cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
posh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑʃ/
ipa: /pɒʃ/
ipa: /pəʊʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: poshes
Etymology: Unknown.
Most likely derived from Romani posh (“half”), either because posh-kooroona (“half a crown”) (originally a substantial sum of money) was used metaphorically for anything pricey or upper-class, or because posh-houri (“half-penny”) came to refer to money generally.
A period slang dictionary defines "posh" as a term used by thieves for "money : generic, but specifically, a halfpenny or other small coin". An example is given from James Payn's The Eavesdropper (1888): "They used such funny terms: 'brads,' and 'dibbs,' and 'mopusses,' and 'posh' ... at last it was borne in upon me that they were talking about money."
Evidence exists for a slang sense from the 1890s meaning dandy, which is quite possibly related.
A popular folk etymology holds that the term is an acronym for "port out, starboard home", describing the cooler, north-facing cabins taken by the most aristocratic or rich passengers travelling from Britain to India and back. However, there is no evidence for this claim.
It could also possibly be a clipping of polished.
See also the articles mentioned in the References section below for additional discussion.
Senses: glosses: A halfpenny or other coin of little value.
glosses: Money.
posh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑʃ/
ipa: /pɒʃ/
ipa: /pəʊʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: poshes
form: poshing
form: poshed
form: poshed
Etymology: Unknown.
Most likely derived from Romani posh (“half”), either because posh-kooroona (“half a crown”) (originally a substantial sum of money) was used metaphorically for anything pricey or upper-class, or because posh-houri (“half-penny”) came to refer to money generally.
A period slang dictionary defines "posh" as a term used by thieves for "money : generic, but specifically, a halfpenny or other small coin". An example is given from James Payn's The Eavesdropper (1888): "They used such funny terms: 'brads,' and 'dibbs,' and 'mopusses,' and 'posh' ... at last it was borne in upon me that they were talking about money."
Evidence exists for a slang sense from the 1890s meaning dandy, which is quite possibly related.
A popular folk etymology holds that the term is an acronym for "port out, starboard home", describing the cooler, north-facing cabins taken by the most aristocratic or rich passengers travelling from Britain to India and back. However, there is no evidence for this claim.
It could also possibly be a clipping of polished.
See also the articles mentioned in the References section below for additional discussion.
Senses: synonyms: poshen
glosses: To make posh or posher (more posh).
raw_tags: normally in the phrasal verb posh up
posh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑʃ/
ipa: /pɒʃ/
ipa: /pəʊʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: poshes
Etymology: Compare pash (“smash, bash; of rain: fall heavily”).
Senses: examples: text: Did yer see what a posh the water came down the bruck ater the thaw, and no wonder the snow was a fut deep.
ref: 1897 March 6, Leamington Courier, quoted in the EDD
text: There has been quite a posh of rain.
ref: 1942, Thoroton Society, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire:
text: I could hear the posh of water issuing from the mouth of a lion fountain that was set in a nearby niche. He was on his knees, kissing my feet and legs until I was in a state of churning lust.
ref: 2021 July 28, Diana Elmore, Footprints in Time: Memoirs of Previous Lifetimes, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: A sudden and heavy fall or gush of rain or water.
glosses: Fragments produced by an impact.
glosses: Slush.
toilet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔɪ.lət/
ipa: /ˈtɔɪ.lɪt/
rhymes: -ɔɪlɪt
Forms: form: toilets
form: toileting
form: toiletting
form: toileted
form: toileted
form: toiletted
form: toiletted
form: toilette
Etymology: From Middle French toilette, diminutive of toile (“cloth”), from their use to protect clothing while shaving or arranging hair. From its use as a private room, toilet came to refer euphemistically to lavatories and then to its fixtures, beginning in the United States in the late 19th century.
Senses: glosses: To dress and groom oneself.
examples: text: We use imitation. We take a doll, a doll that can wet, and make sure it has pants on it. We use the principle that a very effective way of learning is by teaching. Se we have him teach the doll how to toilet properly.
ref: 1974, Philip J. Hilts, Behavior Mod, Harper's Magazine Press, page 74:
text: In many developing regions, toileting at night is especially dangerous for children. Without electrical power for lighting, kids may fall into the deep pits of the latrines through broken or unsteady floorboards. Girls are sometimes assaulted by men who hide in the dark.
ref: 2024 February 17 (last accessed), Jenny Morber, “Scientists turn pee into power in Uganda”, in Upworthy Science:
glosses: To use (urinate or defecate in) a toilet.
synonyms: bathroom
glosses: To assist another (a child, etc.) in using a toilet.
bucket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bûk'ĭt
ipa: /ˈbʌkɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈbʌkət/
note: Indic
ipa: /bə(k)ˈkɛʈ/
rhymes: -ʌkɪt
rhymes: (Indic) -ɛt
Forms: form: buckets
form: bucketing
form: bucketed
form: bucketed
Etymology: From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.
