cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
open-ended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: There will be an open-ended discussion.
text: This short list represents but a few items of an extensive and open-ended list of untreated Indian English lexis.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 302:
glosses: Unrestricted by definite limits.
examples: text: The topic is definitions, but is open-ended really.
glosses: Adaptable to change.
examples: text: I'll ask you an open-ended question.
glosses: Permitting a spontaneous or unstructured response.
examples: text: The flop of 3-6-Q gave Brunson an open-ended straight draw with his 4-5 of hearts.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Of a straight draw, made up of four consecutive cards, thus able to be completed by either of two ranks of card.
Derived terms: open-ended contract
open-endedly
implore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈplɔː/
ipa: /ɪmˈploɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɪmˈploə/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɪmˈplo(ː)ɹ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: implores
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁én
The verb is borrowed from Middle French implorer (modern French implorer (“to beg, plead, implore”)), or directly from its etymon Latin implōrāre, the present active infinitive of implōrō (“to beseech, entreat, implore; to appeal to, pray to”), from im- (a variant of in- (intensifying prefix)) + plōrō (“to cry out; to complain, deplore, lament”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)- (“to flow; to swim”)).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly out of his delightfull dreame / The man avvoke, and vvould haue queſtiond more; / But he vvould not endure that vvofull theame / For to dilate at large, but vrged ſore / VVith percing vvordes, and pittifull implore, / Him haſty to ariſe.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 37, page 256:
glosses: An act of begging or pleading earnestly or urgently; an entreaty, an imploration or imploring, a plea.
soigne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of soigné.
implicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmplɪkeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: implicates
form: implicating
form: implicated
form: implicated
Etymology: First attested in the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English implicaten (poorly attested), from implicat(e) (“wrapped, entwined; incolved, connected (with)”, possibly also used as the past participle of implicaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin implicātus, perfect passive participle of implicō (“entangle, involve”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from plicō (“fold”). Doublet of imply and employ.
Senses: examples: text: The evidence implicates involvement of top management in the scheme.
text: But it is of no use talking now; the servants will soon be stirring, and it would be rather awkward to be found here." "For you, perhaps, madam," sneered Sir George. "Rather for yourself," replied she, with the greatest composure; "you might be implicated in the charge of murder."
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Assignation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 256:
text: I shall cancel, without further provocation, the next lecture engagement that is implicated with a peep o' day train.
ref: 1879, Robert J[ones] Burdette, Hawk-Eyes, New York, N.Y.: G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, page 137:
text: Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
ref: 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2023, pages 72–73:
glosses: To show to be connected or involved in an unfavorable or criminal way.
raw_tags: with in
examples: text: What did Nixon's visit to China implicate for Russia?
glosses: To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
pragmatics
sciences
glosses: To imply without entailing; to have as an implicature.
glosses: To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.
Derived terms: disimplicate
implicatory
nonimplicated
unimplicate
unimplicated
implicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmplɪkeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
ipa: /ˈɪmplɪkət/
rhymes: -ət
ipa: /ˈɪmplɪkeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: implicates
Etymology: First attested in the first part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English implicat(e) (“wrapped, entwined; incolved, connected (with)”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix), -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
coordinate_terms: implicand
implicans
glosses: The thing implied.
implicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmplɪkeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
ipa: /ˈɪmplɪkət/
rhymes: -ət
ipa: /ˈɪmplɪkeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: more implicate
form: most implicate
Etymology: First attested in the first part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English implicat(e) (“wrapped, entwined; incolved, connected (with)”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix), -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
Senses: glosses: Intertwined, enfolded, twisted together; wrapped up (with), entangled, involved (in).
glosses: Intertwined, enfolded, twisted together; wrapped up (with), entangled, involved (in).
used in implicate order
raw_tags: in quantum theory
glosses: Involved, intricate.
Derived terms: implicate order
Related terms: implication
implicative
implicature
implicit
implicitness
imply
informer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)
Forms: form: informers
form: informor
form: informour
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English enformour, from Anglo-Norman enfourmour; equivalent to inform + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who informs someone else about something.
examples: text: Being an informer often meant living in fear.
text: The police relied on an informer to catch the gang.
text: He acted as an informer during the rebellion.
glosses: A person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity.
examples: 1729, Alexander Pope, Prologue to Sophonisba (by James Thomson
Nature, informer of the poet's art.
glosses: One who informs, animates, or inspires.
Synonyms: informant
Related terms: name names
minx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪŋks/
homophone: minks
rhymes: -ɪŋks
Forms: form: minxes
Etymology: A variant of mink.
