examples: text: And the Fox guileful, and most covetous; / That neither pleased was, to have the reign / Twixt them divided into even twain
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled.
Derived terms: in the reign of Queen Dick
reign of terror
reign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪn/
homophone: rain
homophone: rein
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: reigns
form: reigning
form: reigned
form: reigned
form: raygne
Etymology: From Middle English regnen, from Old French reignier, from the Latin verb rēgnō, and the noun rēgnum. Doublet of regnum. Displaced native Old English rīċe (“a reign”) and ricsian (“to reign”).
Senses: examples: text: He reigned in an autocratic manner.
text: Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth,
And mightie kings ſhall be our Senators.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
glosses: To exercise sovereign power, to rule as a monarch.
examples: text: The House of Piast reigned Poland from its foundation to 1385.
ref: 2007, Anna Chilewska, Writing after the gaze: the rupture of the historical:
glosses: To reign over (a country)
glosses: To be the winner of the most recent iteration of a competition.
examples: text: Silence reigned.
text: Silence reigned, broken only by the hideous screeching of vultures and the sound of a lawn-mower being used in the hospital grounds.
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 58:
text: Unfortunately – and ironically – the word ‘system’ itself is used in such a wide variety of contexts within animal science, as indeed it is in virtually every domain of human activity, that confusion reigns about what a systems-oriented research programme actually looks like and what systems-oriented animal scientists actually do.
ref: 2007, Richard Bawden, “Redesigning Animal Agriculture: a Systemic Perspective”, in David L. Swain, Ed Charmley, John Steel, Shaun Coffey, editors, Redesigning Animal Agriculture: The Challenge of the 21st Century, CABI, page 1:
glosses: To be a dominant quality of a place or situation; to prevail, predominate, rule.
Derived terms: reign supreme
never mind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛ.vɚˌmaɪnd/
ipa: /ˈnɛv.ə(ɹ)ˌmaɪnd/
Forms: form: nemmine
form: nvm
form: nm
Senses: examples: text: I'm afraid I’ve broken your mug. — Never mind, it was old and I was going to throw it away.
text: Did you fall over and hurt your knee? Never mind, I’ll put a bandage on it.
glosses: It is not important; do not fret; used to reassure or comfort the person to whom it is said.
examples: text: Never mind about me — you go and I’ll join you later.
text: Here’s some money for you. Never mind about paying me back; you can keep it.
glosses: Do not be concerned (about someone or something, or about doing something).
examples: text: You're a fool. — What did you call me? — Never mind.
text: Can you hand me that screwdriver? Wait, never mind, give me the fire extinguisher instead.
text: divorce is so funny. like never mind
ref: 2023 June 2, v1leblood, Tumblr:
glosses: Indicates a withdrawal or retractment of a previous statement.
examples: text: They wouldn't go near that place, never mind spending an entire day there.
text: It’s remarkable that this game could have been even better than it was. The U.S. has rarely outplayed any opponent in its modern era of World Cup games, never mind a superpower that won its opener 6-2 over Iran.
ref: 25 November 2022, Jonathan Tannenwald, “U.S. dominates England for long stretches, but plays to 0-0 tie at World Cup”, in The Philadeplhia Inquirer:
glosses: Let alone; much less.
Synonyms: sense: It is not important
word: forget about it
sense: It is not important
word: forget it
sense: Do not be concerned
word: pay someone no mind
sense: Withdrawal of previous statement
word: belay my last
Related terms: never you mind
never mind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛ.vɚˌmaɪnd/
ipa: /ˈnɛv.ə(ɹ)ˌmaɪnd/
Forms: form: never minds
form: nemmine
form: nvm
form: nm
Senses: examples: text: But close enough in spirit as to make no never mind.
ref: 1998, Dana Stabenow, Fire and Ice, page 159:
glosses: Alternative form of nevermind.
ponder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒn.də(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpɑn.dɚ/
rhymes: -ɒndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ponders
form: pondering
form: pondered
form: pondered
Etymology: From Middle English ponderen, from Old French ponderer (“to weigh, balance, ponder”) from Latin ponderare (“to weigh, ponder”), from pondus (“weight”), from pendere (“to weigh”); see pendent and pound.