Senses: glosses: To place inside a bucket.
examples: text: to bucket water
glosses: To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
examples: text: It’s really bucketing down out there.
glosses: To rain heavily.
examples: text: The boat is bucketing along.
glosses: To travel very quickly.
glosses: To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
glosses: To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
examples: text: These candidates are then bucketed into a discretized version of the space of all possible lines.
ref: 2002, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Masayuki Numao, Rüdiger Reischuk, Algorithmic Learning Theory: 13th International Conference, page 352:
text: Thus, sorting each bucket takes O(1) times. The total effort of bucketing, sorting buckets, and concotenating^([sic]) the sorted buckets together is O(n).
ref: 2008, Hari Mohan Pandey, Design Analysis and Algorithm, page 136:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
Synonyms: sense: rain heavily
word: bucket down
sense: rain heavily
word: chuck it down
sense: rain heavily
word: piss down
sense: rain heavily
word: rain cats and dogs
sense: travel very quickly
word: hurtle
sense: travel very quickly
word: rocket
sense: travel very quickly
word: shoot
sense: travel very quickly
word: speed
sense: travel very quickly
word: whizz
sense: travel very quickly
word: book it
Derived terms: bucket about
abolla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɒlə/
Forms: form: abollae
form: abollas
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin abolla.
Senses: examples: text: The best abollas were dyed with the Tyrian purple.
ref: 1805, David MacPherson, Annals of Commerce, Manufactures, Fisheries, and Navigation, with Brief Notices of the Arts and Sciences Connected with Them, Volume 1, page 159:
text: Ceispinus did not heed to whom he gave his Tyrian abolla (cloak used at suppers) when he changed his dress, and resumed his toga. Whoever has got it, we pray thee, restore it to its proper shoulders. It is not Crispinus, but his abolla requires this of thee; for it is not every one to whom a dress dyed with purple is suitable; that colour is excluseively appropriated to luxury. If thou art addicted to theft, and feelest a craving thirst for gain, take a toga, not an abolla; there will be less danger of detection.
ref: 1858, Andrew Amos, Martial and the Moderns, page 285:
text: The woollen abolla also dated back to republican days and was fastened in the same way.
ref: 1987, David J. Symone, Costume of Ancient Rome, page 20:
text: "They say she disapproves of the Vestal Virgins," Vulpius added, lowering his voice as a group of young men came down the street, their abollae pulled up to help them keep dry or to conceal their faces.
ref: 2008, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Roman Dusk: A Novel of the Count Saint-Germain, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: A cloak made of a piece of cloth folded double, worn by Ancient Greeks and Romans draped over one shoulder and fastened with a brooch.
Abdera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἄβδηρα (Ábdēra).
Senses: glosses: An ancient city in Thrace, in modern Greece.
glosses: A modern municipality of Xanthi regional unit in the administrative region of Thrace, Greece.
Derived terms: Abderian
abderian
abderitic
abderitism
abdo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbdəʊ/
Etymology: Clipping of abdomen or abdominal.
Senses: examples: text: CT chest abdo pelvis
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abdomen.
Derived terms: acute abdo
abdo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbdəʊ/
Etymology: Clipping of abdomen or abdominal.
Senses: examples: text: abdo pain
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abdominal.
al
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æl/
ipa: /ɑːl/
rhymes: -æl
rhymes: -ɑːl
Forms: form: als
Etymology: From Hindi आल (āl).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:al.
glosses: The Indian mulberry, Morinda citrifolia, especially as used to make dye.
dub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌb/
ipa: /dɐb/
ipa: /dʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: dubs
form: dubbing
form: dubbed
form: dubbed
Etymology: 1505-1515
Senses: examples: text: Now the drum dubb's.
ref: 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Mad Lover”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene i:
glosses: To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
glosses: To do something badly.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To execute a shot poorly.
dub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌb/
ipa: /dɐb/
ipa: /dʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: dubs
Etymology: 1505-1515
Senses: examples: text: And kettle-drums, whose sullen dub
Sounds like the hooping of a tub
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: A blow, thrust, or poke.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A poorly executed shot.
dub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌb/
ipa: /dɐb/
ipa: /dʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: dubs
Etymology: 1885-90. Imitative; see also flub, flubdub.
Senses: examples: text: As I came over the hill, I saw Ernest Plinlimmon and his partner, in whom I recognized a prominent local dub, emerging from the rough on the right. Apparently, the latter had sliced from the tee, and Ernest had been helping him find his ball.
ref: 1936, P. G. Wodehouse, There's Always Golf, London: The Strand Magazine:
text: The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, / The doughboy, awaiting the battle, / May possibly know how I felt / While the long years dragged by as the dealer / As slow as the slowest of dubs, / Stuck out the last helping of tickets / 'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!
ref: 1969, Robert L. Vann, The Competitor, volumes 2-3, page 135:
glosses: An unskillful, awkward person.
dub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌb/
ipa: /dɐb/
ipa: /dʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: dubs
form: dubbing
form: dubbed
form: dubbed
Etymology: From a shortening of the word double.
