cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /haʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: hounds
form: hounding
form: hounded
form: hounded
Etymology: From Middle English hounden, from the noun (see above).
Senses: examples: text: He hounded me for weeks, but I was simply unable to pay back his loan.
text: More pertinently for the plot, another marked difference from history is that the United Kingdom of this 1982 is precociously computerised. Instead of having been hounded to death for his homosexuality, the scientist Alan Turing is thriving and lauded.
ref: 2019 April 11, Marcel Theroux, “Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan review – intelligent mischief”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: badger
word: bait
word: badger
word: bait
word: bedevil
word: beleaguer
word: persecute
word: bug
word: beset
word: chevy
word: give someone grief
word: harass
word: harry
word: hound
word: pester
word: pick at
word: plague
word: vex
glosses: To persistently harass doggedly.
examples: text: We both thought we saw what had the appearance to be a fox, and hounded the dogs at it, but they would not pursue it.
ref: 1897, Andrew Lang, The Book of Dreams and Ghosts, page 162:
glosses: To urge on against; to set (dogs) upon in hunting.
Derived terms: hound down
unhounded
hound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: hounds
form: hune
Etymology: From Middle English hownde, hount, houn, probably from Old Norse húnn, from Proto-Germanic *hūnaz.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Projections located at the masthead or foremast, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top on which to rest; a foretop.
glosses: A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.
lathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lāth
ipa: /leɪð/
rhymes: -eɪð
Forms: form: lathes
form: lathing
form: lathed
form: lathed
form: laith
Etymology: From Middle English lathen, from Old English laþian (“to invite, summon, call upon, ask”), from Proto-West Germanic *laþōn, from Proto-Germanic *laþōną (“to invite”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to want, desire”). Cognate with German laden (“to invite”), Icelandic laða (“to attract”).
Senses: glosses: To invite; bid; ask.
lathe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lāth
ipa: /leɪð/
rhymes: -eɪð
Forms: form: lathes
form: lath
Etymology: From Middle English *lath, leth, from Old English lǣþ (“a division of a county containing several hundreds, a district, lathe”), from Proto-West Germanic *lāþ.
Senses: glosses: An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century.
lathe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lāth
ipa: /leɪð/
rhymes: -eɪð
Forms: form: lathes
Etymology: From Middle English lathe (“turning-lathe; stand”), from Old Norse hlað (“pile, heap”)—compare dialectal Danish lad (“stand, support frame”) (as in drejelad (“turning-lathe”), savelad (“saw bench”)), dialectal Norwegian la, lad (“pile, small wall”), dialectal Swedish lad (“folding table, lay of a loom”)—from hlaða (“to load”). More at lade.
Senses: examples: text: He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe.
text: 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
Of the windows of the village there was one yet more often occupied; for on Sundays from morning to night, and every morning when the weather was bright, one could see at the dormer-window of the garret the profile of Monsieur Binet bending over his lathe, whose monotonous humming could be heard at the Lion d'Or.
topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tools
woodworking
hypernyms: machine tool
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machine
coordinate_terms: see at machine tool § Hyponyms
glosses: A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
synonyms: beater
batten
lay
glosses: The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.
examples: text: […]lathe, a barn, is still used in some parts of Yorkshire, but chiefly in local designations, being otherwise obsolescent ; see the Cleveland and Whitby glossaries. ‘The northern man writing to his neighbor may say, “My lathe standeth neer the kirkegarth,” for My barn standeth neere the churchyard’
ref: 2008 [1894], Walter William Skeat, Notes on The Canterbury Tales. Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 5, page 124:
glosses: A granary; a barn.
Derived terms: engine lathe
wheel lathe
Blanchard lathe
cryolathe
duplex lathe
gap lathe
geometric lathe
gibbed lathe
lapidary's lathe
lathe carrier
latheless
lathelike
latheman
lathesman
lathework
pole lathe
throw lathe
turret lathe
lathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lāth
ipa: /leɪð/
rhymes: -eɪð
Forms: form: lathes
form: lathing
form: lathed
form: lathed
Etymology: From Middle English lathe (“turning-lathe; stand”), from Old Norse hlað (“pile, heap”)—compare dialectal Danish lad (“stand, support frame”) (as in drejelad (“turning-lathe”), savelad (“saw bench”)), dialectal Norwegian la, lad (“pile, small wall”), dialectal Swedish lad (“folding table, lay of a loom”)—from hlaða (“to load”). More at lade.
