cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
moot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mo͞ot
ipa: /muːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: moots
form: mooting
form: mooted
form: mooted
Etymology: From Middle English moten (“to speak, talk, converse, discuss”), from Old English mōtian (“to speak, converse, discuss”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet, encounter”), a suffixed derivative of *mōtą (“meeting”). Related to etymology 1. See also mutter (which is a frequentative of moot).
Senses: examples: text: A number of other mergers of U.S. railroads are mooted, but the I.C.C. [Interstate Commerce Commission] has made it clear that its assent to the N.& W.-Virginian proposal, which was unopposed by competitors or stockholders, should not be taken as an indication that others will swiftly pass its scrutiny.
ref: 1960 January, “Talking of Trains: N.& W.-Virginian merger”, in Trains Illustrated, page 9:
text: The general idea was first mooted a couple of years ago by Philip Hammond, then Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, as a means of encouraging the EU to strike a friendly Brexit deal with the UK.
ref: 2019 December 17, Howard Davies, “Will the UK really turn into 'Singapore-on-Thames' after Brexit?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: table
propose#Verb
glosses: To bring up as a subject for debate.
examples: text: a problem which hardly has been mentioned, far less mooted, in this country
ref: 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
text: First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy.
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
text: An elevated cycleway connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena was mooted as early as 1896 …
ref: 2015 March 4, Peter Shadbolt, “Amazing Cycle Super Highways”, in CNN, retrieved 11 Mar 2015:
glosses: To discuss or debate.
glosses: To make or declare irrelevant.
examples: text: There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.
ref: 1641, Ben Jonson, Timber:
glosses: To argue or plead in a supposed case.
examples: text: In that mater now I will mute no moir.
ref: 1535, William Stewart, The Buik of the Croniclis of Scotland:
glosses: To talk or speak.
glosses: To say, utter, also insinuate.
Derived terms: mootable
mooter
moot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mo͞ot
ipa: /muːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: moots
Etymology: From Middle English moten (“to speak, talk, converse, discuss”), from Old English mōtian (“to speak, converse, discuss”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet, encounter”), a suffixed derivative of *mōtą (“meeting”). Related to etymology 1. See also mutter (which is a frequentative of moot).
Senses: glosses: A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
qualifier: rustic
glosses: Talk.
moot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mo͞ot
ipa: /muːt/
rhymes: -uːt
ipa: /ˈmʊt/
enpr: mo͞ot
ipa: /muːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: moots
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: The vagina.
moot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mo͞ot
ipa: /muːt/
rhymes: -uːt
ipa: /ˈmʊt/
Forms: form: moots
Etymology: From Dutch moot (“piece”).
Senses: examples: text: 'Ithin the woodlands, flow'ry gleäded, / By the woak tree's mossy moot
ref: 1903, William Barnes, “My Orcha'd in Linden Lea”, in Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect:
glosses: The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
Derived terms: moot-axe
mooting-axe
moot earth
moot-end
moot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mo͞ot
ipa: /muːt/
rhymes: -uːt
ipa: /ˈmʊt/
Forms: form: moots
form: mooting
form: mooted
form: mooted
Etymology: From Dutch moot (“piece”).
Senses: glosses: To take root and begin to grow.
examples: text: "Zarch tha whole worl', vrom Guenever / To Squier Mules' ta Muddever, / Moot iv'ry brack about un.
ref: 1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell, page 24:
glosses: To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout.
moot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mo͞ot
ipa: /muːt/
rhymes: -uːt
ipa: /ˈmʊt/
Forms: form: moots
Etymology: Clipping of mutual with humorously altered pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: Eid Mubarak to all my muslim moots out there
ref: 2020, @healer_katara, "Café au Twitter", ZaofuToday, Issue 1, page 10
text: I just simply post them in my main Twitter account, then hoping that my moots will like and retweet them.
ref: 2021, @DIORJAEYUN, "NCity Small Business", EnVi, Winter 2021, page 222
text: RT: hi..jst joined #edtwt! let’s be moots and rt each other
ref: 2022, anonymous, quoted in Fayika Farhat Nova et al., "Cultivating the Community: Inferring Influence Within Eating Disorder Networks on Twitter", Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, January 2022 (article link)
glosses: A mutual follower on a social media platform.
Related terms: OOMF
ess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕs
ipa: /ˈɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: esses
form: es
Senses: examples: text: 1998, Ricardo Corona, "These Esses" ("Eses esses"), in Other Shores (Outras Praias), translated by Ricardo Corona & Charles Perrone
these esses / change in design / and senses themselves / $ // it's as if / the ess / were the sounds / of success
text: I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.
ref: 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.
glosses: Something shaped like the letter S. (See esses)
Derived terms: collar of esses
de-ess
ess-hook
long ess
short ess
ess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕs
ipa: /ˈɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: esses
form: essing
form: essed
form: essed
form: es
Senses: glosses: To move in a changing direction, forming the shape of a letter S.
