cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
whopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(h)wɒpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈ(h)wɑpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
Forms: form: whoppings
Etymology: whop (verb) + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: When I saw Dr. Vaughan, he was excessively kind, and told me that he was exceedingly sorry that I should have got into a mess with any of the monitors, and that, as far as he heard, I was to blame in what I had said, and so he should advise me to take the whopping, as there was no cowardice in taking anything from a legal power.
ref: 1854 May 20, “The Monitorial System of Harrow School. From the Literary Gazette.”, in E[liakim] Littel, editor, Littel’s Living Age, volume V (Second Series; volume XLI from the start), number DXXII, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.: Littel, Son and Company, →OCLC, page 367:
text: At least this taught me to hate violence which to me translated into thick ears or sound whoppings on the behind.
ref: 2013 April, Frederic H. Finnis, chapter 1, in Turning Back the Pages 1993–1923, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: A beating.
Synonyms: word: thrashing
word: walloping
word: whupping
whosoever
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /huːsəʊˈɛvə/
ipa: /huːsoʊˈɛvɚ/
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: whomsoever
form: whosesoever
form: whosoëver
Etymology: From Middle English whosoever. By surface analysis, who + so + ever.
Senses: examples: text: Whosoever partakes of this elixir shall have eternal life.
text: If thou do pardon whoſoeuer pray, / More ſinnes for this forgiueneſs proſper may: […]
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: Whoſoeuer commeth to me, and heareth my ſayings, and doeth them, I will ſhew you to whom he is like.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 6:47:
text: His mercy is a panacea, a balſome for an afflicted ſoule, a Soveraigne medicine, an alexipharmacum for all ſinne, a charme for the Divell, his mercy was great to Solomon, to Manaſſes, to Peter, great to all offenders, and whoſoever thou art, it may be ſo to thee.
ref: 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Cure of Deſpaire by Phyſick, good counſell, comforts, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 4, member 3, subsection 6, page 707:
text: This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
ref: 1840 May 5, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 8:
text: Whosoever shall be found without the soul for getting down, must stand and face the hounds of hell
ref: 1982 (date recorded), Rod Temperton, “Thriller”, performed by Michael Jackson:
glosses: Whatever person or persons: emphasised or elaborated form of whoever.
Related terms: who
whoever
whomsoever
booth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːθ/
ipa: /buːð/
ipa: /buːθ/
rhymes: -uːθ
rhymes: -uːð
Forms: form: booths
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English bothe, from Old East Norse *bóð, from Proto-Germanic *bōþō, *būþiz, *buþǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-. Compare Middle Low German bôde, Middle Dutch boede, German Bude.
Senses: glosses: A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
examples: text: When Gro came to the Witches’ booths he found them guarded even as the Red Foliot had said, and the booths of them of Demonland in like manner. So went he into the royal booth where the King lay in state on a bier of spear-shafts, robed in his kingly robes over his armour that was painted black and inlaid with gold, and the crown of Witchland on his head.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 41:
glosses: A temporary shelter, often in the form of a tent, shed, or canopied structure.
glosses: A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.
glosses: An enclosed seating area consisting of a table next to a wall set between two high-backed benches, as in a diner or café.
glosses: An enclosure for keeping animals.
topics: dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A recording studio.
raw_tags: with “the”
Derived terms: booth babe
boother
boothette
boothless
boothlike
boothman
boothmate
bothy
buddy booth
confession booth
control booth
forebooth
kissing booth
phone booth
photo booth
polling booth
recording booth
sound booth
suicide booth
telebooth
telephone booth
ticket booth
ticketbooth
toll booth
voting booth
Related terms: kiosk
stall
stand
cubicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuːbɪkəl/
ipa: /ˈkjubɪkəl/
ipa: /ˈkjʉːbɪkəl/
ipa: /ˈkjʉːbəkəl/
homophone: cubical
Forms: form: cubicles
Etymology: From Late Middle English cubicle, from Latin cubiculum (“bedroom”). Doublet of cubiculum.
Senses: examples: text: Most libraries provide cubicles for quiet study.
text: Two men who were in the baths at the time of the fire, who preferred to remain anonymous, told GCN that they were asleep in a cubicle on the fourth floor when they awoke to the smell of smoke.
ref: 1983 December 17, Christine Guilfoy, “Women's Bar, Mens Baths Destroyed By Fire”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 22, page 1:
text: I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch.
ref: 1999, Mike Judge, Office Space (motion picture), spoken by Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston):
glosses: A small separate part or one of the compartments of a room, especially in a work environment.
glosses: A small enclosure at a swimming pool etc. used to provide personal privacy when changing.
examples: text: With more urinals than cubicles, men - unlike women - rarely queue, a Royal Society for Public Health report says.
ref: 2019 May 23, “Two female loos for every male one, experts recommend”, in BBC News, retrieved 14 Aug 2019:
text: The toilets will have weight-sensitive floors to make sure only one person is using each cubicle at a time.
ref: 2019 August 16, “Anti-sex toilets will soak users with water jets and sound alarm”, in Planet Rock, retrieved 17 Aug 2019:
glosses: A small enclosure in a public toilet for individual use.
