cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
swish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Forms: form: swishes
Etymology: From noun, imitative of the sound
Senses: glosses: A short rustling, hissing or whistling sound, often made by friction.
examples: text: As she trotted down the white path, each swish of her tail sent petals dancing through the air, falling where the bride would walk.
ref: 2011, A. C. August, The Highway Cross, page 116:
glosses: A hissing, sweeping movement through the air, as of an animal's tail.
examples: text: There were four or five men in the vault already, and I could hear more coming down the passage, and guessed from their heavy footsteps that they were carrying burdens. There was a sound, too, of dumping kegs down on the ground, with a swish of liquor inside them, and then the noise of casks being moved.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
glosses: A sound of liquid flowing inside a container.
glosses: A twig or bundle of twigs, used for administering beatings; a switch
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A rapid or careless attacking stroke by the batter.
examples: text: "Fairies, nances, swishes, fags, lezzes — call 'em what you please — should of course be permitted to earn honest livings […]
ref: 1992, Leigh W. Rutledge, The gay decades: from Stonewall to the present:
glosses: An effeminate male homosexual.
examples: text: He got a little swish downriver.
glosses: Effeminacy, effeminate or homosexual demeanor.
glosses: An improvised alcoholic drink made by fermenting whatever ingredients are available.
Related terms: swoosh
whoosh
swish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Forms: form: swishes
form: swishing
form: swished
form: swished
Etymology: From noun, imitative of the sound
Senses: examples: text: The cane swishes.
text: In the stern of the low-laden canoe his paddle swished steadily and powerfully, with thrust of straight, stiff upper arm backed by a twisting swing of the body from the waist, and with every stroke the little craft leaped as if a giant hand had shoved her forward.
ref: 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
glosses: To make a rustling sound while moving.
examples: text: to swish a cane back and forth
text: And backward and forward he swish'd his long tail / As a gentleman swishes his cane.
ref: 1829 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats, Paris: A. and W. Galignani, page 239:
glosses: To flourish with a swishing sound.
examples: text: After Virginia came the twins, who were usually called "the Star and Stripes", as they were always getting swished.
ref: 1906, Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost:
text: Doctor Wordsworth and assistants would swish that error out of him in a way that need not here be mentioned.
ref: c. 1842, William Makepeace Thackeray, Character Sketches:
glosses: To flog; to lash.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To make a successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.
examples: text: I shall not swish; I'll merely act limp-wristed.
text: Once you come to grips and accept that you are both feminine and masculine and accept that proudly, the fear can disappear and you can begin to enjoy being you! […] ¶ So you can shed tears at a movie or other significant event, you can swish (I said that) a little or a lot, you can be feminine or masculine or somewhere in-between because you will know, in your heart, this is the real you. […
ref: 1999 March 24, Rachael, “Dear Rachael 3/99”, in TransGender Forum (offline archive), archived from the original on 25 Oct 2023:
topics: LGBT
glosses: To mince or otherwise to behave in an effeminate manner.
examples: text: Swish the mouthwash around the mouth and between the teeth for one minute.
glosses: To cause a liquid to move around in a container, or in one's mouth.
Derived terms: aswish
swish cymbal
swishity
swish-swash
swish
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Etymology: From noun, imitative of the sound
Senses: examples: text: "Just like parade it had been a minute before then stumble, bang, swish! Wiped out!" he said.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 84:
glosses: A hissing or whistling sound of something travelling quickly through the air.
garbage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑː.bɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɡɑ(ɾ).bedʒ/
Forms: form: garbidge
Etymology: From late Middle English garbage (“the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French garber (“to refine, make neat or clean”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *garwijan (“to make ready”).
Akin to Old High German garawan (“to prepare, make ready”), Old English ġearwian (“to make ready, adorn”). More at garb, yare, gear
Senses: glosses: Food waste material of any kind.
qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.
examples: text: The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
glosses: Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
examples: text: He threw the newspaper into the garbage.
glosses: A place or receptacle for waste material.
examples: text: This machine translation is garbage.
glosses: Nonsense; gibberish.
examples: text: The dissenting Christian Advocate asked (5 January 1835) how a cabinet composed of the very garbage of Toryism could be expected to share the spirit of Peel’s manifesto.
ref: 1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 103:
glosses: Something or someone worthless.
glosses: The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
examples: text: Yet, even without the three second rule, where your big man could camp underneath and take those delightful “garbage” shots, there was little or no pivot offense, no cutting off the bucket.
ref: 1962, Coach & Athlete, page 18:
text: […] the aging pro, in a much-heralded "boys against the girls" tennis match, annihilated Margaret Court with an array of "garbage shots and cotton balls."
ref: 1981, Update 1981: The Great Contemporary Issues, New York Times Company, page 78:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An easy shot.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.
