cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nurse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nûrs
ipa: /nɜːs/
ipa: /nɵːs/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /nəːs/
ipa: /nɝs/
ipa: /nɔːs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: nurses
form: nursing
form: nursed
form: nursed
form: norice
form: nourice
form: nourse
Etymology: From Middle English norice, from Old French norrice, from Late Latin nūtrīcia, noun based on Latin nūtrīcius (“that which nourishes”), from nūtrīx (“wet nurse”), from nūtriō (“to suckle”).
Senses: examples: She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.
glosses: To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.
glosses: To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
examples: text: She nursed him back to health.
glosses: To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.
examples: text: She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.
glosses: To tend gently and with extra care.
synonyms: husband#Verb
glosses: To manage or oversee (something) with care and economy.
examples: text: Rob was nursing a small beer.
glosses: To drink (a beverage) slowly, so as to make it last.
examples: text: to nurse a grudge
text: If, like me, you have been confined to your home, glued to the news and nursing ever greater anxiety about the state of the world, you have probably become familiar with the sight of the World Health Organization’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and his daily press briefings.
ref: 2020 April 10, Stephen Buranyi, “The WHO v coronavirus: why it can't handle the pandemic”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: dwell on
feed#Verb
harbor#Verb
glosses: To cultivate or persistently entertain (an attitude, usually negative) in one's mind; to brood or obsess over.
examples: text: Would you like to nurse the puppy?
glosses: To hold closely to one's chest.
examples: text: It is to our interest to let Lee and Johnston come together, just as a billiard-player would nurse the balls when he has them in a nice place
ref: 1866, United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, Supplemental report of the Joint Committee:
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.
Synonyms: sense: drink slowly
word: sip
word: drink
Derived terms: unnursed
Related terms: matron
sister
nurse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nûrs
ipa: /nɜːs/
ipa: /nɵːs/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /nəːs/
ipa: /nɝs/
ipa: /nɔːs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: nurses
form: norice
form: nourice
form: nourse
Etymology: Uncertain; earlier (16th century) nusse, nuse. Perhaps from huss, through metanalysis of "an huss" as "a nuss".
Senses: glosses: A nurse shark or dogfish.
Derived terms: grey nurse
grey nurse shark
nurse shark
pretzel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛt.səl/
ipa: [ˈpʰɹɛʔt͡sɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɛtsəl
Forms: form: pretzels
form: bretzel
form: brezel
Etymology: From dialectal German Pretzel, a variant of standard Brezel, from Old High German brēzitella, from Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellus, diminutive of Latin brāchium, bracchium (“arm”); named for the appearance of folded arms.
Senses: examples: text: When I was young, the best Philadelphia could do in the way of combining music and eating—or principally drinking—was at the Mäennerchor Garden at Ninth and Green, where a pretzel might be had with a glass of beer, or a sherry cobbler
ref: 1914, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Our Philadelphia, Chapter 19:
text: Outside, the little birds on the telegraph wires looked in at the moving picture and smiled at one another. Some even wept. Then they flew down into the street and simply raved over a stale pretzel, ten days dead.
ref: 1918, Gelett Burgess, Ain't Angie Awful!, Chapter 8:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot.
examples: text: he drew himself up into a regular pretzel of a boy
ref: 1901, Alice Hegan Rice, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch/Chapter 6, Chapter 6:
glosses: Anything that is knotted, twisted, or tangled.
Derived terms: get one's panties in a pretzel
pretzel-bender
pretzelize
pretzel knot
pretzellike
pretzel link
pretzelosity
pretzel pillow
pretzel style
pretzel syndrome
pretzel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛt.səl/
ipa: [ˈpʰɹɛʔt͡sɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɛtsəl
Forms: form: pretzels
form: pretzeling
form: pretzelling
form: pretzeled
form: pretzeled
form: pretzelled
form: pretzelled
form: bretzel
form: brezel
Etymology: From dialectal German Pretzel, a variant of standard Brezel, from Old High German brēzitella, from Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellus, diminutive of Latin brāchium, bracchium (“arm”); named for the appearance of folded arms.
Senses: examples: text: They discovered a snake pretzelled into knots.
synonyms: bend
twist
contort
glosses: To bend, twist, or contort.
Synonyms: pretzelize
pretzel up
foe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəʊ/
ipa: /foʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: faux
homophone: pho
Etymology: From Middle English fo (“foe; hostile”), from earlier ifo (“foe”), from Old English ġefāh (“enemy”), from fāh (“hostile”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (compare Old Frisian fāch (“punishable”), Middle High German gevēch (“feuder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peyk/ḱ- (“to hate, be hostile”) (compare Middle Irish óech (“enemy, fiend”), Lithuanian pi̇̀ktas (“evil”)).
