cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
obedience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə(ʊ)ˈbiːdɪəns/
ipa: /oʊˈbidiəns/
ipa: /əˈbidiəns/
Forms: form: obediences
form: oboedience
Etymology: From Middle English obedience, from Anglo-Norman obedience, from Old French obedience (modern French obédience), from Latin oboedientia. Displaced native Old English hīersumnes (compare modern English hearsomeness). Cognate with obeisance.
Senses: examples: text: Obedience is essential in any army.
text: February 24, 1823, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Mr. Edward Everett
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
text: Cautioning Nobs to silence, and he had learned many lessons in the value of obedience since we had entered Caspak, I slunk forward, taking advantage of whatever cover I could find...
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being obedient.
glosses: The collective body of persons subject to any particular authority.
glosses: A written instruction from the superior of an order to those under him.
glosses: Any official position under an abbot's jurisdiction.
Synonyms: word: submission
word: hearsomeness
Derived terms: anticipatory obedience
canonical obedience
misobedience
nonobedience
overobedience
superobedience
unobedience
Related terms: obedient
obeisance
obey
arrogate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɹəɡeɪt/
Forms: form: arrogates
form: arrogating
form: arrogated
form: arrogated
Etymology: From Latin arrogātus, perfect passive participle of adrogō, arrogō (“ask of, adopt, appropriate, assume”), from ad (“to”) + rogō (“ask”).
Senses: examples: text: Ye who arrogate to yourselves that ye see more, or at least are not so blind as others; in your unbelieving conduct, allow me to say, ye are blinder than others; ye are even blinder than the most ignorant and illiterate.
ref: 1830, William Pashley, The Voice of Reason in Defence of the Christian Faith:
text: Unfortunately, certain capitalists have arrogated to themselves monopolies and privileges which are quite sufficient to account for this [commotion of the populace against capitalists].
ref: 1874, Patrick James Stirling, What is Money?, Putnam, translation of original by Frédéric Bastiat, page 169:
text: “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: What is remarkable about the challenged statute and rules is not that they address medical treatments with both risks and benefits but that they arrogate to the state the right to make that decision.
ref: May 30, 2023, Judge Robert L. Hinkle, Doe v. ladapo, Case No. 4:23cv114-RH-MAF, Federal District Court, Northern District of Florida
text: Britain has spent 40-plus years arrogating more and more power to its centre – and now its centre has no idea of how to wield that power. That I think is the fundamental political and economic crisis we face today.
ref: 2019 March 14, Aditya Chakrabortty, “The problem is not so much Theresa May – it’s that Britain is now ungovernable”, in The Guardian:
text: Ruling in the immunity case, Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to serenely arrogate to the Court an immense power to determine whether the president might ever face criminal consequence without worrying whether the emboldening of a rampaging executive might at some point place the authority of the judiciary in danger.
ref: 2025 April 9, Quinta Jurecic, “What, Exactly, Is the Supreme Court Thinking?”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: commandeer
expropriate
usurp
antonyms: abandon
abdicate
relinquish
renounce
glosses: To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right.
Derived terms: unarrogating
Related terms: arrogance
arrogant
arrogation
muck about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mucks about
form: mucking about
form: mucked about
form: mucked about
Senses: examples: text: Stop mucking about and get on with your work!
glosses: To do random unplanned work or spend time idly
examples: text: Don't muck about with the video machine, or you might break it.
glosses: To attempt to do something with a piece of equipment without understanding how it works.
examples: text: It was only a joke. We were only mucking about.
text: The only time I walk out on singin' is when there's muckin' about and youse don't take it serious.
ref: 1957, Ray Lawler, The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Sydney: Fontana Books, published 1974, page 68:
glosses: To be playful; full of fun and high spirits; to treat a situation unseriously.
Synonyms: word: fiddle around
word: fool about
word: fuck about
word: fuck around
word: goof around
word: goof off
word: mess about
word: mess around
word: muck around
word: muck up
word: play around
english: only for idling sense
translation: only for idling sense
word: screw around
impresa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impresas
form: imprese
form: impress
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian impresa.
Senses: examples: text: 1613, John Webster, “A Monumental Column, A Funeral Elegy” in Three Elegies on the most lamented Death of Prince Henrie, London: William Welbie,
My impresa to your lordship; a swan
Flying to a laurel for shelter.
text: […] or to describe Races and Games,
Or tilting Furniture, emblazon’d Shields,
Impreses quaint, Caparisons and Steeds;
ref: 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_IX), Book 9, lines 33-35:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate etc.
faultless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faultless
form: most faultless
Etymology: From fault + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without fault; free from defect or error.
Derived terms: faultlessly
faultlessness
Related terms: fault-finding
freedoms of the air
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The bilateral agreements concerning international air travel defined by the Chicago Convention in 1944, covering such topics as overflight, stopovers, and passenger carriage.
