cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
agist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈd͡ʒɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: agists
form: agisting
form: agisted
form: agisted
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman agister (“to pasture for a fee”).
Senses: glosses: To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.
glosses: To charge lands etc. with any public burden.
Related terms: agister
agistment
agistor
ageist
agistor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agistors
Etymology: From agist + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.
glosses: an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.
Related terms: agistment
agistment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒɪstmənt/
Forms: form: agistments
Etymology: From agist + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The taking in by anyone of other people's livestock to graze at a certain rate.
glosses: The taking and feeding of other people's cattle in the king's forests; the price paid for such a feeding.
examples: text: an agistment of sea banks (i.e. charge for banks or dikes)
glosses: A charge or rate against lands.
Related terms: agist
agister
agistor
agitatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd͡ʒɪtˌeɪtɪdli/
Forms: form: more agitatedly
form: most agitatedly
Etymology: From agitated + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She has long, raven-colored hair with a floppy widow's peak, and tosses it agitatedly as she speaks.
ref: 1974 April 27, Gary Jane Hoisington, “Susan Sontag”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
glosses: In an agitated manner.
Related terms: agitate
agitato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agitatos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian agitato.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a restless agitated style.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage having this mark.
agitato
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian agitato.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Played in a restless agitated style.
agitato
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian agitato.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Describing a passage having this mark.
lagoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈɡuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: lagoons
form: lagune
Etymology: Borrowed from French lagune, from Italian laguna, from Latin lacuna. Related to Old English lagu via Proto-Indo-European. Doublet of lacuna and lacune.
Senses: glosses: A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar.
wikipedia: Venetian Lagoon
Derived terms: lagoonal
lagoon city
lagoonlike
lagoonside
lagoon triggerfish
lagoonward
lagoonwards
palaeolagoon
paleolagoon
battleax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battleaxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of battle axe.
paste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
homophone: paced
Forms: form: pastes
form: pasting
form: pasted
form: pasted
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kweh₁t-der.
Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
Ancient Greek παστός (pastós)
Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor.
Late Latin pasta
Old French pastebor.
Middle English paste
English paste
From Middle English paste, from Old French paste (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá). Doublet of pasta. The verb is from the noun. Middle English had pasten (“to make a paste of; bake in a pastry”), also from the noun; compare Latin pistō and Medieval Latin pastillātus.
Senses: glosses: To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
Derived terms: copy-paste
cut and paste
mispaste
pastable
pasteable
pastebin
pastejacking
paster
paste up
prepaste
repaste
scissors-and-paste
token-pasting operator
unpaste
unpasted
paste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
homophone: paced
rhymes: -eɪst
homophone: paced
ipa: /peɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
homophone: paced
Forms: form: pastes
form: pasting
form: pasted
form: pasted
Etymology: Probably an alteration of baste (“beat”) influenced by some sense of the noun.
Senses: examples: text: He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.
ref: 1943, William Saroyan, The Human Comedy, chapter 23:
glosses: To strike or beat someone or something.
glosses: To defeat decisively or by a large margin.
paste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
homophone: paced
rhymes: -eɪst
homophone: paced
ipa: /ˈpæsteɪ/
ipa: /ˈpɑsteɪ/
ipa: /peɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
homophone: paced
rhymes: -eɪst
homophone: paced
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian paste (“pastas”).
Senses: glosses: plural of pasta
ma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mas
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of milli-arcsecond.
ma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: mas
Etymology: The sound, which parents interpret as a reference to themselves, is very commonly made by infants. For more on the linguistic process whereby infants' monosyllables are tied to ancient word roots for parents, see mama, papa, mātēr, and patēr.
Senses: examples: text: Once the silky gent who ran a barge called the Knuckle Sandwich tried to persuade Borglum's ma and da to sell him their little dwarfish boy for twelve gold coins.
ref: 2011, Philip Reeve, Scrivener's Moon, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 48:
coordinate_terms: pa
qualifier: and in direct address
glosses: mother, mama
examples: text: […] that dear little man writing in the guestbook of the "Ma" or theatrical landlady […]
ref: 1949, Shaw Desmond, The Edwardian Story, page 322:
glosses: The landlady of a theater.