Hypernyms: wind
ess
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕs
ipa: /ˈɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Senses: examples: text: 'Big chap, edn' 'a?'
I thought he was the biggest chap I had ever seen.
'Ess,' said Corin.
ref: 1898, The Cornish Magazine, volume 1, page 64:
text: Overheard in Cornwall: 'Oh, ess, diden' ee know I gived up keepin' ducks? They wus allus comin' 'ome lost'.
ref: 1951, John William Robertson Scott, The Countryman (page 64)
glosses: Yes.
emcee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕm'sē'
ipa: /ˌɛmˈsiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: emcees
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of MC (“master of ceremonies”).
Senses: examples: text: "I'm the emcee for tonight," he proclaimed. "I'll announce your program."
ref: 1943, "Franklin W. Dixon" (Charles Leslie McFarlane), Hardy Boys 22: The Flickering Torch Mystery
text: The emcee of the event, Ed Bejarana, called Borrenpohl a "little girl," at the town hall, saying: "This little girl does not want to leave. She spoke up and now does not want to suffer the consequences."
ref: 2025 February 24, Sophie Clark, “Woman Forcibly Dragged Out Of Idaho Town Hall: What We Know So Far”, in Newsweek:
glosses: Alternative form of MC in its senses as
Master of ceremonies.
examples: text: […] mutating into all-star line-ups of emcees spitting hot bars over familiar beats, then to a single crew spitting bars over familiar beats, then eventually to a single crew (or artist) spitting bars over unfamiliar beats.
ref: 2021, Jehnie I. Burns, Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation (page 138)
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of MC in its senses as
A rapper.
Derived terms: femcee
emcee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕm'sē'
ipa: /ˌɛmˈsiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: emcees
form: emceeing
form: emceed
form: emceed
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of MC (“master of ceremonies”).
Senses: examples: text: Alan Lomax was emceeing the blues workshop and was turned off by the Paul Butterfield Jug Band and implied as much on stage.
ref: 1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist, number 61, retrieved 13 Nov 2022, page 11:
glosses: To act as the master of ceremonies (for).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To rap as part of a hip-hop performance.
Synonyms: sense: act as the master of ceremonies
word: compere
sense: rap
word: rap
Related terms: hip-hop
rap
fad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæd/
rhymes: -æd
Forms: form: fads
Etymology: Of English dialectal origin. Further origin obscure. Possibly from Old English ġefæd (“order, decorum”) (compare Old English ġefæd (“orderly, tidy”), fadian, ġefadian (“to set in order, arrange”), whence Middle English faden (“to arrange”)); or from French fadaise ("a trifling thought"; see fadaise).
Senses: examples: text: You're a fad, that means you're something that we've already had, but once you're gone, you don't come back.
ref: 2004, Andre R. Young, “Encore”, in Encore:
text: The pet rock fad was started by an advertising executive named Gary Dahl. The premise was simple: take ordinary rocks, glue eyes on them, and market them as pets.
ref: 2010, Eric J. Cesal, Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice, page 134:
glosses: A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.
Derived terms: faddery
fad diet
faddish
faddism
faddist
faddy
fadish
fadlike
fadmonger
Related terms: craze
trend
flaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɔːnt/
ipa: /flɔnt/
ipa: /flɑnt/
rhymes: -ɔːnt
Forms: form: flaunts
form: flant
Etymology: Of North Germanic origin. Perhaps related to Norwegian flanta (“to show off, wander about”), Icelandic flana (“to rush about, act rashly or heedlessly”) and then also to French flâner (“to wander around, loiter”).
Alternatively, it could be related to Swedish flankt (“loosely, flutteringly”) (compare English flaunt-a-flaunt), from flanka (“waver, hang and wave about, ramble”), a nasalised variant of flakka (“to waver”), related to Middle English flacken (“to move to and fro, flutter, palpitate”). See flack.
Senses: examples: text: Should I , in these my borrow'd flaunts, behold
The sternness of his presence?
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: Anything displayed for show.
flaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɔːnt/
ipa: /flɔnt/
ipa: /flɑnt/
rhymes: -ɔːnt
Forms: form: flaunts
form: flaunting
form: flaunted
form: flaunted
Etymology: By confusion with flout.
Senses: examples: text: By that late date, however, the golden age of the lurid paperback book was pretty much over, and the sort of punishment meted out to Aday and Maxey for flaunting the sexual mores of a McCarthyite culture would soon be a thing of the past.
ref: 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 22:
text: Wheeler said companies already are flaunting the rules by offering free or sponsored data services for some products.
ref: 2017 January 20, David Shepardson, “Outgoing FCC chair warns against overturning net neutrality”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2018:
glosses: To flout.
gator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
homophone: gaiter
homophone: gater
Forms: form: gators
form: 'gator
Etymology: Clipping of alligator.
Senses: glosses: Alligator.
glosses: A portion of a tire, such as seen on the side of a highway.
glosses: A large bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
Derived terms: Gatorade
gator gar
Related terms: croc
jab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: jabs
Etymology: Originally a Scottish (unclear if Scots or Scottish English) form of English job (“peck, poke, thrust”), from Middle English jobben.
