cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪm
Forms: form: hames
Etymology: From Middle English ham, from Old English hām (“home”). More at home.
Senses: glosses: Scottish and Northern English form of home
hame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪm
Forms: form: hames
Etymology: From earlier haum, haume.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haulm.
condusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of conducive.
dumbledore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌm.bəl.dɔː/
ipa: /ˈdʌm.bəl.dɔːɹ/
Forms: form: dumbledores
form: dumble-dor
form: drumbledore
form: dumbledor
Etymology: Compound of dumble (similar to bumble) + dor (“a buzzing flying insect”).
Senses: examples: text: Those slopes of fresh turf, embroidered with every minute blossom of the moor — thyme, birdsfoot, eyebright, and dwarf purple thistle, buzzed and hummed over by busy, black-tailed, yellow-banded dumbledores.
ref: 1875, Charlotte M Yonge, The Daisy Chain:
text: A shaded lamp and a waving blind, / And the beat of a clock from a distant floor: / On this scene enter – winged, horned, and spined – / A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore —
ref: 1899, Thomas Hardy, An August Midnight:
text: Now and then a dumbledore or ‘busy bee’ as they are called by some, propelled itself across our path, they being extremely large and heavy this year.
ref: 1970 May 21, Evening Telegram, page 3:
text: A dumbledore, lured from the plantation, lies on its back, leaping and churning upon Seth’s bright pages.
ref: 1987, Seán Virgo, Selakhi, Exile Editions, Ltd., page 20:
glosses: A bumblebee.
examples: text: others may need to be informd that a blastnashun straddlebob is a dumbledore, that is to say, a polyonymous lamellicorn coleopter, cald also a dorbeetle, a dorbug, a maybeetle, a maybug, a cockchafer, a Melolontha vulgaris.
ref: 1964, American Philological Association, “Transactions of the American Philological Association”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Ginn & Co., page 267:
glosses: A beetle, typically a cockchafer or dung beetle.
examples: text: The Dandelion has a number of common names in Newfoundland. These include Dumbledore, Faceclock, and Piss-a-beds.
ref: 1975, Peter J. Scott, Edible Fruits and Herbs of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Memorial University Oxen Pond Botanical Park, page 39:
glosses: A dandelion.
examples: text: “Miserable dumbledores!” / “Right, William, and so they be—miserable dumbledores!” said the choir with unanimity.
ref: 1872, [Thomas Hardy], chapter 4, in Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, (please specify |part=I to V):
glosses: A blundering person.
Related terms: Dumbledorian
brewer's rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Let's use brewer's rice because it's cheaper.
glosses: Broken pieces of food-grade rice used typically in the manufacture of food and beverages, as well as in animal feed.
botty burp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botty burps
Senses: glosses: Flatulence.
lead out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːd ˌaʊt/
ipa: /ˌliːd ˈaʊt/
Forms: form: lead outs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lead-out.
lead out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːd ˌaʊt/
ipa: /ˌliːd ˈaʊt/
Forms: form: leads out
form: leading out
form: led out
form: led out
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lead, out.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To bet into a pot postflop from the first betting position.
Synonyms: topics: poker
card-games
word: lead
lead out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːd ˌaʊt/
ipa: /ˌliːd ˈaʊt/
ipa: /ˌlɛd ˈaʊt/
homophone: led out
ipa: /ˈliːd ˌaʊt/
ipa: /ˌliːd ˈaʊt/
Forms: form: leads out
form: leading out
form: leaded out
form: leaded out
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To pad out (text) by inserting lead slugs between words.
dingleberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dingleberry
IND
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: INDs
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of Investigational New Drug application.
IND
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Indiana.
glosses: Initialism of The Independent Subway (System), part of the New York City subway.
IND
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: INDs
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of independent, especially where the alternatives are initialisms (e.g., for television networks).
Coordinate terms: english: other
translation: other
word: OTH
english: Conservative
translation: Conservative
word: CON
english: Liberal
translation: Liberal
word: LIB
english: Labour
translation: Labour
word: LAB
english: Green
translation: Green
word: GRN
english: Social Democrat
translation: Social Democrat
word: SD
english: Liberal Democrat
translation: Liberal Democrat
word: LD
english: Christian Democrat
translation: Christian Democrat
word: CD
jai alai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪlaɪ/
ipa: /ˈhaɪəlaɪ/
ipa: /haɪəˈlaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪlaɪ
rhymes: -aɪ
Etymology: From Spanish, from Basque jai (“festival”) + alai (“merry”), coined by 19th century writer Serafín Baroja in order to replace the non-native name pilota. However, although jai alai is composed of Basque words, it is not the name actually used in Basque.