Senses: glosses: To add sound to film or change audio on film.
glosses: To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
glosses: To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
glosses: To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
Derived terms: dubbable
misdub
overdub
predub
redub
undub
Related terms: ADR
revoice
dub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌb/
ipa: /dɐb/
ipa: /dʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: dubs
Etymology: From a shortening of the word double.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
examples: text: It’s also burnished by intriguing sense of vaguely dub-influenced space. At one point, it breaks down to little more than a stabbing, echoing organ with a vintage reggae flavour.
ref: 2020 April 23, Alexis Petridis, “The Rolling Stones: Living in a Ghost Town review – their best new song in years”, in The Guardian:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
examples: text: But I think my bass playing is definitely dub-influenced.
ref: 2019 January 18, Jamie Dickson, “Khruangbin: “We’re not intending to create war with our music… It’s the absence of that aggression that a lot of rock bands have””, in Music Radar:
text: Dyl’s polyrhythmic grooves on The Subsurface Project fuse dub techno and drum & bass, mixing modular sounds with hints of warm, jittery jungle.
ref: 2020 July 20, Arun Chakal, “The Worked-Up Sound of Drum & Bass in Russia and Eastern Europe”, in Bandcamp Daily:
text: It reminded me of that classic Full Cycle vibe of jazzy soulful sounds blending with dub bass and fx.
ref: 2020 August 3, Kane, “The Extended Cut: Zero T - Former Self EP [The North Quarter]”, in Magnetic Magazine:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
examples: text: […] we climbed up the scaffolding and did these gold little dubs and you couldn't see them.
ref: 2001, Nancy Macdonald, The Graffiti Subculture, page 84:
text: The year 1998 was alive with graffiti and trains pulling up with dubs on their sides.
ref: 2011, Justin Rollins, The Lost Boyz: A Dark Side of Graffiti, page 34:
glosses: A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
glosses: The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.
Derived terms: dubbese
dubby
dubdown
dublike
dubplate
dub poetry
dub ska
dubstep
dubtitle
dubtronica
dubwise
fandub
lip dub
overdub
predub
redub
dub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌb/
ipa: /dɐb/
ipa: /dʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: dubs
Etymology: From Celtic; compare Irish dobhar (“water”), Welsh dŵr (“water”).
Senses: examples: text: “Has he nae friends?” said she, in a tearful voice.
“That has he so!” cried Alan, “if we could but win to them!—friends and rich friends, beds to lie in, food to eat, doctors to see to him—and here he must tramp in the dubs and sleep in the heather like a beggarman.”
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
glosses: A pool or puddle.
dub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌb/
ipa: /dɐb/
ipa: /dʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: dubs
Etymology: From shortening of double dime (“twenty”).
Senses: glosses: A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.
examples: text: When I pull up out front, you see the Benz on dubs.
ref: 2003 January 7, “In da Club” (track 5), in Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent:
glosses: A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.
Derived terms: dub sack
dub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌb/
ipa: /dɐb/
ipa: /dʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: dubs
form: dubbing
form: dubbed
form: dubbed
Etymology: From dup (“to open”), from do + up, from Middle English don up (“to open”).
Senses: examples: text: "Crash the cull—down with him—down with him before he dubs the jigger. Tip him the degan, Fib, fake him through and through; if he pikes we shall all be scragged."
ref: 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter LXXXIII, in Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman, page 402:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: To open or close.
Derived terms: dub up
dub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌb/
ipa: /dɐb/
ipa: /dʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: dubs
Etymology: From dup (“to open”), from do + up, from Middle English don up (“to open”).
Senses: qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A lock.
examples: text: […]going upon the dobbin, is a woman dressed like a servant maid, no hat nor cloak on, a bunch of young dubs by her side, which are a bunch of small keys[…]
ref: 1789, George Parker, Life's Painter of Variegated Characters in Public and Private Life, page 162:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A key, especially a master key; a lock pick.
Derived terms: dubber
dub-cove
dub-lay
dubsman
dub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌb/
ipa: /dɐb/
ipa: /dʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: dubs
Senses: examples: text: World Wide Web or WWW
Pronouncing this "dub dub dub" (with no rub-a) will definitely establish you as an insider.
ref: 1997, Nelson Howell, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microsoft Visual InterDev, Que Pub, →ISBN:
text: I once met a gaggle of Aussies who'd paid thousands of dollars out of their own pockets for airfare and registration to attend an annual Apple convention called the Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC—or, in this crowd, “Dub Dub.”
ref: 2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley, Metropolitan Books, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: Clipping of double-u.
examples: text: I haven't had a dub in a few games.
topics: video-games
glosses: Clipping of double-u.
A win.
Derived terms: Vee Dub
dub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌb/
ipa: /dɐb/
ipa: /dʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: dubs
Senses: glosses: A small copper coin once used in India.
Related terms: sense: terms which are probably etymologically unrelated
word: lub-dub
sense: terms which are probably etymologically unrelated
word: rubby-dub
del
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: dels
Etymology: From delta, the symbol being an inverted delta.
