cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
beldame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛldəm/
rhymes: -ɛldəm
Forms: form: beldames
form: beldam
Etymology: Inherited from late (1400–1450) Middle English beldame, beldam, from Middle English bel (“attractive, fine, good”) (from Old French bel (“beautiful”), from Latin bellus) + dame, dam (“a mother, lady”), itself ultimately from Latin domina (“a mistress, lady”).
Senses: examples: text: There he was welcom'd of that honeſt ſyre, / And of his aged Beldame homely well; / Who him beſought himſelfe to diſattyre, / And reſt himſelfe, till ſupper time befell.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 470:
text: Diſeaſed nature oftentimes breakes forth, / In ſtrange eruptions, oft the teeming earth / Is with a kind of collicke pincht and vext, / By the impriſoning of vnruly wind / Within her vvombe, vvhich for enlargement ſtriuing / Shakes the old Beldame earth, and topples down / Steeples and moſſegrovvn towers.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: A grandmother.
examples: text: Justice is an old hobbling beldame, and I can't get her to keep pace with Generosity, for the soul of me.
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.i:
text: […] have a curiosity to hear my fortune told: therefore, Sam, order the beldame forward.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Therefore, the teacher of to-day is not the graybeard and beldame, but the man and woman most newly filled with the gathered experience of the world.
ref: 1898, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics – A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, page 285:
text: The tablets upon which the events of the day were recorded refer to enchantresses, and we can conclude that they were by no means restricted to ancient beldames.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 25:
text: Among the large number of characters are [...] young boys and old knowledgeable beldames familiar with every lubricity, every love charm and potion.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 62:
text: Suddenly the beldam shrieks as if she's been stuck with a dagger, long rasping insuck of breath: ‘Eeeeeeeee!’
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 6:
glosses: An old woman, particularly an ugly one.
Synonyms: sense: ugly woman
word: crone
sense: ugly woman
word: hag
sense: ugly woman
word: harridan
worstest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: worst + -est
Senses: examples: text: Of all the blessed insults rolled into one, this here's the worstest.
ref: 1847, Thomas Preskett Prest, Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood.:
glosses: Worst.
worstest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: worst + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of worst
worser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: worse + -er
Senses: examples: text: That were my ſtate farre worſer then it is,
I would not wed her for a mine of Gold
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: Spencer ere it flow thrice at London bridge, / London I feare will heare of worſer newes.
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act II:
text: Whether Flower, kneaded and baked as ſoon as it comes from the Mill, whilſt ’tis yet warm, yields blacker and worſer Bread?
ref: 1674, Divers Rural and Oeconomical Inquiries, recommended to Observation and Tryal, in Philosophical Transactions, vol. 9
text: Creon. What worser ill is now to follow this?
ref: 1911, Joseph Edward Harry, The Antigone of Sophocles (Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company), page 65
text: 2002, Ron Lovell, Murder at Yaquina Head
Momma says that’s an even worser word to say.
text: Things went from worse to worser after Truss’s Wednesday night appearance before the 1922, which you might know is that weirdo committee where they bang the desks and honk in-group gibberish like it’s Hogwarts for grownups and their house has just won a flying pensions-crashing match.
ref: 2022 October 14, Marina Hyde, “So farewell, Kwasi. Your career died so Liz Truss’s might live for at least 15 more minutes”, in The Guardian:
glosses: worse.
worser
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: worse + -er
Senses: examples: text: Is he married?
I cannot hate thee worſer than I do,
If thou againe ſay yes
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
glosses: worse.
Homo sapien
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Homo sapiens
form: homo sapien
Etymology: Back-formation from the taxonomic name Homo sapiens, treated as if an English plural form.
Senses: examples: text: A child possesses no human nature at birth. At this time he is only a raw homo sapien with human nature potentials, ...
ref: 1953, T. R. Schaffler, A Formula for the Process of Socialization, in Journal of Educational Sociology, Vol. 27, No. 2
text: I think I'm sophisticated / 'Cause I'm living my life like a good homo sapien
ref: 1970, The Kinks, “Apeman”, in Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One:
text: 1982, Emmett Davis, The Ethics of Information Serving Homo Sapiens Vs. Homo Biblios, in Ethics and Reference Services
In designing the institutions called libraries, we have underemphasized both the contribution each homo sapien, indeed each element of creation, is offering the universe and the support that records of knowledge can provide each homo sapien during portions of their lives to maximize those contributions.
text: 2000, Lauretta Lueck, The Many Waters
As we know, there were many types of hominids, and in various stages of development, but none were modern, or completely Homo sapien.
text: 2003, Danny Pate, Creation
The Anatomically modern Homo sapien was merely a beast who looked exactly like Man. That’s because God used this Anatomically modern Homo sapien as a prototype in creating Adam and Eve.
glosses: A member of the species Homo sapiens.
canterbury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canterburys
form: canterburies
Etymology: From Canterbury.