Synonyms: sense: toilet cubicle
word: stall
Derived terms: coffice
cubicled
cubicle farm
cubiclelike
cubiclize
multicubicle
unattended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + attended.
Senses: examples: text: The meeting went largely unattended, since it took place on Christmas Eve.
text: System administrators may schedule an unattended installation of the software.
text: Considerable excitement was caused on the L.M.S.R. Aberdeen line out of Perth recently when a shunting engine in Perth North goods yard, whose driver and fireman were absent, was accidentally set in motion by a shunter and set off unattended on to the main line.
ref: 1941 October, “Notes and News: A Highland Runaway”, in Railway Magazine, page 469:
glosses: Not attended; without persons present.
examples: text: The fire was caused by an unattended electric blanket.
text: I have been attempting to persuade gay organizations and leaders to take this approach, without concrete results. It is a serious failure of gay leadership not to have organized open defiance of sodomy laws, and my own attitude is not to wait for leaders when there is an unattended need.
ref: 1987 August 15, Tom Keske, “Open Defiance of Sodomy Laws”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 4:
glosses: Not attended to; not receiving attention.
Derived terms: unattended installation
recline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈklaɪn/
ipa: /ɹəˈklaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: reclines
form: reclining
form: reclined
form: reclined
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: recline
form: recline
form: reclined
form: recline
form: reclinest
form: reclined
form: reclinedst
form: reclines
form: reclineth
form: reclined
form: recline
form: reclined
form: recline
form: reclined
form: recline
form: -
form: reclining
form: reclined
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin reclīnāre (“to bend back”). Compare decline, incline.
Senses: glosses: To cause to lean back; to bend back.
examples: text: She reclined her arms on the table and sighed.
text: The mother, lovely tho' with grief oppreſt, / Reclin'd his dying head upon her breaſt.
ref: a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “On the Death of Amyntas. A Pastoral Elegy.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 249:
glosses: To put in a resting position.
examples: text: to recline against a wall
glosses: To lean back.
examples: text: to recline on a couch
glosses: To put oneself in a resting position.
Related terms: decline
incline
lie down
lie back
recline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈklaɪn/
ipa: /ɹəˈklaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: reclines
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin reclīnāre (“to bend back”). Compare decline, incline.
Senses: examples: text: To gain a little more space, airlines are turning to a new generation of seats that use lighter materials and less padding, moving the magazine pocket above the tray table and even reducing or eliminating the recline in seats.
ref: 2013 December 22, Jad Mouawad, Martha C. White, New York Times, retrieved 23 Dec 2013:
glosses: A mechanism for lowering the back of a seat to support a less upright position; Also, the action of lowering the back using such a mechanism.
Istanbul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪstænˈbʊl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪsˈt̪ɑnbʊl/
Forms: form: İstanbul
form: Stambul
form: Stamboul
Etymology: From Turkish İstanbul, from Ottoman Turkish استانبول (İstanbul), a corruption of Byzantine Greek εἰς τὴν Πόλιν (eis tḕn Pólin, “to the City”), which is how Constantinople was referred to by the local Greeks.
Senses: examples: text: Nearly a century ago, my grandfather passed through Istanbul en route to Europe along with hordes of other White Russians fleeing the Russian civil war.
ref: 2014 July 21, Ivan Watson, “Loud, anarchic, quirky: My love affair with Istanbul”, in CNN:
glosses: A Turkish city, and the largest European city by population, which was the last capital of the Ottoman Empire and the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire).
glosses: A province in Turkey.
Synonyms: word: Byzantium
word: Byzantion
word: Constantinople
Derived terms: Istanbulite
Related terms: Ankara
second largest city and capital of the Republic of Turkey
sousaphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sousaphones
Etymology: Named after American composer and conductor John Philip Sousa + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: One version of the large tuba, popular in marching bands, is called a sousaphone in honor of bandsman John Philip Sousa.
ref: 1990, Thomas D. Rossing, The Science of Sound, page 230:
coordinate_terms: helicon
tuba
glosses: A valved brass instrument with the same length as a tuba, but shaped differently so that the bell is above the head, that the valves are situated directly in front of the musical instruments and a few inches above the waist, and that most of the weight rests on one shoulder.
Derived terms: sousaphonist
ha-ha
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːhɑː/
ipa: /hɑːˈhɑː/
ipa: /ˈhɑˌhɑ/
ipa: /ˌhɑˈhɑ/
rhymes: -ɑːhɑː
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: ha ha
form: haha
Etymology: ]
Imitative.
Senses: glosses: An approximation of the sound of laughter.
