cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cantillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkæntɪˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: cantillations
Etymology: From or equivalent to cantillate + -ion / -ation.
Senses: glosses: The intonation of a sentence, especially in Hebrew script, codified by marks which are read as sequences of musical pitches.
glosses: Chanting.
Synonyms: trope
Derived terms: cantillational
Related terms: nikud
Islamophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Islamophobic
form: most Islamophobic
form: islamophobic
form: Islamaphobic
Etymology: From Islamo- + -phobic.
Senses: synonyms: anti-Muslim
Muslimophobic
antonyms: Islamophilic
coordinate_terms: Christianophobic
Judeophobic
glosses: Having a fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims.
Derived terms: Islamophobically
Related terms: Islamophobe
Islamophobia
jihadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪˈhɑːdi/
/d͡ʒəˈhɑːdi/
Forms: form: jihadis
form: jihadeen
Etymology: From jihad + -i, after Arabic جِهَادِيّ (jihādiyy). Both the noun and the adjective are in occasional use since the 1960s.
Senses: synonyms: jihadist
mujahid
glosses: A jihadist.
jihadi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪˈhɑːdi/
/d͡ʒəˈhɑːdi/
Etymology: From jihad + -i, after Arabic جِهَادِيّ (jihādiyy). Both the noun and the adjective are in occasional use since the 1960s.
Senses: examples: text: What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
ref: 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:
text: Yet people are miserable and disillusioned, joining jihadi groups in among the largest numbers per capita of any country in the world, and making up the majority of boat-borne migrants to Italy this year.
ref: 2020 December 16, “'He ruined us': 10 years on, Tunisians curse man who sparked Arab spring”, in the Guardian:
glosses: pertaining to jihad or jihadism
Derived terms: jihadisphere
kwaai
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kwaai
form: most kwaai
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans kwaai, attributive form of kwaad, from Dutch kwaad.
Senses: glosses: bad-tempered, aggressive, fierce
glosses: A term of approval, equivalent to great or fantastic; cool; excellent
lehnga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lehngas
form: lehanga
form: lehenga
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi लहंगा (lahaṅgā).
Senses: examples: text: For most of the ceremony, Naima was sitting on the stage wearing an elaborate maroon lehnga that was so heavy it had taken the both of us to lift the box when it first arrived from the designer.
ref: 2023, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, The Centre, Picador, page 294:
glosses: A long formal or ceremonial skirt worn by Indian women, usually with a choli (short blouse).
fire step
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire steps
form: firestep
Senses: examples: text: We stood on the fire step with our heads over the top, peering out into No Man's Land.
ref: 1917, Arthur Guy Empey, Over The Top:
text: ‘One o' the men on the firestep was 'urt too, but they said it was only a nice blighty one.’
ref: 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 101:
text: They spread the lime together, sprinkling it thickly along the firestep, throwing shovelfuls at a bad patch of wall.
ref: 1991, Pat Barker, Regeneration (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 140:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A step or platform dug into the front side of a military trench - allowing soldiers to stand on it in order to fire over the parapet.
ifs, ands, or buts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pl
form: ifs, ands or buts
form: if's, and's, or but's
Etymology: Earlier as ifs and 'ans, plurals of if and 'an (or an, en, or and), dialectal for then, influenced by the conjunction an (meaning if) (See OED entry on and conj.2). Thus it meant ifs and thens. Brewer's analyzes it as ifs and ans, with the meaning ifs and ifs, and that the spelling ands is a mistake. In any case, it was later supplemented with buts.
Senses: examples: text: 1867, The Frankfort Commonwealth, Frankfort, Kentucky. August 30, 1867, p. 3.
Some of those elected on the Rebel Democratic ticket, at the opening of the war, in the interest of the traitors to the Government, professed to be "Union men, without any ifs, ands, or buts."
text: 1947, Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, Dramatists Play Service, Inc. (1952), →ISBN, page 29,
BLANCHE. That must’ve been what happened. ¶ STANLEY. I don’t want no ifs, ands or buts! What’s all the rest of the papers?
text: 1962, advertisement, in Popular Science, Popular Science Publishing Company, page 175,
There are no gimmicks. There are No Exceptions, No Exclusions, No Limitations, waiting periods, no ifs, ands or buts.
text: I think individuals do a better job than agencies because agencies have a lot of' ifs, ands or buts' because of insurance.
ref: 1992 March 18, Alice Kahn, “House Cleaners Come Clean; Straight talk about their work, their lives and you”, in San Francisco Chronicle, page Z1:
text: A relationship with a grandmother doesn't contain the same ifs, ands, or buts of a mother-daughter pairing.
ref: 2003 August, Alice Hoffman, “What I wish I'd told my mother”, in Redbook, volume 201, number 2, page 106:
text: 2007, Walt Love, The Gospel According to Rev. Walt "Baby" Love: Inspirations and Meditations from the Gospel Radio Legend, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 32,
There are no ifs, ands, or buts if we are going to stand on the promises found in the Holy Bible.
glosses: Modifications, limitations, or addenda; qualifications of any kind; speculations about whether a particular idea or enterprise is good.