Senses: glosses: A rack for magazines or other papers, usually wooden, often done as a decorative piece.
do one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does one
form: doing one
form: did one
form: done one
Etymology: A contraction of several related longer expressions like do a runner, do a bunk, do a flit and do a moonlight flit
Senses: examples: text: I am a northerner and if any daft apeth with a cob on wants to mither me about my accent, they can do one.
ref: 2019 March 20, Daniel Lavelle, The Guardian:
glosses: To go away, to leave; to get lost.
do one
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdoʊ ˈwʌn/
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number occurring after do and before do two in a duodecimal system. Written 11, decimal value 13.
rhinolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪnə(ʊ)lɪθ/
Forms: form: rhinoliths
Etymology: From rhino- (“nose”) + -lith (“stone”).
Senses: examples: text: Dr. J. Middlemas Hunt […] describes a case of rhinolith. […]. This proved to be a small nasal calculus, weighing seven grains, and consisting mostly of sequestrum of bone.
ref: 1889, Clinic of the Month, The Practitioner, volume 42, page 242:
text: A rhinolith is a mineralized nasal foreign body.
ref: 2002, Gary R. Strange, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, page 467:
text: Or the nucleus of a rhinolith may be a hardened piece of mucus […]. The symptoms produced by a rhinolith are the same as those caused by any other foreign object […].
ref: 2004, G. H. Quay, A Monograph of Diseases of Nose and Throat, page 83:
glosses: A calculus that forms in the nasal cavity.
friendships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of friendship
Hanna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hannas
Etymology: Variant spelling of Hannah or romanization of Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥanâ), chiefly for the mother of Samuel, from חַנָּה (ḥanâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). As an Oklahoman town, named for Hanna Bullett, one of the initial settlers. As a Polish village, named for the queen Anna Jagiellon.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Hannah.
glosses: A surname originating as a matronymic based on Hannah.
glosses: A town in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A village in Poland.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Louisiana.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A town in Oklahoma.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A town in Wyoming.
Hanna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hannah
form: Hannay
form: Hanney
Etymology: From anglicization of Irish Ó hAnnaigh (“descendant of Annadh”) under influence from Hanna and Hannah. As a ghost town in Missouri and unincorporated community in South Dakota, named for Ohio senator Mark Hanna. As an unincorporated community on Ute land in Utah, named for postmaster William P. Hanna.
Senses: glosses: An Irish and Scottish surname from Irish.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in LaPorte County, Indiana; named for a state judge.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in South Dakota.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community on Ute land in Utah.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A ghost town in Missouri.
discouraging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkʌɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪŋ/
ipa: /dɪsˈkɝ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discourage
discouraging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkʌɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪŋ/
ipa: /dɪsˈkɝ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: disheartening; see also Thesaurus:disheartening
text: Oh, give me a home where the Buffalo roam / Where the Deer and the Antelope play; / Where never is heard a discouraging word, / And the sky is not clouded all day
ref: 1876, Brewster Higley, “A Home on the Range”:
glosses: That causes discouragement.
Derived terms: discouragingly
undiscouraging
discouraging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkʌɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪŋ/
ipa: /dɪsˈkɝ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪŋ/
Forms: form: discouragings
Senses: examples: August 6, 1841, Lydia Ann Barclay, letter to J. B.
But, alas! I fear the health of the better part is dwindling instead of increasing, through letting in the enemy's discouragings, and a want of feeling after the daily sap of life, whereby strength would be received to overcome all obstacles […]
glosses: discouragement
discouragement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discouragements
Etymology: From discourage + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The loss of confidence or enthusiasm.
glosses: The act of discouraging.
glosses: Anything that discourages.
gendarme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʒɒnˈdɑːm/
ipa: /ʒɑnˈdɑɹm/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: gendarmes
form: gensdarmes
Etymology: Borrowed from French gendarme, from plural gendarmes, a re-spelling of gens d'armes (“people of arms", "armed people”).
