cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
man
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæn/
ipa: /mæn/
ipa: [mɛən]
ipa: [meən]
ipa: [mẽə̃n]
ipa: [mɑn]
ipa: [mɛn]
ipa: /mæːn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: mang
form: mane
form: mans
form: mon
form: mxn
form: mans
form: mens
form: mandem
form: mens
form: mxn
form: myn
Etymology: From Middle English man, from Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”), from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann- m, from Proto-Indo-European *mon- (“human being, man”). Doublet of Manu.
See also Saterland Frisian Mon, West Frisian man, Dutch man, Low German Mann, German Mann, Swedish man, Norwegian Nynorsk mann, Danish mand.
Senses: examples: text: Man's got some new creps.
text: [Sully:] If it weren’t for that snake […] Man wouldn’t even be in this mess right now.
ref: 2011, Top Boy:
text: before I got arrested man paid for my own ticket to go Jamaica you know . but I’ve never paid to go on no holiday before this time I paid (Dexter, MLE)
ref: 2013, Jenny Cheshire, “Grammaticalisation in social context: The emergence of a new English pronoun”, in Journal of Sociolinguistics, volume 17, number 5, page 609:
text: The girl told me, "take off your jacket" / I said, "Babe, man's not hot" (never hot)
ref: 2017 September 22, “Man's Not Hot”performed by Big Shaq [Michael Dapaah]:
text: Blood I swear she just gave man extra chicken? Two fat pieces of chicken.
ref: 2017, Joseph Barnes Phillips, Big Foot ...and Tiny Little Heartstrings:
glosses: Used to refer to oneself or one's group: I, we; construed in the third person.
examples: text: Man thinks I was born yesterday.
text: Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.
ref: 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda):
glosses: You; construed in the third person.
examples: text: Man don't care.
text: He was of all colours Þat man may se of flours Be-twene Mydsomer and May.
ref: c. 1450, Thomas Chestre, Libeaus Desconus:
text: I don’t really mind how . how my girl looks if she looks decent yeah and there’s one bit of her face that just looks mashed yeah . I don’t care it’s her personality man’s looking at (Alex, MLE corpus [MLE])
ref: 2013, Jenny Cheshire, “Grammaticalisation in social context: The emergence of a new English pronoun”, in Journal of Sociolinguistics, volume 17, number 5, page 609:
glosses: Any person, one
Derived terms: manna
man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæn/
ipa: /mæn/
ipa: [mɛən]
ipa: [meən]
ipa: [mẽə̃n]
ipa: [mɑn]
ipa: [mɛn]
ipa: /mæːn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: mans
form: manning
form: manned
form: manned
Etymology: From Middle English mannen, from Old English mannian, ġemannian (“to man, supply with men, populate, garrison”), from mann (“human being, man”).
Cognates
* Dutch bemannen (“to man”)
* German bemannen (“to man”)
* Danish bemande (“to man”)
* Swedish bemanna (“to man”)
* Icelandic manna (“to supply with men, to man”)
Senses: examples: text: The ship was manned with a small crew.
text: In Britain, nearly 2,500 steam locomotives were built, 999 to new designs. Although the latter were modern, they were still labour-intensive to man and maintain, during a period of full employment when working for poor pay in the dirty railway environment was unattractive.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 39:
glosses: To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).
examples: text: Man the machine guns!
text: ‘Avast!’ roared Ahab, dashing him against the bulwarks — ‘Man the boat! Which way heading?’
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
glosses: To take up position in order to operate (something).
examples: text: “To stay open, the senior enlisted leader of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Forward said he needed people to cover security,” Duncan wrote. “Personnel Recovery Task Force (PRTF) Pilots, maintainers and support personnel donned their vests, helmets and M-4 rifles and manned defensive fighting positions.”
ref: 2021 October 14, Oren Liebermann, “CENTCOM disputes Air Force account of attempted hijacking at Kabul airport during Afghanistan evacuation”, in CNN:
text: he manned himself heroically
ref: 1876, Julian Hawthorne, Saxon Studies:
glosses: To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.)
glosses: To wait on, attend to or escort.
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.
Derived terms: beman
overman
man
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæn/
ipa: /mæn/
ipa: [mɛən]
ipa: [meən]
ipa: [mẽə̃n]
ipa: [mɑn]
ipa: [mɛn]
ipa: /mæːn/
rhymes: -æn
Etymology: Clipping of manual.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A command used to display help pages in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
Derived terms: man page
manpage
vivify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪvɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: vivifies
form: vivifying
form: vivified
form: vivified
Etymology: Late Latin vivificō via Old French vivifier.
Senses: examples: text: She seemed molded from fire and air, and vivified at some Voltaic pile of August thunder-clouds heaped against the sunset.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
text: [T]he sculptor lifted it [a round block of stone], turned it hither and thither in his hands, brushed off the clinging soil, and finally placed it on the slender neck of the newly discovered statue. The effect was magical. It immediately lighted up and vivified the whole figure, endowing it with personality, soul, and intelligence.
ref: 1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “A Walk on the Campagna”, in The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni. […], volume II, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 237:
glosses: To bring to life; to enliven.
glosses: To impart vitality to.
Derived terms: autovivify
monotheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɑnoʊ̯ˈθiɪzm̩/
Forms: form: monotheisms
form: mono-theism
Etymology: A learned 17th-century coinage, mono- + theism, from (μονός (monós, “one”)) and (θεός (theós, “god, deity”) + -ισμός (-ismós)) The term parallels the earlier polytheism, atheism (the simplex theism being slightly later).
The term was coined by Henry More, ca. 1660, in explicit juxtaposition with both atheism and polytheism. It was redefined through etymological fallacy by Daniel Webster ca. 1828.
