cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
carping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)pɪŋ
Forms: form: carpings
Senses: examples: text: “Oh, stop your carping, Dawn!” I told myself. “You can't expect charming tones, and Oriental do-dads and apple trees in a German boarding-house.”
ref: 1911, Edna Ferber, chapter 6, in Dawn O'Hara, the Girl who Laughed:
glosses: Excessive complaining.
serous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːɹəs/
Forms: form: more serous
form: most serous
Etymology: From French séreux, from Latin serosus, from serum.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Containing, secreting, or resembling serum; watery; a fluid or discharge that is pale yellow and transparent, usually representing something of a benign nature. (This contrasts with the term sanguine, which means blood-tinged and usually harmful.)
Derived terms: intraserous
serous gland
serous membrane
serous tunic
subserous
Related terms: blood serum
serosal
serum albumin
Phaedriades
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /fɪˈdɹiːədiːz/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Φαιδριάδες (Phaidriádes), from φαιδρός (phaidrós, “bright, beaming”).
Senses: glosses: the plateau on which the city of Delphi sat near Mt. Parnassus.
rock buns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rock bun
rockbun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockbuns
form: rock bun
Etymology: From rock + bun.
Senses: glosses: A type of pastry with a crusted sugar coating.
Synonyms: rock cake
Related terms: piffy on a rock bun
radiolyse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiolyses
Senses: examples: text: Phenol constituted the main product of the benzene radiolyse.
ref: 1999. Ion I. Inculet, The Modern Problems of Electrostatics with Applications in Environment, page 183http://books.google.com/books?id=Br_mH96zOpoC&pg=PA183&dq=radiolyse+product&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=GuKGR_KRJ4KktAO-9b3QBQ&sig=dfpBqmSGM7TYz1YMJU4dAj07pmM
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A product which is created through irradiation of substances.
road case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road cases
Etymology: From road + case, from its use to take equipment on the road.
Senses: glosses: A case designed to protect musical instruments during travel.
future perfect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: future perfects
form: futures perfect
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A tense that expresses action completed at some time in the future; in English it is formed by use of will have (or shall have) and a past participle.
Coordinate terms: future perfect continuous
dono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊ.nəʊ/
ipa: /ˈdoʊ.noʊ/
Forms: form: donos
Etymology: From donation + -o.
Senses: glosses: A donation.
Derived terms: DonoWall
POTUS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊ.təs/
ipa: /ˈpoʊ.təs/
rhymes: -əʊtəs
Forms: form: POTUSes
form: POTUSs
Etymology: Phillips Code abbreviation, 1895. In more common usage since the 1990s.
Senses: examples: text: The medical history of the principal is extremely important in assessing risk in any given protective detail for a myriad of activities of the protectee [34]. Once again, using the example of the POTUS or former POTUSs (the POTUS has Secret Service protection for life), the range of health status is from extremely healthy and physically active to relatively sedentary with significant medical problems, including endocrine, metabolic, and/or cardiac, with an implantable automatic defibrillator in one protectee.
ref: 2001, Richard Carmona, Christopher M. Grande, Dario Gonzalez, “Trauma Care Support for Mass Events, Counterterrorism, and VIP”, in Eldar Søreide, Christopher M. Grande, editors, Prehospital Trauma Care, New York, N.Y.; Basel: Marcel Dekker, Inc., →ISBN, part D (Transportation and Specific Problems), page 732:
text: Isumbras does not seem to be returning to the place he came from and Jack Bauer keeps leaving his job and returns to it several times – he always tries to lead a “normal” life and is never given such a possibility. Assuming however, that even partial re-integration carries the force of a closure, Bauer is rewarded with friendships among the high and mighty (successive POTUSs of the series feature, Isumbras fares better than Jack, as he receives “more welthe thenne evere he was” (l. 761)⁴⁸.
ref: 2016 April 13, Liliana Sikorska, “Sir Isumbras Meets Jack Bauer, or on the (Re)Reading of Medieval Saracen Romances”, in Sławomir Wacewicz, Przemysław Żywiczyński, editors, Theoria et Historia Scientiarum, volume XII (2015), Toruń: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 105:
text: It makes sense that ex-POTUSes don't tend to make it onto juries.
ref: 2017 October 28, Gabrielle Bruney, “Some Lucky Accused Criminal Could Have Obama on Their Jury”, in Esquire, Hearst Magazine Media, Inc., retrieved 23 Feb 2020:
text: It felt like every Asheville restaurant had a framed photo of Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeline^([sic]) Stowe dining in their establishment, taken when the pair resided in a downtown hotel during the 1991 filming of The Last of the Mohicans. If not those two, then there was a pic of another duo, James Garner and Jack Lemmon, who marched through the streets of Asheville in a scene when they (as former POTUSs) accidentally crash a gay pride parade in My Fellow Americans.
ref: 2023, Ryan McGee, “Fifth Inning: The Blues Brothers, Macaulay Culkin, and the Circuit Rider”, in Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Acronym of President of the United States.
wikipedia: Michael Quinion
Derived terms: GEOTUS
Related terms: FLOTUS
SCOTUS
VPOTUS
put one's foot in one's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts one's foot in one's mouth
form: putting one's foot in one's mouth
form: put one's foot in one's mouth
form: put one's foot in one's mouth
Etymology: Attested from 1887; from earlier put one's foot in it.
