cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
comprehensive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒm.pɹɪˈhɛn.sɪv/
ipa: /ˌkɑm.pɹəˈhɛn.sɪv/
Forms: form: comprehensives
Etymology: Borrowed from late Middle French compréhensif, from Late Latin comprehēnsīvus, from Latin comprehendō.
Senses: examples: text: Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
ref: 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
glosses: A comprehensive school.
nancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnænsi/
rhymes: -ænsi
Forms: form: nancies
form: nancys
form: Nancy
Etymology: From Nancy, pet form of the female given names Agnes and Anne, under influence from earlier nan (“serving girl, maid; male homosexual”), itself from Nan, another pet form of the same names. Compare Mary.
Senses: examples: text: The wonderful Stephen Tobolowsky returns as Sandy [Ryerson], the flaming former glee club director who’s now the shop teacher, and warns that “you are going to have a school full of nancys unless you get some hot wood in those teenagers’ hands.”
ref: 2009 September 17, Mike Hale, “‘Glee’, Brought to You By the Letter ‘C’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2009:
glosses: An effeminate man, especially a homosexual.
Synonyms: sense: an effeminate man
word: mama's boy
word: pansy
word: sissy
word: effeminate man
sense: a homosexual
word: friend of Dorothy
word: omi-palone
word: male homosexual
Derived terms: nancified
nancyboy
nancy boy
nance
nancy pants
nancy up
Related terms: negative nancy
Dannie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: dăn'i
ipa: /ˈdæn.i/
rhymes: -æni
Etymology: From Daniel or Daniella; from Hebrew דן, and archaic English -ie.
Senses: glosses: A male given name, a less common variant of Danny.
glosses: A female given name, also used for conjoining names (e.g. Dannie Rae).
Related terms: Danette
fancy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæn.si/
rhymes: -ænsi
Forms: form: fancier
form: fanciest
form: fancie
form: fansie
form: fant’sy
form: phancie
form: phancy
form: phansie
form: phansy
form: phant’sy
Etymology: From Middle English fansy, fantsy, a contraction of fantasy, fantasye, fantasie, from Old French fantasie, from Medieval Latin fantasia, from Late Latin phantasia (“an idea, notion, fancy, phantasm”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to render visible”), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to make visible”); from the same root as φάος (pháos, “light”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti, from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Doublet of fantasia, fantasy, phantasia, and phantasy.
Senses: examples: text: This is a fancy shawl.
synonyms: decorative
ornate
antonyms: plain
simple
glosses: Decorative, or featuring decorations, especially intricate or diverse ones.
examples: text: This box contains bottles of the fancy grade of jelly.
synonyms: high-end
glosses: Of a superior grade.
examples: text: He initiated the game-winning play with a fancy deked saucer pass to the winger.
glosses: Executed with skill.
examples: text: I'm not keen on him and his fancy ideas.
synonyms: highfalutin
antonyms: simple
glosses: Unnecessarily complicated.
examples: text: This anxiety never degenerated into a monomania, like that which led his [Frederick the Great's] father to pay fancy prices for giants.
ref: 1859, Thomas Macaulay, The Life of Frederick the Great:
glosses: Extravagant; above real value.
Derived terms: fancible
fancify
fanciless
fanciness
fancy ball
fancy bread
fancy Dan
fancy dress
Fancy Dutch
fancy fair
fancy girl
fancy goods
fancy house
fancy ketchup
fancy line
fancy maid
fancy man
fancy meat
fancymonger
fancy-pants
fancy pants
fancy roller
fancy sauce
fancy-schmancy
fancy shop
fancy stitch
fancy stock
fancy trade
fancywork
fancy work
footloose and fancy free
hyperfancy
nonfancy
overfancy
schmancy
superfancy
unfancy
fancy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæn.si/
rhymes: -ænsi
Forms: form: fancie
form: fansie
form: fant’sy
form: phancie
form: phancy
form: phansie
form: phansy
form: phant’sy
Etymology: From Middle English fansy, fantsy, a contraction of fantasy, fantasye, fantasie, from Old French fantasie, from Medieval Latin fantasia, from Late Latin phantasia (“an idea, notion, fancy, phantasm”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to render visible”), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to make visible”); from the same root as φάος (pháos, “light”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti, from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Doublet of fantasia, fantasy, phantasia, and phantasy.
Senses: examples: text: I igonored it, hurdling her navel, riding her torso and taking both her breasts in my hands and mashing them none too fancy.
ref: 1970, Troy Conway, The Cunning Linguist, London: Flamingo Books, page 131:
glosses: In a fancy manner; fancily.
hypnotherapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypnotherapists
Etymology: From hypno- + therapist.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of hypnotherapy.
rectitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛk.tɪ.tjuːd/
ipa: /ˈɹɛk.tə.tjuːd/
ipa: /ˈɹɛk.tə.tuːd/
ipa: /ˈɹɛk.tə.tjuːd/
Forms: form: rectitudes
Etymology: From Middle English rectitude, from Middle French rectitude, from Late Latin rectitūdō (“straightness, uprightness”), from Latin rectus (“straight”), perfect passive participle of regō (“regulate, guide”).
