cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
linden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪn.dən/
Etymology: From Middle English linden, from Old English linden (“linden”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *lindīnaz, from Proto-Germanic *lindō (“linden tree”), equivalent to lind + -en. Cognate with Middle Low German linden (“linden”, adjective), German Low German Linnenboom (“linden-tree”), West Frisian linenbeam (“linden-tree”), German linden (“linden”, adjective). The English noun developed from the adjective.
Senses: glosses: Made of lime-wood.
Derived terms: linden-tree
linden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪn.dən/
Forms: form: lindens
Etymology: From Middle English linden, from Old English linden (“linden”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *lindīnaz, from Proto-Germanic *lindō (“linden tree”), equivalent to lind + -en. Cognate with Middle Low German linden (“linden”, adjective), German Low German Linnenboom (“linden-tree”), West Frisian linenbeam (“linden-tree”), German linden (“linden”, adjective). The English noun developed from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: The linden or lime tree is the favourite haunt of the Elves and cognate beings; and it is not safe to be near it after sunset.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 158:
glosses: Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia, having heart-shaped leaves.
glosses: The soft wood of such trees.
Synonyms: sense: tree
word: basswood
sense: tree
word: lime
sense: wood
word: basswood
Related terms: -inda
lind
Linda
lithe
lawman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lômăn
enpr: lômən
ipa: /ˈlɔːmæn/
ipa: /ˈlɔːmən/
enpr: lômăn
enpr: lômən
ipa: /ˈlɔmæn/
ipa: /ˈlɔmən/
rhymes: -ɔːmən
Forms: form: lawmen
Etymology: From Middle English laweman, laȝaman (as a man's name, Laȝamon, Layamon), from Old English lahmann, borrowed from Old Norse lǫgmaðr. In present use as a law-enforcement officer, law + -man.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A lawspeaker: a declarer of the law.
topics: law
glosses: One of 12 magistrates in certain Danish boroughs of England empowered with soc and sac over their own households.
examples: text: From the twelfth century Shetland had been administered directly by the Norwegian crown through the 'foud', rather than forming part of the patrimony of a great aristocratic estate. The foud appointed 'underfouds' and the Shetlands evolved their own elected officers, a 'lawman' and parish 'lawrightmen', who adjudicated and negotiated the collection of customary taxes and fines on behalf of the local population.
ref: 1983, Paul Thompson, Tony Wailey, Trevor Lummis, History Workshop Series, Living the Fishing, Routledge & Kegan Paul:
topics: law
glosses: The presiding justice of the supreme court.
glosses: A man of the law: a lawyer.
examples: text: "Fill your hand, you sonuvabitch," the old lawman cries, clamping the reins of his horse between his teeth and filling his own hands with six-gun and repeater.
ref: 1979 June 25, Richard Schickel, “Show Business: Duke: Images from a Lifetime”, in Time:
text: The two lawmen punched his ticket with four well-aimed rifle shots.
ref: 2016, Dusty Richards, Deadly Is the Night, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, retrieved 08 Dec 2021:
glosses: An officer of the law: a law-enforcement officer.
Synonyms: sense: speaker of the law
word: lawspeaker
sense: medieval Dano-English magistrates
word: lageman
sense: medieval Dano-English magistrates
word: lagman
sense: lawman-general, lagman
word: Orcadian & Shetlandic chief justice
sense: law-enforcement officer
word: police officer
lawmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lawman
ley line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ley lines
Etymology: From ley (“meadow”) + line. Coined by archaeologist Alfred Watkins, who believed that the toponyms ley, lea and leigh indicated Neolithic paths.
Senses: examples: text: Glastonbury had long been associated with myths of ancient kings, witchcraft, ley-lines and wart curing[.]
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 99:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
occult
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: ley
glosses: A supposed alignment of ancient sacred sites, such as megalith structures, along straight lines of mystical power.
wikipedia: Alfred Watkins
Related terms: geopathic
layline
vortex
layette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪˈ(j)ɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: layettes
Etymology: From French layette.
Senses: glosses: A complete set of clothing, bedding and toilet articles for a new baby.
glosses: A tray for carrying the powder in a powder mill.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A bin for storing equipment parts prior to their use.
at death's door
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: at Death's door
Senses: examples: text: The minstrel woman who left the Castle yesterday has spread the report everywhere, that the Duke of Rothsay is murdered, or at death's door.
ref: 1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume III, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, page 235:
text: One of my Polynesian sailors lay at death's door with blackwater fever.
ref: 1913 August, Jack London, chapter XXXII, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 290:
text: Clearly, a business with $26 billion in cash reserves isn't exactly at death's door.
ref: 2008 June 29, Josh Quittner, “Bill Gates: PC Genius, Internet Fool”, in Time:
synonyms: knocking on heaven's door
on one's deathbed
glosses: About to die; in a life-threatening state of health.
