cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
glaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlaʊə/
ipa: /ɡlaʊɚ/
Etymology: From Scots glaur, from Middle Scots glar, of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: ’twas all there in the Stars, the whole miserable story, but did I pay attention? Nooaahh...I was regretting the Sixpence, a fool with his eyes in the glaur.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 229:
glosses: Mud, slime, mire.
Derived terms: glaury
gleet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡliːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: glit
Etymology: Old French glette.
Senses: qualifier: except Scots
glosses: Stomach mucus, especially of a hawk.
qualifier: except Scots
glosses: Any slimy, viscous substance.
examples: text: There was this Estella, a real drab, being given syph and gon and gleet by Augustus John, and Tommy has her living with him in that place of his in Earl’s Court and going to a doctor, nothing wrong with her actually but there might well have been, and he never touches her, you know.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
glosses: A urethral discharge, especially as a symptom of gonorrhea.
gleet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡliːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: gleets
form: gleeting
form: gleeted
form: gleeted
form: glit
Etymology: Old French glette.
Senses: examples: text: The Lips of the Abſceſs digeſted vvell, but from vvithin it onely gleeted, and thruſt out Fat, vvhich vve daily cut off vvithout the loſs of a drop of blood, and dreſſed up the Abſceſs vvith mundif. ex apio, continuing the uſe of diſcutient Fomentations and Cataplaſins.
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, “The First Book. A Treatise of Tumours. Chapter XVIII. Of an Oedema.”, in Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC, page 89:
text: [U]pon dilating a ſmall gleeting hole about three inches above the knee, on the outside of the thigh; and introducing a jointed or ſcrew probe, I found the bone carious to ſuch a height and withal the patient ſo emaciated with the tedious diſcharge, and a hectic fever that I diſſuaded attempting the operation […]
ref: 1760, Alexander Mackenzie, “A remarkable Separation of part of the thigh bone”, in Medical Observations and Inquiries, Volume 2, William Johnston, page 302:
glosses: To ooze, as gleet (noun sense); to flow in a thin, limpid humour.
examples: text: [Water vapour bubbles] hit againſt the ſides of the more eminent and Mountainous Places, of the Globe, and by this Concuſſion are condenſed, and thus become heavier than the Air they ſvvom in, and ſo gleet dovvn the rocky Caverns of theſe Mountains, […]
ref: 1705, George Cheyne, “Of the Existence of a Deity”, in Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion: […], London: […] George Strahan […], →OCLC, § XXIX, page 184:
glosses: Of water: to flow slowly.
Derived terms: gleety
gloak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡləʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: gloaks
Etymology: Origin unknown.
Senses: examples: text: You're a prime gloak, an out-and-outer, to get as far as you did before they grabbed you.
ref: 1956, Frank Clune, Martin Cash: The Last of the Tasmanian Bushrangers, page 149:
text: ‘Brit, by the look of him,’ cries a short, freckl’d seaman in whom Stature and Pugnacity enjoy an inverse relation. ‘– long way from home ain’t you old Gloak?’
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 401:
text: […] both toby-gills [highwaymen], buz-gloaks [pickpockets], cracksmen [housebreakers], &c., but from their good address and respectable appearance nobody would suspect their real vocation.
ref: quoted in 2013, Nicola Phillips, The Profligate Son (page 133)
synonyms: word: bloke
word: boy
word: bro
word: broski
word: bruh
word: cat
word: chap
word: chappy
word: chield
word: cove
word: covey
word: dog [⇒ thesaurus] (slang)
word: dawg
word: dude
word: fella
word: fellow
word: gadgie
word: gate
word: geezer
word: gink
word: gloak
word: gome
word: guy
word: health
word: homeboy
word: homey
word: joe
word: lede
word: nigga
word: ninja
word: omi
word: pillicock
word: punk
word: rooster
word: seg
word: shalk
word: wallah
word: wer
word: were
word: wye
glosses: A man, a guy.
Fatimite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fatimites
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Fatimid.
synonyms: word: Fatimid
gnathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: gnăʹthĭk
enpr: năʹthĭk
ipa: /ˈɡnæθɪk/
ipa: /ˈnæθɪk/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γνάθος (gnáthos, “jaw”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Want to get an idea of your gnathic index, and that mustache is in the way.’
ref: 1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the jaw.
Derived terms: word: dentognathic
word: dignathic
word: dysgnathic
word: eugnathic
word: extragnathic
word: gnathic index
alt: zoölogy
word: macrognathic
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
word: mesognathic
word: monognathic
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
word: orthognathic → hyperorthognathic
word: perignathic
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
word: prognathic
word: retrognathic
word: stomatognathic
Related terms: word: gnathal
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
word: gnathion
alt: zoölogy
word: gnathite
topics: medicine
sciences
word: gnathitis
word: gnathonically
word: gnathonical →
word: gnathonic →
word: gnathonism
word: gnathonize
word: gnatho →
alt: zoölogy
word: gnathobase
word: gnathocephalic
word: gnathocephalon →
word: gnathochilarium
word: gnathodynamometer
word: gnathosomal
word: gnathosoma
word: gnathosome →
word: gnathostomatous
word: gnathostome →
alt: zoölogy
word: gnathostomulid
roman: zoölogy
word: Gnathostomulida →
word: gnathotheca
word: gnath- →
word: gnathophorous
word: gnathopod
alt: zoölogy
word: gnathopodite
alt: zoölogy
word: gnathostegite
goffer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒfə/
Forms: form: goffers
form: goffering
form: goffered
form: goffered
Etymology: Borrowed from French gaufrer (“to stamp with a patterned tool”), from gaufre (“honeycomb”).
