cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mincemeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mincemeats
Etymology: An alteration of earlier minced meat; equivalent to mince + meat.
Senses: examples: text: And not to rub salt in wounds, when it comes to making mincemeat of the competition, American Joey Chestnut is still top banana.
ref: 2015 July 2, Michael Pearson, “6 things to know about hot dog king Joey Chestnut”, in CNN:
glosses: A mixture of fruit, spices and suet used as a filling for mince pies.
glosses: Minced meat, mince.
examples: text: Slicing up every man, woman, and child into mincemeat.
ref: 2010, The Orbitology, The Book of Godom & Somorrah, →ISBN, page 29:
text: This was another phenomenon for which there was no word: someone had reduced the body of another man to mincemeat.
ref: 2011, Fred Vargas, An Uncertain Place, →ISBN, page 46:
text: His chest and neck turned into mincemeat. The double chin had been blown away completely, revealing a skeletal jaw and chemically whitened teeth.
ref: 2011, Scott Kenemore, Zombie, Ohio: A Tale of the Undead, →ISBN, page 228:
qualifier: by analogy
glosses: A badly cut-up body or parts of a body.
examples: text: Weevil Underwood: My army of insects will make mincemeat out of you!
ref: 2002 March 20, Kazuki Takahashi, Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories (PlayStation video game, North American version), Konami:
text: No one was to be spared in this frightful slaughter. The American 34th, 36th Texas, lst Armored, the British, the New Zealanders, the Indians, the Poles and the French, under the brilliant General Juin; all were to be ground to mincemeat by futile attacks against this fortress.
ref: 2003, Theresa Deane, 500 Days of Front Line Combat: The WWII Memoir of Ralph B. Schaps, →ISBN:
text: "He said his client had been receiving death threats and he was quite paranoid. "His exact words were: 'I think he's mincemeat by now'."
ref: 2007 January 18, “Solicitor thought client was 'mincemeat'”, in The Age:
text: For the common man in the sixteenth century, a calendar which paced not just the seasons but also the life of Christ would have to be divinely inspired. It would capture his heart and his mind. Pope Gregory's four hundred-year-one would become mincemeat.
ref: 2007, Bill Napier, Splintered Icon, →ISBN:
text: Happily for the Lakers, who were mincemeat without him, Nash is back in the nick of time, with the Knicks, who walked all over them in New York two weeks ago, in town for a Christmas Day game.
ref: 2012 December 24, Mark Heisler, “After Looking East to the Knicks, Nash Cut West to the Lakers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 May 2015:
glosses: Something or someone utterly destroyed.
Synonyms: sense: mixture of fruit and spices
word: mince
sense: minced meat
word: ground meat
sense: minced meat
word: mince
Derived terms: make mincemeat out of
make mincemeat of
mincemeat pie
mincemeaty
apple pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæp.əlˈpaɪ/
ipa: [ˌæp.ɫ̩ˈpaɪ]
ipa: /ˌæp.əlˈpɑɪ/
ipa: [ˌæp.ɫ̩ˈpɑɪ]
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: apple pies
form: apple-pie
Senses: glosses: A pie or tart made with a filling of cooked apples.
examples: text: […] what we've been waiting for so long: a positive but never Pollyanish play about gays leading lives which are neither some bizarre caricature taken from heterosexual fantasy nor even more nuclear and apple-pie normal than any straight lives anyone has ever heard of.
ref: 1981 December 12, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Gay Theatre Verité”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 10:
text: Hanks has often been called our generation's answer to James Stewart, and the similarities are certainly there. With his shared "gee shucks" sweetness and apple pie Americanness, Stewart also appeared in many war films and family dramas.
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
text: She was a refugee, not to America but from within America: a Mom and apple pie America, an America of the past that was being rapidly transformed by material inventions, and by the freeways, malls, and drive-in banks cited in the song Big Science as landmarks on the road to town.
ref: 2021 April 8, Margaret Atwood, “‘It has never been more pertinent’ – Margaret Atwood on the chilling genius of Laurie Anderson’s Big Science”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Anything positive that is quintessentially American.
glosses: Any of various willowherbs.
Derived terms: American as apple pie
apple-pie bed
apple-pie order
apple pie shooter
English as apple pie
flag, motherhood and apple pie
mom and apple pie
motherhood and apple pie
apple pie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæp.əlˈpaɪ/
ipa: [ˌæp.ɫ̩ˈpaɪ]
ipa: /ˌæp.əlˈpɑɪ/
ipa: [ˌæp.ɫ̩ˈpɑɪ]
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: apple pies
form: apple pieing
form: apple pied
form: apple pied
form: apple-pie
Senses: glosses: Of a bed, to make an apple-pie bed.
Synonyms: shortsheet
jam sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jam sandwiches
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jam, sandwich.
glosses: (from the common UK colour scheme of white with a red reflective horizontal band) A police car.
