cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pinus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinuses
Etymology: From the genus name. Doublet of pine.
Senses: examples: text: I have been invited to see the garden of Baron Zanoli, situated on the high road from Monza to Milan, in which I am told there are fine exotic trees and shrubs, and especially a rich collection of pinuses.
ref: 1839, J. C. Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine, page 420:
text: As the generality of pinuses grow by nature into magnificent and gigantic forest-trees, they should, I think, be planted in our parks as well as in our flower-gardens, shrubberies, and lawns.
ref: 1853, George Greenwood, The tree-lifter, page 265:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the genus Pinus; a pine.
feverishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiː.və.ɹɪʃ.li/
ipa: /ˈfi.vɚ.ɪʃ.li/
Forms: form: more feverishly
form: most feverishly
Etymology: From feverish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The US believes Israel has significantly weakened Hezbollah in strikes over the last week but is still working feverishly behind the scenes to try to convince it not to escalate further and launch a ground incursion into Lebanon over concerns the intensified fighting could spark a broader conflict engulfing the wider Middle East, officials told CNN.
ref: 2024 September 24, Natasha Bertrand, Oren Liebermann and Jennifer Hansler, “US officials work feverishly to stop Israel-Hezbollah confrontation ‘spiraling to a regional war’”, in CNN:
glosses: With excitement and determination.
examples: text: In the outer room the two women knitted black wool feverishly.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
text: All the way to Styles, Mary talked fast and feverishly. It struck me that in some way she was nervous of Poirot’s eyes.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 148:
text: With nothing else to do, he carried the candle to the front room and began feverishly filling his pipe.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 80:
glosses: With speed; rapidly.
Synonyms: sense: with excitement
word: energetically
sense: with excitement
word: excitedly
sense: with speed
word: quickly
sense: with speed
word: rapidly
sense: with speed
word: speedily
Related terms: feverish
feverishness
Asunción
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌsuːnsiˈɒn/
ipa: /əˌsuːnsiˈəʊn/
ipa: /ˌæsʊnˈsjɒn/
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Paraguay.
Sucre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːkɹeɪ/
Senses: glosses: The constitutional capital of Bolivia.
glosses: A department in Colombia.
glosses: A town and municipality in Sucre department, Colombia.
glosses: A town and municipality in Cauca department, Colombia.
Related terms: La Paz
San Salvador
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæn ˈsælvədɔɹ/
Forms: form: Salvador
Etymology: From Spanish San Salvador (“Holy Savior”), various places named in honor of Jesus Christ, from Spanish salvador, from Latin salvator, from salvāre (“to save”) + -tor (suffix forming agent nouns).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of El Salvador.
glosses: A department of El Salvador.
glosses: A former province of El Salvador of the Spanish Empire and then of the United Provinces of Central America.
glosses: Ellipsis of San Salvador Island: the first island discovered on Christopher Columbus's first voyage.
glosses: Ellipsis of San Salvador Island: an island of the Bahamas.
glosses: Ellipsis of San Salvador Island, former name of Santiago: an island of Galapagos, Ecuador.
Tegucigalpa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛˌɡuːsiˈɡælpə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Tegucigalpa, from Classical Nahuatl.
Senses: examples: text: But on Friday, a U.S. Air Force plane carrying more than 70 deportees arrived around midday in the city of San Pedro Sula, about 100 miles northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital.
ref: 2025 February 1, Annie Correal, “U.S. Military Planes Deliver Deportees to Honduras”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2025:
glosses: The capital city of Honduras.
Paramaribo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑɹəˈmɑːɹɪbəʊ/
ipa: /ˌpɑɹəˈmɑɹəˌboʊ/
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Suriname.
Port of Spain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːt əv ˈspeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Etymology: Calque of Spanish Puerto España.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Trinidad and Tobago.
Port-au-Prince
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɔːtəʊˈpɹɪns/
ipa: /ˌpɔːtəʊˈpɹæ̃s/
ipa: /ˌpɔɹtoʊˈpɹɪns/
ipa: /ˌpɔɹtoʊˈpɹæ̃s/
Etymology: Borrowed from French Port-au-Prince.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Haiti.
Santo Domingo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsæn.tə dəˈmɪŋ.ɡoʊ/
ipa: /ˌsæn.toʊ dəˈmɪŋ.ɡoʊ/
ipa: /ˌsæn.tə dəˈmɪŋ.ɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˌsæn.təʊ dəˈmɪŋ.ɡəʊ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəʊ
Senses: glosses: The capital city of the Dominican Republic.
glosses: The Spanish-colonized portion of the island of Hispaniola, which later became the Dominican Republic, especially as contrasted with Saint-Domingue, the French-controlled portion.
glosses: Synonym of Hispaniola.
synonyms: word: Hispaniola
glosses: A town in San Vicente department, El Salvador.
synonyms: Kewa
glosses: A federally recognized Pueblo people living in New Mexico.
