cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
goddamn
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡɒdˈdæm/
ipa: /ˈɡɒd.dæm/
ipa: /ˈɡɒdæm/
Forms: form: god damn
form: goddam
form: God damn
form: Goddamn
form: goddamned
form: goddammit
form: goddamnit
form: gawldamn
Etymology: From God + damn; originally, and sometimes still, a present subjunctive expression of a wish that God smite someone for their wickedness; compare also antonymous God bless, God bless you, and God love (someone or something).
Senses: examples: text: Person A: You're not going to believe this: he just did it again, despite your warning.
 Person B: Goddamn!
text: Person A: You're not going to believe this: he just did it again, despite your warning.
 Person B: God damn him!
glosses: An expression of anger, surprise, intense excitement or frustration.
Synonyms: topics: fantasy
english: polytheistic
translation: polytheistic
word: godsdamn
Related terms: english: someone or something; antonymous force; likewise interjectory although not quite a full-fledged interjection by all tests formally defining parts of speech
translation: someone or something; antonymous force; likewise interjectory although not quite a full-fledged interjection by all tests formally defining parts of speech
word: God love
goddamn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡɒdˈdæm/
ipa: /ˈɡɒd.dæm/
ipa: /ˈɡɒdæm/
Forms: form: god damn
form: goddam
form: God damn
form: Goddamn
form: goddamned
form: goddammit
form: goddamnit
form: gawldamn
Etymology: From God + damn; originally, and sometimes still, a present subjunctive expression of a wish that God smite someone for their wickedness; compare also antonymous God bless, God bless you, and God love (someone or something).
Senses: glosses: Damned by God.
examples: text: Where's the goddamn cartridge?
text: You were in the background; you were a goddamn extra! That's good enough!
text: I know this may seem a bit out of the box, but isn't this a particularly lousy time in history for the Congress to go on vacation for six goddamn weeks.
ref: 2019 July 26, Charles P. Pierce, “Congress Should Not Go on Vacation for Six Goddamn Weeks”, in Esquire:
glosses: Used as an intensifier.
Synonyms: topics: fantasy
english: polytheistic
translation: polytheistic
word: godsdamn
word: goddamned
word: gorram
word: dadgum
word: goldarn
word: goshdarn
word: goshdang
goddamn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡɒdˈdæm/
ipa: /ˈɡɒd.dæm/
ipa: /ˈɡɒdæm/
Forms: form: goddamns
form: god damn
form: goddam
form: God damn
form: Goddamn
form: goddamned
form: goddammit
form: goddamnit
form: gawldamn
Etymology: From God + damn; originally, and sometimes still, a present subjunctive expression of a wish that God smite someone for their wickedness; compare also antonymous God bless, God bless you, and God love (someone or something).
Senses: examples: text: I don't give a goddamn.
glosses: A more emphatic form of damn.
raw_tags: in the negative
examples: text: The goddamns (British soldiers) are coming / To steal your children. / Awaken! Awaken! / Acadian men / To save our heritage.
ref: 2009, Shane K. Bernard, The Cajuns: Americanization of a People, page 72:
glosses: Alternative form of goddam (“an English person, from French perspective”).
Derived terms: give a goddamn
give a good goddamn
Chandler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑːndlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃændlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃændləɹ/
Forms: form: Candler
form: Chander
Senses: glosses: An English surname originating as an occupation for a chandler (“maker or seller of candles”).
examples: text: Indeed what do the tensomethings, who might be watching the show at that hour, make of jokes like Joey telling Chandler that his uncle Sal has a really big tongue.
ref: 1996, Television Quarterly: The Journal of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, volume XXVIII, number 3, page 4:
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A locale in Australia:
A suburb of Brisbane, Queensland; named for John Beals Chandler, 5th Lord Mayor of Brisbane.
glosses: A locale in Australia:
A village in the Shire of Nungarin, Western Australia; named for a local farmer.
glosses: A locale in Canada:
A town in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region, Le Rocher-Percé Regional County Municipality, Quebec.
glosses: A locale in Canada:
A ghost town in the Rural Municipality of Cymri No. 36, Saskatchewan.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A city in Maricopa County, Arizona; named for early settler Dr. Alexander John Chandler.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Logan Township, Pike County, Indiana.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A town in Ohio Township and Boon Township, Warrick County, Indiana; named for railroad official O. E. Chandler.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A township in Charlevoix County, Michigan.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A township in Huron County, Michigan.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A town in Murray County, Minnesota; named for railroad official John Alonzo Chandler.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Clay County, Missouri; named for Civil War officer John N. Chandler.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A township in Adams County, North Dakota.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A city, the county seat of Lincoln County, Oklahoma, United States, named for Judge George Chandler.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A city in Henderson County, Texas; named for early settler Alphonso H. Chandler.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A former settlement in California.
glosses: A river.
A river in Alaska, United States; running 201 km from Chandler Lake in Gates of the Arctic National Park into the Colville 27 km northeast of Umiat.
glosses: A river.