Senses: glosses: To shape with a lathe.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
Related terms: lath
turner
photograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊ.təˌɡɹɑːf/
ipa: [ˈfəʊ̯.tʰə̥ˌɡɹ̠ɑːf]
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæf/
ipa: [ˈfoʊ̯.ɾəˌɡɹ̠æf]
Forms: form: photographs
Etymology: From photo- + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: The hundredodd pages of photographs provide superb iconography of artistic collaboration and its rewards.
ref: 1975 May 4, Dale Harris, “Merce Cunningham”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2024:
text: A photograph showing a column of tenodd cars with black registration plates moving along an empty highway on their way to Subotica, […]
ref: 1994 February 21, Dejan Anastasijevic, “VREME: The Front Page: The Departure”, in TOL, archived from the original on 28 Oct 2020:
text: Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
ref: 2012 March 23, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 106:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
Derived terms: aerial photograph
air photograph
astrophotograph
autophotograph
chromophotograph
chronophotograph
fauxtograph
file photograph
goniophotograph
macrophotograph
microphotograph
orthophotograph
photo
photoganda
photographability
photographee
photographer
photographess
photographic
photographist
photographize
photographometer
photographone
photography
photoillustration
photomaton
pseudophotograph
radiophotograph
telephotograph
thoughtograph
X-ray photograph
photograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊ.təˌɡɹɑːf/
ipa: [ˈfəʊ̯.tʰə̥ˌɡɹ̠ɑːf]
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæf/
ipa: [ˈfoʊ̯.ɾəˌɡɹ̠æf]
Forms: form: photographs
form: photographing
form: photographed
form: photographed
Etymology: From photo- + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.
ref: 1891, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing:
text: The boy who made headlines when he was photographed hugging an officer during a 2014 protest against police brutality is missing after his family’s SUV plunged 100 feet off a coastal highway in California, officials said Wednesday.
ref: 2018 March 28, Melissa Gray, “Boy in viral hug photo missing after family’s car plunges off cliff”, in CNN:
text: As the game worlds we explore have become more beautiful, players have become more interested in photographing them and sharing the results.
ref: 2019 February 25, Jordan Erica Webber, “Point and shoot: what's next for photography in video games?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To take a photograph (of).
examples: text: He is photographed on my mind.
ref: 1881, Mary Anne Hardy, Through Cities and Prairie Lands:
text: The scene and its surroundings were photographed on my memory.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 12:
glosses: To fix permanently in the memory etc.
examples: text: She photographs well. The camera loves her.
text: He told me that he liked Dolls Kill just fine—its clothes photographed well and he always wore them to Coachella—but attending this event was basically work for him.
ref: 2021 February 6, Rachel Monroe, “Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2021:
glosses: To appear in a photograph.
Derived terms: outphotograph
overphotographed
photographable
rephotograph
unphotographed
turn into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns into
form: turning into
form: turned into
form: turned into
Etymology: turn + into
Senses: examples: text: The carriage turned into a pumpkin at midnight.
glosses: To transform into; become.
examples: text: "I am the nursery magic Fairy," she said. "I take care of all the playthings that the children have loved. When they are old and worn out and the children don't need them any more, then I come and take them away with me and turn them into Real."
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
ref: 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
glosses: To transform into; cause to become.
examples: text: I was just turning into my driveway when I got your call.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, into.
Synonyms: sense: intransitive: become
word: become
sense: transitive: cause to become
word: make
word: make into
Derived terms: you can't turn a hoe into a housewife
Related terms: turn
turn in
turn into a pumpkin
turnaround
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜːnəˌɹaʊnd/
ipa: /ˈtɜɹnəˌɹaʊnd/
Forms: form: turnarounds
form: turn-around
form: turn around
form: turnround
Etymology: Deverbal from turn around.
Senses: examples: text: The basketball player made a turnaround jump shot.
synonyms: U-turn
glosses: The act of turning to face in the other direction.
synonyms: U-turn
glosses: A reversal of policy.
examples: text: They tried to reduce their turnaround on incoming paperwork.
text: They tried to reduce their turnaround time on incoming paperwork. [noun adjunct form]
glosses: The carrying out of a task; the time required to carry it out.
examples: text: Drogba's goal early in the second half - his fourth in this Wembley showpiece - proved decisive as the remarkable turnaround in Chelsea's fortunes under interim manager Roberto di Matteo was rewarded with silverware.
ref: 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A turnabout; a reversal of circumstances.
examples: text: Many media arts companies use turnarounds to ensure that when you draw the character you know what it looks like from the front, the side and the back.
ref: 2012, Bryan Tillman, Creative Character Design, page 134:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A series of sketches of a character as seen from different angles.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A cadence linking the end of a verse to the beginning of the next.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The notation for the addition of a grace note above then below a given note.
glosses: Synonym of goback.
synonyms: word: goback
glosses: The scheduled shutdown of an industrial plant, such as an oil rig, for maintenance and testing.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A contractual provision by which, if the studio elects to abandon a film project, the producer has a limited period in which to sell it elsewhere.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Preparations for takeoff, such as loading and servicing.
examples: text: A new company […] has been set up to provide satellite turnaround and fiber connectivity facilities between Asia and Europe.
ref: 1999, Cyprus Embassy Newsletter, page 4:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: The relaying of a satellite signal.
Derived terms: turnaround artist
turnaround time
Related terms: overturn
turnover
turn over a new leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns over a new leaf
form: turning over a new leaf
form: turned over a new leaf
form: turned over a new leaf
Etymology: Figurative by the same metaphor as with turn the page.
Senses: examples: text: Every year he resolves to turn over a new leaf and start exercising.
glosses: To engage in self-improvement; to begin a good habit or shed a bad habit.
