cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
disco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪskəʊ/
ipa: /ˈdɪskoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪskəʊ
Forms: form: discos
Etymology: From a shortening of discotheque, from French discothèque.
Senses: examples: text: Burn down the disco / Hang the blessed DJ / Because the music that they constantly play / It says nothing to me about my life
ref: 1986, Morrissey & Johnny Marr, “Panic”, in The World Won’t Listen, performed by The Smiths:
synonyms: club
nightclub
qualifier: slightly dated
glosses: Clipping of discotheque (“nightclub for dancing”).
examples: text: And black music became a hot commodity in the form of disco, its lyrics and rhythm laced with a palpable (even ethnic) amiguity, helping people dance and escape their concerns. Even the cry of “burn, baby, burn”, a popular chant during many a 1960s urban rebellion, was co-opted by the times, becoming the chorus for the 1977 dance hit “Disco Inferno.”
ref: 2009, Marcus Reeves, Somebody Scream!, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of dance music that was popular in the 1970s, characterized by elements of soul music with a strong Latin-American beat and often accompanied by pulsating lights.
glosses: A dance, a social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
Derived terms: antidisco
avant-disco
blue light disco
cosmic disco
deader than disco
disco ball
disco biscuit
disco bunny
disco-dance
disco dancing
discoer
discoey
discofied
disco fries
disco funk
discoish
discolike
disco-like
discomania
disco matanga
disco nap
disco perm
disco polo
disco rice
disco stick
disco-style
discowear
Eurodisco
Italo disco
mutant disco
nondisco
nu-disco
postdisco
post-disco
predisco
pre-disco
roller disco
silent disco
space disco
Thai disco
disco
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪskəʊ/
ipa: /ˈdɪskoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪskəʊ
Forms: form: discos
form: discoing
form: discoed
form: discoed
Etymology: From a shortening of discotheque, from French discothèque.
Senses: examples: text: The cause of his ill health is left a little obscure, and no wonder, because shortly before his dreadful deathbed scene he's well enough to join the women in a wild night of disco dancing. You have not lived until you've seen Martin Landau discoing.
ref: 2013, Roger Ebert, “B.A.P.S.”, in I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: To dance disco-style dances.
examples: text: Learning that a discoing sex appeal has returned to the runways is a little like hearing that Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb are reuniting.
ref: 2009 February 16, Cathy Horyn, “Designers Square Off: Sexy vs. Classy”, in New York Times:
glosses: To go to discotheques.
disco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪskəʊ/
ipa: /ˈdɪskoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪskəʊ
Forms: form: discos
Etymology: Clipping of discovery
Senses: examples: text: You don't need to worry about these details at the complaint stage, we can get them in disco.
topics: law
glosses: discovery (pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered)
examples: text: Has the disco come in from the defendants yet? We sent them requests almost six weeks ago.
topics: law
glosses: discovery (materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered)
clava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clavas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gracile tubercle.
synonyms: word: gracile tubercle
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
synonyms: club
glosses: The fused distal segments of the antenna of a chalcid wasp.
puerperal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuˈɝpəɹəl/
ipa: /pjuˈɜːpəɹəl/
ipa: /ˈpwɛɹpəɹəl/
Etymology: From New Latin puerperālis, from Latin puerpera (“woman in childbirth”), from puer (“child”) + pariō (“I bear”).
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or associated with the puerperium (the first month of postpartum), or, sometimes also
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or associated with the puerperium (the first month of postpartum), or, sometimes also:
Of, pertaining to, or associated with the peripartum period including childbirth.
Derived terms: extrapuerperal
puerperal fever
puerperal and nonpuerperal mastitis
Related terms: antepartum
intrapartum
parous
peripartum
postpartum
prepartum
puerperium
eviscerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈvɪsəˌɹeɪt/
Forms: form: eviscerates
form: eviscerating
form: eviscerated
form: eviscerated
Etymology: From Latin ēviscerātus, past participle of ēviscerāre (“to disembowel”), from e- (“out”) + viscera (“bowels”).
Senses: examples: text: Desecrate me / Tear me limb from limb / Eviscerate me / Chew me to death
ref: 2004, Bloodbath, Eaten:
glosses: To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
examples: text: Coming on stage at sunrise on the Sunday, Jefferson Airplane greet the new day explaining they’re not a “hippie band” but “manic morning music”, then eviscerate Fred Neil’s Other Side of Life. Somebody to Love is also taken at breakneck speed – this turns out to be an energy tablet before a leaden day.
ref: 2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian:
text: Earlier the gentleman from California (Mr. Cardoza) got up on the floor, and he was upset that somebody had said that the underlying bill would eviscerate the Endangered Species Act.
ref: 2005, Congress, Congressional Record, volume 151, part 16, page 21847:
glosses: To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
glosses: To elicit the essence of.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
glosses: To protrude through a surgical incision.
raw_tags: of viscera
Synonyms: exenterate
Derived terms: evisceratingly
evisceration
eviscerator
uneviscerated
messenger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛs.n̩.d͡ʒɚ/
ipa: /ˈmɛs.n̩.d͡ʒə/
Forms: form: messengers
Etymology: From Middle English messengere, messingere, messangere, from Old French messanger, a variant of Old French messagier (French messager), equivalent to message + -er. Doublet of messager.
