cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
heterosporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + sporous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: Producing both male and female gametophytes.
raw_tags: of an organism
commentitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more commentitious
form: most commentitious
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin commentīcius.
Senses: examples: text: In philosophy no place should be given to commentitious fables.
ref: 1845, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe (Section 22, The Pagan Oracles. Internet Archive)
glosses: fictitious, imaginary.
slood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sluːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: sloods
Etymology: Perhaps related to Old Norse slóð, whence English sleuth.
Senses: qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: Wheel track.
costume jewellery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: costume jewelleries
form: costume jewelry
Senses: glosses: Inexpensive jewellery, made of glass and other non-precious materials.
soup up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soups up
form: souping up
form: souped up
form: souped up
form: soup-up
form: supe up
Senses: examples: text: Imagine souping up a Mini with a Cosworth engine: the car would fly.
ref: 2009 October 19, Paul Rees, “Flying backs become walking wounded as blitz defence has its impact”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To modify the engine of (a motor vehicle) to give a higher performance than the specifications.
examples: text: They are dickering over a tax cut small enough, in a bill "souped" up with gadgets, to escape or override a veto.
ref: 1948, Harley L. Lutz, "Taxes and Jobs," Institute of Business and Economic Problems: A Series of Lectures, page 25:
glosses: To embellish with many additions.
Synonyms: tune up
Derived terms: souped-up
monkeyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monkeyish
form: most monkeyish
Etymology: From monkey + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a monkey.
Derived terms: monkeyishly
monkeyishness
English English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: My own tongue is neither American English nor English English, but Irish English; so I am as nearly impartial in the matter as it is in human nature to be.
ref: 1901, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Notes to Captain Brassbound’s Conversion”, in Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil’s Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra, & Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, London: Grant Richards, […], →OCLC, page 305:
synonyms: Anglo-English
hypernyms: British English
glosses: A dialect of the English language that is spoken mostly in England.
rectitudinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rectitudinous
form: most rectitudinous
Etymology: From rectitude + -in- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Our common room, thanks to a morally rectitudinous constitutional change some time previously, was known as the Nelson Mandela Room.
ref: 2008 December 30, Libby Brooks, “Let heroes be unsung”, in The Guardian:
glosses: righteous or correct or upright
roadstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadstones
Etymology: From road + stone.
Senses: glosses: Any type of stone or stone product, such as shingle, flints, crushed stone, etc used as a construction material for building roads.
roadstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadstone
Southern Ireland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The short-lived autonomous region of the United Kingdom established on 3 May 1921 and dissolved on 6 December 1922, superseded by the Irish Free State.
glosses: The Republic of Ireland.
Related terms: Ireland
Ulster
Northern Ireland
Eire
I rest my case
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: All the evidence points toward the defendant's guilt. I rest my case.
topics: law
glosses: My argument is proven; I conclude my statement.
examples: text: The drive will be too long, the seats too few, and the people too many. I rest my case.
antonyms: I stand corrected
glosses: The previous encapsulates my view.
Related terms: rest one's case
case closed
'nuff said
Q.E.D.
Kingdom of Scotland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A kingdom in western Europe, until the foundation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain on the First of May 1707.
Kingdom of England
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of England
Senses: glosses: A kingdom in western Europe, from the early 900s until the foundation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain on 1 May 1707.
theatre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theatres
Etymology: From Middle English theater, theatre, from Old French theatre, from Latin theatrum, from Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from θεάομαι (theáomai, “to see, watch, observe”).
Senses: examples: text: Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: City's players and supporters travelled from one end of the emotional scale to the other in those vital seconds, providing a truly remarkable piece of football theatre and the most dramatic conclusion to a season in Premier League history.
ref: 2012 May 13, Phil McNulty, “Man City 3-2 QPR”, in BBC Sport:
text: But the picture was different elsewhere - Theatre Royal Windsor recorded full houses, although the managing director stated that the actors had trouble getting to and from the theatre.
ref: 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 31:
glosses: Alternative spelling of theater.
glosses: A cinema; movie theatre.
Derived terms: antitheatre
cybertheatre
metatheatre
multitheatre
pretheatre
street theatre
theater-goer
theatre-goer
theatregoer
theatregoing
theatreland
theatreless
theatrelike
theatremaker
theatremaking
theatre organ
theatreperson
theatrescape
theatrette
theatrewide
theatric
theatromania
theatrophile
theatrophobia
snowbase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowbases
Etymology: From snow + base.
