cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hammerkop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammerkops
form: hamerkop
Etymology: From Afrikaans hamerkop, from hamer (“hammer”) + kop (“head”).
Senses: synonyms: anvilhead
hammerhead
hammerhead stork
hammerkopf
tufted umber
umber bird
umbrette
glosses: A bird from southern Africa, Scopus umbretta, of the family Scopidae and related to the herons.
mata mata turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mata mata turtles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of matamata.
tutu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtutu/
ipa: /ˈtuːtuː/
rhymes: -uːtuː
Forms: form: tutus
Etymology: Borrowed from French tutu, from cucu (“bum, bottom”), playful reduplication of cul (“arse”).
Senses: examples: text: The ballet dancer representing the swan wore a white tutu.
glosses: A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.
tutu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtutu/
ipa: /ˈtuːtuː/
rhymes: -uːtuː
ipa: [ˈtʉːˌtʉː]
ipa: /ˈtutu/
ipa: /ˈtuːtuː/
rhymes: -uːtuː
Forms: form: tutus
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori tutu.
Senses: synonyms: toot plant
tupakihi
glosses: Any of certain members of genus Coriaria of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand, including Coriaria arborea and Coriaria pottsiana, used by the Maori to make a sweetener, but toxic when not properly prepared.
Derived terms: tutin
tutu
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtutu/
ipa: /ˈtuːtuː/
rhymes: -uːtuː
ipa: [ˈtʉːˌtʉː]
ipa: /ˈtʊtʉː/
ipa: /ˈtutu/
ipa: /ˈtuːtuː/
rhymes: -uːtuː
ipa: [ˈtʉːˌtʉː]
Forms: form: tutus
form: tutuing
form: tutued
form: tutued
Etymology: From Maori tutū (“mischievous, disobedient”).
Senses: examples: text: "There were seven dudes here for a week just showing me how to use it and I just wanted them to leave so I could start tutuing with it."
ref: 2016 July 14, “New Plymouth sign maker invests in enormous flatbed printer”, in Stuff:
glosses: to fiddle or mess around with something.
hut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌt/
ipa: /hʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: huts
Etymology: From Middle English *hutte, hotte, from both Old English hōd and Old English hȳdan (“to hide”) and influenced by Anglo-Norman hute or hutte, from Middle French hutte, from Old French hute (“hut”), hute (“cottage”), from Old High German hutta (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ, *hudjō (“hut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewt- (“to deck; cover; covering; skin”).
Cognate with German Hütte (“hut”), Dutch hut (“hut”), West Frisian hutte (“hut”), Saterland Frisian Hutte (“hut”), Danish hytte (“hut”), Norwegian Bokmål hytte (“hut”), Swedish hydda (“hut”). Related to hide.
Senses: examples: text: a thatched hut; a mud hut; a shepherd’s hut
text: And in his Hut, when hee to rest doth take him,
Hee sleeps, till Drums or deadlie Pellets wake him.
ref: 1625, Nicholas Breton, “An Untrained Souldiour”, in Characters and Essayes, Aberdeen: Edward Raban, page 31:
text: 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 186, 28 December, 1751, Volume 6, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, pp. 108-109,
[…] love, that extends his dominion wherever humanity can be found, perhaps exerts the same power in the Greenlander’s hut, as in the palaces of eastern monarchs.
text: […] I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men’s and women’s faces wos like,
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XX, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 341:
text: There was an oil lamp in all the four huts on Okonkwo’s compound, and each hut seen from the others looked like a soft eye of yellow half-light set in the solid massiveness of night.
ref: 1958, Chinua Achebe, chapter 11, in Things Fall Apart, New York: Astor-Honor, published 1959, page 99:
glosses: A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
examples: text: a groundsman’s hut
glosses: A small wooden shed.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A small stack of grain.
Derived terms: bathing hut
beach hut
booby hut
hut circle
hutkeeper
hutless
hutlet
hutlike
hutmaster
hutment
hut tax
hutting
Iris hut
nipa hut
Nissen hut
observation hut
outhut
palaver hut
Quonset hut
Romney hut
slab hut
Related terms: cabin
cottage
shack
shanty
hut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌt/
ipa: /hʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: huts
form: hutting
form: hutted
form: hutted
Etymology: From Middle English *hutte, hotte, from both Old English hōd and Old English hȳdan (“to hide”) and influenced by Anglo-Norman hute or hutte, from Middle French hutte, from Old French hute (“hut”), hute (“cottage”), from Old High German hutta (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ, *hudjō (“hut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewt- (“to deck; cover; covering; skin”).
Cognate with German Hütte (“hut”), Dutch hut (“hut”), West Frisian hutte (“hut”), Saterland Frisian Hutte (“hut”), Danish hytte (“hut”), Norwegian Bokmål hytte (“hut”), Swedish hydda (“hut”). Related to hide.