Displaced native Old English boda (“messenger, envoy”) and ǣrendraca (“messenger, ambassador”).
For the replacement of -ager with -enger, -inger, -anger, compare passenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer. This development may have been merely the addition of n, or it may have resulted due to contamination from other suffixes such as Middle English -ing and the rare Old French -ange, -enc, -inge, -inghe (“-ing”) for Old French -age (“-age”).
Senses: glosses: One who brings messages.
glosses: The secretary bird.
glosses: The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).
examples: text: The Messenger under the joint Commission of Bankruptcy might have seized the Whole, if they had remained in their Warehouse
ref: (Can we date this quote?), James Burrow, Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench:
topics: law
glosses: A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge of the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.
examples: text: The 4 primary messengers include ^([sic]) AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, and MSN Messenger.
ref: 2006, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Sexual exploitation of children over the Internet, page 395:
text: Have them meet you on your favorite messenger program. IMs provide a means of instant chat without waiting on someone to respond back to you.
ref: 2010, Tim Collins, A Woman's Guide to Internet Dating, A Male Perspective, page 49:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An instant messenger program.
examples: text: a messenger of doom
glosses: A forerunner or harbinger.
glosses: A light scudding cloud preceding a storm.
glosses: A piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: A weight dropped down a line to close a Nansen bottle.
glosses: A messenger-at-arms.
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pin which travels across the pin deck to knock over another pin, usually for a strike.
Derived terms: chemical messenger
corbie-messenger
death messenger
don't shoot the messenger
instant messenger
intermessenger
kill the messenger
messenger bag
messengerhood
messengerial
messengerly
messenger of death
messenger pigeon
messenger RNA
messengership
multimessenger
multi-messenger astronomy
neuromessenger
nonmessenger
raven-messenger
second messenger
shoot the messenger
messenger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛs.n̩.d͡ʒɚ/
ipa: /ˈmɛs.n̩.d͡ʒə/
Forms: form: messengers
form: messengering
form: messengered
form: messengered
Etymology: From Middle English messengere, messingere, messangere, from Old French messanger, a variant of Old French messagier (French messager), equivalent to message + -er. Doublet of messager.
Displaced native Old English boda (“messenger, envoy”) and ǣrendraca (“messenger, ambassador”).
For the replacement of -ager with -enger, -inger, -anger, compare passenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer. This development may have been merely the addition of n, or it may have resulted due to contamination from other suffixes such as Middle English -ing and the rare Old French -ange, -enc, -inge, -inghe (“-ing”) for Old French -age (“-age”).
Senses: examples: text: I'll messenger over the signed documents.
glosses: To send something by messenger.
Jacob
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪkəb/
Etymology: From Middle English Iacob, from Late Latin Iācōbus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ, literally “he will/shall heel”), from עָקֵב (ʿāqēḇ, “heel”). Doublet of James.
Senses: examples: text: "Georgette. How are you called?" "Jacob." "That's a Flemish name." "American too." "You're not a Flamand?" "No, American." "Good, I detest Flamands." - - -
Brett smiled at him. "I've promised to dance this with Jacob," she laughed. "You've a hell of a biblical name, Jake."
ref: 1927, Ernest Hemingway, chapter III, in The Sun Also Rises:
text: Analysts and opinion polls had forecast losses for the ANC but a pivotal factor in the party’s staggering decline was former President Jacob Zuma and his newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, which capitalized on widespread discontent within the ANC’s traditional voter base.
ref: 2024 June 5, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “Jacob Zuma has made a dramatic comeback in South Africa’s elections. Will he have the last laugh over Ramaphosa?”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
examples: text: And the boyes grew; and Eſau was a cunning hunter, a man of the fielde: and Iacob was a plaine man, dwelling in tents.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 25:27, column 2:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
One of the sons of Isaac and Rebecca, and twin brother of Esau; father of the Israelites (Jews and Samaritans) by 12 sons by 4 consorts, most famously Judah and Joseph who fathered Manasseh.
synonyms: Yaakov
Israel
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
The fifth son of Lehi and one of the younger brothers of Nephi, author of one of the books in the Book of Mormon.
Derived terms: Jacari
Jacobean
Jacob's ladder
Jacob's membrane
Jacob's staff
Related terms: Jack
Jacqueline
Jacques
Jake
Jakeb
James
Lay
Jacob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪkəb/
Forms: form: Jacobs
Etymology: From Middle English Iacob, from Late Latin Iācōbus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ, literally “he will/shall heel”), from עָקֵב (ʿāqēḇ, “heel”). Doublet of James.
Senses: glosses: A breed of multihorned sheep.
examples: text: Where's the Jacob? — the what, sir? — the Jacob! the ladder ye fool!
ref: 1825, M. Egerton, Airy Nothings; Or, Scraps and Naughts, and Odd-cum-shorts, page 26:
glosses: A ladder.
teetotaller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtitoʊtəlɚ/
ipa: /tiːˈtəʊtələ
ipa: ˈtiːtəʊtələ/
Forms: form: teetotallers
form: teetotaler
Etymology: From teetotal + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The six drivers foregathered and the rather surprising discovery was made that five out of the six were teetotallers.
ref: 1941 January, David L. Smith, “Still More G. & S.W. Nights' Entertainment”, in Railway Magazine, page 16:
glosses: British standard spelling of teetotaler.