Senses: examples: text: he, I say, could passe into Affrike onely with two simple ships or small barkes, to commit himselfe in a strange and foe countrie, to engage his person, under the power of a barbarous King […].
ref: , vol.1, ch.23
glosses: Hostile.
foe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəʊ/
ipa: /foʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: faux
homophone: pho
Forms: form: foes
Etymology: From Middle English fo (“foe; hostile”), from earlier ifo (“foe”), from Old English ġefāh (“enemy”), from fāh (“hostile”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (compare Old Frisian fāch (“punishable”), Middle High German gevēch (“feuder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peyk/ḱ- (“to hate, be hostile”) (compare Middle Irish óech (“enemy, fiend”), Lithuanian pi̇̀ktas (“evil”)).
Senses: examples: text: And a mans foes ſhalbe they of his owne houſhold.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 10:36:
text: Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
ref: 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:
glosses: An enemy.
Synonyms: sense: enemy
word: adversary
sense: enemy
word: enemy
sense: enemy
word: opponent
sense: enemy
word: fiend
Derived terms: archfoe
befoe
feud
foedom
foehood
foeless
foelike
foeman
foeship
foesome
identification friend or foe
foe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəʊ/
ipa: /foʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: faux
homophone: pho
Forms: form: foes
Etymology: Acronym of [ten to the power of] fifty-one ergs, due to equalling 10⁵¹ ergs; coined by Gerald Brown of Stony Brook University in his work with Hans Bethe.
Senses: glosses: A unit of energy equal to 10⁴⁴ joules.
Synonyms: alt: B
word: bethe
balderdash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːldə.dæʃ/
Forms: form: balderdashes
form: balderdashing
form: balderdashed
form: balderdashed
Etymology: Unknown, possibly from the early English drink of wine mixed with beer or water or other substances that was sold cheaply.
Senses: examples: text: That which is made by the peasants, both red and white, is generally genuine: but the wine-merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeons dung and quick-lime.
ref: 1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy, 2nd edition, London: R. Baldwin, Volume I, Letter 19, p. 309:
glosses: To mix or adulterate.
jerk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɜːk/
ipa: /ˈdʒɜɹk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: jerks
form: jerking
form: jerked
form: jerked
form: yark
Etymology: From American Spanish charquear, from charqui, from Quechua ch'arki.
Senses: examples: text: Snow stalled him in the timber; his food was all but gone when he managed to kill an antelope and jerk a supply of venison.
ref: 1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37:
text: The Lemakot in the north strangled widows and threw them into the cremation pyres of their dead husbands. If they defeated potential invaders the New Irish hanged the vanquished from banyan trees, flensed their windpipes, removed their heads, left their intestines to jerk in the sun.
ref: 2011, Dominic Smith, Bright and Distant Shores, page 106:
text: This longtime West End eatery prepares chicken the way locals like it: curried, fried, jerked, and baked.
ref: 2016, Fodor's Travel Guides, Fodor's Essential Caribbean, Fodor's Travel, →ISBN:
synonyms: jerky
glosses: To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.
Derived terms: jerk up
ber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bâr
ipa: /bɛə(ɹ)/
enpr: bâr
ipa: [beːɾ]
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bers
form: bair
form: bear
form: bér
form: bèr
form: bër
form: bher
form: bir
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi बेर (ber).
Senses: glosses: A fruit-bearing tree (Ziziphus mauritiana); the jujube.
Related terms: ber month
bear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bâr
ipa: /bɛə/
ipa: /bɛː/
ipa: /bɛəɹ/
ipa: /beː/
ipa: [beː~bɛː]
ipa: /ˈbiːə(r)/
ipa: /bɛː(r)/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /beə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /biə/
ipa: /beɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /bɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: bare
homophone: beer (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: burr (fair–fur merger)
ipa: /bɑɹ/
homophone: bar stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: bears
form: bearing
form: beared
form: beared
Etymology: From Middle English bere, from Old English bera, from Proto-West Germanic *berō, from Proto-Germanic *berô, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“brown”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Boar, Boare (“bear”), West Frisian bear (“bear”), Cimbrian, Mòcheno per (“bear”), Dutch beer (“bear”), German Bär (“bear”), German Low German Boor (“bear”), Limburgish baer, Béër (“bear”), Luxembourgish Bier (“bear”), Vilamovian baor, bar (“bear”), West Flemish beir (“bear”), Yiddish בער (ber, “bear”), Danish, Faroese and Norwegian Bokmål bjørn (“bear”), Icelandic, Swedish björn (“bear”), Norwegian Nynorsk bjøinn, bjønn, bjørn (“bear”), Gothic *𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰 (*baira, “bear”).
etymology notes
This is generally taken to be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“shining, brown”) (compare Tocharian A parno, Tocharian B perne (“radiant, luminous”), Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)), related to brown, bruin, and beaver.
On this theory, the Germanic languages replaced the older name of the bear, *h₂ŕ̥tḱos, with the epithet "brown one", presumably due to taboo avoidance; compare Russian медве́дь (medvédʹ, “bear”, literally “honey-eater”).
