cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pizza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːtsə/
ipa: [ˈpʰit.sə]
rhymes: -iːtsə
note: Indic, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈpiza/
note: Indic, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈpɪzza/
rhymes: -iːzə
Forms: form: pizzas
form: pizze
form: pitza
Etymology: 1931, borrowed from Neapolitan pizza (1590), the Neapolitan dialectal form of Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta, “cake, pie”).
The Greek word is first attested in 1107 and is itself of uncertain origin.
The northern Italian dialectal form was pinza, the southern (Apulian and Calabrian) form was pitta.
This suggests a derivation from Latin pīnctus (pictus (“painted, smeared”)) or pīnsum, pīnsitum, pistum (“pounded”), but the northern forms appear to be contaminated with pinzare (“to staple”).
There are alternative suggestions involving Greek etymologies (πηκτή (pēktḗ), πηκτός (pēktós, “compacted, congealed”); πήτεα (pḗtea, “bran”); Ancient Greek πιττάκιον (pittákion, “patch; tablet; ticket”)), more remote possibilities involve comparison with Lombardic pizzo, pizza (“bite, morsel, lump, dumpling”); Albanian petë (“layer”), Romanian pată (“blotch, stain, macula”); Albanian pite (“gruel”);
From Aramaic פִיתָּא (pītā, “piece of bread”), Hebrew פַּת (paṯ, “bread”). Doublet of pide and pita.
Senses: examples: text: a slice of pizza
text: a pizza pie
text: Want to go out for pizza tonight?
synonyms: 'za
glosses: A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.
examples: text: He ate a whole pizza!
text: Should we cook a frozen pizza for dinner?
synonyms: pizza pie
pie
glosses: A single instance of this dish.
Derived terms: California pizza
California-style pizza
cheese pizza
Chicago pizza
Chicago style pizza
Chicago-style pizza
deepdish pizza
deep-dish pizza
deep dish pizza
garden pizza
German pizza
Greek pizza
Hawaiian pizza
Japanese pizza
licorice pizza
Margherita pizza
margherita pizza
meatza
New York pizza
New York-style pizza
New York style pizza
nonpizza
outpizza
pan pizza
pavement pizza
pavement-pizza
pierogi pizza
pizza bagel
pizza bite
pizza bone
pizza box
pizza boy
pizzaburger
pizza casserole
pizza crunch
pizza cutter
pizzadilla
pizza dish
pizza eggs
pizza face
pizza-face
pizza farm
pizza fractions
pizza fritta
Pizzagate
pizza-ghetti
pizza girl
pizza guy
pizzahead
pizzaholic
pizza lady
pizzaless
pizzalicious
pizzalike
pizzamaker
pizza man
pizza Margherita
Pizza Meter
pizza naan
pizza nigger
pizza oven
pizza paddle
pizza pan
pizza parlor
pizza parlour
pizza peel
pizza pie
pizza pocket
pizza popper
pizza puff
pizzarito
pizza roll
pizza sauce
pizza saver
pizza shop
pizza stone
pizza store
pizza sub
pizza submarine sandwich
pizza sub sandwich
pizza table
pizza toast
pizza wheel
pizza woman
pizzeria
pizzetta
pizzoli
poor man's pizza
road pizza
sheet pizza
spaghetti pizza
sushi pizza
thick-crust pizza
thin-crust pizza
track pizza
Turkish pizza
two-pizza rule
white pizza
Related terms: apizza
mutt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌt/
ipa: /mʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: mutts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of matha.
mongrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌŋ.ɡɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmɑŋ.ɡɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmʌŋ.ɡɹəl/
rhymes: -ʌŋɡɹəl
rhymes: -ɑŋɡɹəl
Forms: form: mongrels
Etymology: From Middle English mongrel, equivalent to mong (“mixture”) + -rel (pejorative diminutive); from Old English ġemang (“mingling”) (whence Modern English among), from Proto-Germanic *mang- (“mix”).
Senses: examples: text: That dog is a mongrel; who knows what breed it could be!
text: America is an improbable idea. A mongrel nation built of ever-changing disparate parts, it is held together by a notion, the notion that all men are created equal, though everyone knows that most men consider themselves better than someone.
ref: 2001 September 26, Anna Quindlen, “A Quilt of a Country”, in Newsweek:
synonyms: word: bitsa
word: bitser
word: bitzer
word: cur
word: mutt
word: tyke
word: Heinz 57
glosses: Someone or something of mixed kind or uncertain origin, especially a dog.
synonyms: word: bitsa
word: bitser
word: bitzer
word: cur
word: mutt
word: tyke
word: Heinz 57
glosses: Someone or something of mixed kind or uncertain origin, especially a dog.
A mixed-race person.
examples: text: "Yanto bloody Evans!" Jack stuttered with rage. "Yanto bloody Evans! That... that... bloody mongrel! D'you know who he is? He's the one who knocked me back for a bit of extra timber before the roof fell in on me!"
ref: 2008, Jim Brigginshaw, Over My Dead Body, page 77:
text: But somebody's got to tell these mums and dads why their kids died, why this mongrel thinks he can wipe them out like a dirty rag.
ref: 2019 October 27, Natalie Wolfe, “Australia's worst serial killer's affairs with sisters-in-laws”, in New Zealand Herald:
synonyms: bastard
glosses: A thuggish, obnoxious, or contemptible person; (often preceded by "poor") a pitiable person.
glosses: An erect penis; an erection.