Related terms: ifs and ans
ifs and buts
buttinski
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌtˈɪnski/
ipa: /bʌtˈɪnski/
ipa: [bʌɾ-]
Forms: form: buttinskis
Etymology: From butt in + -ski.
Senses: examples: text: It is never pleasant for a man of sensibility to find himself regarded as a buttinski and a trailing arbutus, and it was thus, I could see at a g., that Wilbert Cream was pencilling me in.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter V, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC, page 50:
glosses: Alternative spelling of buttinsky (“one who interferes”).
glosses: Alternative spelling of buttinsky (“telecommunication device”).
buttinskys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buttinsky
big if
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big ifs
Senses: examples: text: "If I were only old enough," said Kate, "and knew enough to teach a day-school, I would begin at once and save half of my money …."
"Oh!" Edward replied, "there's a big if in the way."
ref: 1868 Montgomery Schuyler, The Pioneer Church: Or, The Story of a New Parish in the West (Boston: Riverside Press, 1868), p. 2
text: 2004, Dale Brown, Dreamland: Strike Zone, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 217,
"If they believe us," said the admiral, "and that's a big if, then we're in a race with them to find this thing. Because if they grab it—"
coordinate_terms: small if
glosses: An unlikely but necessary condition.
Related terms: tall order
repechage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛp.ə.ʃɑːʒ/
ipa: /ˈɹɛp.ɪ.ʃɑːʒ/
ipa: /ˌɹɛp.əˈʃɑʒ/
ipa: /ɹəˌpɛʃˈɑʒ/
Forms: form: repechages
form: repêchage
Etymology: From French repêchage, from repêcher (“to fish out, rescue”), from re- (“again”) + pêcher (“to fish”).
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left in the next round.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The use of this form of competition.
Related terms: A final
A-final
B final
B-final
relegation
pathless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pathless
form: most pathless
Etymology: From path + -less.
Senses: examples: text: It was an old and pathless forest, and you could not keep anything like a straight course in it.
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:
glosses: Without a path or trail.
synonyms: trackless
uncharted
unknown
virgin
glosses: Unexplored.
Derived terms: pathlessness
pastorate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastorates
Etymology: From pastor + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, a body of people involved with it).
Senses: examples: text: The old pastor found his pastorate wearying, and longed to retire.
glosses: The role or responsibilities of a pastor.
examples: text: His pastorate had been marked by several changes in church policy with regards to community outreach.
glosses: The period of service of a particular pastor to their congregation; their term of office.
examples: text: At the denomination's annual conference, the pastorate had passed a bylaw prohibiting members from performing online marriage ceremonies.
glosses: An organization or body consisting of multiple pastors.
Synonyms: pastorage
pasteurizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pasteurizers
Etymology: From pasteurize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The small dairy maintained an industrial pasteurizer and provided home-delivered milk in a local distribution area.
glosses: A machine or device for pasteurizing something (e.g. milk).
glosses: A person who pasteurizes.
pasteurizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pasteurizer
severing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛvəɹɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sever
severing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛvəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: severings
Senses: examples: text: The penile mishaps (one involving a bristled toothbrush), severings (one involves hungry ducks) and surgeries cited by Ms. Roach are nothing if not memorable, but her book consistently undermines its own discoveries.
ref: 2008 April 7, Janet Maslin, “A Sex Researcher Walks Into a Lab, and Then Things Start to Get Comical”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act by which something is severed.
penuriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From penurious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In Dickens' A Christmas Carol, the character Ebenezer Scrooge is renowned for his penuriousness.
text: Covetouſneſs is the root of penuriouſneſs and baſeneſs, it hinders hoſpitality;
ref: 1671, Thomas Watson, The Beatitudes, page 271:
text: Giving that up, she took a broom and a duster and went upstairs to housemaid Mrs Dibble's bedroom, with her head tied up in a coloured scarf. It was a dusty, snuffy job, for penuriousness in Mrs Dibble refused to throw anything away, including dirt, and if anything fell on the floor it remained there.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 32:
glosses: The quality of being penurious.