Derived terms: Santo Domingo Pueblo
Related terms: word: Acoma
word: Cochiti
word: Isleta
word: Jemez
word: Laguna
word: Nambé
english: San Juan
translation: San Juan
word: Ohkay Owingeh
word: Picuris
word: Pojoaque
word: Sandia
word: San Felipe
word: San Ildefonso
word: Santa Ana
word: Santa Clara
word: Taos
word: Tesuque
word: Zia
word: Zuni
hell no
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: Hell no
form: hell to the no
form: hell to the naw
form: hell's no
Senses: examples: text: Will you mow the lawn? Hell no!
text: No, no, hell''' no. The true answer is that there is no one answer; […]
ref: 2012 March 3, Jon Evans, “Pair Programming Considered Harmful?”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2017:
text: My girlfriends say "Are you gonna be sad / If he calls you up, you gonna take him back?" / I said "hell no, oh hell no!"
ref: 2016 April 29, Ingrid Michaelson, Barry Dean, Luke Laird, “Hell No”, in It Doesn't Have to Make Sense, performed by Ingrid Michaelson:
synonyms: word: heck no
word: hecks no
glosses: Expressing firm disagreement.
San José
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of San Jose: a city in California, United States.
glosses: The capital city of Costa Rica.
glosses: Places named after Saint Joseph (acquired from Spanish).
glosses: A town in La Unión department, El Salvador.
Derived terms: sense: city in Santa Clara County
word: San Joséan
San Jose
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsæn hoʊˈzeɪ/
ipa: /ˌsæn.oʊˈzeɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish San José (“Saint Joseph”) (Anglicized with removal of accent).
Senses: examples: text: San Jose, the county seat, is jokingly referred to as “Man Jose” by the locals, and with good reason: In the 22 to 29 age cohort, Santa Clara County has 37,410 never-married, college-grad men versus 27,147 never-married, college-grad women.
ref: 2015, Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: At least nine deaths have been reported this year, and more than 900 since 1998 – or 38 per year on average, according to the NHTSA and NoHeatStroke.org, which is run by San Jose University’s Department of Meteorology and Climate Science.
ref: 2022 July 2, Ray Sanchez, “The hot-car death of 22-month-old Cooper Harris was heartbreakingly familiar. His father’s unusual murder conviction has now been thrown out”, in CNN:
text: The California counties include Alameda, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Bernardino, Ventura and others. Cities include Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose, Long Beach, Malibu, Culver City and Huntington Beach (see the full list below).
ref: 2025 May 30, Mark Sternfield, “Trump administration targets California ‘sanctuary’ cities, counties”, in KTLA:
glosses: A large city, the county seat of Santa Clara County, California, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico.
glosses: A municipality of Camarines Sur, Philippines.
glosses: A municipality, the capital of the Dinagat Islands, Caraga, Philippines.
glosses: Alternative form of San José.
Derived terms: sense: city in Santa Clara County
word: San Josean
freakish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːkɪʃ/
rhymes: -iːkɪʃ
Forms: form: more freakish
form: most freakish
Etymology: From freak + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a freak.
examples: text: It was a realy freakish accident that claimed many lives.
text: In all this series there is an almost freakish tendency toward the development of characters usually regarded as generic, as a result of which most of the genera have only one known species each.
ref: 1926, John Merton Aldrich, “Notes on Muscoid Flies with Retracted Hind Crossvein, with Key and Several New Genera and Species”, in Transactions of the American Entomological Society, volume 52, number 1, →JSTOR, pages 7–28:
text: This was arguably a more emphatic win than that Old Trafford thrashing, without the freakish element and simply the result of City's vast superiority in all areas.
ref: 2013 September 22, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4–1 Man Utd”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), BBC Sport, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2014:
glosses: Strange, unusual, abnormal or bizarre.
examples: What freakish weather we are having lately in these parts.
glosses: Capricious, unpredictable.
Derived terms: freakishly
freakishness
unfreakish
Related terms: freaky
heckling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heckle
heckling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hecklings
Senses: examples: text: Speeches during parliamentary debates, however, belong to linguistic action patterns in which interruptions and hecklings (Burkhardt 2004) are generally conventionalised and accepted as facultative reactions […]
ref: 2008, Ruth Wodak, Veronika Koller, Handbook of Communication in the Public Sphere, page 256:
glosses: The act of one who heckles.
glosses: The preparation of flax for spinning using special combs called hackles.
youths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /juːðz/
/juːθs/
Senses: glosses: plural of youth
beauty salon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beauty salons
Senses: glosses: A shop that provides hairdressing and beauticians' work.
Synonyms: word: beauty parlor
word: beauty parlour
word: salon
promontories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of promontory
too big for one's britches
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: too big for one's breeches
Etymology: US origin, 19th c.