Senses: examples: text: On the back of a chair beside the bed sits perched above the discarded chip hat something apparently precious and taken from the opened bundle on the floor: a flat white cambric hat, its fronts and sides goffered into little flutes.
ref: 1985, John Fowles, A Maggot:
glosses: To make wavy; to crimp.
Derived terms: gofferer
goffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒfə/
Forms: form: goffers
Senses: topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: soft drink; non-alcoholic drink
goitre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɔɪ.tə/
ipa: /ˈɡɔɪ.tɚ/
rhymes: -ɔɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: goitres
form: goiter
Etymology: Borrowed from French, either from Old French goitron (“throat, neck, goitre”), itself from Vulgar Latin *gutturiō, *gutturiōnem (“throat, goitre-like protrusions”), from Latin guttur, or a back-formation from French goitreux (“goitered”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An enlargement of the front and sides of the neck caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland.
Derived terms: brewer's goitre
exophthalmic goitre
German goitre
goitral
goitred
goitrigenous
goitrogen
goitrous
inositol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌɪˈnəʊ.sɪ.tɒl/
ipa: /ɪˈnoʊ.səˌtɒl/
ipa: /aɪˈnoʊ.səˌtɒl/
ipa: /ɪˈnoʊ.səˌtoʊl/
ipa: /aɪˈnoʊ.səˌtoʊl/
Forms: form: inositols
Etymology: From its former name inosite + -ol (“an alcohol”), from Ancient Greek ἰνός (inós, genitive singular of ἴς (ís, “sinew, tendon”)) + -ite.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: inosite
glosses: A simple carbocyclic sugar (hexahydroxycyclohexane; chemical formula: C₆H₁₂O₆) which occurs in animal and plant tissue. Once treated as part of the vitamin B complex, but is not a vitamin as it can be synthesized by the body.
Derived terms: word: glycerophosphoinositol
word: glycoinositol
word: inositide
word: inositol hexaphosphate
word: inositol pentakisphosphate
word: inositolphospholipid
word: inositol triphosphate
word: inositol triphosphate receptor
word: myoinositol
alt: inositol monophosphate
word: myo-inositol
word: phosphatidylinositol
word: phosphoinositol
discobolus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discoboli
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δισκοβόλος (diskobólos, “discus thrower”), from δίσκος (dískos, “discus”) + βάλλω (bállō, “throw”).
Senses: glosses: A discus thrower.
glosses: A statue of a discus thrower.
gowk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡaʊk/
rhymes: -aʊk
Forms: form: gowks
Etymology: From Middle English goke, gowke, from Old Norse gaukr (“cuckoo”), from Proto-Germanic *gaukaz (“cuckoo”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰegʰuǵʰ- (“cuckoo”).
Senses: glosses: A cuckoo.
examples: text: "Ill-fard, crazy, crack-brained gowk, that she is!" exclaimed the housekeeper.
ref: 1816, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 8, in Old Mortality:
text: "What does it look like?" "Like...like..." Catweazle made boulder-like gestures in the air, "like a wogle-stone, thou gowk."
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 83:
text: God has sent me gowks for secretaries.
ref: 1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff:
text: `You daft great gowk, puttin' yerself in the way of harm after all this time out of a war.'
ref: 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 303:
glosses: A fool.
Derived terms: begowk
glimmer-gowk
hunt the gowk
gowk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡaʊk/
rhymes: -aʊk
Forms: form: gowks
form: gowking
form: gowked
form: gowked
Etymology: From Middle English goke, gowke, from Old Norse gaukr (“cuckoo”), from Proto-Germanic *gaukaz (“cuckoo”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰegʰuǵʰ- (“cuckoo”).
Senses: examples: text: look how the man stands as he were gowk'd
ref: 1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:
glosses: To make foolish; to stupefy.
gowk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡaʊk/
rhymes: -aʊk
ipa: [ˈɡæʊ̯ˀk]
ipa: /ɡaʊk/
rhymes: -aʊk
Forms: form: gowks
form: goke
form: goak
form: gauk
form: gouk
form: geak
form: cowk
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Likely from Middle English coke, colk (“the core or heart of an apple or onion, pith”), from Old English *colc (“the gullet, esophagus; pit of the stomach; trench, pit, gully”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulkaz, *kulukaz (“gullet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“to devour, swallow, gulp; throat, gullet”). Possibly a doublet of coke.