Related terms: hehe
ho, ho, ho
tee hee
ha-ha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːhɑː/
ipa: /hɑːˈhɑː/
ipa: /ˈhɑˌhɑ/
ipa: /ˌhɑˈhɑ/
rhymes: -ɑːhɑː
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: ha-has
Etymology: ]
Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: His ha-ha grated on our ears as he fled down the stairs three steps at a time with us in hot pursuit.
ref: 1916 June 24, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 141, column 1:
text: Ha-has from both sides of the door.
ref: 1957, Ernie Kovacs, Zoomar: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →OCLC, page 28:
text: We had a fine dinner, punctuated with Heidi's loud ha-has and lots of wine.
ref: 1997, David Gessner, A Wild, Rank Place: One Year on Cape Cod, Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, →ISBN, page 90:
text: Not just giggles or a few ha-has, but the paralyzing kind of laughter, when the eyes tear and the nose runs and one gasps seemingly unto apoplexy.
ref: 2012, David Mazzarella, “Benigna’s Story”, in Always Eat the Hard Crust of the Bread: Recollections and Recipes from My Centenarian Mother, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, in association with TPD Publishing LLC, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: A laugh.
examples: text: Durty Nelly's, […] You'll catch a few ha-has and even a golden memory or two singing along with the house piano player.
ref: 1983 March, Patricia Sharpe, Helen Thompson, “Around the State: A Selective Statewide Guide to Amusements and Events”, in Texas Monthly, volume 11, number 3, Austin, Tx.: Texas Monthly, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 68, column 3:
text: She is not rewarded until she learns to reduce her expectations, and surprises (the ha-has of this novel) are the educational tool.
ref: 1996, Lois A. Chaber, “Sir Charles Grandison and the Human Prospect”, in Albert J. Rivero, editor, New Essays on Samuel Richardson, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 196:
text: If Kathy had been with us, she'd have countered with a few ha-has of her own, thus guaranteeing a laugh at his expense.
ref: 2005 December, Sue Grafton, S is for Silence, New York, N.Y.: Putnam, →ISBN:
glosses: Something funny; a joke.
ha-ha
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːhɑː/
ipa: /hɑːˈhɑː/
ipa: /ˈhɑˌhɑ/
ipa: /ˌhɑˈhɑ/
rhymes: -ɑːhɑː
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: ha-has
form: ha-ha's
form: ha-haing
form: ha-ha'ing
form: ha-ha-ing
form: ha-haed
form: ha-haed
form: ha-ha'd
form: ha-ha'd
form: ha-ha'ed
form: ha-ha'ed
form: ha-ha-ed
form: ha-ha-ed
Etymology: ]
Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: He was much affected, said it was his lullaby when he was a baby, that she must stop or she would have him boo-hoo-ing right out. But he was ha-ha-ing a few moments after, and begging her “To take him for her lover, and let all those inconstant swains glide, they were not worth one of those invaluable pearls he saw in her eyes, when he met her.”
ref: 1863, Hearton Drille [pseudonym; Jeannie H. Grey], Tactics; Or, Cupid in Shoulder-Straps. A West Point Love Story., New York, N.Y.: Carleton, […], page 214:
text: Out with the fashion that will let a man smile, but pronounces him vulgar if he ha-ha’s.
ref: 1893, “Address by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D.”, in Annual Graduating Exercises of Peirce School of Business and Shorthand American Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pa., Thomas May Peirce, page 131:
text: She ha-ha’d like a boy over the sport.
ref: 1874, Katy Crane, “A Day at Deacon Potts’s”, in T[imothy] S[hay] Arthur, editor, Arthur’s Illustrated Home Magazine, volume XLII, Philadelphia, Pa.: T. S. Arthur & Son, page 651:
text: Though somewhat worn and excited, with several respectable swellings as a reminder of his experience with the new bait the boys had provided, he ha-ha-ed at the practical joke and carried it home with him that evening as the most enjoyable part of the afternoon’s trip.
ref: 1915, Richard Sylvester, Me—My Boy—and—the Bass, page 39:
text: Charlie had tipped back his chair, thrown back his head and was ha-haing at some pleasantry uttered by the man with the hay-colored hair.
ref: 1932, Catharine Brody, Nobody Starves, page 45:
text: “I’ve missed you, Bunny!” she said. I started laughing and Winnalee looked up and grinned. “What? I did!” She looked at Aunt Verdella, who was ha-ha’ing, and suddenly Winnalee’s eyes narrowed and her lips parted, as though she just realized it wasn’t 1961 anymore, and, in spite of still having the oomph of a shaken can of soda pop, Aunt Verdella had aged to old.
ref: 2012, Sandra Kring, chapter 6, in A Life of Bright Ideas, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 60:
text: Arturo ha-ha’ed though his face showed no upturned mouth.
ref: 2014, David DeGeorge, Friendship, Whiskey Creek Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To laugh.
ha-ha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːhɑː/
ipa: /hɑːˈhɑː/
ipa: /ˈhɑˌhɑ/
ipa: /ˌhɑˈhɑ/
rhymes: -ɑːhɑː
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: ha-has
form: har-har
Etymology: From French haha, supposedly from ha! as an expression of surprise.