Related terms: eighth freedom of the air
fifth freedom of the air
first freedom of the air
fourth freedom of the air
second freedom of the air
seventh freedom of the air
sixth freedom of the air
third freedom of the air
first freedom rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: One of the Freedoms of the Air, arranged under the Chicago Convention in 1944.
Senses: glosses: The right of an airline of one country to fly over the territory of another country without stopping.
cerebromedullary cistern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerebromedullary cisterns
Senses: glosses: cisterna magna
second freedom rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: One of the freedoms of the air, arranged under the Chicago Convention in 1944.
Senses: glosses: The right of an airliner of one country to land in another country for technical reasons such as refueling and maintenance.
grass roots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: People and society at the local (most basic) level rather than at the national centre of political activity.
glosses: The essential foundation or source of something.
Related terms: grass rooter
grass tops
grass-roots
grassroots
grassroots democracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The political processes which are driven by groups of ordinary citizens, as opposed to larger organizations or wealthy individuals with concentrated vested interests in particular policies.
third freedom rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: One of the Freedoms of the Air, arranged under the Chicago Convention in 1944.
Senses: glosses: The right of an airline of one country to land in a different country and deplane passengers coming from the airline’s own country.
fourth freedom rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: One of the freedoms of the air, arranged under the Chicago Convention in 1944.
Senses: glosses: The right of an airline of one country to land in a different country and board passengers travelling to the airline’s own country.
fifth freedom rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: One of the Freedoms of the Air, defined under the Chicago Convention in 1944.
Senses: glosses: The right of an airline of one country to land in a different country, pick up passengers, and carry them on to a third country — e.g. a British airline flying to France, collecting passengers, and taking them to Italy.
skew-whiff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskjuː.(w)ɪf/
ipa: /ˈskiː.wɪf/
ipa: /ˈskjuː.(w)ɪf/
Forms: form: more skew-whiff
form: most skew-whiff
form: skew-wift
form: skew wift
form: skew wiff
form: skew-wiff
form: scew-whiff
form: skew whift
form: skew-whift
form: skew whiff
form: skewiff
form: ski whiff
form: squewiff
form: skewquieff
form: skeow-wheef
form: skeow wheef
Etymology: From skew + weft.
The expression 'skew weft' dates at least from the 18th century as a term used by handloom weavers, typically in northern England. It was used originally to describe fabric which was out of alignment, and the term survives today in the manufacture of glass fiber cloth.
The word weft does not derive from 'whiff' as in a puff of air (as suggested elsewhere). The modern spelling comes from a corruption of 'skew-wift' whose sound developed colloquially in spoken English from the original. Bow weft also exists.
Senses: examples: text: I hung up that picture, but it looks skew-whiff to me.
text: “[…]I′ve just been looking up at them and it seems to me that Cassiopeia′s Chair is a bit more skew-whiff than usual. Either it′s been moved or we′re heading the wrong way.”
ref: 1971, Blackwood′s Magazine, volume 309, page 497:
text: I nudged him to remember what was surely the best day of his life—when he had walked serenely through the milling throng, moist-eyed, and sheepish grin more skew-whiff than ever, in the starling-shrieking, jabbering cockpit of that tumbledown stadium at Delhi on Christmas Eve in 1981.
ref: 1984, Punch, Volume 286, Part 1, page 87:
text: His genially skew-whiff posture for the camera may be intended to deflect easy attempts to get an angle on him.
ref: 1997, Australian Literary Studies, volume 18, University of Tasmania, page 199:
text: Johnson replied, with a shake of his massive head so vigorous that his ill-fitting wig became even more skew-whiff:[…].
ref: 1999, Alan Wall, The Lightning Cage, page 4:
text: He wasn′t wearing shoes or a jacket and tie, and his front stud was undone, so that the white collar stood up skew-whiff.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
text: In a gorgeous old stone-fronted house at a skew-whiff angle to the road, this main-street, mainstream eatery serves big breakfasts, pizzas, burgers, lasagne, focaccias, bruschetta and salads.
ref: 2009, Charles Rawlings-Way, Meg Worby, Lindsay Brown, Paul Harding, Central Australia: Adelaide to Darwin, Lonely Planet, page 112:
text: The Cat is a large, comfortable space with a great atmosphere and skew-whiff 1950s decor (a Melbourne trademark).
ref: 2009, Justine Vaisutis, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 530:
synonyms: awry
agee
glosses: Askew; lopsided, not straight.
Related terms: squiffy
askew
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-skyo͞oʹ
ipa: /əˈskju/
ipa: /əˈskjuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: askue
form: ascue
form: askoye
form: a skew
Etymology: From Old Norse á ská (“askew, askance”), equivalent to a- + skew. Compare Icelandic á ská (“diagonally”), Danish skrå (“slanting, oblique”), German Schräge (“slope, slant”).