Senses: glosses: An apple core.
glosses: The central part of any thing; pith; core.
glosses: The hard centre of a boil or sore.
glosses: The yolk of an egg.
glosses: The inner part of a haystack.
gowk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡaʊk/
rhymes: -aʊk
ipa: [ˈɡæʊ̯ˀk]
Forms: form: gowks
form: gowking
form: gowked
form: gowked
Etymology: Compare Norwegian Nynorsk gulka (“to burp, belch”). Compare also Scots cowk (“to strain, retch”), Dutch kolken (“to belch”), German kolken (“to gulp”), dialectal German kölken, kolksen (“to vomit”), Danish kulke (“to gulp”).
Senses: glosses: To retch; vomit.
gowpen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaʊpən/
Forms: form: gowpens
form: gowpin
Etymology: From Old Norse gaupn (“hollow made by cupped hands”). Doublet of yepsen.
Senses: examples: text: it was ordered by Marina, who had it framed and set up in her bedroom next to a picture of her brother at twelve or fourteen clad in a bayronka (open shirt) and cupping a guinea pig in his gowpen (hollowed hands) […]
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 313:
glosses: A bowl made of the two hands cupped together.
Derived terms: gowpenful
goyal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɔɪəl/
Forms: form: goyals
Senses: examples: text: ’Twas thrown in a goyal of thick bushes, four hundred paces from the road. But he who found it saw a glint of the brass, amid the leaves.
ref: 1985, John Fowles, A Maggot:
text: We were come to a long deep “goyal,” as they call it on Exmoor, a word whose fountain and origin I have nothing to do with.
ref: 1869, RD Blackmore, Lorna Doone, section III:
text: These, though known for their valour and their breed, were whimpering in a cluster at the head of a deep dip or goyal, as we call it, upon the moor, some slinking away and some, with starting hackles and staring eyes, gazing down the narrow valley before them. "The company had come to a halt, more sober men, as you may guess, than when they started. The most of them would by no means advance, but three of them, the boldest, or it may be the most drunken, rode forward down the goyal.
ref: 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles:
glosses: Alternative form of goyle.
gralloch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹælək/
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic grealach (“entrails”), from Proto-Celtic *gre-lach, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“bowels”).
Senses: glosses: The entrails or offal of a dead deer.
gralloch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹælək/
Forms: form: grallochs
form: gralloching
form: gralloched
form: gralloched
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic grealach (“entrails”), from Proto-Celtic *gre-lach, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“bowels”).
Senses: examples: text: On our mattress in the secret nights, the girls whispered to me how he’d been watching her in a revival of Emma Bovary in an art-house in Berkeley and Tristessa’s eyes, eyes of a stag about to be gralloched, had fixed directly upon his and held them.
ref: 1977, Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve:
text: Then the beasts were prised apart at the breast,
 and they went to work on the gralloching again,
 riving open the front as far as the hind-fork,
 fetching out the offal, then with further purpose
filleting the ribs in the recognised fashion.
ref: 2012, Simon Armitage, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, page 64:
glosses: To eviscerate a deer.
graminivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹæmɪˈnɪvəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪvəɹəs
Forms: form: more graminivorous
form: most graminivorous
Etymology: From Latin graminivorus, from gramen (“grass”) + -vorus.
Senses: examples: text: We passed a large jaguar, glaring fiercely at a calf ten feet from him; […] Had we powder to waste, we would certainly have rid the graminivorous from many of their carnivorous neighbours, but we were now entering a tract of country celebrated for the depredations of the Texians and Buggles free bands, and every charge of powder thrown away was a chance the less, in case of a fight.
ref: 1843, [Frederick] Marryat, chapter XII, in Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet, in California, Sonora, & Western Texas. […], volume II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, […], →OCLC, page 257:
text: "Bitzer," said Thomas Gradgrind. "Your definition of a horse." / "Quadruped. Graminivorous. Forty teeth; namely, twenty-four grinders, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisive. Sheds coat in the spring; in marshy countries, sheds hoofs, too. Hoofs hard, but requiring to be shod with iron. Age known by marks in mouth." Thus (and much more) Bitzer.
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, chapter II, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:
text: If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous.
ref: 1906, Ambrose Bierce, “Abdomen”, in The Cynic’s Word Book, London: Arthur F. Bird […], →OCLC, page 4:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: That eats grasses and seeds.
-vorous
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /vəɹəs/
Etymology: From Latin -vorus + -ous.
Senses: glosses: forming adjectives with the sense of ‘habitually eating, feeding on’
Derived terms: carnivorous
graminivorous
herbivorous
infovorous
locavorous
plurivorous
Related terms: -vore
-phagous
gree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: grees
Etymology: From Middle English gre, from Old French gré, from Latin gradum (“step”). Compare degree. Doublet of grade.
Senses: examples: text: "My grand-daughter doesn't like to be kept waitin' when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to crammle aboon the grees, for there be a many of 'em, and miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock."
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 5, in Dracula:
glosses: One of a flight of steps.
examples: text: He is a shepherd great in gree.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iuly. Ægloga Septima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A stage in a process; a degree of rank or station.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A degree.
gree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: grees
Etymology: From (pre-reform) Scottish Gaelic gré, from Old Scottish Gaelic gray.
