cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mid-finger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: midfinger
form: mid finger
Etymology: From mid- + finger.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the middle of a finger, such as the intermediate phalange or proximal interphalangeal joint regions
Derived terms: mid-finger ring
mercurial finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercurial fingers
Senses: glosses: the little finger
Synonyms: auricular
ear-finger
fourth finger
little finger
pinkie
medicinal finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medicinal fingers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of medical finger.
synonyms: word: medical finger
pinkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
homophone: pinky
Forms: form: pinkies
form: pinky
Etymology: From Dutch pinkje (literally “little finger”), which in the Holland dialects takes the form pinkie.
Senses: glosses: A little finger, the finger furthest on a hand from the thumb.
glosses: A little toe, the toe furthest on a foot from the big toe.
Synonyms: sense: little finger
word: little finger
sense: little finger
word: auricular finger
sense: little finger
word: ear-finger
sense: little finger
word: fifth finger
sense: little finger
word: fourth finger
sense: little finger
word: mercurial finger
sense: little finger
word: pinkie finger
sense: little toe
word: little toe
sense: little toe
word: pinkie toe
pinkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
homophone: pinky
Forms: form: pinkies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pinky (“baby mouse”).
pinkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
homophone: pinky
Etymology: From Kaurna bingu.
Senses: glosses: A bilby.
Related terms: hinkie pinkie
physic finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physic fingers
Etymology: Calque of the Latin digitus medicus.
Senses: examples: text: […] Iasius ('healer') is the physic finger; Idas ('he of Mount Ida' — Rhea's seat) is the oracular little finger.
ref: 1988, D. August Hunt, The Road of the Sun, →ISBN, page 8:
text: Alder, physic finger, By power of divination,
Diagnose all maladies of a doubtful mind.
ref: 1998, Douglas Monroe, The Lost Books of Merlyn: Druid Magic from the Age of Arthur, →ISBN, page 322:
text: From the confessions given by these witches, it seems that their initiation was sealed by a mark made with a pin prick upon the upper and middle joints of the physic finger.
ref: 2004, Nathaniel Harris, Witcha: A Book of Cunning, →ISBN, page 107:
glosses: the ring finger
Synonyms: gold-finger
leech-finger
marriage finger
medical finger
medicinal finger
physical finger
physician finger
ring-finger
ring-man
third finger
nameless finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nameless fingers
Senses: examples: text: Otherwise Put thy namelesse finger in the wound, and make therewith three crosses upon the wound, and say five Pater nosters, five Aves, and one Credo, in the honour of the five wounds.
ref: 1584, Reginald Scot, Scot’s Diſcovery of VVitchcraft:
glosses: Synonym of ring finger.
synonyms: word: ring finger
Synonyms: ring finger
physician finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physician fingers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of medical finger.
synonyms: word: medical finger
physical finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physical fingers
Senses: glosses: the ring finger
Synonyms: gold-finger
leech-finger
marriage finger
medical finger
medicinal finger
physic finger
physician finger
ring-finger
ring-man
third finger
ring-man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring-men
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ringman.
ring-finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring-fingers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ring finger.
thumby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌmi/
Forms: form: thumbies
Etymology: From thumb + -y/-ie (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: A little thumb; diminutive term for thumb.
Synonyms: pollex
thumb
Related terms: pointling
thumby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌmi/
Forms: form: thumbier
form: thumbiest
Etymology: From thumb + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "Well, I don't tease anybody but the men. I don't tease father or mother or you,—but men are fair game; they are such thumby, blundering creatures, and we can confuse them so."
ref: 1896, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 29, in The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine, Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co:
text: […] he was propounding an improvement of Professor Armstrong's Heuristic method, whereby at the cost of three or four hundred pounds' worth of apparatus, a total neglect of all other studies and the undivided attention of a teacher of exceptional gifts, an average child might with a peculiar sort of thumby thoroughness learn in the course of ten or twelve years almost as much chemistry as one could get in one of those objectionable shilling text-books that were then so common….
ref: 1904, H.G. Wells, The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, Book I, Chapter 1:
text: The box was set down, the stiff buckles of its mildewed straps tackled by a dozen thumby hands, the lid hurled back.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, pages 147–8:
text: For as long as we have known him—and for most of us that has been for the lengths of our lifetimes—he has been the object of, and inspiration for, a delight so innocent and perfect that the attempt to analyse its sources seems an act of ingratitude, a laying on of thumby hands that will inevitably bollix the job.
ref: 1983, Richard Schickel, chapter 1, in Cary Grant: A Celebration, New York: Hachette, published 2009:
text: Some people are handy, but I am (no other word fits) thumby.