Synonyms: sense: terms synonymous with "ma"
word: mama
sense: terms synonymous with "ma"
word: mamma
sense: terms synonymous with "ma"
word: mater
sense: terms synonymous with "ma"
word: maw
sense: terms synonymous with "ma"
word: mom
sense: terms synonymous with "ma"
word: mommy
sense: terms synonymous with "ma"
word: mother
sense: terms synonymous with "ma"
word: mum
sense: terms synonymous with "ma"
word: mummy
Derived terms: ma-in-law
stepma
Related terms: pa
ma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: glosses: May.
ma
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: From my.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of my.
ma
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: From Cantonese 嘛 (maa³, “of course!”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mah.
ma
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: From Mandarin 嗎／吗 (ma).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mah.
ma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: Japanese 間
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Negative space in Japanese art.
ambulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈam.bjə.ləˌtoɹ.i/
ipa: /-bjʊ-/
ipa: /ˌæm.bjəˈleɪ.tɹi/
Forms: form: more ambulatory
form: most ambulatory
Etymology: From Latin ambulatorius. By surface analysis, ambulate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: ambulatory exercise
text: The princess of whom his majesty […]had an ambulatory view in his travels.
ref: 1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers:
glosses: Of, relating to, or adapted to walking.
examples: text: an ambulatory patient
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: astir
up and about
glosses: Able to walk about and not bedridden.
examples: text: an ambulatory electrocardiogram
text: ambulatory medical care
text: Those who left the sanatoria received ambulatory care that included regular doctor's care, visits to specialists and dietary supplements.
ref: 2007 June 1, Leslie Feinberg, “Cuba brought science, not scapegoating, to AIDS care”, in Workers World:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Performed on or involving an outpatient.
examples: text: ambulatory fleet
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to ambulances.
examples: text: an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places
text: As ſoon as God began to conſtitute a Church and fix the Prieſthood, which before was very ambulatory, and diſpenſed into all families, but ever officiated by the Major domo, God gives the power and deſigns the perſon.
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Section VI”, in Clerus Domini: or, A Discourse of the Divine Institution, Necessity, Sacrednesse, and Separation of the Office Ministerial. […], London: […] R[ichard] Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC, paragraph 1, page 35:
synonyms: word: astir
word: mobile
word: ambulatory
word: animate
word: kinetic
word: mobile
word: motile
word: motive
word: movable
word: vagile
glosses: Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.
examples: text: The dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.
topics: law
glosses: Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.
Derived terms: ambulatorily
ambulatory care
nonambulatory
Related terms: ambulate
ambulator
out of bed
ambulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈam.bjə.ləˌtoɹ.i/
ipa: /-bjʊ-/
ipa: /ˌæm.bjəˈleɪ.tɹi/
Forms: form: ambulatories
Etymology: From Latin ambulatorius. By surface analysis, ambulate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.
glosses: Any part of a building intended for walking in; a corridor.
reaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːpɚ/
rhymes: -iːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: reapers
Etymology: From Middle English reper, repare, repere, *riper (the last, attested only in surnames Ryper, Riper, etc.), from Old English rīpere (“reaper”), equivalent to reap + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Even as we looked some rumour seemed to have spread, for we saw the reapers hurrying from the fields.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
glosses: A machine used to harvest crops.
examples: text: Thereafter when their cups were brimmed anew with foaming wine the Red Foliot spake among them and said, “O ye lords of Witchland, will you that I speak a dirge in honour of Gorice the King that the dark reaper hath this day gathered?”
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 31:
text: Don't fear the Reaper / We'll be able to fly
ref: 1976, Buck Dharma, “Don't Fear the Reaper”, performed by Blue Öyster Cult:
text: Why is the Grim Reaper a man? True, the noun ending would theoretically allow us to visualize the reaper as a woman as well, but we don't.
ref: 1999, Karl S. Guthke, The Gender of Death: A Cultural History in Art and Literature, page 7:
text: She told me she wanted to meet the reaper
I had only done her a favor
She didn't deserve to die
But I deserved to kill her
ref: 2014, “Graveyard Shift”, performed by The Acacia Strain:
glosses: Ellipsis of Grim Reaper.
glosses: A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).
Derived terms: Grim Reaper
Norwood reaper
reaper-binder
reaper-thresher
Related terms: reap
reaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːpɚ/
rhymes: -iːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: reapers
Senses: glosses: Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.
giant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ənt/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaɪnt/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌɪ.ənt/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ənt/
ipa: [ˈd͡ʒəɪ̯(ə)nt]
rhymes: -aɪənt
Forms: form: giaunt
Etymology: From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gagās, gagant-, from Latin gigās, gigant-, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”) Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”). Displaced native Old English ent. Compare Modern English ent (“giant tree-man”).
Senses: examples: text: The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters …. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.
ref: 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
glosses: Very large.
