cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hobnob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒbnɒb/
ipa: /ˈhɑbˌnɑb/
Forms: form: hobnobs
Etymology: From hob and nob, hob or nob (“a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks”) (archaic), from dialectal hab nab (“to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink”), from Old English habban (“to have, possess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to grab, seize”)) + nabban (“to not have”) (from ne (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *né (“not”)) + habban).
Senses: examples: text: With a hob-nob, and a merry go-round, / We'll pull in ere reason fail; / For the stoutest man in the kingdom found, / Must knock under to humming ale.
ref: 1823, Jon Bee [pseudonym; John Badcock], “Hob-nob”, in Slang. A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-ton, and the Varieties of Life, Forming the Completest and Most Authentic Lexicon Balatronicum hitherto Offered to the Notice of the Sporting World, …, London: Printed for T. Hughes, 35, Ludgate-Street, →OCLC, page 97:
text: A prologue of cherry bounce,—brandy,—preceded the entertainment, which was enlivened by hob-nobs and joyous toasts.
ref: 1870 May, “Irish Life”, in The Saint Pauls Magazine, volume VI, London: Strahan & Co., publishers, 56, Ludgate Hill, →OCLC, page 203:
glosses: A toast made while touching glasses together.
glosses: A drinking together.
examples: text: The three friends had a hobnob outside the bar.
text: The American people are largely under the influence of animal magnetism. Whether they are drawn to the levée of a Tom Thumb or to a hobnob with the Russians, the safety-valves of their joyous feelings are sure to be opened when the Stars and Stripes flaunt over their churches, public buildings, and private dwellings.
ref: 1865, [James Dawson Burn], “The Cities of America—New York”, in Three Years among the Working-classes in the United States during the War, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill, →OCLC, page 117:
text: [T]he musical and dramatic critiques in our daily papers are dishonest, shameful, utterly unworthy, and a scandal to journalism and Ireland! Praise is lavishly dispensed because the system pays, […] 'A full house' on Saturday will procure a longer advertisement on Monday morning, another 'free pass' all round, and a hobnob perhaps with Signor, Senora, Herr Bugle, Madame, or Madamoiselle.
ref: 1873 February 1, “Waifs [from the Irish Builder]”, in The Musical World, volume 51, number 5, London: Published by Duncan Davison & Co., 244, Regent Street, →OCLC, page 69, column 2:
glosses: An informal chat.
hobnob
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒbnɒb/
ipa: /ˈhɑbˌnɑb/
Etymology: From hob and nob, hob or nob (“a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks”) (archaic), from dialectal hab nab (“to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink”), from Old English habban (“to have, possess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to grab, seize”)) + nabban (“to not have”) (from ne (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *né (“not”)) + habban).
Senses: glosses: On friendly terms; in friendly association.
hobnob
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒbnɒb/
ipa: /ˈhɑbˌnɑb/
Etymology: From hob and nob, hob or nob (“a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks”) (archaic), from dialectal hab nab (“to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink”), from Old English habban (“to have, possess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to grab, seize”)) + nabban (“to not have”) (from ne (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *né (“not”)) + habban).
Senses: examples: text: The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^([sic – meaning random]) uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.
ref: [1577, Raphaell Holinshed; Richarde Stanyhurst [i.e., Richard Stanihurst], “[The Historie of Irelande […].] The Thirde Booke of the Historie of Ireland, Comprising the Raigne of Henry the Eyght: ….”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, pages 77–78:
glosses: At random; at a venture; hit and miss.
lassie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæsi/
rhymes: -æsi
Forms: form: lassies
Etymology: From lass + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: I had been on a message for my father, and was walking home along the road, when I saw a tall, fine lassie coming over the bogland on the right hand side of the road.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 27:
text: It was the day of warlocks and apparitions, now happily driven out by the zeal of the General Assembly. Witches pursued their wanchancy calling, bairns were spirited away, young lassies selled their souls to the Evil One, and the Accuser of the Brethren, in the shape of a black tyke, was seen about cottage doors in the gloaming.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: She was caught in this git-a-man, git-a-bairn, git-a-hoose shite that lassies git drummed intae them, and hud nae real chance ay defining hersel ootside ay they mashed-tattie-fir-brains terms ay reference.
ref: 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “Bang to Rites”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 220:
text: Green grow the rushes, oh
Green grow the rushes, oh
The sweetest hours that e'er I spent
Are spent among the lassies, oh
ref: 2012, “Green Grow the Rushes”, performed by Celtic Woman:
glosses: A young girl, a lass, especially one seen as a sweetheart.
Derived terms: lassiehood
Related terms: lad
crispy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪs.pi/
rhymes: -ɪspi
Forms: form: crispier
form: crispiest
Etymology: From Middle English crispy; equivalent to crisp + -y.