Synonyms: start with a clean sheet
turn the page
Related terms: get one's act together
wipe the slate clean
polish off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: polishes off
form: polishing off
form: polished off
form: polished off
Senses: examples: text: They polished off the last of the cake.
synonyms: finish off
glosses: To finish completely, especially a food (polish the plate with one's tongue) or liquor.
examples: text: White rice is rice that has had the brownish hull polished off leaving just the white inner part of the grain.
glosses: To remove by polishing (rubbing with a fine abrasive).
garlic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑːlɪk/
enpr: gärˈlĭk
ipa: /ˈɡɑɹlɪk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lɪk
homophone: garlick
ipa: /'gɑː(r)lɪk/
other: /'gA:(r)lIk/
Forms: form: garlics
form: garlicking
form: garlicked
form: garlicked
form: garlick
form: garlicke
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English garlek, garlik, from Old English gārlēac (“garlic”, literally “spear-leek”), from gār ("spear"; in reference to its sharp, tapering leaves) + lēac (“leek”). Cognate with Scots garlic (“garlic”), Faroese geirleykur (“garlic”), Icelandic geirlaukur (“garlic”).
Senses: examples: text: […]then through the sunned gathering of her marjoram and sweet basil from the herb garden, reading of book reviews in the latest Scientific American, into the layering of a lasagna, garlicking of a bread, tearing up of romaine leaves, eventually, oven on, into the mixing of the twilight's whisky sours against the arrival of her husband, Wendell (“Mucho) Maas from work, she wondered, wondered, shuffling back through a fat deckful of days which seemed (wouldn't she be first to admit it?) more or less identical, or all pointing the same way subtly like a conjurer's deck, any odd one readily clear to a trained eye.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 1, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: To flavour with garlic
Related terms: alliaceous
clove
ramp
ramson
ahem
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: other: [ʔm.ʔmː]
other: [mˈm̥m]
ipa: /əˈhɛm/
rhymes: -ɛm
Forms: form: ehem
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: The sound of a quiet cough or of clearing one's throat.
examples: text: Ahem! Could we please get started?
text: Enter Nobody, and the Clowne. / Nobody. Ahem boy, Nobody is ſound yet for all his troubles.
ref: [1606], No-body, and Some-body. […], [London]: […] [James Roberts] for Iohn Trundle […], signature D2, verso:
glosses: Demanding attention.
examples: text: Ahem! In case you didn't notice, I did my share of the work, too.
glosses: Expresses disapproval or annoyance.
examples: text: I really (ahem!) liked the chocolate broccoli surprise.
glosses: Indicates the speaker does not wish to be perceived as rude, often intimating an impolite meaning to a third party that the speaker is not addressing.
Indicates subtle sarcasm, polite lying, or euphemism.
examples: text: The tone of Fat is casual and ahem, digestible, while also providing a succinct and significant overview of fatness and some of the issues most relevant to the burgeoning field of fat studies.
ref: 2020 December 15, Jenna M. Wilson, “Fat by Hanne Blank, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020”, in Fat Studies, volume 10, number 2, →DOI, pages 205–207:
glosses: Indicates the speaker does not wish to be perceived as rude, often intimating an impolite meaning to a third party that the speaker is not addressing.
Indicates an inappropriate pun.
Synonyms: sense: exclamation to get attention
word: hey
sense: expression of disapproval
word: tut tut
ahem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: other: [ʔm.ʔmː]
other: [mˈm̥m]
ipa: /əˈhɛm/
rhymes: -ɛm
Forms: form: ahems
form: ahemming
form: ahemmed
form: ahemmed
form: ehem
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: He wouldn't have been suspected of crying for the world, but he coughed and ahemmed, and finally turned away without speaking.
ref: 1856, Louise Chandler Moulton, Juno Clifford, page 108:
text: A full inspiration, preparatory to hawking, ahemming, or premeditated careful coughing, would excite an explosion of an unusually violent and persistent cough, hurrying the breath out of the poor victims.
ref: 1858, The Peninsular and Independent Medical Journal, page 153:
glosses: To cough or clear one's throat so as to draw attention.
achoo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: əcho͝oʹ
ipa: /əˈt͡ʃuː/
ipa: /ɑːˈt͡ʃuː/
ipa: /əˈt͡ʃʰuː/
ipa: /ɑːˈt͡ʃʰuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: atchoo
form: ahchoo
form: hachoo
form: ah-choo
form: a-choo
form: atchee
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Achoo—I think I'm coming down with something!
glosses: The sound of a sneeze.
Synonyms: word: atishoo
word: kerchoo
achoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: əcho͝oʹ
ipa: /əˈt͡ʃuː/
ipa: /ɑːˈt͡ʃuː/
ipa: /əˈt͡ʃʰuː/
ipa: /ɑːˈt͡ʃʰuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: achoos
form: atchoo
form: ahchoo
form: hachoo
form: ah-choo
form: a-choo
form: atchee
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: The sound of a sneeze.
achoo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: əcho͝oʹ
ipa: /əˈt͡ʃuː/
ipa: /ɑːˈt͡ʃuː/
ipa: /əˈt͡ʃʰuː/
ipa: /ɑːˈt͡ʃʰuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: achoos
form: achooing
form: achooed
form: achooed
form: atchoo
form: ahchoo
form: hachoo
form: ah-choo
form: a-choo
form: atchee
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: To sneeze loudly; to make an "achoo" sound.
