cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
daring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdɛɚ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdɛɹɪŋ/
homophone: derring (Mary–marry–merry merger)
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: more daring
form: most daring
Senses: examples: text: “There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
synonyms: audacious
dareful
bold
venturesome
adventuresome
glosses: Adventurous, willing to take on or look for risks; overbold.
examples: text: […]By this scimitar,
That slew the Sophy and a Persian prince
That won three fields of Sultan Solyman,
I would outstare the sternest eyes that look,
Outbrave the heart most daring on earth,
Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,
Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey,
To win thee, lady. […]
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 II, scene i]:
synonyms: word: courageous
word: adventurous
word: aweless
word: bad
word: bold
word: brass-balled
word: chivalrous
word: courageous
word: daredevil
word: daring
word: dauntless
word: doughty
word: fearless
word: fortitudinous
word: gallant
word: gutsy
word: heroic
word: intrepid
word: lionhearted
word: orped
word: plucky
word: stalwart
word: stalworth
word: stouthearted
word: unafraid
word: undaunted
word: valiant
word: valorous
word: venturesome
glosses: Courageous or showing bravery; doughty.
examples: text: Just what I wanted, seeing my mom in a daring bikini—or worse yet, my being in one. I had the perfect drawer I could bury it in.
ref: 2013, Randy Rawls, Best Defense, page 59:
glosses: Racy; sexually provocative.
Derived terms: daringly
daringness
fortune favors the daring
outdaring
undaring
Related terms: daredevil
dareful
darer
daresay
daring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdɛɚ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdɛɹɪŋ/
homophone: derring (Mary–marry–merry merger)
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: darings
Senses: synonyms: word: boldness
word: audacity
word: fearlessness
word: audacity
word: balls
word: bield
word: boldhead
word: boldness
word: bravehood
word: braveness
word: bravery
word: courage
word: courageousness
word: daring
word: fearlessness
word: grit
word: guts
word: heart
word: intrepidity
word: intrepidness
word: mood
word: nerve
word: ovaries
raw_tags: for women
word: pecker
word: pluck
word: spunk
word: steel
word: undauntedness
word: valour
glosses: Boldness.
courageous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹeɪd͡ʒəs/
rhymes: -eɪdʒəs
Forms: form: more courageous
form: most courageous
Etymology: From Middle English corajous, from Old French corageus, from corage + -eus.
Senses: examples: text: the most courageous person I have ever met
text: In 1979, following Jimmy Carter’s unexpected and unreasonable decision to transfer diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing, the Congress passed the Taiwan Relations Act to preserve our relationship with this courageous nation. We believed that it was vital for our allies and for those who were not our allies to know that the United States would not abandon its friends.
ref: 2005, Jesse Helms, “Foreign Relations Experiences”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 228–229:
synonyms: bold
brave
hardy
valorous
glosses: Of a person, displaying or possessing courage.
examples: text: a courageous deed
synonyms: bold
brave
heroic
glosses: Of an action, that requires courage.
Derived terms: courageously
courageousness
noncourageous
overcourageous
uncourageous
cornmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɹnˌmil/
ipa: /ˈkɔːnˌmiːl/
Forms: form: cornmeals
Etymology: From corn + meal.
Senses: examples: text: She made a kind of polenta from cornmeal and chicken broth, with some cheese sprinkled on top.
synonyms: maizemeal
hypernyms: meal
flour
<
foodstuff#Noun
coordinate_terms: cornflour
;
cornstarch
glosses: Dried corn (maize) milled (ground) to a meal, especially a coarse one.
glosses: Any cereal grain meal or flour.
raw_tags: before 18th c.
Derived terms: cornmealy
maria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.i.ə/
ipa: /ˈmɛɚ.i.ə/
Senses: glosses: plural of mare (“lunar plain”).
Nokia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒ.ki.ə/
ipa: /ˈnɒ.kjə/
ipa: /ˈnɔ.ki.ə/
ipa: /ˈnɑ.ki.ə/
ipa: /ˈnoʊ.ki.ə/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒkiə
rhymes: (US) -oʊkiə
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Pirkanmaa, Finland, near Tampere.
Derived terms: Nokian
Nokia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒ.ki.ə/
ipa: /ˈnɒ.kjə/
ipa: /ˈnɔ.ki.ə/
ipa: /ˈnɑ.ki.ə/
ipa: /ˈnoʊ.ki.ə/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒkiə
rhymes: (US) -oʊkiə
Forms: form: Nokias
Senses: examples: text: Mac turned to the bed and pulled a handful of Nokias from the bag. 'We need those charged,' said Mac as he headed off to find the communal shower block.
ref: 2011, Mark Abernethy, Golden Serpent, →ISBN, page 92:
glosses: A phone produced by the Nokia company.
palmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] she performed in an ensemble that included one uncle (José Carbonell) on guitar, and another (Antonio Carbonell) accompanying her with palmas, or handclapping.
ref: 2007 February 6, Ben Ratliff, “Embodying the Past and Future of an Old Form”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Clapping of the hands.
pt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pts
Senses: glosses: Initialism of physical training, a physical education class in grade school.
raw_tags: in Canada
glosses: Abbreviation of point.
glosses: Abbreviation of part.
examples: text: General appearance—pt c/o [complains of] feeling tired much of the time
ref: 2009, Brian L. Crabtree, Victor G. Dostrow, “Major Depression”, in Terry L. Schinghammer, Julia M. Koehler, editors, Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient-Focused Approach, 7th edition, McGraw Hill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 186:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of patient.
glosses: Abbreviation of pint.
