cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
skewer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskjuː.ə/
ipa: /ˈskjuː.ɚ/
rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)
Forms: form: skewers
form: skewering
form: skewered
form: skewered
Etymology: From Middle English skeuier, skuer, likely a variant of Middle English *skever, *skiver (compare Modern English skiver), probably of North Germanic origin, compare Icelandic skífa (“to slice”), Norwegian skive, Swedish skiva, Swedish skifer (“a slate”).
Senses: glosses: To impale on a skewer.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: To attack a piece which has a less valuable piece behind it.
examples: text: Parody, in its purest form, is an act of both mockery and appreciation. True masters of the practice possess a bone-deep understanding of their targets; they skewer because they love—or at least, because they’ve done their homework.
ref: 2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2017:
text: A journalist outside 10 Downing Street on Thursday displaying one of the many tabloid covers skewering Mr. Johnson.
ref: 2022 January 13, Mark Landler, “U.K. Monarchy and Government Plunge Into Simultaneous Crises”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, image caption:
text: As resident jester at the maverick journalism outlet The Free Press, Nellie Bowles scours the news for the absurd and hypocritical, and then skewers the best of the worst in her column, TGIF.
ref: 2025 February 26, Roy Rivenburg, “Nellie Bowles of The Free Press punctures pretension left and right”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: To severely mock or discredit.
skewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskjuː.ə/
ipa: /ˈskjuː.ɚ/
rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)
Forms: form: skewers
Etymology: From skew + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which skews something.
skewer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskjuː.ə/
ipa: /ˈskjuː.ɚ/
rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)
Etymology: From skew + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of skew: more skew
windup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windups
Etymology: Deverbal from wind up.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wind-up.
windup
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from wind up.
Senses: examples: text: If you don't mind windup, spring-driven cameras, the Bolex 16s are good nonsync cameras.
ref: 2012, Jack Anderson, Shooting Movies Without Shooting Yourself in the Foot, page 216:
glosses: Alternative form of wind-up.
prefab
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-fab
Etymology: A clipping.
Senses: glosses: Prefabricated.
prefab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prefabs
form: pre-fab
Etymology: A clipping.
Senses: examples: text: Having donned our PPE, we walk through the site to the prefab that controls access to the tunnel.
ref: 2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 41:
glosses: A prefabricated building.
glosses: A prefabricated section of a building.
glosses: A single-storey prefabricated home built in many British cities immediately after World War II, intended to have a short life, but in a few cases still in use.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A reusable object in a video game world.
prefab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prefabs
form: prefabbing
form: prefabbed
form: prefabbed
form: pre-fab
Etymology: A clipping.
Senses: glosses: To prefabricate.
Related terms: self-build
spec home
placard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplæk.ɑːd/
ipa: /ˈplæk.ɑɹd/
other: /ˈplæk.ɚd/
Forms: form: placards
form: placarding
form: placarded
form: placarded
form: plackart
form: plaquet
Etymology: From Middle English placard (“official document”), from Middle French placard, placart, plaquart (“a placard, a writing pasted on a wall”), from the Old French verb plaquer, plaquier (“to stick or paste, roughcast”), from Middle Dutch placken, plecken (“to glue or fasten, plaster, patch”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *plaggą (“a piece of cloth, patch”), equivalent to plaque + -ard.
Related to Middle Low German placken (“to smear with lime or clay, plaster”), Saterland Frisian Plak, Plakke (“a hit, smack, slap”), German Placken (“a spot, patch”), Icelandic plagg (“a document”), Hebrew פלקט (plakat, “a large sheet of paper, typically with a photo or writing, posted on the wall”), English play. Compare also Modern Dutch plakkaat (“placard”), Saterland Frisian Plakoat (“a placard, poster”). More at play.
Senses: examples: text: The inner walls of the church were placarded with large mural tablets of copper, bearing engraved inscriptions celebrating the merits of old Heilbronn worthies of two or three centuries ago, […]
ref: 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), chapter XII, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 108:
text: The mail coaches were placarded PEACE WITH FRANCE in large capitals, and the drivers all wore a sprig of laurel, as an emblem of peace, in their hats.
ref: 1890, John Ashton, The Dawn of the XIXth Century in England:
text: In the afternoon Sue and the other people bustling about Kennetbridge fair could hear singing inside the placarded hoarding farther down the street.
ref: 1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, chapter VIII, in Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1896, →OCLC:
glosses: To affix a placard to.
examples: text: to placard a sale
text: These men, who have already caused you so much harm, whom you yourselves dispersed on the 31st of October, are placarding their intention to protect you against the Prussians, who have only made an appearance within our walls, […]
ref: 1871, John Leighton, Paris under the Commune:
glosses: To announce with placards.
anesthesiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anaesthesiology
form: anæsthesiology
form: anaesthesialogy
form: anesthesialogy
Senses: glosses: The science of administering anesthetics.
