cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
slew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: slo͞o
ipa: /sl(j)uː/
note: Wales, Northern England, some New England, Southern American, and Canadian
ipa: /slɪu̯/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: sleugh
homophone: slough
homophone: slue
Forms: form: slews
form: slewing
form: slewed
form: slewed
Etymology: In all senses, a mostly British spelling of slue.
Senses: examples: text: His gunnery officer, Lieutenant Commander William R. D. Nickelson, Jr., preferred to respond with other hardware. At once he shouted into his headset mike: "Fuck that! Open fire!" His assistant, Lloyd Mustin, was recording accurate ranges from the narrowcasting fire-control radar and didn't need help from other wavelengths. "Action port. Illuminating ship is target," he instructed his gun captains. Mustin, controlling the after trio of five-inch mounts, and Nickelson slewed their directors onto the lights and opened fire immediately.
ref: 2011, James D. Hornfischer, “28: Into the Light”, in Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, retrieved 21 Nov 2022, pages 273–274:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To rotate or turn something about its axis.
examples: text: As the 5th Battle Squadron comes into the range of the High Seas Fleet, Admiral Evan-Thomas, who, so far, has dutifully followed Beatty's orders (or lack of them), has finally had just about enough. He can see the danger, plain as day, as the High Seas Fleet's leading elements open up a barrage with every gun they possess. He therefore issues his own squadron orders to expect to have to make sudden course changes and to follow his lead, before ordering the wheel hard over and slewing Barham around. Valiant and Warspite move to follow, replicating the "turn in succession" order, whilst the trailing HMS Malaya sees the oncoming danger and prepares to turn as soon as it possibly can without crashing into Warspite.
ref: 2020 July 15, Drachinifel, 1:04:58 from the start, in The Battle of Jutland - Clash of the Titans - Part 1 (Beatty vs Hipper), archived from the original on 15 Oct 2022:
glosses: To veer a vehicle.
glosses: To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
glosses: To pivot.
glosses: To skid.
examples: text: The single line was slewed onto the disused up formation to make way for the future redoubling.
text: Treforest: The track has been slewed to create space for the new island station platform at Treforest Estate, on the Cardiff-Merthyr line.
ref: 2022 November 16, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Wales”, in RAIL, number 970, page 27:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
glosses: To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
slew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: slo͞o
ipa: /sl(j)uː/
note: Wales, Northern England, some New England, Southern American, and Canadian
ipa: /slɪu̯/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: sleugh
homophone: slough
homophone: slue
Forms: form: slews
Etymology: Attested since at least 1708, a North American variant of slough; compare slue (“wet or swampy place”).
Senses: examples: text: The prairie round about is wet, at times almost marshy, especially at the borders of the great reedy slews.
ref: 1885, Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman:
glosses: A wet or swampy place; a river inlet.
slew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: slo͞o
ipa: /sl(j)uː/
note: Wales, Northern England, some New England, Southern American, and Canadian
ipa: /slɪu̯/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: sleugh
homophone: slough
homophone: slue
Etymology: Ablaut of slay, from Middle English slew, sleugh, past of Middle English sleen.
Replaced earlier Middle English slough, slogh, from Old English slōg (past of Old English slēan (“to hit, strike, slay”)), due to the influence of knew, drew, etc. More at slay.
Senses: glosses: simple past of slay
Related terms: slain
slew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: slo͞o
ipa: /sl(j)uː/
note: Wales, Northern England, some New England, Southern American, and Canadian
ipa: /slɪu̯/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: sleugh
homophone: slough
homophone: slue
Forms: form: slews
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish slua (“crowd”) and Scottish Gaelic sluagh (“crowd”), from Middle Irish slúag, from Old Irish slóg, from Proto-Celtic *slougos (“troop, army”), from Proto-Indo-European *slowgʰos, *slowgos (“entourage”).
Senses: examples: text: She has a slew of papers and notebooks strewn all over her desk.
text: There has been a slew of documents about Scottish transport planning in recent weeks.
ref: 2021 February 24, Philip Haigh, “A shift from cars: Scotland's railways are friends of electric!”, in RAIL, number 915, page 30:
synonyms: word: bucketful
word: superflux
word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: A large amount.
synonyms: word: multitude
word: throng
word: assemblage
word: congregation
word: crowd
word: flock
word: horde
word: huddle
word: legion
word: mass
word: multitude
word: press
word: slew
word: throng
glosses: A crowd or large number of people.
