cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
NGN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of next generation networking.
heterosexism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterosexisms
Etymology: From heterosex(ual) + -ism; modelled on sexism.
Senses: examples: text: One of the driving forces behind slash and femslash is the pervading heterosexism of commercial media – if television will not give us the due proportion of same-sex eroticism we are entitled to expect, then we will make it for ourselves.
ref: 2010, Stacey Abbott, The Cult TV Book, page 245:
glosses: The assumption made when relating to others that everyone is heterosexual.
glosses: Discrimination or prejudice in favor of heterosexuals.
Related terms: heterosexist
heteronormative
Glauber's salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Glauber's salts
form: Glauber salt
Etymology: Glauber+salt. Named after German iatrochemist Johann Glauber (1604–1670) who manufactured sodium sulphate, a salt, in 1656.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sodium sulphate (typically a hydrated form) typically used as a laxative or in dyeing wool.
Synonyms: horse salt
sal mirabilis
sodium sulfate decahydrate
shower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shou'ər
ipa: /ˈʃaʊ.ə(ɹ)/
enpr: shou'ər
ipa: /ˈʃaʊ.ɚ/
rhymes: -aʊ.ə(ɹ)
rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈʃəʊ.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈʃoʊ.ɚ/
enpr: shou'ər
ipa: /ˈʃaʊ.ə(ɹ)/
enpr: shou'ər
ipa: /ˈʃaʊ.ɚ/
rhymes: -aʊ.ə(ɹ)
rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: showers
form: show-er
Etymology: From Middle English showre, schawere, schewere (“one who exhibits something, actor; watchman, overseer, guide; sign; mirror; index finger”), from Old English sċēawere (“an observer, one who examines into a matter; a spy; mirror; actor, buffoon”), equivalent to show + -er. Cognate with Dutch schouwer (“observer, visionary, clairvoyant”), German Schauer (“an inspector”).
Senses: examples: text: When you show a credential there's a protocol whereby the showee has assurance that the shower possesses a credential of the particular type without actually seeing the bit string.
ref: 2006, Bruce Christianson, Bruno Crispo, James A. Malcolm, Security Protocols: 12th International Workshop, page 18:
text: Once the showee looks at the object, the shower removes his or her gaze from the showee and gazes back at the object (see below and Fig. 5.2).
ref: 2018, Elisabeth Reber, Cornelia Gerhardt, Embodied Activities in Face-to-Face and Mediated Settings, page 153:
glosses: One who shows.
examples: text: That calf is going to be a great shower at the fair this year.
glosses: An object or activity that is shown in a contest.
examples: text: As a man who can best be described as a "grower not a shower", I helped Brent realize that many people in the gay community are concerned in a very adolescent way with their dick size, including me.
ref: 1993, Barry Burns, “Muffin on Parade”, in soc.motss (Usenet):
text: "Growers" are guys whose penises tend to contract a lot lengthwise when flaccid, while "show-ers" are guys whose penises could be said to merely "deflate" without contracting much in length.
ref: 1994, jenster, “Penis Size and other Eternal Questions”, in seattle.general (Usenet):
text: His dick, if I remember correctly, is more of a shower than a grower[…]
ref: 2003, Austin Foxxe, Three the Hard Way: Tales of Three-way Sex Between Men:
antonyms: grower
glosses: A man whose penis is close to its full (erect) size when flaccid, or the penis itself.
Derived terms: road shower
thigh-shower
deflower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)
ipa: /diˈflaʊ.ɚ/
ipa: /dɪˈflaʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: deflowers
form: deflowering
form: deflowered
form: deflowered
Etymology: From Middle English deflouren, from Old French desflorer (modern French déflorer), from Late Latin deflōrāre. By surface analysis, de- + flower.
Senses: examples: text: But when you deflower a girl, that's it. You did it. You were the one. No one else can ever do it.
ref: 1995, Harmony Korine, Kids, spoken by Telly:
text: I have to admit this outfit's doing it for me; I may or may not have been deflowered by a junior rodeo champion.
ref: 2009, Community, spoken by Jeff Winger:
synonyms: word: deflorate
word: cherry-pop
glosses: To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl.
glosses: To deprive of flowers.
glosses: To deprive of grace and beauty.
Derived terms: defloration
deflowerment
deflowerer
undeflowered
empower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpaʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɛmˈpaʊə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: empowers
form: empowering
form: empowered
form: empowered
form: empowre
form: impower
form: impowre
Etymology: From em- + power.
Senses: examples: text: Regulations have been made under the Civil Aviation Acts of 1949, 1980 and 1982 which empower Inspectors of Accidents to do these things.
ref: 1985, William H. Tench, Safety is no accident:
text: Once on site, inspectors are empowered to exercise wide-ranging legal powers - including the right to enter railway property or land adjoining it; to make written, electronic or photographic records; to seize equipment, remove or retain samples; and to be given access to records and recording equipment.
ref: 2021 December 29, Paul Stephen, “Rail's accident inspectors”, in RAIL, number 947, page 30:
glosses: To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.
examples: text: John found that starting up his own business empowered him greatly in social situations.
text: Musically, what originally attracted me to dance was its shamanist aspects, using natural magic to change people's neurological states and to psychologically empower them.
ref: 1992, Nick Logan, The Face, page 11-130:
text: This side of the training is effective in empowering employees to make better decisions on site, and helps to improve employee retention.
ref: 2021 November 17, Davie Carns, “Addressing the skills gap”, in RAIL, number 944, page 62:
glosses: To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation.