Ibo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: He switched over to English for the benefit of Clarke’s steward who came in just then and who did not speak Ibo.
ref: 1965, Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God, Penguin Classics (2010), page 156:
glosses: Alternative form of Igbo.
Ibo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ibos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Igbo.
pliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplaɪ.ə(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)z
Etymology: From ply (“to bend”) + -er + -s.
Senses: examples: text: I need a pair of pliers to get a good grip on that broken screw.
glosses: A pincer-like gripping tool that multiplies the strength of the user's hand, often used for bending things.
Derived terms: adjustable pliers
combination pliers
crimping pliers
diagonal pliers
groove-joint pliers
lineman's pliers
multigrip pliers
needlenosed pliers
needlenose pliers
pair of pliers
plench
tongue-and-groove pliers
water pumpe pliers
water pump pliers
Related terms: pincers
pliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplaɪ.ə(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of plier
unicycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjun.ɪˌsaɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈjun.əˌsaɪ.kəl/
Forms: form: unicycles
Etymology: From uni- + cycle.
Senses: examples: text: A man rode past on a unicycle, laughing.
ref: 2019, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer, Penguin Books (2020), page 194:
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pedal cycle that has only one wheel.
Derived terms: eccentric kangaroo unicycle
electric unicycle
giraffe unicycle
kangaroo unicycle
mountain unicycle
muni
municycle
unicycling
unicyclist
Related terms: bicycle
tricycle
quadricycle
unicycle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjun.ɪˌsaɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈjun.əˌsaɪ.kəl/
Forms: form: unicycles
form: unicycling
form: unicycled
form: unicycled
Etymology: From uni- + cycle.
Senses: glosses: To travel or move around by unicycle.
unicycle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjun.ɪˌsaɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈjun.əˌsaɪ.kəl/
Etymology: From uni- + cycle.
Senses: examples: text: unicycle graph (unicyclic graph)
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of unicyclic.
synonyms: word: unicyclic
raw_tags: of a graph
unicyclist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unicyclists
Etymology: From unicycle + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who rides a unicycle.
tricycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪsɪkəl/
ipa: /ˈtɹaɪˌsɪkəl/
rhymes: -aɪsɪkəl
Forms: form: tricycles
Etymology: From French tricycle.
Senses: examples: text: [S]o I rode home on my brand new tricycle to find the rest of the family parked in front of the box.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 87:
synonyms: trike
glosses: A cycle with three wheels, powered by pedals and usually intended for young children.
synonyms: word: pedicab
english: cycle rickshaw
translation: cycle rickshaw
glosses: An autorickshaw; A motorized cycle rickshaw (usually a roofed motorcycle with sidecar, often available for hire in the manner of a taxi)
Derived terms: freight tricycle
tricycle gear
tricycle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪsɪkəl/
ipa: /ˈtɹaɪˌsɪkəl/
rhymes: -aɪsɪkəl
Forms: form: tricycles
form: tricycling
form: tricycled
form: tricycled
Etymology: From French tricycle.
Senses: examples: text: The child tricycled around the driveway until dark.
synonyms: trike
glosses: To ride a tricycle.
tricyclist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricyclists
Etymology: From tricycle + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: triker
glosses: A person who rides a tricycle.
synonyms: tricycle driver
glosses: A person who drives or rides an autorickshaw.
thermologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /θə(ɹ)ˈmɒləd͡ʒɪst/
Forms: form: thermologists
Etymology: From thermology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who practices thermology.
Related terms: thermogram
thermology
turn off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns off
form: turning off
form: turned off
form: turned off
Senses: examples: text: [H]e came to this country in the service of an English gentleman, whom he was obliged to quit through the malice of the valet de chambre, who taking advantage of the young man's being overtaken with liquor on the last St.Andrew's day, turned him off, on the pretext of his being an habitual drunkard.
ref: 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 273:
glosses: To dismiss; to fire.
examples: text: Turn off the machine and unplug it when you leave.
text: "Will it ever stop?" Yo, I don't know / Turn off the lights, and I'll glow
ref: 1989, “Ice Ice Baby”, in Hooked, performed by Vanilla Ice:
text: Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? Ok. Well, are you sure that it's plugged in?
ref: 2006 February 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, season 1, episode 4:
glosses: To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
examples: text: My computer turned off!
glosses: To become deactivated; to become powered down.
raw_tags: of a machine
examples: text: Remember to turn the tap off once you've finished so you don't waste water.
glosses: To rotate a tap or valve so as to interrupt the outflow of liquid or gas.
examples: text: Cigarette smoking really turns me off.
text: Better be a gentleman, or you'll turn me off
ref: 1986, “Nasty”, in Control, performed by Janet Jackson:
text: "They are turning people off travelling. And the removal of catering on such a long-distance route is just bonkers."