Derived terms: mongreldom
mongrelisation
mongrelise
mongrelish
mongrelism
mongrelity
mongrelization
mongrelize
mongrelly
mongrelness
Related terms: among
mongrel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌŋ.ɡɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmɑŋ.ɡɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmʌŋ.ɡɹəl/
rhymes: -ʌŋɡɹəl
rhymes: -ɑŋɡɹəl
Etymology: From Middle English mongrel, equivalent to mong (“mixture”) + -rel (pejorative diminutive); from Old English ġemang (“mingling”) (whence Modern English among), from Proto-Germanic *mang- (“mix”).
Senses: examples: text: English spelling is often regarded as confusing and unpredictable due to the mongrel nature of that language.
text: a mongrel dog
glosses: Of mixed breed, nature, or origin; of or like a mongrel.
molar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmoʊlɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /moːlaː(ɾ)/
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: molars
Etymology: From Middle English molar, from Latin molāris (“millstone, molar”).
Senses: examples: text: Jamie had a molar removed as it was decaying.
glosses: A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food.
Synonyms: cheektooth
grinder
wangtooth
Derived terms: distomolar
Fournier's molar
intermolar
macromolar
molariform
molarisation
molarization
molarize
molarlike
molar masher
molar tooth
Moon's molar
mulberry molar
nonmolar
premolar
retromolar
molar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmoʊlɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /moːlaː(ɾ)/
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English molar, from Latin molāris (“millstone, molar”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the molar teeth, or to grinding.
molar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmoʊlɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /moːlaː(ɾ)/
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From mol(e) + -ar in the chemistry usage.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one mole of solute per litre of solution.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or relating to a complete body of matter as distinct from its molecular or atomic constituents.
Derived terms: attomolar
equimolar
femtomolar
isomolar
micromolar
millimolar
molar concentration
molar heat capacity
molarity
molar mass
molar solution
molar volume
multimolar
nanomolar
nonmolar
osmolarity
picomolar
submolar
unimolar
zeptomolar
Related terms: molality
molar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmoʊlɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /moːlaː(ɾ)/
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: molars
Etymology: From mol(e) + -ar in the chemistry usage.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A unit of concentration equal to one mole per litre.
slug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: slŭg
ipa: /slʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: slugs
form: slugging
form: slugged
form: slugged
Etymology: Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge (“lazy person", also "sloth, slothfulness”), probably of either Old English or Old Norse origin; compare Norn slug (“lazy, slothful, sluggish”), dialectal Norwegian slugg (“a large, heavy body”), sluggje (“heavy, slow person”), Danish slog (“rascal, rogue”); perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sliǵ-ōn, from *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”) or otherwise from the root of Old Norse slókr (“lazy person, oaf”), whence Icelandic slókur (“laziness”). Compare also Dutch slak (“snail, slug”). Doublet of slotch.
The sense of a hitchhiking commuter is from the sense of a counterfeit bus token. Bus operators considered sluggers to be cheating as if they were using counterfeit tokens.
Senses: glosses: To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
examples: text: "We believe in car-pooling, but let's do it without restricting traffic. ..." Sam Snyder, 51, of Burke, who has been slugging to his job at the US Customs ....
ref: 1998 July 23, “Ramsey Vows to Find New Sites for Commuter `Slug Lines'”, in Washington Post:
text: no sane person would attempt to commute that far every day. Sure they do. I've often slugged to Fredericksburg and back. The VRE carries hundreds of people per day, and the I-95 HOV lanes carry tens of thousands of people each day.
ref: 2002 December 13, Joshua E. Rodd, “The Perfect Mass Transit”, in dc.urban-planning (Usenet), message-ID <FmpK9.110446$%p6.11081387@twister.neo.rr.com>:
glosses: To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
glosses: To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
raw_tags: of a bullet
examples: text: To slug in slouth and sensuall delights.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23:
glosses: To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
examples: text: to slug a gun
glosses: To load with a slug or slugs.
examples: text: So little do we fear , you slug you
ref: 1692, John Milton, translated by [Joseph Washington], A Defence of the People of England, […]: In Answer to Salmasius’s Defence of the King, [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC:
glosses: To make sluggish.
Derived terms: slugabed
slug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: slŭg
ipa: /slʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: slugs
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps somehow from Proto-Germanic *slagiz (“a blow, strike”). If so, then ultimately cognate with German Schlag (“blow, hit”) and Dutch slag (“blow, strike”).
Senses: glosses: A hard blow, usually with the fist.
slug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: slŭg
ipa: /slʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: slugs
form: slugging
form: slugged
form: slugged
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps somehow from Proto-Germanic *slagiz (“a blow, strike”). If so, then ultimately cognate with German Schlag (“blow, hit”) and Dutch slag (“blow, strike”).