Senses: glosses: To wonder, think of deeply.
examples: text: I have spent days pondering the meaning of life.
text: Ponder the path of thy feet.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 4:26:
synonyms: chew over
mull over
glosses: To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly.
glosses: To weigh.
Synonyms: word: cogitate
word: deliberate
word: afterthink
word: agitate
word: bethink
word: call to mind
word: chew
word: chew over
word: chew the cud
word: consider
word: contemplate
word: introspect
word: mull
word: mull over
word: muse
word: ponder
word: meditate
word: quander
word: reflect
word: rethink
word: reconsider
word: revolve
word: ruminate
word: second-guess
word: think
word: think over
Derived terms: beponder
ponderable
ponderance
ponderize
reponder
unpondered
Related terms: word: ponderment
word: pondersome
word: preponder
word: preponderance
word: preponderant
word: preponderate
word: consideration
ponder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒn.də(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpɑn.dɚ/
rhymes: -ɒndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ponders
Etymology: From Middle English ponderen, from Old French ponderer (“to weigh, balance, ponder”) from Latin ponderare (“to weigh, ponder”), from pondus (“weight”), from pendere (“to weigh”); see pendent and pound.
Senses: examples: text: I lit my pipe and had a ponder about it, but reached no definite conclusion.
glosses: A period of deep thought.
get lost
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: synonyms: word: amscray
word: away with you
word: be off with you
word: beat it
word: begone
word: bite me
word: bog off
word: bug off
word: bugger off
word: buzz off
word: clear off
word: do one
word: don't let the door hit you on the way out
word: forget you
word: fuck off
word: gertcha
word: get to fuck
word: get bent
word: get fucked
word: get knotted
word: get lost
word: get out of here
word: get outta here
word: get out of my face
word: get screwed
word: get stuffed
word: get you gone
word: git
word: go and boil your head
word: go and eat coke
word: go away
word: go chase yourself
word: go climb a tree
word: go fly a kite
word: go fuck your mother
word: go fuck yourself sideways
word: go fuck yourself
word: go jump in the lake
word: go play in the traffic
word: go play with yourself
word: go shit yourself
word: go suck an egg
word: go tell your mother she wants you
word: go to hell
word: go to Halifax
word: go to the devil
word: hadaway and shite
word: hence
word: hit the road
word: hop it
word: kick rocks
word: jog on
word: leave
word: leave me alone
word: make like a banana and split
word: make like a tree and leave
word: make yourself scarce
word: naff off
word: nick off
word: now go away
word: off you fuck
word: on with you
word: on yer bike
word: on your bike
word: piss off
word: pound sand
word: push off
word: rack off
word: scram
word: screw off
word: screw you
word: shoo
word: shove off
word: shit off
word: skedaddle
word: sling one's hook
word: sod off
word: split
word: spread out
word: take a flying fuck at a rolling donut
word: take a flying fuck
word: take a hike
word: take a long walk on a short pier
word: up yours
word: Entries in Thesaurus:leave
word: used as imperative verbs.
word: Entries in :Category:English dismissals.
qualifier: dismissal
glosses: Used to rudely tell somebody to go away or leave one alone.
get lost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets lost
form: getting lost
form: got lost
form: got lost
form: gotten lost
Senses: examples: text: Don't you have a map? How did we get lost?
text: I got lost in his reasoning.
text: "But the Civil Aviation Authority is very worried about 'flyaway' - if someone has bought a GPS jammer on eBay because they don't want drones near their house, it can cause drones to get completely lost and shoot off in a random direction until they run out of battery.