Related terms: teetotal
teetotally
teetotaling
teetotalling
teetotalism
teetotaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtitoʊtəlɚ/
ipa: /ˈtiːtəʊtələ/
Forms: form: teetotalers
form: teetotaller
Etymology: From teetotal + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who completely abstains from alcoholic beverages.
Synonyms: word: abstainer
word: abstinent
word: aquabib
word: hydropot
word: teetotaler
word: teetotalist
word: nondrinker
word: water-drinker
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: designated driver
word: dry
word: Good Templar
word: prohibitionist
Related terms: word: teetotal
word: teetotally
word: teetotaling
word: teetotalism
word: on the wagon
word: take the pledge
word: sober
seraphim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕrˈ-ə-fĭmˌ
ipa: /ˈsɛɹ.əˌfɪm/
Etymology: From Latin seraphim, from Koine Greek σεραφείμ (serapheím), from Biblical Hebrew שְׂרָפִים (śərāp̄îm), plural of שָׂרָף (śārāp̄) (often translated as "fiery ones" although meaning is uncertain); perhaps related to the root שרף (“to burn”).
Senses: synonyms: seraphims
seraphs
glosses: plural of seraph
glosses: plural of saraph
seraphim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕrˈ-ə-fĭmˌ
ipa: /ˈsɛɹ.əˌfɪm/
Forms: form: seraphim
form: seraphims
Etymology: From Latin seraphim, from Koine Greek σεραφείμ (serapheím), from Biblical Hebrew שְׂרָפִים (śərāp̄îm), plural of שָׂרָף (śārāp̄) (often translated as "fiery ones" although meaning is uncertain); perhaps related to the root שרף (“to burn”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seraph.
seraphim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕrˈ-ə-fĭmˌ
ipa: /ˈsɛɹ.əˌfɪm/
Forms: form: seraphims
Etymology: From Latin seraphim, from Koine Greek σεραφείμ (serapheím), from Biblical Hebrew שְׂרָפִים (śərāp̄îm), plural of שָׂרָף (śārāp̄) (often translated as "fiery ones" although meaning is uncertain); perhaps related to the root שרף (“to burn”).
Senses: glosses: Lobophora halterata, a species of geometrid moth.
professionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈfɛʃənəˌlɪzəm/
Forms: form: professionalisms
Etymology: From professional + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The status, methods, character or standards expected of a professional or of a professional organization, such as reliability, discretion, evenhandedness, and fair play.
glosses: The use of professionals rather than amateurs in any sport etc.
Synonyms: professionality
professionalness
professionalship
Related terms: profession
professional
professionalist
professionalization
-isation
professionalize
-ise → professionalizing
-ising
professionally
seder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪdə/
ipa: /ˈseɪdɚ/
rhymes: -eɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: seders
form: sedarim
form: sidarim
form: siddarim
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew סדר (seder, “order”).
Senses: examples: text: On the same day, the State of Israel celebrated its first Passover seder and the United Nations, still meeting in those days at Flushing Meadow in Queens, voted to consider the Jewish state's application for membership.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 332:
glosses: The ceremonial meal held on the first night or two nights of Passover.
glosses: One of the 54 parts into which the Torah is divided.
eromenos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛˈɹəʊmɛnɒs/
Forms: form: eromenoi
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐρώμενος (erṓmenos, “beloved”).
Senses: examples: text: In his early twenties the young aristocratic lover (erastes) took a teen-aged youth, the eromenos or beloved, to bond with and train before going on at about age thirty to matrimony and fatherhood.
ref: 1996, William Armstrong Percy III, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece, University of Illinois Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 1:
coordinate_terms: erastes
glosses: An adolescent boy in Ancient Greece who was courted by an older man, or was in an erotic relationship with him.
e-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛ-/
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-der.
English e-
From Latin ē-.
Senses: examples: e.g. eluviation, edentulous, elenge
synonyms: ex-
glosses: Used to form adjectives with the sense of something being absent, being removed, or moving outward.
e-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛ-/
ipa: /i-/
ipa: /ɛ-/
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Italic *-kos
Latin -cus
Latin -icus
New Latin ēlectricusbor.
English electric
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti
Proto-Hellenic *éimi
Ancient Greek εἶμι (eîmi)der.
English ion
English electron
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English electronic
English e-
Abbreviation of electronic.
Senses: coordinate_terms: cyber-
i-
glosses: In an electronic form, especially computerized and digital; often in association with the Internet.
e-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛ-/
ipa: /i-/
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *mesg-
Proto-Indo-European *mésgeti
Latin mergō
Latin ēmergō
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Latin -ns
Latin -ēns
Latin emergensbor.
English emergency
English e-
Abbreviation of emergency.
Senses: examples: e-stop, e-brake
glosses: For emergency purposes.
e-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛ-/
ipa: /i-/
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Italic *-kos
Latin -cus
Latin -icus
New Latin ēlectricusbor.