Senses: examples: text: The Ski Club of Great Britain is forecasting fluctuating and heavy snowfalls of the kind that could make for an unstable, potentially dangerous snowbase.
ref: 2000 November 21, Oliver Burkeman, Kate Connolly, “When the snow falls”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The snow which is settled on the ground in below-melting-point conditions.
snowbases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowbase
turn to custard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns to custard
form: turning to custard
form: turned to custard
form: turned to custard
Senses: glosses: To go badly awry.
placemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of placeman
baker's dozens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baker's dozen
destigmatise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: destigmatises
form: destigmatising
form: destigmatised
form: destigmatised
Senses: examples: text: Training for railway employees will continue as before, as will work within the wider community to destigmatise suicide and promote help-seeking behaviour.
ref: 2020 July 1, Ruth Sutherland, Neil Peters, “Answering the call”, in Rail, page 47:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of destigmatize.
Related terms: destigmatisation
destigmatises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of destigmatise
destigmatising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of destigmatise
destigmatised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of destigmatise
flatties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatty.
glosses: plural of flattie.
glosses: Flat shoes.
reindustrialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reindustrializes
form: reindustrializing
form: reindustrialized
form: reindustrialized
Etymology: From re- + industrialize.
Senses: examples: text: The government plans to reindustrialize the former mining region.
related: word: reindustrialise
antonyms: deindustrialize
coordinate_terms: industrialize
glosses: To reintroduce industry or industrial techniques to.
Derived terms: reindustrialization
reindustrializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reindustrialize
reindustrializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reindustrialize
reindustrialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reindustrialize
reindustrialise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reindustrialises
form: reindustrialising
form: reindustrialised
form: reindustrialised
Etymology: From re- + industrialise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of reindustrialize.
reindustrialises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reindustrialise
reindustrialising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reindustrialise
reindustrialised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reindustrialise
reindustrialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reindustrializations
Etymology: From re- + industrialization or reindustrialize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: the reindustrialization of a former mining region
text: That would be “quite inflationary, and will get in the way of the reindustrialization of the U.S.” says Mr. Kroeber.
ref: 2024 November 15, Ann Scott Tyson, Laurent Belsie, “Trump prepares for ‘economic warfare’ with China”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
related: word: reindustrialisation
antonyms: deindustrialization
coordinate_terms: preindustrialization
industrialization
postindustrialization
glosses: The reintroduction of industry or industrial techniques.
Related terms: deindustrialized
industrialized
reindustrialized
reindustrialisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + industrialisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of reindustrialization.
Brown Betty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brown Betties
Senses: glosses: A simple American baked pudding made with layers of sweetened and spiced fruit (usually apple) and buttered breadcrumbs.
glosses: A Brown Betty teapot.
Brown Betties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brown Betty
annexer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annexers
Etymology: From annex + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who annexes.
contemplant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contemplant
form: most contemplant
Etymology: From Latin contemplans (“contemplating”), present participle of contemplor (“I contemplate”).
Senses: examples: text: Contemplant Spirits! ye that hover o'er
With untired gaze the immeasurable fount
Ebullient with creative Deity!
ref: 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Religious Musings:
glosses: Given to contemplation; meditative.
contemplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contemplants
Etymology: From Latin contemplans (“contemplating”), present participle of contemplor (“I contemplate”).
Senses: glosses: One who contemplates.
bʼakʼtun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑkˌtun/
ipa: /ˈɓakʼtun/
Forms: form: bʼakʼtuns
form: bʼakʼtunob
form: baktun
Etymology: "[T]he gloss b’ak’tun was invented [by scholars], it is not an indigenous Maya word; the Classic Maya word was probably pik."
Senses: examples: text: We would create the same problem that the Mayas did in omitting the b’ak’tun if we were to drop the number that indicates where a century falls in relation to a fixed point in our own calendar. For example, reference to the "nineties" could refer to the ninth decade of any century past or present.
ref: 1998, Grant D. Jones, The conquest of the last Maya kingdom, page 431:
text: Because this "long count" had a fixed beginning point and identified b'ak'tuns and each of their 20 k'atuns in numerical sequence, scholars can correlate long-count dates with the Gregorian and Julian calendars.
ref: 1998, Grant D. Jones, The conquest of the last Maya kingdom, page 14:
text: “And if you started walking to the sun now, although you couldn't, but let's say you were flying as fast as you can walk, you wouldn't get there for nine hundred times four hundred b'ak'tunob.”
ref: 2009, Brian D'Amato, In the Courts of the Sun:
glosses: In the Maya calendar, a period of 144 000 days (20 k’atun periods): 394.25 solar years.