Senses: examples: text: bycause Sir Palomydes beganne fyrste, and never he wente nor rode oute of the fylde to repose hym, but ever he was doynge on horsebak othir on foote, and lengest durynge, Kynge Arthure and all the kynges gaff Sir Palomydes the honoure and the gre as for that day.
ref: 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:
text: And thenne the kynge lete blowe to lodgynge
and by cause sir Palomydes beganne fyrste
and neuer he went nor rode oute of the feld to repose
but euer was doynge merueyllously wel outher on foote or on horsbak
and lengest durynge Kynge Arthur and alle the kynges gaf sir Palomydes the honour and the gree as for that daye
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
glosses: Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).
gree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: From Middle English gre, from Old French gré (“pleasure, goodwill”), from Latin gratum, a noun use of the neuter of gratus (“pleasing”).
Senses: examples: text: Accept in gree, my lord, the words I spoke.
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
text: When it was the Second Night, said Dunyazad to her sister Shahrazad, "O my sister, finish for us that story of the Merchant and the Jinni;" and she answered "With joy and goodly gree, if the King permit me."
ref: 1885, Sir Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 1:
glosses: Pleasure, goodwill, satisfaction.
gree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: grees
form: greeing
form: greed
form: greed
Etymology: From Middle English green (“to agree”), from Old French greer, from gré (hence Etymology 3).
Senses: examples: text: Gob. […]how dooſt thou and thy Maſter agree, I haue brought him a preſent; how gree you now?
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 168:
glosses: To agree.
gregale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪˈɡɑːleɪ/
Forms: form: gregales
Etymology: From Italian grecale, apparently representing a late Latin noun from Graecus (“Greek”).
Senses: examples: text: The dog days have ended, the maijstral has ceased to blow. Soon the other wind called gregale will bring the gentle rains to solemnize the sowing of our red wheat.
ref: 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:
glosses: A strong Mediterranean wind blowing from the north-east.
grig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
homophone: Grigg
Forms: form: grigs
Etymology: The word is often used in the phrase "merry as a grig". The word is of uncertain origin, though various theories have been suggested, such as a corruption of "merry as a cricket" or "merry as a Greek", as in William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: "Then she's a merry Greek indeed." Johnson suggested that the word originally meant "anything below the natural size" (compare Swedish krik and Scots crick).
Senses: glosses: A dwarf.
examples: text: The black rooks will fly away, my son, and you'll come back as brown as a berry, and as merry as a grig.
ref: 1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 5, in Lud-in-the-Mist:
glosses: A cricket or grasshopper.
examples: text: [W]e assembled at one o'clock, at two sat down to dinner, consisting of capital stewed grigs, a dish Mrs Burt was famous for dressing, a large joint of roast or boiled meat, with proper vegetables and a good-sized pudding or pie […] .
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 41
glosses: A small or young eel.
glosses: Specifically, the broad-nosed eel. See glut.
Derived terms: lively as a grig
merry as a grig
grig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
homophone: Grigg
Etymology: From Welsh grug, Cornish grig.
Senses: examples: text: The further method of tillage pursued, was to make fallows; and if the season permitted, so that the ground could be cleared and burnt off, to destroy the grig or heath, […]
ref: 1791, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, Transactions of the Society of Arts, volume 9, page 80:
glosses: Heath or heather.
grig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
homophone: Grigg
Forms: form: grigs
form: grigging
form: grigged
form: grigged
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish griog.
Senses: glosses: To irritate or annoy.
grummel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹʌməl/
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: Mud, sediment.
examples: text: Gowselling in the grummels he wakes the plaintiff night with pitfalls turning left to right, high noon on the wintry ocean, high noon all sides aboard and aloft to starboard.
ref: 1936, Henry Miller, “Into the Night Life …”, in Black Spring, Paris: The Obelisk Press […], →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1963, →ISBN, page 179:
glosses: The dregs.
guiche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡiːʃ/
rhymes: -iːʃ
Forms: form: guiches
form: geish
form: gooch
Etymology: From French guiche (“a strap; a kiss-curl”).
Senses: examples: text: “I'm getting my guiche pierced,” she'd say. “lt's that little ridge of skin running between your asshole and the bottom of your vagina.”
ref: 1999, Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters Remix, Norton, published 2013, →ISBN:
text: Al buries his face under those balls and starts tongue lapping at Henry's guiche while Henry's cock slides over Al's face, leaving a trail of dick snot along his furry cheek.
ref: 2004, Greg Wharton, M. Christian, Love Under Foot: An Erotic Celebration of Feet:
text: I removed the nylon bikinis and spread my legs so she could admire my guiche.
ref: 2008, Patrick Richards, Addicted to Samantha, Pink Flamingo Publications, published 2008, →ISBN:
glosses: Perineum.
examples: text: At this distance, some 20 meters, she is only a dim figure in a black bombazine frock that reaches to her knees, her bare legs long and straight, a short hood of bright blonde hair keeping her face in shadow, coming up in guiches to touch her cheeks.
