cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæd/
ipa: /bæːd/
ipa: /bɛd/
ipa: /baːd/
note: æ-tensing, New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /bɛəd/
rhymes: -æd
homophone: bade (one pronunciation)
Etymology: From Middle English bad, from Old English bæd, first- and third-person singular indicative past tense of biddan (“to ask”).
Senses: glosses: alternative past of bid. See bade.
bad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæd/
ipa: /bæːd/
ipa: /bɛd/
ipa: /baːd/
note: æ-tensing, New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /bɛəd/
rhymes: -æd
homophone: bade (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: bads
form: badding
form: badded
form: badded
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: A curious specimen of Gloucestershire dialect came out in an assault case heard by the Gloucester court magistrates on Saturday. One of the witnesses, speaking of what a girl was doing at the time the assault took place, said she was ‘badding’ walnuts in a pigstye. The word is peculiarly provincial: to ‘bad’ walnuts is to strip away the husk. The walnut, too, is often called a ‘bannut,’ and hence the old Gloucestershire phrase, ‘Come an’ bad the bannuts.’
ref: 1876, The Gloucester Journal, Oct. 7, 1876, reported in A. Gregory, “Gloucestershire Dialect,” Notes and Queries, 5th ser., 6, 148 (1876‑10‑28): 346
glosses: To shell (a walnut).
able-bodiedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.bl̩ˌbɑ.did.nəs/
Etymology: From able-bodied + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being able-bodied.
bai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bais
Senses: examples: text: One thing about the bais that I hadn't fully taken on board while reading about them was that they tend to be waterlogged because they are usually associated with marshes, streams or springs. […] venturing into the bai, but […] plunging into the bai because […]
ref: 2012 August 23, Nick Middleton, Surviving Extremes: Ice, Jungle, Sand and Swamp, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 84:
text: Gorillas (and other wildlife) frequent such bais, which are waterlogged and sunny, because of the sodium-rich sedges and asters that grow beneath the open sky.
ref: 2012, David Quammen, Spillover, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: A marshy meadow in sub-Saharan Africa.
bai
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of bye.
bai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bais
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 霾 (bai). First recorded in English in the 1910s.
Senses: glosses: A yellow mist occurring in spring and fall in China and Japan, caused by yellow dust blown from central China.
Related terms: cheebai
ACT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: A.C.T.
form: A. C. T.
Senses: examples: text: Osteoporosis Australia is calling for the 'no hat, no play' policy in school playgrounds to be reassessed in the ACT and Tasmania, because children are not getting enough sunlight.
ref: 2006 April 26, “'No hat, no play' rethink urged”, in ABC News:
coordinate_terms: NSW
NT
QLD
SA
TAS
VIC
WA
glosses: Initialism of the Australian Capital Territory: a federal territory of Australia.
glosses: Initialism of American College Test.
glosses: Initialism of Association of Consumers and Taxpayers, a political party of New Zealand.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Association of Consumers and Taxpayers, a political party of New Zealand.
ACT New Zealand, a liberal conservative political party in New Zealand.
ACT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ACTs
form: A.C.T.
form: A. C. T.
Senses: glosses: An instance of a certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the American College Test.
glosses: Acronym of acceptance and commitment therapy.
Coordinate terms: sense: American College Test
word: SAT
sense: American College Test
word: GMAT
sense: American College Test
word: MCAT
sense: American College Test
word: DAT
sense: American College Test
word: PCAT
NSW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: N.S.W.
form: N. S. W.
Senses: examples: text: The new changes bring NSW in line with other states across the country and give residents the option to have non-binary as their gender on birth certificates.
ref: 2024 October 18, Laura Masia, “NSW Finally Passes Bill Allowing Trans People To Change Birth Certificates Without Surgery”, in Pedestrian:
coordinate_terms: ACT
NT
QLD
SA
TAS
VIC
WA
glosses: Initialism of New South Wales: a state of Australia.
NT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: coordinate_terms: ACT
NSW
QLD
SA
TAS
VIC
WA
glosses: Initialism of the Northern Territory: a territory of Australia.
coordinate_terms: AB
BC
MB
NB
NL
NS
NU
ON
PE
QC
SK
YT
glosses: Initialism of the Northwest Territories: a territory of Canada.
glosses: Initialism of National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty (of the United Kingdom).
topics: Christianity
coordinate_terms: OT
glosses: Initialism of New Testament.
examples: Holonyms: HK (region), HKSAR
coordinate_terms: HK
Kln
glosses: Initialism of New Territories (of Hong Kong).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of Windows NT.
topics: business
finance
stock-ticker-symbol
glosses: Abbreviation of Nortel.
glosses: Abbreviation of East Nusa Tenggara: a province of Indonesia.