Senses: glosses: Belief in the One True God, defined by More as personal, immaterial and trinitarian.
glosses: The belief in a single deity (one god or goddess); especially within an organized religion.
glosses: The belief that God is one person (Judaism, Unitarian Christianity, Islam), not three persons (Trinitarian Christianity, Hinduism)
Derived terms: alethomonotheism
Aletho-monotheism
aletho-monotheism
Alethomonotheism
Postmonotheism
postmonotheism
post-monotheism
Post-monotheism
Premonotheism
premonotheism
Pre-monotheism
pre-monotheism
proto-monotheism
Protomonotheism
Proto-monotheism
protomonotheism
pseudo-monotheism
Pseudomonotheism
pseudomonotheism
Pseudo-monotheism
Related terms: binitarianism
Binitarianism
bitheism
Bitheism
deism
Deism
ditheism
Ditheism
duotheism
Duotheism
henotheism
Henotheism
polytheism
Polytheism
Quadrinitarianism
quadrinitarianism
septarianism
Septarianism
septenarianism
Septenarianism
theism
Theism
Trinitarianism
trinitarianism
tritheism
Tritheism
Triunitarianism
triunitarianism
unitarianism
Unitarianism
resile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzaɪl/
ipa: /ɹəˈzaɪl/
ipa: /ɹiˈzaɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: resiles
form: resiling
form: resiled
form: resiled
Etymology: From Middle French resiler (compare French résilier), from Latin resiliō (“spring back”), from re- (“back”) + saliō (“I jump”).
Senses: examples: text: I once described this rather vulgarly as a Euro-wanking make-work project and I do not resile from that.
text: If a legitimate expectation is established, it must be unfair for the public authority to resile from giving effect to that expectation, unless the wider interests of the public require that the public authority resiles in order properly to protect those wider interests.
ref: 2007, David Pollard et al., Constitutional and Administrative Law: Text with Materials, →ISBN, page 594:
glosses: To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
glosses: To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.
Related terms: resiliency
resilient
resilience
result
be
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /biː/
ipa: [biː]
ipa: [bi(ː)]
ipa: [bɪj]
ipa: /bi/
ipa: /bɪ/
homophone: b
homophone: bee
homophone: Bea
rhymes: -iː
ipa: /bi/
ipa: /bə/
ipa: /bɪ/
other: /bɛ/
ipa: /biː/
ipa: [biː]
ipa: [bi(ː)]
ipa: [bɪj]
ipa: /bi/
ipa: /bɪ/
homophone: b
homophone: bee
homophone: Bea
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: A variant of by which goes back to Middle English be (variant of Middle English bi).
Senses: examples: text: O ful tru un pertikler akeawnt o... th' greyt Eggshibishun. Be o felley fro Rachde.
ref: 1851, Oliver Ormerod, Felley fro Rachde:
text: Go thy way vorth be tha vootsteps uv tha vlock.
ref: 1860, Henry Baird, The Song of Solomon in the Devonshire Dialect, i 8:
text: Aw teuk me seat be day an' neet.
ref: 1870, Joseph Philip Robson, Evangeline: The Spirit of Progress, section 332:
text: Fetchin' it yan... be a round about rooad.
ref: 1870, Roger Piketah, Forness Folk, section 44:
text: Like a leeaf be firm decree / Mun fade an' fall.
ref: 1878, John Castillo, Poems in the North Yorkshire Dialect, section 35:
text: ‘I'll meet you agin to-morra,’ says he, ‘be the chapel-door.’
ref: 1885, Alfred Lord Tennyson, To-morrow:
glosses: Alternative form of by. Also found in compounds, especially oaths, e.g. begorra.
be
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biː/
ipa: [biː]
ipa: [bi(ː)]
ipa: [bɪj]
ipa: /bi/
ipa: /bɪ/
homophone: b
homophone: bee
homophone: Bea
rhymes: -iː
ipa: /bi/
ipa: /bə/
ipa: /bɪ/
other: /bɛ/
ipa: /beɪ/
ipa: /biː/
ipa: [biː]
ipa: [bi(ː)]
ipa: [bɪj]
ipa: /bi/
ipa: /bɪ/
homophone: b
homophone: bee
homophone: Bea
rhymes: -iː
ipa: /bi/
ipa: /bə/
ipa: /bɪ/
other: /bɛ/
Forms: form: bes
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian бэ (bɛ).
Senses: glosses: The name of the Cyrillic script letter Б / б
is
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪz/
ipa: /ɘz/
ipa: /ɪz/
note: affricated
ipa: /ɪdʒ/
ipa: /ɪs/
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: ees
form: 's
form: iz
Etymology: From Middle English is, from Old English is, from Proto-West Germanic *ist, from Proto-Germanic *isti (a form of Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti (“is”).
Cognate with West Frisian is (“is”), Dutch is (“is”), German ist (“is”), Yiddish איז (iz, “is”), Afrikaans is (“am, are, is”) Old Swedish är, er, Old Norse er, es.
Further cognates include, among others, Latin est, Ancient Greek ἐστί (estí), Sanskrit अस्ति (asti), Persian است (ast), Russian есть (jestʹ), all with the same meaning.