Senses: examples: text: to hut troops in winter quarters
text: […] commonly the Captaines, after their souldiers are hutted, build Hutts in the place, where their tents stood,
ref: 1631, Samuel Marolois, translated by Henry Hexham, The Art of Fortification, Amsterdam: John Johnson, Part 2, Figure 124 & 125:
text: […] the scite of the New Town, where divisions of the 17th and 20th light dragoons had hutted themselves.
ref: 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 6, p. 200:
text: His troops, hutted among the heights of Morristown, were half fed, half clothed, and inferior in number to the garrison of New York.
ref: 1850, Washington Irving, chapter 56, in The Life of Washington, volume 2, New York: John W. Lovell, page 443:
glosses: To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.
examples: text: 1653, Newsletter sent from London to Edward Nicholas dated 17 June, 1653, in William Dunn Macray (ed.), Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, Volume 2, p. 219,
Seven boatfuls of Dutch prisoners have been taken to Chelsea College, where they are to hut under the walls.
text: He removed with the troops, on the 19th, to Valley-forge, where they hutted, about sixteen miles from Philadelphia.
ref: 1778, William Gordon, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America, London, Volume 3, Letter 1, p. 11:
glosses: To take shelter in a hut.
examples: text: The method of endeavouring to save corn in bad harvests, by hutting it in the field, is often practised in the north and west of Scotland,
ref: 1796, James Donaldson, Modern Agriculture; or, The Present State of Husbandry in Great Britain, volume 2, Edinburgh, page 417:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To stack (sheaves of grain).
hut
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌt/
ipa: /hʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Etymology: A short, sharp sound of command. Compare hey, hup, etc.
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.
Related terms: ten-hut
pupa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjuːpə/
rhymes: -uːpə
Forms: form: pupas
form: pupae
form: pupæ
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin, from a special use of Latin pūpa (“little girl; doll, puppet”). Doublet of pupe; compare also puppet, puppy.
Senses: examples: text: The public is the pupae of the purposely purblind […]
ref: 1959 April 21, Walt Kelly, Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Seattle, Wash.: Fantagraphics Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 34:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
synonyms: pupe
glosses: An insect in the development stage between larva and adult.
Hyponyms: chrysalis
tumbler
Related terms: puparium
pupate
caterpillar
handiron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handirons
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of andiron.
vertebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜː.tɪb.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈvɝ.təb.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈvɝ.təˌbɹeɪ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹə
Forms: form: vertebrae
form: vertebræ
form: vertebras
Etymology: Borrowing from Latin vertebra (“a joint”), from vertō (“to turn”) + -bra (instrumental nominal suffix). Having multiple vertebrae (plural of vertebra) in one's backbone instead of having a single bone or solid spine, allows for the movement of the body with bends and turns. Hence meaning 1.
Senses: examples: text: Already I seemed to hear the water rippling against the desiccated bones and rattling them together, rolling my skull against Mahomed's, and his against mine, till at last Mahomed's stood straight up upon its vertebræ, and glared at me through its empty eyeholes, and cursed me with its grinning jaws, because I, a dog of a Christian, disturbed the last sleep of a true believer.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: spondyle
glosses: Any of the bony or cartilaginous segments which make up the backbone, consisting in some lower vertebrates of several distinct elements which never become united, and in higher vertebrates having a short more or less cylindrical body whose ends articulate by pads of elastic or cartilaginous tissue with those of adjacent vertebrae and a bony arch that encloses the spinal cord.
Synonyms: word: vertebra
Hyponyms: word: cervical vertebra
word: coccygeal vertebra
word: lumbar vertebra
word: sacral vertebra
word: thoracic vertebra
Derived terms: cervical vertebra
coccygeal vertebra
hemivertebra
lumbar vertebra
prevertebra
protovertebra
sacral vertebra
thoracic vertebra
vertebral
vertebraless
vertebrate
vertebro-
vertebr-
Related terms: vertebrally
coccyx
bronze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɒnz/
ipa: /bɹɑnz/
rhymes: -ɒnz
Forms: form: bronzes
Etymology: From French bronze (1511); from Italian bronzo (13th c.), of uncertain origin (q.v.). First use appears c. 1721 in the writings of Matthew Prior (for which, see citation below).
Senses: examples: text: How little gives thee joy or pain; A print, a bronze, a flower, a root.
ref: 1720, Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, page 339:
coordinate_terms: brass#Etymology_1
glosses: A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.
glosses: A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
glosses: A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
examples: text: She wanted to win the tournament, but had to settle for the bronze after being beaten in the semi-finals.
glosses: A bronze medal; third place.
examples: text: Embrown'd with native bronze, lo! Henley stands.
ref: 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:
synonyms: brass#Etymology_1
glosses: Boldness; impudence.
Derived terms: aluminium bronze
bronze age
bronze blue
bronze diabetes
bronze disease
bronze featherback
bronze fennel
bronzefounder
bronzefounding
bronze green
bronzeless
bronzelike
bronzemaking
bronze medal
bronze medalist
bronze medallist
bronzeness
bronze open access
bronze parotia
bronzer
bronze race
bronzesmith
bronzesmithing
bronze steel
bronzeware
bronze whaler
bronze-wing
bronzewing
bronze-winged jacana
bronzeworker
bronzeworking
bronzeworks
bronzey
bronze yellow
bronzify
bronzine
bronzish
bronzist
bronzy
Corinthian bronze
embronze
gold-bronze
little bronze cuckoo
Nibral
nonbronze
silicon bronze
steel bronze
vanadium bronze
bronze
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɒnz/
ipa: /bɹɑnz/
rhymes: -ɒnz
Forms: form: more bronze
form: most bronze
Etymology: From French bronze (1511); from Italian bronzo (13th c.), of uncertain origin (q.v.). First use appears c. 1721 in the writings of Matthew Prior (for which, see citation below).