ref: 2025 July 23, Paul Clifton, “Air force: drones' developing railway role”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 29:
glosses: To lose one's way.
examples: text: My keys got lost while I was out today.
glosses: To go missing; to be in a location unknown to someone who is looking for it.
raw_tags: of an object
examples: text: The violins get lost with the rest of the music.
glosses: To be absent, to seem to be absent.
examples: text: I don't want to have to tell you again: Get lost!
text: They had a row and Fred told Jack to get lost.
text: Jack did a good job of getting lost: nobody saw him for 4 years.
qualifier: usually in imperative and reported speech
glosses: To exit from the scene.
hijack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ.dʒæk/
Forms: form: hijacks
form: hijacking
form: hijacked
form: hijacked
form: hi-jack
form: highjack
Etymology: Possibly from a blend of highway + jacker (“one who holds up”) (1915).
Senses: glosses: To forcibly seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat).
examples: text: hijack the radio show
glosses: To seize control of some process or resource to achieve a purpose other than its originally intended one.
topics: government
politics
glosses: To introduce an amendment deleting the contents of a bill and inserting entirely new provisions.
Derived terms: antihijack
bluejack
bodyjack
carjack
clickjack
cryptojack
culture-jack
gamejack
hijackable
hijackee
hijacker
hijackware
lojack
rehijack
seajack
skyjack
threadjack
unhijacked
hijack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ.dʒæk/
Forms: form: hijacks
form: hi-jack
form: highjack
Etymology: Possibly from a blend of highway + jacker (“one who holds up”) (1915).
Senses: glosses: An instance of hijacking; the illegal seizure of a vehicle; a hijacking.
examples: text: I opened my closet door and stared. Should I pack my good suit and black loafers? Uh-uh. Travel light. Think positive. Go there, get done whatever there was to do, and get back. I loved Lolly, but I couldn't let her stroke hijack my life. How many guys would do this much for their aunt?
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.3, at p.60-61
glosses: An instance of a seizure and redirection of a process.
topics: government
politics
glosses: An amendment which deletes the contents of a bill and inserts entirely new provisions.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Preflop, the position two before the dealer.
examples: text: One lone "high-jack" held up 11 harvest hands in a freight car [...] last night, making a clean getaway with slightly over $180.
ref: 1915 August 26, “Stick-Ups Get Good Hauls From Harvest Hands Near Yankton”, in Pierre Weekly Free Press, Pierre, SD, page 6:
glosses: A highwayman, robber.
plague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: plāg
ipa: /pleɪɡ/
ipa: [pʰl̥eɪɡ]
ipa: /plɛɡ/
ipa: [pʰɫ̥ɛːɡ]
rhymes: -eɪɡ
Forms: form: plagues
Etymology: From Middle English plage, borrowed from Old French plage, from Latin plāga (“blow, wound”), from plangō (“to strike”). Cognate with Middle Dutch plāghe (> Dutch plaag), plāghen (> Dutch plagen); Middle Low German plāge; Middle High German plāge, pflāge (> German Plage); plāgen (> German plagen); Swedish plåga; French plaie, Occitan plaga. Doublet of plaga. Displaced native Old English wōl.
Senses: examples: text: It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned again in Holland[…] It mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come into Holland again.
ref: 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year:
glosses: The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
raw_tags: used with the
examples: text: Great plagues, such as the bubonic plague or smallpox or syphilis or influenza, can happen again.
ref: 2006, Irwin W. Sherman, chapter 17, in The Power of Plagues, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: pest
pestilence
glosses: An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.
examples: text: Ten Biblical plagues over Egypt, ranging from locusts to the death of the crown prince, finally forced Pharaoh to let Moses's people go.
text: A plague a both the Houſes, I am sped: / Is he gone and hath nothing?
