cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gloaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡləʊ.mɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡloʊ.mɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊmɪŋ
Etymology: From a dialectal variant of glooming, from Middle English *gloming, from Old English glōmung, from Old English glōm (“twilight”). By surface analysis, gloom + -ing. Related to glow.
The OED notes: "The vowel of the modern gloaming is anomalous, as Old English glōmung should normally become glooming. The explanation is probably that the ō was shortened in the compound ǣfen-glommung (as the spelling seems to show was actually the case), and that from this compound there was evolved a new subject glŏmung, which by normal phonetic development became Middle English glǭming, modern English gloaming."
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gloam
unfortunately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfɔː.tjʊ.nət.li/
ipa: /ʌnˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nət.li/
ipa: /ʌnˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/
ipa: /ʌnˈfɔɹt͡ʃ.nɪt.li/
ipa: [ʌnˈfɔɹt͡ʃ.nɪʔ.li]
note: General American, weak vowel merger
ipa: /ʌnˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nət.li/
note: General American, weak vowel merger
ipa: /ʌnˈfɔɹt͡ʃ.nət.li/
note: General American, weak vowel merger
ipa: [ʌnˈfɔɹt͡ʃ.nəʔ.li]
note: Indic
ipa: /ənˈfɔ(r)tʃʊneʈli/
note: Indic
ipa: /ənˈfɔ(r)ʈ(j)ʊneʈli/
Forms: form: more unfortunately
form: most unfortunately
Etymology: From unfortunate + -ly or un- + fortunately.
Senses: examples: text: He unfortunately placed his hand on a loose brick.
text: There were an unfortunately large number of misprints.
glosses: Happening through bad luck, or because of some unfortunate event.
examples: text: The houses which burned down could have been saved. Unfortunately, the fire truck had broken down on the way.
text: Unfortunately, the uproar awoke Mr. Jones, who sprang out of bed, making sure that there was a fox in the yard.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
text: Unfortunately, even in the palmiest days of the old Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway Company, passengers were few and far between at Troutbeck, and since the advent of the motor bus road services they are rarer than ever, and never likely to increase.
ref: 1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:
text: Informal techniques, if properly written, can be quite readable and comprehensible; unfortunately, it is easy to leave unsaid details that must be specified, or to misgeneralise and produce inconsistencies.
ref: 1989, Hendrik J. Boom, Claus Bendix Nielsen, Andrew D. McGettrick, Peter D. Mosses, Charles Rattray, Robert D. Tennent, David A. Watt, “A view of formal semantics”, in Computer standards & Interfaces, volume 9, number 1:
text: The thing he unfortunately doesn't recognise is there is an 800-pound gorilla when it comes to major American motor sports. The 800-pound gorilla is Nascar.
ref: 2014 February 26, Eddie Gossage, quotee, “Bernie Ecclestone dismisses Nascar objection to US Grand Prix date clash”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2014:
glosses: Used (as a parenthetical word, often a sentence adverb) to express disappointment, compassion, sorrow, regret, or grief.
Synonyms: sense: through bad luck
word: unluckily
sense: parenthetical word
word: alas
sense: parenthetical word
word: regrettably
sense: parenthetical word
word: sadly
sense: parenthetical word
word: sad to say
shojo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃəʊˌd͡ʒəʊ/
ipa: /ˈʃoʊˌd͡ʒoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: shōjo
form: shoujo
Etymology: From Japanese 少女(しょうじょ) (shōjo, “young woman”).
Senses: topics: anime
broadcasting
comics
film
literature
manga
media
publishing
television
glosses: A style of anime and manga intended for young women.
Coordinate terms: english: male audience
translation: male audience
word: shonen
Related terms: shoujo ai
shojo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃəʊˌd͡ʒəʊ/
ipa: /ˈʃoʊˌd͡ʒoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: more shojo
form: most shojo
form: shōjo
form: shoujo
Etymology: From Japanese 少女(しょうじょ) (shōjo, “young woman”).
Senses: topics: anime
broadcasting
comics
film
literature
manga
media
publishing
television
glosses: Being in the style of shōjo manga or anime.
Coordinate terms: english: male audience
translation: male audience
word: shonen
shojo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃəʊˌd͡ʒəʊ/
ipa: /ˈʃoʊˌd͡ʒoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: shojo
Etymology: From Japanese 猩々(しょうじょう) (shōjō).
Senses: topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A creature in Japanese folklore, often depicted as a sea spirit with red hair and a fondness for alcohol.
hygrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈɡɹɒmɪtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hygrometers
form: hygrometre
Etymology: From French hygromètre, from hygro- + -meter.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An instrument that measures the humidity of the air or other gases, especially the relative humidity.
Derived terms: absorption hygrometer
thermohygrometer
wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometer
Related terms: hydrometer
psychrometer
septicaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /sɛptɪˈsiːmɪk/
Forms: form: septicemic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of septicemic.
SHID
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of slapping head in disgust.