English electric
English e-
Abbreviation of electric or electrical.
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: Used to prefix product names, to indicate an electrified or all-electric variant of the product, particularly cars.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Used to prefix product names, to indicate an electrified or all-electric variant of the product, particularly cars.
Used to prefix product names, to indicate a battery-powered or onboard electric power source variant.
examples: text: e-stim
glosses: Electric.
e-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛ-/
ipa: /i-/
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Old Latin en
Latin in
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English en-
Proto-Germanic *badją
Proto-West Germanic *badi
Old English bedd
Middle English bed
English bed
English embed
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz
Old English -od
Middle English -ed
English -ed
English embedded
English e-
Abbreviation of embedded.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Used to prefix items that are embedded into devices, instead of being discrete or removable elements.
e-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛ-/
ipa: /i-/
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *dewk-
Proto-Indo-European *déwkti
Proto-Italic *doukō
Latin dūcō
Latin ēducō
Proto-Indo-European *-tisder.
Proto-Italic *-tjō
Latin -tiō
Latin ēducātiōder.
English education
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English educational
English e-
Abbreviation of educational.
Senses: glosses: educational
cum laude
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkumˈlaʊdə/
ipa: /ˌkumˈlɔdə/
ipa: /ˌkʌmˈlaʊdə/
ipa: /ˌkʌmˈlɔdə/
Etymology: From Latin cum (“with”) + laude (ablative of laus, "praise").
Senses: glosses: With praise; an honor added to a diploma or degree for work that is above average.
Related terms: applaud
laudatory
lauds
magna cum laude
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -aʊdi
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: glosses: "With great praise"; an honor added to a diploma or degree for work considered to be of much higher quality than average.
Related terms: cum laude
summa cum laude
summa cum laude
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -aʊdi
Etymology: From Latin summā cum laude (“with the greatest praise”).
Senses: examples: text: Nancy graduated from the university summa cum laude.
coordinate_terms: cum laude
magna cum laude
glosses: With highest (of three degrees of) praise; as noted, as an honor, on diplomas and degrees for work that is considered to be of the highest quality.
Related terms: cum laude
egregia cum laude
magna cum laude
Proto-Indo-European
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹəʊ̯təʊ̯ˌɪndə(ʊ̯)ˌjʊə̯ɹəˈpiːən/
ipa: /-ˌjɔːɹəˈ-/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊ̯toʊ̯ˌɪndoʊ̯ˌjʊɹəˈpi.ən/
Etymology: From proto- + Indo-European.
Senses: examples: text: The word mother comes from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.
text: The plural English word brethren and the Farsi word that is pronounced as 'baradaran' both come from the same Proto-Indo-European root word.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The reconstructed ancestor language or protolanguage of the Indo-European family of languages, which includes most European, Iranian, and Indian languages.
Synonyms: word: Indo-European
word: Indo-Germanic
word: Proto-Indo-Germanic
Derived terms: Early Proto-Indo-European
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Proto-Indo-European terms
Proto-Indo-European
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹəʊ̯təʊ̯ˌɪndə(ʊ̯)ˌjʊə̯ɹəˈpiːən/
ipa: /-ˌjɔːɹəˈ-/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊ̯toʊ̯ˌɪndoʊ̯ˌjʊɹəˈpi.ən/
Forms: form: Proto-Indo-Europeans
Etymology: From proto- + Indo-European.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Indo-European
glosses: A person who spoke the Proto-Indo-European language.
Proto-Indo-European
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹəʊ̯təʊ̯ˌɪndə(ʊ̯)ˌjʊə̯ɹəˈpiːən/
ipa: /-ˌjɔːɹəˈ-/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊ̯toʊ̯ˌɪndoʊ̯ˌjʊɹəˈpi.ən/
Etymology: From proto- + Indo-European.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Proto-Indo-European language, or the people who spoke it.
Related terms: European
Indian
Indo-European language family
proto-
Albanian
Anatolian
Armenian
Balto-Slavic
Celtic
Germanic
Greek
Indo-Iranian
Italic
Tocharian
Wiktionary’s coverage of Proto-Indo-European terms
scare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɛə/
ipa: /skɛɚ/
ipa: /skɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /skeː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /skeə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /skiə/
ipa: /skeɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /skɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scares
Etymology: From Middle English sker, skere (“terror, fright”), from the verb Middle English skerren (“to frighten”) (see below).
Senses: examples: text: Johnny had a bad scare last night.
text: England were held to a draw after surviving a major scare against Switzerland as they were forced to come from two goals behind to earn a point in the Euro 2012 qualifier at Wembley.
ref: 2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC:
glosses: A minor fright.
examples: text: a food-poisoning scare
glosses: A cause of terror or alarm; a panic; something that inspires fear or dread.
examples: text: But I admit the possibility of their being used as "scares" for either birds of prey or snakes, or both.
ref: 1948, Alec H. Chisholm, Bird Wonders of Australia, page 153:
glosses: A device or object used to frighten.