Related terms: final curtain
loathsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊð.səm/
ipa: /ˈləʊθ.səm/
ipa: /ˈloʊð.səm/
ipa: /ˈloʊθ.səm/
Forms: form: more loathsome
form: most loathsome
form: loathesome
form: lothsome
Etymology: From Middle English lothsum, from Old English *lāþsum, from Proto-West Germanic *laiþasam, equivalent to loath + -some. Cognate with Middle Low German lêtsam (“arduous”), German leidsam (“sad, sorry”).
Senses: examples: text: Come on my Lords the better foot before, / Straight vvill I bring you to the lothſome pit, / VVhere I eſpied the Panther faſt a ſleepe.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], signature [D4], recto:
text: That grave but yesterday received one who was to have been his bride—his betrothed from childhood for whose sake he had been to far lands and gathered much wealth, but who had pined in his absence and died. He flung himself on the loathsome place, and the night-wind bore around the ravings of his despair.
ref: 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 20:
text: Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XX, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 334:
glosses: Highly offensive; abominable, sickening.
Derived terms: loathsomely
loathsomeness
unloathsome
leaderette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛt
Forms: form: leaderettes
Etymology: From leader + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: "You got a black eye out of him, and that's for publication. We can't have this reign of terror, Mr. Malone. We must bring the man to his bearings. I'll have a leaderette on him to-morrow that will raise a blister."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A short editorial, or a paragraph in an editorial.
liberal arts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The academic course of instruction intended to provide general knowledge and usually comprising the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, as opposed to professional or technical subjects.
glosses: The trivium and the quadrivium.
Related terms: liberal science
lecher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛt͡ʃ.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lechers
form: leachour
form: leacher
Etymology: From Middle English lechour, from Old French lecheor (“glutton, sensualist, libertine”) , from Old French lecher, lechier, lekier, lescher (“to lick, live in gluttony or sensuality”), from Old Frankish *likkōn (“to lick”), from Proto-Germanic *likkōną (“to lick”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- (“to lick”). More at lick.
Senses: examples: text: The comedies work in very obvious ways to feminize this socially-ominous triad of young fops, old lechers, and greedy businessmen.
ref: 2000, Deborah Payne Fisk, The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre, page 202:
glosses: A lecherous person: someone given to excessive sexual activity or debauchery.
Derived terms: lech
lecherous
lechery
lecher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛt͡ʃ.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lechers
form: lechering
form: lechered
form: lechered
form: leachour
form: leacher
Etymology: From Middle English lechour, from Old French lecheor (“glutton, sensualist, libertine”) , from Old French lecher, lechier, lekier, lescher (“to lick, live in gluttony or sensuality”), from Old Frankish *likkōn (“to lick”), from Proto-Germanic *likkōną (“to lick”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- (“to lick”). More at lick.
Senses: glosses: To practice lewdness.
looped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːpt/
rhymes: -uːpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of loop
looped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːpt/
rhymes: -uːpt
Forms: form: more looped
form: most looped
Senses: glosses: having loops
glosses: formed into a loop
glosses: whorled
raw_tags: of part of a fingerprint
glosses: drunk
Synonyms: sense: having loops
word: loopy
sense: drunk
word: drunk
Derived terms: nonlooped
unlooped
lobbyist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑ.bi.ɪst/
ipa: /ˈlɒ.bi.ɪst/
Forms: form: lobbyists
Etymology: From lobby + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Banning President Trump from Twitter didn't just cut his personal communications channel but curbed a cottage industry of lobbyists and consultants who monetized their ability to get clients into his Twitterverse. […] One lobbyist told Axios his firm paid another consulting shop to generate earned media for clients, including tweets from prominent MAGA personalities such as Charlie Kirk, the founder of the pro-Trump student group Turning Point USA.
ref: 2021 January 13, Lachlan Markay, “Twitter banning Trump undercuts some D.C. lobbyists and consultants”, in Axios:
glosses: A person who is paid to lobby politicians and encourage them to vote a certain way or otherwise use their office to effect a desired result.
Derived terms: nonlobbyist
superlobbyist
lovebird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovebirds
form: love bird
form: love-bird
Etymology: From love + bird.
Senses: glosses: Any small parrot from one of the nine species within the genus Agapornis. Sometimes they are kept as cage birds and are noted for their affection towards each other.
examples: text: Okay, all right, whew! What do you say we all clear out of here and let these two lovebirds get back down to business?
ref: 1999, “The One with the Girl Who Hits Joey”, in Friends, season 5, episode 15 (television production), spoken by Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc):
glosses: One of the members of an openly affectionate couple.