Synonyms: pik
Meronyms: k'in
kin
winal
winik
tun
k'atun
katun
servitrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of servitrix
gołąbki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Instead of the stock, rye borsch (żur) may be used over the gołąbki.
ref: 1979, Maria Lemnis, Henryk Vitry [double pen name; Tadeusz Żakiej], Old Polish Traditions in the Kitchen and at the Table, Warsaw: Interpress Publishers, →ISBN, page 283:
text: The food is good and inexpensive, and includes daily specials like kiełbasa, pierogi, and gołąbki.
ref: 1979, Paul Wrobel, Our Way: Family, Parish, and Neighborhood in a Polish-American Community, Notre Dame, Ind.; London: University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN, page 48:
text: What would be a typical Polish meal? Around these parts Polish people say it is gołąbki, pierogi and kiełbasa.
ref: 1991, Joseph Alecks, quotee, Polish Digest, page 23, column 3:
text: Two blocks south of the Piccolo, the Cechowa at ul Jagiellońska 4 is a simple, inexpensive restaurant (closed on Sunday) which has a variety of typically Polish dishes including pierogi and gołąbki.
ref: 1993, Krzysztof Dydynski, Poland: A Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, page 201, column 1:
text: The food was a mixture of city chicken, hot dogs, ravioli, and gołąbki (or holubtsi, depending on who was doing the talking).
ref: 1999, Ronald Grigor Suny, Michael D. Kennedy, editors, Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 165:
glosses: Alternative form of golabki.
spinward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈspɪnwɜ(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: more spinward
form: most spinward
Etymology: From spin + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: It was half-daylight; the shadow of the terminator was coming in from spinward like a black curtain.
ref: 1970 October, Larry Niven, Ringworld, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN:
text: Edna's language was peppered with the unfamiliar. You found your way around a spinning space habitat by going spinward or antispinward or axisward ...
ref: 2007, Arthur C. Clarke with Stephen Baxter, Firstborn [A Time Odyssey; 3], New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books; Ballantine Books, →ISBN:
text: spinward adv. in or toward the direction that something (a space station, galaxy, etc.) is rotating. Also as adj.
ref: 2007, Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 215:
text: "[…] You would fall against the anti-spinward wall and slide down along that wall until you hit the floor ..." / "Whoa, whoa, whoa ..." Lars interrupted. "Anti-spinward? What in the world?" / "Moving in the same direction as the Station's direction of spin is considered spinward. Moving in the direction opposite the spin is considered anti-spinward. You sound like a boy asking what one does with his hands when the rollercoaster car leaves the track."
ref: 2015, Steven Burgauer, Skullcap, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: In a rotating reference frame, along the direction of spin.
insultive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insultive
form: most insultive
Etymology: From insult + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The inſultive Epigram, which I make no Doubt ſhe has ſeen, concludes with a cutting Inſinuation, that the Man who touched her, bid fair to loſe his Manhood. To an ordinary Female this was unpardonable — What muſt be it to a lady of the higheſt Pride and Jealouſy?
ref: 1795, Thomas Blackwell, J. U. D., Memoirs of the Court of Augustus, volume IV, page 154:
text: Perhaps it was the too-tooing of the youth on the coach horn which frustrated the proposal, and made it appear ludicrous rather than insultive to her ears.
ref: 1895, Frank Frankfort Moore, chapter VI, in One Fair Daughter, volume 1, pages 234–235:
text: Mr. Olive: Normally I would, but he wasn't insultive or abusive. He just drove right up- he said, "Please clean the beach up when you get through and took right off."
ref: 1987 November 13, “Testimony of December 4, 1972 Before the Water Island Commission”, in Secretary of the Interior's Report on Water Island, published 1991, Serial No. 100-84, page 231 (17):
glosses: Insulting.
Synonyms: insultative
kutia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kutya
Etymology: From Russian кутья (kutʹja) and Ukrainian кутя (kutja).