Related terms: onslaught
slain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: slān
ipa: /sleɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Senses: glosses: past participle of slay
Related terms: self-slain
slain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: slān
ipa: /sleɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Senses: examples: text: […]Morat ! the proud, the patriot field ! where man / May gaze on ghastly trophies of the slain, / Nor blush for those who conquered on that plain ; / Here Burgundy bequeath'd his tombless host, / A bony heap, through ages to remain, / Themselves their monument ;— the Stygian coast / Unsepulchred they roam'd, and shriek'd each wandering ghost.
ref: 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXIII, page 36:
text: While the Valkyries were the choosers of the valorous slain, they were also obedient to the call of any in distress who asked their help.
ref: 1906, Mary Elizabeth Lewis, The ethics of Wagner's The ring of the Nibelung, page 41:
glosses: Those who have been killed.
slid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: slĭd
ipa: /slɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slide
sling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: slings
form: slinging
form: slung
form: slung
form: slang
form: slang
Etymology: From Middle English slynge (noun), slyngen (verb), probably from Old Norse slyngja, slyngva (“to hurl”), from Proto-Germanic *slingwaną (“to worm, twist”) or compare Old English slingan (“to wind, twist”), from the same source.
Compare German schlingen (“to swing, wind, twist”), Danish and Norwegian slynge), from Proto-Indo-European *slenk- (“to turn, twist”) (compare Welsh llyngyr (“worms, maggots”), Lithuanian sliñkti (“to crawl like a snake”), Latvian slìkt (“to sink”)).
Senses: examples: text: Everyone could sling stones at an hairbreadth, and not miss.
ref: 2000, Bible (World English), Judges xx. 16
text: slings a broken rock aloft in air
ref: a. 1720, Joseph Addison, “Milton’s Style Imitated, in a Translation of a Story out of the Third Æneid”, in The Dramatick Works of Joseph Addison. With the Authour’s Poems, on Several Occasions:
synonyms: word: fling
word: hurl
word: bung
word: cast
word: chuck
word: chunk
word: cook
word: dash
word: dump
word: feck
word: fling
word: jerk
word: heave
word: hield
word: hoy
word: huck
word: hurl
word: hurtle
word: launch
word: lob
word: peck
word: peg
word: pick
word: pitch
word: precipitate
word: project
word: quoit
word: shy
word: slight
word: skew
word: sling
word: thrill
word: throw
word: toss
word: traject
word: warp
word: whang
word: whip
word: whop
word: wing
glosses: To throw with a circular or arcing motion.
glosses: To throw with a sling.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To pass a rope around (a cask, gun, etc.) preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
examples: text: You may know a lot about chemistry, man, but you don't know jack about slinging dope.
ref: 2008, Breaking Bad, Season 1, Episode 6
synonyms: slang
flog
flip
glosses: To sell, peddle, or distribute (often illicitly, e.g. drugs, sex, etc.).
Derived terms: sling about
sling along
sling for
sling in
sling it in
sling off
sling one's hook
sling one up
sling out
sling over
sling the hatchet
sling to
sling up
undersling
sling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: slings
Etymology: From Middle English slynge (noun), slyngen (verb), probably from Old Norse slyngja, slyngva (“to hurl”), from Proto-Germanic *slingwaną (“to worm, twist”) or compare Old English slingan (“to wind, twist”), from the same source.
Compare German schlingen (“to swing, wind, twist”), Danish and Norwegian slynge), from Proto-Indo-European *slenk- (“to turn, twist”) (compare Welsh llyngyr (“worms, maggots”), Lithuanian sliñkti (“to crawl like a snake”), Latvian slìkt (“to sink”)).
Senses: examples: text: The Sling is also a weapon of great antiquity, formerly in high estimation among the ancients.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 43:
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other.
glosses: A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported.
glosses: A loop of cloth, worn around the neck, for supporting a baby or other such load.
glosses: A loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering.
glosses: A strap attached to a firearm, for suspending it from the shoulder.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A band of rope or iron for securing a yard to a mast.
examples: text: At one sling
 Of thy victorious arm, well-pleasing Son.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: To be, or not to be, that is the question:
 Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
 The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
 Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
 And by opposing, end them.
ref: 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act III, scene I, line 55:
glosses: The act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A loop of rope or fabric tape used for various purposes: e.g. as part of a runner, or providing extra protection when abseiling or belaying.
examples: text: gin sling
text: a Singapore sling
glosses: A drink composed of a spirit (usually gin) and water sweetened.