Hyponyms: word: black-cheeked lovebird
word: Agapornis nigrigenis
alt: Swindern's lovebird
word: black-collared lovebird
word: Agapornis swindernianus
alt: Abyssinian lovebird
word: black-winged lovebird
word: Agapornis taranta
word: Fischer's lovebird
word: Agapornis fischeri
english: Madagascar lovebird
translation: Madagascar lovebird
word: grey-headed lovebird
word: Agapornis canus
alt: Nyasa lovebird
word: Lilian's lovebird
word: Agapornis lilianae
english: red-faced lovebird
translation: red-faced lovebird
word: red-headed lovebird
word: Agapornis pullarius
english: peach-faced lovebird
translation: peach-faced lovebird
word: rosy-faced lovebird
word: Agapornis roseicollis
english: masked lovebird
translation: masked lovebird
word: yellow-collared lovebird
word: Agapornis personatus
lovebird
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lovebirds
form: lovebirding
form: lovebirded
form: lovebirded
form: love bird
form: love-bird
Etymology: From love + bird.
Senses: synonyms: bill and coo
glosses: To express romantic affection openly.
lectern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛktə(ɹ)n/
rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: lecterns
form: lettern
Etymology: 15th century partial re-Latinization of early 14th century Middle English lettorne, lettron, from Old French leitrun, from Medieval Latin lectrinum, from Late Latin lectrum, from lectus (from whence also lecture), form of Latin legō (“I read”).
Senses: glosses: A stand with a slanted top used to support a Bible from which passages are read during a church service.
glosses: A similar stand to support a lecturer's notes.
Synonyms: podium
pulpit
Related terms: lection
lecture
lector
lesson
scuttles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scuttle
scuttles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scuttle
liberating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liberating
form: most liberating
Senses: examples: text: a liberating experience
glosses: That serves to liberate, especially to free the mind to accept new ideas.
Derived terms: liberatingly
liberating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of liberating; liberation.
liberating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of liberate
localism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊkəlɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈləʊkəlɪzəm/
Forms: form: localisms
Etymology: From local + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Localism may strengthen not just the selfless (eg, people who want to build a village hall) but also the selfish (who want to stop any new building in their backyard).
ref: 2010, The Economist, Jul-Aug 2010, p. 27:
text: these faux-traditional shops, harking back to an era of localism and pretty clockwork high streets, can help cleave a neighbourhood in two, making very clear the difference in means of those who live nearby.
ref: 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Attachment to a particular local place; feelings or policies which emphasize local phenomena.
examples: text: These documents contain occasional localism, typically references to other operating systems.
ref: 1983, UNIX Programmer's Manual: Revised and Expanded Edition, 7th edition, volume 2, archived from the original on 11 May 2021, page vii:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A linguistic feature that is unique to a locality.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The belief that language functions are localized to various parts of the brain.
examples: text: Other theoretical approaches that stress the primacy of space or spatial meaning in language with respect to other domains or meanings are localism and case grammar. In localism, spatial expressions are considered the most important category in the lexicon and in grammar.
ref: 2006, Eva-Maria Graf, The Ontogenetic Development of Literal and Metaphorical Space in Language, page 6:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An approach to understanding expressions in terms of position and movement (sometimes abstract, e.g. one who is hungry is in a notional "space" of hunger).
Related terms: localist
localistic
left back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left backs
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A defender who normally plays on the left side of the field.
Related terms: centre back
center back
right back
dumbfounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dumbfounded
form: most dumbfounded
Senses: glosses: Shocked and speechless.
Synonyms: amazed
astonished
astounded
confounded
flabbergasted
perplexed
shocked
speechless
stunned
stupefied
surprised
Derived terms: dumbfoundedly
dumbfoundedness
dumbfounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dumbfound
lifespan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪfˌspæn/
Forms: form: lifespans
form: life span
Etymology: From life + span.
Senses: examples: text: Meronym: healthspan
text: Some clams have lifespans far longer than those of human beings.
text: What the devil happened to my year? Another little digit on my lifespan, what a bore.
ref: 2011, Felix Hagan, “Just Like All The Rest”, in Dawn Breaks, the Monster Wakes...:
text: Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
ref: 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 172:
text: Asari Cultural VI: Due to our lifespan-sometimes reaching 1,000 years of age-we are patient in our decisions, and prefer long-term solutions over short-term gains.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nexus:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: lifetime
hypernyms: timespan
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span#Noun
coordinate_terms: healthspan
glosses: The length of time for which an organism lives.
examples: text: The virtual enterprise forum developed several "classical" management functions for which resources were available throughout its lifespan.
ref: 2002, Luis M Camarinha-Matos, Collaborative business ecosystems and virtual enterprises:
text: The reactor, located in the city of Fuqing city in China’s southeastern Fujian province, was designed to have a 60-year lifespan, with its core equipment domestically produced.
ref: 2021 January 30, “China’s first Hualong One nuclear reactor begins operations”, in AP News, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2021:
synonyms: lifetime
working life[durable good]]s>
glosses: The length of time for which something exists or is current, valid, or usable.
