cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stəʊl/
ipa: /stoʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: examples: text: TransPennine Express has removed all QR codes from its 71 car parks after scammers covered up a genuine code sticker with a false one and stole £13,000 from a woman's bank account.
ref: 2023 December 13, “Network News: £13,000 stolen via car park QR”, in RAIL, number 998, page 11:
glosses: simple past of steal
examples: text: […]when indeed they have ſeen nothing, but have ſtole the word of the Lord from others, and borrowed from their neighbour[…]
ref: 1654, John Webſter, The Judgement Set, and the Bookes Opened, and All Religion brought to Triall […] , page 149:
text: And glory pointed still the goal / THat fired his lay; / But now revolving time has stole / Those dreams away.
ref: 1834, Alexander Smart, Rambling Rhymes, page 151:
text: […]He must have stole my gear after he ran off, licking his wounds." Clint spoke loudly and proudly and drew some applause.
ref: 2014 November 19, Domino Finn, The Blood of Brothers (Sycamore Moon; 2), Blood & Treasure, page 146:
glosses: past participle of steal
stole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stəʊl/
ipa: /stoʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: stoles
form: stoal
form: stoale
form: stolle
Etymology: From Old English stole, from Latin stola, from Ancient Greek στολή (stolḗ, “stole, garment, equipment”); akin to stall. Doublet of stola.
Senses: examples: text: 1994-1998, Encyclopaedia Britannica CD 98, Multimedia Edition
Certain robes indicate a position in the hierarchy; others correspond to function and may be worn by the same individual at different times. The most important vestment among the insignia [of the clergy] is the stole, the emblem of sacerdotal status, the origin of which is the ancient pallium. The stole originally was a draped garment, then a folded one with the appearance of a scarf, and, finally, in the 4th century, a scarf. As a symbol of jurisdictionin the Roman Empire, the supreme pontiff (the pope, or bishop of Rome) conferred it upon archbishops and, later, upon bishops, as emblematic of their sharing in the papal authority.
text: With sou'-wester under arm, and oilskin open so that God might see the stole and know that there was no deception, he chanted from a prayer-book in a tone exactly like that of a blackfellow devil-dovvening: […]
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter X, in Capricornia, page 167:
glosses: A garment consisting of a decorated band worn on the back of the neck, each end hanging over the chest, worn in ecclesiastical settings or sometimes as a part of graduation dress.
glosses: A scarf-like garment, often made of fur.
Derived terms: stole fee
stole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stəʊl/
ipa: /stoʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: stoles
Etymology: From Latin stolō. Doublet of stolon.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A stolon.
stolen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstəʊ.lən/
ipa: /ˈstoʊ.lən/
rhymes: -əʊlən
Etymology: From Middle English stolen, istolen, from Old English stolen, ġestolen, from Proto-Germanic *stulanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *stelaną (“to steal”), equivalent to stole + -en. Cognate with Scots stellin, stollin (“stolen”), Saterland Frisian stäälen (“stolen”), West Frisian stellen (“stolen”), Dutch gestolen (“stolen”), German Low German stohlen (“stolen”), German gestohlen (“stolen”), Swedish stulen (“stolen”).
Senses: glosses: past participle of steal
Synonyms: word: hot
word: lifted
word: nicked
word: stolen
Hyponyms: word: ripped
word: twocced
Related terms: word: booty
word: steal
stolen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstəʊ.lən/
ipa: /ˈstoʊ.lən/
rhymes: -əʊlən
Etymology: From Middle English stolen, istolen, from Old English stolen, ġestolen, from Proto-Germanic *stulanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *stelaną (“to steal”), equivalent to stole + -en. Cognate with Scots stellin, stollin (“stolen”), Saterland Frisian stäälen (“stolen”), West Frisian stellen (“stolen”), Dutch gestolen (“stolen”), German Low German stohlen (“stolen”), German gestohlen (“stolen”), Swedish stulen (“stolen”).
Senses: glosses: That has been stolen.
Derived terms: stolen base
stolen goods
stolen shot
stolen valor
stolen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstəʊ.lən/
ipa: /ˈstoʊ.lən/
rhymes: -əʊlən
Forms: form: stolens
Etymology: From Middle English stolen, istolen, from Old English stolen, ġestolen, from Proto-Germanic *stulanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *stelaną (“to steal”), equivalent to stole + -en. Cognate with Scots stellin, stollin (“stolen”), Saterland Frisian stäälen (“stolen”), West Frisian stellen (“stolen”), Dutch gestolen (“stolen”), German Low German stohlen (“stolen”), German gestohlen (“stolen”), Swedish stulen (“stolen”).