Synonyms: sense: give permission to
word: allow
sense: give permission to
word: let
sense: give permission to
word: permit
sense: give confidence to
word: inspire
Derived terms: empowered
empoweree
empowerer
empowering
empowerment
misempower
disempower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsɪmˈpaʊ(w)ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: disempowers
form: disempowering
form: disempowered
form: disempowered
Etymology: From dis- + empower.
Senses: examples: text: A powerful head can sometimes disempower the teaching staff, and create among them a sort of passivity that is close to inertia.
ref: 1990, Editors: Tim Brighouse and Bob Moon, Managing the National Curriculum, Harlow: Longman Group UK Ltd, page 97
glosses: To strip power from (someone or some group), as:
To remove morale or self-confidence from (someone or some group) to do something.
synonyms: dishearten
dispirit
demoralize
demotivate
enervate
antonyms: empower
hearten
inspire
motivate
examples: text: The reformation disempowered the established church and thus roiled the aristocracy.
glosses: To strip power from (someone or some group), as:
To remove authority or (official) confidence from (someone or some group) to do something (such as administer a state function), as by demoting, disestablishing, or unincorporating a group.
antonyms: empower
establish
install
Derived terms: disempowerment
Related terms: word: deenergize
word: disenergize
english: morphologically similar but (by idiomatic accident) refers semantically only to electrical power, not social power
translation: morphologically similar but (by idiomatic accident) refers semantically only to electrical power, not social power
word: depower
word: power down
word: power off
hombre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒmbɹeɪ/
ipa: /-bɹi/
ipa: /ˈɑmbɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˈʌmbɹeɪ/
ipa: /-bɹi/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒmbɹeɪ
Forms: form: hombres
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish hombre (“man; human being”), from Old Spanish omne, from Latin hominem, accusative of homō (“a human being, a person”), from Old Latin hemō, from Proto-Italic *hemō (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“earthling”), from *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”). Doublet of gome, homo, ombre, and omi.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e're glad to learn that the Yankee bullet has not quite stopped your breath. You're all right, hombre!
ref: c. 1850, [Thomas] Mayne Reid, “A Group of Jarochos”, in The Guerilla^([sic]) Chief, and Other Tales, London: C. H. Clarke, 13, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 62:
text: That hombre now with the worn out hat, tattered shirt, and fragmentary breeches, wears a sword. Bless you, his dignity would suffer greatly without it!
ref: 1852 March 8, E. P., “Golden Correspondence.—No. 1”, in J[oseph] M. Church, editor, Church’s Bizarre. For Fireside and Wayside, volume I, number 1 (New Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: Church & Co., 140 Chestnut Street, published 17 April 1852, →OCLC, page 9, column 2:
text: Coming towards us was the biggest, meanest looking hombre I'd ever seen.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 92:
text: The foreman. As tough an hombre who ever lived. If Mr. Bell had sent Jackson instead of me, he'd take your rifle and beat you half to death with it.
ref: 2010, Jon Sharpe [pseudonym], chapter 1, in Rocky Mountain Revenge (The Trailsman; no. 342), New York, N.Y.: Signet Books, New American Library, →ISBN:
text: There was a pause I didn't like, punctuated by shrieks of shrill laughter from the hombres at the bar. Only Mexicans can laugh like that.
ref: 2016, Lawrence Winkler, “Bajada”, in Orion’s Cartwheel (Cartwheels Quadrilogy; 1), Victoria, B.C.: First Choice Books, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: A man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man.
raw_tags: in Spanish-speaking contexts
dregs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɛɡz/
rhymes: -ɛɡz
Forms: form: dreg
Etymology: See dreg.
Senses: examples: text: For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full of mixture, and he powreth out of the same: but the dregges thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drinke them.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 75:8:
text: And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth / Throughout the fluid mass; but downward purged / The black tartareous cold infernal dregs
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC:
text: Yet even now I had not drunk the bitter potion to the dregs; I was not yet persuaded of my loss; I did not yet feel in every pulsation, in every nerve, in every thought, that I remained alone of my race - that I was The Last Man.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IX, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof, / This is the end of every song man sings! / The golden wine is drunk, the dregs remain, / Bitter as wormwood and as salt as pain
ref: c. 1897, Ernest Dowson, Dregs:
glosses: The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
examples: text: the dregs of society
text: I sat through the dregs of a long hectic evening.
text: If at any one time of my life more than another, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that time was during the first six months of my stay with Mr. Covey.
ref: 1846 [1845], Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office:
text: […] he said to himself that in the last hour he had sounded the depths of his humiliation and that the lowest dregs of it, the very bottom-slime, was the hateful necessity of having always, as long as the two men lived, to be civil to Barton Flamel.
ref: 1900, Edith Wharton, chapter V, in The Touchstone, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons:
qualifier: the dregs
glosses: The worst and lowest part of something.