The handy learn to master each moder machine as soon as it hits the market. The thumby never graduate beyond the self-service island at the gas station.
ref: 2006, Robert Schmuhl, In So Many Words: Arguments and Adventures, University of Notre Dame Press, page 160:
text: 2015, Julie Lawson, A Ribbon of Shining Steel: The Railway Diary of Kate Cameron, Yale, British Columbia, 1882, Dear Canada series, Scholastic Canada, https://books.google.ca/books?id=h1X2CQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Rachel was all thumbs when it came to embroidery, even thumbier than me.
glosses: Clumsy, awkward, maladroit, not dextrous, all thumbs.
examples: text: He would distinguish, too, between a library and a news-room, and would find no great attraction in the prospect of supplying the national youth with free but thumby copies of the sixpenny magazines.
ref: 1914, H.G. Wells, “The Philosopher's Public Library”, in Social Forces in England and America, New York & London: Harper & Bros., page 203:
glosses: Dirtied by thumb marks.
pointling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pointlings
Etymology: From point + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A little index finger.
Synonyms: index finger
Related terms: thumby
showing finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showing fingers
Etymology: From Middle English schewyng fyngyre.
Senses: glosses: the forefinger
Synonyms: index finger
message
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛsɪd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /meˈseːd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛsɪdʒ
Forms: form: messages
form: msg
Etymology: From Middle English message, from Old French message, from Early Medieval Latin missāticum, derived from Latin mittere (“send”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange”). Partially displaced Old English ærende (whence errand).
Senses: examples: text: We've just received an urgent message from the President.
text: He received a message telling him to update his laptop.
text: I have a message from God unto thee.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 3:20:
text: No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:
glosses: A communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed.
examples: text: The main message of the novel is that time heals all wounds.
text: Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
ref: 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:
glosses: An underlying theme or conclusion to be drawn from something.
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:
glosses: An errand.
glosses: See messages (“groceries, shopping”).
Hyponyms: heartbeat message
in-flight message
instant message
text message
Derived terms: address message
antimessage
Arecibo message
carry the message to Garcia
countermessage
cybermessage
deliver the message to Garcia
direct message
e-message
error message
foremessage
fox message
I approve this message
intermessage
message board
message broker
message control
message coupling
message-driven architecture
message fiction
message in a bottle
messageless
messagelike
message-oriented
message-oriented middleware
message queue
messagery
message stick
message unit
metamessage
mismessage
mixed message
mood message
multimessage
off message
off-message
on-message
on message
personal message
picture message
poison message
private message
remessage
send a message
short message service
SMS
subliminal message
submessage
success message
telemessage
voice message
message
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛsɪd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /meˈseːd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛsɪdʒ
Forms: form: messages
form: messaging
form: messaged
form: messaged
form: msg
Etymology: From Middle English message, from Old French message, from Early Medieval Latin missāticum, derived from Latin mittere (“send”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange”). Partially displaced Old English ærende (whence errand).
Senses: examples: text: Just message me for directions.
text: I messaged her about the concert.
glosses: To send a message to; to transmit a message to, e.g. as text via a cell phone.
examples: text: She messaged me the information yesterday.
text: Please message the final report by fax.
glosses: To send (something) as a message; usually refers to electronic messaging.
examples: text: We've implemented a new messaging service.
text: The runaway computer program was messaging non-stop.
glosses: To send a message or messages; to be capable of sending messages.
glosses: To bear as a message.
Synonyms: sense: send a text message to
word: text
Derived terms: remessage
Related terms: instant message
instant messaging
messenger
mission
compunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpʌŋk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ʌŋkʃən
Forms: form: compunctions
Etymology: From Middle English compunccion, borrowed from Old French compunction, from Late Latin compunctionem (“a pricking”), from Latin compunctus, the past participle of compungere (“to severely prick”), from com- + pungere (“to prick”).
Senses: examples: text: Besides, to do De Joinville justice, he felt, too, a degree of kindly compunction for the former harsh judgment entertained of one who so little deserved it; and—for there is no such thing in the human mind as an unmixed sensation—he was struck both with the spirit with which she resented, and the proud humility with which she forgave the affront.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 320:
text: His age—his kindness, disarmed Pen’s anger somewhat, and made Arthur feel no little compunction for the deed which he was about to do.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 70, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: [H]e would have had no compunction whatever in flinging him out of the highest window in Venice into the deepest water of the city.
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Something Right Somewhere”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, book the second (Riches), page 366:
text: [T]he instant the door had closed behind him, I leaned over and looked at the letters, which were face down on the table. I felt no compunction in doing so, for under the circumstances I felt that I should protect myself in every way I could.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, “Jonathan Harker’s Journal—Continued”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter III, page 36:
text: But he felt, later, a little compunction. He had been violent, cruel with poor Hermione. He wanted to recompense her, to make it up.
ref: 1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter VIII, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC, page 112:
text: As for average U.S. consumers, they've shown little compunction about buying diamonds that fund bloody militias in Africa.
ref: 2003 February 16, Blaine Greteman, “No Peace Dividend”, in Time:
synonyms: word: qualm
word: regret
word: remorse
word: agenbite
word: remorse
word: rue
word: ruth
word: compunction
word: contrition
word: penitence
word: repentance
word: self-reproach
word: sorriness
glosses: A pricking of conscience or a feeling of regret, especially one which is slight or fleeting.
