cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sgraffito
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɡɹəˈfiːtəʊ/
ipa: /skɹəˈfiːtəʊ/
ipa: /sɡɹəˈfiːtoʊ/
ipa: /skɹəˈfiːtoʊ/
enpr: sgrə'fītō
Forms: form: sgraffitos
form: sgraffitoes
form: sgraffitoing
form: sgraffitoed
form: sgraffitoed
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian sgraffito, from s- (“out”) + graffito (past participle of graffire), ultimately from Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “to write or scratch”).
Senses: examples: text: Use a ceramic tool or any pointer to sgraffito the lines in the enamel powder.
ref: 1972, Ceramics Monthly, volume 20, Columbus, Oh.: Professional Publications, →OCLC, page 31:
text: A West African woman sgraffitoes a traditional pattern […]
ref: 1983, Ceramics Monthly, volume 31, →OCLC, page 5:
text: The last gasp of the British inscribed-pottery tradition is represented by the "motto wares" that became a specialty of South Devon potteries such as Aller Vale in the late 1800s. Homey and comical sayings, sometimes poetic or in stereotyped West Country dialect, were sgraffitoed on wares for tourists on holiday in the coastal town of Torquay.
ref: 1998, John A. Burrison, “Talking Jars: Dave and Larger Traditions of Pot-Poetry”, in Jill Beute Koverman, editor, I Made this Jar ... The Life and Works of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave, [Columbia, S.C.]: McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, →ISBN, page 65:
text: I paint or pour onto the piece, […] and then use the spaces to play with either trailing, using the slip trailers to flick, or thickly spurt the colours onto the piece, sgraffitoing and painting and using slip trailers in a more restrained fashion to draw with. I think I am guided by intuition or my own response to each piece as I decorate it, rather than by any conscious outside influence.
ref: 1999, Michael Eden, Victoria Eden, Slipware: Contemporary Approaches, London: A & C Black; Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 53:
text: I use a calligraphy pen with a rounded scratch nib and a stylus for my sgraffito work. Deciding when to sgraffito the piece depends on how wet you like the slip. I prefer a leather-hard surface but some potters prefer to sgraffito right after the slip has been applied and others like to sgraffito when the slip is bone dry.
ref: 2008, Denise Wilz, “Pennsylvania Redware”, in Anderson Turner, editor, Electric Firing: Creative Techniques (Ceramic Arts Handbook Series), Westerville, Oh.: American Ceramic Society, →ISBN, pages 41–42:
topics: art
arts
glosses: To produce a design using this technique.
Derived terms: word: sgraffitoed
word: sgraffitoing
susceptibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of susceptibility
grueling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹuː.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹu.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊəlɪŋ
Forms: form: more grueling
form: most grueling
Senses: examples: text: Medical school, internship, and residency had been physically and emotionally grueling.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 4:
glosses: Alternative spelling of gruelling.
Derived terms: gruelingly
grueling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹuː.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹu.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊəlɪŋ
Forms: form: gruelings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gruelling.
grueling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹuː.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹu.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊəlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gruel
bananery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈnɑːn.ə.ɹi/
Forms: form: bananeries
form: bananary
Etymology: From banana + -ery. Compare orangery.
Senses: glosses: A banana plantation.
bananery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈnɑːn.ə.ɹi/
Forms: form: more bananery
form: most bananery
form: banana-ey
form: bananaey
form: bananary
form: banana-y
Etymology: From banana + -ery, an alteration of banana + -y because the spelling -ay would look like a single vowel (as in tray). Because of uncertainty about how banana + -y should best be written, various spellings are seen. Compare nanner.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to bananas, or their flavour.
hotar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hotr.
discretisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discretisations
Etymology: From discrete + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of discretization.
fibrosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibrosities
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fibrous.
azoturia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azoturias
Etymology: From azote + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An increase in the amount of nitrogenous material (such as urea) in the urine
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
synonyms: equine rhabdomyelosis
glosses: A condition that affects the muscles of horses, ranging from stiffness and mild cramps to the horse becoming unable to stand, with discoloured urine
Derived terms: anazoturia
hypoazoturia
hardback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹdˌbæk/
Forms: form: hardbacks
Etymology: From hard + back, formed in analogy to earlier paperback.
Senses: glosses: A book with a solid binding.
Coordinate terms: paperback
softback
Derived terms: hardbacker
hardback
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹdˌbæk/
Etymology: From hard + back, formed in analogy to earlier paperback.
Senses: glosses: Having a solid binding.
raw_tags: of a book
Synonyms: hardcover
computationally secure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more computationally secure
form: most computationally secure
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not decodable with all available computer power.
nitrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nitrate
nitrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Reacted, or treated with, nitric acid or a nitrate.
glosses: Treated with silver nitrate.
raw_tags: of photographic material
Derived terms: nonnitrated
overnitrated
unnitrated
valved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From valve + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having valves.
valved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From valve + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of valve
characterised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of characterise
Derived terms: uncharacterised
undercharacterised
nitrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nitrators
Etymology: From nitrate + -or.