Senses: examples: text: I really put my foot in my mouth during the interview.
synonyms: put one's foot in it
stick one's foot in one's mouth
stick one's foot in it
glosses: To misspeak; to say something embarrassing or wrong, or to make a mistake in public, or a social blunder, that is embarrassing or offensive.
Related terms: foot-in-mouth disease
a closed mouth gathers no feet
born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: * According to some, the original nautical expression is just born with a silver spoon and describes those young gentlemen who were able to enter the Royal Navy without examination and whose promotion was assured. The converse was born with a wooden ladle.
* However, the phrase is first recorded as a Scottish proverb in the form "Every Man is no born with a Silver Spoon in his Mouth" (1721).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: born to the purple, to the manor born
text: He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and probably never had to work a day in his life.
glosses: Born rich, or into a wealthy family.
Related terms: nepotism baby
get the picture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets the picture
form: getting the picture
form: got the picture
form: got the picture
form: gotten the picture
Senses: examples: text: I hung a "no solicitors" sign by my door. One of these days, I hope they'll get the picture and quit ringing the bell.
text: Get the picture? In one corner Charles Edward Russell, champion muckrake pugilist of the world.
ref: 1910 December 1, “Round About Chicago”, in Chicago Tribune:
text: I met him at the candy store / He turned around and smiled at me / You get the picture?
ref: 1965, George Morton, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, “Leader of the Pack”, performed by The Shangri-Las:
glosses: To understand or comprehend a situation; to interpret things correctly.
Related terms: get it
get the e-mail
get the message
get it
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: get it !
form: geddit
form: geddid
Senses: glosses: Used to encourage someone, especially to indicate that someone is doing something well.
get it
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: geddit
form: geddid
Senses: examples: text: Don't ever touch my computer. Get it?
glosses: Do you understand? Have you heard? (after explaining or giving an order)
glosses: Used to draw attention to a pun or other joke one has made.
Related terms: get it on
get some
getting any
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He's just grumpy because he's not getting any.
text: Are you getting any?
text: Anyone who's played on a record date / Will remember Stage Door Jenny / Well, I saw her last night, and, man / She looked like she wasn't gettin' any (Aww)
ref: 1975, Neil Sedaka, “The Queen of 1964”, in Overnight Success, performed by Neil Sedaka, side 2, track 1:
text: These were the questions boys asked other boys at my school (a school which contained only boys): ‘Are you getting any?’; ‘Does she let you have any?’; ‘How much does she let you have?’ and so on.
ref: 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 15:
text: When you haven't been getting any, other people notice that.... You yourself don't know that you haven't been getting any, you just think, "oh, another week has gone by." ...But, on the other hand, when I haven't been getting any and then I get some, overnight I become a different person. ... Next day you wake up, you're Mahatma Gandhi.
ref: 1997, Marga Gomez, Hung Like a Fly (comedy album):
glosses: Having sex (habitually, not currently).
raw_tags: in the negative
Related terms: get some
getting enough
do it
hang around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs around
form: hanging around
form: hung around
form: hung around
Senses: examples: text: If you hang around after the show, you can meet the cast.
text: I would have liked to have hung around in Birmingham, but my connections are tight owing to a points failure, and I make the CrossCountry Class 170 to Derby by the skin of my teeth.
ref: 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 57:
glosses: To stay, linger, or loiter.
examples: text: My daughter likes to hang around with older kids after school.
text: Oh well uh, you might think I'm crazy / To hang around with you / Or maybe you think I'm lucky / To have somethin' to do
ref: 1984, Ric Ocasek, “You Might Think”, in Heartbeat City, performed by The Cars:
glosses: To spend time or be friends. (especially to hang around with someone)
wisenheimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪz(ə)nˌhaɪməɹ/
Forms: form: wisenheimers
Etymology: First used in the early 20th c. From wise + the German demonymic ending -enheimer.
The form might be an alteration of the similarly formed and synonymous German Schlauberger (19th c.), possibly influenced by Pappenheimer (“person known for some behaviour; crony”) and/or involving a pun on Waisenheim (“orphanage”). On the other hand, the surname Weisenheimer actually exists, both in Germany and the US. It goes back to the towns of Weisenheim am Berg and Weisenheim am Sand (both in Palatinate).
Senses: examples: text: There was an auto salesman in here yesterday that claimed you could always tell a fellow's class by the car he drove, but I says to him, 'Don't be silly,' I says; 'the wisenheimers grab a look at a fellow's nails when they want to tell if he's a tin-horn or a real gent!"'