Synonyms: junk
refuse
rubbish
trash
waste
Derived terms: carbage
garbage bag
garbage bandit
garbage bin
garbage can
garbage chute
garbage collect
garbage collected
garbage collection
garbage collector
garbage-collector
garbage day
garbage disposal
garbage disposal unit
garbage dump
garbage fire
garbage fly
garbage gleaning
Garbage Grove
garbage heap of history
garbage in, garbage out
garbage lady
garbageless
garbagelike
garbageman
garbage man
garbage mitt
garbageness
garbage pail
garbage panda
garbage patch
garbageperson
garbage picking
garbage plate
garbager
garbagescape
garbage scow
garbage time
garbage truck
garbageware
garbage woman
garbagewoman
garbagey
garbo
garbologist
garbology
gubbish
piece of garbage
snarge
treat like garbage
garbage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑː.bɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɡɑ(ɾ).bedʒ/
Forms: form: garbages
form: garbaging
form: garbaged
form: garbaged
form: garbidge
Etymology: From late Middle English garbage (“the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French garber (“to refine, make neat or clean”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *garwijan (“to make ready”).
Akin to Old High German garawan (“to prepare, make ready”), Old English ġearwian (“to make ready, adorn”). More at garb, yare, gear
Senses: examples: text: I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.
ref: 1674, John Josselyn, Two Voyages to New England, Made During the Years 1638-63 (quoted in William Butts Mershon, The Passenger Pigeon, 1907, The Outing Publishing Company)
synonyms: disembowel
eviscerate
gut
glosses: to eviscerate
garbage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑː.bɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɡɑ(ɾ).bedʒ/
Forms: form: garbidge
Etymology: From late Middle English garbage (“the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French garber (“to refine, make neat or clean”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *garwijan (“to make ready”).
Akin to Old High German garawan (“to prepare, make ready”), Old English ġearwian (“to make ready, adorn”). More at garb, yare, gear
Senses: examples: text: Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”.
ref: 2009, David R. Portney, 129 More Seminar Speaking Success Tips, →ISBN, page 8:
text: half that shit you morons listen to with pride is totally garbage
ref: 2010, Nicholas Rombes, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982:
text: If you have been with a man for more than five years and both of you have not planned to marry one another, the relationship is completely garbage, and you can do but nothing with it more than having a sexual life with one another.
ref: 2011, Ezekiel Dayo Adetunji, Power in the Spoken Word!, page 110:
text: The last time I had access to a therapist was 20 years ago, and that was a pretty garbage experience.
ref: 2021, Giselle Renarde, Play It On My Radio: A Diary In Music, page 309:
glosses: bad, crap, shitty
Pipola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Since the dam (Tehri) was completed in 2006 the natural spring that once fed Pipola has dried up.
ref: 2011 August, Subhajyoti Das, “Cleaning of the Ganga”, in Journal of the Geological Society of India, volume 78, number 124:
text: In one instance, a natural spring that fed the nearby village of Pipola dried up, forcing residents to fetch water from wells in a neighboring village, while other villagers simply fled to other neighboring villages to live.
ref: 2013, David L. Feldman, Water, →ISBN:
text: Nalang (0.64) in Uttarkashi and Pipola (0.64) in Tehri found low level of Social vulnerability in 1991(Figure 7A) whereas in 2001, Ghansali (0.82), Pokhri (0.76) and Langoor (0.68) found low level of social vulnerability which are situated in Tehri Garhwal region.
ref: 2014, M. Punia, “Socio-economic vulnerability and sustainable development in context of Development vs. Conservation debate: A study of Bhagirathi Basin, Uttarakhand, INDIA”, in Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences; Gottingen, volume 40, number 8:
glosses: A village in Tehri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, India that lost its source of water due to the construction of the Tehri Dam.
rubbish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/
rhymes: -ʌbɪʃ
Forms: form: more rubbish
form: rubbisher
form: most rubbish
form: rubbishest
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English robous (“rubbish, building rubble”), further origin uncertain; possibly from Anglo-Norman rubous, rubouse, rubbouse (“refuse, waste material; building rubble”), and compare Anglo-Latin rebbussa, robousa, robusium, robusum, rubisum, rubusa, rubusium (although the Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin words may be derived from the English word instead of the other way around, as there are no known Old French cognates of the word). The English word may be related to rubble, though the connection is unclear. Possibly derived ultimately from Old Norse rubba (“to huddle, crowd together, heap up", also possibly "to rub, scrape”), from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną (“to rub, scrape”). Compare Swedish rubba (“to move, displace, dislodge, upset”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: This has been a rubbish day, and it’s about to get worse: my mother-in-law is coming to stay.