Senses: examples: text: Here Shenandoah brawls along, there burly Blue Ridge echoes strong, to swell the Brigade's rousing song, of "Stonewall Jackson’s Way."
We see him now — the old slouched hat cocked o'er his eye askew, the shrewd, dry smile, the speech so pat, so calm, so blunt, so true.
ref: 1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way
glosses: Turned or twisted to one side.
glosses: Untoward, unfavourable.
Synonyms: word: agley
word: akilter
word: antigoglin
word: awry
word: askew
word: cattywampus
word: cockeyed
word: crooked
word: lopsided
word: off-kilter
word: tipsy
word: skewampus
word: skew-whiff
word: squiffy
word: whomperjawed
word: wry
Hypernyms: word: asymmetric
word: irregular
word: oblique
word: turned
word: twisted
Derived terms: askewness
Related terms: word: skewly
askew
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-skyo͞oʹ
ipa: /əˈskju/
ipa: /əˈskjuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: more askew
form: most askew
form: askue
form: ascue
form: askoye
form: a skew
Etymology: From Old Norse á ská (“askew, askance”), equivalent to a- + skew. Compare Icelandic á ská (“diagonally”), Danish skrå (“slanting, oblique”), German Schräge (“slope, slant”).
Senses: examples: He wore his hat askew
glosses: Tilted to one side.
Related terms: skew-whiff
squiffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɪf.i/
rhymes: -ɪfi
Forms: form: squiffier
form: squiffiest
Etymology: Unknown; possibly coined in the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: In the Palace bar. I'd been there an hour or so with two or three other chaps. I was a bit squiffy.
ref: 1992, J. B. Priestley, An Inspector Calls, Heinemann, →ISBN, page 51:
text: His champagne glass was constantly refilled by the man who might or might not have been a butler, so that by the time they actually sat down to play, Ramsay was decidedly squiffy.
ref: 2022, Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety:
glosses: slightly drunk or intoxicated; tipsy
examples: text: To this day I cannot and will not wear a tie properly. On the one or two occasions I have worn them since I left school, I've worn them squiffy, on purpose.
ref: 2004, Jude Rawlins, Cul De Sac: Lyrics, Prose & Poems 1987-2004, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 11:
text: The graphics make your eyes go squiffy.
ref: 2005, Catherine Soanes, Angus Stevenson, editors, The Oxford Dictionary of English (revised edition), Oxford University Press:
glosses: Crooked, askew; awry
Synonyms: sense: tipsy
word: buzzed
word: merry
word: muzzy
word: squiffed
word: drunk
sense: crooked
word: cattywampus
word: cockeyed
word: skew-whiff
word: askew
Derived terms: squiffily
squiffiness
furry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈfɜː.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈføː.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈfʌ.ɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈfʌ.ɹe/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈfeː.ɹi/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈfɛː.ɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /fɜri/
note: without the fern–fir–fur merger
ipa: /far(r)i/
rhymes: -ɜːɹi
homophone: firry (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: fairy (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: furrier
form: furriest
Etymology: From fur + -y.
Senses: examples: text: His treatment of our furry friends was nothing short of appalling.
text: There were certain cages you felt you had to pass on tiptoe, noting some aged Fellow whispering endearments into a snow-leopardess’s furry ear.
ref: 1957 November 19, Peter Simple [pseudonym; Michael Wharton], “[Way of the World] End of the Affair”, in The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, 4 a.m. edition, number 31,912, London, page 10, column 4:
text: Hard to believe that, until recently, this furriest of floor coverings had been written off as the ultimate home-furnishing faux pas.
ref: 1999 June 10, Rick Marin, “How Deep Is Your Rug?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Covered with fur, or with something resembling fur.
examples: text: a furry texture
text: a furry smell
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of fur.
glosses: Of or related to the furry fandom or subculture.
Derived terms: anti-furry
drink from the furry cup
furgot
furrily
furriness
furryism
furry lobster
furry muff
furspeech
hurry-furry merger
nonfurry
popufur
unfurry
furry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈfɜː.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈføː.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈfʌ.ɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈfʌ.ɹe/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈfeː.ɹi/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈfɛː.ɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /fɜri/
note: without the fern–fir–fur merger
ipa: /far(r)i/
rhymes: -ɜːɹi
homophone: firry (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: fairy (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: furries
Etymology: From fur + -y.