Synonyms: sense: sandwich with jam
word: jam butty
rescue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛs.kjuː/
Forms: form: rescues
Etymology: From Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescoure, rescurre, rescorre; from Latin prefix re- (“re-”) + excutere (“to shake or drive out”), from ex (“out”) + quatiō (“I shake”).
Senses: examples: text: Guests marveled that they kept making more rescues.
ref: 2023 May 5, Declan Walsh, “‘Only Word for Them Is Heroes’: How 2 Students Rescued Dozens in Sudan”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
glosses: A liberation, freeing.
topics: law
qualifier: largely obsolete
glosses: The act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody.
examples: text: The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders
glosses: The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
glosses: A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
examples: text: The dog was a rescue with some behavior issues.
glosses: A rescuee.
Derived terms: come to someone's rescue
mountain rescue
rescue board
rescue circle
rescue dog
rescue grass
rescue mission
rescue party
rescue therapy
search and rescue
sea rescue kit
to one's rescue
to the rescue
eucalyptus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuː.kəˈlɪp.təs/
rhymes: -ɪptəs
Forms: form: eucalypti
form: eucalyptuses
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁wes-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁wésus?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁su-
Proto-Hellenic *ehu-
Ancient Greek ἐΰς (eǘs)
Ancient Greek εὖ (eû)
Ancient Greek εὐ- (eu-)
Ancient Greek καλύπτω (kalúptō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
Ancient Greek καλυπτός (kaluptós)
taxonomic name Eucalyptuslbor.
French eucalyptusbor.
English eucalyptus
Borrowed from French eucalyptus.
Senses: synonyms: gum tree
eucalypt
glosses: Any of many trees, of genus Eucalyptus, native mainly to Australia.
glosses: A greenish colour, like that of eucalyptus leaves.
Hyponyms: sense: tree
word: box
sense: tree
word: gimlet
Derived terms: word: eucalyn
word: eucalyptoid
word: eucalyptol
word: eucalyptole
taxonomic: Eucalyptus forrestiana
word: fuchsia eucalyptus
word: hickory eucalyptus
word: lemon eucalyptus
taxonomic: Corymbia citriodora
word: lemon eucalyptus
word: oil of lemon eucalyptus
word: rainbow eucalyptus
taxonomic: Eucalyptus deglupta
word: rainbow eucalyptus
Related terms: apocalypse
Calypso
calx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kælks/
rhymes: -ælks
Forms: form: calces
form: calxes
Etymology: From Latin calx (“lime”). Doublet of cauk and chalk.
Senses: examples: text: [S]ome ladies apply to what are termed coſmetics under various names, which crowd the newspapers. Of theſe the white has deſtroyed the health of thouſands; a calx, or magiſtery, of biſmuth is ſuppoſed to be ſold in the ſhops for this purpoſe; but it is either, I am informed, in part or entirely white lead or ceruffa. […] The real calx of biſmuth would probably have the ſame ill effect.
ref: 1796, Erasmus Darwin, “[Class III. Diseases of Volition.] Ordo I. Increased Volition. Genus II. With Increased Actions of the Organs of Sense.”, in Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, paragraph 12, page 375:
text: The regeneration of mercury from its calx, without addition of any other substance, had been a chief example for anti-phlogiston, but that could, as Kirwan showed, be explained in a way consistent with phlogiston theory.
ref: 2004, Robert E Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, Pennsylvania State University, page 179:
glosses: The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, once seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston, but now recognised as being the metallic oxide (or, in some cases, the metal in a state of sublimation).
glosses: In the Eton College wall game, an area at the end of the field where a shy can be scored by lifting the ball against the wall with one's foot.
hai
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ̯/
Etymology: Intentional misspelling modelled after romaji.
Senses: examples: text: As her famously no-BS longtime PT Don Saladino, who has a next-level celeb roster (oh HAIII, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt!), told WH: ‘It’s about improving your body’s resilience and energy […] making sure we’re optimising everything we do’.
ref: 2023 June 5, Rebecca Gillam, “18 celebs who swear by weight training, from Adele to Millie Mackintosh & Frankie Bridge”, in Women's Health:
glosses: Hi.