Senses: glosses: a Basque ball game in which the players propel the ball using a long basket attached to the wrist
wikipedia: Serafín Baroja
Pterelas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛˈɹɛləz/
Forms: form: Pterelaus
Etymology: Ultimately from Ancient Greek Πτερέλαος (Pterélaos).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: King of the Teleboans in Plautus' Amphitruo.
loudness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loudnesses
Etymology: From Middle English loudnesse, lowdenesse, from Old English hlūdnes, equivalent to loud + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the perceptual strength or amplitude of sound pressure, measured in sones or phons
glosses: the physical strength of the sound pressure level, measured in decibels
Derived terms: loudness race
loudness war
raniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From New Latin rānifōrmis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Shaped like a frog; resembling a frog.
Synonyms: sense: resembling a frog
word: froggish
sense: resembling a frog
word: froggy
sense: resembling a frog
word: froglike
sense: resembling a frog
word: frogly
sense: resembling a frog
word: ranine
macaronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmækəˈɹɑnɪk/
Forms: form: more macaronic
form: most macaronic
form: maccaronic
form: macaronick
Etymology: From New Latin, 1517 coinage, macaronicus, from Italian (Neapolitan dialect) maccarone (“coarse dumpling”).
Senses: glosses: Jumbled, mixed.
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.
synonyms: word: buckish
word: dandyish
word: beauish
word: buckish
word: coxcombical
word: dandiacal
word: dandified
word: dandy
word: dandyish
word: dandyistic
word: dudish
word: foppish
word: foppy
word: Jemmy-Jessamy
word: lily-handed
word: macaronic
word: swellish
word: Woosterian
glosses: Like a macaroni or dandy; foppish, trifling, affected.
Derived terms: macaronically
macaronicism
macaronic Latin
macaronic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmækəˈɹɑnɪk/
Forms: form: macaronics
form: maccaronic
form: macaronick
Etymology: From New Latin, 1517 coinage, macaronicus, from Italian (Neapolitan dialect) maccarone (“coarse dumpling”).
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A work of macaronic character.
topics: human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
synonyms: hybrid
etymological hybrid
glosses: A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages.
topics: human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
synonyms: hybrid
etymological hybrid
glosses: A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages.
Such a word that mixes Latin morphemes with non-Latin ones.
hodge-podge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hodge-podges
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hodgepodge.
thanatophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθæn.ə.təˈfoʊ.bi.ə/
rhymes: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From thanato- + -phobia.
Senses: synonyms: deathfear
antonyms: thanatophilia
glosses: A fear of death.
Derived terms: thanatophobic
Related terms: necrophobia
persimmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜːˈsɪmən/
ipa: /pəɹˈsɪmən/
ipa: /ˈpɜːsəmən/
rhymes: -ɪmən
Forms: form: persimmons
form: putchamin
Etymology: From Powhatan pichamins, pushemins, pasimenan (“dried fruit”), from the same Proto-Algonquian root *-imin (“fruit, berry”) as Unami ximin.
Senses: examples: text: I warned them not to eat the persimmons until they were soft to the touch.
ref: 1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 94:
synonyms: date plum
kaki
Sharon fruit
possum apple
simmon
glosses: The orange fruit of any of various species of trees in the genus Diospyros, especially Diospyros kaki (the kaki or Japanese persimmon) or Diospyros virginiana (the wild American persimmon), which is sweet when ripe and astringent when immature.
glosses: The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).
Derived terms: Chinese persimmon
huckleberry above a persimmon
huckleberry above one's persimmon
Japanese persimmon
kaki persimmon
knock the persimmon
Oriental persimmon
the longest pole knocks the persimmon
Karst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑɹst/
rhymes: -ɑɹst
Forms: form: the Karst
form: Kras
form: Carso
Etymology: Borrowed from German Karst.
Senses: glosses: A mountainous karst plateau in northeastern Italy and southwestern Slovenia; in full, Karst Plateau.
valetudinarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From valetudinarian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The state, condition or habits of a valetudinarian; a state of feeble health; infirmity.
Related terms: valetudinarian
valetudinariness
valetudinary
suck off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks off
form: sucking off
form: sucked off
form: sucked off
Senses: examples: text: You might think your boyfriend's straight, but he sucked me off last night.
text: I been goin’ up to Old Rowlandson’s two nights a week. He sucks me off. Gives me a quid.’