Senses: examples: text: Oh, a few months back, a detective came by with pictures of identical diamonds. Wanted to know if anybody had come around maybe trying to sell them. I told him I read the pawn sheets regular and I haven't seen them listed. He tells me they don't want the stolens on any sheets.
ref: 2015 July 19, “Other Lives”, in True Detective, season 2, episode 5:
text: Spinner, shotty, semi
These shots ain't no Henny
If this Glock holds twenty
I make it scream like Dezzie
Dilemma like Kelly
Before I had a bar like Peggy
How many pagans? Many
Ask my probation...
She knows it's many, many
And if I take it there it's edgy
You see my stolens come with petty
ref: 2018 February 17, “Plugged In Freestyle”, Fumez the Engineer (music)performed by Mitch, 3:36:
text: A island I wanna live somewhere silent
I'm shining I'm bout to flood my neck with diamonds
Yeah I've been spitting facts these niggas lying
I'm driving stolens, foreigns, yeah I'm riding
ref: 2019 August 28, Yb Tak30ver, “Island”, 1:21:
text: The young bulls get the green light, suttin's gettin' sabotaged
They’ll get it done in a hoopty on the ped or even on the handlebars
But the main focus is doe bro rest in peace M we're just tryna have it large
Screaming fuck feds get gwop let me see your battle scars
We trap in stolens 24's shag whips and rattle cars
ref: 2020 March 26, Tunde, “Mob Ties”, 1:53:
text: Pray for my soldiers that's ridin’ in stolens
ref: 2020 July 17, StaySolidRocky, “Viola” (track 2, 0:21 from the start), in Fallin':
text: Fill that clip with golden worms
Grap that dots and fold it first
(snap!) make sure that the stolen works
ref: 2021 August 24, Booter Bee, “No Point”, 0:38:
glosses: Something which has been stolen.
stick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stĭk
ipa: /stɪk/
homophone: stich
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: sticks
form: sticking
form: sticked
form: sticked
Etymology: From Middle English stikke (“stick, rod, twig”), from Old English sticca (“rod, twig”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkō, from Proto-Germanic *stikkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stikke (“stick”), West Flemish stik (“stick”), German Low German Stick (“stick”). Related to stigma.
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
examples: to stick type
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
glosses: To furnish or set with sticks.
glosses: To hit with a stick.
stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stĭk
ipa: /stɪk/
homophone: stich
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: sticks
Etymology: From Middle English stiken (“to stick, pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Old English stician (“to pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *stikkōną (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tig-, *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”).
See also the related Proto-Germanic *stikaną, whence West Frisian stekke, Low German steken, Dutch steken, German stechen; compare also Danish stikke, Swedish sticka.
Cognate with the first etymology (same PIE root, different paths through Germanic and Old English), to stitch, and to etiquette, via French étiquette – see there for further discussion.
Senses: glosses: The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
The traction of tires on the road surface.
glosses: That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
examples: text: Problem: A lot of stick and a lack of energy on the forward stroke.
ref: 2004, Simon Gawesworth, Spey Casting, →ISBN, page 47:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
examples: text: What if Veronica Prego was lying about who drew the blood and it was her own carelessness, not Joyce Fogel's, which caused the needle stick?
ref: 1990 April 21, Michael Bronski, “Innocent Victims”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
glosses: A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
Synonyms: word: stick
word: twig
Hyponyms: word: bar
word: cane
word: rod
word: pole
word: stake
word: staff
word: stalk
word: needle
word: pin
word: nail
word: spike
word: match
word: toothpick
word: skewer
word: knitting needle
word: pencil
word: pen
word: marker
word: highlighter
word: trunk
word: lever
word: axle
word: spindle
word: club
word: cudgel
word: truncheon
word: baton
word: bludgeon
word: post
word: beam
word: mast
word: flagpole
word: flagstaff
word: stud
word: dowel
word: plank
word: girder
word: joist
word: stile
word: screw
word: bolt
word: shank
word: shaft
word: spar
word: sprit
word: stave
word: yard
word: gaff
word: rung
word: column
word: pillar
word: newel
word: leg
word: stanchion
word: baluster
word: banister
word: spoke
word: jamb
word: goal post
word: crossbar
word: stilt
word: hockey stick
word: drumstick
word: chopstick
word: walking stick
word: alpenstock
word: bergstock
word: Penang lawyer
word: wand
word: yardstick
Derived terms: stick clip
stick-slip
Related terms: word: handle
word: bone
word: tree
word: sceptre
word: string
word: tube
stick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: stĭk
ipa: /stɪk/
homophone: stich
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: sticker
form: stickest
Etymology: From Middle English stiken (“to stick, pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Old English stician (“to pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *stikkōną (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tig-, *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”).