Senses: examples: text: These biscuits are very crispy.
text: Baked rolls should be crispy.
text: […]on his Head a long and criſpy hair,[…]
ref: 1671, Tho[mas] Jordan, London’s Resurrection to Joy and Triumph, Expressed in Sundry Shews, Shapes, Scenes, Speeches, and Songs in Parts; […], London: […] Henry Brome […], page 3:
glosses: Having a crisp texture; brittle yet tender.
Derived terms: crispily
crispiness
crispy critter
crispy seaweed
crispy water
ultracrispy
crispy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪs.pi/
rhymes: -ɪspi
Forms: form: crispies
Etymology: From Middle English crispy; equivalent to crisp + -y.
Senses: glosses: The well-baked fat on the surface of a piece of roasted meat.
of an
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: of a
Senses: examples: text: The two main players were roughly of an age.
text: He and F were of an age and standing, the giants of the house, but F was the braver, and did us the good office of keeping him in order.
ref: 1825 March 16, Robert Southey, “Letter XVII”, in Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, page 56:
text: Allen said, "If we were of an age, and on an equal footing, you would not give me the lie so often."
ref: 1854, Elias Darnell, Journal of the Campaign, page 74:
text: When she turned to kiss Alcuin, they were of a height.
ref: 2001, Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: Having the same.
examples: Of an evening, I like to play chess. i.e., On some evenings, I like to play chess.
Of a morning, they would work in their garden. i.e., They generally worked in their garden in the morning.
glosses: Indicates a more or less habitual activity during the given part of the day.
waning gibbous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: More than half full in phase, but growing smaller.
Related terms: gibbous
wane
waning crescent
full
new
phase of the moon
wax
waxing crescent
waxing gibbous
pooh-pooh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpuːˈpuː/
ipa: /ˈpuˈpu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: pooh-poohs
form: pooh-poohing
form: pooh-poohed
form: pooh-poohed
form: poohpooh
form: poopoo
Etymology: From a reduplication of pooh (“an utterance of the word pooh”).
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen he went abroad with Dombey and was chasing that vagabond up and down France, J. Bagstock would have pooh-pooh'd you—would have pooh-pooh'd you, Sir, by the Lord!
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, chapter 58, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 578:
text: In England, until very late days, we have been accustomed rather to pooh-pooh national Orders, to vote ribbons and crosses tinsel gewgaws, foolish foreign ornaments, and so forth.
ref: c. 1861, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “On Ribbons”, in Roundabout Papers, London: Smith, Elder & Co., published 1863, →OCLC:
text: Mr Macey, though he joined in the defence of Marner against all suspicions of deceit, also pooh-poohed the tinder-box; indeed, repudiated it as a rather impious suggestion, tending to imply that everything must be done by human hands, and that there was no power which could make away with the guineas without moving the bricks.
ref: 1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter VIII, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I, page 119:
text: Pooh-poohing the IPCC's science has been one line of attack by [George W.] Bush's backers.
ref: 2001 June 21, Murray Sayle, “After George W. Bush, the deluge”, in London Review of Books, volume 23, number 12, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2016, pages 3–9:
text: [Bill] Clinton haters will pooh-pooh all of these acknowledgements as the index of a compulsive sociability that knows no limits and upholds no standards, a psychic necessity we should not make into a moral virtue.
ref: 2004 September 23, David Simpson, “The kid who talked too much and became President”, in London Review of Books, volume 26, number 18, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2016, pages 3–5:
glosses: To dismiss idly with contempt or derision; to diminish.
Related terms: shit talk
crank science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crank sciences
Senses: examples: text: While global warming is far from "crank science", as the critics of Kyoto have called it, it is not the science any practising politician is likely to remember from high school, or voters readily comprehend.
ref: 2001 June 21, London Review of Books:
glosses: Pseudoscience; activity which appears to be science-like but is not founded on proper scientific methods.
left field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left fields
Senses: examples: text: The double, by pinch-hitter Ruben Sierra, curved sharply toward foul ground in deep left field but then changed its mind and hit the line instead—a big hit, and a smile at last from the great and enigmatically difficult game.
ref: 2004 May 10, The New Yorker:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The part of a baseball field which is beyond the infield and to the left of a person standing on home plate and facing the pitcher.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The defensive position in the outfield to the left.
examples: text: Some of her comments really came from left field. I have no idea what she was thinking.
text: There is no serendipity without a flash of insight from left field, an oblique eureka effect.
ref: 2004 September 23, London Review of Books:
text: There was no shortage of dropped jaws when news came through about the appointment of the recently ennobled Lord Peter Hendy as rail minister. This was certainly a left-field move, taking everyone (perhaps even himself) by surprise.