Noh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nohs
form: No
form: Nō
Etymology: An irregular romanization of Japanese 能 (nō, literally “[performing] skill, talent”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of classical Japanese musical drama.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Noh.
glosses: An individual play in this style.
nō
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The twenty-two kyōgen in this volume give a broad sampling of the delightful comic interludes which were traditionally performed between the more austere nō plays.
ref: 1973, Leonard C[abell] Pronko, “Nō and Kyōgen: Texts”, in Guide to Japanese Drama, G. K. Hall & Co., →ISBN, page 65:
text: A major review of the sarugaku system took place during the rule of the eighth shogun Yoshimune (1684–1751), when the solemn style of nō theatre known today was largely established.
ref: 2014, Monica Bethe, Eric C. Rath, J[ohn] Thomas Rimer, Mikio Takemoto, Theatre of Dreams, Theatre of Play: Nō and Kyōgen in Japan, Sydney, N.S.W.: Art Gallery of New South Wales, →ISBN:
text: Among the first foreigners in Japan to have contact with nō were diplomats and intellectuals who appreciated the literary elements of its texts.
ref: 2024, Diego Pellecchia, “Reception of Nō in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”, in Yamanaka Reiko, Monica Bethe, Eike Grossmann, Tom Hare, Diego Pellecchia, Michael Watson, editors, A Companion to Nō and Kyōgen Theatre (Handbook of Oriental Studies; section 5 (Japan), volume 19), volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, section 8 […], page 671:
glosses: Alternative form of noh.
apologue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæpəlɒɡ/
Forms: form: apologues
Etymology: Borrowed from French apologue, from Latin apologus from Ancient Greek ἀπόλογος (apólogos, “story, tale, fable”) from ἀπό- (apó-, “off, away from”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech”). Equivalent to apo- + -logue.
Senses: examples: text: "Still I must bear my hard lot as well as I can—at least, I shall be amongst gentlefolks, and not with vulgar city people": and she fell to thinking of her Russell Square friends with that very same philosophical bitterness with which, in a certain apologue, the fox is represented as speaking of the grapes.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: […] but though the mythic hero may thus be made to figure in a moral apologue, an imagination so little in keeping with his unethic nature jars upon the reader's mind.
ref: 1891, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture, page 409:
glosses: A short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable.
glosses: The use of fable to persuade the audience.
Derived terms: apologer
apological
Related terms: apologetic
apology
apiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.pi.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.pi.ɛɹ.i/
Forms: form: apiaries
Etymology: 17th century, from Latin apiārium, from apis (“bee”).
Senses: glosses: A place where bees and their hives are kept.
Hyponyms: beehive
Derived terms: apiarian
Related terms: apian
apiarian
apiarist
apiculture
apimania
apiology
apivorous
vespiary
insect hotel
on sale
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.
ref: 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75:
glosses: Available for purchase.
glosses: Available for purchase at reduced prices.
Synonyms: sense: available for purchase
word: for sale
sense: available for purchase at reduced prices
word: on offer
sense: available for purchase at reduced prices
word: on special
cock-a-doodle-doo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒkəˌduːdəlˈduː/
ipa: /ˌkɑkəˌdudəlˈdu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: cockadoodledoo
form: cocka-doodle-doo
form: cock a doodle doo
form: cocka doodle doo
form: cock-a-doodle-do
form: cockadoodledo
form: cock a doodle do
form: cocka-doodle-do
form: cocka doodle do
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Hark, hark, I heare, the ſtraine of ſtrutting Chanticlere cry cockadidle-dowe.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 5, column 1:
text: Chook, chook, quack, quack, / Cock-a-doodle-doo; / All the ducks and the fowls / Admire me, they do.
ref: 1875 July 23, Sydney Punch, page 1, column 1:
glosses: The cry of a rooster.
Derived terms: fuck-a-doodle-doo
cock-a-doodle-doo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒkəˌduːdəlˈduː/
ipa: /ˌkɑkəˌdudəlˈdu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: cock-a-doodle-doos
form: cockadoodledoo
form: cocka-doodle-doo
form: cock a doodle doo
form: cocka doodle doo
form: cock-a-doodle-do
form: cockadoodledo
form: cock a doodle do
form: cocka-doodle-do
form: cocka doodle do
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: The cry of the rooster.
work of fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: works of fiction
Senses: glosses: A fictional account; a story.
examples: text: Though originally thought to be genuine, the diaries are now generally considered a work of fiction.
glosses: A fictitious account; an account of events that never took place.
fictional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪkʃənəl/
Forms: form: more fictional
form: most fictional
Etymology: From fiction + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Romeo and Juliet are fictional characters.
text: The janitor's account of the crime turned out to be entirely fictional.
text: Nineteen Eighty-Four was written in 1949. Its nightmarish fictional world is now 37 years in the past, so one might reasonably conclude that Orwell was far too pessimistic, but his great book was less a prediction than a warning, and above all an analysis of the totalitarian mentality.
ref: 2021 January 5, Peter Foster, “Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050”, in Financial Post:
glosses: Invented, as opposed to real.
examples: text: The Simpsons is a fictional television show.
text: Including both factual and fictional books would have reduced the value of the study; it would have made the content too heterogeneous for the drawing of significant conclusions.
ref: 1956, Barbara Anne Monroe, An Investigation of Fictional Books for Children which Deal with the American Indian in the United States:
text: While the jury saw the Sopranos episode in which Adriana was killed for cooperating with the FBI, Mr. Ferro argued to the jury the difference between the fictional TV show from the reality of this trial.