Senses: examples: text: A few steps farther brought them out at the bottom of the very walk they had been talking of; and standing back, well shaded and sheltered, and looking over a ha-ha into the park, was a comfortable-sized bench, on which they all sat down.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 197:
text: This pathway ran up hill, across another open space covered with white incrustation, and plunged into a canebrake again. Then suddenly it turned parallel with the edge of a steep-walled gap, which came without warning, like the ha-ha of an English park,—turned with an unexpected abruptness. I was still running with all my might, and I never saw this drop until I was flying headlong through the air.
ref: 1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Sayers of the Law”, in The Island of Doctor Moreau (Heinemann’s Colonial Library of Popular Fiction; 52), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished as The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Possibility, New York, N.Y.: Stone & Kimball, 1896, →OCLC, pages 115–116:
text: A moody stroll through the oaks and bracken beyond the ha-ha didn't help.
ref: 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 175:
topics: architecture
glosses: A ditch with one vertical side, acting as a sunken fence, designed to block the entry of animals into lawns and parks without breaking sightlines.
haha
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: ha ha
form: ha-ha
form: hah hah
Etymology: From Middle English haha, ha ha, from Old English ha ha (interjection), ultimately onomatopoeic. Compare Old Frisian haha (interjection), Middle Low German hahā, hahahā (interjection), Middle High German hahā, haha (interjection), all expressions of joy or of laughter.
Senses: glosses: An onomatopoeic representation of laughter.
Related terms: hahaha
haw
hehe
lol
teehee
haha
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hahas
form: haha's
form: hahaing
form: haha'ing
form: haha-ing
form: hahaed
form: hahaed
form: haha'd
form: haha'd
form: haha'ed
form: haha'ed
form: haha-ed
form: haha-ed
form: ha ha
form: ha-ha
form: hah hah
Etymology: From Middle English haha, ha ha, from Old English ha ha (interjection), ultimately onomatopoeic. Compare Old Frisian haha (interjection), Middle Low German hahā, hahahā (interjection), Middle High German hahā, haha (interjection), all expressions of joy or of laughter.
Senses: examples: text: First he regarded the strangers, then his own band, and his mouth was expanded to a still wider grin; his eyes opened to their fullest extent, and at last he haha’d as furiously and heartily as the worst of the sailors, which was naturally the signal for an outbreak on the part of the islanders.
ref: 1860, Frederick Gerstaecker, translated by Lascelles Wraxall, Frank Wildman’s Adventures on Land and Water, Boston, Mass.: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, […], page 124:
text: Emett yelled for him, and Jones and Jim “hahaed!”
ref: 1908, Field and Stream, page 832:
text: She haha’d like she ate diamonds for breakfast and flossed with spun gold.
ref: 2014, Rachel Hauck, A March Bride: A Year of Weddings Novella, Zondervan, →ISBN:
text: Then she shrugged and haha-ed again and mumbled, “Poor souls,” because she thought she was safe and none of us could comprehend a single word she said.
ref: 2017, Deborah E. Kennedy, Tornado Weather, Flatiron Books, →ISBN, page 17:
text: NatThrowinAwayMyShot: Haha, what?! GoChloGo: Y r u haha-ing?
ref: 2021, Ali Stroker, Stacy Davidowitz, The Chance to Fly, Amulet Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To laugh.
haha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ha ha
form: ha-ha
form: hah hah
Senses: glosses: A large leafy Hawaiian plant, Gunnera petaloidea.
wick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: wicks
form: wicking
form: wicked
form: wicked
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English wek, weke, wicke (“fibrous cord drawing fuel to flame of a candle, etc.; material used to make this object”), from Old English wēoce (“wick”), from Proto-West Germanic *weukā (“flax bundle; wick”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave”).
It has been suggested that noun sense 2 (“penis”) is derived from Hampton Wick, used as rhyming slang for prick. If so, that sense should be placed under etymology 2.
The verb is derived from the noun.
cognates
* Dutch wiek (“wick; wing; blade, propeller”)
* German Wieche (“wick; wisp”)
* Swedish veke (“wick”)
* West Frisian wjok, wjuk (“wing”)
Senses: examples: text: The fabric wicks perspiration away from the body.
glosses: Of a material (especially a textile): to convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
glosses: Of a material: to convey or draw off liquid by capillary action.
examples: text: The moisture slowly wicked through the wood.
glosses: Chiefly followed by through or up: of a liquid: to move by capillary action through a porous material.