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 160:
text: "Ask her if I could please suck her off," I said desperately to Jerry, having no idea what the correct protocol was, but I didn't care.
ref: 2008, Tristan Taormino, Ali Liebegott, Best Lesbian Erotica, page 99:
text: He'd had plans for this night, careful plans, and they did not include letting Eva suck him off. If anything, he intended to suck her off.
ref: 2011, Angela Knight, Master of Smoke, →ISBN:
text: You know you can suck him off if you want to him feel better.
ref: 2016, Leo Butler, Decades, →ISBN:
text: I don't care if I have to sit here all day and suck him off. If that is what he wants, I'll be happy to oblige. I'd suck him off all damn day and leave the happiest girl you've ever seen. But that's not what he wants tonight. He has another commitment.
ref: 2017, Willa Edwards, The Governor's Special Aide, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: give brain
word: give dome
word: give hat
word: give head
word: give neck
word: give noddy
word: go down on
glosses: To perform oral sex (fellatio or cunnilingus) on.
copulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copulation
parsonage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parsonages
Etymology: From parson + -age.
Senses: coordinate_terms: curatage
vicarage
rectory
glebe-house
manse
pastorium
glosses: The residence of the minister of a parish.
coordinate_terms: benefice
glebe-farm
glosses: The house, lands, tithes, etc. set apart for the support of the minister of a parish.
Derived terms: squarsonage
Related terms: curateship
curacy
rectorate
vicarate
vicarship
Muzak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːzæk/
ipa: /ˈmjuzæk/
Etymology: The noun is a blend of music + the letters ak from Kodak, a well-known brand in 1934 when the word was coined by the American inventor, scientist, and soldier George Owen Squier (1865–1934), who developed the original technical basis for the service.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: It dawned on her that he was talking about the Muzak. It had been seeping in, in its subliminal, unidentifiable way since they'd entered the place, all strings, reeds, muted brass.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 105:
text: There's no way I can change internal body functions. Only yogis can do that. Muzak, for example, can't change you. Aaron Copeland [i.e., Aaron Copland] calls Muzak 'the obsequious.' We're super-saturated with shitty music. [Originally published in New Times.]
ref: 1975 February 7, Michael Gross, quoting Tom Turicchi, “The Hits Just Keep on Coming”, in Robert Atwan, Barry Orton, William Vesterman, American Mass Media: Industries and Issues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, published 1978, →ISBN, part 3 (The Sound Media), page 320, column 2:
text: Some people, of course, have no trouble making that decision: they know they don't like Muzak. Critics charge that Muzak invades what could be pleasurable silence, disrupts conversation, or smacks of George Orwell's 1984. [Originally published in American Way.]
ref: 1983 November, Bill Hunter, “It’s Muzak through Your Ears”, in Robert Atwan, Barry Orton, William Vesterman, American Mass Media: Industries and Issues, 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, published 1986, →ISBN, part 3 (The Sound Media), page 289, column 1:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: word: aural wallpaper
word: elevator music
word: lift music
qualifier: trademark
glosses: Recorded background music characterized by soft, soothing instrumental sounds which is transmitted by wire, radio, or recorded media (originally on a subscription basis) to doctors' offices, shops, and other business premises.
Derived terms: muzakal
Muzak man
muzaky
Newzak
Muzak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːzæk/
ipa: /ˈmjuzæk/
Forms: form: musac
form: muzak
Etymology: The noun is a blend of music + the letters ak from Kodak, a well-known brand in 1934 when the word was coined by the American inventor, scientist, and soldier George Owen Squier (1865–1934), who developed the original technical basis for the service.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: The sound you make is muzak to my ears / You must have learned something in all those years
ref: 1971 September 9, John Lennon, “How Do You Sleep?”, in Imagine:
text: [T]he supermarket is very crowded, because of course it's the time of day when all other people with jobs also try to squeeze in some grocery shopping, and the store is hideously, fluorescently lit, and infused with soul-killing Muzak or corporate pop, and it's pretty much the last place you want to be, but you can't just get in and quickly out.
ref: 2005 May 21, David Foster Wallace, This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, published April 2009, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: aural wallpaper
ear candy
glosses: Easy listening music, whether played live or recorded, especially if regarded as uninteresting.
glosses: Something (such as speech) regarded as droning on and often boring, or soothing but undemanding.
Related terms: fast food music
Muzak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːzæk/
ipa: /ˈmjuzæk/
Forms: form: Muzaks
form: Muzaking
form: Muzaked
form: Muzaked
Etymology: The noun is a blend of music + the letters ak from Kodak, a well-known brand in 1934 when the word was coined by the American inventor, scientist, and soldier George Owen Squier (1865–1934), who developed the original technical basis for the service.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: glosses: To provide (premises, etc.) with Muzak.
examples: text: Willington had seen disco for what it was – the great Muzaking of rock and roll via a chintzy chorus, chintzy rotating mirror balls, and chintzy Arthur Murray twirling.
ref: 1984, Peter LaSalle, chapter 13, in Strange Sunlight: […], Austin, Tex.: Texas Monthly Press, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: To adapt or reduce (a piece of music, etc.) to the status of Muzak.