Derived terms: NTFS
NT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NTs
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of neighbor tone.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of neurotensin.
examples: text: This was brought home to me, an NT, when I asked an autistic E-mail correspondent, who is mordantly expressive on line, what it would be like to meet.
ref: 1997 June 30, Harvey Blume, “Autistics, freed from face-to-face encounters, are communicating in cyberspace.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: ND
glosses: Initialism of neurotypical.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of nanotube.
examples: text: The departure of Mr Thomas Butler N. T. to take up an appointment as principal teacher in Cushinstown National School in succession to Mr M. Murphy N. T. who has retired on pension, has caused general regret in Tullicanna where he has been teaching for some years past.
ref: 1941 January 7, “Forth and Bargy notes”, in Wexford People:
text: The death has occurred of Mary Corr NT (née Sherry) Goatstown, Dublin[.] Former teacher at Holy Cross School, Dundrum.
ref: 2024 March 7, “Death notices: Mary Corr NT”, in RIP.ie:
qualifier: chiefly post-nominal
glosses: Initialism of national-school teacher
Derived terms: CuNT
NT
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: nice try
Qld
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: QLD
form: Qld.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Queensland: a state of Australia.
SA
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛs.eɪ/
rhymes: -ɛseɪ
homophone: essay
homophone: ese
Senses: examples: text: SA block; SA node
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of sinoatrial or sinoauricular.
glosses: Abbreviation of straight-acting.
raw_tags: in gay personal advertisements
SA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛs.eɪ/
rhymes: -ɛseɪ
homophone: essay
homophone: ese
Forms: form: SAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of sexual abuse.
glosses: Initialism of sex appeal.
glosses: Initialism of special agent.
glosses: Initialism of small arms.
glosses: Initialism of surface area.
glosses: Initialism of situational awareness or situation awareness.
glosses: Initialism of simulated annealing.
glosses: Initialism of Sustainability Analysis.
glosses: Initialism of Scenario Analysis.
glosses: Initialism of social anxiety.
glosses: Initialism of salicylic acid.
SA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛs.eɪ/
rhymes: -ɛseɪ
homophone: essay
homophone: ese
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of North Sulawesi: a province of Indonesia.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of San Antonio: a city in Texas, United States.
glosses: Initialism of South Africa: a country in Southern Africa.
glosses: Initialism of South America: a continent.
glosses: Initialism of Saudi Arabia: a country in West Asia, on the Arabian Peninsula.
coordinate_terms: ACT
NSW
NT
QLD
TAS
VIC
WA
glosses: Initialism of South Australia: a state of Australia.
glosses: Abbreviation of Sturmabteilung.
glosses: Initialism of Stage Accompany.
glosses: Initialism of San Andreas.
SA
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛs.eɪ/
rhymes: -ɛseɪ
homophone: essay
homophone: ese
Forms: form: SAs
form: SA's
form: SAing
form: SA'ing
form: SAed
form: SAed
form: SA'd
form: SA'd
form: SA'ed
form: SA'ed
Senses: examples: text: This time CPS did really investigate a lot more thoroughly, and the CPS worker said that she believes Allison was SA'ed by her dad, but that the role of CPS is to *remove children from abusive homes* and since Allison does not live in the abusive home, the duty falls to me to go thru the family court system to get no-visitation orders in place.
ref: 1995 March 9, Cindi, “no evidence that a crime was committed”, in alt.sexual.abuse.recovery (Usenet):
text: Remind me of that night and while I threw away the clothes I was SA'd in,, the clothes I wore to be around him make me feel gross too and
ref: 2017 July 14, @princesse_peche, Twitter, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2024:
text: I just saw that! She doesn’t know anything! She’s regurgitating bull for a video to make money! And her subs won’t question it!! They apparently like middle aged woman attacking a little girl who was SA’d! Absolutely vile and disgusting
ref: 2020 September 22, @Carly4243, Twitter, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2024:
text: Unfortunately, the dark side of the music industry isn’t new. In 1989, Alanis Morissette was 15 years old when she was SA’d by several men during the start of her music career. In 1992-93, R. Kelly SA’d Aaliyah when she was 13 or 14 years old. In 2005, Lady Gaga was SA’d by a record producer when she was 19 years old. This shouldn’t be happening, but somehow a lot of shady behavior is often swept under the rug.
ref: 2022 April 28, @SpillTea, 52:41 from the start, in How Kesha's career died. She sent hidden messages asking for help., via YouTube, retrieved 22 Oct 2025:
text: These same type of men will make disgusting “jokes” about SA’ing women they politically disagree with, a big target of theirs will be teenage girls. When said girls tell them to rightfully get lost out come the “jokes” about wanting to SA them or hoping the girls get SA’ed.
ref: 2022 December 31, @acegirleatscake, Twitter, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2024:
glosses: To sexually assault (someone).