Anytown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From any + town.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: dullsville
text: Then we rolled into Anytown, Arkansas. A real jerkwater.
text: The limitations[…] can best be explained by comment on the master plan for a rural town and village recently completed in Vermont. We will call the town and village "Anytown."
ref: 1966 July 28, Frederic O. Sargent, “Urban Planning and Rural Towns”, in The Times Argus, page 4:
text: It's a sizzling late August afternoon on a weekday in Anytown, California.
ref: 1974 February 14, Joseph E. Brown, “Understanding your city's energy needs...”, in Daily News-Post, page 9:
glosses: Any non-specific, non-notable town in the USA.
examples: text: Near-synonym: Whateverville
text: 123 Fake Street, Anytown, ST 98765, USA
glosses: A substitute placename for an inhabited place, a city or town, with an unknown or unspecified name.
Related terms: everyman
dirty talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Sexually arousing speech, usually used to arouse one's partner or oneself.
glosses: Any speech which is profane.
Related terms: talk dirty
drop letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop letters
Senses: glosses: A letter mailed at a post office and either kept for general delivery, or delivered to a post office box, at that same post office.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A large letter at the beginning of a line of text, positioned in a decorative way below the baseline of the rest of the type.
kibei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kibeis
form: kibei
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 帰米 (kibei, “returning to the United States”).
Senses: examples: text: Most kibei were not fluent in English because of their upbringing in Japan.
glosses: A Japanese-American who is born in the United States but primarily educated in Japan.
lawful interception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawful interceptions
Senses: glosses: wiretapping
test portion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: test portions
Senses: glosses: A measured amount (volume) of a sample being used in a test.
demented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɛntɪd/
Forms: form: more demented
form: most demented
Etymology: Past participle of dement + -ed, from Latin dēmentāre.
Senses: examples: text: So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.
ref: 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2012:
glosses: Insane; mentally ill.
glosses: Having dementia.
examples: text: a demented idea
text: One of these new recruits is Jagger Froid, a demented alien from the Black Hole Galaxy, who dishes out punishment with a laser-sharp tongue.
ref: c. 1990, How to Play Super C (PDF) (instruction manual), Konami, page 4
text: Literally nothing happens, apart from Donaldson counting to 100,000. In this sense, it is nothing like his later videos, defined as they are by a near-demented commitment to maximum viewer-stimulation.
ref: 2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025:
glosses: Crazy; ridiculous.
Derived terms: academented
dementedly
dementedness
nondemented
pseudodemented
semidemented
undemented
demented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɛntɪd/
Etymology: Past participle of dement + -ed, from Latin dēmentāre.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dement
Related terms: mentally ill
Dutch wife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʌtʃ ˈwaɪf/
rhymes: -aɪf
Forms: form: Dutch wives
Etymology: Compound of Dutch (“inferior substitute”) + wife.
Senses: examples: text: His eyes wide with surprise and fear, he clutched tightly the bolster — sweat- absorbing bedfellow of sleepers in the East — known as a Dutch wife. [...] "What do you mean? Who are you?" Maniam's great eyes, his black skin oiled with sweat, Maniam's hands pudgily clutching his Dutch wife.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 490:
synonyms: body pillow
dakimakura
love pillow
glosses: A long body-length bolster (pillow) that can be held or wrapped around one's body while sleeping.
synonyms: bamboo wife
bolster
glosses: In East Asia and Southeast Asia, a wicker or bamboo tube the size of a person for use in the bed. In the summer heat, the open bamboo structure is cooler than fabric pillows or sheets. The Dutch wife is embraced by the user, exposing the maximum amount of the body to cooling breezes.
chiliahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪlɪəˈhiːdɹən/
Forms: form: chiliahedra
form: chiliahedrons
form: chiliaëdron
Etymology: From chilia- + -hedron.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polyhedron bounded by one thousand plane surfaces.
smolder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmoʊldɚ/
rhymes: -əʊldə(ɹ)
Forms: form: smolders
form: smoldering
form: smoldered
form: smoldered
form: smoulder
Etymology: From Middle English smolderen (“to suffocate, stifle”), from Middle English smolder (“smoke, smoky vapour”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *smolōn (“to burn, glow, fume, smoulder”). Related to Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (> English smell).
Senses: examples: text: The remains of the bonfire were left to smolder for hours.
text: Our quiuering Lances ſhaking in the aire,
And bullets like Ioues dreadfull Thunderbolts,
Enrolde in flames and fiery ſmoldering miſtes,
Shall threat the Gods more than Cyclopian warres, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:
glosses: To burn with no flame and little smoke.
glosses: To show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion, such as passion.
glosses: To exist in a suppressed or hidden state.
smolder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmoʊldɚ/
rhymes: -əʊldə(ɹ)
Forms: form: smolders
form: smoulder
Etymology: From Middle English smolderen (“to suffocate, stifle”), from Middle English smolder (“smoke, smoky vapour”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *smolōn (“to burn, glow, fume, smoulder”). Related to Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (> English smell).
