cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pudendum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pyo͝odĕnʹdəm
enpr: pyo͞odĕnʹdəm
ipa: /pjʊˈdɛndəm/
ipa: /pjuːˈdɛndəm/
Forms: form: pudenda
Etymology: From Latin pudenda (“that whereof one ought to feel shame”), substantive use of the neuter plural gerundive of pudet (“it shames”); in Latin the usage in the plural form (to mean external genitalia), was far more common than the singular form, as is also the case in English.
Senses: examples: text: Wax models of the pudenda of both sexes were regularly placed before the altar.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 228:
glosses: External genital organs in a human; especially a woman's vulva.
glosses: A person's genitals, mons pubis, anus, and buttocks collectively.
glosses: A shameful part of something.
Derived terms: word: pudendal
word: pudendum muliebre
word: pudendum virile
word: pudic
word: ulcerating granuloma of the pudendum
pylorus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pylori
form: pyloruses
Etymology: From Latin pylōrus, from Ancient Greek πυλωρός (pulōrós, “gatekeeper”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: In vertebrates, including humans, a zone at the lower end of the stomach that leads to and opens into the duodenum.
glosses: A muscular or myovascular structure that controls the opening of an orifice or lumen of an organ.
Synonyms: sense: stomach part that opens into the duodenum
word: pyloric sphincter
Derived terms: pyloric
pyloro-
Hungarian notation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌŋˈɡɛɹi.ən noʊˈteɪʃən/
Etymology: The notation was invented by Charles Simonyi (born 1948), Hungarian-American computer programmer.
Senses: examples: lpsz is Hungarian notation for a 32-bit pointer to a null-terminated string.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A naming convention in which the name of a variable indicates its data type and intended use by including abbreviations as prefixes.
wikipedia: Charles Simonyi
Related terms: sigil
dabai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dabai
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese 大白 (dàbái). Coined during the COVID-19 pandemic when they were ubiquitous in China.
Senses: glosses: An official of the Chinese government wearing a white biosafety suit.
dabai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dabais
Etymology: From Malay.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Sarawak olive (Canarium odontophyllum)
morn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːn/
ipa: /moɹn/
ipa: [mo̞ɹn]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
homophone: mourn
homophone: mourne
homophone: morne (horse–hoarse merger)
note: rhotic
ipa: /mɔːɹn/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /mɔːn/
Forms: form: morns
Etymology: From Middle English morn, morwen, from Old English morgen, from Proto-West Germanic *morgan, *morgin, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, *murginaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥kéno, *mr̥kóno, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥Hko, from *mer- (“to shimmer, glisten”).
See also West Frisian moarn, Low German Morgen, Dutch morgen, German Morgen, Danish morgen, Norwegian morgon; also Lithuanian mérkti (“to blink, twinkle”), Sanskrit मरीचि (márīci, “ray of light”), Greek μέρα (méra, “morning”). Doublet of morrow and morgen. See also morning.
Senses: examples: text: But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, / Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill. / Break we our watch up, and by my advice, / Let us impart what we have seen tonight
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], lines 165-168:
glosses: Morning.
Synonyms: morning
morrow
Derived terms: after-morn
good morn
midmorn
mornless
mornlike
mornward
tomorn
yestermorn
amortize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmɔːtaɪz/
ipa: /ˈæmɚtaɪz/
ipa: /əˈmɔɹtaɪz/
Forms: form: amortizes
form: amortizing
form: amortized
form: amortized
form: amortise
Etymology: From Middle English amortisen, from Old French amortir (via the stem amortiss-), from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, derived from Latin mortuus (“dead”).
Senses: topics: business
law
property
real-estate
glosses: To alienate (property) in mortmain.
examples: text: extraordinary borrowing had been so extensive, Joly de Fleury reckoned, that even if it were amortized over the following decade, the state would still be running an annual deficit of over 50 million livres.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 318:
topics: business
finance
glosses: To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: To even out the costs of running an algorithm over many iterations, so that high-cost iterations are much less frequent than low-cost iterations, which lowers the average running time.
Derived terms: amortizable
amortizement
nonamortized
unamortized
skin cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skin cancers
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
pathology
sciences
glosses: A malignant growth on the skin, such as melanoma.
Derived terms: walking skin cancer
pneumonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /njuˈməʊniə/
ipa: /nuˈmoʊniə/
ipa: /nəˈmoʊniə/
ipa: /nəˈmoʊnjə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ny.mo.nɪ.ɑ/
Forms: form: pneumonias
form: pneumoniæ
form: pneumoniae
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πνευμονία (pneumonía, “lung disease”), from πνεύμων (pneúmōn, “lung”) + -ία (-ía).