Derived terms: compunctionless
Related terms: contrition
penitence
penance
guilt
assrun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: assruns
form: assrunning
form: assran
form: assrun
Etymology: From ass + run. First used among gaming communities in the late 1990s.
Senses: examples: text: One of your players assran me at every opportunity.
text: You were assrunning for the whole game.
topics: video-games
glosses: To follow (a player in a first-person shooter game) in order to shoot them from behind.
mohur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈməʊhə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: mohurs
form: mohr
Etymology: From Persian مهر (mohr, “seal; stamp”).
Senses: glosses: A Persian gold coin.
glosses: A gold coin of British India, worth from twelve to fifteen rupees.
Derived terms: goldmohur
Related terms: gold mohur
pipi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipis
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori pipi (“Paphies australis”).
Senses: examples: text: She chuckles, and prises another shrinking pipi from its shell.
ref: 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 124:
glosses: The edible saltwater clam Paphies australis, of the family Mesodesmatidae, endemic to New Zealand.
examples: text: The sand whiting feeds on nippers, pipis, prawns and especially beach, squirt or blood worms and all these make terrific baits.
ref: 2006, Frank Prokop, Australian Fish Guide, 3rd edition, page 154:
text: Pipis are very good baits for catching bream, trevally, whiting, particularly King George Whiting, leatherjackets and many others.
ref: 2007, Julie McEnally, Lawrie McEnally, Complete Book of Fishing Baits & Rigs, page 6:
text: Bivalves are shells with two valves joined at a hinge, like oysters, pipis and many of the shells picked up on a modern beach.
ref: 2009, David Johnson., The Geology of Australia, page 172:
glosses: The edible saltwater clam Plebidonax deltoides, endemic to Australia.
Synonyms: sense: Plebidonax deltoides
word: Coorong cockle
sense: Plebidonax deltoides
word: Goolwa cockle
sense: Plebidonax deltoides
word: eugarie
sense: Plebidonax deltoides
word: ugari
sense: Plebidonax deltoides
word: yugari
pipi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The astringent pods of Caesalpinia paipai, a Brazilian plant used in tanning.
kludge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klʌd͡ʒ/
ipa: /kluːd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒ
rhymes: -uːdʒ
Forms: form: kludges
form: cludge
form: kluge
Etymology: Perhaps from British military slang, possibly based on Scots word kludge or kludgie (“common toilet”), or perhaps from German klug (“clever”). Alternatively, possibly related to Polish klucz (“key, clue, main point”) and Russian ключ (ključ, “key, clue”).
Alternatively, perhaps from (a form related to) Germanic words such as Dutch Low Saxon klütje (“(little) dumpling, clod”), Dutch kluit(je) or Jutland Danish klyt (“piece of bad workmanship, klud(g)e”); compare and standard Danish kludder (“mess, disorder”). (Compare klutz.)
There is evidence that kluge (which see) was once a separate word with similar meaning but separate derivation, but the spelling kludge was widely popularized in the US by an article in Datamation "How to Design a Kludge" (1962), and since then the two words have often been used as alternative spellings of each other.
According to the OED, an "invented word" influenced by bodge and fudge.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An improvised device, typically crudely constructed to test the validity of a principle before implementing a finished design.
glosses: Any construction or practice, typically crude yet effective, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An amalgamated mass of unrelated parts.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A badly written or makeshift piece of software; a hack.
Synonyms: sense: temporary solution
word: workaround
Related terms: kludgy
kludge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klʌd͡ʒ/
ipa: /kluːd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒ
rhymes: -uːdʒ
Forms: form: kludges
form: kludging
form: kludged
form: kludged
form: cludge
form: kluge
Etymology: Perhaps from British military slang, possibly based on Scots word kludge or kludgie (“common toilet”), or perhaps from German klug (“clever”). Alternatively, possibly related to Polish klucz (“key, clue, main point”) and Russian ключ (ključ, “key, clue”).
Alternatively, perhaps from (a form related to) Germanic words such as Dutch Low Saxon klütje (“(little) dumpling, clod”), Dutch kluit(je) or Jutland Danish klyt (“piece of bad workmanship, klud(g)e”); compare and standard Danish kludder (“mess, disorder”). (Compare klutz.)
There is evidence that kluge (which see) was once a separate word with similar meaning but separate derivation, but the spelling kludge was widely popularized in the US by an article in Datamation "How to Design a Kludge" (1962), and since then the two words have often been used as alternative spellings of each other.
According to the OED, an "invented word" influenced by bodge and fudge.
Senses: glosses: To build or use a kludge.
Synonyms: word: bodge
word: cludge
word: cobble together
word: jury-rig
word: kludge
word: kluge
word: knock together
word: knock up
word: MacGyver
word: make-do
word: patch
word: patch-up
Hypernyms: word: build
word: improvise
word: repair
Hyponyms: word: frig
word: fudge
word: hack
Derived terms: kludge out
Related terms: word: workaround
cachinnate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkækɪneɪt/
Forms: form: cachinnates
form: cachinnating
form: cachinnated
form: cachinnated
Etymology: From Latin cachinnō (“laugh aloud”), of onomatopoeic origin.