See also the related Proto-Germanic *stikaną, whence West Frisian stekke, Low German steken, Dutch steken, German stechen; compare also Danish stikke, Swedish sticka.
Cognate with the first etymology (same PIE root, different paths through Germanic and Old English), to stitch, and to etiquette, via French étiquette – see there for further discussion.
Senses: examples: text: A non-stick pan. A stick plaster.
text: A sticker type of glue. The stickest kind of gum.
glosses: Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.
Derived terms: non-stick
nonstick
stick note
stick plaster
stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stĭk
ipa: /stɪk/
homophone: stich
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: sticks
Etymology: From Middle English stick, stik, steik, from Middle Dutch stic, stec, stuc (“piece”), from Old Dutch *stukki, from Proto-West Germanic *stukkī, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją (“piece”). Cognate with German Stück (“piece”), Middle English stucche, sticche (“piece”).
Senses: glosses: The customary length (according to the material used) of a piece or roll of textile fabrics imported from Flanders.
Synonyms: word: stick
word: twig
Hyponyms: word: bar
word: cane
word: rod
word: pole
word: stake
word: staff
word: stalk
word: needle
word: pin
word: nail
word: spike
word: match
word: toothpick
word: skewer
word: knitting needle
word: pencil
word: pen
word: marker
word: highlighter
word: trunk
word: lever
word: axle
word: spindle
word: club
word: cudgel
word: truncheon
word: baton
word: bludgeon
word: post
word: beam
word: mast
word: flagpole
word: flagstaff
word: stud
word: dowel
word: plank
word: girder
word: joist
word: stile
word: screw
word: bolt
word: shank
word: shaft
word: spar
word: sprit
word: stave
word: yard
word: gaff
word: rung
word: column
word: pillar
word: newel
word: leg
word: stanchion
word: baluster
word: banister
word: spoke
word: jamb
word: goal post
word: crossbar
word: stilt
word: hockey stick
word: drumstick
word: chopstick
word: walking stick
word: alpenstock
word: bergstock
word: Penang lawyer
word: wand
word: yardstick
Related terms: word: handle
word: bone
word: tree
word: sceptre
word: string
word: tube
stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stĭk
ipa: /stɪk/
homophone: stich
rhymes: -ɪk
Etymology: Possibly a metaphorical use of the first etymology ("twig, branch"), possibly derived from the Yiddish schtick.
Senses: examples: text: I got some stick personally because of my walking attire. I arrived to training fully kitted out in sturdy walking boots.
ref: 2008 May 3, Chris Roberts, “It’s a stroll in the park!”, in Huddersfield Daily Examiner:
glosses: Criticism or ridicule.
Synonyms: word: stick
word: twig
Hyponyms: word: bar
word: cane
word: rod
word: pole
word: stake
word: staff
word: stalk
word: needle
word: pin
word: nail
word: spike
word: match
word: toothpick
word: skewer
word: knitting needle
word: pencil
word: pen
word: marker
word: highlighter
word: trunk
word: lever
word: axle
word: spindle
word: club
word: cudgel
word: truncheon
word: baton
word: bludgeon
word: post
word: beam
word: mast
word: flagpole
word: flagstaff
word: stud
word: dowel
word: plank
word: girder
word: joist
word: stile
word: screw
word: bolt
word: shank
word: shaft
word: spar
word: sprit
word: stave
word: yard
word: gaff
word: rung
word: column
word: pillar
word: newel
word: leg
word: stanchion
word: baluster
word: banister
word: spoke
word: jamb
word: goal post
word: crossbar
word: stilt
word: hockey stick
word: drumstick
word: chopstick
word: walking stick
word: alpenstock
word: bergstock
word: Penang lawyer
word: wand
word: yardstick
Related terms: word: handle
word: bone
word: tree
word: sceptre
word: string
word: tube
stuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stʌk/
ipa: /stʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stick (archaic sticked)
stuck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stʌk/
ipa: /stʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: more stuck
form: most stuck
Senses: examples: text: Can you shift this gate? I think it’s stuck.
text: If you’ve had to battle a stuck zipper, you know how frustrating it can be.
synonyms: word: static
word: unmovable
word: fixed
word: immobile
word: immotile
word: immovable
word: inanimate
word: inert
word: lifeless
word: sessile
word: static
word: rigid
word: stationary
word: stuck
word: unmovable
word: unmoveable
glosses: Unable to move.
examples: text: I’m totally stuck on this question in the test.
glosses: Unable to progress with a task.
examples: text: There are several ways to close a stuck program.
glosses: No longer functioning, frozen up, frozen.
synonyms: word: broke
word: penniless
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
glosses: In the situation of having no money.