Senses: examples: text: He reached for a handful of kutia, the luscious sweet of boiled wheat, poppy seeds and honey.
ref: 2003, Laura Langston, chapter 16, in Lesia’s Dream, Toronto, Ont.: HarperTrophyCanada, published 2005, →ISBN, page 189:
text: Katya prepared a large batch of kutia, the ancient porridge of wheat and honey, to be served at the meal in the cultural center following the burial.
ref: 2010, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, chapter 13, in The Silence of Trees: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Wolfsword Press, →ISBN, page 221:
text: Hefty bowls of kutia were passed around each table to start the traditional supper.
ref: 2014 February 27 – March 12, Lidia M. Wasylyn, “Shchedry Vechir celebration a joyous success”, in Marco Levytsky, editor, Ukrainian News, volume LXXXVII, number 5, Edmonton, Alta.: Edmonton Lasergraphics, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 3:
text: Knowing what a foodie Mary was, I inquired about the Russian food. The waitress explained in detail about some of these items, like galushki, grenki, and something called kutia with rice and raisins.
ref: 2015, Frank G Schafer, “The Garden of Eden”, in Sammy: Gaia Lives, →ISBN, page 221:
glosses: A ceremonial grain dish with sweet gravy traditionally served mostly by Eastern Orthodox Christians and some Catholic Christians during the Christmas – Feast of Jordan holiday season or as part of a funeral feast.
italo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Italo-.
makowiec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makowce
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish makowiec.
Senses: examples: text: MAKOWIEC. (Poppy-seed. roll).
ref: 1957, Sula Benet, Festive recipes and festival menus, page 147:
text: If you have a cookie spatula, slide it under the makowiec and transfer it to the baking pan.
ref: 2007, Greg Patent, A Baker's Odyssey, page 219:
text: She was trained by the nuns to be their cook and therefore she learned to make very beautiful and sumptuous gourmet dishes, including croissants and delicious fancy desserts. Her makowiec was the best I have ever tasted.
ref: 2011, Frank Cebulski, Lonely Nights and Wild Women: Concrete Visual Shaped Poems, page 54:
glosses: a Polish cake (flat or rolled) layered with poppy seed-based paste
Italo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: During the late 1980s Italo began fading away and some groups moved into the Hi-NRG genre, which combined high-paced Italo and house.
ref: 2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Dance Music:
synonyms: Italo dance
glosses: Ellipsis of Italo disco.
packshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packshots
form: pack shot
Etymology: From pack + shot.
Senses: topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: A still or moving close-up of a (usually packaged) product, used to portray the product in advertising.
nut roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nut rolls
Senses: glosses: A pastry of yeast bread with one or more fillings, found in the United States and in Central European cuisines.
Related terms: Swiss roll
nut rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nut roll
mizeria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish mizeria (“squalor”), due to the salad's low-class origin. Doublet of misère and misery.
Senses: glosses: A Polish cucumber salad with sour cream.
ichthyol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichthyols
Etymology: Ancient Greek ἰχθύς (ikhthús, “fish”) + -ol, since it is an oily mixture prepared by dry distillation of a bituminous mineral containing fossil fishes.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The ammonium salt of sulfonated bitumen; used to treat some forms of skin diseases
absofreakinlutely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: That is absofreakinlutely the best Frellin Frackin' gimmick I've seen.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of absofreakinglutely.
absofreakinlutely
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of absofreakinglutely
Synonyms: absofuckinglutely
kabanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish kabanos.
Senses: synonyms: cabanossi
kabana
glosses: A spicy smoked salami sausage, typically made from pork and beef.
pack journalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæk ˈdʒəːn(ə)lɪz(ə)m/
ipa: /ˈpæk ˈdʒɝnl̩ˌɪzəm/
Etymology: Coined by the American journalist and writer Timothy Crouse (born 1947) in his book The Boys on the Bus (1973) about the activities of journalists during the 1972 United States presidential election: see the quotation.