Synonyms: colossal
enormous
gigantic
immense
prodigious
vast
Derived terms: Aldabra giant tortoise
Argentine giant tegu
Asian giant hornet
asymptotic giant branch
Baoruco giant anole
Chao Phraya giant catfish
Eastern Pacific giant conch
fluted giant clam
Galápagos giant tortoise
Galapagos giant tortoise
giant anteater
giant armadillo
giant banjo frog
giant barb
giant barnacle
giant beaver
giant burrowing cockroach
giant butterbur
giant cane
giant cell
giant cheetah
giant chinquapin
giant clam
giant coot
giant daikon
giant deer
giant elk
giant elliptical galaxy
giant emerald pill millipede
giantess
giant fennel
giant forest genet
giant forest hog
giant frog
giant Gippsland earthworm
giant green slantface
giant grenadier
giant groundsel
giant hermit crab
giant heron
giant hogweed
giant house spider
giant hyena
giant hyssop
giant impact theory
giantism
giant isopod
giant kelp
giant kelpfish
giant kettle
giant kingfisher
giant lacewing
giant leopard moth
giantly
giant magnetoresistance
giant molecule
Giant Mountains
giant mouse lemur
giant mud crab
giant mudfish
giantness
giant oarfish
giant octopus
giant otter
giant pacarana
giant Pacific octopus
giant panda
giant pangasius
giant pangolin
giant peacock moth
giant periwinkle
giant petrel
giant phantom jelly
giant planet
giant platelet disorder
giant powder
giant puffball
giant quasar
giant radio galaxy
giant rattail
giant redwood
giant reed
giant rhubarb
giant roundworm
giant salamander
giant sequoia
giant set
giant siphonophore
giant slalom
giant snakehead
giant squid
giant star
giant swallowtail
giant taro
giant thorny-headed worm of swine
giant tortoise
giant tree frog
giant trevally
giant tube worm
giant virus
giant walking stick
giant water bug
giant weta
giant white radish
giant wood rail
Japanese giant hornet
Japanese giant salamander
La Gomera giant lizard
nettle-leaf giant hyssop
Oriental giant squirrel
parallel giant slalom
pygmy giant panda
Red River giant softshell turtle
sleeping giant
South Island giant moa
spotted giant flying squirrel
Tenerife giant lizard
Wallace's giant bee
Yangtze giant softshell turtle
frigid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: frĭj'ĭd
ipa: /ˈfɹɪd͡ʒɪd/
rhymes: -ɪdʒɪd
Forms: form: more frigid
form: frigider
form: most frigid
form: frigidest
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin frīgidus (“cold”), from frīgeō (“I am cold”), from frīgus (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos.
Senses: examples: text: A frigid, fine rain was falling.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 427:
text: Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
ref: 2013 March 24, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2016, page 98:
glosses: Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.
glosses: Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive.
examples: text: In Italy, a plant called Pizza ugurdu is said to excite powerful erotic feelings even in the most frigid.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 125:
glosses: Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman.
Derived terms: anemofrigid
frigidity
frigidization
frigidly
frigidness
frigid zone
infrigidant
nonfrigid
unfrigid
haunted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hônt
ipa: /ˈhɔːntɪd/
ipa: /ˈhɑntɪd/
rhymes: -ɔːntɪd
rhymes: -ɑntɪd
Forms: form: more haunted
form: most haunted
form: hauntedest
Senses: examples: text: The hotel was haunted by a disembodied spirit.
glosses: Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.
examples: a soldier haunted by the memories of combat
glosses: Obsessed (by an idea, threat, etc.).
examples: a haunted expression
glosses: Showing a feeling of being disturbed.
Derived terms: haunted fish tank
haunted house
hauntedly
hauntedness
unhaunted
Related terms: cursed
haunted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hônt
ipa: /ˈhɔːntɪd/
ipa: /ˈhɑntɪd/
rhymes: -ɔːntɪd
rhymes: -ɑntɪd
Senses: examples: text: According to local legend, a ghost has haunted the mansion for two hundred years.
glosses: simple past and past participle of haunt
divulge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈvʌld͡ʒ/
ipa: /dɪˈvʌld͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌldʒ
Forms: form: divulges
form: divulging
form: divulged
form: divulged
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English divulgen, from Latin dīvulgō + -en (verb-forming suffix), from dī- (“widely”) + vulgō (“to make known, announce; to publish”).
Senses: examples: text: I will never divulge that secret to anyone.
text: In an interview with The Economist last year, he insisted his attack on the CPP had nothing to do with his views on global warming, which he would not divulge.
ref: 2016 December 8, “The president-elect's EPA head may not believe in climate change”, in The Economist:
text: Here then is a letter from a young man whose name I must not reveal, but whom I will designate as D. F., and whose address I must not divulge, but will simply indicate as Q. Street, West.
ref: 1910, Stephen Leacock, “How to Avoid Getting Married”, in Literary Lapses:
synonyms: disclose
glosses: To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known.
examples: text: God... marks The just man, and divulges him through heaven.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The Third Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
glosses: To indicate publicly; to proclaim.