ref: 2024 July 24, Christian Wolmar, “Rail Minister Hendy has a tough job... but the skills to succeed”, in RAIL, number 1014, page 44:
glosses: An unexpected, bizarre, or unwatched source (especially in the phrases out of left field and from left field).
examples: text: Tonne is way out in left field if he thinks a voice writing machine will never be built or that there are no existing prototypes or work being done in this […]
ref: 1960, Journal of business education, volume 35, page 303:
glosses: An unusual or unexpected position, or a viewpoint held by very few others in contrast to the majority viewpoint (especially in the phrases out in left field and way out in left field)
Derived terms: word: leftfield
squiggler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squigglers
Etymology: From squiggle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The end of the losing arrived in a Yankee game against Oakland, when the Pinstripes, down by 8-4 in the eighth inning, were granted a succession of feeble singles, nubbed infield squigglers, three walks, and a two-run double, good for six runs and, in time, the win.
ref: 2004 May 10, The New Yorker,:
glosses: Anything that squiggles.
eureka
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəˈɹiː.kə/
ipa: /jʊˈɹiː.kə/
rhymes: -iːkə
Forms: form: eureka!
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative first person singular of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “to find”). Archimedes supposedly exclaimed this when he figured out how to determine the density of an object. First use appears c. 1603 in a text by Philemon Holland.
Senses: examples: text: Eureka! I have found it! What I mean / To say is, not that love is idleness, / But that in love such idleness has been / An accessory, as I have cause to guess.
ref: 1821, Byron, Don Juan:
text: "Eureka!" he cried, his teeth shining through his beard. "Gentlemen, you may congratulate me and we may congratulate each other. The problem is solved."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: A page is turned - eureka, a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody.
ref: 1970, Peter Porter, The Sanitized Sonnets, The Last of England:
glosses: An exclamation indicating a sudden discovery.
Derived terms: eureka effect
eureka moment
eureka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəˈɹiː.kə/
ipa: /jʊˈɹiː.kə/
rhymes: -iːkə
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative first person singular of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “to find”). Archimedes supposedly exclaimed this when he figured out how to determine the density of an object. First use appears c. 1603 in a text by Philemon Holland.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of constantan (“copper-nickel alloy”).
synonyms: word: constantan
extra: copper-nickel alloy
Related terms: aha moment
epiphany
eureka effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eureka effects
Senses: examples: text: There is no serendipity without a flash of insight from left field, an oblique eureka effect.
ref: 2004 September 23, London Review of Books:
synonyms: aha effect
glosses: The human experience of feeling a sudden sense of insight upon making a discovery or realization.
Related terms: eureka
eureka moment
Maharastra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Maharashtra.
zounds
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /zuːndz/
ipa: /zaʊndz/
rhymes: -uːndz
rhymes: -aʊndz
Forms: form: 'zounds
Etymology: Minced form of God's wounds, with reference to the wounds from Christ's crucifixion. Compare strewth, blimey, gadzooks, 'sblood, crikey.
Senses: examples: text: 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death!
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: Bounds, mounds, lounds, founds, kounds, downds, rounds, pounds, zounds! — hounds — ha! hounds — I have it.
ref: 1870, R.M. Ballantyne, The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands:
text: "Zounds!" he exclaimed. "What the dickens is that?"
ref: 1900, J.C. Hutcheson, Bob Strong's Holidays:
qualifier: minced oath
glosses: Expressing anger, surprise, assertion etc.
Synonyms: gadswoons
'swounds
'dswounds
zooterkins
eureka moment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eureka moments
Senses: examples: text: 2002, Evolutionary biology's 'Eureka!' moment supposedly took place some time in September or October 1835, during the Beagle's five-week visit to the Galapagos Islands. — London Review of Books, 7 Mar 2002
text: 2002, The dreams of a farm boy, the eureka moment in a potato field, the confession to a teacher, the confidence in him shown by businessmen and bankers and investors, the breakthroughs in the laboratory, all the years of work, the decisions of the official patent examiners, those hard-fought victories, all of those demonstrations that had come and gone, the entire vision of the future. — The New Yorker, 27 May 2002
text: 2003, In “Higher,” Bascomb’s account of the race at the end of the nineteen-twenties to build the tallest building in the world, we get one wonderful origin myth and eureka moment: an engineer sees his wife resting a heavy book on the family birdcage and realizes that a lightweight girded structure can carry an immensely heavy load. — The New Yorker, 15 Dec 2003
ref: 2004 June 7, Melnik said, “Jesus Christ, if I didn’t jump three feet in the air! It was totally a eureka moment.”, in The New Yorker:
text: 2004, Historians teach us to be suspicious of "Eureka" moments, but there are moments when something happens to make one say "Eureka" — The New Yorker, December 6, 2004, p.104
synonyms: light-bulb moment
glosses: The moment of a sudden unexpected discovery.