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow:
glosses: A kiss-curl.
guimpe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
homophone: gimp
Forms: form: guimpes
Etymology: From French guimpe, from Middle French guimpe, from Old French guimple (“wimple”), from Frankish *wimpil, *wimpila (“head scarf”), from Proto-Germanic *wimpilaz, from *wīpaną ("to wind, sling, garland, swing"; from Proto-Indo-European *wimb-, *weyb- (“to turn, rotate”)) + Proto-Germanic *-ilaz (instrumental suffix). Cognate with Old High German wimpal and winfila (“head scarf”), Middle Dutch wumpel (“cap”), Old English wimpel, winpel (“wimple”), Old Norse vimpill (“hood, veil”). Also influenced by Old French guimpre (“a kind of trimming”), from the same Germanic source. More at wimple.
Senses: glosses: Gimp; a narrow flat braid or reinforced cord of fabric used for ornamental trimming.
examples: text: Smocking done in colors on fine white batiste, silk mull, or nainsook makes pretty guimpes and dresses for children and very smart blouses for women.
ref: 1916, “Smocking”, in The Dressmaker: A Complete Book on All Matters Connected with Sewing and Dressmaking […], 2nd revised and enlarged edition, New York, N.Y.; London: The Butterick Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 29:
glosses: A kind of short, high-necked blouse with sleeves of the late Victorian era, designed to be worn under a low-cut dress, jumper, or pinafore dress.
glosses: A kind of short chemisette or yoke insert made of lace, embroidery, or the like, worn with a low-necked dress.
examples: text: All the nuns at the convent wore plain blouses and skirts except for Sister Edgar, who had permission from the motherhouse to fit herself out in the old things with the arcane names, the wimple, cincture and guimpe.
ref: 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld:
glosses: A wimple; a wide, stiffly starched cloth that covers the neck and shoulders, as part of the habit of nuns of certain orders.
guimpe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
homophone: gimp
Forms: form: guimpes
form: guimping
form: guimped
form: guimped
Etymology: From French guimpe, from Middle French guimpe, from Old French guimple (“wimple”), from Frankish *wimpil, *wimpila (“head scarf”), from Proto-Germanic *wimpilaz, from *wīpaną ("to wind, sling, garland, swing"; from Proto-Indo-European *wimb-, *weyb- (“to turn, rotate”)) + Proto-Germanic *-ilaz (instrumental suffix). Cognate with Old High German wimpal and winfila (“head scarf”), Middle Dutch wumpel (“cap”), Old English wimpel, winpel (“wimple”), Old Norse vimpill (“hood, veil”). Also influenced by Old French guimpre (“a kind of trimming”), from the same Germanic source. More at wimple.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: Alternative form of gimp.
gymnosophist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪmˈnɒsəfɪst/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪmˈnɑsəfɪst/
Forms: form: gymnosophists
Etymology: Borrowed from French gymnosophiste, from Latin gymnosophista, from Ancient Greek γυμνοσοφιστής (gumnosophistḗs), from γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”) + σοφιστής (sophistḗs, “sophist”).
Senses: examples: text: As that gymnosophist in Plutarch made answer to Alexander (demanding which spake best), Every one of his fellows did speak better than the other: so may I say of these causes […].
ref: , vol.I, New York, 2001, p.250
text: I was speaking today with an unclothed Hindu religious, a parama-hamsa, on the steps of a Portuguese church, a true gymnosophist.
ref: 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:
glosses: One of a school of ancient Indian ascetic philosophers, reported in antiquity, who wore little clothing; a mystic.
Related terms: gymnosophy
HQP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of highly qualified personnel.
abashedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæʃ.ɪd.nɪs/
ipa: /əˈbæʃ.ɪd.nɪs/
Etymology: From abashed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being abashed; abashment.
abashless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæʃ.lɪs/
ipa: /əˈbæʃ.ləs/
Forms: form: more abashless
form: most abashless
Etymology: From abash + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Nor wanted words as ready and as big
As the part he played, the bold abashless one.
ref: 1868, Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, London: Smith, Elder, Volume 1, Part 2, lines 1010-1011, p. 127:
text: I had endured through watches of the dark
The abashless inquisition of each star,
ref: 1895, Francis Thompson, Sister Songs, London: John Lane, Part the First, p. 19:
text: Where every bird is bold to go / And bees abashless play, / The foreigner before he knocks / Must thrust the tears away.
ref: a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in M[abel] L[oomis] Todd, editors, Poems, Third Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1896, page 160:
text: a place created for and by voluptuousness, the abashless and unabashed senses
ref: 1936, William Faulkner, chapter 4, in Absalom, Absalom!, New York: Modern Library, page 114:
synonyms: unabashed
barefaced
brazen
shameless
unblushing
unshrinking
glosses: Not disconcerted or embarrassed; not concealed; not eliciting shame.
Derived terms: abashlessly
fcuk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: FCUK
Etymology: From the company initials, chosen for their controversial similarity to the word fuck.