Senses: glosses: a reaction vessel in which nitration takes place
glosses: a device for spreading nitrate fertilizer on the soil
Cangjie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtsɑŋˌt͡ʃjɛ/
Forms: form: Changjie
form: Cangjei
form: Changjei
form: Chang Jei
form: Chajei
form: Chong Kit
Etymology: From Mandarin 倉頡／仓颉 (Cāngjié).
Senses: glosses: The man historically credited with the invention of the first writing system in China.
Cangjie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtsɑŋˌt͡ʃjɛ/
Forms: form: Changjie
form: Cangjei
form: Changjei
form: Chang Jei
form: Chajei
form: Chong Kit
Etymology: From Mandarin 倉頡／仓颉 (Cāngjié).
Senses: glosses: An input method for entering Chinese characters into a computer, developed in 1976 and originally supporting only traditional Chinese. Characters are visually decomposed into parts; these parts are assigned keys on the keyboard.
Synonyms: Cangjie method
flowerbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowerbeds
form: flower bed
form: flower-bed
Etymology: From flower + bed.
Senses: glosses: A part of a garden or park where flowers are grown.
nitrification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: nitrifications
Senses: glosses: The process of nitrifying
Derived terms: subnitrification
fulgurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊl.ɡə.ɹəs/
ipa: /ˈfʊl.ɡɪə.ɹəs/
Etymology: From Latin fulgur (“lightning”).
Senses: glosses: Resembling a lightning flash; fulgurant.
glosses: Full of lightning.
Derived terms: fulgurously
Related terms: fulgor
fulgural
fulgurant
fulgurate
fulguration
fulgurator
Gusii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tribe from Kenya.
Gusii
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Bantu language spoken in this tribe.
Synonyms: Ekegusii
Kisii
Gweno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tribe from Tanzania.
Synonyms: Ugweno
Gweno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Bantu language spoken by this tribe.
Synonyms: Kigweno
varpu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varpus
Senses: glosses: A large but shallow stewpot made of metal or clay, traditionally used in southern India.
Gwere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in Uganda.
douchebag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduːʃˌbæɡ/
Forms: form: douchebags
form: douche bag
Etymology: From douche + bag.
Senses: glosses: A sterile container which holds the fluid used for giving a vaginal douche.
examples: text: That douchebag ruined my shrimp cocktail.
text: Why doesn't that guy get a job? He’s a regular douchebag.
text: It's fine to help your friends eat healthy, but don't be a douchebag and harass them about it.
synonyms: douche
glosses: A jerk or asshole; a mean or rude person; someone seen as being arrogant, snobby or obnoxious.
examples: text: That pocket protector makes you look like a douchebag.
glosses: Any social misfit; a doofus, dork, or nerd.
Derived terms: Deutschbag
douchebaggery
douchebagism
Douchebagistan
douchebagness
douchebro
douchehole
douchetuber
Schrödinger's douchebag
inequitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French inéquitable.
Morphologically in- + equitable.
Senses: glosses: unfair, unequal or unjust.
Derived terms: inequitably
Related terms: inequity
iniquity
inhumane
unethical
back on to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backs on to
form: backing on to
form: backed on to
form: backed on to
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of back onto.
flirter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flirters
Etymology: From flirt + -er. Compare Old English fleardere (“one who acts wantonly or with folly”).
Senses: examples: text: I just ended a relationship with a compulsive flirter, after realizing that no one deserved to be treated as I was.
ref: 1988, Glamour, volume 86, numbers 7-9, page 26:
glosses: One who flirts.
back onto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backs onto
form: backing onto
form: backed onto
form: backed onto
Senses: examples: text: He backed the car onto my toe.
glosses: To reverse a vehicle onto something.
examples: text: The car backed onto my toe.
glosses: To reverse onto something.
raw_tags: of a vehicle
examples: text: My house backs onto the canal.
glosses: To overlook something from the rear.
back projection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back projections
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: back projection
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
synonyms: rear projection
glosses: A cinematic technique in which live action is filmed in front of a screen on which the background action or a background scene is projected.
glosses: tomographic reconstruction
Related terms: matte shot
nitrobacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitrobacterium
Camberwell beauty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Camberwell beauties
Senses: glosses: A large butterfly, Nymphalis antiopa, native to Eurasia and North America.
Synonyms: word: mourning cloak
mourning cloak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mourning cloaks
Senses: glosses: A dark cloak worn by a mourner at a funeral.
glosses: A large butterfly, Nymphalis antiopa, native to Eurasia and North America.
Synonyms: sense: butterfly
word: Camberwell beauty
nitriding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnaɪ.tɹaɪd.iŋ/
Forms: form: nitridings
Etymology: From nitride + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Stabilization of fluctuations by carbon creates prerequisites during nitriding for the transformation of the chromocarbon cluster into the nitride phase.
ref: 2023, Eugene De Silva, Pramudi Abeydeera (editors), Innovations in Materials Chemistry, Physics, and Engineering Research, page 70:
glosses: A method of case hardening steel by the surface absorption of nitrogen by heating with ammonia.
oxidizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oxidize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being oxidized.