Related terms: eureka
eureka effect
darn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑɹn/
ipa: /daːn/
ipa: /dɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)n
Etymology: A minced oath of damn.
Senses: glosses: Damn.
Synonyms: damned
Derived terms: darn tootin'
darn
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑɹn/
ipa: /daːn/
ipa: /dɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)n
Etymology: A minced oath of damn.
Senses: examples: text: But I ain't up to my baby tonight / 'Cause it's too darn hot
ref: 1948, Cole Porter, “Too Darn Hot”:
text: Of the two episodes, “Mortshall” is slightly weaker, while still being pretty darn good. I spent a lot of this season bemoaning the weaker entries, and like I said last time, it’s shit like this that makes me complain when stuff gets super dumb.
ref: 2021 September 6, Zack Handlen, “Rick And Morty ends its fifth season looking for an escape hatch”, in AV Club:
qualifier: degree
glosses: Damned.
darn
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑɹn/
ipa: /daːn/
ipa: /dɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)n
Etymology: A minced oath of damn.
Senses: glosses: Damn.
Synonyms: dammit
Derived terms: darn it
darn right
darn tootin'
darn tooting
darn well
give a darn
gosh darn
goshdarn
goshdarnit
tinker's darn
darn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑɹn/
ipa: /daːn/
ipa: /dɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: darns
form: darning
form: darned
form: darned
Etymology: A minced oath of damn.
Senses: glosses: Damn.
Synonyms: dang
damn
darn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑɹn/
ipa: /daːn/
ipa: /dɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: darns
Etymology: A minced oath of damn.
Senses: examples: text: His opinion isn't worth a darn.
glosses: Damn.
darn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑɹn/
ipa: /daːn/
ipa: /dɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: darns
form: darning
form: darned
form: darned
Etymology: From Middle English dernen (“to keep secret, hide, conceal (a hole)”), from Old English diernan (“to hide, conceal”), from Proto-West Germanic *darnijan, from Proto-West Germanic *darnī (“hidden, secret”). Related to Old English dyrne, dierne (“secret”, adjective).
Senses: examples: text: I need to darn these socks again.
text: He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in reading his courses, dozing, clipping papers, or darning his stockings; which last he performed to admiration.
ref: a. 1746 (date written), Jonathan Swift, “An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume V, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 116:
text: Does Mother imagine for one moment that she is going to darn all those stockings knotted up on the quilt like a coil of snakes ? She's not.
ref: 1920 August 27, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Wind Blows”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 141:
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a weave across a damaged area of fabric.
Derived terms: darnable
darner
redarn
undarned
Related terms: darning needle
darn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑɹn/
ipa: /daːn/
ipa: /dɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: darns
Etymology: From Middle English dernen (“to keep secret, hide, conceal (a hole)”), from Old English diernan (“to hide, conceal”), from Proto-West Germanic *darnijan, from Proto-West Germanic *darnī (“hidden, secret”). Related to Old English dyrne, dierne (“secret”, adjective).
Senses: glosses: A place mended by darning.
durn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɜː(ɹ)n/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Senses: glosses: darn; damn.
Derived terms: durn tootin'
durn
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɜː(ɹ)n/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Senses: examples: text: The older man eyed him for a moment bale fully. "I'm goin' to set 'em again," he replied, "and don't you touch 'em. I'm goin' to trap where I durn please. There's two of you, but you don't bluff me out, not any."
ref: 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
text: These guys probably had a crudload of sand kicked in their faces in grade school, and now carry this primal sandbox grudge to the poli sci classroom, where they finally have the power over us durn bratty schoolkids.
ref: 1994, James A. Wiggins, Beverly B. Wiggins, James Wilfrid Vander Zanden, Social Psychology, 5, illustrated edition, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 176:
glosses: Darn; damned; extremely.
durn
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɜː(ɹ)n/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Senses: glosses: darn; damn
Derived terms: durn tootin'
durn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɜː(ɹ)n/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Senses: examples: text: How ya durn?
glosses: Rhoticized pronunciation of doing.
durn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɜː(ɹ)n/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: durns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dern (“a doorpost”).
Ngan'gityemerri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An Aboriginal language spoken in the Daly River region of the Northern Territory of Australia of the Southern Daly language family.
Synonyms: Ngan'gi
Ngan'gikurunggurr
Moil
Moyle
Tyemeri
Tyemerri
Marityemeri
Nordaniman
yurt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɜːt/
ipa: /jɝːt/
ipa: /jʊɹt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)t
Forms: form: yurts
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian юрт (jurt), from a Turkic language in the sense of “one's native land”, from Proto-Turkic *yūrt (“dwelling place”).