Senses: glosses: French Connection United Kingdom, a UK clothing range.
toothed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːθt/
ipa: /tuːðd/
rhymes: -uːθt
Etymology: From tooth + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The sperm whale is a toothed whale.
glosses: Having teeth.
raw_tags: of an animal
examples: text: A cog is a toothed wheel.
glosses: Having projections resembling an animal's teeth.
examples: text: A sharp-toothed rat.
text: A fine-toothed comb.
glosses: Having teeth of the specified type.
Synonyms: sense: having teeth
word: dentate
sense: having teeth
word: dentiferous
sense: having teeth
word: dentigerous
sense: having projections resembling teeth
word: dentate
word: dentilated
word: serrate
word: notched
Derived terms: Baker's small-toothed harvest mouse
buck-toothed
fine-toothed
fine-toothed comb
gap-toothed
large-toothed aspen
loose-toothed
red-toothed
red-toothed shrew
rough-toothed dolphin
saber-toothed
sabre-toothed
saw-toothed
scimitar-toothed
sharp-toothed
small-toothed palm civet
snaggle-toothed
snaggletoothed
spade-toothed whale
sweet-toothed
toothed jelly fungus
toothed jelly mushroom
toothed whale
yellow-toothed cavy
toothed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːθt/
ipa: /tuːðd/
rhymes: -uːθt
Etymology: From tooth + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tooth
yabbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjæb.i/
rhymes: -æbi
Forms: form: yabbies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yabby.
hachure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæʃˈjʊə/
ipa: /hæˈʃʊɹ/
Forms: form: hachures
Etymology: From French hachure (“crosshatching”), from hacher (“to hatch”).
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A line on a map indicating the steepness of a slope.
hachure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæʃˈjʊə/
ipa: /hæˈʃʊɹ/
Forms: form: hachures
form: hachuring
form: hachured
form: hachured
Etymology: From French hachure (“crosshatching”), from hacher (“to hatch”).
Senses: glosses: To mark a map with hachures.
hackamore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhækəmɔː/
Forms: form: hackamores
Etymology: Perhaps from Spanish jáquima (“halter”).
Senses: examples: text: Before they could agree or disagree he’d hauled the horse around by the hackamore and was pounding off up the track.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses:
synonyms: jaquima
glosses: A kind of bridle with no bit.
hafiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːfɪz/
Forms: form: hafizes
form: huffaz
form: hafis
Etymology: Persian, from Arabic حَافِظ (ḥāfiẓ), present participle of حَفِظَ (ḥafiẓa, “to guard, know by heart”).
Senses: examples: text: He was a hafiz, one who knows the Qur’an by heart, and he sang it in a slow, simple chant.
ref: 2001, Yann Martel, Life of Pi, Canongate, published 2003, →ISBN, pages 61–62:
glosses: A Muslim who has memorized the whole Qur'an.
halse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [hoːs]
ipa: [haːs]
ipa: [hoːz]
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: halses
form: hawse
Etymology: From Middle English hals, from Old English heals (“neck, prow of a ship”), from Proto-West Germanic *hals, from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *kols-, *ḱols- (“neck”).
Cognate with Dutch hals (“neck, throat”), German Hals (“neck, throat”), Norwegian hals (“neck, throat”), Swedish hals (“neck, throat”), Latin collum (“neck”).
Senses: examples: text: Well, as you know they used to hang folk by the halse for horse theft.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The neck; the throat.
Derived terms: healsfang
halse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [hoːs]
ipa: [haːs]
ipa: [hoːz]
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: halses
form: halsing
form: halsed
form: halsed
form: haulse
form: halsh
form: hawse
form: hose
Etymology: From Middle English halsen, halchen, from Old English *halsian, *healsian (“to embrace”, literally “to fall upon the neck of”), from heals (“neck”). See above. Cognate with Old Saxon helsjen (“to embrace”), Old High German halsōn (German halsen (“to jibe”)), Icelandic hálsa (“to embrace”).
Senses: examples: text: soo the Kyng took a lytel hackney and but fewe felauship with him vntyl he came vnto sir Tristrams pauelione / and whanne syre Trystram sawe the Kynge / he ranne vnto hym and wold haue holden his styrope / But the kynge lepte from his hors lyghtly / and eyther halsed other in armes
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII:
glosses: To fall upon the neck of; hug; embrace.
Related terms: enhalse
halse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [hoːs]
ipa: [haːs]
ipa: [hoːz]
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: halses
form: halsing
form: halsed
form: halsed
Etymology: From Middle English halsen, halsien (“to beseech, adjure”), from Old English healsian, hālsian (“to entreat earnestly, beseech, implore”), from Proto-Germanic *hailisōną (“to greet”), from Proto-Indo-European *kailo-, *kailu- (“whole, safe”).
Cognate with Middle High German heilsen (“to predict”), Swedish hälsa (“to greet”), Icelandic heilsa (“to salute”). More at whole.
Senses: glosses: To greet; salute; hail.
glosses: To beseech; adjure.