Senses: examples: text: He tore in for the ball, make a running jab for it and held it.
ref: 1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, Chapter 9:
glosses: A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion.
examples: text: American Ward was too quick and too slick for his British rival, landing at will with razor sharp jabs and hooks and even bullying Froch at times.
ref: 2011 December 18, Ben Dirs, “Carl Froch outclassed by dazzling Andre Ward”, in BBC Sport:
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A short straight punch.
examples: text: Our dog was exposed to rabies, so the whole family went to a clinic to get our jabs.
glosses: A medical hypodermic injection (vaccination or inoculation)
examples: text: A 'painless' sticking plaster flu jab that delivers vaccine into the skin has passed important safety tests in the first trial in people.
ref: 2017 June 28, Michelle Roberts, “Painless flu jab patch for people scared of injections”, in BBC News:
glosses: A vaccination, whether or not delivered via conventional injection.
glosses: A mild verbal insult.
Derived terms: anti-jabber
counterjab
jab artist
jabber
jabby
jabless
jab saw
skinny jab
terrorist fist jab
jab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: jabs
form: jabbing
form: jabbed
form: jabbed
Etymology: Originally a Scottish (unclear if Scots or Scottish English) form of English job (“peck, poke, thrust”), from Middle English jobben.
Senses: examples: text: A barely audible groan welled up in the Captain's throat as the grinning Freedom Fighter circled around behind the helpless American Soldier. The groan sputtered into a strangled, "No… no… don't.... " as Randall felt the juicy tip of the man's tumescent cock jab against his hair-ringed, virgin asshole.
ref: 1991, Etienne, “In Enemy Hands”, in Drummer, number 151, page 32:
synonyms: word: job
word: stick
word: chef
word: chib
word: ching
word: chive
word: enthrill
word: foin
word: gore
word: gride
word: jab
word: job
word: juke
word: kebab
word: knifecrime
word: lancinate
word: pigstick
word: pink
word: poach
word: run through
word: shank
word: shiv
word: spear
word: speet
word: splash
word: stab
word: stick
word: stob
word: stog
word: thrust
word: yerk
glosses: To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
glosses: To deliver a quick punch.
glosses: To give someone an injection.
glosses: To vaccinate or inoculate someone.
examples: text: While the book's lasting appeal is remarkable, the work is worth little scholarly attention insofar as Twain is merely jabbing at a long-dead set of social practices.
ref: 2007, Joel A. Johnson, Beyond Practical Virtue: A Defense of Liberal Democracy Through Literature, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To make fun of, to mock
Derived terms: double-jab
jabbee
jabber
jabbingly
Related terms: jab jab
jab molassie
nab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /næb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: nabs
form: nabbing
form: nabbed
form: nabbed
form: knab
Etymology: From dialectal nap (“to seize, lay hold of”), probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Swedish nappa (“to pluck, pinch”).
Related to Danish nappe (“to tweak, snatch at, catch, seize”), Swedish nappa (“to take, grab, pinch”), Norwegian Bokmål nappe (“to grab, snatch, pluck, yank”).
Senses: examples: text: As I was going out of the door, a fellow detective came hurriedly in. "Nabbed them," cried he.
ref: 1887, Anna Katharine Green, 7 to 12, A Detective Story, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 2
text: Their target: a drug kingpin who reportedly keeps millions of dollars in his fortress of a compound. Pope has been working for years to nab this baddie, and sincerely wants to stop his reign of terror,)
ref: 2019 July 3, Mike D'Angelo, “Oscar Isaac and Ben Affleck blunder through a heavy heist in J.C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2019:
glosses: To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive).
glosses: To grab or snatch something.
glosses: To steal or copy another user's post.
Synonyms: sense: arrest a criminal or fugitive
word: nick
sense: arrest a criminal or fugitive
word: bust
sense: arrest a criminal or fugitive
word: cop
Derived terms: hab or nab
kidnap
nabber
nabman
nab the rust
tabnabbing
unnabbed
nab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /næb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: nabs
Etymology: Compare knap, knop, knob.
Senses: examples: text: At Clayton point and other nabs to the south of Scarborough.
ref: 1828, George Young, A Geological Survey of the Yorkshire Coast:
text: ‘I thought I heard my father,’ he gasped, glancing up to the frowning nab above us. ‘You are sure nobody spoke?’
ref: 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights:
glosses: The summit of a hill.
examples: text: The Toe, or Nab of the Bolt, which rises[…]above the Straight on the Top of the Bolt: The Office of this Nab, is to receive the Bottom of the Bit of the Key, when in turning it about, it shoots the Bolt backward or forwards.
ref: 1677–1683, Joseph Moxon, “(please specify the page)”, in Mechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Joseph Moxon, published 1678–1683, →OCLC:
glosses: The cock of a gunlock.
examples: text: the Bottom of the Bit may fall almost to the Bottom of the Nab , and shoot the Bolt back
ref: 1703, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises:
glosses: The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.