Senses: examples: text: And she’s got a great scene partner in Stevens, refining his star power into a just slightly, almost imperceptibly mechanical approximation of Don Juan smolder. He lets us admire the interface and still see the code ticking away underneath it.
ref: 2021 September 16, A. A. Dowd, “Dan Stevens as a dashing robot lover? That computes”, in AV Club:
glosses: The act of smoldering or something that smolders.
Related terms: do a slow burn
fire department
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire departments
Senses: topics: firefighting
government
glosses: An organization, often part of a local government, whose purpose is preventing and putting out fires. May provide other emergency services as well, such as first aid and search and rescue.
Derived terms: call the fire department
Related terms: fire brigade
fire company
fire service
fire house
fire station
e-dictionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ē-dĭkʹshə-nĕr′ē
Forms: form: e-dictionaries
Etymology: Appeared in the 1990s with the advent of the Internet, from e- + dictionary.
Senses: examples: text: Our new e-dictionary is available online or on CD-ROM.
text: I put my e-dictionary in my backpack and headed off to school.
glosses: A dictionary in electronic form (software or hardware).
shoot the breeze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoots the breeze
form: shooting the breeze
form: shot the breeze
form: shot the breeze
Etymology: A slang phrase, alluding to talking into the wind, it was first recorded in 1919. In the variant, first recorded in 1908, bull is used instead of breeze, and means "empty talk" or "lies."
Senses: examples: text: We were just standing around shooting the breeze.
text: Oh, I've just been upstairs with your boss, shooting the breeze… shooting his fish.
ref: 1989, Lethal Weapon 2 (motion picture), spoken by Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson):
text: Listen, I came here to do some business, not shoot the breeze. If you want to expound your personal philosophies, write another book.
ref: 1999, The Ninth Gate (motion picture), spoken by Dean Corso (Johnny Depp):
synonyms: word: bat the breeze
word: chew the fat
word: shoot the shit
word: shoot the bull
word: talk about the weather
glosses: To chat idly or generally waste time talking.
Related terms: word: chew the cud
bandwidth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbændwɪdθ/
ipa: /ˈbændwɪtθ/
Forms: form: bandwidths
Etymology: From band + width.
Senses: examples: text: But now is a good time to be bargaining for bandwidth, as the switch from analogue to digital television is freeing up space.
ref: 2010 October 30, Jim Giles, “Jammed!”, in New Scientist:
glosses: The width, usually measured in hertz, of a frequency band.
glosses: The width of the smallest frequency band within which the signal can fit.
raw_tags: of a signal
examples: text: While comm buoys allow rapid transmission, there is a finite amount of bandwidth available. Given that trillions of people may be trying to pass a message through a given buoy at any one time, access to the network is parceled out on priority tiers.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Communications: Administration Codex entry:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The rate of data flow in digital networks typically measured in bits per second; the bitrate.
examples: text: I think it's a worthy project, but I just don't have the bandwidth right now.
text: Yet... rather than exploiting opportunities to their fullest, Perry uses with conviction the word "frustrated" to describe a typical approach to government with ideas: "You'll get the response 'we don't have the bandwidth to deal with that'."
ref: 2024 January 24, Dyan Perry talks to Nick Brodrick, “The industry has given me so much”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 44:
text: Kiriyenko's personal bandwidth to do so is likely limited, however, as he also oversees many of the Kremlin's internal machinations, including the veteran-focused "Time of Heroes" program.
ref: 2024 November 14, Kateryna Stepanenko, Davit Gasparyan, Nicole Wolkov, Nate Trotter, William Runkel, Olivia Gibson, Grace Mappes, Frederick W. Kagan, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 14, 2024”, in Ukraine Project, The Institute for the Study of War:
glosses: The capacity, energy or time required.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The minimum, over all orderings of vertices of a given graph, of the length of the longest edge.
Derived terms: brandwidth
time-bandwidth product
Related terms: bandshape
broadband
neatnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈniːtnɪk/
Forms: form: neatniks
Etymology: From neat + -nik, to rhyme with beatnik.
Senses: examples: text: His mom is such a neatnik that a dirty dish never even hits her sink.
glosses: A stickler for neatness or cleanliness.
wing it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wings it
form: winging it
form: winged it
form: winged it
Senses: examples: text: I don't know their system, but I think I can wing it.
text: I didn't study for today's test, so I'll have to wing it.
text: Plus, early in a career, bands are typically winging it from a creative standpoint; after awhile, acts figure out what they’re doing right (or wrong), and are more deliberate about songcraft and execution.
ref: 2017 January 20, Annie Zaleski, “AFI sounds refreshed and rejuvenated on its 10th album, AFI (The Blood Album)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: “My [worry] is that after a week or more of mismanagement, I’m deeply concerned the government has made a difficult situation 10 times worse ... There is a growing concern the government is now winging it,” he said.
ref: 2020 June 2, Rowena Mason, “Keir Starmer: 'Boris Johnson has to get a grip and restore public confidence'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To improvise; to make things up or figure things out as one goes; to perform with little or no preparation.