Synonyms: sense: quality of being penurious
word: cheapness
sense: quality of being penurious
word: frugality
sense: quality of being penurious
word: miserliness
sense: quality of being penurious
word: thriftiness
peppiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peppy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I am not generally known for my peppiness prior to my first cup of coffee in the morning.
glosses: The quality of being peppy.
Synonyms: sense: quality of being peppy
word: enthusiasm
sense: quality of being peppy
word: liveliness
sense: quality of being peppy
word: perkiness
sense: quality of being peppy
word: vigorousness
sense: quality of being peppy
word: vitality
mucronate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mucro(n) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix) or directly from Latin mūcrōnātus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Terminating in a mucro (an abruptly tapering point or a sharp spine) such as at the end of a leaf.
Derived terms: bimucronate
centromucronate
mucronately
submucronate
trimucronate
unimucronate
Related terms: mucro
mucronation
perfectibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfectibilities
Etymology: From perfect + -ibility.
Senses: examples: text: In a project involving many people, maintainability is a more useful asset than perfectibility.
text: Thus it was that I beheld, as never before, the awful unreality called evil. The equipollence of God brought to light another glorious proposition, — man’s perfectibility and the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on earth.
ref: 1906, Mary Baker Eddy, “Chapter VI — Science, Theology, Medicine”, in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Science_and_Health_with_Key_to_the_Scriptures_(1906).djvu/126), Harper and Row, page 110:
text: In their evangelical zeal, crusaders relied upon a message of the essential morality of cleanliness, a message that was especially effective in stirring religious sentiment and that meshed well with evolutionary models of human perfectibility that were prevalent in the sciences.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 110:
glosses: The possibility of achieving perfection.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Perfectionism.
Derived terms: perfectibilist
permissiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From permissive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The permissiveness of campus life leads many college freshmen to try things they would never have experienced at home.
text: It is no accident that capital punishment is reentering our society on the wave of the conservative reaction to the permissiveness and laxity of the past two decades.
ref: 1981 April 5, Theodore Solotaroff, “REVIVING THE ANCIENT ART OF EXECUTION”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2025:
glosses: The relative likelihood of something or someone to grant permission or allow something to happen.
pettiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pettinesses
Etymology: From petty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The pettiness of the accounting department asking me to save a receipt from a fast-food restaurant was absurd.
glosses: The quality of being petty.
glosses: A petty behaviour, attitude, etc.
remissness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmɪsnɪs/
Forms: form: remissnesses
form: remisness
form: remisnesse
Etymology: From remiss + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Impunity and remissenes, for certain are the bane of a Commonwealth, but here the great art lyes to discern in what the law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things perswasion only is to work.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
text: Sir, this should teach us to be as tender, zealous and careful to assert Christ and his church, their privileges and rights, and to forewarn all lest they endanger their souls by encroaching thereon, and lest their omissions and remissness bring eternal premunires upon them, let all know that the spirit of your Master is upon you […]
ref: 1809, William Guthrie, An Historical Account of the Lives and Characters of Mr. William Guthrie, &c. &c. With Lord Warriston's Speech before the Assembly at Westminster. Also an Account of the Battle of Bothwell-Bridge [by William Wilson], Kilmarnock: Printed by H. & S. Crawford, for Joseph Graham, & Co., →OCLC, page 64:
text: I have copied them chiefly to show you the extreme remissness of the police, who, as far as I can understand from the Prefect, have not troubled themselves, in any respect, with an examination of the naval officer alluded to.
ref: 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt:
synonyms: carelessness
negligence
tardiness
glosses: The characteristic of being remiss
pickerel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪk(ə)ɹəl/
Forms: form: pickerel
form: pickerels
Etymology: From Middle English pikerel; equivalent to pike + -rel.
Senses: examples: text: I see, that the Pickrell-fish, and the Swallowes live well by her lawes.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: A freshwater fish of the genus Esox.
glosses: Walleye, A species of gamefish, Sander vitreus, native to the Northern U.S. and Canada with pale, reflective eyes.
glosses: A wading bird, the dunlin.
Derived terms: American pickerel
chain pickerel
grass pickerel
pickerel frog
pickerelweed
pickerel weed
redfin pickerel
Related terms: pike
piddly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪd.li/
ipa: /ˈpɪd.əl.i/
Forms: form: piddlier
form: piddliest
Etymology: From piddling; see -y.