Senses: examples: text: The villain began to cachinnate and twirl his moustache.
text: There is a sense of spectral whirling through liquid gulfs of infinity, of dizzying rides through reeling universes on a comet’s tail, and of hysterical plunges from the pit to the moon and from the moon back again to the pit, all livened by a cachinnating chorus of the distorted, hilarious elder gods and the green, bat-winged mocking imps of Tartarus.
ref: 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:
synonyms: guffaw
glosses: To laugh loudly, immoderately, or too often.
Derived terms: cachinnation
cachinnator
cachinnatory
pushpit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pushpits
Etymology: 1960s: humorous formation, suggested by pulpit (since push is the opposite of pull).
Senses: glosses: The railing at the stern of a boat.
Synonyms: stern pulpit
stern rail
taffrail
railing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: more railing
form: most railing
Etymology: By surface analysis, rail + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Why does that railing man go with us?
ref: 1647, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher·, The CoxComb:
text: The daring of the railing reviler should be checked with moderation, i.e. as a duty of charity, and not through lust for one's own honour.
ref: 1918, Saint Thomas (Aquinas), The "Summa Theologica" of St. Thomas Aquinas, page 288:
text: A clamorous, debating, railing woman feels the need to have the last word.
ref: 2013, Paige Coleman, Delivering Women from the Snares of Death, page 52:
text: On Anger's self-awareness of the originality of writing as a railing woman, see McManus, "Eve's Dowry," p. 198.
ref: 2016, Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast, Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588-1617:
glosses: That rails; engaged in or given to violent complaining.
examples: text: Petrus de Pilichdorf (in the year 1395, as he himself gives the date, cap 30,) writes a book of confutation of the several pretended errors of the Waldenses of this time in thirty-six chapters, but has nothing of baptism; though he descends to speak of many lesser matters, and aggravates all with very railing words, yet he finds nothing to accuse them of, but such things as the protestants now hold, except one or two, as the 'unlawfulness of 'all oaths,' &c.
ref: 1844, William Wall, The history of infant-baptism, page 267:
text: Such was the case of the 'very railing speeches against the justices' by Thomas Holman, vintner, of Terling, Essex, when he was presented in 1608 'for a common drunkard and for keeping ill rule in his house'.
ref: 2010, David Cressy, Dangerous Talk, page 27:
text: I return to earlier considerations of railing by looking at the ways in which the railing style of the Poets' War yields a significant, perverse, even queer fin de siècle aesthetics that is expressed in part by extreme articulations of masculinity: metaphors and puns represent men as either hyperagressive or effeminate.
ref: 2016, Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast, Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588-1617, page 104:
glosses: Filled with invective and violent complaints
examples: text: But scatter to the railing wind Each gloomy phantom of the mind!
ref: 1820, Anacreon, Odes of Anacreon - Volume 2, page 45:
text: Had I a garden, claustral yews Should shut out railing wind,
ref: 1906, Alfred Austin, The Garden that I Love, page 113:
text: Beginning way back in October, one railing storm after another had swept down off the Bitterroot Mountains and into the valley where the Rocking R had stood for three generations.
ref: 2015, Rosanne Croft, Linda Reinhardt, Sharon Bernash Smith, Once Upon a Christmas:
glosses: Blowing violently.
Derived terms: railingly
railing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: railings
Etymology: By surface analysis, rail + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: During the war, everyone's railings were taken away to make bombers.
text: We passed through an inner courtyard overladen with fake wrought-iron railings and accents badly in need of a paint job, evoking a kind of Woolworth's Vieux Carré.
ref: 1989, The Advocate, numbers 515-521, page 28:
glosses: A fence or barrier consisting of one or more horizontal rails and vertical supports.
Derived terms: english: in place to provide guidance on stairs or in corridors
translation: in place to provide guidance on stairs or in corridors
word: hand railing
english: in place to prevent accidental falls from an elevated area
translation: in place to prevent accidental falls from an elevated area
word: guard railing
word: bridge railing
word: stair railings
word: wall railing
railing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, rail + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rail
foo-foo juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: * Possibly "foo-foo", suggesting effeminacy, and juice; possibly coined by submariners.
Senses: glosses: Aftershave or cologne.
glosses: Hair tonic.
heterodox
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛt.(ə.)ɹəˌdɒks/
ipa: /ˈhɛt.ɚ.əˌdɑks/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑτερόδοξος (heteródoxos), from ἕτερος (héteros, “other, another, different”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”).
Senses: examples: text: Most Christian denominations consider each other heterodox.
text: Do you believe such people are happy in the other world, sir? {...} I declined answering Mrs. Dean’s question, which struck me as something heterodox.
ref: 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XVI, in Wuthering Heights:
text: [Podcast host] Mr. [Joe] Rogan, who leans right but holds fairly heterodox political views, interviewed Mr. Trump and endorsed him on the election’s eve.
ref: 2024 November 8, Cameron Joseph, “Democrats begin soul-searching – and finger-pointing – after devastating loss”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
synonyms: inorthodox
nonorthodox
unorthodox
glosses: Of or pertaining to creeds, beliefs, or teachings, especially religious ones, that are different from what a religion (or sect) believes to be orthodox, but (usually) not conflicting with that religion's established beliefs and therefore not heretical.