Synonyms: gym class
gym
physical education
phys ed
hebe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hebes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hebe (“a Jew”).
np
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of no problem.
glosses: no pagination
glosses: no place (of publication)
Hyperion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈpɪəɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiən
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ὑπερίων (Huperíōn).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A Titan, the son of Gaia and Uranus and the father of Helios, Selene and Eos.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Helios himself, the incarnation of light and beauty.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the moons of Saturn.
Derived terms: Hyperionian
Theia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθiːə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: Thea
form: Thia
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Θεία (Theía).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A Titan, the sister-wife of Hyperion.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An Oceanid nymph (daughter of Oceanus and Tethys), the mother of the Cercopes by Oceanus.
examples: text: According to the reigning hypothesis, about 4.5 billion years ago, shortly after Earth had accreted down into a sphere from its little slub of circumsolar material, another newborn planet, still shaky on its feet, slammed obliquely into Earth with terrifying force. That "giant impactor", named Theia, who in Greek mythology was mother to the goddess of the moon, is thought to have been roughly the size of Mars and to have been pulverized in the encounter, along with a good chunk of the proto-Earth. From that fiery cloud of all-Theia and part-Earth, the scenario goes, our moon soon condensed.
ref: 2014 September 7, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A hypothesised Mars-sized planet of the early solar system thought to have collided with the Earth to produce the Moon.
Coordinate terms: sense: Greek Moon Goddesses
word: Artemis
sense: Greek Moon Goddesses
word: Diana
sense: Greek Moon Goddesses
word: Selene
sense: Greek Moon Goddesses
word: Luna
sense: Greek Moon Goddesses
word: Hecate
sense: Greek Moon Goddesses
word: Trivia
sense: Greek Moon Goddesses
word: Phoebe
sense: Greek Moon Goddesses
word: Pandia
sense: Greek Moon Goddesses
word: the Menae
hera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heras
Etymology: Apparently a feminization of hero, replacing -o (suffix implying masculinity) with -a (“suffix implying femininity”). Sometimes capitalized as if assumed to be related to Hera.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:hera.
synonyms: shero
glosses: A female hero; a heroine, especially in lesbian or feminist circles.
Coeus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːəs/
rhymes: -iːəs
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κοῖος (Koîos, “Coeus”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Titan of intelligence; the father of Leto and Asteria.
hs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of h
hs
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of high-sensitivity.
raw_tags: of a biochemical assay
Derived terms: hsCRP
hsTn
hsTnI
hsTnT
ds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of d
ds
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: ss
glosses: Abbreviation of double-stranded.
Mnemosyne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˈmɒ.sɪ.ni/
ipa: /nɪˈmɒ.zɪ.ni/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Μνημοσύνη (Mnēmosúnē).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A Titaness and the personification of thought, intellect and memory. She is the daughter of Gaia and Uranus, and the mother of the Muses by Zeus.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 57 Mnemosyne, a main belt asteroid.
Derived terms: zenosyne
gg
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒiːd͡ʒiː/
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: Initialism of good game.
examples: text: Nature's Prophet going to get the last hit in as well. It's the entire team down for EHOME. This is GG.
ref: 2014 March 19, Free to Play (Film), spoken by Announcer:
topics: games
gaming
glosses: loss, defeat, game over
glosses: Initialism of good going.
master race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: master races
Etymology: Calque of German Herrenrasse.
Senses: examples: ref: 1941 March 22, Konrad Heiden, “Europe Under the “Master Race“”, in The Nation, page 334:
text: When the Führer says we is the master race
We "Heil!" (Bronx cheer), "Heil!" (Bronx cheer) right in the Führer's face.
ref: 1942, Oliver Wallace, “Der Fuehrer's Face”:
synonyms: herrenvolk
superrace
antonyms: Untermensch
subhuman
glosses: A race of people who are superior to others.
polska
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polskas
Senses: glosses: A kind of Nordic dance, usually danced with a partner in 3/4 meter.
bache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baches
Etymology: Possibly a dialectal form of Middle English *becck, *betch, from to Old English *becc (“stream”), from Proto-Germanic *bakjaz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰog- (“flowing water, stream”). Cognate with Old Norse bekkr (“brook”). More at beck.