Synonyms: fright
Derived terms: jump-scare
jump scare
lavender scare
red scare
scarebug
scare campaign
scare chord
scarehead
scareless
scareline
scare line
scare quote
scare tactic
scary
Related terms: scarecrow
scare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɛə/
ipa: /skɛɚ/
ipa: /skɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /skeː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /skeə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /skiə/
ipa: /skeɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /skɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more scare
form: most scare
Senses: glosses: lean; scanty
phosphorescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more phosphorescent
form: most phosphorescent
Etymology: From phosphorus + -escent.
It's interesting to note that phosphorus is not phosphorescent. Some phosphoric mixtures can be luminescent through chemical reactions, but none exhibit literal phosphorescence.
Senses: examples: text: So he imports this special breed of scorpions and feeds them on metal meal and the scorpions turned a phosphorescent blue color and sort of hummed.
ref: 1966 [1961], William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy), New York: Grove Press, page 11:
glosses: Having the property of emitting light for a period of time after the source of excitation is taken away, e.g., in electrostatic storage tubes and cathode-ray tubes.
Derived terms: electrophosphorescent
phosphorescence
phosphorescently
photophosphorescent
semiphosphorescent
Related terms: phosphor
phosphoresce
phosphoroscope
phosphorescent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: phosphorescents
Etymology: From phosphorus + -escent.
It's interesting to note that phosphorus is not phosphorescent. Some phosphoric mixtures can be luminescent through chemical reactions, but none exhibit literal phosphorescence.
Senses: glosses: A phosphorescent substance.
Russian doll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Russian dolls
Senses: examples: text: When she opened it he saw her eyes flash to Simon's, saw the tremulous smile and the stroke of her finger down the painted face of the Russian doll. Those dolls that had other dolls inside.
ref: 2014, Fiona McArthur, Midwife's Mistletoe Baby, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: One of a set of hollow nesting dolls, usually wooden and decorated.
examples: text: Any society is thus like a Russian doll, only much more complicated than this toy, whose inclusions are linear, i.e. unidimensional. A society can be imagined as a multidimensional Russian doll.
ref: 2012, G. Bernard, Principia Economica, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 2:
text: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss has been described as a complex Russian-doll structure; a narrative inside another inside another. The form is fragmented. There are multiple voices, multiple narrative strands set out […]
ref: 2014, Julie Armstrong, Experimental Fiction: An Introduction for Readers and Writers, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 173:
text: Like a Russian doll, a document within the document within the document follows. This last document is in fact the last part of the document discussed in the previous section: the résumé of the evidence and the verdict.
ref: 2015, David d'Avray, Papacy, Monarchy and Marriage 860–1600, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: An issue or situation which repeatedly reveals more levels of complexity.
Synonyms: sense: wooden doll
word: matryoshka
sense: wooden doll
word: matreshka
sense: wooden doll
word: matrëshka
sense: wooden doll
word: matrioshka
sense: wooden doll
word: matrioshka doll
sense: wooden doll
word: matryoshka doll
sense: wooden doll
word: babushka
sense: both senses
word: nesting doll
fringer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fringers
Etymology: From fringe + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes fringes for garments
qualifier: scrapbooks
glosses: A device for making paper fringes
glosses: One who attends Fringe theater festival (e.g., the Edinburgh Fringe festival)
examples: text: The region was remote; the early explorers were pirates, fugitives and fringers, followed by miscellaneous settlers, to the effect that Camberwell had been inhabited for many thousands of years.
ref: 1998, Jack Vance, Night Lamp http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0312864728&id=fEfpyaadd7cC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&sig=6m1yzALlxahLdw7yucMb6umOn-4
text: In any gathering there are always those at the fringe of the crowd where they can creep away when the message goes against their liking. You might call them fringers.
ref: 2001, Leslie A Turvey in Blessed Are They Which Are Persecuted, March 25, 2001
text: 2001, Orson Scott Card, The Folk of the Fringe http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0312876637&id=WycRLdcQL1EC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&sig=0bsLGgglyoCuT5BWsVFGcy2FG5g
If at any point a fringer fails to plant, if at any point the soil is broken, then the rains eat channels under it, and tear away the fringe on either side, and eat back into farmland behind it.
text: 2001, R Celeste Ray, Highland Heritage http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0807849138&id=2pyqgupHqtgC&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&sig=Vr_AWP7zbnxHpFuxcI1HXOJ9pqo
These fringers are distinguished from mainstreamers by their lack of exposure to, or interest in, Jacobitism and Highlandism.
glosses: A person on the fringe of anything; e.g. a crowd, or society in general
cumber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmbə/
rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cumbers
form: cumbering
form: cumbered
form: cumbered
form: cumbre
Etymology: From Middle English combren, aphetic form of acombren or encombren, borrowed from Old French encombrer, ultimately either from Latin cumulus or Proto-Celtic *kombereti (“to bring together”), from *kom- + *bereti (“to bear”). Cognate with German kümmern (“to take care of”).