Derived terms: heterodoxly
heterodoxness
heterodoxic
heterodoxical
Related terms: heterodoxy
hetero-
heretical
nonorthogonal
outside the box
realtime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːəltaɪm/
/ˈɹiːltaɪm/
Etymology: From real + time.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of real-time.
amnesiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amnesiacs
Etymology: From amnesia + -ac.
Senses: glosses: Person who suffers from loss of memory (amnesia).
jerk off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jerks off
form: jerking off
form: jerked off
form: jerked off
form: J-O
form: J/O
Senses: examples: text: My partner and I jerk off together sometimes.
text: But to learn to love manhood, sooner or later you have to learn to jerk off in one particular way, to the exclusion of some other possible ways.
ref: 1999, John Stoltenberg, The End of Manhood: Parables on Sex and Selfhood, page 245:
text: Look at me, jerking off in the shower. This will be the highlight of my day. It's all downhill from here.
ref: 1999, Alan Ball (screenwriter), American Beauty (motion picture), spoken by Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey):
synonyms: word: jack off
word: bash one out
word: bate
word: beat it
word: beat off
word: crank one out
word: fap
word: frig
word: jack off
word: jack it
word: jerk it
word: jerk off
word: jork it
word: knock one out
word: masturbate
word: mastuprate
word: play pocket pool
word: play with oneself
word: pleasure oneself
word: rub one out
word: self-abuse
word: self-pollute
word: service oneself
word: skeet
word: toss
word: toss off
word: touch oneself
word: wank
word: wank off
word: whack off
glosses: To masturbate by manually stimulating one's own penis.
examples: text: She jerked me off with both hands and it felt so good I almost started crying.
text: Once in cofessional ^([sic]) I told a priest I had jerked off another boy. Man, you'd have thought I'd killed him. What a lecture I got about hell and damnation! I was hoping to get some guidance and understanding. That was the end of confessions for years.
ref: 1983 December 31, James L. Zipper, “Happy To Be Me”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 7:
glosses: To manually stimulate someone else's penis; to give a hand job.
examples: text: Stop jerking off. We've got a deadline.
glosses: To do nothing; to waste time.
examples: text: He was jerking us all off about how advanced the project was.
glosses: To deceive.
examples: text: I climb up in my trees myself, and jerk off the suckers in the trees.
ref: 1884, Ohio State Horticultural Society, Seventeenth Annual Report of the Ohio State Horticultural Society for the Year 1883-84, page 32:
text: The conductor and the head brakeman testified that they gave no order to Roy Wilson or any one else to jerk off or pull off young Mitchell from the train.
ref: 1896, California Superior Courts, Colorado Supreme Court, Kansas Supreme Court, et al., The Pacific Reporter, page 265:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jerk, off.
Derived terms: word: jerkoff
Related terms: jack off
jerk
jerk it
JOI
jerk off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jerk offs
form: J-O
form: J/O
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jerkoff (“an obnoxious person”).
synonyms: word: wank
word: toss
word: tug
word: fingering
word: celebrating Palm Sunday
word: choking the chicken
word: ham shank
word: hand shandy
word: Hand Solo
word: ipsation
word: jacking off
word: jerking off
word: lone rangering
word: manustupration
word: mastupration
word: masturbation
word: milking the sausage
word: onanism
word: peeling the cucumber
word: pocket pool
word: polishing the jewels
word: romancing the bone
word: secret vice
word: self-abuse
word: self-defilement
word: self-love
word: self-pleasure
word: self-pollution
word: shaking hands with the milkman
word: shaking out the curtains
word: solitary vice
word: spanking the monkey
word: tossing off
word: wank
glosses: An act of masturbation.
examples: text: He became one of the industry's top horsemen, specializing in Running Ws, pit falls, and cable jerk-offs.
ref: 2014, Gene Scott Freese, Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s-1970s:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A stunt in which the performer is suddenly pulled off a horse, etc. by means of a cable.
Hibernensis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Canon law in early medieval Ireland.
bung-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌŋˌhəʊl/
ipa: /ˈbʌŋˌhoʊl/
Forms: form: bung-holes
form: bunghole
Etymology: From bung + hole.