Derived terms: bleed like a stuck hog
bleed like a stuck pig
get stuck in
get stuck into
like a stuck pig
squeal like a stuck pig
stare like a stuck pig
stuck in a rut
stuck in one's ways
stuck in the mud
stuck in the Stone Age
stuck in time
stuck like Chuck
stuck on
stuck on oneself
stuck pixel
stuck record
stuck twin syndrome
stuck-up
stuck up
stuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stʌk/
ipa: /stʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: stucks
Etymology: Compare stoccado.
Senses: examples: text: If he by chance escape your venomed stuck, / Our purpose may hold there.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii], line 160:
glosses: A thrust, especially with a lance or sword.
sting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: stings
form: stinging
form: stung
form: stang
form: stung
Etymology: From Middle English stingen, from Old English stingan, from Proto-Germanic *stinganą. Compare Swedish and Icelandic stinga.
Senses: glosses: To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.
examples: text: A mosquito stung me on the arm.
glosses: To puncture with the stinger.
raw_tags: of an insect or arachnid
examples: text: My eyes are stinging from the chopped onions.
text: My hand stings after knocking on the door so long.
text: Still, it stung when a slightly older acquaintance asked me why I couldn't do any better.
text: But Birmingham were clearly stung by some harsh words from manager Alex McLeish at the break and within 15 minutes of the restart the game had an entirely different complexion.
ref: 2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC:
text: While the absence of replayable story missions certainly stings for many fans, Halo Infinite’s campaign still has plenty to offer.
ref: 2021 December 11, Julian Young, “Halo Infinite players will soon be able to replay campaign missions”, in Dexerto:
synonyms: smart
glosses: To hurt, to be in pain (physically or emotionally).
examples: text: I thought I could park in front of the hotel, but they stung me for five pounds!
glosses: To cause harm or pain to.
Derived terms: stinging nettle
sting like a bee
stingproof
stingy
stung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Forms: form: stang
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sting
stink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stĭngk
ipa: /stɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: stinks
form: stinking
form: stank
form: stunk
form: stunk
Etymology: From Middle English stinken, from Old English stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ-, *stegʷ- (“to push, thrust, strike”). Cognate with West Frisian stjonke (“to stink”), Dutch stinken (“to stink”), German stinken (“to stink”), Danish stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”).
Senses: glosses: To have a strong bad smell.
examples: text: That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end.
text: They gave me Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen. I thought it was going to stink, but it didn't. It was a very good book.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 24:
text: My French stinks, Langdon thought, but my zodiac iconography is pretty good. Taurus was always the bull. Astrology was a symbolic constant all over the world.
ref: 2003, Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Improve your golf swing by taking your mate to the driving range. If you're good, you can show off and give her some tips. If you stink, play it for laughs.
ref: 2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:
glosses: To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.
examples: text: Something stinks about the politician's excuses.
text: The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin.
glosses: To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
Synonyms: sense: have a strong bad smell
word: pong
sense: have a strong bad smell
word: reek
sense: be greatly inferior
word: suck
sense: be greatly inferior
english: both slightly vulgar
translation: both slightly vulgar
word: blow
sense: give an impression of dishonesty or untruth
word: be fishy
Derived terms: astink
fish and company stink after three days
give out stink
money does not stink
Palestinkian
stink a buzzard off a gut wagon
stink a dog off a gut wagon
stink a skunk off a gut wagon
stink like a mackerel
stink like a mackerel in the moonlight
stink like a mackerel in the sun
stink like a polecat
stink on ice
stink out
stink pretty
stink the joint out
stink to high heaven
stink up
think one's shit doesn't stink
stink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stĭngk
ipa: /stɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: stinks
Etymology: From Middle English stinken, from Old English stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ-, *stegʷ- (“to push, thrust, strike”). Cognate with West Frisian stjonke (“to stink”), Dutch stinken (“to stink”), German stinken (“to stink”), Danish stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”).
Senses: examples: text: “I’m thankful for this beautiful morning!” He points toward the sky. “See that sunrise? Smell that air—” / “That’s stink from the rendering plant.”
ref: 2011, Jonathan Friesen, chapter 6, in The Last Martin, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zonderkidz, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: A strong bad smell.
examples: text: If you don't make a stink about the problem, nothing will be done.
glosses: A complaint or objection.