However, Ringe (2006:106) doubts the existence of a root *bʰer- meaning "brown" ("an actual PIE word of [the requisite] shape and meaning is not recoverable") and suggests that a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer- (“wild animal”) "should therefore perhaps be preferred", implying a Germanic merger of *ǵʰw and *gʷʰ (*gʷʰ may sometimes result in Germanic *b, perhaps e.g. in *bidjaną, but it also seems to have given the g in gun and the w in warm).
Senses: examples: text: to bear a railroad stock
text: to bear the market
topics: business
finance
glosses: To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
bear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: bâr
ipa: /bɛə/
ipa: /bɛː/
ipa: /bɛəɹ/
ipa: /beː/
ipa: [beː~bɛː]
ipa: /ˈbiːə(r)/
ipa: /bɛː(r)/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /beə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /biə/
ipa: /beɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /bɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: bare
homophone: beer (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: burr (fair–fur merger)
ipa: /bɑɹ/
homophone: bar stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: From Middle English bere, from Old English bera, from Proto-West Germanic *berō, from Proto-Germanic *berô, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“brown”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Boar, Boare (“bear”), West Frisian bear (“bear”), Cimbrian, Mòcheno per (“bear”), Dutch beer (“bear”), German Bär (“bear”), German Low German Boor (“bear”), Limburgish baer, Béër (“bear”), Luxembourgish Bier (“bear”), Vilamovian baor, bar (“bear”), West Flemish beir (“bear”), Yiddish בער (ber, “bear”), Danish, Faroese and Norwegian Bokmål bjørn (“bear”), Icelandic, Swedish björn (“bear”), Norwegian Nynorsk bjøinn, bjønn, bjørn (“bear”), Gothic *𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰 (*baira, “bear”).
etymology notes
This is generally taken to be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“shining, brown”) (compare Tocharian A parno, Tocharian B perne (“radiant, luminous”), Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)), related to brown, bruin, and beaver.
On this theory, the Germanic languages replaced the older name of the bear, *h₂ŕ̥tḱos, with the epithet "brown one", presumably due to taboo avoidance; compare Russian медве́дь (medvédʹ, “bear”, literally “honey-eater”).
However, Ringe (2006:106) doubts the existence of a root *bʰer- meaning "brown" ("an actual PIE word of [the requisite] shape and meaning is not recoverable") and suggests that a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer- (“wild animal”) "should therefore perhaps be preferred", implying a Germanic merger of *ǵʰw and *gʷʰ (*gʷʰ may sometimes result in Germanic *b, perhaps e.g. in *bidjaną, but it also seems to have given the g in gun and the w in warm).
Senses: examples: text: The great bear market starting in 1929 scared a whole generation of investors.
topics: business
finance
qualifier: investments
glosses: Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices will fall.
Related terms: ursine
bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bâr
ipa: /bɛə/
ipa: /bɛː/
ipa: /bɛəɹ/
ipa: /beː/
ipa: [beː~bɛː]
ipa: /ˈbiːə(r)/
ipa: /bɛː(r)/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /beə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /biə/
ipa: /beɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /bɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: bare
homophone: beer (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: burr (fair–fur merger)
ipa: /bɑɹ/
homophone: bar stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
other: /bɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /bɪə/
ipa: /bɪɚ/
enpr: bâr
ipa: /bɛə/
ipa: /bɛː/
ipa: /bɛəɹ/
ipa: /beː/
ipa: [beː~bɛː]
ipa: /ˈbiːə(r)/
ipa: /bɛː(r)/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /beə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /biə/
ipa: /beɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /bɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: bare
homophone: beer (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: burr (fair–fur merger)
ipa: /bɑɹ/
homophone: bar stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
other: /bɛə(ɹ)/
Senses: examples: text: There are several plots of those species of barley called big, which is six-rowed barley; or bear, which is four-rowed, cultivated.
ref: 1800, Tuke, Agric., 119
text: Bigg or bear, with four grains on the ear, was the kind of barley.
ref: 1818, Reports Agric., Marshall, I. 191:
text: Two stacks of beare, of xx boules,
ref: 1895, Whittingham Vale, Dixon, section 130:
text: […] one wheat stack, one half-stack of corn, and a little hay, all standing in the barnyard; four stacks of bear in the barn, about three bolls of bear lying on the barn floor, two stacks of corn in the barn, […]
ref: 1908, Burns Chronicle and Club Directory, page 151:
text: Your Horses are Getting Pease Straw, and looking very well. The 2 Stacks of Bear formerly mentioned as Put in by Mr Bookless is not fully dressed as yet so that I cannot say at present what Quantity they may Produce .
ref: 1802-1816, Papers on Sutherland Estate Management, published in 1972, Scottish History Society, Publications
glosses: Alternative spelling of bere (“barley”).
Synonyms: word: bear
word: bruin
word: ursid
Hypernyms: word: carnivore
word: mammal
word: vertebrate
word: animal
word: creature
Hyponyms: word: black bear
word: brown bear
word: grizzly bear
word: kermode
word: kermode bear
word: Kodiak bear
word: lip bear
word: panda
word: panda bear
word: polar bear
word: sloth bear
word: sun bear
Derived terms: bearmeal
sweet
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /swiːt/
ipa: /swit/
homophone: suite
rhymes: -iːt
Etymology: From Middle English swete, from Old English swēte (“sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz (“sweet”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”).