Senses: glosses: A member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties.
examples: text: The US is tempted to play the role of global gendarme because everyone knows that the UN, as it is, lacks the resources and capacity to fill this role.
ref: 2003, Daniele Archibugi, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, Debating Cosmopolitics, Verso, page 170:
glosses: A policeman.
examples: text: The previous attempts foundered when they tried to take this gendarme directly.
ref: 1979, Chris Jones, Climbing in North America, →ISBN, page 118:
text: The Arete starts easily, with several beautiful, loping pitches leading to a striking gendarme.
ref: 1998, Climbing - Issues 178-180, page 64:
text: Continuing to the main summit involves ascents of the gendarmes (the first being the owl-eared one referred to in the next route description) and 140-foot rappels down their south sides.
ref: 2013, Joe Kelsey, Climbing and Hiking in the Wind River Mountains, →ISBN, page 259:
glosses: A rock pinnacle on a mountain ridge.
Synonyms: sense: police officer
word: police officer
Gladstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlædstən/
Forms: form: Gledstanes
form: Gledstone
Etymology: From Old English glæd (“shining”) + stān (“stone”).
Senses: glosses: A Scottish habitational surname from Old English.
glosses: A Scottish habitational surname from Old English.
William Ewart Gladstone, British Prime Minister.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
A city in Queensland, Australia.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
A local government area in central Queensland, which includes the city; in full, Gladstone Region.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
A small rural town in South Australia.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
A community and former town in the Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone, Manitoba.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
A community in Thames Centre, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
A suburb of Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
A locality in Carterton district, Wellington Region, North Island, New Zealand.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
An area near Levin, Horowhenua district, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
A village south of Greymouth, West Coast, New Zealand.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
A community and former town in the city of Azusa, Los Angeles County, California.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
A village in Henderson County, Illinois.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
A city in Delta County, Michigan.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
A city in Clay County, Missouri.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Nebraska.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
An unincorporated community in Somerset County, New Jersey.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
An unincorporated community in Union County, New Mexico.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
A tiny city in Stark County, North Dakota.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
An unincorporated community in Greene County, Ohio.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
A city in Clackamas County, Oregon.
glosses: Any of places of the same name.
An unincorporated community in Nelson County, Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Gladstone bag
Gladstone claret
Gladstone collar
Gladstonesque
Gladstonian
Gladstonianism
Gladstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlædstən/
Forms: form: Gladstones
form: Gledstanes
form: Gledstone
Etymology: From Old English glæd (“shining”) + stān (“stone”).
Senses: examples: text: Would we help him to pack his Gladstone?
ref: 1928, Rudyard Kipling, Dayspring Mishandled:
text: I lit a cigarette and got all dressed and then I packed these two Gladstones I have. It only took me about two minutes.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 7, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Ellipsis of Gladstone bag.
glosses: A four-wheeled two-seated carriage with driver's seat and dicky.
Lanarkshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Lanark + -shire.
Senses: glosses: A former county of Scotland.
Synonyms: County of Lanark
Derived terms: North Lanarkshire
South Lanarkshire
Dunkirk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌŋkɜː(ɹ)k/
ipa: /dʌnˈkɜː(ɹ)k/
Etymology: From Dutch Duinkerke, from duin (“dune”) + kerk (“church”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Downham parish, East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL5186).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Lea-by-Backford parish and Capenhurst parish, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ3872).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Hawkesbury parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST7886).
glosses: A place in England:
A village and civil parish in Swale district, Kent (OS grid ref TR0759).
glosses: A place in England:
A settlement in Aylsham parish, Broadland district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TG2027).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Wall parish, Northumberland (OS grid ref NY9270).
glosses: A place in England:
A western suburb of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK5538).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Audley Rural parish, Newcastle-under-Lyme district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ8152).
glosses: A place in England:
A settlement in Devizes parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST9961).
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Jay County and Blackford County, Indiana.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Eel Township, Cass County, Indiana.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Kansas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Calvert County, Maryland.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city and town in Chautauqua County, New York.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A village in Hardin County, Ohio.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town and village therein, in Dane County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Dunkirker
Dunkirkian
Dunkirk spirit
Siam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈæm/
rhymes: -æm
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Sciam (“Thailand”), from Thai สยาม (sà-yǎam, “Siam, historical name”), from Pali suvaṇṇabhūmi (“land of gold”) or Sanskrit श्याम (śyāma, “dark”) or Mon ရာမည (rhmañña, “stranger”), the same root as Shan and probably Assam.
Senses: examples: text: From hence we firſt ſailed to Achin, in the iſland of Sumatra, and then to Siam, where we bartered our wares for ſome arrack and opium, the laſt of which bore a great price among the Chineſe:[…]
ref: 1777, [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 7th edition, London: […] S. Crowder, […]; J. Sewell, […]; W. Johnston, […]; and B. Law, […], →OCLC, page 277:
glosses: Former name of Thailand: a country in Southeast Asia.