Synonyms: debris
deposit
draff
dross
exuviate
feculence
grounds
grouts
lees
loser
orts
outcast
rabble
refuse
residue
residuum
riffraff
rubbish
scum
sediment
settling
trash
trub
Derived terms: tofu dregs
dreg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: dregs
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse dregg (“sediment”), from Proto-Germanic *dragjō (whence also Icelandic dregg, Swedish drägg), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“sediment”); see also Latin fraces (“lees of oil”), Albanian ndrag (“to make dirty, foul”), dra (“sediments of dairy products or liquids”).
Senses: examples: text: to the last dreg
text: What makes this pretty abruption? What too curious dreg espies my sweet lady in the fountain of our love?
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: O! be the cup of joy to thee consign'd, / Of joy unmix'd, without a dreg behind!
ref: 1768, William Hayley, “On the Fear of Death, An Epistle to a Lady”, in Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects, published 1818:
text: Fear and trauma may drain to the last dreg the dischargeable nervous energy, and, therefore, the greatest possible exhaustion may be produced by fear and trauma.
ref: 1915, George Washington Crile, “address delivered at the Massachusetts General Hospital 15 Oct 1910”, in The Origin and Nature of Emotions:
glosses: singular of dregs (“sediment in a liquid”)
Derived terms: dreggish
dreggy
dregless
tofu-dreg
choc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɒk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: chock
Forms: form: chocs
Senses: examples: text: mint choc chip ice cream; a box of chocs
glosses: Clipping of chocolate.
Derived terms: choc chip
choccy
choc ice
chocophile
Related terms: choc-a-bloc
twitchiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From twitchy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being twitchy, physical restlessness.
glosses: The state of being nervous and unsettled; edginess.
newfound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuː.faʊnd/
ipa: /ˈn(j)u.faʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: new-found
Etymology: From Middle English newe founde, equivalent to new + found.
Senses: examples: text: Kerry spoke with confidence and a newfound crispness.
ref: 2004 October 18, The New Yorker:
glosses: Recently found; newly discovered.
Derived terms: Newfoundland
erasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɹeɪʃɚ/
ipa: /ɪˈɹeɪʒə/
ipa: /ɪˈɹeɪʒʊə/
Forms: form: erasures
Etymology: From Latin ērādō (“to erase”) + -tūra, equivalent to erase + -ure.
Senses: examples: text: An inroad on the strongbox, or an erasure in the ledger, or a missummation in a fitted account, could hardly have surprised him more disagreeably.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], Rob Roy. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
text: The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.
ref: 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 7”, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001:
glosses: The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
examples: text: Bush, even when he had the floor, grimaced as he spoke, except on several occasions when he lost his way and a look of total erasure came over him, a blank, stricken stare for which the French, alas, have the most apt expression: like a cow watching a train go by.
ref: 2004 October 18, The New Yorker:
glosses: The state of having been erased; total blankness.
examples: text: There were several erasures on the paper.
glosses: The place where something has been erased.
examples: bisexual erasure
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.
Synonyms: sense: action of erasing
word: cancelation
sense: action of erasing
word: cancellation
sense: action of erasing
word: canceling
sense: action of erasing
word: cancelling
sense: action of erasing
word: deleting
sense: action of erasing
word: deletion
sense: action of erasing
word: erasing
sense: action of erasing
word: obliterating
sense: action of erasing
word: obliteration
sense: action of erasing
word: wiping
sense: state of having been erased
word: blankness
Hyponyms: type erasure
Derived terms: bi-erasure
erasure code
erasure poem
erasure poetry
mechanical erasure
nonerasure
trans-erasure
under erasure
unerasure
boo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /buː/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: From earlier (15c.) boh, coined to create a loud and startling sound. Compare Middle English bus! (“bang!”, interjection), Latin boō (“cry aloud, roar, shout”, verb), Ancient Greek βοάω (boáō, “shout”, verb).
Senses: glosses: A loud exclamation intended to scare someone. Usually used when one has been hidden from the target, and then appears unexpectedly.
examples: text: I ask them to record their votes in my favour, and I ask, is there any man who will dare to call me a stranger (hear, hear, and booing)?
ref: 1852 July 15, “Dundalk Election”, in The Freeman's Journal, volume lxxxv, Dublin, page 3:
glosses: An exclamation used by a member of an audience, as at a stage play or sporting event, to indicate derision or disapproval.
Derived terms: bug-a-boo
peekaboo
say boo
boo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: boos
Etymology: From earlier (15c.) boh, coined to create a loud and startling sound. Compare Middle English bus! (“bang!”, interjection), Latin boō (“cry aloud, roar, shout”, verb), Ancient Greek βοάω (boáō, “shout”, verb).
Senses: examples: text: ...Hodgson headed down the tunnel with the boos of fans ringing in his ears after an eighth league defeat of the season...
ref: 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A derisive shout made to indicate disapproval.
Derived terms: boobird
boo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /buː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: boos
form: booing
form: booed
form: booed
Etymology: From earlier (15c.) boh, coined to create a loud and startling sound. Compare Middle English bus! (“bang!”, interjection), Latin boō (“cry aloud, roar, shout”, verb), Ancient Greek βοάω (boáō, “shout”, verb).