Synonyms: fly by the seat of one's pants
improvise
make it up as one goes along
play by ear
resto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛstəʊ/
rhymes: (UK) -ɛstəʊ
Forms: form: restos
Etymology: Clipping of restaurant + -o (colloquializing suffix).
Senses: examples: text: For instance, nine out of 10 restos in Toronto may offer Caesar salad, but "it's still about how you make it.
ref: 2009 January 14, “Drake expands comfort zone”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A restaurant.
Derived terms: bar-resto
resto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛstəʊ/
rhymes: (UK) -ɛstəʊ
Forms: form: restos
Etymology: Clipping of restoration + -o (colloquializing suffix).
Senses: glosses: A restoration (of an old car or building, etc.).
mothball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒθbɔːl/
Forms: form: mothballs
form: moth ball
form: moth-ball
Etymology: From moth + ball.
Senses: glosses: A small ball of chemical pesticide (typically naphthalene) and deodorant placed in or around clothing and other articles susceptible to damage from mold or moth larvae in order to protect them from this damage.
Derived terms: english: kept in good condition for later use
translation: kept in good condition for later use
word: in mothballs
word: mothbally
mothball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒθbɔːl/
Forms: form: mothballs
form: mothballing
form: mothballed
form: mothballed
form: moth ball
form: moth-ball
Etymology: From moth + ball.
Senses: examples: text: They mothballed the old version after the new one came out.
text: Before Musk, America’s space industry was moribund. In 2011, NASA mothballed the last space shuttle, after inking a deal with SpaceX to make uncrewed cargo resupply runs to the International Space Station (ISS).
ref: December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021:
synonyms: store
shelve
set aside
defer
glosses: To store or shelve something no longer used.
examples: text: Some schools might have an art studio, an area of forestry in the playground, or a performance stage in the hall – all exceptional assets. Just check they get plenty of use and aren't mothballed while the school concentrates on (you guessed it) maths and literacy.
ref: 2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian:
text: In the short term NR could well mothball the line given its lack of traffic.
ref: 2021 March 10, Paul Shannon, “Freight's new gateways score highly on location and layout”, in RAIL, number 926, page 34:
glosses: To stop using (something), but keep it in good condition.
Derived terms: mothballed
mothballer
dawdle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːdl̩/
ipa: /ˈdɔdl̩/
ipa: /ˈdɑdl̩/
homophone: doddle (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɔːdəl
Forms: form: dawdles
Etymology: The verb is possibly:
* a variant of daddle (“(Britain, dialectal) to walk or work slowly, dawdle, saunter, trifle”) or doddle (“(Britain, dialectal) to walk feebly or slowly, dawdle, idle, saunter, stroll”), possibly influenced by daw (“(Britain, dialectal) lazy, good-for-nothing person, sluggard”); or
* borrowed from Middle Low German dȫdelen (“to dawdle”), related to Saterland Frisian döädelje (“to dawdle”); compare also German daddeln (“to play”), German verdaddeln (“to waste (time), neglect, ruin”). All of these words are assumed to be of imitative origin.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: glosses: An act of spending time idly and unfruitfully; a dawdling.
examples: text: For many the journey home from school was not a walk but a ‘dawdle’: it was an everyday experience that added meaning to their lives.
ref: 2017, Colin G. Pooley, Jean Turnbull, Mags Adams, “Travelling to School”, in A Mobile Century?: Changes in Everyday Mobility in Britain in the Twentieth Century, Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, →ISBN:
glosses: An act of moving or walking lackadaisically, a dawdling; a leisurely or slow walk or other journey.
examples: text: Lord, I have ſuch a deal to do, I ſhall ſcarce have time to ſlip on my Italian luteſting.—VVhere is this davvdle of a houſekeeper?
ref: 1766, George Colman, David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, a Comedy. […], London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […]; R[oberts] Baldwin, […]; R. Davis, […]; and T[homas] Davies, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 13:
glosses: Synonym of dawdler (“a person who dawdles or idles”).
synonyms: word: dawdler
extra: a person who dawdles or idles
dawdle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːdl̩/
ipa: /ˈdɔdl̩/
ipa: /ˈdɑdl̩/
homophone: doddle (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɔːdəl
ipa: /ˈdɒdl̩/
rhymes: -ɔːdəl
rhymes: -ɒdəl
homophone: doddle
ipa: /ˈdɔːdl̩/
ipa: /ˈdɔdl̩/
ipa: /ˈdɑdl̩/
homophone: doddle (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɔːdəl
Forms: form: dawdles
Etymology: A variant of doddle.
Senses: examples: text: He was a QC from Edinburgh, wearing the black jacket and pinstripe trousers of his trade, as if straight from court, and probably persuaded to come in the belief that if you could interest the Budhill and Springboig party in the repressive Gaullist policies in Algeria then becoming Solicitor-General was a dawdle.
ref: 2009, Archie Macpherson, “Thumping the Tub”, in A Game of Two Halves: The Autobiography, Edinburgh: Black & White Publishing, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: Alternative spelling of doddle (“a job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple”).
coastal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊstəl/
ipa: /ˈkoʊstəl/
rhymes: -əʊstəl
Forms: form: more coastal
form: most coastal
Etymology: From coast + -al.