Related terms: for life
lifelong
ligature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪɡət͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: ligatures
Etymology: From Middle English ligature, from Middle French ligature, from Late Latin ligātūra, from Latin ligātus, past participle of ligāre (“to tie, bind”).
Senses: glosses: The act of tying or binding something.
examples: raw_tags: in psychiatry
text: anti-ligature clothing
translation: (in psychiatry) clothing that prevents one from using it to tie knots
english: (in psychiatry) clothing that prevents one from using it to tie knots
text: I likewiſe felt ſeveral ſlender Ligatures acroſs my Body, from my Armpits to my Thighs. I could only look upwards, the Sun began to grow hot, and the Light offended mine Eyes.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 7:
text: He hid shoelaces or rope under cushions to use as ligatures.
ref: 2018, Eli Rosenberg, “She stalked the Golden State Killer until she died. Some think her work led to the suspect’s arrest”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A cord or similar thing used to tie something; especially the thread used in surgery to close a vessel or duct.
glosses: A thread or wire used to remove tumours, etc.
examples: the ligature of a joint
glosses: The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness.
topics: media
publishing
typography
meronyms: ligand
glosses: A character that visually combines multiple letters, such as æ, œ, ß or ĳ; also logotype. Sometimes called a typographic ligature.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A group of notes played as a phrase, or the curved line that indicates such a phrase.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A curve or line connecting notes; a slur.
glosses: A piece used to hold a reed to the mouthpiece on woodwind instruments.
glosses: Any binding, uniting, or restraining principle or agency.
examples: text: The Roman epic poet Vergil refers to the incapacitating effects of ligatures, while Ovid, the erotic poet, admits the power of such spell-bindings.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 90:
glosses: A spell or charm that induces sexual impotence.
Derived terms: ligature point
ligatureless
Related terms: liaison
ligate
ligation
ligature
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪɡət͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: ligatures
form: ligaturing
form: ligatured
form: ligatured
Etymology: From Middle English ligature, from Middle French ligature, from Late Latin ligātūra, from Latin ligātus, past participle of ligāre (“to tie, bind”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To ligate; to tie.
tying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Forms: form: tyings
Etymology: From Middle English tiȝing, teing, from Old English *tīgung, tīging (“connection”), from Proto-Germanic *taugungō, from *taugijaną from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to tug, draw”). Equivalent to tie + -ing. Present participle from Old English tīgende, from tīgan, tīegan.
Senses: examples: text: It cost us several tyings and untyings before her ladyship was pleased with her own foot.
ref: 1772, John Macgowan, Infernal Conference: Or, Dialogues of Devils:
glosses: Action of the verb to tie; ligature.
topics: business
mining
glosses: The act or process of washing ores in a buddle.
Derived terms: tube tying
tying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English tiȝing, teing, from Old English *tīgung, tīging (“connection”), from Proto-Germanic *taugungō, from *taugijaną from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to tug, draw”). Equivalent to tie + -ing. Present participle from Old English tīgende, from tīgan, tīegan.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tie
lightness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪtnəs/
Forms: form: lightnesses
form: lightnesse
Etymology: From Middle English lightnes, lightnesse, from Old English līhtnes, lȳhtnys (“enlightening, illumination”), from Proto-West Germanic *liuhtinassī; equivalent to light (“to make bright, illuminate”, verb) + -ness (suffix forming nouns). Cognate with Old High German liuhtnissi (“illumination, enlightening”).
Senses: glosses: the condition of being illuminated
glosses: the relative whiteness or transparency of a colour
glosses: The product of being illuminated.
lightness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪtnəs/
Forms: form: lightnesse
Etymology: From Middle English lightnes, lightnesse, from Old English *lēohtnes (“lightness”) (compare Old English lēohtmōdnes (“lightness”, literally “light-moodedness”), līhtingnes (“lightness, alleviation”)); equivalent to light (“not heavy”, adjective) + -ness (suffix forming nouns). Cognate with Middle Low German luchtnisse, lüchtnisse (“lightness, frivolity, joyfulness”).
Senses: examples: text: The unique chassis design is largely the secret of the lightness of the locomotive.
ref: 1960 January, “The Swindon Type "4" diesel-hydraulic units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 39:
glosses: The state of having little (or less) weight, or little force.
glosses: Agility of movement.
examples: text: In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
ref: 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page 266:
glosses: Freedom from worry.
examples: text: Seneca […] accounts it a filthy lightness in men, every day to lay new foundations of their life, but who doth otherwise?
ref: , New York 2001, p.75
glosses: Levity, frivolity; inconsistency.
ligneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ligneous
form: most ligneous
form: lignous
Etymology: From Latin ligneus; compare Latin lignōsus; equivalent to lign- + -eous.
