cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chemical element
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical elements
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: element
glosses: Any one of the types of atom distinguished by having a certain number of protons in its nucleus.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: elementary substance
element
glosses: A chemical substance made entirely of one such type of atom; any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
Synonyms: word: chemical element
Hypernyms: word: chemical substance
Hyponyms: word: metal
word: nonmetal
word: carbon
word: oxygen
word: hydrogen
word: nitrogen
Related terms: word: atom
word: :Category:Chemical elements
word: Appendix:Chemical elements
Hymie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪmi/
rhymes: -aɪmi
Etymology: From the name Hyman + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Hyman.
Hymie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪmi/
rhymes: -aɪmi
Forms: form: Hymies
Etymology: From the name Hyman + -ie.
Senses: synonyms: word: Yid
english: not always pejorative
translation: not always pejorative
word: heeb
word: kike
word: sheeny
word: shylock
glosses: A Jew.
Derived terms: Hymietown
bell-end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛlɛnd/
Forms: form: bell-ends
form: bellend
form: bell end
Etymology: From bell + end.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bell end (“the flared end of a tube or instrument, curved like a bell”).
glosses: The glans penis.
examples: text: I don't care who he is: he's acting like a bell-end.
text: is that onion badgies, you meant. or perhaps you are referring to that infamous collection of bellends, known as w.b.a. (win bugger all). it seems they are doing quite well, although they are playing against part-timers. quit
ref: 1992 September 28, A. Dowson, “Re: West Bromwich Albion”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet), retrieved 03 Aug 2017, message-ID <92272.160610ADOWSON@ESTEC.BITNET>:
glosses: A stupid or contemptible person.
Synonyms: sense: glans penis
word: cockhead
sense: glans penis
word: dickhead
sense: glans penis
word: fuckhead
sense: glans penis
word: knobend
sense: glans penis
word: knobhead
sense: insult
word: cockhead
sense: insult
word: cunthead
sense: insult
word: dickhead
sense: insult
word: fuckhead
sense: insult
word: knobend
sense: insult
word: knobhead
sense: insult
word: shithead
bell-end
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛlɛnd/
Forms: form: bellend
form: bell end
Etymology: From bell + end.
Senses: glosses: Attributive form of bell end.
bilingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
ipa: /baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡju.əl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl
rhymes: -ɪŋɡjuəl
Forms: form: bi-lingual
Etymology: From Latin bilinguis + -al; equivalent to bi- + lingual.
Senses: examples: text: Since she is bilingual she has them written in both English and Spanish.
ref: 1998, Bruce Fife, The Birthday Party Business, →ISBN, page 176:
text: Instead of nonnative speakers, we should be called bilingual or multilingual speakers.
ref: 2021 December 18, Ching Ching Tan, “Spielberg’s West Side Story shows us the value of multilingualism”, in CNN:
synonyms: diglot
two-tongued
hypernyms: multilingual
glosses: Having the ability to speak two languages fluently.
examples: text: a bilingual dictionary
text: All signage in and around the station is bilingual in Welsh and English, while station announcements and passenger information screens provide real-time information.
ref: 2020 December 30, Paul Stephen, “Chirk station is truly blooming”, in Rail, page 48:
hypernyms: multilingual
glosses: Spoken or written in two different languages.
examples: text: bilingual education
text: Ocasio-Cortez’s trolling went bilingual in November when a Fox News show, “The Story,” had a prime-time discussion about Ocasio-Cortez’s shoes, including an acknowledgment that the network spent a lot of time talking about a woman who had not even been sworn into Congress yet.
ref: 2018 December 12, Cleve R. Wootson Jr., “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s new favorite pastime appears to be trolling conservative critics”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2018:
hypernyms: multilingual
glosses: Characterized by the use or presence of two languages.
Synonyms: two-tongued
Derived terms: bilingual dictionary
bilingualism
bilinguality
bilingualize
bilingually
bilingualness
nonbilingual
Related terms: biliterate
biscriptal
sesquilingual
bilingual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
ipa: /baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡju.əl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl
rhymes: -ɪŋɡjuəl
Forms: form: bilinguals
form: bi-lingual
Etymology: From Latin bilinguis + -al; equivalent to bi- + lingual.
Senses: examples: text: Most striking, numerous studies have even shown that bilinguals undergo a later onset of dementia, perhaps of around four years, on average. But some of these studies have failed to replicate, leaving experts wondering whether the effect is real, and if so, what exactly it consists of.
ref: 2025 June 27, “Is being bilingual good for your brain?”, in The Economist, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2025:
glosses: A person who is able to use two languages.
apothegm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăpʹə-thĕm′
ipa: /ˈæ.pə.θɛm/
homophone: apothem
homophone: apophthegm
Forms: form: apothegms
form: apophthegm
Etymology: From French apophthegme or Medieval Latin apothegma, from Ancient Greek ἀπόφθεγμα (apóphthegma), from ἀποφθέγγομαι (apophthéngomai, “speak out”).