A river in New South Wales, Australia; running 110 km from the Great Dividing Range near Lyndhurst into the Macleay at Cunnawarra National Park.
glosses: A river.
A river in Maine, United States; running 39 km from Cottontail Hill in Centerville into the Englishman Bay near Jonesboro.
Derived terms: Chandleresque
Chandlerian
Chandlerish
Chandler wobble
Chandler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑːndlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃændlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃændləɹ/
Forms: form: Chandlers
form: Chander
Senses: glosses: A California variety of pomelo with a smoother skin than many other varieties.
Related terms: Chandler's Ford
deacon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dē'k(ə)n
ipa: /ˈdiːkən/
rhymes: -iːkən
Forms: form: deacons
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English deken, dekne, from Old English diacon, from Ecclesiastical Latin diāconus, from Ancient Greek διᾱ́κονος (diā́konos, “servant, minister”).
Senses: qualifier: early Christianity
glosses: A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
topics: Christianity
glosses: A modern-day member of a church who handles secular and/or administrative duties in a priest's stead, the specifics of which depends on denomination.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy; Oriental Orthodoxy; Church of the East; Eastern Orthodoxy; Oriental Orthodoxy; Church of the East
glosses: A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.
qualifier: Anglicanism
glosses: An ordained clergyperson usually serving a year prior to being ordained presbyter, though in some cases they remain a permanent deacon.
qualifier: Evangelicalism
glosses: A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.
qualifier: Methodism
glosses: A separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate.
topics: Freemasonry
freemasonry
lifestyle
glosses: A junior lodge officer.
glosses: The lowest office in the Aaronic priesthood, generally held by 12 or 13 year old boys or recent converts.
qualifier: animal husbandry
glosses: A male calf of a dairy breed, so called because they are usually deaconed (see below).
glosses: The chairman of an incorporated company.
Hypernyms: sense: various religious senses
word: cleric
Hyponyms: word: permanent deacon
word: transitional deacon
Coordinate terms: word: deaconess
sense: various religious senses
word: abbé
sense: various religious senses
word: canon
Derived terms: archdeacon
deaconal
deaconate
deaconess
deaconhood
deaconise
deaconize
deaconly
deaconry
deacon-seat
deaconship
hierodeacon
protodeacon
subdeacon
underdeacon
Related terms: diaconal
diaconate
deacon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dē'k(ə)n
ipa: /ˈdiːkən/
rhymes: -iːkən
Forms: form: deacons
form: deaconing
form: deaconed
form: deaconed
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English deken, dekne, from Old English diacon, from Ecclesiastical Latin diāconus, from Ancient Greek διᾱ́κονος (diā́konos, “servant, minister”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: For a choir leader to lead a hymn by speaking one or two lines at a time, which are then sung by the choir.
qualifier: animal husbandry
glosses: To kill a calf shortly after birth.
examples: text: The blanc mange was lumpy, and the strawberries not as ripe as they looked, having been skilfully 'deaconed'.
ref: 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women:
text: It's like buying a barrel of apples that's been deaconed — after you've found that the deeper you go the meaner and wormier the fruit, you forget all about the layer of big, rosy, wax-finished pippins that was on top.
ref: 1902, George Horace Lorimer, Old Gorgon Graham:
glosses: To place fresh fruit at the top of a barrel or other container, with spoiled or imperfect fruit hidden beneath.
glosses: To make sly alterations to the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc.
Tamazight
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ˈtăʹm-ə-zĭgt
ipa: /ˈtæm.ə.zɪɡt/
Etymology: Borrowed from Central Atlas Tamazight ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ (tamaziɣt)
Senses: glosses: The continuum of closely-related Amazigh languages spoken in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and other parts of northern Africa.
glosses: A specific continuum of mutually intelligible dialects spoken mainly by the Imazighen of the Middle Atlas and High Atlas regions in Morocco.
Derived terms: Central Atlas Tamazight
umm
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: - How does a plane fly?
- Umm, I don't know.
glosses: Alternative form of um.
umm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: umms
form: umming
form: ummed
form: ummed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of um (“to make the umm sound to express confusion or hesitancy”).
someplace
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌmˌpleɪs/
Etymology: From some + place.
Senses: examples: text: We can't find the damned thing, but it must be someplace.
glosses: Somewhere.
Derived terms: someplace else
someplace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌmˌpleɪs/
Forms: form: someplaces
Etymology: From some + place.