Senses: examples: text: Why asks he what avails him not in fight, / And would but cumber and retard his flight?
ref: 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, […] but cumbers the memory.
ref: a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC:
text: Wounded and overthrown, the Britons continued their resistance, clung round the legs of the Norman steeds, and cumbered their advance; while their brethren, thrusting with pikes, proved every joint and crevice of the plate and mail, or grappling with the men-at-arms, strove to pull them from their horses by main force, or beat them down with their bills and Welch hooks.
ref: 1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume I (The Betrothed), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 71:
text: […] the base villain who murdered this poor defenceless old man, when he had not, by the course of nature, a twelvemonth's life in him, shall not cumber the earth long after him.
ref: 1886, Sir Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel. Pub.: Adams & Charles Black, Edinburgh; page 321
text: [T]hese people, whose name, much as I would like to express my gratitude to them, I may not even give here, nevertheless cumbered themselves with me, sheltered me and protected me from myself.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 290:
text: Why had he not killed himself long ago? Why cumbered he the earth?
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
text: Moreover, that distinctive hair of hers was screwed up into a tight plait and she carried a heavy basket on her hip and a weighted bucket of oysters in her other hand, which cumbered the grace of her body and turned her into the dull replica of any other peasant creature.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 98:
synonyms: encumber
see also Thesaurus:hinder
glosses: To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber.
Derived terms: cumberer
cumberground
cumberless
cumberment
cumbersome
cumberworld
discumber
overcumber
uncumber
Related terms: encumber
encumbrance
cumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmbə/
rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English komber, kumbre, cumbre, combre (“distress; destruction”). Used in 14th century Middle English in the very scarcely attested “destruction” sense but not in common use until the 16th century; at first chiefly Scots, where it is also spelled cummer. Further etymology is uncertain, the term is either:
* an aphetic form of encomber, encumbir, encumbre (“trouble; misfortune; harm, ruin”), itself from Old French encombre (“a hindrance, difficulty”), see Etymology 1 and French encombrer for further etymology; or,
* cognate with Middle High German kumber (German Kummer), Middle Low German kummer, and Dutch kommer with which it strikingly shares the meaning “trouble, distress”, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kumbraz (“burden, trouble, sorrow”); or,
* a deverbal from cumber.
Senses: examples: text: Fleet foot on the correi, / Sage counsel in cumber, / Red hand in the foray, / How sound is thy slumber!
ref: 1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 3.XVI:
glosses: Trouble, distress.
glosses: Something that encumbers; a hindrance, a burden.
Derived terms: cumbrous
cumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmbə/
rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cumbers
form: 'cumber
Senses: glosses: Clipping of cucumber.
seraphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seraphins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of xeraphim.
Serapis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sarapis
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Serāpis, from Ancient Greek Σάρᾱπις (Sárāpis), from Egyptian wsjr-ḥp, from wsjr (“Osiris”) + ḥp (“Apis”).
Senses: glosses: A Graeco-Egyptian god devised during the 3rd century BC as a means to unify the Greeks and Egyptians in the realm of Ptolemy I.
Derived terms: Serapic
Related terms: Serapeum
Sappho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæfoʊ/
ipa: /ˈsæfəʊ/
Etymology: From Latin Sapphō, from Ancient Greek Σαπφώ (Sapphṓ).
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek female name, particularly borne by a poetess from Lesbos who lived between 630 and 570 BC (exact dates unknown).
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 80 Sappho, a main belt asteroid.
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Derived terms: Sapphic
sapphic
a.m.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: a. m.
form: am
form: AM
form: A. M.
form: A.M.
form: a
form: A
Etymology: Abbreviation of ante meridiem (“before noon”).
Senses: examples: text: Greenfield … Monday thru Friday, 9 to 12 a.m.
ref: 1967, United States Travel Service, Plant Tours for International Visitors to the United States, page 49
text: One of the most common night shifts is the 12 a.m.-to-8 a.m. shift.
ref: 2001, Customs Service effects of proposed legislation on officers' pay, United States General Accounting Office, page 45:
text: We never say 12 a.m. or 12 p.m. It's either 12 midnight or 12 noon, respectively.
ref: 2007, Khurana Rohit, Number Game 4, page 144:
text: The 12-hour clock uses A.M. for the morning hours of midnight (12:00 A.M.) to almost noon (11:59 A.M.) and the P.M. designation for the hours from noon (12:00 P.M.) to almost midnight (11:59 PM).
ref: 2009, Robert Bill, Medical Mathematics and Dosage Calculations for Veterinary Professionals, page 348:
text: The 12-hour clock, which is used in the U.S., Canada, and a few other countries, divides time into two cycles: a.m. (ante meridiem, Latin for before midday) from midnight, 12 a.m., to 11:59 a.m.; and p.m. (post meridiem, Latin for after midday) from noon, 12 p.m., to 11:59 p.m.
ref: 2015, Arhlene A. Flowers, Global Writing for Public Relations, page 141:
text: The following daylight peaks are identified around lunchtime, from 12 am to 1 pm, while for weekend days, the curve show several daylight peaks from 7 am to late lunchtime, around 1 pm.
ref: 2021, Jukka Heinonen, Ortzi Akizu-Gardoki, Sanna Ala-Mantila, Energy Efficient Cities of Today and Tomorrow, page 196:
text: Some AI startups are taking the workplace back to the dark ages, adopting the Chinese “9-9-6 work schedule” in which employees toil from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. six days a week from Monday to Saturday.
ref: 2025 August 4, Bryan Robinson, “The ‘9-9-6 Work Schedule’ Could Be Coming To Your Workplace Soon”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2025:
glosses: In the 12-hour period from midnight to noon (the first half of the day) when using the 12-hour clock.
raw_tags: used after the hour
Synonyms: in the forenoon
a.m.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: a. m.
form: am
form: AM
form: A. M.
form: A.M.
form: a
form: A
Etymology: Abbreviation of ante meridiem (“before noon”).