Synonyms: word: bewray
word: bring out
word: uncover
word: disclose
word: discover
word: expose
word: give away
word: impart
word: let on
word: let out
word: reveal
word: bring to light
word: divulge
word: let the cat out of the bag
word: make known
word: out
word: spill one's guts
word: spill the beans
word: tell
Hypernyms: word: announce
word: inform
Hyponyms: word: confess
word: give away
word: rat out
Derived terms: divulgeable
divulger
undivulged
undivulging
Related terms: divulgation
divulgement
divulgence
bilge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪld͡ʒ/
Forms: form: bilges
Etymology: Likely derived from bulge. Compare Middle English bulgen (“to ground or scuttle a ship”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates.
glosses: The water accumulated in the bilge; bilge water.
examples: text: talk bilge
text: complete bilge
text: "The whole thing is the most absolute bilge and a disgrace to our legislature."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which the Notorious Criminal Gets what the British Law Considers to be His Deserts”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
glosses: The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
Derived terms: bilgeway
bilgy
bilge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪld͡ʒ/
Forms: form: bilges
form: bilging
form: bilged
form: bilged
Etymology: Likely derived from bulge. Compare Middle English bulgen (“to ground or scuttle a ship”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To spring a leak in the bilge.
glosses: To bulge or swell.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To break open the bilge(s) of.
Related terms: bilgewater
bilge water
bilge keel
bilge pump
nowadays
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/
ipa: /ˈnuː.ə.deɪz/
Forms: form: nowaday
form: nowadayes
form: now-a-days
form: now-adays
form: now a days
form: nowdays
Etymology: From now + adays.
Senses: examples: text: Cars nowadays are more efficient.
text: Me-thinkes miſtreſſe, you ſhould haue little reaſon for that: and yet to ſay the truth, reaſon and loue keepe little company together, now-adayes.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 152, column 2:
text: What is it that now adayes makes all our quarrells mortall?
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Cowardize, the Mother of Crueltie”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 399:
text: The appellation of Germany, is ſeldom uſed now-a-days any where but in the title of the Emperor and Elector of Mentz.
ref: 1762, A[nton] F[riedrich] Busching, “Introduction to the Description of Germany”, in [Patrick Murdoch], transl., A New System of Geography: In Which Is Given, a General Account of the Situation and Limits, the Manners, History, and Constitution, of the Several Kingdoms and States in the Known World; […], volumes IV (Containing, Part of Germany, viz. Bohemia, Moravia, Lusatia, Austria, Burgundy, Westphalia, and the Circle of the Rhine), London: […] A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC, § 4, page 4:
text: And in his spare moments, of which there were not many nowadays, he would go alone to the quarry, collect a load of broken stone, and drag it down to the site of the windmill unassisted.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC, page 50:
text: My favourite reading nowadays is Pulse, one of the house magazines for GPs.
ref: 2012 June 11, Dick Vinegar, The Guardian:
glosses: At the present time; in the current era.
Synonyms: sense: at the present time
word: currently
sense: at the present time
word: in this day and age
sense: at the present time
word: now
sense: at the present time
word: these days
sense: at the present time
word: today
bilgewater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪld͡ʒwɔtɚ/
Forms: form: bilgewaters
Etymology: From bilge + water.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Water which collects in the bilges of a ship.
glosses: Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
Synonyms: sense: nonsense
word: tosh
sense: nonsense
word: gibberish
sense: nonsense
word: gobbledegook
onset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒnˌsɛt/
note: General American, Midland US, Southern US
ipa: /ˈɔnˌsɛt/
ipa: /ˈɑnˌsɛt/
Forms: form: onsets
form: onsetting
form: onset
form: onset
Etymology: From on- + set. Compare Old English onsettan (“to impose; oppress, bear down”). For semantic parallels for the meaning to assault, compare cognate Russian насе́сть pf (naséstʹ), наседа́ть impf (nasedátʹ).
Senses: glosses: To assault; to set upon.
glosses: To set about; to begin.
roc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rŏk
ipa: /ɹɒk/
homophone: rock
homophone: rawk
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: rocs
form: roche
form: rok
form: ruc
form: rukh
form: ruck
Etymology: From Spanish rocho, ruc, from Arabic رُخّ (ruḵḵ), from Classical Persian رُخ (rux).
Senses: examples: The Arabian Nights Entertainment. Tale 4. Sinbad. The Second Voyage.
"By this time the sun was about to set, and all of a sudden the sky became as dark as if it had been covered with a thick cloud. I was much astonished at this sudden darkness, but much more when I found it occasioned by a bird of a monstrous size, that came flying toward me. I remembered that I had often heard mariners speak of a miraculous bird called Roc, and conceived that the great dome which I so much admired must be its egg. In short, the bird alighted, and sat over the egg. As I perceived her coming, I crept to the egg, so that I had before me one of the legs of the bird, which was as big as the trunk of a tree. I tied myself strongly to it with my turban, in hopes that the roc next morning would carry me with her out of this desert island. After having passed the night in this condition, the bird flew away as soon as it was daylight, and carried me so high, that I could not discern the earth;
glosses: An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
Synonyms: english: Chinese contexts
translation: Chinese contexts
word: peng
roc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rŏk
ipa: /ɹɒk/
homophone: rock
homophone: rawk
rhymes: -ɒk
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Rocuronium.
museology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: museologies
Etymology: From museum + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The design, organization, and management of museums.