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 64:
synonyms: murrain
glosses: A widespread affliction, calamity, or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
examples: text: Bart is an utter plague; his pranks never cease.
text: This is the first time a President has attended this dinner in six years. It's understandable- we had a horrible plague, followed by two years of COVID!
ref: 2022 April 30, Joe Biden, 0:36 from the start, in President Biden complete remarks at 2022 White House Correspondents' Dinner (C-SPAN), Washington, D.C.: C-SPAN, archived from the original on 01 May 2022:
glosses: A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A group of common grackles.
Derived terms: antiplague
Australian plague locust
avoid like the plague
be at the plague
beplague
bioplague
bird plague
Black Plague
bubonic plague
capacitor plague
cattle plague
fowl plague
gay plague
hog plague
Kansas horse plague
nonplague
Pahvant Valley plague
pig plague
plague bird
plague cross
plague doctor
plagueful
plagueless
plaguelike
plaguer
plague rat
plague-ridden
plague soldier beetle
plaguesome
plague spot
plague water
plaguey
plaguy
plaguish
pneumonic plague
purple plague
red plague
Siberian plague
stallion plague
superplague
the plague
white plague
plague
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: plāg
ipa: /pleɪɡ/
ipa: [pʰl̥eɪɡ]
ipa: /plɛɡ/
ipa: [pʰɫ̥ɛːɡ]
rhymes: -eɪɡ
Forms: form: plagues
form: plaguing
form: plagued
form: plagued
Etymology: From Middle English plage, borrowed from Old French plage, from Latin plāga (“blow, wound”), from plangō (“to strike”). Cognate with Middle Dutch plāghe (> Dutch plaag), plāghen (> Dutch plagen); Middle Low German plāge; Middle High German plāge, pflāge (> German Plage); plāgen (> German plagen); Swedish plåga; French plaie, Occitan plaga. Doublet of plaga. Displaced native Old English wōl.
Senses: examples: text: "Moreover," replied Congreve, "it was a sort of flattery to the duke. It showed that she valued the power of plaguing him more than her own fairest ornament. Flattery is the real secret by which a woman keeps her lover."
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXVI. Lady Marchmont to Sir Jasper Meredith.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 238:
text: [W]hat we have here, they believe, are two members of gangs that have been plaguing Islington for more than a year. They snatch smartphones from pedestrians, then sell the items on the black market.
ref: 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2018:
text: Just as Mr. Clinton began a comeback with a down-home plea for forgiveness, Mrs. Clinton now seems determined to prove, perhaps to the point of overcompensation, that she will not repeat the mistakes that plagued her 2008 campaign.
ref: 2015 April 15, Jonathan Martin, “For a Clinton, It’s Not Hard to Be Humble in an Effort to Regain Power”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: word: badger
word: harry
word: hound
word: badger
word: bait
word: bedevil
word: beleaguer
word: persecute
word: bug
word: beset
word: chevy
word: give someone grief
word: harass
word: harry
word: hound
word: pester
word: pick at
word: plague
word: vex
glosses: To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly.
examples: text: Natural catastrophes plagued the colonists till they abandoned the pestilent marshland.
synonyms: scourge
torment
glosses: To afflict with a disease or other calamity.
Derived terms: plagued
car bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car bombs
Senses: glosses: An automobile laden with a large amount of explosives, and used as a bomb primarily in order to cause external damage.
glosses: An explosive device installed in an automobile with the primary purpose of killing the occupants of the car.
glosses: Flatulence in an enclosed automobile.
glosses: An alcoholic beverage made by dropping a shot of liquor into a glass of beer.
Synonyms: sense: alcoholic beverage
word: boilermaker
sense: alcoholic beverage
word: depth charge
Hyponyms: sense: alcoholic beverage
word: Irish car bomb
cuddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌd.l̩/
rhymes: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: cuddles
Etymology: Origin uncertain, but probably from a frequentative form of Middle English *cudden, cuththen, keththen (“to embrace”), a variant of cuthen, kuthen, kithen (“to be familiar with, make known”), from Middle English cuth, couth (“known, familiar”), equivalent to couth + -le. Cognate with Middle Dutch kudden (“to come together, flock together”). More at couth.