Derived terms: word: Muzaked
midnite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midnites
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of midnight.
nuch
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ
Etymology: aphetic form of not much
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: Not much, hardly, barely, to an insignificant degree.
nuch
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ
Etymology: aphetic form of not much
Senses: examples: text: Dude! Sup? - Nuch.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A response to the greeting/question What's up?
cataleptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cataleptic
form: most cataleptic
Senses: examples: text: Methought I was immersed in a cataleptic trance of more than usual duration and profundity.
ref: 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial:
text: She keeps still, feigning cataleptic exhaustion.
ref: 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 771:
glosses: Pertaining to, or affected by, catalepsy.
Derived terms: anticataleptic
cataleptical
cataleptically
cataleptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cataleptics
Senses: glosses: A person experiencing catalepsy.
rt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of right.
Derived terms: Rt Hon
rt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rts
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of route.
glosses: Abbreviation of retweet.
stupider
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: You people aren't stupider than anyone else. Not naturally stupider.
ref: 1928, Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 142:
text: Freud's disciples have been even more stupid about "creative writing". At least Freud had the good sense to know when to shut up, as he did in Dostoevski's case. But stupider still is the more recent Hemingway machismo number.
ref: 1985, Walker Percy with Lewis A. Lawson and Victor A. Kramer, Conversations with Walker Percy, page 165:
text: "You'd be stupider / — "More stupid," she said. / — stupider," he repeated, "to find yourself dis'tangling your way out of a charge of obstruction in a police enquiry.
ref: 2002, Elizabeth George, A Traitor to Memory, page 827:
glosses: comparative form of stupid: more stupid
idiocy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪdiəsi/
ipa: [ˈɪɾiəsi]
Forms: form: idiocies
form: idiotcy
Etymology: From French idiotie, from Old French idiot. Displaced earlier idiotacy, idiotry. Equivalent to idiot + -cy.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The state or condition of being an idiot; the quality of having an intelligence level far below average; mental retardation; intellectual disability.
examples: text: The administrators, growing tired of such idiocy, put a new policy in place.
synonyms: imbecility
stupidity
glosses: Lack of intelligence or sense; extremely foolish behaviour.
examples: text: The list of his idiocies is seemingly interminable.
glosses: An idiotic act or utterance.
Synonyms: word: idiocity
word: idiotacy
word: idiotcy
word: idiotery
word: idioticalness
word: idioticity
word: idioticness
word: idioticy
word: idiotness
word: idiotry
Derived terms: artificial idiocy
covidiocy
Mongolian idiocy
Related terms: idiocracy
idiot
idiotic
idiotically
common law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common-law
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English comun lawe, comune lawe (“general law, common law”), from comun (“shared, universal”) + lawe (“law”), referring to the law's uniform nature throughout a jurisdiction. Compare Medieval Latin lex commūne, iūs commūne and Anglo-Norman commune lei.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Law developed by judges, courts, and agency adjudicatory tribunals, through their decisions and opinions (also called case law) (as opposed to statutes promulgated by legislatures, and regulations promulgated by the executive branch).
topics: law
glosses: Legal system mainly in England and its former colonies with a heavy emphasis on judge-made law, doctrines deduced by casuistry rather than from general principles, and law distributed among judicial decisions rather than codified statutes (as opposed to civil law).
topics: law
glosses: Body of law and procedure administered in certain courts (known as law courts) in England and its former colonies characterized by a rigid system of writs, with a limited set of remedies (as opposed to equity or admiralty).
topics: law
qualifier: Scots law; Roman-Dutch law; Scots law; Roman-Dutch law
glosses: Law of general application throughout a country, province, or state as opposed to law having only a special or local application
Synonyms: case law
decisional law
judge-made law
precedential law
Coordinate terms: word: constitutional law
alt: U.K.
word: delegated legislation
word: regulatory law
word: statutory law
Derived terms: common-law marriage
common-law
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: common law
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to common law.
glosses: Relating to common-law marriage.
Related terms: common law
common-law cohabitation
common-law couple
common-law husband
common-law marriage
common-law partner
common-law partnership
common-law relationship
common-law spouse
common-law wife
phantastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phantastic
form: most phantastic
Senses: examples: text: With this we affirm the important fact that man in his phantastic thinking has kept a condensation of the psychic history of his development. An extraordinarily important task, which even today is hardly possible, is to give a systematic description of phantastic thinking.
ref: 1916, chapter I, in Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle, transl., Psychology of the Unconscious, Moffat, Yard and Company, page 36:
glosses: Alternative form of fantastic.
Derived terms: phantastical
phantastically
phantastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phantastics
Senses: glosses: Any hallucinogenic drug.
common-law marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common-law marriages
Senses: glosses: A state of marriage, or legal recognition similar to that of marriage, enjoyed by a couple who have not undergone an official marriage ceremony, but instead based on the duration of cohabitation and/or other practical characteristics of the relationship.