Senses: glosses: Straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent.
examples: text: A consciousness of rectitude can be a terrible thing, and in those days I didn't just think that I was right: I thought that “we” (our group of International Socialists in particular) were being damn well proved right.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 98:
glosses: The fact or quality of being right or correct; correctness of opinion or judgement.
examples: text: We, therefore, the Repreſentatives of the united States of America, in General Congreſs, Aſsembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of theſe Colonies, ſolemnly publiſh and declare, That theſe United Colonies are, and of right ought to be Free and Independent States[…]
ref: 1776 July 4, Thomas Jefferson et al., United States Declaration of Independence:
text: “Sit with her all night if we have to,” Syd affirms with strenuous rectitude.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: Conformity to the rules prescribed for moral conduct; (moral) uprightness, virtue.
Synonyms: sense: rightness of principle
word: honesty
sense: rightness of principle
word: integrity
sense: rightness of principle
word: morality
discombobulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪs.kəmˈbɒb.jəˌleɪt/
Forms: form: discombobulates
form: discombobulating
form: discombobulated
form: discombobulated
form: discomboberate
form: discombulate
form: discombobricate
form: discombooberate
Etymology: 1834 US, fanciful variant of discompose, discomfit, etc., originally discombobricate.
Senses: examples: text: Can't you and I pretend to quarrel? A personal assault by you on me will wake these people up and discombobulate Goldsmith. Say the word—only don't hit too hard.
ref: 1895, John Kendrick Bangs, “Story-tellers' Night”, in A House-Boat on the Styx, New York: Harper & Brothers, published 1901, page 132:
text: The notes zigzag in his pieces and discombobulate the ear, just as in 12-tone works.
ref: 1999 December 13, Anthony Tommasini, “MUSIC REVIEW; Plenty Of Zigzags, But Hold The Angst”, in The New York Times, page E3:
text: First, distract target. Then block his blind jab. Counter with cross to left cheek. Discombobulate. Dazed, he'll attempt wild haymaker. Employ elbow block.
ref: 2009 December 25, Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham, Simon Kinberg, 17:18 from the start, in Sherlock Holmes, spoken by Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.):
glosses: To throw into a state of confusion; to befuddle or perplex.
Derived terms: discombobulation
discombobulator
spouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spaʊ̯s/
ipa: /spaʊ̯z/
rhymes: -aʊs
rhymes: -aʊz
Forms: form: spouses
Etymology: From Middle English spous, spouse, from Anglo-Norman espus m, espuse f and Old French espos m, espose f and by aphesis from Latin spōnsus m (“bridegroom”), spōnsa f (“bride”), from spondeō (“I vow, pledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *spend-. Displaced native Old English ġemaca.
Related to espouse and sponsor.
Senses: examples: text: People should treat their spouses with respect.
text: At last such grace I found, and meanes I wrought, / That I that Ladie to my spouse had wonne
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 21:
glosses: A person in a marriage or marital relationship.
Synonyms: word: spouse
word: better half
word: consort
word: helpmate
word: helpmeet
word: mate
word: other half
word: partner
word: wedder
Hyponyms: word: husband
word: wife
word: deuterogamist
word: exogamist
word: hypergamist
word: bigamist
word: monogamist
word: polyandrist
word: polygamist
word: polygynist
word: trigamist
Derived terms: word: ex-spouse
word: military spouse
word: pretermitted spouse
word: spousal
word: surviving spouse
word: work spouse
Related terms: word: mistress
spouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spaʊ̯s/
ipa: /spaʊ̯z/
rhymes: -aʊs
rhymes: -aʊz
Forms: form: spouses
form: spousing
form: spoused
form: spoused
Etymology: From Middle English spous, spouse, from Anglo-Norman espus m, espuse f and Old French espos m, espose f and by aphesis from Latin spōnsus m (“bridegroom”), spōnsa f (“bride”), from spondeō (“I vow, pledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *spend-. Displaced native Old English ġemaca.
Related to espouse and sponsor.
Senses: examples: text: Do you stand possess’d
Of any proof against the honourableness
Of Lady Auranthe, our new-spoused daughter?
ref: 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act III, scene II, verses 212-214:
glosses: To wed; to espouse.
veda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Veda (“malt loaf bread”).
piecemeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːs.miːl/
Etymology: From Middle English pecemele, from pece (“piece”) + mele (from Old English mǣlum (“at a time”), dative plural form of mǣl (“time, measure”), taking the place of Old English styċċemǣlum (“in pieces, bit by bit, piecemeal; to pieces, to bits; here and there, in different places; little by little, by degrees, gradually”); equivalent to piece + -meal.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: piecewise, stepwise; see also Thesaurus:gradual
text: Such assistance, I am convinced, must not be on a piecemeal basis, as various crises develop.
ref: 1947, George Marshall, The Marshall Plan Speech:
text: But the copious and intertwined associative links warrant our accepting the former alternative: cyclamen—favourite flower—favourite food— artichokes; pulling to pieces like an artichoke, leaf by leaf (a phrase constantly ringing in our ears in relation to the piecemeal dismemberment of the Chinese Empire)—herbarium—bookworms, whose favourite food is books.
ref: 1953, James Strachey, translation of Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, pg. 224
text: “This takes us away from the piecemeal, bit by bit approach,” said Cathleen Curran Myers, the Pennsylvania representative on the basin commission.
ref: 2007 October 2, Anthony Depalma, “City Agrees to Help Regulate Delaware River by Releasing Water From Reservoirs”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2015:
text: The dictionaries themselves cover this additional lexis in what can best be described as a piecemeal fashion, with an obvious but unwarranted bias towards colonial era lexis.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 312:
glosses: Made or done in pieces or one stage at a time.
