cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
piano
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjænəʊ/
ipa: /piˈænəʊ/
ipa: /piˈænoʊ/
ipa: /piˈænɪː/
ipa: /piˈænə/
ipa: /paɪˈænoʊ/
Forms: form: pianos
form: pianoing
form: pianoed
form: pianoed
Etymology: Clipping of pianoforte, from Italian pianoforte, from piano (“soft”) + forte (“strong”). So named because it could produce a wide range of varied volumes note-by-note, in contrast to older keyboard instruments, notably the harpsichord. Doublet of llano, plain, and plane.
Senses: examples: text: Anyhow I pianoed to my own ear, and had no thought at that time for an audience.
ref: 1967, Harry F. Chaplin, A McCrae Miscellany, page 41:
text: Who comforted me with Madeleines and lime tea, with whipped cream in my cocoa in far off Ann Arbor while others selfishly fiddled, bassooned, pianoed only for their own ugly self-advancement!
ref: 1978, Bertha Harris, Confessions of Cherubino, page 96:
text: John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Arnold Weinstein, and others came to the house, taping their poems as I pianoed and zithered and drummed away.
ref: 2008, John Gruen, Callas Kissed Me...Lenny Too!, page 138:
text: We guitared and drummed and head banged and pianoed.
ref: 2020, Becky Manawatu, Auē, page 139:
glosses: To play the piano.
examples: text: He just stared at her, leaned back in his chair and pianoed his fingers along the tablecloth.
ref: 2013, Ann Blair Kloman, A Diamond to Die For, page 29:
text: “Jean, it ain't right how you separated those two,” he said, and pianoed the little coffin with his fingers, tapping out his grievance.
ref: 2017, Kim Michele Richardson, The Sisters of Glass Ferry:
text: The superintendent pianoed his fingers on the surface of a nearby desk.
ref: 2020, Simon Lelic, The Search Party:
text: Holly pianoed her fingers over her throat.
ref: 2021, Emilya Naymark, Hide in Place:
glosses: To move (the fingers) up and down on, similar to the motions of a pianist playing the piano.
raw_tags: of or with fingers
examples: text: Other buildings will also be erected and pianoed by the same architect.
ref: 1889, The Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer, page 128:
text: A tabernacle has been built, burnt, rebuilt, electric lighted, organed, pianoed, and frequently filled — all during the last two years.
ref: 1892, The Japan Daily Mail - Volume 18, page 772:
glosses: To equip with a piano.
piano
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjænəʊ/
ipa: /piˈænəʊ/
ipa: /piˈænoʊ/
ipa: /piˈænɪː/
ipa: /piˈænə/
ipa: /paɪˈænoʊ/
ipa: /piˈɑːnəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpjɑːnəʊ/
ipa: /piˈɑnoʊ/
ipa: /ˈpjænəʊ/
ipa: /piˈænəʊ/
ipa: /piˈænoʊ/
ipa: /piˈænɪː/
ipa: /piˈænə/
ipa: /paɪˈænoʊ/
Forms: form: more piano
form: most piano
Etymology: From Italian piano.
Senses: examples: (abbreviation) p
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Softly, as a dynamic in a piece of music.
Related terms: mezzo piano
mp
pianissimo
pp
piano
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjænəʊ/
ipa: /piˈænəʊ/
ipa: /piˈænoʊ/
ipa: /piˈænɪː/
ipa: /piˈænə/
ipa: /paɪˈænoʊ/
ipa: /piˈɑːnəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpjɑːnəʊ/
ipa: /piˈɑnoʊ/
ipa: /ˈpjænəʊ/
ipa: /piˈænəʊ/
ipa: /piˈænoʊ/
ipa: /piˈænɪː/
ipa: /piˈænə/
ipa: /paɪˈænoʊ/
Forms: form: more piano
form: most piano
Etymology: From Italian piano.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Soft, quiet.
examples: text: “Oh! yes, yes, there is not a word to be said against James Benwick[…]that soft sort of manner does not do him justice.”[…]
“Well, well, ladies are the best judges; but James Benwick is rather too piano for me[…]”
ref: 1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume IV, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
text: ‘Tradecraft, Chris,’ Enderby put in, who liked his bit of jargon, and Martindale, still piano, shot him a glance of admiration.
ref: 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 160:
glosses: Gentle, soft, subdued.
raw_tags: in extended use
piano
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjænəʊ/
ipa: /piˈænəʊ/
ipa: /piˈænoʊ/
ipa: /piˈænɪː/
ipa: /piˈænə/
ipa: /paɪˈænoʊ/
ipa: /piˈɑːnəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpjɑːnəʊ/
ipa: /piˈɑnoʊ/
ipa: /ˈpjænəʊ/
ipa: /piˈænəʊ/
ipa: /piˈænoʊ/
ipa: /piˈænɪː/
ipa: /piˈænə/
ipa: /paɪˈænoʊ/
Forms: form: pianos
form: pianoing
form: pianoed
form: pianoed
Etymology: From Italian piano.
