cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /mɑɹ/
ipa: [mɑɹ]
ipa: [mɑ˞]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: mars
form: marre
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English merren, from Old English mierran (“to mar, disturb, confuse; scatter, squander, waste; upset, hinder, obstruct; err”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb, hinder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to annoy, disturb, neglect, forget, ignore”). Cognate with Scots mer, mar (“to obstruct, impede, spoil, ruin”), Dutch marren (“to push along, delay, hinder”), dialectal German merren (“to entangle”), Icelandic merja (“to bruise, crush”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, “to annoy, bother, disturb, offend”), Lithuanian miršti (“to forget, lose, become oblivious, die”), Armenian մոռանալ (moṙanal, “to forget, fail”), Sanskrit मृष् (mṛṣ, “forget, neglect”).
Senses: examples: text: For concealing deep mars, some manufacturers offer putty sticks in colors that match their panels.
ref: 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: A blemish.
Derived terms: marless
mar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /mɑɹ/
ipa: [mɑɹ]
ipa: [mɑ˞]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: mars
Etymology: Variant of mere.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mere (“a body of standing water”).
mar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /mɑɹ/
ipa: [mɑɹ]
ipa: [mɑ˞]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: mars
Etymology: See mayor.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mayor and mair.
faster-than-light
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Faster-than-light drives use element zero cores to reduce the mass of a ship, allowing higher rates of acceleration. This effectively raises the speed of light within the mass effect field, allowing high speed travel with negligible relativistic time dilation effects.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: FTL Drive Codex entry:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, the theoretical speed limit for travel within the universe.
Synonyms: superlumic
superluminal
FTL
Derived terms: faster-than-light particle
FTL
shortcut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɔːtkʌt/
ipa: /ˈʃoɹtˌkʌt/
ipa: /ˈʃoːt.kɐt/
ipa: [ˈʃoːʔ.kɐt]
ipa: [ˈʃoːʔ.kɐʔ]
Forms: form: shortcuts
form: short cut
form: short-cut
Etymology: From short + cut.
Senses: glosses: A path between two points that is faster than the commonly used paths.
examples: text: East Midlands Railway is introducing new shortcuts for claiming compensation in the event of late-running services.
ref: 2021 November 3, “Network News: EMR changes claims process”, in RAIL, number 943, page 15:
glosses: A method to accomplish something that omits one or more steps.
examples: text: There are shortcuts to some of my favourite applications on my desktop.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file that points to the location of another file and serves as a quick way to access it.
raw_tags: in the Microsoft family of operating systems
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of keyboard shortcut.
Derived terms: keyboard shortcut
shortcut key
ultra shortcut
shortcut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɔːtkʌt/
ipa: /ˈʃoɹtˌkʌt/
ipa: /ˈʃoːt.kɐt/
ipa: [ˈʃoːʔ.kɐt]
ipa: [ˈʃoːʔ.kɐʔ]
Forms: form: shortcuts
form: shortcutting
form: shortcutted
form: shortcutted
form: shortcut
form: shortcut
form: short cut
form: short-cut
Etymology: From short + cut.
Senses: glosses: To take or use a shortcut
Derived terms: shortcutter
tachyon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæk.i.ɒn/
ipa: /ˈtæ.kiˌɑn/
Forms: form: tachyons
Etymology: Formed as: tachy- + -on, from ταχύς (takhús, “swift”, “rapid”).
Coined by American physicist Gerald Feinberg in 1967.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical particle that travels faster than the speed of light.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A flaw in a physical theory that predicts the existence of tachyons or similar paradoxical results. Compare with ghost.
Synonyms: tachyonic particle
Derived terms: tachyonic
Related terms: luxon
tardyon
Everest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ěʹvurǐst
ipa: /ˈɛvəɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈɛvɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈɛvəɹəst/
ipa: /ˈɛvɹəst/
ipa: /ˈiːvɹɪst/
Forms: form: Everests
form: Everesting
form: Everested
form: Everested
Etymology: From Everesting.
Senses: examples: text: Training for an Everest expedition in 1994, Mallory wrote, he had Everested by cycling eight times up Mount Donna Buang, outside Melbourne.
ref: 2020 August 13, Alec Jacobson, “How to Cycle Up ‘Mount Everest’”, in The New York Times:
topics: climbing
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To repeatedly cycle up steep roads with a total distance equal to the height of Mount Everest.
parkour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːˈkʊə/
ipa: /pɑːˈkɔː/
ipa: /pɑɹˈkʊɹ/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /pɑɹˈkoɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Etymology: From French parkour, altered spelling of parcours (“course, route”).
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An athletic discipline, in which practitioners traverse any environment in the most efficient way possible using their physical abilities, and which commonly involves running, jumping, vaulting, rolling, flipping, and other similar physical movements.
examples: text: He was invited to do a parkour competition in Minecraft.
glosses: A course in which a player has to step on blocks, each placed almost in front of another block but reachable, following a pattern to the end.
Derived terms: parkourist
parkour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːˈkʊə/
ipa: /pɑːˈkɔː/
ipa: /pɑɹˈkʊɹ/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /pɑɹˈkoɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: parkours
form: parkouring
form: parkoured
form: parkoured
Etymology: From French parkour, altered spelling of parcours (“course, route”).