Senses: examples: text: Why play those piddly penny slots when you can win big time at the roulette wheel, man?
text: Is it just me or is anyone else Fecked off with the piddly little window eBay provide for editing your item. It's like trying to decorate your hallway through the letterbox
ref: 2003 November 20, Sarcoidorian, (Usenet):
synonyms: word: base
word: contemptible
word: foolish
word: for the birds
word: futile
word: frivolous
word: idle
word: ignorable
word: immaterial
word: inconsequential
word: inconsiderable
word: indifferent
word: insignificant
word: like a fart in a windstorm
word: meager
word: mean
word: minor
word: negligible
word: nothingburger
word: nondescript
word: paltry
word: petty
word: picayune
word: picayunish
word: piddling
word: piddly
word: pissant
word: pitiful
word: pointless
word: silly
word: simple
word: slight
word: tin-pot
word: trifling
word: trivial
word: two-bit
word: unimportant
word: unweighty
word: vain
word: worthless
word: wretched
glosses: Small, inconsequential, or not worth spending time on.
piggishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piggishnesses
Etymology: From piggish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The man was a glutton; his piggishness was legendary.
text: The old man's stubborn piggishness kept him from acknowledging that his wife was a better driver than he, even after his license was revoked.
glosses: The quality of being like a pig in one's character; greediness, boorishness, or obstinacy.
diametrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diametrical
form: most diametrical
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a diagonal or diameter
glosses: Completely opposed
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to a diagonal or diameter
word: diametral
sense: completely opposed
word: antipodal
Derived terms: diametrically
isodiametrical
diaphragmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diaphragmatic
form: most diaphragmatic
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or using a diaphragm.
Synonyms: diaphragmic
Derived terms: abdominodiaphragmatic breathing
cardiodiaphragmatic
costodiaphragmatic
diaphragmatically
extradiaphragmatic
hemidiaphragmatic
infradiaphragmatic
nondiaphragmatic
peritoneopericardial diaphragmatic hernia
subdiaphragmatic
supradiaphragmatic
synchronous diaphragmatic flutter
transdiaphragmatic
Related terms: diaphragmatic breathing
pitch-dark
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pitch dark
Senses: examples: text: The assassin crept into the royal bedchamber only after it was pitch-dark.
glosses: Absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch.
Synonyms: sense: absolutely black
word: coal-black
sense: absolutely black
word: coal black
sense: absolutely black
word: dark as night
sense: absolutely black
word: jet-black
sense: absolutely black
word: jet black
sense: absolutely black
word: pitch-black
sense: absolutely black
word: pitch black
Derived terms: pitch darkness
pitch dark
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pitch-dark.
Derived terms: pitch darkness
digressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈɡɹɛsɪv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more digressive
form: most digressive
Etymology: From digress + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Marked by digression; rambling
examples: text: I continue to be amused and amazed by the astonishing twaddle that's continually written about the so-called Lavendar ^([sic]) or Violet Quill Club. The latest example of this is an unmotivated, digressive swipe at the Violet Quill (VQ) in T.R. Witomiski's reply letter to various critics in GCN.
ref: 1987 April 25, Felice Picano, “The Truth About "Violet Quill"”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
glosses: Being a digression; off-topic
Derived terms: digressively
digressiveness
Related terms: digress
digression
dilettantish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dilettantish
form: most dilettantish
Etymology: From dilettante + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Do what I say now, not what I do
The dilettantish peekaboo
ref: 2006, J. G. Thirlwell, “Sieve”, in Damp, performed by Foetus:
glosses: amateurish
Derived terms: dilettantishly
pixy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pixies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pixie.
Derived terms: pixyish
dillydally
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪliˌdæli/
Forms: form: dillydallies
form: dillydallying
form: dillydallied
form: dillydallied
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dilly-dally.
platys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platy
dimply
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dimplier
form: dimpliest
Etymology: From dimple + -y.
Senses: glosses: dimpled
dingdong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dingdongs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ding-dong.
dingdong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dingdongs
form: dingdonging
form: dingdonged
form: dingdonged
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ding-dong.
directorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more directorial
form: most directorial
Etymology: From Latin dīrectōrius + -al. By surface analysis, director + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: The Seventies, that most directorial of decades.
ref: 2011, Kevin Avery, Conversations with Clint: Paul Nelson's Lost Interviews with Clint Eastwood 1979-1983, Continuum International Publishing Group, page 6:
text: We cannot afford to disregard the evidence of directorial choices.
ref: 2014, C. W. Marshall, The Structure and Performance of Euripides' Helen, Cambridge University Press, page 242:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a director
examples: text: After very warm debates, the result was, that the directorial minister of Mentz should make the strongest possible representations to the Emperor's principal commissary.
ref: 1763, Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, The Scots Magazine MDCCLXIII - Volume XXV, self-published, page 52
text: The analysis ... is consistent with the fair treatment of directors and parties affected by directorial behaviour.
ref: 2002, Vanessa Finch, Corporate Insolvency Law: Perspectives and Principles, Cambridge University Press, page 495:
glosses: Of or pertaining to administration or to a directorate
Derived terms: directorially
produceorial
directorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: directorships
Etymology: From director + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: directorate (sometimes synonymous)
text: The corporate bylaws require a quorum of outside directors, so as to balance the directorship.
coordinate_terms: ownership
glosses: The office of a director.