Senses: examples: text: He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “2/9/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
glosses: Inflammation of the lungs caused by viruses, bacteria or other infectious microorganisms.
Derived terms: atypical pneumonia
bilateral pneumonia
bronchopneumonia
double pneumonia
hydropneumonia
lobar pneumonia
metapneumonia
peripneumonia
pleuropneumonia
pneumococcal pneumonia
pneumocystis pneumonia
pneumoniac
pneumonialike
single pneumonia
typhopneumonia
walking pneumonia
Wuhan pneumonia
single pneumonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Pneumonia affecting one lung.
double pneumonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pneumonia affecting both lungs.
breast cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breast cancers
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: Cancer of the breast.
Related terms: mastocarcinoma
mamilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mamillae
form: mammilla
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mamilla.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The small projection of a mammary gland; a nipple.
glosses: A nipple-shaped protuberance.
Synonyms: nipple
pap
teat
tit
Derived terms: mamillar
mamillary
mamillate
osmolarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒz.mə(ʊ)ˈlar.ɪt.i/
ipa: /ˌɑz.moʊˈlɛr.ət.i/
ipa: /ˌɑz.moʊˈlær.ət.i/
ipa: /ˌɑs.moʊˈlɛr.ət.i/
ipa: /ˌɑs.moʊˈlær.ət.i/
rhymes: -æɹɪti
Forms: form: osmolarities
Etymology: Blend of osmotic + molar + -ity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The osmotic concentration of a solution, normally expressed as osmoles of solute per litre of solution.
Synonyms: Osmotic concentration
Derived terms: hyperosmolarity
hypoosmolarity
isoosmolarity
milliosmolarity
Related terms: osmolality
neurohypophysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurohypophyses
Etymology: From neuro- + hypophysis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The posterior lobe of the pituitary gland, responsible for the release of oxytocin and antidiuretic hormone (ADH), also called vasopressin.
Synonyms: posterior pituitary gland
Derived terms: neurohypophyseal
neurohypophysial
neurohypophysis hormone
mammography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: mammographies
Etymology: From mammo- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: The introduction of mammography to detect breast cancer early in its course sharply increased its incidence.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 44:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: mastography
glosses: X-ray examination of the breasts for diagnosing and locating abnormalities, especially tumours.
Derived terms: mammogram
mammograph
mammographic
sonomammography
telemammography
xeromammography
Related terms: breast thermography
tumour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumours
Etymology: From Middle English tumour, from Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tumeō (“bulge, swell”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Related to English thumb.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
pathology
sciences
glosses: Commonwealth standard spelling of tumor.
Derived terms: brain tumour
hypertumour
intratumour
microtumour
nontumourigenic
peritumour
pretumoural
protumour
pseudotumour
tumoured
tumouricidal
tumourigenesis
tumourigenetic
tumourless
tumourlike
tumourous
tumoursphere
Wilms tumour
Wilms' tumour
cable ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cable ships
Senses: examples: text: The land line was eight months later in its completion than was anticipated, but the fleet of cable ships, sent out by the British Australian Telegraph Company, arrived in Port Darwin at the date appointed by them: November 6th, 1871.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 134:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a vessel fitted for laying and repairing submarine cables; it has a large roller built over the bows for paying out cable.
Synonyms: CS
Hypernyms: ship
Hyponyms: cable layer
cable repair ship
Derived terms: CS
cause celebre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cause celebres
Senses: examples: text: Shortly after he left Government service as a translator at the Supreme Court, the cause celebre was the assassination of a radically-minded (Sun Yat-sen supporting) school teacher in his own classroom by gunmen hired by the police chief in Canton.
ref: 1987, Anthony Sweeting, “A MIDDLEMAN FOR ALL SEASONS: SNAPSHOTS OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MOK MAN CHEUNG AND HIS "ENGLISH MADE EASY"”, in Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume 27, page 62:
text: Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who died this week, was a boxer in the United States. He was convicted of a 1966 triple homicide in two trials and became a cause celebre, inspiring Bob Dylan's song Hurricane.
ref: 2014 April 24, Alex von Tunzelmann, “The Hurricane: the facts of Rubin Carter's life story are beaten to a pulp”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cause célèbre.
cable-laid rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cable-laid ropes
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A very thick rope used for tasks such as towing, made by twisting together three ordinary hawser-laid ropes.
hawser-laid rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawser-laid ropes
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: normal rope in which three strands are laid up against the twist
Related terms: cable-laid rope
caboose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈbuːs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: cabooses
form: camboose
form: cambouse
Etymology: From French cambuse, from Middle Dutch kabuys, kabuis (Modern Dutch kombuis (“galley; kitchen”)). Cognate with Swedish kabyss.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel.