WA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌbəlˌjuː eɪ/
Senses: qualifier: postal
glosses: Abbreviation of Washington: a state of the United States.
coordinate_terms: ACT
NSW
NT
QLD
SA
TAS
VIC
glosses: Initialism of Western Australia: a state of Australia.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of World Athletics.
WA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌbəlˌjuː eɪ/
Forms: form: WAs
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
netball
sports
glosses: Initialism of wing attack.
Australian Capital Territory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A federal territory which is an enclave in southern New South Wales, south-eastern Australia, in which the country's capital, Canberra, is located.
New South Wales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “The passing of this bill today makes New South Wales a safer and more inclusive place for more people,” said Penny Sharpe, the leader of the government in the upper house.
ref: 2024 October 18, Laura Masia, “NSW Finally Passes Bill Allowing Trans People To Change Birth Certificates Without Surgery”, in Pedestrian:
glosses: A state of Australia, located in the southeastern part of the continent; a former British colony from 1788 to 1901. Capital: Sydney.
glosses: (1770—1850s) The original name conferred on Australia by Captain James Cook, and used to describe the entire eastern portion of the continent.
glosses: (1631–?) The name of an area of modern Canada stretching from the Nelson River in Manitoba to the James Bay in Ontario.
Derived terms: New South Welsh
NSW
Northern Territory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔːðən ˈtɛɹɪt(ə)ɹi/
Senses: glosses: A territory covering northern and north-central Australia. Capital: Darwin.
Related terms: North Queensland
Queensland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪːnzˌlæːnd/
ipa: /ˈkwiːnz.lænd/
ipa: /ˈkwiːnzlənd/
Etymology: From Queen + -s- + -land, equivalent to Queen's Land and named in honour of Queen Victoria.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Michela Mitchell, a taxonomist at the Queensland Museum Network, said in a statement released by Ocean Census it could be a type of deep-sea coral called octocoral.
ref: 2024 March 11, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover 100 potential new deep-sea species, including mystery creature”, in CNN:
synonyms: Bananaland
Sunshine State
glosses: A state of Australia, located in the northeastern part of the continent; a former British colony from 1859 to 1901. Capital: Brisbane.
glosses: The self-governing colony (1859–1901) of what is now the state of Queensland.
glosses: A census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.
glosses: A community in Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Derived terms: QLD
Queensland Blue
Queensland cherry
Queenslander
Queensland laurel
Queensland lungfish
Queensland maple
Queensland walnut
Related terms: North Queensland
South Australia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A state of Australia, located in the central southern part of the continent; a former British colony until 1901. Capital: Adelaide.
Tasmania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæzˈmeɪniə/
rhymes: -eɪniə
Etymology: From Tasman + -ia, after the Dutch naval explorer Abel Tasman, who visited and documented the island and New Zealand in 1642.
Senses: examples: text: Osteoporosis Australia is calling for the 'no hat, no play' policy in school playgrounds to be reassessed in the ACT and Tasmania, because children are not getting enough sunlight.
ref: 2006 April 26, “'No hat, no play' rethink urged”, in ABC News:
glosses: One of the six federal states of Australia, consisting of one large, eponymous and several much smaller islands, off the eastern part of Australia's south coast; a former British colony, from 1856 to 1901. Capital: Hobart.
glosses: The large island of Australia comprising the majority of the state of Tasmania's land area and on which most of its inhabitants live.
Synonyms: word: the Apple Isle
english: Indigenous name
translation: Indigenous name
word: lutruwita
word: Tassie
word: Van Diemen's Land
Derived terms: word: Tasmanian
word: Taswegian
word: TAS
word: Tas
word: Tas.
Victoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪkˈtɔː.ɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiə
Forms: form: Victorias
Etymology: From Latin Victōria, from victōria (“victory”). Doublet of Vitória. The given name can also be analyzed as the male name Victor + -ia. The places were named in honour of Queen Victoria of Great Britain.
Senses: glosses: One of an American breed of medium-sized white pigs with a slightly dished face and very erect ears.
examples: text: Pears are practically a failure, and there are no early or late Plums, but Victorias are a heavy crop, of small inferior fruits.
ref: 1916, The Gardeners' Chronicle:
glosses: A Victoria plum.
Western Australia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛstə(ɹ)n əˈstɹeɪljə/
Senses: examples: text: AO Neville, the Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia until the 1930s, railed against the risk of the creation of a ‘third race’ of half-castes.
ref: 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2021:
glosses: A state of Australia, occupying the western third of the continent; a former British colony until 1901. Capital: Perth.