Senses: examples: text: And there is a reason for going to Israel: to find a someplace.
ref: 1993, Robert Werman, Notes from a Sealed Room: An Israeli View of the Gulf War, →ISBN, page xvii:
text: Thus, "placing readers at the forefront of utopian studies will [...] help us to understand more fully and accurately what the noplaces of Utopia have done, do, and will do to the someplaces of our world" (Roemer 154).
ref: 2007, Tom Moylan, Raffaella Baccolini, Utopia Method Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming, →ISBN, page 322:
text: To get here you drive through the series of pocketed communities that fray the outskirts of these usual someplaces, someplaces that are like industrial cities that were once more industrious cities.
ref: 2013, Kate Bernheimer, xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, →ISBN:
text: Find a someplace as far away as possible from the flying monster and its helpers.
ref: 2014, Tom Nigg, The Last of an Extinct Race, →ISBN, page 39:
text: And the someplace else was of little concern to the traveling salesman as well, because for him everywhere was someplace else and this was just another stop between a someplace and an elsewhere.
ref: 2018, Richard Spuler, Places:
glosses: An unspecified location.
whoo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͞o
ipa: /wuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: woo (wine–whine merger)
Senses: glosses: An expression of delight and excitement.
examples: text: "You are mistaken; I am a ghost; whoo!" said I, choking back my rage.
ref: 1949, Robertson Davies, The table talk of Samuel Marchbanks:
text: Then he held up his hands and let out a weak ghost-howl. "Whoo?" he moaned, in a tiny voice.
ref: 1996, R A Noonan, Wild ghost chase:
glosses: The wailing cry of a ghost.
glosses: The cry of an owl
Synonyms: sense: expression of delight
word: wahoo
sense: expression of delight
word: whoopee
sense: expression of delight
word: yay
sense: expression of delight
word: yippee
sense: cry of an owl
word: tuwhit tuwhoo
whoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͞o
ipa: /wuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: woo (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whoos
Senses: glosses: A "whoo" sound; the cry of an owl or similar.
whoo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͞o
ipa: /wuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: woo (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whoos
form: whooing
form: whooed
form: whooed
Senses: examples: text: "Upon my honour!" cried he, "there was never before such a beautiful thing in Nature or Art as you look, 'Cousin' Tess ('Cousin' had a faint ring of mockery). I have been watching you from over the wall—sitting like Im-patience on a monument, and pouting up that pretty red mouth to whistling shape, and whooing and whooing, and privately swearing, and never being able to produce a note. Why, you are quite cross because you can't do it."
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Part 6:
glosses: To make a whoo sound, of delight, whistling, or of an owl etc.
Related terms: whoo doggie
whoo doggy
whoo-hoop
Marah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːɹə/
rhymes: -ɑːɹə
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic مَرَح (maraḥ)
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic, from Arabic, which means merriness, cheerfulness.
Marah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːɹə/
rhymes: -ɑːɹə
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew מָרָה.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, from Hebrew which means bitterness. Biblical variant: Mara.
where'd
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛəd/
ipa: /wɛɹd/
ipa: /weːd/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /weəd/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /wiəd/
ipa: /ʍeɹd/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)d
homophone: weird (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: weired (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: whirred (fair–fur merger)
homophone: word (fair–fur merger)
Senses: glosses: Contraction of where had.
examples: text: Charlie: 'Camouflage or no camouflage, it'll have to get up pretty early in the morning to— Hey! Where'd it go?!'
ref: 2020 October 30, Pikmin 3 Deluxe, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, Piklopedia (Dwarf Orange Bulborb)
text: Now where'd he go?
glosses: Contraction of where did.
examples: text: “Where'd you go? If you had your choice, where'd you go?” No answer.
ref: 2014, Lucy Daniels, High on a Hill, page 229:
glosses: Contraction of where would.
someone's
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌmwʌnz/
Etymology: From someone + -'s.
Senses: synonyms: somebody's
glosses: Possessive case of someone.
someone's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌmwʌnz/
Etymology: From someone + 's.
Senses: glosses: Contraction of someone is
glosses: Contraction of someone has
screwed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: more screwed
form: most screwed
Etymology: From screw + -ed.
* The modern sense of screwed originates in the mid-1600s with a sense of to screw as a means of "exerting pressure or coercion", probably in reference to instruments of torture (e.g. thumbscrews). It quickly gained a wider general sense of "in a bind; in unfortunate inescapable circumstances". When the verb screw gained a sexual connotation in the early 1700s, it joined the long-lasting association of sexual imagery as a metaphor for domination, leading to screwed gaining synonyms like fucked and shagged. On a more general note, this is a prime example of the frequent tendency for verb participles to evolve into participial adjectives.
* The sense meaning "intoxicated" is from the early 1800s, and is associated with the term screwy, and the idiom to have a screw loose.
Senses: examples: text: They found out about our betrayal, so now we're screwed.
glosses: Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.
examples: text: "[…] Did you know that my husband came home intoxicated?"
Mrs. Brown laughed.
"Oh, not so bad as that, surely! Only a little 'screwed.' George was 'quisby,' too. But then its Christmas, you know."
ref: 1889, Belgravia, volume 70, page 15:
text: Besides they were dreadfully afraid that Freddy Malins might turn up screwed. They would not wish for worlds that any of Mary Jane's pupils should see him under the influence; […]
ref: 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, pages 217–218:
glosses: Intoxicated.