examples: text: On the second day out, while sailing moderately on our course in the Gulf Stream, a sudden squall of wind struck the ship from the SW. and knocked her completely on her beam-ends, stove one of our boats, entirely destroyed two others, and threw down the cambouse.
ref: 1821, Owen Chase, Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex …:
text: This stove is to be made in the form of a Franklin, but is to be furnished with an oven, and other means of cooking; its appearance is therefore more like that of the old fashioned caboose, than of a Franklin stove.
ref: 1841, Journal of the Franklin Institute, page 113:
text: A tremendous billow, fringed with foam, swept over our deck, carrying the cook's caboose, cooking utensils and stove right overboard into the sea.
ref: 1881, Eliza Davies, The Story of an Earnest Life, page 226:
text: The kitchens were kept separate because cooking was done in a caboose, a wooden box filled with sand and heated by a wood fire.
ref: 2002, Don Philpott, Cayman Islands:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small sand-filled container used as an oven on board ship.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: word: guard's van
glosses: The last car on a freight train, consisting of cooking and sleeping facilities for the crew; a guard’s van.
examples: text: That's a pretty big caboose for a baby.
ref: 2001 March 11, John Frink and Don Payne, Bye, Bye, Nerdie (The Simpsons), spoken by Homer Simpson:
glosses: The buttocks.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The person or team in last place.
examples: text: Jimmy was seven and had just finished first grade, so that made Nancy our caboose baby — our bonus child — our swan song.
ref: 1987, Harriet Wallace Rose, Something's Wrong with My Child!:
text: "Caboose" children, the late-born last offspring in the family, didn't suffer from this as much.
ref: 1987, Growing Child Research Review - Volumes 5-7:
text: After looking back on her own experience, she thought of some ways parents could help ease the transition for their caboose kid.
ref: 2007, Beth K. Vogt, Baby Changes Everything, page 145:
glosses: A youngest child who is born after a long gap in time.
boozehound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boozehounds
Etymology: From booze + hound.
Senses: examples: text: A 47-year-old, nondescript boozehound who once programmed computers for the French government, Houellebecq is an unlikely choice as either a literary lion or sacrificial lamb.
ref: 2005 August 20, “Michel Houellebecq: The sex export”, in The Independent:
text: He was also an irresponsible boozehound who habitually ran out on the check in restaurants, even though he must have known it was the waitress who had to pay the bill for such dine-and-dash customers.
ref: 2009 November 20, Stephen King, “Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: alcoholic, drunkard
Synonyms: drunkard
spermatogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatogeneses
Etymology: From spermato- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The process of sperm production in the testes.
Derived terms: spermatogenetic
decapitalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkæpɪtəlaɪz/
Forms: form: decapitalizes
form: decapitalizing
form: decapitalized
form: decapitalized
form: decapitalise
Etymology: From de- + capitalize.
Senses: glosses: To uncapitalize (convert the first letter (or more) of (something) from uppercase to lowercase).
topics: business
finance
glosses: To convert a capital value, typically into a rental.
examples: text: In 1801 Connecticut decapitalized arson, but only where no victim's life had been placed in danger.
ref: 2009, Stuart Banner, The Death Penalty: an American history, page 131:
topics: law
glosses: To remove (something's) status as a capital crime; to cause (something) to no longer be a capital crime.
Synonyms: uncapitalize
Related terms: decriminalize
photology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: A branch of physics that deals with light or the study of light and its effects.
glosses: That science concerned with the production of light and energy, especially regarding therapeutic applications.
Derived terms: photological
antidiuretic hormone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antidiuretic hormones
Etymology: antidiuretic + hormone
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland
hi-jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hijack.
highjack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highjacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hijack.
highjack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: highjacks
form: highjacking
form: highjacked
form: highjacked
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hijack.
utilise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːtɪlaɪz/
Forms: form: utilises
form: utilising
form: utilised
form: utilised
form: utilize
Etymology: From French utiliser, from Italian utilizzare, from utile (“useful”), from Latin ūtilis, from ūtī (“use”). Attested c. 1810.
Senses: examples: text: The bodywork employs, where possible, the same constructional methods as for the standard B.R. coaching stock, in order to utilise existing jigs and press tools.
ref: 1959 March, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 125:
glosses: To make use of; to use.
glosses: To make useful; to find a practical use for.
examples: text: Since then we have had the opportunity to travel in them and were much impressed by the internal styling and comfort of the seating (with the minor exception of the single seats which have been tucked in longitudinally alongside some of the entrance vestibules and which are so cramped that only the slimmest of female figures could be comfortable in them; the space they occupy would have been better utilised to increase standing room).
ref: 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 715:
glosses: To make best use of; to use to its fullest extent, potential, or ability.
glosses: To make do with; to use in manner different from that originally intended
Synonyms: employ
exploit
use
Derived terms: utilisation
utilisable
utiliser
audiogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From audio- + -genic.