Senses: examples: text: The Minx […] frequents the water like the Otter, and very much reſembles it in ſhape and color, but is leſs; will abide longer under the water than the muſk quaſh, muſk rat, or little beaver: […]
ref: 1771, Thomas Pennant, quoting John Bartram, “Otter”, in Synopsis of Quadrupeds, Chester, Cheshire: […] J. Monk, →OCLC, page 240:
text: Many of these birds are destroyed by Weasels and Minxes.
ref: 1831, John James Audubon, “The Great Carolina Wren. Troglodytes ludovicianus, Ch. Bonaparte. […]”, in Ornithological Biography, or An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America; […], Edinburgh: Adam Black, […], →OCLC, page 401:
text: 2d. Carnivora, or flesh eaters. Of these we have […] the New York ermine, or ermine weasel; the mink, or minx otter; the common otter; […]
ref: 1847, J. H. Mather, L. P. Brockett, “Zoology. [Class I. Mammalia.]”, in Geography of the State of New York. […], Hartford, Conn.: J. H. Mather & Co. [et al.], →OCLC, page 39:
text: We next come to the mink or minx otter (Putorius Vison) which is the only animal of the genus mustela inhabiting the northern parts of America that can be said to live in the water, and the name of "fisher" could with much justice be transferred from its present bearer to the mink.
ref: [1876], Charles Henry Eden, chapter VII, in The Home of the Wolverene and Beaver; or, Fur-hunting in the Wilds of Canada, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York, N.Y.: Pott, Young & Co., →OCLC, page 153:
text: There is, however, scarcely any distinction in the other portions of the dress of the sexes [of southeastern Alaskan natives], except that the skin coats or tunics of the women and the facings of the bonnet or hood (worn by both sexes) are more elaborately decorated with minx, otter, or seal fur about the throat, and down the front, than those of the men.
ref: 1893 March, John H. Keatley, “Under the Arctic Circle”, in B[enjamin] O[range] Flower, editor, The Arena, volume VII, number XL, Boston, Mass.: Arena Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 491:
synonyms: minx otter
glosses: Obsolete spelling of mink (“any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals in the Mustelinae subfamily”).
minnow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪnəʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɪnoʊ/
homophone: mino (etymology 1)
rhymes: -ɪnəʊ
Etymology: The noun is derived from Late Middle English menew, menowe (“small fish; (specifically) common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus); or stickleback (possibly the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus)”), from Old English *mynwe, an oblique form of *mynu, a variant of myne (“minnow; small fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *muniwu (“minnow; small fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“small”). Possibly influenced by Anglo-Norman menu (“small”) and Old French menu (“small”), and English minim (“anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like”).
The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.
Cognates
* Middle Low German mone, möne (Dutch meun, West Frisian meun)
* Old High German muniwa, munuwa, munewa (modern German Münne (“minnow”))
* Latin mēna (“small sea-fish”)
Senses: glosses: Very small; tiny.
minnow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪnəʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɪnoʊ/
homophone: mino (etymology 1)
rhymes: -ɪnəʊ
Forms: form: minnows
form: minnowing
form: minnowed
form: minnowed
Etymology: The noun is derived from Late Middle English menew, menowe (“small fish; (specifically) common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus); or stickleback (possibly the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus)”), from Old English *mynwe, an oblique form of *mynu, a variant of myne (“minnow; small fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *muniwu (“minnow; small fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“small”). Possibly influenced by Anglo-Norman menu (“small”) and Old French menu (“small”), and English minim (“anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like”).
The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.
Cognates
* Middle Low German mone, möne (Dutch meun, West Frisian meun)
* Old High German muniwa, munuwa, munewa (modern German Münne (“minnow”))
* Latin mēna (“small sea-fish”)
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: To fish for minnows (noun sense 1 and subsenses).
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: To fish, especially for trout, using minnows as bait.
Derived terms: minnower
binge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: binges
Etymology: From Leicestershire and Northamptonshire dialect, binge (“to drink deeply", also "to soak, steep, drench", specifically "to swell a leaky wooden vessel by filling it with or plunging it into water”), of unknown origin. Compare dialectal English beene and beam (“to cure leakage in a tub or barrel by soaking, thereby causing the wood to swell”).
Senses: synonyms: bender
jag
spree
toot
debauch
glosses: A short period of excessive consumption, especially of food, alcohol, narcotics, etc.
glosses: A compressed period of an activity done in excess, such as watching a television show.