Senses: examples: text: “You know, Mrs. Wrigglechops,” pianoed Miss Drucilla , even more meekly and mildly than before, "the ace is either one or eleven."
ref: 1839, Rosina Doyle Bulwer afterwards Bulwer Lytton (Baroness Lytton.), Cheveley; Or, The Man of Honour, page 385:
text: His tone pianoed on intimacy.
ref: 2000, David R. Beasley, Aspects of Love: Three novellas, page 83:
text: A day pianoed, swelled acutest, pianoed.
ref: 2009, David Lau, Virgil and the Mountain Cat, page 61:
glosses: To become softer and less intense.
bankrupt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæŋ.kɹəpt/
ipa: /ˈbæŋ.kɹʌpt/
ipa: /ˈbæŋk.ɹəpt/
ipa: /ˈbæŋk.ɹʌpt/
rhymes: -æŋkɹəpt
rhymes: -æŋkɹʌpt
Forms: form: more bankrupt
form: most bankrupt
Etymology: Partial calque of Italian bancarotta (literally “a broken bench”), from banca (“bank”, literally “bench”) + rotta (“broken, rupted”), which refers to an out-of-business bank, having its bench physically broken, signifying that the working moneylender was insolvent.
Senses: examples: text: a bankrupt merchant
text: "How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."
ref: 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, page 141:
topics: business
finance
synonyms: word: almsless
word: arm
word: badly off
word: bankrupt
word: beggared
word: beggarly
word: boracic
word: broke
word: broken
word: broker than the Ten Commandments
word: destitute
word: dirt poor
word: disadvantaged
word: down and out
word: down at heel
word: down on one's luck
word: down on one's uppers
word: empty-handed
word: feeling the pinch
word: flat
word: hard up
word: impecunious
word: impoverished
word: in need
word: indigent
word: insolvent
word: lower-class
word: necessitous
word: needy
word: oofless
word: pauperized
word: penniless
word: penurious
word: pinched
word: pok kai
word: poor
word: poor as a church mouse
word: poor as a rat
word: poor as Job
word: possessionless
word: poverty-ridden
word: poverty-stricken
word: shillingless
word: skint
word: stone-broke
word: stony-broke
word: strapped
word: stuck
word: threadbare
word: unwealthy
word: wealthless
qualifier: company
glosses: In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: a morally bankrupt politician
text: O Julia! I am bankrupt in gratitude! but the time is ſo preſſing, it calls on you for ſo haſty a reſolution.
ref: 1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 80:
glosses: Destitute of, or wholly lacking a good quality, value, etc. one should possess or once possessed.
bankrupt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæŋ.kɹəpt/
ipa: /ˈbæŋ.kɹʌpt/
ipa: /ˈbæŋk.ɹəpt/
ipa: /ˈbæŋk.ɹʌpt/
rhymes: -æŋkɹəpt
rhymes: -æŋkɹʌpt
Forms: form: bankrupts
form: bankrupting
form: bankrupted
form: bankrupted
Etymology: Partial calque of Italian bancarotta (literally “a broken bench”), from banca (“bank”, literally “bench”) + rotta (“broken, rupted”), which refers to an out-of-business bank, having its bench physically broken, signifying that the working moneylender was insolvent.
Senses: examples: text: The cost of the Mendip line had, however, bankrupted the S.D.R. [Somerset & Dorset Railway], and it was leased to the two larger companies for 999 years in 1875, and named the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway.
ref: 1953 August, David R. Webb, “By Rail to Bournemouth”, in Railway Magazine, page 553:
glosses: To force into bankruptcy.
bankrupt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæŋ.kɹəpt/
ipa: /ˈbæŋ.kɹʌpt/
ipa: /ˈbæŋk.ɹəpt/
ipa: /ˈbæŋk.ɹʌpt/
rhymes: -æŋkɹəpt
rhymes: -æŋkɹʌpt
Forms: form: bankrupts
Etymology: Partial calque of Italian bancarotta (literally “a broken bench”), from banca (“bank”, literally “bench”) + rotta (“broken, rupted”), which refers to an out-of-business bank, having its bench physically broken, signifying that the working moneylender was insolvent.
Senses: glosses: One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person; a bankruptee.
topics: law
glosses: A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
Derived terms: bankrupt cart
bankruptcy
bankruptee
bankrupter
bankruptism
bankruptlike
bankruptly
bankruptness
bankruptship
bankrupt worm
go bankrupt
morally bankrupt
nonbankrupt
rebankrupt
unbankrupt
unbankrupted
wankrupt
Related terms: defunct
illiquid
insolvent
bankruptcy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæŋ.kɹʌp(t).si/
ipa: /ˈbæŋk.ɹʌp(t).si/
ipa: [ˈbɛːŋk.ɹəp(t).si]
ipa: /ˈbæŋ.kɹɐp(t).si/
ipa: /ˈbæŋ.kɹap(t).si/
Forms: form: bankruptcies
Etymology: From bankrupt + -cy, replacing earlier bankruptship.
Senses: examples: text: The company ended up filing for bankruptcy.
text: He declared that these drastic steps would undoubtedly inconvenience a good many people, but the alternative was bankruptcy of the Ulster Transport Authority and the breakdown of public transport services.
ref: 1956 May, “Transport in Ulster”, in Railway Magazine, page 279:
text: [T]he form of and redress for defamation are, for the most part, gendered. Imputations of bankruptcy, for example, which could have damaged a merchant and thus were actionable for a man, would probably have had little effect if directed toward a woman. In contrast, allegations of whoredom—which, while occasionally leveled at men, were not usually thought to injure male reputations—were overwhelmingly cited by women in the slander suits they brought.
ref: 1994, M. Lindsey Kaplan, Katherine Eggert, ““Good queen, my lord, good queen” - Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in “The Winter's Tale””, in Renaissance Drama, volume 25, →DOI, page 89 of 89–118:
topics: business
finance
law
glosses: A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a person or organization.