Senses: examples: text: He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.
text: The fighter slugged his opponent into unconsciousness.
text: The man is a mechanical genius. He also has one of the worst conduct records in the army. He likes to slug officers.
ref: 1983, Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell, “Mexican Slayride”, in The A-Team, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Zack (Ron Palillo):
text: "Urgh... I know you wanted to have another day at the con, but if I had to listen to her speak anymore, I was going to do something I'd regret. Honestly, you probably should've slugged her." "Believe me. I wanted to."
ref: 2015 August 11, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 713 - I'm Done:
glosses: To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
Derived terms: slug away
slugfest
slugger
slugging match
slug it out
slug out
perfect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.fɪkt/
ipa: /-fɛkt/
ipa: /ˈpɝ.fɪkt/
homophone: purrfect
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fɪkt
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fɛkt
Forms: form: perfects
form: perfite
form: perfight
form: pf.
form: poifect
Etymology: From Middle English perfit, from Old French parfit (modern: parfait), from Latin perfectus, perfect passive participle of perficere (“to finish”), from per- (“through, thorough”) + facere (“to do, to make”). The spelling was modified in the 15th century to conform to its Latin etymon. Doublet of parfait, perfecto, and perfectus.
Displaced native Old English fulfremed.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
examples: text: Awarded for scoring all Perfects in the Dominator rank!
ref: 2007, Barbara Smith, Chad Yancey, Video Game Achievements and Unlockables, page 17:
text: […] a table of all the ratings that each player has achieved, giving you several scoring options based on player feedback (I simply record the number of perfects).
ref: 2007, Eli Neiburger, Gamers-- in the Library?!:
topics: video-games
glosses: A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes.
topics: Christianity
synonyms: perfectus
hyponyms: perfecta
glosses: A leader of the Cathar movement.
Synonyms: topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: preterperfect
perfect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.fɪkt/
ipa: /-fɛkt/
ipa: /ˈpɝ.fɪkt/
homophone: purrfect
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fɪkt
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fɛkt
ipa: /pəˈfɛkt/
ipa: /pɚˈfɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
ipa: /ˈpɜː.fɪkt/
ipa: /-fɛkt/
ipa: /ˈpɝ.fɪkt/
homophone: purrfect
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fɪkt
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fɛkt
Forms: form: perfects
form: perfecting
form: perfected
form: perfected
form: perfite
form: perfight
form: pf.
form: poifect
Etymology: From perfect (adjective).
Senses: examples: text: I am going to perfect this article.
text: You spend too much time trying to perfect your dancing.
synonyms: enhance
hone
improve
optimize
glosses: To make perfect; to improve or hone.
examples: text: perfect an appeal
text: perfect an interest
text: perfect a judgment
topics: law
glosses: To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right.
Derived terms: perfectability
unperfected
Related terms: perfectation
perfecter
perfectible
precise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈsaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: more precise
form: preciser
form: most precise
form: precisest
form: præcise
Etymology: From Middle French précis, from Latin praecisus, perfect passive participle of praecīdere, from prae- (“before, in front”) + caedere (“cut; strike”), cognate with hit. Related to incise. Doublet of précis.
Senses: examples: text: A memory is "precise" when the occurrences that would verify it are narrowly circumscribed: for instance, "I met Jones" is precise as compared to "I met a man." A memory is "accurate" when it is both precise and true, i.e. in the above instance, if it was Jones I met.
ref: 1921, Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind:
text: Individually, some of these definitions fall into the common definitional trap of being overly precise.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 7:
antonyms: inexact
imprecise
glosses: Both exact and accurate.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: imprecise
;
inconsistent
varying
coordinate_terms: accurate
qualifier: strictly
glosses: Consistent, clustered close together, agreeing with each other (this does not mean that they cluster near the true, correct, or accurate value).
raw_tags: of data points
glosses: Adhering too much to rules; prim or punctilious.
Derived terms: word: hyperprecise
word: nonprecise
word: overprecise
word: precisely
word: preciseness
word: precisian
word: precisification
word: precisify
word: prissy
word: pseudoprecise
word: superprecise
word: to be precise
word: ultraprecise
word: unprecise
Related terms: repeatable
precise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈsaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: precises
form: precising
form: precised
form: precised
form: præcise
Etymology: From Middle French précis, from Latin praecisus, perfect passive participle of praecīdere, from prae- (“before, in front”) + caedere (“cut; strike”), cognate with hit. Related to incise. Doublet of précis.
Senses: examples: text: This proposal for a new basic regulation is justified because there is a need to precise the objectives of the CFP.
ref: 2011, Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the Common Fisheries Policy:
qualifier: European Union documents
glosses: To make or render precise; to specify.
Derived terms: precising definition
Desi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪ.si/
ipa: /ˈdɛs.i/
rhymes: -eɪsi
rhymes: -ɛsi
Forms: form: more Desi
form: most Desi
form: desi
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani دیسی (desī) / देसी (desī).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the culture, people, or products of South Asia; South Asian.
Derived terms: desiness
Desi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪ.si/
ipa: /ˈdɛs.i/
rhymes: -eɪsi
rhymes: -ɛsi
Forms: form: Desis
form: desi
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani دیسی (desī) / देसी (desī).
Senses: examples: text: Desis from the United States have an accent; those from Canada, another.
ref: 2011 August, Shagorika Easwar, "Hello ji!" (editor's column), Desi News (Canada), vol. 15, issue 8, p. 8
glosses: A member of the South Asian diaspora.
acanthophorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌækənˈθɒfəɹəs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄκανθα (ákantha, “spine”) + -φόρος (-phóros, “bearing”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Spine-bearing .
accurateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.jə.ɹət.nəs/
Etymology: From accurate + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: exactness
nicety
precision
glosses: The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy
matka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matkas
Etymology: From Hindi मटका (maṭkā).