Derived terms: piecemeal approach
piecemealwise
piecemeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːs.miːl/
Etymology: From Middle English pecemele, from pece (“piece”) + mele (from Old English mǣlum (“at a time”), dative plural form of mǣl (“time, measure”), taking the place of Old English styċċemǣlum (“in pieces, bit by bit, piecemeal; to pieces, to bits; here and there, in different places; little by little, by degrees, gradually”); equivalent to piece + -meal.
Senses: examples: text: It’s as bad as selling a man a horse with half a dozen latent vices and watching him discover them piecemeal in the course of the hunting season.
ref: 1914, Saki, The Forbidden Buzzards:
text: The Western Region route, by contrast, was built up piecemeal and was not shaped in its present form until 1910.
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 96:
text: The Government is under fresh pressure not to sell off piecemeal the route of the abandoned northern extension to Manchester until extra rail capacity has been clearly identified.
ref: 2024 May 1, Howard Johnston, “Network News: TfN plan reiterates plea to preserve abandoned HS2 land”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 12:
glosses: Piece by piece; in small amounts, stages, or degrees.
examples: text: Stoop villaine, ſtoop, ſtoope for ſo he bids,
That may commaund thee peecemeale to be torne,
Or ſcattered like the lofty Cedar trees.
Strooke with the voice of thundring Iupiter.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene ii:
text: A few years ago also there was the case of Kate Webster, who at Richmond murdered her mistress, and, fiend-like, cut the body up piecemeal, and tried to dispose of it in various ways by small portions.
ref: 1888 October 3, “The Whitehall Murder”, in Daily Telegraph, London:
glosses: Into pieces or parts.
Synonyms: sense: piece by piece
word: little by little
word: bit by bit
word: incrementally
sense: into pieces or parts
word: apart
word: asunder
piecemeal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːs.miːl/
Forms: form: piecemeals
form: piecemealing
form: piecemealed
form: piecemealed
Etymology: From Middle English pecemele, from pece (“piece”) + mele (from Old English mǣlum (“at a time”), dative plural form of mǣl (“time, measure”), taking the place of Old English styċċemǣlum (“in pieces, bit by bit, piecemeal; to pieces, to bits; here and there, in different places; little by little, by degrees, gradually”); equivalent to piece + -meal.
Senses: glosses: To divide or distribute piecemeal; dismember.
Synonyms: apportion
mete out
parcel out
divide
distribute
Derived terms: piecemealing
piecemeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːs.miːl/
Forms: form: piecemeals
Etymology: From Middle English pecemele, from pece (“piece”) + mele (from Old English mǣlum (“at a time”), dative plural form of mǣl (“time, measure”), taking the place of Old English styċċemǣlum (“in pieces, bit by bit, piecemeal; to pieces, to bits; here and there, in different places; little by little, by degrees, gradually”); equivalent to piece + -meal.
Senses: examples: text: Thus the world Is all to piecemeals cut
ref: a. 1695, Henry Vaughan, Ode:
text: The fairest towns that ever the sun rose upon, are now no more: the names only are left, and those (for many of them are wrong spelt) are falling themselves by piecemeals to decay.
ref: 1762, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (V.iii):
glosses: A fragment; a scrap.
Synonyms: bit
lump
portion
piece
dilettantism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dilettantisms
Etymology: From dilettante + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The brawny craftsman finds it no child's play to mould his unpliant rugged masses; neither is guidance of men a dilettantism: what it becomes when treated as a dilettantism, we may see!
ref: 1839 (indicated as 1840), Thomas Carlyle, “Laissez-Faire”, in Chartism, London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, pages 52–53:
text: As Erasmus would find, the king and his advisers had a hard-edged attitude to scholarship that was worlds away from the enquiring dilettantism of Eltham.
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 237:
glosses: The act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur or "dabbler", sometimes in the arts. Also the act of enjoying the arts, being a connoisseur.
Related terms: dilettante
exploit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕks'ploit
ipa: /ˈɛksplɔɪt/
enpr: ĭksploit'
ipa: /ɪksˈplɔɪt/
rhymes: -ɔɪt
Forms: form: exploits
Etymology: From Old French esploit (noun), esploitier (verb).
Senses: examples: text: Hieronimo, it greatly pleaſeth vs, / That in our victorie thou haue a ſhare, / By vertue of thy vvorthy Sonnes exployt.
ref: c. 1587 (date written), [Thomas Kyd], The Spanish Tragedie: […] (Fourth Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for T[homas] Pauier, […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I:
glosses: A heroic or extraordinary deed.
examples: text: The first trek to the summit of Mount Everest was a stunning exploit.
glosses: An achievement.
examples: text: One of the more publicized cases that involved a zero-day exploit concerned the compromise of some U.S. military web servers. The attack involved exploiting a buffer overflow vulnerability in a core Windows component; […]
ref: 2004, Rob Shein, Zero-Day Exploit: Countdown to Darkness, Syngress, →ISBN, page xxi:
text: For example, you can create PE files that are valid PDF exploits or valid ZIP files, valid JPG files, and so on.
ref: 2015, Joxean Koret, Elias Bachaalany, The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook, page 148:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software.
topics: video-games
glosses: An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.