Derived terms: antioxidizable
inoxidizable
nonoxidizable
photooxidizable
unoxidizable
oxidant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxidants
Etymology: From French oxydant.
Senses: glosses: an oxidizing agent
Derived terms: biooxidant
cooxidant
deoxidant
hyperoxidant
photooxidant
prooxidant
reoxidant
oxyhydrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oxy- + hydrogen.
Senses: glosses: Of, or using a mixture of, hydrogen and oxygen.
oxyhydrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oxy- + hydrogen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A potentially explosive mixture of hydrogen and oxygen
Derived terms: oxyhydrogen blowpipe
oxyhydrogen flame
oxyhydrogen light
oxyhydrogen microscope
oxyhydrogen torch
oxygenator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxygenators
Etymology: From oxygenate + -or.
Senses: glosses: any device that releases oxygen (or air) into water, especially one in an aquarium
Derived terms: deoxygenator
intraoxygenator
postoxygenator
preoxygenator
bs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of b
glosses: Abbreviation of bullshit.
ks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of k
seedie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seedies
Senses: glosses: In the 19th century, an ex-slave, rescued from French, Portuguese or Zanzibari vessels off north-east Africa and locally recruited into the Royal Navy.
spasmodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæzˈmɒd.ɪk/
ipa: /spæzˈmɑ.dɪk/
Forms: form: more spasmodic
form: most spasmodic
Etymology: From New Latin spasmōdicus, from Ancient Greek σπασμώδης (spasmṓdēs, “spasmodic”), from σπασμός (spasmós, “spasm”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a spasm; resembling a sudden contraction of the muscles.
examples: text: spasmodic asthma
text: […] Dr. Francis Fuller, […] upon wearing a Quick-ſilver Girdle, for the Cure of the Itch, (and that after an inconſiderate and raſh manner) was brought under a violent Spaſmodick Diſtemper, which was ſupposed by himſelf and others to be owing to ſome Mercurial Particles lodg'd in ſome excretory Ducts of the Brain.
ref: 1734, T[homas] K[night], A Critical Dissertation upon the Manner of the Preparation of Mercurial Medicines, and Their Operation on Human Bodies; particularly Those Most in Fashion: […], London: Printed for Harmen Noorthouck […], →OCLC, page 52:
text: Kennedy’s vocal rasp is not caused by an infection or respiratory condition. Instead, he has spasmodic dysphonia, a rare neurological condition in which the muscles that open and close his vocal cords spasm involuntarily, creating a strained or strangled quality to his speech.
ref: 2025 January 29, Sandee LaMotte, “A rare brain disorder robbed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of his strong speaking voice”, in CNN:
glosses: Convulsive; consisting of spasms.
examples: text: spasmodic zeal or industry
text: The chin was heavy, the nostrils were low and wide, and the lower lip hung loosely except in his moments of spasmodic earnestness, when it shut like a steel trap.
ref: 1900 April, Willa Cather, “Eric Hermannson's Soul”, in Cosmopolitan:
synonyms: word: patchy
word: stop-start
word: broken
word: fitful
word: catchy
word: discontinuous
word: intermissive
word: intermittent
word: patchy
word: spasmodic
word: stop-start
glosses: Intermittent or fitful; occurring in abrupt bursts.
glosses: Erratic or unsustained.
glosses: Of or relating to the spasmodic poets, a group of British Victorian poets who wrote introspective drama in verse.
Derived terms: spasmodically
spasmodism
spasmodist
Related terms: spasm
spasmic
spasmodic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæzˈmɒd.ɪk/
ipa: /spæzˈmɑ.dɪk/
Forms: form: spasmodics
Etymology: From New Latin spasmōdicus, from Ancient Greek σπασμώδης (spasmṓdēs, “spasmodic”), from σπασμός (spasmós, “spasm”).
Senses: synonyms: antispasmodic
glosses: A medicine for suppressing spasms.
Capeverdean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cape Verdean.
Capeverdean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Capeverdeans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cape Verdean.
Capeverdean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cape Verdean.
opinio juris sive necessitatis
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Latin, opinio iuris sive necessitatis, "opinion of law or necessity"
Senses: glosses: The principle of international law where states believe or accept that a practice exists and must be followed because of a rule of law requiring it, to the extent that it becomes part of the body of norms known as international Customary Law.
Related terms: Lotus principle
call in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls in
form: calling in
form: called in
form: called in
Senses: examples: text: I was too unwell to work yesterday so I called in sick.
synonyms: phone in
glosses: To communicate with a base etc, by telephone.
examples: text: The hoaxer called in a bomb threat.
synonyms: phone in
glosses: To report; communicate (a message) by telephone or similar.
examples: text: Near-synonym: call on (transitive)
text: I'll call in this afternoon to pick up my prescription.
synonyms: pop in
glosses: To pay a short visit.
examples: text: The government called in the army to deal with the riots.
text: By the latter part of 1848, the throne of Hudson the Railway King who had been called in in 1845 as a superman to save the Eastern Counties Railway, was tottering to its fall, [...].
ref: 1941 December, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 533:
synonyms: summon
coordinate_terms: call over#Verb
call up#Verb
call down#English:_pray for
send in#Verb
glosses: To summon someone, especially for help or advice.
synonyms: recall
glosses: To withdraw something from sale or circulation.
glosses: To request immediate repayment of (a debt).