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The symbol ∇ used to denote the gradient operator.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: the symbol ∂, in the context of a partial differential
Synonyms: atled
nabla
del
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: dels
Etymology: See deal
Senses: glosses: a part, portion
del
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Etymology: Shortening
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of delegate.
glosses: Abbreviation of delegation.
del
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Etymology: Shortening
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of delete.
del
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Etymology: Abbreviation of Latin delineavit
Senses: glosses: abbreviation of delineavit as seen on published artwork, identifying the original artist. Commonly seen in books and articles on topics in natural history
ag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Etymology: Clipping of agriculture or agricultural.
Senses: examples: text: He got his degree from the state ag college.
text: My class is over on ag campus.
text: Even the most ag-centric member of the Agriculture Committee […]
ref: 2014, Ferd Hoefner, quoted in Jennifer Steinhauer, “Farm Bill Reflects Shifting American Menu and a Senator’s Persistent Tilling”, NYTimes.com (2014 March 8)
text: […] fruits and vegetables, oddly referred to in ag-speak as specialty crops, […]
ref: 2014 March 8, Jennifer Steinhauer, “Farm Bill Reflects Shifting American Menu and a Senator’s Persistent Tilling”, NYTimes.com
glosses: Clipping of agriculture.
Derived terms: ag-gag
ag pipe
Related terms: agri-
Big Ag
ag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: ags
Etymology: Clipping of aggregate.
Senses: examples: text: The mix should include a good selection of large, medium, and small ag.
text: If the mix is too fluid, the ags can sink away from the surface.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Clipping of aggregate (“small rocks mixed into concrete”).
ag
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
ipa: /ax/
ipa: /æɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans ag, from Dutch ach.
Senses: examples: text: Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling / We wanna see an ou called Sky High Lee
ref: 1962, Jeremy Taylor, “Ag Pleez Deddy”:
text: ‘Ag, fuck it,’ he said. ‘Let bygones be bygones, man.’
ref: 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 88:
text: Finally, after placing four books on the desk, he turned to a sheepish Kathy and said, ‘Ag, there's nothing wrong with these desks,’ and walked out.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 491:
glosses: Expressing annoyance, remorse, surprise etc.; oh, ah.
Derived terms: ag man
ag
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /æɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
ipa: /ax/
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of again.
ag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
ipa: /ax/
Forms: form: ags
Senses: examples: text: new forms of female masculinity are exploding, ranging from butches, dykes, and studs to transmen, FTMs, ags, genderqueers, individuals masculine-of-center, and many more. Transgender men and masculine women can make their own movies[…]
ref: 2016 February 26, Laura Horak, Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 224:
text: I don't know what I'd do without them (smiles) Sometimes, I wonder why studs/ag's/butches/transguys be grilling one another in the club. I mean, in my mind, I'm like Why would you hate someone who look like you, act like you,[…]
ref: 2016 June 10, Roberta Uno, Monologues for Actors of Color: Men, Routledge, →ISBN, page 85:
text: The context around stud enables us to understand its meaning among the W4W advertisers: Seeking lesbian stud, butch, ag, or tomboish women ONLY I'm a single stud (on the soft side) slim body type, tattoos, cute face, and great smile[…]
ref: 2017 July 31, Eric Friginal, Studies in Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of AG (“aggressive (butch)”).
ai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑ.i/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: ais
form: ai
Etymology: Originated 1685–95, from Brazilian Portuguese aí, from Old Tupi a'y.
Senses: glosses: A type of three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, endemic to forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil.
Synonyms: sense: Bradypus tridactylus
word: maned sloth
Related terms: english: two-toed sloth
translation: two-toed sloth
word: unau
ai
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑ.i/
text: Audio (US)
ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: ay
homophone: aye
homophone: I
homophone: eye
ipa: /ˈɑ.i/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: aii
Etymology: Contraction of aight (which itself is a contraction of all right).
Senses: examples: text: Ai, let's go.
glosses: All right.
alim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːlɪm/
Forms: form: ulama
form: ulema
form: alims
Etymology: From Arabic عَالِم (ʕālim), active participle of عَلِمَ (ʕalima, “to know”).
Senses: examples: text: Akram is a working alim, lecturing in mosques and universities and dispensing fatwas on issues like inheritance and divorce.
ref: 2007 February 25, Carla Power, “A Secret History”, in New York Times:
glosses: An educated scholar of Islamic law; a member of the ulema class
Related terms: ulema
proverb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒvɜːb/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑvɝb/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b
Forms: form: proverbs
form: proverbing
form: proverbed
form: proverbed
Etymology: From Old French proverbe, from Latin proverbium.
Senses: glosses: To write or utter proverbs.
examples: text: Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool / In every street, do they not say, "How well / Are come upon him his deserts?"
ref: 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, lines 203–205:
glosses: To name in, or as, a proverb.
examples: text: I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
glosses: To provide with a proverb.
haar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /hɑɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: haars
form: harr
form: har
Etymology: Attested since the late 17th century, alongside Scots haar (“cold easterly wind; misty wind; cold fog or mist”).
Perhaps ultimately from Middle Dutch hare (“cold wind”) or a related Low German word; compare Dutch harig (“windy; foggy, misty”), Saterland Frisian harig (“misty”).
Alternatively, perhaps simply a northern English or Scottish variant of hoar, or a borrowing of Old Norse hárr (“hoary”).