Senses: examples: text: When he took the podium, the crowd booed.
text: Nobody booed and nobody clapped
ref: 2004 October 18, The New Yorker:
text: Substitute Charlie Austin scored seven minutes into his Southampton debut as a lacklustre Manchester United were booed off at Old Trafford.
ref: 2016 January 23, Phil Dakwes, “Man Utd 0–1 Southampton”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To shout extended boos derisively.
examples: text: The protesters loudly booed the visiting senator.
glosses: To shout extended boos at, as a form of disapproval or derision.
Derived terms: booable
booer
boo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: boos
Etymology: From beau, from French beau. First appears c. 1988 in the Washington Post: See the cite below.
Senses: examples: text: A tall, hooded young woman, clutching a newspaper article, delivered a note to the judge. “My name is Sunkist,” she wrote, “Lionel R. Harris is my boyfriend. Lewis shot my Boo and it was not self-defense . . . . Judge and jurors please listen to me I am 17 years of {age} and a good young lady and my Boo got killed for nothing.”
ref: 1988 December 22, Barton Gellman, “Judge Orders Mistrial In D.C. Slaying Case; Jury Unable to Reach Verdict After 10 Days”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page D1:
text: At night I think of you / I want to be your lady, maybe / If your game is on give me a call, boo / If your lovin' strong, gonna give my all to you
ref: 1996, “My Boo”, performed by Ghost Town DJ's:
text: No matter what I do / All I think about is you / Even when I'm with my boo
ref: 2002, “Dilemma”, in Nellyville, performed by Nelly ft. Kelly Rowland:
text: “Something about having to call her boo because he was getting off work and he likes to talk to her for at least half of his commute home.”
ref: 2021, Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl, Bloomsbury, page 309:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A close acquaintance or significant other.
boo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buː/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: Of unknown origin, possibly from boojum, from a fancied resemblance of the plants. First appears c. 1959 in Esquire Magazine.
Senses: examples: text: […] sexually promiscuous girl who smoked boo all day and socialized with junkies when she wasn't busy banging away in bed […]
ref: 1967, George E. Andrews, Simon Vinkenoog, The Book of Grass: An Anthology on Indian Hemp, page 213:
text: Like I have smoked boo, drunk whiskey, and shot dope, and I was going through all three bags at once.
ref: 1984, Raphael S. Ezekiel, Voices from the corner: poverty and racism in the inner city, page 56:
text: Grandpa doesn't want Grandma and their kids and grandkids to know that he had to get penicillin shots all the time, or that he smoked boo (marijuana) on a daily basis, or that he dealt in the black market, or that he had yobos (purchased live-in sex slaves).
ref: 2019, Ron Cook, On Guard in the General's Chorus, page 2:
synonyms: word: bhang
word: benj
word: boo
word: broccoli
word: bud
word: buddha
word: cannabis
word: cheeba
word: choof
word: daccha
word: dank
word: devil's lettuce
word: djamba
word: doja
word: doobage
word: dope
word: endo
word: gage
word: ganja
word: ganj
word: grass
word: green
word: greenery
word: hash
word: hashish
word: hemp
word: herb
word: Mary Jane
word: MJ
word: marihoochie
word: marijuana
word: Mary Joanna
word: method
word: mezz
word: muggle
word: mull
word: pot
word: puff
word: reefer
word: sens
word: sensimillia
word: sensimilla
word: shit
word: sweetleaf
word: tea
word: Texas tea
word: trees
word: twig
word: wacky tobaccy
word: weed
word: yarndie
word: zaza
word: zombie
glosses: Cannabis.
boo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /buː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: boos
form: booing
form: booed
form: booed
Etymology: Likely onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: The cow's tether is put about the neck of the individual who has lost the cow, and he must go about booing like a cow till atonement is made.
ref: 1850, “The Missionary Herald”, in The Baptist Magazine, volume 42:
text: In the north of England people very often speak about the "oxen booing" (not lowing)
ref: 1894, Emily Seytter, “Barnyard Voices”, in Our Animal Friends: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 21:
text: I remember being in the Great Nut Walk and hearing Old Nettle 'booing' like a cow outside .
ref: 1987, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl:
glosses: To make a sound characteristic of cattle; to moo.
boo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: boos
Etymology: Dubious; perhaps adaptation of French beau (“beautiful”).
Senses: examples: text: Burglary.—On Monday night or early on Tuesday morning, some thieves effected an entrance into the premises of Mr. W. J. Laybourne, ostrich feather manufacturer, 60, St. John-street, West Smithfield, and carried off 1,000 prime white feathers, 500 long single black, 800 double ditto, 3,000 mixed colours, 500 spadones, 300 white plumes, 300 coloured boos, and 400 long white light feminas, which, with other property, were valued at about £4,000.
ref: 1877 June 15, The Leeds Mercury, volume 114, number 12,225, Leeds, West Yorkshire, page 2, column 5:
text: White Boos declined 10s. to 15s. per lb.; Femina Boos 2s. 6d. to 5s. per lb., and drab Boos about 2s. 6d. per lb.
ref: 1891 February 1, “Report on the December Public Sales of Ostrich and Osprey Feathers, Bird Skins, &c.”, in The Humming Bird: A Monthly Scientific, Artistic, and Industrial Review, volume I., number 2, page 16, column 1:
text: The usual kinds of ostrich feathers known to the trade come into the Tripoli market. These are whites, blacks, feminas, byocks, spadonas, boos, drabs and floss.
ref: 1909 August 12, “Ostrich Feathers of Tripoli”, in Neenah Daily Times, volume 53, number 8,451, Neenah, Wis.; Menasha, Wis., column 5:
glosses: A tail feather from an ostrich.