Derived terms: Gulf of Siam
Siam squash
Siam weed
Siamese
schrecklichkeit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɹɛklɪçkaɪt/
Etymology: From German Schrecklichkeit (“awfulness”).
Senses: glosses: A military policy of terrorising an enemy, especially through its civilian population.
examples: 1973: I embarked on the quotidian schrecklichkeit of getting up. — Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001, p. 11)
glosses: A general atmosphere or situation of awfulness or dread.
nylons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nylon
nylons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She sheathed her legs in the sheerest of the nylons that her father had brought back from the Continent, and slipped her feet into the toeless, high-heeled shoes of black suède.
ref: 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 17, in The Subtle Minotaur:
glosses: stockings made from nylon
Related terms: denier
fully fashioned
tristes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triste
gadroon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈdɹuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: gadroons
Etymology: From French godron, from Middle French goderon, from a form of godet (“vase with wavy edges”) + -(e)ron, from Dutch kodde (“piece of cylindrical wood”). Also probably related to goder (“to pucker”).
Senses: examples: text: Owing possibly to some flaw in his mental make-up, Uncle Tom has been collecting old silver since I was so high […]. I knew all about that collection of his, not only because I had had to listen to him for hours on the subject of sconces, foliation, ribbon wreaths in high relief and gadroon borders, but because I had what you might call a personal interest in it, once having stolen an eighteenth-century cow-creamer for him.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:
glosses: Any of a series of raised decorative curves used as adornments on the necks of vases, silverware, etc.
topics: architecture
glosses: A godroon.
Derived terms: gadrooned
gadrooning
gadrooned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈdɹuːnd/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: more gadrooned
form: most gadrooned
Etymology: From gadroon + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Do the Panthers like little Roquefort cheese morsels wrapped in crushed nuts this way, and asparagus tips in mayonnaise dabs, and meatballs petites au Coq Hardi, all of which are at this very moment being offered to them on gadrooned silver platters by maids in black uniforms with hand-ironed white aprons . . .
ref: 1970 June 8, Tom Wolfe, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's”, in New York Magazine:
text: arriving safely, forty minutes later, at the bourne of breakfast, the only breakfast worth the name, the cheminot’s breakfast, the great bowl of coffee laced and gadrooned and filigreed with rum.
ref: 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 11:
glosses: Adorned with gadroons.
gadroons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gadroon
Lou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /luː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: lew
homophone: lieu
homophone: loo
homophone: Lew
homophone: lu
homophone: lue
Forms: form: Lous
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Or it’s the man who has listened to Lou Dobbs ranting about people crossing the borders or who has heard some incredibly nasty sermon about homosexuals and thinks to himself, “My race, my people, my tribe are under assault, and the brave young men of the tribe have to protect it.”
ref: 2010 March 9, Amy Frykholm, quoting Mark Potok, “Enemies of the people: Mark Potok monitors hate”, in The Christian Century:
glosses: A unisex given name.
A diminutive of the male given name Louis.
glosses: A unisex given name.
A diminutive of the female given names Louisa or Louise; often also used as a middle name.
glosses: Nickname for St. Louis: a major city in Missouri, United States.
Derived terms: Loulou
Lou Reed
Lulu
Marilou
Mary Lou
Mary-Lou
Related terms: Louey
Louie
Louis
Louisa
Louise
Lew
Lu
Lou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /luː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: lew
homophone: lieu
homophone: loo
homophone: Lew
homophone: lu
homophone: lue
Senses: glosses: A Southeast Admiralty Islands language spoken on Lou Island of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea.
glosses: The Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea.
cocoanut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocoanuts
Senses: examples: text: The Gulnare brought us a few comforts in the shape of fresh provisions, fruits and curry stuffs, for which the Malayan Archipelago is famous, and with her came a supply of cocoanuts, which would have fully stocked an average plantation.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 127:
text: Oranges, cocoanuts and alligator pears lay in neat piles on little tables.
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 460:
glosses: Dated spelling of coconut.
gauleiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡaʊ(ˌ)laɪtəɹ/
Forms: form: gauleiters
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gauleiter, from Gau (“administrative division”) + Leiter (“leader”).