Senses: glosses: The natural resources and arable land over which a Cossack stanitsa had exclusive control in their territory.
give-away shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: give-away shops
Senses: synonyms: free shop
free store
swap shop
glosses: A shop or store where all goods are free of charge.
militate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪlɪteɪt/
Forms: form: militates
form: militating
form: militated
form: militated
Etymology: First attested in 1598; borrowed from Latin mīlitātus, perfect passive participle from mīlitō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Semantically from its cognate, French militer.
Senses: examples: text: to militate in favor of a particular result
text: to militate against the possibility of his election
text: The 8-ft. singles were pre-eminently express engines, and were not satisfactory on secondary duties where frequent stops were called for, which militated against their being retained in service.
ref: 1944 January and February, W. J. Reynolds, “Locomotive No. 1007 of the Great Northern Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 7:
text: It has been at least an academic tradition, if no more, that mathematical studies militate against amatory inclinations.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 149:
text: There are no missing values for burglary victimization in the data, whereas there are ten missing values for robbery―and as many for physical assault. This fact would militate in favor of using burglary as the independent variable.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 3, in Illusion of Order:
text: There are a number of theoretical concerns which might seem to militate against the successful creation of a dictionary of Indian English.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 308:
synonyms: mitigate
glosses: To give force or effect toward; to influence.
examples: text: This..moues many Italian Caualiers to militate in the warres of Holland.
ref: 1625, Nathanael Brent, Free Schoole of Warre:
glosses: To serve as a soldier or participate in warfare.
Derived terms: militation
cipher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪfə/
enpr: sī′-fər
ipa: /ˈsaɪfɚ/
rhymes: -aɪfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ciphers
form: ciphering
form: ciphered
form: ciphered
form: cypher
Etymology: 14th century. From Middle English cifre, from Old French cyfre, cyffre (French chiffre), ultimately from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “zero, empty”), from صَفَرَ (ṣafara, “to be empty”). Doublet of chiffre and zero. Sense 8 (a fault in an organ valve) may be a different word.
Senses: examples: text: I never learned much more than how to read and cipher.
text: For the mischief that one blockhead, that every blockhead does, in a world so feracious, teeming with endless results as ours, no ciphering will sum up.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Abbot Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk), page 88:
text: So I must baffle at the hint / And cipher at the sign, / And make much blunder, if at last / I take the clew divine.
ref: a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “[Book IV.—Time and Eternity] (please specify the chapter or poem)”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, First Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1890, →OCLC, page 115:
text: Can you cipher too—along with your reading and writing?
ref: 1979, Octavia E[stelle] Butler, Kindred:
glosses: To calculate.
glosses: To write in code or cipher.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.
examples: text: Yea the illiterate that know not how
To cipher what is writ in learned bookes,
VVill cote my lothſome treſpaſſe in my lookes.
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature [F4], recto:
glosses: To decipher.
Derived terms: cipherable
cipherer
recipher
narrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˈɹeɪtə/
ipa: /ˈnæˌɹeɪtɚ/
ipa: /-ɹətɚ/
ipa: /-nəˈɹeɪtɚ/
ipa: /ˈnɛˌɹeɪtɚ/
ipa: [-ɾɚ]
rhymes: (one pronunciation) -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: narrators
Senses: synonyms: storyteller
glosses: One who narrates or tells stories.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story.
examples: text: Morgan Freeman was the narrator of March of the Penguins.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The person providing the voice-over in a documentary.
Coordinate terms: narratress
narratrix
Derived terms: multinarrator
narratorial
narratorless
narratorly
narratorship
narratress
omniscient narrator
unreliable narrator
Related terms: narratrix
narrate
narration
narrative
confuzzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfʌz.əl/
rhymes: -ʌzəl
Forms: form: confuzzles
Etymology: Blend of confuse + puzzle. Compare befuzzle.
Senses: examples: text: I was all in a confuzzle last night after the Ellen show, and my mind was going too fast for my typing skills.
ref: 1997 May 1, Glenn Hushyn, “Almost done with the semester”, in alt.shoe.lesbians (Usenet):
text: Always glad to clear up confuzzles since too often I only add to them. ;)
ref: 2000 July 6, “Lula” a.k.a “Josie” a.k.a. “Archer-bull”, “Re: FMily [sic.] Take Note was Re: Numbness & pain”, in alt.med.fibromyalgia (Usenet):
text: The confuzzle is strong with this one.
ref: 2001 November 20, Remus Shepherd, “Re: um... hello? <nervous-wriggle>”, in alt.devilbunnies (Usenet):
text: Now, I find if there are any posts to send, it seems to get in a confuzzle and never reaches the point of fetching.
ref: 2001 December 17, Vince M. “VinceH” Hudd, from softrock.co.uk, “Re: Blueyonder newserver”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet):
glosses: A state of confusion or puzzlement.
confuzzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfʌz.əl/
rhymes: -ʌzəl
Forms: form: confuzzles
form: confuzzling
form: confuzzled
form: confuzzled
Etymology: Blend of confuse + puzzle. Compare befuzzle.
