cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
decency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːsənsi/
Forms: form: decencies
Etymology: From Latin decentia, from decens. Equivalent to decent + -cy. Compare French décence.
Senses: examples: text: Immodest words admit of no defence, / For want of decency is want of sense.
ref: 1684, Wentworth Dillon, An Essay on Translated Verse:
text: Indeed it is for the moſt part in our ſkill in manners, and in the obſervances of time and place, and of decency in general, which is only to be learned in thoſe ſchools to which Horace recommends us, that what is called Taſte by way of diſtinction, conſiſts; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.
ref: 1757 (date written), [Edmund Burke], “Introduction. On Taste.”, in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 2nd edition, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], published 1759, →OCLC, part, page 30:
text: [To Joseph McCarthy:] Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
ref: 1954 June, Joseph N. Welch, Army–McCarthy hearings:
text: Now, what is interesting about that poem is nothing. But, what is relevant about it is that his muse is his wife, Marcela, who is 42 years younger than him. He is 75, she is 33. And I’ll say this, at least when 70-something American politicians get creepily handsy with 30-something women, they have the decency to do so with their own daughters. Have some class, Brazil! Have some class!
ref: 2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Journalism”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 20, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
glosses: The quality of being decent; propriety.
examples: text: Those thousand decencies, that daily flow / From all her words and actions.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: 'Tis in the Civil Government, as in the Offices of Religion; which, were they ſtript of all the External Decencies of Worſhip, would not make a due Impreſſion on the Minds of thoſe who aſſiſt at them.
ref: 1706 October 9 (Gregorian calendar), Francis Atterbury, “A Sermon Preach’d in the Guild-Hall Chapel, London, Sept. 28. 1706. Being the Day of the Election of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor.”, in Fourteen Sermons Preach’d on Several Occasions. […], London: […] E. P. [Edmund Parker?] for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1708, →OCLC, page 413:
glosses: That which is proper or becoming.
Derived terms: closet of decency
common decency
indecency
undecency
modernise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: modernises
form: modernising
form: modernised
form: modernised
Senses: examples: text: The principal locomotive workshops now in use are those of the former Rhymney Railway at Caerphilly, modernised and re-equipped to meet the requirements of the new regime.
ref: 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, pages 159, 161:
text: The same applies to the toilets. Simply the ability to remove those labels that read "do not flush while the train is at a station" (a sticker that dates a train as 'old') modernises them no end.
ref: 2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 50:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of modernize.
Derived terms: modernisable
modernisation
modernised
moderniser
modernisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: modernisations
Etymology: From French modernisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of modernization.
Related terms: modernise
moderniser
underlined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪnd
Senses: examples: text: In HTML, wrapping text in <u> and </u> tags produces underlined text.
glosses: simple past and past participle of underline
moderniser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modernisers
Etymology: From modernise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of modernizer.
Related terms: modernisation
modernise
ordinariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordinarinesses
Etymology: From ordinary + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: What links the kids in most of these games is their relative ordinariness, forcing us to face their perils without special powers.
ref: 2019 May 8, Jon Bailes, “Save yourself! The video games casting us as helpless children”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The quality or condition of being ordinary.
Synonyms: sense: usualness; normality; familiarity
word: normalcy
word: normaldom
word: normality
word: normalness
parenthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parenthoods
Etymology: From parent + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a parent
Hyponyms: fatherhood
motherhood
Derived terms: preparenthood
meat-eating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compound of meat + eating.
Senses: examples: text: Once again, we see the anthropological bias against women (perhaps related to the fact that meat-eating Europeans and Americans cannot take grains seriously as a source of complete nourishment and so feel a need to stress meat eating and hunting).
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 137:
coordinate_terms: fish-eating
plant-eating
glosses: That eats meat; carnivorous.
candidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkændɪdli/
Forms: form: more candidly
form: most candidly
Etymology: From candid + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Such an episode in the Island's grand naval story her naval historians naturally abridge; one of them (G.P.R. James) candidly acknowledging that fain would he pass it over did not "impartiality forbid fastidiousness."
ref: 1891, Henry Melville, chapter 3, in Billy Budd:
text: First lady Jill Biden on Wednesday spoke candidly about her new life, lamenting the enormous pressure a first lady can face.
ref: 2021 October 20, Kate Bennett, “Jill Biden speaks candidly about being a first lady: ‘Nothing can prepare you’”, in CNN:
glosses: in a candid manner; frankly.
improperly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹɑ.pɚ.li/
Forms: form: more improperly
form: most improperly
Etymology: From Middle English improprelich, impropreliche, impropurly, inproperlye; equivalent to improper + -ly or im- + properly.