Derived terms: bankr.
bankruptcy order
email bankruptcy
moral bankruptcy
nonbankruptcy
postbankruptcy
prebankruptcy
pre-packaged bankruptcy
quick bankruptcy
Related terms: word: depression
word: economic downturn
word: financial crisis
word: insolvency
word: insolvent
word: receivership
word: recession
word: broke
word: bust
word: belly up
word: go broke
word: go bust
word: go belly up
crisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹaɪsɪs/
ipa: /ˈkɹɑɪsɪs/
rhymes: -aɪsɪs
Forms: form: crises
Etymology: From Latin crisis, from Ancient Greek κρίσις (krísis, “a separating, power of distinguishing, decision, choice, election, judgment, dispute”), from κρίνω (krínō, “pick out, choose, decide, judge”).
Senses: glosses: A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
examples: text: The financial crisis could have been avoided and was the result of poor decision making both in Washington and at top financial firms that fostered a culture of excessive risk taking, according to a draft report written by Democrats on a panel that investigated the meltdown and obtained by Reuters.
ref: 2011 January 25, Dave Clarke, “Panel says financial crisis avoidable”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2025:
text: The big question, I believe, is whether the Italian and maybe Spanish crises are the kind of thing that might be brought under control by ECB bond purchases. This is often phrased in terms of whether they are facing liquidity or solvency problems; but I think it’s better phrased in terms of the possibility of self-fulfilling crises, a la Obstfeld. […] So there is a reasonable case that what we’re seeing in Italy is a self-fulfilling crisis trying to happen, in which fear of default is precisely what leads to default.
ref: 2011 August 7, Paul Krugman, “A Self-Fulfilling Euro Crisis? (Wonkish)”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2022:
glosses: An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
examples: text: I'm having a major crisis trying to wallpaper the living room.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.
Derived terms: acrisia
Asian songbird crisis
behavioral crisis
budget crisis
climate crisis
constitutional crisis
crisis actor
crisis center
crisis hotline
crisis intervention
crisisless
crisis line
crisis management
crisis response team
crisis-ridden
crisitunity
currency crisis
diabetic crisis
ecocrisis
economic crisis
energy crisis
epicrisis
epistemic crisis
Eurocrisis
European debt crisis
existential crisis
financial crisis
healing crisis
humanitarian crisis
identity crisis
international crisis
Messinian salinity crisis
mid-life crisis
midlife crisis
minicrisis
multicrisis
never waste a crisis
noncrisis
oxygenation crisis
oxygen crisis
permacrisis
personal crisis
polycrisis
postcrisis
precrisis
psychedelic crisis
psychological crisis
quarter-life crisis
renal crisis
replication crisis
scissors crisis
software crisis
Related terms: criterion
critic
critical
criticize
critique
following
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒləʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɑloʊɪŋ/
Etymology: By surface analysis, follow + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: See the following section.
text: Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
ref: 1835, Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1, pages 284–5:
synonyms: word: succeeding
word: following
word: next
word: subsequent
word: posterior
word: succeeding
word: successor
word: ulterior
antonyms: word: preceding
word: current
word: subsequent
glosses: Coming next, either in sequence or in time.
examples: text: The following words have no definition[…]
synonyms: undermentioned
antonyms: abovementioned
aforementioned
aforesaid
glosses: About to be specified.
examples: text: The following wind sped us on our way.
glosses: Blowing in the direction of travel, as opposed to headwind; downwind.
raw_tags: of a wind
Derived terms: following along
followingly
following
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒləʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɑloʊɪŋ/
Etymology: By surface analysis, follow + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Following the meeting, we all had a chat.
text: We published our findings following a thorough review of others' earlier reports.
antonyms: before
prior to
glosses: After, subsequent to.
examples: text: Following all relevant safety instructions, administer a dose of the corticosteroid.
text: Administer a dose of the corticosteroid, following all relevant safety instructions.
synonyms: per#Preposition
glosses: In accordance with; as per.
following
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒləʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɑloʊɪŋ/
Forms: form: followings
Etymology: By surface analysis, follow + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: He had a loyal following.
text: And White Hart Lane was stunned when Rovers scored just five minutes after the restart in front of their away following.
ref: 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:
text: Mikayla has 14.4 million followers on TikTok and it is growing every day, and she has accumulated over one billion likes on the app. She also has 2.5 million followers on Instagram. Both her followings accumulate to an impressive 16.9, almost 17 million followers.
ref: 2023 January 31, Katelyn Mensah, “Who is Mikayla Nogueira? The beauty TikToker whose face and eyelashes are all over your FYP”, in The Tab, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2023:
text: Move Forward, which has built a strong following among young people, appeared to have outperformed expectations.
ref: 2023 May 14, Rebecca Ratcliffe, Thitipol Panyalimpanun, “Opposition parties take lead in Thai election”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A group of followers, attendants or admirers; an entourage.
glosses: Vocation; business; profession.
examples: text: The following is a recommendation letter from the president.
text: The following are the three most important questions.
qualifier: treated as singular or plural
glosses: A thing or things to be mentioned immediately after.
examples: text: When a new user joins Weibo, he should register Weibo and get a unique ID, and then he takes some existing users as his followings and waits for others to follow him.