Senses: examples: text: I'm so impatient / I can't stand the wait / When will I get my cuddle?
ref: 1995, “I Miss You”, in Post, performed by Björk:
glosses: An intimate physical embrace, typically while lying (or sitting): a snuggle, an instance of lying together snugly, as one might with a partner (more intimate than a hug, and typically of longer duration).
examples: text: Give me a cuddle, Paul; it'll cheer you up.
glosses: An affectionate embrace, a hug, such as is given to family members and close friends (less intimate than a snuggle, and typically of shorter duration).
Derived terms: cuddlecore
cuddlee
cuddlefest
cuddle-seat
cuddlicious
cuddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌd.l̩/
rhymes: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: cuddles
form: cuddling
form: cuddled
form: cuddled
Etymology: Origin uncertain, but probably from a frequentative form of Middle English *cudden, cuththen, keththen (“to embrace”), a variant of cuthen, kuthen, kithen (“to be familiar with, make known”), from Middle English cuth, couth (“known, familiar”), equivalent to couth + -le. Cognate with Middle Dutch kudden (“to come together, flock together”). More at couth.
Senses: examples: text: The young lovers cuddled on the couch.
glosses: To lie together snugly (with someone), in an intimate physical embrace; to snuggle.
glosses: To embrace (someone) affectionately; to hug (someone) closely.
examples: text: She cuddled the infant before bedtime.
text: I'm cold; can you roll over here and cuddle me, honey?
glosses: To cradle (e.g. a baby) in one's arms so as to give comfort, warmth.
examples: text: She cuddles low behind the brake; / Nor would she stay, nor dares she fly.
ref: 1717, Matthew Prior, The Dove:
glosses: To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.
Derived terms: come-and-cuddle-me
cuddlable
cuddle buddy
cuddle bug
cuddle bunny
cuddlee
cuddlefuck
cuddle puddle
cuddler
cuddleslut
cuddlesome
cuddle up
cuddly
cuddly-wuddly
uncuddled
cuddly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌdli/
ipa: /ˈkʌdəli/
ipa: /ˈkʌdl̩i/
rhymes: -ʌdli
Forms: form: cuddlier
form: cuddliest
Etymology: From cuddle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a cuddly teddy bear
glosses: Suitable for cuddling; designed to be cuddled.
examples: text: My girlfriend is very cuddly.
glosses: Fond of or prone to cuddling.
Synonyms: cuddlesome
Derived terms: cuddliness
cuddly toy
cuddly-wuddly
tomfoolery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɒmˈfuːlə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈtɑmˌful.ɚ.i/
ipa: [ˈtʰɑmˌɸuɫ.ɚ.i]
ipa: [ˈtʰɑɱˌfuɫ.ɚ.i]
Forms: form: tomfooleries
Etymology: From Tom (a common man) + foolery.
Senses: examples: text: "Do not think THAT," I put in. "It was not so at all. I grant you that my behaviour was bad—I fully confess that it was so, and make no secret of the fact. I would even go so far as to grant you that my behaviour might well be called stupid and indecent tomfoolery; but, MORE than that it was not.
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter VI, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/VI):
synonyms: buffoonery
glosses: Foolish behaviour or speech.
glosses: Jewellery.
chisel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪzəl/
rhymes: -ɪzəl
Forms: form: chisels
Etymology: From Middle English chisel, chesel, from Old Northern French chisel, cisel, from cisoir (with a change in suffix), from Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”), from Latin caedō (“cut”). Doublet of scissors.
Senses: glosses: A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end; there are hand tool versions (the original type) and versions as bits for power tools.
glosses: A part of any of various tools or devices that has an analogous purpose, cutting raw material or a workpiece during the process that the tool or device performs.
examples: Holonyms: plough, plow < implement
glosses: A part of any of various tools or devices that has an analogous purpose, cutting raw material or a workpiece during the process that the tool or device performs.