Senses: examples: text: A diffident, dedicated man, Bradley seemed the personification of rectitude. He never got too big for his britches.
ref: 1989 May 22, Edwin M. Reingold, “Hard Times for Teflon Tom”, in Time:
synonyms: too big for one's boots
glosses: Disturbingly confident, unacceptably cocky.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Too large to fit into one's pants.
rainshadow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainshadows
Etymology: From rain + shadow.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of rain shadow.
blake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bleɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: blaker
form: more blake
form: blakest
form: most blake
Etymology: From Middle English blak, blac (“pale”), from Old English blāc (“pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale; yellow, pink; any non-red warm color”); both from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale; shining”). Compare Scots bleg (“light, drab”). More at bleak.
Senses: examples: text: White shows the rye, the big of big of blaker hue,[…]
ref: 1747, Josiah Relph, A Miscellany of Poems,: Consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, page 13:
text: […] the E. blake (identical with AS. blac, G. bleich, pale) is provincially used in the sense of yellow. As blake as a paigle, as yellow as a cowslip.
ref: 1859, Hensleigh Wedgwood, A Dictionary of English Etymology: A - D, page 184:
text: Miss Lizzie's ower dark for my fancy. I mind nowt aboot your dark lasses - as blake as marygowds an' as black as corbies.
ref: 1876, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg: A Novel ..., page 271:
text: Noo, that's a bit o' neyce blake butter. Thoo nobbut leeaks blakeish.
ref: 1911, Richard Blakeborough, Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire, page 340:
glosses: Yellow, as butter or cheese.
Related terms: pallid
groupies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹupiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of groupie
glosses: plural of groupy
eyewitnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyewitness
dorms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dorm
stepdad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepdads
form: step-dad
Etymology: From step- + dad.
Senses: glosses: A stepfather.
Derived terms: ex-stepdad
enforcer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɔːsə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sə(ɹ)
Forms: form: enforcers
Etymology: From enforce + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who enforces.
examples: text: At 199 centimetres and a hundred kilos going up, he was scary big and he found work as a bouncer and enforcer[.]
ref: 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 117:
glosses: A hired strongman, especially working for the underworld.
glosses: The member of a group, especially of a gang, charged with keeping dissident members obedient.
glosses: A battering ram used by the emergency services for gaining access to locked premises.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
rugby
skating
sports
synonyms: policeman
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A player who physically intimidates or confronts the opposition.
Derived terms: law-enforcer
cap'n
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæpn̩/
ipa: [ˈkæʔm̩]
Forms: form: cap'ns
Senses: examples: text: Aye aye, cap'n!
text: “Uh, I think we should do, uh, what you want to do, Cap'n. Cap'n's choice.” “I'm not asking you to kiss my ass. Come on. No wrong answers.” “Uh, okay. We could do evasive maneuver eighty... eight...?” “Is he (bleep)ing serious?” “That was the wrong answer!” “I meant 84.” “In this situation? Are you crazy?” “Mariner!” “Have you not been paying attention? That could get us killed.”
ref: 2020 September 24, Garrick Bernard, “Veritas” (5:31 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid):
text: “If you really feel like you need a special ending to this, you have about an hour to make it hap'n, cap'n.” “Actually, now, about a half hour.”
ref: 2024 December 16, Sam Johnson & Sarah Naftalis & Paul Simms, “The Finale” (15:59 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 11, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou):
glosses: Contraction of captain used as a title.
bullies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊliz/
rhymes: -ʊliz
Senses: glosses: plural of bully
bullies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊliz/
rhymes: -ʊliz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bully
immigrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immigrant
journalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of journalist
logline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒɡ.laɪn/
Forms: form: loglines
form: logge-line
form: log lyne
form: logg line
form: logg-line
form: loggline
form: log line
form: log-line
Etymology: First attested in 1613 as logge-line. A compound of log + line.
Senses: examples: text: Screenwriting Tip #12: If you don't know your own logline, you probably don't know what your script is about. Some writers will tell you they don't have a logline. Their screenplay is “too complex” or “too character-driven,” […]
ref: 2013, Xander Bennett, Screenwriting Tips, You Hack, page 16:
text: The first step in outlining is to make sure that your logline, that one-or-two- sentence summary of your movie you first created in chapter 2 (“Jump-starting the Screenplay”), is the best that it can be in capturing what your movie is about now.
ref: 2013, Linda Venis, Cut to the Chase: Writing Feature Films with the Pros at UCLA Extension Writers' Program, Penguin, →ISBN:
topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
coordinate_terms: elevator pitch
glosses: A very short summary of a script or screenplay.
examples: text: Besides the ingenious Pilot knowing the elevation of the Pole in some places of his voyage that he hath passed, by keeping a true, not a dead reckoning of his course in pricking his Card aright, and observing the way with the logge-line, with other currants, will give a very artificiall conjecture of the elevation of the pole in that place where he is, though he sec neither Sunne nor Starres.
ref: 1613, Mark Ridley, A Short Treatise of Magneticall Bodies and Motions:
text: Bring the ship to rights, that is, againe under saile as she was, some use a Log line, and a minute glasse to know what way shee makes, but that is so uncertaine, it is not worth the la­bour to trie it.
ref: 1627, John Smith, A sea grammar with the plaine exposition of Smiths Accidence for young sea-men, enlarged:
text: The 120th part of that Mile is 41⅔ feet, and so much is the space betweene the Knots upon the Log-line: So many Knots as the ship runs in half a minute, so many Miles she sayleth in an hour; or so many Leagues, and so many Miles she runneth in a Watch or four hours, called A Watch, because one half of the Ships Company watcheth by turns, and changes every four hours.
ref: 1659, John Collins, Navigation by the Mariners Plain Scale New Plain'd:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The line fastened to the log, and marked for finding the speed of a vessel.