Derived terms: archive binge
bingeable
binge-and-purge
binge drinker
binge drinking
binge eat
binge eater
binge eating
binge eating disorder
bingeful
binge-play
binge-purge
binger
binge viewing
binge watch
binge-watch
binge-watchable
binge-watcher
binge-watching
binge watching
binge-worthy
postbinge
prebinge
binge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: binges
form: bingeing
form: binging
form: binged
form: binged
Etymology: From Leicestershire and Northamptonshire dialect, binge (“to drink deeply", also "to soak, steep, drench", specifically "to swell a leaky wooden vessel by filling it with or plunging it into water”), of unknown origin. Compare dialectal English beene and beam (“to cure leakage in a tub or barrel by soaking, thereby causing the wood to swell”).
Senses: examples: text: I binged on ice cream.
text: She'll binge an entire series on the weekend.
text: I'm totally happy to binge when I'm not busy.
text: It’s nice to think that our bubble baths and personal time might have a larger political purpose (“Um, Foucault! I’m not just bingeing Netflix – I’m engaging in Platonic political philosophy in order to better serve others!”), but more often than not, our acts of self-care are simply acts of privilege.
ref: 2017 January 12, Arwa Mahdawi, “Generation treat yo' self: the problem with 'self-care'”, in The Guardian:
text: ([Jesse] Armstrong, by his own admission, binged episodes of the All-In podcast, which features prominent investors and Trump’s AI/crypto czar David Sacks.)
ref: 2025 June 2, Adrian Horton, “Tech-bro satire Mountainhead is an insufferable disappointment”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol or media consumption.
Derived terms: binge and purge
munch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌntʃ/
rhymes: -ʌntʃ
Forms: form: munches
form: munching
form: munched
form: munched
Etymology: From Middle English monchen, a variant of mocchen, mucchen ("to munch (food); chew audibly"; > Modern English dialectal mouch), probably imitative in origin (compare English crunch; German mampfen).
Senses: examples: text: Jim was munching on a biscotti.
text: At work Mr. Burns spies Homer munching complacently on a donut and hisses that each donut Homer shoves into his fat face brings him one donut closer to the poisoned donut Mr. Burns has ordered thrown into the mix as a form of culinary Russian Roulette, only to learn from Smithers that the plant’s lawyers ultimately nixed the poisoned donut plan because “they consider it murder.”
ref: 2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed.
raw_tags: with "on"
examples: text: Watching old Bill munch his pancakes makes me hungry!
text: Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the Nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: To eat vigorously or with excitement.
Derived terms: arsemunch
assmunch
buttmunch
cockmunch
dick munch
maximal munch
munchable
muncher
munchie
munchkin
munchy
unmunched
munch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌntʃ/
rhymes: -ʌntʃ
Forms: form: munches
Etymology: From Middle English monchen, a variant of mocchen, mucchen ("to munch (food); chew audibly"; > Modern English dialectal mouch), probably imitative in origin (compare English crunch; German mampfen).
Senses: examples: text: Sally is having a breakfast munch at her place!
glosses: A location or restaurant where good food can be expected, or an instance of eating at such a place.
examples: text: We had a good munch at the chippy.
glosses: An act of eating.
examples: text: So once we had a shower with what only I can describe as a fitted garden hose with a broken head, ventured out to get some munch. We found a little restaurant, sat down and pretty much got told what we was ^([sic]) having.
ref: 2014, Tommy Hawkins, Let's Get Dogs#!t, page 127:
glosses: Food.
examples: text: And thanks to the stunning paxie for getting it all together and creating the best munch ever in the history of munches. :)
ref: 1996, peh^ – the prat with the hat, “What Is a 'Munch'?”, in alt.sex.femdom (Usenet):
text: does anyone know any BDSM parties and munches, in greece???
ref: 2000, Anton, “BDSM Parties and Munches”, in alt.sadistic (Usenet):
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant, bar or pub.
examples: text: You thought I was feelin' you? (Nah) That nigga a munch.