Senses: examples: text: It's about running at 100mph through the world, then parkouring up an exploding cube van that's 100ft in the air, bouncing off it and hitting the wall and keeping on going.
ref: 2008 March 24, Tim Bennison, quotee, “Prototype [preview]”, in Xbox 360:
text: They had parkoured seven roofs, clambered down a mango tree, and crossed over the bridge in the back of a donkey cart, unnoticed even by the driver.
ref: 2009 October 19, Stephen Davies, Hacking Timbuktu, Andersen Press, →ISBN, →OL, ch. 24:
text: The daring Ukrainian can be found on his website dangling off of tall buildings with one hand, scaling bridges and parkouring through urban landscapes in search of a personal thrill.
ref: 2013 March 25, Aaron Lindberg, “Death Defying Photos Of Mustang Wanted”, in Fstoppers, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2014:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To freerun; to use parkour (to move over).
Related terms: free running
traceur
free running
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A term introduced by parkour practitioner Sebastien Foucan in a programme called Jump London as a synonym for parkour. The usage has since changed through the adverse reaction of parkour practitioners to somersaults and non-efficient movements being introduced to the discipline.
Senses: glosses: The activity of combining parkour with gymnastics to pass obstacles and demonstrate athletic talent, most often in urban environments.
Related terms: free runner
free runner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free runners
Senses: glosses: A person who participates in free running.
Related terms: traceur
traceuse
loa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊə/
rhymes: -əʊə
Forms: form: loas
form: loa
form: lwa
Etymology: From Haitian Creole lwa.
Senses: examples: text: Here, on the Island Below the Sea, the loa have their permanent residence, their primal location.
ref: 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 36:
text: Some will caution you at great length about the dangers of Vodou. They will tell you that the lwa are jealous, thin-skinned, and hot-tempered.
ref: 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 3:
text: Equally surprising is to find St Patrick so prominent in many Vodou shrines, until one remembers that he too had been a slave who had twice crossed the sea, the second time to freedom, and that he had particular power over snakes, like the loa (Haitian equivalent of orisha) Dambala Wèdo.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 714:
glosses: In the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.
kula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kulas
Etymology: From a South Slavic language, from Turkish kule, from Persian قله (qolle), from Arabic قُلَّة (qulla, “pinnacle, zenith”).
Senses: examples: text: Instead of the haïdooks, their next of kin, the zaptiés now hold a kula on the highest point of the pass; here one pauses to rest after scrambling up the vile Turkish road on one side of the ravine, and before scrambling down the vile Turkish road on the other.
ref: 1867, Georgina Mary Muir Mackenzie, Lady Georgina Mary Muir Sebright, Mackenzie Sebright, Adeline Paulina Irby, Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-in-Europe, pages 107–108:
text: The most important kulas of the Čengić-begs are those in Zagorje, in Rataji and the River Odžak near Ustikolina.
ref: 1998, Adil Zulfikarpašić, Milovan Djilas, Nadežda Gaće, The Bosniak, page 5:
text: The kulas were indeed like fortresses, with as many as twenty 'guns', i.e. adult men ready to fight.
ref: 1998, Miranda Vickers, Between Serb and Albanian, page 111:
glosses: A tower, turret or steeple in Southeast Europe erected during the period of Ottoman domination on the area.
kula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a Melanesian language.
Senses: glosses: A ceremonial exchange system conducted in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea, involving the exchange of bracelets and necklaces, and linked to political authority.
Jap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒæp/
rhymes: -æp
Etymology: Clipping of Japanese, attested as a noun since 1872, and adjectivally since 1878. Compare Nip (shortened from Nipponese).
Senses: examples: text: He petered out under Pitty's savage look: Do you speak Jap? Do you understand the world from inside those bastards' slanty-eyed little head-lopping poem-writing minds?
ref: 2007, Les A. Murray, Fredy Neptune, page 239:
text: He said it in Japanese, which surprised the boy and stunned Cullen.
“You speak Jap?” asked Cullen.
“Looks like it, doesn't it?”
ref: 2012, Robert Conroy, Rising Sun:
glosses: The Japanese language.
glosses: Clipping of Japanese.
Jap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: Japs
Etymology: Clipping of Japanese, attested as a noun since 1872, and adjectivally since 1878. Compare Nip (shortened from Nipponese).
Senses: examples: text: Among our Japs on board are two returning from Italy, where they have been with silk-worms' eggs, on cards, to sell. This has become a great speculation, and the Japs are going into it with zeal. The Japs almost always—always when they can—take cabin passages ; the Chinese seldom, or never.
ref: 1872, James Brooks, A Seven Months' Run, Up, Down, Around the World:
glosses: A Japanese person.
examples: text: The Japs had been confident that this first and sudden land grab could be accomplished without their becoming involved in a major war, and they were right.
ref: 1944, Frank Capra, 14 minutes from the start, in Why We Fight: The Battle of China:
glosses: An Imperial Japanese Army soldier.
Synonyms: english: neutral; non-offensive
translation: neutral; non-offensive
word: Japanese
word: Nip
Derived terms: Japland
Related terms: Japan
Jap
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒæp/
rhymes: -æp
Etymology: Clipping of Japanese, attested as a noun since 1872, and adjectivally since 1878. Compare Nip (shortened from Nipponese).