Related terms: word: boo-boo
word: boo hag
english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: boo how doy
cutaway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌtəweɪ/
Forms: form: cut-away
Etymology: Deverbal from cut away.
Senses: examples: text: While it used to take several seconds to generate a single cutaway view in a complex freeform model, you can now view them just about instantly by dynamically scrolling and rotating a plane forward and backward through an object.
ref: 2004 January, CADalyst:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: illustration
glosses: Having selected portions of the outside removed so as to give an impression of the interior.
cutaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌtəweɪ/
Forms: form: cutaways
form: cut-away
Etymology: Deverbal from cut away.
Senses: examples: text: the director struggles to jazz up his stilted blocking with clumsy montage cutaways, which are only effective in the upbeat, darkly funny number “Sincerely, Me,” in which Evan dreams up a dance-filled fantasy of his fake friendship with Connor.
ref: 2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club:
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: The interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else.
examples: text: Despite a pre-debate “memorandum of understanding” between the Bush campaign and the Kerry campaign that there would be no televised “cutaways” or reaction shots […]
ref: 2004 October 18, The New Yorker:
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: The interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else.
A cut to a shot of person listening to a speaker so that the audience can see the listener's reaction.
glosses: A coat with a tapered frontline.
examples: text: [...] The two assets of the book are clear explanation, and a multitude of extremely helpful diagrams, some in two colours, and cutaway photographs; these clearly unravel a difficult subject for the layman, as well as the student engineman for whom the primer is chiefly designed.
ref: 1959 March, “New Reading on Railways: The Railwayman's Diesel Manual. By William F. Bolton. G. H. Lake. 7s. 6d.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 172:
glosses: A diagram or model having outer layers removed so as to show the interior
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An indentation in the upper bout of a guitar's body adjacent to the neck, allowing easier access to the upper frets.
examples: text: Thousands of hectares of cutaway are now under squares of grass and conifers, but by the 1990s it was obvious that most of the total area was suitable only for "non-productive" uses.
ref: 2002 July 10, “Cutaway bog promises new, wild landscapes”, in Irish Times, Ireland:
text: This vast land-art and sculpture park is on a former cutaway bog – “cutaway” being the term for a bog where all the commercial peat has been extracted.
ref: 2025 March 29, “‘Thanks to the bogs, life will continue. Just not ours’”, in Irish Times, Ireland:
glosses: Short for cutaway bog
Related terms: cutaway bog
cut-out
cross section
exploded view
transection
Scouser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aʊsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Scousers
form: scouser
Etymology: From scouse + -er, from scouse, a common stew in Liverpool.
Senses: qualifier: Liverpool
glosses: A Liverpudlian.
Derived terms: Scouserati
Related terms: Scouse
Scouse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skaʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
Forms: form: more Scouse
form: most Scouse
Etymology: Clipping of lobscouse.
Senses: examples: text: When my play Windermere opened at the Clerkenwell Theatre in London, up against Russell's mighty Blood Brothers, I was proud that it boasted a majority Scouse cast.
ref: 2007 April 27, Tommy Kearney, “Staging a slice of Scouse life”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Liverpudlian.
Scouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skaʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
Forms: form: Scouses
Etymology: Clipping of lobscouse.
Senses: examples: text: The Scouses, not known for their wit, responded with the 'Munich runway' chant. And, golly gosh, nearly the whole stadium sang back. Who knows, this chanting might really take off one day.
ref: 2001 September 9, Will Buckley, “Beckham tops it off”, in The Observer:
glosses: Synonym of Scouser (“Liverpudlian”).
synonyms: word: Scouser
extra: Liverpudlian
Scouse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /skaʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
Etymology: Clipping of lobscouse.
Senses: examples: text: The soft and friendly version of the Scouse accent has helped to turn Liverpool into Britain's favourite location for call centres.
ref: 2000 September 22, David Ward, “Scousers put the accent on success”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The accent and dialect of Liverpool or Merseyside.
Derived terms: Scouser
Scouserati
luftmensch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luftmenschen
Etymology: From Yiddish לופֿטמענטש (luftmentsh), from לופֿט (luft, “air”) + מענטש (mentsh, “person”). Compare German von Luft und Liebe leben (“to disregard the practical matters of life”, literally “to live on air and love”), German Luftikus (“impractical, quixotic, or careless person”).
The word first appeared in Yiddish literature in 1860s (Nicolas Vallois, "The Luftmentsh as an economic metaphor for Jewish poverty: a rhetorical analysis").
Senses: examples: text: My wife is such a luftmensch she missed our anniversary dinner because she was too busy reading her books!
text: Chagall was a luftmensch, he says, a man of the air...
ref: March 24, 2007, Helen McLean, “Marc of Distinction”, in The Globe and Mail, Books, page D6:
glosses: One more concerned with airy intellectual pursuits than practical matters like earning an income.
qualifier: Yiddish usage
glosses: a beggar, petty trader, peddler, and various types of paupers
trouser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaʊzə/
enpr: trouʹzər
ipa: /ˈtɹaʊzɚ/
rhymes: -aʊzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: trousers
Etymology: Back-formation from trousers.