Related terms: common law
common-law
live in sin
braza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brazas
form: brass
Etymology: From Spanish braza (“Spanish brace”), from Old Spanish braça, from Latin brachia, variant of bracchium (“arm, cubit”), from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn, “upper arm”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of estado, a traditional Spanish unit of length equivalent to about 1.67 m.
synonyms: word: estado
extra: a traditional Spanish unit of length equivalent to about 1.67 m.
sleuthing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sleuth
sleuthing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleuthings
Senses: examples: text: “Wotcher, me old cock sparrow, how's the sleuthing business?” bellowed Sandy, pausing and balancing his saddle on one knee while he looped up the girth.
ref: 1962, Dick Francis, chapter 19, in Dead Cert, published 2004, page 266:
text: Keane's speeches have not reduced the number of Amerasian births, but a decade of sleuthing has helped nearly 600 Amerasian orphans find new homes in the United States.
ref: 1980, Geo, volume 2, number 2, page 80:
text: You knew less about sex than you knew about sleuthing, but you soon figured out what the goods were and got them. You were not so much a private eye as an eyer of privates.
ref: 2010, Robert Coover, Noir, New York: Overlook Duckworth, page 97:
glosses: detective work
Slavonic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sləˈvɒ.nɪk/
ipa: /sləˈvɑ.nɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: Sclavonic
form: Sclavonick
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Slavonicus, Sclavonicus, from Slavonia, Sclavonia.
Senses: examples: South Slavonic (including Old Church Slavonic, Macedonian, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, etc.)
East Slavonic (including Ukrainian, Russian, etc.), and
West Slavonic (including Polish, Czech, Slovak, etc.)
glosses: A branch of the Indo-European family of languages, usually divided into three subbranches
glosses: The unrecorded ancient language from which all of these languages developed.
Synonyms: sense: a branch of Indo-European languages
word: Slavic
sense: hypothesized mother tongue of Slavic languages
word: Proto-Slavic
sense: hypothesized mother tongue of Slavic languages
word: Old Slavonic
sense: hypothesized mother tongue of Slavic languages
word: Common Slavic
sense: hypothesized mother tongue of Slavic languages
word: Common Slavonic
Slavonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sləˈvɒ.nɪk/
ipa: /sləˈvɑ.nɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: Sclavonic
form: Sclavonick
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Slavonicus, Sclavonicus, from Slavonia, Sclavonia.
Senses: examples: text: Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic, Germanic, and Celtic names were all of this type, but there are also shorter names formed from the compound ones; […].
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xii:
synonyms: Slavic
glosses: Of, denoting, or relating to the people who speak these languages, their languages, or cultures.
synonyms: Slavic
glosses: Of, denoting, or relating to Slavonia and its inhabitants.
Derived terms: Church Slavonic
Old Church Slavonic
mu-meson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mu-mesons
form: mu meson
Etymology: From mu + meson.
Senses: examples: text: One instance of an unexpected result is the mu meson and its neutrino, which was not guessed by anybody at all before it was discovered, and even today nobody yet has any method of guessing by which this would be a natural result.
ref: 1965, Richard Phillips Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, M.I.T. Press, page 157:
glosses: A muon (kind of subatomic particle).
Sclavonic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Slavonic.
Sclavonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sclavonic
form: most Sclavonic
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Slavonic.
POJO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊ.d͡ʒəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpoʊ.d͡ʒoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊd͡ʒəʊ
Forms: form: POJOs
Senses: examples: text: Because of this, immutable POJOs are common and may have value semantics. Mutable POJOs still seem to be the default though, so much so that many people consider that object-oriented programming in Java is synonymous with mutable objects.
ref: 2021, Duncan McGregor, Nat Pryce, Java to Kotlin, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN:
qualifier: Java programming language; object-oriented programming; Java programming language; object-oriented programming
glosses: Acronym of plain old Java object.
chironomid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chironomids
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Chironomidae.
Senses: examples: text: Fossil chironomids have proven useful as indicators of climatic change.
text: Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.
ref: 2012 January 24, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 23 May 2012, page 46:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the non-biting midges or Chironomidae, a family of true flies within the order Diptera.
non-imitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-imitations
Etymology: From non- + imitation.
Senses: glosses: Something or someone that is unique and individual.
glosses: A state where a product or idea cannot be copied, usually because of copyright rules.
Synonyms: word: non-imitation
Hyponyms: word: creation
word: creativeness
word: invention
word: originality
Related terms: non-imitated
Hellen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlən/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἕλλην (Héllēn).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: the mythological patriarch of the Hellenes, the son of Deucalion (or sometimes Zeus) and Pyrrha, brother of Amphictyon and father of Aeolus, Xuthus, and Dorus
Related terms: Hellene
Hellen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlən/
Forms: form: Hellens
Etymology: * As a Swedish surname, from häll (“flat rock”) + adjectival suffix -en. Also found in Finland.