Senses: examples: text: A soldier might grab his rifle and batter his way to the heart of some Jap position. Back home they gave him all sorts of medals but his companions dismissed him as the poor bastard who finally went Asiatic.
ref: 1951, James Albert Michener, The Voice of Asia, page 6:
glosses: Japanese; of or pertaining to Japan or its people.
Jap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: Japs
form: Japping
form: Japped
form: Japped
Etymology: Clipping of Japanese, attested as a noun since 1872, and adjectivally since 1878. Compare Nip (shortened from Nipponese).
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of jap.
story
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔː.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈstɔ.ɹi/
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
Forms: form: stories
form: storying
form: storied
form: storied
form: storie
Etymology: From Middle English storie, storye, from Anglo-Norman estorie by aphesis, from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱ (hĭstorĭ́ā, “learning through research”). Doublet of history and storey.
Senses: examples: text: How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.
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]:
text: It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.
ref: 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:
text: The further claim is that we create or invent the self specifically by “writing” and “storying” it.
ref: 2004 January 10, Galen Strawson, “Review: Making Stories by Jerome Bruner”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
examples: text: But Portman, quite self-deprecating about her social-media savvy, says she . . . isn’t quite fully at ease yet with the world of double-taps and geotags and storying.
ref: 2018 February 12, Josh Duboff, “Reese Witherspoon Is Natalie Portman’s Instagram Guru”, in Vanity Fair:
text: I hereby argue that the only thing that would make these mini Friends reunions truly complete would be contributions from Aniston herself, who decidedly does not have an Instagram page. Imagine the content possibilities: Aniston looking flawless and chic by the pool; Aniston Storying herself shopping at Gelson’s; […]
ref: 2019 June 24, Christian Allaire, “Jennifer Aniston, We Beg You, Get on Instagram”, in Vogue:
qualifier: social media
glosses: To post a story (chronological collection of pictures or short videos) on an application or website.
story
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔː.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈstɔ.ɹi/
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
Forms: form: what's the story
form: what's the story, bud
form: story, bud
Etymology: Alternative form of what's the story (“how are you?”)
Senses: examples: text: *Any non-Irish person should be aware that it is not necessary to take the question literally i.e. one shouldn't start to explain your life story when greeted with 'What's the story?' rather they should respond in kind e.g. Greeting: 'What's the story?' Response: 'What's the story?' There are several variations on the theme, the most popular being 'What's the story, bud?' or the pithy : 'Story, bud?' or the pithier still 'Story?'
ref: 2012, Colin Murphy, Donal O'Dea, “18 - Saying 'What's the story?'”, in More Stuff Irish People Love, 2017 edition, The O'Brien Press Ltd, →ISBN:
qualifier: Dublin
glosses: Used as a greeting, short for what's the story?
story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔː.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈstɔ.ɹi/
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
Forms: form: stories
Senses: examples: text: Our shop was on the fourth story of the building, so we had to install an elevator.
text: The lower story of the market-house was open on all four of its sides to the public square.
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
text: An astonishing proportion of village people had replaced their old houses with new ones built of better materials, often two stories high.
ref: 1994, David K. Jordan, “The Popular Practice of Religion”, in Cultural Change in Postwar Taiwan, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 139:
text: The Wooden Pagoda in Ying County of Shanxi, built 1,000 years ago, has nine stories and is 234 feet high.
ref: 2016, Xiaobing Li, “Art and Architecture”, in Modern China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 292:
glosses: Alternative spelling of storey.
nip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nĭp
ipa: /nɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: nips
form: gnip
form: knip
Etymology: From late Middle English nippen, probably of Low German or Dutch origin, probably a byform of earlier *knippen (suggested by the derivative Middle English knippette (“pincers”)), from Middle Low German knîpen, from Old Saxon *knīpan, from Proto-West Germanic *knīpan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *knīpaną (“to pinch”).
Related to Dutch nijpen, knijpen (“to pinch”), Danish nive (“pinch”); Swedish nypa (“pinch”); Low German knipen; German kneipen and kneifen (“to pinch, cut off, nip”), Old Norse hnippa (“to prod, poke”); Lithuanian knebti.
Senses: examples: text: The puppy gave his owner’s finger a nip.
glosses: A playful bite.
glosses: A pinch with the nails or teeth.
examples: text: There is a nip in the air. It is nippy outside.
text: The day had only just broken, and there was a nip in the air; but the sky was cloudless, and the sun was shining yellow.
ref: 1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage, chapter 118:
glosses: Briskly cold weather.
examples: text: the nip of masses of ice
glosses: A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
glosses: A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
glosses: A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
glosses: A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A short turn in a rope.
topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
papermaking
glosses: The place of intersection where one roll touches another
examples: text: A novice nip, newly arrived in London, went one afternoon to the Red Bull in Bishopsgate, an inn converted to a playhouse.
ref: 1977, Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld, Folio Society, published 2006, page 27:
synonyms: word: cutpurse
word: dip
word: dipper
word: foist
word: footpad
word: gonoph
word: nip
word: nipper
word: pickpocket
word: pickpocketer
word: pickpurse
word: prig
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A pickpocket.