Senses: examples: text: Prosecutors also said Wednesday their side “does not intend to reference allegations that the defendant violated FARA or improperly coordinated with the Obama Administration,” referring to the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires people who lobby on behalf of foreign clients to register beforehand with the US government.
ref: 2024 August 7, Marshall Cohen, “Prosecutors claim Hunter Biden once agreed to lobby US on behalf of Romanian businessman”, in CNN:
glosses: In an improper manner; not properly.
unexplored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexplored
form: most unexplored
Etymology: From un- + explored.
Senses: glosses: Which has not been explored.
loquacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /loʊˈkwæsɪti/
rhymes: -æsɪti
Forms: form: loquacities
Etymology: From Middle French loquacité, from Latin loquācitās.
Senses: examples: text: A man that were ſo diſpoſed, may ſeeme in reaſon to reproove […] the loquacity of Euripides, […]
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “Of Hearing”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 60, lines 1–3:
text: Neither is eloquence or rhetoric unclaimed by him: he perſuaded with Stentorian loquacity, and convinces by the irreſiſtible powers of a bellowing horſe laugh.
ref: 1771 April, A Candidate Doctor of Oddities [pseudonym], “To the Printer of the Town and Country Magazine”, in The Town and Country Magazine; or, Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment, volume III, London: […] A[rchibald] Hamilton, Junʳ. […], →OCLC, page 202, column 1:
text: Their silence would have been awkward but for the loquacity of Jane, who talked enough for all three.
ref: 1887, George Bernard Shaw, chapter 17, in An Unsocial Socialist:
text: Here was news for us, for Mr Kelada, with all his loquacity, had never told anyone what his business was.
ref: 1924, W. Somerset Maugham, “Mr Know‐All”, in Good Housekeeping:
glosses: Talkativeness; the quality of being loquacious.
Synonyms: loquaciousness
Related terms: loquacious
modernize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒdənaɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɑdɚnaɪz/
Forms: form: modernizes
form: modernizing
form: modernized
form: modernized
form: modernise
Etymology: From modern + -ize or French moderniser.
Senses: glosses: To make (something old or outdated) up to date, or modern in style or function by adding or changing equipment, designs, etc.
glosses: To become modern in appearance, or adopt modern ways
Synonyms: sense: make (something old) modern
word: bring
sense: make (something old) modern
word: make up to date
sense: make (something old) modern
word: rejuvenate
sense: make (something old) modern
word: renew
sense: make (something old) modern
word: renovate
sense: make (something old) modern
word: upgrade
Derived terms: demodernize
modernizable
modernization
modernized
modernizer
modernizing
overmodernize
unmodernize
quadrangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kwŏdʹrăng'gl
ipa: /ˈkwɒdˌɹæŋ.ɡəl/
Forms: form: quadrangles
Etymology: From Old French quadrangle, from Late Latin quadrangulum.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A geometric shape with four angles and four straight sides; a four-sided polygon.
examples: text: I looked up from my desk and saw that suddenly there were big flakes twirling down into the quadrangle, settling on the carefully pruned shrubbery bordering the crosswalks, the three elms still holding many of their leaves, the still-green lawns.
ref: 1959, John Knowles, chapter 7, in A Separate Peace:
synonyms: word: quad
glosses: A courtyard which is quadrangular.
examples: text: The quadrangle surrounding the Far Common was never considered absolutely essential to the Devon School.
ref: 1959, John Knowles, chapter 13, in A Separate Peace:
glosses: The buildings forming the border of such a courtyard.
Synonyms: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
word: quadrilateral
word: 4-gon
word: tetragon
word: quadrilateral
Hyponyms: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
word: rectangle
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
word: square
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
word: parallelogram
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
word: rhombus
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
word: trapezoid
Derived terms: love quadrangle
insecurity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insecurities
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin īnsēcūritās. By surface analysis, insecure + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: They are also more likely to be on freelance or short-term contracts, which can contribute to feelings of financial insecurity and therefore a greater tendency for people to attend work even they are unwell.
ref: 2020 July 1, Paul Stephen, “Mental health in the workplace”, in Rail, page 51:
text: Jealousy: It's all the feelings that come over you when you think you're being overlooked by others. It comes from inside, from your insecurities and fears—fear of loss, fear of betrayal, and fear of hurt.
ref: 2021, Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, “What is... jealousy?”, in Let's Talk About It, →ISBN, page 189:
synonyms: insecureness
antonyms: security
glosses: A lack of security; uncertainty.
synonyms: insecureness
insecureness
self-doubt
antonyms: security
security
self-assurance
self-confidence
glosses: A lack of security; uncertainty.