Synonyms: sense: strong bad smell
word: fetor
sense: strong bad smell
word: odour
sense: strong bad smell
word: odor
sense: strong bad smell
word: pong
sense: strong bad smell
word: reek
sense: strong bad smell
word: smell
sense: strong bad smell
word: stench
Derived terms: word: kick up a stink
word: like stink
word: like stink on shit
word: make a stink
word: raise a stink
word: stink ant
word: stink badger
word: stink bean
word: stink beetle
word: stinkbomb
word: stinkbug
word: stink-cat
word: stink cedar
word: stinker
word: stink eye
word: stink fighting
word: stink line
word: stink machine
topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: stinks
word: stink trap
word: stinky
stink
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: stĭngk
ipa: /stɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: more stink
form: most stink
Etymology: From Middle English stinken, from Old English stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ-, *stegʷ- (“to push, thrust, strike”). Cognate with West Frisian stjonke (“to stink”), Dutch stinken (“to stink”), German stinken (“to stink”), Danish stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”).
Senses: examples: text: The concert was stink. / That was a stink concert.
glosses: Bad; inferior; worthless.
examples: text: 2013, Stabroek News, 19 February 2013, cited by Deborah Jan Osman Backer in a speech delivered in the National Assembly during the Budget Debate, 2013,
Everyone is up in arms but it smells stink because it smells of racism…
text: Spending hours in a “stink" morgue, being called “Taliban”, thinking of getting shot in the head by officers—memories of Venezuela that have left Hamza Mohammed, imam of the Montrose mosque, still trembling today.
ref: 2014 May 26, Taureef Mohammed, “Imam recounts 55-day Venezuelan horror”, in Trinidad and Tobago Guardian:
text: 2016, Kei Miller, Augustown, New York: Pantheon, Chapter 1, p. 5,
[…] what Ma Taffy smells on this early afternoon makes her sit up straight. She smells it high and ripe and stink on the air, like a bright green jackfruit in season being pulled to the rocky ground below.
glosses: Bad-smelling, stinky.
stank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stăngk
ipa: /stæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Senses: glosses: simple past of stink
stank
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: stăngk
ipa: /stæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Etymology: Respelling of stink, representing the thank-think merger. Compare thang.
Senses: examples: text: Fishy, pussy funky elevator
 Pissy, broke ass project elevator
 Old baby piss, stank ass horse, cat piss smelling funky hot ass elevator
 I'm not climbing no 17 flights[…]
ref: 2002, Tasha C. Miller, Assout: Incoherent Thoughts and Poems of an Unemployed Black Girl, page 11:
text: This is why most top-notch women can't stand stank hoes. Classy women have more contempt for these women than men do.
ref: 2003, Tariq Nasheed, Play or be played, page 124:
text: They was saying the jawn freaked out and called the cops cause all her sorority sistahs started ragging on her and calling her a stank ho for fucking half the basketball team.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 204:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Foul-smelling, stinking, unclean.
Derived terms: stank-ass
stank eye
stank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stăngk
ipa: /stæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: stanks
Etymology: Respelling of stink, representing the thank-think merger. Compare thang.
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A stink; a foul smell.
stank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stăngk
ipa: /stæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Etymology: Respelling of stink, representing the thank-think merger. Compare thang.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: stankiness
glosses: A certain quality, especially to jazz music, which is often desirable and can be achieved by, among other things, crunchy harmonies, blue notes and groovy rhythm
Derived terms: stanky
stank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stăngk
ipa: /stæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: stanks
form: stanking
form: stanked
form: stanked
Etymology: Respelling of stink, representing the thank-think merger. Compare thang.
Senses: examples: text: I just ignored him because he stanked worst than I did.
ref: 2010, Michael Lee, Time to Crime: Doing Time, Listening to Crime, page 39:
text: I did not want to ask for her hand in marriage in a hospital room that stanked of chlorine and god knew what else.
ref: 2012, Tess Neis, My Own Winter Sun, page 234:
text: I couldn't figure out exactly how the Preacher'd done it, but something with this tithing business stanked real bad.
ref: 2012, Christopher Paul Curtis, Elijah of Buxton:
text: You washed it because it stanked.” It is supposed to stank.
ref: 2014, Jasmine Inari Jarden, Grandfather's Favorite Girl:
glosses: To stink; to smell bad.
examples: text: He was killing me with the jokes and he was killing everybody with his smuggled corned beef samages that stanked up the joint.
ref: 2010, Brooke, Detroit, Lenacrave and Cleveland, page 295:
glosses: To cause to smell bad.
stank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stăngk
ipa: /stæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: stanks
Etymology: From Old French estanc, (French étang), from Latin stagnum (“a pool”). Compare stagnant, stagnate.