Derived terms: frostnip
in the nip
nimps
nip and tuck
nipbacker
nipcheese
nipfarthing
nip in the bud
nipless
nip-outnip-up
nipper
nip point
nip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nĭp
ipa: /nɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: nips
Etymology: Short for nipperkin, ultimately from Middle Low German nippen or Middle Dutch nipen ("to sip; nip"; > Dutch nippen). Compare also German nippen (“to sip; taste”).
Senses: examples: text: I’ll just take a nip of that cake.
text: He had a nip of whiskey.
synonyms: word: nibble
english: of food
translation: of food
word: a little of the creature
raw_tags: of alcohol
glosses: A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
Synonyms: sense: small amount of liquor
word: dram
word: snifter
word: slug
word: tot
word: drink
nip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nĭp
ipa: /nɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: nips
Etymology: Clipping of nipple.
Senses: examples: text: Did you manage to sneak a peek at her nips, bro?
text: I find bras totally uncomfortable, hot and itchy, for both work and leisure. But looking around, I seem to be in the minority. What are the rules for going braless? Is it OK to show my nips, or is it rude?
ref: 2023 August 28, Vanessa Friedman, quoting Eddye, Madison, Wis., “Are There Any Rules About Going Braless?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A nipple, usually of a woman.
Derived terms: nippage
nip nop
nip slip
nip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nĭp
ipa: /nɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: nips
form: nipping
form: nipped
form: nipped
Etymology: Clipping of nipple.
Senses: glosses: To have erect nipples.
nip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nĭp
ipa: /nɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: nips
form: nipping
form: nipped
form: nipped
Senses: examples: text: Why don’t you nip down to the grocer’s for some milk?
text: My trip ends at Wrexham General. While the '150' trundles the final half-mile down the single line to Wrexham Central, I nip over the footbridge to explore the main part of the station.
ref: 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 58:
text: Palace made it 3-1 on 81 minutes, Nketiah nipping in to finish nicely, then doing a no-celebration pose in front of the away fans. Nketiah grew up a couple of miles from the Den. It felt, at the very least, like a neighbourly overture, and in violent contrast to the opening act at the other end.
ref: 2025 January 3, Barney Ronay, “Crystal Palace through after Millwall keeper’s red for head-high tackle on Mateta”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
nip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nĭp
ipa: /nɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: nips
Etymology: Canada 1931.
Senses: qualifier: Manitoba
glosses: A hamburger.
macrophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: macrophages
Etymology: From macro- + -phage, both from Ancient Greek.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A white blood cell that phagocytizes necrotic cell debris and foreign material, including viruses, bacteria, and tattoo ink. It presents foreign antigens on MHC II to lymphocytes. Part of the innate immune system.
Derived terms: antimacrophage
granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
intramacrophage
macrophagal
macrophageal
macrophagelike
macrophagic
melanomacrophage
nonmacrophage
Related terms: macrophagous
macrophagy
bog standard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bog standard
form: most bog standard
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bog-standard.
pronto
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒntəʊ/
ipa: [ˈpʰɹɒntʰəʊ̯]
ipa: /ˈpɹɑntoʊ/
ipa: [ˈpʰɹɑntʰoʊ̯]
ipa: [ˈpʰɹɑnoʊ̯]
rhymes: -ɒntəʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pronto, from Latin prōmptus. Doublet of prompt.
Senses: examples: text: I need to finish this assignment pronto.
text: “[…] I burst through the door with a pregnancy bump and shouted at him, pretending to be his mistress. I’ve never seen a man look so horrified in his life. I then went into a spontaneous lip-sync of ‘I Will Survive’.” (We need footage, pronto.)
ref: 2024 September 12, Sam Damshenas, “‘A new direction for the franchise’: Drag Race UK stars on “mind-blowing” season 6”, in Gay Times:
glosses: Quickly, very soon, promptly.
pronto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒntəʊ/
ipa: [ˈpʰɹɒntʰəʊ̯]
ipa: /ˈpɹɑntoʊ/
ipa: [ˈpʰɹɑntʰoʊ̯]
ipa: [ˈpʰɹɑnoʊ̯]
rhymes: -ɒntəʊ
Forms: form: more pronto
form: most pronto
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pronto, from Latin prōmptus. Doublet of prompt.
Senses: examples: text: For a pronto lunch, take a slice or two to work and team with a tasty salad.
ref: 2014, Gurpareet Bains, “Turkey Meatloaf”, in The Superfood Diet, Bath, Somerset: Absolute Press, →ISBN, “Lunch” section, page 77:
text: In pronto reaction time, Zeth chose to drive a black armored truck, […]
ref: 2019, Allen Knox, “Under the Rabbit Skin”, in Afternoon Solipsism (Insinmind; 1), Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, →ISBN:
text: Wow! With a pronto 'Poof' from Funky, Bronto the Brontosaurus appears.
ref: 2020, Douglas J. Alford, “Dinos to Dinner”, in Stories – of Self & Sharing, Alford Books, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: Quick, prompt.
Related terms: pronto plate
skinflint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪnflɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
Forms: form: skinflints
Etymology: From the phrase skin a flint (“go to extreme lengths for the sake of gain or economy”), from the brittleness and hardness of flint which makes it almost impossible to remove just its skin without shattering it.