Related terms: word: WA
word: sandgroper for persons from the state
island state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: island states
Senses: glosses: A state consisting of one or more islands
Synonyms: island country
island nation
abuela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abuelas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish abuela.
Senses: examples: text: I, an abuela-aged woman of Northern European ancestry, have lived within 50 miles of the Mexican border most of my life. Mexican culture is part of my life as much as any of my DNA cultures, if not more, and I love it all.
ref: 2022 February 17, Diane Scholfield, “Letters to the Editor: Is ‘gringo’ offensive? That’s up to the person being called one”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2022:
text: 8 a.m. Wake up early for breakfast at an abuela’s house
ref: 2022 June 22, Mia Moretti, as told to Margaret Rhodes, “Mia Moretti’s Weekend of Wine and Baja Clams in Valle de Guadalupe”, in The Strategist, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2022:
text: [L]ook no further than this week’s surreal exchange between Sen. Josh Hawley and a Berkeley law professor insisting that men can and do get pregnant. Yes, that happened, in a Senate hearing. You say that to an abuela, and the most likely response will be “que?” followed by a quick “adios!”
ref: 2022 July 14, Mike Gonzalez, “Democrats are in denial about why they are losing Hispanic voters”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2022:
text: On the east side of San Jose, Calif., there is an abuela who seems to have more grandchildren than she can count.
ref: 2024 April 3, Frank Rojas, “‘Carefluencers’ Are Helping Older Loved Ones, and Posting About It”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2024:
text: Together, the abuelas wrote pleading letters to international organizations and the pope, and posed as baby supply saleswomen and housekeepers to more closely surveil children they thought might be their relations.
ref: 2025 July 4, Haley Cohen Gilliland, “How a Group of Grandmothers Revealed the Painful Truth About Argentina’s Past”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2025:
coordinate_terms: abuelo
glosses: A Hispanic grandmother.
abuelo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abuelos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish abuelo.
Senses: examples: text: A turning point came when he told his 86-year-old abuelo in 2010. “We were terrified to tell him,” Mr. Heng-Lehtinen said.
ref: 2016 May 17, Walter Einenkal, “Prominent Florida Republican is fighting for her child's trans rights”, in Daily Kos:
text: Young people who are close to writing off the Democratic Party as a dinosaur, as a gerontocracy of prudish abuelos who gave birth by immaculate conception, may be in for a pleasant surprise.
ref: 2017 April 3, Dr A W Niloc, “Resistance Songs for Day 75 - Sex Appeal”, in Daily Kos:
text: I visited several neighborhood parks that had extensive feeder operations, trail systems etc, and there were always family groups, often with very young kids as well as abuelas and abuelos, teenage boys and girls birding or hiking- it was really eye-opening to see a people immersed in the natural world around them.
ref: 2024 October 20, CaptBLI, “Dawn Chorus - Small game, Mississippi hunting laws.”, in Daily Kos:
coordinate_terms: abuela
glosses: A Hispanic grandfather.
bosque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŏsk
ipa: /bɒsk/
ipa: /bɑsk/
rhymes: -ɒsk
Forms: form: bosques
Etymology: See bosk.
Senses: examples: text: On February 16 a reconnaissance in force was pushed to within a mile of the fort and battle offered on the open plain. The challenge was disregarded, and only noticed by the sending out of a few well-mounted men to watch our movements. The forces of the enemy were kept well concealed in the bosque (grove) above the fort and within its walls.
ref: 1862 May 4, Henry H[opkins] Sibley, “No. 8. Reports of Brig. Gen. Henry H. Sibley, C.S. Army, Commanding Army of New Mexico, Including Operations from January – to May 4, 1862.”, in A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Additions and Corrections to Series I—Volume IX, Washington, D.C.: Published under the direction of the Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War, by Brig. Gen. Fred C[rayton] Ainsworth, Chief of the Record and Pension Office, War Department, and Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley; Government Printing Office, published 1902, →OCLC, page 507:
glosses: Rare spelling of bosk.
bosque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŏsk
ipa: /bɒsk/
ipa: /bɑsk/
rhymes: -ɒsk
ipa: /ˈbɒsˌkeɪ/
ipa: /ˈbɑsˌkeɪ/
enpr: bŏsk
ipa: /bɒsk/
ipa: /bɑsk/
rhymes: -ɒsk
Forms: form: bosques
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish bosque (“forest”), from Late Latin boscus, from Frankish *busc (compare Middle Dutch busch), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“forest, woods”); perhaps also influenced by bosk. The word is a doublet of bush.