Synonyms: sense: beset
word: fucked
word: dicked
word: shagged
word: in trouble
sense: intoxicated
word: drunk
Derived terms: screwed and chopped
screwed, blued and tattooed / screwed, glued and tattooed
screwedness
Related terms: screw over
screwed up
screwed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːd
Etymology: From screw + -ed.
* The modern sense of screwed originates in the mid-1600s with a sense of to screw as a means of "exerting pressure or coercion", probably in reference to instruments of torture (e.g. thumbscrews). It quickly gained a wider general sense of "in a bind; in unfortunate inescapable circumstances". When the verb screw gained a sexual connotation in the early 1700s, it joined the long-lasting association of sexual imagery as a metaphor for domination, leading to screwed gaining synonyms like fucked and shagged. On a more general note, this is a prime example of the frequent tendency for verb participles to evolve into participial adjectives.
* The sense meaning "intoxicated" is from the early 1800s, and is associated with the term screwy, and the idiom to have a screw loose.
Senses: examples: text: He screwed the boards together tightly.
text: I got screwed at the swap meet yesterday.
text: 1641, Richard Chambers (merchant), quoted in Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise, Part II: The After-Growth of the Constitution, H.O. Houghton & Company (1889), p. 274,
[…] merchants are in no part of the world so screwed as in England. In Turkey, they have more encouragement.
glosses: simple past and past participle of screw
ahh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aah.
ahh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ahhs
Senses: examples: text: In any given performance, their tosses and spins and leaps elicit oohs and ahhs from children and adults.
ref: 2009 January 4, Joe Brescia, “Twins Graduate From Columbia to Stardom at the Circus”, in New York Times:
text: The most underrated component in building a custom gun is the metalsmithing. Stock work immediately attracts attention. Fancy checkering patterns, meticulously executed, are sure to elicit oohs and ahhs.
ref: 2013, Tom Turpin, Modern Custom Guns: Walnut, Steel, and Uncommon Artistry, 2nd edition, Iola, Wis.: Gun Digest Books, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: Alternative spelling of aah.
ahh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ahhs
form: ahhing
form: ahhed
form: ahhed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aah.
ahh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ahhs
Etymology: Respelling of ass representing a pronunciation with elision of the final consonant, which can occur in African-American Vernacular English. Later non-African American Vernacular English uses are perhaps derived from, or influenced by, -ahh (“-ass”).
Senses: examples: text: Bring your ahh to school nigga
ref: 2012 October 1, @sammmie_ellis, Twitter:
text: I really just fell on my Ahh^([sic]) on this hover board.... I’m over it 😒
ref: 2018 September 22, @beckiii3, Twitter:
text: I watched a gay nigga roast this baddie … I swear on everything she wasn't even bad to me no more after he fyed her ahh up 😂
ref: 2023 October 5, @404_Litee, Twitter:
text: need to start working my ahh off once my injury heals completely for my laser treatment. huft.
ref: 2024 May 27, @swweetrain, Twitter:
text: Disown your ahh
ref: 2025 June 19, @ayanadate, Twitter:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of ass.
Related terms: -ahh
headed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdɪd/
rhymes: -ɛdɪd
Etymology: See head (verb).
Senses: examples: text: Smith headed the team last summer.
text: We headed toward the ocean.
glosses: simple past and past participle of head
headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdɪd/
rhymes: -ɛdɪd
Etymology: See head (verb).
Senses: examples: text: southward-headed caravans
glosses: Heading in a certain direction.
vegas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vega
timing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪmɪŋ
Forms: form: timings
Senses: glosses: An occurrence or event.
examples: text: The key to telling a good joke is timing.
text: The officials used the latest technology to ensure timing down to the nearest millisecond.
text: The S.D.R. [Somerset & Dorset Railway] could not adhere to this schedule, and had to decelerate the service, but the original timings were restored when the M.R. and L.S.W.R. leased the S.D.R.
ref: 1953 August, David R. Webb, “By Rail to Bournemouth”, in Railway Magazine, page 554:
text: Smoking was difficult, I had to have perfect timing, sticking my head as far out the tiny porthole as I could, and timing my puffs to the inhalings and exhalings of the ship.
ref: 2001, Frederick Alan Casemore, Skylarks: For Myself, Lest I Forget, Or Die Unsung, page 171:
glosses: The regulation of the pace of e.g. an athletic race, the speed of an engine, the delivery of a joke, or the occurrence of a series of events.
examples: text: perfect timing
glosses: The time when something happens.
glosses: The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.
glosses: An instance of recording the time of something.