Derived terms: anesthesiological
Related terms: anesthesiologist
fulminant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French fulminant, from Latin fulminō (“strike like lightning”). By surface analysis, fulminate + -ant or fulmine + -ant.
Senses: glosses: That fulminates.
examples: text: Fulminant hepatitis seems to be more common in females than in males (11).[…]In contrast to common belief, Chalmers (17) has shown that physical exercise during infectious hepatitis does not increase the risk of a fulminant course of disease.
ref: 1983, Friedrich Deinhardt, Jean Deinhardt, editors, Viral Hepatitis: Laboratory and Clinical Science, Marcel Dekker, page 296:
text: When his liver function was measured, an acute, fulminant hepatitis was discovered.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 280:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Appearing quickly and with destructive effects.
Derived terms: fulminantly
nonfulminant
subfulminant
fulminant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulminants
Etymology: Borrowed from French fulminant, from Latin fulminō (“strike like lightning”). By surface analysis, fulminate + -ant or fulmine + -ant.
Senses: glosses: A thunderbolt.
examples: text: The excessive danger in handling fulminants was not balanced by any prospective reward.
ref: 1893, Lowis Jalkson, Ten Centuries of European Progress, Sampson Low, Marston and Company, page 128:
glosses: An explosive.
cerealogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cereal + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: There is no university with a department of cerealogy, and consequently anyone may call him- or herself a "cerealogist," even after one single visit to a crop circle.
ref: 2001, Eltjo Haselhoff, The Deepening Complexity of Crop Circles: Scientific Research & Urban Legends, page xv:
text: Despite film showing the two men creating highly complex crop circles, the momentum behind cerealogy was too strong to be stopped by any admission of English eccentricity.
ref: 2002 August 12, “Cereal offenders who won't go away”, in Christian Science Monitor:
text: Patrick Moore, in Can You Speak Venusian, noted that — shades of cerealogy — the crops over a wide area had been flattened.
ref: 2005, Steve Dewey, John Ries, In Alien Heat: The Warminster Mystery Revisited, page 57:
glosses: Alternative form of cereology.
Derived terms: cerealogist
asunder
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsʌndə/
enpr: ə-sŭnʹdər
ipa: /əˈsʌndɚ/
rhymes: -ʌndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more asunder
form: most asunder
form: asundre
form: insunder
Etymology: From Middle English asunder, asondre, onsunder, on sondre, from Old English asundran, onsundrum (“asunder, apart, privately”), from Proto-Germanic *sunder, *sundraz. Equivalent to a- + sunder. Cognate with Danish sønder, Swedish sönder, Dutch zonder, German sonder, Icelandic sundur, Faroese sundur and Norwegian sunder/sønder; akin to Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍂𐍉 (sundrō).
Senses: examples: text: to tear asunder
text: to crack asunder
text: Page. I warrant you, he’s the man should fight with him.
Robert Shallow. […] It appears so by his weapons. Keep them asunder:
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: Let vs breake their bandes asunder, and cast away their cords from vs.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 2:3:
text: He desired I would stand like a Colossus, with my Legs as far asunder as I conveniently could.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=I to IV), page 57:
text: On both of those occasions, he came back to the fire with the inexplicable air upon him which I had remarked, without being able to define, when we were so far asunder.
ref: 1866, Charles Dickens, “The Signal-Man”, in All the Year Round:
text: You don't want to hurt me / But see how deep the bullet lies / Unaware that I'm tearing you asunder / There is thunder in our hearts
ref: 1985, Kate Bush, “Running Up That Hill”:
text: […]Mr. Clooney published his essay in The New York Times, and the president’s relationship with Hollywood was torn asunder.
ref: 2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: apart
in twain
glosses: Into separate parts or pieces.
Synonyms: word: apart
word: asunder
word: half and half
word: in sunder
word: piecemeal
Hyponyms: word: atwain
word: in half
word: in twain
word: in two
Derived terms: asunderness
put asunder
Related terms: word: separate
word: piece
attaché
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtæʃeɪ/
ipa: /ˌætæˈʃeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: attachés
form: attache
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French attaché (literally “attached”).
Senses: examples: text: Little did anyone suspect that the military attaché was one of the world's craftiest spies.
text: One of the commercial attachés of the Department of Commerce in South America transmits the name and address of an engineer who desires to receive full information relative to an automotor for an interurban railway.
ref: 1915, Commerce Reports, volume 2, number 115, page 784:
glosses: A diplomatic officer, usually one who plays a specific role.