ref: 2007, Robert Mladinich, Hooked Up for Murder, page 371:
glosses: Containing invented elements.
examples: text: Tunnels often feature in fictional journeys, so I will end with quotations from a fairly recent novel, Howard Spring's "Fame is the Spur", published in 1940, in which there is a journey from Manchester to Bradford via the Calder Valley route: "Ay, we're going through Todmorden. We'll soon be in t' tunnel, and when we get to t' other end we'll be in Yorkshire," and "Ah think this is t' filthiest tunnel in t' world."
ref: 1957 May 24, Neil Caplan, “Railways in English Fiction”, in Railway Magazine, page 350:
glosses: Occurring in fiction.
Derived terms: autobiografictional
autofictional
bifictional
fictional documentary
fictionalisation
fictionalism
fictionalist
fictionality
fictionally
fictional other
hyperfictional
metafictional
nonfictional
science fictional
science-fictional
semifictional
transfictional
Related terms: fictionalization
fictionalize
fictitional
fictitious
fictive
fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭk′-shən
ipa: /ˈfɪk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: fictions
Etymology: From Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion (“dissimulation, ruse, invention”), from Latin fictiō (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fingō (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”). Displaced native Old English lēasspell (literally “false story”).
Senses: examples: text: I am a great reader of fiction.
text: the fiction section of the library
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
examples: text: The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
text: The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.
text: separate the fact from the fiction
text: […] in view of the facts—and some fictions—recently circulated in this country about the general performance of high-powered diesel-hydraulics of B.R., […].
ref: 1963 June, G. Freeman Allen, “The success of diesel-hydraulics on the German Federal Railway”, in Modern Railways, page 390:
glosses: A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
topics: law
glosses: A legal fiction.
Synonyms: fabrication
figment
Hyponyms: science fiction
speculative fiction
Derived terms: airport fiction
autobiografiction
autofiction
chat fiction
cli-fi
cyberfiction
design fiction
docufiction
eco-fiction
ecofiction
encyclopedic fiction
explanatory fiction
faan fiction
faction
fact is stranger than fiction
fan-fiction
fan fiction
fictional
fictionary
fictioneer
fictionise
fictionish
fictionist
fictionization
fictionize
fictionkin
fictionmaking
fictionmonger
fictiony
fictitious
fictomercial
flash fiction
genre fiction
geofiction
hard science fiction
historical fiction
hyperfiction
imaginative fiction
interactive fiction
literary fiction
macro-fiction
manfiction
message fiction
metafiction
microfiction
micro-fiction
non-fiction
nonfiction
non-mimetic fiction
paradox of fiction
petrofiction
pious fiction
polite fiction
proto-science fiction
pseudofiction
pulp fiction
real person fiction
scientifiction
slash fiction
soft science fiction
sudden fiction
telefiction
truth is stranger than fiction
twiction
weird fiction
work of fiction
xenofiction
replevin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈplɛvɪn/
rhymes: -ɛvɪn
Forms: form: replevins
Etymology: Anglo-Norman, from Old French replevir (“recover”), from re- + plevir (apparently from a Germanic word which was also the source of English pledge).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An action to recover personal property unlawfully taken, especially that seized by way of distraint; the writ or procedure of such action.
replevin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈplɛvɪn/
rhymes: -ɛvɪn
Forms: form: replevins
form: replevining
form: replevined
form: replevined
Etymology: Anglo-Norman, from Old French replevir (“recover”), from re- + plevir (apparently from a Germanic word which was also the source of English pledge).
Senses: examples: text: Arranged about her are artificial flowers that appear in their varied pale and pastel colors to be faded from the sun. As if perhaps replevined from some desert grave.
ref: 1998, Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain:
glosses: To replevy.
develope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: developes
form: developing
form: developed
form: developed
Senses: examples: text: c. 1711, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, letter to Alexander Pope
You see that I have said what has been said, on a supposition, that, however obscure theology may be, the Christian religion is extremely plain, and requires no great learning, nor deep meditation to develope it.
text: Perhaps it would now be impossible for you to have a national tragic theatre: it would be necessary for the existence of such a theatre, that great circumstances should develope in life those sentiments which are expressed upon the stage.
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book VII. Italian Literature.] Chap[ter] II.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume II, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 133:
text: Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character. Her mind was less difficult to develope. She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discontented she fancied herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 7:
glosses: Archaic spelling of develop.
encyclopedic fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: While ostensibly a romantic novel, Moby Dick can also be viewed as an encyclopedic fiction.
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A work of fiction employing a variety of forms to explore its subject exhaustively.
wreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rēk
ipa: /ɹiːk/
ipa: /ɹik/
rhymes: -iːk
homophone: reek
Forms: form: wreaks
Etymology: From Middle English wreke, wrake, Northern Middle English variants of wreche, influenced later by Etymology 1, above. Compare Dutch wraak.