A lack of confidence in oneself.
examples: text: economic insecurity
synonyms: insecureness
exposure
insecureness
precariousness
precarity
vulnerability
antonyms: security
safety
security
glosses: A lack of security; uncertainty.
The state of being subject to danger (physical, economic, or otherwise).
Derived terms: food insecurity
Related terms: word: insecure
word: insecurely
sense: danger
word: peace of mind
modernization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒdənɪˈzeɪʃn̩/
ipa: /ˌmɒdənaɪˈzeɪʃn̩/
ipa: /ˌmɑdɚnɪˈzeɪʃn̩/
ipa: /ˌmɑdɚnaɪˈzeɪʃn̩/
ipa: [ˌmɑɾɚ-]
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: modernizations
form: modernisation
Etymology: From modernize + -ation or French modernisation.
Senses: glosses: The process of modernizing.
Derived terms: antimodernization
demodernization
overmodernization
premodernization
unmodernization
Related terms: modernize
modernizer
halation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: halations
Etymology: From halo + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: She was, as you know, to the west-ward of us, and the sunset was making a great flame of red light to the back of her, so that she showed a little blurred and indistinct by reason of the halation of the light, which almost defeated the eye in any attempt to see her rotting spars and standing rigging, submerged, as they were, in the fiery glory of the sunset.
ref: 1912, William Hope Hodgson, The Derelict:
glosses: The action of light surrounding some object as if making a halo.
examples: text: As the result of a series of experiments on halation carried out with backed and unbacked plates, ordinary film and stripping film, Ernest Marriage concludes that there are two varieties of halation, one due to reflection from the support and the other due to spreading of the light in the film.
ref: 1901, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., Anthony's photographic bulletin for ..., volume 32, page 358:
text: Halation, properly speaking, is the reflection and diffusion, within the film, from the lighter areas to the adjacent darker ones.
ref: 1917, Photographers' Association of California, Camera craft, volume 24, page 81:
text: Among other interesting and weighty opinions, which were in general agreement with our contentions, was one by Mr. H. A. Staddon of Goodmayes, a gentleman who had made a particular hobby of fakes in photography. His report is too long and too technical for inclusion, but, under the various headings of composition, dress, development, density, lighting, poise, texture, plate, atmosphere, focus, halation, he goes very completely into the evidence, coming to the final conclusion that when tried by all these tests the chances are not less than 80 per cent. in favour of authenticity.
ref: 1922, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Coming of the Fairies:
text: Halation can be prevented or diminished by using an absorbing layer between the sensitive emulsion and the support (anti-halo undercoat) or on the back of the support (anti-halo backing).
ref: 1954, Photography, Theory and Practice, Pitman, page 173:
glosses: The blurring of light around a bright area of a photographic image, or on a television screen.
Synonyms: overglow
Coordinate terms: bloom
Derived terms: antihalation
nonhalation
Related terms: halo
jumble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: jumbles
form: jumbling
form: jumbled
form: jumbled
Etymology: From Middle English jumbelen, alteration of jumbren, jombren, a variant of jumpren, frequentative of jumpen (“to jump”), equal to jump + -le. More at jumber, jump, jumper.
Senses: examples: text: Why dost thou blend and jumble such inconsistencies together?
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of Contentment”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
text: Every clime and age jumbled together.
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To mix or confuse.
examples: text: I tried to study, but in my half-awake state, all of the concepts seemed to jumble together.
glosses: To meet or unite in a confused way.
Derived terms: ajumble
bejumble
jumblement
jumbler
jumblesome
jumble together
jumble up
jumblingly
jumbly
rejumble
unjumble
jumble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: jumbles
Etymology: From Middle English jumbelen, alteration of jumbren, jombren, a variant of jumpren, frequentative of jumpen (“to jump”), equal to jump + -le. More at jumber, jump, jumper.
Senses: examples: text: His voice was rich and mellow and he had so long been thoroughly persuaded of the weight and import to mankind of any word he said that his words really had come to sound as if there were something in them. But now he can only whisper, and what he whispers sounds like what it is—mere jumble and jargon.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
text: The bufferbeam is another factor that must be carefully considered. The buffing and coupling centre is 3ft 5½in above rail level and the beam carries not only buffers and drawgear but a jumble of train connections such as jumpers and pipes.
ref: 1961 May, B. A. Haresnape, “Design on the railway: Part Three”, in Trains Illustrated, page 301:
text: The newspaper letters, all capitals, made up a jumble of typefaces.
ref: 2017, David Stout, A Child is Missing:
glosses: A mixture of often unrelated things.
examples: text: Hire a stall at a fair or sell your wares at a car boot sale. Adjust your jumble's price to something very reasonable and attractive for people to buy. Your income will depend on the quality and quantity of the jumble […]
ref: 2014, Ben Isacat, How to Do Animal Rights, page 110:
glosses: Items for a rummage sale.
examples: text: "That's a nice coat," said Bella. "I used to have one like that. Got it at a jumble. But it didn't suit me. You look great in it."
ref: 1982, Hunter Davies, Flossie Teacake's Fur Coat:
glosses: A rummage sale.