Keb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛb/
rhymes: -ɛb
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Geb.
spiral staircase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiral staircases
Senses: glosses: A staircase in the form of a helix.
Synonyms: word: circular stairs
word: helical stairs
word: screw stair
word: screw staircase
word: spiral stairs
vociferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəʊˈsɪfəɹəs/
ipa: /vəˈsɪfəɹəs/
ipa: /voʊˈsɪfəɹəs/
Forms: form: more vociferous
form: most vociferous
Etymology: From Latin vōcifer + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: They crowded around him with vociferous welcome, Brown leading in a series of wild cheers.
ref: 1909, Ralph Connor, chapter 17, in The Foreigner:
text: No sooner had a waiting locomotive backed on to its train, the vociferous 4-6-4 or 4-8-4 re-emerged from under the bridge, and the two red marker lights on the last vehicles passed, than the headlight of the electric engine hauling the following train could be seen under the bridge and the waiting queue of locomotives had moved up one.
ref: 1954 January, H. P. White, “Vignettes of the Rail”, in Railway Magazine, page 54, at Harmon station, New York:
text: Hearts' threat had not evaporated, though, and Templeton fired a yard over the bar before the home fans and players made vociferous handball claims against Jamie Carragher, which were ignored by referee Florian Meyer.
ref: 2012 August 23, Alasdair Lamont, “Hearts 0-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Making or characterized by a noisy outcry; clamorous.
examples: text: Lesbians Rising […] is known as one of the most vociferous groups working against social oppression of minority interests on campus.
ref: 1976 December 25, Alan Bowne, “Lesbians Rising Makes an Impact at Hunter”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 10:
text: Not even the most vociferous advocates of reform were willing to go to such lengths.
glosses: Vocally and forcefully opinionated.
Synonyms: noisy
voiceful
Derived terms: vociferously
vociferousness
Related terms: vocal
vociferation
bloviate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbloʊ.viˌeɪt/
Forms: form: bloviates
form: bloviating
form: bloviated
form: bloviated
Etymology: 1845, US, Ohio, from blow (“speak idly, boast”) + -i- + -ate, by analogy with deviate.
Senses: examples: text: Peter P. Low, Esq., will with open throat…bloviate about the farmers being taxed upon the full value of their farms, while bankers are released from taxation.
ref: 1845 October 14, Huron Reflector, Norwalk, Ohio:
text: His passion when bloviating was furious and terrible to look upon; but there was nothing to it more than sound and pretense.
ref: 1887, James O'Meara, The Vigilance Committee of '56:
text: “The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me,” he said on “This Week,” the ABC News program.
ref: 2012 May 31, Clyde Haberman, quoting George F. Will, “Trying to Solve the Great Trump Mystery”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2024:
text: And in turn, more complex ones: could his son have become Boris Johnson, bloviating commentator and one-time prime minister of Britain, without one [a nanny]?
ref: 2023 April 29, Lou Stoppard, “Inside the world of the elite nanny”, in FT Weekend:
glosses: To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
wikipedia: Michael Quinion
United States presidential election, 2000
Warren G. Harding
Derived terms: bloviatingly
bloviation
bloviative
bloviator
bloviatory
bloviatrix
Related terms: blowhard
windbag
ROFLMAO
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɒf.əlˈmaʊ/
ipa: /ˌɹɒf.əlˈmeɪ.əʊ/
other: /ɑːɹ oʊ ɛf ɛl ɛm eɪ oʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: ROTFLMAO
Etymology: Blend of ROFL + LMAO.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of rolling on the floor laughing my ass (or arse) off; used to indicate great amusement.
Synonyms: sense: mild amusement
word: LOL
word: PMSL
Related terms: LMAO
ROFL
ROFLMFAO
ROFLOL
ROTFL
brand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹænd/
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: brands
form: branding
form: branded
form: branded
Etymology: From Middle English brand, from Old English brand (“fire; flame; burning; torch; sword”), from Proto-West Germanic *brand, from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“flame; flaming; fire-brand; torch; sword”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenu- (“to bubble forth; brew; spew forth; burn”).
Cognate with Scots brand, West Frisian brân (“fire”), Dutch brand, German Brand, Danish brand, Swedish brand (“blaze, fire”), Icelandic brandur, French brand (< Germanic). More distantly cognate with Proto-Slavic *gorěti (“to burn”).
Senses: examples: text: When they caught him, he was branded and then locked up.
text: Man's flesh they eat: their own they paint and sear, / branding with burning iron, — usage fere!
ref: 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 405:
glosses: To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to cauterise a wound.
examples: text: The ranch hands had to brand every new calf by lunchtime.
glosses: To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to cauterise a wound.