Cognate and synonymous with Scots sweit (“sweet”), North Frisian sweete (“sweet”), Saterland Frisian swäit (“sweet”), West Frisian swiet (“sweet”), Dutch zoet (“sweet”), German Low German sööt (“sweet”), German süß (“sweet”), Danish sød (“sweet”), Swedish söt (“sweet”), Norwegian søt (“sweet”), Icelandic sætur (“sweet”), Latin suāvis, Sanskrit स्वादु (svādú), Ancient Greek ἡδύς (hēdús). Doublet of suave.
Senses: examples: text: They're making a sequel? Ah, sweet!
glosses: Used as a positive response to good news or information.
sweet
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /swiːt/
ipa: /swit/
homophone: suite
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: more sweet
form: most sweet
Etymology: From Middle English swete, from Old English swēte (“sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz (“sweet”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”).
Cognate and synonymous with Scots sweit (“sweet”), North Frisian sweete (“sweet”), Saterland Frisian swäit (“sweet”), West Frisian swiet (“sweet”), Dutch zoet (“sweet”), German Low German sööt (“sweet”), German süß (“sweet”), Danish sød (“sweet”), Swedish söt (“sweet”), Norwegian søt (“sweet”), Icelandic sætur (“sweet”), Latin suāvis, Sanskrit स्वादु (svādú), Ancient Greek ἡδύς (hēdús). Doublet of suave.
Senses: examples: text: Go down beside thy native rill,
⁠On thy Parnassus set thy feet,
⁠And hear thy laurel whisper sweet
About the ledges of the hill.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXVII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 57:
glosses: In a pleasant manner.
Synonyms: sense: in a sweet manner
word: sweetly
sweet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swiːt/
ipa: /swit/
homophone: suite
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: sweets
Etymology: From Middle English swete, from Old English swēte (“sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz (“sweet”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”).
Cognate and synonymous with Scots sweit (“sweet”), North Frisian sweete (“sweet”), Saterland Frisian swäit (“sweet”), West Frisian swiet (“sweet”), Dutch zoet (“sweet”), German Low German sööt (“sweet”), German süß (“sweet”), Danish sød (“sweet”), Swedish söt (“sweet”), Norwegian søt (“sweet”), Icelandic sætur (“sweet”), Latin suāvis, Sanskrit स्वादु (svādú), Ancient Greek ἡδύς (hēdús). Doublet of suave.
Senses: glosses: The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
glosses: A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.
examples: text: Can we see the sweet menu, please?
glosses: A food eaten for dessert.
examples: text: VVherefore frovvnes my ſvveet? / Haue I too long bene abſent from theſe lips, / This cheeke, theſe eyes?
ref: 1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, Act I, signature B2, verso:
text: "You think that I'll take anything."
"I know you will, sweet..."
"There wasn't going to be any of that. You promised there wouldn't be."
"Well, there is now," she said sweetly.
ref: 1936 Aug., Ernest Hemingway, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", Cosmopolitan
text: Good evening, my sweet.
glosses: Synonym of sweetheart, a term of affection.
synonyms: word: sweetheart
extra: a term of affection
examples: text: a wilderness of sweets
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: That which is sweet or pleasant in odour; a perfume.
examples: text: Fear's fire to fervency, which makes love's sweet prove nectar.
ref: 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, III.2:
glosses: Sweetness, delight; something pleasant to the mind or senses.
Synonyms: sense: sweet taste sensation
word: sweetness
sense: food that is high in sugar content
word: bonbon
sense: food that is high in sugar content
word: candy
sense: food that is high in sugar content
word: confection
sense: food that is high in sugar content
word: confectionery
sense: food that is high in sugar content
word: lolly
sense: food eaten for dessert
word: dessert
Derived terms: cough sweet
milk sweet
penny sweet
spoon sweet
sweet shop
sweetshop
throat sweet
sweet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swiːt/
ipa: /swit/
homophone: suite
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: sweets
form: sweeting
form: sweeted
form: sweeted
Etymology: From Middle English swete, from Old English swēte (“sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz (“sweet”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”).
Cognate and synonymous with Scots sweit (“sweet”), North Frisian sweete (“sweet”), Saterland Frisian swäit (“sweet”), West Frisian swiet (“sweet”), Dutch zoet (“sweet”), German Low German sööt (“sweet”), German süß (“sweet”), Danish sød (“sweet”), Swedish söt (“sweet”), Norwegian søt (“sweet”), Icelandic sætur (“sweet”), Latin suāvis, Sanskrit स्वादु (svādú), Ancient Greek ἡδύς (hēdús). Doublet of suave.