Senses: examples: text: VVhat barbarous mindes for grieuance more than needs,
Vnnaturallie ſeeks wreake vpon their Lord,
Their true annointed Prince, their lawfull king:
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
text: Would that before my death I might but see my son The empery in my stead over the people hold
And rush upon his foes and take on them his wreak, At push of sword and pike, in fury uncontrolled.
ref: 1901, “The History of King Omar Ben Ennuman and His Sons Sherkan and Zoulmekan”, in John Payne, transl., The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, volume 2:
text: However, no thought touch'd Minerva's mind, That any one should escape his wreak design'd.
ref: 1903, George Chapman, Richard Herne Shepherd, Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Works of George Chapman:
text: For three causes Duke William entered this land to subdue Harold. One was, for that it was to him given by King Edward his nephew. The second was, to take wreak for the cruel murder of his nephew Alfred, King Edward's brother, and of the Normans, which deed he ascribed chiefly to Harold.
ref: 2003, John Foxe, John Cumming, Book of Martyrs and the Acts and Monuments of the Church:
glosses: Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment.
examples: text: Of a surety none murdered the damsel but I; take her wreak on me this moment; for, an thou do not thus, I will require it of thee before Almighty Allah.
ref: 1885, “The Tale of the Three Apples”, in Sir Richard Burton, transl., The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 1:
glosses: Punishment; retribution; payback.
whenever
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wəˈnɛvə/
ipa: /wɛnˈɛvə/
ipa: /wəˈnɛvɚ/
ipa: /hwəˈnɛvɚ/
ipa: /wɛnˈɛvɚ/
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English whan evere, whanne ever, whanne evere, whener, when ever; equivalent to when + ever.
Senses: examples: text: Visit whenever you want to.
text: I did not see the program, but Mrs. Nixon told me that you were great on the Donahue Show.
As you can imagine, she is an expert on politics and she predicts that whenever you decide to run for office you will be a winner!
ref: 1987 December 21, Richard Nixon, Letters to Trump, Winning Team Publishing, published 2023, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: At any time that.
examples: text: Tomorrow I'll get up whenever the sun rises.
glosses: At the (single) time that, no matter when.
examples: text: Whenever he has a pair of aces, his eyelids twitch.
text: Working around an ancient monument has meant having an archaeologist on site whenever there were excavations.
ref: 2024 January 24, Peter Plisner, “Rising to the University challenge”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 61:
glosses: Every time that.
examples: text: Income must be reported in the period in which it is earned, whenever payment is actually received.
glosses: Regardless of the time that.
examples: text: Whenever I was a child, I lived in Arkansas.
glosses: When.
Derived terms: whenever one turns around
Related terms: however
howsoever
whatever
whatsoever
wheresoever
wherever
whoever
whomever
whomsoever
whosoever
whyever
whysoever
whenever
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /wəˈnɛvə/
ipa: /wɛnˈɛvə/
ipa: /wəˈnɛvɚ/
ipa: /hwəˈnɛvɚ/
ipa: /wɛnˈɛvɚ/
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English whan evere, whanne ever, whanne evere, whener, when ever; equivalent to when + ever.
Senses: examples: text: Whenever will I find time to finish that jigsaw?
glosses: When ever: emphatic form of when.
examples: text: Feel free to visit whenever.
glosses: At any time.
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
whenceforward
whencefrom
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whencewards
whereabout
whereabouts
whereabove
whereafter
whereafters
whereagainst
wherealong
whereamong
whereamongst
whereanent
wherearound
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whereat
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wherefor
wherefore
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whereinabove
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whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
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wheremid
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whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
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whitherinsoever
whitherso
whitherto
whithertofore
whitherward
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whyever
whyfor
whyso
whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
selenology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕlēnŏʹləjĭ
ipa: /sɛliːˈnɒləd͡ʒɪ/
Forms: form: selenologies
Etymology: From selen- (“moon”) + -o- + -logy (“study”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The scientific study of the Moon.
The scientific study of the Moon’s movements in the heavens and the kinetic influences it has upon and it receives from other astronomical bodies.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The scientific study of the Moon.
The scientific study of the formation and composition of the Moon’s crust.
qualifier: occasionally
Derived terms: selenological
selenologically
selenologist
Related terms: selenography
areology
geology
selenologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenologists
Etymology: From selenology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person skilled or involved in selenology.
trilogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: trilogies
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
Learned borrowing from Latin trilogia, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek τριλογία (trilogía, “trilogy”). Morphologically from tri- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
ref: 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club:
text: Daisy Ridley has reawakened the debate over “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s” biggest reveal, saying that the character of Rey’s lineage wasn’t clear to her even partway through filming the final chapter of the trilogy.
ref: 2020 September 9, Brian Lowry, “Daisy Ridley reawakens the ‘Star Wars’ debate over Rey’s lineage”, in CNN:
glosses: A set of three connected works, usually dramas, literary pieces, films, or musical compositions, all related by theme, characters, or setting.