Senses: examples: text: coastal town
text: coastal breeze
text: coastal elites
text: These included other Niphargus species from deep cave lakes and coastal anchihaline caves [23 ] and Gammarus and Echinogammarus amphipods that live only in permanently watered streams [21 ,24 ].
ref: 2015 July 31, “Morphologically Cryptic Amphipod Species Are “Ecological Clones” at Regional but Not at Local Scale: A Case Study of Four Niphargus Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: Another ANC splinter party, the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK), led by former President Jacob Zuma appears to be on course to do well in KwaZulu-Natal, the eastern coastal province where Durban is located.
ref: 2024 May 30, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid”, in CNN:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the coast; on or near the coast; longshore.
Hypernyms: word: aquatic
word: marine
Coordinate terms: littoral
Derived terms: bicoastal
Coastal Andhra
coastal grandma
coastal grandmother
coastally
coastal strawberry
coastal waters
intercoastal
intracoastal
midcoastal
noncoastal
palaeocoastal
subcoastal
Suffolk Coastal
tricoastal
interviewee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.tə.vjuːˈiː/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚ.vjuːˈiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: interviewees
Etymology: From interview + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Both ‘no-op’ interviewees hold relatively stable identities as TG and offer interesting perspectives on trans repudiation from a TG standpoint.
ref: 2008, Christopher Shelley, “Introduction: Transpeople and the Problem of Re/Action”, in Transpeople: Repudiation, Trauma, Healing, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 12:
text: […] a willing American interviewee describes how he wants his girlfriend to "reach for my [bleep]^([sic]) faster while giving me road head."
ref: 2015 February 26, Sophie Gilbert, “Soggy Bottoms and 'Sex Box': The Saucy State of TV's British Imports”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Someone being interviewed, i.e. the person answering the questions.
silphium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silphiums
form: silphia
form: silfium
form: silphion
Etymology: From Latin silphium, from Ancient Greek σίλφιον (sílphion).
Senses: examples: text: Of all the mysteries of ancient Rome, silphium is among the most intriguing. Romans loved the herb as much as we love chocolate. They used silphium as perfume, as medicine, as an aphrodisiac and turned it into a condiment, called laser, that they poured on to almost every dish.
ref: 2022 May 15, James Tapper, “Caesar’s favourite herb was the Viagra of ancient Rome. Until climate change killed it off”, in The Observer:
glosses: A plant, thought to be extinct, used in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome in cooking and as a contraceptive.
Synonyms: silphion
laserwort
Related terms: laser
rosinweed
pathogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæθəd͡ʒn̩/
Forms: form: pathogens
Etymology: From patho- + -gen.
Senses: examples: text: In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
ref: 2013 January 24, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2017, page 64:
topics: immunology
medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: infectious agent
glosses: An agent that can cause disease, especially an infectious microorganism, such as a bacterium, virus, protozoon or fungus.
Derived terms: allopathogen
antipathogen
biopathogen
copathogen
endopathogen
enteropathogen
entomopathogen
exopathogen
hemopathogen
immunopathogen
micropathogen
multipathogen
mycopathogen
neuropathogen
nonpathogen
odontopathogen
oncopathogen
otopathogen
pathogenesis
pathogenic
pathogenous
pathogeny
periodontopathogen
periopathogen
phytopathogen
sinopathogen
uropathogen
zoopathogen
pc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pcs
form: pc.
form: pcs.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of piece.
Related terms: sense: piece
english: each
translation: each
word: ea.
pc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: p.c.
form: p. c.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of postcard.
glosses: Abbreviation of percent.
glosses: Abbreviation of probable cause.
Synonyms: sense: percent
word: %
seconds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕʹkəndz
ipa: /ˈsɛk.əndz/
ipa: /ˈsɛk.ənts/
ipa: /ˈsɛkəndz/
Senses: examples: text: There are sixty seconds in a minute.
glosses: plural of second
seconds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕʹkəndz
ipa: /ˈsɛk.əndz/
ipa: /ˈsɛk.ənts/
ipa: /ˈsɛkəndz/
Senses: examples: text: There is plenty of pie left, if you have room for seconds.
text: Everybody helped themselves to seconds and Meren even went for thirds. He had always been partial to good food.
ref: 2012, Sean Clancy, The Fledgling:
coordinate_terms: thirds
glosses: A second helping of food for one person, or refill of coffee or other drink.
examples: text: It was marked as seconds, but I can't find anything wrong with it.
glosses: An item of clothing that has failed quality control and is sold at a discount
glosses: Any article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; especially, a coarse or inferior kind of flour.