Derived terms: attaché case
attachéship
military attaché
baklava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.lə.və/
ipa: /ˈbɑk.lə.və/
ipa: /bəˈklɑː.və/
ipa: /ˈbɑk.ləˌvɑː/
ipa: /ˌbɑk.ləˈvɑː/
rhymes: -ɑːvə
Forms: form: baklavas
form: baklavalar
form: bocklava
form: boclava
form: baclava
form: baklawa
form: baklawah
form: paklava
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish baklava, from Ottoman Turkish باقلوا (baklava) (see for more); possibly from Middle Mongol ᠪᠠᠭᠯᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ (baɣlag-a, “bundle, package”).
Senses: examples: text: It meant lifting tea towels off trays in her Muslim neighbours’ kitchens to help herself to sticky triangles of baklava, half lemon slices pressed into the syrupy pastry filled with walnuts and raisins.
ref: 2022, Priscilla Morris, Black Butterflies, Duckworth, page 56:
glosses: A sweet pastry found in many cuisines of the Middle East and the Balkans, made of chopped nuts layered with phyllo pastry.
Derived terms: baklava-like
boggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒɡ.əl/
ipa: /ˈbɑ.ɡəl/
ipa: /ˈbɔɡ.əl/
rhymes: -ɒɡəl
Forms: form: boggles
Etymology: Variation or derivation of bogle, possibly cognate with bug.
Senses: glosses: A scruple or objection.
glosses: A bungle; a botched situation.
boggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒɡ.əl/
ipa: /ˈbɑ.ɡəl/
ipa: /ˈbɔɡ.əl/
rhymes: -ɒɡəl
Forms: form: boggles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bogle.
mystify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪstɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: mystifies
form: mystifying
form: mystified
form: mystified
Etymology: From French mystifier, from Ancient Greek μυστικός (mustikós, “secret, mystic”) + Latin -ficare.
Senses: examples: text: Solar eclipses continued to mystify ancient humans for thousands of years.
text: I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: To thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder.
Derived terms: demystify
remystify
Related terms: mysterious
mystery
mystic
mystical
mysticism
mystique
hardened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːdn̩d/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹd(ə)nd/
Forms: form: harden'd
Senses: examples: text: hardened steel
glosses: simple past and past participle of harden
hardened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːdn̩d/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹd(ə)nd/
Forms: form: more hardened
form: most hardened
form: harden'd
Senses: examples: text: hardened police officers
synonyms: habituated
toughened
glosses: Having been accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant through exposure or experience; inured.
examples: text: The bloody scene could reduce even the most hardened soldier to tears.
text: In the past, Lutao was considered somewhat mysterious, because of the national penitentiary which housed the most hardened criminals, and the restrictions on travel to the island, which have since been loosened.
ref: 1983 April 17, “Progress for Green Island”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XXIV, number 15, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 3:
english: Free China Weekly
translation: Free China Weekly
text: Hardened royalists staged a protest against Amnesty International Thailand at Silom Complex on Monday. The group said that the human rights watchdog is undermining the country’s stability by campaigning for the rights of the detained protest leaders who are calling for the reformation of the royal institution.
ref: 2021 November 29, Erich Parpart, “Ultra royalists condemn Amnesty International, call for their removal”, in Thai Enquirer, Thai Enquirer, retrieved 29 Nov 2021:
synonyms: word: harsh
word: severe
word: callous
word: cold
word: cold-eyed
word: dour
word: flint-hearted
word: forbidding
word: frosty
word: grim
word: hard
word: hard-boiled
word: hardened
word: hardhearted
word: heartless
word: harsh
word: humorless
word: icy
word: iron-hearted
word: insensitive
word: rigorous
word: rockhearted
word: severe
word: stern
word: stonehearted
word: stony
word: stonyhearted
word: strict
word: tough
word: unsympathetic
word: unmoved
glosses: Unfeeling; pitiless; callous.
examples: text: hardened criminals
glosses: Firmly established in a behavior seen as bad; unlikely to change one's ways; inveterate.
examples: text: a hardened air base
text: a hardened server
topics: computing
engineering
government
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
war
glosses: Having extra defences against attack; highly fortified.
Derived terms: battle-hardened
case-hardened
nonhardened
radiation-hardened
unhardened
confiscate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑnfəˌskeɪt/
Forms: form: confiscates
form: confiscating
form: confiscated
form: confiscated
form: confuscate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cōnfiscātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin cōnfiscō (“to seize for the public treasury (fiscus)”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: In schools, it is common for teachers to confiscate electronic games and other distractions.
text: We doe confiscate
(Towards the satisfying of your accounts)
All that you haue.
ref: c. 1613, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, London: John Waterson, published 1623, Act III, Scene 2:
text: 1768, Alexander Dow (translator), The History of Hindostan by Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Astarābādī, London: T. Becket & P.A. de Hondt, Volume 2, Section 4, p. 63,
The Persian having evacuated the imperial provinces, the vizier became more cruel and oppressive than ever: he extorted money from the poor by tortures, and confiscated the estates of the nobility, upon false or very frivolous pretences.
text: Why, your cavalier is a rebel—an exile, whose property is confiscated, and for whose neck the gibbet stands prepared!