Senses: glosses: Someone who identifies with or as an animal character with human-like characteristics (an anthropomorphic animal character).
examples: text: What percentage of furries are wolves?
synonyms: word: anthro
word: funny animal
glosses: An anthropomorphic animal character of this kind.
examples: text: The furry had designed an elaborate costume.
text: Especially interesting in this regard are furries with more than one fursona. […] Consider, for instance, how Muse describes his two fursonas: My two current sonas are a bat and a rabbit.
ref: 2020, Kathy Merlock Jackson, Kathy Shepherd Stolley, Lisa Lyon Payne, Animals and Ourselves: Essays on Connections and Blurred Boundaries, McFarland, →ISBN:
text: While members of the fandom seem to use "fandom" in a formal capacity explicitly to describe particular interest in forms of art, it is also used less formally to refer to all members of the furry community regardless of artistic involvement and commitment to a fursona.
ref: 2020 September 25, Kathy Merlock Jackson, Kathy Shepherd Stolley, Lisa Lyon Payne, Animals and Ourselves: Essays on Connections and Blurred Boundaries, McFarland, →ISBN, page 245:
text: 24 per cent of respondents of the 1,011 results did not have a fursona at all. This shows that having a fursona is still in the majority but it opens up questions as to why a significant minority do not have them but still consider themselves a Furry.
ref: 2021 August 26, Jessica Ruth Austin, Fan Identities in the Furry Fandom, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 57:
text: Many young people are also reevaluating what once constituted cringe, attributing use of the term to unacknowledged bigotry more than just a rejection of sincerity. Some niche communities, such as furries, anime fans, and fetish groups, who were once mocked on social media, have since amassed cultural power that has launched them into the mainstream.
ref: 2023 April 23, Taylor Lorenz, “'Am I Cringey? Yes. Do I Care? Absolutely Not'”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023:
glosses: Any member of the furry fandom or subculture (including those without fursonas).
Coordinate terms: sense: furry fandom senses
word: anthro
sense: furry fandom senses
word: avian
sense: furry fandom senses
word: feathery
sense: furry fandom senses
word: scalie
sense: furry fandom senses
word: feral
Derived terms: anti-furry
furry number
Related terms: befurred
furdom
furfag
furfan
furmeet
furrification
furrydom
fursecution
fursona
furvert
therianthrope
kemonomimi
nahualism
anthropomorphism
zoomorphism
regalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡeɪ.li.ə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈɡæɪ.li.ə/
rhymes: -eɪliə
Etymology: From Middle English regalie, from Medieval Latin rēgālia (“royal powers”), substantivisation of the neuter plural of rēgālis (“of a king”), from rēx (“king”). By surface analysis, regal + -ia. Doublet of regal.
Senses: glosses: Royal rights, prerogatives and privileges actually enjoyed by any sovereign, regardless of his title (emperor, grand duke etc.).
examples: text: THE INTHRONIZATION. The King ascended the Theatre, accompanied by the two Bishops his Supporters, the Great Officers of State, the Lords carrying the Swords, and the Lords who had borne Their Majesties' Regalia, and was Inthroned by the Archbishops, Bishops, and the other Peers, who then stood about the steps of the Throne.
ref: 1937 November 10, “Ceremonial of the Coronation of Their Majesties [King George VI and his wife Elizabeth, Westminster Abbey, London, 12 May 1937]”, in The London Gazette (Supplement), number 34453, page 7031 at 7056:
glosses: The emblems, symbols, or paraphernalia indicative of royalty or any other sovereign status; such as a crown, orb, sceptre or sword.
glosses: Decorations or insignia indicative of an office or membership of an order or society; such as freemasonry.
glosses: Traditional dress and accessories of North American Indigenous nations worn for ritual purposes.
examples: text: to be dressed in full regalia (dressed up)
text: […] the throngs included tribes of American Indians celebrating […] like victorious conventioneers in their burnished regalia at a hotel party Monday night.
ref: 2009 January 21, Francis X. Clines, “In Washington on Inauguration Day”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Finery, magnificent dress, or lavish or flashy costume.
examples: c. 1685-1686, Charles Cotton, the Essays of M. de Montaigne
After having a long time treated their Prisoners very well, and given them all the Regalia's they can think of, he to whom the Prisoner belongs, invites a great Assembly of his Kindred and Friends
synonyms: delicacies
glosses: Sumptuous food.
Derived terms: regalia majora
regalia minora
regalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡeɪ.li.ə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈɡæɪ.li.ə/
rhymes: -eɪliə
Forms: form: regalias
Etymology: From Middle English regalie, from Medieval Latin rēgālia (“royal powers”), substantivisation of the neuter plural of rēgālis (“of a king”), from rēx (“king”). By surface analysis, regal + -ia. Doublet of regal.
Senses: examples: text: I have taken care that there's both brandy and whiskey nicely stowed away in the barrack-room, with plenty of prime regalia cigars[…]
ref: 1840, Isaac Butt, Irish Life, page 294:
text: The quantity of regalias imported into northern ports is comparatively small.
ref: 1850, United States. Congress, Congressional Edition: Volume 552, page 868:
glosses: A kind of large cigar of superior quality.