Senses: examples: text: Alternatively, instead of cooking in a matka, wrap the vegetable mixture (without lettuce leaves) in aluminium foil and bake in a hot oven at 200 degrees Celsius for 1 hour.
ref: 2022, Vijay Karna, The Great Indian Cook Book, page 185:
glosses: An earthenware pot.
glosses: A kind of coarse silk from the Indian subcontinent, mainly produced from pierced (moth-damaged) cocoons.
Related terms: satta matka
kawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kava.
kawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Maori kawa.
Senses: glosses: Maori customs and protocol.
kara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karas
Etymology: From Punjabi ਕੜਾ (kaṛā); see Hindi कड़ा (kaṛā, “bracelet”).
Senses: glosses: A bangle worn by Sikhs, one of the five Ks, to remind them to do God's work.
who
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ho͞o
ipa: /huː/
ipa: [huː]
ipa: [hʊw]
ipa: [hʉw]
ipa: [hʉː]
ipa: [hu(ː)]
ipa: [huː]
ipa: [hʉː]
rhymes: -uː
enpr: h(w)o͞o
enpr: h(w)ō
ipa: /h(w)uː/
ipa: /h(w)ɔː/
note: originally unstressed
ipa: /hwɒ/
Forms: form: whos
Etymology: From Middle English who, hwo, huo, wha, hwoa, hwa, from Old English hwā (dative hwām, genitive hwæs), from Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷís.
The sound change /hw/ > /h/ (without a corresponding change in spelling) was due to wh-cluster reduction after an irregular change of /ɑː/ to /oː/ in Middle English (instead of the expected /ɔː/) and further to /uː/ regularly in Early Modern English. A similar change occurred in two. Compare how, which underwent wh-reduction earlier (in Old English), and thus is spelt with h.
Compare Scots wha, West Frisian wa, Dutch wie, Low German we, German wer, Swedish vem, Danish hvem, Norwegian Bokmål hvem, Norwegian Nynorsk kven, Icelandic hver.
Senses: examples: text: A wham-bam caper flick, efficiently directed by Roger Donaldson, that fancifully revisits the mysterious whos and speculative hows of a 1971 London bank heist.
ref: 2008 March 21, The New York Times, “Movie Guide and Film Series”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person under discussion; a question of which person.
whose
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /huːz/
rhymes: -uːz
homophone: who's
homophone: whos
Etymology: From Middle English whos, from Old English hwæs, from Proto-Germanic *hwes, genitive case of *hwaz (“who”) *hwat (“what”).
Senses: examples: text: Whose (wallet) is this?
text: We should buy a house. ~ With whose money?
text: For whose benefit are you acting.?
glosses: Of whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's.
examples: text: This is the man whose dog caused the accident.
text: Venus, whose sister is Serena, won the latest championship.
text: I dedicate this award to my parents, without whose help I wouldn't have made it this far.
text: The victim was a youngster, both of whose eyes were missing.
text: He asked whose the umbrella was.
text: The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: Of whom, belonging to whom.
examples: text: We saw several houses whose roofs were falling off.
glosses: Of which, belonging to which.
Derived terms: whose foot the shoe is on
whose ox is gored
you and whose army
whose
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /huːz/
rhymes: -uːz
homophone: who's
homophone: whos
Etymology: From Middle English whos, from Old English hwæs, from Proto-Germanic *hwes, genitive case of *hwaz (“who”) *hwat (“what”).
Senses: examples: text: Several people have lost their suitcases. Whose have you found?
glosses: That or those of whom or belonging to whom.
examples: text: This car is blocking the way, but Mr Smith, whose it is, will be here shortly.
text: For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 27:23:
text: If he starts it on another man's lands, and kills it there, it belongs to the owner of the land; but if he start game on one man's lands, and pursue it to those of another, and kill it there, it is neither the property of the man on whose lands it is started, nor of him on whose it is killed, but belongs to the killer.
ref: 1833, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 3, page 637 (Google Books view)
text: The notes on authors are extremely brilliant and incisive, not always in good perspective and sometimes freaky in their wit, as, for instance, the reference to Mrs. Holmes, of whose books it is said, "The secret of their long popularity has never been divulged by their readers," and Mrs. Harris, of whose it is said, "To a lively mind they should be conducive of profound sleep," which, whatever its faults, is by no means true of "Rutledge."
ref: 1895, Library Journal, Volume 20, page 397 (Google Books view)
glosses: That or those of whom or belonging to whom.
whose
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /huːz/
rhymes: -uːz
homophone: who's
homophone: whos
Etymology: From Middle English whos, from Old English hwæs, from Proto-Germanic *hwes, genitive case of *hwaz (“who”) *hwat (“what”).
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of who's.
which
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭch
ipa: /wɪt͡ʃ/
note: without the wine–whine merger
enpr: hwĭch
ipa: /ʍɪt͡ʃ/
note: without the wine–whine merger
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
homophone: witch
homophone: wich
homophone: wych (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whiche
form: wich
Etymology: From Middle English which, hwic, wilche, hwilch, whilk, hwilc, from Old English hwelċ (“which”), from Proto-Germanic *hwilīkaz (“what kind”, literally “like what”), derived from *hwaz, equivalent to who + like.
Cognates include Scots whilk (“which”), West Frisian hokker (“which”), Dutch welk (“which”), Low German welk (“which”), German welcher (“which”), Danish hvilken (“which”), Swedish vilken (“which”), Norwegian hvilken (“which”), Icelandic hvílíkur (“which”).