Derived terms: museological
museologically
museologist
Related terms: museography
museophile
museum
clown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kloun
ipa: /klaʊn/
rhymes: -aʊn
Forms: form: clowns
form: clowning
form: clowned
form: clowned
form: clowne
form: cloyne
Etymology: From earlier clowne, cloyne (“man of rustic or coarse manners, boor, peasant”); likely of North Germanic origin, akin to Icelandic klunni (“clumsy fellow, klutz”), Swedish kluns (“clumsy fellow”), all from Middle Low German klunz, from klunt (“pile, lump, something thick”); according to Pokorny, this could be related to a group of Germanic derivatives of Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up; amass”), such as Proto-West Germanic *klott (“lump”), Proto-Germanic *klūtaz (“clod, lump”), *kultaz (“lump, bundle”), etc.
Alternatively, directly from Low German (compare North Frisian klönne (“clumsy fellow, klutz”), Dutch kluns (“clumsy fellow, klutz”), Dutch kloen (“uncouth person, lout”)), themselves from the same ultimate source as above.
Unlikely from Latin colōnus (“colonist, farmer”), although learned awareness of this term may have influenced semantic development.
Senses: examples: text: Except for Rasheena, the rest of the baby mamas was at least struggling to live halfway right. They used to clown and act shitty whenever they came by Noojie's and saw Carmiesha there. But every last one of them ended up being grateful to her for the things she did for their kids.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: To act in a silly or playful fashion.
examples: text: The show Dismissed was one of my favorites, because I like to see people get clowned.
ref: 2002, Vibe, volume 10, number 11, page 62:
text: All my comrades were laughing and clowning me, but shit, that didn't stop me from talking more shit.
ref: 2017, Darrell Smith, Miracle Baby:
synonyms: clown on
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To ridicule, make fun of.
Derived terms: clown about
clown around
clownophobia
Related terms: coulrophobia
jester
jackpudding
ayatollah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ayatollahs
form: ayatolla
Etymology: Borrowed from Iranian Persian آیَتُاللّٰه (âyato-l-lâh), from Classical Persian آیَةُاللّٰه (āyatu-l-lāh), from Arabic آيَةُ ٱللَّٰهِ (ʔāyatu llāhi, “sign of God”, from آيَة (ʔāya, “sign”) + اللّٰه (allāh, “God”)).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A religious leader in Twelver Shi'ism.
examples: text: P.S. This writer does NOT speak as the Ayatollah of SM. (There isn't one.) If you really want to know more, talk to sadomasochists, or at least do some reading if you're too scared to ask.
ref: 1983 February 5, Shiva, “SM/Feminism/Antisemitism”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 28, page 4:
glosses: An authority on any subject.
ablest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.bləst/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.bə.ləst/
Senses: examples: text: Where are these memories, relating to conduct and feeling, stored? "We cannot localize them," says one of the latest and ablest specialists on this subject.
ref: 1907, Margaret McMillan, Labour and Childhood, page 146:
glosses: superlative form of able: most able
A-bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A-bombs
Etymology: Shortened form of atomic bomb.
Senses: synonyms: atom bomb
atomic bomb
fission bomb
hypernyms: nuclear bomb
nuke
glosses: Abbreviation of atomic bomb; a weapon that derives its energy from nuclear reactions and has enormous destructive power; in particular, those that rely on the uncontrolled explosive chain reaction of nuclear fission.
Derived terms: A-bomber
Related terms: C-bomb
H-bomb
N-bomb
U-bomb
A-bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: A-bombs
form: A-bombing
form: A-bombed
form: A-bombed
Etymology: Shortened form of atomic bomb.
Senses: glosses: To bomb with an atom bomb.
Related terms: chain reaction
dirty bomb
fall-out
fallout
nuclear bomb
thermonuclear bomb
WMD
Abraum salts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a mixture of carnallite, kieserite and sylvite found in Prussia; chemically, mixed sulphates and chlorides of potassium, sodium and calcium
azarole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azaroles
Etymology: From French azerole, from Spanish acerola, from Andalusian Arabic الزَعْرُورَة (az-zaʕrúra), from Classical Arabic زُعْرُورَة (zuʕrūra). Doublet of acerola.
Senses: glosses: Any of species Crataegus azarolus of shrubs of southern Europe, related to hawthorn.
glosses: The fruit of this plant.