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 241-242:
text: Whenever you strike a frontier—that’s the border of a country, you know—you find a custom-house there, and the gov’ment officers comes and rummages among your things and charges a big tax, which they call a duty because it’s their duty to bust you if they can, and if you don’t pay the duty they’ll hog your sand. They call it confiscating, but that don’t deceive nobody, it’s just hogging, and that’s all it is.
ref: 1894, Mark Twain, chapter 11, in Tom Sawyer Abroad, New York: Charles L. Webster & Co, page 174:
text: They took photographs of the bodies, but these were confiscated on return to Baghdad, and orders were given that nothing was to be said of what they had seen.
ref: 1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, London: Macmillan, Part 2, p. 46:
text: But his grandson Francis, a Yorkist friend of Richard III, backed the wrong side in the Wars of the Roses and was declared a traitor by Henry VII, who confiscated his estates.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 286:
glosses: To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.
Synonyms: sense: take possession of or lay claim to
word: appropriate
sense: take possession of or lay claim to
word: arrogate
sense: take possession of or lay claim to
word: commandeer
sense: take possession of or lay claim to
word: expropriate
sense: take possession of or lay claim to
word: requisition
sense: take possession of or lay claim to
word: usurp
sense: take possession of or lay claim to
word: steal
sense: take possession of or lay claim to
word: rob
Derived terms: confiscatable
confiscator
reconfiscate
unconfiscated
Related terms: fiscal
confiscate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑnfəˌskeɪt/
Forms: form: confuscate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cōnfiscātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin cōnfiscō (“to seize for the public treasury (fiscus)”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Therefore give out you are of Epidamnum, / Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate.
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: […] thy lands and goods / Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate / Unto the state of Venice.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: [N]ot to lay into the Exchequer, or Common Treasury, such goods as are confiscate, but to store them up as holy and consecrate things, which except it bee practised, confiscations, and fines of the Common people would bee frequent, and so this State would decay by weakening the people.
ref: 1642, Walter Raleigh, “Preservation of an Aristocraty”, in The Prince, or, Maxims of State, London, page 34:
text: Thy goods are confiscate unto the state, / Thy name is razed from out her records, […]
ref: 1821, Lord Byron, Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts. […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 151:
glosses: Confiscated; seized and appropriated by the government for public use; forfeit.
Related terms: confiscation
bookkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbʊkˈkiː.pə(ɹ)/
ipa: /bʌʔˈkiː.pə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: bookkeepers
form: book-keeper
Etymology: From book + keeper.
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A person responsible for keeping records or documents, such as of a business.
glosses: A bookseller
Synonyms: accountant
Derived terms: bookkeeperess
electroencephalography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: electroencephalographies
form: electro-encephalography
Etymology: From electro- + encephalo- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, while many philosophers of language in the 20th century proposed that we think in sentence-like strings of language, use of brain imaging technology like electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocorticography (ECoG) has since revealed that thinking more probably happens in a complex combination of images and associations.
ref: 2019 October 24, Oscar Schwartz, “Mind-reading tech? How private companies could gain access to our brains”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The measurement and recording of electrical activity in the brain for diagnostic purposes.
Derived terms: EEG
stereoelectroencephalography
Related terms: electroencephalic
electroencephalogram
electroencephalograph
alpha wave
beta wave
neuritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuritides
form: neuritises
Etymology: From neur- + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: Optic neuritis (or retrobulbar neuritis) is the inflammation of the optic nerve that may cause a complete or partial loss of vision.
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of one or more nerves.
Derived terms: endoneuritis
ganglioneuritis
mononeuritis
neuritic
optic neuritis
polyneuritis
pseudoneuritis
radiculoneuritis
radioneuritis
Wartenberg's migrant sensory neuritis
Related terms: neurological
neurologist
neurology
neuronitis
neurologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: neurologists
Etymology: From neuro- + -logist.
Senses: examples: text: When a neurologist ruled out medical causes like Lyme disease, Ms. Abaspour recalled, her husband said, “I think we should just give her a placebo — it’s all in her head.”
ref: 2006 October 22, Pam Belluck, “Living With Love, Chaos and Haley”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2016, retrieved 09 Dec 2016:
text: And most neurologists are in the habit of prescribing antispasticity drugs like tizanidine and baclofen, which are oral and inexpensive, but which cause drowsiness and weaken every muscle in the body, not just the target ones.
ref: 2009 March 17, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “After a Stroke, Freeing Muscles With Botox”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2017:
synonyms: word: brain doctor
glosses: A doctor or scientist who practices or specializes in neurology.
Derived terms: otoneurologist
palaeoneurologist
paleoneurologist
Related terms: neuritis
neurologic
neurological
neurologically
neuron
esophagitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esophagitides
form: oesophagitis
form: œsophagitis
Etymology: From esophag- + -itis.
