cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
historically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈstɒɹɪkli/
ipa: /hɪˈstɔɹɪkli/
Forms: form: more historically
form: most historically
Etymology: From historical + -ly or historic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Historically speaking, this company has always collected payment before starting work.
text: Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed historically.
glosses: In a historic manner; with reference to history or the historical record.
examples: text: Historically, this company collected payment before starting work.
text: Holden Matthews, 21, has been charged in connection with fires at three historically black churches in Louisiana.
ref: 2019 April 11, Harmeet Kaur, “Authorities say black metal may have influenced the Louisiana church fires suspect. Here’s what to know.”, in CNN:
glosses: According to history: formerly, in the past, traditionally.
examples: text: In January, the anti-corruption organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, released a detailed report on the historically unethical presidency of Donald Trump.
ref: 2018 February 23, Michelle Goldberg, “The De-Trumpification Agenda”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2018:
glosses: To an unprecedented or extremely rare degree.
newly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnuli/
ipa: /ˈnjuːli/
rhymes: -uːli
Forms: form: more newly
form: most newly
Etymology: From Middle English newly, newely, neweliche, from Old English nīewlīċe (“newly”), equivalent to new + -ly. Compare Dutch nieuwelijks, German neulich, Danish nylig, Icelandic nýlega. More at new, -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She smelled the newly budding flowers.
text: One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Very recently/lately; in the immediate past.
Synonyms: freshly
recently
Derived terms: newly-formed
newlywed
willow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪl.əʊ/
rhymes: -ɪləʊ
ipa: /ˈwɪloʊ/
rhymes: -ɪloʊ
Forms: form: willows
Etymology: From Middle English wilwe, welew, variant of wilghe, from Old English welig, from Proto-West Germanic *wilig, from Proto-Germanic *wiligaz, from Proto-Indo-European *welik- (compare (Arcadian) Ancient Greek ἑλίκη (helíkē), Hittite 𒌑𒂖𒆪 (welku, “grass”)), from *wel- (“twist, turn”).
Senses: examples: text: […] and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
text: And willows, willow-herb, and grass, / And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, / No whit less still and lonely fair / Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
ref: 1917, Edward Thomas, “Adlestrop”, in Poems, London: Selwyn & Blount, page 40:
text: The pounded leaves of the willow, drunk in a concoction, were formerly reputed to diminish amatory desires.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 249:
text: By old age she was emaciated, the bones jutting out of her face and her figure frail as a willow branch.
ref: 1983 December 3, J. R., “Isak Dinesen, The Life of a Storyteller (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 10:
glosses: Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.
glosses: The wood of these trees.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A cricket bat.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The baseball bat.
glosses: A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.
Synonyms: withy
Derived terms: almond willow
arctic willow
arroyo willow
Australian willow
Babylon willow
balsam willow
basket willow
bay willow
Bedford willow
black willow
crack willow
desert willow
downy willow
French willow
goat willow
Huntingdon willow
Kennicott's willow warbler
least willow
Newton-le-Willows
peachleaf willow
Peking willow
polar willow
primrose-willow
pussy willow
pussy-willow
Red Willow County
Red Willow Creek
sageleaf willow
sea-willow
sea willow
strip the willow
tea-leaved willow
undergreen willow
Walsham le Willows
water willow
weeping willow
white willow
Willow Bunch
Willow Canyon
willow fly
willow goldfinch
willow grouse
willowherb
willow in the wind
willow-leaved justicia
willow oak
willow ptarmigan
willow ragwort
willow tit
willow tree
willow warbler
willow-weed
willow-wort
willow wren
wolf willow
willow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪl.əʊ/
rhymes: -ɪləʊ
ipa: /ˈwɪloʊ/
rhymes: -ɪloʊ
Forms: form: willows
form: willowing
form: willowed
form: willowed
Etymology: From Middle English wilwe, welew, variant of wilghe, from Old English welig, from Proto-West Germanic *wilig, from Proto-Germanic *wiligaz, from Proto-Indo-European *welik- (compare (Arcadian) Ancient Greek ἑλίκη (helíkē), Hittite 𒌑𒂖𒆪 (welku, “grass”)), from *wel- (“twist, turn”).