Senses: examples: text: They only offered me five dollars, which I wouldn’t do it for less than fifteen.
glosses: And.
which
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭch
ipa: /wɪt͡ʃ/
note: without the wine–whine merger
enpr: hwĭch
ipa: /ʍɪt͡ʃ/
note: without the wine–whine merger
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
homophone: witch
homophone: wich
homophone: wych (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whiche
form: wich
Etymology: From Middle English which, hwic, wilche, hwilch, whilk, hwilc, from Old English hwelċ (“which”), from Proto-Germanic *hwilīkaz (“what kind”, literally “like what”), derived from *hwaz, equivalent to who + like.
Cognates include Scots whilk (“which”), West Frisian hokker (“which”), Dutch welk (“which”), Low German welk (“which”), German welcher (“which”), Danish hvilken (“which”), Swedish vilken (“which”), Norwegian hvilken (“which”), Icelandic hvílíkur (“which”).
Senses: examples: text: Which song shall we play?
text: They couldn't decide which song to play.
text: Which one is bigger?
text: Show me which one is bigger.
glosses: What, of those mentioned or implied.
examples: text: Take which one you want.
text: You may go which way you please.
glosses: The/Any ... that; whichever.
examples: text: After glaring upon the smoking philosopher, who took his misfortunes with such positive nonchalance, he growled out an oath in German, which language is particularly adapted for growling in; then, raising his hand, he dealt him a blow on his pipe, which sent it, like a rocket, into the midst of the players.
ref: 1860, Alfred Henry Forrester, Fairy footsteps, or, Lessons from legends, with illustr., by Alfred Crowquill, page 166 (Google Books view)
text: Whitaker’s blog post, housed on a website called Minutes Before Six, goes on to make references to Albert Camus’ 1947 classic, The Plague, dips into a Camus-inspired existential ramble and returns to an attempt to convey the detail of Prieto’s being essentially “noble,” which fact, he admits, will be lost in translation to anyone unfamiliar with death row units.
ref: 2015 January 21, Texas Public Radio, “Voices From Death Row: A Prisoner Writes An Ode To ‘Living Dyingly’”, in Texas Public Radio:
text: All the phones come in plastic bodies that have been given a brushed-metal finish and carry 64-bit processors from Intel, which fact they proudly announce with an Intel Inside logo on the back.
ref: 2015 May 2, Adarsh Matham, “Battle of the Smartphones”, in The New Indian Express:
text: He once owned a painting of the house, which painting would later be stolen.
text: She only speaks Chinese, which language I can hardly follow.
text: For several seconds he sat in silence, during which time the tea and sandwiches arrived.
text: I'm thinking of getting a new car, in which case I'd get a red one.
qualifier: formal outside certain phrases
glosses: Designates the one(s) previously mentioned.
slim
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: slimmer
form: slimmest
Etymology: Borrowing from Low German or Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”), from Middle Dutch slim (“bad, crooked”), from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”). The sense development would have been "slanting, cunning" (Dutch) > "insignificant, slight" and then "thin, graceful" in English, a shift that Liberman calls an "incredible amelioration" of word meaning.
The pejorative sense found in Low German and Dutch is also found preserved in the archaic English noun slim (“worthless or lazy person”), also comparable to the South African use of the adjective as "crafty, sly."
Compare Dutch slim (“smart, clever, crafty”), Middle High German slimp (“slanting, awry”), German schlimm (“bad”), West Frisian slim (“bad, dire”).
Senses: examples: text: Movie stars are usually slim, attractive, and young.
glosses: Slender; thin.
Slender in an attractive way.
raw_tags: of a person or a person's build
glosses: Slender; thin.
Designed to make the wearer appear slim.
raw_tags: of clothing
glosses: Slender; thin.
Long and narrow.
raw_tags: of an object
glosses: Slender; thin.
Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.
raw_tags: of a workforce
examples: text: I'm afraid your chances are quite slim.
text: Wolves' debatable third in the last 10 minutes, with the ball only crossing the line by the slimmest of margins if at all, ensured a cracking finale, although City would have been left aggrieved had they let the win slip.
ref: 2011 January 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, in BBC:
glosses: Very small, tiny.
raw_tags: of something abstract like a chance or margin
examples: text: A slimly-shod lad;
text: a slimly-made cart.
qualifier: rustic
glosses: Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
glosses: Sly, crafty.
raw_tags: in UK
Synonyms: sense: slender in an attractive way.
word: lithe
word: svelte
word: willowy
word: slender
sense: long and narrow
word: fine
sense: long and narrow
word: stalky
sense: long and narrow
word: sticklike
sense: long and narrow
word: thin
sense: long and narrow
word: virgate
sense: tiny; of something abstract
word: infinitesimal
word: marginal
word: tiny
sense: of questionable quality
word: flimsy
word: lousy
word: shoddy
word: low-quality
sense: crafty
word: cunning
word: frood
word: wily
Derived terms: word: slim client
word: slim-fit
word: slim jim
word: slim pickings
word: slimsy
word: slim-thick
taxonomic: Fouquieria splendens
word: slimwood
slim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: slims
form: Slim
Etymology: Borrowing from Low German or Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”), from Middle Dutch slim (“bad, crooked”), from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”). The sense development would have been "slanting, cunning" (Dutch) > "insignificant, slight" and then "thin, graceful" in English, a shift that Liberman calls an "incredible amelioration" of word meaning.