Senses: glosses: An official in charge of a district of Nazi Germany.
examples: text: Five minutes later, Martland and his gauleiters canter in and whisk poor Hockbottle off to the Cottage Hospital of evil fame.
ref: 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 30:
glosses: Any overbearing or unpleasant official, especially a local official.
morceaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morceau
Pompeii
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒmˈpeɪ(i)/
ipa: /pɑːmˈpeɪ(i)/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Pompeiī, of Oscan origin, from Oscan 𐌐𐌖𐌌𐌐𐌄 (pumpe, “five”) + the Latin name-forming suffix -eiī, a reference to its five districts.
Related to cinque, five, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”).
Senses: glosses: A ruined Roman town in Italy, destroyed by Vesuvius (a volcano) in AD 79.
glosses: A city and commune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy.
Derived terms: Pompeiana
Pompeiian
Related terms: Pompeian
southwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From south + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: On the journey southwards over the flat, fertile plains, paddy fields stretched away on each side of the line, and the landscape was broken only by wooden villages and stately pagodas.
ref: 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325:
text: Although [John] Peel's grave is the main attraction, Caldbeck is a captivating little village in its own right, with fine views southwards to the Lake District's serried peaks.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 100:
glosses: In a southerly direction; towards the south.
Related terms: word: southward
word: suden
potager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒtaʒeɪ/
ipa: /ˈpɒtədʒə/
Forms: form: potagers
Etymology: From Middle English potager, from Middle French potager, from potage. The pronunciation is sometimes altered to imitate the pronunciation of French potager.
Senses: examples: text: while he could not get into it until he obtained the keys from Bechet the notary, he had a picnic or two in the dilapidated garden and the herb potager, now run hopelessly to seed and weed.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 398:
glosses: A kitchen garden; sometimes used attributively.
examples: text: An INDIAN DISH or Potager. Made alſo of the Barque of a Tree, with the Sides and Rim ſewed together after the manner of Twiggen-Work.
ref: 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis: Or, A Catalogue and Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and preſerved at Greſham Colledge, page 372:
glosses: A porringer.
McLeod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: mə-kloudʹ
ipa: /məˈklaʊd/
rhymes: -aʊd
Forms: form: McCleod
form: Mcleod
form: McLoud
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic MacLeòid (“son of Leòd”), from Old Norse Liótr (“the Ugly (one)”), from Old Norse ljótr (“ugly, scary”).
The combination tool was created in 1905 by Malcolm McLeod, a US Forest Service ranger.
Senses: glosses: A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic, the anglicised form of the Gaelic Mac Leòid
Derived terms: McLeod County
McLeod syndrome
McLeod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mə-kloudʹ
ipa: /məˈklaʊd/
rhymes: -aʊd
Forms: form: McLeods
form: McCleod
form: Mcleod
form: McLoud
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic MacLeòid (“son of Leòd”), from Old Norse Liótr (“the Ugly (one)”), from Old Norse ljótr (“ugly, scary”).
The combination tool was created in 1905 by Malcolm McLeod, a US Forest Service ranger.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rakehoe.
synonyms: word: rakehoe
Kendal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛndəl/
Etymology: From Old English Cent + dæl = "valley of the river Kent".
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD5192).
glosses: A small town in Manchester parish, central Jamaica.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English, also as a variant of Kendall.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
Derived terms: Burton-in-Kendal
Kendal mint cake
Kendal sneck
Pittsburgh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪtsbɝɡ/
Forms: form: Pittsburg
Etymology: From Pitt + -s- + -burgh (“fortified place”), after William Pitt the Elder.
Senses: examples: text: Because he was coincidentally situated in Pittsburgh, he had examined the brains of two former Pittsburgh Steelers players who were discovered to have had postconcussive brain dysfunction: Mike Webster, who became homeless and cognitively impaired before dying of heart failure in 2002; and Terry Long, who committed suicide in 2005.
ref: 2007 January 18, Alan Schwarz, “Expert Ties Ex-Player’s Suicide to Brain Damage”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A city, the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Synonyms: word: PIT
word: PITT
word: Pitt
word: Pitt
Derived terms: Pittsburgh compound B
Pittsburgher
Pittsburghese
Pittsburgh ivy
Pittsburgh potty
Pittsburgh salad
Pittsburgh toilet
Shitsburgh
Related terms: Pittsburg
serons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seron
Dartmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːtməθ/
ipa: /ˈdɑɹtməθ/
Etymology: English port: from Dart + mouth, since it lies at the mouth of the River Dart.