Senses: examples: text: The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: bronzen
glosses: Made of bronze metal.
glosses: Having a reddish-brown colour.
examples: text: That girl was dynamite. Dark hair with killer blue eyes, bronze skin, and an exquisite full-figured body.
ref: 2016, Kit Moulton, Annabella, page 108:
glosses: Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.
raw_tags: of the skin
Derived terms: arsenical bronze
bell bronze
Bronze Age
bronze medal
Bronze Star
bronze up
bronzite
Liaoning bronze dagger culture
phosphor bronze
Uchatius bronze
bronze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɒnz/
ipa: /bɹɑnz/
rhymes: -ɒnz
Forms: form: bronzes
form: bronzing
form: bronzed
form: bronzed
Etymology: From French bronze (1511); from Italian bronzo (13th c.), of uncertain origin (q.v.). First use appears c. 1721 in the writings of Matthew Prior (for which, see citation below).
Senses: examples: text: My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.
glosses: To plate with bronze.
examples: text: The sun was so low that its level rays shot through the tunnels of the forest and bronzed its ceiling of woven leaves when Bess returned to the clearing.
ref: 1925, DuBose Heyward, Porgy, London: Jonathan Cape, Part IV, p. 137:
text: North is the bay of Acre, lovely in shape, and, far, far beyond, the cloudy vision of Hermon, its huge landscape now only attainable with a police pass—beautifully solitary except for good-looking young men of the police patrols, all fit and bronzed.
ref: 1961, Freya Stark, chapter 8, in Dust in the Lion's Paw: Autobiography 1939-1946, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, page 122:
glosses: To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.
examples: text: His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.
ref: 2006, Melissa Lassor, “Out of Darkness”, in Watching Time, page 124:
glosses: To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
raw_tags: of the skin
examples: text: the lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
examples: text: Louganis' runner-up count was 822.09, and Boggs bronzed at 783.78.
ref: 1979, Amateur Athletic Union of the United States, AAU News:
text: Her speedskating teammate, Leah Poulos, captured a 1000m silver in 1976, behind Tatiana Averina of the Soviet Union, who also took the gold in the 3000m and bronzed in the 500m and the 1500m.
ref: 1992, Martin Connors, Diane L. Dupuis, Brad Morgan, The Olympics Factbook: A Spectator's Guide to the Winter and Summer Games, Visible Ink Press:
text: Rauch plays has-been athlete Hope Ann Greggory, who bronzed at the Olympics by prevailing over a performance-incurred injury that would later effectively end her career.
ref: 2016 March 17, Andrew Lapin, “'The Bronze' Is The Story Of A Mighty, Nasty Gymnast”, in NPR:
glosses: To finish in third place; to win a bronze medal.
Derived terms: rebronze
Related terms: penny
unutterable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˌ)ʌnˈʌt(ə)ɹəbl̩/
ipa: /(ˌ)ʌnˈʌtɹəbl̩/
ipa: /ˌʌnˈʌtɚəb(ə)l/
ipa: [ˌʌnˈʌɾɚ.ɪ̈bl̩]
Forms: form: unutterables
Etymology: From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + utterable.
Senses: glosses: Something which is unutterable (incapable of being physically spoken, incapable of being articulated or expressed, etc.).
Derived terms: word: unutterables
alligator
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.ɪ.ɡeɪ.tə/
enpr: ălʹĭ-gā-tər
ipa: /ˈæl.ɪ.ɡeɪ.tɚ/
homophone: allegator
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: alligators
form: alligatoring
form: alligatored
form: alligatored
Etymology: ]
From early Modern English alligater, alligarta, aligarto, alegarto, alagarto, from Spanish el lagarto (“the lizard”), from Latin lacertus (“lizard”), modern spelling possibly influenced by the unrelated Latin alligator (“one who binds”).
Senses: examples: text: Alligatoring is a result of the sun making the top surface of the asphalt brittle.
ref: 2003, Carson Dunlop & Associates, Essentials of Home Inspection: Roofing, page 24:
text: Sealing an area that is alligatoring is a temporary solution that may delay having to replace the asphalt for several years. A more permanent repair would be to replace the alligatored section.
ref: 2004, James E. Piper, Handbook of Facility Assessment, page 39:
text: Common burn indicators include alligatoring, crazing, the depth of char, lines of demarcation, sagged furniture springs and spalling.
ref: 2009, Kären M. Hess, Christine M. H. Orthmann, Criminal Investigation, page 483:
glosses: To crack in a pattern resembling an alligator's skin.
raw_tags: of paint or other coatings
alligator
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.ɪ.ɡeɪ.tə/
enpr: ălʹĭ-gā-tər
ipa: /ˈæl.ɪ.ɡeɪ.tɚ/
homophone: allegator
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Etymology: ]
From early Modern English alligater, alligarta, aligarto, alegarto, alagarto, from Spanish el lagarto (“the lizard”), from Latin lacertus (“lizard”), modern spelling possibly influenced by the unrelated Latin alligator (“one who binds”).