Synonyms: sense: second serving
word: second helping
seconds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕʹkəndz
ipa: /ˈsɛk.əndz/
ipa: /ˈsɛk.ənts/
ipa: /ˈsɛkəndz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of second
Lake District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Lake District
Senses: examples: text: Preëminently is the Lake District suited for the jaded and worn, who seek in solitude and amidst scenery unmoiled and unsullied by human artifice, refreshment alike of body and spirit.
ref: 1889, The Wesley Naturalist, volume 2, page 143:
glosses: A geographic area and national park in Cumbria, north-western England, characterised by its many lakes.
experienced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɪɹ.i.ənst/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɪə.ɹɪənst/
Forms: form: more experienced
form: most experienced
Etymology: From experience + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:
glosses: Having experience and skill in a subject.
glosses: Experient.
Synonyms: word: practiced
word: seasoned
word: versed
word: qualified
word: veteran
word: accomplished
word: adept
word: old
word: hardened
word: knowing the ropes
Derived terms: bioexperienced
care-experienced
experiencedly
nonexperienced
underexperienced
unexperienced
Related terms: word: skilled
experienced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɪɹ.i.ənst/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɪə.ɹɪənst/
Etymology: From experience + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of experience
flows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fləʊz/
ipa: /floʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: plural of flow
flows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fləʊz/
ipa: /floʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flow
prejudice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛd͡ʒədɪs/
Forms: form: prejudices
form: prejudicing
form: prejudiced
form: prejudiced
form: præjudice
form: p͛judice
Etymology: From Middle English prejudice, from Old French prejudice, derived from Latin praeiūdicium (“previous judgment or damage”), from prae- (“before”) + iūdicium (“judgment”).
Senses: glosses: To have a negative impact on (someone's position, chances etc.).
glosses: To cause prejudice in; to bias the mind of.
Related terms: prejudge
prejudiced
prejudice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛd͡ʒədɪs/
Forms: form: præjudice
form: p͛judice
Etymology: From Middle English prejudice, from Old French prejudice, derived from Latin praeiūdicium (“previous judgment or damage”), from prae- (“before”) + iūdicium (“judgment”).
Senses: examples: text: I’m not what you call an “A” student but I don’t mind school at lease it takes me away from home but the teachers are too prejudice they are mostly Whites and I never got a fair mark out of them.
ref: 1965, Bel Kaufman, Up the Down Staircase:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of prejudiced, representing African-American Vernacular English.
Related terms: bias
discrimination
hatred
racism
stereotype
WPC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This forecast was prepared based on WPC, SPC, and NHC forecasts.
glosses: Initialism of Weather Prediction Center.
glosses: Initialism of Wireless Power Consortium.
WPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WPCs
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of woman police constable, a former police rank.
Related terms: topics: law-enforcement
government
word: PC
topics: law-enforcement
government
word: WDC
topics: law-enforcement
government
word: supt.
topics: law-enforcement
government
word: DCI
topics: law-enforcement
government
word: DI
topics: law-enforcement
government
word: DS
topics: law-enforcement
government
word: DC
p.c.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pc
examples: text: John Smith (p.c.) informs me that money does grow on trees in Cockaigne.
glosses: Initialism of personal communication; used to mark information obtained directly from communicating with a scholar instead of via analysis of one of their academic papers.
mux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: mucks
Etymology: Compare muck.
Senses: glosses: Dirt, filth or muck.
mux
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: mucks
Forms: form: muxes
form: muxing
form: muxed
form: muxed
Etymology: Compare muck.
Senses: glosses: To make a mess of something; to botch.
mux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: mucks
Forms: form: muxes
Etymology: Abbreviation of multiplex or multiplexer.
Senses: antonyms: demux
glosses: A multiplexer.
mux
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: mucks
Forms: form: muxes
form: muxing
form: muxed
form: muxed
Etymology: Abbreviation of multiplex or multiplexer.
Senses: antonyms: demux
glosses: To multiplex.
Related terms: dub
MUX
MUX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of multiplexor.
to someone's liking
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: to one's mind (archaic sense)
text: They are always keen to ensure that the food is to your liking in this restaurant.
synonyms: to someone's taste
glosses: In a pleasing state or form.
Related terms: word: to taste
english: it is not to everyone's liking
translation: it is not to everyone's liking
word: Reading of :
smiling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmaɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: more smiling
form: most smiling
Senses: examples: text: smiling children
text: Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: That smiles or has a smile.
Derived terms: smiling assassin
smilingly
smiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmaɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: smilings
Senses: examples: text: Smiling takes fewer muscles than frowning.
text: We […] shall ascend to our Father's home of holiness, to enjoy perpetually the smilings of his face […]
ref: 1837, Harriet Catharine Grew, Memorials of a Young Christian:
glosses: The action of the verb to smile.
smiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmaɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪlɪŋ
Senses: examples: They were smiling at the children.
glosses: present participle and gerund of smile
beguiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beguile
beguiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: beguilings
Senses: glosses: A beguilement.
beguiling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: more beguiling
form: most beguiling
Senses: examples: text: a beguiling look
text: I thought he was supposed to be my mentor. But, in actuality, what did I know about the often beguiling world of adults?