Senses: examples: text: The traffic noise used to be constant, at times as thick as the haar, the sea fog that sometimes rolls in here from the North Sea.
ref: 2020, David Farrier, “The Insatiable Road”, in Footprints, 4th estate, →ISBN:
glosses: Thick, cold, wet fog along the northeastern coast of Northern England and Scotland.
examples: text: […] westerly haar, which wraps everything up in white wool, and blots out sea and sky, and chokes the depressed wayfarer-not to speak of the penetrating chill which even in June goes down into the marrow of your bones, and makes the[…]
ref: 1873, Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret), May. [A Novel.], page 73:
text: [An] easterly haar was blowing in off the sea, the cold wind bringing with it a thick fog that crawled under the collar and clung to the skin. Ahead, the road disappeared as the fog hid anything on either side of the hedges save for the[…]
ref: 2024 February 29, Samantha SoRelle, The Gentleman's Gentleman, Balcarres Books LLC, →ISBN, page 168:
glosses: A wind, especially one from the east, which blows in this fog.
Derived terms: haary
god
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: gŏd
ipa: /ɡɒd/
ipa: /ɡɔːd/
ipa: /ɡɑd/
ipa: /ɡɔd/
ipa: /ɡɔːd/
ipa: /ɡɒːd/
ipa: /ɡɔd/
homophone: gaud (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: gawd
form: Gawd
form: g-d
form: G-d
form: God
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English god, from Old English god, originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, from Proto-West Germanic *god n, from Proto-Germanic *gudą; see there for further origin.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots God (“God”), Yola God, Gud (“God”), gud (“god”), Saterland Frisian God (“God”), West Frisian God (“God”), god (“deity, god”), Alemannic German, Cimbrian, German, Luxembourgish and Mòcheno Gott (“God”), Central Franconian Jott (“God”), Dutch god (“deity, god”), Limburgish Gód (“God”), gód (“god”), Vilamovian Göt (“God”), Yiddish גאָט (got, “god; God”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish gud (“god; God”), Faroese Gud (“God”), Icelandic goð (“idol, pagan god”), guð, Guð (“God”), Norwegian Nynorsk Gu, Gud (“God”), gu, gud (“god”), Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌸 (guþ, “deity, god; God”).
Not related to the word good or Persian خدا (xodâ, “god”).
Senses: examples: text: And ſuch is to beare yͤ names of god with croſſes betwene ech name about them.
ref: 1530, William Tyndall, “An aunſwere vnto Syr Thomas Mores Dialogue”, in The whole workes of W. Tyndall […], published 1573, page 271:
text: “I say fuck it. Fuck god and fuck all the religions that praise him.”
ref: 2005, Diane L. Gabriel, Angel of My Heart, →ISBN, page 46:
text: For if the necessity of events is bound up with god’s knowledge, if there is no necessity in events, the divine knowledge is abolished. And whose mind is so distorted by such an impious idea that he would dare to say this of god?
ref: 2010 [6th century], Boethius, translated by Andrew Smith, On Aristotle, On Interpretation 1–3, page 136:
text: If I ask you if you believe in god, I just want to know if you have an imaginary omnipotent friend who you really believe lives outside of you in the real world.
ref: 2012, Penn Jillette, God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales, →ISBN, page 77:
text: Perhaps what is needed is just the right attitude: one’s heart should be open to god in order to hear his messages. […] It does not matter: such claims only prove my point about the communicative shortcomings of so-called divine signs.
ref: 2016, Andrew Sneddon, A is for Atheist: An A to Z of the Godfree Life, →ISBN:
text: This is the formulation of the moral end as ‘assimilation to god’, which would become standard in later Platonism.
ref: 2017, Myrto Hatzimichali, “Stoicism and Platonism in ‘Arius Didymus’”, in Troels Engberg-Pedersen, editor, From Stoicism to Platonism: The Development of Philosophy, 100 BCE–100 CE, →ISBN, page 91:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of God.
god
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gŏd
ipa: /ɡɒd/
ipa: /ɡɔːd/
ipa: /ɡɑd/
ipa: /ɡɔd/
ipa: /ɡɔːd/
ipa: /ɡɒːd/
ipa: /ɡɔd/
homophone: gaud (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: gods
form: godding
form: godded
form: godded
form: gawd
form: Gawd
form: g-d
form: G-d
form: God
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English god, from Old English god, originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, from Proto-West Germanic *god n, from Proto-Germanic *gudą; see there for further origin.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots God (“God”), Yola God, Gud (“God”), gud (“god”), Saterland Frisian God (“God”), West Frisian God (“God”), god (“deity, god”), Alemannic German, Cimbrian, German, Luxembourgish and Mòcheno Gott (“God”), Central Franconian Jott (“God”), Dutch god (“deity, god”), Limburgish Gód (“God”), gód (“god”), Vilamovian Göt (“God”), Yiddish גאָט (got, “god; God”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish gud (“god; God”), Faroese Gud (“God”), Icelandic goð (“idol, pagan god”), guð, Guð (“God”), Norwegian Nynorsk Gu, Gud (“God”), gu, gud (“god”), Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌸 (guþ, “deity, god; God”).