The pejorative sense found in Low German and Dutch is also found preserved in the archaic English noun slim (“worthless or lazy person”), also comparable to the South African use of the adjective as "crafty, sly."
Compare Dutch slim (“smart, clever, crafty”), Middle High German slimp (“slanting, awry”), German schlimm (“bad”), West Frisian slim (“bad, dire”).
Senses: examples: text: I only smoke slims.
glosses: A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
glosses: A potato farl.
examples: text: As in the West, only about 50 per cent of patients with slim fully investigated will have a putative pathogen identified.
ref: 2003, Charled F. Gilks, “HIV in the Developing World”, in David A. Warrell et al., editors, Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 4th edition, volume 1, →ISBN, page 446:
glosses: AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
glosses: Cocaine.
slim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: slims
form: slimming
form: slimmed
form: slimmed
Etymology: Borrowing from Low German or Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”), from Middle Dutch slim (“bad, crooked”), from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”). The sense development would have been "slanting, cunning" (Dutch) > "insignificant, slight" and then "thin, graceful" in English, a shift that Liberman calls an "incredible amelioration" of word meaning.
The pejorative sense found in Low German and Dutch is also found preserved in the archaic English noun slim (“worthless or lazy person”), also comparable to the South African use of the adjective as "crafty, sly."
Compare Dutch slim (“smart, clever, crafty”), Middle High German slimp (“slanting, awry”), German schlimm (“bad”), West Frisian slim (“bad, dire”).
Senses: glosses: To lose weight in order to achieve slimness.
glosses: To make slimmer; to reduce in size.
Derived terms: slim down
slim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: slims
Senses: examples: text: Crump, having fortified himself with a bobstick of rum slim, moved cautiously among the crowds who bustled along Fleet Street.
ref: 2010, Maggie MacKeever, The Baroness of Bow Street:
glosses: Alternative form of sling (“type of alcoholic mixed drink”)
British Columbia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪt.ɪʃ kəˈlʌm.bi.ə/
Etymology: A name given by Queen Victoria when it became a British colony in 1858, referring to the Columbia District, a territory drained by the Columbia River.
Senses: examples: text: In that year [1871] British Columbia decided to become part of the Dominion of Canada, on condition that a transcontinental railway should be completed without delay.
ref: 1954 February, Trevor Holloway, “Canada's Transcontinental Routes”, in Railway Magazine, pages 127-128:
glosses: A province in western Canada. Capital: Victoria. Largest city: Vancouver.
wikipedia: Columbia District
Queen Victoria
Synonyms: english: postal symbol
translation: postal symbol
word: BC
word: B.C.
word: B. C.
Derived terms: British Columbia Coast
British Columbia Interior
British Columbian
Coast of British Columbia
Interior of British Columbia
Alberta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌælˈbɜː(ɹ).tə/
Etymology: From Albert + -a. The province was named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta.
Senses: glosses: A province in western Canada. Capital: Edmonton. Largest city: Calgary.
glosses: Former name of Rockwood: an unincorporated community in Imperial County, California, United States.
examples: text: Alberta is more like a man's name than any other name that comes from a men's, more than Georgianna which is just like a magnolia blossom or Henrietta which most people change to Etta or Geraldine which nobody ever thinks of coming from a man's Irish name like Gerald. Alberta also sounds sort of Canadian, and everything from Canada is masculine the way everything from Mexico is feminine, even the men. In saying it carelessly or reading it you hardly notice the a in the end.
ref: 1936, George Weller, Clutch and Differential, Ayer, published 1970, →ISBN, page 196:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, masculine equivalent Albert.
Meronyms: sense: province
word: Calgary
sense: province
word: Edmonton
Derived terms: word: AB
word: Alta
word: Alta.
word: Alberta clipper
word: Albertan
Saskatchewan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈskæt͡ʃ.əˌwɑːn/
ipa: /səˈskæt͡ʃ.ə.wən/
Forms: form: Saskatchouan
Etymology: From Cree ᑭᓯᐢᑳᒋᐘᓂ ᓰᐱᕀ (kisiskâciwani-sîpiy, “swift-flowing river”). The province is named after the river, which flows through it.
Senses: glosses: A prairie province in western Canada. Capital: Regina.
glosses: A major river in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada.
Synonyms: SK
Sk.
Sask
Sask.
SSK
Coordinate terms: Fransaskois
Derived terms: Saskatchewanian
Manitoba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæn.ɪˈtəʊ.bə/
ipa: /ˌmænɪˈtoʊbə/
Forms: form: Manitobah
Etymology: From Ojibwe ᒪᓂᑐᐸᐦ or Cree ᒪᓂᑐᐘᐳᐤ (manitowapow, “spirit strait”), referring to the Narrows of Lake Manitoba. Compare English manitou, Ojibwe manidoo.
Senses: glosses: A province in western Canada. Capital and largest city: Winnipeg.
Synonyms: Province of Manitoba
MB
Man
Man.