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, “24”, in Babbitt:
text: "It wasn’t until I read Mark Oppenheimer’s charming memoir that I had an apt description of my son: “…a smart aleck is a smart guy gone bad, a boy whose smartness is being used stupidly, while a wisenheimer actually lacks wisdom. He might not be cruel, he might not mean harm, but a wisenheimer is a smart guy you wish had a little less smarts.”
ref: 2010, J. Bolton-Fasman, "Debating Salvation: A smart aleck finds his niche" The Jerusalem Post 11/11/2010 On-line, accessed November 13, 2010 (quotations are from Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to Debate by Mark Oppenheimer (Hardcover - Apr 13, 2010))
synonyms: word: wise guy
word: smart aleck
word: Buddha
word: clever clogs
word: clever dick
word: know-all
word: know-it-all
word: smart aleck
word: smart ass
word: smarty
word: smarty pants
word: wiseacre
word: wiseass
word: wise-ass
word: wisenheimer
glosses: A self-assertive and arrogant person; a know-it-all or smart aleck.
wikipedia: Weisenheim am Berg
Weisenheim am Sand
preach to the choir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preaches to the choir
form: preaching to the choir
form: preached to the choir
form: preached to the choir
Senses: examples: text: Jay Branegan says each side will be preaching to the choir. "Democrats will make the argument that's been successful with their base […] [that] Republicans are merely helping the rich."
ref: 1999 August 6, Frank Pellegrini, “Now the Tax Cut Is in the Hands of the Voters”, in Time:
text: It hardly needs saying that converting a Tory in a swingable “blue wall” constituency is electorally far more valuable than preaching to the choir in a Labour stronghold.
ref: 2023 July 17, Rhymer Rigby, “Sick of this Conservative government? That shouldn’t stop you having Tory friends”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To speak as if to convince a person or group of something they already believe.
Synonyms: word: preach to the converted
word: preach to the congregation
Related terms: preach to deaf ears
beat a dead horse
cover letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cover letters
form: covering letter
Senses: glosses: A letter or written communication that serves to introduce an accompanying document; especially, a letter that introduces a résumé or curriculum vitae.
stance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stăns
rhymes: -æns
ipa: /stæns/
ipa: [stɛəns]
note: Broad Australian
ipa: [stɛːns]
note: trap–bath split
enpr: stäns
rhymes: -ɑːns
ipa: /stɑːns/
ipa: /stɐːns/
Forms: form: stances
form: stancing
form: stanced
form: stanced
Etymology: From Middle English staunce (“place to stand; battle station; position; standing in society; circumstance, situation; stanchion”), from Old French estance (“predicament; situation; sojourn, stay”) (compare modern French stance (“stanza; position one stands in when golfing”)), from Italian stanza (“room, standing place; stanza”), from Vulgar Latin *stantia, from Latin stō (“to stand; to remain, stay”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”). The word is cognate with Spanish estante (“shelf”) and a doublet of stanza.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Compare typologically Czech postoj (“stance (the way of holding a body); stance (point of view)”) (cognate via PIE). Also see position, posture.
Senses: examples: text: Rob Roy ſtood watch / On a hill for to catch / The booty for ought that I ſa', man, / For he ne'er advanced, / From the place he was ſtanc'd, / 'Till no more to do there at a' man, […]
ref: 1776, “Sheriff-Muir”, in [David Herd], editor, Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc. […] In Two Volumes, 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed by John Wotherspoon, for James Dickson and Charles Elliott, →OCLC, pages 107–108:
glosses: To place, to position, to station; (specifically) to put (cattle) into an enclosure or pen in preparation for sale.
Derived terms: stance up
ring a bell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rings a bell
form: ringing a bell
form: rang a bell
form: rung a bell
Senses: examples: text: His face rings a bell. I wonder if I know him from somewhere.
glosses: To seem at least vaguely familiar.
glosses: To spark a previously forgotten memory.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ring, a, bell.
spod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɒd/
ipa: /spɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: spods
Etymology: Origin unknown; possibly related to English spud, in the sense of a potato.
Senses: glosses: One who uses talkers, an early form of chat room.
glosses: One who studies excessively and is disliked by fellow students because of it; a swot.
glosses: One who wastes time on nonproductive activities online.
glosses: A person of clumsy or awkward appearance.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A container used to distribute a large amount of bait in a single cast.
Synonyms: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
word: bait rocket
spod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɒd/
ipa: /spɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: spods
form: spodding
form: spodded
form: spodded
Etymology: Origin unknown; possibly related to English spud, in the sense of a potato.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: To fish using a spod.
getup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: getups
form: get up
form: get-up
Etymology: From get + up.
Senses: examples: text: When near the buildings I met a white man, in such an unexpected elegance of get–up that in the first moment I took him for a sort of vision.