Not related to the word good or Persian خدا (xodâ, “god”).
Senses: examples: text: CORIOLANUS: This last old man, / Whom with a crack'd heart I have sent to Rome, / Loved me above the measure of a father; / Nay, godded me, indeed.
ref: 1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, act V, scene III:
text: a. 1866, Edward Bulwer Lytton, "Death and Sisyphus".
To men the first necessity is gods; / And if the gods were not, / " Man would invent them, tho' they godded stones.
text: "Godded him up" ... It's the fear of discerning journalists: Does coverage of athletic stars, on field and off, approach beatification of the living?
ref: 2001, Conrad C. Fink, Sportswriting: The Lively Game, page 78:
glosses: To idolize.
examples: text: Then got he bow and shafts of gold and lead, / In which so fell and puissant he grew, / That Jove himselfe his powre began to dread, / And, taking up to heaven, him godded new.
ref: 1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe:
text: The superman marks the end of a road on which we find such figures as the "godded man" of English Reformation mystics
ref: 1951, Eric Voegelin, Dante Germino ed., The New Science of Politics: An Introduction, published 1987, page 125:
text: "She is so lately godded that she is still a rather poor goddess, Stranger.["]
ref: 1956, C. S. Lewis, Fritz Eichenberg, Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, page 241:
glosses: To deify.
Related terms: agnosticism
apatheism
atheism
bitheism
deism
ditheism
divine
gnosticism
henotheism
kathenotheism
monolatrism
monotheism
pandeism
panentheism
pantheism
pantheon
polytheism
Tetragrammaton
theism
tritheism
YHVH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of YHWH.
AC
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: a.c.
form: A/C
form: a/c
form: A.C.
form: a.c.
form: ac
form: A.C.
form: A.C.
form: A. C.
form: a.c.
Senses: examples: text: AC joint; AC separation
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of acromioclavicular.
glosses: Initialism of air conditioned.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Initialism of antichristian.
AC
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: a.c.
form: A/C
form: a/c
form: A.C.
form: a.c.
form: ac
form: A.C.
form: A.C.
form: A. C.
form: a.c.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of anno Christi (in the year of Christ).
glosses: Initialism of ante Christum, (before Christ).
Synonyms: sense: anno Christi
english: anno Domini
translation: anno Domini
word: AD
sense: ante Christum
english: before Christ
translation: before Christ
word: BC
AC
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: a.c.
form: A/C
form: a/c
form: A.C.
form: a.c.
form: ac
form: A.C.
form: A.C.
form: A. C.
form: a.c.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of all clear (as in button on electronic calculator).
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of ante cibum (before meals).
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of as charged, as in: guilty as charged, usually a/c.
AC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: a.c.
form: A/C
form: a/c
form: A.C.
form: a.c.
form: ac
form: A.C.
form: A.C.
form: A. C.
form: a.c.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Aceh: a province of Indonesia.
glosses: Abbreviation of Acre: a state of Brazil.
glosses: Initialism of America's Cup (competition yacht sailing match racing regatta).
Derived terms: sense: America's Cup
word: IACC
sense: America's Cup
word: AC72
sense: America's Cup
word: AC45
sense: America's Cup
word: AC90
DC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Coleman, who previously broke quorum but did not join others in DC due to a recent leg amputation, gave the invocation Thursday, saying in part, “I pray that we, all of us look inside about where we want this world to go, this state, this House, and look at it from the perspective of trying to find as much common ground as can be found.”
ref: 2021 August 19, Dianne Gallagher, “Texas Democrats’ effort to freeze voting bill ends”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of District of Columbia, a federal district of the United States of America.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Douglas Commercial, used in the names of airliners designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company.
glosses: Initialism of Dubai City, to distinguish it from Dubai Emirate.
glosses: Initialism of Dreamcast, a home videogaming console from SEGA.
coordinate_terms: DCU
DCEU
DCAU
DCverse
glosses: Ellipsis of DC Comics: Initialism of Detective Comics.
glosses: Initialism of Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles; clipping of DCHP.
glosses: Abbreviation of Discord.
DC
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of da capo.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of diagonally to the center.
Related terms: sense: diagonally to the center
word: BDC
sense: diagonally to the center
word: BDW
sense: diagonally to the center
word: DW
sense: diagonally to the center
word: FDC
sense: diagonally to the center
word: FDW
DC
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: video coding
glosses: Initialism of direct coded.
DC
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: DCs
form: DC's
form: DCing
form: DC'ing
form: DCed
form: DCed
form: DC'd
form: DC'd
form: DC'ed
form: DC'ed
Senses: examples: text: Since the patch I have been randomly DCing and it's at times completely game-breaking. For example,just now my Paladin was questing in Thou Needles, and I DC'd several times within a few minutes.
ref: 2012 February 3, "ToolPackinMama", “Random DC to Login since patch”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To become disconnected from a network.
examples: text: med dc'd
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of discontinue.