Derived terms: unhalsed
Related terms: halsen
halse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [hoːs]
ipa: [haːs]
ipa: [hoːz]
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: halses
form: hawse
Etymology: From Middle English hals (“neck”), from Old Norse háls (“neck, part of the forecastle or bow of a ship”), from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck”). See Etymology 1. Cognate with Danish hals (“neck, tack”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hawse.
halse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [hoːs]
ipa: [haːs]
ipa: [hoːz]
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: halses
form: halsing
form: halsed
form: halsed
form: hawse
Etymology: From Middle English hals (“neck”), from Old Norse háls (“neck, part of the forecastle or bow of a ship”), from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck”). See Etymology 1. Cognate with Danish hals (“neck, tack”).
Senses: glosses: To haul; to hoist.
hamadryad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæməˈdɹaɪæd/
Forms: form: hamadryads
form: hamadryades
Etymology: From Latin Hamadryas, from Ancient Greek Ἁμαδρυάς (Hamadruás), from ἅμα (háma, “together”) + δρῦς (drûs, “tree”).
Senses: examples: text: The hamadryades have gone, like the golden fancies of which they were engendered—morning dreams of a young world scarce awake, but full of freshness and beauty. Yet often will the thought, or rather the fancy, come across me, that this wailing but most musical noise—heard in the dim evening, when every tree has a separate sound like a separate instrument, and every leaf a differing tone like the differing notes—is the piteous lament of some nymph pent within the gray and mossy trunk whence she may never more emerge in visible loveliness.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 301:
text: The various supports, rafters, braces and plates are of pandanus logs of a rich oily brown, and make one think of a sylvan cathedral where hamadryads might very well dance, where Syrinx might be chased by Pan, Daphne by Apollo, and various other heathen rites take place in the dark hours before the dawn.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 106:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A wood-nymph who was physically a part of her tree; she would die if her tree were felled.
glosses: A king cobra.
glosses: A baboon of species Papio hamadryas, venerated by the ancient Egyptians.
glosses: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Hamadryas and Tellervo.
Derived terms: hamadryadic
Related terms: Daphne
Meliai
harl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: harls
Etymology: Cognate with Middle Low German herle, Low German harle, Saterland Frisian harrel (“hemp fibre”).
Senses: examples: text: She pushed her fingers under the cream lace, into the ginger harl of spun glass.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: A fibre, especially a fibre of hemp or flax, or an individual fibre of a feather.
examples: text: Should it be desired, however, to run the hackle all over the body, it may be tied on along with the peacock's harls.
ref: 1875, Angling, 9th edition, volume 2, Encyclopædia Britannica, page 44:
glosses: A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, used in dressing artificial flies.
harl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: harls
form: harling
form: harled
form: harled
Etymology: Cognate with Middle Low German herle, Low German harle, Saterland Frisian harrel (“hemp fibre”).
Senses: examples: text: The east side facade is of rubble, studded with small windows and mannered details, while the harled rear (south) wall forms, as completed, a towering, roughly symmetrical grouping.
ref: 1996, Miles Glendinning, Ranald MacInnes, Aonghus MacKechnie, A History of Scottish Architecture, →ISBN, page 361:
glosses: To surface a building using a slurry of pebbles or stone chips which is then cured using a lime render.
Derived terms: reharl
harl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: harls
form: harling
form: harled
form: harled
Senses: glosses: To drag along the ground.
glosses: To drag oneself along.
glosses: To troll for fish.
harl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: harls
Senses: glosses: The act of dragging.
glosses: A small quantity; a scraping of anything.
free space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free spaces
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: vacuum
void
glosses: vacuum; a space free of matter.
examples: text: Take your things up to the attic: there's some free space there.
text: How much free space is there on your hard disk? Is it full yet?
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see free, space.
seiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seiners
Etymology: From seine + -er.
Senses: glosses: A fisherman who uses a seine to catch fish.
glosses: A fishing vessel used for seining.
Derived terms: superseiner
bat for both sides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bats for both sides
form: batting for both sides
form: batted for both sides
form: batted for both sides
Senses: synonyms: word: bat for both sides
word: go both ways
word: swing both ways
glosses: To be bisexual.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bat, both, sides. To be a batter for both teams in an amateur cricket or baseball game.
Related terms: bat for the other team
beat up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beat up
form: most beat up
form: beat-up
Senses: glosses: Battered by time and usage; beaten up.
Synonyms: beat
beaten up
dilapidated
beat up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beat ups
form: beat-up
Senses: examples: text: Well, two beat ups (the bullied kids) would split that cash fifty-fifty.
ref: 2009, Thomas Cody Mullenaux, Numbskull, page 257:
glosses: A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
examples: text: These hit-and-run LRDG attacks — “beat-ups,” the patrols were beginning to call them — continued, and added to the enemy's mounting difficulties.
ref: 1987, John W. Gordon, The Other Desert War: British Special Forces in North Africa, 1940-1943, page 86:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An act of beating up:
A raid.
examples: text: We gave him wedgies and did mock beat-ups. We never hurt him or intended to hurt him, but he went along with our tough guy sort of image, and took it tongue in cheek and got it.
ref: 2008, Josh Frank, Charlie Buckholtz, In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre, page 243:
text: Frequently on guest nights beat ups were held by the Third Term, and cadets of the First Term (and, sometimes, the Second Term) were singled out individually.