Derived terms: arse in a sling
ass in a sling
baby sling
barrel sling
boob-sling
bottle sling
butt in a sling
gin sling
hand-sling
hand sling
Hawaiian sling
mint sling
Singapore sling
sling bag
sling bikini
sling blade
sling cart
sling dog
sling-fruit
sling ink
sling psychrometer
slings and arrows
slingshot
slingstone
sling-stone
sling stone
staff sling
sling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: slings
Etymology: From a shortening of spiderling.
Senses: glosses: A young or infant spider, such as one raised in captivity.
slung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sling
slit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: slits
Etymology: From Old English slītan, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyd- (“to tear, rend (cut apart), split apart”). Possibly cognate with Latin laed- (“to strike, hurt, injure”). Doublet of slite; also related to slice through French borrowing. Apparently unrelated to English slot, whose etymology, however, is uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
glosses: The vulva.
glosses: A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.
Derived terms: arrow slit
dorsal slit
double-slit experiment
gill slit
piss slit
piss-slit
slit drum
slit-eyed
slit-faced bat
slit-gong
slit gong
slit lamp
slitless
slitlike
slit-scan
slit-shell
slitted
slit trench
slit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: slits
form: slitting
form: slit
form: slit
form: slitten
Etymology: From Old English slītan, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyd- (“to tear, rend (cut apart), split apart”). Possibly cognate with Latin laed- (“to strike, hurt, injure”). Doublet of slite; also related to slice through French borrowing. Apparently unrelated to English slot, whose etymology, however, is uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: He slit the bag open and the rice began pouring out.
glosses: To cut a narrow opening.
glosses: To split into strips by lengthwise cuts.
examples: text: And slits the thin-spun life.
ref: 1637, John Milton, “Lycidas”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:
glosses: To cut; to sever; to divide.
Derived terms: slit one's throat
slit someone's throat
slit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology: From Old English slītan, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyd- (“to tear, rend (cut apart), split apart”). Possibly cognate with Latin laed- (“to strike, hurt, injure”). Doublet of slite; also related to slice through French borrowing. Apparently unrelated to English slot, whose etymology, however, is uncertain.
Senses: glosses: Having a cut narrow opening.
smelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɛld/
rhymes: -ɛld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smell
spoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spəʊk/
ipa: /spoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: spokes
Etymology: From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-West Germanic *spaikā, from Proto-Germanic *spaikǭ. Compare Scots spaik (“spoke”), Dutch spaak and English spike.
Senses: examples: text: The wheels were at first copies of a light hand-cart wheel, the wood spokes were brought together by tapering the spoke ends and wedging them together at the nave or hub and inserting the other ends in slots in the felloe or wood rim.
ref: 1921, W. F. Grew, The Cycle Industry, London, page 4:
glosses: A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
glosses: A rung of a ladder.
glosses: A stick inserted into the wheel of a vehicle to keep the wheel from turning.
glosses: One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.
Derived terms: hub-and-spoke
key spoke
leading spoke
put a spoke in someone's wheel
spoke-bone
spoke-dog
spoke key
spoke nipple
spoke-shave
spoke wrench
trailing spoke
spoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spəʊk/
ipa: /spoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: spokes
form: spoking
form: spoked
form: spoked
Etymology: From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-West Germanic *spaikā, from Proto-Germanic *spaikǭ. Compare Scots spaik (“spoke”), Dutch spaak and English spike.
Senses: glosses: To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.
spoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spəʊk/
ipa: /spoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Etymology: From Middle English speke, spake, spoke, spak, spek, speken, spoken, from Old English spæc, specen.
Senses: glosses: simple past of speak
examples: text: Cleo. Hye thee againe, / I haue ſpoke already, and it is provided.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 366, column 2:
text: Thoſe who have ſpoke in its Favour have allowed, that it is defective, with regard to the preſent Circumſtances of Europe,[…]
ref: 1741, The London Magazine, and Monthly Chronologer, volume 10, C. Ackers, page 435:
text: I should have spoke to him there and then, seen he was in the mood to do something stupid.
ref: 2014 May 1, John Barker, Futures: A Novel, PM Press, page 131:
glosses: past participle of speak
smelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: smelt
form: smelts
Etymology: From Middle English smelt, from Old English smelt, from Proto-Germanic *smeltaz.
Senses: glosses: Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.
examples: text: These direct Men, they are no Men of fashion, Talk what you will , this is a very Smelt
ref: c. 1615–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Loves Pilgramage, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A fool; a simpleton.