Senses: glosses: The dale of a stream or rivulet.
locker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒk.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈlɑ.kɚ/
ipa: /ˈlɔk.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lockers
Etymology: From lock (lock + -er (patient suffix) or -er (agent noun suffix)) from Old English loc (“fastening, enclosure”), from Proto-Germanic *luką. Cognate with German Loch, Dutch luik, and Dutch loket.
Senses: examples: text: The student placed her books in her locker when she arrived at school.
text: This was locker room talk. I'm not proud of it. I apologize to my family. I apologize to the American people. Certainly I'm not proud of it. But this is locker room talk.
ref: 2016 October 8, Donald J. Trump, “Donald J. Trump’s Apology for Vulgar Comments”, in The New York Times:
text: Neo Hutiri is the creator of Pelebox, a system of internet-enabled lockers that dispense medication for chronic conditions to patients, helping to cut down queues and ease pressure on hospital resources.
ref: 2024 February 1, Nell Lewis, “South African innovator’s medicine-dispensing lockers win prestigious prize”, in CNN:
glosses: A type of storage compartment with a lock, usually used to store personal possessions for public use, such as in schools, railway stations, place of work, gyms, sports centers.
examples: text: She was afraid to come out of the locker.
glosses: A lockable cubicle.
glosses: A storage compartment on a ship, not necessarily one that can be locked.
examples: text: The locker of the trapped chest must be careful, so as not to spring the trap.
glosses: One who locks something.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A locking differential.
examples: text: The actual delivery of the goods is then effected by any person bearing an order from the importer, called a merchant's order, and addressed to the warehouse-keeper, upon the presentment of which the warehouseman delivers the goods, having previously obtained the signature of the locker to it as a proof that the duties have been paid […]
ref: 1845, Reports of cases argued and determined in the courts of Exchequer & Exchequer Chamber, volume 12:
glosses: A customs officer who guards a warehouse.
glosses: A closet.
Synonyms: sense: storage compartment
word: footlocker
Derived terms: chain locker
clasp locker
cryptolocker
cyberlocker
Davey Jones' locker
Davy Jones' locker
Davy Jones's locker
Davy's locker
dip locker
foot locker
hurt locker
locker loop
lockerman
locker room
shot in one's locker
shot in the locker
threadlocker
Related terms: chest
trunk
short message service
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: SMS
glosses: The system for transmitting text messages on mobile phones.
fursuiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜːˌsuːtə/
ipa: /ˈfɝˌsutɚ/
Forms: form: fursuiters
Etymology: From fursuit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Fursuiters dress the part of their furry persona or fursona.
ref: 2009 July 28, Zack Parsons, Your Next-Door Neighbor is a Dragon, New York: Rebel Base, →ISBN, →OL, page 159:
text: Trekkers versus trekkies versus people in Klingon costumes, or furries versus fursuiters versus, oh, plushies.
ref: 2010 August 31, Gwendolyn Ann Smith, “We're All Someone's Freak”, in Kate Bornstein, S. Bear Bergman, editors, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Berkeley: Seal Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 28:
glosses: A person who wears a fursuit.
glosses: A person with an interest in the design, construction, or use of fursuits.
popularize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: popularizes
form: popularizing
form: popularized
form: popularized
form: popularise
Etymology: From popular + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Saudi yoga trainer Dr. Nouf Marwaai has also been honored with one of India’s highest civilian awards, the Padma Shri, for popularizing yoga.
ref: 2018 June 20, “DiplomaticQuarter: Indian Embassy to celebrate 4th International Yoga Day”, in Arab News:
glosses: American and Oxford British spelling of popularise
Derived terms: depopularize
overpopularized
popularizable
popularizer
repopularize
unpopularize
quickie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪki/
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: quickies
Etymology: From quick + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Something made or done swiftly.
examples: text: We had a quickie; I didn’t come & was only telling of the future where there was better bed fucks & us living contentedly as we walked slowly across town again to her home.
ref: 1971, Neal Cassady, The First Third, City Lights, page 136:
text: Why talk about courtly love [l'amour courtois]^([sic]) today, in an age of permissiveness when the sexual encounter is often nothing more than a ‘quickie’ in some dark corner of an office?
ref: 2005 [1994], Slavoj Žižek, The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality, Verso, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: A brief sexual encounter.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fast bowler.
Derived terms: quota quickie
urostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urostomies
Etymology: From uro- + -stomy.
Senses: examples: text: She now has a stoma (an opening in her abdomen) and relies on a urostomy bag to collect her urine.
ref: 2024 May 29, Simon Hattenstone, “The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A surgically constructed opening in the urinary tract allowing urine to exit the body; the procedure of making such an opening.
RAAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Royal Australian Air Force.
glosses: Initialism of Roswell Army Air Field.