To mark (especially cattle) with a brand as proof of ownership.
coordinate_terms: earmark#Verb
chip
examples: text: Her face is branded upon my memory.
glosses: To make an indelible impression on the memory or senses.
examples: text: He was branded a fool by everyone that heard his story.
text: I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter II, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: As Ferguson strode briskly towards the Stretford End at the final whistle, he will have been reflecting on the extent of the challenge now facing him from the club he once branded "noisy neighbours".
ref: 2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1-6 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To stigmatize, label (someone).
examples: text: They branded the new detergent "Suds-O", with a nature scene inside a green O on the muted-colored recycled-cardboard box.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: To associate a product or service with a trademark or other name and related images.
examples: text: O, not for thee the glow, the bloom,
⁠Who changest not in any gale,
⁠Nor branding summer suns avail
To touch thy thousand years of gloom: […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto II”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To be very hot, to burn.
Derived terms: brandable
cobrand
counterbrand
misbrand
overbrand
rebrand
Related terms: brand new
rebrand
advertising
advertising research
copy testing
global advertising
integrated marketing communications
marketing
market research
picture sort
trademark
servicemark
flexion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɛk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: flexions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin flexiō, from flectō (“I bend, curve”) + -tiō, possibly via French.
Senses: glosses: The act of bending a joint, especially a bone joint; the counteraction of extension.
glosses: The state of being bent or flexed.
glosses: Deviation from straightness.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The variation of words by declension, comparison, or conjugation; inflection.
Derived terms: anteflexion
circumflexion
deflexion
demiflexion
dorsiflexion
flexional
flexionless
genuflexion
hyperflexion
inflexion
introflexion
lateriflexion
lateroflexion
overflexion
plantarflexion
postflexion
preflexion
reflexion
retroflexion
semiflexion
superflexion
mac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: măk
ipa: /mæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: Mac
homophone: mack
homophone: Mack
Forms: form: macs
Etymology: Clipping of mackintosh.
Senses: examples: text: Standing in the dock at Southampton / Trying to get to Holland or France / The man in the mac said / You've got to go back / You know they didn't even give us a chance
ref: 1969, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, 0:04 from the start, in The Ballad of John and Yoko (music video), The Beatles (actor), Vevo, published 2017:
glosses: Clipping of mackintosh (“a raincoat”).
glosses: A person of Scottish descent (used in driving culture to denigrate someone for poor/slow/amateurish driving responses).
Derived terms: pac-a-mac
mac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: măk
ipa: /mæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: Mac
homophone: mack
homophone: Mack
Etymology: Clipping of macaroni.
Senses: examples: text: Is there any mac and cheese left?
text: Who wrote "kick me" on my back?
Who put a spider in my mac?
ref: 1998, Dennis Doyle, edited by Alison Sage, Treasury of Children's Poetry, Shirley Said, page 177:
text: Nothing tastes better to me than a big ol' bowl of super creamy, cheesy mac!
ref: 2019, Gail Green, Marci Peschke, Lunch Recipe Queen (Kylie Jean), North Mankato, Minn.: Picture Window Books, Capstone, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Clipping of macaroni.
Derived terms: chili mac
mac and cheese
mac 'n' cheese
mac salad
lez
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛz/
rhymes: -ɛz
Forms: form: more lez
form: most lez
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of les.
lez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛz/
rhymes: -ɛz
Forms: form: lezzes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of les.
Derived terms: lezdom
lez out
lezploitation
lez up
les
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛz/
rhymes: -ɛz
Forms: form: more les
form: most les
form: lez
Senses: examples: text: Her posts would frequently feature her as a half-naked giantess, complete with her deliciously soft belly and bare breasts. Some of her photos would have her feminine penis in view, nonchalantly exposed against her thighs. It was beautiful, unquestionably les, and an incredibly rare opportunity for me (then pre-transition) to see how hormone replacement therapy feminized trans women’s bodies.
ref: 2020, Valens, Anna, Tumblr Porn, New York: Instar Books, →ISBN, →ISBN:
glosses: Clipping of lesbian.
les
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛz/
rhymes: -ɛz
Forms: form: leses
form: lez
Senses: glosses: Clipping of lesbian.
Derived terms: lesbro
lesdar
lesfic
Jeep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jēp
ipa: /d͡ʒiːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: Jeeps
Etymology: From GP, standing for "general purpose".
Senses: glosses: A vehicle (of a particular brand) suitable for rough terrain.
refute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭ-fyo͞ot
enpr: rə-fyo͞ot
ipa: /ɹɪˈfjuːt/
ipa: /ɹəˈfjuːt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈfjut/
ipa: /ɹəˈfjut/
ipa: /ɹɪˈfjʉːt/
ipa: /ɹəˈfjʉːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: refutes
form: refuting
form: refuted
form: refuted
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: refute
form: refute
form: refuted
form: refute
form: refutest
form: refuted
form: refutedst
form: refutes
form: refuteth
form: refuted
form: refute
form: refuted
form: refute
form: refuted
form: refute
form: -
form: refuting
form: refuted
Etymology: From Latin refūtō (“refute, repudiate”).