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:
text: The Schnitzelbank Band, each member attired in an odd getup, received many comments for the manner in which the men marched.
ref: 1917 October 28, “1,200 Reading Firemen March”, in Reading Eagle, Pennsylvania, USA, page 4:
text: Oh, I forgot. She had on a get-up that took the attention of anyone that saw her, even in that crazy mob. The better to cut the wind, she had shortened sail and wore a short skirt, black tights, and a skullcap.
ref: 1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 24:
text: [A] parade of costumed cadets trots by: a shark costume, an Uncle Sam getup and three young men in form-fitting bodysuits.
ref: 2009 June 8, “Worried They Will Miss the War: Inside the Mind of West Point's Class of 2009”, in Newsweek:
text: They wore jorts and crop tops; or strappy, S&M-influenced getups; or pajamas emblazoned with cartoons.
ref: 2025 May 5, Spencer Kornhaber, “Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
glosses: Clothes, costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual.
examples: text: "A bully. Picked on fellows. He loved to fight. But I never saw him in a getup with a fellow his own size."
ref: 2002 January 28, Andrea Sachs, “Caricature Builder”, in Time:
glosses: A fight or altercation.
topics: media
publishing
glosses: Layout and production style, as of a magazine.
glosses: Alternative form of get-up-and-go.
Related terms: all get up
get up
prefrosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prefrosh
Etymology: From pre- + frosh.
Senses: qualifier: at certain US universities
glosses: A pre-freshman; a prospective student on a visit.
get-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: get-ups
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of getup.
glosses: Synonym of get-up-and-go.
synonyms: word: get-up-and-go
agog
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɑɡ/
ipa: /əˈɡɒɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: more agog
form: most agog
Etymology: From Middle English agogge, from Old French en + gogues (“in a merry mood”). See also Italian agognare (“to desire eagerly”).
Senses: examples: text: Everyone’s agog at the new twist to the royal scandal.
glosses: In eager desire, eager, astir.
examples: text: Cotton Mather came galloping down
All the way to Newbury town,
With his eyes agog and his ears set wide,
And his marvellous inkhorn at his side;
ref: 1860, John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Two-Headed Snake of Newbury”, in Home Ballads:
text: . . . and did not move even when the frogs crept out of the water and listened, with their gold-rimmed eyes all agog, and their yellow throats palpitating.
ref: 1894, Ford Madox Ford, The queen who flew: a fairy tale, page 41:
text: People leaning forward, their lips parted a little, their eyes agog, staring at her, Elinor, with a horrible ghoulish excitement . . .
ref: 1940, Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress, page 9:
text: Joe shook his head in awe, eyes agog and mouth hanging open as mine once must have hung for the tales of the north woods' legendary denizens.
ref: 1964, Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion, page 190:
glosses: Wide open.
raw_tags: of eyes
agog
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɑɡ/
ipa: /əˈɡɒɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: more agog
form: most agog
Etymology: From Middle English agogge, from Old French en + gogues (“in a merry mood”). See also Italian agognare (“to desire eagerly”).
Senses: examples: text: Whenever they managed to steal a peak at what he was doing, the other girls were agog that he loved me so much.
ref: 2000, Charles Baxter, chapter 3, in The Feast of Love, page 29:
glosses: In a state of high anticipation, excitement, or interest.
picaresque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪkəˈɹɛsk/
Forms: form: picaresques
Etymology: From picaro (“adventurer, rogue”) + -esque (suffix meaning ‘in the style or manner of’ forming adjectives), modelled after Spanish picaresco (“in the style or manner of a picaro; picaresque”), from pícaro (“rogue”) + -esco (suffix forming adjectives indicating a relation). Compare French picaresque (attested later than the English word), Italian picaresco, Portuguese picaresco.
Senses: examples: text: Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas [From the sublime to the ridiculous there is only one step]; and that step in Spain was taken by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (already dealt with in his higher walk), the originator of the Picaresque, or low rogue's march novels, of which his Lazarillo de Tormes was the type— [...]
ref: 1850 September, “Art. I.—History of Spanish Literature. By George Ticknor. 3 vols. 8vo. London, 1849. [book review]”, in John Taylor Coleridge, editor, The Quarterly Review, volume LXXXVII, number CLXXIV, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 326:
text: [T]he word picaro, which is almost synonymous with rogue, [...] has given a name to a whole series of novels in Spain called "Picaresques," the heroes of which are adventurers.
ref: 1856, Louis de Loménie, chapter XXVII, in Henry S. Edwards, transl., Beaumarchais and His Times. Sketches of French Society in the Eighteenth Century from Unpublished Documents. [...] In Four Volumes, international copyright edition, volume IV, London: Addey and Co., […], →OCLC, page 121:
text: And we had agreed completely as to the main stream in the history of the novel … as to its passing from Lope da Vega and the Spanish picaresques, by way of [Danie] Defoe and Richardson, to [Denis] Diderot, Stendahl and [Gustave] Flaubert [...]
ref: 1937, Ford Madox Ford, “[Theodore] Drieser”, in Portraits From Life: […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; […], →OCLC, page 175:
text: In picaresques, the protagonist usually acts as narrator to provide coherence and unity to the genre's inherent structural weakness—its episodic plot.