Senses: glosses: Inflammation of the oesophagus.
stubble rash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stubble rashes
Senses: glosses: A rash acquired by kissing someone who has stubble.
apple core
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple cores
form: applecore
Senses: glosses: The central portion of an apple containing the seeds and where the stem attaches (and the opposed end). Particularly the portion that remains after the main part of the fruit has been eaten.
apple-corer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple-corers
form: apple corer
Senses: glosses: A tool used to remove the apple core from an apple for use in cooking; some forms of the tool segment the apple at the same time as removing its core.
apple fritter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple fritters
Senses: glosses: A type of fritter made with pieces of apple deep-fried in batter and often served covered with powdered sugar, honey or cinnamon.
deep-frying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deep frying
form: deepfrying
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deep-fry
deep-frying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep-fryings
form: deep frying
form: deepfrying
Senses: examples: text: Notice, too, that Crisco is being strained back into its can—ready for many other deep-fryings.
ref: 1933 October, Better Homes & Gardens, volume 12, number 2, page 25:
text: Andrikopoulos et al. (2002) determined total phenols during successive pan-fryings and deep-fryings of virgin olive oil under conditions applied in domestic cooking.
ref: 2006, Dimitrios Boskou, “Culinary Applications”, in Dimitrios Boskou, editor, Olive Oil: Chemistry and Technology, 2nd edition, Champaign, Ill.: AOCS Press, →ISBN, page 246:
text: “Right, because your fish is so much healthier than my shrimp.” / “I’m thinking more of your multiple deep-fryings. And multiple servings.” / “It’s all-you-can-eat,” Jackson said. “Besides, what’s with this health kick?”
ref: 2018, Nathan Birr, Short Sail (A Douglas Files Short), Beacon Books, LLC, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: A method of cooking by immersion in hot oil.
Synonyms: deep-fat-frying
powdered sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊ.dəd ˈʃʊɡ.ə/
enpr: pouʹdərd sho͝ogʹər
ipa: /ˈpaʊ.dɚd ˈʃʊɡ.ɚ/
Forms: form: powdered sugars
Senses: synonyms: word: confectioners' sugar
word: icing sugar
word: pulverized sugar
glosses: Very finely ground sugar to which cornstarch is added to prevent lumping, mostly used in icings and confections to produce a smooth texture.
fritter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɪtə(ɹ)/
enpr: frĭtʹər
ipa: /ˈfɹɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈfɹɪɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fritters
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English fryture, from Middle French friture, from Old French friture, from Vulgar Latin *frīctūra, from Latin frīgō (“to fry”); compare fry.
For the development of Middle English /iu̯r(ə)/ into /ə(ɹ)/, compare armour, batter, border, solder.
Senses: glosses: A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.
examples: text: And cut whole giants into fritters.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
Derived terms: apple fritter
corn fritter
French fritter
fritter batter
fritterlike
fritterware
oyster fritter
rice fritter
spam fritter
fritter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɪtə(ɹ)/
enpr: frĭtʹər
ipa: /ˈfɹɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈfɹɪɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fritters
form: frittering
form: frittered
form: frittered
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English fryture, from Middle French friture, from Old French friture, from Vulgar Latin *frīctūra, from Latin frīgō (“to fry”); compare fry.
For the development of Middle English /iu̯r(ə)/ into /ə(ɹ)/, compare armour, batter, border, solder.
Senses: examples: text: I was supposed to do work, but I frittered around all afternoon.
text: He can’t figure out how to finish the paper he’s writing, so he’s resorted to frittering with the fonts.
text: It is quite possible to fritter one's life away in answer to the endless calls of others.
qualifier: around; or away; around; or away
glosses: To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
raw_tags: with about
glosses: To sinter.
glosses: To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
examples: text: Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense.
ref: 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:
glosses: To break into small pieces or fragments.
Derived terms: fritter away
frittered
fritterer
frittering
Related terms: tempura
apple sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple sauces
form: applesauce
Senses: glosses: A culinary dish prepared by pureeing cooked apples.
examples: text: “You mean that I am now labelled not only as a loony in a general sort of way but also as a klept-whatever-it-is?” “Merely to your immediate circle now resident at Brinkley Court, sir.” “You keep saying that, and you must know it's the purest apple sauce. You don't really think the Creams will maintain a tactful reserve? They'll dine out on it for years. Returning to America, they'll spread the story from the rock-bound coasts of Maine to the Everglades of Florida, with the result that when I go over there again, keen looks will be shot at me at every house I go into and spoons counted before I leave.”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “VI AND XXI”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of applesauce (“nonsense”).
Derived terms: apple saucey
forthright
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːθˌɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹθˌɹaɪt/
Forms: form: more forthright
form: most forthright
Etymology: From Middle English forþright, forþriʒt, forþriht, from Old English forþriht (“direct, plain”). By surface analysis, forth + right.