Synonyms: sense: shrub
word: Mediterranean medlar
sense: shrub
word: Neapolitan medlar
part
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːt/
enpr: pärt
ipa: /pɑɹt/
ipa: /pɐːt/
ipa: /pɑɹt/
ipa: [p(ʰ)äɹt]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: /pæɹt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Etymology: From Middle English part, from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Fred was part owner of the car.
glosses: Fractional; partial.
part
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːt/
enpr: pärt
ipa: /pɑɹt/
ipa: /pɐːt/
ipa: /pɑɹt/
ipa: [p(ʰ)äɹt]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: /pæɹt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Etymology: From Middle English part, from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Part finished
glosses: Partly; partially; fractionally.
examples: text: My Native American friend is also part German and part French.
glosses: to a partial degree.
raw_tags: with reference to a person's ethnicity
Derived terms: part-finance
part-fund
take part
azedarach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azedarachs
Etymology: From French azédarach, from Spanish acederaque, from Arabic أَزَادَرْخَت (ʔazādarḵat), from Persian آزاددرخت (âzâd-deraxt), from آزاد (âzâd, “noble”) + درخت (deraxt, “tree”).
Senses: glosses: An Asiatic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States, commonly called bead tree, chinaberry, etc.
glosses: The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a cathartic and emetic
Synonyms: sense: Melia azedarach
word: bead tree
sense: Melia azedarach
word: chinaberry
sense: Melia azedarach
word: pride of China
sense: Melia azedarach
word: pride of India
Related terms: neem
margosa
azimuthal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæzəˈmʌθəl/
ipa: /ˌæzəˈmuːθəl/
Etymology: From azimuth + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle.
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a map projection which preserves direction for all points relative to a selected point (or in some cases two points).
Derived terms: azimuthal anisotropy
azimuthal chart
azimuthally
azimuthal projection
azimuthal quantum number
azimuthon
isoazimuthal
nonazimuthal
pseudoazimuthal
retroazimuthal
azimuthal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæzəˈmʌθəl/
ipa: /ˌæzəˈmuːθəl/
Forms: form: azimuthals
Etymology: From azimuth + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Note that because of the square-well air-bag model, these synchrotron azimuthals are slightly different from the conventional ones.
ref: 2006, King-Yuen Ng, Physics of Intensity Dependent Beam Instabilities, page 454:
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: An azimuthal projection.
azimuth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæzɪməθ/
Forms: form: azimuths
Etymology: From Old French *azimut (modern French azimut), from Arabic اَلسُّمُوت pl (as-sumūt, “the directions”).
Senses: examples: text: the azimuth of a star
text: the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying
glosses: An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object.
examples: text: The dome, being constructed of wood, was light by comparison with the rest of the structure, and the wheels which allowed it horizontal, or, as Swithin expressed it, azimuth motion, denied it a firm hold upon the walls; so that it had been lifted off them like a cover from a pot.
ref: 1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter II, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, pages 21–22:
glosses: The quadrant of an azimuth circle.
Derived terms: altazimuth
azimuthal
azimuthally
azimuth thruster
azran
backazimuth
back azimuth
Related terms: nadir
zenith
azo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æzəʊ
Senses: glosses: azote, nitrogen
glosses: Applied loosely to compounds having nitrogen variously combined, as in cyanides, nitrates, etc.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Now especially applied to compounds containing a two atom nitrogen group (-N=N-) uniting two hydrocarbon radicals, as in azobenzene etc.
Derived terms: azimine
azo colour
azo compound
azodicarbonyl
azo dye
azo dyestuff
azoindoxyl
azole
azo pigmentpotassic-arfvedsonite
azo violet
azoxy
diazo
disazo
hydrazine
monoazo
polyazo
trisazo
Related terms: azo-
azoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Azoic
Etymology: From a- + -zoic.
Senses: glosses: Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life.
glosses: Before the existence of animal life.
Derived terms: azoic rock
azoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to azo dyes.
azoleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From azo- + oleic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A specific acid produced by treating oleic acid with nitric acid.
azonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + zone + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Confined to no zone or region; not local.
azonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: of, related to, or derived from an azonic acid
Azorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Azorean.
Azorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Azorians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Azorean.
azote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæzəʊt/
Etymology: Borrowed from French azote, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “without”) + ζωή (zōḗ, “life”) + -τικός (-tikós, “adjective suffix”). Named by French chemist and biologist Antoine Lavoisier, who saw it as the part of air which cannot sustain life.
Senses: examples: text: Azote is one of the most abundant elements in nature, and combined with calorique or heat, it forms azotic gas or phlogistic air, and composes two thirds of the atmosphere […].
ref: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 73:
text: The proportion of azote gas to that of the oxigen obtained is as 64 to 36.
ref: 1801, Christopher Girtanner, “A Memoir, in which the Queſtion is examined, whether Azote be a ſimple or complex body?”, in William Nicholson, editor, Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts, volume 4, page 170:
text: 1823, Chemistry, entry in Charles Maclaren (chief editor), Encyclopædia Britannica, 6th Edition, page 366,
Hence it is obvious that deutoxide of azote is a compound of one volume of azote and one volume of oxygen gas united together, without any alteration of volume, consequently its specific gravity is the mean of that of oxygen and azotic gases.It is composed, by weight, of azote 0.9722 or 1.75, oxygen 1.1111 or 2. If we reckon the atomic weight of azote 1.75, this gas is obviously a compound of one atom azote and two atoms oxygen.