Related terms: board of directors
directionality
dirigibility
dirigisme
managing director
direly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more direly
form: most direly
Etymology: From dire + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dire manner
playgoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪˌɡəʊə/
Forms: form: playgoers
Etymology: From play + goer.
Senses: examples: text: My mother and my sister were the playgoers of the household; they held season tickets to the local theatre.
glosses: One who goes to plays; someone known to be a member of the audience at theatric productions.
playgoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playgoer
dirndl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɜːndl̩/
ipa: [ˈdɪəndəɫ]
ipa: /ˈdɜɹnd(ə)l/
ipa: [ˈdɚndɫ̩]
Forms: form: dirndls
Etymology: Borrowed from German Dirndl, a diminutive of Dirne (“girl”) (Austria, Bavaria), from Middle High German dierne (“girl; servant”), from Old High German diorna, thiorna (“girl; servant”), from Proto-West Germanic *þewernā (“maiden, young girl; female servant, handmaid”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷ- (“to flow; to run”).
Senses: examples: text: For a change, Selina was not in slacks, but in a simple dirndl and sandals.
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 60:
glosses: A traditional Alpine woman's dress having a tight bodice and full skirt.
examples: text: On the cover of the leaflet advertising the Alpenrose Gasthof in Zirl am Gurgl […] there is a decorative picture of a young woman. She is wearing Tyrolese costume: the low-cut white bodice with cross-laced velvet waistcoat, the floral apron and dirndl skirt.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 1, in Crime out of Mind, New York, N.Y.: I. Washburn, →OCLC:
glosses: In full dirndl skirt: a full skirt with a tight waistband resembling one which is part of a traditional Alpine woman's dress.
Derived terms: dirndled
plumed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pluːmd/
rhymes: -uːmd
Senses: examples: text: O now for euer / Farewell the tranquile mind, farewell content: / Farewell the plumed troope, and the big warres: / That makes ambition vertue: [...]
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], pages 51–52:
text: Is there no Albyn now to wake thy song, / No chiefs who still their fathers' worth retain, / No plumed and plaided clans those hills among, / Worthy to claim the tribute of thy strain?
ref: 1854, William Campbell, The Raid of Albyn:
glosses: Having or decorated with a plume or plumes.
Derived terms: beplumed
emplumed
implumed
many-plumed moth
plumed disseminule
plumed partridge
plumed thistle
plumed whistling duck
unplumed
white-plumed honeyeater
plumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pluːmd/
rhymes: -uːmd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plume
dirt-cheap
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dirt-cheap
form: most dirt-cheap
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dirt cheap.
prattler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹætələ(ɹ)/
Forms: form: prattlers
Etymology: From prattle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The patrolman had the misfortune to be assigned a beat that ran past the house of Ms. McDougall, a notorious prattler and neighborhood gossip.
text: “I am glad, Nanny,” says Mrs Miller, “the gentleman hath made the observation; I protest I am almost of his opinion. What can be the matter with you, child? I never saw such an alteration. What is become of all your gaiety? Would you think, sir, I used to call her my little prattler? She hath not spoke twenty words this week.”
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
text: […] the lisper, the burrer, the infant prattler, and the foreign stumbler over our speech […]
ref: 1889, Voice Magazine, Werner, page 10:
glosses: One who prattles or is inclined to do so.
preachy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: preachee
Forms: form: preachier
form: preachiest
Etymology: From preach + -y.
Senses: examples: text: My old fussbudget aunt had a very preachy manner and would prattle on about the dangers of alcohol and other vices.
glosses: Tending toward excessive moralization.
Synonyms: sense: tending toward excessive moralization
word: didactic
sense: tending toward excessive moralization
word: moralizing
sense: tending toward excessive moralization
word: pious
sense: tending toward excessive moralization
word: sanctimonious
sense: tending toward excessive moralization
word: sermonizing
kakemono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑkeɪˈmoʊnoʊ/
ipa: /ˌkækeɪˈməʊnəʊ/
Forms: form: kakemono
form: kakemonos
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 掛け物 (kakemono, literally “hanging thing”).