Senses: glosses: To open and cleanse (cotton, flax, wool, etc.) by means of a willow.
examples: text: Willowing over the rough cobbles of the little pier stepped a thin, bent figure, adorned with a silver nanny-goat's beard and bobbling eyes interrupted by the rim of a pair of pince-nez.
ref: 1928, Robert Byron, “Gardenias and Sweetpeas”, in The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, page 175:
text: Joe’s impulse was to sketch her, with her shadow willowing beyond her on the mouse-gray paving-stone; but his left fist, obeying instinct, remained clenched behind his back […]
ref: 1930, Talbot Mundy, chapter 7, in Black Light:
text: It was floating a foot under the surface. The eyes were holes. The mouth was a slit cavern of darkness. The hair willowed around the scalp.
ref: 1985, Martin Booth, Hiroshima Joe, New York: Picador, page 394:
text: The draft-drawn smoke willowed down through the hole and across my face, but I didn’t worry about coughing or sneezing.
ref: 2013, Dean Koontz, Wilderness, Bantam Books:
glosses: To form a shape or move in a way similar to the long, slender branches of a willow.
allocated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.ə.keɪ.tɪd/
ipa: /ˈæl.ə.keɪ.tɪd/
ipa: [ˈæl.ə.keɪ.ɾɪd]
ipa: /ˈæl.ə.kæɪ.tɪd/
ipa: [ˈæl.ə.kæɪ.ɾɪd]
Senses: glosses: Having been granted an allocation; having received (something) as part of a plan or scheduled disbursement; having been assigned (something) that was set aside for a particular purpose.
Derived terms: allocable
allocatable
allocatee
allocative
allocator
heap-allocated
misallocate
nonallocated
overallocate
overallocated
preallocate
reallocate
suballocate
unallocated
underallocate
allocated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.ə.keɪ.tɪd/
ipa: /ˈæl.ə.keɪ.tɪd/
ipa: [ˈæl.ə.keɪ.ɾɪd]
ipa: /ˈæl.ə.kæɪ.tɪd/
ipa: [ˈæl.ə.kæɪ.ɾɪd]
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of allocate
vulgarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulgarisms
Etymology: From vulgar + -ism.
Senses: examples: "Shit" is a vulgarism.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or term that is considered offensive or vulgar.
examples: text: We never descended to the vulgarism of a quarrel. People said that neither of us had a heart, but it appears to me that politeness is an excellent substitute.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Result”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 233:
text: Editors of newspapers allow more vulgarisms to go to print today than they used to.
glosses: A spelling, word, or phrase used in common speech that is considered improper or incorrect for formal communication.
Related terms: vulgar
vulgarist
vulgarity
peeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːps/
rhymes: -iːps
Etymology: peep
Senses: glosses: plural of peep
peeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːps/
rhymes: -iːps
Etymology: peep
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of peep
peeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːps/
rhymes: -iːps
Forms: form: peops
Etymology: Clipping of people with simplified spelling + -s to emphasize the plurality of the word.
Senses: examples: text: Not many peeps here tonight, innit?
text: Hey my peeps, how are you doing?
text: Girl, you're my angel, you're my darling angel.
Closer than my peeps you are to me, baby.
ref: 2001, Shaggy, Rayvon, “Angel”, in Hot Shot:
text: I was a hard niggah, but not twisted enough to eat and socialize with my peeps knowing I was planning on robbing them before the night was over.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108:
glosses: Alternative form of people; often especially (with personal pronoun) one's friends or associates.
locative case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locative cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A case used to indicate place, or the place where, or wherein; corresponding roughly to the English prepositions "in", "on", "at", and "by".
Related terms: grammatical case
sheik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃeɪk/
ipa: /ʃik/
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: shake
homophone: chic (different pronunciations)
Forms: form: sheiks
form: sheikh
form: shaykh
Etymology: From Arabic شَيْخ (šayḵ, “elder”). Sense 4 (“a romantic lover”) is from the 1921 film The Sheik.
Senses: examples: text: Tarzan, who, by this time, with the assistance of Abdul, had picked up quite a smattering of Arab, questioned one of the younger men who had accompanied the sheik while the latter paid his respects to Captain Gerard.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Numa ‘El Adrea’”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 120:
glosses: The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe.
examples: text: He then studied under a variety of scholars (shuyook) and institutes around the world in his quest for authentic knowledge.
ref: 2013 January 8, Islamic Online University Insights, archived from the original on 25 Oct 2021, page 10:
glosses: An Islamic religious cleric; the master of a Sufi order.
qualifier: some Arab Gulf countries
glosses: An official title for members of the royal family as well as some prominent families.
examples: text: When your last natural tooth goes, the time when you can kid yourself that you're a Hollywood sheik, is definitely at an end.
ref: 1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, part 1, chapter 1:
glosses: A romantic lover.
glosses: An Arab, especially one dressed in traditional clothing.
glosses: An honorific for specialists in spirituality, for example in Sufism.