Derived terms: active timing
attack timing
back-timing
basic ignition timing
basic timing
color timing
comic timing
computer-controlled timing
continuous variable valve timing
dynamic ignition timing
ignition timing
market timing
sequential valve timing
signal timing
stress timing
syllable timing
targa timing
target timing
timing belt
timing chain
timing is everything
valve timing
variable cam timing
variable valve timing
watch timing machine
timing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of time
jeez
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of geez.
moves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /muːvz/
rhymes: -uːvz
Senses: glosses: plural of move
moves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /muːvz/
rhymes: -uːvz
Senses: examples: text: Check out the guy on the dancefloor, he's got seriously good moves.
glosses: A good ability to dance.
moves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /muːvz/
rhymes: -uːvz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of move
twins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twɪnz/
rhymes: -ɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of twin
twins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twɪnz/
rhymes: -ɪnz
Senses: examples: text: Then to make matters worse, you try to squeeze the twins, which seemed to figure out that gravity does work, into a dress or blouse, exposing enough cleavage that forges a valley big enough that John Wayne could drive cattle through it from his movie Red River.
ref: 2011, Joey O’Brien, The Gods are Angry, page 43:
glosses: A woman's breasts.
twins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /twɪnz/
rhymes: -ɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of twin
mickey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪki/
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: mickeys
Etymology: * (potato): From the common Irish name; compare murphy (“a potato”).
* (computer mouse resolution): An allusion to the cartoon character Mickey Mouse.
Senses: examples: text: While you're at the liquor store, get a mickey of rye?
glosses: A small bottle of liquor, holding 375 ml or 13 oz., typically shaped to fit in one's pocket.
examples: text: I slipped him a mickey.
glosses: A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged.
glosses: An Irish person.
examples: text: We roasted mickeys over a fire with two-foot sticks.
qualifier: Depression Era
glosses: A potato.
examples: text: He fell off the bike and injured his mickey.
text: Five Fingers rapped around my mickey, being /ke/[??]
Smokin on this dickey in the Fifty /se/[??], and shift
ref: 2004, “Take a Toast”, in The Love Never Dies, performed by Paperboy et al.:
glosses: The penis.
glosses: The vagina.
glosses: A well-known honeyeater, the Noisy Miner, Manorina melanocephala, of eastern Australia.
qualifier: rural Australia
glosses: A young bull, especially one that is unbranded and running wild.
glosses: piss, shortened and more commonly used form of Mickey Bliss.
examples: text: […] mickeys per inch depending on the mouse hardware. Default values are 8 mickeys / 8 pixels horizontal and 16 mickeys / 8 pixels vertical.
ref: 1990, Ben Ezzell, Graphics Programming in Turbo C++, page 345:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The resolution of a mouse: the smallest measurable distance it can move the cursor, used as a unit of length.
mickey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪki/
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: mickeys
form: mickeying
form: mickeyed
form: mickeyed
Etymology: * (potato): From the common Irish name; compare murphy (“a potato”).
* (computer mouse resolution): An allusion to the cartoon character Mickey Mouse.
Senses: examples: text: Sam said he hadn't mickeyed me.
ref: 1951, The Scented Flesh, page 46:
text: You mickeyed my drink, didn't you?.
ref: 1994, Dana Stabenow, A Cold-Blooded Business, →ISBN, page 202:
text: No question now, as far as she was concerned, that someone had mickeyed his beer.
ref: 2005, Wildwood Road, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: To secretly slip drugs into somebody's drink.
Derived terms: mickey-take
Texas mickey
Related terms: take the mickey
throw a mickey
commissioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɪʃənɚ/
ipa: /kəˈmɪʃənə/
Forms: form: commissioners
Etymology: From Middle English commissioner, from Anglo-Norman commissionaire, from Medieval Latin commissiōnārius. Doublet of commissionaire. See commission.
Senses: glosses: A member of a commission.
glosses: Someone commissioned to perform certain duties.
glosses: An official in charge of a government department, especially a police force.
examples: text: […] the 'private nature' of commissioned pictures, particularly portraits, was frequently mentioned as the justification for two types of proposal: the ownership of painting copyright by the commissioner, or ownership of painting copyright by the artist […]
ref: 2018, Elena Cooper, Art and Modern Copyright: The Contested Image, page 164:
glosses: Someone who commissions something.
Derived terms: word: commissionerate
word: commissioneress
word: commissionership
word: subcommissioner
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: Commissioner-designate
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: European Commissioner
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: high commissioner
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: Lord High Commissioner
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: police commissioner
hmmm
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hm̩ː/
ipa: [m̥m̩ː˦˨]
Senses: glosses: Elongated form of hmm.
cris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crisses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kris (“dagger”).
oooh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Elongated form of ooh.
oooh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ooohs
form: ooohing
form: ooohed
form: ooohed
Senses: glosses: Elongated form of ooh.
ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌps/
rhymes: -ʌps
Senses: glosses: plural of up
Related terms: ups and downs
ups
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌps/
rhymes: -ʌps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of up
ups
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌps/
rhymes: -ʌps
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of oops.
ups
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌps/
rhymes: -ʌps
Forms: form: more ups
form: most ups
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of upz (“outstanding”).
smarter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: You may be faster and stronger than me, but I'm smarter than you
glosses: comparative form of smart: more smart
sis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
homophone: cis
Forms: form: sises
form: sisses
Senses: examples: text: big sis
text: My sis is tying the knot. I want you to play for the reception.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, The Wedding Gig:
text: Call me when ur 3 year old daughter knows SZA lyrics, girl said “you still playin the pick me, I’m still playin the victim” we don’t care if it’s backwards sis learned that all on her own 🥹
ref: 2023 January 3, amanda 🍒(@ amc0124), Twitter:
glosses: Clipping of sister.