Senses: examples: text: Every glaſs of wine, or bit almoſt, that I committed to my mouth, ſhe uſhered thither with ſome Apothegm or other: the whole ſeries, indeed, of her diſcourſe, was compoſed of nothing but reaſon or wit, which made me admire her; which ſhe eaſily underſtood, I perceived by her ſmiles, when ſhe obſerved me gaping, as it were, when ſhe ſpoke, as if I would have eaten up her Words.
ref: 1665, Richard Head, The English Rogue: Deſcribed, in the Life of Merington Latroon, A Witty Extravagant, Being a Compleat Hiſtory of the Moſt Eminent Cheats of Both Sexes, Henry Marsh, page 355:
text: The account which he [James Ferguson] himself gives of these observations is exceedingly interesting, and strikingly brings out the ingenuity of his mind, and his determination to allow no difficulties of circumstances to stand in his way. [...] Thus we are reminded of the apothegm that where there's a will there's a way—an apothegm which has found illustration in every department of effort, but nowhere more frequently than in the progress of science and art.
ref: 1866, W[illiam] K[ing] Tweedie, “James Ferguson. 1710–1776.”, in Youthful Diligence, Future Greatness: A Book for the Young, London; Edinburgh; New York, N.Y.: T[homas] Nelson and Sons, […], →OCLC, pages 273–274:
text: "You are too wonderful!" he would say. "How do you find time for everything?"
She rejoined with the apophthegm that made the rounds of Riseholme next day.
"My dear, it is just busy people that have time for everything."
ref: 1920, E. F. Benson, Queen Lucia, George H. Doran Company, pages 10-11:
text: For the gods have withheld from the barbarians the light of discretion, as that their poetry is not, like ours, full of choice apophthegms and useful maxims, but is all of love and war.
ref: 1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 8, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1998:
text: The gnomic belief that the world is conditioned by love is no idle apothegm.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page i:
text: Which means roughly that business keeps one safe from love—ominous talk when one’s lover is a courtesan. I hoped that it was just another literary conceit I ought to know. (It is, I later learned, an apothegm by Ovid.)
ref: 2008, Dave Duncan, The Alchemist’s Apprentice, Ace Books, →ISBN, page 114:
synonyms: word: byword
word: saying
word: adage
word: saw
word: proverb
word: maxim
word: apothegm
word: apophthegm
word: dictum
word: gnome
word: gnomic saying
word: mantra
word: paroemia
glosses: A short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim.
Related terms: apothegmatize
diphthong
febrile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːbɹaɪl/
ipa: /ˈfɛbɹaɪl/
Forms: form: more febrile
form: most febrile
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin febrīlis, from Latin febris (“fever”).
Senses: examples: text: Aurora's orange sun (Baley scarcely noted the orange tinge now) was mildly warm on his back, lacking the febrile heat that Earth's sun had in summer (but, then, what was the climate and season on this portion of Aurora right now?).
ref: 1983, Isaac Asimov, chapter 22, in The Robots of Dawn, →ISBN, page 116:
synonyms: flushed
hot
glosses: Feverish, or having a high temperature.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Involving fever as a symptom or cause.
examples: text: An already febrile atmosphere within the ground before the start had been stoked still further when France's players formed an arrow formation to face down the haka, and then advanced slowly over halfway as the capacity crowd roared.
ref: 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:
text: Out in the ground, meanwhile, it was particularly disappointing to hear former England captain Andrew Strauss put the febrile atmosphere down to “people who don’t normally come to Lord’s”.
ref: 2023 July 4, Marina Hyde, “Who’s for political Bazball with Rishi? Voters? Tories? Anyone?”, in The Guardian:
text: Harry Potter has become such a febrile battleground that the pattern has already become well worn.
ref: 2025 June 11, Stuart Heritage, “‘Please walk away from Harry Potter’: why the stars of HBO’s new TV show are in for decades of social media hell”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: energetic
excited
glosses: Full of nervous energy.
Derived terms: afebrile
antefebrile
antifebrile
febrilise
febrility
febrilize
intrafebrile
nonfebrile
postfebrile
subfebrile
unfebrile
tsunamigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tsunami + -genic.
Senses: glosses: capable of generating a tsunami; commonly along major subduction-zone plate boundaries such as those bordering the Pacific Ocean
raw_tags: of an earthquake
Related terms: tsunamigenesis
Thetis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɛtɪs/
rhymes: -ɛtɪs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Θέτις (Thétis).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of the nereids; the mother of Achilles
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 17 Thetis, one of the main belt asteroids.