Related terms: sheikha
tash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tass (“Oriental silk fabric”).
tash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tashes
Senses: examples: text: Gable wore his tash like it had been designed for him and the ladies loved it.
ref: 2011, Chris Martin, A Gentleman's Guide to Beard and Moustache Management:
glosses: Alternative form of tache (“mustache”).
'tache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'taches
Senses: examples: text: He stood there filling the pavement. Bald head, walrus 'tache.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 164:
glosses: Alternative form of tache.
'taches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'tache
illative case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illative cases
Senses: examples: text: Languages that make use of the illative case include Finnish, Hungarian, and Quechua.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A case used to indicate movement into something; for example, into the house.
congruent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/
ipa: /ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/
ipa: /kənˈɡɹu.ənt/
ipa: /ˈkɔŋ.ɡɹʉ.ənt/
Forms: form: more congruent
form: most congruent
Etymology: From Middle English congruent, from Latin congruēns, present active participle of congruō (“meet together, agree”).
Senses: examples: text: In the course of this work it was borne in on me, increasingly, that the notion of I-schemes, schemes of selving, as the basic structures of our dynamic selves is congruent with developing directions of inquiry both within psychoanalysis and outside it.
ref: 2013, Irene Fast, Selving: A Relational Theory of Self Organization, →ISBN, page xii:
glosses: Corresponding in character; congruous.
glosses: Harmonious.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a difference divisible by a modulus.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Coinciding exactly when superimposed.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Satisfying a congruence relation.
Synonyms: congruous
Derived terms: congruently
congruent number
congruent triangle
incongruent
noncongruent
ultracongruent
uncongruent
congruous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.əs/
Forms: form: more congruous
form: most congruous
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Latin congruus, from congruō (“I coincide with; I agree”).
Senses: glosses: Corresponding in character.
glosses: Harmonious.
Synonyms: congruent
Derived terms: congruously
congruousness
noncongruous
congruency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congruencies
Senses: glosses: The quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The state of being congruent
Synonyms: congruence
congruity
Derived terms: incongruency
congruity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congruities
Etymology: From Old French congruité.
Senses: synonyms: congruence
congruency
antonyms: incongruence
incongruency
incongruity
glosses: The quality of agreeing; the quality of being suitable and appropriate.
glosses: An instance or point of agreement or correspondence; a resemblance.
Derived terms: discongruity
ablative case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.bleɪ.tɪv keɪs/
ipa: /ˈæ.blə.tɪv -/
Forms: form: ablative cases
form: Abl.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun case used in some languages to indicate movement away from something, removal, separation. In English grammar, it corresponds roughly to the use in English of prepositions "of", "from", "away from", and "concerning". In Latin grammar, the ablative case (cāsus ablātīvus) includes functions derived from the Indo-European ablative, instrumental, comitative, associative and locative cases; these cases express concepts similar to those of the English prepositions "of"/"from", "by", "with", "to"/"with", and "at"/"in", respectively. Here/hence/hither, there/thence/thither, and where/whence/whither are the only English words with separate forms for the ablative (motion away from) and lative (motion towards) cases.
Derived terms: ablative absolute
Related terms: grammatical case
bollock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒ.lək/
rhymes: -ɒlək
Forms: form: bollocks
form: ballock
Etymology: From Middle English ballok, from Old English bealluc (“testicle”, literally “little ball”). By surface analysis, ball + -ock.
Senses: examples: text: You've got a bollock hanging out of your shorts.
glosses: A testicle.
Derived terms: bollock dagger
bollock naked
bollock sack
bollocky
drop a bollock
stark bollock naked
bollock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒ.lək/
rhymes: -ɒlək
Forms: form: bollocks
form: bollocking
form: bollocked
form: bollocked
form: ballock
Etymology: From Middle English ballok, from Old English bealluc (“testicle”, literally “little ball”). By surface analysis, ball + -ock.
Senses: examples: text: The boss bollocked me for coming in late.
text: The goalkeeper gave his defenders a bollocking when they made a mistake.
glosses: To reprimand severely and grossly.
nad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: noun animate dependent
Related terms: na
nads
ni
nid
nad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nads
Etymology: Douglas Harper suggests an abbreviation of gonad originating among biology students.
Senses: examples: text: I look down and the little one has already cut right through my ball sac and is in the process of slicing my left nad free.
ref: 2004, Bob Gunn, Sex, Ghosts and Gumshoes, page 119:
glosses: testicle
nads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ædz
Forms: form: gnads
form: ’nads
Etymology: Shortened from gonads.
Senses: glosses: The testicles.
examples: Do you really have the ’nads to go through with this?
glosses: Courage; strength of will.