Senses: glosses: To confuse or puzzle.
Derived terms: confuzzled
confuzzlement
confuzzling
kokuji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kokuji
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 国字(こくじ) (kokuji), from Middle Chinese 國 (kwok, “kingdom, nation”) + 字 (dzì, “[written] character”). Doublet of gukja.
Senses: glosses: Any of the kanji characters invented in Japan.
Related terms: word: hanja
word: hanzi
word: kanji
english: new character forms
translation: new character forms
alt: しんじたい
word: 新字体
desalt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desalts
form: desalting
form: desalted
form: desalted
Etymology: From de- + salt.
Senses: glosses: To remove salt from; to desalinate.
Synonyms: desalinate
desalinise
desalinize
Derived terms: desalter
harbour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harbours
Senses: examples: text: In West Wales it has never been possible until recently to exploit the magnificent natural harbour of Milford Haven, for there was no industrial hinterland.
ref: 1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492:
qualifier: Commonwealth spelling
glosses: Standard spelling of harbor.
Derived terms: coharbour
Cole Harbour
English Harbour
enharbour
Franklin Harbour
harborous
harbourage
harbourer
harbourfront
harbourful
harbourless
harbourscape
harbourside
harboursome
harbourward
Mare Harbour
Old Harbour
outharbour
Rosslare Harbour
Shoal Harbour
unharbour
harbour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: harbours
form: harbouring
form: harboured
form: harboured
Senses: examples: text: The docks, which once harboured tall ships, now harbour only petty thieves.
text: The bare suspicion made it treason to harbour the person suspected.
ref: a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC:
text: Nor let your gentle Breast harbor one Thought Of Outrage from the Kin.
ref: 1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert:
text: Its streets fan out towards the clifftops, and its sheltered North Landing harbours open-decked fishing boats, called 'cobles'.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 188, about Flamborough:
text: If Moldova harboured even the slightest hopes of pulling off a comeback that would have bordered on miraculous given their lack of quality, they were snuffed out 13 minutes before the break
ref: 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
qualifier: Commonwealth spelling
glosses: Standard spelling of harbor.
Cebu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛˈbu/
ipa: /sɛˈbuː/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: From Spanish Cebú, from Cebuano Sugbo, from sugbo (“to dive into the water”).
Senses: glosses: An island of Central Visayas, Visayas, Philippines.
examples: Meronyms: Alcantara, Alcoy, Alegria, Aloguinsan, Argao, Asturias, Badian, Balamban, Bantayan, Barili, Bogo, Boljoon, Borbon, Carcar, Carmen, Catmon, Compostela, Consolacion, Cordova, Daanbantayan, Dalaguete, Danao, Dumanjug, Ginatilan, Liloan, Madridejos, Malabuyoc, Medellin, Minglanilla, Moalboal, Naga, Oslob, Pilar, Pinamungajan, Poro, Ronda, Samboan, San Fernando, San Francisco, San Remigio, Santa Fe, Santander, Sibonga, Sogod, Tabogon, Tabuelan, Talisay, Toledo, Tuburan, Tudela — cities and municipalities of Cebu
glosses: A province of Central Visayas, Visayas, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Cebu City.
glosses: Cebu City (a city, the provincial capital of Cebu, Philippines).
glosses: Rajahnate of Cebu
glosses: A barangay of San Isidro, Isabela, Philippines.
Derived terms: Cebu boobook
New Cebu
rosehip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊzˌhɪp/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊzˌhɪp/
Forms: form: rosehips
form: rose hip
Etymology: From rose + hip.
Senses: glosses: The fleshy false fruit of a wild rose plant (e.g. sweetbrier, dog rose, burnet rose, etc.), containing the achenes or true fruits.
Derived terms: rosehip neuron
Igbo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːbəʊ/
ipa: /ˈiboʊ/
ipa: /ˈiɡ.boʊ/
rhymes: -iːbəʊ
Forms: form: Igbos
form: Igbo
form: Ibo
form: Eboe
Etymology: From Igbo Ìgbò.
Senses: glosses: A member of a people of southeast Nigeria.
Derived terms: Igboid
Igboland
Igbo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːbəʊ/
ipa: /ˈiboʊ/
ipa: /ˈiɡ.boʊ/
rhymes: -iːbəʊ
Forms: form: Ibo
form: Eboe
Etymology: From Igbo Ìgbò.