Senses: examples: trouser leg
glosses: Of or relating to trousers.
raw_tags: as a modifier
examples: text: And this is our linen trouser, sir.
glosses: A pair of trousers.
raw_tags: in clothing retail and fashion
Derived terms: betrousered
detrouser
in the trouser department
one-eyed trouser snake
trouser cough
trouser department
trousered
trousered class
trouserette
trouserian
trousering
trouser leg
trouserless
trouserlessness
trouserlike
trouser monkey
trouser pants
trouser pocket
trouser press
trouser role
trouser snake
trouser suit
trouser tent
untrousered
trouser pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trouser pockets
Senses: glosses: A pocket in a pair of trousers.
intersperse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntəˈspɜːs/
ipa: /ˌɪntɚˈspɝs/
ipa: /ˌɪntəˈspɜːs/
Forms: form: intersperses
form: interspersing
form: interspersed
form: interspersed
Etymology: From Latin interspergō, interspersus.
Senses: examples: text: For example, a commercial sequence might intersperse pictures of a senator working in his office with shots of ordinary Americans happily working in various walks of life.
ref: 1991, Frank Biocca, Television and Political Advertising: Signs, codes, and images, page 76:
glosses: To mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things of other.
examples: text: When writing, I intersperse details.
text: Kjelsås (six miles) marks the end of the suburbs, and the line immediately plunges into Nordmarka. This vast untamed area of forest and mountain (much of it over 2,000 ft. above sea level), interspersed with innumerable lakes, large and small, is known as Oslo's playground.
ref: 1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, pages 457-458:
text: Review tasks are particularly useful to intersperse when students are experiencing considerable failure.
ref: 1985, Jane Y. Murdock, Barbara V. Hartmann, Communication and language intervention program (CLIP) for individuals with moderate to severe handicaps, page 46:
text: Goffin is a prose text interspersed with short lists of typical terms exemplifying certain sub-classes of Indian English lexis.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 116:
synonyms: thread
glosses: To scatter or insert something into or among other things.
examples: text: Mother Nature interspersed the petunias with a few dandelions, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.
glosses: To diversify by placing or inserting other things among something.
Derived terms: interspersal
intersperser
Related terms: interspersed
interspersion
allision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɪʒən/
ipa: /æ-/
rhymes: -ɪʒən
Forms: form: allisions
Etymology: From Latin allisiō, from allīdō (“to strike or dash against”). cf. collision.
Senses: examples: text: Implicit in the presumption operable here is the standard to which the operator is held: prudently navigated vessels do not allide with wharfs or moored vessels or aids to navigation. Evidence of compliance with the required standard of care might take the form of evidence of inevitable accident, evidence of superior force, or even evidence negating the happening of the allision. In short, evidence that the operator was free of negligence or that the allision could reasonably have occurred because of factors other than the operator's negligent conduct is necessary. Based upon the evidence in the instant case, the argument that unforeseeable circumstances caused the allision misses the mark.
ref: 1984 "United States. National Transportation Safety Board Decisions Volume IV: Enforcement Decisions in Aviation and Marine Cases. January 1, 1982 — December 31, 1984 p 2020
text: ...contact of a vessel with a stationary object such as an anchored vessel or a pier. In modem practice, “collision” is often used where “allision” was once the preferred term
ref: 2004 Bryan A. Garner ed. Black's Law Dictionary (8th ed.)
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The striking of a vessel against a fixed object; the act of alliding or an instance thereof.
examples: text: There have not been any islands of note, or considerable extent, torn and cast off from the continent by earthquakes, or severed from it by the boisterous allision of the sea.
ref: 1695 John Woodward: An essay toward a natural history of the earth (Also quoted in Samuel Johnson's dictionary)
text: 1822 Walter Whiter: Etymologicon universale
...Ainsworth observes on the letter R, that its sound is formed in the upper part of the throat, but so vibrated by a quaver of the tongue, and allision on the teeth, that it makes a sound like the grinning of a dog, whence it is called the canine Letter; but the Romans, on the contrary, give it so soft and lisping a souhd, that in writing they sometimes omitted it...
glosses: The act of dashing against or striking upon.
Coordinate terms: collide
collision
Related terms: allide
collision
acheful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acheful
form: most acheful
Etymology: From ache + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: I mounted a steed in the dawning / With acheful remembrance.
ref: 1898, Thomas Hardy, “My Cicely”, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses:
text: Why recall the memory of those acheful days, when all the pleasant and restful features of the island are uncatalogued?
ref: 1908, E. J. Banfield, The Confessions of a Beachcomber (T. Fisher Unwin London)
text: We all know that she is nameless / Spits at music it's not an issue / Just remove the acheful tissue […]
ref: 1997, Hole (band), Old Age (song)
glosses: full of aches; aching
Derived terms: achefully
aloofly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: alooflier
form: more aloofly
form: aloofliest
form: most aloofly
Etymology: From aloof + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: With symphonies soft and sweet colour
It courted me then,
Till evasions seemed wrong,
Till evasions gave in to its song,
And I warmed, until living aloofly loomed duller
Than life among men.
ref: 1919, Thomas Hardy, “For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly”, in Moments of Vision:
text: The girl, with eyebrows arched aloofly, continued to glance about the street[.]