Senses: examples: an audiogenic seizure
glosses: Produced by sound.
rie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: rye
homophone: wry
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rye.
lowdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low-down
form: low down
Etymology: Compound adjective of low + down in the sense of "humble" recorded in the 1540s, in the sense of "vulgar, far down the social scale" in 1888. Recorded as a noun in 1915 in the slang sense of secret or inside information.
Senses: examples: text: All the reporters hoped to be the first to get the lowdown on the celebrity's marriage plans.
text: here's the lowdown
text: to give somebody the lowdown
text: Lawyer Jeff, he knows the low-down / It’s mighty bad to visit home
ref: 1985, “Can’t Get There From Here”, in Fables of the Reconstruction, performed by R.E.M.:
synonyms: scoop
dirt
dope
straight dope
poop
glosses: inside information, the story or truth.
glosses: A lowlife, a despicable person.
lowdown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lowdown
form: most lowdown
form: low-down
form: low down
Etymology: Compound adjective of low + down in the sense of "humble" recorded in the 1540s, in the sense of "vulgar, far down the social scale" in 1888. Recorded as a noun in 1915 in the slang sense of secret or inside information.
Senses: examples: text: lowdown tactics
glosses: Unfair; scoundrelly; shameful.
examples: text: So there I was, in the front row of course (it was my reportorial duty), with a bunch of gay men and straight women. And we're all involved in a lowdown — but eminently "Safe" — celebration of the erotic possibilities of the male body.
ref: 1988 August 20, Chris Reed, “The English 'Strip-tique'”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 11:
text: Some kinda way, he talked Aunt Fanny into running off with him that night. When they got as far as Kansas City, he was through with her. They stayed in some lowdown kinda hotel in the colored section there', and after that they were headed God knows where.
ref: 1994, Ivan Webster, The Cares of the Day, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: seedy, sketchy, disreputable
glosses: down low; purporting to be heterosexual while engaged in sex with men.
lowdown
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lowdown
form: most lowdown
form: low-down
form: low down
Etymology: Compound adjective of low + down in the sense of "humble" recorded in the 1540s, in the sense of "vulgar, far down the social scale" in 1888. Recorded as a noun in 1915 in the slang sense of secret or inside information.
Senses: examples: text: “I say, that’s playing it a bit low down,” I protested.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 151:
glosses: Unfairly; dishonourably; in a deceitful or mean manner.
phantasmagoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfæntæzməˈɡɒɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌfæntæzməˈɡɔːɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiə
Forms: form: phantasmagorias
form: phantasmagory
form: fantasmagoria
Etymology: From French phantasmagorie, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “ghost”) + possibly either ἀγορά (agorá, “assembly, gathering”) + the suffix -ia or ἀγορεύω (agoreúō, “to speak publicly”).
Senses: synonyms: magic lantern
glosses: A popular 18th- and 19th-century form of theater entertainment whereby ghostly apparitions are formed.
glosses: A series of events involving rapid changes in light intensity and color.
examples: text: this mental phantasmagoria
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust. There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.
glosses: A dreamlike state where real and imagined elements are blurred together.
Derived terms: phantasmagorial
phantasmagorian
phantasmagoric
phantasmagorical
phantasmagorically
phantasmagorist
phantasmagoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phantasmagoric
form: most phantasmagoric
Etymology: From phantasmagoria + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: As early as 1965, however, Tom Wolfe sensed the importance of "electrographic architecture," the phantasmagoric billboards along 79.
ref: 2000, Postmodern Studies, volume 28, page 127:
glosses: Characterized by or pertaining to rapid changes in light intensity and colour.
glosses: Characterized by or pertaining to a dreamlike blurring of real and imaginary elements.
Synonyms: phantasmagorial
phantasmagorian
phantasmagorical
Derived terms: phantasmagorically
scoop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sko͞op
ipa: /skuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: scoops
form: scooping
form: scooped
form: scooped
Etymology: From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”). Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German schōpe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel.