ref: 2022 August 10, “Munch (Feelin' U)”, performed by Ice Spice:
text: Catch lil' Ddot outside, a Blizzy gettin' dead
And his mother a munch, she gon' gimme neck
ref: 2022 October 31, Yus Gz, “MunchK (Munch Remix)”:
text: Hump real nice, I'm all in her goodies
I don't eat the cake, I play with the pussy
Waking up late so I take her to brunch
She said, “Eat the ass,“ she think I'm a munch
ref: 2022 December 5, Raud & Bril, “No Munchies”:
text: How many kids this nigga Nick Cannon plan on fucking having
It's like he tryna get a hundred more girls pregnant
And overturning Roe vs. Wade ain't helping
You moving like a munch we know what you about
Drake unfollowed Ice Spice after he flew her out
ref: 2023 January 1, Uncle Murda, “Rap Up 2022” (track 9), in Rap Up:
text: This year niggas know that I'm up
Make you feel it inside of your gut
Put my finger inside of her what
I'm a ooter so don't try to front
That boy dirty, that nigga a munch
That boy dirty, he live in the Bronx
ref: 2023 February 10, Fiction Fake, “Gut / Butterflies”:
text: Got a piercing and sum tats, I had to tell u do your make up
You the type of white girl to have ur parents tell you wake up
You a snow bunny, you a hoe with snow money, you can go and be a munch while I fuck on old honeys
ref: 2023 March 26, Phillino, “Bad Bunny”:
text: Bitches just be bitches, I don't give a fuck 'bout much
I think I need me a Ice Spice, yeah, I want me a munch
ref: 2024 January 1, “Backr00ms”, performed by Playboi Carti:
qualifier: New York drill music
glosses: Someone who easily agrees to give oral sex.
binge drinking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Fights caused by binge drinking are a major problem in Cardiff.
glosses: The consumption of excessive amounts of alcohol in a short period of time.
tussle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌsəl/
rhymes: -ʌsəl
homophone: tussal
Forms: form: tussles
Etymology: Related to tousle.
Senses: examples: text: And the visiting side appeared to settle quickly as Wayne Routledge, who had a tough tussle with Stevenage left-back Scott Laird, delivered an early cross that Barton drilled goalwards, forcing a decent save from Chris Day.
ref: 2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC:
text: ..., two young men—field hands—got into a tussle with a white man.
ref: 1994, Walter Dean Myers, The Glory Field, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: A physical fight or struggle.
glosses: A conflict, an argument, a disagreement.
tussle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌsəl/
rhymes: -ʌsəl
homophone: tussal
Forms: form: tussles
form: tussling
form: tussled
form: tussled
Etymology: Related to tousle.
Senses: examples: text: The two sets of fans were tussling before the game.
text: Olsson and Herd tussled off the ball at a free-kick before Olsson fell to the ground. Assistant referee Darren Cann signalled for a penalty and Dowd sent Herd off to the amazement of the Villa faithful.
ref: 2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To have a tussle.
brawl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɔːl/
ipa: /bɹɔl/
ipa: /bɹɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: brawls
form: brawling
form: brawled
form: brawled
Etymology: Possibly from French branler (“to shake”), from Old French brandeler (“to shake, wave; to agitate”), from brand, branc (“blade of a sword”), from Vulgar Latin *brandus (“firebrand; flaming sword; sword”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenu- (“to burn”).
Senses: synonyms: vibrate
waver
glosses: To move to and fro, to quiver, to shake.
brawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɔːl/
ipa: /bɹɔl/
ipa: /bɹɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: brawls
Etymology: From French branle (“type of dance; an act of shaking, a shake”), from branler (“to shake”), from Old French brandeler (“to shake, wave; to agitate”); see further at etymology 2.
Alternatively, the word could be derived from brawl (“(obsolete) to move to and fro, quiver, shake”): see etymology 2.
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A type of dance move or step.
examples: text: Boy. Maiſter, will you win your loue with a french braule? / Brag[gart]. How meaneſt thou? brawling in French. / Boy. No my complet Maiſter, but to Iigge off a tune at the tongues ende, canarie to it with your feete, humour it with turning vp your eylids, ſigh a note and ſing a note ſomtime through the throate, if you ſwallowed loue with ſinging loue [...]
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
topics: dance
dancing
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
glosses: Alternative form of branle (“dance of French origin dating from the 16th century, performed by couples in a circle or a line; the music for this dance”).
intellectual capital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the value of intellectual property
guilty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪl.ti/
rhymes: -ɪlti
Forms: form: guiltier
form: more guilty
form: guiltiest
form: most guilty
Etymology: From Middle English gilty, gulty, from Old English gyltiġ (“offending, guilty”); equivalent to guilt + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He was guilty of cheating at cards.
glosses: Responsible for a dishonest act.
examples: text: The guilty man was led away.
topics: law
glosses: Judged to have committed a crime.
examples: text: Do you have a guilty conscience?
text: I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: The numbers thin out the further we get from London, so I don't feel guilty when I remove my mask momentarily to scoff some of the snacks I'd bought at Marylebone.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
glosses: Having a sense of guilt.
examples: text: I have a guilty secret.
text: Don’t you see that we have been playing a guilty game, and have been overreached […]
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 71, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: At twilight in the summerv[…] the mice come out. Theyv[…]veat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly—the only lavishment of which he was ever guilty—on the floor.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Blameworthy.