Related terms: gonad
cojones
balls
bottle
nuts
stomach
blue-green alga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue-green algae
Senses: examples: text: Blue-green algae cells lack nuclei, and pigment is scattered.
ref: 1967, George K. Reid, edited by Herbert S. Zim and George S. Fichter, Pond Life, New York: Golden Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 31:
text: Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh, the largest lake in the British Isles, has been hit by recorded levels of potentially toxic blue-green algae that regional agencies say have not been seen since the 1970s.
ref: 2023 August 23, Tommy Greene, “Lough Neagh ‘dying in plain sight’ due to vast algal blooms”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Any member of the taxonomic class or phylum Cyanobacteria; a primitive photosynthetic organism similar to bacteria which is thought to have generated the first oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.
Synonyms: cyanobacterium
BGA
Hypernyms: sense: bacterium called alga
word: alga
sense: bacterium called alga
word: bacterium
blue-green algae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue-green alga
Ruud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɹʌd/
Etymology: From Dutch Ruud.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Dutch
Related terms: Rudy
tuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌk/
ipa: /tʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: tucks
form: tucking
form: tucked
form: tucked
Etymology: From Middle English tuken, touken (“to torment, to stretch (cloth)”), from Old English tūcian (“to torment, vex”) and Middle Dutch tucken (“to tuck”), both from Proto-Germanic *teuh-, *teug- (“to draw, pull”) (compare also *tukkōną), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Akin to Old High German zucchen (“to snatch, tug”), zuchôn (“to jerk”), German Low German tuken (“to tug, pluck, grab and pull towards”), Old English tēon (“to draw, pull, train”). Doublet of touch.
Senses: glosses: To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
examples: text: Tuck in your shirt.  I tucked in the sheet.  He tucked the $10 bill into his shirt pocket.
text: It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe, or handy, or somewhat hidden.
glosses: To eat; to consume.
raw_tags: with "in" or "into"
examples: text: The sofa tucks nicely into that corner.  Kenwood House is tucked into a corner of Hampstead Heath.
glosses: To fit neatly.
examples: text: The diver tucked, flipped, and opened up at the last moment.
glosses: To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
examples: text: to tuck a dress
glosses: To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
glosses: To full, as cloth.
examples: text: Honey, have you tucked today? We don’t wanna see anything nasty down there.
qualifier: trans woman
glosses: To conceal one’s penis and testicles, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape.
raw_tags: of a drag queen
qualifier: when playing scales on piano keys
glosses: To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
examples: text: Never take a first-generation Learjet past Mach 0.82; it'll tuck hard nose-down and you won't be able to pull out from the dive.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of Mach tuck.
Derived terms: Mach tuck
nip and tuck
tuck away
tuck in
tuck into
tuck out
tuckup
tuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌk/
ipa: /tʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: tucks
Etymology: From Middle English tuken, touken (“to torment, to stretch (cloth)”), from Old English tūcian (“to torment, vex”) and Middle Dutch tucken (“to tuck”), both from Proto-Germanic *teuh-, *teug- (“to draw, pull”) (compare also *tukkōną), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Akin to Old High German zucchen (“to snatch, tug”), zuchôn (“to jerk”), German Low German tuken (“to tug, pluck, grab and pull towards”), Old English tēon (“to draw, pull, train”). Doublet of touch.
Senses: glosses: An act of tucking; a pleat or fold.
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.
glosses: A curled position.
examples: text: tummy tuck
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: piano; when playing scales on piano keys; piano; when playing scales on piano keys
glosses: The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
topics: diving
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The afterpart of a ship, immediately under the stern or counter, where the ends of the bottom planks are collected and terminate by the tuck-rail.
examples: text: 'What on earth do Coker and his parcel of tuck matter to us? You're not thinking of snooping his tuck, I suppose, like Bunter.'
ref: 1956, Charles Hamilton, The Banishing of Billy Bunter:
qualifier: school slang
glosses: Food, especially snack food.
Derived terms: French tuck
tuck box
tucker
tuck-in
tuck-out
tuck pointing
tuck shop
tuck up
tummy tuck
Related terms: tucker
tuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌk/
ipa: /tʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: tucks
Etymology: From Old French estoc (“rapier”), from Italian stocco (“a truncheon, a short sword”). Doublet of estoc.
Senses: examples: text: […] with force he labour'd / To free's blade from retentive scabbard; / And after many a painful pluck, / From rusty durance he bail'd tuck […]
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
text: [...] dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly. [...]
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: He wore large hose,[…] and a tuck, as it was then called, or rapier, of tremendous length.
ref: 1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC:
glosses: A rapier, a sword.
tuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌk/
ipa: /tʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: tucks
Etymology: Compare tocsin.