Derived terms: Thetidian
windswept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more windswept
form: most windswept
form: wind-swept
Etymology: From wind + swept.
Senses: examples: text: We struggled over the windswept moorland.
text: A noteworthy engineering feature on this line was the Owencarrow Viaduct, situated in one of the most windswept portions of the line. On January 30, 1925, a train was blown off the viaduct during a gale, and thereafter trains were prohibited from crossing when the wind exceeded a certain velocity.
ref: 1953 October, H. C. Casserley, “Closure of the Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 703:
text: 20 January 2017, Donald Trump, Inauguration Speech
And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator.
text: No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.
ref: 2024 September 27, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover hidden ancient forest on treeless island”, in CNN:
glosses: Exposed to the winds.
Related terms: storm-swept
wind turbine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind turbines
Senses: examples: text: Now there is another subject in which Donald Trump’s expert knowledge surpasses that of everybody else: wind turbines, though he calls them windmills.
ref: 2019 December 24, Richard Luscombe, “‘I never understood wind’: Trump goes on bizarre tirade against wind turbines”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: “These wind turbines will help preserve the forest by generating electricity sustainably,” said Paschold. “If we keep spewing CO₂ and contaminating our atmosphere, there won’t be much of it left.”
ref: 2025 May 9, Ajit Niranjan, “Plan for windfarm in German ‘fairytale forest’ stokes green energy culture war”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: wind generator
glosses: A device for converting wind power into electricity.
Derived terms: floating wind turbine
Related terms: wind farm
windmill
wind machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind machines
Senses: glosses: An electrically driven fan for generating currents of air during the production of films etc.
poster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊstɚ/
rhymes: -əʊstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: posters
head_nr: 2
Etymology: From post + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He has posters of his favorite band, sports teams and holiday resorts up.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall.
examples: text: I saw a poster for the film on the side of a bus.
head_nr: 2
glosses: An advertisement to be posted on a pole, wall etc. to advertise something.
examples: text: Some posters left the online message board after the squabble.
head_nr: 2
glosses: One who posts a message.
head_nr: 2
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A shot that hits a goalpost, scoring one point.
examples: text: We got three posters in the third and lost.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
head_nr: 2
glosses: A shot that hits a goalpost instead of passing into the goal.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
head_nr: 2
glosses: A dunk over a defending player.
Derived terms: big-character poster
billposter
fly-poster
four-poster
OP
overposter
posterboard
poster boy
poster child
poster color
posterette
poster girl
posterise
posterish
posterist
posterization
posterize
posterlike
poster paint
poster session
poster stamp
postery
schizoposter
shitposter
top-poster
wanted poster
poster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊstɚ/
rhymes: -əʊstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: posters
form: postering
form: postered
form: postered
Etymology: From post + -er.
Senses: examples: text: to poster the walls of a bedroom
glosses: To decorate with posters.
poster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊstɚ/
rhymes: -əʊstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: posters
Etymology: From post + -er, from post (“travel, dispatch”).
Senses: examples: text: we whirled along with four posters at a gallop
ref: 1854, Charles Lever, The Dodd Family Abroad:
glosses: A posthorse.
examples: text: posters of the sea and land
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: A swift traveller; a courier.
imperfect tense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imperfect tenses
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A tense used to describe a past action that is ongoing, incomplete or continuous, or coincident with another action.
Related terms: perfect tense
confirmation bias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confirmation biases
Senses: examples: text: Days after this interview, on 12 February this year, fighting broke out between US troops and pro-Assad forces just outside Qamishli. Confirmation bias is rarely so fast, or so unnervingly accurate.
ref: 2020 February 26, Will Dunn, “William Gibson on the apocalypse: “it’s been happening for at least 100 years””, in New Statesman:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A cognitive bias towards confirmation of the hypothesis under study; a psychological tendency to look for and accept information which supports one's values and worldview and reject that which conflicts with it.
Related terms: data dredging
filter bubble
selection bias
blah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɑː/
ipa: /bla/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: blahs
form: bla
form: blaa
Etymology: * Sense “Idle, meaningless talk” (1940), probably imitative or echoic in origin. Compare Ancient Greek βαρ-βαρ (bar-bar, “unintelligible sounds”)
* Adjective sense “bland, dull” (1919), perhaps influenced by French blasé (“bored, indifferent”).
* The blahs (“boredom, mild depression”) first attested 1969; probably a blend of the blues + blah (adjective).