A part of some ploughs, next to the ploughshare, that helps cut into the soil and deal with obstructions such as rocks, roots, and stems.
related: word: ploughshare
word: plowshare#Noun
word: moldboard
word: mouldboard#Noun
word: coulter
word: colter#Noun
Derived terms: bog chisel
butt chisel
chisellike
chiselmouth
cold chisel
cope chisel
enchisel
framing chisel
hot chisel
set chisel
skew chisel
Related terms: burin
gouge
graver
chisel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪzəl/
rhymes: -ɪzəl
Forms: form: chisels
form: chiseling
form: chiselling
form: chiseled
form: chiseled
form: chiselled
form: chiselled
Etymology: From Middle English chisel, chesel, from Old Northern French chisel, cisel, from cisoir (with a change in suffix), from Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”), from Latin caedō (“cut”). Doublet of scissors.
Senses: synonyms: chip#Verb
glosses: To use a chisel.
examples: text: She chiselled a sculpture out of the block of wood.
synonyms: chip#Verb
glosses: To work something with a chisel.
glosses: To barge in on (something); to intrude on (something).
examples: text: Laws that protect the environment are being chiseled away.
synonyms: chip away
glosses: To make small changes to (something), bit by bit, resulting in change over time.
examples: text: He's managed to chisel a couple dollars from somewhere.
text: She can always chisel whatever she needs from her father.
text: She's always either chiseling or groveling, it seems.
glosses: To beg or pressure somebody into giving up (something); to haggle excessively; to cheat; to obtain something from (someone) by cheating.
Derived terms: chiseler
chiseller
chisel in
chisel out
chisel up
rechisel
chisel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪzəl/
rhymes: -ɪzəl
Forms: form: chisels
form: chesil
form: chissel
form: chessil
Etymology: From Middle English chisel, chesil, from Old English ċeosol, ċeosel, ċysel, ċisel, ċisil (“gravel, sand”), from Proto-West Germanic *kesul (“small stone, pebble”). See also chessom.
Senses: glosses: Gravel.
glosses: Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
Related terms: chessom
half-mast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half mast
Senses: examples: text: Any other UK national flags flown alongside the Union Flag when it is at half-mast should also be at half-mast.
ref: 2016 October 13, Department for Culture, Media & Sport and Foreign & Commonwealth Office, "Flag-flying from UK government buildings for the death of the King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand", GOV.UK, Government Digital Service
text: He is to be cremated later Thursday at a ceremony likely to be attended by the country's top leadership.
Flags were seen flying at half-mast in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. China's state news agency Xinhua reported that flags would be lowered at government buildings across mainland China, semi-autonomous regions of Hong Kong and Macau, and in consulates abroad.
ref: 2023 November 2, “China mourns late ex-Premier Li Keqiang”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2023, China:
glosses: The lowered position, half the height of a mast, at which a flag is flown when mourning, especially expressing respect for the deceased.
glosses: The lowered position of anything.
examples: text: I looked around. Ari in a green jacket with four inches of fore arm showing and trousers at half mast, Penny and I in mismatched padded jackets and ski trousers which were way too long; and all wearing the silver moon boots that had been the rage in the early eighties.
ref: 2016, Jeff Payne, Rider (page 142)
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: An unfashionably short length of a pair of trousers.
examples: text: Finally, he was at half-mast, hanging out over the toilet seat, barely erect.
ref: 2009, Stephen Cannell, At First Sight: A Novel of Obsession, Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 227:
glosses: The state of having a partially erect penis.
half-mast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: half-masts
form: half-masting
form: half-masted
form: half-masted
form: half mast
Senses: glosses: To fly a flag in this position.