Senses: examples: text: He is a doctor.
text: "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."
ref: 1999 January 8, Ken Starr, quoting Bill Clinton, Referral from Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr in Conformity with the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code, Section 595(c) (Starr Report), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, retrieved 14 Feb 2020, page 176:
text: "It's not two weeks yet," I reminded her, hoping that might somehow cheer her. […] "Tomorrow is two weeks," Ruth said in a distant voice, staring into the flames.
ref: 2012, Robert Moore, Where the Gold is Buried, a legend of Old Fort Niagara, →ISBN, page 137:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of be
examples: text: There is three of them there.
text: Ber. There is five in the firſt ſhew, / Ken. You are deceiued, tis not so.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 141, column 2:
glosses: Used in phrases with existential there (also here and where) when the semantic subject is plural.
examples: text: Let the whole world know we's on some off-key tip
ref: 2001, “Witness (1 Hope)”, in Run Come save me, performed by Roots Manuva:
text: "Them niggas shot my girl, yo! And I ain't gonna sleep until all of them niggas is dead!" RJ hissed.
ref: 2012, Trae Macklin, Flippin' The Hustle:
text: "Y'all is some disorganized niggahs," Mama Byrd said.
ref: 2013, Tu-Shonda Whitaker, The Ex Factor, page 270:
text: Who the fuck do you think I is? / You ain't married to no average bitch, boy
ref: 2016, “Don't Hurt Yourself”, in Lemonade, performed by Beyoncé:
text: Nigga, yeah, you's a bitch
ref: 2022, “Plan B”, performed by Megan Thee Stallion:
text: Like Jazzie, Stacie, Nicki / All of the Barbies is pretty / All of the Barbies is bad
ref: 2023, “Barbie World”, in Barbie: The Album, performed by Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice:
glosses: present indicative of be; am, are, is.
Synonyms: word: beeth
word: bes
Derived terms: as-is
is-a
isness
isn't
iswas
tiswas
Related terms: sense: See also
word: am
sense: See also
word: are
sense: See also
word: art
sense: See also
word: be
sense: See also
word: been
sense: See also
word: beest
sense: See also
word: being
sense: See also
word: was
sense: See also
word: wast
sense: See also
word: were
sense: See also
word: wert
is
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪz/
ipa: /ɘz/
ipa: /ɪz/
note: affricated
ipa: /ɪdʒ/
ipa: /ɪs/
rhymes: -ɪz
Etymology: Alternative pronunciation of us.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of us (“me”).
is
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪz/
ipa: /ɘz/
ipa: /ɪz/
note: affricated
ipa: /ɪdʒ/
ipa: /ɪs/
rhymes: -ɪz
Etymology: From i + -s.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of i's.
are
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: är
ipa: /ɑː(ɹ)/
enpr: ar
ipa: /ɑɹ/
enpr: är
ipa: /ɐː/
enpr: är
ipa: /aː(ɹ)/
ipa: /äɹ/
ipa: /ɑɹ/
ipa: /ɐɹ/
ipa: /aɹ/
ipa: /äːɹ/
ipa: /ɑɹ/
ipa: /äɹ/
ipa: /äɾ/
ipa: /ɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɛː(ɹ)/
note: proscribed, rare, due to confusion with "our"
ipa: /aʊɚ/
note: proscribed, rare, due to confusion with "our"
ipa: /aʊə/
homophone: argh
homophone: r
homophone: our
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
ipa: /ə(ɹ)/
enpr: är
ipa: /ɚ/
Forms: form: aren
form: arn
form: ar
Etymology: From Middle English aren, from Old English earun, earon (“are”), reinforced by Old Norse plural forms in er- (displacing alternative Old English sind and bēoþ), from Proto-Germanic *arun (“(they) are”), from Proto-Germanic *esi/*izi (a form of Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti (“is”).
Cognate with Old Norse eru (“(they) are”) (> Icelandic eru (“(they) are”), Swedish äro (“(they) are”), Danish er (“(they) are”)), Old English eart (“(thou) art”). More at art.
Senses: examples: text: Mary, where are you going?
glosses: second-person singular simple present of be
examples: text: We are not coming.
text: Here we are!
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain):
glosses: first-person plural simple present of be
examples: text: Mary and John, are you listening?
glosses: second-person plural simple present of be
examples: text: They are here somewhere.
text: BEloued, beleeue not euery ſpirit, but trie the ſpirits, whether they are of God: becauſe many falſe prophets are gone out into the woꝛld.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 John 4:1:
glosses: third-person plural simple present of be
glosses: present of be
Synonyms: english: used with thou
translation: used with thou
word: art
Related terms: sense: other forms of verb be
word: am
sense: other forms of verb be
word: art
sense: other forms of verb be
word: be
sense: other forms of verb be
word: been
sense: other forms of verb be
word: beest
sense: other forms of verb be
word: being
sense: other forms of verb be
word: is
sense: other forms of verb be
word: was
sense: other forms of verb be
word: wast
sense: other forms of verb be
word: were
sense: other forms of verb be
word: wert
are
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: är
ipa: /ɑː(ɹ)/
enpr: ar
ipa: /ɑɹ/
enpr: är
ipa: /ɐː/
enpr: är
ipa: /aː(ɹ)/
ipa: /äɹ/
ipa: /ɑɹ/
ipa: /ɐɹ/
ipa: /aɹ/
ipa: /äːɹ/
ipa: /ɑɹ/
ipa: /äɹ/
ipa: /äɾ/
ipa: /ɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɛː(ɹ)/
note: proscribed, rare, due to confusion with "our"
ipa: /aʊɚ/
note: proscribed, rare, due to confusion with "our"
ipa: /aʊə/
homophone: argh
homophone: r
homophone: our
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
ipa: /ə(ɹ)/
enpr: är
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: /ɛə/
ipa: /ɛː/
enpr: âr
ipa: /ɛəɹ/
ipa: /ɛɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: air
homophone: Ayr
homophone: ere
homophone: eyre
homophone: heir
homophone: err stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: e'er
enpr: är
ipa: /ɑː(ɹ)/
enpr: ar
ipa: /ɑɹ/
enpr: är
ipa: /ɐː/
enpr: är
ipa: /aː(ɹ)/
ipa: /äɹ/
ipa: /ɑɹ/
ipa: /ɐɹ/
ipa: /aɹ/
ipa: /äːɹ/
ipa: /ɑɹ/
ipa: /äɹ/
ipa: /äɾ/
ipa: /ɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɛː(ɹ)/
note: proscribed, rare, due to confusion with "our"
ipa: /aʊɚ/
note: proscribed, rare, due to confusion with "our"
ipa: /aʊə/
homophone: argh
homophone: r
homophone: our
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
ipa: /ə(ɹ)/
enpr: är
ipa: /ɚ/
Forms: form: ares
Etymology: From French are.