wick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: wicks
Etymology: From Middle English wik, wike, wich, wicke (“dwelling, home; building or land, probably enclosed, in which work is done; area, region, territory; city, town; hamlet, village”), from Old English wīc (“dwelling place, abode, lodging; temporary dwelling place, camp; place where a thing remains; town, village”), and then probably:
* from Latin vīcus (“row of houses; street; quarter, neighbourhood; hamlet, village; municipal section or ward; farm”), from Proto-Italic *weikos (“village”); and/or
* from Proto-West Germanic *wīhs (“burgh, village; colony, settlement; dwelling”), from Proto-Germanic *wīhsą (“settlement; village”);
both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- (“to enter in; to settle; settlement”). Doublet of vicus and -wich.
cognates
* Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) (whence English eco-)
* Dutch wijk (“quarter, district”)
* Old Frisian wik
* Old High German wîch, wih (“village”) (modern German Weichbild (“municipal area”))
* Old Saxon wic (“village”)
Senses: examples: text: And by report, there vvere eight thouſand Gaules there ſlaine: the reſt abandoned the vvarre, and ſlipt every one into their ovvne vvickes and villages.
ref: 1600, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “[Book XXXIIII]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 866:
qualifier: obsolete except dialectal
glosses: A hamlet or village; also, a town.
examples: text: Note a fearme [farm] in the North parts is called a Tacke, in Lancaſhire a Fermeholt, in Eſſex a Wike.
ref: [1628, Edw[ard] Coke, “Of Fee Simple”, in The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for the Societe of Stationers, →OCLC, , section I, folio 5, recto:
text: Wick Farm—almost every village has its outlying ‘wick’—stands alone in the fields.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], “The Farmhouse—Traditions—Hunting Pictures—The Farmer’s Year—Sport—The Auction Festival—A Summer’s Day—Beauty of Wheat”, in Wild Life in a Southern County […], London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 126:
qualifier: obsolete except dialectal
glosses: A farm; specifically, a dairy farm.
glosses: An enclosed piece of land; a close.
Derived terms: word: Eton Wick
word: Hackney Wick
word: Hampton Wick
word: Hannington Wick
word: Haydon Wick
word: herdwick
word: Herdwick
word: wich
word: wych
word: wickemaster
word: Wick Hill
Related terms: vicinity
villa
village
-wich
-wick
wick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: wicks
Etymology: A variant of quick.
Senses: glosses: A maggot.
examples: raw_tags: spoken of a pasture which has been fed very close
text: Fed close? Why, it’s eaten into t’ hard wick.
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: The part of the root of a weed that remains viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation.
glosses: Life; also, liveliness.
wick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: wicks
form: except UK
Etymology: From Late Middle English wike, wyke (“corner of part of the body”), from Old Norse *vík (“angle, bend, corner”) (attested in munnvík (“corner of the mouth”)), from víkja (“to move, bend, curve; to retreat”) (related to Old Norse vikna (“to cave in, yield”)), probably from Proto-Germanic *wīkwaną (“to cease; to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃weyg-, *weyg- (“to bend, turn; to wind”).
Senses: examples: text: [H]ee vvould therefore haue you to make ſome expert Horſe farrier, to ſlit vp the vveekes of your Horſes mouth, equallie on both ſides of his cheekes, vvith a ſharpe rayſor, and then to ſeare it vvith a hot yron, and ſo heale it in ſuch ſorte, as the ſydes thereof may no more grovv together, but appeare like a natural mouth: to vvhome I make this anſvvere, that I imagine neither hee, nor any other Horſe-man hath heere in England ſeene a horſe of that ſhallovvneſſe of mouth, vvhich vvold not giue place for a reaſonable bytt to lie in; […]
ref: 1607, Gervase Markham, “Of the Cutting of Colts Mouthes or Tongues, and of the Drawing of Teeth, to Helpe the Bit to Lie in His True Plac”, in Cauelarice, or The English Horseman: […], London: […] [Edward Allde and W[illiam] Jaggard] for Edward White, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 82:
text: Croudy hung his head to one side, and chuckled, and crowed, and laid on the ground with his staff; and always now and then cast a sly look-out at the wick of his eye to Pery.
ref: 1818, James Hogg, “The Hunt of Eildon. Ancient.”, in The Brownie of Bodsbeck; and Other Tales. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 259:
text: She considered him. A fiery droplet in the wick of her mouth considered him.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 12, in Ada, or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1970, →ISBN, part 1, page 64:
glosses: A angle or corner; specifically, a corner of the eye or mouth.
glosses: A angle or corner; specifically, a corner of the eye or mouth.
Short for wick-tooth (“a canine tooth”).
glosses: A grove; also, a hollow.
wick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: wicks
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Scots wick (“(noun) shot in which a bowl or stone is aimed at another so that one or other is deflected at an angle towards the tee, cannon; (verb) to strike (a bowl or curling stone) in such a manner; to (attempt to) reach the tee in this manner”), The Scots noun is probably derived from Middle English wike, wyke (“corner of part of the body”); the verb from Old Norse víkja (“to move, bend, curve; to retreat”): see further at etymology 4.
Senses: topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot where the played bowl or stone touches a stationary bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; a cannon.