Senses: examples: text: He used both hands to scoop water and splash it on his face.
text: Their first clear opportunity duly came courtesy of a mistake from Russell Martin, who was hustled off the ball by Bale, but the midfielder scooped his finish well over the top as he bore down on the Norwich goal.
ref: 2011 December 27, Mike Henson, “Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
examples: text: I tried scooping a hole in the sand with my fingers.
glosses: To make hollow; to dig out.
examples: text: The paper across town scooped them on the City Hall scandal.
glosses: To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
raw_tags: with "up"
examples: text: You have a car. Can you come and scoop me?
glosses: To pick (someone) up
Derived terms: scoop and run
scooped
scooper
scoop in
scooping
scoop out
scoop the kitty
scoop the pool
scoop up
flummoxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flummoxed
form: most flummoxed
Etymology: From flummox + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He's good at what he knows, but he gets completely flummoxed when new problems arise.
text: ‘Itʼs amazing, these bosses call all the shots but are flummoxed by the smallest technological advances.’
ref: 2019, Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie, Trapeze, page 85:
text: “What would you have done?” he demanded more than once of Ms. Le Pen, without ever getting a direct response. She did not seem to have one and looked flummoxed.
ref: 2022 April 21, Roger Cohen, “Macron and Le Pen Trade Punches in Pivotal Debate on France’s Future”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: bewildered
word: mystified
word: perplexed
word: stumped
word: addle-pated
word: addled
word: addlepated
word: at a loss
word: at a loss for words
word: at sea
word: at sixes and sevens
word: baffled
word: befuddled
word: bewildered
word: confused
word: confuzzled
word: dazed
word: dazzled
word: discombobulated
word: disconcerted
word: dumbfounded
word: flabagasted
word: flabbergasted
word: flabbergastered
word: flummoxed
word: flustered
word: jumbled
word: lost for words
word: minussed
word: misled
word: mixed up
word: muddled
word: muzzy
word: mystified
word: nonplussed
word: not with it
word: out of it
word: out to lunch
word: perplexed
word: punch-drunk
word: puzzled
word: spaced out
word: speechless
word: stumped
word: stymied
word: thrown
word: up a tree
glosses: Confused, perplexed or flustered.
Derived terms: kerflumixed
unflummoxed
flummoxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From flummox + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flummox
Derived terms: kerflummoxed
stop the presses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stops the presses
form: stopping the presses
form: stopped the presses
form: stopped the presses
Etymology: Originally referred to delaying the printing of a newspaper in order to change its content to accommodate the inclusion of late-breaking news.
Senses: glosses: An exclamation used to introduce especially new, important, surprising, or recent developments.
Related terms: hold the phone
stop press
take the cake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the cake
form: taking the cake
form: took the cake
form: taken the cake
Etymology: Attested since circa 1870. Originally used in reference to the winners of cake walk competitions in black communities of the southern USA in the 19th and early 20th centuries, who were said to have "taken the cake", which was oftentimes the prize.
Senses: examples: text: Thanks! You guys take the cake.
text: Once the party was over, everyone agreed that Elizabeth and her Harriet Tubman getup had taken the cake.
text: I've seen bad grammar, but this takes the cake.
glosses: Used as an affirmation or accolade when one is deemed the top position in a comparison or contest; to win or be the best (at).
Synonyms: sense: to be good or outstanding
word: steal the show
sense: to be particularly bad or egregious
word: take the biscuit
nais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nai
stop press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop-press
Etymology: From stop the presses, US newspaper-printing jargon.
Senses: examples: text: 1989, Textual Introduction to The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=C64iQVqCm3MC&pg=RA1-PR51&lpg=RA1-PR51&sig=JpcrTaGG5EdPxJjr2U8VwuilsEw
Three of the errata corrections had already been made as stop-press corrections …
text: Faked Stop Press! announcements in newspapers. A valuable trick because it can always be claimed that the announcement was ‘hushed up’. It is also easy to fake the printing of the Stop Press.
ref: 2002, Russell Miller, Behind the Lines http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=iAtuxaBlfRkC&pg=PA103&lpg=PA103&sig=erWM7_pq0H8pCDJnv5W4-5bxlv0
text: 2005, Mary Norway, The Sinn Fein Rebellion As I Saw It, http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=kdp6DLzb6KcC&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&sig=TWkyRKxWPtmbwiGPh_BvuIQNwlA
Another lady thought she would drive a lesson home, so she said: “But you said it was a ‘Stop press,’ and you knew it was not.”
“It is, miss, but sure they hadn’t time to print the ‘stop press’ on it!!”
(“Stop press” is the latest news, usually printed on the back of the paper.)
text: STOP PRESS: As this issue of RAIL went to press, the RMT announced that it too would be taking strike action on the Tube on March 15
ref: 2023 March 8, “Tube drivers announce "first day of action"”, in RAIL, number 978, page 11:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: The event or news article important enough to delay or interrupt the print, or require a reprint, of a publication, particularly of a newspaper edition.
stop press
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stops press
form: stopping press
form: stopped press
form: stopped press
form: stop-press
Etymology: From stop the presses, US newspaper-printing jargon.