Senses: examples: text: The press likes to demonstrate its power by destroying lightweights, and pack journalism is never more doughty and complacent than when the pack has tacitly agreed that a candidate is a joke. As soon as a candidate shows his vulnerability by getting flustered, or by arguing when he shouldn't argue, the pack is delighted to treat him as the class clown.
ref: 1973, Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003, →ISBN:
text: Problems of pack journalism [heading] […] I think the herd instinct expression is one that I would use, too. I frankly try deliberately to find out which way the herd is going and run the other way.
ref: 1973 May 23, “The Role of the News Media: An Interview with Howard K[ingsbury] Smith and Peter Lisagor [transcript]”, in United States of America Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 93d Congress, First Session, volume 119, part 13, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 16818, columns 2–3:
text: The composition of the Year of the Woman discourse and its trajectory during this thirteen-month "year" revealed nuance in the construction of women candidates as political subjects but also demonstrated the pack journalism practices that abounded during this time. The differences between local and national television and print news coverage were few and consisted specifically of patterns of gendered signifiers and discourse found within news coverage of Boxer, Braun, Feinstein, Murray, and Yeakel.
ref: 2002, Mary Douglas Vavrus, “Postfeminist Identities, Neoliberal Ideology, and Women of the Year”, in Postfeminist News: Political Women in Media Culture (SUNY Series in Communication Studies), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, pages 84–85:
text: If talented business journalists care at all about the long-term portability of their skills in a shrinking media world, succumbing to pack journalism in the crowded general news category is no way out. It makes senior, expensive reporters expendable. That was not the direction I wanted my career to be heading.
ref: 2013, Ann Davis Vaughan, “The Gestation Period of a Llama (or Why I Quit the Wall Street Journal)”, in J. J. Hornblass, Michele Turk, Tom Vogel, editors, Ink Stained: Essays by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Class of 1992, [s.l.]: Ink Stains Press, →ISBN, page 31:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A tendency of reporting to become homogeneous due to the reporters' habit of relying on one another for news tips, or being dependent on a single source for information.
wikipedia: Fred Thompson
Republican Party
The Boys on the Bus
Timothy Crouse
Hypernyms: journalism
Derived terms: pack journalist
tupan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A governor in China.
Derived terms: tupanship
tupan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tupans
form: tapan
Senses: synonyms: davul
glosses: A large double-headed drum, played with mallets.
buran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of borani.
aillt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪlt/
rhymes: -aɪlt
Forms: form: aillts
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh aillt.
Senses: examples: text: […] but the laws and the Extents make us acquainted with another class, somewhat akin to the manorial serf of England, the aillt class.
ref: 1924, Bromfield and Yale, Wales (Lordship), The first extent of Bromfield and Yale, A, Part 1315, page 19
glosses: A member of a semi-servile class among the Cymry.
aillts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪlts/
rhymes: -aɪlts
Senses: glosses: plural of aillt
bugans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bugan
clogwyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklɒɡˌwiːn/
/ˈklɔɡˌwɪn/
Forms: form: clogwyns
Etymology: From Welsh clogwyn, clog.
Senses: glosses: cliff, precipice
clogwyns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clogwyn
labors of love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labor of love
mahala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahalas
Senses: glosses: A neighborhood or residential area in Balkan countries.
takken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of tak
turkle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜːkəl/
ipa: /ˈtɝkəl/
Forms: form: turkles
Senses: examples: text: I knew my father's nature so well, that I was certain his anger would hang on to him like a turkle does to a fisherman's toe [...].
ref: 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 33:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of turtle.
turkles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turkle
westwardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛstwədli/
Forms: form: more westwardly
form: most westwardly
Etymology: From westward + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Blowing from the west (of wind).
glosses: Situated in or moving towards the west.
westwardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛstwədli/
Forms: form: more westwardly
form: most westwardly
Etymology: From westward + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was going westwardly, and very kindly enquired of me where I was travelling?
ref: 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 38:
glosses: In a westward direction.
a little of the creature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a leetle of the creater
form: a little of the critter
Senses: examples: text: So I took ‘a leetle of the creater’ – that warmer of the cold, and cooler of the hot, – and it made me feel so good that I concluded it was like the negro's rabbit, ‘good any way.’
ref: 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 42:
text: Nothing; only it is poor sport to go on a dub without a little of the critter.
ref: 1853, Anna Maria Collins, Mrs. Ben Darby, page 23:
text: And when he met her, he told her what he came about, and said that he never would mind what the women prayed for, but it was greatly against his health to be obliged to drink his wine and whiskey raw, and he'd a longing desire for a little of the creature neatly mixed up with lemon and sugar, and water [...].
ref: 1836, “Legends of Blarney Castle”, in The Knickerbocker, volume VIII:
synonyms: nip
glosses: A small drink of alcoholic spirits.
agliata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sauce made of garlic, vinegar and breadcrumbs.
pize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizes
Etymology: Unknown; perhaps a variant of pest, pox.