ref: 2014, Zhengbiao Guo, Zhitang Li, Hao Tu, Da Xie, “Weibo: An Information-Driven Online Social Network”, in Marina L.Gavrilova, C.J. Kenneth Tan, editors, Transactions on Computational Science XXII (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 8360), Springer, →ISBN, part I (Neural and Social Networks), page 6:
text: A follower can follow any other users and receive any kind of tweets from his or her followings.
ref: 2017, Konglin Zhu, Xiaoming Fu, Wenzhong Li, Sanglu Lu, Jan Nagler, “Population Growth in Online Social Networks”, in Xiaoming Fu, Jar-Der Luo, Margarete Boos, editors, Social Network Analysis: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Case Studies, CRC Press, →ISBN, section 3 (The Data), subsection 1 (Three Online Social Networks):
text: She scrolled through her [Chloe’s] page and liked a few of her pictures that were like candy to her eyes before thoroughly checking her followings. She then checked Chloe’s followers, which was well over a thousand followers.
ref: 2020, Jay Janzee, Don’t Get Too Close, Pittsburgh, Pa.: RoseDog Books, →ISBN, page 79:
coordinate_terms: follower
qualifier: social media
glosses: An account which is followed.
Derived terms: cult following
following
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒləʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɑloʊɪŋ/
Etymology: By surface analysis, follow + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of follow
MoF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Ministry of Finance (in Japan).
WVO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WVOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of waste vegetable oil.
albero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish albero.
Senses: glosses: Densely packed crushed rock covering the ground where a bullfight will take place.
demonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛmənɪm/
ipa: /ˈdɛmənɪm/
Forms: form: demonyms
Etymology: From demo- + -onym, from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “people”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”). Possibly revived in 1997 by Paul Dickson of Merriam-Webster.
Senses: examples: text: Why is it that people from the United States use American as their demonym?
glosses: A name for an inhabitant or native of a specific place, usually derived from the name of the place.
examples: text: The Logophile has my favourite demonym; I would write under it if he didn't.
glosses: A pseudonym formed of an adjective.
Synonyms: gentilic
Derived terms: demonymic
demonymics
octopus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒktəpʊs/
ipa: /ˈɒktəpəs/
ipa: /ˈɑktəpʊs/
ipa: /ˈɑktəpəs/
Forms: form: octopuses
form: octopusses
form: octopi
form: octopii
form: octopodes
form: octopus
Etymology: From Latin octōpūs, from Ancient Greek ὀκτώπους (oktṓpous), from ὀκτώ (oktṓ, “eight”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).
Senses: examples: text: Even octopuses without stylets almost certainly retain the molecular machinery necessary to build them.
ref: 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 120:
text: In terms of diversity, cephalopods include the egg case making argonauts, shelled nautiluses, venomous blue-ringed octopuses and enigmatic giants like the giant and colossal squid. […] Fossilised ink sacs are more conclusively known from the extinct “soft-bodied” Coleoidea cephalopods in groups Belemitida (including belemnites with bullet-like internal skeletons commonly found as fossils) and Phragmoteuthida as well as from squid, octopus and cuttlefish fossils.
ref: 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian:
text: In one photograph, a teenaged Leah crouches by a tall cylindrical tank containing what she identified to me as a giant Pacific octopus named Pamela. We were pals, she said, in a voice that I thought seemed to strive for offhandedness, did you know they taste with their skin? Octopuses, I mean.
ref: 2022, Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea, Picador, page 67:
glosses: Any of several marine molluscs of the order Octopoda, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.
qualifier: strictly
glosses: A mollusc from genus Octopus.
glosses: The flesh of these marine molluscs eaten as food.
glosses: An organization that has many powerful branches controlled from the centre.
Synonyms: polypus
Derived terms: word: blanket octopus
word: blue-ringed octopus
word: coconut octopus
word: common octopus
word: curled octopus
word: dumbo octopus
word: giant octopus
word: giant Pacific octopus
alt: Vitreledonella richardi
word: glass octopus
word: gloomy octopus
word: Kochtopus
word: larger Pacific striped octopus
word: mimic octopus
word: occy
word: octopamine
word: octopean
word: octopian
word: octopic
word: octopine
word: octopod
word: octopoid
word: octopoidal
word: Octopolis
word: octopusal
word: octopus bush
word: octopus cable
word: octopusesque
word: octopush
word: octopus hold
word: octopusial
word: octopusical
word: octopusine
word: octopusish
word: octopuslike
word: octopus stinkhorn
word: octopus strap
word: octopus stretch
word: octopussy
word: octopusy
word: seven-arm octopus
word: sharktopus
word: Turquet's octopus
word: umbrella octopus
Related terms: 🐙
calamari
cuttlefish
Kraken
nautilus
squid
testicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕsʹtĭ-kəl
ipa: /ˈtɛstɪkəl/
Forms: form: testicles
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin testiculus, diminutive of testis.
Senses: examples: text: In France, Mme. de Pompadour was induced by Louis XV to eat such testicles in order to break down her frigidity.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 232:
text: Despite your jogging and the hairiness of your legs, the shoe of aging is beginning to pinch. Soon you'll regret all that sun-tanning. Your face will look like a testicle.
ref: 2000, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, page 372:
glosses: A testis: the male sex and endocrine gland, found in most types of animals, that produces sperm and male sex hormones, including the steroid testosterone.
qualifier: more commonly
glosses: Either half of the structure that contains the testes: one side of the scrotum and its contents, considered as one object (one half of the ballsack, including its ball).