Senses: glosses: The beat of a drum.
jizz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
homophone: gizz
Forms: form: jizzes
Etymology: The earliest known appearance in print dates from 1922, in Thomas Coward's "Country Diary" column for the Manchester Guardian of 6 December 1921; the piece was subsequently included in his 1922 book Bird Haunts and Nature Memories. He attributed it to "a west-coast Irishman", and explained:
:if we are walking on the road and see, far ahead, someone whom we recognise although we can neither distinguish features nor particular clothes, we may be certain that we are not mistaken; there is something in the carriage, the walk, the general appearance which is familiar; it is, in fact, the individual's jizz.
There are several theories as to the etymology of “jizz”:
* From the military term GIS (“general impression and shape”).
* Possible contraction of just is (in the sense that a particular bird species “just is” that species).
An essay by Greenwood and Greenwood in 2018 debunks these theories. Other suggestions include variants of guise, gist and gestalt (mispronounced).
Senses: examples: text: A West Coast Irishman was familiar with the wild creatures which dwelt on or visited his rocks and shores; at a glance he could name them, usually correctly, but if asked how he knew them would reply ‘By their "jizz".’
ref: 1922, TA Coward, Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, London: Warne:
text: Political cartoonists rely a lot on jizz. When a new president or prime minister comes into office it usually takes the cartoonists a little while to decide which features to select as field marks but they then stylise these in ways that make them instantly recognisable to the rest of us, even though they may be grossly exaggerated.
ref: 2009, Jeremy Mynott, chapter 3, in Birdscapes, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton, page 74:
text: His birds are not carefully posed to illustrate every plumage detail; they are impressions rather than portraits. With a few deft strokes of his pencil, he captures their 'jizz'.
ref: 2015, Nick Davies, chapter 3, in Cuckoo - Cheating by Nature (paperback), London: Bloomsbury, page 53:
topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The physical and behavioural characteristics of a bird that enable it to be immediately recognised by an experienced birder as a certain type of bird, especially to family or genus level.
jizz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
homophone: gizz
Forms: form: gism
form: jazz
form: jism
form: jiz
form: jizzum
Etymology: Variation or shortening of jism.
Senses: glosses: Male ejaculate; sperm, semen.
Synonyms: sense: semen
word: spunk
sense: semen
word: spooge
sense: semen
word: spoof
sense: semen
word: cum
sense: semen
word: jizzum
sense: semen
word: jism
sense: semen
word: gism
sense: semen
word: nut
sense: semen
word: skeet
sense: semen
word: junk
word: semen
Derived terms: jizz bucket
jizzer
jizz fest
jizzhound
jizz-mopper
jizzrag
jizztastic
jizzwad
jizzy
jizz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
homophone: gizz
Forms: form: jizzes
form: jizzing
form: jizzed
form: jizzed
form: gism
form: jazz
form: jism
form: jiz
form: jizzum
Etymology: Variation or shortening of jism.
Senses: glosses: To ejaculate; to eject semen.
glosses: To ejaculate on, over, or into; to cover in semen.
Related terms: jizz up
spunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: spunks
form: spunking
form: spunked
form: spunked
Etymology: 1530, blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”).
Funk (“spark, touchwood”) is from Middle English funke, fonke (“spark”), from Old English *funca (“spark”), from Proto-West Germanic *funkō, from Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“to shine”), and is akin to Middle Low German funke, fanke (“spark”), Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”), Old High German funcho, funko (“spark”), German Funke (“spark”).
Senses: synonyms: word: go up in flames
word: catch on fire
word: catch fire
word: combust
word: conflagrate
word: fire
word: go up in flames
word: go up in smoke
word: ignite
word: light
word: spunk
word: take fire
glosses: To catch fire; flame up.
examples: text: He spunked into the condom.
synonyms: word: cum
word: blow one's load
word: blow one's wad
word: blow a nut
word: breed
word: bust
word: bust a nut
word: come
word: cream
word: cum
word: ejaculate
word: explode
word: get off
word: go off
word: jizz
word: juice
word: nut
word: pop
word: shoot a rope
word: shoot off
word: shoot one's load
word: shoot one's wad
word: skeet
word: spray one's shorts
word: sprog
word: spoof
word: splooge
word: spooge
word: spunk
word: spurt
glosses: To ejaculate.
synonyms: fritter
splurge
squander
glosses: To waste (money etc.).
Derived terms: spunk off
mettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛtəl/
rhymes: -ɛtəl
homophone: metal
homophone: medal (t-flapping)
homophone: meddle (t-flapping)
Forms: form: mettles
Etymology: From figurative use of metal (since 16th century). The two spellings were originally interchangeable variants, but came to be distinguished by sense in the 18th century.