* Also may be connected with bleat
Senses: synonyms: word: bosh
word: bombast
word: rubbish
word: absurdity
word: all my eye
word: all my eye and Betty Martin
word: applesauce
word: bafflegab
word: balderdash
word: balls
word: baloney
word: banana oil
word: Bandini
word: baragouin
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bilgewater
word: blah
word: blather
word: blatherskite
word: bobbins
word: bollocks
word: bosh
word: BS
word: bull
word: bullcrap
word: bulldust
word: bull feathers
word: bullshit
word: bullspeak
word: bunk
word: bunkum
word: bushwah
word: clamjamfrey
word: claptrap
word: cobblers
word: codswallop
word: crap
word: crock
word: crock of shit
word: double Dutch
word: double talk
word: doublespeak
word: dribble
word: drivel
word: eyewash
word: fiddle-faddle
word: flapdoodle
word: flim-flam
word: flizz
word: flummery
word: folderol
word: foolishness
word: footle
word: framis
word: fuckery
word: fuckry
word: fudge
word: galimatias
word: garbage
word: garble
word: gibber
word: gibberish
word: gobbledygook
word: gossip
word: Greek
word: guff
word: gup
word: hoax
word: hocus-pocus
word: hogwash
word: hokum
word: hooey
word: horsefeathers
word: horse hockey
word: horse piss
word: horse puckey
word: horseshit
word: humbug
word: Irish bull
word: jabber
word: jargon
word: jibber-jabber
word: jimjam
word: jive
word: junk
word: lallation
word: macaroni
word: malarkey
word: manure
word: meaninglessness
word: moonshine
word: mumbo jumbo
word: nertz
word: nonsense
word: pie in the sky
word: piffle
word: pigswill
word: poppycock
word: prattle
word: put-on
word: rhubarb
word: rhubarb rhubarb
word: rigmarole
word: rot
word: rubbish
word: ruse
word: santorum
word: shit
word: shite
word: skimble-skamble
word: squit
word: stuff
word: stuff and nonsense
word: tommy-rot
word: tosh
word: tush
word: trash
word: tripe
word: twaddle
word: wass
word: whiff-whaff
word: word salad
glosses: Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk.
synonyms: malaise
glosses: A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, uneasiness, boredom, mild depression, etc.
glosses: A fool, an idiot.
blah
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɑː/
ipa: /bla/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: more blah
form: most blah
form: bla
form: blaa
Etymology: * Sense “Idle, meaningless talk” (1940), probably imitative or echoic in origin. Compare Ancient Greek βαρ-βαρ (bar-bar, “unintelligible sounds”)
* Adjective sense “bland, dull” (1919), perhaps influenced by French blasé (“bored, indifferent”).
* The blahs (“boredom, mild depression”) first attested 1969; probably a blend of the blues + blah (adjective).
* Also may be connected with bleat
Senses: examples: text: Well, the new restaurant seems nice, but their menu is a little blah.
text: He was struck by how much pleasure they seemed to take in their daytime lives, how blah their night work was by contrast, how altogether meaningless; […]
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
text: […] although the show deliberately showcases various luxury goods […], the overall ambience is extraordinarily bare of style and beauty, offering instead a world of blah décor, undistinguished fashions and cavernous homes that just look like overpriced McMansions.
ref: 2025 May 6, Ross Douthat, “Lifestyles of the Rich and Miserable”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Dull; uninteresting; insipid.
examples: text: I decided to go exercise rather than sit around all day feeling blah.
glosses: Low in spirit or health; down.
blah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɑː/
ipa: /bla/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: bla
form: blaa
Etymology: * Sense “Idle, meaningless talk” (1940), probably imitative or echoic in origin. Compare Ancient Greek βαρ-βαρ (bar-bar, “unintelligible sounds”)
* Adjective sense “bland, dull” (1919), perhaps influenced by French blasé (“bored, indifferent”).
* The blahs (“boredom, mild depression”) first attested 1969; probably a blend of the blues + blah (adjective).
* Also may be connected with bleat
Senses: examples: text: Blah! Why can't I get this computer to work!
synonyms: word: bah
word: blast
word: drat
word: fie
glosses: An expression of mild frustration.
examples: text: Yeah, yeah, blah blah blah, Mom, you said this all yesterday.
text: And then he was like, "Oh, my brother's an Internet millionaire, blah blah blah." Like I care!
synonyms: blah blah
blah blah blah
yada yada yada
qualifier: When spoken repeatedly; often three times in succession: blah blah blah!; When spoken repeatedly; often three times in succession: blah blah blah!
glosses: Imitative of idle, meaningless talk; used sometimes in a slightly derogatory manner to mock or downplay another's words, or to show disinterest in a diatribe, rant, instructions, unsolicited advice, parenting, etc. Also used when recalling and retelling another's words, as a substitute for the portions of the speech deemed irrelevant.
synonyms: bleah
blech
bleh
glosses: Representing the sound of vomiting.
blah
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɑː/
ipa: /bla/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: blahs
form: blahing
form: blahed
form: blahed
form: bla
form: blaa
Etymology: * Sense “Idle, meaningless talk” (1940), probably imitative or echoic in origin. Compare Ancient Greek βαρ-βαρ (bar-bar, “unintelligible sounds”)
* Adjective sense “bland, dull” (1919), perhaps influenced by French blasé (“bored, indifferent”).