Related terms: regal
royalty
Crown Jewels
surround
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈɹaʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: surrounds
form: surrounding
form: surrounded
form: surrounded
Etymology: From Middle English sourrounden (“to submerge, overflow”), from Middle French souronder, suronder, from Late Latin superundō, from super + undō (“to rise in waves”), from unda (“wave”).
Senses: examples: text: The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
ref: 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:
text: It took a long time for the place to warm up and to counteract the cold and enable their fingers to cope with the delicate task of moulding, the men would often surround themselves with blocks of iron heated in the furnace.
ref: 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 342:
text: Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Miss Thyrza’s Chair”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 41:
text: and this way they get rid of those grand and stubborn opinions that surround them.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 230c:
text: The superficial fascia surrounds the body and includes subcutaneous fat; the deep fascia surrounds the musculoskeletal system; the meningeal fascia surrounds the nervous system; the visceral fascia surrounds body cavities and organs.
ref: 2018 November 8, Dr. Melina Jampolis, “The real science behind fascia ailments”, in CNN:
glosses: To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
examples: text: The lions surrounded the deer herd so they had no way to escape.
text: They surrounded each other in the classroom and started trading hits.
glosses: To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
examples: text: to surround the world
text: Unfitting it vvas, that the body of that vvorthy Patriarch [Joseph] (to vvhom all the land belonged by promiſe) ſhould ſteale into that Countrey in a clandeſtine vvay, and privately enter in at the poſtern door, rather let it ſolemnly ſurround the Countrey, and be brought in at the broad gates. Thus the corps of men of quality, though the Chancell-door be nearer, are borne through the porch and middle-alley to the place of their interment.
ref: 1650, Thomas Fuller, “The Description of the Tribe of Benjamin”, in A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted thereon, London: […] J. F. for John Williams […], →OCLC, book II, paragraph 16, pages 247–248:
glosses: To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
Synonyms: environ
embed
bebay
beset
Derived terms: surround and drown
surrounder
surround
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈɹaʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: surrounds
Etymology: From Middle English sourrounden (“to submerge, overflow”), from Middle French souronder, suronder, from Late Latin superundō, from super + undō (“to rise in waves”), from unda (“wave”).
Senses: examples: text: He drifted through the room, avoiding the furniture by instinct, closed the door that led to the passage, and only then flicked on his flashlight.
It swept around the room, picking out a desk, a telephone, a wall of bookshelves, and a deep armchair, and finally settled on a handsome fireplace with a large surround of red brick.
ref: 1972, Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File, Viking, SBN 670-52042-x, chapter 15, page 283
glosses: Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.
Derived terms: surround sound
freemasonry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freemasonries
Etymology: From freemason + -ry.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Freemasonry: the institutions, precepts, and rites of the Freemasons.
glosses: Fellowship and sympathy among a number of people.
glosses: Strange customs which resemble those of Freemasons.
freemason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freemasons
form: free mason
form: fremason
Etymology: From free + mason.
Senses: glosses: A member of a guild of skilled itinerant masons during the Middle Ages and early modern times.
Derived terms: word: freemasonic
word: freemasonry
roundabout
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊndəˌbaʊt/
ipa: /ˈɹuːndəˌbuːt/
Forms: form: more roundabout
form: most roundabout
Etymology: From round + about [from early 20th c.].
Senses: examples: text: [S]he fled, running like a deer, doubling and turning through alleys and back streets until by a very roundabout road she reached her own room.
ref: 1896, Robert Barr, “chapter9”, in From Whose Bourne:
text: "Really, Bill, I think your best plan would be to go straight to father and tell him the whole thing.—You don't want him to hear about it in a roundabout way."
ref: 1920 March – 1921 February, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter 17, in Indiscretions of Archie, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published 1921, →OCLC:
text: Mr. Rather flew to the area in a roundabout fashion, first landing in Bahrain, from there flying to Islamabad and then heading to Kabul by land.
ref: 2001 December 3, Jim Rutenberg, “Rather Reports Another War”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Apr 2014:
text: Descartes is compelled to fall back upon a curious roundabout argument to prove that there is a world. He must first prove that God exists, and then argue that God would not deceive us into thinking that it exists when it does not.
ref: 2011, 50 Classic Philosophy Books, Golgotha Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
examples: text: The third sort is of those who readily and sincerely follow reason, but for want of having that which one may call a large, sound, roundabout sense, have not a full view of all that relates to the question.
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
Derived terms: roundaboutly
roundabout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊndəˌbaʊt/
ipa: /ˈɹuːndəˌbuːt/
Forms: form: roundabouts
Etymology: From round + about [from early 20th c.].