Senses: examples: text: The same way people will count the seconds between lightning and thunder, I counted the seconds between coughs. One-alligator, two-alligator, three-alligator.
ref: 2013, Chuck Palahniuk, “December 21, 9:33 A.M. CST”, in Doomed:
glosses: Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which the speaker counts out loud, saying the word "alligator" between the numbers so that each number is spoken approximately one second after the last one.
uppish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uppish
form: most uppish
Etymology: From up + -ish.
Senses: examples: 1699, B.E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew in its Several Tribes of Gypsies, Beggers, Thieves, Cheats &c., London: W. Hawes et al.,
Uppish, rampant, crowing, full of Money. He is very Uppish, well lined in the Fob […]
glosses: Having plenty of money.
raw_tags: since circa 1678
examples: text: “Heah that John is livenin’ things up at the darky school,” volunteered the postmaster, after a pause.
“What now?” asked the Judge, sharply.
“Oh, nothin’ in particulah,—just his almighty air and uppish ways. […]”
ref: 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois, chapter 13, in The Souls of Black Folk:
text: When the other animals came back to luncheon, very boisterous and breezy after a morning on the river, the Mole, whose conscience had been pricking him, looked doubtfully at Toad, expecting to find him sulky or depressed. Instead, he was so uppish and inflated that the Mole began to suspect something; while the Rat and the Badger exchanged significant glances.
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 12, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
text: Family prayers were uppish with big words on Sunday—reverend Awe-full words that only God and Father understood.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Sunday”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
glosses: proud; arrogant; assuming
examples: text: Six runs were still required, and an uppish stroke by the new arrival secured two of them.
ref: 1898 July, Philip C. W. Trevor, “A Second Innings: A Story of a ’Varsity Match”, in The Badminton Magazine, published 1989, page 13:
text: All the coaching he had received had been aimed at keeping the ball down. An ‘uppish’ stroke was to be deplored. But everything had to be uppish on this pitch.
ref: 1974, James Herriot, chapter 24, in Vet in Harness, London: Pan Books, published 2006, page 174:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In which the ball is hit into the air, with the chance of being caught.
raw_tags: of a shot
Derived terms: uppishly
uppishness
antler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænt.lə/
ipa: /ˈænt.lɚ/
ipa: /ˈænʔ.lɚ/
ipa: /ˈænʔ.ɫɚ/
Forms: form: antlers
Etymology: From Middle English auntelere, hauntelere, from Old French antoillier (“antler, horn”), from ante- (“in front of”) + oillier (oil (“eye”) + -ier (a suffix indicating location)), possibly from an unattested Latin *anteocularis (“before the eye”).
Senses: examples: text: While hiking in the woods, I found an antler from a deer.
glosses: A deciduous branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose, and elk, normally in pairs, grown and shed each year. (Compare with horn, which is generally not shed.)
Derived terms: word: antlered
word: antlerless
word: antlerlike
word: antlerogenesis
word: antlerogenic
alt: toponym
word: Antlers
word: bay antler
word: bez antler
word: crown antler
word: deer antler knife
word: velvet antler
comet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑmət/
rhymes: -ɒmɪt
Forms: form: comets
Etymology: From Middle English comete, partly from Old English comēta and partly from Old French comete, both from Latin comētēs, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “longhaired”), short for ἀστὴρ κομήτης ([astēr] komētēs, "longhaired [star])" and referring to the tail of a comet, from κόμη (kómē, “hair”). Compare English faxed star and Latin crīnīta stēlla (“comet”, literally “(long) haired star”).
Senses: examples: text: And They made by the lifting of Their hands, each god according to his sign, the Bright One with the flaring tail to seek from the end of the Worlds to the end of them again, to return again after a hundred years. Man, when thou seest the comet, know that another seeketh besides thee nor ever findeth out.
ref: 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically brings it close enough to the Sun that the ice vaporises to form an atmosphere, or coma, which may be blown by the solar wind to produce a visible tail.
examples: text: Upon his browes was pourtraid vgly death,
And in his eies the furies of his heart,
That ſhine as Comets, menacing reueng,
And caſts a pale complexion on his cheeks.
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 III, scene ii:
glosses: A celestial phenomenon with the appearance of such a body.
glosses: Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.
Synonyms: word: ☄
word: faxed star
Derived terms: word: Biela's Comet
word: cometarium
word: cometary
taxonomic: Aeshna longipes
word: comet darner
word: cometesimal
word: comet-finder
word: cometic
word: cometless
word: cometlike
word: Comet Neowise
word: cometocentric
word: cometographer
word: cometography
word: cometoid
word: cometology
word: comet-seeker
word: comet tail
word: cometwise
word: dead comet
word: exocomet
word: great comet
word: Halley's Comet
word: Halley's comet
word: interstellar comet
word: near-Earth comet
word: parabolic comet
word: periodical comet
word: periodic comet
word: short period comet
word: short-period comet
word: supercomet
word: vomit comet
hobby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒbi
ipa: /ˈhɒ.bi/
ipa: /ˈhɑ.bi/
Forms: form: hobbies
Etymology: Shortened from hobby-horse, from Middle English hoby, hobyn, hobin (“small horse, pony”), from Old French hobi, *haubi, haubby, hobin ("a nag, hobby"; > Modern French aubin, Italian ubino), of Germanic origin: from Old French hober, ober (“to stir, move”), from Old Dutch hobben (“to toss, move up and down”); or from North Germanic origin related to Danish hoppe (“a mare”), Old Swedish hoppa (“a young mare”), North Frisian hoppe (“horse”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend; a bend, joint”). More at hop, hobble.