Senses: glosses: An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) metric unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a.
Synonyms: sense: SI unit
word: square decametre
Derived terms: centiare
decare
hectare
milliare
are
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: enpr: är
ipa: /ɑː(ɹ)/
enpr: ar
ipa: /ɑɹ/
enpr: är
ipa: /ɐː/
enpr: är
ipa: /aː(ɹ)/
ipa: /äɹ/
ipa: /ɑɹ/
ipa: /ɐɹ/
ipa: /aɹ/
ipa: /äːɹ/
ipa: /ɑɹ/
ipa: /äɹ/
ipa: /äɾ/
ipa: /ɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɛː(ɹ)/
note: proscribed, rare, due to confusion with "our"
ipa: /aʊɚ/
note: proscribed, rare, due to confusion with "our"
ipa: /aʊə/
homophone: argh
homophone: r
homophone: our
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
ipa: /ə(ɹ)/
enpr: är
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: /ɛə/
ipa: /ɛː/
enpr: âr
ipa: /ɛəɹ/
ipa: /ɛɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: air
homophone: Ayr
homophone: ere
homophone: eyre
homophone: heir
homophone: err stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: e'er
ipa: /ɑː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
enpr: är
ipa: /ɑː(ɹ)/
enpr: ar
ipa: /ɑɹ/
enpr: är
ipa: /ɐː/
enpr: är
ipa: /aː(ɹ)/
ipa: /äɹ/
ipa: /ɑɹ/
ipa: /ɐɹ/
ipa: /aɹ/
ipa: /äːɹ/
ipa: /ɑɹ/
ipa: /äɹ/
ipa: /äɾ/
ipa: /ɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɛː(ɹ)/
note: proscribed, rare, due to confusion with "our"
ipa: /aʊɚ/
note: proscribed, rare, due to confusion with "our"
ipa: /aʊə/
homophone: argh
homophone: r
homophone: our
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
ipa: /ə(ɹ)/
enpr: är
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: /ɛə/
ipa: /ɛː/
enpr: âr
ipa: /ɛəɹ/
ipa: /ɛɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: air
homophone: Ayr
homophone: ere
homophone: eyre
homophone: heir
homophone: err stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: e'er
Etymology: From the phonetic similarity between our and are in many English dialects (both /ɑː(ɹ)/).
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of our.
metric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɹɪk
Etymology: From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter. By surface analysis, metre + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: But the red planet has been a graveyard for Russian, European and American missions, including an embarrassing 1999 NASA fail caused when a computer, running on metric numbers, and engineers, dealing in nonmetric numbers, got their signals crossed.
ref: 2018 December 24, The Editorial Board, “Yes, Virginia, there is good news this Christmas”, in USA Today:
glosses: Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to distance.
Derived terms: antimetric
bimetric
centimetric
chemometric
clinicometric
contrametric
eumetric
extrametric
hemimetric
heterometric
hypermetric
hypometric
intrametric
macrometric
metrical
metricate
metrication
metric carat
metric compatibility
metric-compatible
metric conversion
metric foot
metric fuckton
metric horsepower
metric inch
metricise
metricism
metricist
metricity
metricization
metricize
metric level
metric martyr
metric mile
metric ounce
metric-ounce
metric pound
metric prefix
metric shitload
metric space
metric structure
metric system
metric time
metric ton
metrification
monometric
multimetric
nonmetric
normometric
plurimetric
polymetric
premetric
pseudometric
psychometric
tetrametric
unimetric
metric
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɹɪk
Forms: form: metrics
form: metricking
form: metricked
form: metricked
Etymology: From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter. By surface analysis, metre + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: We need to metric the status of software documentation.
text: We need to metric the verification of requirements.
text: We need to metric the system failures.
text: The project manager is metricking the closure of the action items.
text: Customer satisfaction was metricked by the marketing department.
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: systems engineering
glosses: To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.
Related terms: meter
avoirdupois
Thanatos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθænəˌtɒs/
ipa: /ˈθænəˌtɑs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Θάνατος (Thánatos).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The god of death (specifically of a peaceful death), and twin brother of Hypnos (god of sleep); the Greek counterpart of Mors.
Thanatos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθænəˌtɒs/
ipa: /ˈθænəˌtɑs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Θάνατος (Thánatos).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
antonyms: Eros
glosses: The death drive in Freudian psychoanalysis.
Lethean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːˈθi.ən/
ipa: /ˈliθi.ən/
Etymology: From Latin Lēthē, from Ancient Greek Λήθη (Lḗthē).
Senses: examples: text: They ferry over this Lethean sound.
ref: 1667, Milton, Paradise Lost:
text: The cup which was offered to you when you departed from Elysium was to be the Lethean draught, which would make you forget the joys you had experienced[.]
ref: 1813, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, The Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff, London: T. Hookham, jun., and E.T. Hookham, page 99:
text: Accordingly, she one day took the Lethean crown from off his head: immediately all his old ideas rushed on his mind, and inflamed him with an ardent desire to revisit his country.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 80:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the river Lethe, one of the four rivers of Hades. Those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness.
quotidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwəˈtɪdɪən/
ipa: /kwɵˈtɪdɪən/
rhymes: -ɪdiən
Forms: form: more quotidian
form: most quotidian
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman cotidian, cotidien, Middle French cotidian, cotidien, and their source, Latin cottīdiānus, quōtīdiānus (“happening every day”), from adverb cottīdiē, quōtīdiē (“every day, daily”), from an unattested adjective derived from quot (“how many”) + locative form of diēs (“day”).