Senses: glosses: Initialism of ad modum.
p.m.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːˈɛm/
rhymes: -ɛm
Forms: form: PM
form: P. M.
form: P.M.
form: p. m.
form: pm
form: P
raw_tags: for "post meridiem"
form: p
raw_tags: for "post meridiem"
Etymology: Abbreviation of post meridiem (“after noon”).
Senses: examples: text: HOURLY PRECIPITATION … 9 PM THROUGH 12 PM (MIDNIGHT) ZERO DAILY TOTAL
ref: 1971, U.S. Department of Commerce, Hourly Precipitation Data: Ohio, page 14
text: We never say 12 a.m. or 12 p.m. It's either 12 midnight or 12 noon, respectively.
ref: 2007, Khurana Rohit, Number Game 4, page 144:
text: The 12-hour clock uses A.M. for the morning hours of midnight (12:00 A.M.) to almost noon (11:59 A.M.) and the P.M. designation for the hours from noon (12:00 P.M.) to almost midnight (11:59 PM).
ref: 2009, Robert Bill, Medical Mathematics and Dosage Calculations for Veterinary Professionals, page 348:
text: The 12-hour clock, which is used in the U.S., Canada, and a few other countries, divides time into two cycles: a.m. (ante meridiem, Latin for before midday) from midnight, 12 a.m., to 11:59 a.m.; and p.m. (post meridiem, Latin for after midday) from noon, 12 p.m., to 11:59 p.m.
ref: 2015, Arhlene A. Flowers, Global Writing for Public Relations, page 141:
text: Anna. — Yes, Ms. Weaver. — Are you busy? — Yes, Ms. Weaver. I am busy. — My office. 5:00 p.m. — 5:00 p.m.
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text: CNN is seeking comment from legal representation for Martin. He is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday at 3 p.m. PT (6 p.m. ET).
ref: 2022 April 4, Susannah Cullinane, Holly Yan, Stella Chan and Cheri Mossburg, “All 6 victims killed in the Sacramento mass shooting are identified as police arrest a suspect”, in CNN:
text: The Taoyuan City Fire Department said that two others, a man and a woman, were pulled from the vehicle alive after rescuers were called to the scene of the accident near Sbunaw Bridge in Fuxing District at 12:27 p.m.
ref: 2023 August 3, Yeh Chen, Bernadette Hsiao, “4 found without vital signs after vehicle plunges into rural Taoyuan valley”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2023, Society:
text: Some AI startups are taking the workplace back to the dark ages, adopting the Chinese “9-9-6 work schedule” in which employees toil from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. six days a week from Monday to Saturday.
ref: 2025 August 4, Bryan Robinson, “The ‘9-9-6 Work Schedule’ Could Be Coming To Your Workplace Soon”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2025:
glosses: In the 12-hour period from noon to midnight (the latter half of the day) when using the 12-hour clock.
raw_tags: used after the hour
Synonyms: in the afternoon
p.m.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːˈɛm/
rhymes: -ɛm
Forms: form: PM
form: P. M.
form: P.M.
form: p. m.
form: pm
form: P
raw_tags: for "post meridiem"
form: p
raw_tags: for "post meridiem"
Etymology: Abbreviation of post mortem (“after death”).
Senses: glosses: after death
p.m.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːˈɛm/
rhymes: -ɛm
Forms: form: PM
form: P. M.
form: P.M.
form: p. m.
form: pm
form: P
raw_tags: for "post meridiem"
form: p
raw_tags: for "post meridiem"
Etymology: Abbreviation of palm muting.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Abbreviation of palm muting.
polyorchidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From polyorchid + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Several classification systems have been proposed for polyorchidism, based either on the level of division of the urogenital ridge [1], [3] or, more recently, by reference to the anatomical arrangement and location of the testis, epididymis and vas deferens [1], [4].
ref: 2013 January 24, Chloe B. Wilcox, Rachel D'Cruz, Andrew J.A. Holland, “Polyorchism in association with an undescended testis and testicular atrophy: Report of a unique case and review of the literature”, in Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, volume 1, number 1, →DOI, page e7:
glosses: The medical condition of having more than two testicles.
Synonyms: polyorchism
Related terms: cryptorchidism
monorchidism
prefiguration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prefigurations
form: præfiguration
Etymology: From Late Latin praefigurationem, nominative form of praefiguratio.
Senses: examples: text: Those ceremonies were prefigurations of Christ to come : these traditions are defigurations and deformations of Christ exhibited
ref: 1628, Joseph Hall, Christian Liberty Laid Forth:
glosses: A vague representation or suggestion of something before it has happened or been accomplished.
glosses: Something that prefigures.
grandfather clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandfather clocks
Etymology: From an 1876 song, Grandfather's Clock, by American songwriter Henry Work, based on a clock in the George Hotel in Piercebridge, County Durham, England, which stopped keeping time after its owner died.