Senses: examples: text: The witness was considered eminently credible thanks to her forthright answers.
glosses: Straightforward; not evasive; candid and direct.
examples: text: TSSA General Secretary Manuel Cortes was typically forthright in his criticism by claiming that Sunak had "blatantly failed" to cure "a growing tragedy", as "every single day, more and more families can't make ends meet".
ref: 2022 April 6, “Network News: Spring Statement: Sunak accused of making rail less competitive”, in RAIL, number 954, page 8:
glosses: Frank, outspoken.
glosses: Markedly simple.
glosses: Fixed; settled; decided.
glosses: Proceeding straight forth.
Derived terms: forthrightly
forthrightness
unforthright
forthright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːθˌɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹθˌɹaɪt/
Forms: form: forthrights
Etymology: From Middle English forþright, forþriʒt, forþriht, from Old English forþriht (“direct, plain”). By surface analysis, forth + right.
Senses: examples: text: Gonzalo: […]Here's a maze trod indeed / Through forth-rights and meanders !
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: A straight path.
forthright
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːθˌɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹθˌɹaɪt/
ipa: /fɔːθˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɔːθˌɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹθˌɹaɪt/
Forms: form: more forthright
form: most forthright
Etymology: From Middle English forthright, forþriʒt, forthricte, from Old English forþrihte (“straightway, at once, plainly”), from forþriht + -e (“adverbial suffix”). By surface analysis, forth + right.
Senses: glosses: Expressly, frankly, unhesitatingly.
glosses: At once, forthwith.
glosses: Swiftly.
glosses: Straight forward, in a straight direction.
puree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjʊəɹeɪ/
ipa: /pjʊəˈɹeɪ/
Forms: form: purees
form: purée
Etymology: Borrowed from French purée.
Senses: examples: text: Tomato sauce is generally a puree.
glosses: A food that has been ground or crushed into a thick liquid or paste.
Related terms: pomme puree
puree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjʊəɹeɪ/
ipa: /pjʊəˈɹeɪ/
Forms: form: purees
form: pureeing
form: pureed
form: pureed
form: purée
Etymology: Borrowed from French purée.
Senses: glosses: To crush or grind food into a puree.
puree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjʊəɹeɪ/
ipa: /pjʊəˈɹeɪ/
Forms: form: purees
form: purée
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of puri (“type of unleavened bread”).
strawberry blonde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strawberry blonde
form: most strawberry blonde
form: strawberry blond
Senses: glosses: An uncommon orange hair colour; it is characterized as a combination of pale light yellow (often called blonde) and red. Strawberry blonde hair appears blonde in dim light, but when exposed to sun or a bright light, the hair may assume a slight tinge of pink or red color.
strawberry blonde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strawberry blondes
form: strawberry blond
Senses: examples: text: Casey would waltz with a strawberry blonde,
And the band played on. . . .
He'd ne'er leave the girl with the strawberry curls,
And the band played on.
ref: 1895, “The Band Played On”, John F. Palmer (lyrics), Charles B. Ward (music), chorus:
glosses: A person, especially a woman, who has hair of this colour.
glosses: A cocktail comprising one part vodka to two parts cherry brandy to three parts cola topped with a dash of cream and stirred gently with a swizzle stick before serving.
apple of discord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæp(ə)l əv ˈdɪskɔːd/
ipa: /ˈæp(ə)l əv ˈdɪskɔɹd/
Forms: form: apples of discord
Etymology: A reference to the μῆλον τῆς Ἔριδος (mêlon tês Éridos, “apple of Eris”) in Greek mythology, a golden apple inscribed ‘for the fairest female’ which Eris (known as Discordia to the Romans), the goddess of discord and strife, tossed in the midst of the feast of the gods at the wedding of Thetis and Peleus. This provoked a dispute among Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera as to who was the most beautiful, and eventually led to the Trojan War.
Senses: examples: text: He has determined to enter the cabinet surrounded with creatures only, and, as to the Parliament, to trust to his dexterity and strength in throwing the apple of discord, occasions for doing which will, he imagines, soon and frequently occur.
ref: 1804 May 19, “Summary of Politics”, in William Cobbett, editor, Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, volume V, number 20, London: Printed by Cox and Baylis, Great Queen Street; published by Richard Bagshaw, Bow Street, Covent Garden; …, →OCLC, column 768:
text: He [Pope Pius VII] had hardly regained Rome when a domestic incident in the Bonaparte family became the immediate cause of that struggle between Pope and Emperor which only ended with the downfall of Napoleon's power. This apple of discord was the outraged honour of a Protestant girl, which the Holy Father maintained in the face of her angered Imperial brother-in-law.