Derived terms: word: Manitoba Escarpment
word: Manitoba flour
english: ash-leaved maple
translation: ash-leaved maple
word: Manitoba maple
word: Manitoban
word: Manitoba wolf
word: Republic of Manitoba
word: Republic of Manitobah
Related terms: Lake Manitoba
Ontario
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒnˈtɛə.ɹi.əʊ/
ipa: /ɑnˈtɛəɹ.i.oʊ/
ipa: /ɒnˈtɛə.ɹi.o/
ipa: /ɒnˈtæɹ.i.o/
Etymology: Probably from Wyandot ontari꞉io (literally “great lake”). If so, ultimately from Proto-North Iroquoian *-õtaɹeɁ and Proto-Iroquoian * -õːtaɹiɁ.
Senses: examples: text: In some Canadian provinces - namely Ontario, the largest by population - American booze will be pulled off the shelves indefinitely starting on Tuesday.
ref: 2025 February 2, Nadine Yousif, “Canadian fans boo US anthem as tariffs spur 'buy local' pledge”, in BBC News:
glosses: A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Toronto.
glosses: A large lake in North America, between the Canadian province of Ontario and the American state of New York; one of the Great Lakes; Lake Ontario.
glosses: A village in the Cayo District, Belize.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in San Bernardino County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Knox County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lima Township, LaGrange County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A community in Ames, Story County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town, hamlet, and census-designated place in Wayne County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Ellipsis of Ontario County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Richland County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Malheur County, Oregon.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A populated place in North Bethlehem Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A populated place in Charlotte County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: word: Ontarian
word: Ontario County
word: Ontario Lacus
word: Ontario violet
sense: province
word: ON
sense: province
word: Ont.
sense: province
word: Ont
New Brunswick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /njuː ˈbɹʌnz.wɪk/
ipa: /nju ˈbɹʌnz.wɪk/
Etymology: From new + Brunswick (“Braunschweig”), after the German duchy, the ancestral home of George III of the United Kingdom (1738–1820).
Senses: holonyms: Maritimes
Maritime provinces
glosses: A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Fredericton.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Indiana, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.
Derived terms: New Brunswicker
NB
N.B.
N. B.
Related terms: Brunswick
East Brunswick
North Brunswick
Old Brunswick
South Brunswick
West Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnoʊ.və ˈskoʊ.ʃə/
ipa: /ˌnəʊ.və ˈskəʊ.ʃə/
Etymology: From Latin, literally “New Scotland”, from nova, feminine of novus (“new”) + Scōtia (“Scotland”).
Senses: holonyms: Maritimes
Maritime provinces
meronyms: Nova Scotia peninsula
Cape Breton Island
glosses: A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Halifax.
glosses: A peninsula on the coast of the Atlantic, comprising most of the province of Nova Scotia; Nova Scotia peninsula.
Derived terms: word: Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
word: Nova Scotia peninsula
word: Nova Scotian
word: NS
word: N.S.
word: N. S.
Prince Edward Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820), the son of King George III and father of Queen Victoria.
Senses: holonyms: Maritimes
Maritime provinces
glosses: A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Charlottetown.
glosses: An island in eastern Canada, which forms the majority of the eponymous province.
glosses: An island administered by South Africa in the subantarctic Indian Ocean, part of the Prince Edward Islands.
Synonyms: word: PEI
word: P.E.I.
word: P. E. I.
sense: postal abbreviation
word: PE
sense: island
word: Île Saint Jean
Derived terms: Prince Edward Islander
Newfoundland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈn(j)u.fənd.lənd/
ipa: /ˌn(j)u.fəndˈlænd/
ipa: /ˈnjuːˌfaʊnd.lənd/
ipa: /ˈnjuː.fənd.lənd/
ipa: /ˌnjuːˈfaʊnd.lənd/
ipa: /ˈnuˌfaʊnd.lənd/
ipa: /ˈnu.fənd.lənd/
other: /lænd/
other: /lənd/
Etymology: From Middle English new found lande (in a letter, apparently written in 1499, from Henry VII of England to his lord chancellor, Cardinal John Morton, about the North American land explored by Sebastian and John Cabot, a likely location being Newfoundland, or the name later being specifically narrowed down to it), equivalent to newfound + land.
Senses: glosses: A large island off the coast of eastern Canada, which, along with Labrador, has composed the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador since 1949, and the Dominion of Newfoundland, before it.
glosses: Former name of Newfoundland and Labrador.
glosses: Ellipsis of Newfoundland and Labrador.
glosses: A former North American constituent country of the British Empire; in full, Dominion of Newfoundland.
glosses: A former North American colony of the British Empire; in full, Colony of Newfoundland.
Synonyms: sense: island
word: Island of Newfoundland
sense: island
word: Newfoundland Island
sense: island
word: the Rock
Derived terms: word: Colony of Newfoundland
word: Dominion of Newfoundland
word: Island of Newfoundland
word: Newfie
word: Newfoundland and Labrador
word: Newfoundland and Labradorian
word: Newfoundland caribou
word: Newfoundland Colony
word: Newfoundlander
word: Newfoundland Island
word: Newfoundland speed bump
word: newfypoo
sense: provincial abbreviations
word: Nfld
sense: provincial abbreviations
word: NFLD
sense: provincial abbreviations
word: Nfld.
sense: provincial abbreviations
word: NL
sense: provincial abbreviations
word: Nl
sense: provincial abbreviations
word: Nl.
sense: provincial abbreviations
word: N.L.
sense: provincial abbreviations
word: N. L.