Related terms: RAF
RCAF
RNZAF
bristol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪstəl/
rhymes: -ɪstəl
Forms: form: bristols
Etymology: Shortened from Bristol City, the name of an English football team, for titty.
Senses: examples: text: Finally the dancer whipped her bikini top off and her bristols fell out. They looked like a pair of slatelayers' nailbags.
ref: 2010, William Regal, Walking a Golden Mile:
glosses: A woman's breast
devon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛvən/
rhymes: -ɛvən
Forms: form: devons
Senses: examples: text: Initial suspicions pointed at both food and water, narrowing down after a while to fritz (devon, as it is known in some states), a popular, bland, processed meat.
ref: 1995, The Bulletin, numbers 5953-5959, page 23:
text: Elsewhere the Roy Slaven signature range of smallgoods – marketed with the shout-out line, ‘Roy: still doing things with meat butchers only dream of!’ − has captured the imagination of an increasingly time-poor community looking for top-shelf short cuts in cuisine solutions. When I last looked, Roy had personally signed nearly 5.9 million salamis, chorizos and devon logs this year.
ref: 2008, H. G. Nelson, Sprays: A Collection of Verbal Touch-Ups, page 216:
text: One of our firm favourites both for the quality and the taste of Ricky Roessler′s smallgoods – and the sheer joy of shopping here. No devon or pastrami, though, just plenty of bratwurst:[…].
ref: 2009, Helen Greenwood, John Newton, Sydney 2010: More Than 450 Butchers, Bakers, Food Stores and Chocolate Makers, unnumbered page:
glosses: A type of processed meat sausage.
Synonyms: fritz
kent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ken
Derived terms: unkent
kent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: kents
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of the verb cant.
Senses: glosses: A shepherd's staff.
glosses: A pole or pike.
glosses: cunt.
kent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: kents
form: kenting
form: kented
form: kented
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of the verb cant.
Senses: glosses: To propel (a boat) using a pole.
zaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: zaires
Senses: glosses: The unit of currency of Zaire.
kina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinas
form: kina
Etymology: From Tolai kina (“oyster or clamshell”).
Senses: glosses: The national currency of Papua New Guinea, divided into 100 toea.
kina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinas
Etymology: From Maori kina.
Senses: examples: text: To those used to one standard, this book may offer a taste passing strange, like the original mouthful of kina roe. Persist. Kina can become a favourite food.
ref: 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Preface:
glosses: Evechinus chloroticus, a sea urchin endemic to New Zealand.
intermediate cuneiform bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intermediate cuneiform bones
Senses: glosses: One of the three cuneiform bones of the foot.
Related terms: cuneiform bone
lateral cuneiform bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lateral cuneiform bones
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the three cuneiform bones of the foot.
kongo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of congou: a kind of Chinese black tea.
surrey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌɹi/
ipa: /ˈsʌɹi/
ipa: /ˈsə-/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
Forms: form: surreys
Etymology: From the Surrey cart, a type of carriage originally made in the county of Surrey in England, UK, and introduced into the USA in 1872.
Senses: examples: text: The Surrey must be looked upon as the spring novelty in the way of road-wagons.
ref: 1874 April 1, “Half-spring No-top Surrey”, in The Hub, volume 16, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Hub Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 9, column 2:
text: It suffered a wide verandah, one side of which led directly into the stables where, in former days, horses, surreys, and buggies had been kept, and where now two cars were housed— […]
ref: 1941 September, August W[illiam] Derleth, “Beyond the Threshold”, in D. McIlwraith, editor, Weird Tales, volume 36, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Weird Tales, →OCLC; republished in Robert M[cNair] Price, editor, The Ithaqua Cycle: The Wind-walker of the Icy Wastes (Chaosium Publication; no. 6021), Hayward, Calif.: Chaosium, 2006, →ISBN, page 84:
text: When I take you out, tonight, with me, / Honey, here's the way it's goin' to be: / You will set behind a team of snow white horses, / In the slickest gig you ever see! // Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry / When I take you out in the surrey, / When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top!
ref: 1943, “The Surrey with the Fringe on Top”, in Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics), Richard Rodgers (music), Oklahoma!:
glosses: A light horse-drawn carriage with forward-facing seats accommodating two or four people, popular in the United States; a motorized carriage of similar design.
wikipedia: Luray Caverns
medial cuneiform bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medial cuneiform bones
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the cuneiform bones of the foot.
backfire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bækˈfaɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbækfaɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbækfaɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: backfires
form: backfiring
form: backfired
form: backfired
Etymology: From back + fire.