Senses: examples: text: [page 495] He drove them with great slaughter from the bosque they had then seized, repulsed a determined charge of their Lancers, made with audacity and desperation, and was master of the field. [...] [page 496] The heavy bosques in our front were terminated by a drift of sand extending from the high bluff of the Contadero to the river. Behind this drift the enemy, concealed from my observation, rallied all their forces abandoning wagons on the sand hills, tents, and other supplies, including ammunition, with the desperate resolve to storm our batteries.
ref: 1862 February 23, Benjamin S[tone] Roberts, “Operations in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. February 1 – September 20, 1862. [No. 2. Report of Col. Benjamin S. Roberts, Fifth New Mexico Infantry.]”, in A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Additions and Corrections to Series I—Volume IX, Washington, D.C.: Published under the direction of the Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War, by Brig. Gen. Fred C[rayton] Ainsworth, Chief of the Record and Pension Office, War Department, and Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley; Government Printing Office, published 1902, →OCLC, pages 495 and 496:
glosses: A gallery forest found growing along a river bank or on the flood plain of a watercourse.
amiga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amigas
Etymology: From Spanish amiga (“female friend”).
Senses: qualifier: Latin American
glosses: A female friend.
Related terms: amigo
familia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈmɪlɪə/
homophone: familiar (some non-rhotic accents)
Forms: form: familiae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin familia (“family”). Doublet of family.
Senses: examples: text: Joska's elder brother Phuro was, however, seen as the leader of his familia. As one of the oldest males in the hamlet, with a familia that consisted of sons, bora and sons-in-law, Phuro's position as head of his familia was given by his age and by his authority as father.
ref: 2007, Ada I. Engebrigtsen, Exploring Gypsiness, page 117:
glosses: A household or religious community under one head, regarded as a unit.
topics: law
glosses: The paterfamilias, his legitimate descendants and their wives, all persons adopted into his family and their wives, and all slaves belonging to the household.
gripe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹaɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Forms: form: gripes
Etymology: From Middle English gripen, from Old English grīpan, from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreyb- (“to grab, grasp”). Cognate with West Frisian gripe, Low German griepen, Dutch grijpen, German greifen, Danish gribe, Swedish gripa. See also grip, grope.
Senses: glosses: A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
examples: text: A barren sceptre in my gripe.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: The young peasant […] disengaged himself from Manfred's gripe […].
ref: 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section I:
text: I started — I dropped the glass — the fluid flamed and glanced along the floor, while I felt Cornelius's gripe at my throat, as he shrieked aloud, "Wretch! you have destroyed the labour of my life!"
ref: 1833, Mary Shelley, The Mortal Immortal:
glosses: Grasp; clutch; grip.
examples: the gripe of a sword
glosses: That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
examples: text: the gripe of poverty
text: 'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope of better things, the chance to win, / The wiſh to ſhine, the thirſt to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ſuch herds, / Of flutt'ring, loit'ring, cringing, begging, looſe, / And wanton vagrants, as make London, vaſt / And boundless as it is, a crowded coop.
ref: 1785, William Cowper, “The Garden”, in The Task, a Poem, in Six Books. By William Cowper […] To which are Added, by the Same Author, An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools, and The History of John Gilpin, London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson, No. 72 St. Paul's Church-Yard, OCLC 221351486; republished as The Task. A Poem. In Six Books. To which is Added, Tirocinium: or, A Review of Schools, new edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Printed for Thomas Dobson, bookseller, in Second-street, second door above Chestnut-street, 1787, OCLC 23630717, page 87
glosses: Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress.
glosses: Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
Derived terms: sense: from noun or verb
word: begripe
sense: from noun or verb
word: gripeful
sense: from noun or verb
word: gripesite
sense: from noun or verb
word: gripe water
sense: from noun or verb
word: gripeworthy
sense: from noun or verb
word: gripey
sense: from noun or verb
word: gripingly
gripe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹaɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Forms: form: gripes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grype.
grito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gritos
Etymology: From Spanish grito.
Senses: examples: text: During the post-election turmoil, an estimated fifteen thousand people gathered at the Angel of Independence on Independence Day 1988 for a grito organized by the PAN that the party described as an event “that signifies the authentic freedom of Mexico” and that focused on repudiating electoral fraud.
ref: 2016 June 1, Randal Sheppard, A Persistent Revolution: History, Nationalism, and Politics in Mexico since 1968, Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, page 140:
text: The night doesn’t begin to end until someone starts pouring tequila, plays this song [“Por Tu Maldito Amor”], and belts out a grito in their best Chente voice — operatic and soaring with a tinge of melancholy.
ref: 2021 December 13, Maira Garcia, “Vicente Fernández, the King of Machos and Heartbreak”, in The New York Times, retrieved 13 Dec 2021:
glosses: A Mexican outcry characterized by ululation, used as an expression before a battle cry or ranchera.