Senses: examples: text: You know, he is quite a different sort from the Public Prosecutor and our other provincial skinflints--fellows who shiver in their shoes before they will spend a single kopeck.
ref: 1842, Gogol, Dead Souls, chapter 4
glosses: One who is excessively stingy or cautious with money; a tightwad; a miser.
joke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəʊk/
ipa: /d͡ʒoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: jokes
Etymology: From Latin iocus (“joke, jest, pastime”), from Proto-Italic *jokos (“word, (playful?) saying”), from Proto-Indo-European *yokos (“word, utterance”), from ultimate root Proto-Indo-European *yek- (“to speak, utter”) (of which distant cognates include Proto-Celtic *yextis (“language”) (Breton yezh (“language”) and Welsh iaith (“language”)) and German Beichte (“confession”)). Cognate with French jeu, Italian gioco, Portuguese jogo, Spanish juego, Romanian joc, English Yule, Danish Jule, Norwegian Bokmål Jul, Swedish Jul, and Norwegian Nynorsk jol.
Senses: examples: text: Or witty joke our airy senses moves / To pleasant laughter.
ref: 1708, John Gay, Wine:
glosses: An amusing story.
examples: text: It was a joke!
ref: 1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:
glosses: Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness.
glosses: The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one
examples: text: Your effort at cleaning your room is a joke.
text: The president was a joke.
text: The other wheel on the tender of the L.N.W.R. engines operated the tender brake, and this was always rather a joke. Sometimes it operated with good results and on other occasions it did not.
ref: 1943 September and October, T. Lovatt Williams, “Some Reminiscences of the Footplate—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 272:
glosses: A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham.
examples: text: The final exam was a joke.
glosses: Something that is far easier or far less challenging than expected.
Synonyms: word: joke
Hyponyms: word: bit
word: bon mot
word: crack
word: dirty joke
word: double entendre
word: feghoot
word: full-deckism
word: funny
word: gag
word: in-joke
word: jape
word: jest
word: knee slapper
word: mot
word: one-liner
word: pun
word: prat
word: quip
word: repartee
word: rib-tickler
word: shaggy dog story
word: shtick
word: wheeze
word: wisecrack
word: witticism
word: wordplay
word: zinger
word: leg-pull
word: practical joke
word: prank
word: put-on
word: wind up
Coordinate terms: comedy
limerick
parody
pun
Derived terms: all jokes aside
antijoke
anti-joke
bad joke
blonde joke
brick joke
brown joke
dad joke
dial-a-joke
dick joke
dirty joke
fourth wall joke
green joke
half joke
in-joke
inside joke
Irish joke
joke book
jokee
jokefest
jokefic
jokeful
joke Joyce
jokeless
jokelet
jokelike
joke line
jokely
jokeman
jokeproof
joke shop
jokesmith
jokesome
jokester
joke theft
joke thief
jokette
jokey
jokish
jokist
joky
Kerryman joke
knock knock joke
knock-knock joke
light bulb joke
lightbulb joke
make a joke of
metajoke
Newfie joke
no joke
nonjoke
one joke
practical joke
private joke
running joke
sick joke
standing joke
take a joke
the joke is on someone
the jokes write themselves
there's a grain of truth in every joke
Related terms: word: jocular
word: fun
word: laugh
word: witty
word: ridicule
word: laughingstock
word: jester
word: joker
joke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəʊk/
ipa: /d͡ʒoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: jokes
form: joking
form: joked
form: joked
Etymology: From Latin iocus (“joke, jest, pastime”), from Proto-Italic *jokos (“word, (playful?) saying”), from Proto-Indo-European *yokos (“word, utterance”), from ultimate root Proto-Indo-European *yek- (“to speak, utter”) (of which distant cognates include Proto-Celtic *yextis (“language”) (Breton yezh (“language”) and Welsh iaith (“language”)) and German Beichte (“confession”)). Cognate with French jeu, Italian gioco, Portuguese jogo, Spanish juego, Romanian joc, English Yule, Danish Jule, Norwegian Bokmål Jul, Swedish Jul, and Norwegian Nynorsk jol.
Senses: examples: text: I didn’t mean what I said — I was only joking.
glosses: To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously.
examples: text: Relax, man, I'm just joking with you.
synonyms: sport
glosses: To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with.
raw_tags: followed by with
examples: text: to joke a comrade
text: He made more than one visit to Oxbridge, where the young fellows were amused by entertaining the old gentleman, and gave parties and breakfasts and fêtes, partly to joke him and partly to do him honour.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 21, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally.
Derived terms: joke around
joke it up
joke up
joking relationship
outjoke
unjokingly
Related terms: joker
jeer
mock
knock-knock joke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knock-knock jokes
form: knock knock joke
Etymology: knock-knock + joke
Senses: glosses: An audience-participation joke ending with a pun.
Synonyms: knock knock
practical joke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: practical jokes
Senses: examples: text: The class put a whoopee cushion on the teacher's chair as a practical joke.
text: This is a street of elegant stucco terraced houses, two of which (numbers 23 and 24) straddled the mouth of the canyon. [...] they were knocked down and replaced with fake houses [...]. So began 150 years of practical jokes, with coal merchants sending young apprentices to deliver coal to the façades, or letters addressed to Mr N. O. Body, 24 Leinster Gardens. (There is no letterbox).
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: A playful trick done for amusement to the detriment of someone else.