Senses: examples: text: After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus."
ref: 1791, James Boswell, The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.:
synonyms: debunk
disprove
rebut
antonyms: confirm
affirm
demonstrate
prove
glosses: To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
synonyms: dispute
deny
repudiate
rebut
gainsay
counterargue
reject
antonyms: affirm
accept
embrace
profess
glosses: To deny the truth or correctness of (something).
Derived terms: self-refute
Related terms: word: refudiate
word: refusal
word: refuse
word: refutability
word: refutable
word: refutably
word: refutal
word: refutation
word: refuted
word: refuter
staircase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛɹˌkeɪs/
Forms: form: staircases
form: stair-case
Etymology: From stair + case.
Senses: examples: text: I was on the staircase by the bell / Blinded by the black magician's spell
ref: 2011, “13 Candles”, performed by Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats:
glosses: A flight of stairs; a stairway.
examples: text: Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 1:
text: When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Oliver immediately gets a 'guided tour, Felix wheeling through libraries and endless colour-coded rooms, up and down staircases and along echoing halls where various "dead relly[s]" stare down from the walls.
ref: 2023 November 13, Rosalind Jana, “Saltburn and the bizarre life of Britain's stately homes”, in BBC:
glosses: A connected set of flights of stairs; a stairwell.
glosses: A set of locks (enclosed sections of waterway) mounted one above the next.
Derived terms: devil's staircase
everlasting staircase
moving staircase
Penrose staircase
spiral staircase
staircase lock
staircase wit
staircasing
staircase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛɹˌkeɪs/
Forms: form: staircases
form: staircasing
form: staircased
form: staircased
form: stair-case
Etymology: From stair + case.
Senses: examples: text: This leads to much smoother reconstructions in regions of moderate gradient and thus prevents staircasing.
ref: 2006, Nikos Paragios, Yunmei Chen, Olivier D. Faugeras, editors, Handbook of Mathematical Models in Computer Vision, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: To modify (a signal, a graph, etc.) to reduce a smooth curve to a series of discrete steps.
examples: text: It is a good idea to make plans for staircasing when you first buy your shared ownership home.
ref: 2018, Dave Cowan, Helen Carr, Alison Wallace, Ownership, Narrative, Things, Springer, →ISBN, page 139:
topics: business
real-estate
glosses: To increase one's share in a co-ownership.
Related terms: jaggies
staircasing effect
perfervid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəːˈfəːvɪd/
Forms: form: more perfervid
form: most perfervid
Etymology: From Late Latin perfervidus, from Latin per- + fervidus. By surface analysis, per- + fervid; compare pellucid.
Senses: examples: text: Manders — perfervid — 'hell'-ing excitedly (was there no one left on earth to convert but me?), quoting over a century from Marx and Nietzsche to Lenin, Lloyd George, and Eden, and on to Vessant and Mundaine and himself...
ref: 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 58:
text: In this case he saw himself sitting beside the breathing slender figure of Pia like someone in an old engraving – a beastly old Rembrandt exhaling the perfervid gloom of Protestantism and a diet of turnips.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 177:
text: Ah threw mahself down the porch steps and fell to mah knees in the middle of the yard, wringing mah hands and beating at the sky and wailing and reeling in the red dust and petitioning the almighty with perfervid prayer.
ref: 1989, Nick Cave, And the Ass Saw the Angel:
text: A clown, Grantley Dixon, a perfervid parrot, with his militant slogans and second-hand attitudes: like all coffee-house radicals a screaming snob at heart.
ref: 2002, Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 6:
glosses: Extremely, excessively, or feverishly passionate; zealous.
Synonyms: fervid
eager
ardent
enthusiastic
Derived terms: perfervidity
perfervidly
perfervidness
Related terms: fervid
pellucid
permute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pə(ɹ)ˈmjuːt/
Forms: form: permutes
form: permuting
form: permuted
form: permuted
Etymology: From Middle English permuten, from Old French permuter, from Latin permūtāre.
Senses: examples: text: to permute the data
synonyms: word: permutate
glosses: To change the order of.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To make a permutation of.
Derived terms: nonpermuted
nonpermuting
permutability
permutable
permutably
permutative
permutizer
permutohedron
permuton
unpermuted
Related terms: permutation
transcend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹæn(t)ˈsɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: transcends
form: transcending
form: transcended
form: transcended
Etymology: From Middle English transcenden, from Old French transcender, from Latin transcendere (“to climb over, step over, surpass, transcend”), from trans (“over”) + scandere (“to climb”); see scan; compare ascend, descend.
Senses: examples: text: such personal popes, emperors, or elective kings, as shall transcend their limits
ref: a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:
text: Shepard: What do you want from us? Slaves? Resources?
My kind transcends your very understanding. We are each a nation. Independent, free of all weakness. You cannot grasp the nature of our existence.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Virmire:
glosses: To pass beyond the limits of something.
examples: text: How much her worth transcended all her kind.
ref: c. 1698, John Dryden, Epitaph on the Monument of a Fair Maiden Lady:
glosses: To surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel.
examples: text: lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds
text: your Muse soars up to the upper, and transcending that too, takes her fight among the Celestial bodies
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To Sir Tho. Haw.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To climb; to mount.