Related terms: Llanarmon DC
ans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænz/
Senses: glosses: plural of an
ans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænz/
ipa: /ˈæns/
ipa: /ˈɑːns/
ipa: /ˈænz/
Forms: form: ans.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of answer.
ans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænz/
ipa: /ˈæns/
ipa: /ˈɑːns/
ipa: /ˈænz/
Forms: form: ans.
Senses: examples: text: GWM, release July 79, would like to hear from sincere gays. I will ans all letters.
ref: 1979 February 3, Billy Smith, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 27, page 14:
glosses: Abbreviation of answer.
apod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + -pod.
Senses: glosses: Lacking feet; apodal.
glosses: Lacking a ventral fin.
apod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apods
Etymology: From a- + -pod.
Senses: synonyms: apode
glosses: An animal without feet.
Related terms: apodal
apodous
ba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bas
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian bꜣ, G53-Z1
Senses: examples: text: Any ordinary person who has ever floated out of his body during a nap knows what a Ba is, but unfortunately the dogmas of our materialistic culture constrain the person to ignore and repress his experience.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 220:
text: But the Ba, I remembered, could be seen as the mistress of your heart and might or might not decide to speak to you, just as the heart cannot always forgive.
ref: 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
ba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bas
Etymology: The sound is very commonly made by infants, and is interpreted by parents as a reference to themselves.
Senses: glosses: Father, baba.
raw_tags: in direct address
ba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ba'
Senses: examples: text: The townsmen played ba often and clearly knew what they were doing.
ref: 2011, Alistair Moffat, The Borders:
glosses: A medieval football game played in parts of Scotland around Christmas and New Year.
ba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bas
Senses: examples: text: 2 beds, 1 ba
related: word: BA
coordinate_terms: word: br
english: bedroom
translation: bedroom
glosses: Abbreviation of bathroom.
raw_tags: in real estate ads
ba
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: ipa: [p˭ɑ˨]
Forms: form: bah
Etymology: From Mandarin 吧 (ba).
Senses: examples: text: I think you should go see a doctor ba.
glosses: Used to indicate a tentative suggestion.
examples: text: rich pple in here... 15" Conti for 800? thats a little steep... same class as ps4s? / 18" tires about 600 to 750 bah...
ref: 2024 June 7, Vegas, “Planning to get new Rims & Tyres”, in MyCarForum, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2024:
glosses: Used to indicate confident speculation.
Related terms: word: what
word: lah1–14
word: lor2–3
word: lor1
word: ah6–7
word: leh1–2
word: mah
word: leh3–6
word: one1–3
word: hor1
word: know
word: nia
word: only
word: sia
word: hor2
word: ah1–3
word: hah1–3
word: meh
word: ba2
word: leh7–11
word: ba1
word: liao
word: already
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word: Gupta
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word: A. F. (1992)
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word: in
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: volume 18
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: number 1
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: →DOI
word: ba-dum-ching
word: ba-dum-tss
babul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈbuːl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: babuls
form: babool
Etymology: Borrowed both from French baboul and from Hindi बबूल (babūl, “babul tree”), probably ultimately from Sanskrit वव्वोल (vavvola, “acacia”).
Senses: examples: text: In place of Putney's golden gorse / The sickly babul blooms.
ref: 1884, Rudyard Kipling, The Moon of Other Days:
glosses: A tree native to South Asia, Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica, formerly Acacia nilotica subsp. indica.
Synonyms: kikar
prickly acacia
bad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæd/
ipa: /bæːd/
ipa: /bɛd/
ipa: /baːd/
note: æ-tensing, New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /bɛəd/
rhymes: -æd
homophone: bade (one pronunciation)
Etymology: From Middle English bad, badde (“wicked, evil, depraved”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortening of Old English bæddel (“hermaphrodite”) (for loss of -el compare Middle English muche from Old English myċel, and Middle English wenche from Old English wenċel), or at least related to it and/or to bǣ̆dan (“to defile”), compare Old High German pad (“hermaphrodite”).
Alternatively, perhaps a loan from Old Norse into Middle English, compare Norwegian bad (“effort, trouble, fear”, neuter noun), East Danish bad (“damage, destruction, fight”, neuter noun), from the Proto-Germanic noun *badą, whence also Proto-Germanic *badōną (“to frighten”), Old Saxon undarbadōn (“to frighten”), Norwegian Nynorsk bada (“to weigh down, press”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to bend, press, push, oppress”).
Senses: examples: text: He gave me a bad check.
synonyms: rubber
hot
glosses: Not covered by funds on account.
raw_tags: of a draft/check
Synonyms: word: abysmal
word: awful
word: chronic
word: coarse
word: crap
word: crummy
word: dire
word: disagreeable
word: dismal
word: dreadful
word: foul
word: hideous
word: hopeless
word: horrendous
word: horrid
word: horrible
word: inadequate
word: incompetent
word: inelegant
word: intolerable
word: inferior
word: loathsome
word: lousy
word: miserable
word: naff
word: negative
word: odious
word: pathetic
word: peak
word: rotten
word: rubbish
word: shitawful
word: sloppy
word: terrible
word: unfavorable
Hyponyms: word: low-quality
word: harmful
word: lamentable
word: evil
Related terms: word: badness
bad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæd/
ipa: /bæːd/
ipa: /bɛd/
ipa: /baːd/
note: æ-tensing, New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /bɛəd/
rhymes: -æd
homophone: bade (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: worse
form: worst
Etymology: From Middle English bad, badde (“wicked, evil, depraved”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortening of Old English bæddel (“hermaphrodite”) (for loss of -el compare Middle English muche from Old English myċel, and Middle English wenche from Old English wenċel), or at least related to it and/or to bǣ̆dan (“to defile”), compare Old High German pad (“hermaphrodite”).