Synonyms: testicles
Hypernyms: internal genitalia
Derived terms: chesticles
have the world by the testicles
spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch
testiclectomy
testicled
testicleless
testicular
testiculo-
trans-testicle
untesticled
Related terms: test
testament
testicond
testiculate
testify
testimony
scrotum
bulla
bull
bullock
Kalaallisut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greenlandic kalaallisut (“Greenlandic”).
Senses: glosses: The Greenlandic Inuit language, spoken in Greenland.
glosses: The Greenlandic Inuit language, spoken in Greenland.
Specifically the West Greenlandic dialect, spoken by the majority of the inhabitants of Greenland.
Synonyms: Greenlandic
Greenlandish
falcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fôlʹkən
enpr: fôʹkən
ipa: /ˈfɔː(l)kən/
ipa: /ˈfɒlkən/
enpr: fălʹkən
ipa: /ˈfælkən/
ipa: /ˈfɑːlkən/
ipa: /ˈfælkən/
ipa: /ˈfoːlkən/
ipa: /ˈfɛlkən/
rhymes: -ɔːkən
rhymes: -ɔːlkən
Forms: form: falcons
form: faulcon
form: faucon
Etymology: From Middle English faucoun, falcon, faulcon, from Old French falcun, from Late Latin falcō (“falcon”), of Germanic origin, probably via Frankish *falkō (“falcon, hawk”), from Proto-Germanic *falkô (“falcon”), from Proto-Indo-European *pol̑- (“pale”), from *pel- (“fallow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Old English *fealca, fealcen (“falcon”), Dutch valk (“falcon, hawk”), German Falke (“falcon, hawk”), Norwegian and Swedish falk (“falcon”), Icelandic fálki (“falcon”), French faucon (“falcon”), Italian falco (“falcon”), Spanish halcón (“falcon”), Portuguese falcão (“falcon”), Latin falco (“falcon”), Lithuanian pálšas (“pale”), Latvian bāls (“pale”), Latgalian buolgs (“pale”). More at fallow.
Senses: glosses: Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.
glosses: Any bird of prey of the subfamilies Falconinae and Herpetotherinae.
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A female such bird, a male being a tiercel.
coordinate_terms: falconet
glosses: A light cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Falco amurensis
word: Amur falcon
taxonomic: Falco femoralis
word: aplomado falcon
taxonomic: Falco berigora
word: Berigora falcon
taxonomic: Falco subniger
word: black falcon
word: blue falcon
taxonomic: Falco berigora
word: brown falcon
taxonomic: Falco eleonorae
word: Eleonora's falcon
word: falcon-eyed
word: falconish
word: falconlike
word: falconologist
taxonomic: Micrastur spp.
word: forest falcon
word: golden falcon name
word: gray falcon
taxonomic: Falco hypoleucos
word: grey falcon
taxonomic: Falco biarmicus
word: lanner falcon
taxonomic: Herpetotheres cachinnans
word: laughing falcon
taxonomic: Falco novaeseelandiae
word: New Zealand falcon
taxonomic: Falco peregrinus pealei
word: Peale's falcon
taxonomic: Falco peregrinus
word: peregrine falcon
taxonomic: Falco mexicanus
word: prairie falcon
taxonomic: Polihierax semitorquatus
word: pygmy falcon
taxonomic: Falco vespertinus
word: red-footed falcon
taxonomic: Falco cherrug
word: Saker falcon
taxonomic: Falco peregrinus peregrinator
word: shaheen falcon
taxonomic: Accipiter nisus
word: stone falcon
Related terms: word: Falco
word: Falconer
word: falconer
word: falconet
word: falcon-gentil
word: falcon-gentle
word: falconine
word: falconry
word: gerfalcon
taxonomic: Falco rusticolus
word: gyrfalcon
falcon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fôlʹkən
enpr: fôʹkən
ipa: /ˈfɔː(l)kən/
ipa: /ˈfɒlkən/
enpr: fălʹkən
ipa: /ˈfælkən/
ipa: /ˈfɑːlkən/
ipa: /ˈfælkən/
ipa: /ˈfoːlkən/
ipa: /ˈfɛlkən/
rhymes: -ɔːkən
rhymes: -ɔːlkən
Forms: form: falcons
form: falconing
form: falconed
form: falconed
form: faulcon
form: faucon
Etymology: From Middle English faucoun, falcon, faulcon, from Old French falcun, from Late Latin falcō (“falcon”), of Germanic origin, probably via Frankish *falkō (“falcon, hawk”), from Proto-Germanic *falkô (“falcon”), from Proto-Indo-European *pol̑- (“pale”), from *pel- (“fallow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Old English *fealca, fealcen (“falcon”), Dutch valk (“falcon, hawk”), German Falke (“falcon, hawk”), Norwegian and Swedish falk (“falcon”), Icelandic fálki (“falcon”), French faucon (“falcon”), Italian falco (“falcon”), Spanish halcón (“falcon”), Portuguese falcão (“falcon”), Latin falco (“falcon”), Lithuanian pálšas (“pale”), Latvian bāls (“pale”), Latgalian buolgs (“pale”). More at fallow.
Senses: examples: text: He rode astride while hawking; she falconed in the ladylike position of sidesaddle.
ref: 2003, Brenda Joyce, House of Dreams, page 175:
glosses: To hunt with a falcon or falcons.
peregrine falcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɹəɡɹɪn ˈfælkən/
ipa: /ˈpɛɹəɡɹɪn ˈfɔː(l)kən/
Forms: form: peregrine falcons
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized, very swift falcon, of species Falco peregrinus, that hunts small birds.