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of port (“a narrow opening between other players' bowls or stones wide enough for a delivered bowl or stone to pass through”).
synonyms: word: port
extra: a narrow opening between other players' bowls or stones wide enough for a delivered bowl or stone to pass through
Derived terms: inwick
outwick
wick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: wicks
form: wicking
form: wicked
form: wicked
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Scots wick (“(noun) shot in which a bowl or stone is aimed at another so that one or other is deflected at an angle towards the tee, cannon; (verb) to strike (a bowl or curling stone) in such a manner; to (attempt to) reach the tee in this manner”), The Scots noun is probably derived from Middle English wike, wyke (“corner of part of the body”); the verb from Old Norse víkja (“to move, bend, curve; to retreat”): see further at etymology 4.
Senses: examples: text: He vvas the king of a' the Core, / To guard, or dravv, or vvick a bore, […]
ref: 1787, Robert Burns, “Tam Samson’s Elegy”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], and William Creech, […], published 1793, →OCLC, page 164:
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To strike (a stationary bowl or stone) with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To strike a stationary bowl or stone with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.
Derived terms: word: inwick
word: outwick
word: wicking
wick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: wicks
Etymology: Possibly from Middle English *wik (compare Old English wīc (“small bay, bight; creek, inlet”)), or from Old Norse vík (“bay; small creek, inlet”) (in place names; compare *vík (“angle, bend, corner”), attested in munnvík (“corner of the mouth”)), from Proto-Germanic *wīkō (“bay; fjord, inlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, turn; to wind”), *weyk- (“to bend, curve”).
Senses: examples: text: The power thou dost covet / O'er tempest and wave, / Shall be thine, thou proud maiden, / By beach and by cave,— / By stack and by skerry, by noup, and by voe, / By air and by wick, and by helyer and gio, / And by every wild shore which the northern winds know, / And the northern tides lave.
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter VI, in The Pirate. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 142:
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An inlet, such as a creek or small bay.
wick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: wicks
Etymology: Probably a clipping of wicker.
Senses: examples: text: A captive fish still fills the anxious eyes / And willow-wicks lie ready for the prize; […]
ref: 1821, John Clare, “[Poems.] Rustic Fishing.”, in The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems, volume II, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […]; and E[dward] Drury, […], →OCLC, page 102:
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A basket made of wickers (“flexible branches or twigs of a plant such as willow woven together”); a creel.
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Wickers collectively; also, synonym of wickerwork (“wickers woven together”).
wickedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪkɪdnəs/
Forms: form: wickednesses
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wikkednesse, wikkednes, equivalent to wicked + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: So, if a Sonne that is by his Father ſent about Merchandize, doe ſinfully miſcarry vpon the Sea; the imputation of his vvickedneſſe, by your rule, ſhould be impoſed vpon his Father that ſent him: […]
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 84, column 2:
text: We speak of wickedness as something in the soul different from virtue.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 227d:
text: Derived from the Latin words "scelero" — which means crime or wickedness — and "phobos" meaning fear — scelerophobia is coined by both criminologists and psychologists as the fear of burglars, according to Ayla Faisal, a clinical psychologist and a PhD scholar at the Institute of Clinical Psychology at the University of Karachi.
ref: 2023 September 26, Abby Roch, “My house was broken into. Now I have developed a fear of thieves called scelerophobia.”, in Business Insider:
glosses: The state of being wicked; evil disposition; immorality.
glosses: A wicked or sinful thing or act; morally bad or objectionable behaviour.
hoist by one's own petard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hoist with one's own petard
form: hoist on one's own petard
form: hoisted by one's own petard
Etymology: From the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, see quotations.
Senses: examples: text: He has no one to blame but himself; he was hoisted by his own petard.
text: For tis the ſport to haue the enginer / Hoiſt with his owne petar, an't ſhall goe hard
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], line 208:
text: Unhappily, the country as well as Mr. Marples has been hoist by the Minister's petard. (Mr. Marples was the Minister concerned)
ref: 1963 June, “Second thoughts on Beeching”, in Modern Railways, page 362:
text: The danger with Trump would seem to be that, like Berlusconi, he would be hoist by his own petard, self-destructing precisely through the agent of his rise, and dragging the rest of us with him.
ref: 2015 August 27, Michael Signer, “What Happens When Donald Trump Stirs Up 'Passionate' Supporters”, in The Atlantic:
text: At last, the opposition spoke with one voice, and Boris Johnson was hoist by his own petard. It’s hard to see how he gets out of it.
ref: 2019 September 4, Jon Henley, “'Fighting for survival': European papers maul Johnson after defeat”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Hurt or destroyed by one's own plot or device intended for another; "blown up by one's own bomb".
wikipedia: Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Related terms: word: beat someone at their own game
word: he who digs a pit for others falls in himself
english: People's
translation: People's
word: Leopards Eating Faces Party
english: an early
translation: an early
word: like turkeys voting for Christmas
word: own goal
word: rod for one's back
word: shoot oneself in the foot
word: the biter bit
word: the shoe is on the other foot
word: turn the tables
wickiup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪkɪʌp/
ipa: /ˈwɪk.i.ʌp/
Forms: form: wickiups
form: wakiup
form: wikiup
Etymology: Wickiup-like structures were built by many Native American peoples throughout the Southwestern United States, and terms similar to wickiup are present "among Native Americans in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, and California", but the source of the word appears to be Fox wîkiyâpi (“house”). Alternatively, it may be a variant of wikiwam (“wigwam”). Either way, its ultimate origin is the Proto-Algonquian root *wi·kiwa·ʔmi (“house”). Doublet of wigwam.