Senses: qualifier: cannon
glosses: To fire in the opposite direction, for example due to an obstruction in the barrel.
raw_tags: of a gun
examples: text: It was just after the Biafran war, and all the local people were still jumpy. Any time a car backfired or a police siren howled, they would dive under desks or tables instinctively.
ref: 1991 February 4, Ayofemi Folayan, “No Sounds Of Silence”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 28, page 7:
glosses: To experience a premature ignition of fuel or an ignition of exhaust gases, making a popping sound.
raw_tags: of a reciprocating engine
examples: text: His attempt to make money by importing luxury cars backfired horribly when fuel prices tripled.
text: Her plan backfired on her.
text: Obsessed only with cost, 'Sir Humphrey' saw that Transport for London 'got away' with ticket office closures on the Tube with only minor public pushback and miscalculated that it could do the same on the national network. This assumption backfired spectacularly.
ref: 2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3:
glosses: To fail in a manner that brings down further misfortune.
topics: firefighting
government
glosses: To set a back fire (small, controlled fire to limit spread of a larger fire).
backfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bækˈfaɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbækfaɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbækfaɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: backfires
Etymology: From back + fire.
Senses: topics: firefighting
government
glosses: Alternative spelling of back fire.
glosses: A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in the wrong direction.
examples: text: As much of Seattle tries to sleep, the Hellcat supercar goes on the prowl, the howls of its engine and the explosive backfires from its tailpipes echoing off the high-rise towers downtown.
ref: 2024 May 29, Mike Baker, “Sleepless in Seattle as a Hellcat Roars Through the Streets”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An explosion in the exhaust passages of an internal combustion engine.
examples: text: The chief causes of rectifier backfiring in the Glasgow units were overheating or unfavourable anode/cathode temperature differential; it has proved possible to overcome these, although occasional backfires do still occur.
ref: 1962 July, “Failures of multiple-unit electric trains on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 53:
glosses: An explosion in other equipment.
Synonyms: sense: premature explosion in engine cylinder
word: knock
sense: premature explosion in engine cylinder
word: ping
Derived terms: backfire effect
crybaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹaɪˌbeɪbi/
Forms: form: crybabies
form: cry baby
form: cry-baby
Etymology: From cry + baby.
Senses: examples: text: A notorious human crybaby, according to her older siblings, parents and the building superintendent, will cry for two hours every two hours, refusing to acknowledge any distinction between crying and other basic infant activities, like “being awake” or “breathing.”
ref: 2017 September 4, Natalie Angier, “A Baby Wails, and the Adult World Comes Running”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A baby who cries excessively.
examples: text: Then he used the occasion to humiliate the provost, calling her an example of the censorious crybabies whom he had come to relieve of their responsibility.
ref: 2023 February 10, Graeme Wood, “DEI Is an Ideological Test”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Someone whose feelings are very easily hurt, often by trivial matters.
examples: text: […]Now there are a lot of crybabies around who are talking about what ought to have done and the bomb ought to have had a demonstration in Japan before you killed all those people. […] I don't care what the crybabies say now because they didn't have to make the decision.
ref: 1964, Harry S. Truman, 4:20 from the start, in MP2002-359 Former President Truman Discusses Using the Atomic Bomb to Stop the War, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
glosses: Someone who takes offense or excessively complains when things are not going well.
Derived terms: crybabyish
crybully
Related terms: cry like a baby
bellyacher
complainer
sniveler
whiner
whinger
crybaby
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹaɪˌbeɪbi/
Forms: form: crybabies
form: crybabying
form: crybabied
form: crybabied
form: cry baby
form: cry-baby
Etymology: From cry + baby.
Senses: examples: text: Out: Trash talk, dirty play, crybabying, showboating and players who can't be bothered to show up for games or keep their shoes on.
ref: 1995 June 15, Scott Ostler, “SCOTT OSTLER -- Hakeem Sets Old Standard”, in San Francisco Chronicle:
text: “I have learned the hard way,” she crybabied this week, “that we have to be fearless and loud in order to be heard, and to prepare for the backlash that occasionally comes with that outspokenness.”
ref: 2023 October 27, John Nolte, “Nolte: 'Hunger Games' Actress Rachel Zeigler Plays the Victim over 'Snow White' Backlash”, in Breitbart:
glosses: To act like a crybaby.
irrelevance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irrelevances
Senses: examples: text: It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: Lack of relationship with the topic at hand; lack of importance.
Synonyms: irrelevancy
Related terms: irrelevant
incomprehensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnkɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/
Forms: form: more incomprehensible
form: most incomprehensible
Etymology: From Middle French incomprehensible, from Latin incomprehensibilis. Equivalent to in- + comprehensible.