Senses: glosses: Of, or resembling wood; woody.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing lignin or xylem.
Derived terms: ligneous conjunctivitis
pyroligneous
semiligneous
lignin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lĭg′-nĭn
ipa: /ˈlɪɡ.nɪn/
rhymes: -ɪɡnɪn
Forms: form: lignins
Etymology: From Latin lignum (“wood”) + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex non-carbohydrate aromatic polymer present in all wood.
Derived terms: ligninase
ligninolysis
ligninolytic
lignin sulfonate
lignin sulphonate
monolignin
logographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From logograph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, related to, or composed of logographs.
Derived terms: logographically
logograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logographs
Etymology: From logo- + graph.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of logogram.
synonyms: word: logogram
Derived terms: logographic
logogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒɡ.əˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈlɔː.ɡəˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈlɑɡ.əˌɡɹæm/
Forms: form: logograms
Etymology: From logo- + -gram.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: (polysemic, sometimes synonymous) lexigram; lexigraph
synonyms: logograph
coordinate_terms: ideogram
ideograph
pictogram
semasiograph
glosses: A character or symbol (usually nonalphanumeric) that represents a word or phrase.
glosses: A kind of word puzzle: a logogriph.
Derived terms: logogrammic
Related terms: logographic
logographical
logographically
logography
logotype
longiloquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more longiloquent
form: most longiloquent
Senses: glosses: long-winded
Related terms: longiloquence
love-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love-ins
Etymology: From love + -in, modelled after sit-in.
Senses: examples: text: Sara Davidson traces the varying paths she and two friends followed from their undergraduate years at Berkeley through sit-ins and love-ins; grass and acid; the Kennedys and the Beatles; the sexual revolution and the woman's movement.
ref: 1977 June 6, New York Magazine, volume 10, number 23, page 76:
glosses: An activists' social gathering to promote love and feelings of well-being.
examples: text: The summer in between wasn't a total love-in of hugs and sweet family times, for us and other families.
ref: 2018, Carol Kuykendall, Krista Gilbert, Give Them Wings: Preparing for the Time Your Teen Leaves Home:
glosses: A situation characterized by (possibly insincere) friendship and affection.
Related terms: be-in
laugh-in
sit-in
lumpenproletariat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlʊm.pənˌpɹəʊ.ləˈtɛː.ɹi.ət/
ipa: /ˌlʌm.-/
Forms: form: lumpenproletariats
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Lumpenproletariat.
Senses: examples: text: I hadn't quite figured her out yet: rude snob or lumpenproletariat?
ref: 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: The lowest stratum of the proletariat, whose mental and physical health, mores and morale have deteriorated, through exploitation by the bourgeoisie, to a degree where they cannot build class consciousness and hence cannot be mobilized for the revolution.
glosses: A social underclass; the riffraff.
Synonyms: sense: riffraff
word: hoi polloi
sense: riffraff
word: mob
sense: riffraff
word: rabble
sense: riffraff
word: riffraff
Related terms: lumpenbourgeoisie
lumpenintelligentsia
lumpenprole
misc
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of miscellaneous.
cactuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: cacti
cactusses
glosses: plural of cactus
Playboy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A brand of adult magazines introduced in the United States.
Derived terms: Playboy bunny
Playboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Playboys
Senses: glosses: A Playboy magazine.
Playboy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Playboy
form: most Playboy
Senses: examples: text: "More Playboy than us." Salli giggled. "I know. Only joking. I've been on Playboy's cover three times. They adore me." She giggled again.
ref: 1998, Jackie Collins, Power, page 34:
text: And when you take a Playboy interview, where they pump sound bites into the media, it all sounds much harsher than you intended.
ref: 2001, Jesse Ventura, Do I Stand Alone?: Going to the Mat Against Political Pawns and Media Jackals, page 31:
text: And ready to do something for the state too. / Do what? / Lead it, says Shade. / He couldn't lead a frat house across the street to the Playboy mansion.
ref: 2004, Inman Majors, Wonderdog, page 180:
text: There is more history of New York City in a Playboy centerfold than in the entire Encyclopedia of New York or any other academic study of the place.
ref: a. 2006, Timothy 'Speed' Levitch, "Wall Street: The Story of What Happened to Our Intimacy", in Alan Kaufman, The Outlaw Bible of American Essays, page 48
glosses: Pertaining to a hedonistic philosophy and idealized women with exaggerated sexual characteristics.