Derived terms: word: call-in
word: call-in
dig up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: digs up
form: digging up
form: dug up
form: dug up
Senses: examples: text: The work involved a complete rewiring of the system, while the addition of four higher-capacity Mechan jacks and the increased length of the new train meant the entire floor (the length of four train carriages) had to be dug up, levelled and strengthened to meet tolerance requirements.
ref: 2020 August 12, “Network News: Four new jacks at Clacton depot”, in Rail, page 18:
glosses: to excavate something
examples: text: dig up information
text: dig up proof
text: dig up some scandalous stories
text: dig some gossip up on him.
glosses: to discover something by digging; to unearth
examples: text: You'll have to dig up eight grand to pay for this.
glosses: To find a supply of (something); to pay up.
cirrhoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cirrhosis
rorikon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lolicon.
sk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Row 1: Ch 3, sk 2 sts, 3 dc in next st[…]
ref: 1986, Better Homes and Gardens: Knitting and crocheting, page 204:
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Abbreviation of skip.
sk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sks
form: skg
Senses: examples: text: Lesbian & 2 cats sk home outside of city limits. If you need a home too, let's look together.
ref: 1983 April 9, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15:
glosses: Abbreviation of seek.
raw_tags: in personal ads
Kangxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑŋˈʃiː/
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 康熙 (Kāngxī).
Senses: examples: text: Wu on Friday said the museum has completed its investigations into the damage to the stem bowl as well as a yellow porcelain bowl made during the Kangsi era of the Qing Dynasty, which were found to have been broken when museum staff opened their boxes.
ref: [2022 November 2, Shelley Shan, “NPP calls on museum to account for damaged items”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2022, Taiwan News, page 2:
glosses: A Chinese emperor (1654-1722) from the Qing Dynasty period.
examples: text: According to Kangxi, this word has two kinds of pronunciation.
ref: 1992, O. Harrassowitz, Central Asiatic Journal, volume 36, page 189:
text: [He wrote] Textual Criticism of Kangxi Zidian, 1827[,] in which he identified more than 2500 erroneous citations in Kangxi.
ref: 2003, Lexicography: Reference works across time, space and languages, →ISBN:
glosses: The Kangxi Dictionary, a dictionary and cross reference of Chinese characters, first published in 1716 at the behest of the Kangxi emperor, and used to the present day.
Derived terms: Kangxi radical
firehead tetra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firehead tetras
Senses: synonyms: brilliant rummynose tetra
red-nose tetra
rummy nose
rummy-nose tetra
glosses: A freshwater ray-finned fish, Hemigrammus bleheri, native to South America.
brilliant rummynose tetra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brilliant rummynose tetras
Senses: glosses: The firehead tetra.
red-nose tetra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-nose tetras
Senses: glosses: The firehead tetra.
rummy nose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rummy noses
Senses: glosses: The firehead tetra.
rummy-nose tetra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rummy-nose tetras
Senses: glosses: The firehead tetra.
thornfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thornfishes
form: thornfish
Etymology: From thorn + fish.
Senses: glosses: A group of fish in the order Perciformes, the family Bovichtidae.
glosses: A dragonet, any of the small perciform marine fish of the family Callionymidae.
glosses: A jarbua terapon (Terapon jarbua).
Ankit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi अंकित (aṅkit).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from India, of Indian usage.
attachiamenta de spinis et boscis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin attachiamenta de spinis et boscis.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An ancient privilege granted to forest officers to take for their own any thorns, brushwood, and windfalls within their own precincts.
bawdily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːdɪli/
ipa: /ˈbɔːdɪli/
homophone: bodily (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: more bawdily
form: most bawdily
Etymology: From bawdy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But, Lord! to hear how W. Symons do commend and look sadly and then talk bawdily and merrily, though his wife was dead but the other day, would make a dogg laugh.
ref: 1664 January 18 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “January 8th, 1663–1664”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume (please specify |volume=I to X), London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893–1899, →OCLC:
glosses: In a bawdy manner; lewdly or obscenely with humorous intent.
Related terms: bawd
bawdiness
nagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæɡɚ/
rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: naggers
Etymology: From nag + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who nags.
Derived terms: lagger
phrasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪzəl/
rhymes: -eɪzəl
Forms: form: more phrasal
form: most phrasal
Etymology: From phrase + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or used in the manner of, a phrase.
examples: phrasal preposition
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Consisting of multiple words, but behaving as a single part of speech.