* As an English surname, variant of Ellen, sometimes confused with Helen.
* As an English surname of Norman origin, from the placename Helléan in France, from Middle French Helien, named after Hellean, a Brythonic/Celtic figure of ancient Britain, which could ultimately be related to the source of Ellis.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
hapa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑpə/
Forms: form: hapas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian hapa, from English half.
Senses: examples: text: It's what my fiancé and I call ourselves, and how we think of the children we might have: second-generation hapas.
But as the term grows in popularity, so does debate over how it should be used. Some people argue that hapa is a slur and should be retired.
ref: 2016 August 8, Akemi Johnson, “Who Gets To Be 'Hapa'?”, in NPR:
glosses: A person of mixed ethnic heritage, especially half East or Southeast Asian or Pacific Islander and half white.
Derived terms: hapa haole
Related terms: Amerasian
haafu
hapa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑpə/
Forms: form: hapas
Senses: examples: text: Usually one female is placed into a hapa with two males to insure that fertilization occurs.
ref: 2015, M. Chakroff, P. Corps, Freshwater Fish Pond Culture and Management, page 148:
glosses: A mesh cage-like structure placed in the water to hold fish.
mu-metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mumetal
Etymology: From mu + metal; the Greek letter mu (μ) is a symbol for permeability.
Senses: glosses: An alloy with high magnetic permeability, consisting of nickel (77%) and iron (15%) with traces of copper and molybdenum.
Karachi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈrɑːt͡ʃi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu کراچی (karācī) and Borrowed from Sindhi ڪراچي (karācī) / कराची, from earlier کولاچی (kolācī) / कोलाची, named after Mai Kolachi.
Senses: examples: text: Karachi, colourful buses, colourless buildings, graffitied walls, billboards advertising mobile phones and soft drinks and ice cream, birds circling in the white-hot sky.
ref: 2017, Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire, Bloomsbury (2018), page 208:
glosses: The largest city in Pakistan situated along the Arabian Sea, as well as the provincial capital of Sindh Province.
wikipedia: Mai Kolachi
Derived terms: Karachiite
Related terms: Hyderabad
Sukkur
Larkano
Thatto
Shikarpur
Sindh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnd̪ʱ/
ipa: /sɪnd/
rhymes: -ɪnd
homophone: send (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: Sind
form: Sindy
form: Scinde
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu سندھ (sindh), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu, “river”).
Senses: glosses: A populated province in southeastern Pakistan, notably the region in which the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation flourished. Capital: Karachi.
Related terms: Sindhi
Sindhu
Connel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɔnəl/
Forms: form: Connels
form: Connell
Etymology: From Irish Conall.
Senses: glosses: A village in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NM9134).
glosses: A surname from Irish of Irish origin, anglicized form of Ó Conaill.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Derived terms: Connel Ferry
North Connel
sludgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌdʒi
Forms: form: sludgier
form: sludgiest
Etymology: From sludge + -y.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of sludge; slimy or mucky
replaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpleɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of replace
workers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɝ.kɚz/
ipa: /ˈwɜː.kəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of worker
star fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star fruits
form: starfruit
Senses: glosses: The fruit of the carambola tree, Averrhoa carambola.
Synonyms: carambola
sickly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪkli/
rhymes: -ɪkli
Forms: form: sicklies
form: sicklying
form: sicklied
form: sicklied
Etymology: From Middle English seekly, sekely, siklich, sekeliche, equivalent to sick + -ly. Possibly a modification of Old English sīcle (“sickly”) and/or derived from Old Norse sjúkligr (“sickly”). Cognate with Dutch ziekelijk, Middle High German siechlich, Danish sygelig, Swedish sjuklig, Icelandic sjúklegur. The verb is from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: Thy Drudge contrives, and in our full career
Sicklies our hopes with the pale hue of Fear;
ref: 1763, Charles Churchill, An Epistle to William Hogarth, London: for the author, page 12:
text: […]a cancer gnawing at the root of happiness, defeating every aim at permanent good in this world, and sicklying all sublunary joys[…]
ref: 1840, S. M. Heaton, edited by George Heaton, Thoughts on the Litany, by a naval officer’s orphan daughter, London: William Edward Painter, Section 4, p. 58:
text: He evidently thinks the sweet little innocents never heard or thought of such a thing before, and would go on burying their curly heads in books, and sicklying their rosy faces with “the pale cast of thought” till the end of time[…]
ref: 1862, Gail Hamilton, “Men and Women”, in Country Living and Country Thinking, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 109:
text: Ockham was critical of so many of his fellows for sicklying over theology with the obscurities of philosophy.
ref: 2000, Ninian Smart, chapter 9, in World Philosophies, New York: Routledge, page 207:
glosses: To make (something) sickly.