Derived terms: Daubert trilogy
Related terms: dilogy
tetralogy
pentalogy
hexalogy
heptalogy
octalogy
ennealogy
decalogy
polylogy (2+)
white coffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white coffees
Senses: glosses: Coffee (the drink) with milk added.
glosses: A serving of such.
Synonyms: coffee with milk
fabricate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæbrɪkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈfæb.ɹɪ.keɪt/
ipa: /ˈfæbrəˌkeɪt/
Forms: form: fabricates
form: fabricating
form: fabricated
form: fabricated
Etymology: From Middle English fabricaten (“to fashion, make”), from Latin fabricātus, perfect active participle of fabricor (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fabrica (“a fabric, building”) + -or (verb-forming suffix); see fabric and forge. Cognate with French fabriquer.
Senses: examples: text: to fabricate a bridge or ship
text: The bronze that formerly ornamented this temple was made use of to fabricate the baldachin of St Peter's.
ref: 1908, Major W. E Frye, After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819:
synonyms: manufacture
glosses: To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build.
examples: text: to fabricate computer chips
text: The omni-tool itself is a combination computer and general-purpose engineering device that fabricates tools and equipment as needed. It acts as a translator, computer, holographic recorder and player, full translation software, and can create lockpicks and any other equipment needed to use a character's skills. An omni-tool can be upgraded with a number of options.
ref: 2012 June, Stew Wilson, “Mass Effecting the Thousand Suns”, in RPG Review, number 16, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 50:
text: Planar metamaterials with subwavelength thickness, or metasurfaces, consisting of single-layer or few-layer stacks of planar structures, can be readily fabricated using lithography and nanoprinting methods, and the ultrathin thickness in the wave propagation direction can greatly suppress the undesirable losses.
ref: 2016, Hou-Tong Chen, Antoinette J Taylor, Nanfang Yu, “A review of metasurfaces: physics and applications”, in arXiv:
synonyms: manufacture
glosses: To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce.
examples: text: to fabricate a lie or story
text: Both sites, with their ad-laden interfaces emphasizing information about pregnancy, baby names, celebrity moms, and family fun, reflect pervasive concerns about the roles that adults, particularly women, play in creating the conditions of childhood. These concerns are illustrated by the desire of the aforementioned mom-bloggers to curate extraordinary adult memories for their children by fabricating a mythical period of wide-eyed wonder and magical moments.
ref: 2019 February 1, J. C. Garden, “Interrogating innocence: “Childhood” as exclusionary social practice”, in Childhood, volume 26, number 1, page 55:
synonyms: confabulate
cook up
invent
make up
manufacture
trump up
glosses: To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl.
Derived terms: biofabricate
fabricatory
microfabricate
nanofabricate
prefabricate
refabricate
Related terms: fabric
fabrication
fabricator
factory
misfabricate
kid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: kids
form: kidding
form: kidded
form: kidded
Etymology: From Middle English kide, from Old Norse kið (“young goat”), from Proto-Germanic *kidją, *kittīną (“goatling, kid”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaydn-, *ǵʰaydn- (“goat”) or Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ- (“kid, goatling, little goat”). Compare Swedish and Danish kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec. The sense of child has been in use since the 1590s as slang, and since the 1840s in informal use.
Senses: examples: text: Are you kidding me?
text: I kid you not!
text: "They are all very suspicious about the wording. I am always thinking up new ways of kidding them."
ref: 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 76:
glosses: To dupe or deceive.
examples: text: Stop kidding me! It's not funny.
glosses: To dupe or deceive.
To deceive or dupe as a joke.
examples: text: You're kidding yourself if you think you can be a rockstar.
glosses: To dupe or deceive.
To deceive oneself by having unrealistic expectations.
examples: text: They were always kidding her for her stutter.
glosses: To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way.
examples: text: You're kidding!
text: You must be kidding!
text: I'm only kidding!
text: No kidding!
glosses: To joke.
examples: text: That nanny over there with the white tail has kidded every year for the last five years.
text: "They can kid twice a year if things are right, and they often throw twins and triplets."
ref: 2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 200:
glosses: Of a goat: to give birth.
Derived terms: all kidding aside
I kid you not
kid around
kidding aside
who am I kidding
you're kidding
you've got to be kidding me
Related terms: suede
kid on
kid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: kids
Etymology: Compare Welsh cidysen.