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A vertical Japanese scroll painting.
examples: text: Posters, flyers, and kakemono provisionally displayed in the RA room are shown in the flow of communication practices. They are removed at the end of the event and appear as a PDF on the website of the diploma a month after the event
ref: 2014 September 30, Francois-Xavier de Vaujany, N. Mitev, P. Laniray, E. Vaast, Materiality and Time: Historical Perspectives on Organizations, Artefacts and Practices, Springer, →ISBN:
text: Depending on the national or local context, these campaigns will use the most effective media and information and communication technology supports, which may include […] posters ; information booth at the entrance of a market ; kakemonos ; special events co-sponsored by the fisheries authorities and cooperatives
ref: 2019, Koane Mindjimba, Illia Rosenthal, Yvette Diei-Ouadi, Kennedy Bomfeh, Aina Randrianantoandro, FAO-Thiaroye Processing Technique: Towards Adopting Improved Fish Smoking Systems in the Context of Benefits, Trade-offs and Policy Implications in Selected Developing Countries, Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO):
qualifier: chiefly corporate
glosses: A portable self-standing roll-up banner.
Related terms: makimono
melopoeia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɛləˈpiːə/
Forms: form: melopoeiae
form: melopoeias
form: melopœia
form: melopeia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μελοποιΐα (melopoiḯa), from μελοποιός (melopoiós, “song-maker, lyric poet”), from μελο- (melo-, “melo-”) + ποιεῖν (poieîn, “to make”) + -ία (-ía, “-ia”).
Senses: glosses: Art of composing melodies.
coordinate_terms: logopoeia
phanopoeia
glosses: The use of the sound of words as a facet of poetry.
grooving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -uːvɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of groove
grooving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːvɪŋ
Forms: form: groovings
Senses: examples: text: It appears that moraines and groovings, exactly resembling those of the Alpine regions, are found in all those districts.
ref: 1842, Chambers's Edinburgh journal, page 4:
glosses: A groove; a long indentation.
Rhodian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈrəʊdɪən/
ipa: /ˈroʊdi.ən/
rhymes: -əʊdiən
Forms: form: Rhod.
Etymology: From Rhodes + -ian.
Senses: glosses: From, or pertaining to, the Greek island of Rhodes or its people.
Rhodian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈrəʊdɪən/
ipa: /ˈroʊdi.ən/
rhymes: -əʊdiən
Forms: form: Rhodians
form: Rhod.
Etymology: From Rhodes + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Someone from the island of Rhodes
Synonyms: word: Rhodiot
querent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkwɚɛnt/
Forms: form: querents
Etymology: From Latin querens, present participle of queror (“I complain”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A complainant; a plaintiff.
Related terms: quarrel
querela
querent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkwɚɛnt/
Forms: form: querents
Etymology: Old French and Anglo-Norman querant, from Latin quaerens, present participle of quaerō (“I search for, I inquire”) (English query).
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, the querent stood before the Altar, crowned with laurel, while powered laurel leaves were burnt as incense.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 61:
qualifier: obsolete outside divination
glosses: An inquirer.
Related terms: query
quesited
Hanko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Finnish Hanko.
Senses: glosses: A port town and municipality of Uusimaa, on the southern coast of Finland.
Hanko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hankos
Etymology: Both from Polish Hanko and Czech Hanko.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
must needs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: must needs
form: must needs
form: needs must
Senses: examples: text: […]I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: I remember, before the Dwarf left the Queen, he followed us one day into thoſe gardens, and my Nurſe having ſet me down, he and I being cloſe together, near ſome Dwarf Apple trees, I muſt need ſhew my Wit, by a ſilly Alluſion between him and the Trees, which happens to hold in their Language as it doth in ours.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), pages 226–227:
text: To do so would be to descend to the level of these poor peasants who are not content with a mere fiend-dog, but must needs describe him with hell-fire shooting from his mouth and eyes.
ref: 1901, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter X, in The Hound of the Baskervilles:
text: It seemed to him this must needs be a marvel.
ref: 1910, H. G. Wells, The History of Mr. Polly:
glosses: A pleonastic intensification of must using the adverb needs, meaning “must necessarily”.
Related terms: needs must when the devil drives
Lemnian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the island of Lemnos.
Derived terms: Lemnian bole
Lemnian earth
Lemnian reddle
Lemnian ruddle
Lemnian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lemnians
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Lemnos.
Lemnian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct language, related to Etruscan, that was spoken in the Aegean and is attested in a stele found on Lemnos.
sanative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sanative
form: most sanative
Etymology: From Middle English sanatif, sanative, sanatyf, sanatyfe, sanatyve, from Middle French sanatif, from Early Medieval Latin sānātīvus, from Latin sānātus, from sānō, from sānus.
Senses: glosses: That cures or restores; curative or restorative
sanative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanatives
Etymology: From Middle English sanatif, sanative, sanatyf, sanatyfe, sanatyve, from Middle French sanatif, from Early Medieval Latin sānātīvus, from Latin sānātus, from sānō, from sānus.