Senses: examples: text: Pize on 'em, they never think beforehand of any thing;—and if they commit Matrimony, 'tis as they commit Murder; out of a Frolick: And are ready to hang themſelves, or to be hang'd by the Law, the next Morning.— […]
ref: 1695, [William] Congreve, Love for Love: A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act V, scene ii, page 77:
text: Ah! a pize upon it! Dick, after all, was the man.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, “He is Visited by Pallet; Contracts an Intimacy with a New Market Nobleman; and is by the Knowing Ones Taken in”, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 338, column 1:
text: Dame, what makes your ducks to die? / What the pize ails 'em? What the pize ails 'em?
ref: 1818, James Ford, editor, The Suffolk Garland: Or, A Collection of Poems, Songs, Tales, Ballads:
glosses: Used in various imprecatory expressions: a pest, a pox.
pize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pizes
form: pizing
form: pized
form: pized
Senses: glosses: To strike or hit (a person).
stannyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stannynes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of organic compounds containing a carbon to tin triple bond R₁-C≡Sn-R₂
Derived terms: distannyne
distannyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distannynes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of organic compounds containing a tin to tin triple bond R₁-Sn≡Sn-R₂
Derived terms: stannyne
labio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: labial
come on to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes on to
form: coming on to
form: came on to
form: come on to
Senses: examples: text: He was really coming on to me at the party.
text: Sometimes I go to bed alone, horny and frustrated, angry at myself for not being more assertive and coming on to a new man who excited me.
ref: 1980 August 9, John D'Emilio, “There's No Place Like Home”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
synonyms: hit on
make a pass
glosses: To make a romantic or sexual advance to.
glosses: To harass (someone).
examples: text: It came on to snow after dusk.
text: She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:
glosses: To start to.
Derived terms: word: come-on
Related terms: word: come on
leuco-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latinized form of Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”).
Senses: glosses: Latinized Alternative spelling of leuko- (“white; colourless; leucocyte”).
shrieve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: shrieves
Etymology: See sheriff.
Senses: examples: text: Please it your Majesty, here is the shrieve of Northamptonshire, with certain persons that of late committed a riot, and have appealed to your Majesty beseeching your Highness for special cause to hear them.
ref: 1591, unknown author, The Troublesome Reign of King John:
text: I know him: he was a botcher's 'prentice in Paris, from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve's fool with child: a dumb innocent that could not say him nay.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Obsolete form of sheriff.
Related terms: shrieval
shrievalty
shrieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: shrieves
form: shrieving
form: shrieved
form: shrieved
form: shriven
Etymology: See shrive.
Senses: examples: text: […]he ordered [father Jerome] to be called and shrieve the prisoner.
ref: 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto:
text: He'll shrieve my soul, he'll wash away
The Albatross's blood.
ref: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere:
text: The jealous churl hath deeply swore,
 That, if again he venture o’er,
 He shall shrieve penitent no more.
ref: 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto First. The Castle.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza XXII, page 44:
glosses: Obsolete form of shrive.
examples: text: But afterwards she gan him soft to shrieve,
And wooe with fair intreatie, to disclose
Which of the nymphes his heart so sore did mieve:
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “The Faerie Queene”, in Henry John Todd, editor, The Works of Edmund Spenser, published 1869, page 243:
glosses: To question.
Siret
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Siret.
Senses: glosses: A river in Ukraine and Romania; a tributary of the Danube.
on the tap
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Begging, making requests for loans.
Related terms: tapped out
tapped out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tap out
tapped out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tapped out
form: most tapped out
Senses: glosses: Having no money, broke, penniless.
Synonyms: skint
Related terms: on the tap
Kadri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kadris
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic قادري. This surname is predominantly found in Algeria.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Kajar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qajar.
Kajar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kajars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qajar.
Andres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Andreses
Etymology: Patronymic surname, borrowed from Spanish Andrés.
Senses: examples: text: Every year in California thousands of parents choose names such as José, Andrés and Sofía for their children, often honoring the memory of a deceased grandmother, aunt or sibling. On the state-issued birth certificates, though, those names will be spelled incorrectly.
ref: 2015 April 11, Tovin Lapan, “California birth certificates and accents: O’Connor alright, Ramón and José is not”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2025:
glosses: A male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Andrew.