Senses: examples: text: In size and shape it resembles the heart of a calf, and the interior substance is similar to thick cream, sweeted with fine sugar.
ref: 1825, John Breckinridge, C.R. Harrison, Western Luminary ... - Volume 1, page 318:
text: It might also be given in the form of a mixture — the drug being insoluble in a watery menstruum — suspended by the aid of mucilage and sweeted by any of the various flavoring syrups.
ref: 1890, The Cincinnati Lancet-clinic - Volume 63, page 331:
text: Bring me now where the warm wind blows, where the grasses sigh, where the sweet-tongued blossom flowers; where the shower, fan soft like a fishermans net thrown through the sweeted air.
ref: 1997, Morag Styles, From the Garden to the Street, →ISBN:
text: A sour maketh sweets two-fold sweeted.
ref: 2012, Keith Ringkamp, PATIENCE WORTH: A Balm for Every Ill, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: To sweeten.
Derived terms: sweet upon
Related terms: toot sweet
vapor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪpə/
ipa: /ˈveɪpɚ/
rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: vapors
form: vaporing
form: vapored
form: vapored
form: vapour
Etymology: From Middle English vapour, from Anglo-Norman vapour, Old French vapor, from Latin vapor (“steam, heat”).
Senses: glosses: To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.
examples: text: to vapor away a heated fluid
text: He'd […]laugh to see one throw his heart away, / Another, sighing, vapour forth his soul.
ref: 1617, Ben Jonson, Lovers Made Men:
glosses: To turn into vapor.
examples: text: Running waters vapour not so much as standing waters.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: To emit vapor or fumes.
examples: text: He vapoured, and fretted, and fumed, and trotted up and down, and tried to make himself pleasing in Miss Hollis's big, quiet, grey eyes, and failed.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Bisara of Pooree”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 172:
text: then the Major gave us a graphic account of a struggle he had with a wounded bear. I privately wished that the bears would win sometimes on these occasions; at least they wouldn't go vapouring about it afterwards.
ref: 1904, “Saki”, ‘Reginald's Christmas Revel’, Reginald:
text: […] an amusing character all but extinct now, but occasionally to be encountered […] vaporing in the groggeries along the tow-path.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: He felt he would start vapouring with devotion if this went on, so he bruptly took his leave with a cold expression on his face which dismayed her for she thought that it was due to distain for her artistic opinions.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 513:
glosses: To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.
examples: text: “I only mean,” cried she, giddily, “that he might have some place a little more pleasant to live in, for really that old moat and draw-bridge are enough to vapour him to death […].”
ref: 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.vi.9:
glosses: To give (someone) the vapors; to depress, to bore.
Related terms: dew point
get the vapors
water vapor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water vapors
form: water vapour
Senses: examples: text: Water vapor was found in the atmosphere of K2-18b, one of hundreds of "super-Earths" - worlds ranging in size between Earth and Neptune - documented in a growing new field of astronomy devoted to the exploration of so-called exoplanets elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy.
ref: 2019 September 11, Barbara Goldberg, “Water found in atmosphere of planet beyond our solar system”, in Steve Gorman, Lisa Shumaker, editors, Reuters, sourced from LONDON (Reuters), archived from the original on 16 May 2025:
synonyms: aqueous vapor
hypernyms: vapor#Noun
;
water#Noun
glosses: Water in a gaseous state, especially when diffused in the atmosphere.
synonyms: aqueous vapor
hypernyms: vapor#Noun
;
water#Noun
glosses: Water in a gaseous state, especially when diffused in the atmosphere.
Steam.
bullshit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊlʃɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: more bullshit
form: most bullshit
Etymology: From bull + shit. First use appears c. 1910.
Compare typologically Latin mūscerda (questionable).
Senses: examples: text: a bullshit job
text: That’s the most bullshit excuse I’ve ever heard.
glosses: Absurd, irrational, or nonsensical (most often said of speech, information, or content).
bullshit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊlʃɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: bullshits
form: bullshitting
form: bullshitted
form: bullshitted
form: bullshit
form: bullshit
form: bullshat
form: bullshat
Etymology: From bull + shit. First use appears c. 1910.
Compare typologically Latin mūscerda (questionable).
Senses: examples: text: I think you’re bullshitting. Let’s just call your office and see if you even came in.
text: You’re bullshitting me. I called your office and you never even came in.
glosses: To tell lies, exaggerate; to mislead; to deceive.
examples: text: I will probably just go and bullshit with Joe for a while.
glosses: To have casual conversation with no real point; to shoot the breeze.
examples: text: We just went on stage and bullshitted the whole concert because we didn’t know any songs.
glosses: To come up with on the spot; to improvise.
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: crap
bullshit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊlʃɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology: From bull + shit. First use appears c. 1910.
Compare typologically Latin mūscerda (questionable).
Senses: glosses: An expression of disbelief at what one has just heard.