Synonyms: sense: to pass beyond the limits of something
word: exceed
word: overgo
word: surpass
sense: to surpass something
word: better
word: dwarf
word: eclipse
word: exceed
sense: to climb
word: ascend
word: excel
word: forpass
word: go beyond
word: outcompass
word: outstep
word: outstrip
word: overpass
word: overreach
word: overstep
word: overstride
word: transgress
word: transcend
word: trespass
Hyponyms: word: clear
word: cross the line
word: go too far
Derived terms: transcendence
transcendency
transcendent
transcendental
transcendentalism
transcendentalist
transcendentally
transcending
transcension
koppa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koppas
form: qoppa
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόππα (kóppa), originally ϙόππα (qóppa).
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek letter representing /k/, Ϙ / ϙ, replaced by kappa by the Classical Greek period.
glosses: The Greek numeral Ϟ (lowercase ϟ), descended from the ancient letter and having the numerical value of 90.
glosses: The archaic Cyrillic numeral Ҁ (lowercase ҁ), descended from the ancient Greek letter and having the numerical value of 90.
galaxias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the fish of the genus Galaxias.
chilias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chilia
monas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mona
macintosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macintoshes
Senses: examples: text: He is sausaged into several overcoats and wears a brown macintosh under which he holds a roll of parchment.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 481:
glosses: Alternative form of mackintosh (“a raincoat”).
Derived terms: macintoshed
bludger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bludgers
Etymology: Corruption of bludgeoner.
Senses: examples: text: Oscar pondered for a while, then said, "Oh, but halfcastes don't seem to be any good at all. All the men here are loafers and bludgers, the women practically all whores."
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, page 106:
text: This was the bludger or, in American parlance, the pimp, a man who lived on the earnings of prostitution. He was often the husband or boyfriend of a prostitute and could be actively involved in protecting or touting for the prostitute. Parliamentarians described the bludger as ‘the most detestable wretch on the face of the earth’ and as a man ‘worthy of no respect whatsoever’ (NSWPD 31:1675).
ref: 1997, Barbara Ann Sullivan, The Politics of Sex: Prostitution and Pornography in Australia since 1945, page 30:
glosses: A pimp, a man living off the earnings of a harlot.
examples: text: If she is doing the work of two parents because her husband has died or left her or is violent and has driven her and the kids from home, then suddenly she is a bludger.
ref: 2005, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates: House of Representatives: Official Hansard, volume 270, page 84:
glosses: A person who avoids working, or doing their share of work, a loafer, a hanger-on, one who does not pull their weight.
synonyms: bludger trevally
nakedbreast trevally
Bleeker's jackfish
glosses: A widespread species of large marine fish, Carangoides gymnostethus, in the jack family, Carangidae.
glosses: A ball used in the sports of Quidditch and Muggle Quidditch.
Derived terms: dole bludger
Related terms: bludge
freeloader
free rider
chaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪsə/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪsɚ/
rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chasers
Etymology: From chase (“groove; decorate metal”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "Mr B., heraldic chaser, says there are several processes in making heraldy plates, sketching, engraving, embossing, chasing and burnishing."
"H. & C., manufacturers of cloth and gilt buttons, say it requires some weeks to learn to chase the gilt buttons, which are done with small metal tools and a hammer. Chasers are paid by the piece, working ten hours a day, and some can earn $1 a day."
ref: 1863, Virginia Penny, The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work, page 100:
text: "Flat chasing in sunken or low relief is a technique by which the ornament is formed by beating down the ground from the front. This is done in essentially the same manner as repoussé work, where the ornament appears in high relief, but the design is punched from the face of the silver plate. ... Sometimes, instead of applying a freehand design, the chaser covers the greased surface with a paper pattern in which the design is pricked with pins."
ref: 1971, George Bernard Hughes, Living Crafts, page 36:
text: "Chasing in general can be distinguished from engraving, in that the design can be seen on the reverse or inside of the pieces. Having outlined the pattern on the surface, the chaser cuts and at the same time slightly depresses the surface. A light hammer can be used in this process also."
ref: 1972, Richard Came, Silver, page 7:
glosses: Someone who chases (decorates) metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.
examples: text: In Fig. i is shown one of the chasers in the position which it occupies in cutting a thread.
ref: 1894, Machinery (author(s) unknown), page 141
text: "Many screw threads are also finished completely with chasers of this type, although they are not adapted for extremely accurate work unless the teeth are ground after hardening, because the pitch of the chaser teeth is affected more or less by..."
ref: 1918, Franklin Day Jones, Thread-cutting Methods: A Treatise on the Operation and Use of Various Tools and Machines for forming screw threads..., page 32:
text: "The category of thread cutting tools includes both the single-point and multiple-point [chaser type] lathe cutters."
ref: 1994, Francis T. Farago, Mark A. Curtis, Handbook of Dimensional Measurement, page 467:
glosses: A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads.
examples: bow chaser; stern chaser
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A chase gun.