Senses: examples: text: Surprised by her switch to Igbo, he did not speak.
ref: 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 180:
glosses: The language spoken by the Igbo people and elsewhere in southern Nigeria.
Andy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ănˈ.di
ipa: /ˈæn.di/
rhymes: -ændi
Forms: form: Andi
form: Andie
form: Endy
Etymology: Clipping of Andrew + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "Irina? Call me 'Andy,' please."
"I think that I would rather call you 'Andrew'."
This was flattering, somehow. For everyone I knew called me "Andy"―a name comfortable as an old sneaker. There was dignity in "Andrew," and a kind of depth, complexity. Perhaps I began to fall in love with Irina Kacinzk for seeing more in me than I saw in myself at the time.
Of course, from time to time, Irina has called me "Andy." In her most affectionate moments, when she feels comfortable in my love, she even calles me "dear"―"darling."
ref: 2015, Joyce Carol Oates, Jack of Spades, Head of Zeus, →ISBN, page 104:
text: But Andy and Ben, they are lovers, not fighters … and they are going the battered sav.
ref: 2016 September 11, Emily Power, “Main bathroom reveals on The Block: hold on for the bathroom without a toot”, in Domain News:
text: Chili’s has also enlisted several actors from “The Office” to star in the ads, including Melora Hardin (Jan Levinson), Andy Buckley (David Wallace), Brian Baumgartner (Kevin Malone) and Kate Flannery (Meredith Palmer).
ref: 2025 March 26, Jordan Valinsky, “Chili’s is opening a retro restaurant in Scranton that celebrates ‘The Office’”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2025:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Andrew, from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Andy McNab
Andy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ănˈ.di
ipa: /ˈæn.di/
rhymes: -ændi
Forms: form: Andi
form: Andie
form: Endy
Etymology: Clipping of Andrea + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Andrea, from Ancient Greek.
Andy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ănˈ.di
ipa: /ˈæn.di/
rhymes: -ændi
Forms: form: Andys
form: Andies
form: Andi
form: Andie
form: Endy
Etymology: Originates from the live streams of IRL streamer Ice Poseidon on the live streaming service Twitch in early 2017; comedian and actor Andy Milonakis frequently appeared on Ice Poseidon's streams before being supplemented by one Andy Martin, who was given the byname "Mexican Andy" to distinguish him from Milonakis—himself dubbed "Sitting Andy" in June. Subsequently, Ice Poseidon and his audience began referring to people who appeared on his streams by the name Andy and the term spread to other channels on Twitch by late 2017 as a generic name for any Twitch streamer.
Senses: examples: text: trump is now a react andy like myself
ref: 2020 October 26, Hasan Piker, Twitter:
text: dream stans pulling out the "he has adhd" card to hasan fucking piker the biggest adhd andy on twitch it's so funny
ref: 2021 June 4, anaxchu, Twitter:
text: Why is this video going viral? 500k views almost on my Twitch channel 😂It's not even funny Oh hello LSF andy's 👋
ref: 2022 October 3, shylilytwitch, Twitter:
glosses: A streamer on live streaming service Twitch.
examples: text: VS Code Andy
glosses: A person of any particular kind.
Related terms: Andreas
Drew
indelible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɛləbl/
Forms: form: more indelible
form: most indelible
Etymology: From Latin indelebilis (“indestructible”).
Senses: examples: text: This ink spot on the contract is indelible.
text: This stain on my shirt is indelible.
text: Written with indelible pen.
text: The brow was smooth and fair; no deep thought, born of deep feeling, had grown there—those indelible lines which stamp even youth with age.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 235:
synonyms: unerasable
antonyms: delible
uninsertable
glosses: Having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface.
examples: text: That horrible story just might make an indelible impression on the memory.
text: During our investigation it became clear that for three decades many other women had suffered at the hands of our abuser, but they had refused to testify against him because of the indelible stigma it would bring.
ref: 2014 August 29, Ruzwana Bashir, “The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim”, in The Guardian:
text: An indelible image from the Great Depression features a well-dressed family seated with their dog in a comfy car, smiling down from an oversize billboard on weary souls standing in line at a relief agency.
ref: 2020 April 16, Patricia Cohen, “Straggling in a Good Economy, and Now Struggling in a Crisis”, in New York Times:
synonyms: unerasable
unforgettable
glosses: Incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten.
examples: November 7, 1678, Thomas Sprat, a sermon preached at the Anniversary Meeting of the Sons of Clergymen in the Church of St Mary-le-Bow
They are […] endued with indelible power from above.
glosses: Incapable of being annulled.
Derived terms: indelibleness
Related terms: indelibility
indelibly
fill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭl
ipa: /fɪl/
ipa: [fɪɫ]
rhymes: -ɪl
homophone: Phil
Forms: form: fills
Etymology: From Middle English fille, vülle, fülle, from Old English fyllu, from Proto-West Germanic *fullī, from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄ (“fullness”). Cognate with German Fülle.