Synonyms: word: culpable
word: shildy
Derived terms: beguilty
bloodguilty
guiltily
guiltiness
guilty as a cat in a goldfish bowl
guilty as charged
guilty as sin
guilty conscience
guiltylike
guilty pleasure
inguilty
nonguilty
unguilty
Related terms: unguilty
guilty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪl.ti/
rhymes: -ɪlti
Forms: form: guilties
Etymology: From Middle English gilty, gulty, from Old English gyltiġ (“offending, guilty”); equivalent to guilt + -y.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.
topics: law
glosses: A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.
examples: text: The not guilties walked out and went to work if they had jobs; the guilties were hauled away to spend maybe thirty days on the county farm growing cabbage.
ref: 1997, David Brinkley, “June 5, 1983”, in Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: One who is declared guilty of a crime.
blink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: blinks
Etymology: From Middle English blynken, blenken, from Old English *blincan (suggested by causative verb blenċan (“to deceive”); > English blench), from Proto-Germanic *blinkaną, a variant of *blīkaną (“to gleam, shine”).
Cognate with Dutch blinken (“to glitter, shine”), German blinken (“to flash, blink”), Danish blinke (“to flash, twinkle, wink, blink”), Swedish blinka (“to flash, blink, twinkle, wink, blink”). Related to blank, blick, blike, bleak.
Senses: glosses: The act of quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.
glosses: The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
examples: text: I can think of no good reason to use blink because blinking text and images are annoying, they mark the creator as an amateur, and they have poor browser support.
ref: 2007, Cheryl D. Wise, Foundations of Microsoft Expression Web: The Basics and Beyond, page 150:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
examples: text: This is the first blink that ever I had of him.
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: A glimpse or glance.
examples: text: Not a blink of light was there.
ref: 1835, William Wordsworth, Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth Castle:
text: this man vanished away […]as he had been a blink of the sun
ref: 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “(please specify the introduction or canto number, or chapter name)”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC:
glosses: gleam; glimmer; sparkle
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; iceblink
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
topics: video-games
glosses: An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances
Derived terms: eyeblink
interblink
landblink
moonblink
snowblink
sunblink
water blink
Related terms: ablink
blinkard
blinker
blink-eyed
blinkie
blinkless
blink of an eye
in the blink of an eye
on the blink
wink
bloat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bləʊt/
ipa: /bloʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: bloats
form: bloating
form: bloated
form: bloated
Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English blot, blout (“soft; flexible; pliable”), from Old Norse blautr (“soft”). Akin to Danish blød, Dutch bloot (“nude”) and German bloß (“nude”).
Senses: glosses: To cause to become distended.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
glosses: To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
examples: text: if a Person of a firm Conſtitution begins to bloat, and from being warm grows cold, his Fibres grow weak, Anxiety and Palpitations of the Heart are a ſign of weak Fibres
ref: 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: To become distended; to swell up.
examples: 1675, John Dryden, Prologue to Circe by Dr. Davenant
Encourage him, and bloat him up with Praise
glosses: To fill with vanity or conceit.
examples: text: bloated herring
glosses: To preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.
examples: text: In the UK, the fraction of electricity generated by nuclear plants has slid steadily downwards, from 25% in the 1990s to 16% in 2020. Of the five nuclear stations still producing power, only one will run beyond 2028. Hinkley Point C, the first new nuclear plant in a generation, is being built in Somerset, but its cost has bloated to more than £25bn.
ref: December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To increase to an excessive amount.
bloat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bləʊt/
ipa: /bloʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: bloats
Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English blot, blout (“soft; flexible; pliable”), from Old Norse blautr (“soft”). Akin to Danish blød, Dutch bloot (“nude”) and German bloß (“nude”).
Senses: glosses: Distention of the abdomen from death.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
synonyms: ruminal tympany
glosses: Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant.
examples: text: Adding an e-mail feature to this simple text editor would be pointless bloat.
glosses: Wasteful use of space or other resources.
glosses: A worthless, dissipated fellow.
examples: text: A group of hippos is called a bloat.
ref: 2019 June 6, “A gaggle, a confusion and a conspiracy - bizarre animal collective group names”, in BBC:
glosses: A group of hippopotamuses.
bloat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bləʊt/
ipa: /bloʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: more bloat
form: most bloat
Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English blot, blout (“soft; flexible; pliable”), from Old Norse blautr (“soft”). Akin to Danish blød, Dutch bloot (“nude”) and German bloß (“nude”).
Senses: examples: text: Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed
ref: 1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, act 3, scene 4: The Queen's Closet:
glosses: bloated.