Senses: examples: text: And he [the hart] fleeth then mightily and far from the hounds, that is to say he hath gone a great way from them, then he will go into the stank, and will soil therein once or twice in all the stank and then he will come out again by the same way that he went in, and then he shall ruse again the same way that he came (the length of) a bow shot or more, and then he shall ruse out of the way, for to stall or squatt to rest him, and that he doeth for he knoweth well that the hounds shall come by the fues [footing] into the stank where he was.
ref: c. 1425, Edward, Second Duke of York [i.e., Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York], “Of the Hart and His Nature”, in W[illia]m A[dolf] Baillie-Grohman, F[lorence] Baillie-Grohman, editors, The Master of Game by Edward, Second Duke of York: The Oldest English Book on Hunting, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1909, →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water.
glosses: A dam or mound to stop water.
Derived terms: stank hen
stankie
stank
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: stăngk
ipa: /stæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: more stank
form: most stank
Etymology: From Old French estanc, or Italian stanco. See stanch (adjective).
Senses: examples: text: I am so stiff and so stank, That uneath may I stand any more
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “September. Ægloga Nona.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Weak; worn out.
stank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stăngk
ipa: /stæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: stanks
form: stanking
form: stanked
form: stanked
Senses: examples: text: This was executed with sch gallantry and spirit by the troops, that, notwithstanding the natural strength of this pos, the abbatis of fruit trees that were made, the batteries of the town of Bommel which stanked the approach, and the considerable number of men who defended it, it was soon carried, and the enemy driven across the river (every where passable on the ice) with considerable loss of men and of four pieces of cannon.
ref: 1796, The Scottish Register, page 252:
text: upon the south of the garden, by ane easy descent, you come to the great orch-yaird containing sex aikers of ground, includeing a parcell thereof that is woody, all upon one levine, stanked and hedged, about whose back entry from the south leads you first to a triangle haugh surrounded with wood, and then to the river of Clyde for salmond fishing for more nor two mylles, which makes the lenth of the wholl barronie from Garingill to the Miregill mouth.
ref: 1815, James Somerville Baron Somerville, Walter Scott, Memorie of the Somervilles, page 384:
text: Upon Friday the 25th of April, sir William Forbes of Craigievar, at his own hand, takes in the place of Kemnay, frae the widow lady thereof, plants some soldiers therein, being stanked about, and of good defence;
ref: 1830, John Spalding, The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland From the Year 1624 to 1645, page 490:
glosses: To surround or guard.
stank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stăngk
ipa: /stæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: stanks
form: stanking
form: stanked
form: stanked
Senses: examples: text: In the por ( bustle ) I lost my hat ; tell gittin ' cloase to a mait-stannin ' (shambles), to saave myself from bein' stanked ( trampled ) under fut, I got up and set down 'pon the stannin' ; an ' then, aw, I feelt my sawl all a-fire weth love for everybody theere, and sprengin' to my feet, I begun to ex'ort, and then took to pray.
ref: 1873, Richard Hampton, Foolish Dick: an Autobiography of Richard Hampton, page 43:
text: And then she took down the cloam from the chimbly and stanked it under her feet, so as no one shouldn't hev it after she war gone.
ref: 1898, M, “Recollections of a Parish Worker”, in The Cornish Magazine, volume 1, page 471:
text: I like to know a man be stanked on, for they'm miserable torments most o' their time .
ref: 1906, Mrs. Havelock Ellis, My Cornish Neighbours, page 40:
text: I caan't afford to ' ave my straw stanked down an ' spoiled.
ref: 1909, Silas Kitto Hocking, In Spite of Fate, page 177:
text: I remarked on this to Tippet and he mumbled something about they saucy girls having gathered all the eating peas and stanked on his lettuces and carrots to get them.
ref: 1931, Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick, Storms and Tea-cups, page 93:
text: It is this moment which Parker chooses to tell; in so doing setting a new agenda and standard for Cornu-English dialect literature: ' We should ha' just stanked on over the top of 'en but instead we hesitated and squared up.
ref: 2000, Alan M. Kent, The Literature of Cornwall, page 269:
glosses: To trample.
examples: text: I put on my clean gook to-day, And went to fetch some barm,When I stanked 'pon a slaw-cripple, Down there by Hodge's farm.
ref: 1895, Joseph Thomas, Randigal Rhymes and a Glossary of Cornish Words, page 24:
text: But she stanked upon a wuilkin one day in the chall, and after that she was always liable to quames.
ref: 1901, Pearson's Magazine, volume 11, page 362:
text: He catched sight o' the barra handles sticked up over a lime bucket, and stanked fore to grab 'em.