The meaning of hobby-horse shifted from "small horse, pony" to "child's toy riding horse" to "favorite pastime or avocation" with the connecting notion being "activity that doesn't go anywhere". Possibly originally from a proper name for a horse, a diminutive of Robert or Robin (compare dobbin).
Senses: examples: text: I like to collect stamps from different countries as a hobby.
text: take up a hobby
text: give up your hobby
glosses: An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.
topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: An extinct breed of horse native to the British Isles, also known as the Irish Hobby.
examples: text: "Well, I think East is right," said Arthur; "I can't see but what it's right to do the best you can, though it mayn't be the best absolutely. Every man isn't born to be a martyr."
"Of course, of course," said East; "but he's on one of his pet hobbies. — How often have I told you, Tom, that you must drive a nail where it'll go."
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
glosses: Synonym of hobby horse (“a favorite topic”).
synonyms: word: hobby horse
extra: a favorite topic
Synonyms: sense: activity done for enjoyment in spare time
word: avocation
word: pastime
word: amusement
word: diversion
word: divertisement
word: fancy
word: hobby
word: kill-time
word: pursuit
word: sport
Hypernyms: word: activity
word: leisure
Hyponyms: word: amateur radio
word: arctophily
word: ballooning
word: birdkeeping
word: bird-nesting
word: birdspotting
word: cartophily
word: collecting
word: conchology
word: congoing
word: crosswording
word: DXing
word: fishkeeping
word: gaming
word: groundhopping
word: ham radio
word: lepidoptery
word: letterboxing
word: metal detecting
word: phillumeny
word: piphilology
word: planespotting
word: quilting
word: retrocomputing
word: retrogaming
word: roadgeeking
word: scripophily
word: spelunking
word: stamp collecting
word: SWLing
word: tegestology
word: train spotting
Derived terms: hobby bobby
hobbycraft
hobby desk
hobby horse
hobbyism
hobbyist
hobby knife
hobbyless
hobbylike
hobby table
Irish hobby
Irish Hobby
ride a hobby
Related terms: word: hobbyhorse
word: hobelar
word: hobeler
word: dilettantism
word: game
hobby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒbi
ipa: /ˈhɒ.bi/
ipa: /ˈhɑ.bi/
Forms: form: hobbies
Etymology: From Middle English hoby, hobeye, from Old French hobé, hobei, hobet, from Medieval Latin hopētus, diminutive of harpe.
Senses: examples: text: He hawked – from nearby Esher, Richard Fox sent a servant with a hobby, which Henry received enthusiastically – and hunted, sending a present of freshly slaughtered deer to Princess Mary.
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 323:
glosses: Any of four species of small falcons in the genus Falco, especially Falco subbuteo.
Synonyms: word: amusement
word: avocation
word: diversion
word: divertisement
word: fancy
word: hobby
word: kill-time
word: pastime
word: pursuit
word: sport
Hypernyms: word: activity
word: leisure
Hyponyms: word: amateur radio
word: arctophily
word: ballooning
word: birdkeeping
word: bird-nesting
word: birdspotting
word: cartophily
word: collecting
word: conchology
word: congoing
word: crosswording
word: DXing
word: fishkeeping
word: gaming
word: groundhopping
word: ham radio
word: lepidoptery
word: letterboxing
word: metal detecting
word: phillumeny
word: piphilology
word: planespotting
word: quilting
word: retrocomputing
word: retrogaming
word: roadgeeking
word: scripophily
word: spelunking
word: stamp collecting
word: SWLing
word: tegestology
word: train spotting
Derived terms: African hobby
Falco cuvierii
Australian hobby
Falco longipennis
Eurasian hobby
Falco subbuteo
Oriental hobby
Falco severus
Related terms: word: hobby lantern
word: dilettantism
word: game
tadpole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtædpoʊl/
rhymes: -ædpoʊl
Forms: form: tadpoles
Etymology: From Middle English tadpolle, taddepol, equivalent to toad + poll (“head”).
Senses: glosses: A young toad or frog in its larval stage of development that lives in water, has a tail and no legs, and, like a fish, breathes through gills.
examples: text: salamander tadpole
glosses: The aquatic larva of any amphibian.
glosses: A type of cargo bike that has two wheels in front and one in back.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A child's basic drawing of a human being, having a detailed head but only sticks for the body and limbs.
examples: text: Shouldn't you tadpoles be in bed?
ref: 1970, Dorothy Clarke Wilson, Lone Woman, page 174:
glosses: A small child.
examples: text: Woman's voice: You impudent imp! You tadpole! You shrimp!
ref: 1900 August 4, The Geelong Advertiser, Victoria, page 6, column 7:
text: “[H]ere's this Tooralooral tadpole of a Mayor shovin' his nose into the business and arrestin' our Puddin' without rhyme or reason.”