Senses: glosses: A curative or restorative remedy.
overbook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbooks
form: overbooking
form: overbooked
form: overbooked
Etymology: From over- + book.
Senses: glosses: To sell or guarantee more seats for (an event) than actually exist.
Related terms: underbook
overbooked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbook
overbooked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overbooked
form: most overbooked
Senses: glosses: Having had more seats or tickets sold or guaranteed then were available.
overbooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbook
overbooking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overbookings
Senses: glosses: An instance of selling or guaranteeing more seats than are available.
overbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbook
overbookings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overbooking
fan belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fan belts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fanbelt.
gables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gable
interzine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interzines
Etymology: Blend of Internet + zine
Senses: glosses: An online publication whose onscreen appearance simulates that of a printed magazine.
Related terms: e-zine
netzine
Glenys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A twentieth century coinage from Welsh glân (“clean, holy”) + -ys.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Welsh.
Related terms: Glynis
Glynis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Welsh, variant of Glenys.
Hermione
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: hûrmīʹənĭ
ipa: /həˈmaɪ.ə.nɪ/
ipa: /hɚˈmaɪ.ə.ni/
rhymes: -aɪəni
Forms: form: Hermionë
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek Ἑρμῐόνη (Hermĭónē). Not related to German Hermine.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Daughter of Helen and Menelaus, wife of Orestes.
examples: text: Hermione, queen to the worthy Leontes, King of Sicilia, thou art here accused and arraigned of high treason
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: “Are you sure that’s a real spell?” said the girl. “Well, it’s not very good, is it? I’ve tried a few simple spells just for practise and it’s all worked for me… I’m Hermione Granger, by the way, who are you?”
ref: 1997, J. K. Rowling, “The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-Quarters”, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, pages 105–106:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: An ancient town in Argolis, Greece.
glosses: The asteroid 121 Hermione.
Hollie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Spelling variant of Holly.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from English.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Imogen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɪməd͡ʒɪn/
Forms: form: Imogens
form: Imogene
Etymology: First used by William Shakespeare in Cymbeline, a misprint for Innogen, from Gaelic inghean (“girl, maiden”)
Senses: examples: text: Ile write to my lord ſhe's dead: O Imogen! / Safe mayſt thou wander, ſafe returne agen.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v], page 385, column 1:
text: She would have to change her own name as well, she'd never liked Tracy. Imogen or Isabel, something feminine and romantic. She supposed she didn't look like an Imogen. Imogens were middle-class Home Counties girls with long blonde hair and vaguely Bohemian mothers.
ref: 2010, Kate Atkinson, Started Early, Took My Dog, Doubleday, →ISBN, pages 83–84:
glosses: A female given name from the Celtic languages.
wikipedia: Cymbeline
William Shakespeare
Janine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈniːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: From French Janine and Jeannine under influence from Jane, from Jeanne + -ine, q.v.
Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
Kaye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: Kayes
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English, spelling variant of Kay.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A female given name, variant of Kay.
Derived terms: Kaye effect
Kaylee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪli/
rhymes: -eɪli
Forms: form: Kailey
form: Kayleigh
form: Kaylie
Etymology: Coined toward the end of the 20th century
* A combination of Kay + Lee.
* A variant of the surname Cayley or Keeley.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname.
Related terms: Kelly
Kailey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kaylee.
Kayleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪli/
rhymes: -eɪli
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kaylee.
Keeley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Keeleys
form: Kealey
form: Kealy
form: Keely
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized from Irish Ó Caollaidhe (“descendant of Caollaidhe”), a personal name based on the adjective caol (“slender, graceful”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of recent usage.
hyetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪətəl/
Forms: form: more hyetal
form: most hyetal
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑετός (huetós, “rain”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to rain.
Karin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkærɪn/
/kəˈɹɪn/
Etymology: From Swedish Karin or Danish Karin, a medieval form of Katarina, ultimately from Ancient Greek Αἰκατερῑ́νη (Aikaterī́nē). See also Karen.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Danish [in turn from Ancient Greek Αἰκατερῑ́νη (Aikaterī́nē)], variant of Karen.
Related terms: Carina
Corinne
Karin Tak
Kelli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kelly.
Kerri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kerry.
Kerrie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kerry.
Keira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ciara
form: Kiara
form: Kiera
form: Keara
form: Keaira
Etymology: A modern feminine form of Kieran, from Irish ciar (“black, dark, little dark one”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish.