Senses: examples: text: I know that the government's daily idea to solve the country's law and order problem is not meant to be taken too seriously, but every now and again I am moved to raise an eyebrow at the quotidian suggestion.
ref: 2000 July 10, Marcel Berline, The Guardian:
synonyms: circadian
diurnal
glosses: Happening every day; daily.
examples: text: The story or the painting would serve to connect the part with the whole, the event with the myth, the quotidian with the sacred.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 102:
text: Tragedy demanded verse, not the quotidian prose of comedy, and verse usually supplied some form of end rhyme.
ref: 2002, Russ McDonald, edited by McEachern, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy, page 28:
text: Grids are used for such quotidian items as stationery, business cards, mailing labels, hang tags, instruction manuals, etc.
ref: 2010, Steven Heller, Eddie S Glaude, Becoming a Graphic Designer:
text: They are finding the remains of ovens for smelting copper and preparing food as well as quotidian objects such as mats and storage pots.
ref: 2015, Alexander Stille, “The World’s Oldest Papyrus and What It Can Tell Us About the Great Pyramids”, in Smithsonian Magazine, volume October 2015, Smithsonian Institution:
synonyms: commonplace
everyday
mundane
normal
ordinary
glosses: Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced, etc, every day or very commonly.
examples: text: Quotidian periodicity we find in greater or less degree in nearly all fevers, particularly in fevers associated with suppuration.
ref: 1898, Patrick Manson, Tropical Diseases, page 104:
text: I regret that the effect of these statements is a denial of the observation of initial quotidian paroxysms following artificial inoculation.
ref: 1941, American Journal of Tropical Medicine, volume XXI:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: circadian
diurnal
coordinate_terms: quartan
tertian
glosses: Recurring every twenty-four hours or (more generally) daily (of symptoms, etc).
examples: text: His life took on a quotidian humdrum.
ref: 2004, Larry Haeg, In Gatsby's Shadow: The Story of Charles Macomb Flandrau:
text: Their careers, although often high paying, prestigious and meaningful (at least to an outsider looking in), had become boring, quotidian, dull, unstimulating, and repetitive.
ref: 2008, Ingrid E. Cummings, The Vigorous Mind:
synonyms: boring
dull
mundane
unsatisfying
unstimulating
glosses: Something which is considered humdrum or dull.
Related terms: practical
secular
worldly
quotidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwəˈtɪdɪən/
ipa: /kwɵˈtɪdɪən/
rhymes: -ɪdiən
Forms: form: quotidians
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman cotidian, cotidien, Middle French cotidian, cotidien, and their source, Latin cottīdiānus, quōtīdiānus (“happening every day”), from adverb cottīdiē, quōtīdiē (“every day, daily”), from an unattested adjective derived from quot (“how many”) + locative form of diēs (“day”).
Senses: examples: text: If I could meet that Fancie-monger, I would giue him some good counsel, for he seemes to haue the Quotidian of Loue vpon him.
ref: 1623, William Shakespeare, As You Like It:
text: I myself was, about two years since, strangely cured of a violent quotidian, which all the wonted method of physick had not so much abated, by applying to my wrists a mixture of two handfuls of bay-salt, two handfuls of the freshest English hops, and a quarter of a pound of blue currants […]
ref: 1671, Robnert Boyle, Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy, Part II:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria.
qualifier: Anglicanism
glosses: A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy.
examples: text: More than opposable thumbs and the invention of the flinthead axe, it was our ability to transcend the quotidian by weaving tales of awe and wonder that set us apart from the beasts.
ref: 2005 September 21, Lucy Mangan, “Has Lost lost the plot?”, in The Guardian:
text: She does the same thing as any parent worth their salt, and gets rambunctious youngsters engaged in daily drudgeries by refashioning the quotidian as adventure.
ref: 2018 December 12, Charles Bramesco, “A Spoonful of Nostalgia Helps the Calculated Mary Poppins Returns Go Down”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 24 May 2019:
glosses: Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class.
prolix
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.lɪks/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈlɪks/
rhymes: -əʊlɪks
rhymes: -ɪks
Forms: form: more prolix
form: most prolix
Etymology: From Old French prolixe, from Latin prōlixus (“stretched out; courteous, favorable”). The verb is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: "Give me but the luxury of answering to one of his prolix, contradictory speeches, and...I only ask the revenge of a reply."
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 298:
text: People who have blamed [Jean Charles Léonard de] Sismondi as unnecessarily prolix cannot have considered the crowd of details presented by the history of Italy.
ref: 1843, G. C. Leonardo Sismondi., “Bossi—Necrologia”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 72, number 144, page 333:
text: From General Peckem's office on the mainland came prolix bulletins each day headed by such cheery homilies as "Procrastination is the Thief of Time and "Cleanliness is Next to Godliness."
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “Major Major Major Major”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 90:
text: Traditional narratives he found too prolix and discursive. "There's always 14 pages describing a lawn that you skip over," he says.
ref: 1992 September 13, William Grimes, “The Ridiculous Vision of Mark Leyner”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Prolix! Prolix! / Nothing a pair of scissors can't fix!
ref: 2008, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, “We Call Upon The Author”, in Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
synonyms: word: verbose
word: circumlocutory
word: diffuse
word: periphrastic
word: palaverous
word: pleonastic
word: prolix
word: rigmarole
word: sesquipedalian
word: verbose
word: wordy
antonyms: word: verbose
glosses: Tediously lengthy; dwelling on trivial details.
glosses: Long; having great length.
Derived terms: prolixity
Related terms: lax
prolix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.lɪks/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈlɪks/
rhymes: -əʊlɪks
rhymes: -ɪks
Forms: form: prolixes
form: prolixing
form: prolixed
form: prolixed
Etymology: From Old French prolixe, from Latin prōlixus (“stretched out; courteous, favorable”). The verb is derived from the adjective.