Senses: glosses: A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.
glosses: A horizontal wheel which rotates around a central axis when pushed and on which children ride, often found in parks as a children's play apparatus.
glosses: A fairground carousel.
glosses: A detour.
glosses: A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
glosses: A round dance.
Synonyms: sense: road junction
word: traffic circle
sense: road junction
english: New England (US)
translation: New England (US)
word: rotary
sense: road junction
word: rotunda
sense: road junction
english: West Midlands (UK)
translation: West Midlands (UK)
word: island
sense: fairground ride
word: merry-go-round
Coordinate terms: sense: road junction
word: pork chop island
Derived terms: balcony roundabout
bicycle roundabout
hamburger roundabout
magic roundabout
mini-roundabout
mini roundabout
roundabout dog
spiral roundabout
swings and roundabouts
turbo roundabout
what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
Related terms: swings and roundabouts
roundabout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊndəˌbaʊt/
ipa: /ˈɹuːndəˌbuːt/
Forms: form: roundabouts
form: roundabouting
form: roundabouted
form: roundabouted
Etymology: From round + about [from early 20th c.].
Senses: glosses: To play on a roundabout (carousel)
glosses: To travel round roundabouts
glosses: To talk in a roundabout, indirect manner
sarky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: sarkier
form: sarkiest
Etymology: Clipping of sarcastic + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Full of Coxon's trademark sarky lyricism, this 14-track concept album celebrates and laments the bittersweet nature of love, avoiding being dull or mawkish by being so gorgeous and satisfyingly coherent.
ref: 2006 February 19, Nosheen Iqbal, “Graham Coxon, Love Travels at Illegal Speeds”, in The Observer:
text: It would seem that during his Bournemouth team’s recent 2-1 defeat at Sheffield United, referee Jon Moss gave the hosts some “soft fouls” and made “little sarky comments” that “didn’t help”.
ref: 2020 February 12, Scott Murray, “Dan Gosling, Jon Moss and breath-freshening hard candy”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Sarcastic.
Synonyms: sarcastic
snarky
Derived terms: sarkiness
sellotape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛləteɪp/
Forms: form: sellotapes
Etymology: From genericized trademark Sellotape, from cello(phane) + tape. The spelling with S- was to avoid an existing trademark on the word Cellophane itself.
Senses: synonyms: word: Scotch tape
word: sticky tape
glosses: Adhesive tape.
Related terms: adhesive tape
Durex
Scotch tape
sticky tape
tape
sellotape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛləteɪp/
Forms: form: sellotapes
form: sellotaping
form: sellotaped
form: sellotaped
Etymology: From genericized trademark Sellotape, from cello(phane) + tape. The spelling with S- was to avoid an existing trademark on the word Cellophane itself.
Senses: examples: text: The door was slightly ajar, with a newspaper cartoon sellotaped to it:
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 258:
glosses: To seal with adhesive tape.
slaphead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slapheads
Etymology: Compound of slap + head.
Senses: glosses: A bald person; somebody with a shaved or hairless head.
sticking plaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticking plasters
form: stick plaster
Senses: examples: text: As I live, these covered parts of him were checkered with the same squares as his face; his back, too, was all over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years’ War, and just escaped from it with a sticking-plaster shirt.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 3:
synonyms: adhesive bandage
band-aid
Elastoplast
glosses: An adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds
examples: text: In a statement, Khan called the deal a sticking plaster and said: "The Government is, in effect, making ordinary Londoners pay the cost for doing the right thing on COVID-19.
ref: 2020 June 3, “Network News: Khan agrees £1.6bn "sticking plaster" for TfL”, in Rail, page 16:
glosses: An inadequate solution to a serious problem.
sweets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweet
sweets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Confectionery, candy.
glosses: drugs, amphetamine
examples: text: Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.
She scatters flowers
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], line 239:
text: ...she dropped the flowers which Evelyn had given her. Before she even perceived her loss, the King had picked them up, and was about to give them to her, when he perceived the note, and also observed that the seal was yet unbroken. "Mademoiselle has not had time to read a letter so surrounded by sweets—pray use no ceremony."
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 259:
glosses: flowers, sweet-scented.
Derived terms: boiled sweets
sweets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweets
Senses: examples: text: I miss you, sweets.
glosses: A term of endearment; sweetheart.
sweets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sweet
tannoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtænɔɪ/
Forms: form: tannoys
Etymology: A genericised trademark of Tannoy Ltd, a manufacturer of public address systems. "Tannoy" is a syllabic abbreviation of tantalum alloy, which was the material used in a type of electrolytic rectifier developed by the company.