Senses: glosses: A longcase clock.
Related terms: grandmother clock
floor clock
Gallegan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gallegans
Senses: glosses: A Galician; a citizen of Galicia.
Gallegan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Galician language spoken in Galicia, evolved directly from Latin with close ties with Portuguese.
Synonyms: Galician
Related terms: Galicia
Galiza
yo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /joʊ/
Etymology: As a greeting first attested in 1859, attested first as a cry of sailors and huntsmen (first attested in the 1400s; compare e.g. huzzah, giddyup). Originally from Middle English yo, io, ȝo, yeo, yaw, variant forms of ya, ye (“yes, yea”), from Old English ġēa (“yes, yea”), from Proto-Germanic *ja (“yes, thus, so”); or perhaps from Old English ēow (“Wo!, Alas!”, interjection). Compare Danish, Swedish, German, Norwegian jo (“yes (flexible meaning)”), Dutch jow (“hi, hey”) and Dutch jo (“hi, hey”). More at yea, ow, ew.
Modern popularity apparently dates from the early 20th century in Philadelphia, PA; amongst the Italian Community there, where io, with (as opposed to in standard Italian language) the stress on the ultima, was a common salutatory response among residents, particularly young males. This usage was apparently reinforced by the aforesaid English terms. It has been claimed to have been a common response at roll calls during World War 2 (see definition 4), and then most intensely attested in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; it thence spread globally from American dominance of pop culture post-WWII.
Senses: examples: text: Yo Paulie! How's it going?
synonyms: oi
wotcher
glosses: A greeting similar to hi.
examples: text: Yo, check this out!
text: Check this out, yo!
synonyms: word: ahoy
word: oi
word: ahem
word: ahoy
word: cooee
word: hey
word: heyo
word: hoi
word: hoo man
word: oi
word: oi oi
word: yo
word: yoohoo
glosses: An interjection similar to hey.
examples: text: Yo, that's crazy, but I don't remember asking.
text: I have quickly acclimated myself to the standard form of greeting on campus: "Oh hey what’s your name? … Yeah, nice to meet you, what're you studying? … Yo that’s sick!" A script to recite, nearly verbatim, 10 times a day or more.
ref: 2021 October 2, Mason Cannon, “Don't Feel Pressured To Declare Your Major Right Away”, in Study Breaks:
glosses: An expression of surprise or excitement.
examples: Sergeant: Smith?
Private Smith: Yo!
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Present! Here!
examples: text: JESSE: That is messed up, yo.
ref: 2010, "Kafkaesque" (Breaking Bad TV series, season 3, episode 9)
qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular
glosses: Emphatic conclusion to a statement.
Synonyms: sense: greeting
word: hey
word: hi
word: hey
Derived terms: yo-ho
yo-ho-ho
yo
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /joʊ/
Forms: form: yo'
Etymology: From a non-rhotic pronunciation of your.
Senses: examples: text: Yo sandwich has only bacon in it. Want some ketchup on that?
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of your.
Derived terms: yo momma
yo
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /joʊ/
Etymology: Ellipsis of such phrases as your friend/buddy (over there), your brother/sister, your mom/dad, etc., referring to someone, whether present or absent (or male or female), who is related to the interlocutor in some way. All such forms were then shortened to your (pronounced [joʊ]), for swiftness of expression; eventually, the original meaning "your [something]" was lost and broadened to "that person".
Senses: examples: raw_tags: original sense
text: Is dat yo mama? What's yo doin' in here??
raw_tags: current broadened sense
text: I think I've lost ma pet turtle! You seen yo? Yo mustn't be far from here...
raw_tags: Example taken from Stotko and Troyer (2007).
text: Yo was tuckin' in his shirt!
text: Wha' dey did to yo? Yo looks nervous!
qualifier: Baltimore
glosses: Generic third-person singular pronoun (primarily used in place of he and she).
Derived terms: yo momma
yo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /joʊ/
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of year(s) old; also y.o., y/o.
qualifier: crochet
glosses: Initialism of yarn over.
yo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /joʊ/
ipa: /jɒ/
ipa: /jəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /joʊ/
Forms: form: yos
Etymology: From Russian ё (jo).
Senses: glosses: The name of the letter Ё/ё in Cyrillic alphabets.
Related terms: yoficate
yofication
yoficator
yo
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /joʊ/
ipa: /jɒ/
Senses: glosses: Clipping of yoleven.
yo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /joʊ/
ipa: /jɒ/
Forms: form: yo
form: yos
Etymology: From irregular romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 龠 (yuè).
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of yue, a traditional Chinese unit of volume.
Related terms: fro-yo
yo-weight
yo-yo
yo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /joʊ/
ipa: /jɒ/
Forms: form: yos
Senses: topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Alternative form of YO
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Alternative form of YO:
Abbreviation of yarnover.
yo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /joʊ/
ipa: /jɒ/
Forms: form: yos
form: yoing
form: yoed
form: yoed
Senses: topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Alternative form of YO
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Alternative form of YO:
Abbreviation of yarnover.