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 142:
glosses: An insignificant person.
Synonyms: sense: toad or frog larva
word: polliwog
sense: toad or frog larva
word: porriwiggle
Derived terms: frogpole
tadpole goby
tadpole operator
tadpole person
tadpole physa
tadpole shrimp
tadpole tea
toadpole
pajamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/
note: Canada, Midland US, Northern US, Western US
ipa: /pəˈd͡ʒæ.məz/
ipa: /pəˈd͡ʒaː.məs/
ipa: /pəˈd͡ʒæː.məs/
ipa: /pɐˈd͡ʒaː.mɐs/
Forms: form: pajama
form: pyjamas
Etymology: From Urdu پاجامہ (pājāma) (Hindi पाजामा (pājāmā)), from Classical Persian پَاجَامَه (pājāma, “trousers, drawers”), from پَا (pā, “leg”) + جَامَه (jāma, “garment”).
Senses: examples: text: She put on a coat over her new pair of pajamas.
related: word: pajama
glosses: Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers.
glosses: Loose-fitting trousers worn by both sexes in various southern Asian countries including India.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The coloured uniform worn by players in professional limited overs matches.
Hypernyms: bedwear
nightclothes
nightwear
sleepwear
Derived terms: dayjamas
jammies
llama's pajamas
pajama
pajamahadeen
pj's
the cat's pyjamas
Related terms: nightie
nightshirt
coral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒɹəl/
ipa: /ˈkɔɚɹəl/
homophone: choral
ipa: /ˈkɔɹəl/
rhymes: -ɒɹəl
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
Forms: form: corals
Etymology: From Old French coral (French corail), from Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek κοράλλιον (korállion, “coral”). Probably ultimately of Semitic origin, compare Hebrew גּוֹרָל (goral, “small pebble”), Arabic جَرَل (jaral, “small stone”), originally referring to the red variety found in the Mediterranean. Since ancient times, a common folk etymology, accepted by some earlier scholars, connected the word instead to Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē) (referring to Medusa). Beekes mentions both theories and considers the Semitic one convincing.
Senses: glosses: Any of many species of marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa, most of which build hard calcium carbonate skeletons and form colonies, or a colony belonging to one of those species.
glosses: A hard substance made of the skeletons of these organisms.
examples: text: The coral faded even from her lips, till they were as white as Leo's face, and quivered pitifully.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A somewhat yellowish orange-pink color; the color of red coral (Corallium rubrum) of the Mediterranean Sea, commonly used as an ornament or gem.
glosses: The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their color.
examples: text: On the very chair which I used to occupy when I was at work Marian was sitting now, with the child industriously sucking his coral upon her lap.
ref: 1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White:
glosses: A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
coral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒɹəl/
ipa: /ˈkɔɚɹəl/
homophone: choral
ipa: /ˈkɔɹəl/
rhymes: -ɒɹəl
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
Forms: form: corals
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of corral.
coral
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒɹəl/
ipa: /ˈkɔɚɹəl/
homophone: choral
ipa: /ˈkɔɹəl/
rhymes: -ɒɹəl
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
Forms: form: corals
form: coraling
form: coralling
form: coraled
form: coraled
form: coralled
form: coralled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of corral.
ebony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛb.ən.i/
Forms: form: ebonies
Etymology: From earlier heben, hebeny, from Middle English ebenif, hebenyf (influenced by Late Latin hebeninus), from Ecclesiastical Latin ebenius (“of ebony”), from Latin hebenus (“ebon tree”), from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ébenos), from Egyptian hbnj, U13:n-Z4:M3
Senses: glosses: A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros.
examples: text: “You live up the road past the ebony tree, right?” he asked, looking past me.
ref: 2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 51:
glosses: A tree that yields such wood.
glosses: A deep, dark black colour.
examples: text: At dawn the hunters were off. There were fifty sleek, black warriors, and in their midst, lithe and active as a young forest god, strode Tarzan of the Apes, his brown skin contrasting oddly with the ebony of his companions. Except for color he was one of them.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 130:
glosses: Dark skin colour.
examples: text: Ebony and ivory / Live together in perfect harmony / Side by side on my piano keyboard / Oh lord, why don't we?
ref: 1982, Paul McCartney, “Ebony and Ivory”, in Tug of War, performed by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder:
text: Tony had gone into the storage room and gotten two more standing lamps, one placed near the ebonies and ivories.
ref: 2016, Peter Wendt, Nikki Magee, Lulu.com, page 52:
glosses: A black key on a piano or other keyboard instrument (as opposed to ivory).