Senses: examples: text: By this Day and this Light, the fellow ha's mettell enough in his belly.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene viii], page 90, column 2:
text: Please read on and discover the issues in education that test the mettle of those who experience this world every day.
ref: 2001, Harry J. Alexandrowicz, Testing your Mettle: Tough Problems and Real-world Solutions for Middle and High School Teachers, page xiii:
text: He was presently in as active circulation, on the campus and elsewhere, as ever. The few who looked after him at all came to the view that he possessed more mettle than stamina.
ref: 1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Goes A-Sailing”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 154:
text: Its possible that some traders will become less interested as their offline lives resume more fully, but their mettle may really be tested when the market runs into its next downturn.
ref: 2021 April 28, Tara Siegel Bernard, “Trading Stock Tips on TikTok, Newbies Are Deeply Invested in Learning”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: heart
pith
spirit
glosses: A quality of courage and endurance.
examples: text: Your Maſter quits you: and for your ſeruice done him, / So much againſt the mettle of your ſex
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 274, column 2:
text: The arrival of this unexpected heir soon taking wind in the court, still makes good for the Sol, and keeps the court upon its mettle.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Interlopers”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 328:
glosses: Good temperament and character.
examples: text: They have neither gold nor silver of their owne, wine nor oyle, or scarce any corne growing in those united Provinces, little or no Wood, Tinne, Lead, Iron, Silke, Wooll, any stuffe almost, or Mettle; and yet Hungary, Transilvania, that bragge of their mines, fertile England cannot compare with them.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of metal (“metallic substance”).
Derived terms: mettled
mettlesome
on one's mettle
mettle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛtəl/
rhymes: -ɛtəl
homophone: metal
homophone: medal (t-flapping)
homophone: meddle (t-flapping)
Etymology: From figurative use of metal (since 16th century). The two spellings were originally interchangeable variants, but came to be distinguished by sense in the 18th century.
Senses: examples: text: And then one afternoon in the hinder end of April came young Heriotside riding to the Skerburnfoot. His arm was healed, he had got him a fine new suit of green, and his horse was a mettle beast that well set off his figure.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: Spirited, vigorous, stout-hearted.
Dustin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌstɪn/
rhymes: -ʌstɪn
Etymology: Probably from Old Norse Þorsteinn (“Thor's stone”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages (very rarely also given to women).
Related terms: Thurston
indignant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɪɡ.nənt/
Forms: form: more indignant
form: most indignant
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin indignāns, present participle of indignor (“to consider as unworthy, be angry or displeased at”), from in- (“privative”) + dignor (“to deem worthy”), from dignus (“worthy”).
Senses: glosses: Showing anger or indignation, especially at something unjust or wrong.
Synonyms: angry
infuriated
mad
resentful
Derived terms: indignancy
indignantly
unindignant
Related terms: indign
indignation
indignity
immunization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunizations
form: immunisation
Etymology: From French immunisation. Coined by Albert Calmette. Equivalent to immunize + -ation or immune + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: vaccination (broadly synonymous)
text: Immunization against influenza is important for all child-care workers.
text: It will do little for the future of immunization to prepare excellent vaccines, test them to a fare-thee-well for safety and efficacy, and then not insure that they are adequately used.
ref: 1961, Geoffrey Edsall, “The Future of Immunization”, in Public Health Reports, volume 76, number 9, page 816:
glosses: The process by which a person is safely exposed in a controlled manner to a material that is designed to prime their immune system against that material.
examples: text: The first immunization a baby gets is against HBV.
text: Our results are consistent with those obtained by other groups screening camelid-derived libraries, where an impressive diversity in the Nb nucleotide sequence, specificity and neutralizing capacity was found, especially after successive immunizations to promote the development of superimmunity.
ref: 2023 March 14, “Nanobodies against SARS-CoV-2 reduced virus load in the brain of challenged mice and neutralized Wuhan, Delta and Omicron Variants”, in National Library of Medicine:
glosses: One such exposure.
examples: text: Immunization via previous infection is not unusual among infectious diseases, but the degree and duration of such immunization varies by disease and depends on other factors as well (such as immunocapability and dietary sufficiency).
glosses: The process by which any organism's body develops immunity against a pathogen.