ref: 1992, Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, “The New England Frontier and the Picaresque in Sarah Kemble Knight’s Journal”, in Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, editor, Early American Literature and Culture: Essays Honoring Harrison T. Meserole, Newark, N.J.: University of Delaware Press; Cranbury, N.J.; London: Associated University Presses, →ISBN, pages 122–123:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A picaresque novel.
cornetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːˈnɛtəʊ/
ipa: /kɔɹˈnɛtoʊ/
Forms: form: cornettos
form: cornetti
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cornetto, a diminutive of corno (“horn”), from Latin cornū.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A trumpet-like wind instrument used in European music of the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
examples: text: Frock-coated waiters flitted in and out dispensing champagne cocktails, stripy-jumpered gondoliers were handing out cornettos and bite-size pizzas, courtesy of the high street pizza chain that was sponsoring the whole bash,[…]
ref: 2004 February 1, Alexandra Potter, Calling Romeo, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 80:
text: A quick espresso, maybe a roll with a little marmalade or a cornetto at the local bar, and then it's off to work or school.
ref: 2008 November 1, Father Chet Snyder, A Sabbath Shared, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 56:
glosses: An Italian pastry, a kind of croissant.
Synonyms: cornett
speaking trumpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speaking trumpets
Senses: examples: text: He passed his arm round a rope to steady himself, made a speaking-trumpet of his hands, and suddenly dropped them again without uttering a sound.
ref: 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, Book the First/Chapter IV: The Shadow of the Past
text: A short, square-built man, in a rough grey jacket, with a speaking-trumpet in hand, stood in the weather hammock nettings.
ref: 1840, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., chapter XXVII, in Two Years Before the Mast:
text: I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: There was a battered brass speaking-trumpet, very discoloured, a tambourine, a musical-box, and a number of smaller objects.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: A megaphone (of the older, non-electric kind).
hearing aid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hearing aids
Senses: examples: text: Sadly, the ever-eager Reverend Judith had not been able to conjure up many worshippers, even though it was Father’s Day. There was just one old dear sitting halfway back, her faulty hearing aid letting off a high-pitched whistle.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
synonyms: deaf aid
glosses: A device used to help the hard of hearing to hear sounds.
hard of hearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard of hearing
form: most hard of hearing
Senses: examples: text: Speak loudly, because Grandpa is somewhat hard of hearing.
synonyms: HoH
hearing-impaired
coordinate_terms: hard of seeing
glosses: Having difficulty hearing; somewhat deaf.
concolor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of concolour.
valise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈliːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: valises
Etymology: Borrowed from French valise.
Senses: examples: text: Finding upon the corpse more money than was required for the funeral, he transmitted it to the abbess, together with a small valise, containing, besides apparel, some trifling articles of jewellery, and the bracelet transmitted to you,...
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 40:
text: Though he studiously concealed his hand, this morning before breakfast, in writing the direction-card which he attached to the little brown valise of happier days, the eagle-glance of matrimonial anxiety detected, d, o, n, distinctly traced.
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
text: In spite of the falling rain, which had somewhat lessened, he took a small valise in his hand, and, leaving the remainder of his luggage at the inn, ascended the hills towards East Endelstow.
ref: 1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, “‘XXIII’”, in A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1873, →OCLC:
text: Nothing to declare / Not in the valise of my mind
ref: 2024, “Nothing to Declare”, in Loss of Life, performed by MGMT:
glosses: A piece of hand luggage such as a suitcase or travelling bag.
Derived terms: busted valise
broken-down valise
Morse code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Morse codes
Etymology: Named for its inventor, Samuel Morse.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A character code represented by dots and dashes (or short and long pulses), originally used to send messages by telegraph, later by flashes of light or by radio.
wikipedia: Samuel Morse
Synonyms: word: iddy-umpty
word: Morse alphabet
Hyponyms: Wabun code
Related terms: dit
dah
infield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnfiːld/
ipa: /ɪnˈfiːld/
rhymes: -iːld
Forms: form: infields
Etymology: From in- + field.
Senses: examples: text: We left the carriage, bought programmes, and walked across the infield and then across the smooth thick turf of the course to the paddock.
ref: 1929 May–October, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 20, in A Farewell to Arms, 1st British edition, London: Jonathan Cape […], published 1929, →OCLC, book II, page 138:
glosses: The area inside a racetrack or running track.
examples: text: Let’s keep this problem in the infield.
glosses: A constrained scope or area.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: An area to cultivate: a field
examples: text: They covered the infield with a tarp when it started to rain.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The region of the field roughly bounded by the home plate, first base, second base and third base.
examples: text: Jones ran out an infield single.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.
Derived terms: corner infield
infielder
infield fly
infield fly rule
infield hit
infield shift
middle infield
infield
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnfiːld/
ipa: /ɪnˈfiːld/
rhymes: -iːld
Forms: form: infields
form: infielding
form: infielded
form: infielded
Etymology: From in- + field.