Related terms: heave the log
plotline
calico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.lɪ.kəʊ/
ipa: /ˈkæ.lɪ.koʊ/
Forms: form: calicos
form: calicoes
form: callico
Etymology: From Calicut, from where the cloth was originally exported, from Malayalam കോഴിക്കോട് (kōḻikkōṭŭ, “Kozhikode”), from കോഴി (kōḻi, “palace”) + കോട് (kōṭŭ, “fortified palace”).
Senses: examples: text: This helix was covered with calico, and then a second wire applied in the same manner.
ref: 1832, Michael Faraday, “Experimental Researches in Electricity”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume 122, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 126:
text: Trussed in corsets, jawbone-high collars and calicos that had seen better days, they have little enough to work with, their attempts at coquetry further constrained by their rigid mores of the day.
ref: 2017 June 30, Ruth La Ferla, “In ‘The Beguiled,’ Pretty Confections Whipped Up to Seduce”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A kind of rough cloth made from unbleached and not fully processed cotton, often printed with a bright pattern.
examples: text: One of them, a calico whose half-grown kittens he just fed, slow-blinks at him, an affectionate gesture.
ref: 2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 111:
glosses: Ellipsis of calico cat.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The plant disease caused by Tobacco mosaic virus.
Derived terms: calico bass
calico beans
calico corn
calicoed
calico queen
calico
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.lɪ.kəʊ/
ipa: /ˈkæ.lɪ.koʊ/
Forms: form: callico
Etymology: From Calicut, from where the cloth was originally exported, from Malayalam കോഴിക്കോട് (kōḻikkōṭŭ, “Kozhikode”), from കോഴി (kōḻi, “palace”) + കോട് (kōṭŭ, “fortified palace”).
Senses: examples: text: The calico cat had distinctive red and dark markings.
text: The calico-patterned tablecloths were supposed to make the restaurant look rustic; instead, they made it look run down.
text: Sara, oh Sara / Scorpio Sphinx in a calico dress
ref: 1976, Bob Dylan, “Sara”, in Desire:
synonyms: tortoiseshell
glosses: Made of calico or resembling the color of calico cloth, having a pattern of red and contrasting areas; variegated.
synonyms: tortoiseshell
glosses: Made of calico or resembling the color of calico cloth, having a pattern of red and contrasting areas; variegated.
Having red, brunette, and blond hair colors, resembling the fur of a calico cat.
consolatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɒl.ət.(ə)ɹ.i/
ipa: /kənˈsoʊl.ə.tɔɹ.i/
ipa: /kənˈsɑl.ə.tɔɹ.i/
Forms: form: more consolatory
form: most consolatory
Etymology: From Middle English consolatory, from Latin cōnsōlātōrius.
Senses: examples: text: […] where in he reporteth of the coragius
wordes that were moch consolatory […]
ref: 1523, John Skelton, “The quene of fame to dame Pallas”, in A ryght delectable treatyse upon a goodly garlande or chapelet of laurell:
text: 1649, John Donne, Fifty Sermons, London: M.F., J. Marriot and R. Royston, Volume 2, “Sermon XVII. Preached at Lincolns Inne,” p. 140,
Where then is the restorative, the consolatory nature of these words? In this, beloved, consists our comfort […]
text: The punishment of real tyrants is a noble and awful act of justice; and it has with truth been said to be consolatory to the human mind.
ref: 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, London: J. Dodsley, page 123:
text: “It is singularly reviving after such hurricanes to feel calm return, and from the opening clouds to receive a consolatory gleam, softly testifying that the sun is not quenched.”
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Shirley and Caroline”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 5:
text: Supper had been eaten, the turkey had been trussed, the children at last persuaded into their beds. That was the consolatory side of family life, Grorley thought—the long, Olympian codas of the emotions were cut short by the niggling detail.
ref: 1964, Hortense Calisher, “A Christmas Carillon”, in Extreme Magic: A Novella and Other Stories, Boston: Little, Brown, page 64:
glosses: Which consoles.
Derived terms: consolatorily
consolatoriness
nonconsolatory
unconsolatory
consolatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɒl.ət.(ə)ɹ.i/
ipa: /kənˈsoʊl.ə.tɔɹ.i/
ipa: /kənˈsɑl.ə.tɔɹ.i/
Forms: form: consolatories
Etymology: From Middle English consolatory, from Latin cōnsōlātōrius.