Related terms: jumble sale
jumble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: jumbles
form: jumbal
form: jumball
Senses: glosses: A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.
worldliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worldlinesses
Etymology: From Middle English worldlynesse, equivalent to worldly + -ness. Compare West Frisian wrâldlikens (“worldliness”), German Weltlichkeit (“worldliness”), Swedish världslighet (“worldliness”).
Senses: examples: text: There was a coarseness in the one which revolted the almost fastidious delicacy of the other; and Lady Marchmont, full of poetry, touched with romance and sentiment, had nothing in common with the harsh and hard worldliness of Lady Mary;...
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Act of Parliament”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 186:
glosses: The quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world.
Related terms: this-worldliness
pharaonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɛəɹeɪˈɒnɪk/
Forms: form: more pharaonic
form: most pharaonic
form: Pharaonic
Etymology: From Latin Pharaōn- (stem of Pharaō (“Pharaoh”)) + -ic, originally modelled on German pharaonisch.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a pharaoh.
examples: text: It could be argued there is a note of shared significance to both deaths. Both feel like reminders that the real divide, so starkly present at this Pharaonic sporting super-show, is between the powerful and the powerless.
ref: 2022 November 21, Barney Ronay, “Iran’s brave and powerful gesture is a small wonder from a World Cup of woe”, in The Guardian:
text: Mark Zuckerberg sculpts his pharaonic Hawaii compound. He and his ilk own the present.
ref: 2023 December 28, Ross Barkan, “The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Impressively large or luxurious.
glosses: Tyrannical or brutally oppressive.
glosses: Of or pertaining to infibulation as a means of female genital mutilation.
Derived terms: pharaonically
pharaonic circumcision
postpharaonic
modernizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modernizers
form: moderniser
Etymology: From modernize + -er.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of modernization.
Related terms: modernize
recompose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recomposes
form: recomposing
form: recomposed
form: recomposed
Etymology: From re- + compose.
Senses: examples: text: to dissolve and recompose a substance
text: So far as we can recompose, from the broken fragments of tradition, a picture of the religious and political condition of the Eleusinian people in the olden time
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 107:
glosses: To compose or construct again.
examples: text: Mr Blifil, I am confident, understands himself better than to think of seeing my niece any more this morning, after what hath happened. Women are of a nice contexture; and our spirits, when disordered, are not to be recomposed in a moment.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
glosses: To bring (oneself) back to a state of calm.
Related terms: recomposition
plaything
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪ.θɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪθɪŋ
Forms: form: playthings
Etymology: From play + thing.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he haſtily retired, taking with her her little Girl, whoſe Eyes were all over blubbered at the melancholy News ſhe heard of Jones, who uſed to call her his little Wife, and not only gave her many Playthings, but ſpent whole Hours in playing with her himſelf.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “The generous and grateful Behaviour of Mrs. Miller”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume VI, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XVII, page 97:
text: 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
The next day Charles had the child brought back. She asked for her mamma. They told her she was away; that she would bring her back some playthings.
text: O Lord of seven skies, whose plaything is the thunder, thou art amongst the gods, what need hast thou for words from any man?
ref: 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 74:
synonyms: toy
glosses: A thing or person intended for playing with.
examples: text: We talk of our energies and of our will—we are the mere playthings of subtle and malignant chances.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 297:
glosses: A person at the mercy of fate.
plaything
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪ.θɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪθɪŋ
Etymology: From play + thing.
Senses: examples: text: Like the cards which form a child's plaything palace, our pleasures are nicely balanced one upon the other.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: Used for the purpose of play or amusement.
moggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒ.ɡi/
ipa: /ˈmɑ.ɡi/
Forms: form: moggies
form: moggie
Etymology: Unknown, but probably originally Mog + -y, a Scots or Northern English variant of maggie (“girl”), from Maggie, a diminutive of Margaret and Margery. First attested in reference to mongrel cats in Cockney.