Derived terms: interphrasal
multiphrasal
nonphrasal
phrasal adjective
phrasal adverb
phrasally
phrasal noun
phrasal preposition
phrasal prepositional verb
phrasal typology
phrasal verb
phrasal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪzəl/
rhymes: -eɪzəl
Forms: form: phrasals
Etymology: From phrase + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, children demonstrated that they understood the mapping by elaborating phrasals to sententials, and reducing sententials to phrasals when imitating.
ref: 1985, Dan Isaac Slobin, The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition, page 105:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A grammatical construct that consists of multiple words, but behaves as a single part of speech.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A grammatical construct that consists of multiple words, but behaves as a single part of speech.
A phrasal verb.
revised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revise
vulgarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulgarity
jarbua terapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jarbua terapons
Senses: glosses: An edible omnivorous fish of species Terapon jarbua, fawn in color on top, cream-colored below, with a dark nape, and three or four curved dark brown bands run from the nape to the hind part of the body, the lowermost continuing across the middle of the caudal fin, of the Actinopterygii order.
Synonyms: sense: Terapon jarbua
word: crescent perch
sense: Terapon jarbua
word: crescent-banded grunter
sense: Terapon jarbua
word: crescent-banded tiger-fish
sense: Terapon jarbua
word: crescent grunter
sense: Terapon jarbua
word: jarbua
sense: Terapon jarbua
word: squeaking perch
sense: Terapon jarbua
word: thornfish
sense: Terapon jarbua
word: threestripe tigerfish
sense: Terapon jarbua
word: tiger perch
custom made
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of custom-made.
poojah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poojahs
Senses: examples: text: No other person but the Chaur is allowed to touch them; and while the poojah (religious ceremony) is going on all must keep themselves pure […]
ref: 1840, Sir William Henry Sleeman, Report on the Depredations Committed by the Thug Gangs of Upper and Central India: From the Cold Season of 1836-37, Down to Their Gradual Suppression, Under the Operation of the Measures Adopted Against Them by the Supreme Government, in the Year 1839, Calcutta: G. H. Huttmann, →OCLC, page 42:
text: Laſt is the Gunta-Poojah, which is plaiſtering the bell with ſandal wood.
ref: 1800, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Accounts and Papers: Volume 65, page 67:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of pooja.
puja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuːdʒə/
note: Indic
ipa: /pudʒɑ/
note: Tanglish
ipa: /ˈpudʒa(ɪ)/
Forms: form: pujas
form: pooja
Etymology: From Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā, “reverence or worship”).
Senses: examples: text: The Grunth, the holy book of the Sikhs, seems to be becoming an object of idolatrous worship. They do puja to it, and carry it in procession daily.
ref: 1879, Frances Maria Milman, Memoir of the Right Rev. Robert Milman, page 79:
text: ‘Godbole's pujah did it,’ cried the Englishman.
ref: 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 122:
text: The priest had performed the puja and tied a string around his father's silk purse to make sure that the Rana didn't spend even a copper coin while he was a guest of Merta.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 43:
text: Deeming the tank ‘polluted’ and its water unfit for consumption, a puja ceremony was performed by Brahmin men to ‘purify’ the reservoir.
ref: 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 18:
glosses: A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship.
Related terms: bhoomi puja
Durga Puja
Kali Puja
Magha Puja
pujari
dedans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dedans
Etymology: From French dedans.
Senses: topics: court
government
hobbies
law
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A division, at one end of a tennis court, for spectators.
Zanzibari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːɹi
Forms: form: Zanzibaris
Etymology: From Zanzibar + -i.
Senses: examples: text: Once a white man in an unbuttoned uniform, camping on the path with an armed escort of lank Zanzibaris, very hospitable and festive, not to say drunk.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 209:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Zanzibar.
Zanzibari
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑːɹi
Etymology: From Zanzibar + -i.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to Zanzibar or its inhabitants
participatory economics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parecon
Senses: glosses: A proposed alternative to capitalism that uses participatory decision making.
parecon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: Participatory economics.
tarrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæɹi.ə/
enpr: tărʹē-ər
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈtæɹiɚ/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈtɛɹiɚ/
rhymes: -æɹiə(ɹ)
homophone: terrier (Mary–marry–merry merger)
Forms: form: tarriers
Etymology: The Roman Catholic slang variation is possibly derived from Saint Erasmus being labeled as a "tarrier of time" before torture and execution for his beliefs.