Derived terms: antibloat
bloatable
bloatation
bloater
bloatsome
bloatware
bloaty
bufferbloat
debloat
unbloat
Related terms: overfeatured
compensating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compensating
form: most compensating
Senses: glosses: That compensates for something.
Derived terms: compensatingly
noncompensating
undercompensating
compensating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compensate
S.W.A.T.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of SWAT.
repugnant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpʌɡnənt/
Forms: form: more repugnant
form: most repugnant
Etymology: From Middle English repugnaunt, from Old French repugnant, borrowed from Latin repugnans, present participle of repugnare (“to oppose, to fight against”), from re- (“back, against”) + pugnare (“to fight”); see pugnacious.
Senses: examples: text: Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven conscious of his fleeting time here
ref: 2006, “Right in Two”, performed by Tool:
glosses: Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion.
examples: text: a repugnant condition
topics: law
glosses: Opposed or in conflict.
Derived terms: repugnantly
self-repugnant
Related terms: repugnance
cowson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowsons
Etymology: Attested since the 1920s. From cow + son
Senses: examples: text: Dance, yuh funny-faced cowson.
ref: 1922, Adventure, volume 34, Issues 1-3 - Page 153:
text: Well, I come down in the world…It’s a cowson, ain’t it.
ref: 1939, James Curtis, What Immortal Hand… - Page 235:
text: No kiddin’, I used to get on lovely with them, all except one cowson who wouldn’t wash.
ref: 1946, David Marcus, Terrence Smith, S.J.White, Irish Writing - Volumes 1-6 - Page 62:
text: You lucky cowson. With a bleeding March coming off tomorrow and all.
ref: 1947, John Cournos, Best World Short Stories: 1947 - Volume 1 - Page 108:
text: 1979, Chas & Dave, "Gertcha", Don’t Give a Monkey’s (album) https://genius.com/Chas-and-dave-gertcha-lyrics.
Gertcha, cowson, gertcha/Gertcha!.(chorus)
text: That cowson still owes me five quid.
text: Millwall lost again. What a cowson.
glosses: An objectionable, contemptible, unfortunate or stubborn person, place or situation (sometimes used ironically or humorously); bastard; git.
cowson
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Attested since the 1920s. From cow + son
Senses: examples: text: That cowson nut is rusted frozen.
text: That cowson car refused to start on the tenth attempt.
text: The traffic is a cunt, as every cowson-foreign-bastard doubts his rainstreaked, wiper-smeared view and slows to a useless crawl.
ref: 1992, Alexander Stuart, Tribes -Page 102:
glosses: Used for emphasis; bloody; fucking.
Synonyms: sense: expresses dislike
word: git
sense: expresses intensity of feeling
word: damned
diglyph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪɡlɪf/
Forms: form: diglyphs
Etymology: From di- + glyph.
Senses: glosses: A member with two vertical channels or grooves, without the two lateral half grooves which characterize the triglyph.
diluent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪljuənt/
Forms: form: diluents
Etymology: Latin diluens, from diluere. See dilute.
Senses: glosses: That which dilutes.
qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: A solvent or other liquid preparation used to dilute a sample prior to testing.
examples: text: But the case was pressing, and the nearest medical practitioner was sent for. On examining the throat, he expressed his desire that a physician should be called in, and accordingly a gentleman, duly authorized, made his appearance, and prescribed gargles and diluents secundem artem.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 230-231:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An agent used for effecting dilution of the blood; a weak drink.
Synonyms: dilutant
diluter
thinner
Derived terms: cryodiluent
diluent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪljuənt/
Forms: form: more diluent
form: most diluent
Etymology: Latin diluens, from diluere. See dilute.
Senses: examples: text: there is no real Diluent but Water, every Fluid is diluent as it contains Water in it
ref: 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: Diluting; making thinner or weaker by admixture, especially of water.
Related terms: dilutory
discontention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discontentions
Senses: glosses: Discontent.
dispositif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispositifs
form: dispositive
Etymology: Borrowed from French dispositif.
Senses: examples: text: Thereafter the court ruled unanimously in paragraph 2c of its dispositif that threat or use of force by means of nuclear weapons is contrary to the UN charter and is unlawful.
qualifier: international law
glosses: A part of a document that communicates the decisions taken by some organization or nation on a particular issue.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: According to Michel Foucault, the aggregate of institutional, physical and administrative mechanisms and knowledge structures that enhance and maintain the exercise of power within society.