Senses: examples: text: Now, for as much as this Fowle is a great deſtruction vnto the young Spawne or Frie of Fiſh, it ſhall bee good for the preſeruation thereof, to ſtake down into the bottomes of your Ponds good long Kids or Faggots of bruſh-woods, […]
ref: 1631, Gervase Markham, Countrey Contentments, 4th edition, page 99:
glosses: Synonym of faggot (“bundle of heath and furze”).
synonyms: word: faggot
extra: bundle of heath and furze
wanker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwæŋkə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)
homophone: Huanca
Forms: form: wankers
form: w****r
form: w**ker
Etymology: From wank + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who wanks; masturbates.
glosses: A term of abuse.
An idiot, a stupid person.
glosses: A term of abuse.
An annoying person.
glosses: A term of abuse.
An ineffectual person.
glosses: A term of abuse.
Someone who shows off too much, a poser or poseur; someone who is overly self-satisfied.
examples: text: He walked closer to the trees and then pulled out his wanker and took a piss. While he was watering a clump of grass he called out calmly to the men in the trees, "We've come in peace to recruit men for our companies of dragoons."
ref: 2019 April 16, Skye Smith, The Pistoleer - Lyme 1644: Novel Nine of the Series by Skye Smith, Skye Smith, →ISBN:
glosses: A penis.
glosses: A very informal term of address used between friends.
Synonyms: sense: person who wanks
word: tosser
sense: person who wanks
word: masturbator
sense: person who wanks
word: onanist
sense: person who wanks
word: pickle tickler
sense: person who wanks
word: fingerer
sense: person who wanks
word: w-anchor
sense: idiot
word: drongo
sense: idiot
word: dropkick
sense: idiot
word: flog
sense: idiot
word: fuckwit
sense: idiot
word: whacker
sense: idiot
word: tosspot
sense: idiot
word: tosser
sense: idiot
word: bawbag
sense: idiot
word: knobber
sense: idiot
word: knobhead
sense: idiot
word: dickhead
sense: idiot
word: jerk
sense: idiot
word: jerkoff
sense: idiot
word: jagoff
Derived terms: wankerdom
wankerish
merchant banker Rhyming slang often contracted as in He is a right merchant
wanker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwæŋkə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)
homophone: Huanca
Forms: form: wankers
form: w****r
form: w**ker
Etymology: UK 1890s. From stwanker, from stinker. Used at Felsted School, Essex.
Senses: examples: text: My name it is "wanker";
 a leaner or lanker,
 Salter or ranker,
 fish never swam.
ref: 1892 October, The Felstedian, page 105:
text: He sniffs. "'Eugh, wankers again."
ref: 1897 June, The Felstedian, page 100:
qualifier: school slang
glosses: A salted, and lightly smoked herring or mackerel; a bloater.
Sophie's choice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sophie's choices
Etymology: From the title of the book Sophie's Choice (1979), by William Styron, in which a mother is forced to decide which of her children will die.
Senses: examples: text: As things turned out, all the enemy missiles were destroyed in flight -- two were hit very early after launch by an airborne laser system -- and a Sophie's choice was averted."
ref: 2004 March 17, Bradley Graham, “Simulated Attacks Repelled In Antimissile War Game; U.S. Almost Exhausted Arsenal of Interceptors”, in Washington Post, page A03:
text: We've been given a Sophie's Choice,' said Senate Minority Leader Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton. 'We can improperly care for some children vs. improperly care for other children.'
ref: 2004 March 2, “Committees OK boost for KidCare; Panels vote for additional $25M”, in Tallahassee Democrat:
synonyms: word: Catch-22
word: dilemma
word: Morton's fork
word: no-win situation
word: quandary
word: Sophie's choice
word: ass in a sling
word: bind
word: bucket of syrup
word: calvary
word: cross
word: cross to bear
word: difficulty
word: dilemma
word: dire straits
word: doghouse
word: fix
word: hole
word: jam
word: kettle of fish
word: ordeal
word: pickle
word: pinch
word: plight
word: predicament
word: quandary
word: quagmire
word: situation
word: spot
word: spot of bother
word: sticky situation
word: sticky wicket
word: tight spot
word: trouble
glosses: A choice where every alternative has significant negative consequences.
wikipedia: William Styron
Related terms: Hobson's choice
headphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headphone
Etymology: From head + phones.
Senses: examples: text: Circumaural headphones enclose the ear, supra-aural headphones rest on the ear's surface, and earbuds are placed inside the ear.
text: My headphones / They saved my life / Your tape / It lulled me to sleep
ref: 1995, “Headphones”, in Post, performed by Björk:
text: Toward the end of the film Nazu rushes into her bedroom, clamps on headphones and listens to the technopoppy "I Wanna Be Free." The picturization shows her moving convulsively, desperately to the funky beat, turning ever more agitated, until we wonder what she wants to be free from: free from her domestic vise, or free from life?
ref: 2005, Richard Corliss, Time, Profile of A.R. Rahman:
text: Detectorists may also carry headphones, a metal detecting shovel, hand tools such as a hori-hori (a serrated, steel hand shovel), a “finds pouch,” and a hand-held precision detector called a pinpointer.
ref: 2021 May 31, Alexandra Marvar, “The New Detectorists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: cans
alt: slang
word: heads
glosses: A pair of cushioned speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound.