Senses: glosses: A town, civil parish, and port in South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX8751).
glosses: A town in Bristol County, Massachusetts.
glosses: An urban community on the eastern shore of Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A town in Victoria, Australia.
glosses: Dartmouth College
glosses: An English earldom
Annapolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnæpəlɪs/
Etymology: Originally Anne Arundel’s Towne, in honor of the English noblewoman Anne Arundell (1615/1616–1649), after whom the city’s county (Anne Arundel County) was also named; the namesake was changed to honor Princess Anne of Denmark and Norway, the heir to the throne who became Queen Anne of Great Britain (1665–1714); from Anna (Latinate form of Anne) + -polis (“city”).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Maryland, United States and the county seat of Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
glosses: USNA (“United States Naval Academy”), located in the above city.
Derived terms: Annapolis County
Annapolis Royal
thinkest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: think'st
form: thinkst
Etymology: think + -est.
Senses: examples: text: "How thinkest thou that I rule this people? I have but a regiment of guards to do my bidding, therefore it is not by force. It is by terror."
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of think
Ricardo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkɑɹdoʊ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkɑːdəʊ/
Etymology: From Portuguese and Spanish Ricardo. Doublet of Richard.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Portuguese or Spanish, equivalent to English Richard.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States; the name was apparently derived from Richard.
mammiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæˈmɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more mammiferous
form: most mammiferous
Etymology: From mamma + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: The moment of ejaculation in mammiferous animals is accompanied by universal excitement of the whole body, a kind of slight convulsion, which terminates in a comatose or exstatic state.
ref: 1837, Michael Ryan, The Philosophy of Marriage, in Its Social, Moral, and Physical Relations; with an Account of the Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs which Impair or Destroy the Reproductive Function; and Induce a Variety of Complaints; with the Physiology of Generation in the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms …, London: John Churchill, Princes' Street, Soho, →OCLC, page 191:
glosses: Mammalian.
examples: text: The mammiferous secretary slithered in, changed the spool and slithered out again, giving me a small, hygienic smile en route.
ref: 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 53:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having mammae, or (humorous) breasts.
mammae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mamma
pococurantism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpəʊkəʊkjʊˈɹæntɪzəm/
Forms: form: pococurantisms
Etymology: From pococurante + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger, thy yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood, undeliverable; it is thy doom.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “The Beginnings”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
text: It is queer the fantastic things quite good people will do in order to keep up their appearance of calm pococurantism.
ref: 1915, Ford Madox Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], chapter VI, in The Good Soldier […], Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1972 (1982 printing), →ISBN, part IV, page 222:
text: Happier after that expression of poco-curantism, I strolled down to Veeraswamy's and thoughtfully gorged myself with curried lamb and buttered chapatis.
ref: 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 55:
glosses: Indifference, nonchalance.
amoebae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amoeba
amebae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ameba, a variant of amoeba.
ancestress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ănʹsĕs-trəs
ipa: /ˈæn.sɛs.tɹəs/
enpr: ănʹsĕs-trĭs
ipa: /ˈæn.sɛs.tɹɪs/
Forms: form: ancestresses
Etymology: From ancestor + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: The strange legend that you will find inscribed by your remote ancestress upon the potsherd was communicated to me by my father on his deathbed, and took a strong hold upon my imagination.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Sherd of Amenartas”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 27:
synonyms: ancestrix
glosses: A female ancestor.
apatite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæpətaɪt/
ipa: /ˈæpəˌtaɪt/
homophone: appetite (GA pronunciation)
Forms: form: apatites
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from German Apatit (“apatite”). Apatit was coined by the German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817), as follows: Ancient Greek ᾰ̓πᾰ́τη (ăpắtē, “deceit, fraud”) (as it is often mistaken for other minerals) + German -it (suffix forming nouns denoting minerals or rocks; cognate with English -ite); the German word was first used in a 1786 book. Regarding minerals that were named for being deceptive and thus confused with others, compare also fool's gold.
Senses: examples: text: We had prepared, by precipitation methods, finely divided crystalline apatites that were similar in crystal size and x-ray diffraction profile to bone apatite.
ref: 1967, Duncan McConnell et al., “Infrared Absorption of Carbonate Apatite”, in Science, volume 155, number 3762 (New Series), Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 608:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A calcium fluoride phosphate of variable composition, sometimes used in the manufacture of fertilizer, as a gemstone, and (in powdered form) as a pigment, and also produced biologically in bones and teeth.
wikipedia: Abraham Gottlob Werner
international scientific vocabulary
Derived terms: apatitic
bioapatite
carbapatite
carbonate-apatite
carbonatoapatite
chlorapatite
fluorapatite
hydroxyapatite
manganapatite
aromatherapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aromatherapists
Etymology: From aroma + therapist.