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 87:
glosses: In an aloof manner.
pila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilum
pila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilae
Etymology: From Latin pīla (“mortar”).
Senses: topics: archaeology
art
arts
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mortar.
parvenu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑː.və.njuː/
ipa: /ˈpɑː.və.nuː/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹ.və.nju/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹ.və.nu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: parvenus
Etymology: Borrowed from French parvenu, past participle of parvenir, from Latin perveniō (“arrive, reach”).
See also parvenue f
Senses: examples: text: But the favourite's power and influence provoke intense ill-feeling among other courtiers, who regard him as a sinister, usurping parvenu with ideas above his station, or perhaps even a sorcerer.
ref: 2001 January 31, Francis Wheen, “The whole truth about Peter's friends”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through acquisition of wealth, privileges, or political authority but has not gained social acceptance by those within that new class.
Synonyms: arriviste
Derived terms: parvenudom
parvenuess
parvenuism
Related terms: nouveau riche
parvenu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑː.və.njuː/
ipa: /ˈpɑː.və.nuː/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹ.və.nju/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹ.və.nu/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: Borrowed from French parvenu, past participle of parvenir, from Latin perveniō (“arrive, reach”).
See also parvenue f
Senses: examples: text: Loss of money is far the worst, then comes ill-health, and then loss of reputation; loss of reputation is a bad third, for, if a man keeps health and money unimpaired, it will be generally found that his loss of reputation is due to breaches of parvenu conventions only, and not to violations of those older, better established canons whose authority is unquestionable.
ref: 1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 66, in The Way of All Flesh:
text: The Progressives were of the educated middle class, angry at the rule of parvenu financiers and industrialists.
ref: 2001, Norman Birnbaum, After Progress, Oxford University Press:
text: The majority of the adults, however, viewed Luisa Santiaga as the precious jewel of a rich and powerful family whom a parvenu telegraph operator was courting not for love but self-interest.
ref: 2003, Edith Grossman, chapter 1, in Living to Tell the Tale, translation of original by Gabriel García Márquez, published 2002:
glosses: Being a parvenu; also, like, having the characteristics of, or associated with a parvenu.
parvenue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parvenues
Etymology: Borrowed from French parvenue, feminine past participle of parvenir (“to arrive”), learned borrowing from Latin parvenire, from per- (“through”) + venire (“to come”).
Senses: examples: text: They have seen women of rank, and parvenues, chaste maidens and anonymas, in a confused and gaudy glare of barbarous splendour.
ref: 1869, Fanny Aikin Kortright, Pro aris et focis. [On women's work.], page 30:
glosses: Female equivalent of parvenu.
Synonyms: parvenuess
@
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: enpr: ăt
ipa: /æt/
ipa: /ət/
ipa: /ˈitʃæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: at
Senses: examples: text: 15 items @ $10
text: @ 80 km/h
translation: at eighty kilometres per hour
english: at eighty kilometres per hour
glosses: At a rate of (so much each).
examples: text: @ 20°C
translation: at twenty degrees Celsius
english: at twenty degrees Celsius
text: Text message: “im @ school.”
text: "you need to calm down" — my credit card @ me.
ref: 2024 October 10, Mehera Bonner, “The Levi's Shortalls Taylor Swift Can't Stop Wearing Are Still on Sale Post Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: At (any sense).
@
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăt
ipa: /æt/
ipa: /ət/
ipa: /ˈitʃæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: at
Forms: form: @s
form: @ing
form: @ed
form: @ed
Senses: examples: text: Honestly, don't @ me if you don't have anything nice to say.
text: He angrily @ed me after I made an innocent comment.
text: She regularly tweets career updates and quirky jokes to her seventy thousand followers, but she rarely @s other people.
ref: 2023, R. F. Kuang, Yellowface, The Borough Press, page 2:
glosses: To reply to or speak to someone, either online or face to face. (from the practice of targeting a message or reply to someone online by writing @name)
@
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăt
ipa: /æt/
ipa: /ət/
ipa: /ˈitʃæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: at
Forms: form: @s
form: at
Senses: examples: text: What your @?
glosses: The permanent handle of a user which follows @, chiefly on Twitter.
Related terms: at sign
@ party
@
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Pronunciation: enpr: ăt
ipa: /æt/
ipa: /ət/
ipa: /ˈitʃæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: at
Etymology: The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.
Senses: examples: text: Chican@, Filipin@, Latin@, Mestiz@
glosses: Forming gender-neutral versions of Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a.
examples: text: Kosov@; Pin@y
glosses: By extension, sometimes used to blend other pairs of words that differ by being spelled with o vs a.
Related terms: x
cunnilingus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkʌn.ɪˈlɪŋ.ɡəs/
ipa: /ˌkʌn.iˈlɪŋ.ɡəs/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəs
Forms: form: cunnilinguses
form: cunnilinctus
Etymology: From Latin cunnilingus (literally “cuntlicker”). The meaning shift, not yet complete in the early twentieth century, perhaps derives from figurative uses where the name for a person stands for the name of a practice.