Related terms: headphone
earbud
earphones
earpiece
headset
passport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːspɔːt/
ipa: /ˈpæspɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɑːspɔːt
rhymes: -æspɔɹt
Forms: form: passports
Etymology: From French passeport, from passer (“pass”) + port (“port”). Compare portpass. Equivalent to pass + port.
Senses: examples: text: You will have to bring your passport to prove who you are.
text: Meanwhile, the Italian authorities examine passports and hand-baggage, except in the case of sleeping-car passengers, who are usually left undisturbed.
ref: 1951 November 24, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 728:
text: Dagobert gave him back his passport. He re-pocketed it indifferently; a talisman which had lost its potency.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 17, in Crime out of Mind:
glosses: An official document normally used for international journeys, which proves the identity and nationality of the person for whom it was issued.
glosses: Any document that allows entry or passage.
examples: text: The tenor's voice was his passport to the international concert circuit.
glosses: Something which enables someone to do or achieve something.
glosses: An identification document used by firefighters, collected when they enter a dangerous area and returned when they leave, to keep track of who is still in the area.
Derived terms: biological passport
biometric passport
camouflage passport
emergency passport
e-passport
golden passport
immunization passport
internal passport
Nansen passport
official passport
passportable
passport baby
passport bro
passport card
passported
passportification
passporting
passportization
passportize
passportless
passport prison
passport privilege
vaccine passport
yellow passport
passport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːspɔːt/
ipa: /ˈpæspɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɑːspɔːt
rhymes: -æspɔɹt
Forms: form: passports
form: passporting
form: passported
form: passported
Etymology: From French passeport, from passer (“pass”) + port (“port”). Compare portpass. Equivalent to pass + port.
Senses: examples: text: Did we not pass an Act last year which passported the money directly through to the schools and gave local authorities very little discretion?
ref: 2002, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Lords official report:
text: They are talking about whether the money that goes into district councils ends up getting passported through to the operators through concessionary fares.
ref: 2011, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee, Bus services after the Spending Review:
glosses: To regulate how money given to a local authority must be spent.
examples: text: Apart from the condition in (ii), which may easily be overcome via an agreement between the depositor and the bank, European legislation does not preclude the entry of Islamic financial undertakings on the internal market at EU-based credit institutions because banking directives allow European credit institutions to perform not only the core banking business, but also passported activities according to the principle of mutual recognition and home country control.
ref: 2019, Gabriella Gimigliano, “Financial Undertakings, Sharīʿa Rules, and the Internal Market Framework: Challenges and Opportunities”, in Mohyedine Hajjar, editor, Islamic Finance in Europe, page 38:
text: Also, in this context, rules are different in relation to passporting the asset managers' activities, or the product […]
ref: 2019, Federico Fabbrini, Marco Ventoruzzo, Research Handbook on EU Economic Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 508:
text: She was announcing that a “draft law on criminal liability for forced Russian passporting” had been approved, which was “aimed primarily at punishing the organisers of hostile passporting and their accomplices”.
ref: 2022, The Guardian:
glosses: Providing the legal requirements to enable or legitimize cross-border economic activity.
examples: text: At present, recipients of Working Tax Credit who are not also in receipt of Child Tax Credit are automatically passported to a full fee remission in some courts and tribunals, and those in receipt of Working Tax Credit and in receipt of child tax credit are passported in others (see annex B).
ref: 2013, Great Britain: Ministry of Justice, Fee Remissions for the Courts and Tribunals, page 16:
glosses: To enable eligibility for a benefit automatically based on eligibility for a different benefit.
Related terms: ID card
identification card
identity card
portpass
visa
telescope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛl.ɪ.skəʊp/
ipa: /ˈtɛl.əˌskoʊp/
Forms: form: telescopes
form: telescoping
form: telescoped
form: telescoped
Etymology: From tele- + -scope.
From Latin tēlescopium, from Ancient Greek τηλεσκόπος (tēleskópos, “far-seeing”), from τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “I look at”).
Coined in 1611 by the Greek mathematician Giovanni Demisiani for one of Galileo Galilei's instruments presented at a banquet at the Accademia dei Lincei. Doublet of Telescopium.
Senses: examples: text: Hugo rose to his full height, which was triple that of Grunt Buggely’s, even without his neck telescoped.
ref: 1988, Barry B[rookes] Longyear, Naked Came the Robot, New York, N.Y.: Popular Library, →ISBN, page 155:
glosses: To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
glosses: To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
glosses: To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To collapse, via cancellation.
raw_tags: of a series
Related terms: binoculars
microscope