Derived terms: practical joker
whoopee cushion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whoopee cushions
Senses: glosses: An inflatable bag containing a valve at its neck that retains the air in the bag until pressure is put on it (usually by someone unintentionally sitting on it after it has been placed on a chair by someone else as a practical joke), when the air is expelled with a sound similar to that of someone farting (breaking wind).
whoopee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍupi/
ipa: /ʍʊpi/
ipa: /wʊpi/
rhymes: -uːpi
rhymes: -ʊpi
Senses: examples: text: Whoopee! I won!
glosses: A spontaneous expression of delight or joy.
Related terms: make whoopee
whoopee cushion
whoopee do
whoopee pie
woohoo
woot
w00t
whoop whoop
whoopee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍupi/
ipa: /ʍʊpi/
ipa: /wʊpi/
rhymes: -uːpi
rhymes: -ʊpi
Forms: form: whoopees
form: whoopeeing
form: whoopeed
form: whoopeed
Senses: examples: text: "If the 'twenties," said the stage-hand, who was a politician, "had done a bit more thinking and a bit less whoopeeing, we mightn't be where we are today.
ref: 1944, Pamel Hansford Johnson, The Trojan Brothers:
glosses: To behave exuberantly; to make whoopee.
equine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛkˌwaɪn/
ipa: /ˈiːˌkwaɪn/
ipa: /ˈɛkˌwaɪn/
ipa: /ˈiˌkwaɪn/
Forms: form: more equine
form: most equine
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin equīnus (“of or pertaining to horses”).
Senses: examples: text: He who believes that each equine species was independently created, will, I presume, assert that each species has been created with a tendency to vary, both under nature and under domestication, in this particular manner, so as often to become striped like other species of the genus; and that each has been created with a strong tendency, when crossed with species inhabiting distant quarters of the world, to produce hybrids resembling in their stripes, not their own parents, but other species of the genus.
ref: 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:
text: It should come as no surprise that horses suffer from tendon and ligament injuries. When one considers these vital parts of the equine anatomy and the stresses placed upon them, it’s a tribute to the horse’s physical make-up that there aren’t more injuries.
ref: 2002 April 1, Les Sellnow, “Tendons and Ligaments”, in The Horse.com:
text: Four years after the publication of the Modernisation Report, and two years after the very first 'Pilot Scheme' diesels were introduced, BR finally said goodbye to a form of traction even older than the steam locomotive. This was the horse... and the line that used equine power was older than the Liverpool & Manchester [Railway].
ref: 2023 January 11, Richard Foster, “British Rail's weirdest railways...: Nantlle Railway”, in RAIL, number 974, page 51:
text: The equine escapees caused chaos bolting through the capital, colliding with vehicles and startling pedestrians.
ref: 2024 April 27, Michael Hogan, “Did five frightened horses bolting through London really mean the end was neigh?”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: Of or relating to a horse or horses.
glosses: Of or relating to any member or members of the genus Equus.
Synonyms: word: hippo-
word: horsey
word: horsy
word: horsely
word: horsen
Derived terms: eastern equine encephalitis
equinal
equinely
equineness
equine rhabdomyelosis
equine therapy
equine variola
equinism
equinity
equinophobe
equinophobia
equinophobic
nonequine
unequine
Venezuelan equine encephalitis
Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis
equine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛkˌwaɪn/
ipa: /ˈiːˌkwaɪn/
ipa: /ˈɛkˌwaɪn/
ipa: /ˈiˌkwaɪn/
Forms: form: equines
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin equīnus (“of or pertaining to horses”).
Senses: glosses: Any horse or horse-like animal, especially one of the genus Equus.
Related terms: equid
horsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːsi/
ipa: /ˈhɔɹsi/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)si
Forms: form: horsier
form: horsiest
form: horsie
form: horsey
Etymology: From horse + -y.
Senses: examples: text: All the horses had been seized and sent to the front, but the whole place still smelt of horse-piss and rotten oats. I was at the barracks about a week. Chiefly I remember the horsy smells, the quavering bugle-calls […]
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
text: Pirates, these women, with their ladylike briefcases for the loot and their horsy, acquisitive teeth.
ref: 1985, Margaret Atwood, “Soul Scrolls”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 165:
synonyms: word: horsely
glosses: Of or relating to horses.
glosses: Involved in breeding or riding horses.
raw_tags: of a person or people
related: word: horsey
glosses: Clumsy, clunky, bulky, inelegant, or unrefined.
raw_tags: of a graphic design or typographical treatment
Derived terms: horsily
horsiness
unhorsy
horsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːsi/
ipa: /ˈhɔɹsi/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)si
Forms: form: horsies
form: horsie
form: horsey
Etymology: From horse + -y.
Senses: glosses: A child's term or name for a horse.
examples: text: When he got in the house, if I'd left him to read his newspaper in quiet, then he'd play horsey with me, riding me around the house on his back; I'd put a pillow on his back for my saddle
ref: 2000, Anique Devoe, I'm Ready:
text: When you get down on the floor and play “horsey”, you are giving yourself a heck of a workout – and it is fun for the kids!
ref: 2003, Bill Phillips, Eating for Life: Your Guide to Great Health, Fat Loss and Increased Energy:
text: The best barometer of my mounting physical limitations was the game of horsy. In my stallion's prime I could pack three little boys on my back at once and do the length of the hall in no time flat.
ref: 2005, Larry L. Meyer, No Paltry Thing: Memoirs Of A Geezer Dad:
glosses: A game where a child rides on the back of another, who is on all fours.