Senses: glosses: To be tediously lengthy.
-ity
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /əti/
ipa: /ɪti/
ipa: /əti/
ipa: [əɾi]
ipa: [ɾi]
ipa: /ɪti/
ipa: [ɪɾi]
ipa: /əti/
ipa: [əɾi]
Forms: form: -ty
form: ⠰⠽
Etymology: From Middle English -ite, -itee, from Old French -ite, -ete, -eteit (“-ity”), from Latin -itātem, from -itās, from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts (suffix). Cognate with Gothic -𐌹𐌸𐌰 (-iþa, “-th”), Old High German -ida (“-th”), Old English -þo, -þu, -þ (“-th”). More at -th.
Senses: examples: text: absurd + -ity → absurdity (“the quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment”)
text: anonym(ous) + -ity → anonymity (“the quality or state of being anonymous”)
text: modern + -ity → modernity (“the quality of being modern or contemporary”)
text: precar(ious) + -ity → precarity (“a condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare”)
glosses: Used to form an uncountable noun from an adjective; especially, to form the noun referring to the state, property, or quality of conforming to the adjective's description.
examples: text: absurd + -ity → [an] absurdity (“that which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction”)
text: anonym(ous) + -ity → [an] anonymity (“that which is anonymous”)
text: insipid + -ity → [an] insipidity (“something that is insipid; an insipid utterance, sight, object, etc.”)
text: odd + -ity → [an] oddity (“an odd or strange thing or opinion; a strange person; an oddball”)
glosses: Used to form a countable noun from an adjective, referring to someone or something that conforms to the adjective's description.
glosses: Used to form other nouns, especially abstract nouns.
Related terms: -ability
-ibility
-ness
-hood
-ship
-itas
-itude
-th
-ia
-itia
-icity
-osity
-ous
-ose
-ity
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /əti/
ipa: /ɪti/
ipa: /əti/
ipa: [əɾi]
ipa: [ɾi]
ipa: /ɪti/
ipa: [ɪɾi]
ipa: /əti/
ipa: [əɾi]
Etymology: Variant of -ety, likely an alteration of -edy, equivalent to -ed + -y.
Senses: examples: text: hip + -ity → hippity, hippity-hop
glosses: Alternative form of -ety.
quality
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/
note: US, father-bother merger
ipa: /ˈkwɑ.lə.ti/
note: US, father-bother merger
ipa: [ˈkʰwɑ.lə.ɾi]
ipa: /ˈkwɔl.ə.ti/
ipa: [ˈkwɔɫ.ə.ti]
ipa: [ˈkwɔɫ.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /ˈkwɒl.ə.ti/
ipa: [ˈkwɔ̟ɫ.ə.ti]
ipa: [ˈkwɔ̟ɫ.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /ˈkwælɪti/
ipa: /ˈkwælɪtɪ/
Forms: form: more quality
form: most quality
Etymology: From Middle English qualite, from Old French qualité, from Latin quālitās, quālitātem, from quālis (“of what kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (“who, how”). Cicero coined qualitas as a calque to translate the Ancient Greek word ποιότης (poiótēs, “quality”), coined by Plato from ποῖος (poîos, “of what nature, of what kind”).
Senses: examples: text: We only sell quality products.
text: That was a quality game by Jim Smith.
text: A quality system ensures products meet customer requirements.
text: A model for discriminating women! A "quality" coat in every sense!
ref: 1930, Stella Blum, Everyday Fashion of the Thirties as pictured in Sears Catalogs, published 1986, page 4:
text: I mean a lot of the money that obviously goes into universities and their libraries and their facilities and their academics and stuff but I mean I haven’t had a very quality degree to be honest. I think the quality of my education has been crap . . .
ref: a. 2003, John Ahier, John Beck, Rob Moore, quoting Harriet (a Cambridge University student), Graduate Citizens?: Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education, Routledge, published 2003, →ISBN, page 114:
text: For one I wanted to have what I considered a very quality tracking device.
ref: 2004, Vance M. Thompson, MD, edited by J. Kevin Belville and Ronald J. Smith, LASIK Techniques: Pearls and Pitfalls, SLACK Incorporated, →ISBN, page 187:
text: A very quality ball club; that was the Braves.
ref: 2008, Fay Vincent, quoting Carl Erskine, We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 144:
qualifier: occasionally proscribed
glosses: (attributive) Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose; of high quality.
Derived terms: qualityness
Related terms: qualia
qualitative
qualitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.tə.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈkwɑ.ləˌteɪ.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈkwɑ.ləˌteɪ.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈkwɒl.əˌteɪ.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈkwɒl.əˌteɪ.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈkwɔl.ə.tæɪ.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈkwɔl.ə.tæɪ.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈkwɒl.ə.tæɪ.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈkwɒl.ə.tæɪ.ɾɪv]
Forms: form: more qualitative
form: most qualitative
Etymology: From Late Latin (or Medieval Latin) quālitātīvus. Equivalent to quality + -ative.
Senses: examples: text: You may recall that I made a qualitative post about our level 100 talents a little more than a month ago. Now let’s look at them qualitatively.
ref: 2014 November 12, Theck, “Paladinning in Warlords of Draenor”, in Sacred Duty:
coordinate_terms: quantitative
glosses: Of descriptions or distinctions based on some quality rather than on some quantity.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a form of analysis that yields the identity of a compound.
glosses: high-quality
Derived terms: locative-qualitative case
qualitative analysis
qualitative leap
qualitatively
qualitativeness
qualitative research
Related terms: quality
qualitative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.tə.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈkwɑ.ləˌteɪ.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈkwɑ.ləˌteɪ.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈkwɒl.əˌteɪ.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈkwɒl.əˌteɪ.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈkwɔl.ə.tæɪ.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈkwɔl.ə.tæɪ.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈkwɒl.ə.tæɪ.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈkwɒl.ə.tæɪ.ɾɪv]
Forms: form: qualitatives
Etymology: From Late Latin (or Medieval Latin) quālitātīvus. Equivalent to quality + -ative.