Senses: examples: text: Pop a tap in the barrel's bung-hole so you can pour us a round of beer, innkeeper!
text: Cæsar's dust - or is it Alexander's? - may stop a bunghole, but the functions of these dead Cæsars of the past was to light up a savage fetish dance.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A hole in a vessel, such as a cask, that may be stopped with a bung.
examples: text: So leave me... You never do have much margin there, but see if you can’t leave me about an inch from where the zipper [belches] ends around under my—back to my bung-hole.
ref: 1964 August 9, 4:06 from the start, in Telephone conversation # 4851, sound recording, LBJ and JOE HAGGAR, 8/9/1964, 1:17PM, spoken by Lyndon B. Johnson, LBJ Presidential Library:
text: I need TP for my bung-hole.
ref: 1994, “The Great Cornholio” (4:31 from the start), in Beavis and Butt-Head, season 4, episode 31, spoken by Beavis (Mike Judge):
glosses: The anus.
bung-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌŋˌhəʊl/
ipa: /ˈbʌŋˌhoʊl/
Forms: form: bung-holes
form: bung-holing
form: bung-holed
form: bung-holed
form: bunghole
Etymology: From bung + hole.
Senses: glosses: To have penetrative anal sex with.
cuppa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌpə/
note: Indic
ipa: /kapˈpaː/
rhymes: -ʌpə
Forms: form: cuppas
form: cupper
Etymology: Contraction of cup of (with “tea” or sometimes “coffee” implied). See also a (“of”), pinta (“pint of milk”).
Senses: examples: text: I’ve just put the kettle on – fancy a cuppa?
text: […] we covered the hundred yards to the lawn where the tea table awaited us. […] Only Bobbie was present when we arrived at the trough. Wilbert and Phyllis were presumably still in the leafy glade, and Mrs Cream, Bobbie said, worked in her room every afternoon on her new spine-freezer and seldom knocked off for a cuppa.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter III:
text: 1992, Machine Knitting Monthly, Maidenhead: Machine Knitting Monthly Ltd.,
Back home safely, I made a cuppa and sat for a good hour revelling in my favourite magazine.
text: ‘Here,’ said Clancy as he sat up and dangled his legs over the edge of the bed, ‘You sit down and take it easy. I′ll boil the billy for a cuppa’.
ref: 2007, Kevin Hallewell, Woop Woop, page 35:
text: 2017 Mrs. S. "Guillotines Decide" Orphan Black
Get Kira up. I'll pour you a cuppa.
glosses: A cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink).
examples: text: Similes were not my cuppa, anyway. My classmates tended to overload their writing with them (all-time record: six in one paragraph) and they stuck out like violins in a rock tune.
ref: 2001, Gabrielle Bauer, Waltzing the Tango: Confessions of an Out-of-step Boomer, page 210:
glosses: Whatever interests or suits one; one's cup of tea.
examples: text: I just felt like I wanted another cuppa coffee and I told her so;[…]and before I could get just one more cuppa coffee it was seven-fifty!
ref: 1915, Sinclair Lewis, edited by Anthony Di Renzo, Commutation: $9.17: If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis, published 1997:
text: And he orders a cuppa cawfee. “A cuppa cawfee and what else?” I says to him.
ref: 1940, The New Yorker, Volume 16, Part 1, page 22:
text: “That′s a new line, isn′t it? Come up to my suite for a cuppa coffee.”
ref: 2008, Frank Deford, The Entitled: A Tale of Modern Baseball, page 204:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of cup of.
Derived terms: cuppa joe
o'
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
ipa: /oʊ/
homophone: a
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: o
form: a
Senses: examples: text: Gimme two o’ those ones.
text: from two o’clock until closing time
text: top o’ the mornin to ye
glosses: Contraction of of, usually before consonants.
examples: text: A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Contraction of on
Derived terms: back o’ Bourke
Besses o' th' Barn
Brig o' Turk
Cambus o' May
cat-o’-nine-tails
come-o'-will
gottle o' geer
hop-o'-my-thumb
Irlams o' th' Height
Jack o' the clock
jack-o’-lantern
John O'Gaunt
John o’ Groats
Land o' Cakes
light-o'-love
man o' war
man-o'-war suit
man-o’-war
Osoyoos
o’clock
peep o' day
Peep o' Day Boy
rickle o' banes
run-o’-the-mill
Tom o' Bedlam
whip-o'-will
will o' the wisp
will-o’-the-wisp
bruv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹʌv/
rhymes: -ʌv
Forms: form: bruvs
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰréh₂tēr
Clipping of bruvver.
Senses: examples: text: The lads in the Nags 'Ead were just talking about your bit of managerial bovver and I said to Rodney, 'Bruv, this could be my big chance.'
ref: 1992, Today:
glosses: Brother, mate, friend.
Related terms: bra
brah
brev
bro
bruh
fam
TTYL
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: ttyl
Senses: glosses: Initialism of talk to you later.
Related terms: cul8r
TTY
TTYA
TTYS
bruvver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ʹbrə-vər
ipa: /ˈbɹʌ.və(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbɹʌ.vɚ/
rhymes: -ʌvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bruvvers
Etymology: Representing the Cockney or Multicultural London English pronunciation of brother (th-fronting).