ref: 2021 December 29, Paul Clifton, “"Crisis" on the West of England line”, in RAIL, number 947, page 35:
glosses: To repulse, disgust, or discourage (someone).
examples: text: Turn off at the next exit so we can have lunch.
glosses: To leave a road; to exit.
examples: text: According to D. A. Wells, one boy and a machine can turn off 9,000 pair of sleeve buttons in a day.
ref: 1895, The Dawn, volumes 7-8, page 4:
glosses: To turn out; to produce.
examples: text: The fell had not only put its cap on, it was drawn down over its white face as that other white cap, still more terrible to look upon, covers the features of the poor wretch about to be "turned off" on the gallows.
ref: 1890, James Payn, The Burnt Million, volume 2, page 63:
glosses: To execute by hanging.
Synonyms: sense: put out of operation
word: shut off
sense: put out of operation
word: switch off
sense: put out of operation
word: shut down
sense: put out of operation
word: cut off
sense: put out of operation
word: cut
sense: put out of operation
word: deactivate
sense: put out of operation
word: disable
sense: interrupt flow of liquid or gas by rotating a valve
word: shut off
Coordinate terms: sense: put out of operation
word: keep on
sense: put out of operation
word: leave on
Derived terms: word: turn-off
word: turnoff
climatologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: climatologists
Etymology: From climatology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.
ref: 1988 April 14, Richard Fifield, “Frozen assets of the ice cores”, in New Scientist, number 1608, page 28:
text: “The lack of an agreement to phase out fossil fuels was devastating,” said Prof Michael Mann, a climatologist and geophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania in the US.
ref: 2023 December 14, Damian Carrington, quoting Michael E. Mann, “Failure of Cop28 on fossil fuel phase-out is ‘devastating’, say scientists”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A person who studies, professes or practices climatology.
Derived terms: bioclimatologist
dendroclimatologist
hydroclimatologist
microclimatologist
paleoclimatologist
Related terms: climatist
genealogist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒiː.niːˌæl.ə.dʒɪst/
Forms: form: genealogists
Etymology: From genealogy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: You may not find Dr. Neil Rosenstein’s new book listed on national best-seller lists, but the noted genealogist — with his tongue halfway in his cheek — compares it to the popular thriller “The Da Vinci Code.” Both books, the noted American genealogist and surgeon said, deal in varying degrees with family trees reaching back 30 centuries to the biblical House of David.
ref: 2004 October 24, Bill Gladstone, “The oldest family in the world”, in Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
glosses: A person who studies or practises genealogy; an expert in genealogy.
Related terms: genealogic
genealogical
genealogically
genealogy
technician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕk-nĭsh'ən
ipa: /tɛkˈnɪʃən/
Forms: form: technicians
Etymology: From technic + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The lift technician found the reason the lift wasn't working.
synonyms: tech
techie
technologist
antonyms: Luddite
coordinate_terms: engineer
mechanic
glosses: A person who studies or practises technology; an expert in a particular technology.
Derived terms: agrotechnician
biotechnician
cytotechnician
electrotechnician
histotechnician
polytechnician
psychotechnician
pyrotechnician
zootechnician
computer technician
dental technician
emergency medical technician
lighting technician
market technician
nail technician
sound technician
veterinary technician
Related terms: technical
technically
mycologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈkɒlədʒɪst/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: mycologists
Etymology: From myco- + -logist.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Iʼm not a mycologist but I believe you only get this formation when the fungus is forming reproductive organs.’
ref: 2019, Ben Aaronovitch, The October Man, Gollancz, pages 15–16:
glosses: A person who studies, professes or practices mycology.
Derived terms: ethnomycologist
zany
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzeɪni/
rhymes: -eɪni
Forms: form: zanier
form: zaniest
Etymology: From Middle French zani, zanni, from Italian zanni (“a kind of masked clown character”), from Zanni, a dialectal form of Giovanni. Doublet of Zanni, John, and Giovanni.
Senses: examples: text: And I will admit now but never then that, more than once, listening to the Viennese chattering their zany German on the pavements, or taking himself to one of the struggling small theatres that were cropping up in cellars and bombed houses...
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
text: Press articles emphasized his [Dizzy Gillespie's] ambassadorial role and drew attention to the paradox that he was a shrewd musician and leader despite his zany image.
ref: 1999, Alyn Shipton, “Gillespiana”, in Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 293:
text: When playing for Connie Mack, Rube [Waddell]'s pattern after one of his zany outbursts usually involved promises of good behavior and a spurt of excellent pitching.
ref: 2000, Alan H. Levy, Rube Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist, Jefferson, N.C.: London: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 241:
text: This runs counter to the play, where Grandpa is always benignly indulgent of all his zany progeny and their equally zany spouses, and is even somewhat zany himself.
ref: 2013, William Paul, “No Escaping the Depression: Utopian Comedy and the Aesthetics of Escapism in Frank Capra's You Can't Take it with You (1938)”, in Andrew Horton, Joanna E. Rapf, editors, A Companion to Film Comedy, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 280:
text: The montage goes on to show scenes of Carla singing, dancing, meditating, breaking the tension amongst her co-cheftestants with sing-a-longs and “hootie-hoo” lessons, and ultimately wooing the judges with a combination of her zany personality and solid cooking skills.
ref: 2015, Kimberly D. Nettles-Barcelón, “The Sassy Black Cook and the Return of the Magic Negress: Popular Representations of Black Women's Food Work”, in Jennifer Jensen Wallach, editor, Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama, Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas Press, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: Unusual and awkward in a funny, comical manner; outlandish; clownish.
glosses: Ludicrously or incongruously comical.