Senses: examples: text: But this inference, which is supported by the opening of Book I, renders incomprehensible the note "and I have finished writing this," which is included within the dream.
ref: 1904-09, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, published 1962
text: In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 196:
text: He shook his head. 'It's not only undefined, it's incomprehensible. Even the QL is befuddled by it and can't give me straight answers.'
ref: 1990, Greg Bear, Heads:
text: Trump’s grotesque and incomprehensible fondness for Putin makes the details of any deal highly dangerous for Europe and the NATO alliance, founded to confront Russia.
ref: 2024 November 9, Nick Paton Walsh, “Trump’s second term could bring chaos around the world. Will it work?”, in CNN:
glosses: Impossible or very difficult to understand.
examples: text: Prayer to God the Father: It is fitting and right to sing to You, to bless You, to praise You, to give thanks to You, to worship You in every place of your dominion: for You are God, beyond description, beyond understanding, invisible, incomprehensible, always existing, always the same; You and your only-begotten Son and your Holy Spirit
ref: 1969, “The Divine Liturgy of John Chrysostom: Liturgy of Offering”, in Joseph Raya, transl., edited by José de Vinck, Byzantine Daily Worship, Alleluia Press, page 282:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Which cannot be contained; boundless, infinite.
Synonyms: word: fathomless
word: unfathomable
word: unintelligible
word: abstruse
word: Chinese
word: dense
word: enigmatic
word: Greek
word: inapprehensible
word: incognizable
word: incomprehensible
word: ineffable
word: inenubilable
word: inexplicable
word: impenetrable
word: insensible
word: inscrutable
word: insoluble
word: insolvable
word: mysterious
word: nonunderstandable
word: obscure
word: retruse
word: thick
word: undecipherable
word: undiscoverable
word: unexplainable
word: ungraspable
word: unknowable
word: ununderstandable
Hypernyms: word: difficult
Hyponyms: word: arcane
word: gnomic
word: vague
Derived terms: incomprehensibleness
incomprehensibly
Related terms: word: incomprehension
word: opaque
word: turbid
word: it's all Chinese to me
word: it's all Greek to me
word: confusing
word: indescribable
incomprehensible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnkɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/
Forms: form: incomprehensibles
Etymology: From Middle French incomprehensible, from Latin incomprehensibilis. Equivalent to in- + comprehensible.
Senses: glosses: Anything that is beyond understanding.
ladylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.di.laɪ̯k/
Forms: form: more ladylike
form: most ladylike
form: lady-like
form: ladilike
Etymology: From lady + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Coniux imperioſa. Ouidius. A ladylike wife that will be obeyed. […] Dura domina, imperioſa. Cic. A rigorous and ladilike dame that will be obeyed.
ref: 1565, Thomas Cooper, Thesaurus Linguæ Romanæ & Britannicæ, […], London:
text: Is it ladylike to giggle? / Is it ladylike to wink? / Is it ladylike to ride a horse astraddle? / Is it ladylike to wiggle? / Is it ladylike to drink? / Is it ladylike upon the beach to paddle? […]
ref: 1906 November 29, W. D. Nesbit, “The Querist”, in Life, volume 48, number 1257, page 673:
text: Mirrin had lifted her second cup of tea, holding it, ladylike, with finger and thumb of her right hand while her left palm supported the saucer.
ref: 1976, Jessica Stirling [pseudonym; Hugh Crauford Rae], The Hiring Fair, Coronet Books, published 1998, →ISBN, page 271:
text: Pirates, these women, with their ladylike briefcases for the loot and their horsy, acquisitive teeth.
ref: 1985, Margaret Atwood, “Soul Scrolls”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 165:
glosses: Of or related to the appearance or behaviour of a well-mannered woman.
Synonyms: ladily
Derived terms: ladylikely
ladylikeness
unladylike
unladylikely
Related terms: gentlemanly
etiquette
hackney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhækni/
rhymes: -ækni
Forms: form: hackneys
Etymology: From Middle English hakeney, from the placename Hackney (formerly a town; now a borough of London), used for grazing horses before sale, from Old English *Hacan īeġ (“Haca's Island”, literally “Hook's Island”). The Old French haquenée (“ambling mare for ladies”), Latinized in England to hakeneius, is originally from the English.
Senses: glosses: An ordinary horse.
examples: text: "Mamma would die if she knew. The boy," replied Georgiana, "walked with us to Oxford Street, and we took a hackney-coach. Will Mrs. Gooch ever forgive us for getting out of it at her door?"
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 186:
glosses: A carriage for hire or a cab.
glosses: A horse used to ride or drive.
glosses: A breed of English horse.
glosses: A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.
examples: text: Not that the existence of Grub street is to be doubted: it was, indeed, a grim actuality, and many a garreter realised by experience
How unhappy's the fate
To live by one's pate
And to be forced to write hackney for bread.
ref: quoted in 1972, Pat Rogers, Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture (page 384)
glosses: Inferior writing; literary hackwork.
Derived terms: hack
hackney cab
hackney carriage
hackneyed
hackneyer
hackneyman
hackney writer
hackney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhækni/
rhymes: -ækni
Etymology: From Middle English hakeney, from the placename Hackney (formerly a town; now a borough of London), used for grazing horses before sale, from Old English *Hacan īeġ (“Haca's Island”, literally “Hook's Island”). The Old French haquenée (“ambling mare for ladies”), Latinized in England to hakeneius, is originally from the English.