Alternatively, perhaps a loan from Old Norse into Middle English, compare Norwegian bad (“effort, trouble, fear”, neuter noun), East Danish bad (“damage, destruction, fight”, neuter noun), from the Proto-Germanic noun *badą, whence also Proto-Germanic *badōną (“to frighten”), Old Saxon undarbadōn (“to frighten”), Norwegian Nynorsk bada (“to weigh down, press”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to bend, press, push, oppress”).
Senses: examples: text: I didn't do too bad in the last exam.
text: He is quite bad off now that both his parents lost their jobs.
glosses: Badly; poorly.
examples: text: I want you / I want you so bad, it's driving me mad
ref: 1969, Lennon–McCartney, “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”, in Abbey Road, performed by The Beatles:
glosses: Badly; severely, extremely, passionately, eagerly.
bad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæd/
ipa: /bæːd/
ipa: /bɛd/
ipa: /baːd/
note: æ-tensing, New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /bɛəd/
rhymes: -æd
homophone: bade (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: bads
Etymology: From Middle English bad, badde (“wicked, evil, depraved”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortening of Old English bæddel (“hermaphrodite”) (for loss of -el compare Middle English muche from Old English myċel, and Middle English wenche from Old English wenċel), or at least related to it and/or to bǣ̆dan (“to defile”), compare Old High German pad (“hermaphrodite”).
Alternatively, perhaps a loan from Old Norse into Middle English, compare Norwegian bad (“effort, trouble, fear”, neuter noun), East Danish bad (“damage, destruction, fight”, neuter noun), from the Proto-Germanic noun *badą, whence also Proto-Germanic *badōną (“to frighten”), Old Saxon undarbadōn (“to frighten”), Norwegian Nynorsk bada (“to weigh down, press”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to bend, press, push, oppress”).
Senses: examples: text: We idealize God as supergoodness in order to protect against a bad that we cannot unite with ourselves.
ref: 2001, Ann Belford Ulanov, Finding Space: Winnicott, God, and Psychic Reality, page 59:
glosses: Something that is bad; a harm or evil.
examples: text: "My bad, My bad!” Juwan yelled, scowling
ref: 1993, Mitch Albom, Fab five: basketball, trash talk, the American dream:
text: “Chico, you're late again.” I turned around and stared him in his beady eyes. “I missed my bus. My bad, Donald.” “Your bad? Your bad? What kind of English is that?
ref: 2003, Zane, Skyscraper, page 7:
text: Teresa broke out in laughter. “Dang, I sound like I'm talking to my man.” “I tried your cell phone, but you didn't answer.” “I left it at home, Friday. My bad.” “Yeah, your bad.” I laughed. “Really, I'm sorry. It won't happen again.
ref: 2008, Camika Spencer, Cubicles, page 68:
glosses: Error; mistake.
raw_tags: with possessive determiner
examples: text: Imports are an economic good but exports an economic bad. Exports must be produced but are enjoyed by foreign consumers.
ref: 2011, Henry Thompson, International Economics: Global Markets and Competition, 3rd edition, World Scientific, page 97:
text: An economic bad is anything that you would pay to get rid of. It is not so hard to think of examples of bads: pollution, garbage, and disease fit the description.
ref: 2011, William J. Boyes, Michael Melvin, Economics, 9th edition, Cengage Learning, page 4:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.
bad
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæd/
ipa: /bæːd/
ipa: /bɛd/
ipa: /baːd/
note: æ-tensing, New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /bɛəd/
rhymes: -æd
homophone: bade (one pronunciation)
Etymology: From Middle English bad, badde (“wicked, evil, depraved”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortening of Old English bæddel (“hermaphrodite”) (for loss of -el compare Middle English muche from Old English myċel, and Middle English wenche from Old English wenċel), or at least related to it and/or to bǣ̆dan (“to defile”), compare Old High German pad (“hermaphrodite”).
Alternatively, perhaps a loan from Old Norse into Middle English, compare Norwegian bad (“effort, trouble, fear”, neuter noun), East Danish bad (“damage, destruction, fight”, neuter noun), from the Proto-Germanic noun *badą, whence also Proto-Germanic *badōną (“to frighten”), Old Saxon undarbadōn (“to frighten”), Norwegian Nynorsk bada (“to weigh down, press”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to bend, press, push, oppress”).
Senses: examples: text: Bad! You know you're not allowed in the kitchen after dinner.
glosses: Used to scold a misbehaving child or pet.