Related terms: operative part
substance
purport
terms expressing the notion for court decision under common law
ex vivo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin ex vivo.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Outside the living organism.
ecology block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecology blocks
Senses: glosses: A large concrete block with a groove in the bottom face and a tongue on the top face to eliminate slippage when they are stacked. There is also a steel loop on the top face to facilitate lifting. The blocks are stacked in an offset manner to create a wall for retaining earth by means of their great mass. A wall built with them can be readily dismantled and the blocks reused (in ecological fashion).
effort distance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: effort distances
Senses: glosses: The distance from the effort on a lever to the fulcrum.
egocasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of egocast
egocasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The portrayal of an individual ego or personality through a network, such as in an Internet forum, weblog, podcast, or photoblog.
Related terms: egocaster
environmentally friendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more environmentally friendly
form: most environmentally friendly
Senses: examples: text: "HS2's London tunnels will help ensure many homes and habitats in the capital remain undisturbed. This is a key part of our commitment to deliver Britain's new high-speed railway in the most environmentally friendly way and minimising disruption to our neighbours," said HS2 Ltd Client Director Malcolm Codling.
ref: 2020 October 21, “Network News: London tunnel contracts awarded with work to start in 2022”, in Rail, pages 12–13:
synonyms: environment-friendly
eco-friendly
ecological
ecologically friendly
green
glosses: Causing lesser, little, or no harm to the environment.
Synonyms: word: environmentally friendly
word: environment-friendly
word: eco-friendly
word: ecological
word: ecologically friendly
word: green
Hypernyms: word: clean
word: healthy
EOI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EOIs
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of expression of interest (a business communication that an organization is interested in providing goods or services).
examples: text: EOI manifests itself by over-emotionality, excessive self-sacrifice, over-identification, and extreme overprotective behavior with the patient.
ref: 2012 January–March, Anekal C. Amaresha, Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, “Expressed Emotion in Schizophrenia: An Overview”, in Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, volume 34, number 1, Thousand Oaks, C.A.: Sage Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, page 14, column 1:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of emotional over-involvement.
Related terms: english: expressed emotion
translation: expressed emotion
word: EE
eolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: aeolic
Etymology: From Latin Aeolicus, from Ancient Greek Αἴολος (Aíolos, “Aeolus, god of the winds”).
Senses: glosses: Of the wind; referring to the action or the power of wind.
epigone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛpəɡəʊn/
ipa: /ˈɛpɪɡəʊn/
ipa: /ˈɛpəɡoʊn/
ipa: /ˈɛpɪɡoʊn/
ipa: /ˈɛpəɡɑn/
ipa: /ˈɛpɪɡɑn/
Forms: form: epigones
Etymology: From French épigone, from Latin epigonus, from Ancient Greek ἐπίγονος (epígonos, “offspring, descendant”), from ἐπιγίγνομαι (epigígnomai, “I come after”), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”), from γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “I become”).
Senses: examples: text: India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs.
ref: 2013 May 11, “What a waste”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 12:
glosses: A follower or disciple.
examples: text: While Shaler remained subordinate, he followed Agassiz’s intellectual lead, often with the epigone’s habit of exaggerating his master’s voice.
ref: 1991, Stephen Jay Gould, Bully for Brontosaurus, →ISBN:
text: In another twist to the myth, his Head of Department, the ageless and loathsome Vermishank, was not a plodding epigone but an exceptional bio-thaumaturge.
ref: 2000, China Miéville, Perdido Street Station, →ISBN:
synonyms: imitator
glosses: An undistinguished or inferior imitator of a well known artist or their style.
Derived terms: epigonality
epigonic
epigonism
epigonous
etux
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Latin et (“and”) + uxor (“wife”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of et ux. ("and wife")
euthyroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /juˈθaɪɹɔɪd/
rhymes: -aɪɹɔɪd
Etymology: Coined between 1920 and 1925 from Greek eu- + thyroid.
Senses: glosses: Having normal thyroid function.
Derived terms: euthyroidism
euthyroid sick syndrome
euthyroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juˈθaɪɹɔɪd/
rhymes: -aɪɹɔɪd
Forms: form: euthyroids
Etymology: Coined between 1920 and 1925 from Greek eu- + thyroid.
Senses: glosses: A person with a normally functioning thyroid.
excludability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From excludable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The ability to be excluded.