Derived terms: anti-exploit
sexploit
exploit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕks'ploit
ipa: /ˈɛksplɔɪt/
enpr: ĭksploit'
ipa: /ɪksˈplɔɪt/
rhymes: -ɔɪt
Forms: form: exploits
form: exploiting
form: exploited
form: exploited
Etymology: From Old French esploit (noun), esploitier (verb).
Senses: examples: text: to exploit natural resources in a sustainable way
text: However, exploiting their 110mph capability will initially only be possible north of Bedford, pending an upgrade of the overhead wires between Bedford and St Pancras by Network Rail to make them suitable for use by electric trains at over 100mph.
ref: 2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 53:
synonyms: take advantage of
use
utilize
glosses: To use (something) to someone's advantage, such as one's own benefit or a society's benefit.
examples: text: Materialistic people who exploit others will come to a bad end.
coordinate_terms: take advantage of
abuse
misuse
glosses: To make unfair use of someone else's labor, person, or property to one's own advantage.
Derived terms: counterexploit
exploitability
exploitee
exploitive
exploiture
misexploit
nonexploited
overexploit
sexploit
superexploit
underexploit
underexploited
unexploited
utilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.tɪ.laɪz/
ipa: /ˈju.tə.laɪz/
ipa: [ˈju.ɾə.laɪz]
ipa: /ˈjʉː.tə.lɑez/
ipa: [ˈjʉː.ɾə.lɑez]
Forms: form: utilizes
form: utilizing
form: utilized
form: utilized
form: utilise
Etymology: From French utiliser, from Italian utilizzare, from utile (“useful”), from Latin ūtilis, from ūtī (“use”).
Senses: examples: text: The scientists utilized advanced technology in their research.
text: We must utilize our resources more efficiently.
text: The program can be utilized for educational purposes.
glosses: Alternative spelling of utilise.
Derived terms: utilizable
utilization
utilizer
inflate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn-flāt'
ipa: /ɪnˈfleɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈflæɪt/
ipa: /ənˈflæɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: inflates
form: inflating
form: inflated
form: inflated
Etymology: From Latin īnflātus, perfect passive participle of īnflō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of inblow.
Senses: examples: text: You inflate a balloon by blowing air into it.
text: When passion's tumults in the bosom rise, / Inflate the features, and enrage the eyes.
ref: 1782, John Scott of Amwell, An Essay on Painting:
glosses: To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
examples: text: The balloon will inflate if you blow into it.
glosses: To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).
examples: text: to inflate somebody with pride or vanity
text: [I]f they find / Some stain or blemish in a name of note, / Not grieving that their greatest are so small, / Inflate themselves with some insane delight, / And judge all nature from her feet of clay, […]
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 137:
glosses: To swell; to puff up.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.
examples: text: Israel routinely claims that the Gaza Ministry of Health, which is run by Hamas, has a tendency to inflate the number of Palestinian casualties in the Gaza Strip.
glosses: To represent something as being more important, better, or worse than it actually is; to exaggerate.
Derived terms: disinflate
hyperinflate
inflatability
inflatable
inflate-a-date
inflated
inflater
inflatingly
inflatino
inflaton
misinflate
overinflate
reinflate
shrinkflate
underinflate
Related terms: inflation
deflate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈfleɪt/
ipa: /dɪˈfleɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: deflates
form: deflating
form: deflated
form: deflated
Etymology: From de- + (in)flate. Coined in 1891, in reference to balloons. Equivalent to Latin dē- (“away, from”) + Latin flō (“blow”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: coordinate_terms: deaerate
deair
glosses: To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
glosses: To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
glosses: To become deflated.
examples: text: deflate someone's ego
text: Scotland's first match at a men's major finals in 23 years ended in anguish after Patrik Schick's incredible halfway-line goal helped the Czech Republic inflict a deflating opening Euro 2020 defeat at Hampden.
ref: 2021 June 14, Scott Mullen, “Scotland 0-2 Czech Republic”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To let (someone) down, disappoint them, or put them in their place.
examples: text: Never had a problem, guess I've never had to deflate multiple files!
ref: 2003, Alan D Johnson, “unzip utility on HPUX”, in comp.sys.hp.hpux (Usenet):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.
glosses: To belch or flatulate
Derived terms: deflatable
Deflategate
deflater
deflatingly
deflation
deflator
gilsonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gilsonites
Senses: glosses: A form of asphalt from the Uintah Basin of Utah.
Synonyms: uintaite
uintahite
loogie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lōōg'i
ipa: /ˈluːɡi/
rhymes: -uːɡi
Forms: form: loogies
form: loogy
Etymology: Unknown; possibly from Luger, Lou, Lue or Louie; possibly from the name of the baseball player Lou Gehrig (from the habit of baseball players of spitting); possible variant of booger.
Senses: examples: text: to hock a loogie
text: I steal doobies, spit loogies when I puff on it
ref: 1995, “I Got 5 on It”, in Operation Stackola, performed by Luniz:
glosses: A thick quantity of sputum, usually containing phlegm.
glosses: Any thick, disgusting liquid.
fifth gear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fifth gears
Senses: synonyms: fifth[Appendix:Glossary#ellipsis|elliptically]]>
coordinate_terms: low gear
first gear
second gear
third gear
fourth gear
;
top gear
overdrive
;
angel gear
neutral#Noun
glosses: The fifth of the gears of a transmission; in many motor vehicles built in the 1970s or later, it is the top gear, being the overdrive gear, although in the 21st century some vehicles have transmissions with yet more gears (e.g., 6, 7, 8), among both manual transmissions and automatic transmissions.