Senses: examples: text: Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill.
text: Then they set somewhat of food before me, whereof I ate my fill, and gave me somewhat of clothes wherewith I clad myself anew and covered my nakedness; after which they took me up into the ship, […]
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:
glosses: A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
raw_tags: after a possessive
examples: text: The mixer returned to the plant for another fill.
glosses: An amount that fills a container.
examples: text: That machine can do 20 fills per minute.
text: This paint program supports lines, circles, and textured fills.
glosses: The filling of a container or area.
examples: text: The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction.
text: Strippage from a borrow area was first treated as waste, under the contract, but after passage of time was suitable for fill and was so used.
ref: 1946, Digest of the Decisions of the Corps of Engineers Board of Contract Appeals, page 101:
glosses: Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
glosses: An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
examples: text: bass fill
text: The second part of recomposed Embroidering Golden Banner achieves the brightness and cheerfulness of music, and presents a cheerful passion through sanda playing methods such as left-hind octave fills, right-hand echo decoration, and encircled decoration.
ref: 2015, Dawei Zheng, Control, Mechatronics and Automation Technology, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Ellipsis of fill light.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: The weft yarn.
Hyponyms: backfill
flood fill
refill
seed fill
Derived terms: backfill
clean fill
drum fill
eat one's fill
February fill-dike
fill dirt
fill line
fill site
gap fill
get one's fill
have one's fill
in-fill
landfill
one's fill
polyfill
refill
script fill
slack fill
valley fill
Related terms: fill soil
fill up
fill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭl
ipa: /fɪl/
ipa: [fɪɫ]
rhymes: -ɪl
homophone: Phil
Forms: form: fills
Etymology: See thill.
Senses: examples: text: It was a challenge to learn to harness him, guide him slowly back between the fills of the carriage, then to fasten the right buckles and snaps, making the harness and buggy all ready for travel to church or to town.
ref: 2008, Martha E. Green, Pioneers in Pith Helmets:
glosses: One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
exist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛɡˈzɪst/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: exists
form: existing
form: existed
form: existed
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: exist
form: exist
form: existed
form: exist
form: existest
form: existed
form: existedst
form: exists
form: existeth
form: existed
form: exist
form: existed
form: exist
form: existed
form: exist
form: -
form: existing
form: existed
Etymology: From French exister, from Latin existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist, appear, arise”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”) (related to stare (“to stand, to be stood”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”); see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist. Cognate with Spanish existir, French exister, Italian esistere, German existieren.
Senses: examples: text: Cognitive dissonance exists when a person possesses two cognitions, one of which is contradictory to the other
ref: 1977, Lawrence S. Wrightsman with Kay Deaux, Social Psychology, page 366:
text: Various relationships may exist between character and glyph: […]
ref: 2012, The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification, →ISBN, page 12:
text: […], regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards.
ref: 2012, The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification, →ISBN, page 19:
text: […], which will be treated either as an update of the existing character encoding or as a completely new character encoding.
ref: 2012, The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification, →ISBN, page 55:
text: While you see some of our exploration on camera, I also spent many happy hours between shoots with Chris Nix, digging out dozens of wonderful plans, maps and drawings of projects that I never knew existed, and some that never did exist.
ref: 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 50:
glosses: to be; have existence; have being or reality
Synonyms: word: be
word: be a thing
word: consist
word: exist
Hyponyms: word: breathe
word: live
word: subsist
word: happen
word: occur
word: be the case
word: obtain
word: appear
word: arise
word: come into being
word: emerge
word: pop up
word: spring to life
word: surface
word: bring forth
word: create
word: forthbring
word: generate
word: innate
word: produce
word: abide
word: continue
word: endure
word: last
word: persist
word: prevail
word: remain
word: stand
word: stay
word: survive
word: reappear
word: respawn
topics: video-games
word: resume
word: coexist
word: perdure
topics: philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: postexist
word: preexist
Derived terms: coëxist
coexist
existability
existable
existible
existless
inexist
postexist
preexist
superexist
there exist
unexist
Related terms: word: existence
word: existent
word: existential
word: there be
word: there exist
word: entity
existent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin existens, from existere.
Senses: glosses: existing; having life or being, current; occurring now
Synonyms: word: existing
word: extant
word: essential
word: existent
Hyponyms: word: self-existent
word: self-existing
word: substantial
word: substantive
Derived terms: coexistent
non-existent
postexistent
pre-existent
preexistent
self-existent
superexistent
unexistent
Related terms: word: exist
word: existence
word: existential
word: entity
existent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: existents
Etymology: From Latin existens, from existere.
Senses: glosses: a being or entity that exists independently