Senses: glosses: A layabout or loiterer; someone who tarries.
examples: text: Wouldnae even offer Jock Stein – your greatest ever manager – a seat on the board 'cause he wasnae a Tarrier.
ref: 2011, Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing:
text: It was the Irish “tarriers” working on the railroad that provided the context for the folk ballad that began […]
ref: 2015, Peter I. Rose, They and We, page 47:
glosses: A Roman Catholic of Northern Ireland or Scotland.
tarrier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæɹi.ə/
enpr: tărʹē-ər
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈtæɹiɚ/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈtɛɹiɚ/
rhymes: -æɹiə(ɹ)
homophone: terrier (Mary–marry–merry merger)
ipa: /ˈtɑːɹi.ə/
enpr: tärʹē-ər
ipa: /ˈtɑɹiɚ/
rhymes: -ɑːɹiə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈtæɹi.ə/
enpr: tărʹē-ər
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈtæɹiɚ/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈtɛɹiɚ/
rhymes: -æɹiə(ɹ)
homophone: terrier (Mary–marry–merry merger)
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of tarry: more tarry
tarrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæɹi.ə/
enpr: tărʹē-ər
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈtæɹiɚ/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈtɛɹiɚ/
rhymes: -æɹiə(ɹ)
homophone: terrier (Mary–marry–merry merger)
ipa: /ˈtɑːɹi.ə/
enpr: tärʹē-ər
ipa: /ˈtɑɹiɚ/
rhymes: -ɑːɹiə(ɹ)
enpr: tĕrʹē-ər
ipa: /ˈtɛɹiɚ/
note: rhotic, without the Mary–marry–merry merger
enpr: tăʹrē-ər
ipa: /ˈtæɹiɚ/
note: rhotic, without the Mary–marry–merry merger
rhymes: -æɹiə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈtæɹi.ə/
enpr: tărʹē-ər
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈtæɹiɚ/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈtɛɹiɚ/
rhymes: -æɹiə(ɹ)
homophone: terrier (Mary–marry–merry merger)
ipa: /ˈtɑːɹi.ə/
enpr: tärʹē-ər
ipa: /ˈtɑɹiɚ/
rhymes: -ɑːɹiə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tarriers
Senses: examples: text: I then had the two best tarriers beneath the canopy; this poor crater is their daughter," and he patted the dog's head affectionately.
ref: 1843, William Hamilton Maxwell, Wild Sports of the West: With Legendary Tales, and Local Sketches, R. Bentley, page 77:
text: Why I recollect, a bit ago, having a tarrier dog what got old and disagreeable, and was turned out on that account from a swell house in Belgravy. Well, he come into my hands, and nat'rally I put him on paunch, like the rest. Would he eat it? Not he. He had been used to his chicken, and his mutton chops, and his 'ashes: and he turned up his nose at anything commoner.
ref: 1881, James Greenwood, Low-Life Deeps:
text: Booth's and Doran's “tarriers” guarded the entrance to the town and drew first blood from a visiting dog: […]
ref: 1914, The Catholic Bulletin and Book Review, volume 4, page 370:
glosses: Obsolete form of terrier (“kind of dog”).
troll-friendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more troll-friendly
form: most troll-friendly
Senses: glosses: Not taking any steps to combat trolling.
raw_tags: of an Internet community
Krooman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kroomen
Etymology: From Kroo + -man.
Senses: glosses: an ex-slave, rescued from West Africa and locally recruited into the Royal Navy, especially one from the Kroo tribe.
bleeding heart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bleeding hearts
Senses: glosses: Any of various perennial plants, of the family Papaveraceae, subfamily Fumarioideae, often having pink heart-shaped flowers, including:
Lamprocapnos spectabilis (formerly Dicentra spectabilis), a popular garden plant with arching sprays of pendent red and white (or pure white) flowers.
glosses: Any of various perennial plants, of the family Papaveraceae, subfamily Fumarioideae, often having pink heart-shaped flowers, including:
Dicentra, a genus native to eastern Asia and North America, some species with colors and shape similar to Lamprocapnos spectabilis.
glosses: Any of various perennial plants, of the family Papaveraceae, subfamily Fumarioideae, often having pink heart-shaped flowers, including:
Ehrendorferia, a genus native to California, usually with yellow flowers of similar shape.
glosses: Any of various perennial plants, of the family Papaveraceae, subfamily Fumarioideae, often having pink heart-shaped flowers, including:
Dactylicapnos, a genus native to Himalayas and mountainous areas of South China, Burma and Vietnam, usually with yellow flowers of similar shape.
glosses: Flowering shrubs, lianas, or small trees of the mint family Lamiaceae, in the genus Clerodendrum.
glosses: The bleeding heart tree, Homalanthus populifolius, an Australian rainforest plant.
glosses: A person who is overly sympathetic to the plight of the underprivileged, exploited or helpless, or to casualties of circumstance.
Synonyms: sense: Lamprocapnos spectabilis
word: Dutchman's breeches
sense: Lamprocapnos spectabilis
word: lyre flower
sense: Lamprocapnos spectabilis
word: lady-in-a-bath
sense: Ehrendorferia
word: eardrop
sense: Clerodendrum
word: glorybower
sense: Clerodendrum
word: bagflower
sense: Homalanthus populifolius
word: Queensland poplar
Related terms: bleeding-heart
love-lies-bleeding
bleeding-heart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbliːdɪŋˌhɑːt/
Forms: form: bleeding-hearts
Etymology: From bleeding + heart.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of bird in the genus Gallicolumba of the pigeon family, native to the Philippines, characterised by a red patch on the plumage of the breast.
glosses: A person who is overly sympathetic to the plight of the underprivileged or exploited.