Senses: glosses: To enclose (a piece of land); make a field of.
infield
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnfiːld/
ipa: /ɪnˈfiːld/
rhymes: -iːld
Forms: form: more infield
form: most infield
Etymology: From in- + field.
Senses: examples: text: [Huw] Jones was also involved in the second try, which started when [Finn] Russell received the ball near his own 22 and immediately detected that England’s defence was narrow, with Jonny May having strayed infield.
ref: 2018 February 24, Paul Rees, “Finn Russell masterminds historic Scotland victory over England”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2018:
glosses: Toward or into the infield.
coffeed out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coffeed out
form: most coffeed out
Senses: glosses: Having have had enough coffee for the time being.
examples: text: I don't want another cup, thanks. I'm all coffeed out.
glosses: Feeling jumpy or nervous from caffeine; feeling any of the symptoms of caffeine overload.
Hypernyms: nervous
plagiarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪd͡ʒəɹaɪz/
ipa: /ˈpleɪd͡ʒi.əɹaɪz/
Forms: form: plagiarizes
form: plagiarizing
form: plagiarized
form: plagiarized
form: plagiarise
Etymology: From plagiary + -ize, ultimately from Latin plagiare (“to kidnap, to abduct”).
Senses: examples: text: She was caught trying to plagiarize an article for her thesis.
text: It’s unethical to plagiarize someone else’s work for personal gain.
text: Students should learn to write in their own words and avoid plagiarizing.
glosses: To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing, speech, ideas, or other intellectual or creative work, especially in an academic context; to commit plagiarism.
Derived terms: plagiarizable
plagiarization
plagiarizer
Related terms: plagiarism
gerrymander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: g
other: /ɡ/
enpr: j
other: /dʒ/
enpr: jĕ'rēmăn"də
ipa: /ˈdʒɛɹiˌmændə/
enpr: jĕ'rēmăn"dər
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛɹiˌmændɚ/
Forms: form: gerrymanders
form: Gerrymander
Etymology: Blend of Gerry + salamander (named after Elbridge Gerry), from the similarity in shape to a salamander of an electoral district created when Gerry was the governor of Massachusetts. Coined by editors of the Boston Gazette 26 March 1812, in text likely written by Nathan Hale and Benjamin and John Russell, and accompanying a cartoon by Elkanah Tisdale.
Senses: glosses: The act of gerrymandering.
examples: text: Any citizen looking at a map of district 12 could immediately tell that it was a gerrymander because of the ridiculous way it cut across four counties while carving up neighborhoods in half.
glosses: A voting district skewed by gerrymandering.
Derived terms: Bjelkemander
gerrymanderism
Playmander
palatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæl.ə.tə.bəl/
Forms: form: more palatable
form: most palatable
form: palateable
Etymology: From palate + -able.
Senses: examples: text: For some instant noodles make a palatable, if not especially nutritious, meal.
text: The fermentation of flour by means of brewer’s or distiller’s yeast produces, if rightly managed, results far more palatable and wholesome.
ref: 1896, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Household Papers and Stories:
synonyms: word: ambrosial
word: appetizing
word: dainty
word: delectable
word: delicious
word: delish
word: exquisite
word: finger-lickin' good
word: flavorful
word: flavorous
word: flavorsome
word: gustful
word: lekker
word: lickerish
word: lip-smacking
word: luscious
word: moreish
word: mouthwatering
word: nummy
word: ono
word: out of this world
word: palatable
word: sapid
word: savory
word: scrummy
word: scrumptious
word: tasteful
word: tasty
word: to die for
word: toothful
word: toothsome
word: yummy
word: scrumdiddlyumptious
antonyms: unpalatable
glosses: Pleasing to the taste, tasty.
examples: text: The agreement was palatable to both of them.
text: “I did hear, too, that there was a time, when sermon-making was not so palateable to you, as it seems to be at present;[…]”
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 188:
text: Whether it’s palatable for the vice-chairman of Hillary’s presidential campaign to be embroiled in allegations of conflicts of interest, obtaining patronage jobs, or misrepresenting time worked remains to be seen.
ref: 2016 January 31, William D. Cohan, “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?”, in Vanity Fair:
text: AOC's [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] cooking live streams perfect the recipe for making politics palatable [title]
ref: 2020 December 13, David Smith, “AOC's cooking live streams perfect the recipe for making politics palatable”, in The Guardian:
text: In every case, a story is worked out by the corporate media that is politically palatable for the bourgeoisie: car crash, robbery gone wrong, suicide by hanging. There is no serious investigation or follow-up, whether by the police or those purporting to call themselves “journalists.”
ref: 2024 March 18, Bryan Dyne, “The suspicious “suicide” of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett”, in World Socialist Web Site:
glosses: Tolerable, acceptable.