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Derived terms: Andres Bonifacio
Andres Ilagan
San Andres
Andrus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Andruses
Etymology: Variant of Andrews.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ando
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Andos
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 安藤 (Andō).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
glosses: A barangay of Borongan, Eastern Samar, Philippines.
ha'pence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈheɪp(ə)ns/
Senses: examples: text: "Give us hold of the three ha'pence. Cut away with you, and if you are gone as long as a minute, see what you'll catch." "Give him the three-ha'pence and cut away !"
ref: 1866, James Greenwood, The true history of a little ragamuffin, page 68:
text: Now Maple were Sam's Monopoly;
That means it were all 'is to cut,
And nobody else 'adn't got none;
So 'e asked Noah three ha'pence a foot.
ref: c. 1930, Marriott Edgar, Three Ha'pence A Foot:
text: That's why chaps like me, who take their work seriously, get more kicks than ha'pence. Ninety per cent of the men who outrank me got where they did by a word in the right ear at the right time...Give Us This Day, published by Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN
ref: 1975, R. F. Delderfield., Give Us This Day:
text: 2010 July 22, George Monbiot, The Guardian, George Monbiot's Blog,How scrapping the SDC to save money will cost the taxpayer a fortune
Junking it is the definitive false economy: spoiling the ship for a ha' pence of tar.
glosses: plural of ha'penny
Derived terms: more kicks than ha'pence
drink in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drinks in
form: drinking in
form: drank in
form: drunk in
Senses: examples: text: The dry land drank in the rain.
glosses: To absorb (liquid).
examples: text: They listened to him in rapt silence, drinking in his every word.
text: I like to walk in the hills and drink in the wonderful views.
text: 1981-1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I drink in his relaxed body. I love him so much.
text: The detectives may trudge sombrely from one improbable homicide scene to another, week in, week out, as the blue lights circle bleakly, but we, the viewers, sink gleefully into our sofas ready to drink it in like cocoa.
ref: 2015 June 16, David Stubbs, “Watching the detectives: why the police procedural is more popular than ever”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To absorb; to be completely attentive to.
drink to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drinks to
form: drinking to
form: drank to
form: drunk to
Senses: examples: text: Let's drink to a successful outcome.
glosses: To raise one's glass as a toast to (someone or something).
examples: text: He drank to the point of drunkenness.
text: They drank to forget.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drink, to.
Derived terms: I'll drink to that
shilling shocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shilling shockers
Etymology: From the price of one shilling, and the shocking content.
Senses: glosses: A cheap paperback book produced for the mass market in 19th-century Britain, often consolidating twelve to fifteen episodes of a serial novel whose chapters had previously been published separately as penny dreadful pamphlets, and typically focused on crime and violence.
Related terms: penny dreadful
shilling shockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shilling shocker
penny dreadfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penny dreadful
rescope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rescopes
form: rescoping
form: rescoped
form: rescoped
Etymology: From re- + scope.
Senses: examples: text: The project was rescoped in order to meet the deadline.
glosses: To change the scope of.
rescopes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rescope
rescoping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rescope
rescoping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rescopings
Senses: glosses: The changing of the scope of a project etc.
rescoped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rescope
cymrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkəmˌɹaɪt/
/ˈkɪmˌɹaɪt/
/ˈsɪmˌɹaɪt/
Forms: form: cymrites
Etymology: From Welsh Cymru (“Wales”) + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A mineral, belonging to the zeolite family, that consists of a basic aluminosilicate of barium.
dystopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dystopically
form: most dystopically
Etymology: From dystopic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a dystopic manner.
costamere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒ.stə.mɪə/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.stə.mɪɹ/
Forms: form: costameres
Etymology: From Latin costa (“side, wall”) + -mere (“part, segment”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A structural-functional component of striated muscle cells which connects the sarcomere of the muscle to the sarcolemma.
Derived terms: costameric
costamerogenesis
costameres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of costamere
countertrades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countertrade
countertrades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of countertrade
bearded dragons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bearded dragon
bearded dragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearded dragons
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Pogona of lizards.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Pogona henrylawsoni
word: black-soil bearded dragon
taxonomic: Pogona vitticeps
word: central beared dragon
taxonomic: Pogona microlepidota
word: Drysdale River bearded dragon
taxonomic: Pogona henrylawsoni
word: dwarf bearded dragon
taxonomic: Pogona barbata
word: eastern beaded dragon
taxonomic: Pogona vitticeps
word: inland beared dragon
taxonomic: Pogona microlepidota
word: Kimberley bearded dragon
taxonomic: Pogona nullarbor
word: Nullarbor bearded dragon
taxonomic: Pogona minor
word: western bearded dragon
logoplegia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From logo- + -plegia.