Hyponyms: serotherapy
Derived terms: active immunization
alloimmunization
autoimmunization
coimmunization
deimmunization
hyperimmunization
immunization passport
isoimmunization
overimmunization
postimmunization
preimmunization
reimmunization
underimmunization
xenoimmunization
intuition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/
ipa: /-t͡ʃuː-/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tuˈɪʃ.ən/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tjuˈɪʃ.ən/
Forms: form: intuitions
form: intuïtion
Etymology: From Middle French intuition, from Medieval Latin intuitiō (“a looking at, immediate cognition”), from Latin intueor (“to look at, consider”), from in- (“in, on”) + tueor (“to look, watch, guard, see, observe”). Equivalent to intuit + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The native speaker's grammatical competence is reflected in two types of intuition which speakers have about their native language(s) — (i) intuitions about sentence well-formedness, and (ii) intuitions about sentence structure. The word intuition is used here in a technical sense which has become standardised in Linguistics: by saying that a native speaker has intuitions about the well-formedness and structure of sentences, all we are saying is that he has the ability to make judgments about whether a given sentence is well-formed or not, and about whether it has a particular structure or not. [...]
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics), volume 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
glosses: A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
Derived terms: counterintuition
Gettier intuition
intuit
intuitional
intuitionism
intuitionist
intuitionistic
intuitionless
intuition line
intuition pump
intuitive
line of intuition
twintuition
Related terms: tutor
tutorial
bilge pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilge pumps
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small pump fitted in ships and boats to pump the bilges clear of water.
Related terms: right the ship
bill of health
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bills of health
Senses: glosses: A certificate stating whether or not there is infectious disease aboard a ship or in a port of departure, given to the ship's master to present at the next port of arrival
Derived terms: clean bill of health
foul bill of health
clean bill of health
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clean bills of health
Senses: glosses: A bill of health that states that there is no infectious disease present in a ship, or its port of departure.
examples: text: Now that we have changed the brake pads, the oil and the spark plugs, we can give this car a clean bill of health.
glosses: A statement that indicates that there are no obvious problems.
foul bill of health
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foul bills of health
Senses: glosses: A bill of health that states that there is infectious disease present in either a ship, or its port of departure.
scrum-half
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskrʌmhɑːf/
ipa: /ˈskrʌmhæf/
Forms: form: scrum-halves
form: scrumhalf
Etymology: From scrum + half, in reference to position on the field of play; compare half-back and full-back.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
synonyms: half-back
glosses: A player who introduces the ball into a scrum.
bill of lading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bills of lading
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: manifest, bill of goods
text: But all the while Captain Amos Brown was telling whackers that would have done credit to Baron Munchausen, he was really thinking of how he was to save those whose passage to a port not named in any bills of lading looked almost certain.
ref: 1908, Morley Roberts, “The Captain of the Ullswater”, in The Blue Peter:
topics: economics
sciences
shipping
transport
coordinate_terms: bill of sale
bill of materials
bill of quantities
glosses: A document issued by a carrier (e.g. master of a ship or the ship owner's agent) to a shipper listing a ship's cargo, acknowledging receipt of said cargo, and specifying terms for its delivery.
Related terms: book of lading
birra
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: All the screaming in the night that gets in your head and it's not like you're getting your end away no more neither cause she's too shagged for fancy knickers and a birra cut and thrust, now that you've got the kid.
ref: 2011, Kate Rigby, Suckers n Scallies:
glosses: Contraction of bit of.
Related terms: birrova
berra
gerra
gorra
lorra
norra
worra
binnacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪnəkəl/
Forms: form: binnacles
Etymology: Corruption of earlier bittacle, from French habitacle. Or from obsolete Spanish or Portuguese bitácula, both from Late Latin habitāculum (“little dwelling place”). Compare modern Spanish bitácora.
Senses: examples: text: The lamp, or candle, which lights the binnacle, is placed in the cabin, of course the expence of one light is saved, and all the inconveniences of blowing out in a squally night, and likewise the trouble of trimming the lamp, are avoided.
ref: 1811, The Tradesman, volume 7, page 420:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The wooden housing for a ship's compass, with its corrector magnets and illuminating arrangements. The log and other equipment for measuring the ship's speed are also stowed there.
glosses: The instrument cluster on a car or motorcycle.
Derived terms: binnacle list
bireme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪˌriːm/
rhymes: -aɪriːm
Forms: form: biremes
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin birēmis.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An ancient galley having two banks of oars, one above the other.
Related terms: unireme
monoreme
trireme
quadrireme
quinquereme
pentere
polyreme
good lick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good licks
Senses: examples: text: If you could carry that bucket of water over here, that'd be a good lick.
glosses: Something useful; a good deed.
examples: text: The children came running down the road at a good lick.
glosses: A rapid pace.
iodoform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodoforms
Etymology: From iodo- + -form.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: triiodomethane
hypernyms: haloform#Noun
<
trihalomethane#Noun
<
substance#Noun
compound
material#Noun
coordinate_terms: fluoroform
trifluoromethane
chloroform
trichloromethane
bromoform
tribromomethane
glosses: A halogenated hydrocarbon, CHI₃; a yellow crystalline compound, formerly used as a mild antiseptic.