Derived terms: nonexcludability
non-excludability
exposure treatment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exposure treatments
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The process of destimulation via gradual exposure to the stimulus, so that the reaction eventually becomes neutral.
family-friendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more family-friendly
form: most family-friendly
Senses: examples: text: This family friendly paradise - with its giant snow slides, outdoor amphitheatre, and traditional winter activities - is the ideal destination for the young and old alike.
glosses: Suitable for families consisting of parents and minor children.
examples: text: [...] reviewing the parental leave and maternity schemes and, finally, raising awareness of employers about the importance of creating a family-friendly working environment.
ref: 2003 May 1, “Joint Report On Social Inclusion”, in Commission of the European Communities:
text: It's phenomenal to have the family-friendly policies which give people much better work-life balance compared with where we were 37 years ago."
ref: 2024 January 24, Dyan Perry talks to Nick Brodrick, “The industry has given me so much”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 43:
glosses: Promoting the welfare of the family structure.
glosses: Devoid of material deemed inappropriate for children such as sexually-explicit text or images, use of profanity, or references to the use of illegal drugs.
Derived terms: family-friendliness
Related terms: all ages
Fantini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fantinis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Fantini.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
fashionista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfæ.ʃəˈnɪ.stə/
ipa: /ˌfæ.ʃəˈni.stə/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɪstə
rhymes: (General American) -istə
Forms: form: fashionistas
Etymology: From fashion + -ista. Compare earlier Sandinista, Peronista, Guardianista. Piecewise doublet of earlier fashionist.
Senses: examples: text: Toronto fashionista Suzanne Boyd, editor-in-chief of the soon-to-be-launched Zoomer magazine, recently moved back to Canada after living in Manhattan for the past four years.
ref: 2008 July 17, “High Style: Are you a Porter person?”, in Toronto Star, page L1:
glosses: A person who creates or promotes high fashion, i.e. a fashion designer or fashion editor.
synonyms: word: trendy
word: voguie
word: Corinthian
word: faddist
word: fashionable
word: fashionist
word: fashionista
word: hepcat
word: hepster
word: hipster
word: sophisto
word: snappy dresser
word: trendite
word: trendy
word: voguie
word: swell
glosses: A person who dresses according to the trends of fashion, or one who closely follows those trends.
Derived terms: fatshionista
hijabista
recessionista
Related terms: frugalista
fatality rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatality rates
Senses: glosses: The number of people that die per a number of cases.
Derived terms: case fatality rate
femtoengineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From femto- + engineering.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
technology
glosses: Engineering subatomic particles by manipulating quarks.
finite generator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finite generators
Senses: glosses: A sequence generator which has a finite description of the internal generator state.
flying sport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying sports
Senses: glosses: Any activity involving aviation for recreation and competition. Flying sports include air racing, homebuilt aircraft, ultralight aviation, and hot-air ballooning.
foofy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːfi/
ipa: /ˈfʊfi/
rhymes: -uːfi
rhymes: -ʊfi
Forms: form: foofier
form: foofiest
Etymology: Possibly a blend of fluffy + poofy or frilly + poofy.
Possibly derived from foofaraw.
Senses: glosses: Excessively frilly or frou-frou, typically in a manner calculated to attract attention to an otherwise unremarkable person or event.
glosses: Poofy; inflated in a funny way.
glosses: Big and fluffy.
frequency channel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frequency channels
Senses: glosses: The band used by one customer, among the given total frequency spectrum.
G-2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: intelligence
glosses: army military intelligence officer position at the division level and higher
Related terms: S-2
G-2
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: gear-to, gear up; to gear up and get ready for battle, movement, or any type of action.
Related terms: K-9
garbage scow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garbage scows
Senses: glosses: A watercraft that carries garbage and waste from one location to others for distribution and disposal.
Vrbas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Serbia.
glosses: A river in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Vrbas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vrba
Anointing of the Sick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Catholic sacrament in which a priest anoints a sick or dying person with oil and prays for his salvation.
Synonyms: extreme unction
last rites
extreme unction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛk.stɹiːm.ʌŋk.ʃən/
Etymology: From extreme (“to limit, final”) + unction (“anointing”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The Catholic sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.
pontiff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒntɪf/
Forms: form: pontiffs
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French pontife m, from Latin pontifex m. Doublet of pontifex.
Senses: glosses: A member of the most illustrious of the colleges of priests of the Roman religion, the College of Pontiffs; a pontifex.
examples: text: In several respects John turned out to be an unexpected figure as supreme pontiff.
ref: 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 46:
glosses: A bishop of the early Church; now specifically, the Pope.
glosses: Any chief figure or leader of a religion.
Derived terms: pontify
Related terms: pontificate
gravitropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gravi- + -tropism.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: a plant's ability to change its growth in response to gravity
Synonyms: geotropism
Derived terms: agravitropism
gravitropic
orthogravitropism
plagiogravitropism
Phillipp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek, a rare spelling of Philip.