Synonyms: sense: sister
word: sissy
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: sis boom bah
sinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sin
sinning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinnings
Senses: examples: text: High sinnings do greatly dishonour God, wound conscience, reproach religion, stagger the weak, grieve the strong, open the mouths of the wicked, and provoke God to withdraw his gracious presence[…]
ref: 1675, Thomas Brooks, A Word in Season to this Present Generation […] :
glosses: The act of committing a sin.
aww
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔː/
ipa: /ɑː/
rhymes: -ɔː
rhymes: -ɑː
Senses: examples: text: Aww, that's so sad: he hasn't yet learned to ride a bike.
text: Aww, look at the kitten curled up in her lap!
glosses: Elongated form of aw.
Derived terms: aww yeah
aww
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔː/
ipa: /ɑː/
rhymes: -ɔː
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: awws
form: awwing
form: awwed
form: awwed
Senses: glosses: To make an aww sound.
carver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹvɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɑːvə/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)və(ɹ)
homophone: calver stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: carvers
Etymology: From Middle English carver, karvere, kerver, kervere, equivalent to carve + -er. Cognate with Scots kerver, carver, carvour (“carver”).
Senses: glosses: Someone who carves; an artist who produces carvings.
glosses: A carving knife.
glosses: A butcher.
examples: text: She began a circuit of the dining room, peering at the baronial fireplace with its andirons the size of torture racks, and heavy oak carvers like gnarled thrones.
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 215:
glosses: An armchair as part of a set of dining chairs (originally for the person who is to carve the meat).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A ski with curved edges, allowing smooth turns.
Derived terms: Carver
runecarver
woodcarver
payback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪbæk/
Forms: form: paybacks
Etymology: Deverbal from pay back.
Senses: examples: text: They beat us last year, so this year's win was payback.
glosses: An act of revenge.
examples: text: They identify three tangible paybacks.
ref: 2009 February 2, Carol Goar, “You can help cleaners earn decent wages”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A benefit, reward, a form of recompense.
glosses: A return on investment.
glosses: A refund; reimbursement.
Synonyms: sense: repayment
word: repayment
sense: revenge
word: getback
sense: revenge
word: revenge
sense: revenge
word: repayment
sense: revenge
word: reprisal
sense: revenge
word: just deserts
sense: revenge
word: poetic justice
Derived terms: community payback
energy payback time
payback
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪbæk/
Etymology: Deverbal from pay back.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pay back.
Related terms: have it coming
pay back
hypothesize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈpɒθ.ɪ.saɪz/
ipa: /hɪˈpɒθ.ɪ.saɪz/
ipa: /həˈpɒθ.ɪ.saɪz/
ipa: /-ə.saɪz/
note: of Canada
ipa: /haɪˈpɑ.θəˌsaɪz/
note: Canadian raising
ipa: [hʌɪˈpɑ.θəˌsaɪz]
note: of the US
ipa: /haɪˈpɒθ.əˌsaɪz/
note: Canadian raising
ipa: [hʌɪˈpɒθ.əˌsaɪz]
ipa: /hɑeˈpɔθ.ə.sɑez/
ipa: /haɪˈpɒθ.ə.saɪz/
ipa: [hɑe̯ˈpɔ̟θ.ə.sɑe̯z]
Forms: form: hypothesizes
form: hypothesizing
form: hypothesized
form: hypothesized
form: hypothesise
Etymology: From hypothesis + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: When hormones signal breast cells to divide more rapidly, scientists hypothesize, they increase breast cancer risk by causing precancerous or cancerous cells to multiply.
ref: 1996, Public Health Reports, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Resources Administration:
text: Census response is thus a reasonable proxy for civicminded attitudes and cooperation that are hypothesized to improve governmental performance.
ref: 2000, Stephen F. Knack, Social Capital and the Quality of Government: Evidence from the United States, page 11:
text: Dahood hypothesizes an occurrence of a verb rihham ('to conceive, enwomb')
ref: 2007, John Goldingay, David Payne, Isaiah 40-55 Vol 2: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN:
text: I don’t dispute that some cases of this sort—involving a subject who differentially doubts what, pretheoretically, we would take to be one and the same thought-content, entertained twice—might be best described by hypothesizing a difference in content.
ref: 2007 December 29, Sanford Goldberg, “Must Differences in Cognitive Value be Transparent?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:
synonyms: word: hypotheticate
word: guess
word: arread
word: assume
word: fancy
word: conject
word: conjecture
word: daresay
word: dope
word: foreguess
word: go out on a limb
word: guess
word: guesstimate
word: hunch
word: hypothesize
word: hypotheticate
word: imagine
word: infer
word: overhope
word: posit
word: postulate
word: presume
word: reckon
word: speculate
word: suppose
word: surmise
word: suspect
word: take a stab at
word: take for granted
raw_tags: of things
word: take something as read
word: theorize
word: ween
glosses: To assume or assert tentatively on uncertain grounds.