text: Those who have adopted these opinions, represent the atom of azote by the number 1.75. We consider the 5 compounds of azote and oxygen, as composed of 1 atom azote, united with 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, atoms of oxygen.
ref: 1831, Thomas Thomson, A System of Chemistry of Inorganic Bodies, volume 1, page 133:
glosses: Nitrogen.
wikipedia: Antoine Lavoisier
Derived terms: azo-
azoted
azotemia
azotic
azotine
azotise
azotize
azotite
azoto-
azotometer
azotosome
azotous
azoturia
siderazote
Related terms: azotate
Azotobacter
azoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: äʹzŏth
ipa: /ˈɑːzɒθ/
enpr: ăʹzôth
ipa: /ˈæzɔθ/
Etymology: From Andalusian Arabic الزُّوق (az-zūq), from Arabic الزَّاوُوق (az-zāwūq, “quicksilver”). Not related to azote.
Senses: topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
glosses: The first principle of metals, that is, mercury, which was formerly supposed to exist in all metals, and to be extractable from them.
glosses: The universal remedy of Paracelsus.
Related terms: azogue
azotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From azote + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to azote, or nitrogen; formed or consisting of azote
glosses: Fatal to animal life.
Synonyms: nitric
Derived terms: azotic acid
azotic gas
carbazotic
carbazotic acid
azotite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azotites
Etymology: From azote + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: nitrite
Related terms: azotate
heavy metal umlaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heavy metal umlauts
form: heavy-metal umlaut
Senses: examples: text: Blue Öyster Cult
Too clever by half to be heavy-metallers (though not too clever to deploy a Heavy Metal umlaut), the Cult's list of listenable songs goes nowhere near eleven.
ref: 2007, Mark Ellingham, editor, The Rough Guide Book of Playlists, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: An umlaut (“diacritical mark”) over a letter in the name of a heavy metal band, added gratuitously for mere stylistic effect.
wikipedia: Motörhead
Mötley Crüe
Queensrÿche
Synonyms: word: metal umlaut
word: röck döts
Related terms: Zalgo
azotize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: azotizes
form: azotizing
form: azotized
form: azotized
form: azotise
Etymology: * azote + -ize
Senses: glosses: To impregnate with azote (nitrogen).
Synonyms: nitrogenate
nitrogenise
nitrogenize
Derived terms: hexazotized
nonazotized
unazotized
azotometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌeɪzəʊˈtɒmɪtɚ/
Forms: form: azotometers
Etymology: From azote + -o- + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: The gases passed over a hot roll of copper gauze, then through a weighed calcium chloride tube, which absorbed the water, into an azotometer containing a concentrated solution of potassium hydroxide where the nitrogen was measured.
ref: 1885, American Journal of Science, 3rd Series, Volume 30, page 57:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An apparatus for measuring or determining the proportion of nitrogen.
Synonyms: nitrometer
Derived terms: Bunte's azotometer
Horn's azotometer
Johnson's azotometer
Lunge's azotometer
Winkler's azotometer
Related terms: azotometric
azotometry
azured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more azured
form: most azured
Etymology: From azure + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Of an azure color; sky-blue.
azureous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more azureous
form: most azureous
Etymology: From azure + -eous.
Senses: glosses: Of a fine blue color; azure.
azurine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more azurine
form: most azurine
Senses: glosses: Sky-blue; azure.
azurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azurines
Senses: glosses: A type of rudd or redeye, the blue roach of Europe (Scardinius erythrophthalmus, syn. Leuciscus caeruleus), so called from its color.
azurite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæʒ.əˌɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈæʒ.(j)ʊəɹˌaɪt/
ipa: /ˈæʒ(j)ʊˌɹaɪt/
Forms: form: azurites
Etymology: From Persian لاژورد (lâžvard, “blue color”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: chessylite
glosses: A blue vitreous mineral; a basic hydrated copper carbonate, with the chemical formula Cu²⁺₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂, used since antiquity as a blue pigment or ores to extract metallic copper.
Related terms: azure
azurite-malachite
azurn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Thick ſet with Agat, and the azurn ſheen / Of Turkis blew, and Emrauld green
ref: 1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “Song”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC, page 114:
glosses: Obsolete form of azure.
azygos vein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azygos veins
form: azygous vein
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: a vein running up the right side of the thoracic vertebral column draining itself towards the superior vena cava
azyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæzaɪm/
/ˈæzɪm/
Forms: form: azymes
Etymology: From Late Latin azyma, from the adjective azymus (“unleavened”), from Ancient Greek ἄζυμος (ázumos).
Senses: glosses: unleavened bread used in Jewish or Christian religious context
Coordinate terms: enzyme
Derived terms: azymite
azymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈzaɪməs/
/eɪˈzaɪməs/
Etymology: From Latin azymus (“unleavened, uncorrupted”).