ref: 2010, John Golley, Jet, page 14:
glosses: An act of beating up:
A beating; a hazing.
examples: text: To the people of CQ^([Central Queensland]) the Internet is nothing more than the subject of media beat ups about pornography and bomb making.
ref: 1995 September, David Jones, “1000 Users on a 486”, in AUUG ′95 & Asia-Pacific World Wide Web ′95 Conference & Exhibition: Conference Proceedings, page 106:
text: Media beat-ups and xenophobia are nothing new to the Vietnamese people.
ref: 2007, Pauline Nguyen, Luke Nguyen, Mark Jensen, Secrets of the Red Lantern: Stories and Vietnamese Recipes from the Heart, page 189:
text: These debates can be difficult to navigate and are all too easily reduced to simplistic reflections of individual taste and vulnerable to journalistic beat-ups.
ref: 2009, Ken Gelder, Paul Salzman, After The Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989-2007, page 95:
text: 2009, Newstalk ZB, Hydro project claims "a beat up" - Brownlee, Newstalk ZB.
glosses: An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.
examples: text: The data include measurements from both the original tree plantings and subsequent beat-ups.
ref: 2003, K. J. Foot, M. Hislop, S. McNeilly, “The effect of green composted waste on tree establishment on landfill”, in Heather M. Moore, Howard R. Fox, Scott Elliott, editors, Land Reclamation: Extending The Boundaries: Proceedings Of The 7th International Conference, Runcorn, UK 13-16 May 2003, page 216:
topics: business
forestry
glosses: A tree planted later than others in a plantation.
Synonyms: sense: act of beating up
word: hazing
bow out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /baʊ aʊt/
Forms: form: bows out
form: bowing out
form: bowed out
form: bowed out
Senses: examples: text: Jane had a long spell as chairman, but bowed out after she had a child.
text: Joe Biden Is a Good Man and a Good President. He Must Bow Out of the Race. [title]
ref: 2024 June 28, Thomas L. Friedman, “Joe Biden Is a Good Man and a Good President. He Must Bow Out of the Race.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: “Even though I am extremely flattered and grateful to be nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, I don’t feel that I have earned that right,” Parton, 76, wrote in a statement posted to social media. “I really do not want votes to be split because of me, so I must respectfully bow out.”
ref: 2022 March 14, Joe Coscarelli, quoting Dolly Parton, “Dolly Parton Bows Out of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nomination”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: After 16 years not just at the heart of Europe but also at the head of the continent’s most prestigious symphony orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle bowed out as the chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic this week, in an emotional farewell concert in the German capital.
ref: 2018 June 21, Martin Kettle, “Rattle bows out at Berlin with Mahler, Merkel and standing ovations”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To resign, or leave, with one's credibility or reputation still intact.
fall out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fall outs
Senses: examples: text: We had a fall out, couldn't come to terms and haven't talked since.
text: I've had a fall out with Nora, one of my tenants. She's packing up and leaving at this very moment.
ref: 2019, Angela Barton, Magnolia House:
glosses: Synonym of falling out (“rift following a disagreement or quarrel”).
synonyms: word: falling out
extra: rift following a disagreement or quarrel
far out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more far out
form: most far out
Senses: examples: text: We were discussing a new base for our office, but moving to Antarctica seemed too far out.
glosses: New, radical and extreme.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see far, out.
far out
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Far out! The game has a hidden cow level.
text: What do you reckon? Far outsville or far insville?
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 18:
glosses: Cool; great; an expression of support, enthusiasm, or celebration.
examples: text: "Far out mate, look at the size of that bloody boat," a ranger said as he arrived at work at the Royal Botanic Gardens.
ref: 2007 February 20, “QM2 sails into Sydney”, in Age, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2025:
glosses: An expression of surprise.
examples: text: "Far out mate, frustrated. It just didn't jump and get going early. She was back running third-last," Olive said.
ref: 2018 March 10, David Polkinghorne, “'Frustrating' Australian Cup fifth means Single Gaze to avoid Winx”, in Sydney Morning Herald, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2025:
glosses: An expression of displeasure.
tailleur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /taɪˈjɜː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: tailleurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French tailleur. Doublet of tailor.
Senses: glosses: A woman's tailored suit.
flag down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flags down
form: flagging down
form: flagged down
form: flagged down
Senses: examples: text: If you want a taxi in Central London, you'll have to stand in the road and flag one down.
glosses: Use a flag or similar kind of signal to get someone's attention.
natation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˈteɪ.ʃən/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin natātiō.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of swimming
Derived terms: natational
supernatation
sandstorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandstorms
form: sand storm
Etymology: From sand + storm.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: duststorm, duster (broadly synonymous), haboob
text: There are few sights more appalling than a sandstorm in the desert, the "Zauba'ah" as the Arabs call it.
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 114 footnote:
hypernyms: storm#Noun
glosses: A strong wind carrying clouds of sand and dust through the air.
Related terms: sandblaster
sand pillar
sandspout