text: Disk interfaces have been around since the year dot, as people soon realised that the microdrive was unreliable, unstable and generally rubbish for the storage of anything, useless except as a rather small beermat.
ref: 1989 June, Phil Snout [pseudonym; Phil South], “Rage Hard”, in Matt Bielby, editor, Your Sinclair, number 42, London: Dennis Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82, column 1:
text: A-level students will study Russell Brand's views on drugs and Caitlin Moran's Twitter feed alongside more conventional literature in a new A-level that was immediately denounced as "rubbish" by sources at the Department for Education.
ref: 2014 May 6, Richard Adams, “English A-level with Russell Brand and Dizzee Rascal on reading list under fire”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: abysmal
word: crappy
word: horrendous
word: shitty
word: terrible
word: abysmal
word: awful
word: chronic
word: coarse
word: crap
word: crummy
word: dire
word: disagreeable
word: dismal
word: dreadful
word: foul
word: hideous
word: hopeless
word: horrendous
word: horrid
word: horrible
word: inadequate
word: incompetent
word: inelegant
word: intolerable
word: inferior
word: loathsome
word: lousy
word: miserable
word: naff
word: negative
word: odious
word: pathetic
word: peak
word: rotten
word: rubbish
word: shitawful
word: sloppy
word: terrible
word: unfavorable
word: ass
word: bad
word: base
word: below par
word: broken
word: bum
word: cheap
word: chintzy
word: crappo
word: crappy
word: craptastic
word: crapperific
word: craptabulous
word: craptacular
word: crummy
word: flimsy
word: inferior
word: lousy
word: low
word: low-grade
word: pitiful
word: poor
word: rinky-dink
word: rubbish
word: sad
word: schlocky
word: shoddy
word: slight
word: slim
word: sorry
word: subpar
word: shitty
word: substandard
word: tin-pot
word: unacceptable
word: unfit
word: unsatisfactory
word: unsound
word: unsuitable
word: woeful
word: wretched
glosses: Exceedingly bad; awful.
rubbish
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/
rhymes: -ʌbɪʃ
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English robous (“rubbish, building rubble”), further origin uncertain; possibly from Anglo-Norman rubous, rubouse, rubbouse (“refuse, waste material; building rubble”), and compare Anglo-Latin rebbussa, robousa, robusium, robusum, rubisum, rubusa, rubusium (although the Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin words may be derived from the English word instead of the other way around, as there are no known Old French cognates of the word). The English word may be related to rubble, though the connection is unclear. Possibly derived ultimately from Old Norse rubba (“to huddle, crowd together, heap up", also possibly "to rub, scrape”), from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną (“to rub, scrape”). Compare Swedish rubba (“to move, displace, dislodge, upset”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: - The one day I actually practice my violin, the teacher cancels the lesson.
- Aw, rubbish! Though at least this means you have time to play football.
glosses: Used to express that something is exceedingly bad, awful, or terrible.
examples: text: Rubbish! I did nothing of the sort!
text: Rubbish, sir, rubbish! Pestilent and pernicious rubbish! An honest man must consider what he owes to his name and his rank. That is the first consideration.
ref: 1906, Alfred Sutro, The Walls of Jericho: A Play in Four Acts, French’s Standard Library edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Samuel French, →OCLC, act II, page 44:
synonyms: bollocks
bullshit
glosses: Used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue; balderdash!, nonsense!
Grim Reaper
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪm ˈɹiː.pə/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɪm ˈɹi.pɚ/
Forms: form: the Grim Reaper
form: Grim Reapers
form: grim reaper
Etymology: From grim + reaper, first attested 1847. The word grim previously had a stronger meaning ("fierce, angry, sinister") and had more of an association with ghostliness (compare Old English grima (“specter, apparition”), English grim (n.)). The association between grim and death dates back to at least the late 16th century (the line "grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image" appears in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew around 1590). The reaper element comes from the personification of Death as a reaper (harvester) of souls in connection to the popular depiction of Death wielding a scythe. The symbol of the scythe itself comes from a partially unintentional conflation of Cronus (the Titan associated with the harvest, said to have used his scythe to castrate his father Uranus) and Chronos (the personification of Father Time).