Newfoundland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈn(j)u.fənd.lənd/
ipa: /ˌn(j)u.fəndˈlænd/
ipa: /ˈnjuːˌfaʊnd.lənd/
ipa: /ˈnjuː.fənd.lənd/
ipa: /ˌnjuːˈfaʊnd.lənd/
ipa: /ˈnuˌfaʊnd.lənd/
ipa: /ˈnu.fənd.lənd/
other: /lænd/
other: /lənd/
Forms: form: Newfoundlands
Etymology: From Middle English new found lande (in a letter, apparently written in 1499, from Henry VII of England to his lord chancellor, Cardinal John Morton, about the North American land explored by Sebastian and John Cabot, a likely location being Newfoundland, or the name later being specifically narrowed down to it), equivalent to newfound + land.
Senses: examples: text: The younger, a frank, bold, bright-eyed child, was mounted on a large Newfoundland dog, whose impatience the elder brother was trying to soothe.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 311:
glosses: A very large breed of working dog from Newfoundland, with a shaggy, usually black coat, known for its water rescue ability, strength, and gentle disposition.
Synonyms: Newf
Yukon Territory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Yukon.
synonyms: word: Yukon
Derived terms: word: Yu
word: Yu.
word: Yk
word: Yk.
word: YK
word: YT
word: Y.T.
word: Y. T.
word: Yukoner
Northwest Territories
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Sahaiʔa May Talbot was born on Feb. 15, 2014. However, on her birth certificate, her name is spelled Sahai'a because the Northwest Territories government only allows the Roman alphabet to be used on official documents.
ref: 2016 June 13, Hilary Bird, “Baby named Sahaiʔa prompts changes to Vital Statistics Act”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2016:
glosses: A territory in northern Canada. Capital: Yellowknife.
Derived terms: word: NT
word: NWT
word: N. W. T.
word: N.W.T.
Related terms: Northwest Territory
North-West Frontier Province
Nunavut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈn(j)uːnəˌvuːt/
ipa: /ˈnʊnəvʊt/
ipa: /ˈnʌnəvət/
Etymology: From Inuktitut nunavut (“our land”)/ᓄᓇᕗᑦ (nonafot). Compare Greenlandic nunarput (“our country, Greenland”), Inuvialuktun nunakput (“our land”), and Alutiiq nunapet (“our land”)
Senses: examples: text: All of the houses in Nunavut must be built on stilts because the permafrost makes it impossible to sink foundations.
ref: 2018, Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth, And Other Stories (2023), page 60:
synonyms: Nunavut Territory
glosses: A territory in northern Canada. Capital: Iqaluit.
Derived terms: word: NU
Related terms: Nunavummiuq
Nunavummiut
smell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: smĕl
ipa: /smɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: smells
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *smel-
Proto-West Germanic *smalljan
Old English *smiellan
Middle English smellen
English smell
From Middle English smellen, smillen, smyllen, smullen, from Old English *smyllan, *smiellan (“to smell, emit fumes”), from Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (“to glow, burn, smoulder”), from Proto-Indo-European *smel- (“to burn, smoke, smoulder; tar, pitch”). The noun is from Middle English smel, smil, smul (“smell, odour”). Related to Saterland Frisian smeele (“to smoulder”), Middle Dutch smōlen (“to burn, smoulder”) (whence Dutch smeulen (“to smoulder”)), Middle Low German smölen (“to be hazy, be dusty”) (whence Low German smölen (“smoulder”)), Low German smullen (“emit smoke”), West Flemish smoel (“stuffy, muggy, hazy”), Danish smul (“dust, powder”), Lithuanian smilkyti (“to incense, fumigate”), Lithuanian smilkti (“to smudge, smolder, fume, reek”), Lithuanian smalkinti (“to fume”), Middle Irish smál, smól, smúal (“fire, gleed, embers, ashes”), Russian смола́ (smolá, “resin, tar”). Compare smoulder, smother.
Senses: examples: text: I love the smell of fresh bread.
text: The penetrating smell of cabbage reached the nose of Toad as he lay prostrate in his misery on the floor, and gave him the idea for a moment that perhaps life was not such a blank and desperate thing as he had imagined. But still he wailed, and kicked with his legs, and refused to be comforted. So the wise girl retired for the time, but, of course, a good deal of the smell of hot cabbage remained behind, as it will do, and Toad, between his sobs, sniffed and reflected, and gradually began to think new and inspiring thoughts: of chivalry, and poetry[…]
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
glosses: A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The sense that detects odours.
examples: text: I’m just saying, this has a bad smell to it.
ref: 2018 February 8, Carl Schroers, chapter 8, in Wrestling with Time Lost, Lulu Press:
glosses: A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
Synonyms: sense: pleasant
word: aroma
word: fragrance
word: odor
word: odour
word: scent
word: aroma
sense: unpleasant
word: niff
word: pong
word: reek
word: stench
word: stink
sense: sense
english: in technical use
translation: in technical use
word: olfaction
sense: sense
word: sense of smell
word: flair
word: smell
Hypernyms: word: sensation
word: emanation
word: exhalation
Hyponyms: word: bad smell
word: code smell
word: good smell
word: aroma
word: scent
word: stench
word: whiff
Derived terms: code smell
money does not smell
money has no smell
new-car smell
smell-alike
smell blindness
smell-brain
smell-feast
smell fox
smell-o-meter
smell-o-rama
smell-o-vision
smell-smock
smell trap
sweet smell of success
Related terms: word: nose