Senses: topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: A practitioner of aromatherapy.
inadequacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnædɪ(ə)kwəsi/
Forms: form: inadequacies
Senses: antonyms: adequacy
;
plenty#Noun
glosses: The state of being inadequate.
synonyms: deficiency
insufficiency
glosses: A shortage of required material.
synonyms: incompetence
;
inability
incapability
coordinate_terms: fail#Noun
failure
glosses: A lack of competence or ability.
recommences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recommence
recommence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recommences
form: recommencing
form: recommenced
form: recommenced
Etymology: From Middle French recommencer, from Old French recommencier.
Senses: examples: text: The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: [...] Prosser was instrumental in the decision in 2010 to recommence publication of an annual health and safety report, following a period when it had fallen into abeyance.
ref: 2020 July 29, Ian Prosser discusses with Paul Stephen, “Rail needs robust and strategic plans”, in Rail, page 40:
glosses: To begin again.
Synonyms: rebegin
reboot
reinitiate
restart
dogfight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒɡ.faɪt/
ipa: [ˈdɔɡ.fʌɪt]
ipa: [ˈdɑɡ.fʌɪt]
Forms: form: dogfights
Etymology: From dog + fight.
Senses: examples: text: The two bi-planes swirled around each other like angry wasps in a violent dogfight.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: A twisting turning battle between two or more military aircraft, especially between fighters.
glosses: A fight between dogs, especially as part of the blood sport of dogfighting.
Derived terms: dogfighter
dogfight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒɡ.faɪt/
ipa: [ˈdɔɡ.fʌɪt]
ipa: [ˈdɑɡ.fʌɪt]
Forms: form: dogfights
form: dogfighting
form: dogfought
form: dogfought
Etymology: From dog + fight.
Senses: examples: text: Missiles exhausted, the pilot was forced to close and dogfight with his opponent.
glosses: To engage in a battle between fighter planes.
Related terms: catfight
furball
dog-fight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog-fights
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dogfight.
tulgey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌl.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˈtʌl.ɡi/
Etymology: Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll around 1870 for the Jabberwock poem.
Senses: examples: text: The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood
ref: 1871, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-glass, "Jabberwocky":
text: I battled for a while with Professor Aschloch's tulgey prose – only German poets have ever written lucid German prose – then closed my eyes, wondering bitterly which of my enemies the nice American worked for.
ref: 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin 2001, page 69:
glosses: Thick, dense, dark (originally in reference to a wood).
wikipedia: Jabberwock
besprenge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪˈspɹɛnd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: besprenges
form: besprenging
form: besprent
form: besprent
form: bespreng
Etymology: From Middle English besprengen, from Old English besprenġan, equivalent to be- (“about; all over”) + springe (“to sprinkle”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]here vvas brought unto him an horſe named Babylonius, vvhich happening to be ſore vexed vvith a ſuddaine gripe or vvring in his belly, fell dovvne, and vvhiles hee vvas not able to endure the paine, vvallovveth along, and happeneth to beſprent his capariſon and ornaments richly garniſhed vvith gold and precious ſtones. At vvhich ſtrange ſight he tooke great joy, and cryed out, vvith the applauſe of thoſe next about him, That Babylon vvas fallen, and lay along on the ground diſpoyled of all her ornaments.
ref: 1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, “[The XXIII. Booke.] Chapter II. Being Departed out of Antioch, He was Troubled and Haunted with Strange Signes and Dreames: But afterwards Comforted againe by Sundrie Presages, and the Arrivall of a Most Puissant Armadoe, He Proceedeth in His Intended Voyage.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Roman Historie, […], London: […] Adam Jslip, →OCLC, pages 220–221:
text: His placidity was fully restored by the appearance of the steaming dishes, with their burden of canary-yellow besprent with green, which dispersed a mild warm fragrance of eggs and butter upon the air.
ref: 1927, H.T. Lowe-Porter, translation of Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, Knopf 1946 [1927], p. 564
text: his ample mush was pleated with fat, wormed with the great pox and so besprent with whelks, bubules and burst capillaries that it seemed like a contour map of the Trossachs.
ref: 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 78:
qualifier: obsolete except as past participle adjective
glosses: To sprinkle or scatter.
Derived terms: besprent
besprent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English bespreynt, from Old English *besprengd, equivalent to be- + sprent.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of besprenge
besprent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more besprent
form: most besprent
Etymology: From Middle English bespreynt, from Old English *besprengd, equivalent to be- + sprent.