Synonyms: wacky
Derived terms: zanily
zaniness
Related terms: ebullient
zany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzeɪni/
rhymes: -eɪni
Forms: form: zanies
Etymology: From Middle French zani, zanni, from Italian zanni (“a kind of masked clown character”), from Zanni, a dialectal form of Giovanni. Doublet of Zanni, John, and Giovanni.
Senses: examples: text: Then write that I may follow, and so be / Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany.
ref: a. 1631, John Donne, Epistle to Mr. I. W.:
text: O great restorer of the good old stage, / Preacher at once, and Zany of thy age!
ref: 1728, Alexander Pope, “Book III”, in The Dunciad:
text: So there he caught me lying like a zany on the ground. You may guess I stood at attention soon enough, but told him I was looking at the founds to see if they wanted underpinning from the floods.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
text: Part of the illusory world is the 'quack' or mountebank who can be seen standing on his own special platform in the centre of the crowd[…]. Such a person travelled round to fairs and markets selling his nostrums or medicines. This character is dressed in a lace hat, long periwig and embroidered coat with lace cuffs, and is attended by his zany, who is wearing a chequered harlequin outfit and is 'quacking' or 'puffing' his master's wares. No seventeenth- or eighteenth-century mountebank was complete without his zany or 'Merry Andrew' – a term originally applied to Dr Andrew Boorde, physician to Henry VIII and noted for his ready wit and humour, who was the subject of many broadside ballads.
ref: 1996, Fiona Haslam, From Hogarth to Rowlandson: Medicine in Art in Eighteenth-century Britain, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 69:
glosses: A fool or clown, especially one whose business on the stage is to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown.
zany
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzeɪni/
rhymes: -eɪni
Forms: form: zanies
form: zanying
form: zanied
form: zanied
Etymology: From Middle French zani, zanni, from Italian zanni (“a kind of masked clown character”), from Zanni, a dialectal form of Giovanni. Doublet of Zanni, John, and Giovanni.
Senses: glosses: To mimic foolishly.
wacky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwæk.iː/
rhymes: -æki
Forms: form: wackier
form: wackiest
form: whacky
Etymology: From whack (“someone who whacked his head onto something often, hence being weird”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Though the idea of placing wacky made-up characters in a real-life context was carried over from Da Ali G Show—wherein Buzz Aldrin was once asked if he was upset that Michael Jackson got all the credit for inventing the moonwalk—Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat felt like something new, an attempt to square an improvised, guerrilla style of underground comedy with reality-TV stunt shows like Jackass or Fear Factor.
ref: 2012 May 15, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: The Dictator”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: How do artists and curators come up with titles for exhibitions? They seem to get wackier all the time.
ref: 2013 September 25, Jonathan Jones, “Dissecting the Exploding Whale: why do modern art shows have odd names?”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: eccentric
whacky
whacko
zany
glosses: Zany; eccentric.
Derived terms: wack
wackily
wackiness
wacky baccy
wacky cake
wackyparse
wackyparsing
wacky weed
wacky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwæk.iː/
rhymes: -æki
Forms: form: wackies
form: whacky
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of wacke.
turn against
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns against
form: turning against
form: turned against
form: turned against
Senses: examples: text: They turned against their leader.
glosses: To rebel or oppose to something formerly supported.
examples: text: She turned her umbrella against the wind.
text: She turned against the wind.
text: She turned him against his friends.
glosses: To set against or in opposition to something.
examples: text: His argument was turned against him.
text: They turned their arms against their former allies.
glosses: To use to the disadvantage or injury of.
Related terms: turn
turn on
tern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tûrn
ipa: /tɜːn/
enpr: tûrn
ipa: /tɝn/
homophone: turn
homophone: tarn
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: terns
form: terne
Etymology: Via an East Anglian dialect, from some Scandinavian (North Germanic) language, related to Danish terne, Norwegian terne, and Swedish tärna, all from Old Norse þerna (“tern; maidservant”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *þewernā (“handmaid, young girl”). First attested in the 1670s.
Senses: glosses: Any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sterninae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail.