Synonyms: sense: Falco peregrinus
word: duck hawk
sense: Falco peregrinus
word: peregrine
sense: Falco peregrinus
word: peregrine hawk
kestrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛstɹəl/
rhymes: -ɛstɹəl
Forms: form: kestrels
Etymology: From Middle English castrel (“staniel, bird of prey”), from Middle French cresserelle, crecerelle (“bird of prey”), usually assumed to be from crecelle (“rattle, wooden reel”) (modern crécelle), of obscure origin.
Cognates possibly include: Medieval Latin clisterella f, French crécerelle f and cristel m, Neapolitan castariello m and crestariello m, all sharing the same meaning.
Derivation from the assumed Vulgar Latin *crepicella, *crepitacillum, a diminutive of crepitāculum, from crepitāre (“to crackle”) is difficult to explain from a morphological point of view.
Instead, possibly from a root *krek-, *krak- (“to crack, rattle, creak, emit a bird cry”), from Middle Dutch crāken (“to creak, crack”), from Old Dutch *krakōn (“to crack, creak, emit a cry”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną (“to emit a cry, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerg- (“to shout”). Cognate with Old High German krahhōn (“to make a sound, crash”), Old English cracian (“to resound”), French craquer (“to emit a repeated cry, used of birds”). More at creak, crack.
Senses: examples: text: When she was musing she was a kestrel, which hangs in the air by an invisible motion of its wings.
ref: 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, book 3 chapter 6:
text: Up on the downs the red-eyed kestrels hover,
Eyeing the grass.
The field mouse flits like a shadow into cover
As their shadows pass.
ref: 1917, John Masefield, Up on the Downs:
glosses: Any of various small falcons of the genus Falco that hover while hunting.
glosses: A common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).
Synonyms: sense: common kestrel
word: windhover
sense: common kestrel
word: staniel
Derived terms: taxonomic: Falco sparverius
word: American kestrel
taxonomic: Falco zoniventris
word: banded kestrel
taxonomic: Falco tinnunculus
word: common kestrel
taxonomic: Falco dickinsoni
word: Dickinson's kestrel
taxonomic: Falco alopex
word: fox kestrel
taxonomic: Falco rupicoloides
word: greater kestrel
taxonomic: Falco ardosiaceus
word: grey kestrel
taxonomic: Falco naumanni
word: lesser kestrel
taxonomic: Falco newtoni
word: Malagasy kestrel
taxonomic: Falco punctatus
word: Mauritius kestrel
taxonomic: Falco cenchroides
word: Nankeen kestrel
taxonomic: Falco araeus
word: Seychelles kestrel
taxonomic: Falco moluccensis
word: spotted kestrel
chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: chĭk'ĭn
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪkɪn/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪkən/
rhymes: -ɪkɪn
rhymes: -ɪkən
Forms: form: more chicken
form: most chicken
Etymology: From Middle English chiken (also as chike > English chick), from Old English ċicen, ċycen (“chicken”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *kiukīn (“chicken”), or alternatively from Proto-West Germanic *kukkīn, equivalent to cock + -en.
Compare North Frisian schückling (“chicken”), Saterland Frisian Sjuuken (“chicken”), Dutch kuiken (“chick, chicken”), German Low German Küken (“chick”), whence German Küken (“chick”), (elevated, obsolete) German Küchlein (“chick”) and Old Norse kjúklingr (“chicken”).
Senses: examples: text: Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken.
synonyms: word: boneless
word: chicken
word: chicken-hearted
word: chickenshit
word: cowardly
word: craven
word: dastardly
word: fainthearted
word: fearful
word: heartless
raw_tags: in this sense
word: gutless
word: hen-hearted
word: kiasi
word: lily-livered
word: milky
word: mousy
word: niddering
word: nidering
word: niding
word: nithing
word: poor-spirited
word: pusillanimous
word: sissy
word: spineless
word: timid
word: timorous
word: unhearty
word: weak-kneed
word: wimpish
word: yellow
word: yellow-bellied
word: afeared
word: alarmed
word: anxious
word: apprehensive
word: chicken
word: fearful
word: frightened
word: frit
word: horrified
word: mortified
word: panicked
word: scared
word: terrified
word: timorous
word: worried
glosses: Cowardly.
Derived terms: chicken out
chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: chĭk'ĭn
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪkɪn/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪkən/
rhymes: -ɪkɪn
rhymes: -ɪkən
Forms: form: chickens
form: chickening
form: chickened
form: chickened
Etymology: Shortening of chicken out.
Senses: examples: text: For the umpteenth time, I chickened.
ref: 1964, Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →OCLC, page 31:
text: ABE: What are you chucking it for, then? You're running, aren't you? Running, cos you chickened.
 SLIM: All right, so I chickened.
ref: 1968, Aidan Chambers, The Chicken Run: A Play for Young People, Oxford: Heinemann Educational Publishers, →ISBN, act II, scene v, page 81:
text: To reach the lower branches of the blackwood one had to swing Tarzan-like across a narrow gully choked with gorse and blackberries. […] [T]he challenge of the rope swing was definitely more in James' line. […] Even if he slipped and failed, or worse, chickened, they would be unlikely to judge too harshly.
ref: 2014, Anne M. Brown, “James Day”, in Belonging: The Story of How James Became a Brown, Acacia Ridge, Qld.: Australian eBook Publisher, →ISBN:
glosses: To avoid a situation one is afraid of.
chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chĭk'ĭn
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪkɪn/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪkən/
rhymes: -ɪkɪn
rhymes: -ɪkən
Etymology: From chick + -en (plural ending).