Senses: examples: text: They say his real name is Cimarron Seven, of the Choctaw Indian family of Sevens; he was raised in a tepee; a wickiup had been his bedroom, a blanket his robe.
ref: 1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 11:
text: At that time there were still indians camped on the western plains and late in the day he passed in his riding a scattered group of their wickiups propped upon that scoured and trembling waste.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses:
glosses: A domed hut, similar to a wigwam, used by some semi-nomadic Native American tribes, particularly in the southwestern and western United States.
Related terms: sense: traditional Native American dwellings
alt: used by the Navajo in the southwestern United States
word: hogan
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
english: used by the Inuit, made of snow
translation: used by the Inuit, made of snow
word: igloo
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
english: used in the Great Plains
translation: used in the Great Plains
word: teepee
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
english: used by the Inuit during the summer
translation: used by the Inuit during the summer
word: tupik
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
alt: used by the Wampanoag in the northeastern United States
word: wetu
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
english: used in the northeastern United States
translation: used in the northeastern United States
word: wigwam
immobility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immobilities
Etymology: From Middle French immobilité, equivalent to immobile + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Common to all Regions were frozen points, which were troublesome not only because of immobility, but because failure to close prevented operation of detector circuits.
ref: 1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 158:
text: See how he still covers his face with his hands when he sees me and his immobility and fixed stare are often evident.
ref: 2003, Alessandra Piontelli, From Fetus to Child: An Observational and Psychoanalytic Study, page 87:
glosses: The quality of not moving.
examples: text: Immobility is a big problem for many people who can't afford a car.
synonyms: unmovability
glosses: The state or condition of being unable to change one's location, move or be moved.
Derived terms: immobile
mobility
mobile
tonic immobility
wide open
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wider open
form: more wide open
form: widest open
form: most wide open
form: wide-open
Senses: examples: text: The front door was wide open.
text: It was a bright, sunny morning, and the windows stood wide open.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Completely open.
examples: text: It was a wide open frontier town before the railroad came.
text: One hundred thirty-eight sellers and buyers were jailed. Even efforts like that were to no avail in a wide-open town where rackets flourished […]
ref: 2001, Monroe Dodd, Christmastime in Kansas City, page 85:
glosses: Having no laws or law enforcement.
examples: text: The fate of the loan sailor is still wide open.
glosses: Unsettled or unresolved.
examples: text: He left himself wide open to criticism.
glosses: Vulnerable or unprotected.
examples: text: He was wide open and scored easily after receiving the pass.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Without the presence of opponents nearby.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Of the situation at the beginning of trading when there is a large spread between bids and asking prices.
Derived terms: blow wide open
Related terms: in the open
open field
open season
open wide
wide-angle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wider-angle
form: widest-angle
Senses: topics: arts
broadcasting
cinematography
film
hobbies
lifestyle
media
photography
television
glosses: Of or pertaining to a short focal length lens that has an angle of view greater than about 70°; of or pertaining to an image produced with such a lens.
Derived terms: wide-angle converter
wide-angle lens
wide-angle lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wide-angle lenses
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A short focal length lens having a wide field of view.
Related terms: fisheye lens
telephoto lens
impend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: impends
form: impending
form: impended
form: impended
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin impendere (“to hang over, to weigh out”), 1590s.
Senses: examples: text: The Earl had often heard of a rich citizen […] and the peculiar charm of a little snug rotunda which he had just finished on the verge of his ground, and which impended the great London road.
ref: 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 210:
text: when a thing really impends over another, e.g. when one stands at a fountain (עַל־עֵין), over which one really leans
When a thing really impends over another, e.g. when one stands at a fountain (עַל־עֵין), over which one really leans.
ref: 1857, Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, “עַל (Strong's H5921) definition (A)(3)(a)”, in Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, retrieved 27 Sep 2015:
glosses: To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.
glosses: To hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
examples: text: impending doom
text: I, the mother of the only surnamed Glendinning, I feel now as though I had borne the last of a swiftly to be extinguished race. For swiftly to be extinguished is that race, whose only heir but so much as impends upon a deed of shame.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
text: Although much is seriously wrong with the city, no disaster impends
ref: 1974, Edward C. Banfield, The Unheavenly City Revisited:
glosses: To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
glosses: To pay.