* The blahs (“boredom, mild depression”) first attested 1969; probably a blend of the blues + blah (adjective).
* Also may be connected with bleat
Senses: examples: text: Ooh, I feel so guilty, I've got far too much money — […] So give it away, endow a charitable foundation, burn it, but stop blahing on about it […]
ref: 2014, Shelagh Stephenson, Ancient Lights, page 28:
text: Someone else said to me: “If you’re writing something again, don’t blah on about winning elections; it really offends them.”
ref: 2015 August 29, Tony Blair, “Jeremy Corbyn’s politics are fantasy – just like Alice in Wonderland”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To utter idle, meaningless talk.
Derived terms: blahg
Related terms: barbarian
rhubarb
toss off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tosses off
form: tossing off
form: tossed off
form: tossed off
Senses: examples: text: Let me toss off this beer first.
text: A mandrill baboon, at Wombwell's menagerie, was very partial to fermented liquors and ginger beer; the large dog-faced baboon, that died at the Tower in 1828, would toss off a pot of porter with great relish, and was such an excessive toper that he at last sunk under a confirmed dropsy; a young ruffed lemur, at the Paris Museum of Natural History, was partial to spirits; […]
ref: 1844 March 16, “Partiality of animals for wine, spirits, &c.”, in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, volume 5 (New Series), number 11, page 164:
text: They drank the health of the Nestor of American poets, and the said Nestor thanked them in German, for all the speeches were in the German language. The beer was a very light tipple, and it seemed to me that one must toss off a good many pots of it before becoming tipsy. I am to go to a private dinner to-night, the last of the Taylor festivities.
ref: 1883, Parke Godwin, quoting William Cullen Bryant, “Chapter 49: The last year: A.D. 1878”, in The Life and Works of William Cullen Bryant: A Biography of William Cullen Bryant, With Extracts From His Private Correspondence, volume 2, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 393:
synonyms: throw back
glosses: To drink up rapidly.
examples: text: I tossed off a letter to the local council.
synonyms: fire off#Verb
coordinate_terms: throw together#Verb
slap together#Verb
whip up#Verb
glosses: To assemble hastily.
synonyms: word: jerk off
word: bash one out
word: bate
word: beat it
word: beat off
word: crank one out
word: fap
word: frig
word: jack off
word: jack it
word: jerk it
word: jerk off
word: jork it
word: knock one out
word: masturbate
word: mastuprate
word: play pocket pool
word: play with oneself
word: pleasure oneself
word: rub one out
word: self-abuse
word: self-pollute
word: service oneself
word: skeet
word: toss
word: toss off
word: touch oneself
word: wank
word: wank off
word: whack off
glosses: To masturbate.
examples: text: He tossed off a few platitudes and then ignored any further questions.
text: Tyrion tells him a great house (the Tyrells) has already been wiped out of history. “Don’t let it happen again.” But he says it like a trusted authority, a casual command, not taking the boy seriously. Basically, he tosses off the line, expecting that to be the end of the conversation
ref: 2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
coordinate_terms: throw out
glosses: To deliver (a remark, suggestion, etc.) in an offhand manner.
Related terms: toss out
toss up
flip
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Etymology: Apparently a euphemism for fuck.
Senses: examples: text: What the flip just happened?
text: Impossible. He's dining out and coming on here after. He can't be reached. / Oh, flip!
ref: 1967, Peter Shaffer, Black comedy, including White lies: two plays:
text: "Oh flip, don't come near this place," she said. It was dangerous. The Catholics had banners up on the Garvaghy Road saying, 'No Protestants here'.
ref: 2000, Susan McKay, Northern Protestants:
glosses: Used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error.
Synonyms: damn
Related terms: flipping
what the flip
flip
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: flipper
form: flippest
Etymology: Clipping of flippant.
Senses: examples: text: I hate to be flip, but perhaps we could steal a Christmas tree.
glosses: Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose.
glosses: Sarcastic.
examples: text: Don't get flip with me or I'll knock you into next Tuesday!
glosses: Disrespectful, flippant.
Synonyms: sense: disrespectful
word: cheeky
Derived terms: fliply
flipness
flip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Etymology: Compare English dialect flip (“nimble, flippant, also, a slight blow”).
Senses: examples: text: [H]e had provided vast quantities of strong beer, flip, rumbo, and burnt brandy, with plenty of Barbadoes water for the ladies […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: I frequently took of large potations, though not of champagne certainly, but port, strong ales, and punch, and when our funds were low as sometimes happened, hot flip […] .