Senses: examples: text: Cockney slang... ‘moggies’ for cats.
ref: 1911, John William Horsley, I Remember: Memories of a 'Sky Pilot' in the Prison and the Slum, page 254:
glosses: A domestic cat, especially (depreciative or derogatory) a non-pedigree or unremarkable cat.
examples: text: ...expect not so fair an enemy as Cromwel, nor such fair quarter as now is given thee: Jockey, Jemmy, and Moggy thy she-souldier, must than all to the sword...
ref: 1648, William Lilly, An Astrologicall Prediction of the Occurrances in England, Part of the Yeers 1648, 1649, 1650, page 60:
text: ...in another Hut, a parcel of Scoth Pedlars and their Moggies,
Dancing a Highlanders Jig...
ref: 1699, Edward Ward, The London Spy, volume I, page 15:
glosses: Synonym of girl: a female child or young woman.
synonyms: word: girl
extra: a female child or young woman
examples: text: Moggy, a slattern, dressed out untidily: 'She did look a moggy.'
ref: 1886, Robert Eden George Cole, A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire, s.v. "moggy"
text: At Ickwell Green... the May Queen is accompanied by moggies (raggedly dressed women).
ref: 1980, Automobile Association, Book of British Villages, page 263:
glosses: Synonym of slattern: an unkempt or badly-dressed woman.
synonyms: word: slattern
extra: an unkempt or badly-dressed woman
glosses: Synonym of scarecrow.
synonyms: word: scarecrow
glosses: Synonym of calf.
synonyms: word: calf
glosses: A mouse.
glosses: A kind of cake made with ginger, treacle, etc.
Coordinate terms: sense: mongrel cat
english: mongrel dog
translation: mongrel dog
word: mutt
Derived terms: mog
moggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒ.ɡi/
ipa: /ˈmɑ.ɡi/
Forms: form: more moggy
form: most moggy
Etymology: Derived from the Unimog, a brand of rugged four-wheel drive trucks popular in rural areas of South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Senses: examples: text: Yoh! I'm so gatvol of this tjoekie and need a zol to handle these moggy people.
ref: 2025 March 26, Khanyisile Ngcobo, “'Yoh! You're in the OED' – South Africa makes its linguistic mark”, in BBC:
glosses: Irrational, out of touch
Derived terms: go moggy
changeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: chān′jə-bəl
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪn.d͡ʒə.bəl/
Forms: form: more changeable
form: most changeable
Etymology: From Middle English chaungeable, from Old Northern French chaungeable, from Late Latin cambiāre (“to change”), equivalent to change + -able.
Senses: synonyms: word: alterable
word: modifiable
word: variable
word: abateable
word: alterable
word: changeable
word: dynamic
word: editable
word: inconstant
word: modifiable
word: mutable
word: variable
glosses: Capable of being changed.
examples: text: The weather is very changeable today: we've had bright sunshine, clouds, wind and rain in the same half-hour.
text: There will be no problems with visibility, or the highly changeable Highland weather, as Scotland basks in what is reported to be the country's hottest September day for more than a century.
ref: 2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and Pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 48:
synonyms: fickle
labile
variable
glosses: Subject to sudden or frequent changes.
synonyms: chameleonic
glosses: Capable of camouflaging itself by changing colour.
raw_tags: of a species
Synonyms: word: changeable
word: changeful
word: changeling
word: dynamic
word: everchanging
word: fickle
word: fluid
word: inconstant
word: labile
word: mobile
word: unstable
word: variable
word: wavering
Hypernyms: word: mutable
Derived terms: changeability
changeable hawk-eagle
changeable lizard
changeableness
changeably
nonchangeable
unchangeable
hormonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔɹˈmoʊnəl/
Forms: form: more hormonal
form: most hormonal
Etymology: From hormone + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The authors also said they attempted to investigate whether there are differing breast cancer risks between hormonal and nonhormonal IUDs.
ref: 2023 March 21, Jessie Gretener, “Progestagen-only contraceptives carry similar, small breast cancer risk as other hormone contraceptives, study finds”, in CNN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to hormones.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the menstrual cycle.
examples: text: a hormonal teenage boy
text: All those male bodies and loud, virile male hormonal voices.
ref: 1984 February 4, Vincent F. Luti, “Mouths Open, Only Singing”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 5:
glosses: Strongly affected by one's hormones.
Derived terms: allohormonal
antihormonal
bihormonal
chemohormonal
ectohormonal
hormonally
hyperhormonal
multihormonal
neurohormonal
nonhormonal
parahormonal
phytohormonal
plurihormonal
polyhormonal
unihormonal
xenohormonal
moggie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moggies
Senses: examples: text: There’s something about a recently deceased moggie that excites the imagination. And not in a good way[.]
ref: 2023 June 22, Adrian Chiles, “Slapped on to tables, thrown over hedges, bounced – why is everyone so horrible to dead cats?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of moggy (“a cat”).
moggie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moggies
Etymology: Clipping of Mogadon + -ie.