Derived terms: European smelt
Japanese pond smelt
Japanese smelt
smelt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Etymology: From very early Middle English smel; likely to derive from Old English, but not recorded.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smell
smelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: smelts
Etymology: From Middle Dutch smelten (“to melt”) or Middle Low German smelten (“to melt”), from Old Dutch *smeltan or Old Saxon smeltan, both from Proto-West Germanic *smeltan, from Proto-Germanic *smeltaną (“to melt”).
Related to English melt and Old English meltan (“to melt”). Cognate to Dutch smelten, German schmelzen.
Senses: glosses: Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.
examples: 1982, Raymond E. Kirk and Donald F. Othmer, Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Wiley, →ISBN, page 405,
The green liquor, ie, [sic] the solution obtained on dissolving the smelt, contains an insoluble residue called dregs, which gives it a dark green appearance.
1996, Arthur J. Wilson, The Living Rock: The Story of Metals Since Earliest Time and Their Impact on Civilization,
When the smelt was complete the crucible could be lifted out and the metal poured directly into the moulds, thus avoiding the need to break it up and remelt […]
2000, Julian Henderson, The Science and Archaeology of Materials: An Investigation of Inorganic Materials,
[…] can vary in different positions in the furnace and during the smelt.
Furnaces are unlikely to survive the smelts; all that often remains on metal production sites is just furnace bases and broken fragments of furnaces […]
2002, Jenny Moore, “Who Lights the Fire? Gender and the Energy of Production”, in Moira Donald and Linda Hurcombe (eds.), Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 130,
Women are allowed to play some small part in the smelt if they are breastfeeding or post-menopausal (van der Merwe and Avery, 1988).
glosses: Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production.
smelt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: smelts
form: smelting
form: smelted
form: smelted
Etymology: From Middle Dutch smelten (“to melt”) or Middle Low German smelten (“to melt”), from Old Dutch *smeltan or Old Saxon smeltan, both from Proto-West Germanic *smeltan, from Proto-Germanic *smeltaną (“to melt”).
Related to English melt and Old English meltan (“to melt”). Cognate to Dutch smelten, German schmelzen.
Senses: glosses: To produce metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.
spoken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspəʊ.k(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈspoʊ.kən/
rhymes: -əʊkən
Forms: form: more spoken
form: most spoken
Etymology: Morphologically spoke + -n.
Senses: glosses: Relating to speech
examples: text: soft-spoken
text: well-spoken
text: nicely-spoken
glosses: Speaking in a specified way
examples: text: Algebra is not a spoken language like French or Spanish, it is a math language.
ref: 2001, Edward Zaccaro, chapter 1, in Real World Algebra:
glosses: Produced by articulate sounds.
raw_tags: of a language
Synonyms: oral
verbal
Derived terms: fair-spoken
fine-spoken
forespoken
foul-spoken
free-spoken
plain-spoken
short-spoken
smooth-spoken
soft-spoken
spoken for
spokenness
spoken pause
spoken word
sweet-spoken
unspokenness
well-spoken
spoken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspəʊ.k(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈspoʊ.kən/
rhymes: -əʊkən
Etymology: Morphologically spoke + -n.
Senses: glosses: past participle of speak
speed
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /spiːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Etymology: From Middle English sped (“prosperity, good luck, quickness, success”), from Old English spēd (“success”), from Proto-West Germanic *spōdi (“prosperity, success”), from Proto-West Germanic *spōan, from Proto-Germanic *spōaną (“to prosper, succeed, be happy”), from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (“to prosper, turn out well”).
Cognate with Scots spede, speid (“success, quickness, speed”), Dutch spoed (“haste; speed”), German Low German Spood (“haste; speed; eagerness; success”), German Sput (“progress, acceleration, haste”). Related also to Old English spōwan (“to be successful, succeed”), Albanian shpejt (“to speed, to hurry”) and Russian спеши́ть (spešítʹ, “to hurry”), Latin spēs (“hope, expectation”), spērō (“hope”, verb), perhaps also to Ancient Greek σπεύδω (speúdō, “to urge on, hasten, press on”).
Senses: examples: text: “Speed,” Carlos, the soundman, said. […]
“Camera.”
“Rolling,” replied Bryce, the cameraman.
ref: 2000, Brian J. Hayes, A Boy Scout in Hollywood, page 30:
text: […] the director called, “Roll 'em,” the sound man said, “Speed,” and Norling stepped in and said, […]
ref: 2012, Tom Mascaro, Into the Fray, page 52:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Called by the soundman when the recording equipment has reached running speed and is ready to go.
sped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: spĕd
ipa: /spɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Senses: synonyms: speeded
glosses: simple past and past participle of speed
sped
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: spĕd
ipa: /spɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: speds
Etymology: From SPED.