Senses: glosses: besprinkled
professionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more professionally
form: most professionally
Etymology: From professional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Steve Davis plays snooker professionally.
glosses: As a professional; for one's paid career.
examples: text: You handled that customer's complaint very professionally.
text: There is no precredit compassion expressed in “Side Street”: In place of Ray’s protective, implied narrator there is the professionally gruff voice of Paul Kelly, an actor who specialized in coldly professional New York City police detectives.
ref: 2007 July 31, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a professional manner.
dutiful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dutiful
form: most dutiful
form: dutifull
Etymology: From duty + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Ralph was a dutiful child, and took the trash out without being told.
text: And when blondes and beautiful are multiple / They become so dull and dutiful
ref: 1996, Paul Heaton, Dave Rotheray, “Rotterdam (or Anywhere)”, in Blue Is the Colour, performed by The Beautiful South:
glosses: Accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint.
glosses: Pertaining to one's duty; demonstrative of one's sense of duty.
Derived terms: dutifully
dutifulness
undutiful
faubourg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊbʊəɡ/
Forms: form: faubourgs
Etymology: Borrowed from French faubourg.
Senses: examples: text: At last a great shout went up ... and that was sign sufficient that the faubourgs were ours.
ref: 1896, Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Oxford University Press, published 1996, page 233:
text: […]in the course of his walk (which led him out toward the faubourgs of Flatbush) he passed long vistas of signboards[…]
ref: 1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 217:
text: By the time that I was quite clear of the city's unlovely faubourgs and purlieus I needed petrol: the Silver Ghost is a lovely car but its best friend would have to admit that its m.'s per g. are few.
ref: 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me., Penguin, published 2001, page 81:
glosses: An outlying part of a city or town, beyond the walls; a suburb, especially of Paris, New Orleans, Montreal, or Quebec City.
audile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɔːdaɪl/
Forms: form: audiles
Etymology: Irregular formation from Latin audire + -ilis. By surface analysis, audio + -ile.
Senses: glosses: A person whose mental imagery consists of sounds.
audile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɔːdaɪl/
Forms: form: more audile
form: most audile
Etymology: Irregular formation from Latin audire + -ilis. By surface analysis, audio + -ile.
Senses: examples: text: 1973: I listened carefully to my audile memory, recalling the exact noise of the shot. — Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001, p. 93)
text: At Indiana University, we were encouraged to read Latin, Greek, German, you know all those things, aloud. That's one of the things I liked about studying languages, that I could actually read them aloud, hear them, experience them on an audile level.
ref: 1976 December 25, Rudy Kikel, quoting Stephanie Byrd, “A Theory of Erotic Devices or The Lady and the Beast”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 18:
glosses: Pertaining to hearing.
Related terms: audible
motile
verbile
visile
grimly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪmli/
rhymes: -ɪmli
Forms: form: grimlier
form: grimliest
Etymology: From Middle English grymly, grimlich, from Old English grimmliċ, corresponding to grim + -ly. Compare grimlike.
Senses: examples: text: To hear her rant, one would have supposed, who had not seen him, that her lank-haired, grimly partner, was the prettiest youth in the county of Dublin, and that all the comely lasses in Chapelizod and the country round were sighing and setting caps at him […]
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
text: In reality it was the most terrifying sight I had seen to date: two fried eggs decorated with ketchup, Tabasco and chopped chillis in the semblance of a pair of bloodshot eyes – I would as soon have eaten my own leg. I waved the grimly thing away.
ref: 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 94:
glosses: Grim-looking, grim-natured.
Derived terms: grimliness
grimly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪmli/
rhymes: -ɪmli
Forms: form: more grimly
form: most grimly
Etymology: From Middle English grymly, grimliche, from Old English grimlīċe, equivalent to grim + -ly. Cognate with Icelandic grimmliga.
Senses: examples: text: He looked round and shouted grimly, "As soon as the gate is opened, you go out there - running."
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 63:
text: I looked out my window / The cloud was grimly forming / Waiting for the rain I saw / The one dark cloud forming
ref: 1968, “Grimly Forming”, in Peter Vandergeler (lyrics), Conspicuous Only in Its Absence, performed by The Great Society:
synonyms: word: grisly
glosses: In a grim manner.
chors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chor
borborigmus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bɔːbəˈɹɪɡməs/
Forms: form: borborigmi
form: borborygmus
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βορβορυγμός (borborugmós).
Senses: examples: 1973: chilli 'n' trepidation were playing the devil with my small intestines and my borborigmus was often louder than the engine of the Rolls — Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001, p. 94)
glosses: A rumbling sound made by the movement of gas in the intestines.