Senses: glosses: The drug nitrazepam (Mogadon).
talentless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more talentless
form: most talentless
Etymology: By surface analysis, talent + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I refer to the talentless daughter of some rich man—the youthful feminine flower of Berlin Nabobry—who holds herself wonderfully gifted.
ref: 1893, Moritz Moszkowski, “Music Lessons: A Chat”, in Music: A Monthly Magazine, volume 4, Chicago, page 76:
text: She also offers a fascinating glimpse into a more innocent age before svengalis began colluding with marketing men and TV execs to promote talentless wannabes to overnight success.
ref: 2005 October 15, Hamilton Spectator:
synonyms: untalented
glosses: Having no talent or natural ability.
Derived terms: talentlessness
dullness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌl.nəs/
Forms: form: dullnesses
form: dulness
Etymology: From dull + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being slow of understanding things; stupidity.
examples: text: If to raise malicious smiles at the infirmities or misfortunes of those who have never injured us be the province of wit or Humour, Heaven grant me a double Portion of Dullness—
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.ii:
glosses: The quality of being uninteresting; boring; humorless or irksome.
glosses: Lack of interest or excitement.
examples: text: dullness of autumn
glosses: The lack of visual brilliance; want of sheen.
glosses: bluntness.
raw_tags: of an edge
examples: text: dullness of sight, or of hearing
glosses: The quality of not perceiving or kenning things distinctly.
examples: text: Prospero: […]Thou art inclin'd to sleep. 'Tis a good dulness, / And give it way— I know thou canst not choose.
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 I, scene ii]:
glosses: Drowsiness.
Moho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -əʊhəʊ
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Clipping of Mohorovičić discontinuity.
Moho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -əʊhəʊ
Senses: examples: text: The most important gold-mine in Manchuria is the Moho mine, on the upper Amur.
ref: 1903 Autumn, B.L. Putnam Weale (pseudonymous author), Manchu and Muscovite: Being Letters from Manchuria Written during the Autumn of 1903, London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd. / New York: The Macmillan Company (1904), chapter ix: “Mining and Lumbering in Manchuria”, pages 151–152
text: Heilungkiang Province.[…]
The Chinese have colonised a considerable area about Hulan, reaching to 100 miles north of the Sungari. Here are several prosperous towns, with an export trade similar to that on the south bank. Beyond this area the government is still purely Manchu. The capital is Tsitsihar or Pukwei, around which a settled population is found. Thence to the Amur are a few garrison towns, and in the extreme north are the gold mines of Moho.
ref: 1907, James W. Inglis, “Manchuria”, in Marshall Broomhall, editor, The Chinese Empire: A General & Missionary Survey, →OCLC, pages 310-311:
text: First, a line N. N. E. will run parallel to the Khingan Range to Khailar, and thence to Moho, the gold district on the right hank of the Amur River. This line is about eight hundred m iles in length.
ref: 1920, Sun Yat-sen, The International Development of China, Shanghai: Commercial Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 6:
text: The distance from north to south is about 5,500 kilometres, extending over 49 degrees in latitude from the middle of the Heilungkiang River around Moho to the neighbourhood of the Tsengmu Reef at latitude 4° N.
ref: 1964, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], “Land and People”, in 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, pages 3–4:
english: A Concise Geography of China
translation: A Concise Geography of China
glosses: Alternative form of Mohe.
roseate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊzi.ət/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊzɪət/
Forms: form: more roseate
form: most roseate
Etymology: From Middle English roseat, from Anglo-Latin roseātus, equivalent to rose + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The countess took the roseate palm and snowy fingers of this lovely child.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: Now the rum, as has been said, was criminally overproof, and they had had no intoxicants for a long time. And so a couple of stiff drinks produced a beautiful and generous expansion of soul. The mean cabin became larger, the fire warmer and more cheerful, and life generally of a more roseate hue. They began to feel the prodigal Thanksgiving spirit, and to regret their limited opportunities for satisfying it.
ref: 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
text: On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon.
ref: 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: pink
pinkish
rosy
glosses: Like the rose flower; pink; rosy.
examples: text: To fund the purchase, he had to sell a late Renoir, The Judgment of Paris, with its depiction of weighty ladies frolicking in a roseate garden.
ref: 2018, Thom Nickels, Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters behind the Walls:
glosses: Full of roses.
examples: text: Viewed from this perspective, the behaviour of the digital giants looks rather different from the roseate hallucinations of Wired magazine.
ref: 2019 January 20, John Naughton, “‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Excessively optimistic.