Derived terms: hyperpalatable
impalatable
nonpalatable
palatableness
palatably
Related terms: palatability
palate
staunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stônch
enpr: stônsh
ipa: /stɔːn(t)ʃ/
enpr: stônch
enpr: stônsh
enpr: stänch
enpr: stänsh
ipa: /stɔn(t)ʃ/
ipa: /stɑn(t)ʃ/
note: some accents
enpr: stänch
note: some accents
enpr: stänsh
ipa: /stɑːn(t)ʃ/
note: some accents
rhymes: -ɔːntʃ
rhymes: -ɑːntʃ
Forms: form: staunches
form: staunching
form: staunched
form: staunched
Etymology: From Middle English staunchen, staunche (“to stop the flow of blood, diarrhoea, or other bodily fluids; to alleviate, ease; to appease, assuage, satisfy; to cure; to overcome; to put an end to; to repress, suppress; of a river or stream: to stop flowing; of waters, wind, or weather: to become calm, subside; to extinguish or put out (a fire)”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman estauncher, estaunchier, estanger, Old French estancher, estanchier (verb) [and other forms]; see further at etymology 1 and at stanch.
Senses: examples: text: I will couer the depe vpon him, I will ſtaunch his floudes, and the greate waters ſhalbe reſtrayned.
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Ezechiel xxxj:[15], folio lxviij, recto, column 2:
text: He that has not uſurp'd the name of man, / Does all, and deems too little, all he can, / T' aſſuage the throbbings of the feſter'd part, / And ſtaunch the bleedings of a broken heart; […]
ref: 1782, William Cowper, “Retirement”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 274:
text: [T]he iron head of a square cross-bow bolt disengaged itself from the wound, the bleeding was staunched, the wound was closed, and the dying man was, within the quarter of an hour, walking upon the ramparts, […]
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 178:
glosses: Alternative spelling of stanch.
Derived terms: word: staunchable
word: staunched
word: stauncher
word: staunching
word: unstaunched
staunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stônch
enpr: stônsh
ipa: /stɔːn(t)ʃ/
enpr: stônch
enpr: stônsh
enpr: stänch
enpr: stänsh
ipa: /stɔn(t)ʃ/
ipa: /stɑn(t)ʃ/
note: some accents
enpr: stänch
note: some accents
enpr: stänsh
ipa: /stɑːn(t)ʃ/
note: some accents
rhymes: -ɔːntʃ
rhymes: -ɑːntʃ
Forms: form: staunches
form: stanch
Etymology: Either:
* from Middle English staunche, stanche (“something which stops the flow of blood; (figuratively) shepherd’s purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)”), from Old French estanche (“pond; tank”), from estanc (“pond”) (modern French étang (“pond; lagoon”)), from estanchier (verb): see further at etymology 2; and/or
* derived directly from the verb.
Senses: glosses: That which stanches or checks a flow.
glosses: That which stanches or checks a flow.
A plant or substance which stops the flow of blood; a styptic.
glosses: An act of stanching or stopping.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Synonym of afterdamp (“suffocating gases present in a coal mine after an explosion caused by firedamp”).
synonyms: word: afterdamp
extra: suffocating gases present in a coal mine after an explosion caused by firedamp
staunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stônch
enpr: stônsh
ipa: /stɔːn(t)ʃ/
enpr: stônch
enpr: stônsh
enpr: stänch
enpr: stänsh
ipa: /stɔn(t)ʃ/
ipa: /stɑn(t)ʃ/
note: some accents
enpr: stänch
note: some accents
enpr: stänsh
ipa: /stɑːn(t)ʃ/
note: some accents
rhymes: -ɔːntʃ
rhymes: -ɑːntʃ
Forms: form: staunches
Etymology: See stanch (etymology 4).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stanch (“a floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release; also, a dam or lock in a river”).
garish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛəɹɪʃ/
Forms: form: more garish
form: most garish
Etymology: Unknown, possibly from obsolete Middle English gawren (“to stare”) which is of uncertain origin, probably from Old Norse gá (“to watch, heed”) or gaurr (“rough fellow”) (Proto-Indo-European *gʰow-rós, from *gʰew- (“to be angry”)). Compare with English gaw.
Senses: examples: text: The dress fits her well, but the pattern is rather garish.
text: "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: On the other hand, to arrive after dusk, when the multitude of garish little public-houses are lit up, giving glimpses of crowded jostling bars and taprooms, is an introduction to a fine city well calculated to affect even the most nonchalant.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 703:
text: Leela: He gave me mechanical ears / Effective though just a bit garish.
ref: 2003 August 10, Ken Keeler, “The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings”, in Futurama, season 5, episode 16 (television production), Fox Broadcasting Company:
text: She also said that Thameslink trains were deliberately garish, so as to lure drivers stuck on the M1, which runs alongside the line around Radlett.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 57:
synonyms: word: bedizened
word: blatant
word: blingish
word: brash
word: catchpenny
word: chichi
word: chintzy
word: crass
word: crude
word: flashy
word: flaunting
word: florid
word: flossy
word: froufrou
word: garish
word: gauche
word: gaudy
word: gay
word: glaring
word: gross
word: gussied up
word: hideous
word: kitschy
word: loud
word: meretricious
word: obtrusive
word: ostentatious
word: pizazzy
word: pretentious
word: ritzy
word: raffish
word: showy
word: snazzy
word: splendiferous
word: tacky
word: tasteless
word: tawdry
word: tinselly
word: too much
word: unbecoming
word: untasteful
word: vain
word: whorish
word: zesty
glosses: Overly ostentatious; so colorful as to be in bad taste.