Related terms: yahoo
yeehaw
SQL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛs kjuː ɛl/
ipa: /ˈsiːkwəl/
homophone: sequel
rhymes: -iːkwəl
Senses: topics: computer-languages
computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Structured Query Language.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of standard quantum limit.
Hypernyms: QL
Hyponyms: eSQL
NewSQL
NoSQL
PL/SQL
Transact-SQL
T-SQL
Derived terms: HSQLDB
WWW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌ.bəl.juː ˈdʌ.bəl.juː ˈdʌ.bəl.juː/
ipa: /ˈdʌ.bjə ˈdʌ.bjə ˈdʌ.bjə/
note: variant or rapid speech in US
ipa: /ˈdʌb ˈdʌb ˈdʌb/
note: variant or rapid speech
ipa: [dʌ.ɥʊ̆.dʌ.ɥʊ̆.dʌ.bˡju]
Senses: glosses: Initialism of World Wide Web.
Derived terms: WWW page
Melburnian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Melburnians
Etymology: From the Latin name for Melbourne, Melburnia, + -ian.
The term can be traced back to 1876, when the case for Melburnian over Melbournian was made in the Melbourne Grammar School publication, the Melburnian. 'The diphthong, ‘ou’ is not a Latin diphthong: hence, we argued this way, Melburnia would be [the] Latin form of name, and from it comes Melburnian.'
Senses: synonyms: Melbournite
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Melburnian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Melburnian
form: most Melburnian
Etymology: From the Latin name for Melbourne, Melburnia, + -ian.
The term can be traced back to 1876, when the case for Melburnian over Melbournian was made in the Melbourne Grammar School publication, the Melburnian. 'The diphthong, ‘ou’ is not a Latin diphthong: hence, we argued this way, Melburnia would be [the] Latin form of name, and from it comes Melburnian.'
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Sydney-sider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sydney-siders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sydneysider.
Sydneyite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sydneyites
Etymology: From Sydney + -ite.
Senses: synonyms: word: Sydneyan
word: Sydneysider
word: Sydnesian
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Sydneysider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sydneysiders
form: Sydney-sider
Etymology: From Sydney + side + -er.
Senses: synonyms: word: Sydneyan
word: Sydneyite
word: Sydnesian
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Canberran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Canberra + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to Canberra.
glosses: Of, from or relating to the Australian Capital Territory.
Canberran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Canberrans
Etymology: From Canberra + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Canberra (Australia).
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Australian Capital Territory.
Adelaidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Adelaideans
form: Adelaidian
Etymology: From Adelaide + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Adelaide, South Australia.
Adelaidean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Adelaidian
Etymology: From Adelaide + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Adelaide, South Australia.
Brisbanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brisbanians
Etymology: From Brisbane + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Brisbane (Australia).
Synonyms: Brisbanite
Brisbanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Brisbane + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to Brisbane.
Brisbanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brisbanites
Etymology: From Brisbane + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: People were aghast as they saw a family of five Brisbanites being evicted by security guards.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 67:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Brisbane (Australia).
Synonyms: Brisbanian
Darwiner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Darwin + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
Hobartian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hobartians
Etymology: From Hobart + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Hobartian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hobartian
form: most Hobartian
Etymology: From Hobart + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Perthian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Perthians
Etymology: From Perth + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Synonyms: Perthite
Perthian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Perth + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
benzoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛnzəʊɪn/
ipa: /ˈbɛnzɔɪn/
rhymes: -ɛnzəʊɪn
rhymes: -ɛnzɔɪn
Forms: form: benzoins
Etymology: From Middle French benjoin, from Catalan benjuí, from Arabic لُبَان جَاوِيّ (lubān jāwiyy, “Javanese frankincense”). The first word is from Proto-West Semitic *laban- (“white”), the second from جاوة (jāwa, “Java”) (from Javanese ꦗꦮ (jawa)).
The initial lu was probably lost because it was taken as the definite article in Romance. Compare oliban.
Senses: examples: text: These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone; smyris, ivory, bones, ebontree, cedar, cypress, pitch, softer rosin, camphire, galbanum, ammoniac, storax, benzoin, loadstone, asphaltum.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: Aromatics were used, too, especially in necromancy, and an old recipe of that sort comprises Musk, Myrrh, Frankincense, Red Storax, Mastick, Olibanum, Saffron, Benzoin and Labdanum.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:
text: Nedde: In Arab countries, a mixture of various perfumes, with benzoin and amber predominating, is so called. This mixture, which is black in colour, is formed into a small cylinder and used aphrodisiacally.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 164:
glosses: A resinous substance, dry and brittle, obtained from Styrax benzoin, a tree of Sumatra, Java, etc., having a fragrant odor, and slightly aromatic taste. It is used in the preparation of benzoic acid, in medicine, and as a perfume.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aromatic hydroxy ketone, 2-hydroxy-1,2-di(phenyl)ethanone, synthesized from benzaldehyde; any derivative of this compound.
glosses: The spicebush, Lindera benzoin.