Synonyms: gee-gee
time machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time machines
Etymology: Coined by British science fiction author H. G. Wells in 1895 in his novel The Time Machine.
Senses: examples: text: If I had a time machine / And if life was a movie scene / I'd rewind, and I'd tell me / "Ru-u-u-u-u-u-u-un"
ref: 2014, Ingrid Michaelson, Trent Dabbs, busbee, “Time Machine”, in Lights Out, performed by Ingrid Michaelson:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A hypothetical device used to travel into the past or the future.
examples: text: It's a time machine for Photoshop. It's magic. Image makers can not just combine different images, but different points in time from each image.
ref: 2017, Fine Art Photoshop: Diving Into the World of Photographic Art:
text: Conrad Riker, The Last Days of Manhood
Mayo Clinic research shows heavy squats spike growth hormone by 530%. That's not exercise — it's a time machine for your cells.
glosses: Something that appears to take a person or thing to another time, for example through nostalgia or delay.
Derived terms: backwards time machine
forward time machine
Tipler time machine
Related terms: time travel
Einstein-Rosen bridge
wayback machine
eejit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ēʹjĭt
ipa: /ˈiː.d̠͡ʒɪt/
ipa: [ˈiː.d̠͡ʒɪθ͇]
note: Mid-Ulster
ipa: /ˈiː.d̠͡ʒɛ̈t/
note: Mid-Ulster
ipa: /ˈiː.d̠͡ʒɜt/
note: Mid-Ulster
ipa: /ˈiː.d̠͡ʒət/
Forms: form: eejits
form: eedjit
form: eegit
form: eejut
form: ijjit
form: ijut
Etymology: Hiberno-English and Scottish English pronunciation of idiot.
Senses: glosses: An idiot; a fool; an imbecile.
idiota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiotas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish idiota, from Latin idiōta (“idiot”), from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “layman”) from ἴδιος (ídios, “private”). Doublet of idiot.
Senses: synonyms: word: alcatote
word: asshat
word: arsehole
word: asshole
word: bayard
word: berk
word: birdbrain
word: blither
word: bobchin
word: bonehead
word: bozo
word: buffoon
word: brickhead
word: Charlie
word: chucklehead
word: chowderhead
word: chump
word: clart
word: clown
word: der-brain
word: dill pickle
word: dim bulb
word: dingleberry
word: dipshit
word: dipstick
word: dirtbrain
word: div
word: divvo
word: divvy
word: dolt
word: donk
word: doodle
word: doofus
word: dope
word: dork
word: dote
word: dotterel
word: dullard
word: dumbass
word: dumbbell
word: dumb fuck
word: dummy
word: dunce
word: dunderhead
word: dupe
word: fathead
word: fenderhead
word: fiddle
word: fuckwit
word: fuzznut
word: geck
word: gig
word: gink
word: goober
word: gooseberry
word: gowk
word: gubbins
word: gump
word: ha'p'orth
word: Homer Simpson
word: ignoramus
word: imbecile
word: jamoke
word: jerk
word: jerkoff
word: jolterhead
word: jolthead
word: juggins
word: jughead
word: knucklehead
word: lamebrain
word: mameluke (US (Italian-American)
word: slang)
word: maroon
word: meathead
word: mong
word: moron
word: mug
word: muggins
word: mushhead
word: nimrod
word: nincompoop
word: nit
word: nitwit
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: numskull
word: numps
word: numpty
word: nupson
word: oaf
word: pillock
word: pinhead
word: plonker
word: prat
word: retard
word: shit for brains
word: shithead
word: shitwit
word: schmo
word: schmuck
word: snapperhead
word: softhead
word: sot
word: stupid
word: sucker
word: thickhead
word: tonto
word: tool
word: tosser
word: tosspot
word: twat
word: twerp
word: twit
word: wally
word: wantwit
word: wazzock
word: yampy
glosses: Fool or imbecile.
tata
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Probably hypocoristic, circa 1823.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ta ta.
tata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tatas
Etymology: Probably ultimately from baby-talk and related to teat, tit. Possibly borrowed through French tette, of Germanic origin, and/or Old English titt. Compare Dutch tiet and German Zitze.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ta-ta (“breast”).
P.O.W.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Gaston Huet, the proprietor, whose story is recounted in “Wine and War,” had returned after five years in a German P.O.W. camp. He was in a gravely weakened condition but was able to make the ’45, a great vintage in France.
ref: 2022 October 6, Eric Asimov, “Echoes of a World War in Wines From the Early 1940s”, in The New York Times:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of prisoner of war; also POW.
scuba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskuːbə/
rhymes: -uːbə
Forms: form: scubas
Etymology: From SCUBA, acronym of self-contained underwater breathing apparatus; now usually viewed as anacronymic.
Senses: topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
related: word: SCUBA
hypernyms: breathing apparatus
<
apparatus#Noun
equipment#Noun
coordinate_terms: SCBA
glosses: An apparatus carried by a diver, which includes a tank holding compressed, filtered air and a regulator which delivers the air to the diver at ambient pressure which can be used underwater.