Derived terms: hypothesizer
unhypothesized
Related terms: hypothetical
hypothesizable
beers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪə(ɹ)z/
ipa: /bɪɚz/
ipa: /biɹz/
ipa: /bɪɹz/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z
Senses: examples: text: I brought four beers to the game with me.
text: My favorite local beers are Rugged Pine and Nimbostratus.
glosses: plural of beer
hypothesise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hypothesises
form: hypothesising
form: hypothesised
form: hypothesised
form: hypothesize
Etymology: From hypothesis + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: One path to salvation is that laid out by Lord May. An atheist, and president of the British Science Association, he hypothesises that religion could in fact be a protective mechanism thrown up by evolutionary processes to terrify people into prudence.
ref: 2010 March 31, Alan Wilson, “Redemption from the inside out”, in The Guardian:
text: He went further, hypothesising that such an entity might devise the modern, psychological conception of possession as a function of the subject's own psyche: "since nothing is more dangerous to a possessor than being seen as a separate invading creature by the host it has invaded".
ref: 2014 February 1, Will Self, “William Burroughs - the original Junkie”, in The Guardian:
text: Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct.
ref: 2017 May 3, Mark Carnall, “Finding zombies, ghosts and Elvis in the fossil record”, in The Guardian:
text: They hypothesise the behaviour might have evolved as a means to avoid predators at the bottom of bodies of water.
ref: 2021 July 8, Donna Lu, “Beetle that can walk upside down under water surface filmed in Australia in world first”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of hypothesize.
Derived terms: unhypothesised
sorta
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːtə/
ipa: /ˈsɔɹtə/
ipa: [-ɾə]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə
Etymology: A written form of a reduction of sort of.
Senses: examples: text: The portraits on the wall aren’t that good, but they’re just sorta cool to have around.
text: 'Webb,' he says sorta sorrowful like, 'it looks like a howlin' shame to have a bang-up American girl hooked up to a money-grubbin' member of the British nobility. It don't in no way fit in with my ideas of the speerut of American independence!'
ref: 1912 September, Charles Alden Seltzer, “Love’s International”, in The Outing Magazine: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, volume LX, number 6, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.: Outing Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 680, column 1:
text: When Tommy's folks heard about it they were angry with him, and with Chuck for using him to play such a mean trick on Vern. In fact the whole thing sorta backfired on old Chuck—and on me and Pete too. Instead of laughing about it, most people thought it was pretty crummy.
ref: 1993 July, William R. Scott, “Sort of a Hero”, in Scott Stuckey, editor, Boys’ Life, volume LXXXIII, number 7, Irving, Tex.: Boy Scouts of America, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34, column 2:
synonyms: kinda
kinda sorta
sorta kinda
glosses: Contraction of sort of.
sorta
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːtə/
ipa: /ˈsɔɹtə/
ipa: [-ɾə]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə
Forms: form: sortsa
Etymology: A written form of a reduction of sort of.
Senses: examples: text: There’s gotta be some sorta explanation.
text: He glanced at her then back at me. "What sorta research?" / "Well, war correspondent might not be too far off," I said.
ref: 2001, Lawrence A. Wenzel, The Sandcastle at High Tide, page 97:
glosses: Sort of.
crie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cries
Senses: examples: text: 12 ¶ And the men said vnto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? sonne in law, and thy sonnes, and thy daughters, and whatsoeuer thou hast in the citie, bring them out of this place.
13 For we will destroy this place, because the crie of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD: and the LORD hath sent vs to destroy it.
14 And Lot went out, and spake vnto his sonnes in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get yee out of this place: for the LORD wil destroy this citie: but hee seemed as one that mocked, vnto his sonnes in law.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 19:12–14:
text: So the Iewes, when they ſecurely bleſſed themſelues in their proſperitie,and drowned the voyce of the Lords Heralds, denouncing warre, with their lowder crie of peace, peace, were vanquiſhed by their enemies, and led into a miſerable captiuitie.
ref: 1622, John Downame, chapter IX, in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 60:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of cry.
crie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cries
form: crying
form: cried
form: cried
Senses: examples: text: The Captaine in a Shippe of warre, is a iollie fellowe, and thinketh himselfe a lyttle God, because hee speaketh prowdlie to the Souldiors, and maketh them quayle at the shaking of his lockes: […] If any be vnrulie, hee casteth him ouerboorde, or if any be fearefull, hee bindes him to the Maste: if hée crie aloofe, the Helmes man dares not goe roomer: and if hée bidde shoote, the gunner dares not but giue fyre.
ref: 1581, Richard Madox, A Learned and a Godly Sermon, to be read of all men, but especially for all marryners, captaynes and passengers, which trauell the seas, London:
text: And it came to paſſe at noone, that Eliiah mocked them, and ſaide, Crie aloud: for he is a god, either he is talking, or he is purſuing, or hee is in a iourney, or peraduenture he ſleepeth, and muſt be awaked.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 18:27, column 1:
text: Ariell:
Where the Bee ſucks, there ſuck I,
In a Cowslips bell, I lie,
There I cowch when Owles doe crie,
On the Batts backe I doe flie
  after Sommer merrily.