Derived terms: benjamin
benzene
benzoic
benzoinated
deoxybenzoin
flowers of benzoin
furoin
Related terms: benjamin
benzoinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more benzoinated
form: most benzoinated
Etymology: From benzoin + -ated.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Containing or impregnated with benzoin
Derived terms: benzoinated lard
hammochrysos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhæməˈkɹaɪsɒs/
Etymology: From Latin hammochrȳsos, (h)ammochrȳsus, from Ancient Greek ἀμμόχρῡσος (ammókhrūsos), from ἄμμος (ámmos, “sand”) + χρῡσός (khrūsós, “gold”).
Senses: examples: text: Nearly everything was glass in the frontage of this fairy mart, and its contents glittered like the hammochrysos stone.
ref: 1905, Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters, page 375:
text: A splendid curtain, silver-sewn,
Spangled like hammochrysos stone
Stood in a crypt that dripped delight,
His ear-drums pulsing with that sound
The sheeted waters in their might
Flung to the crags, to mock their thrall.
ref: 1914, William Rose Benét, The Falconer of God: And Other Poems, page 64:
text: Hammochrysos resembles sand in appearance, but sand mixed with gold.
ref: 2015, Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated), Delphi Classics, page 73
glosses: A certain stone with spangles of gold color in it, known to Pliny, perhaps golden mica or yellow mica schist.
Related terms: chrysoberyl
chrysolite
chrysanthemum
hammock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæmək/
ipa: /ˈhæmək/
ipa: /ˈhæmɪk/
rhymes: -æmək
Forms: form: hammocks
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish hamaca, from Taíno *hamaka (compare Lokono hamaka, Wayuu jama'a), from Proto-Arawak *hamaka. Columbus, in the narrative of his first voyage, says: “A great many Indians in canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of bartering their cotton, and hamacas, or nets, in which they sleep.”
Senses: examples: text: […] the poore ſaylers, who […] commonly get forthwith into their beds (or hamackoes) reſting their tyred bodies […]
ref: 1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book I, page 7:
text: [W]ho vvould not rather Sleep Quietly upon a Hammock, vvithout either Cares in his Head, or Crudities in his Stomach, then lye Carking upon a Bed of State, vvith the Qualms and Tvvinges that accompany Surfeits and Exceſs?
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[Miscellany Fables.] Fab[le] CCCLXXXIII. A Spider and the Gout [Reflexion].”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 355:
glosses: A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet (1.8 meters) wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
qualifier: archaic outside dialects
glosses: A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.
Derived terms: banana hammock
hammockless
hammocklike
hammock litter
hammock netting
hammocky
hammock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæmək/
ipa: /ˈhæmək/
ipa: /ˈhæmɪk/
rhymes: -æmək
Forms: form: hammocks
form: hammocking
form: hammocked
form: hammocked
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish hamaca, from Taíno *hamaka (compare Lokono hamaka, Wayuu jama'a), from Proto-Arawak *hamaka. Columbus, in the narrative of his first voyage, says: “A great many Indians in canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of bartering their cotton, and hamacas, or nets, in which they sleep.”
Senses: examples: text: "I fancied that we — I and who? — hammocked among the summer breezes."
ref: 1901, Yone Noguchi, The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (wiki article):
glosses: To lie in a hammock.
examples: text: "She hammocked their plaids between the table and the bed, then edged her way past Kenneth as she approached the central hearth."
ref: 2013, Mary Jo Putney, Patricia Rice, Susan King, Christmas Roses: Love Blooms in Winter:
glosses: To hang in a way that resembles a hammock.
raw_tags: of a cloth
examples: text: "She hammocked her breasts into her bra, snapped it, hitched at it, and gave herself a profile glance in the mirror."
ref: 1960, John D. MacDonald, The Only Girl in the Game:
glosses: To make something be wrapped tight, like in a hammock.
topics: broadcasting
media
coordinate_terms: tentpole
glosses: To schedule (a new or unpopular programme) between two popular ones in the hope that viewers will watch it.
Derived terms: hammocked
hammocking
handfast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handfasts
Etymology: From Middle English hondfast, past participle of Middle English hondfesten (“to betroth”), from Old Norse handfesta (“to strike a bargain, pledge”), itself from hönd (“hand”) + festa (“to fasten, fix, affirm”), perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European root *pHst-.