Derived terms: Ceylon ebony
ebonify
ebonist
ebonize
ebony boghaunter
ebony bug
ebonylike
green ebony
India ebony
Jamaican ebony
Samoan ebony
Texas ebony
West Indian ebony
Related terms: ebon
Ebonics
ebonise
ebonite
ebony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛb.ən.i/
Forms: form: more ebony
form: most ebony
Etymology: From earlier heben, hebeny, from Middle English ebenif, hebenyf (influenced by Late Latin hebeninus), from Ecclesiastical Latin ebenius (“of ebony”), from Latin hebenus (“ebon tree”), from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ébenos), from Egyptian hbnj, U13:n-Z4:M3
Senses: glosses: Made of ebony wood.
examples: text: Seats are trimmed in a grey and blue moquette and tables are finished with grey Vyanide tops, gilt edging and ebony legs.
ref: 1961 February, “New "Mini-Buffets" from Wolverton”, in Trains Illustrated, page 79:
glosses: A deep, dark black colour.
examples: text: He called the ebony mistress of the establishment to him, and speaking to her kindly and winningly, as any dutiful husband should, told her to make the change, which she did.
ref: 1864, George Adams Fisher, The Yankee conscript: or, Eighteen months in Dixie:
text: No attempt was made in her new home to discontinue or even to conceal the presence of an ebony mistress and a thriving family of little mulattoes...
ref: 1931, Catherine MacFarlane Carswell, The life of Robert Burns:
text: Want to watch my gorgeous ebony friend, Almond Joy, naked and online 24/7? She recently ended a long-term relationship and is now fully enjoying being a 25 year-old single gal in Beverly Hills.
ref: 2004, Alyssa, “Ebony Girls Need Attention”, in alt.sex.escorts (Usenet):
glosses: Dark-skinned; black; especially in reference to African-Americans.
Derived terms: ebony spleenwort
Related terms: calamander
cocuswood
tendu
lavender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæv.ən.də/
ipa: /ˈlæv.ən.dɚ/
Forms: form: lavenders
Etymology: From Middle English lavendre, from Anglo-Norman lavendre (French lavande), from Medieval Latin lavendula, possibly from Latin lividus (“bluish”), but influenced by lavō (“wash”) due to use of lavender in washing clothes.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.
glosses: A pale bluish purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A kind of film stock for creating positive prints from negatives as part of the process of duplicating the negatives.
Hyponyms: sense: plant
word: common lavender
Derived terms: cotton lavender
desert lavender
English lavender
fernleaf lavender
French lavender
fringed lavender
lavender ceiling
lavender-collar
lavender cotton
lavender foal syndrome
lavenderish
lavender linguistics
lavender marriage
lavender menace
lavender thrift
lavender water
lavendery
lay in lavender
lay up in lavender
rock sea lavender
sea lavender
Spanish lavender
spike lavender
Related terms: launder
lavender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæv.ən.də/
ipa: /ˈlæv.ən.dɚ/
Forms: form: more lavender
form: most lavender
Etymology: From Middle English lavendre, from Anglo-Norman lavendre (French lavande), from Medieval Latin lavendula, possibly from Latin lividus (“bluish”), but influenced by lavō (“wash”) due to use of lavender in washing clothes.
Senses: glosses: Having a pale purple colour.
examples: text: “Now in here,” their guide, sweating dark tentacles into his tab collar, briefed them, “you are going to see the members of the third sex, the lavender crowd this city by the Bay is so justly famous for.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 81:
text: My sother (significant other) and I have been together almost nineteen years. Exactly half of the usual wedding vows taken traditionally by non-lavender couples — for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, — have been characteristic of our relationship.
ref: 1981 August 22, Nancy Walker, “Still Coming Out, After All These Years”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 6, page 11:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Pertaining to LGBT people and rights.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism.
Derived terms: lavender lad
lavender scare
lavender
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæv.ən.də/
ipa: /ˈlæv.ən.dɚ/
Forms: form: lavenders
form: lavendering
form: lavendered
form: lavendered
Etymology: From Middle English lavendre, from Anglo-Norman lavendre (French lavande), from Medieval Latin lavendula, possibly from Latin lividus (“bluish”), but influenced by lavō (“wash”) due to use of lavender in washing clothes.
Senses: examples: text: Short shafts of dying sunlight mingled with the deepening grey, lavendering the horizon, and all nature seemed to hush as though waiting to welcome the night.
ref: 1986, Katherine Gibson Fougera, With Custer's Cavalry, page 47:
glosses: To decorate or perfume with lavender.
recipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/
ipa: /ˈɹɛs.ə.pi/
Forms: form: recipes
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French récipé, from Latin recipe, second person singular imperative of Latin recipiō (“receive”). Doublet of recept and receipt.
Senses: examples: text: As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
ref: 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.
examples: text: [Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.
ref: 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
glosses: Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
examples: text: His new approach is definitely a recipe for success.
glosses: A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription.
glosses: Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.
examples: text: Stepper recipes.
glosses: A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.
Synonyms: word: receipt
Derived terms: love recipe
recipe book
recipe box
recipe dish
recipeless
secret recipe
kebbuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛbək/
rhymes: -ɛbək
Forms: form: kebbucks
form: kebbock
Etymology: 15th century, from Scottish Gaelic càbaig.
Senses: examples: text: Syne draws her kebbuck an’ her knife
ref: 1785, Robert Burns, The Holy Fair:
text: They refused us a han'fu' in our greatest need, but now it wull be our turn to ha' fou sacks and baith cakes and kebbucks at command, while their aumery is bare
glosses: A whole wheel or ball of cheese.
suffix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌfɪks/
ipa: /ˈsʌfɪks/
ipa: /səˈfɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Forms: form: suffixes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin suffīxus (“suffix”), from sub- (“under”) + fīxus (perfect passive participle of fīgere (“to fasten, fix”)), equivalent to sub- + -fix.