Senses: examples: text: 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, lines 658-662, in Paradise Regain’d […] to which is added Samson Agonistes, London: John Starkey, pp. 43-44,
Consolatories writ
With studied argument, and much perswasion sought
Lenient of grief and anxious thought,
But with' afflicted in his pangs thir sound
Little prevails,
text: How is it possible to imagine, that a woman, who has all these consolatories to reflect upon, will die of a broken heart?
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XLVIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VI, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 189:
glosses: That which consoles; a speech or writing intended for consolation.
coverlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌvə(ɹ)lɪt/
Forms: form: coverlets
Etymology: From Middle English coverlite, from Anglo-Norman cuver-lit, formed on cuvrir (“to cover”) + lit (“bed”). Cognate with Catalan cobrellit.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: bedspread, bedcover, counterpane
text: Year after year unto her feet,
 She lying on her couch alone,
 Across the purpled coverlet,
 The maiden's jet-black hair has grown, […]
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. The Sleeping Palace.”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 152:
glosses: A blanket used as a bed covering, usually quilted.
crimped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪmpt/
rhymes: -ɪmpt
Senses: examples: text: The sharp bend had crimped the pipe so almost no water could get through.
glosses: simple past and past participle of crimp
crimped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪmpt/
rhymes: -ɪmpt
Forms: form: more crimped
form: most crimped
Senses: examples: text: The crimped edges had been welded in earlier models.
glosses: With a crimp in it; crushed shut.
Derived terms: uncrimped
denominated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The bills were denominated in dollars.
glosses: simple past and past participle of denominate
descried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of descry
descries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of descry
diligently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪlɪd͡ʒ(ə)ntli/
ipa: /ˈdɪləd͡ʒən(t)li/
Forms: form: more diligently
form: most diligently
Etymology: From diligent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, empty bags were folded diligently into the corners of underpacked suitcases, waiting to be jammed full with the familiar objects of home.
ref: 2001 March 25, Eve Schaenen, “Changing Face Of Home”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a diligent manner, with appropriate effort, carefully.
griefful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more griefful
form: most griefful
Etymology: From grief + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: each the other gan with passion great, / And griefull pittie priuately bemone.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:
glosses: Expressing or full of grief; painful.
Derived terms: grieffully
farmhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑːmhaus/
Forms: form: farmhouses
form: farm house
form: farm-house
Etymology: From farm + house.
Senses: glosses: A house (usually the main house) on a farm; thus:
A farmer's residence.
qualifier: traditionally and archetypally
examples: Since the farm's redevelopment into mixed commercial and residential space, the farmhouse has served as a community center.
The couple live in a renovated farmhouse that was once the hub of a 300-acre farm.
glosses: A house (usually the main house) on a farm; thus:
A house that was once a farmer's residence albeit today lived in by residents whose occupation is not farming.
Derived terms: farmhouse loaf
farmhouse sink
farmhousey
farmyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑɹmˌjɑɹd/
Forms: form: farmyards
form: farm-yard
Etymology: From farm + yard.
Senses: examples: text: "Where's Kipper?" I asked, and was surprised to note that Bobbie was dancing round the room on the tips of her toes uttering animal cries, apparently ecstatic in their nature. "Reggie?" she said, suspending the farmyard imitations for a moment.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The area of a farm, excluding the fields, usually surrounded by or adjacent to farm buildings.
Synonyms: barnyard
Hypernyms: farmland
Hyponyms: rickyard
stackyard
Coordinate terms: farmfield
Derived terms: farmyardy
Related terms: dooryard
flogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɒɡə/
ipa: /flɑɡɚ/
Forms: form: floggers
Etymology: From flog + -er. Compare Low German flogger (“a flail”).
Senses: examples: text: How could the flogger of urchins be otherwise than animated and joyous?
ref: 1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
text: The High Masters were as shrewd floggers as any.
ref: 1964, Donald Lemen Clark, John Milton at St. Paul's School:
glosses: One who flogs.
examples: text: But the "Sac" party imagines that if the boy had not dropped his whip, their horse would have won, for he was so partial to his flogger, that the Treasure in all probability would have stopped to it, and Custance been just enabled to do him.
ref: 1866, Tresham Gilbey, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 11, page 163:
glosses: A whip.
examples: text: Savanna walked around the stock, unhooking her flogger from her belt.
ref: 2005, Savanna Samson, Vamp:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A whip.
A lightweight whip with multiple lashes.
examples: text: Schlepitchka is a texturing trick done by twirling a feather duster or flogger around gently and dabbing it on the surface of the scenery between each twirl of the tool so that the splayed pattern prints on the scenery.
ref: 2012, Susan Crabtree, Peter Beudert, Scenic Art for the Theatre: History, Tools and Techniques, page 303:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A handle with strips of cloth attached, used for beating away charcoal dust etc.