Senses: glosses: A special education student.
speeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspiːdəd/
rhymes: -iːdəd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of speed
Synonyms: sense: simple past tense and past participle of speed
word: sped
speeded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspiːdəd/
rhymes: -iːdəd
Senses: examples: a speeded lexical decision task
glosses: Measured in terms of speed.
raw_tags: of a test
spend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: spends
Etymology: From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds āspendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-West Germanic *spendōn (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). Doublet of expend.
Cognate with Old High German spentōn (“to consume, use, spend”) (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide”)), Middle Dutch spenden (“to spend, dedicate”), Old Icelandic spenna (“to spend”).
Senses: examples: text: I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.
glosses: Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.
examples: text: Total January spends by year
ref: 2011 February 1, Ami Sedghi, “Record breaking January transfers: find the spends by club”, in The Guardian:
text: The spends have been made by our strategic partners […]
ref: 2011, “Council spending over £500”, in Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2012:
glosses: Expenditures; money or pocket money.
glosses: Discharged semen.
glosses: Vaginal discharge.
spent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: spĕnt
ipa: /spɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Senses: examples: text: a spent cartridge
synonyms: word: expended
word: finished
word: consumed
word: depleted
word: done up
word: effete
word: exhausted
word: expended
word: gone
word: finished
word: forworn
word: low
word: spent
word: used up
glosses: Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
glosses: Of fish: exhausted as a result of having spawned.
topics: law
glosses: Of legislation or an enactment: no longer in force due to all of its provisions having expired or been completed.
topics: law
glosses: Of a conviction: no longer appearing on a person's criminal record.
Related terms: spent force
time spent listening
spent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: spĕnt
ipa: /spɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spend
Derived terms: ill-spent
spin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: spins
Senses: examples: text: “Frank!” Joe yelled. “Run the spin halyard to the cabin-top winch and pass me the free end!”
ref: 2021 22 April, “jdale” (username), Course for Catastrophe, chapter 4
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Clipping of spinnaker.
spin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: spins
form: SpIn
Etymology: Clipping of special interest.
Senses: examples: text: berdly if your friends were homestuck characters who would they be. //sorry autism wants me dead, berdlys my fav character and hs is my spin. you will never heard the end of it from me
ref: 2024 April 15, @XxKilla_KrisxX, Twitter:
synonyms: spinterest
qualifier: autism
glosses: A special interest of an autistic person.
spun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spʌn/
ipa: /spʊn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: span
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spin
spit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: spits
form: spitting
form: spitted
form: spitted
Etymology: The noun is from Middle Dutch speet, spit, Middle Low German spêdt, spit (Low German spit); the word is cognate with Dutch spit, North Frisian spatt, spet, West Frisian spit.
The verb is from Middle English spitten (“to dig”), from Old English spittan (“to dig with a spade”), possibly from spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”); see further at etymology 1. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch spetten, spitten (modern Dutch spitten), Middle Low German speten, spitten (Low German spitten), North Frisian spat, West Frisian spitte.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he double plough, by taking faſt hold of the mould, throws all back again; and if the vegetables are not effectually earthed up, which may be the caſe after double ſpitting the intervals, then running the double plough over again, completes the buſineſs, and ſtrangely toſſes about and mellows the mould.
ref: 1769, “PLOUGH”, in The Complete Farmer: Or, A General Dictionary of Husbandry in All Its Branches; […], 2nd corrected and improved edition, London: Printed for R. Baldwin, […], →OCLC, column 2:
glosses: To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough.
examples: text: When the [peach] seed is procured it is either "spitted in" with a spade or planted in rows in the nursery.
ref: 1882 May, J. Alexander Fulton, “Delaware Peach Orchards”, in Joseph H. Reall, editor, Agricultural Review and Journal of the American Agricultural Association, volume 2, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Agricultural Review Company, […], →OCLC, page 124:
glosses: To plant (something) using a spade.
examples: text: We left the ground, of field of loam, by ſuppoſition under two ſorts of managements; the one part very rough, and the other made as fine as circumſtances would allow; the former ploughed the uſual depth, the other double ſpitted; [...]
ref: 1758 September 2–5, “A Course of Experiments and Improvements in Agriculture, […]”, in The London Chronicle: Or, Universal Evening Post, volume IV, number 263, London: Sold by J. Wilkie, […], →OCLC, page 219, column 1:
text: Then the ground is "spitted" or spaded in about six or eight inches deep, as a garden is for a crop of vegetables.
ref: 1882 May, J. Alexander Fulton, “Delaware Peach Orchards”, in Joseph H. Reall, editor, Agricultural Review and Journal of the American Agricultural Association, volume 2, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Agricultural Review Company, […], →OCLC, page 124:
synonyms: delve
glosses: To dig, to spade.