Senses: examples: text: Although the supermarket tannoy was bravely broadcasting Rigoletto, its meat counter was thick with wurst and its wine shelves loaded with Liebfraumilch.
ref: 1987, Christina Hardyment, “Harlekins and Gondolas”, in Heidi’s Alp: One Family’s Search for Storybook Europe, Book Club edition, New York, N.Y.: The Atlantic Monthly Press, →OCLC, page 163:
text: Terry Putnam, from Weymouth, adds: "Riding home from Bristol a few days ago, as we approached Weymouth the guard announced over the tannoy 'The next station is Weymouth - please remember to take all your luggage and children with you...'"
ref: 2020 August 12, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, page 70:
glosses: A public address system.
tannoy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtænɔɪ/
Forms: form: tannoys
form: tannoying
form: tannoyed
form: tannoyed
Etymology: A genericised trademark of Tannoy Ltd, a manufacturer of public address systems. "Tannoy" is a syllabic abbreviation of tantalum alloy, which was the material used in a type of electrolytic rectifier developed by the company.
Senses: glosses: To transmit, or communicate with, by means of a public address system.
public address system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public address systems
Senses: examples: text: People had to poo in bags, you see. Jan had to get on the public address system and explain to thousands of disbelieving passengers that “number ones” could be done in the shower but “number twos” must be done in the red biohazard bags being distributed, then placed in corridors for collection by unnamed staff, none of whom chose to appear in this documentary.
ref: 2025 June 24, Lucy Mangan, “Poop Cruise review – a fascinating look at a toilet disaster that still haunts passengers 12 years later”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An electronic voice-amplification apparatus, usually containing a set of two loudspeakers and a central control unit, used for singing, giving a speech, play-by-play commentary at events, or broadcasting in public areas like in airports or stations.
Synonyms: word: PA
word: PA system
word: intercom system
word: tannoy
Derived terms: word: PA
word: PA system
obedient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbiːdɪənt/
ipa: /əʊˈbiːdɪənt/
ipa: /əˈbidiənt/
ipa: /oʊˈbidiənt/
Forms: form: more obedient
form: most obedient
Etymology: From Middle English obedient, from Old French obedient, from Latin oboediēns, present active participle of oboediō (“obey”).
Senses: examples: text: Jessica was so intensely obedient of her parents that her brother sometimes thought she was a robot.
glosses: Willing to comply with the commands, orders, or instructions of those in authority; biddable.
Synonyms: word: hearsome
word: dutiful
word: compliant
word: bowsome
word: buxom
word: hersum
word: morigerous
word: obedible
word: obedient
word: obsequent
word: obsequious
word: tall
word: toward
Hypernyms: word: acquiescent
word: deferential
word: devoted
word: docile
word: faithful
word: loyal
Hyponyms: word: abject
word: duteous
word: servile
word: submissive
word: subordinate
word: controllable
word: governable
word: manageable
word: tractable
word: oily
word: pliant
word: sequacious
word: supple
word: soapy
word: tractile
word: yielding
Derived terms: nonobedient
obediently
obedientness
obedient plant
overobedient
superobedient
unobedient
Related terms: word: obedience
word: obey
word: at one's beck and call
word: wrap around one's little finger
word: obdt
word: obedt
word: domable
word: domesticable
word: domesticatable
word: tameable
word: conformant
word: flattery
word: humble
word: sycophant
obedient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbiːdɪənt/
ipa: /əʊˈbiːdɪənt/
ipa: /əˈbidiənt/
ipa: /oʊˈbidiənt/
Forms: form: obedients
Etymology: From Middle English obedient, from Old French obedient, from Latin oboediēns, present active participle of oboediō (“obey”).
Senses: examples: text: Damn the obedients and hail the defiants if you will; the experiment does not motivate confidence about how particular subjects would behave in markedly dissimilar situations.
ref: 2002, John Michael Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior, page 48:
glosses: One who obeys.
skip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skĭp
ipa: /skɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: skips
Etymology: From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną (“to drive, push”), iterative *skuppōną (“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push, throw, shake”).
Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Old Swedish skuppa (“to skip”), modern dialectal Swedish skopa, skimpa (“to skip, leap”), and English shove. See also dialectal English skimp (“to mock”) (Etymology 1), considered by some to be related.