ref: 2009, Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Pinguin Books, page 26:
text: “You don't need to count it. It's all there, necromancer.” “I should trust you when you show me no respect for me or my beguiling powers?” “Respect? For a fraud?” “But you've seen my methods succeed.” “I've seen your magic. It has a fraudulent vibe.”
ref: 2023 August 31, Jake Bender & Zach Dunn & Sam Johnson & Sarah Naftalis & Paul Simms, “Exit Interview” (23:52 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 10, spoken by Wallace (Benedict Wong):
text: Rutland (and some of the bordering ‘Notswolds’ counties of Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire) have the same mellow, creamy limestone as the Cotswolds and boast beguiling market towns and villages that are every bit as attractive, but without the tourists or hefty prices.
ref: 2024 November 19, Nicola Venning, “Welcome to the Notswolds”, in Country Life, archived from the original on 14 May 2025:
glosses: That beguiles or beguile.
Derived terms: beguilingly
beguilingness
time-beguiling
transitionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transitionists
Etymology: From transition + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone skilled at coping with, or managing transition in some, or any field.
examples: text: Namibian human rights activist Phil ya Nangoloh drew a distinction between transitionist states, which saw a nonviolent shift from dictatorship to multiparty democracy, and self-determinationist states […]
ref: 2004, Steve Kibble, Futures for Southern Africa: Report of a Symposium Held in Windhoek, Namibia, September 2003, CIIR, →ISBN:
glosses: Someone or something (such as a country) undergoing transition, e.g. from one system or status to another.
Related terms: transitionism
yo-yo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjəʊ.jəʊ/
ipa: /ˈjoʊ.joʊ/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊjəʊ
rhymes: (US) -oʊjoʊ
Forms: form: yo-yos
Etymology: Genericized trademark. Most likely from Ilocano yóyo, or another Philippine cognate.
Senses: examples: text: I bought a yo-yo from the toy store yesterday.
coordinate_terms: diabolo
whirligig
glosses: A toy consisting of a spheroidal or cylindrical spindle having a circular groove in which string is wound; it is used by holding the string in the fingers and reeling the spindle up and down by movements of the wrist.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A volatile market that moves up and down.
glosses: Someone who vacillates.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: A dogfighting maneuver involving the attacker temporarily exchanging altitude for airspeed, or vice versa, in order to rapidly catch up with the defender or to prevent an overshoot.
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A cloth rosette formed by gathering the outside edge of a circle of fabric in toward the centre using a running stitch.
examples: text: It is hard to watch the management for very long and not conclude that the place is run by a bunch of yo-yos.
text: Now look at them yo-yos, that's the way you do it
ref: 1985, Sting, Mark Knopfler, “Money for Nothing”, in Brothers in Arms, performed by Dire Straits:
text: Henry glanced past him at the few other customers currently in attendance. "Hey! Any of you yo-yos headed up Castle Hill?"
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
text: When these yo-yos came into the courtroom with their ridiculous testimony... it was a terrible circus.
ref: 1992 February 2, Mitzel, quoting James Kirkwood, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 12:
glosses: A foolish, annoying or incompetent person.
Hyponyms: high yo-yo
low yo-yo
Derived terms: Chinese yo-yo
high yo-yo
low yo-yo
yo-yo club
yo-yo despin
yo-yo dieting
yo-yoer
yo-yo mode
yo-yo reflux
yo-yo weight
yo-yo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjəʊ.jəʊ/
ipa: /ˈjoʊ.joʊ/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊjəʊ
rhymes: (US) -oʊjoʊ
Forms: form: yo-yos
form: yo-yoing
form: yo-yoed
form: yo-yoed
Etymology: Genericized trademark. Most likely from Ilocano yóyo, or another Philippine cognate.
Senses: examples: text: The yo-yoing stockmarket whizzed back up by around a quarter and then started to fall again.
ref: 1990, The Economist, volume 316, page 93:
glosses: To vacillate; to move up and down.
yogi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjəʊɡi/
ipa: /ˈjoʊɡi/
rhymes: -əʊɡi
Forms: form: yogis
form: ioggue
form: iogue
form: jogue
form: jougie
form: joguey
form: jogee
form: jogi
form: yoguee
form: yogue
form: yogee
form: yogin
form: yoghi
form: yoghee
form: joghi
form: joghee
Etymology: From Hindi योगी (yogī), from Sanskrit योगिन् (yogin), from the verbal root yuj (class 7 present युनक्ति (yunakti, “to connect”)), from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.
Senses: examples: text: To this day, yogins find that these disciplines, which have measurable physical and neurological effects, evoke a sense of calm, harmony and equanimity that is comparable to the effect of music.
ref: 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 30:
text: There is a special healthy menu, and the yogis can all eat together if they choose, but there's none of the birdseed-and-bulgur-wheat diet of a typical retreat.
ref: 2012 March 30, Lisa Allardice, The Guardian:
text: Gurdjieff connects this type of breathing with yogi breathing.
text: It's a yogi trick of some sort.
qualifier: yoga
glosses: A devotee or adherent of yoga.