examples: 1889, Samuel Cox, An Expositor’s Notebook, London: Richard D. Dickinson, 7th edition, Chapter 26, p. 364,
But the seven most prominent Apostles […] still hang together, their hearts tormented with eager yet sad questionings, their hopes fast sicklying over with the pale hues of doubt.
glosses: To become sickly.
sickly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪkli/
rhymes: -ɪkli
Forms: form: more sickly
form: most sickly
Etymology: From sick + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: sickly pale; to cough sickly
text: […] he sickly guess’d
How lone he was once more, and sadly press’d
His empty arms together […]
ref: 1818, John Keats, Endymion, London: Taylor and Hessey, Book 2, lines 859-861, p. 93:
text: The dazed man stared sickly at Casy.
ref: 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, published 1962, Chapter , p. 364:
text: For ten brutal minutes he was in torment, then the pain gradually eased. He felt sickly limp but relieved, thankful for his good health.
ref: 1961, Bernard Malamud, A New Life, Penguin, published 1968, Chapter , p. 185:
text: The creaseless horizontal face of the giant smiled sickly, leering.
ref: 2010, Rowan Somerville, chapter 9, in The End of Sleep, New York: Norton, page 66:
glosses: In a sick manner; in a way that reflects or causes sickness.
Derived terms: sickly sweet
shutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʌt.ə/
ipa: /ˈʃʌt.ɚ/
ipa: [ˈʃʌɾ.ɚ]
homophone: shudder stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: shutters
Etymology: From shut + -er. Compare shuttle.
Senses: examples: text: the openers and shutters of the sluices we believe are basic to the history of mind
ref: 1980, Max Scheler, translated by Manfred S. Frings, Problems of a Sociology of Knowledge:
text: The volunteers consisted of a ringmaster, two experienced young cattlemen to grade the cattle, gate-openers and shutters[…]
ref: 1958, Blackwood's Magazine:
glosses: One who shuts or closes something.
glosses: Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.
examples: text: A service hatch with sliding shutter is situated at the end of the kitchen next to the dining compartment. […] A shutter, in three parts, is fitted, which when lowered completely encloses the bar.
ref: 1950 June, “New Restaurant and Buffet Cars, G.N.R.(I.)”, in Railway Magazine, pages 415, 416:
glosses: Any other opening and closing device.
Derived terms: ferroelectric shutter
roller shutter
shutter chance
shutter dam
shutter-priority
shutter priority
shutter shades
shutter speed
time shutter
shutter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʌt.ə/
ipa: /ˈʃʌt.ɚ/
ipa: [ˈʃʌɾ.ɚ]
homophone: shudder stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: shutters
form: shuttering
form: shuttered
form: shuttered
Etymology: From shut + -er. Compare shuttle.
Senses: examples: text: Shutter the windows: there's a storm coming!
glosses: To close shutters covering.
examples: text: It took all day to shutter the cabin now that the season has ended.
glosses: To close up (a building) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy.
examples: text: The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.
text: This company was shuttered in 2002.
text: It has been a dithery decade for nuclear policy. After the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, several countries began shuttering their reactors and tearing up plans for new ones.
ref: December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
text: After some additional legal wrangling, Morse, exhausted and out of money, withdrew his remaining appeals and shuttered the production in April 1883.
ref: 2015, Henry Bial, Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage, page 3:
glosses: To cancel or terminate.
examples: text: Mollie Wilson was a teenager living with her parents in Donaghmore in Tyrone, Northern Ireland [and said this]: 3rd September [1939] When Chamberlain made his declaration of war, there was violent thunder and lightning and rain shuttered down. I had always trusted rain too.
ref: 2011 November 30, Carol Harris, Mike Brown, Blitz Diary: Life Under Fire in the Second World War, The History Press, →ISBN, page 1:
text: It's a bastard of a day, shuttering rain, but I can still shape up the hills off in the distance.
ref: 2009 February 5, Ross Raisin, God's Own Country, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: ... looked at the rain shuttering down outside and thought about the Fosters. He had been a perfect gentleman , although rather old and pernickety and set in his ways, but[…]
ref: 2014 July 1, Julian Symons, The Man Whose Dream Came True, House of Stratus, →ISBN, page 210:
glosses: To rain heavily.
sentences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛntənsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of sentence
sentences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛntənsɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sentence
rheumatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːˈmætɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more rheumatic
form: most rheumatic
Etymology: From Middle French rheumatique, from Latin rheumaticus, from Ancient Greek ῥευματικός (rheumatikós), from ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”) from ῥέω (rhéō, “I flow”).
Senses: glosses: Resembling or relating to rheumatism.
glosses: Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic.