Senses: examples: text: Gurdjieff I thot a man an a bruvver, but NObuddy is goin to swallow Ouspensky
ref: 1953, Ezra Pound, letter to Margaret Anderson, reproduced in Thomas L. Scott et al. (editors), Pound/The Little Review: the Letters of Ezra Pound to Margaret Anderson, New Directions Books (1988), page 314
text: Gawd knows when yer bruvver's gonna get married.
ref: 1992, Harry Bowling, The girl from Cotton Lane, Headline Book Publishing:
glosses: Brother.
examples: text: Chicken was still elated. "I was way up there, wasn’t I? Wasn’t I? I’m a tell my brovver."
ref: 1973, Toni Morrison, Sula, page 60:
glosses: Nonstandard form of brother.
Derived terms: bruv
OMG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊ.ɛmˈd͡ʒiː/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.ɛmˈd͡ʒiː/
rhymes: -iː
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Object Management Group.
IRL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialisms and abbreviations.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Initialism of Indy Racing League.
IRL
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Initialisms and abbreviations.
Senses: examples: text: Due to the splendid isolation guaranteed by her social position she had never met a cock IRL and, as there was no Wi-Fi in the palace, she had no opportunity to check the facts.
ref: 2015, Joanna Walsh, Grow a Pair:
text: I’ve recently been trying out Tinder, and while I match with people and even chat with them everything seems to be going well, but whenever I bring up meeting IRL, they are quick to ghost me.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Why is it so hard to go from chatting on Tinder to meeting up in real life?”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: in the flesh
offline
coordinate_terms: in-game
online
glosses: Initialism of in real life (as opposed to online).
IRL
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Initialisms and abbreviations.
Senses: examples: text: His IRL girlfriend.
text: But as Poppy’s fictional world expanded, Pereira became embroiled in IRL controversy.
ref: 2020 January 10, Aimee Cliff, “Poppy: I Disagree review – online pop-bot embraces IRL nu-metal”, in The Guardian:
text: […] this "100-percent real soap bar" is "the perfect gift for cilantro lovers and haters alike" […] Chipotle says the now IRL soap stems from a humorous photo the brand shared on Instagram back in August.
ref: 2021 December 2, Mike Pomeranz, “Archived copy”, in foodandwine.com, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2023:
glosses: Existing or being such in real life.
IRL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IRLs
Etymology: Initialisms and abbreviations.
Senses: glosses: An IRL friend.
Related terms: RL
meatspace
OOC
IG
AFK
yer
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛ(ə)/
ipa: /jʌ/
rhymes: -ɛə
rhymes: -ʌ
Etymology: Most likely from the intrusive R, between "yeah" (/jəː/) and a non-high vowel (/ə/, /ɪə/, /ɑː/, /ɔː/). For example, "Yeah-r-I know" (/jəɹ ʌɪ nəʊ/).
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of yeah (“yes”).
yer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛ(ə)/
ipa: /jʌ/
rhymes: -ɛə
rhymes: -ʌ
ipa: /jɝ/
ipa: /jɜː/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈjɛ(ə)/
ipa: /jʌ/
rhymes: -ɛə
rhymes: -ʌ
Forms: form: yers
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian ер (jer, “ъ”) and ерь (jerʹ, “ь”).
Senses: glosses: Either of the letters ъ and ь in Cyrillic alphabets, which originally represented phonemically the ultra-short vowels in Slavic languages.
Related terms: jer
yer
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛ(ə)/
ipa: /jʌ/
rhymes: -ɛə
rhymes: -ʌ
ipa: /jɝ/
ipa: /jɜː/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
ipa: /jɜː/
ipa: /ˈjɛ(ə)/
ipa: /jʌ/
rhymes: -ɛə
rhymes: -ʌ
ipa: /jɝ/
ipa: /jɜː/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Etymology: From you.
Senses: examples: text: "Thet one in the Formosa Channel was tremenjus. The velocity of the wind tetched a ’undred and forty mile,—so it was computed at Taipei,— arfter which it blew the wind gedge away. Yer need a string to yer ’at in a breeze like thet!"
ref: 1916 April 13, Oswald Kendall, “The Romance of the Martin Connor”, in The Youth's Companion, volume 90, number 15, page 198, column 2:
text: 'Still, yer got nice looks,' said Ella.
ref: 1992, Mary Jane Staples, Sergeant Joe:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of you (plural or singular).
Derived terms: yer one
yerself
yerselves
yer
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛ(ə)/
ipa: /jʌ/
rhymes: -ɛə
rhymes: -ʌ
ipa: /jɝ/
ipa: /jɜː/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
ipa: /jɜː/
ipa: /ˈjɛ(ə)/
ipa: /jʌ/
rhymes: -ɛə
rhymes: -ʌ
ipa: /jɝ/
ipa: /jɜː/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Etymology: From you.
Senses: examples: text: Yer a lotta nosey parkers.
ref: 1991, Kathleen Dayus, Where There's Life, London: Virago Press Ltd:
text: ‘Ah, go boil yer heads, both of yeh,’ said Hagrid. ‘Harry – yer a wizard.’
ref: 1997 June 26, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], chapter IV, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter; 1), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of you're (“you are”).
yer
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛ(ə)/
ipa: /jʌ/
rhymes: -ɛə
rhymes: -ʌ
ipa: /jɝ/
ipa: /jɜː/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
ipa: /jɜː/
ipa: /ˈjɛ(ə)/
ipa: /jʌ/
rhymes: -ɛə
rhymes: -ʌ
ipa: /jɝ/
ipa: /jɜː/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Etymology: From you.