Synonyms: word: applesauce
word: bender
word: bollocks
word: bosh
word: bugger off
word: bullcrap
word: bullcrud
word: bullfuck
word: bullshit
word: chinny reckon
word: codswallop
word: come off it
word: come on
word: c'mon
word: fiddle
word: fiddledeedee
word: fiddle-faddle
word: fiddlefart
word: fiddlestick
word: fiddlesticks
word: flummery
word: fuck off
word: gertcha
word: get away
word: get out of here
word: get out of it
word: get out of town
word: get outta here
word: get to fuck
word: gimme a break
word: give over
word: go on
word: harumph
word: Hookey Walker
word: horsefeathers
word: horse hockey
word: horseshit
word: malarkey
word: no
word: no way
word: nonsense
word: pshaw
word: pshh
word: pshht
word: pssh
word: pssht
word: pull the other leg
word: pull the other one
word: it's got bells on
word: it's got brass bells on
word: rubbish
word: stroll on
word: tell it to Sweeney
word: tell it to the judge
word: tell it to the marines
word: tell me another one
word: Walker
word: yeah
word: right
word: you're having me on
word: you're pulling my leg
Hyponyms: word: my arse
word: my ass
word: my aunt Fanny
word: my eye
word: my foot
word: my neck
word: pig's arse
word: your arse
word: your ass
word: like fun
word: like hell
word: the hell
word: the fuck
Related terms: word: credat iudaeus Apella
word: non ego
word: false
darmstadtium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: därmshtä'tēəm
ipa: /dɑːɹmˈstɑːtiəm/
ipa: /dɑːɹmˈʃtɑːtiəm/
Etymology: Named after the German city Darmstadt, where it was first synthesized, + -ium.
Senses: glosses: A transuranic chemical element (symbol Ds) with atomic number 110.
Synonyms: english: used before the element was discovered
translation: used before the element was discovered
word: eka-platinum
english: used before the element was officially named
translation: used before the element was officially named
word: ununnilium
Related terms: Darmstadt
darmstadtate
tribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪb/
rhymes: -aɪb
Forms: form: tribes
form: tribing
form: tribed
form: tribed
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English tribe, tribu, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus. Doublet of tribus.
Senses: examples: 1696-1699, William Nicolson, English Historical Library
Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed.
glosses: To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
Related terms: ethnic
human
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hyo͞oʹmən
ipa: /ˈhjuː.mən/
ipa: [ˈçju̟mən]
ipa: [ˈçju̟mn̩]
note: New York City, some other dialects
ipa: /ˈju.mən/
rhymes: -uːmən
Forms: form: humans
Etymology: From Late Middle English humaigne, humayne, humain, from Middle French humain, from Old French humain, umain (“of or belonging to man”, adjective), from Latin hūmānus m (“of man, human”, adjective); see there for further details. Spelling human has been predominant since the early 18th century. Not etymologically related to man.
Senses: examples: text: Humans share common ancestors with other apes.
text: Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:
text: If I ever have to choose between a future where killer robots hunt humans or a future where bacon supplies have run out ... Let's just say you better start running.
ref: 2013 April 18, Rock Paper Cynic (webcomic):
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: human being
man
person
qualifier: strictly
glosses: A highly intelligent ape with fine and short body hair; the most abundant species of primate, with members found on every continent (Homo sapiens).
examples: text: Greetings. I am Blor-Utar from Zimtok-5. I have come to subjugate the human race. Do not resist. Why humans? Because, in addition to their value as slave labor, they are also delicious and nutritious!
ref: 1994 March 29, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes:
topics: biology
fantasy
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
synonyms: human being
man
person
qualifier: strictly
glosses: A highly intelligent ape with fine and short body hair; the most abundant species of primate, with members found on every continent (Homo sapiens).
A human as contrasted from superficially similar but typically more powerful humanoid creatures; a member of the human race.
examples: text: Greetings, human! You have stumbled into the dimension of the Snow People.[…]Flesh plows clear the streets to make them safe to drive.[…]Does this shock you, human? Do the ways of our world open your eyes to the truths of your own?
ref: 2011 December 29, Alex Culang, Raynato Castro, Buttersafe (webcomic):
topics: biology
fantasy
literature
media
natural-sciences
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: human being
man
person
qualifier: strictly
glosses: A highly intelligent ape with fine and short body hair; the most abundant species of primate, with members found on every continent (Homo sapiens).
A term of address for any human, often implying the listener's species is their only noteworthy trait.
glosses: Any hominid of the genus Homo.
Synonyms: word: featherless biped
word: human
word: naked ape
Hypernyms: word: hominid
word: primate
word: mammal
Related terms: word: person
human
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hyo͞oʹmən
ipa: /ˈhjuː.mən/
ipa: [ˈçju̟mən]
ipa: [ˈçju̟mn̩]
note: New York City, some other dialects
ipa: /ˈju.mən/
rhymes: -uːmən
Forms: form: humans
form: humaning
form: humanning
form: humaned
form: humaned
form: humanned
form: humanned
Etymology: From Late Middle English humaigne, humayne, humain, from Middle French humain, from Old French humain, umain (“of or belonging to man”, adjective), from Latin hūmānus m (“of man, human”, adjective); see there for further details. Spelling human has been predominant since the early 18th century. Not etymologically related to man.