ref: 1975, Jack R. Clemo, Confession of a Rebel, page 72:
text: Certainly, there would be those happy to support his elevation to parliament: Then up jumped Reuben Gill, And he stanked on the floor To send John Prisk to Parliament He'd beg from door to door.
ref: 2007, Philip Payton, Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia's Little Cornwall, page 122:
text: The wemmen and some of the men sot down, too, but all the young cheldern runned away down out o' sight, so I stanked out as fast as I cud to see where they was going to, and when I got there, they was all down by a will.
ref: 2010, George Pritchard, Angletwitch and Poppydock, page 9:
glosses: To stumble or lurch.
stank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stăngk
ipa: /stæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: stanks
form: stanking
form: stanked
form: stanked
Senses: examples: text: In cattle auctions, cows are frequently seen with “stanked udders,” when a cow is driven to market several miles along hard roads with a loaded udder, its milk is not improved for human consumption.
ref: 1913, Royal Sanitary Institute (Great Britain), Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute - Volume 33, page 86:
text: An old cow, giving rather little milk and perhaps not freshly calved, may be 'stanked' in order to deceive a prospective purchaser, and in this case an accusation of 'cruelty' would not be so ill-founded.
ref: 1950, Frederick Daniel Smith, Barbara Wilcox, The Country Companion, page 91:
text: The cows was stanked and the calves was empty.
ref: 1950, Frederick Daniel Smith, Barbara Wilcox, Sold for Two Farthings, page 122:
text: also the advantage of preventing any of the quarters of the udder from becoming stanked, from not being used by the calf, which leads in time to the quarter being lost.
ref: 2013, James MacDonald, History of Hereford Cattle:
text: So instead of pleading for Beguildy I said—“Look's cows coming, they'll be stanked if they inna milked.”
ref: 2022, Mary Webb, Precious Bane:
qualifier: dairying
glosses: To cause (the udders) to become blocked and inflamed from lack of milking.
stunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stŭngk
ipa: /stʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stink
strew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹuː/
ipa: /stɹu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: strews
form: strewing
form: strewed
form: strewn
form: strewed
form: strow
form: straw
Etymology: From Middle English strewen, strawen, streowen, from Old English strewian, strēawian, strēowian (“to strew, scatter”), from Proto-West Germanic *strauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *strawjaną (“to strew”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, scatter”).
Cognate with Scots strow, straw (“to strew”), West Frisian streauwe (“to strew”), Dutch strooien (“to strew, scatter, sprinkle”), German streuen (“to strew, scatter”), Swedish strö (“to strew”), Icelandic strá (“to strew”), Norwegian Nynorsk strå (“to strew”).
Senses: examples: text: to strew sand over a floor
text: The files had been strewn all over the floor.
text: Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: And strewed his mangled limbs about the field.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: […] I ſee
Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field
Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter,
His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood.
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 2:
text: On a principal table a desk was open and many papers strewn about.
ref: 1880, [Benjamin Disraeli], Endymion […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
qualifier: except strewn
glosses: To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.
examples: text: Leaves strewed the ground.
text: The snow which does the top of Pindus strew.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion:
text: Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?
ref: 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered.
examples: text: She may strew dangerous conjectures.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
glosses: To spread abroad; to disseminate.
examples: text: error-strewn
glosses: To populate with at random points; to cause to appear randomly distributed throughout.
Synonyms: scatter
sprinkle
Derived terms: bestrew
strewable
strewage
strewments
strewnfield
Related terms: strain
streusel
strewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: strewn
Senses: glosses: simple past of strew
glosses: past participle of strew
strewn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹuːn/
ipa: /stɹun/
rhymes: -uːn
Senses: examples: text: Unwashed dishes and dirty laundry were strewn about the room.
text: The completely-industrialised outskirts of Newcastle gradually give place to rural surroundings, and the Tyne becomes a moorland river with a boulder-strewn bed.
ref: 1955 September, H. A. Vallance, “The Border Counties Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 593:
text: Baniyas was one of the towns worst hit by the violence. Residents there say bodies were strewn on the streets or left unburied in homes and on the roofs of buildings, with nobody able to collect them.
ref: 2025 March 9, Malek Fouda, “More than 1,000 killed in Syria, most of them civilians, in sectarian violence”, in Euronews:
glosses: past participle of strew
stride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: strīd
ipa: /stɹaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: strides
form: striding
form: strode
form: stridden
form: strode
form: strid
Etymology: From Middle English striden, from Old English strīdan (“to get by force, pillage, rob; stride”), from Proto-West Germanic *strīdan, from Proto-Germanic *strīdaną. Cognate with Low German striden (“to fight, to stride”), Dutch strijden (“to fight”), German streiten (“to fight, to quarrel”).