Senses: examples: text: The 21 or 22 day the Chicken are hatch'd; […]
ref: 1669, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London:
glosses: plural of chick
rooster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːstə/
ipa: /ˈɹustəɹ/
enpr: roo͞'stər
rhymes: -uːstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: roosters
form: roo
Etymology: From roost + -er. In the regions where it is used, displaced cock through taboo avoidance.
Senses: examples: text: Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt.
ref: 1772 March 14, A.G. Winslow, Diary:
text: The produce of two hens and a cock, or rooster, as the Yankees term that bird.
ref: 1836, Catharine Parr Traill, The Backwoods of Canada, page 308:
text: Chalk a circle for a rooster.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 616:
glosses: A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.
examples: text: The more leisured flight of the roosters [sc. starlings] was in contrast to the steady procession of the migrants.
ref: 1949, British Birds, 42, p. 323:
text: Ground roosters like Northern Harriers may be subject to predation by Great-horned Owls […] but still larger perchers like herons and Ospreys use snags or posts in conspicuous places but are large enough to escape aerial predators.
ref: 1999, Milton W. Weller, Wetland Birds: Habitat Resources and Conservation Implications:
glosses: A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting.
glosses: An informer.
glosses: A violent or disorderly person.
glosses: A powerful, prideful, or pompous person.
glosses: A man.
examples: text: In April they played Hens and Roosters, yoking their wild white and blue violets to see which would get its head pulled off.
ref: 1946, Conrad Richter, The Fields, page 231:
glosses: A wild violet, when used in a children's game based on cockfighting.
examples: text: American demoralisation... has carried rooster into the halls of republican legislation, where it indicates a bill or proposed law which will remunerate the legislators.
ref: 1869 July, Southern Review, page 54:
glosses: Legislation solely devised to benefit the legislators proposing it.
Synonyms: sense: male chicken
word: cock
sense: informant
word: informant
sense: violent person
word: brawler
sense: powerful person
word: important person
sense: pompous person
word: cock of the walk
sense: pompous person
word: cock of the roost
sense: man
word: man
Hypernyms: sense: male chicken
word: chicken
sense: male chicken
word: fowl
Hyponyms: sense: male chicken
english: young rooster
translation: young rooster
word: cockerel
Coordinate terms: sense: male chicken
word: hen
Derived terms: word: cock rooster
word: rooster booster
taxonomic: Nematistius pectoralis
word: roosterfish
word: roosterhood
word: roosterly
word: roosterness
word: rooster sauce
word: roostertail
word: rooster-tail
Related terms: roost
cock-a-doodle-doo
jay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jā
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: jays
Etymology: Respelling of the letter jy (which see), by analogy with the following letter kay.
Senses: glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter J/j.
examples: text: Although sympathetic, my main reaction was to think: “Some people can handle it, and some people can’t,” and then smugly light up a big fat jay.
ref: 2009 March 23, Caitlin Moran, The Times:
glosses: A marijuana cigarette; a joint.
Derived terms: beejay
deejay
Jay Ar
Jaycee
jaygee
jayvee
pee bee and jay
peejays
veejay
vulture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvʌltʃə/
ipa: /ˈvʌlt͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ʌltʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: vultures
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Anglo-Norman vultur, from Old French voutoir, voutre, from Latin vultur, voltur.
Senses: examples: text: The outer third of the wing of a vulture consists of the wing tips. The inner two-thirds of the wing are cambered (when the wing is extended), and are concerned with lifting effort in unsoarable air and with lifting and tractive effort in soarable air.
ref: 1912, Flight:
text: In clusters on the plain, like cowlless monks at matins, sat the vultures that had settled on the corpse of the hyena impaled by the female rhino […]
ref: 1982, Michael Bishop, No enemy but time:
glosses: Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
examples: text: Within ten minutes of the accident, the vultures appeared and were organizing lawsuits.
synonyms: ambulance chaser
vampire
glosses: A person who profits from the suffering of others.
Hyponyms: American black vulture
bearded vulture
black vulture
cinereous vulture
Egyptian vulture
Eurasian black vulture
greater yellow-headed vulture
griffon vulture
Himalayan griffon vulture
king vulture
lappet-faced vulture
monk vulture
New World vulture
Old World vulture
turkey vulture
white-headed vulture
Derived terms: culture vulture
Pondicherry vulture
red-headed vulture
vulture bee
vulture capitalism
vulture capitalist
vulture culture
vulture fund
vulture hock
vulturelike
vulturine
vulturish
vulturous
white scavenger vulture
vulture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvʌltʃə/
ipa: /ˈvʌlt͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ʌltʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: vultures
form: vulturing
form: vultured
form: vultured
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Anglo-Norman vultur, from Old French voutoir, voutre, from Latin vultur, voltur.
Senses: examples: text: Rudy vultured when asking the girl out.
glosses: To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture.
vulture
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvʌltʃə/
ipa: /ˈvʌlt͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ʌltʃə(ɹ)
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Anglo-Norman vultur, from Old French voutoir, voutre, from Latin vultur, voltur.