Derived terms: roseate cockatoo
roseate spoonbill
roseate tern
anticipatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /anˌtɪsɪˈpeɪtəɹi/
ipa: /anˈtɪsɪˌpeɪtəɹi/
ipa: /anˈtɪsɪpət(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˌantɪˈsɪpət(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ænˌtɪsəpəˈtɔri/
Etymology: From anticipate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: The children were all wearing anticipatory grins as the cake was served.
glosses: Characterized by anticipation.
Derived terms: anticipatorily
anticipatory assimilation
anticipatory bail
anticipatory breach
anticipatory it
anticipatory obedience
anticipatory repudiation
anticipatory retaliation
nonanticipatory
teleoanticipatory
Mohorovičić discontinuity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊhəʊˈɹə(ʊ)vɪtʃɪtʃ ˌdɪskɒntɪˈnjuːɪti/
Forms: form: Mohorovicic discontinuity
Etymology: Named for Croatian seismologist Andrija Mohorovičić (1857-1936).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The boundary between the Earth’s crust and mantle.
topics: astrogeology
astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: A similar structure on other bodies, that separates crust from mantle.
Synonyms: Moho
Moho discontinuity
Related terms: Gutenberg discontinuity
heart-rending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛndɪŋ
Forms: form: more heart-rending
form: most heart-rending
Senses: examples: text: With much delicacy, avoiding to instance in her self-experience, she told me, that so long ago as when she used to play the part of the Little Son to Mrs. Porter’s Isabella, (I think it was) when that impressive actress has been bending over her in some heart-rending colloquy, she has felt real hot tears come trickling from her, which (to use her powerful expression) have perfectly scalded her back.
ref: 1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “Barbara S⁠——”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 117:
glosses: Alternative form of heartrending.
Derived terms: heart-rendingly
Mohorovicic discontinuity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mohorovičić discontinuity.
Synonyms: Moho
Related terms: Gutenberg discontinuity
mown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊn/
ipa: /moʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: moan
Etymology: Morphologically mow + -n.
Senses: glosses: past participle of mow
Derived terms: unmown
morphia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)fiə
Forms: form: morphias
Senses: examples: text: The sick man lay unutterably weak and spent, kept alive by morphia and by drinks, which he sipped slowly.
ref: 1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XXIV, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC:
text: “Die? Yes, they’ll all die—all these men. No bandages, no salves, no quinine, no chloroform. Oh, God, for some morphia! Just a little morphia for the worst ones. Just a little chloroform. God damn the Yankees! God damn the Yankees!”
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 363:
glosses: Synonym of morphine.
synonyms: word: morphine
lining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪnɪŋ
Forms: form: linings
Senses: examples: text: A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: The lobule margins, furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 7:
text: As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.
ref: 2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:
glosses: A covering for the inside surface of something.
glosses: The material used for such a covering.
glosses: The act of attaching such a covering.
Derived terms: backlining
brake lining
every cloud has a silver lining
every dark cloud has a silver lining
every silver lining has a cloud
interlining
long-lining
price-lining
silver lining
stomach lining
sublining
underlining
lining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of line
chanciness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chancinesses
Etymology: From chancy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the quality of being chancy or risky; riskiness
Mohometanism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mohometan + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mohammedanism.
Muhammadanism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Muhammadan + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mohammedanism.
metabolise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: metabolises
form: metabolising
form: metabolised
form: metabolised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of metabolize.
Derived terms: metabolisable
metaboliser
preempt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prē'-ĕmpt′
ipa: /ˌpɹiːˈɛmpt/
rhymes: -ɛmpt
Forms: form: preempts
form: pre-empt
form: preëmpt
form: præempt
Etymology: Back-formation from preemption.
Senses: topics: bridge
games
glosses: A preemptive bid.
HALO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HALOs
Senses: examples: text: When you have enough experience, you can do a HALO jump.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
parachuting
glosses: Acronym of high altitude, low opening (“a type of skydiving where one leaves the launch platform from a high altitude and opens the parachute at a very low altitude”).
glosses: Acronym of hazardous area life-support organization.
examples: text: Weather balloons at maximum altitude are considered HALOs.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of high altitude, low orbiting.
Related terms: HAHO
player piano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: player pianos
form: player-piano
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: pianola
glosses: An acoustic piano that is played automatically by mechanical means.
Dubonnet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /djuːˈbɒneɪ/
ipa: /ˌdjuːbəˈneɪ/
Etymology: From French Dubonnet.
Senses: examples: text: In Berlin, by the wall / You were five foot ten inches tall / It was very nice / Candlelight and Dubonnet on ice
ref: 1973, Lou Reed, “Berlin”, in Lou Reed:
glosses: A French bittersweet red aperitif.