Senses: glosses: inability to speak because of paralysis of the speech organs
cynganeddion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəŋəˈnɛðjən/
Senses: glosses: plural of cynghanedd
huers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huer
make a break for it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a break for it
form: making a break for it
form: made a break for it
form: made a break for it
Senses: examples: text: "By Gar! it was as well that he made a break for it before the note reached us! I guess he won't show his face in this valley again."
ref: 1915, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 3, in The Valley of Fear:
text: To restrain runaways who are too fragile to survive on the outside, Administrator Edward Farmilant of Chicago's Somerset nursing home gave the front door guard pictures of 36 patients who might make a break for it.
ref: 2006 July 12, “Behavior: The New Runaways: Old Folks”, in Time:
glosses: To attempt to escape; to flee; to run away.
Synonyms: sense: to attempt to escape
word: make a run for it
warranter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warranters
Etymology: From warrant + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who warrants, gives authority, or legally empowers.
glosses: One who gives a warranty or guarantee.
cywydd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌwɪð/
Forms: form: cywyddau
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A Welsh verse form consisting of rhyming couplets written in cynghanedd.
cywyddau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈwʌðaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of cywydd
englyns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of englyn
englynion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛŋˈlɪnjən/
Senses: glosses: plural of englyn
galanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡaˈlanas/
Forms: form: galanases
Etymology: From Welsh galanas (“murder; weregild”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: the blood money or weregild paid by a murderer to the family of his victim under early Welsh law
Related terms: spear penny
galanases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galanas
counter check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter checks
Senses: glosses: A check (draft) that is printed ex tempore, as for an accountholder who has no printed checks available to him.
counter checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counter check
traveler's check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: travelers' checks
form: traveller's cheque
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A check (draft), requiring a specimen signature and a countersignature; this is usually prepaid and drawn against the bank's own funds, rather than drawn against the signatory's account.
travelers' checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traveler's check
cashier's check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cashier's checks
form: cashiers' checks
form: cashier's cheque
Senses: topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: A check guaranteed by a bank, drawn on the bank's own funds and signed by a cashier.
Synonyms: word: banker's draft
word: banker's draught
cashier's checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cashier's check
cashiers' checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cashier's check
skillings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skilling
byens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of byen
North Frisian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Frisian language, or group of dialects, spoken by 5,000 to 10,000 people in northwestern Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Meronyms: english: the largest dialect
translation: the largest dialect
word: Föhr-Amrum Frisian
word: Mooring Frisian (2nd-largest dialect, spoken around Niebüll)
word: Sylt Frisian (3rd-largest dialect)
word: Heligolandic
word: Hallig Frisian
word: Goesharde Frisian
english: smaller, mostly moribund dialects
translation: smaller, mostly moribund dialects
word: Karrharde Frisian
North Frisian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: North Frisians
Senses: glosses: A person belonging to or descended from the people.
North Frisian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the North Frisians.
Related terms: word: Wiktionary’s coverage of North Frisian terms
word: North Frisian Swadesh list
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/frr
word: frr
RHA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of rolled homogeneous armo(u)r.
Derived terms: RHAe
RHA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Royal Horse Artillery, four units of the British Army.
RHAe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of rolled homogeneous armo(u)r equivalency.
Related terms: RHA
witte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wittes
Senses: glosses: spelling of wit
witte
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: spelling of wit
seigneurialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seigneurial + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, peasants had to operate within a social and juridical system – seigneurialism, or féodalité (‘feudalism’) in contemporary parlance – which also inhibited innovation.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 153:
glosses: Manorialism; feudalism.
off-campus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Situated off the campus of the educational institution in question.
raw_tags: of facilities and activities
glosses: Residing off the campus of the educational institution in question.
raw_tags: of students
off-campus
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Engaging in an activity by a faculty member or a student of an educational institution off the campus.
on-campus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Situated on the campus of the educational institution in question.
raw_tags: of facilities and activities
glosses: Residing on the campus of the educational institution in question.
raw_tags: of students