Senses: examples: text: 'Make yer way down to the station,' he said.
ref: 1991, Thomas Hayden, The Killing Frost, London: Random Century Group:
text: ‘Las’ time I saw you, you was only a baby,’ said the giant. ‘Yeh look a lot like yer dad, but yeh’ve got yer mum’s eyes.’
ref: 1997 June 26, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], chapter IV, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter; 1), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Old Lady: 'HOLLER AT THAT FELLER IN THE CHEST DOWNSTAIRS. IF Y'NEED CARDS, HE'S YER MAIN MAN, HEH HEH!'
ref: 2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Nintendo 3DS, level/area: House of Joustus:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of your.
Derived terms: in-yer-face
lang may yer lum reek
on yer bike
what's yer poison
yer man
Related terms: ya
youse
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yous.
youse
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: Have youse gentlemen finished talking?
glosses: Alternative form of yous.
youse
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of you'se.
putrid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjuː.tɹɪd/
ipa: /ˈpju.tɹəd/
Forms: form: more putrid
form: most putrid
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French putride or directly from Latin putridus (“rotten, decayed”), from putreō (“I am rotten or putrid”), from puter (“rotten, decaying, putrid”).
Senses: examples: text: putrid flesh; putrid matter; putrid meat
text: Quake guzzell dogs, that live on putrid slime.
ref: 1599, W. Kinsayder or Theriomastix [pseudonyms; John Marston], The Scourge of Villanie. […], London: […] I[ames] R[oberts], →OCLC; republished as G[eorge] B[agshawe] Harrison, editor, The Scourge of Villanie (The Bodley Head Quartos; 13), London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […]; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, 1925, →OCLC:
text: […]vast quantities of putrid whale flesh were blasted into the sky
ref: 2020 December, Dave Barry, Year in review:
glosses: Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction.
examples: text: putrid smell; putrid odor
synonyms: malodorous
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction, especially having a bad smell, like that of rotting flesh.
glosses: Vile, disgusting.
glosses: Morally corrupt.
glosses: Totally objectionable.
Derived terms: putrid fever
putrid sore throat
Related terms: rotten
foul
odor
brontology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brontologies
Etymology: From bronto- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of thunder.
glosses: A treatise on the subject of thunder.
diatribe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.əˌtɹaɪb/
enpr: dīˈ -ə-trībˌ
Forms: form: diatribes
Etymology: First attested 1581, borrowed from French diatribe, from Latin diatriba (“learned discussion or discourse”), from Ancient Greek διατριβή (diatribḗ, “way of spending time, lecture”), from διά (diá, “through”) + τρίβω (tríbō, “I waste, wear out”)
Senses: examples: text: The senator was prone to diatribes which could go on for more than an hour.
text: “… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. If this long diatribe bores you, just say so, and I’ll cut it short.”
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
text: You know, it’s all this racial diatribe, and very strong language, screaming at the top of his lungs into the telephone.
ref: 1991, Bill Crow, Jazz Anecdotes, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 316:
text: Aunt Petunia wasn’t eating anything at all. Her arms were folded, her lips were pursed and she seemed to be chewing her tongue, as though biting back the furious diatribe she longed to throw at Harry.
ref: 2000 July 8, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], “Back to the Burrow”, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter; 4), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 40:
text: Lest this [be] read as a diatribe against DfT, I have some sympathy with it. That's because whenever there's a problem with the railway, the industry's solution is to ask DfT for billions of pounds.
ref: 2021 May 5, Philip Haigh, “I think we need better than this from the rail industry”, in RAIL, number 930, page 51:
glosses: An abusive, bitter verbal or written attack, criticism or denunciation.
glosses: A prolonged discourse; a long-winded speech.
Synonyms: word: admonition
word: condemnation
word: diatribe
word: dithyramb
word: harangue
word: impugnation
word: j'accuse
word: jeremiad
word: philippic
word: polemic
word: rant
word: screed
word: slanging match
word: tirade
Hypernyms: word: speech
Derived terms: diatribal
diatribist
Related terms: word: deride
word: dispute
word: offend
you's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: you'se
Senses: examples: text: Talking to you’s always an adventure.
text: You’s a goddamn creep.
glosses: Contraction of you is.
you's
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yous.
Neolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌni.əˈlɪθ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌni.əʊˈlɪθ.ɪk/
enpr: nēōlĭthīk
ipa: /ˌni.oʊˈlɪθ.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪθɪk
Etymology: From neo- + -lithic. Coined by English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, in 1865 as a refinement of the three-age system.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: Stone Age < prehistory
Meronyms: Pre-Pottery Neolithic, Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
synonyms: New Stone Age
related: word: Old Stone Age
word: Paleolithic#Proper noun
glosses: The period of prehistory from circa 8500 to 4500 BCE.