Senses: examples: text: Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is grav'd, and strides along the liquid field.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Ninth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To walk with long steps.
glosses: To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
examples: text: a debtor that not dares to stride a limit
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: For SAC66 is better known as Batty Moss (or Ribblehead) Viaduct - the magnificent, Grade 2-listed, 24-arch structure that strides over the pockmarked ground between Ribblehead station and Blea Moor signal box.
ref: 2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival”, in Rail, page 26:
glosses: To pass over at a step; to step over.
examples: text: I mean to stride your steed.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ix]:
text: The air and manner of the horseman bespoke him of superior order;[…]. The rich housings of the beast he strode, proclaimed its owner of illustrious race; […]
ref: 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter II, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 26:
glosses: To straddle; to bestride.
Derived terms: bestride
strider
stride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: strīd
ipa: /stɹaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: strides
Etymology: From Middle English stride, stryde, from Old English stride (“a stride, pace”), from the verb (see above). Doublet of strid.
Senses: examples: text: Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: An utterly emphatic 5-0 victory was ultimately capped by two wonder strikes in the last two minutes from Aston Villa midfielder Gary Gardner. Before that, England had utterly dominated to take another purposeful stride towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel. They have already established a five-point buffer at the top of Group Eight.
ref: 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph:
text: Rail technology advanced step by step - albeit electrification was a good stride, rather than a short step.
ref: 2024 January 10, Philip Haigh, “Four decades of Britain's railway evolution - step by step”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 65:
glosses: A long step in walking.
glosses: The distance covered by a long step.
examples: text: This stride value is generally equal to the pixel width of the bitmap times the number of bytes per pixel, but for performance reasons it might be rounded […]
ref: 2007, Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, Beautiful Code:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats.
Derived terms: word: astride
word: break stride
word: break one's stride
word: get into one's stride
word: hit one's stride
word: in stride
word: make strides
word: no-stride
word: stride bass
word: strided
word: stride piano
word: strides
word: take something in stride
word: take something in one's stride
strode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹəʊd/
ipa: /stɹoʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
Senses: glosses: simple past of stride
examples: text: an impeccably poised young woman who had strode out in an evening gown
ref: 2011 The Economist "Obituary: Whitney Houston" 18 February 2012
glosses: past participle of stride
stridden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɪdən/
rhymes: -ɪdən
Forms: form: strode
Senses: glosses: past participle of stride
strive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Forms: form: strives
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of strife.
strove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɔʊv/
rhymes: -əʊv
Senses: glosses: simple past of strive
examples: text: They have not been content with the Simplicity of the Goſpel, which is a plain Rule of living wel, but have ſtrove to out-wit one another in finding out hidden Miſterys;[…]
ref: 1687, Andrew Sowle, A Rational Catechiſm, or An inſtructive Conference between a Father and Son, page 23:
text: […]while, I fear, there will be some white ones, unable to forget that, with malignant heart, and deceitful speech, they have strove to hinder it.
ref: 1863 August 26, Abraham Lincoln, Letter to James Conkling, page 7:
text: Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
ref: 2013 February 6, Hideo Otake, “Revising the Interpretation of the Japanese Economy”, in Michio Muramatsu, Frieder Naschold, editors, State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change, page 319:
glosses: past participle of strive
Synonyms: strived
striven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɪvən/
rhymes: -ɪvən
Senses: glosses: past participle of strive
Synonyms: strived
impact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: imʹpăkt
ipa: /ˈɪmpækt/
enpr: im-păktʹ
ipa: /ɪmˈpækt/
rhymes: -ækt
Forms: form: impacts
form: impacting
form: impacted
form: impacted
Etymology: Attested since the 17th century, from Latin impāctus.
Senses: examples: text: When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends.
text: As a microbullet impacts the graphene, the diameter of the cone it creates – determined by later examination of the petals – provides a way to measure how much energy the graphene absorbs before breaking.
ref: 2014 December 1, Mike Williams, “Microbullet hits confirm graphene’s strength”, in Rice University:
glosses: To collide or strike, the act of impinging.
examples: text: The footprints of birds do not impact the soil in the way those of dinosaurs do.
glosses: To compress; to compact; to press into something or pack together.
examples: text: I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule.
glosses: To significantly or strongly influence or affect; to have an impact on.
examples: text: Ideas impacted on the mind.
glosses: To stamp or impress onto something.
Derived terms: impactable
impacter
impaction
impactor
reimpact