Senses: glosses: A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
glosses: The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
topics: video-games
glosses: The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
examples: text: Tracking down debtors is a big part of a skip tracer's job. That's the case because deadbeats who haven't paid their bills and have disappeared are the most common type of skips.
ref: 2012, Susan Nash, Skip Tracing Basics and Beyond, page 19:
glosses: A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: skywave propagation
glosses: A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
Derived terms: sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: hit-skip
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: no-skip
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: skip a beat
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: skip bleach
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: skip bomber
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: skip bombing
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: skip-care
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: skip-gram
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: skip-level
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: skip list
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: skip out
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: skipping rope
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: skip printing
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: skip rope
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: skip school
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: skip-stop
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: skip the line
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: skip town
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: skiptrace
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: skip tracer
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: skip tracing
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: unskip
sense: from all parts of speech in Etymology 1
word: vice-skip
skip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skĭp
ipa: /skɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: skips
head_nr: 1
Etymology: From Middle English skep, skeppe, from Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa, skjappa (“basket, bushel, measure”), perhaps from Middle Low German scheppe (“a unit of weight”), perhaps related to Middle Low German schēpel (“buschel, measurement for grain”), German Scheffel (“bushel”). These could all ultimately be related to *skap (“shape”).
Senses: head_nr: 2
synonyms: dumpster
glosses: A large container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents, or to be picked up by hydraulic arms so that its contents can be dumped into the truck.
examples: text: Beside it was a great engine which worked a continuous steel rope on which the skips were fastened which drew up the débris by successive stages from the bottom of the shaft.
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
topics: business
mining
head_nr: 2
glosses: A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A skip car.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
head_nr: 2
qualifier: sugar manufacture
glosses: A charge of syrup in the pans.
head_nr: 2
synonyms: skep
hypernyms: beehive
hive
glosses: A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.
Derived terms: mini skip
skip hoist
skip lorry
skip-raiding
skip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: skĭp
ipa: /skɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: skips
form: skipping
form: skipped
form: skipped
Etymology: From Middle English skep, skeppe, from Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa, skjappa (“basket, bushel, measure”), perhaps from Middle Low German scheppe (“a unit of weight”), perhaps related to Middle Low German schēpel (“buschel, measurement for grain”), German Scheffel (“bushel”). These could all ultimately be related to *skap (“shape”).
Senses: glosses: To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
skip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skĭp
ipa: /skɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: skips
Etymology: Late Middle English skipper, borrowed from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schipper (“captain”), earlier "seaman", from schip (“ship”).
Senses: glosses: A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
glosses: A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
The captain of a sports team.
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
qualifier: bowls
glosses: The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
qualifier: scouting
glosses: The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.
skip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skĭp
ipa: /skɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: skips
form: skippy
Etymology: A reference to the television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo; coined and used by Australians (particularly children) of non-British descent to counter derogatory terms aimed at them. Ultimately from etymology 1 (above).
Senses: examples: 2001, Effie (character played by Mary Coustas), Effie: Just Quietly (TV series), Episode: Nearest and Dearest,
Effie: How did you find the second, the defacto, and what nationality is she?
Barber: She is Australian.
Effie: Is she? Gone for a skip. You little radical you.
glosses: An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
Related terms: limey
wog
skip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skĭp
ipa: /skɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: skips
Etymology: 17th-century Ireland. Possibly a clipping of skip-kennel (“young lackey or assistant”). Used at Trinity College Dublin.
Senses: examples: text: Behind the Counter stood a complaisant Spark, who I observ'd shew'd as much Breeding in the sale of a Penny-worth of Tobacco, and the change of a Shilling, as a Courtier's Footman when he meets his Brother Skip in the middle of Covent-Garden; and is so very dexterous in discharge of his Occupation, the he guesses from a Pound of Tobacco to an Ounce to the certainty of one Corn […]
ref: 1703, Edward Ward, The London-spy Compleat, 5th edition, volume 1, part 7, published 1713, page 157:
text: He constitutes, probably, the identical exception which Sir Boyle Roche had in his mind's eye, when he broached his famous problem, that "a man cannot be in two places at once, barring he is a bird." The skip, or according to the Oxford etymology, the man-vulture, is not fit for his calling who cannot time his business so as to be present simultaneously at several places. He must be at Kinshan's on Carlisle Bridge, for Mr. Moriarty's half-pound of tea, at the very moment that Sir Looby, in the Botany Bay Square, requires his three eggs; and the Billy Sheridan of the day is singing out, like Stentor, from the tiles and skylights of a coctile edifice beside the library, for the "lazy rascal!"
ref: 1842 October, Billy Sheridan, “Reminiscences of College Life”, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, page 682:
text: His wounded tutor, his many duns, the skip and bed-maker who waited upon him, the undergraduates of his own time and the years below him, whom he had patronised or scorned—how could he bear to look any of them in the face now?
ref: 1849, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Flight after Defeat”, in The History of Pendennis:
qualifier: Trinity College; Dublin; Trinity College; Dublin
glosses: A college servant.
Related terms: english: Cambridge University
translation: Cambridge University
word: gyp
english: Oxford University
translation: Oxford University
word: scout
skip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skĭp
ipa: /skɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: skips
Etymology: Clipping of skip-level manager.
Senses: examples: text: My skip is helpful when my team lead is being uptight.
synonyms: grandboss
glosses: A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.