Related terms: downshift
upshift
third gear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third gears
Senses: synonyms: third#Noun[Appendix:Glossary#ellipsis|elliptical]]>
coordinate_terms: low gear
first gear
second gear
fourth gear
fifth gear
;
top gear
overdrive
;
angel gear
neutral#Noun
glosses: The third of the available gears in a transmission or other gearbox.
Related terms: downshift
upshift
bro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹoʊ/
ipa: /bɹəʊ/
ipa: [bɹɞʊ̟]
ipa: [bɹoː]
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: Breaux
Forms: form: bros
form: bra
form: brah
form: breh
form: bruh
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰréh₂tēr
Clipping of brother. Compare Danish bror, Norwegian Bokmål bror, Swedish bror.
Senses: examples: text: My mom took my lil' bro to soccer practice now and she wanted me to pick him up.
glosses: Brother (a male sibling).
examples: text: Bro, you good? You've been lookin' kinda out of it lately.
text: Let’s not kid ourselves – there are plenty of men saying that Will has been emasculated by Jada, because hurr durr why would he hit a bro over a woman.
ref: 2022 May 4, “A$AP Rocky: Will Smith 'emasculated' Chris Rock but 'it's more than just a GI Jane joke'”, in Cele|bitchy:
glosses: Brother (a comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals).
examples: text: Near-synonym: man
text: don't tase me, bro
text: Hey bro, sorry to bother you but I think I accidentally backed up into your car — can I make it up to you?
text: Bro said he finna go off today!
glosses: Brother, my man, good sir; a friendly term of address for typically men.
glosses: A frat boy or someone who espouses the fraternity bro culture.
examples: text: Pfeiffer's partners at Pod Save America — the audio outpost of the resistance that had made a collection of Obama Bros niche superstars, had invested as producers in a documentary about the Senate run.
ref: 2021 May 25, Edward-Isaac Dovere, Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump, Penguin, →ISBN, page 152:
text: One of these cars has 707 horsepower, performs amazingly well on a drag strip, and is popular among performance car bros. The other car is about to easily win a drag race.
ref: 2022 September 14, Brian Culp, Electric Cars For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 11:
text: He'd seen that false equivalency coming from AI bros time and time again, but hearing it from an AI itself was especially irritating.
ref: 2024 May 23, ego_bot, There's Something Weird Going On: Ten Stories of Existentialist Science Fiction, ego_bot, →ISBN:
glosses: Someone, usually male, who aggressively evangelizes a person, concept or technology.
Derived terms: Bernie bro
Brobot
brochacho
brocialism
brocialist
bro code
bro-country
bro culture
brodeo
bro down
brodown
broette
broey
brofessor
brofist
broflake
bro globes
brogrammer
brogressive
brohawk
brohemian
brohoof
bro-hug
brohug
broish
brojob
brolationship
broligarch
broligarchy
bromance
bromantic
bromantical
bromantically
bromeopathy
broness
brony
bro out
broscience
broseph
brosephine
BroShep
broship
broski
brosky
brosmaid
brospeak
brostep
brotastic
brotox
BroTP
brud
cool story bro
cro
cryptobro
debate bro
dudebro
film bro
gym bro
ladybro
lax bro
lesbro
lezbro
lil bro
newbro
passport bro
portmanbro
stepbro
sugar bro
tech bro
Related terms: english: an abbreviated form of bruvver
translation: an abbreviated form of bruvver
word: bruv
word: brotha
word: broseph
first gear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first gears
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: low gear (synonymous except when a creeper gear is present)
synonyms: first#Noun[Appendix:Glossary#ellipsis|elliptical]]>
coordinate_terms: creeper gear
granny gear
;
second gear
third gear
fourth gear
fifth gear
;
top gear
overdrive
;
angel gear
neutral#Noun
glosses: The first gear of a transmission or other gearbox, which usually is the one that provides the lowest output speed and greatest mechanical advantage, except in setups in which there is a granny gear.
Related terms: downshift
upshift
bird of prey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birds of prey
Senses: glosses: A carnivorous bird that hunts for its food, especially one that preys on land vertebrates.
Synonyms: word: raptor
word: bird of prey
Hypernyms: word: bird
word: vertebrate
word: animal
Hyponyms: word: Several species
word: baza
word: buzzard
word: caracara
word: condor
word: eagle
word: eagle-owl
word: erne
word: falcon
word: falconet
word: fish-eagle
word: fish-owl
word: goshawk
word: harrier
word: harrier-hawk
word: hawk
word: hawk-eagle
word: hawk-owl
word: hobby
word: kestrel
word: kite
word: owl
word: owlet
word: scops-owl
word: serpent-eagle
word: serpentaire
word: snake-eagle
word: sparrowhawk
word: vulture
word: honey-buzzard
word: crab-hawk
word: black-hawk
word: masked-owl
word: pygmy-owl
word: screech-owl
word: sooty-owl
word: wood-owl
word: Single species
word: bateleur
word: besra
word: osprey
word: shikra
Meronyms: word: See Thesaurus:bird
word: talon
Related terms: sense: Appendix
word: Animals
agouti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡuːti/
rhymes: -uːti
Forms: form: agoutis
Etymology: From French agouti, from Old Tupi akuti. The name of the acouchi is probably from the same source.