ref: 1875, Mary H[elen Agnes] Allies, “The Apple of Discord”, in The Life of Pope Pius the Seventh, London: Burns and Oates, Portman Street and Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 91:
text: The apportionment of U.S. military assistance to Turkey and Greece has become an apple of discord almost as bitterly disputed by the recipients as the one Aphrodite received from Paris, which touched off the Trojan Wars.
ref: 1992, Monteagle Stearns, “The 70 Percent Solution to Our Military Aid Dilemma”, in Entangled Allies: U.S. Policy toward Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus, New York, N.Y.: Council on Foreign Relations Press, →ISBN, page 40:
text: As in the old days when the tribes were fighting each other over hunting grounds, territories and agricultural land, today DRC [the Democratic Republic of the Congo] is prone to many internal conflicts. Especially in the eastern part of the country today's apples of discord appear to be the much-coveted minerals such as gold, diamonds, coltan, and uranium.
ref: 2008, Anthonie Th. Polet, “Between Expectations and Reality in the DRC: Opportunities for Cimic”, in Sebastiaan J. H. Rietjens, Myriame T. I. B. Bollen, editors, Managing Civil-Military Cooperation: A 24/7 Joint Effort for Stability (Military Strategy and Operational Art), Aldershot, Hampshire; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 123:
synonyms: golden apple
glosses: An object or topic which sows anger and dissension; something which causes argument, rivalry, or strife.
wikipedia: Greek mythology
Jacob Jordaens
Museo del Prado
Related terms: bone of contention
sticking point
antifouling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + fouling.
Senses: glosses: That prevents or counteracts the buildup of barnacles and other deposits on undersea surfaces such as those of boats.
antifouling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antifoulings
Etymology: From anti- + fouling.
Senses: examples: text: These antifoulings release the biocides by a hydrolysis or ion exchange reaction of an acrylic polymer with seawater.
ref: 2002, Institute of Marine Engineers, Marine Engineers Review:
glosses: Any substance that prevents or counteracts the buildup of barnacles and other deposits on undersea surfaces such as those of boats.
effluvium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈfluːvi.əm/
rhymes: -uːviəm
Forms: form: effluvia
form: effluviums
Etymology: From Latin effluvium (“an outlet”), from effluō (“flow out or away”), from ex (“out of, from”) + fluō (“flow”).
Senses: examples: text: She was now bending over a huge light wood blaze, with a pipe of rude structure and no small dimensions in her mouth, from which the occasional puff went forth, filling the apartment with the unpleasant effluvia of the vilest leaf-tobacco.
ref: 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XV, page 188:
text: It was the mere effluvium of the flame, the subtle ether that it cast off as it passed, working on us, and making us feel strong as giants and swift as eagles.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: And he breathed the breath of the house—a dank savour rather than a smell—a cold, musty effluvium as from underground vaults mingled with the reeking exhalations of linoleum and mildewed and rotten woodwork.
ref: 1906, O. Henry, The Furnished Room:
glosses: A gaseous or vaporous emission, especially a foul-smelling one.
examples: text: Reversible hair loss or effluvium occurs following either endogenous or exogenous damage to anagen hair follicles[…].
ref: 2000, Dr. Otto Braun-Falco et al., “Diseases of hair”, in Dermatology, →ISBN, page 1136:
glosses: A condition causing the shedding of hair.
Derived terms: effluvial
telogen effluvium
play ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays ball
form: playing ball
form: played ball
form: played ball
Senses: glosses: To start anything tumultuous.
examples: text: The politicians refused to play ball with the journalists.
text: Donohue also promised Kopacz he'd help him out of his numerous legal problems in several stales if K. would play ball with Mass. cops and agree to implicate Roger Spear and Mark Davis as malefactors in Barbre's death.
ref: 1981 April 11, Philip Shehadi, “Dutch Gays Come To NY, Protest Immigration Laws”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
text: The Luftwaffe, at this point, was still refusing to play ball completely, however. But someone decided to lump Adolf Galland with command of the air operation, and he decided to work with Luftflotte 3, mobilizing their training units to make up the numbers, since large numbers of that particular formation's fighters had been diverted to the campaign in Russia, which was why the fighter numbers were so much lower than they had been the previous year.
ref: 2019 January 9, Drachinifel, 15:17 from the start, in The Channel Dash / Operation Cerberus - How to win through refuge in audacity, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2022:
glosses: To work together; to cooperate.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
glosses: An expression used at the beginning of a game of baseball or softball.
Derived terms: if there's grass on the field, play ball
if there's grass on the pitch, play ball
scrumptious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹʌm(p)ʃəs/
ipa: /ˈskrəm(p)ʃəs/
Forms: form: more scrumptious
form: most scrumptious
Etymology: Probably from scrimp (“to put on short allowance, limit, straiten; to be frugal”) + -ious (suffix forming adjectives denoting the presence of a quality in any degree (usually an abundance)), possibly modelled after scrimption (“small portion, little bit, scrap”). Douglas Harper instead derives the word from sumptuous. As the early cites in British English have a clearly different sense from the early cites in American English, only to merge together later, it may be that there were originally two unrelated words.