Derived terms: Luzon bleeding-heart
Gallicolumba luzonica
Mindanao bleeding-heart
Gallicolumba crinigera
Mindoro bleeding-heart
Gallicolumba platenae
Negros bleeding-heart
Gallicolumba keayi
Sulu bleeding-heart
Gallicolumba menagei
bleeding-heart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbliːdɪŋˌhɑːt/
Forms: form: more bleeding-heart
form: most bleeding-heart
Etymology: From bleeding + heart.
Senses: glosses: Overly sympathetic to the plight of the underprivileged or exploited.
Derived terms: bleeding-heart monkey
Related terms: bleeding heart
bleary-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bleary-eyed
form: most bleary-eyed
form: bleareyed
Etymology: From bleary + eyed.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: exhausted, weary; see also Thesaurus:fatigued
text: Bleary-eyed walkers prepared their kit for the final mountain, while the onboard crew fed and watered them, boosting people's energy levels for the last challenge.
ref: 2024 August 7, Paul Bigland, “'3 Peaks by Rail': ain't no mountain high enough”, in RAIL, number 1015, page 51:
synonyms: bleareyed
bleary
glosses: Tired, because of lack of sleep, and having blurred or reddened eyes.
rio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rios
form: rio
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ryō (“Japanese ounce”).
rio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A grade of Spanish saffron, in quality below mancha and coupé but above standard and sierra.
painless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more painless
form: most painless
Etymology: From Middle English paynles, peynlees, equivalent to pain + -less. Compare West Frisian pynleas (“painless”), Dutch pijnloos (“painless”).
Senses: examples: text: There are now washless dishes, painless razors, painless shoes, painless corsets, prepared soups, painless photographs (it used to give you a stiff neck for three days to have your picture taken)[…]
ref: 1924, Don Herold, So Human, page 40:
glosses: Free from pain; without pain or trouble.
examples: text: At first it seemed like a very painless way to get my work done and I told Milly to let me sleepwrite as much as I liked. We discovered, however, that although my subconscious might lead me to the typewriter, it couldn't make me think.
ref: 1952, Morris McNeil Musselman, Second Honeymoon, page 5:
glosses: Not difficult; easy.
Derived terms: painlessly
painlessness
Related terms: pain-free
vt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vts
form: v.t.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: verb transitive or transitive verb (often in dictionaries)
glosses: Alternative form of vt. (“vert”).
Related terms: word: v.i.
word: vi
alt: = verb intransitive
word: vi
obs
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: obs.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of obsolete.
obs
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: obs.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of observed.
obs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obs.
Senses: examples: text: But I now knew I was under obs by the Gardai as well as by GMP.
ref: 2017, Jimmy Donnelly, Jimmy The Weed: Inside the Quality Street Gang:
text: Had you under obs for three weeks.
ref: 2018, Paige Elizabeth Turner, Clock Face of Ills:
topics: government
law-enforcement
synonyms: obbo
glosses: Police observation.
glosses: An observation hut.
obs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obs.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Observation(s) (blood pressure, temperature, etc).
obs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obs.
Senses: glosses: plural of ob
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: obs and gynae
phr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of phrase.
phr
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of phrasal.
painlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more painlessly
form: most painlessly
Etymology: From painless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The marina was filled with yachts and powerboats, sleek multihulls fitted with the latest satellite-navigation gear that would steer the owners painlessly towards similar luxury berths at Portofino and Bandol.
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 141:
glosses: In a painless manner.
painlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From painless + -ness.
Senses: antonyms: painfulness
glosses: The quality of being painless.
blind tooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A bookbinding technique in which decorations to the cover of a book are made by making impressions into the surface with a variety of heated tools.
blow hot and cold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows hot and cold
form: blowing hot and cold
form: blew hot and cold
form: blown hot and cold
Etymology: From Aesop's fable The Satyr and the Traveller, in which a satyr declares he cannot trust a man who blows hot (to warm his hands) and cold (to cool his food) with the same breath.
Senses: examples: text: For a week, she couldn't get enough of me. The next week, her interest blew hot and cold, and a week later she dumped me.
text: He blows hot and cold. He will speak for or against.
ref: 1852 July 1, “New-York University: Commencement Ceremonies-Anniversaries of the Literary Societies”, in New York Times:
text: Geminis, like air, blow hot and cold. They go this way today and another way tomorrow.
ref: 1968 October 25, “A Goat, Twins and a Virgin”, in Time:
text: The Xinhua commentary said that Chen "blows hot and cold, behaves capriciously and is a hard man to trust."
ref: 2002 May 12, “China says DPP is only welcome if it changes platform”, in Taipei Times, retrieved 09 Jul 2008:
glosses: To behave inconsistently; to vacillate or to waver, as between extremes of opinion or emotion.
wikipedia: The Satyr and the Traveller
Synonyms: run hot and cold
suck and blow
lv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lvs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of latent variable.
glosses: Initialism of launch vehicle.
glosses: Initialism of left ventricle.
glosses: Abbreviation of level.
glosses: Initialism of liquid volume.
glosses: Initialism of local volume.
glosses: Initialism of logical volume.
glosses: Initialism of low voltage.
glosses: Initialism of low volume.
glosses: Initialism of luncheon voucher.
nominated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The nominated candidates will each give a speech before the election.
glosses: Having received a nomination.