Senses: examples: text: Her husband was dead, and Werper fancied that he could replace in the girl’s heart the position which had been vacated by the act of the grim reaper.
ref: 1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar:
text: "Golly, I feel like the devil!" muttered Anthony dispassionately. Relaxing, he tumbled back upon his pillow. "Bring on your grim reaper!"
ref: 1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 2, page 220:
text: Mary, will you be mine? Shall we go round together? Will you fix up a match with me on the links of life which shall end only when the Grim Reaper lays us both a stymie?
ref: 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, The Clicking of Cuthbert:
text: On the one hand, we had a scenario where, effectively, the American admiral just went "You know what, all the destroyers attack", at which point they mowed through the Japanese destroyers like a Grim Reaper through a harvest of very, very dead gorn, especially with the Brooklyns in support.
ref: 2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 25:58 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2022:
text: But that is the likely outcome if the railway waits for Treasury's grim reaper to come a-calling.
ref: 2021 January 13, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Make freight an equal priority”, in Rail, page 3:
glosses: A personification of Death as an old man, or a skeleton, carrying a scythe, taking souls to the afterlife.
wikipedia: Chronos
Cronus
The Taming of the Shrew
Uranus_(mythology)
Synonyms: sense: personification of death
word: reaper
sense: personification of death
word: Azrael
sense: personification of death
word: death
sense: personification of death
word: Death
sense: personification of death
word: pale rider
sense: personification of death
word: rider
sense: personification of death
word: angel of death
sense: personification of death
word: Shinigami
sense: personification of death
word: psychopomp
Derived terms: Grim Reaper paradox
Related terms: like grim death
Father Time
shinigami
seventy-eight
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following seventy-seven and preceding seventy-nine.
Synonyms: word: 78
word: LXXVIII
Related terms: seventy
eight
seventy-eight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seventy-eights
Senses: glosses: A gramophone record designed to be rotated at 78 revolutions per minute; a 78
septet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛpˈtɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: septets
form: septette
Etymology: PIE word
 *septḿ̥
From Latin septem (“seven”).
Senses: examples: text: The Lindsey Septet performs at Carnegie Hall this evening.
text: The K-pop septet BTS will return in spring 2026 with a new album and world tour.
ref: 2025 July 1, Maria Sherman, “BTS will return in spring 2026 with a new album and world tour”, in Associated Press:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A group of seven, particularly
A group of seven musicians.
examples: text: [W]hoso rhymes a sonnet pays a tax, / Who paints a landscape dips brush at his cost, / Who scores a septett true for strings and wind / Mulcted must be—else how should I impose / Properly, attitudinize aright, / Did such conflicting claims as these divert / Hohenstiel-Schwangau from observing me?
ref: 1871 December, Robert Browning, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society, London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 124:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A group of seven, particularly
A composition for a group of seven musicians.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A group of seven, particularly
A set of seven lines.
Synonyms: word: septuor
word: heptad
word: septuplet
topics: poetry
writing
journalism
literature
communications
publishing
media
word: heptastich
Hyponyms: english: years
translation: years
word: septennium
Related terms: number
az
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The whole legiſlature likewize acts az a court for the trial of public delinquents.
ref: 1790, Noah Webster, A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings, pages 340–341:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of as.
az
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of az. (“azure”).
az
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Old Church Slavonic азъ (azŭ).
Senses: glosses: Name of the letter a in Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets.
platonic love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platonic loves
Etymology: Attested 1636 in Platonic Lovers by William Davenant. Earlier coined in Latin in the 15th century as amor platonicus by Florentine scholar Marsilio Ficino (originally in 1476 letter to Alamanno Donati, later expounded in De amore (1484)), based on his interpretation of the Symposium by Plato, specifically the speech by Socrates, relating the thoughts of Diotima of Mantinea.
Senses: glosses: Intimate but non-sexual and non-romantic affection.
wikipedia: De amore
Diotima of Mantinea
Marsilio Ficino
Plato
Socrates
William Davenant
Related terms: word: Platonist
pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: pines
form: pyne
Etymology: From Middle English pyne, pine, probably from Old English *pīne (“pain”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīnā (“pain, torment, torture”), possibly from Latin poena (“punishment”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”). Cognate to pain.
Entered Germanic with Christianity; cognate to Middle Dutch pinen, Old High German pīnōn, Old Norse pína.
Senses: glosses: A painful longing.
'taint
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: 'tain't
form: taint
Senses: examples: text: “’Taint no need botherin her, then. You kin come around in the mawnin ...
“’Taint no need of that,” Snopes said, take I’ll take you back to Memphis Sunday.
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary:
glosses: Contraction of it ain't.
Related terms: ’tisn’t
normal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː.ml̩/
ipa: [ˈnɔː.mɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈnɔɹ.ml̩/
ipa: [ˈnