cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
arch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ärch
ipa: /ɑɹt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ɑːt͡ʃ/
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ipa: /ɑɹk/
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ipa: /ɑːk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: arches
Etymology: From Middle English arch, arche, from Old French arche (“an arch”), a feminine form of arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”). Doublet of arc and arco. Displaced native Old English bīeġels.
Senses: glosses: An inverted U shape.
glosses: An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.
topics: architecture
glosses: An architectural element having the shape of an arch
examples: text: to pass into the arch of a bridge
glosses: Any place covered by an arch; an archway.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An arc; a part of a curve.
glosses: A natural arch-shaped opening in a rock mass.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The curved part of the bottom of a foot.
Derived terms: abdominothoracic arch
antitwilight arch
aortic arch
aortic arch syndrome
arch bridge
arch dell
arch doxy
arched
arch enemy
Arches
archful
Archgrounds
arch harp
archivolt
archless
archlet
archlike
archlute
archmold
archmould
arch of the aorta
archtop
archway
archwire
archwise
archwork
balloon arch
bell arch
branchial arch
camber arch
counterarch
cycloidal arch
Dean of the Arches
enarch
equilateral arch
fallen arch
first arch syndrome
flying arch
geostatic arch
gill arch
Golden Arches
Gothic arch
haemal arch
hemiarch
horseshoe arch
hyoid arch
hyoidean arch
interarch
jack arch
keel arch
keyhole arch
lancet arch
Marble Arch
Maya arch
Mayan arch
midarch
Moorish arch
neural arch
nocturnal arch
oblique arch
overarch
palaeoarch
palatoglossal arch
palatopharyngeal arch
paleoarch
pectoral arch
pelvic arch
Persian arch
pharyngeal arch
proscenium arch
relieving arch
Royal Arch
safety arch
scheme arch
sea arch
semiarch
skew arch
smoke arch
stilted arch
straight arch
subarch
Syrian arch
triumphal arch
Tudor arch
uparch
vertebral arch
wheel arch
zygomatic arch
arch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ärch
ipa: /ɑɹt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ɑːt͡ʃ/
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ipa: /ɑɹk/
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ipa: /ɑːk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: arches
form: arching
form: arched
form: arched
Etymology: From Middle English arch, arche, from Old French arche (“an arch”), a feminine form of arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”). Doublet of arc and arco. Displaced native Old English bīeġels.
Senses: examples: text: The cat arched its back.
text: GBR will either be letting operating contracts or running rail companies directly, depending on which party wins the next General Election. Whichever it is, you can be forgiven for arching an eyebrow at an infrastructure company being placed in overall control.
ref: 2024 March 6, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Who will run our railways?”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 3:
glosses: To form into an arch shape.
glosses: To cover with an arch or arches.
arch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ärch
ipa: /ɑɹt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ɑːt͡ʃ/
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ipa: /ɑɹk/
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ipa: /ɑːk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: arches
Etymology: From the prefix arch-. "Principal" is the original sense; "mischievous" is via onetime frequent collocation with rogue, knave, etc.
Senses: examples: text: My worthy arch and patron comes to-night.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: A chief.
topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of god (“person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon”).
synonyms: word: god
extra: person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon
Related terms: arc
key signature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key signatures
Senses: examples: text: The key signatures of D major and b minor both have two sharps.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An indication of the key of a composition, giving the number of sharps or flats in the corresponding scale.
Related terms: ♯
♭
major key
minor key
mode
mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /moʊd/
ipa: /məʊd/
ipa: /mod/
rhymes: -əʊd
homophone: mowed (except Scotland)
Forms: form: modes
Etymology: From French mode f (“fashion, trend”).
Senses: examples: text: Her wardrobe is always in mode.
text: The dress she wore was no longer a cheap blue serge but a handsome tricolette, richly trimmed according to the prevailing mode.
ref: 1922, Edith Van Dyne, chapter 4, in Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman:
glosses: Style or fashion; popular trend.
Derived terms: a la mode
à la mode
alamode
Related terms: bimodal distribution
median
mean
modal
scale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skeɪl/
ipa: [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ]
ipa: /skæɪl/
ipa: [skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: scales
form: scaling
form: scaled
form: scaled
Etymology: From Middle English scale, from Latin scāla, usually in plural scālae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), for *skand-slā, from scandō (“I climb”); see scan, ascend, descend, etc. Doublet of scala.
Senses: examples: text: We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
glosses: To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
examples: text: Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
text: At last I came to the great barrier-cliffs; and after three days of mad effort—of maniacal effort—I scaled them. I built crude ladders; I wedged sticks in narrow fissures; I chopped toe-holds and finger-holds with my long knife; but at last I scaled them. Near the summit I came upon a huge cavern.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IX, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
text: A solitary rock is always attractive. All right-minded people feel an overwhelming desire to scale and sit upon it.
ref: 1932, Dorothy L Sayers, chapter 1, in Have his Carcase:
text: The dead leap at the throat, destroy
The meaning of the day; dark forms
Have scaled your walls, and spies betray
Old secrets to amorphous swarms.
ref: 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Feud”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: To climb to the top of.
examples: text: That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
examples: text: Scaling his present bearing with his past.
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 II, scene iii]:
text: The kitchen-dining-buffet car scales 49.2 tons.
ref: 1962 July, G. Freeman Allen, “The New "Rheingold"”, in Modern Railways, page 25:
glosses: To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
examples: text: Every single print that goes out our door has a warning in its title block telling the world, "Do not scale this drawing."
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: To take measurements from (an engineering drawing), treating them as (or as if) reliable dimensional instructions. This practice often works but can produce latently incorrect results and is thus usually deprecated.
Hyponyms: scale back
scale down
scale out
scale up
Related terms: scaling ladder
scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skeɪl/
ipa: [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ]
ipa: /skæɪl/
ipa: [skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: scales
Etymology: From Middle English scale, from Old French escale, from Frankish and/or Old High German skala, from Proto-Germanic *skalō. Cognate with Old English sċealu (“shell, husk”), whence the modern doublet shale. Further cognate with Dutch schaal, German Schale, French écale.
Senses: examples: text: Fish that, with their fins and shining scales, / Glide under the green wave.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
glosses: A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
glosses: A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
glosses: Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
glosses: The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
glosses: Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
glosses: Limescale.
glosses: A scale insect.
glosses: The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
glosses: An infestation of scale insects on a plant; commonly thought of as, or mistaken for, a disease.
Derived terms: antiscalant
citricola scale
cotton scale
iron scale
lac scale
lateral scale
leaf-scale
mill scale
paraffin scale
San Jose scale
scale armor
scale bark
scale leaf
scales fall from someone's eyes
scale tree
soft scale
scale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skeɪl/
ipa: [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ]
ipa: /skæɪl/
ipa: [skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: scales
form: scaling
form: scaled
form: scaled
Etymology: From Middle English scale, from Old French escale, from Frankish and/or Old High German skala, from Proto-Germanic *skalō. Cognate with Old English sċealu (“shell, husk”), whence the modern doublet shale. Further cognate with Dutch schaal, German Schale, French écale.
Senses: examples: text: Please scale that fish for dinner.
synonyms: descale
glosses: To remove the scales of.
examples: text: The dry weather is making my skin scale.
glosses: To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
examples: text: to scale the inside of a boiler
glosses: To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
examples: 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
if all the mountains and hills were scaled, and the earth made even
glosses: To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
examples: text: Some sandstone scales by exposure.
text: Those that cast their shell are the lobster and crab; the old skins are found, but the old shells never; so it is likely that they scale off.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
glosses: To scatter; to spread.
examples: text: cannons […]caused to be scaled and loaded
ref: 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
Derived terms: scale off
scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skeɪl/
ipa: [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ]
ipa: /skæɪl/
ipa: [skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: scales
Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English scale (non-Northern scole), from Old Norse skál (“bowl”) from Proto-Germanic *skēlō. Compare Danish skål (“bowl, cup”), Dutch schaal, German Schale, Old High German scāla, Old English scealu (“cup”).
Senses: examples: text: After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.
synonyms: scales
glosses: A device to measure mass or weight.
glosses: Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
Derived terms: platform scale
sample scale
suspension scale
tip the scale
torsion scale
turn the scale
basketball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːs.kɪt.bɔːl/
ipa: /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɔl/
ipa: /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɑl/
Forms: form: basketballs
Etymology: From basket + ball.
Senses: examples: text: to play basketball
text: He pursued basketball as his career.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: word: hoops
word: b-ball
glosses: A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.
glosses: The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.
Derived terms: 3x3 basketball
antibasketball
basketball court
basketballdom
basketballer
basketballese
basketball player
basketball shoes
basketball shorts
basketbrawl
nonbasketball
wheelchair basketball
basketball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːs.kɪt.bɔːl/
ipa: /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɔl/
ipa: /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɑl/
Forms: form: basketballs
form: basketballing
form: basketballed
form: basketballed
Etymology: From basket + ball.
Senses: examples: text: by high school he was basketballing with the best of an all-Negro league
ref: 1968, Tom Tiede, Coward:
glosses: To play basketball.
examples: text: He took a sip from a paper coffee-cup , crumpled it up and basketballed it into a small rubbish bin about five feet from him.
ref: 1994, Jeff Probst, Bachelor Butterflies:
glosses: To throw in a similar way to when shooting a basketball.
IP address
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IP addresses
Etymology: Short for Internet Protocol address.
Senses: glosses: A number assigned to each computer's or other device's network interface, which are active on a network. supporting the Internet Protocol, in order to distinguish each network interface, and hence each networked device) from every other network interface anywhere on the network.
Synonyms: IP number
Related terms: internet
Internet Protocol
IP
dynamic IP address
static IP address
OSI
ping
ovine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvaɪn/
ipa: /ˈoʊˌvaɪn/
rhymes: -əʊvaɪn
rhymes: -oʊvaɪn
Forms: form: ovines
Etymology: The adjective is borrowed from Late Latin ovīnus (“ovine”) + English -ine (suffix with the sense ‘of or relating to’ forming adjectives). Ovīnus is derived from Latin ovis (“sheep”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”), possibly from *h₂ew- (“to clothe oneself, dress; to be dressed”) in the sense of something that provides woollen clothing) + -īnus (suffix with the sense ‘of or relating to’ forming adjectives).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: glosses: An animal from the genus Ovis; a sheep.
examples: text: At present, municipal councillors play at party politics by organizing the ovine members who do not know how to vote until a Party Whip tells them, and opposing independent candidates at the elections. The remedy for this is the exclusion of ovines from the municipal panel.
ref: 1944, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Political Summary”, in Everybody’s Political What’s What?, London: Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 353:
glosses: A person regarded as resembling a sheep in character; one who is acquiescent, easily influenced, passive, or willing to follow a leader blindly; a sheep.
baa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [bɑː]
ipa: [bæ]
ipa: [bɑ]
ipa: [bæ̰ː]
ipa: [bæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀ]
rhymes: -ɑː
rhymes: -æ
homophone: bah
homophone: bar stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: baas
form: bah
Etymology: Compare German bäh, mäh; an imitative word.
Notes on phonological development
The pronunciation /bɑː/ is perhaps a development from earlier /bæː/ reflecting the shift of /æː/ to /ɑː/ during the 18th and 19th centuries. Compare Early Modern English bae, bea, both "to baa", respectively displaying the then current pronunciation of Middle English /aː/ as /æː/ and the failure of Middle English /ɛː/ to raise, and the replacement of mew with meow for another instance where recent sound change has made onomatopoeia opaque.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic cry or bleating of a sheep.
Synonyms: bleat
bleating
Derived terms: baa-lamb
baa
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: [bɑː]
ipa: [bæ]
ipa: [bɑ]
ipa: [bæ̰ː]
ipa: [bæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀ]
rhymes: -ɑː
rhymes: -æ
homophone: bah
homophone: bar stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: bah
Etymology: Compare German bäh, mäh; an imitative word.
Notes on phonological development
The pronunciation /bɑː/ is perhaps a development from earlier /bæː/ reflecting the shift of /æː/ to /ɑː/ during the 18th and 19th centuries. Compare Early Modern English bae, bea, both "to baa", respectively displaying the then current pronunciation of Middle English /aː/ as /æː/ and the failure of Middle English /ɛː/ to raise, and the replacement of mew with meow for another instance where recent sound change has made onomatopoeia opaque.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic cry of a sheep.
baa
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [bɑː]
ipa: [bæ]
ipa: [bɑ]
ipa: [bæ̰ː]
ipa: [bæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀ]
rhymes: -ɑː
rhymes: -æ
homophone: bah
homophone: bar stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: baas
form: baaing
form: baaed
form: baaed
form: bah
Etymology: Compare German bäh, mäh; an imitative word.
Notes on phonological development
The pronunciation /bɑː/ is perhaps a development from earlier /bæː/ reflecting the shift of /æː/ to /ɑː/ during the 18th and 19th centuries. Compare Early Modern English bae, bea, both "to baa", respectively displaying the then current pronunciation of Middle English /aː/ as /æː/ and the failure of Middle English /ɛː/ to raise, and the replacement of mew with meow for another instance where recent sound change has made onomatopoeia opaque.
Senses: examples: text: He treble baas for help, but none can get.
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: The lamb bunted several irresponsive objects - never its dam's udder - baaing listlessly.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 44:
glosses: To make the characteristic cry of a sheep.
baa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [bɑː]
ipa: [bæ]
ipa: [bɑ]
ipa: [bæ̰ː]
ipa: [bæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀ]
rhymes: -ɑː
rhymes: -æ
homophone: bah
homophone: bar stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: baas
Etymology: From Arabic بَاء (bāʔ).
Senses: glosses: The letter ب in the Arabic script.
bleat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbliːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: bleats
form: blate
form: blait
Etymology: From Middle English bleten, from Old English blǣtan (“to bleat”), from Proto-West Germanic *blātijan, from Proto-Germanic *blētijaną (“to bleat”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to howl, cry, bleat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to make a loud noise”).
Cognate with Scots blete, bleit, West Frisian bâlte, blaaien, blêtsje (“to bleat”), Dutch blaten (“to bleat”), Low German bleten (“to bleat”), German blaßen, blässen (“to bleat”).
Senses: glosses: The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.
Synonyms: sense: sheep's cry
word: baa
sense: sheep's cry
word: baaing
sense: sheep's cry
word: bleating
Derived terms: bleaty
heather-bleat
bleat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbliːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: bleats
form: bleating
form: bleated
form: bleated
form: blate
form: blait
Etymology: From Middle English bleten, from Old English blǣtan (“to bleat”), from Proto-West Germanic *blātijan, from Proto-Germanic *blētijaną (“to bleat”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to howl, cry, bleat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to make a loud noise”).
Cognate with Scots blete, bleit, West Frisian bâlte, blaaien, blêtsje (“to bleat”), Dutch blaten (“to bleat”), Low German bleten (“to bleat”), German blaßen, blässen (“to bleat”).
Senses: examples: text: In the year 1633, the Bridget Nuns, near Xanthus, behaved like sheep, jumping about and bleating continuously.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 99:
glosses: Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry of baas; of a human, to mimic this sound.
examples: text: The last thing we need is to hear them bleating to us about organizational problems.
glosses: Of a person, to complain.
examples: text: She came skipping to me just now, clapping her little hands and bleating about how very, very happy she was, dear Mrs Travers. The silly young geezer. I nearly conked her one with my trowel.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: I can't have, for instance, Heracles come bleating to me at some future date, asking please can he have his bow back, and getting all stroppy when I refuse to tell him where it is.
ref: 2016, James Lovegrove, Age of Heroes, Solaris, →ISBN:
text: Am I the odd one out for thinking this is quite alarming? That I should find it weird to see a 41-year-old influencer bleating about her “bleph”.
ref: 2025 October 11, Jo Ellison, “The forever 35 face of fashion”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 23:
glosses: Of a person, to say things of little importance to the listener.
Synonyms: sense: make the characteristic cry of a sheep or goat
word: baa
sense: complain
word: kvetch
sense: complain
word: moan
sense: complain
word: whinge
sense: complain
word: whine
Derived terms: debleat
outbleat
spim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: spims
form: spIM
Etymology: Blend of spam + IM (instant messaging).
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Unsolicited messages sent to cellular phones.
glosses: Unsolicited commercial messages sent via an instant messaging system.
iso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪsəʊ/
ipa: /ˈaɪsoʊ/
homophone: ISO
Forms: form: isos
Senses: glosses: Clipping of isolation.
Quarantine measures in order to mitigate the spread of communicable diseases, such as Covid-19.
examples: text: “I can remember lining up against them and saying, ‘This is the 15th iso that you’re going to get.’ ”
ref: 2007 January 5, Pete Thamel, quoting Greg Mattison, “Scoreboard Shows This Isn't the Same Old Ohio State”, in New York Times:
topics: American-football
ball-games
basketball
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Clipping of isolation.
An isolation play in basketball or American football.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Clipping of isomorphism.
Derived terms: self-iso
bray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: breɪ
ipa: /bɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: brae
Forms: form: brays
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English brayen, brai, bray, braye (“of a person or animal: to vocalize loudly; of the weather: to make a loud sound, howl, roar”), from Old French brai, braire (“of an animal: to bray; of a person: to cry or shout out”) (modern French braire (“of an animal: to bray; of a person: to shout; to cry, weep”)), possibly from Vulgar Latin *bragiō, from Gaulish *bragu (compare Breton breugiñ (“to bray”), brammañ (“to flatulate”), Cornish bramma, brabma (“to flatulate”), Old Irish braigid (“to flatulate”)), from Proto-Celtic *brageti, *bragyeti (“to flatulate”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (“to flatulate; to stink”); cognate with Latin fragrō (“to smell”). Alternatively, the word could be from a Germanic source, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”), and cognate with frangere (“to break, shatter”).
The noun is derived from the verb, or from Middle English brai, brait (“shriek; outcry”), from Old French brai, brait (“a cry”), from braire (“of an animal: to bray; of a person: to shout; to cry, weep”); see above.
Senses: synonyms: word: hee-haw
english: ass or donkey
translation: ass or donkey
glosses: The cry of an animal, now chiefly that of animals related to the ass or donkey, or the camel.
examples: text: It seems a very nest—warm and snug, and green—for human life; with the twilight haze of time about it, almost consecrating it from the aching hopes and feverish expectations of the present. Who would think that the bray and roar of multitudinous London sounded but some sixty miles away?
ref: 1843, [Douglas William Jerrold], “A Gossip at the Reculvers [from The Chronicles of Clovernook]”, in Douglas [William] Jerrold, editor, The Illuminated Magazine, volume I, London: Published for the proprietors, […], →OCLC, page 143, column 2:
text: [...] Mr. [Edmund] Gosse's blank verse is sweet and varied, and full mostly of a graceful melody. If it has not the trumpet's power, neither has it the trumpet's bray, but rather a flute-like tone of its own.
ref: 1876 April, “Gosse’s King Erik: King Erik. By Edmund W. Gosse. London: Chatto and Windus. 1876. [book review]”, in The London Quarterly Review, volume XLVI, number XCI, London: Published for the proprietors, at the Wesleyan Conference Office, […], →OCLC, page 257:
text: At full volume, Doreen's whinnying laugh could shatter glass. Even at half volume, her high-pitched brays rattled teeth.
ref: 2005, Merline Lovelace, The Last Bullet (Cleo North Trilogy; 3), Ontario: Mira Books, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: Any discordant, grating, or harsh sound.
bray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: breɪ
ipa: /bɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: brae
Forms: form: brays
form: braying
form: brayed
form: brayed
Etymology: From Middle English brayen (“to break or crush into pieces”), from Anglo-Norman breier, Old French breie, breier, broiier (modern French broyer (“to crush, grind”)), possibly from Frankish *brekan (“to break”), from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”); thus making the English word a doublet of break.
Senses: examples: text: Though thou ſhouldeſt bray a fool in a morter among wheate with a peſtell, yet will not his fooliſhneſſe depart from him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 27:22:
text: Their heads and ſhoulders are painted red with the roote Pocone brayed to powder, mixed with oyle, this they hold in ſommer to preſerue them from the heate, and in winter from the cold.
ref: 1624, Iohn Smith, “The Commodities in Virginia, or that May Be Had by Industrie”, in The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: […], London: […] I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes, →OCLC, book 2; reprinted in The Generall Historie of Virginia, … (Bibliotheca Americana), Cleveland, Oh.: The World Publishing Company, 1966, →OCLC, page 30:
text: They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber.
ref: 1625, Samuel Purchas, “Their Cocos and other fruits and food, their Trades and trading, Creatures profitable and hurtfull. Of Male their principall Iland. Their Houſes, Candou, Languages, Apparell.”, in Pvrchas his Pilgrimes. In Five Bookes. … The Second Part., volume II, London: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, page 1643 [sic: 1653]:
glosses: To crush or pound, especially using a pestle and mortar.
examples: text: If anything he brayed him all the harder – the old family bull recognising his fighting days were close to over.
ref: 2011, Sarah Hall, “Butcher’s Perfume”, in The Beautiful Indifference, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: To hit (someone or something).
hee-haw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiː.hɔ̰̃ː/
Forms: form: hee-haws
form: heehaw
form: hee haw
Etymology: Onomatopoeic coinage.
Senses: glosses: The cry of an ass or donkey.
examples: text: Apart from one cool fight sequence, she pretty much does hee-haw - just like Iron Man.
ref: 2010 April 30, Grant Lauchlan, Daily Record:
text: People like Dick Advocaat, who knew hee-haw about Scottish football's history, set about whittling away little bits of our tradition on the grounds... well, let's be honest, that they were an inconvenience.
ref: 2010 September 27, Bill Leckie, The Scottish Sun:
glosses: Nothing.
Synonyms: bray
hee-haw
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiː.hɔ̰̃ː/
Forms: form: heehaw
form: hee haw
Etymology: Onomatopoeic coinage.
Senses: glosses: The cry of an ass or donkey.
hee-haw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiː.hɔ̰̃ː/
Forms: form: hee-haws
form: hee-hawing
form: hee-hawed
form: hee-hawed
form: heehaw
form: hee haw
Etymology: Onomatopoeic coinage.
Senses: examples: text: The ladies were not much the wiser, though, I confess, they were not far removed from the door. The great men inside talked indistinctly and technically, and once Doctor Dillon was so unfeeling as to crack a joke—they could not distinctly hear what—and hee-haw brutally over it.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: To utter the cry of an ass or donkey.
IP
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Initialisms (see definitions).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of intraperitoneal.
IP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IPs
Etymology: Initialisms (see definitions).
Senses: examples: text: In the past year, Disney has announced 4 sequels and one reboot, but not a single new IP
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of intellectual property.
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of Indigenous peoples.
qualifier: motion picture
glosses: Initialism of interpositive.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of innings pitched (“the statistic reporting the number of innings pitched by a pitcher”).
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of immunoprecipitation.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: cursor
glosses: Initialism of insertion point (where text, etc. will be added in a document).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of instruction pointer (CPU register).
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
hypernyms: XP
qualifier: X-bar theory
glosses: Initialism of inflectional phrase.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of incontinentia pigmenti.
glosses: Initialism of instrument panel.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of injured party.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of initial permutation.
glosses: Ellipsis of IP address.
examples: text: This IP made a disruptive edit!
glosses: Ellipsis of IP address.
An unregistered user identified by their IP address.
synonyms: anon
qualifier: wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon; wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An Iraqi police officer, or the Iraqi police as a whole.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Irish pennant.
topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: OP
glosses: Abbreviation of inpatient.
IP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialisms (see definitions).
Senses: examples: text: IP address
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Internet Protocol.
glosses: Initialism of Ingress Protection Rating.
glosses: Initialism of International Paper.
Derived terms: sense: Internet Protocol
word: TCP/IP
IP
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Initialisms (see definitions).
Senses: examples: text: Prison nursing staff will carefully evaluate whether an individual should have 'IP' (in possession) medication.
ref: 2014, Linda Gask, Carolyn Chew-Graham, ABC of Anxiety and Depression, page 37:
qualifier: prison
glosses: Initialism of in possession.
Related terms: IP set
elephantine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛl.əˈfæn.tin/
ipa: /ɛl.əˈfæn.taɪn/
ipa: /ˈɛl.ə.fən.tin/
ipa: /ˈɛl.ə.fən.taɪn/
Forms: form: elephantines
Etymology: From Latin elephantīn(us). By surface analysis, elephant + -ine.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the subfamily Elephantinae of elephants and their extinct close relatives.
wit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭt
ipa: /wɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
homophone: whit (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: wit
form: wot
form: wist
form: wost
form: wottest
form: wistest
form: wot
form: wist
form: wit
form: wist
form: -
form: wit
form: -
form: witting
form: wist
Etymology: From Middle English witen, from Old English witan, from Proto-West Germanic *witan, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”).
Cognate with North Frisian waase, wed, weet (“to know”), Saterland Frisian wíete (“to know”), West Frisian wite, witte (“to know”), Alemannic German wüsse (“to know”), Cimbrian bizzan (“to know”), Dutch, Low German weten (“to know”), German wissen (“to know”), Luxembourgish wëssen (“to know”), Yiddish וויסן (visn, “to know”), Danish vide (“to know”), Elfdalian witå (“to know”), Faroese, Icelandic vita (“to know”), Jutish veer (“to know”), Norwegian Bokmål vide, vite (“to know”), Norwegian Nynorsk veta, vita, våtå (“to know”), Scanian veda (“to know”), Swedish veta (“to know”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (witan, “to know”), Italian guidare (“to guide”), Spanish, Portuguese guiar (“to guide”), French guider (“to guide”), and Latin videō (“I see”). Compare guide.
Senses: examples: text: You committed terrible actions — to wit, murder and theft — and should be punished accordingly.
text: They are meddling in matters that men should not wit of.
text: Truly, said fair Elaine, I shall do all that I may do, for as fain would I know and wit where he is become as you or any of his kin, or queen Guenever, and cause great enough have I thereto as well as any other. And wit ye well, said fair Elaine to Sir Bors, I would lose my life for him rather than he should be hurt.
ref: 1483, Thomas Malory, Le morte d'Arthur:
text: And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 2:3–4:
text: but soon having wist
How sky-breadth and field-silence and this day
Are symbols also in some deeper way,
She looked through these to God and was God’s priest.
ref: 1849, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, St. Luke the Painter, lines 5–8:
qualifier: obsolete except in to wit
glosses: To know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively).
Derived terms: bewit
to wit
unwitting
witness
wit
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭt
ipa: /wɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
homophone: whit (wine–whine merger)
other: /wɪtʃ/
enpr: wĭt
ipa: /wɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
homophone: whit (wine–whine merger)
Etymology: From with.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of with.
Related terms: wit woo
hen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: hens
form: henning
form: henned
form: henned
form: henne
Etymology: From Middle English hen, from Old English henn (“hen”), from Proto-West Germanic *hannju, from Proto-Germanic *hanjō (“hen”), from Proto-Indo-European *kan-, *kana- (“to sing”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hanne (“hen”), West Frisian hin (“hen”), Dutch hen (“hen”), German Low German Heen (“hen”), German Henne (“hen”), Danish høne (“hen”), Swedish höna (“hen”), Icelandic hæna (“hen”). Related to Old English hana (“cock, rooster”). Also cognate to Latin cicōnia (“stork”), Latin canō (“to sing”), Russian каню́к (kanjúk, “buzzard”). Compare Russian пету́х (petúx, “rooster, cock”) from Russian петь (petʹ, “to sing”).
Sense 7 after cock (“male chicken; man's penis”).
Senses: examples: text: Once he had flared up, "If ever a man was henned, it's me!"
ref: 1943, McCall's - Volume 71, page 69:
text: Mammy henned the black workers into placing the trunks beside the girls.
ref: 1984, Susan C. Feldhake, Love Beyond Surrender, page 52:
glosses: Synonym of mother-hen.
synonyms: word: mother-hen
Related terms: broody
hen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Etymology: From Middle English henne, heonne, hinne, from earlier henene, heonenen, henen, from Old English heonan, hionan, heonane, heonone (“hence, from here, away, from how”), from Proto-Germanic *hina, *hinanō (“from here”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Dutch heen (“away”), German hin (“hence, from here”), Danish hen (“away, further, on”). See also hence.
Senses: glosses: Hence.
hen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: hens
form: henning
form: henned
form: henned
Etymology: From hen (“hence, away”), or a variant of hench.
Senses: glosses: To throw.
chick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: chicks
form: chicking
form: chicked
form: chicked
Etymology: From Middle English chicke, chike, variation of chiken (“chicken", also "chick”), from Old English ċicen, ċycen (“chicken”). Sense of "young woman" dates to at least 1860 (compare chit (“young, pert woman”)). More at chicken.
Senses: examples: text: plowing in his oats with a very feet furrow; and, after they have “chicked” but before they appear aboveground
ref: 1795, William Marshall, The Rural Economy of Norfolk:
glosses: To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.
examples: text: He chicked his lips; he cracked his whip; he winked with a knowing leer; he ran down the alley and up the stair, then down the stair and up the alley
ref: 1844, James Ballantine, The Miller of Deanhaugh:
glosses: To compress the lips and then separate them quickly, resulting in a percussive noise.
chick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: chicks
form: chik
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani چق (ciq) / चिक (cik), ultimately from Persian چق (čeq).
Senses: examples: text: 1890, Rudyard Kipling, Letter to William Canton, 5 April, 1890, in Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis (eds.) Writings on writing by Rudyard Kipling, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 34, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-AQStA5QMjwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Then, through a cautiously lifted chick, the old scene stands revealed […]
text: It is not uncommon at meal-time to see the table servants chasing the sparrows about the room, endeavouring to drive them out while some one holds up the "chick" or bamboo net which covers the doorway.
ref: 1905, A. C. Newcombe, chapter VII, in Village, Town, and Jungle Life in India, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 106:
text: […] at this time of day all the verandas were curtained with green bamboo chicks.
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 2”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: Outside I could hear the bamboo chick tapping on the door like a blind man's stick on a kerbstone.
ref: 1999, Kevin Rushby, chapter 10, in Chasing the Mountain of Light: Across India on the Trail of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond, New York: St. Martin's Press, page 216:
glosses: A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
Synonyms: chick-blind
Derived terms: chicked
gosling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒzlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɑzlɪŋ/
Forms: form: goslings
form: goslin
Etymology: From Late Middle English goslyng (“gosling”), alteration (due to Middle English goos (“goose”)) of earlier gesling (“gosling”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse gæsling, géslingr (“gosling”), from gás (“goose”) + -lingr (“-ling”), equivalent to goose + -ling. Cognate with Danish gæsling (“gosling”), Swedish gässling (“gosling”). Compare also Low German gossel, gössel (“gosling”), German Gänslein (“gosling”).
Senses: examples: text: Marta's gander was a magnificent snow-white bird: the object of terror to foxes, children and dogs. She had reared him as a gosling; and whenever he approached, he would let fly a low contented burble and sidle his neck around her thighs.
ref: 1988, Bruce Chatwin, Utz, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN; republished London: Vintage Books, 2005, →ISBN, page 50:
synonyms: gooseling
coordinate_terms: duckling
cygnet
swanling
glosses: A young goose.
examples: text: Two stout woodmen with difficulty cut down this tree, the chips of which flew far and wide about the hall; but at my command my two green goslings carried away the fragments without any difficulty.
ref: 1862 April 19, “Mediums Under Other Names”, in All the Year Round, volume 7, page 132:
glosses: An inexperienced and immature, or foolish and naive, young person.
examples: text: These Aments (we must no longer call them catkins) are composed both of male and female flowers; what Henry calls goslings in spring are the Aments of the willow tree ; his green goslings are female Aments , and , when mature , have the appearance of little tufts of wool, which appearance is caused by the downy material that crowns their feeds;
ref: 1797, Botanical Dialogues, Between Hortensia and Her Four Children, page 8:
text: When the oak puts on his goslings grey 'Tis time to sow barley night or day.
ref: 1893, “Tree Proverbs”, in The Journal of Education, volume 37, page 170:
text: The common Sallow or Goat Willow (Salix caprea) forms a small bush in rough places and the hollows left by old gravel-pits. It produces the “goslings” which children are fond of gathering at Easter .
ref: 1901, Edward North Buxton, Epping Forest, page 116:
text: In the afternoon: cut back the crack willow around the pool; the fluffy flowers fall on the water. Locally, the flowers are known as 'goslings'. Water. It has no motion of its own; it is the mechanic betrayer of other forces. the breeze gently drifts the goslings to the far shore.
ref: 2018, John Lewis-Stempel, The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood:
glosses: A catkin on willows, nut trees, and pines.
Derived terms: gosling blast
May gosling
Related terms: goose
lice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Etymology: From Middle English lys, from Old English lȳs.
Senses: glosses: plural of louse
glosses: louse
Derived terms: licecide
liceless
licey
aquarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-kwârʹē-əm
ipa: /əˈkwɛɹ.i.jəm/
ipa: /-ɛɹiəm/
Forms: form: aquaria
form: aquariums
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂
Proto-Italic *akʷā
Latin aqua
Latin -ārius
Latin aquārius
Latin aquāriumbor.
English aquarium
Borrowed from Latin aquārium, neuter of aquārius (“of or pertaining to water”), from aqua + -arium. Doublet of ewer; see also Aquarius. Also claimed to be coined by English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse, as a blend of aquatic + vivarium.
Senses: synonyms: word: fish tank
glosses: A tank, often made of glass, for keeping live fish or other aquatic animals.
glosses: A public place where live fish and other aquatic animals are exhibited.
Derived terms: aquariumlike
Macquarium
nonaquarium
seaquarium
submarium
motherfucking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌðə(ɹ)ˌfʌkɪŋ/
Forms: form: motherfuckin
Etymology: Back-formation from motherfucker.
Senses: examples: text: America, fuck yeah! / Comin' again to save the motherfuckin' day, yeah!
ref: 2004, Trey Parker, “America, Fuck Yeah”:
text: I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!
ref: 2006 August 17, Snakes on a Plane, spoken by Agent Neville Flynn (Samuel L. Jackson):
coordinate_terms: word: everliving
english: nonvulgar expurgations
translation: nonvulgar expurgations
word: everloving
word: ;
word: motherloving
word: cousinfucking
glosses: An intensifier, used in the same contexts as fucking, but more intense.
Derived terms: word: Jesus motherfucking Christ
english: minced oath
translation: minced oath
word: mollyfogging
english: minced oath
translation: minced oath
word: motherflipping
word: motherfreaking
word: motherfuckingly
motherfucking
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌðə(ɹ)ˌfʌkɪŋ/
Forms: form: motherfuckin
Etymology: Back-formation from motherfucker.
Senses: examples: text: He is one motherfucking mean dude.
qualifier: strongly vulgar
glosses: To an extreme degree.
fucking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfʌkɪn/
rhymes: -ʌkɪŋ
Forms: form: fuckings
form: fuckin
form: fuckin'
Etymology: From fuck + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I got a good fucking out of her, but I doubt we'll have another date.
text: c 1674, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II
Like the French fool, that wanders up and down
Starving his people, hazarding his crown.
Peace is his aim, his gentleness is such,
And love he loves, for he loves fucking much.
glosses: An act of sexual intercourse, especially one lacking passion or a feeling of sincere love.
examples: text: I took a real fucking on the interest rate for that loan.
glosses: An act of mistreatment.
Synonyms: frig
frigging
Derived terms: brotherfucking
butt-fucking
cousinfucking
face fucking
fist-fucking
fucking A
fucking hell
fuckingly
fucking machine
fucking Nora
fucking oath
fucking shit
fucktard
little brown fucking machine
pigfucking
sisterfucking
skull fucking
sofa king
sport-fucking
starfucking
the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get
the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you're going to get
the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you take
throat fucking
whore-fucking
fucking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfʌkɪn/
rhymes: -ʌkɪŋ
Forms: form: fuckin
form: fuckin'
Etymology: From fuck + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: No fucking way.
text: This is a fucking nightmare!
text: Give me the fucking key!
text: Open the fucking locker!
text: Yeah, she caught my eye, as I walked on by / She could see from my face that I was fucking high
ref: 2005, James Blunt, “You're Beautiful”, in Back to Bedlam:
text: “Every time it’s shown, I get e-mail from young guys who want to get it on with me,” she said. “Which is wonderful. I’m seventy-seven fucking years old.”
ref: 2006 March 6, Lauren Collins, quoting Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, “Last Bohemians”, in The New Yorker:
text: You know what's not as easy as pie? Baking an actual fucking pie!
ref: 2017, Norm Macdonald Live, season 3, episode 12, spoken by Norm Macdonald:
synonyms: fecking
freaking
fricking
frigging
flipping
fuckening
goddamn
glosses: An intensifier, often applying more to the whole utterance than to the specific word it grammatically modifies.
examples: text: Get your fucking car out of the way.
text: Get me off your fucking mailing list.
text: Even when Trump won, Murdoch was unconvinced, reportedly privately calling him a “fucking idiot” following one conversation about immigration.
ref: 2022 November 10, Adam Gabbatt, quoting Rupert Murdoch, “Has ‘Trumpty Dumpty’ taken a great fall from Rupert Murdoch’s grace?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Offensive, annoying or worthless.
fucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfʌkɪn/
rhymes: -ʌkɪŋ
Forms: form: fuckin
form: fuckin'
Etymology: From fuck + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fuck
Derived terms: fugly
Jesus fucking Christ
motherfucking
oh my fucking God