Senses: examples: text: Whose vultur thought doth pitch the price so hie,
That she will draw his lips rich treasure drie.
ref: 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:
glosses: ravenous; rapacious
swallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɒl.əʊ/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈswɑ.loʊ/
note: of Canada
ipa: [ˈswɑ.loʊ̯]
rhymes: -ɒləʊ
Forms: form: swallows
Etymology: From Middle English swalwe, swalewe, swalowe, from Old English swealwe, from Proto-West Germanic *swalwā, from Proto-Germanic *swalwǭ. Cognate with Norwegian and Danish svale, Dutch zwaluw, German Schwalbe, Swedish svala.
Senses: glosses: A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
Synonyms: sense: bird of Hirundinidae
word: martin
Derived terms: American cliff swallow
bank swallow
barn swallow
blue swallow
bridge swallow
cave swallow
Chilean swallow
chimney swallow
cliff swallow
esculent swallow
green swallow
mosque swallow
one swallow does not make a summer
red-rumped swallow
river swallow
sea swallow
swallow a bitter pill
swallow dive
swallow-tail
swallow-tailed
swallow tanager
swallow-wort
violet-green swallow
welcome swallow
window swallow
Related terms: sense: bird of Hirundinidae
english: type of feetless bird in heraldry
translation: type of feetless bird in heraldry
word: martlet
gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gŭl
ipa: /ˈɡʌl/
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: gulls
Etymology: Perhaps from an obsolete term gull (“to swallow, guzzle”), from Middle English golen (“to make swallowing motions, gape”).
Senses: examples: text: BENEDICK. [Aside] I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such reverence.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: A cheating trick; a fraud.
glosses: A stupid animal.
glosses: One easily cheated; a dupe.
examples: text: You'll excuse me, sir, but as you are fresh, take care to avoid the gulls; they fly about here in large flocks, I assure you, and do no little mischief at times." "I never understood that gulls were birds of prey," said I.—"Only in Oxford, sir; and here, I assure you, they bite like hawks, and pick many a poor young gentleman as bare before his three years are expired, as the crows would a dead sheep upon a common. […]"
ref: 1825, Bernard Blackmantle, The English Spy:
qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: A swindler or trickster.
gull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gŭl
ipa: /ˈɡʌl/
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: gulls
form: gulling
form: gulled
form: gulled
Etymology: Perhaps from an obsolete term gull (“to swallow, guzzle”), from Middle English golen (“to make swallowing motions, gape”).
Senses: examples: text: O, but to ha' gulled him / Had been a mastery.
ref: 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.
ref: 1660, [John] Dryden, Astraea Redux:
text: And is all this Cabala too, and only to be uſed vvhen People are to be gulled vvith noiſy Nothings? i.e. vvith empty Pleroma's, and ſilent Thunderclaps.
ref: 1697 May 5 (date written; Gregorian calendar), E. W. [i.e., Edward Stillingfleet], “Postscript”, in The Bishop of Worcester’s Answer to Mr. [John] Locke’s Letter, Concerning Some Passages Relating to His Essay of Humane Understanding, […], London: […] J. H. for Henry Mortlock […], published 1697, →OCLC, page 143:
text: I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service.
ref: c. 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wallenstein:
text: [S]peak your curses out / Against me, who would sooner crush and grind / A brace of toads, than league with them to oppress / An innocent lady, gull an Emperor […]
ref: a. 1822 (date written), John Keats, “Otho the Great: A Tragedy in Five Acts.”, in [Horace Elisha Scudder], editor, The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John Keats, Cambridge edition, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], published 1899, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i:
text: She has done these things before and remembers now that she is good at them, often steadier than the men. In Berlin when Jack needed a spare girl Mary had kept watch, gulled room keys out of concierges, replaced stolen documents in dangerous desks, driven scared Joes to safe flats.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: To deceive or cheat.
glosses: To mislead.
glosses: To trick and defraud.
glosses: To flatter, wheedle.
Derived terms: gullable
gullcatcher
guller
gullery
gullible → gullibility
gullibly
gullish
gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gŭl
ipa: /ˈɡʌl/
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: gulls
form: gool
Etymology: From Middle English gole (“a whirlpool, narrow inlet of the sea, ditch or stream”), from Middle Low German goel, gȫl, gȫle (“swamp, marshy lowland”), related to Old Dutch gulla (“pool, puddle”), Old French goille (“pool, puddle, pond”), all ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *goli, *golljā (“puddle”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *guljaz, *guljǭ.
Senses: glosses: A breach or hole made by the force of a torrent; fissure, chasm.
glosses: A channel made by a stream; a natural watercourse; running water.
Derived terms: gullick
gull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gŭl
ipa: /ˈɡʌl/
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: gulls
form: gulling
form: gulled
form: gulled
form: gool
Etymology: From Middle English gole (“a whirlpool, narrow inlet of the sea, ditch or stream”), from Middle Low German goel, gȫl, gȫle (“swamp, marshy lowland”), related to Old Dutch gulla (“pool, puddle”), Old French goille (“pool, puddle, pond”), all ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *goli, *golljā (“puddle”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *guljaz, *guljǭ.
Senses: glosses: To sweep away by the force of running water; to carve or wear into a gully.
common gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmən ˌɡʌl/
ipa: /ˈkɑːmən ˌɡʌl/
Forms: form: common gulls
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized gull, Larus canus.
glosses: A butterfly of southern and eastern Asia (Cepora nerissa).
Synonyms: common mew
mew gull
sea mew
Related terms: seagull
mew