Derived terms: Dubonnet cocktail
unremitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnɹɪˈmɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌʌnɹɪˈmɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: more unremitting
form: most unremitting
Etymology: un- + remitting, from remit (in now rare sense of “diminish, abate”),
from Middle English remitten, from Latin remittere (“to send, send back”). Compare Old French remettre, remetre, remitter. Not from nonexistent unremit. First attested in 1728.
Senses: examples: text: These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour.
ref: 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 4, in Frankenstein, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2011:
text: 1961: J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
We can achieve this god‐likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.
text: The human life span will be extended to 200 years, but the last 150 will be spent in unremitting pain and sadness.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, “IN THE FUTURE”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 93:
text: In fact, eighteenth-century British erotica has been the subject of unremitting attention for the last two decades.
ref: 2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 114:
text: "To meet the ambitions set-out by the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail, we need to have an unremitting focus upon sustainable delivery, innovation and collaboration. [...]."
ref: 2021 July 14, Stefanie Foster, “Network News: Porterbrook takes over Long Marston rail site”, in RAIL, number 935, page 28:
glosses: Incessant; never slackening.
Derived terms: unremittingly
plats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plat
plats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plat
unwitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: more unwitting
form: most unwitting
Etymology: From Middle English unwittinge, unwitand, from Old English unwitende (“unwitting; not knowing; unaware; unconscious”), from Proto-Germanic *unwitandz (“not knowing”), equivalent to un- + witting. Cognate with West Frisian ûnwittend, Dutch onwetend, German Low German unwetend, German unwissend and unwissentlich, Icelandic óvitandi.
Senses: examples: text: We've located the perfect site for experimentation on live test subjects. Kadara's "badlands" offer unsupervised access to unwitting test subjects free from any lawful or ethical constraints.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Location of Experiment:
synonyms: word: clueless
word: ignorant
word: benighted
word: cimmerian
word: clueless
word: foolish
word: ignorant
word: ill-informed
word: illiterate
word: innocent
word: lack-learning
word: lay
word: lewd
word: loreless
word: nescient
word: oblivious
word: philistine
word: unaware
word: uncultivated
word: uncultured
word: uneducated
word: unenlightened
word: unerudite
word: uninformed
word: unknowing
word: unknowledgeable
word: unlearned
word: unlearnt
word: unlettered
word: unmindful
word: unread
word: unscholarly
word: unschooled
word: untaught
word: untrained
word: untutored
word: unwitting
antonyms: aware
cognizant
glosses: Unaware or uninformed; oblivious.
examples: text: (transl.) 4th century BC, Plato, Sophist, 230a
Some people, apparently, have thought about it and reached the conclusion that every case of being misinformed is unwitting.
text: Persistent but unwitting excessive speed over a sharply curved turnout forming part of a double junction, which resulted in slight track distortion, was the primary cause of the derailment of an electric m.u. at Bethnal Green on Saturday, June 17 last.
ref: 1963 May, “News and Comment: Derailment at Bethnal Green”, in Modern Railways, page 299:
synonyms: word: inadvertent
word: unintended
word: accidental
word: designless
word: inadvertent
word: involuntary
word: undesigned
word: unintended
word: unintentional
word: unplanned
word: unpurposed
word: unwitting
antonyms: deliberate
glosses: Unintentional.
Derived terms: unwittingly
unwittingness
Related terms: unweeting
witting
holy Toledo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: holy Toledo !
Etymology: In use since 1920s (see Citations). The city of Toledo in Spain (after which the city in Ohio was later named) was the center of Christianity in Spain in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and its Archbishop was and still is the Primate of Spain.
Phrase later made popular by the late Oakland A's and Raiders sportscaster Bill King.
Senses: glosses: An exclamation of surprise or astonishment.
Synonyms: wow
heartstring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heartstrings
Etymology: From heart + string.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: singular of heartstrings
A tendon or other structure resembling a cord once thought to be attached to, or to brace, the heart.
glosses: singular of heartstrings
A source of one's deepest emotions or inner feelings, especially compassion or love.
glosses: singular of heartstrings
The essential or vital part of something; the core, the essence, the heart.
synonyms: word: crux
word: gist
word: bowels
word: brass tacks
word: core
word: crux
word: essence
word: gist
word: drift
word: guts
word: gravamen
word: heart
word: heart and soul
word: heartstring
word: heartstrings
word: inwardness
word: kernel
word: marrow
word: meat
word: moral of the story
word: nitty-gritty
word: nub
word: nuts and bolts
word: pith
word: punctum saliens
word: quintessence
word: soul
word: spirit
word: stuff
word: substance
word: tenor