Derived terms: chloriodoform
iodoformic
iodoformise
iodoformize
iodoformism
iodoformogen
susurrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuː.sə.ɹəs/
ipa: /ˈsu.sə.ɹəs/
ipa: /səˈsəɹ.əs/
Forms: form: susurruses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin susurrus (“a humming, whispering”); reduplication of imitative Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”).
Senses: examples: text: [Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was] pelted with buckets of water by firemen, and, finally, currycombed and rubbed down by two grooms, keeping a sharp susurrus between them, so as to soothe his wounded feelings; […]
ref: 1847 February, Thomas De Quincey, “Notes on Walter Savage Landor”, in Leaders in Literature with a Notice of Traditional Errors Affecting Them (De Quincey’s Works; IX), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, pages 312–313:
text: The soft susurrus and sighs of the branches.
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
text: They heard the Green Fork before they saw it, an endless susurrus, like the growl of some great beast.
ref: 2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 555:
text: I sipped at a drink and smoked cigarettes in a silence so profound that I could hear the susurrus of the blindfold's soft fabric rustle and slip between my fingers.
ref: 2004, Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram: A Novel, →ISBN, page 613:
text: I walked steadily toward the pennant pole amid a sea of susurrus murmurings.
ref: 2007, Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind, →ISBN, page 301:
text: Bod could feel the Sleer listening to Jack's words, could feel a low susurrus of excitement building in the chamber.
ref: 2008, Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book, →ISBN, page 262:
glosses: A whispering or rustling sound; a murmur.
Related terms: insusurration
susurrant
susurrous
susurrate
susurration
lineout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lineouts
form: line-out
Senses: examples: text: Turner looked assured, picking out his men at the lineouts, while Redpath was seeing plenty of the ball and also looked the part as the Scots probed for opening.
ref: 2021 February 6, Graham Bean, “Scotland beat England at Twickenham for the first time in 38 years”, in The Scotsman:
qualifier: rugby union
glosses: A set piece where the hooker throws the ball into play between a row of players from each team.
qualifier: rugby union
glosses: The lineup of players in a lineout (sense 1).
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An out produced by catching a line drive.
busta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bustas
Etymology: Non-rhotic pronunciation of buster.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of buster.
fly-half
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly-halves
Senses: examples: text: Fly-half Holly Aitchison has had a mixed tournament with the boot up until this match, with Mitchell saying in the week he had no concerns over her kicking and being proved correct in Bordeaux.
ref: 2024 April 27, Alastair Telfer, “England beat France to seal Grand Slam hat-trick”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A rugby player who is normally the first receiver of the ball from the scrum half after a scrum; a half-back.
Synonyms: outside half
stand-off half
stand-off
out-half
first five-eighth
knock-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knock-ons
Senses: examples: text: It took until the 33rd minute for England to get on the scoreboard, Wilkinson finally finding his range from out left, but a knock-on from James Haskell from the re-start put his team straight back under pressure.
ref: 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A foul in which a player knocks the ball forward, often unintentionally.
glosses: Resulting as an indirect effect.
Related terms: knock-on effect
pacifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæsɪfaɪɚ/
ipa: /ˈpæsɪfaɪə/
Forms: form: pacifiers
Etymology: From pacify + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Many people have failed to see the political significance of the women's music movement, for they categorize all of music as part of the cultural periphery that distracts people from real social injustices. However, far from being a pacifier, women's music has presented an experience which contrasts with the social inequities of our culture's traditionally male-dominated music.
ref: 1979 August 18, Maida Tilchen, “The Diversity of Women's Music”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, page 9:
glosses: Someone or something that pacifies.
synonyms: word: dummy
word: comforter
word: soother
glosses: A rubber or plastic device imitating a nipple that goes into a baby’s mouth, used to calm and quiet the baby.
Synonyms: word: binky
word: bink
word: bo-bo
word: comforter
word: dodie
word: dummy
word: nookie
word: paci
word: piece
word: pippy
word: soother
Derived terms: paci
pacifier gag
rayon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rāʹŏn
ipa: /ˈɹeɪɒn/
rhymes: -eɪɒn
Forms: form: rayons
Etymology: Name chosen by the National Retail Dry Goods Association of America, probably from French rayon (“beam of light, ray”) and so called because it is shiny; however, the Oxford English Dictionary states that it is apparently a blend of ray + cotton.
Senses: synonyms: cactus silk
sabra silk
viscose
glosses: A manufactured regenerated cellulosic fiber.