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 21
text: Adding a whole egg to alcoholic drinks goes back centuries, and at one point it was common to plunge a hot poker into your beverage (then commonly made with beer) that caused it to froth around or "flip". These days, most flips are served cold and often with a fortified wine, like sherry or port, and they are delightful as the egg adds wonderful body and texture to the drink.
ref: 2022 May 17, Nick Fisher, Cocktail Chemistry: The Art and Science of Drinks from Iconic TV Shows and Movies, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 95:
synonyms: flannel
glosses: A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron (a "flip dog").
big cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big cheeses
Etymology: From big + cheese (“wealth, fame, importance”). Earliest use to mean importance from 1910.
Senses: examples: text: He’ll be meeting with the big cheese first thing tomorrow, to present his proposal.
text: I know. But it's his ship now, his command; he's in charge, he's the boss, the head man, the top dog, the big cheese, the head honcho, number one...
ref: 1980, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Airplane!, spoken by Rex Kramer (Robert Stack):
text: If not for all these bills and taxes, our income would more than suffice. I feel like a real big cheese, until everybody takes a slice!
ref: 1995, “Where The Money Goes”, in Rich Mendoza (music), Money Rock, performed by Schoolhouse Rock!/Jack Sheldon:
synonyms: word: baron
word: big cheese
word: big enchilada
word: big gun
word: big kahuna
word: big man
word: big name
word: big noise
word: big shot
word: bigwig
word: big wheel
word: boss
word: grand poobah
word: head honcho
word: heavy hitter
word: heavyweight
word: high muckamuck
word: high muckety-muck
word: king of all one surveys
word: king of the castle
word: king of the hill
word: kingpin
word: macher
word: mayor
word: muckamuck
word: muckety muck
word: mugwump
word: numero uno
word: poobah
word: rooster
word: somebody
word: top banana
word: top cat
word: top dog
word: top gun
word: very important person
word: VIP
word: wheel
glosses: A very important figure, especially a high-ranking person in an organization.
wikipedia: O. Henry
Derived terms: english: literal French translation
translation: literal French translation
word: grand fromage
slip knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slip knots
form: slipknot
Senses: glosses: A knot which attaches a line to an object and tightens when pressure is applied. Also called a running knot.
glosses: A knot which attaches a line to the middle of another, allowing it to slide
lionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lī'-ə-nīz
ipa: /ˈlaɪənaɪz/
Forms: form: lionizes
form: lionizing
form: lionized
form: lionized
form: lionise
Etymology: From lion + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Flare-riding is one of the most exotic and exhilarating sports in existence, and those who can dare and afford to do it are amongst the most lionized men in the Galaxy.
ref: 1980 October, Douglas Adams, chapter 18, in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 106:
text: He [Li Wenliang] died of COVID-19 in February, lionized by the Chinese public as a hero and whistleblower.
ref: 2021 June 3, Katherine Eban, “The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins”, in Vanity Fair:
text: In early March, a person who had a history of posting Nazi imagery shared a 21-second video lionizing Juraj Krajčík. The clip shows one of his victims lying dead on the pavement.
ref: 2025 March 15, A.C. Thompson, James Bandler, “The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram: Inside a Global Online Hate Network”, in ProPublica:
glosses: To treat (a person) as if they were important, or a celebrity.
glosses: To visit (a famous place) in order to revere it.
Derived terms: lionizable
lionization
lionizer
unlionized
entre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: entres
form: entring
form: entred
form: entred
Senses: examples: text: And whosoever doth not suffer corruption to entre, by the five gates unto his soule, is rekoned amongest ...
ref: 1566, John Martiall, “A Replie to M. Calfhills Blasphemous Answer Made Against the Treatise of the Crosse”, in D.M. Rogers, editor, English recusant literature, 1558-1640, volume 203, page 125:
text: Thus warlikely accoutred she rode immediately to Blois, where Forces and Provisions lay for the Relief of Orleans, with which she and the Marshal and Admiral of France entred.
ref: 1722, Isaac Kimber, The History of England, page 470:
glosses: Archaic spelling of enter.
hulk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌlk/
rhymes: -ʌlk
Forms: form: hulks
form: hulking
form: hulked
form: hulked
Etymology: A variant of holk (“to dig out, hollow out, make hollow; to dig up, excavate; to dig into, investigate”), from Middle English holken (“to dig out, hollow out; to dig up, excavate”) (compare holk (“a hollow; body cavity”)), perhaps from Middle Low German hȫlken (“to hollow out, gouge”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”, adjective); further etymology uncertain, perhaps either from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”), or *ḱewh₁- (“to swell; to be strong”). Compare also Old English āhlocian (“to dig out”).