Derived terms: bow chaser
stern chaser
wall chaser
pyjamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈd͡ʒɑːməz/
ipa: /paɪˈd͡ʒɑːməz/
Forms: form: pyjama
Etymology: From Hindi पैजामा (paijāmā) / Urdu پائِجامَہ (pāijāma), from Classical Persian پایجامه (pāyjāma), archaic form of پاجامه (pājāma).
Senses: examples: text: The performer opens one of the small drawers and takes out two sets of pyjamas.
ref: 1973, John Clucas Cannell, The Secrets of Houdini, Dover Publications, US, page 231
text: She wasn′t sure if Lena looked more surprised by her clobbering hug or the sight of her pyjamas on the bright New York City sidewalk.
ref: 2007, Ann Brashares, Summers of the Sisterhood: Forever in Blue, page 178:
glosses: British standard spelling of pajamas (“clothes for sleeping in”).
examples: text: They too revert to simpler, non-western clothes—saris, dhotis, and pyjamas.
ref: 2010, Lucy Norris, Recycling Indian Clothing: Global Contexts of Reuse and Value, Indiana University Press, page 34:
glosses: British standard spelling of pajamas (“loose trousers worn by men and women in South Asia”).
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: British standard spelling of pajamas.
Hypernyms: bedwear
nightclothes
nightwear
sleepwear
Derived terms: the cat's pyjamas
beater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːtə/
ipa: /ˈbitɚ/
ipa: [ˈbiɾɚ]
rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: beaters
Etymology: By shortening from wifebeater.
Senses: glosses: A sleeveless undershirt.
either
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: enpr: ī′thər
enpr: ē′thər
rhymes: -aɪðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -iːðə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈaɪ.ðə/
ipa: /ˈiː.ðə/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.ðɚ/
ipa: /ˈi.ðɚ/
ipa: /ˈi.d̪ʱə(r)/
ipa: /ˈɑj.d̪ʱə(r)/
enpr: ā′thər
note: in use until the 20th c.
ipa: /ˈeɪ.ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɛj.d̪ə(r)/
other: /aɪ/
other: /iː/
other: /iː/
other: /aɪ/
other: /eɪ/
Etymology: From Middle English either, from Old English ǣġhwæþer, from Proto-West Germanic *aiw + *gahwaþar. Akin to Old Saxon eogihwethar, iahwethar (Low German jeed); Old Dutch *iogewether, *iowether, *iother (Dutch ieder); Old High German eogihwedar, iegihweder, ieweder (German jeder).
Senses: examples: text: You can have it in either colour.
coordinate_terms: each
;
both
glosses: Any one (of two).
examples: text: There is a locomotive at either end of the train, one pulling and the other pushing.
text: There are roses on either side of the garden.
text: His flowing hair
 In curls on either cheek played.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Her hands, long and beautiful, lay on either side of her face.
ref: 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 31:
glosses: Each of two; both.
examples: text: I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called “A Voyage round the world.”
ref: Jonathan Swift (1726), Gulliver's Travels, 1st edition
text: They entreat, they pray, they beg, they supplicate (will either of these do, Miss Clary?) that you will make no scruple to go to your uncle Antony's […].
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: Any one (of more than two).
either
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: enpr: ī′thər
enpr: ē′thər
rhymes: -aɪðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -iːðə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈaɪ.ðə/
ipa: /ˈiː.ðə/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.ðɚ/
ipa: /ˈi.ðɚ/
ipa: /ˈi.d̪ʱə(r)/
ipa: /ˈɑj.d̪ʱə(r)/
enpr: ā′thər
note: in use until the 20th c.
ipa: /ˈeɪ.ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɛj.d̪ə(r)/
other: /aɪ/
other: /iː/
other: /iː/
other: /aɪ/
other: /eɪ/
Etymology: From Middle English either, from Old English ǣġhwæþer, from Proto-West Germanic *aiw + *gahwaþar. Akin to Old Saxon eogihwethar, iahwethar (Low German jeed); Old Dutch *iogewether, *iowether, *iother (Dutch ieder); Old High German eogihwedar, iegihweder, ieweder (German jeder).
Senses: examples: text: He made me two offers, but I did not accept either.
text: Hodgson may now have to bring in James Milner on the left and, on that basis, a certain amount of gloss was taken off a night on which Welbeck scored twice but barely celebrated either before leaving the pitch angrily complaining to the Slovakian referee.
ref: 2013 September 7, Daniel Taylor, “Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban”, in The Guardian:
glosses: One or the other of two people or things.
examples: text: Scarce a palm of ground could be gotten by either of the three.
ref: a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:
text: And either vowd with all their power and wit, / To let not others honour be defaste […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: There have been three famous talkers in Great British, either of whom would illustrate what I say about dogmatists.
ref: 1872, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table:
glosses: Both, each of two or more.