Capeverdean Crioulo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A creole language spoken in Cape Verde and divided into Santo Antão, São Vicente, São Nicolau, Sal, Boa Vista, Maio, Santiago, Fogo and Brava creoles.
puppies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpʌpiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of puppy
glosses: plural of puppie
puppies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpʌpiz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of puppy
kore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔəɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˈkoɹeɪ/
Forms: form: korai
form: kores
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).
Senses: examples: text: Mus. No 685: Archaic kore of island marble (500-490 B. C.) 4 ft high. Attic work. This kore is not wearing the Ionian smile, but a look of solemn gravity. She does not gather up her robes with the left hand like the other kores,[…].
ref: 1966, Spyros Meletzēs, Helenē A. Papadakē, Akropolis and Museum, page 42:
text: Ducat believes that all the kore plastic vessels wearing transverse himatia ending in stepped folds over the abdomen originate in Rhodes (1966: 72).
ref: 1995, Irene Bald Romano, University of Pennsylvania Museum, The Terracotta Figurines and Related Vessels, page 14:
text: Inscribed dedications often took the form of korai (singular: kore): statues, usually life-size or larger of female figures, generally goddesses.
ref: 2002, Matthew Dillon, Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion, page 9:
topics: art
arts
qualifier: sculpture
glosses: An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.
Coordinate terms: english: statue of a male
translation: statue of a male
word: kouros
Related terms: korephilia
circumstances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɝkəmstænsɪz/
ipa: /ˈsɜːkəmst(ə)nsɪz/
ipa: /ˈsɜːkəmstɑːnsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of circumstance
girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɝlz/
ipa: /ɡɜːlz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)lz
Senses: glosses: plural of girl
girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɝlz/
ipa: /ɡɜːlz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)lz
Senses: examples: text: Talk about lucky stripes: This push-up top features pads to provide oomph and make sure the girls stay sunny-side up.
ref: 2008, Women's Health, page 141:
qualifier: women's speech
glosses: A woman's breasts.
girls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɝlz/
ipa: /ɡɜːlz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)lz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of girl
officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒf.ɪ.səz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈɒf.ə.səz/
ipa: /ˈɔ.fɪ.sɚz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈɔ.fə.sɚz/
ipa: /ˈɑ.fɪ.sɚz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈɑ.fə.sɚz/
homophone: offices (non-rhotic with weak-vowel meger)
Senses: glosses: plural of officer
soldiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊld͡ʒɚz/
ipa: /ˈsəʊld͡ʒəz/
ipa: /ˈsɒld͡ʒəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of soldier
soldiers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊld͡ʒɚz/
ipa: /ˈsəʊld͡ʒəz/
ipa: /ˈsɒld͡ʒəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soldier
matters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæt.əz/
ipa: /ˈmæt.ɚz/
ipa: [-ɾ.ɚz]
Senses: glosses: plural of matter
matters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæt.əz/
ipa: /ˈmæt.ɚz/
ipa: [-ɾ.ɚz]
Senses: examples: text: Nothing really matters.
text: But it matters to me.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of matter
affairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɛɹz/
ipa: /əˈfɛəz/
ipa: /əˈfeːz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /əˈfeəz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /əˈfiəz/
ipa: /əˈfeɹz/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /əˈfɜː(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of affair
ideas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈdɪəz/
ipa: /aɪˈdi.əz/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈaɪɖɪas/
Senses: glosses: plural of idea
mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʊntn̩z/
Senses: glosses: plural of mountain
glosses: mountain range
members
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛmbəz/
ipa: /ˈmɛmbɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of member
weeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːks/
rhymes: -iːks
Senses: glosses: plural of week
events
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈvɛnts/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /əˈvɛnts/
Senses: glosses: plural of event
Derived terms: current events
events
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈvɛnts/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /əˈvɛnts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of event
dollars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒl.əz/
ipa: /ˈdɔː.ləz/
ipa: /ˈdɑ.lɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of dollar
birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜːdz/
ipa: /bɜɹdz/
ipa: /bɜɪdz/
Senses: glosses: plural of bird
hills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪlz/
rhymes: -ɪlz
Senses: glosses: plural of hill
hills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪlz/
rhymes: -ɪlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hill
facts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfækts/
ipa: /ˈfæks/
homophone: fax
rhymes: -æks
Senses: glosses: plural of fact
facts
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfækts/
ipa: /ˈfæks/
homophone: fax
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: fax
Senses: synonyms: trufax#Interjection
;
tru dat#Interjection
true dat#Interjection
true that#Interjection
glosses: Used to express agreement.