Related terms: spit-spot
spat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæt/
rhymes: -æt
Etymology: From Old English spittan, spætan.
Senses: examples: text: There was no sink in the room so we spat out the window.
text: If I had known you had a spittoon in the corner I would never have spat on the floor.
glosses: simple past and past participle of spit
spat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: spats
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps related to spit.
Senses: examples: text: As spat-fall often occurs in areas away from environments suitable for oyster growing, the collection, transport and sale of oyster spat has developed into a separate industry.
ref: 2005, TVR Pillay, MN Kutty, Aquaculture: Principles and practices, page 525:
text: But Orata’s oysters were, like the dormice and fish, collected in the wild, as spat.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 243:
glosses: The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs.
examples: text: Conditions in pearl oyster hatcheries are optimized for growth and survival of spat.
ref: 2011, The Pearl Oyster, page 256:
text: If the spat are allowed to remain attached to the tank bottom for more than two days, they are difficult to remove without damage to the shell.
ref: 1988, Bivalve Mollusc Culture Research in Thailand, page 28:
glosses: A juvenile shellfish which has attached to a hard surface.
spat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: spats
form: spatting
form: spatted
form: spatted
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps related to spit.
Senses: glosses: To spawn, used of shellfish as above.
spat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: spats
Etymology: Shortening of spatterdash, from spatter + dash. 1779.
Senses: coordinate_terms: gaiter
glosses: A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: word: fender skirt
glosses: A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A drag-reducing aerodynamic fairing covering the upper portions of the tyres of an aeroplane equipped with non-retractable landing gear.
spat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: spats
Etymology: 1804. American English, probably imitative.
Senses: examples: text: get into a trivial spat over punctuality
text: have a vicious spat with the cousins
ref: 2017 January 14, “Some Thais worry that a lasting power struggle is brewing. Others see a minor spat over language, which will quickly be forgotten.”, in The Economist:
text: The downside of this cost-saving strategy was that the train service could only be covered by goodwill. Whenever there was a spat between ASLEF and management - regardless of cause - the withdrawal of this goodwill became a stick with which unions could beat management.
ref: 2022 November 16, Graham Eccles, “The Rest Day Working saga...”, in RAIL, number 970, page 32:
glosses: A brief argument, falling out, quarrel.
spat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: spats
form: spatting
form: spatted
form: spatted
Etymology: 1804. American English, probably imitative.
Senses: synonyms: word: tiff
word: squabble
word: barney
word: bicker
word: quarrel
word: wrangle
word: argue
word: tiff
word: tift
word: quibble
word: row
word: pettifog
glosses: To quarrel or argue pettily briefly.
spat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: spats
Etymology: Attested from 1823.
Senses: glosses: A light blow with something flat.
spat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: spats
form: spatting
form: spatted
form: spatted
Etymology: Attested from 1823.
Senses: examples: text: He felt the wind of a second bullet that spatted against a boulder near Barney.
ref: 1922, B. M. Bower, chapter 3, in The Trail of the White Mule:
text: "She mentioned she had spatted Kelsey on her diaper with a hairbrush," said Mildred Johnson, a co-worker.
ref: 2007 July 13, Nolan Clay, “Co-workers testify about Kelsey's mother”, in Daily Oklahoman, retrieved 25 Aug 2009:
glosses: To strike with a spattering sound.
examples: text: Little Isabel leaped up and down, spatting her hands.
ref: 1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret:
glosses: To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands.
spat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: spats
Etymology: From Latin spatium (“space”).
Senses: glosses: An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres.
split
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: splĭt
ipa: /splɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology: Attested since about 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”) and/or Middle Low German splitten (“to split”), both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *splittjan, an intensive form of Proto-West Germanic *splītan (“to split”), from Proto-Germanic *splītaną (whence Danish splitte, Low German splieten, German spleißen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
Compare Middle English ysplett (“split”, past participle of splatten (“to split”)), Old English speld (“splinter”), Old High German spaltan (“to split”), Middle Irish slis (“splinter”), Lithuanian spaliai (“flax sheaves”), Czech půl (“half”), Old Church Slavonic рас-плитати (ras-plitati, “to cleave, split”).