Merrily, merrily, ſhall I liue now
Vnder the bloſſom that hangs on the Bow.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 17:
text: Let Sacars, Culuerings, and Cannons ſound / In honour of their bones, and rock the ground / With all your deafning terrors: for behold / The Balſum for your wounds, are rich mens gold, / Powder the world with wonder, and thus crie, / The Camel now may paſſe the needles eie.
ref: 1616, M. Robert Anton, “The Philosophers fovrth Satyr of Mars”, in The Philosophers Satyrs, London: Printed by T[homas] C[reede] and B[ernard] A[lsop] for Roger Iackſon, page 36:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of cry.
insecure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnsəˈkjʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪnsəˈkjɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪnsəˈkjʊɹ/
ipa: /ɪnsəˈkjɝ/
ipa: /ɪnsəˈkjɔɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more insecure
form: most insecure
Etymology: From in- + secure, or from Medieval Latin insēcūrus, itself from in- (“in-, un-, non-”) + sēcūrus (“safe, certain”). Piecewise doublet of unsecure and unsure.
Senses: glosses: Not secure.
examples: text: He's a nice guy and all, but seems to be rather insecure around other people.
text: Imagine being so insecure that you make it against the law for folks to dislike you.
text: The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: When you're knee-deep in these insecure feelings, it can be hard to see clearly.
ref: 2021, Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, “What is... jealousy?”, in Let's Talk About It, →ISBN, page 191:
glosses: Not comfortable or confident in oneself or in certain situations.
Derived terms: insecurely
insecureness
insecurity
paternity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɜːnɪti/
ipa: /pəˈtɜ(ɹ)nəti/
ipa: [-ɾi]
Forms: form: paternities
Etymology: From Middle French paternité, from Old French, from Latin paternitās (“paternity”), from paternus (“of or pertaining to a father, paternal”) + -itās, from pater (“father”).
Senses: glosses: Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
glosses: Parental descent from a father.
topics: law
glosses: Legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child.
examples: text: The author asserted her right to paternity on the book's copyright page.
glosses: Authorship.
Derived terms: grandpaternity
heteropaternity
nonpaternity
paternity leave
paternity suit
paternity test
primipaternity
Related terms: affiliation
maternity
rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊlz/
ipa: /ɹoʊlz/
rhymes: -əʊlz
rhymes: -oʊlz
homophone: roles
homophone: Rolls
Senses: glosses: plural of roll
rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊlz/
ipa: /ɹoʊlz/
rhymes: -əʊlz
rhymes: -oʊlz
homophone: roles
homophone: Rolls
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roll
caller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːlə/
ipa: /ˈkɔlɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɑlɚ/
homophone: collar (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɔːlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: callers
Etymology: From Middle English callar, equivalent to call + -er.
Senses: examples: text: ―I’ve got someone on the line.
―Who’s the caller?
text: Thaler was arrested in Orono last May when a caller reported that the car she was driving had a shattered rear window and a blown-out tire.
ref: 2023 February 16, WCCO Staff, “Julissa Thaler sentenced to life in prison for murdering 6-year-old son, Eli Hart”, in cbsnews.com:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
coordinate_terms: callee
glosses: The person who makes a telephone call.
examples: text: a gentleman caller
glosses: A visitor.
topics: bingo
games
glosses: The person who stands at the front of the hall and announces the numbers.
examples: text: If the called function throws an exception, the caller should be prepared to handle the error.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A function that calls another (the callee).
glosses: A whistle or similar item used to call foxes.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The person who directs dancers in certain dances, such as American line dances and square dances.
Derived terms: birdcaller
caller ID
chart caller
cold caller
cop-caller
crank caller
fox caller
hog caller
name-caller
nuisance caller
robocaller
shot caller
top-of-mind awareness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of top of mind awareness.
asses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæsɪz/
rhymes: -æsɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of ass
Related terms: sense: Appendix
word: Animals
asses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæsɪz/
rhymes: -æsɪz
note: Latinistic
ipa: /ˈæsiːz/
ipa: /ˈæsɪz/
rhymes: -æsɪz
Etymology: Latin assēs, nominative plural of as
Senses: glosses: plural of as (“Roman coin”)
mmmm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is often very good, but falls short of being truly great (mmmm, been a bit of this syndrome going around lately for blockbuster releases).
ref: 2009 January 15, “Leigh Paatsch's reviews of latest movies at the cinema”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: Elongated form of mmm.
finishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of finish