Senses: examples: text: And with this ſwaſhing blow, do you ſwear Prince; / I could hulk your Grace, and hang you up croſs-legg'd, / Like a Hare at a Poulters, and do this with this wiper.
ref: c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Philaster: Or, Love Lies a Bleeding”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 1], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 37, column 2:
qualifier: obsolete except British
glosses: To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.
huddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌdəl/
rhymes: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: huddles
Etymology: From Middle English *hudelen, alteration (due to hudels, hidels (“hiding place”), see hiddle) of *huderen, hoderen (“to cover; press together; huddle”), a frequentative form of Middle English huden, hiden (“to hide”), equivalent to hide + -le and/or hide + -er. Compare Low German huderken (“to brood; coddle; nurse; lull children to sleep”).
Senses: glosses: A dense and disorderly crowd.
examples: text: It’s about as riveting as listening to a huddle of ents discuss the finer points of deciduous shedding.
ref: 2023 May 25, Nic Reuben, “The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A small group of individuals in very close proximity to one another.
examples: text: The post-PMQs huddle takes place just outside the press gallery, and all the journalists swarm first around the Prime Minister's press team[…]
ref: 2018, Ayesha Hazarika, Tom Hamilton, Punch and Judy Politics: An Insiders' Guide to Prime Minister's Questions:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A small group of individuals in very close proximity to one another.
A session in which a group of journalists assemble in an informal, dense cluster to question a person of interest.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A small group of individuals in very close proximity to one another.
A brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.
topics: bridge
games
glosses: A hesitation during play to think about one's next move.
Derived terms: huddle room
huddlesome
huddle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌdəl/
rhymes: -ʌdəl
Etymology: From Middle English *hudelen, alteration (due to hudels, hidels (“hiding place”), see hiddle) of *huderen, hoderen (“to cover; press together; huddle”), a frequentative form of Middle English huden, hiden (“to hide”), equivalent to hide + -le and/or hide + -er. Compare Low German huderken (“to brood; coddle; nurse; lull children to sleep”).
Senses: examples: text: There was in Sicilie a certaine fisherman who resembled in all points Sura the pro-consull, not onely in visage and feature of the face, but also in mowing with his mouth when he spake, in drawing his tongue short, and in his huddle and thicke speech.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book VII.] XII. Examples of many that have been very like and resembled one another.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 162:
text: The evangelists are easily distinguished from the rest, by a passionate zeal and love which the painter has thrown in their faces; the huddle group of those who stand most distant, are admirable representations of men abashed with their late unbelief and hardness of heart.
ref: 1713, Richard Steele, The Guardian, number 21:
text: Gowan snored, each respiration choking to a huddle fall as though he would never breathe again.
ref: 1911, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 51:
glosses: Huddled, confused, congested.
entrench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ɛnˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ɛnˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: entrenches
form: entrenching
form: entrenched
form: entrenched
form: intrench
Etymology: From en- + trench. First attested in the 1550s.
Senses: examples: text: It was this very sword entrenched it.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: His face
 Deep scars of thunder had entrenched.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
topics: archaeology
business
construction
history
human-sciences
manufacturing
sciences
glosses: To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.
examples: text: The army entrenched its camp, or entrenched itself.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in.
glosses: To become completely absorbed in and fully accept one's beliefs, even in the face of evidence against it and refusing to be reasoned with.
examples: text: Senator Cornpone was able to entrench by spending millions on each campaign.
text: Given these entrenched ideological assumptions about the colonial order, it is no wonder that the state and those groups with an interest in the status quo viewed with suspicion and hostility any challenges to the fixed and "natural" boundaries between different sorts of people.
ref: 2009, Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew O'Hara, “Forward”, in Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew O'Hara, editors, Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, page 4:
text: For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.
ref: 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Sep 2013:
glosses: To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.
glosses: To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on or upon.
Synonyms: sense: dig
word: trench
sense: surround with a trench
word: dig in
sense: establish a solid, firm financial position
word: consolidate
Derived terms: entrencher
entrenchment
nonentrenched
unentrenched
hazardous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæ.zɚ.dɪs/
ipa: /-dəs/
Forms: form: more hazardous
form: most hazardous
Etymology: From Middle French hasardeux, equivalent to hazard + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: But out of sight is out of mind. And that[…]means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair. If that repair does not come in time, the result is noxious and potentially hazardous.
ref: 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
glosses: Risky; dangerous; with the nature of a hazard.
glosses: Of or involving chance.
Derived terms: biohazardous
extrahazardous
geohazardous
hazardously
hazardous material
hazmat
hazardousness
potentially hazardous object
ultrahazardous
unhazardous
endorse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɔːs/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɔɹs/
ipa: /ɛnˈdɔɹs/
ipa: /ɪnˈdoːs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: endorses
form: endorsing
form: endorsed
form: endorsed
form: indorse
form: endoce
Etymology: Alteration influenced by Medieval Latin indorsare of Middle English endosse, from Old French endosser (“to put on the back”), from Latin dossum, alternative form of dorsum (“back”), from which also dorsal (“of the back”). That is, the ‘r’ was dropped in Latin dossum, which developed into Old French and then Middle English endosse, and then the ‘r’ was re-introduced into English via the Medieval Latin indorsare, which had retained the ‘r’. Note that the alternative spelling indorse also uses the initial ‘i’ from Latin (in-, rather than en-), but this form is now rare.