Kyra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkiːɹə/
/ˈkaɪɹə/
Forms: form: Kira
Etymology: Name of a Greek Orthodox saint, from Byzantine Greek κυρά (kurá, “lady”), or from Cyra, feminine form of Cyrus. The English name may also be a variant of Keira.
Senses: glosses: A female given name of modern usage.
Kirsty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜːsti/
ipa: /ˈkɝstiː/
ipa: /ˈkɪəɹstiː/
Senses: glosses: A female given name, Scottish diminutive of Christine.
Kyla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪlə/
rhymes: -aɪlə
Etymology: Modern invention that can be explained as a feminine form of Kyle.
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
Kylee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant of Kylie.
Krystal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: But when Krystal McConnell and Ashley Flynn were named deep in the heart of the '80s the thing was cuteness, feminine delicacy raised to an aesthetic paradigm. --- Krystal : light refracted through the grooves and crests of fancy cut glass, a fragility tempered with the Eastern European heartiness of an imported K.
ref: 1999, Andrew Pyper, chapter 10, in Lost Girls:
glosses: A female given name from English, a re-spelling of Crystal.
overindulgent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overindulgent
form: most overindulgent
Etymology: From over- + indulgent.
Senses: synonyms: dissipated
glosses: Tending to indulge excessively.
Derived terms: overindulgently
prefixing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prefix
prefixing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of a language, characterised by heavy use of prefixes to create grammatical forms; as opposed to suffixing.
prefixing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prefixings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is prefixed.
Lacey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lacy
form: Laci
form: Lacie
Senses: glosses: A Norman habitational surname from Old French from a place Lassy in Calvados.
examples: text: "Where'd you get a prissy name like Lacey from, anyway?"
"I don't know," Cash tells Alice, keeping his hands on the wheel and his eye trained ahead. "It was Alma thought of it. I think she liked the TV show with the lady cops. Lacey and somebody."
ref: 1993, Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven, →ISBN, page 322:
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly 19th century usage.
examples: text: Lacey Thrush died last night. Isn't that a name? Her mother was a Lacey. They were an old family here, but she was the last of the Laceys, and the Thrushes went on to California.
ref: 2009, Marilynne Robinson, Gilead: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
glosses: A placename
A township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.
glosses: A placename
A city in Thurston County, Washington, United States, formerly named Woodland.
Related terms: De Lacey
Lacey Green
Latoya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Possibly La- + Toya (“a Spanish pet form of Victoria”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of latter 20th-century African-American usage.
apokoinou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek genitive form of ἀπόκοινός (apókoinós), from ἀπό (apó) + κοινός (koinós, “in common”)
Senses: glosses: A blending of two sentences through a common word which has two syntactic functions, one for each of the sentences. The word common to both sentences is often a predicate object in the first and a subject in the second.
Hypernyms: brachylogy
Laverne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: 19th-century invention, possibly from the Californian town La Verne, named in the belief that it means "the green" in French. Laverne is a genuine French surname, from Gaulish la verne "the alder (tree place)" but - as in the case of Leroy - there is no apparent reason to turn it into an American given name.
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname.
Related terms: La Verne
La Vergne
Lavern
Laverna
Iberian Peninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Iberian peninsula
Senses: synonyms: Iberia
glosses: A peninsula located in the extreme southwest of Europe which includes modern day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar, bordered on the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea, and on the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Pyrenees forming the northeast edge of the peninsula, connecting it to the rest of Europe.
Related terms: Iberia
Laverna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A goddess of thieves and impostors.
glosses: A female given name from Latin, probably a latinized version of the earlier and much more popular Laverne.
Leila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪlə/
note: some women, esp. US
ipa: /ˈliːlə/
rhymes: -eɪlə
rhymes: (esp. US) -iːlə
Forms: form: Leilas
form: Leyla
form: Leilah
form: Leylah
form: Laila
form: Layla
form: Lailah
form: Laylah
form: Lela
form: Lelah
Etymology: From Arabic لَيْلَى (laylā). Taken into English usage through nineteenth-century literature.
Senses: examples: text: Oh! who young Leila’s glance could read / And keep that portion of his creed / Which saith, that woman is but dust, / A soulless toy for tyrant's lust?
ref: 1813, Lord Byron, The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale, London: […] T[homas] Davison, […], for John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 12:
text: "Leila!" she said enigmatically. "Have you seen her?" / "I went to her flat last week with Dad—he likes her." / "Delilah is her real name, you know. All men like her. And Captain Fort is her lover."
ref: 1919 October, John Galsworthy, chapter I, in Saint’s Progress, London: William Heinemann, published December 1919, →OCLC, part III, 1 §, page 220:
glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
Related terms: Laila
Layla
Lela
Leylah