Senses: examples: text: Akin looked around to be certain he was unobserved, then went out to watch the agouti. He had not seen one close up before. Lilith claimed they looked like a cross between deer and rats.
ref: 1988, Octavia E. Butler, “Part II, Chapter 6”, in Adulthood Rites, page 99:
glosses: A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs, mainly native to Central and South America.
glosses: A fur containing a pattern of pigmentation in which individual hairs have several bands of light and dark pigment with black tips; any of several genes responsible for this pigmentation.
Derived terms: Orinoco agouti
amphibian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ăm'fĭb"ĭ-ən
ipa: /æmˈfɪbɪən/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀμφίβιον (amphíbion), from ἀμφίς (amphís, “of both kinds”) + βίος (bíos, “life”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the class Amphibia.
coordinate_terms: triphibian#Adjective
triphibious
omniphibious
glosses: Capable of operating on both land and water; amphibious.
glosses: Having two natures.
Derived terms: amphibian helicopter
amphibian species
amphibian tank
Memphibian
amphibian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăm'fĭb"ĭ-ən
ipa: /æmˈfɪbɪən/
Forms: form: amphibians
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀμφίβιον (amphíbion), from ἀμφίς (amphís, “of both kinds”) + βίος (bíos, “life”).
Senses: synonyms: lurrow
glosses: An animal of the Amphibia; any vertebrate that does not have amniotic eggs, living both on land and in water.
coordinate_terms: triphibian#Noun
glosses: A vehicle which can operate on both land and water.
Synonyms: word: amphibium
word: amphibian
Hypernyms: word: batrachomorph
word: vertebrate
word: animal
Hyponyms: word: Batrachia
word: batrachian
word: batrachofauna
word: †Labyrinthodontia
word: †Lepospondyli
word: Anura
word: Caudata
word: Gymnophiona
word: Lissamphibia
word: Salientia
word: frog
word: toad
word: salamander
word: newt
Derived terms: amphibiankind
amphibianlike
amphibicide
nonamphibian
triphibian
Related terms: word: amphi-
word: Amphibia
word: amphibiology
word: amphibiotic
word: amphibious
word: amphibius
word: bio-
sense: Appendix
word: Animals
word: amphibole
word: amphibology
word: amphiboly
word: batrachology
alt: amphibiology, reptiliology
word: herpetology
word: :Category:Amphibians
barge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /bɑɹd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: barges
Etymology: From Middle English barge, borrowed from Old French barge (“boat”), from Vulgar Latin *barga, a variant of Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic br, from Egyptian bꜣjrb-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1 (“transport ship”). Doublet of bark, barque and baris.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.
glosses: A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions.
glosses: A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel.
glosses: One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars
glosses: The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table.
glosses: A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
glosses: A large bus used for excursions.
Synonyms: lighter
Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of barge (noun)
word: admiral's barge
sense: Hyponyms of barge (noun)
word: dumb barge
sense: Hyponyms of barge (noun)
word: rowbarge
sense: Hyponyms of barge (noun)
word: row barge
Derived terms: barge board
bargee
bargeful
barge in
bargelike
bargeman
barge master
bargemaster
barge pole
barger
bargewoman
billet barge
bread-barge
bunker barge
dumb barge
honey barge
hoverbarge
monkey barge
shoulder-barge
Thames barge
Thames sailing barge
barge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /bɑɹd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: barges
form: barging
form: barged
form: barged
Etymology: From Middle English barge, borrowed from Old French barge (“boat”), from Vulgar Latin *barga, a variant of Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic br, from Egyptian bꜣjrb-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1 (“transport ship”). Doublet of bark, barque and baris.
Senses: examples: text: I mean I couldn't sit there on that desk for the rest of my life, and besides, I was afraid my parents might barge in on me all of a sudden and I wanted to at least say hello to her before they did.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 209:
text: In making this extension, the Metropolitan also built a connection from Farringdon Street towards an overground railway that had just barged its way into the City from Kent. This railway was the London, Chatham & Dover.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.
examples: text: The home side were professionally going about their business and were denied a spot-kick when Dunne clumsily barged Nani off the ball.
ref: 2011 February 1, Mandeep Sanghera, “Man Utd 3 - 1 Aston Villa”, in BBC:
glosses: To push someone.
Derived terms: barge into
shoulder-barge
dik-dik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dik-diks
form: dik-dik
Etymology: Imitative of the sound made by the animal when alarmed.
Senses: glosses: A small antelope of the genus Madoqua, native to southern and eastern Africa, having an elongated snout, a brown or grey/gray coat with a white belly, and an upright tuft on the crown.
kudu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːduː/
rhymes: -uːduː
Forms: form: kudus
form: kudu
form: koodoo
form: koudou
Etymology: Ultimately Khoekhoe kudu-b, through Afrikaans koedoe and French koudou.
Senses: examples: text: Martha, on a hot, wet, steamy afternoon, had spent two hours wriggling on her stomach through the undergrowth to reach a point where she might shoot a big koodoo that was grazing in a corner of the Hundred Acres.
ref: 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 72:
text: I watched from a distance as rangers left a kudu carcass to entice the lions to walk through the gates.
ref: 2004 December 4, Beverley Fearis, The Guardian:
glosses: A large, striped, African antelope of the species Tragelaphus imberbis (lesser kudu) or Tragelaphus strepsiceros (greater kudu).