Senses: glosses: Used to announce an event or news article important enough to delay or interrupt the print, or require a reprint, of publication, particularly of a newspaper edition.
glosses: Used to grab attention, implying importance, news-worthiness, etc.
Related terms: stop the presses
LDIF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LDIFs
Senses: glosses: LDAP data interchange format.
glosses: Local Development Investment Fund.
bamboozle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæmˈbuː.zl̩/
ipa: /bæmˈbu.zl̩/
Forms: form: bamboozles
form: bamboozling
form: bamboozled
form: bamboozled
form: bambooze
Etymology: Derivative of 17th-century vernacular bam (“to trick, to con”), which is a derivative of bam in noun use (fraudster, cheat). Possibly from French embobiner.
Senses: examples: text: “Look here, friend,” said I, “if you have anything important to tell us, out with it; but if you are only trying to bamboozle us, you are mistaken in your game; that’s all I have to say.”
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 19”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: To con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone.
examples: text: He's completely bamboozled by the changes in the computer system.
text: "Although Morphy misplays the opening, it does not take him long to bamboozle his opponent."
ref: 1951 February, “Chess Caviar”, in Chess Review:
text: Clarke's defence, bolstered by the return of Grant Hanley, was bamboozled by a flurry of Faroese raids, at least one of which should have delivered a goal.
ref: 2021 October 12, Jamie Lyall, “Faroe Islands 0-1 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To confuse, frustrate or perplex.
Derived terms: bamboozl(e)able
bamboozlement
bamboozler
bambosh
bamfoozle
debamboozle
bamboozle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæmˈbuː.zl̩/
ipa: /bæmˈbu.zl̩/
Forms: form: bamboozles
form: bambooze
Etymology: Derivative of 17th-century vernacular bam (“to trick, to con”), which is a derivative of bam in noun use (fraudster, cheat). Possibly from French embobiner.
Senses: glosses: A cheat, hoax, or imposition.
no two ways about it
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There are no two ways about it. We'll have to start over from the very beginning.
glosses: No other possible action, choice or option.
examples: text: A day at the beach is the best way to spend a weekend, no two ways about it.
ref: 2007, Timothy Rasinski, Kathleen Knoblock, Kathleen N. Kopp, Idioms and Other English Expressions: Grades 4-6, page 28:
glosses: No other possible interpretation.
LDAP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛl.dæp/
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
takes the cake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take the cake
perky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɝki/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ki
homophone: percy
Forms: form: perkier
form: perkiest
Etymology: From perk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She answered with a perky smile and bounced off.
glosses: Lively.
examples: text: The plant looks much perkier since I watered it.
text: perky breasts
glosses: Standing upright; firm.
Derived terms: parky
perkily
perkiness
perkyish
unperky
Related terms: perk
perk up
perky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɝki/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ki
homophone: percy
Forms: form: perkies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of percy (“Percocet pill”).
crawdad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɔˌdæd/
Forms: form: crawdads
Etymology: Alteration of US and British dialectal crawdab (“crayfish”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of crayfish.
synonyms: word: crayfish
Synonyms: sense: freshwater crustaceans
word: crawldad
sense: freshwater crustaceans
word: crawfish
sense: freshwater crustaceans
word: crawlfish
sense: freshwater crustaceans
word: crayfish
sense: freshwater crustaceans
word: mudbug
sense: freshwater crustaceans
word: yabby
bell pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell peppers
Etymology: From the bell-like shape.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: sweet pepper (UK), capsicum (Australia)
hypernyms: pepper
capsicum
coordinate_terms: word: chili#Noun
english: hot/spicy
translation: hot/spicy
word: chili pepper
word: hot pepper
glosses: Any of several bell-shaped varieties of Capsicum annuum, an edible, sweet, generally mild (not spicy) fruit, originating in the New World.
picalilli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picalillis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of piccalilli.
haje
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hajes
Etymology: From Arabic حَيَّة (ḥayya).
Senses: glosses: The Egyptian cobra, Naja haje
piccalilli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪli
Forms: form: piccalillis
form: picalilli
Etymology: First attested in the from 1845. Unknown. Presumably variant of pickle, which itself is from Middle English pekille (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”) or pikel, from Middle Dutch pekel (“brine”); perhaps influenced by dialectal variants.