Senses: glosses: Something qualitative.
cunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭnt
ipa: /kʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: c**t
form: c*nt
form: c-word
form: C-bomb
Etymology: From Middle English cunte, queynt, queynte, from Old English *cunte, from Proto-West Germanic *kuntā, from Proto-Germanic *kuntǭ. Cognate with West Frisian kunte, Middle Dutch conte (Dutch kont (“butt”)), dialectal Swedish kunta, dialectal Danish kunte, and Icelandic kunta. A relationship to Latin cunnus has not been conclusively shown. Lexicographer Partridge suggests cuneus (“a wedge”).
Senses: examples: text: As noted above, "cunt" or "cunty" has evolved in Ballroom parlance to mean exactly what Banks defines it as: feminine and strong.
ref: [2022, Lauron J. Kehrer, Queer Voices in Hip Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance, page 59:
text: Look at her like how can you not say cunt[,] she's cunt
ref: 2022 December 29, PeachyPlumz (on reddit), in "Symmetra is a ‘gay icon’?", Reddit
text: she's so CUNT ... like... how can i not say cunt???
ref: 2023 May 24, cutehammie (on reddit), in "Trans ally Azealia", r/popheadscirclejerk, Reddit
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: Amazing or very good.
comitology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒm.ɪˈtɒl.ə.dʒi/
ipa: /ˌkɑm.ɪˈtɑl.ə.d͡ʒi/
Forms: form: comitologies
form: commitology
Etymology: From committee + -ology, introduced by Cyril Northcote Parkinson in humorous essays published in The Economist.
Senses: glosses: The system of committees, composed of representatives of the member states, used to oversee European Commission implementing acts made under European Union legislation.
glosses: The study of how committees could work, expand, and ramify.
Derived terms: comitological
dick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭk
ipa: /dɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: dicks
form: dicking
form: dicked
form: dicked
form: dih
Etymology: Ultimately from Dick, pet form of the name Richard. The name Dick came to mean "everyman", whence the word acquired its other meanings.
Senses: examples: text: Dude, don't let them dick you around like that!
glosses: To mistreat or take advantage of somebody (often with around or up).
examples: text: Homeboy, throw in the towel / Your girl got dicked by Ricky Powell
ref: 1989, “Car Thief”, in Paul's Boutique, performed by Beastie Boys:
text: Listen, this old gal we going to see probably don't like liquor and drinking, so be cool. I'm just gon borrow a few bucks off her. I ain't never dicked her or nothing.
ref: 1996, Clarence Major, Dirty bird blues:
glosses: To penetrate sexually.
raw_tags: of a man
Synonyms: sense: have sexual intercourse with
word: bone
word: go to bed with
word: schlong
word: copulate with
Derived terms: dick about
dick around
dick down
dick off
dick out
dick up
dick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭk
ipa: /dɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: dicks
form: dih
Etymology: A shortening and alteration of de(t)ec(tive).
Senses: examples: text: private dick, railroad dick
text: “I am a detective,” said Hercule Poirot with the modest air of one who says “I am a king.”
“Good God!” The young man seemed seriously taken aback. “Do you mean that girl actually totes about a dumb dick?”
ref: 1937 November 1, Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile:
glosses: A detective.
Derived terms: private dick
clever dick
dick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭk
ipa: /dɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: dicks
form: dih
Etymology: A shortening and alteration of dec(laration).
Senses: examples: text: "He seems to set a deal of store by her, though. There's some young 'ooman at home, where she lives, I'd take my dying dick."
ref: 1875, Mrs. George Croft Huddleston, Bluebell:
glosses: A declaration.
dick
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭk
ipa: /dɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: dih
Etymology: From a Cumbric *deg, corresponding to Welsh deg, from Proto-Brythonic *deg.
Senses: glosses: Ten, in Cumbrian sheep counting.
Derived terms: methera-a-dick
tethera-a-dick
tyan-a-dick
yan-a-dick
Related terms: spotted dick
dickhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭkʹhĕd
ipa: /ˈdɪkˌhɛd/
enpr: dĭkʹĕd
ipa: /ˈdɪ.kɛd/
Forms: form: dickheads
form: dick-head
Etymology: From dick + head. Attested since the 1960s, with the jerk sense appearing earliest. Compare cockhead, knobhead.
Senses: examples: text: ...down, down, sinking down faster than she's so far moved, the dick head exploding up into all that wet, warm slime...
ref: 1970, Clarence Major, All-night Visitors, page 71:
glosses: The glans penis.
examples: text: I don't want them Special Forces guys left out there when some dickhead is afraid to go get them.
ref: 1965, Robin Moore, The Green Berets, page 242:
text: ...they have been exchanging insults in writing: "dickhead," "dillweed," "fuzzbutt," "dorkwad," "asswipe," and so forth.
ref: 1996, Timothy Jay, What to Do When Your Students Talk Dirty, page 207:
text: She was on your mind with some dickhead guy
That you saw that night
ref: 2022, “Question...?”, performed by Taylor Swift:
glosses: A jerk; a mean or rude person.
examples: text: "Watch it, dickhead!" "Hey, Stan, that's my shirt you just dropped in the snow!"
ref: 1979, E.M. Corder, The Deer Hunter, page 69:
glosses: A stupid or useless person.