Senses: examples: text: And the remembrancer of her to hold
The hand-fast to her lord. I have given him that
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
glosses: A hold, grasp; custody, power of confining or keeping.
glosses: A contract, agreement, covenant; specifically betrothal, espousal.
handfast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: handfasts
form: handfasting
form: handfasted
form: handfasted
Etymology: From Middle English hondfast, past participle of Middle English hondfesten (“to betroth”), from Old Norse handfesta (“to strike a bargain, pledge”), itself from hönd (“hand”) + festa (“to fasten, fix, affirm”), perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European root *pHst-.
Senses: glosses: To pledge; to bind.
examples: text: No, Sir Priest or Sir Preacher, Catherine is not my wife— […] she is not my wife, but she is handfasted with me, and that makes her as honest a woman. [...] When we are handfasted, as we term it, we are man and wife for a year and a day—that space gone by, each may chuse another mate, or, at their pleasure, may call the priest to marry them for life—and this we call handfasting.
ref: 1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, pages 311–312:
text: Would the lass but consent to go abroad in the unhallowed place at this awful season and hour of the night, she was as firmly handfasted to the Devil as if she had signed a bond with her own blood; […]
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
qualifier: archaic or historical except Wicca
glosses: To betroth by joining hands, in order to allow for cohabitation before the celebration of marriage; to marry provisionally.
handfast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English hondfast, past participle of Middle English hondfesten (“to betroth”), from Old Norse handfesta (“to strike a bargain, pledge”), itself from hönd (“hand”) + festa (“to fasten, fix, affirm”), perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European root *pHst-.
Senses: examples: text: A vyrgine made handfast to Christ.
ref: 1546, John Bale, The Actes of Englysh Votaries:
glosses: Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands.
handfast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more handfast
form: most handfast
Etymology: Calque of German handfest, itself from Hand (“hand”) + fest (“firm, strong”).
Senses: glosses: Strong; steadfast.
Derived terms: handfastly
handfastly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more handfastly
form: most handfastly
Etymology: From handfast + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: the Scots would most holilie and handfastlie promise , the English would forthwith depart with a quiet armie
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
glosses: In a handfast manner
polycrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polycrotic
form: most polycrotic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “multiple, many”) + κρότος (krótos, “knocking, rattling”), modeled on dicrotic.
Senses: examples: a polycrotic pulse
a polycrotic pulse curve
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to polycrotism; manifesting polycrotism
polycrotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: That state or condition of the pulse in which the pulse curve, or sphygmogram, shows several secondary crests or elevations.
Coordinate terms: dicrotism
tricrotism
monocrotism
Related terms: polycrotic
pyramidally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pyramidal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Like a pyramid; in a pyramidal manner or shape.
bal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bals
Senses: examples: text: The surface of the mine is called the bal, and every level and shaft has a name.
ref: 1856, A Hand-book for Travellers in Devon & Cornwall, John Murray, page xxxvii:
text: Penny arrived dressed for the day as a bal-maiden and told us all about the delights of a surface worker's life at a mine in Pendeen days, which was, she told us, what a bal-maiden did.
ref: 2014, Bill Smith, Pendeen, page 44:
text: "Oo will do un, maister?" asked Jim.
"The bal authorities," said Hunt.
ref: 2025, George Thomas Newton, The Long Winter Ends:
glosses: The surface of a mine.
Related terms: bal-chatri
pyramidion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyramidia
form: pyramidions
Etymology: From New Latin pyramidion, from Latin pyramis. See pyramid.
Senses: glosses: The small pyramid which crowns or completes an obelisk or pyramid.
unveiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: unveilers
Etymology: From unveil + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who unveils something.
unviolable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unviolable
form: most unviolable
Etymology: From un- + violable.
Senses: glosses: Inviolable.
bals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bal
upbraid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌpˈbɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Etymology: From Middle English upbreyden, from Old English upbreġdan, equivalent to up- + braid. Compare English umbraid (“to upbraid”), Icelandic bregða (“to draw, brandish, braid, deviate from, change, break off, upbraid”). See up, and braid (transitive).
Senses: examples: text: He was ymet; who with uncomely Shame
Gan him salute, and foul upbraid with faulty Blame.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of reproaching; scorn; disdain.
upbrought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upbring
soak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sōk
ipa: /səʊk/
enpr: sōk
ipa: /soʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
homophone: soke
Forms: form: soaks
form: soaking
form: soaked
form: soaked
Etymology: From Middle English soken, from Old English socian (“to soak, steep”, literally “to cause to suck (up)”), from Proto-Germanic *sukōną (“to soak”), causative of Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck”). Cognate with Middle Dutch soken (“to cause to suck”). More at suck.
Senses: examples: text: Wasn't Mr. Sipperley pretty shirty when he came to and found that you had been soaking him with putters?
ref: 1926, [P.G. Wodehouse], The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy:
glosses: (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.