Hyponyms: word: angel tern
taxonomic: Sterna paradisaea
word: arctic tern
taxonomic: Chlidonias niger
word: black tern
word: bridled tern
word: Cabot's tern
word: Caspian tern
word: commic tern
taxonomic: Sterna hirundo
word: common tern
taxonomic: Thalasseus bergii
word: crested tern
word: fairy tern
word: Forster's tern
taxonomic: Thalasseus bergii
word: greater crested tern
word: gull-billed tern
taxonomic: Sterna minuta
word: hooded tern
word: least tern
word: lesser crested tern
word: little tern
word: marsh tern
word: river tern
word: roseate tern
word: rosy tern
word: royal tern
word: sandwich tern
word: Sandwich tern
word: sooty tern
taxonomic: Thalasseus bergii
word: swift tern
word: whiskered tern
word: white tern
word: white-winged tern
Derived terms: ternery
Related terms: english: common tern; one sense
translation: common tern; one sense
word: sea swallow
tern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tûrn
ipa: /tɜːn/
enpr: tûrn
ipa: /tɝn/
homophone: turn
homophone: tarn
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: terns
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
The noun is derived from Late Middle English terne (“throw of a die or dice showing the number three”), from Old French terne (“gathering of three people; trinity”) (modern French terne), from Latin ternās, the accusative feminine plural of ternī (“three each; three at a time”), from ter (“thrice”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”)) + -ī (from -us (suffix forming adjectives)).
The adjective is either derived from the noun, or directly from Latin ternī (“three each; three at a time”); see above.
Senses: glosses: A thing with three components; a set of three things.
examples: text: And yet, now even, if Madonna willed, / She'd win a tern in Thursday's lottery, / And better all things.
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Seventh Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 319:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A thing with three components; a set of three things.
A lottery prize resulting from the favourable combination of three numbers in the draw.
tern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: tûrn
ipa: /tɜːn/
enpr: tûrn
ipa: /tɝn/
homophone: turn
homophone: tarn
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
The noun is derived from Late Middle English terne (“throw of a die or dice showing the number three”), from Old French terne (“gathering of three people; trinity”) (modern French terne), from Latin ternās, the accusative feminine plural of ternī (“three each; three at a time”), from ter (“thrice”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”)) + -ī (from -us (suffix forming adjectives)).
The adjective is either derived from the noun, or directly from Latin ternī (“three each; three at a time”); see above.
Senses: examples: text: tern flowers    tern leaves
text: a tern schooner, one with three masts
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: word: ternary
word: treble
word: trine
word: tern
word: ternary
word: threefold
word: treble
word: triadic
word: trinary
word: trine
word: triple
coordinate_terms: quatern
quine
glosses: Consisting of three components; ternate, threefold, triple.
turn in one's grave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns in one's grave
form: turning in one's grave
form: turned in one's grave
form: turned in one's grave
form: roll in one's grave
form: roll over in one's grave
form: spin in one's grave
form: turn over in one's grave
Etymology: Documented in English since 1801, perhaps from Jewish rabbinic tradition that the bones of Judah rolled about in his coffin for his shame during the Exodus
Senses: examples: text: Beethoven is probably turning in his grave at the way that rock group mangled his Ninth Symphony.
text: The new scientific discovery about the gravitation particle could make Isaac Newton turn in his grave.
text: Brought forth wind that made critics rave / While Verdi turned round in his grave
ref: 1937, Rodgers and Hart, “Johnny One Note”:
text: If he ever finds out who's hijacked his name / He'll cut out his heart and turn in his grave
ref: 1989, The The, “Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)”, in Mind Bomb:
glosses: To be appalled, offended or disgusted by something, despite being deceased.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, in, one's, grave.
gung ho
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡʌŋˈhəʊ/
ipa: /ˌɡʌŋˈhoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: more gung ho
form: most gung ho
form: gungho
form: gung-ho
Etymology: From a catachresis of Mandarin 工合 (gōnghé), an acronym for 工業合作社 /工业合作社 (gōngyè hézuòshè, “[Chinese] Industrial Cooperative Society”), as 工 (gōng, “work”) + 合 (“together”), literally “to work together”. The interpretation "work together" was created by U.S. Marine Evans Carlson, who was posted in China during the 1930s. It became the motto and nickname of the enthusiastic battalion Carlson commanded, leading to other marines adopting the term to mean "overly enthusiastic". It was popularized in the United States by the 1943 war film Gung Ho!, which profiled the battalion's leadership of the Raid on Makin Island during World War II.
Senses: examples: text: No matter how gung ho you are when you start, you will tire as you become mired in details.
glosses: Overly enthusiastic or energetic.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Cocky; undisciplined; contemptuous of rules.
New Guinea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: n(y)o͞o gĭnʹ-ē
ipa: /n(j)uː ˈɡɪn.i/
ipa: /ˌnjuː ˈɡɪ.ni/
ipa: [njuː ˈɡɪn.i]
ipa: [nu ˈɡɪn.i]
Forms: form: Niugini
form: Niu Gini
Senses: glosses: A large island in the Pacific Ocean north of Australia, in Oceania, whose territory is divided between Indonesia in the west and Papua New Guinea in the east.
glosses: A former dependent territory of Australia, from 1914 to 1975, occupying the northern part of what is now called Papua New Guinea.
glosses: Papua New Guinea: A country in Oceania.