Derived terms: kudu berry
klipspringer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪpˌsprɪŋə/
ipa: /ˈklɪpˌsprɪŋər/
Forms: form: klipspringers
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans klipspringer, from Dutch klipspringer, both literally meaning "rock-jumper".
Senses: glosses: A small antelope native to eastern and southern Africa having a dense, brown, speckled coat (Oreotragus oreotragus).
springbok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɹɪŋ.bɒk/
enpr: sprĭngʹbäk
ipa: /ˈspɹɪŋ.bɔk/
Forms: form: springbok
form: springboks
form: springbuck
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans springbok, from Dutch springbok, from springen (“to jump, spring”) + bok (“buck, billy goat, antelope”).
Senses: glosses: A small, fast antelope native to southern Africa, Antidorcas marsupialis.
Derived terms: Springbok
Springbokkie
springbuck
bittern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪtən/
homophone: bitten
homophone: Bitterne
ipa: /ˈbɪtəɹn/
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: bitterns
Etymology: From Middle English bitour, botor, from Old French butor, from Gallo-Roman *butitaurus, a blend of Latin būtiō (“bittern”) and taurus (“bull, ox”).
Senses: examples: text: It is a great rock or cliff on the loneliest part of the mountains, and […] is known by the name of the Garden Rock. Near the foot of it is a small lake, the haunt of the solitary bittern, with water-snakes basking in the sun on the leaves of the pond-lilies which lie on the surface.
ref: 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle:
glosses: Several bird species in the Botaurinae subfamily of the heron family Ardeidae.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Botaurus lentiginosus
word: American bittern
taxonomic: Botaurus poiciloptilus
word: Australasian bittern
alt: Dupetor flavicollis
word: black bittern
taxonomic: Ixobrychus cinnamomeus
word: cinnamon bittern
taxonomic: Botaurus stellaris
word: common bittern
taxonomic: Ixobrychus sturmii
word: dwarf bittern
taxonomic: Botaurus stellaris
word: Eurasian bittern
taxonomic: Zonerodius heliosylus
word: forest bittern
taxonomic: Ixobrychus exilis
word: least bittern
taxonomic: Ixobrychus minutus
word: little bittern
taxonomic: Ixobrychus novaezelandiae
word: New Zealand bittern
taxonomic: Botaurus pinnatus
word: pinnated bittern
taxonomic: Ixobrychus involucris
word: stripe-backed bittern
word: sunbittern
word: sun bittern
taxonomic: Eurypyga helias
word: sun-bittern
taxonomic: Ixobrychus eurhythmus
word: Von Schrenck's bittern
taxonomic: Ixobrychus sinensis
word: yellow bittern
Related terms: sense: Appendix
word: Animals
word: bumble
bittern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪtən/
homophone: bitten
homophone: Bitterne
ipa: /ˈbɪtəɹn/
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: bitterns
Etymology: From bitter with an unclear suffix, perhaps a dialect form of -ing.
Senses: glosses: The liquor remaining after halite (common salt) has been harvested from saline water (brine).
examples: text: Now we add the bittern.
ref: 2019, “The Secrets of Tofu across Japan”, in Seasoning the Seasons, NHK World-Japan:
glosses: The saline substance added to soy milk to coagulate it as a primary step in the production of tofu.
glosses: A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer.
Sodom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒ.dəm/
enpr: sädʹəm
ipa: /ˈsɑ.dəm/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒdəm
rhymes: (US) -ɑdəm
Etymology: Partially from Old English Sodome, Sodoma, partially from Ancient Greek Σόδομα (Sódoma), from the Biblical Hebrew סְדֹם (s'dóm).
(Wadham College): Chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A city in the Middle East which, according to the Bible and Islamic tradition, but not specifically named in the Qur'an, was destroyed by God (along with Gomorrah) for the sins of its inhabitants.
qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: Wadham College, Oxford.
Derived terms: apple of Sodom
Sea of Sodom
Sodom and Gomorrah
Sodom apple
Sodom egg-plant
Sodom-fruit
Sodomic
vine of Sodom
Related terms: sodomise
sodomist
sodomite
sodomy
Sodom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒ.dəm/
enpr: sädʹəm
ipa: /ˈsɑ.dəm/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒdəm
rhymes: (US) -ɑdəm
Forms: form: Sodoms
Etymology: Partially from Old English Sodome, Sodoma, partially from Ancient Greek Σόδομα (Sódoma), from the Biblical Hebrew סְדֹם (s'dóm).
(Wadham College): Chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: examples: text: Take all idea of retribution and punishment out of the hearts and minds of men, and it would not be long before Brooklyn and New York and Boston and Charleston and Chicago became Sodoms.
ref: 1890, Thomas De Witt Talmage, Trumpet Peals, page 92:
glosses: A city or place full of sin and vice.
Related terms: Admah
Gomorrah
Zeboim
carnivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː.nɪ.vɔː/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.nɪ.voɹ/
ipa: /ˈkaː.nɪ.voː/
Forms: form: carnivores
Etymology: Borrowed from French carnivore, from Latin carnivorus. In the zoological sense, coined by William Whewell in 1840 as an adaptation of Cuvier's coinage, French carnivore.