streets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹiːts/
ipa: [ʃt͡ʃɹit͡s]
rhymes: -iːts
Senses: glosses: plural of street
streets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹiːts/
ipa: [ʃt͡ʃɹit͡s]
rhymes: -iːts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of street
characters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛɹəktɚz/
ipa: /ˈkʰæɹəktɚz/
ipa: /ˈkæɹəktəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of character
nations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪʃənz/
rhymes: -eɪʃənz
Senses: glosses: plural of nation
animals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.ɪ.məlz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈæn.ə.məlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of animal
principles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪnsəpəlz/
ipa: [ˈpɹɪnsəpl̩z]
ipa: /ˈpɹɪnsɪpəlz/
ipa: [ˈpɹɪnsɪpl̩z]
homophone: principals
Senses: glosses: plural of principle
principles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪnsəpəlz/
ipa: [ˈpɹɪnsəpl̩z]
ipa: /ˈpɹɪnsɪpəlz/
ipa: [ˈpɹɪnsɪpl̩z]
homophone: principals
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of principle
inhabitants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈhæbɪtənts/
Senses: glosses: plural of inhabitant
feelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːlɪŋz/
rhymes: -iːlɪŋz
Senses: glosses: plural of feeling
Jennifer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪfɚ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪfə/
Forms: form: Jenifer
form: Jenipher
Etymology: From Cornish, from Middle Cornish Gwynnever (cognate with Welsh Gwenhwyfar), from Proto-Brythonic *Gwɨnnohuɨβar. Doublet of Guinevere. Compare Irish Fionnbharr, Fionnabhair, which may be cognate.
Senses: examples: text: RIDGEON. Thats a wonderful drawing. Why is it called Jennifer?
MRS DUBEDAT. My name is Jennifer.
RIDGEON. A strange name.
MRS DUBEDAT. Not in Cornwall. I am Cornish. It's only what you call Guinevere.
ref: 1906, George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma, act I:
text: "Most people's sisters have decent names like Jennifer or Jane or something. What did you say hers was?"
ref: 1960, Jerrard Tickell, The Hunt for Richard Thorpe, Doubleday, page 10:
text: Jennifer. Jenny with the light brown hair. Jenny-fair, their high school French teacher had called her, and fair she had been.
ref: 2000, Dana Stabenow, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Dutton, →ISBN, page 131:
text: “When it comes to the dry skin, it’s really a matter of that top barrier that’s not holding onto the moisture as well,” said Dr. Jennifer Stein, a dermatologist at NYU Langone Health.
ref: 2025 February 10, Monica Haider, “Dermatologists share how to treat dry skin”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from Cornish, Middle Cornish, or Proto-Brittonic.
Derived terms: Jennifer Aniston neuron
Related terms: word: Gaynor
word: Ginevra
word: Guinevere
word: Gweniver
sense: pet forms
word: Jen
sense: pet forms
word: Jena
sense: pet forms
word: Jeni
sense: pet forms
word: Jenn
sense: pet forms
word: Jenna
sense: pet forms
word: Jenni
sense: pet forms
word: Jennie
sense: pet forms
word: Jenny
sense: pet forms
word: Jeny
debase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbeɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: debases
form: debasing
form: debased
form: debased
Etymology: From de- + base, from Old French bas, from Latin bassus. Cognate with Spanish debajo (“under, beneath, below”). Compare abase.
Senses: examples: text: And just as history will decide whether the leaders of today's world employed the atom to destroy the world or rebuild it for mankind's benefit, so will history decide whether today's broadcasters employed their powerful voice to enrich the people or to debase them.
ref: 1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, Television and the Public Interest:
glosses: To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
glosses: To lower in position or rank.
glosses: To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.
Synonyms: sense: lower in character, quality, or value
word: abase
sense: lower in character, quality, or value
word: adulterate
sense: lower in character, quality, or value
word: degrade
sense: lower in character, quality, or value
word: demean
sense: lower in character, quality, or value
word: debauch
Derived terms: debased
debasedness
debasement
debaser
debasingly
undebased
strategus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strategi
Etymology: From Latin strategus, from Ancient Greek στρατηγός (stratēgós, “general”). See stratagem.
Senses: glosses: The leader or commander of an army; a general.
Related terms: strategos
strategy
debarment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbɑːmənt/
Forms: form: debarments
Etymology: From debar + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act or an instance of debarring.
topics: law
glosses: In the United States Food and Drugs Act, a penalty imposed on persons or companies that commit crimes in connection with applications for approval of drugs, in which such persons are barred from submitting or assisting in the submission of such an application.
debar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbɑː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: debars
form: debarring
form: debarred
form: debarred
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman debarrer.
Senses: examples: text: As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: The Minister of Transport has debarred BR workshops from seeking orders for private owners' wagons like this [...].
ref: 1964 May, “News and Comment”, in Modern Railways, page 291, photo caption:
glosses: To exclude or shut out; to bar.
examples: text: How can I then return in happy plight,
That am debarr'd the benefit of rest?