Senses: examples: text: What a scrumptious treat!
synonyms: word: ambrosial
word: appetizing
word: dainty
word: delectable
word: delicious
word: delish
word: exquisite
word: finger-lickin' good
word: flavorful
word: flavorous
word: flavorsome
word: gustful
word: lekker
word: lickerish
word: lip-smacking
word: luscious
word: moreish
word: mouthwatering
word: nummy
word: ono
word: out of this world
word: palatable
word: sapid
word: savory
word: scrummy
word: scrumptious
word: tasteful
word: tasty
word: to die for
word: toothful
word: toothsome
word: yummy
word: scrumdiddlyumptious
antonyms: unscrumptious
glosses: Of food: delectable, delicious.
examples: text: […] I came here to have a wink at the fash'nables—hang me, if ever I see such a scrumptious lot.
ref: 1865, George Meredith, “The Melting of the Thousand”, in Rhoda Fleming. […], volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 262:
text: Barbara Cartland scratched out this trusty 19th-century romancer concerning the scrumptious Serena Staverly (Diana Rigg), who has the dreadful misfortune to be lost in a game of cards to the flint-hearted Lord Justin.
ref: 1989 March 6, The Sydney Morning Herald, page 8S, column 1:
glosses: Of a person or thing: excellent, wonderful; also, very aesthetically pleasing or attractive; good enough to eat.
glosses: Fastidious, picky.
glosses: Very small; tiny.
Derived terms: word: delumptious
word: plumptious
word: scrumdiddlyumptious
word: scrummy
word: scrumplicious
word: scrumptiously
word: scrumptiousness
word: scrumtrulescent
word: unscrumptious
word: yumptious
Related terms: appetizing
sumptuous
tasty
tempting
rationalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rationalize
rationalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rationalizings
Senses: examples: text: But it is evident that many of these are juristic rationalizings of what had been done for a long time through formal transactions.
ref: 1954, Roscoe Pound, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law, page 140:
glosses: The act of one who rationalizes.
mealy-mouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mealy-mouthed
form: most mealy-mouthed
form: mealmouthed
form: meal-mouthed
form: mealymouthed
Etymology: Possibly from German Mehl im Maule behalten, via Martin Luther
Senses: examples: text: The surliness with which the woodchopper speaks of his woods, handling them as indifferently as his axe, is better than the mealy-mouthed enthusiasm of the lover of nature.
ref: 1849, Thoreau, A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers, page 115:
text: The editors engage in mealy-mouthed apologetics, setting up Orthodox Jews as agents of gentrification, yet they fail to note that it is not white hipsters being beaten but longtime residents of Williamsburg and Crown Heights.
ref: 2020, Miram Gloger, “Letters to the Editor: Envisioning Solidarity”, in Jewish Currents:
glosses: Prone to speaking evasively, indirectly, or duplicitously; not forthright.
Related terms: mealmouth
ziti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈziːti/
enpr: zēʹtē
ipa: [ˈziɾi]
rhymes: -iːti
Forms: form: zitis
form: zite
Etymology: From Italian zite or ziti, plural of zita, zito, from a Southern (Neapolitan or Sicilian) word likely from Vulgar Latin pittitus (“small, worthless”), originally denoting a young boy or girl. See also petty.
Senses: glosses: A type of macaroni pasta in the form of long smooth hollow tubes.
Related terms: zitoni
metes and bounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The limits of a piece of land as defined by reference to lines and/or points on the land.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: A description of a piece of land consisting of both measurements (metes) of the land and owners of land which is adjacent to (bounds) it.
yeah right
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yeah, right.
yeah, right
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɛə̯ ɹaɪt/
ipa: /jæ ɹaɪt/
note: disbelief
ipa: [jɛə̯˥˨ ɹaɪt˥˩]
note: disbelief
ipa: [jæə̯˥˨ ɹaɪt˥˩]
ipa: [jɛə̯˥˧(.)ɹaɪt˥˧]
ipa: [jæə̯˥˧(.)ɹaɪt˥˧]
Forms: form: aye, right
form: aye right
form: yeah right
Senses: examples: text: Your dog ate your homework? Yeah, right.
glosses: Expresses disbelief.
examples: text: “You were watching the front.”
“Oh yeah, right. So I'm watching the front, and I hear this commotion upstairs. So as I'm looking up, something catches my eye.”
ref: 2007, Matthew B.J. Delaney, Jinn: A Novel:
glosses: Correct; affirmative; yes; yes, that is correct.
Synonyms: sense: sarcastic disbelief
word: as if
word: no
word: no way
word: uh-uh
word: yeah, yeah
word: bullshit