Derived terms: garishly
garishness
nongarish
bordel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bordels
Etymology: From Middle English bordel, from Old French bordel (“brothel”). Doublet of bordello.
Senses: examples: text: Appropriately enough she had given him a rendezvous (for the marriage) at the old Sphinx, opposite the Gare Montparnasse, where the respectable exterior – a family café, where families up from the country came to eat an ice and wat for their train – masked a charming bordel with a high gallery and several spotless cubicles.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 470:
glosses: A brothel.
ferule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛɹuːl/
ipa: /ˈfɛɹəl/
rhymes: -ɛɹəl
homophone: ferrule
Forms: form: ferules
Etymology: From Middle French ferule (modern French férule), from Latin ferula (“giant fennel”). Doublet of ferula.
Senses: examples: text: In his hand he swayed a ferule, that sceptre of despotic power; the birch of justice reposed on three nails behind the throne, a constant terror to evil doers, […].
ref: 1820 March 5, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number VI, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC:
text: He [a midshipman] lords it over those below him, while lorded over himself by his superiors. It is as if with one hand a school-boy snapped his fingers at a dog, and at the same time received upon the other the discipline of the usher's ferule.
ref: 1850, Herman Melville, “Something Concerning Midshipmen”, in White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers; London: Richard Bentley, published 1855, →OCLC, page 258:
text: The master, who stood at the end of the room, with a huge ferule under his arm, bent full upon me a look of stern appeal; […]
ref: 1851, George Borrow, chapter VI, in Lavengro; the Scholar—the Gypsy—the Priest. […], volume I, London: John Murray […], →OCLC, page 85:
text: The schoolmaster, always severe, grew severer and more exacting than ever, for he wanted the school to make a good showing on "Examination" day. His rod and his ferule were seldom idle now—at least among the smaller pupils.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXI, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 167:
text: It is to keep a man awake, to keep him alive to his own soul and its fixed design of righteousness, that the better part of moral and religious education is directed; not only that of words and doctors, but the sharp ferule of calamity under which we are all God’s scholars till we die.
ref: 1879 (date written), Robert Louis Stevenson, “Lay Morals”, in Sidney Colvin, editor, The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh edition, volume XXI (Miscellanies, volume IV), Edinburgh: […] T[homas] and A[rchibald] Constable for Longmans Green and Co.; […], published December 1896, →OCLC, page 348:
synonyms: ferula
glosses: A ruler-shaped instrument, generally used to slap naughty children on the hand.
Derived terms: ferulary
ferule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛɹuːl/
ipa: /ˈfɛɹəl/
rhymes: -ɛɹəl
homophone: ferrule
Forms: form: ferules
form: feruling
form: feruled
form: feruled
Etymology: From Middle French ferule (modern French férule), from Latin ferula (“giant fennel”). Doublet of ferula.
Senses: examples: text: And they were right in their assumption; I could cudgel a great lubberly delinquent of a boy[…]but when it came to feruling a girl[…]my manhood rebelled[…].
ref: 1862, William S. Woodbridge, Captain Paul's Adventure: A "Charcoal Sketch": Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, Volume 15, page 72:
glosses: To punish with a ferule.
oubliette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /uːbliˈɛt/
Forms: form: oubliettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French oubliette, from oublier (“to forget”).
Senses: hypernyms: dungeon
glosses: A dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top.
Related terms: obliviation
oblivion
hole
memory hole
torc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
homophone: torq
homophone: torque
homophone: talk (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: torcs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of torque (“necklace”).
parr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
homophone: par
homophone: Parr
homophone: pa (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: parrs
form: parr
Etymology: Compare Scottish Gaelic bradan (“salmon”).
For the salmon life stage, the word originates from the Middle English parren (“to enclose”), referring to the spots running along the side of the fish, resembling the bars of a fence.
Senses: glosses: Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater.
-let
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /-lət/
Etymology: From Middle English -let, -elet, from Old French -elet, a double diminutive from Old French -el + -et.
Senses: examples: booklet, a small book
applet, a small computer application
owlet, a small (young) owl
piglet, a small (young) pig
manlet, a short man
glosses: A diminutive suffix; for example
examples: bracelet, the "arm piece" or "arm protector"
gauntlet, the "glove piece" or "glove protector"
epaulet, the "shoulder piece" or "shoulder protector"
glosses: Piece; as in a suit of armor; for example
Related terms: -et
-ette