Senses: examples: text: […] he sought to charm a single pair of ears, and those more hairy than critical. Later, as the race went on humaning, there grew complexity of sentiment and varying emotional needs, […]
ref: 1911, Ambrose Bierce, “Music”, in The collected works of Ambrose Bierce, volume 9, page 362:
text: There are, then, many ways of humaning: these are the ways along which we make ourselves and, collaboratively, one another.
ref: 2013, Biosocial Becomings, →ISBN, page 19:
synonyms: humanize
glosses: To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.
arts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹts/
ipa: /ɑːts/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ts
Senses: examples: text: That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. And if the arts of humbleness failed him, he overcame you by sheer impudence.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: plural of art.
arts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹts/
ipa: /ɑːts/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ts
Senses: glosses: The humanities.
The study of languages and literature.
glosses: The humanities.
The study of literature, philosophy, and the arts.
glosses: The liberal arts.
Derived terms: arts and crafts
arts college
artsie
artsman
artsy
fine arts
household arts
martial arts
multiarts
nonarts
performing arts
provenance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒ.vəˌnɒns/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.və.nəns/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊ.və.nɑns/
Forms: form: provenances
Etymology: Borrowed from French provenance (“origin”), from Middle French provenant, present participle of provenir (“come forth, arise”), from Latin provenio (“to come forth”).
Senses: examples: text: Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
text: Within this melee of intersections between English and Cantonese, the students, being themselves bilingually fluent, were able to navigate with perfect ease in communicative contexts where the provenance of a certain term or expression matters little.
ref: 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 147:
glosses: Place or source of origin.
examples: text: This spear is of Viking provenance.
text: Further support for the Shansi provenance came in 1965, when a bronze quadruped with identical ornamentation and of approximately the same size as the Freer example was unearthed in tomb 126, at Fen-shui-ling, Ch'ang-chih, Shansi Province.
ref: 1982, Thomas Lawton, “Bronze Vessels, Fittings, and Weapons”, in Chinese Art of the Warring States Period, Smithsonian Institution, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 79, column 1:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.
examples: text: The picture is of royal provenance.
topics: art
arts
glosses: The history of ownership of a work of art.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data used to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).
synonyms: ancestry
glosses: Background; history; place of origin.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: country of provenance
Related terms: provene
provenantial
provenance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒ.vəˌnɒns/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.və.nəns/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊ.və.nɑns/
Forms: form: provenances
form: provenancing
form: provenanced
form: provenanced
Etymology: Borrowed from French provenance (“origin”), from Middle French provenant, present participle of provenir (“come forth, arise”), from Latin provenio (“to come forth”).
Senses: glosses: To establish the provenance of something
family
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fămĭli
enpr: fămli
ipa: /ˈfæ.m(ɪ.)li/
ipa: /ˈfæ.m(ə.)li/
ipa: /ˈfæ.mɪ.li/
ipa: /ˈfɛ.m(ɘ.)li/
rhymes: -æmɪli
Etymology: From Late Middle English famylye, from Latin familia (“a household”). Displaced native Old English hīred. Doublet of familia.
Senses: examples: text: It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant.
text: Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies.
text: This is a family restaurant, stop making out!
glosses: Suitable for children and adults.
examples: text: I knew he was family when I first met him.
topics: LGBT
glosses: Homosexual.
Related terms: sense: taxonomy, rank
word: domain
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: kingdom
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: phylum
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: division
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: class
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: order
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: superfamily
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: subfamily
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: tribe
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: genus
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: species
grammar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/
enpr: grăm'ər
ipa: /ˈɡɹæm.ɚ/
ipa: [ˈɡɹɛəm.ɚ]
ipa: [ˈɡɹæːm.ɚ]
ipa: [ˈɡɹam.ɚ]
rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: grammars
form: grammaring
form: grammared
form: grammared
form: grammary
form: grammer
Etymology: From Middle English gramere, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *grammāria, an alteration of Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek γραμματική (grammatikḗ, “skilled in writing”), from γράμμα (grámma, “line of writing”), from γράφω (gráphō, “write”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to carve, scratch”). Displaced native Old English stæfcræft; a doublet of glamour, glamoury, gramarye, and grimoire. Piecewise doublet of grammatic.
Senses: examples: text: She is in her Moods, and her Tenses: / I'll Grammar with you, / And make a trial how I can decline you
ref: c. 1619–1623, John Ford, “The Lawes of Candy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.
there
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðɛə/
ipa: /ðɛː/
ipa: /ðɛɚ/
ipa: /ðɛɹ/
ipa: [ðeːɹ]
ipa: /ðeː/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ðiə/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ðeə/
ipa: /ðeɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ðɜː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ðɚ/
homophone: their
homophone: they're
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dar
form: der
form: dere
form: thur
form: thar
form: dey
form: thare
Etymology: From Middle English there, ther, thare, thar, thore, from Old English þēr, þǣr, þār (“there; at that place”), from Proto-West Germanic *þār, from Proto-Germanic *þar (“at that place; there”), from Proto-Indo-European *tó-r (“there”), from demonstrative pronominal base *to- (“the, that”) + adverbial suffix *-r.