Senses: examples: text: As juveniles the crocodiles are frequently predated by larger carnivores.
synonyms: meateater
zoophage
glosses: An organism that feeds chiefly on animals; an animal that feeds on meat as the main part of its diet.
examples: text: The panda and the panther are both carnivores.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: carnivoran
glosses: A mammal belonging to the order Carnivora.
examples: text: Well, she has now gone / From this unhappy planet / With all the carnivores / And the destructors on it
ref: 1990, Morrissey, “Ouija Board, Ouija Board”, in Bona Drag:
synonyms: word: meateater
word: meatarian
word: meatatarian
word: kreophagist
word: nonvegetarian
word: bloodmouth
glosses: A person who is not a vegetarian.
glosses: A follower of the carnivore diet.
Derived terms: carbivore
carnivoracity
carnivore diet
carnivorism
carnivorous
carnivorousness
carnivory
facultative carnivore
flexivore
hypercarnivore
hypocarnivore
macrocarnivore
megacarnivore
mesocarnivore
microcarnivore
noncarnivore
obligate carnivore
omnicarnivore
Related terms: Carnivora
carnivoran
carnivorous
folivore
frugivore
hemovore
herbivore
insectivore
omnivore
piscivore
dinosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪnəsɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/
note: Canada, idle-idol split
ipa: /ˈdʌɪnəsɔːɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖajˈnosə(r)/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖajnɵsɔ(r)/
Forms: form: dinosaurs
form: deinosaur
form: Dinosaur
form: dinosaurus
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós, “terrible, awesome, mighty, fearfully great”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard, reptile”). Coined as Dinosaur(s) and Dinosauria by paleontologist Richard Owen in 1841/1842.
Senses: topics: sciences
synonyms: dreadask
glosses: Any of the animals belonging to the clade Dinosauria, especially those that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct.
glosses: Any member of the clade Dinosauria other than birds.
examples: text: "Not a bird, my dear Roxton - not a bird." "A beast?" "No; a reptile - a dinosaur."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: ‘Dinosaur!’ Denham exploded. ‘By the Power! A dinosaur!’
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 80:
glosses: Any extinct reptile, not necessarily belonging to Dinosauria, that existed between about 230 million and 65 million years ago, as well as the stem-mammal Dimetrodon.
examples: text: [The OS/360 linkage editor] is the culmination of years of development of static overlay technique. Yet it is also the last and finest of the dinosaurs, for it belongs to a system in which multiprogramming is the normal mode and dynamic core allocation the basic assumption.
ref: 1975, Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month, published 1995:
text: The sign in the window said for sale or trade on the last remaining dinosaur Detroit made.
ref: 1999, Ron Harbin, Aaron Barker, Anthony L. Smith, “What About Now”, performed by Lonestar:
glosses: Something or someone that is very old or old-fashioned, or is not willing to change and adapt.
glosses: Anything no longer in common use or practice.
Synonyms: sense: dinosaur excluding birds
word: non-avian dinosaur
sense: person who is very old
word: fossil
sense: person who is very old
word: old fart
word: dinosaur
Hypernyms: word: archosaur
word: reptile
word: vertebrate
word: animal
Hyponyms: word: velociraptor
word: Edmontosaurus
word: parasaurolophus
word: ankylosaurus
word: Stegosaurus
word: apatosaurus
word: brachiosaurus
word: Triceratops
word: tyrannosaurus
Derived terms: avian dinosaur
dinosaur-burner
dinosaur hunter
dinosaurian
dinosauric
dinosaurish
dinosaur juice
dinosaur kale
dinosaurlike
dinosauroid
dinosaur oil
dinosaurologist
dinosaurology
dinosaur plant
duck-billed dinosaur
Milo dinosaur
non-avian dinosaur
nondinosaur
ostrich dinosaur
pedosaur
pinosaur
-saur
Related terms: word: :Category:Dinosaurs
burke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bûrk
ipa: /bɜː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
homophone: berk
homophone: birk
homophone: Bourke
homophone: burk
homophone: Burke
Forms: form: burkes
form: burking
form: burked
form: burked
Etymology: Eponymous, from William Burke.
Senses: examples: text: As soon as the executioner proceeded to his duty, the cries of ‘Burke him, Burke him—give him no rope’... were vociferated... ‘Burke Hare too!’
ref: 1829 February 2, Times (London), 3/5
glosses: To murder by suffocation.
examples: text: "I don’t know that," interrupted the landlady; "Williams is a good hanging name: there was Williams who murdered the Marr's family, and Williams who burked all those poor dear children; I dare say he is some relation of theirs; but to think of his coming to the White Hart—it's no place for his doings, I can tell him: he sha'n't poison his wife in my house; out he goes this very night—I'll take the letter to him myself."
ref: 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The Keepsake 1833, One Peep was Enough, pages 303–304:
text: Perhaps he is Burked, and his body sold for nine pounds.
ref: 1833, T. Hook, Parson's Daughter, II. i. 26:
text: ‘You don’t mean to say he was burked, Sam?’ said Mr. Pickwick, looking hastily round.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 31”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.
examples: text: The reporters left it out... Those who spoke in favour of the poor men, were what the reporters call burked.
ref: 1835, J. A. Roebuck, Dorchester Labourers, 6/1 (note):
text: He put away—burked—the Directors' letter, and went in to talk to Riley
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “A Bank Fraud,”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 128:
text: Socrates and Plato burked the issue.
ref: 1953, Robert Graves, Poems, section 4:
glosses: To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
Derived terms: burker
Related terms: bishop