Senses: examples: text: The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".
text: The praenomen and nomen for the most part consisted of simple stems with the suffix -us or -ius, […]
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiv:
text: Before I simply create a root meaning X, is there any way I can use Ithkuil morphological categories or the 150 or so suffix categories to derive this word from a more general or primary word? […] In other words, the writer would not write or “key” a certain Ithkuil symbol, but rather would select a particular root from a database and identify the particular forms of the 22 morphological categories which apply to the root as well as any suffixes.
ref: 2006, “Ithkuil Q & A”, in The Conlanger's Library, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2025, pages 3, 6:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
synonyms: word: affix
english: narrow sense
translation: narrow sense
antonyms: prefix
hypernyms: word: affix
word: morpheme
glosses: A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subscript.
examples: text: The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A final segment of a string of characters.
Derived terms: derivational suffix
inflectional suffix
null suffix
possessive suffix
semisuffix
suffixal
suffixation
suffixness
zero suffix
suffix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌfɪks/
ipa: /ˈsʌfɪks/
ipa: /səˈfɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Forms: form: suffixes
form: suffixing
form: suffixed
form: suffixed
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin suffīxus (“suffix”), from sub- (“under”) + fīxus (perfect passive participle of fīgere (“to fasten, fix”)), equivalent to sub- + -fix.
Senses: glosses: To append (something) to the end of something else.
Related terms: affix
crucifixion
fix
fixation
infix
postfix
prefix
suffixal
suffixion
suffix tree
teddy bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teddy bears
form: teddybear
Etymology: From Morris Michtom, the owner of a candy store in Brooklyn N.Y., who made the first “Teddy Bear” in the year 1902 in honor of then American President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt when he had heard that he had refused to shoot a bear cub on one of his hunting trips.
Senses: examples: text: 1988, Michael Weikath, "Rise and Fall", Helloween, Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II.
The king of Los Angeles / Bought himself a teddy bear / And the queen became shameless / She did it with a chair
text: The origin of Paddington (the bear, not the station) dates to 1956 when author Michael Bond (1926-2017) spotted a lonesome teddy bear on the shelf of a store near the station. It was Christmas Eve, so he bought the solitary bear for his wife.
ref: 2021 September 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, in RAIL, number 940, page 74:
glosses: A plush toy in the shape of a bear.
examples: text: I'd like to mt you if you're a bearded ‘Teddy Bear,’ husky build, under 34 & share a career orientation.
ref: 1980 August 9, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
text: ...the sexy "teddy bear" frontman of the '80s rap group Heavy D and the Boyz.
ref: 1999, “Big Men are Sexy Too - Apr 1999”, in Ebony, volume 54, number 6, page 73:
text: This is not to say that women don't admire the Brad Pitts and George Clooneys of the world, but they're just as likely to be attracted to a big, teddy bear kind of man as the guy gracing the cover of GQ.
ref: 2008, Jean A. Campbell, Taking Sexy Back: The Cure for the Sexual Blahs, page 124:
text: Some insisted that, because men have generally hairier bodies than women, a super-hairy chest is super-male and therefore very appealing. They added that it not only looks sexy but also feels sexy, like a teddy bear.
ref: 2009, Desmond Morris, The Naked Man: A Study of the Male Body, page 161:
text: “So I'm sort of a big teddy bear, am I?” “A sexy teddy bear.” he kissed her neck.
ref: 2010, Abigail Reynolds, Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice: A Modern Love Story with a Jane..., page 276:
glosses: A lovable, endearing, large, strong, hairy, or sweet man, particularly one who is gentle in spite of a burly or gruff appearance.
Derived terms: teddy bear coat
teddy bear jacket
teddy bears' picnic
tide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tīd
ipa: /taɪd/
note: Southern US, African-American Vernacular
ipa: [tʰaːd]
ipa: [tʰɑe̯d]
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: tied
Forms: form: tides
form: tiding
form: tided
form: tided
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis
Proto-Germanic *tīdiz
Proto-West Germanic *tīdi
Old English tīd
Middle English tyde
English tide
Inherited from Middle English tyde, from Old English tīd, from Proto-West Germanic *tīdi, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis, from *deh₂y- + *-tis.
 Related to time.
Senses: examples: text: They are tided down the stream.
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
glosses: To carry over or through a problem or difficulty.
raw_tags: in the phrase tide over
examples: text: The ocean tided most impressively.
glosses: To pour a tide or flood.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
Derived terms: tide over
Related terms: ebb
flow
neap
spring
tide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tīd
ipa: /taɪd/
note: Southern US, African-American Vernacular
ipa: [tʰaːd]
ipa: [tʰɑe̯d]
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: tied
Forms: form: tides
form: tiding
form: tided
form: tided
Etymology: From Middle English tiden, tide, from Old English tīdan (“to happen”).
Senses: examples: text: I wit not what may tide us here
ref: 1779, David Dalrymple, Annals of Scotland, volume II, page 121:
glosses: To happen, occur.
Synonyms: betide
befall