Senses: examples: hackney coaches
glosses: Offered for hire.
examples: text: hackney authors
text: his accumulative and hackney tongue
ref: a. 1685, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, The Ghost of the old House of Commons to the new one appointed to meet at Oxford.:
glosses: Much used; trite; mean.
hackney
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhækni/
rhymes: -ækni
Forms: form: hackneys
form: hackneying
form: hackneyed
form: hackneyed
Etymology: From Middle English hakeney, from the placename Hackney (formerly a town; now a borough of London), used for grazing horses before sale, from Old English *Hacan īeġ (“Haca's Island”, literally “Hook's Island”). The Old French haquenée (“ambling mare for ladies”), Latinized in England to hakeneius, is originally from the English.
Senses: glosses: To make uninteresting or trite by frequent use.
glosses: To use as a hackney.
examples: text: […] To her, who, frugal only that her thrift / May feed excesses she can ill afford, / Is hackneyed home unlackeyed; […]
ref: 1785, William Cowper, The Task:
glosses: To carry in a hackney coach.
malnourished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more malnourished
form: most malnourished
Etymology: From mal- + nourished.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, leucine is already being seen as a pharmaconutrient of great relevance for the supplementary feeding of malnourished and frail elderly and for specific subpopulations.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Buffalo Cheese Whey Proteins, Identification of a 24 kDa Protein and Characterization of Their Hydrolysates: In Vitro Gastrointestinal Digestion”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: Autopsy results revealed that Braydon was generally malnourished and thin. His cause of death was hyperthermia due to the extreme heat, which would have “caused extreme discomfort and difficulty breathing as he died.”
ref: 2015 December 23, Tiffany Ap and Artemis Moshtaghian, “Neglected boy shut in room with heater on dies of hyperthermia”, in CNN:
glosses: Suffering from malnutrition.
Synonyms: underfed
undernourished
Derived terms: nonmalnourished
Related terms: malnutrition
malnourished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From mal- + nourished.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of malnourish
german
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜː.mən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɝ.mən/
Forms: form: more german
form: most german
form: germane
Etymology: From Old French germain, from Latin germānus. See also germane, a formal variant which has survived in specific senses. Not related to the proper noun German.
Senses: examples: text: brother-german
qualifier: obsolete except in set terms
glosses: Having the same mother and father; a full (brother or sister).
examples: text: cousin-german
text: The doubtfull wordes whereof they scan and canvas to an fro.
Which done, Prometheus sonne began by counsell wise and sage
ref: 1567 Arthur Golding trans., Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 1, lines 460-2
roman: His cousin germanes fearfulnesse thus gently to asswage:
qualifier: obsolete except in set terms
glosses: Being born to one’s blood aunt or uncle, a first (cousin).
examples: text: After this Merlyn told vnto kynge Arthur of the prophecye / that there shold be a grete batail besyde Salysbury and Mordred his owne sone sholde be ageynste hym / Also he tolde hym that Basdemegus was his cosyn and germayn vnto kynge Vryence
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:
text: The phrase would bee more Germaine.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: Wert thou a Leopard, thou wert Germane to the Lion.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: Closely related, akin.
Derived terms: brother german
brother-german
cousin-german
cousin german
sister-german
german
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜː.mən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɝ.mən/
Forms: form: germans
Etymology: From Old French germain, from Latin germānus. See also germane, a formal variant which has survived in specific senses. Not related to the proper noun German.
Senses: examples: text: Which when his german saw, the stony feare / Ran to his hart, and all his sence dismayd […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A near relative.
german
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜː.mən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɝ.mən/
Forms: form: germans
Etymology: From German (“of Germany”).
Senses: examples: text: Through the years, though, the german was replaced by new and more popular dances, but in many instances the name stayed on.
ref: 1985, Betty Casey, Dance Across Texas, page 49:
glosses: An elaborate round dance, often with a waltz movement.
glosses: A social party at which the german is danced.
french
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: frĕnch
ipa: /fɹɛnt͡ʃ/
ipa: [fɹ̠ɛn̠t͡ʃ]
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: frenches
form: frenching
form: frenched
form: frenched
Etymology: From Middle English French, Frensch, Frensh, from Old English Frencisc (“of the Franks, Frankish, French”), from Franca (“a Frank”). Compare Old High German Franko (“a Frank”), akin to Old English franca (“javelin, spear”), from the use of such weapons by the Franks.
Senses: glosses: To prepare food by cutting it into strips.
examples: text: Tom frenched her full in the mouth.
ref: 1988, Wanda Coleman, A War of Eyes and other stories, page 151:
glosses: To kiss (another person) while inserting one’s tongue into the other person's mouth.
examples: text: We frenched by the wall.
ref: 2003, Susan Steinberg, The End of Free Love, page 81:
glosses: To kiss in this manner.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To French trim; to stylishly expose bone by removing the fat and meat covering it (as done to a rack of lamb or bone-in rib-eye steak).