Senses: examples: text: Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
text: With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever.
ref: 2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Divided.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
raw_tags: of a short exact sequence
glosses: Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
raw_tags: of coffee
topics: business
finance
stock-exchange
qualifier: sale
glosses: Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
raw_tags: of an order
examples: 10+³⁄₁₆ is a split quotation.
topics: business
finance
stock-exchange
glosses: Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
raw_tags: of quotations
topics: business
finance
stock-exchange
glosses: Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
Synonyms: word: cleft
word: cloven
word: divided
word: split
word: sundered
Hyponyms: word: bisected
word: thirded
word: tripartite
word: trisected
word: quadrisected
word: quadripartite
word: quartered
word: quinquepartite
word: quinquesected
Related terms: word: divide
word: divisible
word: separate
word: separation
spoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: spoil
ipa: /spɔɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
Forms: form: spoils
Etymology: From Middle English spoilen, spuylen, borrowed from Old French espoillier, espollier, espuler, from Latin spoliāre (“pillage, ruin, spoil”).
Senses: examples: text: Thoſe thouſand horſe shall ſweat with martiall ſpoyle
Of conquered kingdomes, and of Cities ſackt, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
qualifier: Also in plural: spoils
glosses: Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
examples: text: This countrey ſwarmes with vile outragious men,
That liue by rapine and by lawleſſe ſpoile,
Fit ſouldiers for the wicked Tamburlaine.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:
glosses: The act of taking plunder from an enemy or victim; spoliation, pillage, rapine.
examples: text: In view of the decline in freight traffic, it was strange to hear from Mr. Lambert that there is "a continuing problem of supplying, particularly for the civil engineer, the number of wagons required for carrying construction materials and spoil for various works."
ref: 1961 December, “Planning the London Midland main-line electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 721:
glosses: Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.
Synonyms: sense: plunder taken from an enemy or victim
word: booty
sense: material moved
word: gangue
sense: material moved
word: slag
sense: material moved
word: tailings
Derived terms: spoiler
spoil heap
Related terms: spoilage
spoils of war
spoilsport
spoilt
too many cooks spoil the broth
spoiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɔɪld/
rhymes: -ɔɪld
Forms: form: spoilt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spoil
spoiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɔɪld/
rhymes: -ɔɪld
Forms: form: more spoiled
form: most spoiled
form: spoilt
Senses: glosses: That has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.
raw_tags: of food
examples: text: The child was spoiled by constant gifts.
glosses: The state of being heavily pampered.
raw_tags: of a person
qualifier: usually a child
glosses: Having a selfish or greedy character due to pampering.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: spoiled for choice
spoiled grape juice
spoiled rotten
spoilt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: spoilt
ipa: /spɔɪlt/
rhymes: -ɔɪlt
Forms: form: more spoilt
form: most spoilt
form: spoiled
Senses: glosses: Having lost its original value
examples: text: The food went spoilt in the heat and had to be thrown away.
glosses: Of food, that has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.
examples: text: The child was so spoilt that she expected everything to be done for her.
text: After years of luxury, he became a spoilt brat.
qualifier: usually a child
glosses: Having a selfish or greedy character, especially due to pampering
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: spoilt for choice
spoilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: spoilt
ipa: /spɔɪlt/
rhymes: -ɔɪlt
Forms: form: spoiled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spoil
spoon-fed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spun ˈfɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spoon-feed
spoon-fed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /spun ˈfɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Senses: glosses: Pampered, as a baby too young to feed themselves.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: So simplified that one might expect a baby to understand it.
raw_tags: of information
spoon-feed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspunˌfid/
ipa: /ˈspuːnfiːd/
Forms: form: spoon-feeds
form: spoon-feeding
form: spoon-fed
form: spoon-fed
form: spoonfeed
Etymology: From spoon + feed.
Senses: glosses: To help somebody (usually a baby or elder) to eat using a spoon; to feed using a spoon.
examples: text: I can help you with your homework, but you must understand the concept, because I will not spoon-feed you.
glosses: To overly pamper or indulge (someone), so that they do not (or because they failed to) act or think for themselves.
examples: text: What do you mean "I don't know"? I'm practically spoon-feeding you the answer!
glosses: To give (something) in an overly pampering way, so that the recipients do not (or because they failed to) act or think for themselves.
glosses: To explain (something, to someone) in simple words; to explain (it, to them) in words of one syllable; to spell (it) out (for them).
spread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
enpr: sprēd
ipa: /spɹiːd/
ipa: /spɹid/
rhymes: -iːd
homophone: spreed
ipa: /spɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: spreads
form: spreading
form: spread
form: spread
Etymology: Blend of speed + read.