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 28”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: She had also been so long debarred from any interchange of feelings and sentiments—so surrounded by strangers, that it was a true enjoyment to meet with one, who, if she did not enter into many of the emotions connected with it, was yet able and ready to talk of the past.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 218:
glosses: To hinder or prevent.
topics: law
glosses: To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program.
Derived terms: debarment
undebarred
asseverate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈsɛvəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: asseverates
form: asseverating
form: asseverated
form: asseverated
Etymology: From Latin assevērāre, from assevērō (“I assert”).
Senses: examples: text: Whereas Your Maiesty hath received true information of great sums of Money endeavoured to be borrowed of Your City of London, by directions proceeding from both Houses of Parliament […] (I Your Maiesties faithfull Subiect) doe conceive, and dare asseverate, that it is intended upon no other pretence then for the Honour and defence of Your Maiesty,
ref: 1642, Sir Richard Gurney, 1st Baronet, The Lord Maior of Londons Letter to the King at Yorke, June 22, London:
text: I will myself asseverate and bind it by an Oath, that the Muff thou bearest in thy Hand belonged unto Madam Sophia;
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 7, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book X, page 261:
text: “And I presume you can also asseverate to his worship, that no man is better qualified than I am to bear testimony in this case, seeing that I was by you, and near you, constantly during the whole occurrence?”
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, pages 195–196:
text: The more I laughed at such theories, the more these stubborn friends asseverated them; adding that even without the heritage of legend the recent reports were too clear, consistent, detailed, and sanely prosaic in manner of telling, to be completely ignored.
ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 1, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
text: A time would come, Mr. Secombe-Hughes mysteriously asseverated, when all would be well and she would get her money.
ref: 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, page 31:
glosses: To assert earnestly, seriously, and confidently
Derived terms: asseveratingly
asseverative
reasseverate
Related terms: asseveration
footle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fo͞otəl
ipa: /ˈfuːtəl/
rhymes: -uːtəl
Forms: form: footles
form: footling
form: footled
form: footled
Etymology: Probably variant of footer (“to screw around”), from obsolete fouter (“an act of sexual intercourse”), from French foutre (“to have sexual intercourse”), from Latin futuere.
Senses: examples: text: Curtis says that he works like any other journalist: people and ideas grab him; he wastes time on TikTok, which he adores; he footles about in libraries.
ref: 2021 January 28, Sam Knight, “Adam Curtis Explains It All”, in The New Yorker:
synonyms: word: arse about
word: arse around
word: bludge
word: bum around
word: cabbage
word: clown around
word: dally
word: dawdle
word: dick about
word: dick around
word: diddle
word: dilly-dally
word: dretch
word: drumble
word: faff
word: faff about
word: faff around
word: fanny about
word: fanny around
word: fart about
word: fart around
word: fiddle about
word: fiddle around
word: fool about
word: fool around
word: footle
word: forslow
word: goof around
word: goof off
word: hang about
word: hang around
word: hang out
word: horse around
word: idle
word: jerk off
word: lallygag
word: lamp
word: laze
word: laze about
word: laze around
word: linger
word: loaf
word: loaf about
word: loaf around
word: loiter
word: lollop
word: lollygag
word: mess around
word: mill about
word: mill around
word: muck about
word: muck around
word: piddle
word: pingle
word: stand by
word: tarry
word: tool around
word: waste time
word: while
glosses: To waste time; to trifle.
synonyms: babble
jabber
glosses: To talk nonsense.
glosses: to have sex
Derived terms: footle about
footle around
footle away
footler
footle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fo͞otəl
ipa: /ˈfuːtəl/
rhymes: -uːtəl
Etymology: Probably variant of footer (“to screw around”), from obsolete fouter (“an act of sexual intercourse”), from French foutre (“to have sexual intercourse”), from Latin futuere.
Senses: glosses: nonsense; foolishness.
Synonyms: nonsense
DK
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: related: word: dk
glosses: Abbreviation of don't know.
DK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Initialism of double knitting.
DK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Donkey Kong.
glosses: Initialism of Dorling Kindersley.
Related terms: sense: Donkey Kong
word: DKC
sense: Donkey Kong
word: DKCTF
wards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ward
wards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ward
rimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪmz
Senses: glosses: plural of rime
rimes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rime
furs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɝz/
ipa: /fɜːz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)z
homophone: furze
Senses: glosses: plural of fur
furs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɝz/
ipa: /fɜːz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)z
homophone: furze
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fur
surfs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: serfs
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of surf
surfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: serfs
Senses: glosses: plural of surf
serfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: surfs
Senses: glosses: plural of serf