Alternatively, may be related to paco lilla (“ginger-spiced pickle”), in 18th century British cookbook The Art of Cookery (1747–1843; e.g., 1805 edition) by Hannah Glasse (1708–1770), also referred to as “Indian pickles”, which suggests an Indo-Aryan source; compare mulligatawny, of Tamil origin, which also features turmeric prominently, and curry, of Tamil or Middle English origin (or blend). No relation to Piccadilly.
Senses: examples: text: There are, however, exceptions. Piccalilli – aka “mustard with other stuff”, aka “that noble Anglo-Indian spiritual creation” – is great with ham, he conceeds^([sic]).
ref: 2020 April 9, Sam Jones, “Spanish writer spills beans on UK's saucy secrets”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A yellow pickle relish made from cauliflower, vegetable marrow, and other vegetables, pickled with vinegar, salt, sugar, and spiced with mustard, turmeric, and other spices.
glosses: A pickle, typically on a base of chopped green (unripe) tomatoes, but sometimes finely-chopped gherkins, and possibly including other vegetables.
Synonyms: sense: American pickle relish
word: chow-chow
sense: American pickle relish
word: India relish
sense: American green finely chopped gherkin-based pickle
english: particularly if used on Chicago-style hot dogs
translation: particularly if used on Chicago-style hot dogs
word: relish
Related terms: curry
mulligatawny
pickle
pituitary gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pituitary glands
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: glandula pituitaria
hypophysis
master gland
pituitary body
glosses: An endocrine gland, about the size of a pea, that sits in a small, bony cavity at the base of the brain whose secretions control the other endocrine glands and influence growth, metabolism, and maturation.
Derived terms: anterior pituitary gland
posterior pituitary gland
Related terms: acromegaly
adenohypophysis
gigantism
neurohypophysis
swizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪzəl/
rhymes: -ɪzəl
Forms: form: swizzles
Etymology: Unknown etymology, 1813. Original sense “alcoholic drink”, possibly a variant of switchel (“a drink of molasses and water, often mixed with rum”), attested 1790, itself of uncertain origin. Possibly influenced by swirl or fizz.
In verb sense “to stir”, from swizzle stick (“stick for stirring alcoholic drinks”), itself attested 1859.
Senses: examples: text: “We brought tiki drinks.” “Oh.” “Tracy, turn loose that rum swizzle.” “Oh, Bill's back, and he's brought tiki drinks! You got a friend in me, Bill.”
ref: 2022 July 13, Dominic Dierkes, “The Cubic Lattice Crystallizer” (6:32 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 3, episode 8, spoken by Korvo Opposites (Justin Roiland):
glosses: Any of various kinds of alcoholic drink.
glosses: Alternative form of switchel (“drink based on water and vinegar”).
examples: text: “Coo! What a swizzle!” Relief at their safe deliverance was mingled with disappointment that the spider was not a rare specimen after all.
ref: 1950, Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings Goes to School:
glosses: Synonym of swizz (“swindle, disappointment”).
synonyms: word: swizz
extra: swindle, disappointment
Derived terms: swizzle stick
Related terms: cocktail
swizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪzəl/
rhymes: -ɪzəl
Forms: form: swizzles
form: swizzling
form: swizzled
form: swizzled
Etymology: Unknown etymology, 1813. Original sense “alcoholic drink”, possibly a variant of switchel (“a drink of molasses and water, often mixed with rum”), attested 1790, itself of uncertain origin. Possibly influenced by swirl or fizz.
In verb sense “to stir”, from swizzle stick (“stick for stirring alcoholic drinks”), itself attested 1859.
Senses: examples: text: She swizzled the milk into her coffee.
glosses: To stir or mix.
examples: text: I checked it all over after Mona got in, while you were swizzling beer in that saloon.
ref: 1958, Baynard Kendrick, Reservations for Death:
glosses: To drink; to swill.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To permute bits, or elements of a vector.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To convert portable symbols or positions to memory-dependent pointers during deserialization.
examples: text: If you or a loved one want to implement method swizzling, you may want to consider using a fairly well-tested wrapper package, such as JRSwizzle. Apple may reject applications that appear to use method swizzling in a dangerous way.
ref: 2016, David Thiel, iOS Application Security: The Definitive Guide for Hackers and Developers, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 25:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
hypernyms: monkey patch
glosses: To change a class's dispatch table in order to resolve messages from an existing selector to a new implementation.
frumpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹʌm.pɪ/
ipa: /ˈfɹʌm.pi/
rhymes: (US) -ʌmpi
Forms: form: frumpier
form: frumpiest
Etymology: Either from frump or from Middle English frumple + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She came to the door in a frumpy housedress and bedroom slippers.
text: Although still young at heart and head, he looks more and more like his old friend Archimedes, increasingly bearded and increasingly grey, with an otherworldly mien – a look that should earn him a spot in the online quiz featuring portraits of frumpy old men under the rubric “Prof or Hobo?”
ref: 2015 July 23, Siobhan Roberts, “John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Dowdy, unkempt, or unfashionable.
glosses: Bad-tempered.