Synonyms: sense: flag
word: half-staff
sense: erection
word: semi
hum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: hums
Etymology: From Middle English hummen (“to hum, buzz, drone, make a murmuring sound to cover embarrassment”); akin to Dutch hommelen (“to bumble, buzz”), dialectal Dutch hommen (“to buzz, hum”), Middle High German hummen (“to hum”), probably ultimately of imitative origin.
Senses: glosses: A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
examples: text: They could hear a hum coming from the kitchen, and found the dishwasher on.
text: the shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
glosses: Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive.
glosses: Unpleasant odour.
glosses: An imposition or hoax; humbug.
examples: text: you do provide me hum enough , And lour to bouse with
ref: c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger [et al.?], “Beggars Bush”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A kind of strong drink.
examples: text: There is a range of theories from farm or factory machinery to conspiracy theories such as flying saucers. And yet, "the hum" remains an unsolved case.
ref: 2011 June 13, “Who, What, Why: Why is 'the hum' such a mystery?”, in BBC News:
glosses: A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people.
raw_tags: with article
Derived terms: antihum
humbird
hum-box
humbucker
humdudgeon
hummy
mains hum
sixty cycle hum
hum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: hums
form: humming
form: hummed
form: hummed
Etymology: From Middle English hummen (“to hum, buzz, drone, make a murmuring sound to cover embarrassment”); akin to Dutch hommelen (“to bumble, buzz”), dialectal Dutch hommen (“to buzz, hum”), Middle High German hummen (“to hum”), probably ultimately of imitative origin.
Senses: examples: text: We are humming happily along with the music.
glosses: To make a sound from the vocal cords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
examples: text: to hum a tune
text: The team hummed “We Shall Overcome” as they came back onto the field after the break.
glosses: To express by humming.
examples: text: The leaves of the foreſt were loaded with manna, pure amber dropped from every bough, honey diſtilled from the rifted rock, and the humming bee, drunk with joy, ſtrayed from flower to flower, forgetful of his burſting cells.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:
text: A slight gloom fell upon the table. Jacob was helping himself to jam; the postman was talking to Rebecca in the kitchen; there was a bee humming at the yellow flower which nodded at the open window.
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
glosses: To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly.
examples: text: The streets were humming with activity.
glosses: To buzz, be busily active like a beehive
glosses: To produce low sounds which blend continuously
examples: text: This room really hums — have you ever tried spring cleaning, mate?
glosses: To reek, smell bad.
glosses: To flatter by approving; to cajole; to deceive or impose upon; to humbug.
Synonyms: word: bumble
word: bustle
word: hustle
word: buzz
word: croon
word: whir
word: bombinate
word: drone
word: hum
word: thrum
word: whirr
word: whizz
Hypernyms: word: sound
Hyponyms: word: croon
word: purr
Derived terms: ahum
ho-hum
hum along
hum and ha
hum and haw
humble
hummable
hummer
hummingbird
humming-top
hummy
unhummed
Related terms: word: humblebee
word: humming
hum
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Etymology: From Middle English hummen (“to hum, buzz, drone, make a murmuring sound to cover embarrassment”); akin to Dutch hommelen (“to bumble, buzz”), dialectal Dutch hommen (“to buzz, hum”), Middle High German hummen (“to hum”), probably ultimately of imitative origin.
Senses: examples: text: Hum! hum! What's all this?
ref: 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Baker Street Irregulars”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 157:
glosses: Synonym of hmm: a noise indicating thought, consideration, &c.
synonyms: word: hmm
extra: a noise indicating thought, consideration, &c
examples: text: Ah, now this is why we must proceed with great circumspection. They were both, hum, “put out” themselves.
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 19:
glosses: Synonym of um: a noise indicating doubt, uncertainty, &c.
synonyms: word: um
extra: a noise indicating doubt, uncertainty, &c
Derived terms: ho hum
Related terms: sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "hum"
word: hum bow
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "hum"
word: om mani padme hum