Senses: examples: text: You're assuming that if someone spreads they aren't a good orator. That's flawed logic.
ref: 2022 July 8, u/chromantical, “spreading is cringe and should be stopped”, in Reddit, r/Debate, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2023:
text: In my first year on the circuit, I learned to spread and did decently well. I won most of my rounds, not that I could tell you how I did it.
ref: 2022 September, Tess McNulty, “Both Sides Now”, in Harper's Magazine, New York, N.Y.: Harper's Magazine Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2023:
qualifier: debating slang
glosses: To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.
spread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
enpr: sprēd
ipa: /spɹiːd/
ipa: /spɹid/
rhymes: -iːd
homophone: spreed
ipa: /spɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: spreads
Etymology: Blend of speed + read.
Senses: examples: text: If debate is a game, then the execution of a "spread" is like a well-timed blitz in football. Convincing a judge that your opponents' arguments would cause human extinction is equivalent to a successful Hail Mary pass.
ref: 2017 September 26, Jack McCordick, “The Corrosion of High School Debate—And How It Mirrors American Politics”, in America, New York, N.Y.: America Press Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2023:
text: It's one L ur chillin just keep practicing read the ballets figure what you did wrong and practice with improvements in mind, get better at spreads and k theory debates.
ref: 2023 February 27, u/Objective-Sugar8720, “Bad tournament, how do I cope?”, in Reddit, r/Debate, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2023:
qualifier: debating slang
glosses: An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).
Related terms: word: spreading
sprang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sprăng
ipa: /spɹæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Senses: glosses: simple past of spring
sprung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Senses: examples: text: “When do you write to Colonel Brandon, ma’am?” was an enquiry which sprung from the impatience of her mind to have something going on.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 245:
glosses: simple past and past participle of spring
sprung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Forms: form: more sprung
form: most sprung
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: spring-loaded
text: a sprung mattress
text: the sprung weight of a vehicle
glosses: Fitted or cushioned with springs.
examples: text: My old money clip was sprung, so I replaced it.
glosses: Worn out such that the springiness has dissipated.
raw_tags: of a spring or other springy object
examples: text: I like big butts and I cannot lie. / You other brothers can’t deny / that when a girl walks in / with a itty bitty waist / and a round thing in your face you get sprung.
ref: 1992, “Baby Got Back”, in Sir Mix-a-Lot (music), Mack Daddy:
text: […] / ’Cause your love got the best of me, / And baby, you’re making a fool of me. / You got me sprung and I don’t care who sees, / ’Cause baby, you got me so crazy.
ref: 2003, “Crazy In Love”, in Beyoncé et al. (music), Dangerously in Love:
text: ’Cause I’m sprung over you / And ain’t nothin’ I can do / […] / Thoughts of you fill my head / […]
ref: 2005, “Sprung”, in Mariah Carey et al. (music), The Emancipation of Mimi, bonus track in some editions:
text: My lips like sugar. / This candy got you sprung.
ref: 2009, “Sugar”, in Flo Rida et al. (music), R.O.O.T.S.:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Utterly infatuated with someone; completely taken over by romantic interest; originally and literally, having a penile erection.
examples: text: `Sprung!' cried Jeff Basin, the local dubbo.
ref: 1979, Gabrielle Carey, Kathy Lette, Puberty Blues, page 46:
glosses: Caught doing something illegal or against the rules.
glosses: drunk.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: cracked or strained.
raw_tags: of a spar
Synonyms: sense: infatuated
word: smitten
word: taken
word: in love
sense: caught doing something illegal
word: caught with a hand in the cookie jar
sense: caught doing something illegal
word: red-handed
sense: cracked or strained
word: crazed
word: splintered
word: broken
sense: drunk
word: drunk
Derived terms: coil-sprung
leaf-sprung
Related terms: sense: infatuation
word: boing
stood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stʊd/
rhymes: -ʊd
Etymology: From Middle English stod, from Old English stōd, from Proto-Germanic *stōþ, *stōd-, past tense of *standaną (“to stand”).
Senses: examples: text: This morning a bloke stood next to me wearing nothing but sandals.
text: At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: simple past and past participle of stand