Derived terms: German New Guinea
New Guinea flightless rail
New Guinean
New Guinea singing dog
Papua New Guinea
Western New Guinea
colonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒlənɪst/
ipa: /ˈkɑlənɪst/
Forms: form: colonists
Etymology: From colon(y) + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: colonizer#Noun
hypernyms: colonialist#Noun
glosses: A founder of a colony.
synonyms: colonizer#Noun
hypernyms: colonialist#Noun
glosses: A member of a colony.
Derived terms: anticolonist
calendarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæl.ən.də.ɹɪst/
enpr: kălʹəndərĭst
ipa: /ˈkæl.ən.dəɹ.ɪst/
Forms: form: calendarists
Etymology: From calendar + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who uses a particular form of calendar
glosses: A person who contrives and makes calendars
banjo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: băn'jō
ipa: /ˈbæn.dʒəʊ/
ipa: /ˈbæn.d͡ʒoʊ/
Forms: form: banjos
form: banjoes
Etymology: From the pronunciation of African slaves, of unknown ultimate origin. Possibly a corruption of bandore (from Spanish bandurria), alternatively from a West African language such as Mandinka banjul, or Kimbundu mbanza.
Senses: examples: text: I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee...
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:banjo.
glosses: A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.
glosses: Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.
glosses: An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
examples: text: They all came back here — we cleared the room and put up tables for the reception — and then we went to another house on the banjo for a "knees-up".
ref: 1963, Peter Willmott, The Evolution of a Community, page 75:
text: Billy Tower lived in the far left house in the banjo that was Dagenham's version of cul de sacs. The trouble was you could be seen from the house and, in the time it took to walk along the Banjo, drugs could be flushed away.
ref: 2013, M. C. Dutton, The Godfathers of London:
text: The banjo format is not an unalloyed success these days: kids playing noisily on the quite narrow common green […]
ref: 2013, Martin Crookston, Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow?:
glosses: A cul-de-sac with a round end.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A miner's round-nosed shovel.
glosses: An egg sandwich fried on a flattop and served in a bun as would a burger, ellipsis of egg banjo.
glosses: The frenulum of the penis.
Derived terms: banjitar
banjo bolt
banjo catfish
banjo clock
banjo dulcimer
banjo enclosure
Banjo Eyes
banjo eyes
banjo-eyes
banjo-eyed
banjo fitting
banjo frog
banjo hit
banjo hitter
banjoist
banjolike
banjo-mandolin
banjo mandolin
banjolin
mandolin-banjo
banjo string
banjouke
banjo ukelele
banjo ukulele
banjolele
banjo uke
banjo union
dulcijo
eastern banjo frog
egg banjo
four-string banjo
giant banjo frog
guitjo
Irish banjo
not hit a cow's arse with a banjo
play the cat and banjo with
southern banjo frog
tenor banjo
banjo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: băn'jō
ipa: /ˈbæn.dʒəʊ/
ipa: /ˈbæn.d͡ʒoʊ/
Forms: form: banjos
form: banjoing
form: banjoed
form: banjoed
Etymology: From the pronunciation of African slaves, of unknown ultimate origin. Possibly a corruption of bandore (from Spanish bandurria), alternatively from a West African language such as Mandinka banjul, or Kimbundu mbanza.
Senses: glosses: To play a banjo.
examples: text: Admitting the assault, the husband said that he had given her a 'banjoing' but that she had asked for it.
ref: 1989, Susan S. M. Edwards, Policing 'domestic' Violence: Women, the Law and the State, page 95:
text: Madar was turfed out on a final misdemeanour of banjoing one of his teammates in training before a big game
ref: 1998, "Fergie's world just gets Madar" (Sport), Sunday Mail, Jan 4, 1998
text: "Me and other folk were just trying to get the boot in and some other guy banjoed [decked] him”.
ref: 2007 July 31, “Return of Smeato, the extraordinary hero”, in Times Online:
glosses: To beat, to knock down.
examples: text: Riding reported that on the day Mayne had asked for DZ coordinates, their base had been banjoed by the Germans.
ref: 2008, Michael Asher, The Regiment: The Definitive Story of the SAS, page cxxx:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To shell or attack (a target).
banjax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæn.d͡ʒæks/
ipa: /bænˈd͡ʒæks/
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: banjaxes
form: banjaxing
form: banjaxed
form: banjaxed
form: banjack
form: bandjax
Etymology: Unknown, perhaps originally Dublin slang. According to Green’s Dictionary of Slang, may be a euphemism for bollocks.
Senses: examples: text: I hoofed his backside till he went down all of a heap. That banjaxed his little game. You should have heard his hullabulloo.
ref: 1922, Darrell Figgis, The House of Success, The Gael Co-operative Publishing Society, Ltd., page 146:
text: Indeed, it seemed that the army was hopelessly banjaxed.
ref: 1928, Eimar O'Duffy, The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street, Macmillan, page 370:
text: Emma had suggested that you hide, said your presence might banjax her position.
ref: 1970, Edna O'Brien, A Pagan Place, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2001, page 91:
text: Fraser was looking at the flat, wet countryside and thinking about the French policeman who had banjaxed him with the truncheon.
ref: 2006, Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River, Chronicle Books, page 252:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:banjax.
glosses: To ruin or destroy.