Derived terms: a hanger and a flogger
hanger and flogger
gallantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæl.ənt.li/
Forms: form: more gallantly
form: most gallantly
Etymology: From gallant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Poirot rose gallantly, bowed her into the seat opposite him.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 7, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 124:
glosses: In a gallant or gentlemanly manner; with social graces.
examples: text: [T]he curve of her nostril suggested the figurehead of a ship plunging gallantly into a rough sea.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 244:
glosses: In a brave or valiant manner.
gentlemanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gentlemanlier
form: gentlemanliest
Etymology: From Middle English gentilmanly; equivalent to gentleman + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Best of all, he ought to imagine his fellow-gamblers and the rest of the mob which stands trembling over a coin to be equally rich and gentlemanly with himself, and playing solely for recreation and pleasure.
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter II, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/II):
text: With an election to cover and the soccer season in full swing, the sudoku newspaper rivalry stayed relatively gentlemanly until this month, when some of the last sudoku holdouts, including The Independent and The Guardian, joined the fray.
ref: 2005 May 23, Eric Pfanner, “Puzzling phenomenon sweeps British papers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 Oct 2021:
text: Some schools bump up everyone’s grades, some just allow for more As and others all but eliminate the once-gentlemanly C.
ref: 2010 June 22, Catherine Rampell, “In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2018, page A1:
text: The stationmaster was an important part of the local community. Anyon Kay, in his reminiscences of Horwich in the early 20th century, remembers a Mr Horsfield as stationmaster - "a gentlemanly character who took his job very seriously".
ref: 2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54:
synonyms: gentlemanlike
glosses: Of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a gentleman or gentlemen.
Derived terms: gentlemanlily
gentlemanliness
ungentlemanly
gentlemanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gentlemanly
form: most gentlemanly
Etymology: From Middle English gentilmanly; equivalent to gentleman + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Senses: examples: text: He went gentlemanly dressed in East Virginia style, wore a high-top silk hat, as had lawyer Park, and sported a gold headed walking cane.
ref: 1938, Charles A. Johnson, A Narrative History of Wise County, Virginia, page 165:
synonyms: gentlemanlikely
gentlemanlily
glosses: In the manner or with the behavior of a gentleman; with social grace, politely.
Related terms: ladylike
BGA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BGAs
form: BGA
Senses: qualifier: plural "BGAs"
glosses: Initialism of ball grid array.
qualifier: plural "BGA"
glosses: Initialism of blue-green alga.
Coordinate terms: sense: ball grid array
word: PGA
BGA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Go Association.
glosses: Initialism of Board Game Arena.
hebdomadal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛbˈdɒmədəl/
Etymology: From Latin hebdomadālis. According to The Poly-Olbion Project, coined by John Selden in 1612.
Senses: examples: text: At the right ſide of any of the Baſes begin your account, from that to the oppoſitly noted Planet, thence to his oppoſite, and ſo ſhall you find a continued courſe in that Order (grounded perhaps among the Ancients vpon myſteries of number, and interchanged gouernment by thoſe ſuperior bodies ouer this habitable Orb) which ſome haue ſweated at, in inquiry of Proportions, Muſique diſtances, & refer’d it to Planetary howrs: wheras They (the very name of Houre for a XXIIII. part of a day, being vnuſuall till about the Peloponeſiaque warre) had their originall of later time, then this Hebdomadall account, whence the Hourely from the morning of euery day had his breeding, and not the other from this, as Pretending & Vulgar Aſtrologers receiue in ſuppoſition.
ref: 1612, [John Selden], “The eleuenth Song. Illustrations.”, in Michael Drayton, edited by [John Selden], Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 184:
glosses: Lasting seven days.
examples: text: The wits and humourists, the distinguished worthies of the town or village, the apothecary, the attorney, even the curate himself, did not disdain to partake of this hebdomadal festivity.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 71:
text: They quickly weary of this brief hebdomadal Sabbath here, yet they long for that eternal one; they dream of it, they talk about it, they think they think they are going to enjoy it—with all their simple hearts they think they think they are going to be happy in it!
ref: c. 1909, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Letter II”, in Bernard DeVoto, editor, Letters from the Earth, New York, N.Y.; Evanston, Ill.: Harper & Row, published 1962, →LCCN, page 12:
glosses: Weekly, occurring once a week.
Synonyms: hebdomadary
Derived terms: hebdomadally
Hebdomadal Council
Related terms: hebdomadary
equanimous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈkwæn.ɪ.məs/
rhymes: -ænɪməs
Forms: form: more equanimous
form: most equanimous
form: æquanimous
Etymology: From Latin aequus (“equal”) with animus (“mind”).
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: calm, composed, imperturbable; see also Thesaurus:calm
synonyms: equanimitable
glosses: Calm and composed; of stable disposition.
Derived terms: equanimously
Related terms: equanimitably
equanimity
hypocoristically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hypocoristically
form: most hypocoristically
Etymology: From hypocoristic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: in a hypocoristic manner
guttural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌtəɹəl/
ipa: [ˈɡʌɾɚɫ̩]
rhymes: -ʌtəɹəl
Forms: form: more guttural
form: most guttural
Etymology: From Middle French guttural, from New Latin gutturālis, from Latin guttur (“throat”) + -ālis.