Senses: synonyms: word: carpet munching
word: cuntlicking
word: dining at the Y
word: gamahuche
word: lip service
word: muff diving
word: pussy eating
word: brain
word: dome
word: head
word: mouth music
coordinate_terms: fellatio
anilingus
glosses: Performance of oral sex upon the vulva or vagina.
examples: text: The stinking breath, hoarse voice, and snoring respiration of the cunnilingus, fellator and fellatrix, the effeminate, piping tone of the cinædus and irrumator, which excited the special scorn of the early satirical writers, were doubtless the expression of a catarrhal pharyngolaryngitis acquired in the discharge of their filthy practices.
ref: 1887, John Noland Mackenzie, “Carcinoma of Larynx”, in Albert H. Buck, editor, A Reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science, volume 4, New York: William Wood & Company, page 402a:
synonyms: cunnilinctor
cunnilinguist
muff-diver
carpet muncher
cuntlicker
cuntsucker
bowcat
glosses: Someone who performs oral sex on the vulva.
Derived terms: autocunnilingus
cunnilingate
cunnilinguate
cunnilinguize
Related terms: cunnilingue
cunnilinguist
cunnilinguistic
cunnilingual
sixty-nine
cunt
cunny
fellatio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈleɪ.ʃi.əʊ/
ipa: /fəˈleɪ.ʃi.oʊ/
rhymes: -eɪʃiəʊ
Forms: form: fellatios
form: fellation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-
Latin fellō
Proto-Indo-European *-tisder.
Proto-Italic *-tjō
Latin -tiō
Latin fellātiōlbor.
English fellatio
Learned borrowing from Latin fellātiō, from fellātus, perfect participle of fellō (“I suck, I fellate”). The word started to appear in medical literature in the 19th century but it was still treated as Latin. In 1919, the California Supreme Court struck down a law criminalizing fellatio because the state constitution required laws to be written in English. By the late 20th century, fellatio was treated as an English word.
Senses: examples: text: In 7 oder 8 anderen Fällen ging die geschlechtliche Beziehung selten über enge Berührung oder gegenseitige Masturbation hinaus. In 2 oder 3 anderen Fällen ist fellatio die bevorzugte Methode.
ref: 1897, Havelock Ellis, Das Konträre Geschlechtsgefühl [Sexual Inversion] (in German):
english: In eight or nine ^([sic]) cases the sexual relationship rarely goes beyond close physical contact, or at most mutual masturbation. In two or three cases fellatio is the form preferred.
translation: In eight or nine ^([sic]) cases the sexual relationship rarely goes beyond close physical contact, or at most mutual masturbation. In two or three cases fellatio is the form preferred.
bold_translation_offsets: 153
161
text: That the word "fellatio" has not become Anglicized is so clearly apparent that further comment seems unnecessary. […] Section 288a of the Penal Code is void for uncertainty as well as for the reason that it is not expressed in the English language.]
ref: [1919 January 9, Supreme Court of California, In re Lockett, 57 Cal. Dec. 96
text: Nikita Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi): What was the name of the... that woman who gave evidence against the doctors? / Georgy Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor): Timashuk? / Lavrenti Beria (Simon Russell Beale): Yes. She's got everything we require for this situation: the location of all the remaining doctors in the Moscow area, a proven desire to survive, and a talent for fellatio.
ref: 2017 September 8, Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin, Peter Fellows, 28:09 from the start, in Armando Iannucci, director, The Death of Stalin:
synonyms: word: blowjob
word: cocksucking
word: French
word: gobby
word: hummer
word: head
word: nosh
word: penilingus
word: brain
word: dome
word: head
word: mouth music
coordinate_terms: cunnilingus
anilingus
glosses: Performance of oral sex upon the penis.
Derived terms: autofellatio
Related terms: fellate
fellator
fellatrix
oral sex
irrumatio
irrumation
sixty-nine
sandy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: săn'di
ipa: /ˈsændi/
rhymes: -ændi
homophone: sandhi
Forms: form: sandier
form: sandiest
Etymology: From Middle English sandi, sondy, sandiȝ, from Old English sandiġ (“sandy”), equivalent to sand + -y. Cognate with Dutch zandig (“sandy”), German sandig (“sandy”), Swedish sandig (“sandy”).
Senses: glosses: Covered with sand.
glosses: Sprinkled with sand.
examples: text: Some plants grow best in sandy soil.
glosses: Containing sand.
examples: text: Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Like sand, especially in texture.
glosses: Having the colour of sand.
Derived terms: Great Sandy Desert
pecan sandy
sandily
sandiness
Sandy Bay
sandy blight
sandy blind mole-rat
sandy blind mole rat
sandy carpet
Sandy Cay
Sandy Hook
sandyish
Sandy Lane
sandy laverock
sandy pot
sandy soil
sandy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: săn'di
ipa: /ˈsændi/
rhymes: -ændi
homophone: sandhi
Forms: form: sandies
Etymology: From Middle English sandi, sondy, sandiȝ, from Old English sandiġ (“sandy”), equivalent to sand + -y. Cognate with Dutch zandig (“sandy”), German sandig (“sandy”), Swedish sandig (“sandy”).
Senses: glosses: A sandwich
glosses: Ellipsis of pecan sandy.