Derived terms: antirheumatic
rheumatically
rheumatic fever
Related terms: rheumaticky
rheumatics
rheumatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːˈmætɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: rheumatics
Etymology: From Middle French rheumatique, from Latin rheumaticus, from Ancient Greek ῥευματικός (rheumatikós), from ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”) from ῥέω (rhéō, “I flow”).
Senses: examples: text: It has been a clinical observation with me that the majority of chronic rheumatics are likewise the subjects of chronic constipation.
ref: 1890, The American practitioner, Volumes 9-10:
text: It must, be confessed, however, that the majority of rheumatics are not able to stand such treatment.
ref: 1911, George Knapp Abbott, Principles and practice of hydrotherapy:
text: The rheumatics in the survey who had complete disability had had this same disability for an average of two years.
ref: 1933, George Hoyt Bigelow, Herbert Luther Lombard, Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases in Massachusetts, page 19:
glosses: A person suffering from rheumatism
rheumatologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rheumatologists
Etymology: From rheumatology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A doctor specializing in the treatment of arthritis and other ailments of the joints.
Related terms: rheumatism
rheumatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma) (whence also English rheum) + -ology.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The branch of medicine specializing in arthritis and other ailments of the joints.
op-ed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɒpˌɛd/
Forms: form: op-eds
Etymology: Abbreviation for “opposite the editorial” (often incorrectly thought to be abbreviation for opinion/editorial).
Senses: examples: text: The purpose of an op-ed is to offer an opinion. It is not a news analysis or a weighing up of alternative views. It requires a clear thesis, backed by rigorously marshaled evidence, in the service of a persuasive argument.
ref: 2017 August 26, Bret Stephens, “Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2017:
glosses: A newspaper page containing signed articles by commentators expressing viewpoints that may not agree with those espoused by the editorial board, traditionally printed opposite the editorial page.
op-ed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɒpˌɛd/
Forms: form: more op-ed
form: most op-ed
Etymology: Abbreviation for “opposite the editorial” (often incorrectly thought to be abbreviation for opinion/editorial).
Senses: examples: text: The question was probably bottomed on a combination of phrases in a Washington Post op-ed article that appeared not three months before by Richard Haass, who was a foreign-policy adviser in both Bush administrations and is now president of the Council on Foreign Relations.
ref: 2009 May 8, William Safire, “Choice or Necessity”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Oct 2015:
glosses: Of or being a newspaper page, usually opposite the editorial page, that features signed articles expressing personal viewpoints.
examples: text: For a more ‘op ed’ approach to the current state of the Hong Kong art scene see my recent article "Doer's Droop," South China Morning Post, August 23, 2005, C6.
ref: 2005, Art & Collection Group, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art:
glosses: Of an article, written in a style suitable for publication as an op-ed.
examples: text: Descriptions of him vary from "aggressively intelligent," "inventive," "articulate," "the most ‘op-ed’ academic in the field of education" to "arrogant" "combative," "hostile," and "dismissive" of ideas not his own.
ref: 1991, The New York Times, The New York Times biographical service, volume 22, Arno Press:
glosses: Of a person, regularly expressing viewpoints by means of op-eds.
op-ed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɒpˌɛd/
Forms: form: op-eds
form: op-edding
form: op-edded
form: op-edded
Etymology: Abbreviation for “opposite the editorial” (often incorrectly thought to be abbreviation for opinion/editorial).
Senses: examples: text: Getting either or both of the Cubs and Red Sox into the World Series on their hallowed home fields had been a happy possibility nationally discussed and op-edded since July, and when the two teams were again dispatched winless into winter their fans were left with a last gnawing weirdness: […]
ref: 2003 November 17, Roger Angell, “Gone South”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 06 May 2017:
glosses: To write an op-ed article.
organum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.ɡə.nəm/
ipa: /ˈɔɹ.ɡə.nəm/
Forms: form: organums
form: organa
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin organum, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “organ, instrument, tool”). Doublet of organ, organon, and orgue.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of medieval polyphony which builds upon an existing plainsong.
examples: text: He [Francis Bacon] has given us an organum of a different origin and construction from that of Aristotle[…]
ref: 1794, George Adams, Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy:
text: Another important circumstance respecting our transcendental esthetics is, that it does not insinuate itself merely as a plausible hypothesis, but is as certain and indubitable as we can require any theory to be in order to serve as an organum.
ref: 1823, Thomas Wirgman, An Entirely New, Complete and Permanent Science of Philosophy:
glosses: A method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted.
Derived terms: organum triplum
Kölsch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊlʃ/
ipa: /koʊlʃ/
Etymology: From German Kölsch.
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: The Germanic/German dialect spoken in and around Cologne, Germany, part of the Ripuarian language area
Synonyms: Colognian
Hypernyms: Ripuarian
Ripuarian Franconian