Derived terms: scuba diver
scuba diving
scuba set
scuba
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskuːbə/
rhymes: -uːbə
Forms: form: scubas
form: scubaing
form: scubaed
form: scubaed
Etymology: From SCUBA, acronym of self-contained underwater breathing apparatus; now usually viewed as anacronymic.
Senses: glosses: To perform scuba diving.
World War II
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: wûrld wôr to͞o
ipa: /ˌwɜː(ɹ)ld ˌwɔː(ɹ)ˈtuː/
other: [ˌwɜːɫd ˌwɔː ˈtuː]
other: [ˌwɝɫd ˌwɔɚ̯ ˈtu]
Etymology: From world war + two. The term was used for a hypothetical future war as early as 1819. It was first applied to the war in 1939-45 in an article in Time, dated September 11, 1939.
Senses: examples: text: As students all over the United States knuckle down to learning, the rumble of war drums once more proclaims Mars high man in Europe. Discarding morbid curiosity, every student should consider it vitally necessary to get a general picture of the causes, movements, and possible effects of World War II. The average U. S. citizen's knowledge of World War II will probably decide his role in it.
ref: 1939 November 10, “Following The War”, in The Chart, volume I, number 1, Joplin, Missouri: Joplin Junior College, page 4, column 1:
text: Nothing since the beginning of World War II, a year ago last September, has boosted British morale or given them greater courage to fight on as has this brilliant Libyan campaign.
ref: 1941 March, Frederick M. Barrows, “The War in Africa”, in Command and General Staff School Military Review, volume XXI, number 80, →OCLC, page 23, column 1:
text: If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.
ref: 2005 May 23, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 182:
text: The tiny island of Tinian was the launch point for American planes carrying atomic bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Now a new runway is being carved from the jungle, just south of World War II ruins inked with mildew.
ref: 2023 March 25, Damien Cave, “An Anxious Asia Arms for a War It Hopes to Prevent”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2023:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Second World War
World War 2
WW2
WWII
glosses: The war from 1939 to 1945 of the Allied forces, including the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, the United States, France, and China, against the Axis Powers, including Germany, Italy, and Japan.
Hyponyms: word: Eastern Front
word: European War
sense: primarily in a Soviet or Russian context
word: Great Patriotic War
word: Pacific War
word: War in the Pacific
Related terms: world war
World War I
World War III
World War IV
World War III
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: World War Three
Senses: examples: text: "I can't pretend I'm sorry to hear of the Khan's death - at least that removes the threat of World War Three - but what are we left with?"
ref: 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 62:
text: One time ago a crazy dream came to me / I dreamt I was walking into World War Three
ref: 1963, Bob Dylan, “Talkin' World War III Blues”, in The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan:
text: And I also wanted to be sure to keep Chiang Kai-shek, who had some notion of starting a World War Number Three, from going into China and doing just that.
ref: 1964, Harry S. Truman, 2:16 from the start, in MP2002-410 Several Cuts of Former President Truman Talking about Wars and Korea, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
text: The WOPR [War Operations Planning Response] has already fought World War III as a game time and time again.
ref: 1983, Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes, WarGames, spoken by Paul Richter:
glosses: A hypothetical world war following World War II.
Synonyms: Third World War
Related terms: world war
World War I
World War II
World War IV
pseudopenis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudopenes
form: pseudo-penis
Etymology: From pseudo- + penis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The enlarged clitoris of the female of various species including spotted hyena, binturong, and lemur.
examples: text: The use of hard plastic rods with increasing diameters, a sort of pseudopenis, can be useful, provided it is explained to the woman that these rods are not used to dilate her vagina but are a means of training the relaxation of her pelvic muscles and of getting these muscles under control.
ref: 2012, Wolf Eicher, Götz Kockott, Sexology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN:
glosses: Anything that resembles a penis in form or function.
telephone number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telephone numbers
Senses: examples: text: Well, that story satisfied old O’Herrin’s curiosity. But he wanted to know the fairy’s telephone number, and when Zobedee fetched her fairylets in by burning a lot of hair, while the grand vizier and the boss eunuch held their noses, he asked her to change the spaniels back into women.
ref: 1902, J[ames] W[infield] Scott, “The Porter and the Ladies of Bagdad”, in Jack Hardin’s Rendering of the Arabian Nights: Being a New Translation in Up-to-Date English […], Boston, Mass.: Herbert B. Turner & Co., published April 1903, →OCLC, page 130:
synonyms: number
phone number
;
digits
hypernyms: number
glosses: The sequence of digits used to identify a particular destination telephone in a network.
examples: text: How much is that Rolls Royce? We are talking telephone numbers.
synonyms: phone number
hypernyms: number
glosses: A large number.
Related terms: telephone book
telephone call
telephone line
haut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Forms: form: more haut
form: most haut
form: haught
form: haute
form: hawt
Etymology: From Middle English haut, hawt, haute, from Old French haut, halt.
Senses: examples: text: nations proud and haut
ref: 1648, John Milton, Psalm LXXX:
glosses: Haughty.
examples: text: My ſcole is more ſolem and ſomwhat more haute
ref: c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
roman: Than to be founde in any ſuch faute.
glosses: Having high standards or quality.
Related terms: haute
haut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Forms: form: hauts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hauth (“unit of measure”).