Senses: examples: text: The president endorsed John Smith as senator.
glosses: To express support or approval, especially officially or publicly; to give an endorsement.
glosses: To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it to a third party, or cashing it.
examples: text: The court endorsed his driving record with three penalty points for the drink-driving.
text: On 25th January, 1968, Mrs. Weston was convicted by the Sheffield Magistrates of driving without due care and attention. She was fined £10 and her driving licence was endorsed.
ref: Nettleship v Weston ([1971] 2 QB 691)
topics: law
glosses: To add penalty points to one's driving licence as a result of a road traffic offence.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To report (a symptom); to describe.
Derived terms: disendorse
endorsable
endorsation
endorsee
endorsement
endorse out
endorser
endorsingly
endorsor
re-endorse
unendorse
unendorsed
Related terms: dorsal
endorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɔːs/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɔɹs/
ipa: /ɛnˈdɔɹs/
ipa: /ɪnˈdoːs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: endorses
form: indorse
form: endoce
Etymology: Alteration influenced by Medieval Latin indorsare of Middle English endosse, from Old French endosser (“to put on the back”), from Latin dossum, alternative form of dorsum (“back”), from which also dorsal (“of the back”). That is, the ‘r’ was dropped in Latin dossum, which developed into Old French and then Middle English endosse, and then the ‘r’ was re-introduced into English via the Medieval Latin indorsare, which had retained the ‘r’. Note that the alternative spelling indorse also uses the initial ‘i’ from Latin (in-, rather than en-), but this form is now rare.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A diminutive of the pale, usually appearing in pairs on either side of a pale.
Related terms: endorsed
endorsement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endorsements
form: endorsation
form: indorsation
form: indorsement
Etymology: From endorse + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The association announced its endorsement of the policy.
text: The bank required that cheque endorsement be witnessed by a cashier.
text: Companies sometimes pay millions for product endorsement by celebrities.
text: Rank-and-file progressives don’t usually think of the immigration policies they support—expanding refugee quotas, easing restrictions on some classes of immigrants, and ending family separation—as an endorsement of detention, deportation, and racialized terror.
ref: 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019:
glosses: The act or quality of endorsing
examples: text: Mr. Jones paid extra for the flood damage endorsement on his house insurance.
glosses: An amendment or annotation to an insurance contract or other official document (such as a driving licence).
examples: text: Once she obtained the endorsement of her night flying hours, Joanna was approved to take the pilot's examination.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An instructor's signed acknowledgement of time practising specific flying skills.
examples: text: Wanted: Accredited teacher with Grade 12 mathematics endorsement.
text: To transport gasoline, truckers must have a valid licence and the hazardous materials endorsement.
topics: education
qualifier: certification
glosses: Permission to carry out a specific skill or application in a field in which the practitioner already has a general licence.
examples: text: After the Olympics, he was hoping to get an endorsement deal.
glosses: Sponsorship, in means of money, by a company, business or enterprise.
examples: text: I'm not sure whether an endorsement from Donald Trump will help or hurt.
glosses: Support from an important, renowned figure of a media (celebrity, politics, sports, etc.), to get back up.
Derived terms: absolute endorsement
anti-endorsement
disendorsement
nonendorsement
Related terms: allonge
twixt
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /twɪkst/
rhymes: -ɪkst
Forms: form: 'twixt
Etymology: From Middle English twyx + -t (excrescent ending).
Senses: examples: text: O! thou thrice happy Shire, confined so to bee / Twixt two so famous Floods, as Mersey is, and Dee.
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, “The Eleventh Song”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 172:
text: I then took a strait That gave myself, and some few more, receipt 'Twixt Scylla and Charybdis.
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
text: From all the dangers he foresees or fears; Yet every hour 'twixt Scylla and Charybdis steers.
ref: c. 1700, John Pomfret, Upon the Divine Attributes:
text: The host is rushing 'twixt night and day,
Caoilte tossing his burning hair,
And Niamh calling Away, come away.
ref: 1893, W. B. Yeats, “The Hosting of the Sidhe”:
glosses: betwixt, between
Derived terms: betwixt
there's many a slip twixt cup and lip
Twixmas
Twixtmas
wickerwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wickerworks
form: wicker-work
Etymology: From wicker + -work (“made of specified material”).
Senses: glosses: A thing or things made of wicker.
glosses: The craft of making things out of wicker.
Derived terms: wickerworker
Related terms: wicker
weak
basket
cradle