Senses: examples: text: Arabic is considered a very guttural language, with many harsh consonants.
text: The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: Sounding harsh and throaty.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: having a place of articulation towards the back of the mouth; in modern use, uvular, pharyngeal, or glottal; in earlier or non-technical use, also including velar.
examples: text: guttural duct of the ear; guttural pouch infection
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or connected to the throat.
Derived terms: gutturalisation
gutturalise
gutturalism
gutturality
gutturalization
gutturalize
gutturally
gutturalness
guttural toad
nonguttural
unguttural
guttural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌtəɹəl/
ipa: [ˈɡʌɾɚɫ̩]
rhymes: -ʌtəɹəl
Forms: form: gutturals
Etymology: From Middle French guttural, from New Latin gutturālis, from Latin guttur (“throat”) + -ālis.
Senses: examples: text: He was hairy, and his speech of rough gutturals was imperfect.
ref: 1899, Stanley Waterloo, The Wolf's Long Howl:
text: He seems quite an exception to some husbands in that respect!" remarked the Berliner in deep gutturals.
ref: 1912, Frederic Stewart Isham, A Man and His Money:
text: "Teeka is Tarzan's," said the ape-man, in the low gutturals of the great anthropoids.
ref: 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Tales of Tarzan:
glosses: A harsh and throaty spoken sound
cippus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪ.pəs/
Forms: form: cippuses
form: cippi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cippus (“stake, post”). Doublet of cep.
Senses: examples: text: […]lodged on the top of an ancient sepulchral cippus
ref: 1855, Henry Duncan, Autumn:
text: [A] cippus, found at Valencia in Spain, has on one of its sides Fatus Q. Fabius ex voto, and on the other, three female figures, with the attributes of the Mœræ or Parcæ.
ref: 1892, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, London: George Bell and Sons, page 5:
glosses: A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc.
glosses: The stocks.
cuneus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cunei
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin cuneus. Doublet of coign and coin.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A portion of the occipital lobe of the human brain, involved in visual processing.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A wedge-shaped section of the forewing of certain heteropteran bugs.
topics: architecture
glosses: One of a set of wedge-shaped divisions separated by stairways, found in the Ancient Roman theatre and in mediaeval architecture.
Derived terms: precuneus
pashmina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pashminas
Etymology: From Classical Persian پَشْمِینَه (pašmīna). Compare پشمین (pašmīn /pašmin).
Senses: synonyms: Changthangi
Changpa
glosses: A Cashmere; a goat native to Kashmir.
glosses: The fine wool that grows under the hair of this goat; cashmere.
examples: text: However, Leh's most important product is the soft underwool of sheep and goats, most of which are tended by nomads, men who roam about the uplands with their herds. It is this fine, soft wool which is used to make the famous pashmina shawls of Kashmir.
ref: 1964, Lora Bryning Redford, Nathan Goldstein, Getting to know the northern Himalayas: Kashmir, Tibet, Assam, New York: Coward-McCann, page 26:
text: Pashmina was invented more than four hundred years ago when Nur Jaban, wife of the Emperor Jehangir, asked her weavers to present a woolen fabric that was "as light as a cloud but as warm as a tender embrace."
ref: 2004, Monika Fagerholm, Translator Kathleen Tucker, The American Girl, Other Press, published 2009, page 66:
glosses: A soft fabric made from this wool; (in particular) a shawl made from this fabric.
Related terms: pashm
juk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 粥 (zuk1) or Korean 죽 (juk). Doublet of zhou and jook.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:juk.
qualifier: Korean or Cantonese contexts
glosses: Synonym of congee.
synonyms: word: congee
Koch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /koʊk/
ipa: /kɑx/
ipa: /kʊk/
ipa: /kəʊk/
ipa: /kɒx/
rhymes: -əʊk
rhymes: -ɒx
rhymes: -ʊk
Senses: glosses: A language of Meghalaya (India), Assam, Tripura, Manipur, West Bengal, Bihar, and Bangladesh.
Koch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /koʊk/
ipa: /kɑx/
ipa: /kʊk/
ipa: /kəʊk/
ipa: /kɒx/
rhymes: -əʊk
rhymes: -ɒx
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: Kochs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Koch (“cook”), an occupational surname.
Senses: examples: text: It was a one-stop political and policy shop, a sort of shadow Republican Party but crafted in the libertarian molds of the Kochs and entirely controlled by them.
That wasn’t the only thing that the Koch brothers did differently.
ref: 2019 August 23, Chris Cillizza, “How the Koch brothers fundamentally changed modern politics”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Koch curve
Koch island
Koch snowflake
Koch star
Related terms: Koch Hajo
wailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wail
Northern Irish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to Northern Ireland or its people, dialect or culture.
Derived terms: Irish question
Northern Irish English
Northern Irish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Anyone born on Northern Ireland.