Synonyms: sense: to kiss while inserting tongue
word: French kiss
sense: to kiss while inserting tongue
word: French
Derived terms: frenched
Related terms: French
julienne
meaningful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/
ipa: [ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩]
ipa: /ˈmi.nɪŋ.fl̩/
ipa: [ˈmi.nɪŋ.fl̩]
ipa: /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fʊl/
ipa: [ˈmɪi.nɪŋ.fl̩]
Forms: form: more meaningful
form: most meaningful
Etymology: From meaning + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: I think we made a meaningful contribution to this project today.
text: "This baby is the one that counts. I dare say Polly here wouldn't want any other, would you, Polly?"
"This baby, this baby," said Polly.
Wolcott gave Peter Horn a meaningful look. Horn interpreted it correctly. This baby or no more Polly ever again. This baby or Polly would be in a quiet room somewhere staring into space for the rest of her life.
ref: 1948, Ray Bradbury, Tomorrow's Child:
text: But the Danes remained resolute in defence - largely thanks to a spirited display by captain Daniel Agger - and they went ahead with their first meaningful attack.
ref: 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport:
text: In setting out a broad-brush approach, the Arriva-owned operator doesn't make any specific requirements, but it says the replacement trains "must achieve a meaningful reduction in the exhaust emissions and exterior noise levels compared to Chiltern's existing DMUs".
ref: 2023 August 23, Mel Holley, “Network News: ... while Chiltern Railways targets low-emissions stock”, in RAil, number 990, page 7:
glosses: Having meaning, significant.
Synonyms: meaning
Derived terms: deep and meaningful
meaningfulish
meaningfully
meaningfulness
meaningfulsome
nonmeaningful
submeaningful
unmeaningful
meaningless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiːnɪŋləs/
Forms: form: more meaningless
form: most meaningless
Etymology: From meaning + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The word "gugugu" is meaningless in English.
text: As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er.
ref: 2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2013:
synonyms: nonsensical
senseless
antonyms: meaningful
sensical
glosses: Lacking meaning.
examples: text: All our efforts were ultimately meaningless.
text: Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
synonyms: negligible
trivial
unmeaningful
hollow
antonyms: meaningful
significant
glosses: Insignificant; not worthy of importance.
Derived terms: meaninglessness
meaninglessly
mementoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memento
english
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡlɪʃ
homophone: English
Forms: form: English
form: English
Etymology: Uncertain. It is speculated to relate either to people from England introducing the technique for billiards or bowling in the United States, or perhaps from a particular person with the surname English.
Senses: examples: text: You can't hit it directly, but maybe if you give it some english.
text: There was a magical way of putting English on the dice to result in a six.
ref: 2005, S. Moran, Bronx Boy: Book One of The Zombie Island Trilogy, page 179:
glosses: Spinning or rotary motion given to a ball around the vertical axis, as in pool, billiards or bowling; spin, sidespin.
examples: text: Some drop science, while I'm dropping english.
ref: 1988, Andre Romelle Young, “Express Yourself”, in Straight Outta Compton, performed by Dr. Dre, Ruthless Records:
text: Preston Sturgis in his Sullivan’s Travels (1942) put some english on the idea in a bit about a filthy, defeated, white chaingang that is invited to a rural black church for an evening of old movies.
ref: 1993, Thomas Cripps, Making Movies Black, page 94:
glosses: An unusual or unexpected interpretation of a text or idea, a spin, a nuance.
Synonyms: sense: spinning motion
word: side
sense: spinning motion
word: spin
sense: spinning motion
word: sidespin
Related terms: body English
english
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡlɪʃ
homophone: English
Forms: form: englishes
form: englishing
form: englished
form: englished
form: English
form: English
Senses: examples: text: Eduard Sievers and his followers have, in recent years, raised the study of speech rhythm to the rank of a special science, which they call Schallanalyse, a name best englished as rhythmics.
ref: 1930, Kemp Malone, “The Terminology of Anglistics.”, in The English Journal, volume 19, number 8, →JSTOR, page 645:
glosses: Alternative form of English.
basque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæsk/
ipa: /bɑːsk/
homophone: bask
homophone: Basque
rhymes: -æsk
rhymes: -ɑːsk
Forms: form: basques
Etymology: Borrowed from French basque.
Senses: glosses: The part of a waistcoat etc. extending below the waist.
examples: text: Will she be able to pull off the double act? Can she play the cosy tradwife and still be the sexpot in a basque?
ref: 2025 August 30, Jo Ellison, “Taylor Swift is entering her conservative era”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 20:
glosses: A woman's close-fitting bodice, underbodice, or corset having such a feature.
Derived terms: basqued
Related terms: saut de basque
basquine
vasquine
arie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɑː.ɹi.ɛ/
Senses: glosses: plural of aria