Derived terms: nominated postholder
nominated tenant
nominated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nominate
shortcuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɔːtkʌts/
Senses: glosses: plural of shortcut
shortcuts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɔːtkʌts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shortcut
Ogg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: OGG
Etymology: An abbreviation of OggSquish, a 1993 suggestion by Michael Whitsun to replace the original name (Squish) which was trademarked. Ogg was jargon from the computer game Netrek meaning roughly: to put all your resources into an attack to ensure its success, regardless of any negative consequences on the rest of the game. Allegedly ogg is a corruption of Og, the screen-name of the player who first played the game this way.
Senses: qualifier: file format
glosses: An open bitstream container file format for audio, video, and other multimedia content.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Randall County, Texas, United States.
call off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls off
form: calling off
form: called off
form: called off
Senses: examples: text: If you want me to call off the dog, then get off my land.
text: After four months, the police called off the search for the missing boy.
text: Again the opening grew dark with arms holding and guiding another terrier, and Biff began to climb. Wough! wough! wough! Soon she fell into the water. The terriers were called off. Tarka settled more easily, but Tarquol could not rest.
ref: 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:
text: You say either and I say either,
You say neither and I say neither
Either, either Neither, neither
Let's call the whole thing off
ref: 1937, “Let's Call the Whole Thing Off”, Ira Gershwin (lyrics), George Gershwin (music):
text: National rail strikes by ASLEF members on September 15 and by RMT members on September 15 and 19 were immediately called off.
ref: 2022 September 21, “Network News: Unions postpone action during period of national mourning”, in RAIL, number 966, page 15:
text: I don't wanna call it off
But you don't wanna call it love
You only wanna be the one that I call "baby"
ref: 2024 April 5, Chappell Roan, Justin Tranter, Dan Nigro, “Good Luck, Babe!”performed by Chappell Roan:
synonyms: cancel
withcall
glosses: To recall; to cancel or call a halt to.
synonyms: call in sick
glosses: To telephone in one's notice of a day's absence from work.
Derived terms: call-off
call off the dogs
rest area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rest areas
Senses: glosses: A place, usually on a limited-access highway, where one can stop to use the restroom or to take a break from travelling.
Synonyms: word: service plaza
word: rest stop
word: service area
Related terms: highway oasis
lay-by
overhead restaurant
rest and service area
rest stop
service area
service center
travel plaza
keek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: keeks
form: keeking
form: keeked
form: keeked
Etymology: From Middle English kyken, kiken, keken (“to look, peep”), probably from Middle Dutch kiken, kieken or Middle Low German kîken (“to look, peep”), from Old Saxon *kīkan (“to look”), from Proto-West Germanic *kīkan, from Proto-Germanic *kīkaną (“to look”).
Cognate with Dutch kijken (“to look”), German Low German kieken (“to look”), Estonian kiikama (“to look, to peek”), German kucken, gucken (“to look”), Danish kigge, kikke (“to look, peep”), Swedish kika (“to peep, peek, keek, pry”), Icelandic kíkja (“to look, check”). Perhaps related to kick.
The words peek, keek and peep were used more or less synonymously in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Senses: examples: text: She was laid in my arms. Not able to sit up, I just keeked at her beautiful facie.
ref: 2019 May 10, Moreen Simpson, “New arrivals proved big challenge in early days”, in Evening Express:
glosses: To peek; peep.
keek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: keeks
Etymology: From Middle English kyken, kiken, keken (“to look, peep”), probably from Middle Dutch kiken, kieken or Middle Low German kîken (“to look, peep”), from Old Saxon *kīkan (“to look”), from Proto-West Germanic *kīkan, from Proto-Germanic *kīkaną (“to look”).
Cognate with Dutch kijken (“to look”), German Low German kieken (“to look”), Estonian kiikama (“to look, to peek”), German kucken, gucken (“to look”), Danish kigge, kikke (“to look, peep”), Swedish kika (“to peep, peek, keek, pry”), Icelandic kíkja (“to look, check”). Perhaps related to kick.
The words peek, keek and peep were used more or less synonymously in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Senses: examples: text: "And now let's take another keek at the red-coats," says Alan, and he led me to the north-eastern fringe of the wood.
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter XVIIII, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
glosses: A look, especially a quick one; a peek.
Related terms: look
peek
peep
vorpal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɔɹpl̩/
ipa: /ˈvɔːpl̩/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)pəl
Forms: form: more vorpal
form: most vorpal
Etymology: Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll in the poem Jabberwocky to describe a sword, likely modeled after warp and vortex + -al.
Senses: glosses: Sharp or deadly.
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: Having a special power making decapitation likely.
raw_tags: of a blade
Derived terms: vorpalize