Senses: glosses: unleavened, unfermented.
Synonyms: azymic
azymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + zymic.
Senses: glosses: unleavened; unfermented.
Synonyms: azymous
azymite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæzɪmaɪt/
Forms: form: azymites
form: Azymite
Etymology: From Latin azȳmita, from Ancient Greek ἀζῡμίτης (azūmítēs), from ἄζῡμος (ázūmos) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, suffix forming masculine nouns meaning being connected to or a member of something, or coming from a particular place). ἄζῡμος is derived from ᾰ̓- (ă-, the alpha privativum, a prefix forming words having a sense opposite to the word or stem to which it is attached) + ζύμη (zúmē, “leaven, yeast”) + -ος (-os, suffix forming nouns of result or abstract nouns of action). The English word is analysable as, by surface analysis, a- + zym- + -ite or azyme + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: “Shall we drink a cup in honour of the Holy Virgin, and confusion to the Azymites?” / “Yes, yes! shouted the multitude. “Away with the Azymites—we want no new religion here;” and, singing and shouting, they threw up their caps in the air, […]
ref: 1843, Catherine Charlotte Maberly, Melanthe; or, The Days of the Medici: A Tale of the Fifteenth Century, volume 1, page 248:
text: “Away with them!” cried the Greeks; “we want no Latin allies! Away with the worship of the azymites!”
ref: 1898, Joseph Epiphane Darras, Martin John Spalding, Charles Ignatius White, A General History of the Catholic Church: From the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Twentieth Century, volume 3, page 602:
text: Moreover, the Azymites were often guilty of another monstrous crime: they fasted judaistically on Saturdays.
ref: 1916, Rothay Reynolds, My Slav Friends, page 15:
antonyms: fermentarian
prozymite
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: One who administers the Eucharist with unleavened bread, in particular a member of the Latin Church or Roman Catholic Church.
azotous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From azote + -ous.
Senses: examples: azotous acid
glosses: Nitrous
azalea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈzeɪliə/
rhymes: -eɪliə
Forms: form: azaleas
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀζαλέος (azaléos, “dry”), because it grows in dry soil; from ἄζω (ázō, “I dry up”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-.
Senses: glosses: A plant of the obsolete genus Azalea.
Derived terms: azaleamum
Azalean
fragrant azalea
pinxterbloom azalea
smooth azalea
swamp azalea
sweet azalea
ay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
Etymology: From Middle English ei, ej, ey, eye, ultimately imitative of the natural utterance, although probably also influenced by Anglo-Norman and Old French ahi, Old French haï, and Middle French aï, aïe, ay.
Senses: examples: text: And ſuch as yet, coulde neuer weapon wꝛeſt, / But on the lappe are woont to dandled be, / Ne yet foꝛgotten had the mothers bꝛeſt, / How greekes them ſlew, alas here ſhall ye ſe, / To make repoꝛte therof, ay woe is me, / My ſong is miſchiefe, murder miſerye.
ref: 1559, Lucius, Anneus, Seneca, translated by Iasper Heywood, “The Preface to the Tragedye”, in The Sixt Tragedie of the Most Graue and Prudent Author Lucius, Anneus, Seneca, Entituled Troas, […], London: […] Richard Tottyll, →OCLC, signature [A5], verso:
related: word: aie
word: aye
glosses: Ah! alas! Expressing anger, alarm, frustration, pain, etc.
examples: text: Ay my word! I am glad to see you.
ref: 1863, Mrs. Toogood, Specimens of the Yorkshire Dialect; quoted in “Ay (ēⁱ), int.”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 601, column 2:
text: Ay! bonny little buttercup, what are ta dewin’ heear, / Hoddin’ up thi tiny heead, this raw, cowd time o’ t’year?
ref: 1888 December 9, Æthelbert [Binns], “Thoughts in Verse. On Finding a Buttercup.”, in The Keighley News, Keighley, West Yorkshire, published 16 March 1889, →OCLC, page 7, column 7:
text: “Ay, I’m glad he’s going to be mairrit,” he said a few minutes later as he sat in the manse kitchen.
ref: 1917 December 29, “Mary Maxwell; or, The Shadow on the Manse”, in The People’s Journal, Dundee, →OCLC, page 6, column 3:
text: AY BY GUM. They’ve summat to put up wi’ hez t’ tram conductors, especially wheer t’ swells lives.
ref: 1930 January 4, Northern Weekly Gazette, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, →OCLC, page 21, column 3:
text: Ay, lass, you’ve ruined your chances now. When you left for New York to become a Pan Am stewardess we thought you’d got it made.
ref: 2011, Cynthia B. Huntington, “Full Circle”, in Through Her Eyes: An Infidel’s Perspective […], [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: Expressing earnestness, surprise, wonder, etc.
glosses: Used in ay, ay.
Derived terms: ay, chihuahua
ay me
Related terms: ay oop
ay up
ay up me duck