Derived terms: unfrumpy
Related terms: frump
frumpily
frumpiness
hypophysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /haɪˈpɒfɪsɪs/
Forms: form: hypophyses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπό (hupó, “under”) + φύσις (phúsis, “nature”), from φύω (phúō, “to bring forth”).
Senses: examples: text: CHAPTER VI / THE DISEASES OF THE HYPOPHYSIS [PITUITARY GLAND]
ref: 1915 - Wilhelm Falta, (trans. Milton Kayton Meyers) The Ductless Glandular Diseases, P. Blakiston's Son & Co. OCLC 4634141, page 231
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The pituitary gland.
examples: text: All the cells of the suspensor, except one, are eventually crushed and obliterated by the growing embryo; this fortunate cell known as the hypophysis is the one in immediate contact with the embryo and plays an important role in the formation of the root apex.
ref: 1995, Trevor A. Thorpe, In Vitro Embryogenesis in Plants, Springer, →ISBN, page 85:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The top cell of the suspensor in a dicot embryo, which will differentiate to form part of the root cap.
Synonyms: pituitary
Derived terms: adenohypophysis
antehypophysis
hypophyseal
hypophysectomy
hypophysial
hypophysitis
neurohypophysis
posthypophysis
shake a leg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shakes a leg
form: shaking a leg
form: shook a leg
form: shaken a leg
Senses: examples: text: Shake a leg! We haven't got all day.
text: C'mon! Let's shake a leg on to Rogueport!
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Keelhaul Key:
qualifier: frequently imperative
glosses: To get busy; to get going; to be productive.
Related terms: break a leg
show a leg
adenohypophysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adenohypophyses
Etymology: From adeno- + hypophysis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The anterior lobe of the pituitary gland, producing and secreting several peptide hormones that regulate many physiological processes including stress, growth, and reproduction.
wikipedia: adenohypophysis
Synonyms: anterior lobe
anterior pituitary
Derived terms: adenohypophyseal
adenohypophysial
meso-adenohypophysis
meta-adenohypophysis
pro-adenohypophysis
Related terms: neurohypophysis
hypothalamus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypothalami
form: hypothalamuses
Etymology: From hypo- + thalamus.
Senses: examples: text: To avoid catastrophe, the brain has its trusty control centre, the hypothalamus, which tells the body to cool itself by sweating or to warm itself by shivering.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 217:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A region of the forebrain located below the thalamus, forming the basal portion of the diencephalon, and functioning to regulate body temperature, some metabolic processes and governing the autonomic nervous system.
Derived terms: hypocretin
hypothalamectomy
hypothalamic
hypothalamo-
Related terms: sense: Similar-looking but unrelated terms, not to be confused with the above
word: hippopotamus
sense: Similar-looking but unrelated terms, not to be confused with the above
word: hypotenuse
pituitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈtjuːɪt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /pɪˈt͡ʃuːɪt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /pɪˈtuɪˌtɛɹi/
Etymology: 1610s, from Latin pītuītārius (“mucous”), from pītuīta (“clammy moisture, phlegm, mucus, slime”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“to be fat, swell”). Taken as the name for the gland because it was believed that it channeled mucus to the nose. As a noun by 1899.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the pituitary gland.
synonyms: pituital
pituitous
glosses: Mucous.
Derived terms: adenopituitary
anterior pituitary
apituitarism
dyspituitarism
extrapituitary
hypopituitary
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical
intrapituitary
neuropituitary
nonpituitary
panhyperpituitarism
pituicyte
pituitary body
pituitary gland
pituitaryless
pituitary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈtjuːɪt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /pɪˈt͡ʃuːɪt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /pɪˈtuɪˌtɛɹi/
Forms: form: pituitaries
Etymology: 1610s, from Latin pītuītārius (“mucous”), from pītuīta (“clammy moisture, phlegm, mucus, slime”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“to be fat, swell”). Taken as the name for the gland because it was believed that it channeled mucus to the nose. As a noun by 1899.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The pituitary gland.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The pituitary gland together with the pituitary stalk.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An extract from the pituitary gland.
Synonyms: hypophysis
Derived terms: hypopituitarism
hyperpituitarism
hypothalamopituitary
juxtapituitary
pituitary gland
best man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: best men
Senses: glosses: The primary attendant to the groom in a wedding ceremony.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see best, man.
Related terms: bridesmaid
groomsman
maid of honor
maid of honour
page boy