Phyllis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪlɪs/
rhymes: -ɪlɪs
Forms: form: Phillis
Etymology: From the masculine Ancient Greek Φύλλις (Phúllis) or from the feminine
Φυλλίς (Phullís).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A girl who killed herself for love, and was turned into an almond tree.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Phyllis (river god) Phyllis (Φύλλις) was the god of the homonymous river in Bithynia.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The title character of the tale of ( Phyllis and Aristotle ) in medieval legend
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Phyllis, mother of the Trojan Alcaeus
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Phyllis, consort of Ereuthalion
examples: text: Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone / Feeding her flock near to the mountain side
ref: 1599 John Farmer, Fair Phyllis (a madrigal)
text: But the name to which the Pages were given of yore, / And the name of the Page I am speaking of, bore / As much likeness as Sukey to Eleonore, / or Betty to Phyllis or Lalage;
ref: 1855 A.W., The Little Foot-Page, in Chambers's Journal, No. 92, Oct. 6, 1855
text: "Look," said Bobbie, "I've made the nest all right again. Give me the bit of stick to mark your initial name on it. But how can you? Your letter and Peter's are the same. P. for Peter, P. for Phyllis." "I put F. for Phyllis," said the child of that name. "That's how it sounds. The swallows wouldn't spell Phyllis with a P., I'm certain-sure."
ref: 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 11:
text: "Well, you know when a father's name is Paul and they name the baby girl, Paulette?" "Or Paula." "That's right. Or his name is Philip and they name her Phyllis?" "Or Phillipa. Don't forget Phillipa. I love the name Phillipa." Lark smiled and played the game with Holly.
ref: 2002, Patricia McCune Irvine, A Tinkling Cymbal, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 183:
text: The death of anti-feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly on Monday brought commiserations from the GOP ticket.
ref: 2016 September 6, Timothy Stanley, “How Phyllis Schlafly gave us Sarah Palin”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek derived from the mythological character.
Related terms: Phillida
Phyllida
Margo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Margos
Etymology: A phonetic rendering of Margot.
Senses: examples: text: "I like names that end with an a, don't you? Or other vowels? Most often it seems to be an a. But wait: Margo's name ends with an o, for mercy's sake! Barnaby's mother. Or it used to be o. Then she met Barnaby's father and added a t."
Sophia looked at me. I told her, "Mom thought Margot with a t was higher class."
ref: 1998 Anne Tyler, A Patchwork Planet, A.A.Knopf Inc., page 3
glosses: Alternative spelling of Margot.
glosses: A surname from French.
Gwen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡwɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Etymology: A female given name from Welsh, shortened from Gwendolen or Guinevere.
Senses: examples: text: Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl was a hit in 2004.
text: The Petito case, which is still unfolding (her fiancé, with whom she’d been travelling, is believed to be in hiding) seemed like another instance of what the late journalist Gwen Ifill famously described as “missing white woman syndrome”: a hunger for stories about victims who look like Petito, to the exclusion of all others.
ref: 2021 October 8, Helen Rosner, “The Long American History of “Missing White Woman Syndrome””, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
glosses: A female given name.
Diego
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /diˈeɪ.ɡoʊ/
Forms: form: Diegos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Diego, from an Iberian Didacus, of uncertain origin.
Senses: examples: text: Diego Maradona is helping in the fight against coronavirus in his home city by autographing a replica of the Argentina jersey he wore in the country’s 1986 World Cup final triumph to raise money for an underprivileged community.
ref: 2020 May 9, Paul Gittings, “Diego Maradona autographs shirt to help poor district of Buenos Aires”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Spanish Diego.
Derived terms: Diego Garcia
Diego Martin
Diego Silang
Diego-Suarez
Diego
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diˈeɪ.ɡoʊ/
Forms: form: Diegos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Diego, from an Iberian Didacus, of uncertain origin.
Senses: examples: text: I suppose the grog they serve out so liberally to those "Diegos" to keep up their courage in a fight had something to do with it. By Jove! that was a narrow escape.
ref: 1936, John Samson, chapter X, in In the Dictator's Grip: A Story of Adventure:
text: "You tell the law what happened out there at Rancho Del Robles Viejo. Those Mexicans have been getting away with things too long around this country. Think they still own it. It's time those Diegos were taken down a notch."
ref: 2000, L. J. Martin, Condor Canyon, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN:
text: The savory aroma of ham and eggs in Jubilee's special sauce wafted toward him. His mouth watered. He reached for his knife and fork. Beyond the fort's walls, a cannon thundered. "Damn those Diegos!" Dickson muttered. "Impossible to eat a meal in peace."
ref: 2006, Lila Guzmán, Rick Guzmán, Lorenzo and the Turncoat, Arte Publico Press, page 159:
text: "[F]orget the confession; I heard about what you did to those Diegos. All I need to know is, can I trust you? Time was, I could with my life—" His eyes darkened.
ref: 2010, Yxta Maya Murray, The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Kidnapped, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of diego (“Spanish speaker”).