widen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪdn̩/
rhymes: -aɪdən
Forms: form: widens
form: widening
form: widened
form: widened
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From wide + -en (verbal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: His eyes widened as her negligee fell to the floor.
glosses: To become wide or wider.
examples: text: But he still saw his side produce a rousing display which owed much to their lauded prowess from set-pieces, despite Uefa regulations meaning the pitch had to be widened and, in the process, the run-up area for Delap's long throws reduced.
ref: 2011 September 29, Tom Rostance, “Stoke 2 - 1 Besiktas”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To make wide or wider.
examples: text: She widened his trousers for him.
glosses: To let out clothes to a larger size.
examples: text: The police widened their enquiries.
text: While the primary focus of the Sexual Orientation Committee had been to lobby for gay rights legislation, the new Task Force hopes to widen its activities. The Task Force ― in addition to lobbying — hopes to function as an "umbrella organization," facilitating communication between the state's many gay groups.
ref: 1976 December 18, “Connecticut Task”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 2:
text: Correspondent Gerardo Arreola interviewed Castro Espín for the Jan. 9, 2006, issue of La Jornada about the move to widen rights for transsexuals.
ref: 2007 August 6, Leslie Feinberg, “Cuba's CENESEX proposes ground-breaking transsexual rights”, in Workers World:
glosses: To broaden or extend in scope or range.
examples: to widen a short variable to an int variable
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
antonyms: narrow
glosses: To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.
Synonyms: word: breadthen
word: broaden
word: enwiden
word: thicken
word: widen
word: widthen
Hypernyms: word: enlarge
word: expand
word: increase
Derived terms: widen up
widenable
Related terms: word: dilate
robe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊb/
ipa: /ɹoʊb/
rhymes: -əʊb
Forms: form: robes
Etymology: From Middle English robe, roobe, from Old French robe, robbe, reube (“booty, spoils of war, robe, garment”), from Frankish *rouba, *rauba (“booty, spoils, stolen clothes”, literally “things taken”), from Proto-Germanic *raubō, *raubaz, *raubą (“booty, that which is stripped or carried away”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to tear, peel”).
cognates and related terms
Akin to Old High German roup (“booty”) (Modern German Raub (“robbery, spoils”)), Old High German roubōn (“to rob, steal”) (Modern German rauben (“to rob”)), Old English rēaf (“spoils, booty, dress, armour, robe, garment”), Old English rēafian (“to steal, deprive”). Cognate with Spanish ropa (“clothing, clothes”). More at rob, reaf, reave.
Senses: examples: text: Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; / Robes and furred gowns hide all.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
glosses: A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature.
glosses: The skin of an animal, especially the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.
glosses: A wardrobe, especially one built into a bedroom.
glosses: The largest and strongest tobacco leaves.
Derived terms: bathrobe
buffalo robe
Holy Robe
lap robe
long robe
riding-robe
riding robe
robe decollete
robe montante
touch someone's robe
touch the hem of someone's robe
Related terms: robe à la française
robe à la polonaise
robe battante
robe de gaulle
robe de style
robe volante
robe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊb/
ipa: /ɹoʊb/
rhymes: -əʊb
Forms: form: robes
form: robing
form: robed
form: robed
Etymology: From Middle English robe, roobe, from Old French robe, robbe, reube (“booty, spoils of war, robe, garment”), from Frankish *rouba, *rauba (“booty, spoils, stolen clothes”, literally “things taken”), from Proto-Germanic *raubō, *raubaz, *raubą (“booty, that which is stripped or carried away”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to tear, peel”).
cognates and related terms
Akin to Old High German roup (“booty”) (Modern German Raub (“robbery, spoils”)), Old High German roubōn (“to rob, steal”) (Modern German rauben (“to rob”)), Old English rēaf (“spoils, booty, dress, armour, robe, garment”), Old English rēafian (“to steal, deprive”). Cognate with Spanish ropa (“clothing, clothes”). More at rob, reaf, reave.
Senses: glosses: To clothe; to dress.
glosses: To put on official vestments.
Synonyms: sense: to clothe
word: dight
word: don
word: put on
word: clothe
Derived terms: berobed
earring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɪəɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: earrings
form: ear-ring
form: earing
Etymology: From Middle English erering, from Old English ēarhring (“ear-ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *auʀahring, equivalent to ear + ring. Cognate with West Frisian earring (“earring”), Dutch oorring (“earring”), German Low German Ohrring (“earring”), German Ohrring (“earring”), Danish ørering (“earring”), Swedish örring (“earring”).
Senses: glosses: A piece of jewelry worn on the ear.
Derived terms: chandelier earring
earringed
earringless
hoop earring
pierced earring
slave earring
Related terms: earing
earring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɪəɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: ear-ring
form: earing
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of earing (“a manufacturing defect in which the edges of sheet metal form a wave pattern during deep drawing”).