Related terms: yogini
yogi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjəʊɡi/
ipa: /ˈjoʊɡi/
rhymes: -əʊɡi
Forms: form: yogis
form: yogi-ing
form: yogied
form: yogied
form: ioggue
form: iogue
form: jogue
form: jougie
form: joguey
form: jogee
form: jogi
form: yoguee
form: yogue
form: yogee
form: yogin
form: yoghi
form: yoghee
form: joghi
form: joghee
Etymology: From Hindi योगी (yogī), from Sanskrit योगिन् (yogin), from the verbal root yuj (class 7 present युनक्ति (yunakti, “to connect”)), from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.
Senses: examples: text: You do not even need to be psychoanalyzed, Rolfed, estered, altered, gelded, neutered, spayed, fixed, Mooned, acupunctured, meditated, Zenned, massaged, Cayced, yogied, New Aged, astrocharted, holisticized, computerized, megatrended, therapized, androgynized, evangelized, converted, or even, last and least, to be reborn.
ref: 1954, Edward Abbey, Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader, page xiv:
text: I meet hundreds of people each year who have been New Thoughted, Mind Scienced, Eckankared, Rosicrucianed, l Amed, White Brotherhooded, Scientologied and, yes, even yogied — to the point of mental numbness.
ref: 1971, Roy Eugene Davis, Darshan: the vision of light, page 190:
text: He had followed Larry faithfully for two days, getting yelled at and grieved over and yogied into a pretzel and fucked over by all sorts of weirdoes who seemed to find him a nice object to act on.
ref: 2015, Luke Rhinehart, The Search for the Dice Man, →ISBN, page 192:
glosses: To turn (someone) into a yogi; to lead into practicing yoga.
yogi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjəʊɡi/
ipa: /ˈjoʊɡi/
rhymes: -əʊɡi
Forms: form: yogis
form: yogi-ing
form: yogied
form: yogied
Etymology: From the cartoon character, Yogi Bear, who was known for conning tourists out of their picnics.
Senses: examples: text: Ready to do some hiking now that we are through yogi-ing? I asked, grinning at Map Man. The hikers looked up at me quizzically, but Map Man knew yogi-ing meant the good natured way thru-hikers ask for food without actually begging.
ref: 1999, Ellen Wolfe, Walking the dream, →ISBN, page 138:
text: Late in the afternoon, I came to a shady spot where there was a picnic table—a rare luxury on the trail. As I approached, I saw that there was a peach on top of the table and beneath it a note. Cheryl! We yogied this from day hikers for you. Enjoy! Sam and Helen
ref: 2012, Cheryl Strayed, Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found, →ISBN:
text: You can also yogi food from other hikers and tourists. The yogi cannot realistically be counted upon as a primary resupply strategy, but it's reliable for netting a few extra calories during summer months when traveling through popular parks, especially on weekends.
ref: 2013, Dan Feldman, Long-Distance Hiking, →ISBN, page 96:
qualifier: thru-hiker slang
glosses: To persuade someone to give you food or other favors without actually begging.
yogini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəʊɡɪˈniː/
ipa: /joʊɡɪˈniː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: yoginis
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit योगिनी (yoginī), feminine of योगिन्.
Senses: examples: text: In the intense religious practices of yoginis or nuns, the menstrual period can stop altogether.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 19:
glosses: A female yogi.
Yemenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yemenites
Etymology: From Yemen + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Yemen.
glosses: A Jewish native of Yemen, or a descendant of one.
Derived terms: Yemenite deaf-blind hypopigmentation syndrome
Related terms: Yemeni
high-pitched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪˈpɪt͡ʃt/
ipa: /ˈhaɪˌpɪt͡ʃt/
rhymes: (predicative) -ɪtʃt
Forms: form: higher-pitched
form: highest-pitched
Senses: examples: text: With a "peep" from a high-pitched whistle, the train would leave by the crossover to the down line, […].
ref: 1954 March, W. A. Tuplin, “Recollections of the Wirral Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 168:
text: She knew some Dutch and spoke a high-pitched stressless English.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 256:
synonyms: high
antonyms: low
low-pitched
glosses: Of a sound, having a high pitch.
glosses: Haughty.
examples: text: The 2-6-2s have very high-pitched boilers in order that the grate shall clear the radial axle and also the trailing coupled wheels.
ref: 1960 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 553:
glosses: Placed higher than usual. (of a steam locomotive boiler)
sociopath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊ.si.ə(ʊ)ˌpæθ/
ipa: /ˈsəʊ.ʃə(ʊ)ˌpæθ/
Forms: form: sociopaths
Etymology: From socio- + -path. First use appears c. 1914.
Senses: examples: text: And Keith Rabois, an early executive at PayPal and LinkedIn, who in 2016 called Trump a “sociopath”, pledged $1mn to his campaign.
ref: 2024 July 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, Hannah Murphy, Alex Rogers, quoting Keith Rabois, “Has Silicon Valley gone Maga?”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:
glosses: A person with an antisocial personality disorder.
Derived terms: sociopathy
sociopathic
Related terms: psychopath