Cognate with Scots thar, thair (“there”), North Frisian dear, deer, där (“there”), Saterland Frisian deer (“there”), West Frisian dêr (“there”), Dutch daar (“there”), Low German dar (“there”), German da, dar- (“there”), Danish der (“there”), Norwegian der (“there”), Swedish där (“there”), Icelandic þar (“in that place, there”).
Senses: examples: text: There, there. Everything is going to turn out all right.
glosses: Used to offer encouragement or sympathy; see also there, there and there now.
examples: text: There! That knot should hold.
glosses: Used to express victory or completion.
there
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðɛə/
ipa: /ðɛː/
ipa: /ðɛɚ/
ipa: /ðɛɹ/
ipa: [ðeːɹ]
ipa: /ðeː/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ðiə/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ðeə/
ipa: /ðeɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ðɜː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ðɚ/
homophone: their
homophone: they're
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: theres
form: dar
form: der
form: dere
form: thur
form: thar
form: dey
form: thare
Etymology: From Middle English there, ther, thare, thar, thore, from Old English þēr, þǣr, þār (“there; at that place”), from Proto-West Germanic *þār, from Proto-Germanic *þar (“at that place; there”), from Proto-Indo-European *tó-r (“there”), from demonstrative pronominal base *to- (“the, that”) + adverbial suffix *-r.
Cognate with Scots thar, thair (“there”), North Frisian dear, deer, där (“there”), Saterland Frisian deer (“there”), West Frisian dêr (“there”), Dutch daar (“there”), Low German dar (“there”), German da, dar- (“there”), Danish der (“there”), Norwegian der (“there”), Swedish där (“there”), Icelandic þar (“in that place, there”).
Senses: examples: text: We need someone to take us from here to there.
text: anyway what was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.
ref: 1937, Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography, page 289:
text: Some of these theres are actual, that is, situated in currently ... Other theres are only virtual
ref: 1993, Edward S. Casey, Getting back into place: toward a renewed understanding of the place-world, page 54:
glosses: That place (previously mentioned or otherwise implied).
examples: text: You rinse and de-string the green beans; I'll take it from there.
glosses: That situation; that position.
there
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðɛə/
ipa: /ðɛː/
ipa: /ðɛɚ/
ipa: /ðɛɹ/
ipa: [ðeːɹ]
ipa: /ðeː/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ðiə/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ðeə/
ipa: /ðeɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ðɜː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ðɚ/
homophone: their
homophone: they're
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of they’re.
there
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðɛə/
ipa: /ðɛː/
ipa: /ðɛɚ/
ipa: /ðɛɹ/
ipa: [ðeːɹ]
ipa: /ðeː/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ðiə/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ðeə/
ipa: /ðeɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ðɜː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ðɚ/
homophone: their
homophone: they're
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of their.
er
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: ûr
ipa: /ɜː/
rhymes: -ɜː(r)
Etymology: Mimetic (sound of hesitation)
Senses: examples: text: As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er.
ref: 2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2013:
text: If he—er—disappears—well, it seems to me that we'd both benefit.
ref: 2012, Linda Miller, Desire and Destiny:
text: Liquid Samurai: 'FORMLESS AND INFINITE ARE WE, THE LIQUID SAMURAI. I SERVE MY QUEEN, AS WE HAVE FOR COUNTLESS--' / Mona: 'HEY, I DON'T MEAN TO INTERRUPT, BUT YOU SEEM LIKE YOU'RE MADE OF POWERFUL STUFF. CAN I, ER, STUDY YOU?'
ref: 2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, "Story" (Mona), in Shovel Knight Showdown (version 4.1), Nintendo Switch
synonyms: ah#Interjection
eh#Interjection
erm#Interjection
uh#Interjection
um#Interjection
glosses: Said when hesitating in speech.
er
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ûr
ipa: /ɜː/
rhymes: -ɜː(r)
Forms: form: ers
form: erring
form: erred
form: erred
Etymology: Mimetic (sound of hesitation)
Senses: examples: text: um and er
text: He ummed and erred his way through the presentation.
synonyms: ah#Verb
eh#Verb
um#Verb
;
hem and haw#Verb
glosses: To utter the word er when hesitating in speech.
er
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ûr
ipa: /ɜː/
rhymes: -ɜː(r)
Forms: form: ers
Etymology: Mimetic (sound of hesitation)
Senses: examples: text: Although Shakespeare refers to “hums and ha’s,” sifting through etiquette manuals and public-speaking guides turns up scant evidence of a prohibition against ums, ers and uhs, which are profuse in the first recording of Thomas Edison’s voice, in 1888. Mr. Erard, rather ingeniously, traces the prohibition on um and other speech flaws to the advent of radio in the early 1920s.
ref: 2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2013:
glosses: An occurrence of the interjection "er".
er
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ûr
ipa: /ɜː/
rhymes: -ɜː(r)
Forms: form: ers
Senses: glosses: The name of the Cyrillic script letter Р / р.