Synonyms: sense: glans penis
word: glans
sense: jerk
word: jerk
sense: idiot
word: fool
word: idiot
Derived terms: dickheaded
dickheadedly
dickheadedness
motherfucker
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭth'er-fŭk'er
enpr: mŭth'ŭ-fŭk'er
ipa: /ˈmʌðəˌfʌkə/
ipa: /ˈmʌðɚˌfʌkɚ/
Forms: form: MF
form: mf
form: mofo
form: mothafucka
form: mothafucker
form: mothafugga
form: mothafuggah
form: mothafukka
form: mothahfuckah
form: mothahfucker
form: mothahfuggah
form: motherfucka
form: motherfuckah
form: mother-fucker
form: mother fucker
form: motherfugga
form: motherfukka
form: motherfukkah
form: motherfukker
form: muthafucka
form: mutha fucka
form: mutha phucka
form: m*therfucker
form: motherf**ker
form: motherf****r
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr
Proto-Germanic *mōdēr
Proto-West Germanic *mōder
Old English mōdor
Middle English moder
English mother
Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-
Proto-Germanic *fukkōną
Old English *fuccian
Middle English *fukken
English fuck
Latin -ariusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English fucker
English motherfucker
Compound of mother + fucker; attested since 1918. The injury comes from the implication of somebody sleeping with their own mother, but was probably not used literally until later.
Senses: synonyms: fuck
shit
son of a bitch
oh my God
Jesus Christ
glosses: Expressing dismay, discontent, or surprise.
flatulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflætjʊlənt/
ipa: /ˈflæt͡ʃʊlənt/
ipa: /ˈflæt͡ʃələnt/
Forms: form: more flatulent
form: most flatulent
Etymology: From Middle French flatulent.
Senses: examples: text: Sorry, I'm a bit flatulent at the moment - just eaten some curry.
synonyms: word: farty
glosses: Affected by gas in the intestine; likely to break wind.
examples: text: a flatulent food
glosses: Causing flatulence.
examples: text: a flatulent smell
glosses: Reminiscent of flatulence.
glosses: Empty; vain.
Synonyms: word: farty
word: flatulent
word: windy
word: gassy
word: breezy
word: curmurring
Derived terms: antiflatulent
deflatulent
flatulently
nonflatulent
Related terms: flatulence
flatulate
fart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: färt
ipa: /fɑːt/
enpr: färt
ipa: /fɑɹt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: farts
form: farting
form: farted
form: farted
Etymology: From Middle English ferten, farten, from Old English *feortan, from Proto-West Germanic *fertan, from Proto-Germanic *fertaną, from Proto-Indo-European *perd-.
The noun is from Middle English fert, fart, from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: I fart with twenty ladies by; / They call me beast; and what care I?
ref: 1728, Jonathan Swift, A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy:
synonyms: word: beef
word: blow off
word: break wind
word: cut one loose
word: cut the cheese
word: flatulate
word: toot
word: pass gas
word: pass wind
word: badger
word: blow off
word: break ass
word: break wind
word: crepitate
word: curmur
word: cut one loose
word: cut the cheese
word: drop a bomb
word: fart
word: flatulate
word: grunt
word: guff
word: let fluffy off the chain
word: let one go
word: let one rip
word: pass gas
word: pass wind
word: poop
word: poot
word: pump
word: rip ass
word: rip one
word: step on a duck
word: step on a frog
word: toot
word: trump
glosses: To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.
examples: text: Above his head the funnel farted black soot into the sky.
ref: 1988, Peter Carey, chapter 95, in Oscar and Lucinda, London: Faber and Faber, published 1989, page 457:
text: We’ve been stuck behind a Ford Escort farting black smoke for ten minutes.
ref: 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, New York: Riverhead Books, page 139:
glosses: To emit (fumes, gases, etc.).
rape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: rapes
Etymology: Generally considered to derive from Old English rāp (“rope”), in reference to the ropes used to delineate the courts that ruled each rape. Compare Dutch reep and the parish of Rope, Cheshire.
In the 18th century, Edward Lye proposed derivation from Old Norse hreppr (“tract of land”), but this was rejected by the New English Dictionary and is considered "phonologically impossible" by the English Place-Name Society. Others, considering it improbable that the Normans would have adopted a local word, suggest derivation from Old French raper (“take by force”).
See Wikipedia for more.
Senses: examples: text: It seems to me very clear that the rapes of Sussex were divisions already existing there when the Normans landed.
ref: 1888 March 20, Henry H. Howorth, in a letter to The Archaeological Review, volume 1 (March–August 1888), page 230
text: There is little, if any, doubt that the division of Sussex into six rapes had been carried out before the Conquest, though the term is not mentioned in any Old English record.
ref: 1971, Frank Merry Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England:
text: These four castles dominated the Sussex rapes named after them; the fifth rape, Bramber, held by William de Braose, was in existence by 1084.
ref: 1997, Ann Williams, The English and the Norman Conquest, page 18:
glosses: One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
Related terms: hundred
wapentake
rape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: rapes
form: raping
form: raped
form: raped
Etymology: From Middle English rapen, from Old Norse hrapa (“to fall, rush headlong, hurry, hasten”), from Proto-Germanic *hrapaną (“to fall down”). Cognate with Norwegian rapa (“to slip, fall”), Danish rappe (“to make haste”), German rappeln (“to hasten, hurry”).
Senses: glosses: To make haste; to hasten or hurry.
rape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: rapes
Etymology: From Middle English rapen, from Old Norse hrapa (“to fall, rush headlong, hurry, hasten”), from Proto-Germanic *hrapaną (“to fall down”). Cognate with Norwegian rapa (“to slip, fall”), Danish rappe (“to make haste”), German rappeln (“to hasten, hurry”).
Senses: glosses: Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.
rape
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: more rape
form: most rape
Etymology: From Middle English rapen, from Old Norse hrapa (“to fall, rush headlong, hurry, hasten”), from Proto-Germanic *hrapaną (“to fall down”). Cognate with Norwegian rapa (“to slip, fall”), Danish rappe (“to make haste”), German rappeln (“to hasten, hurry”).
Senses: glosses: Quickly; hastily.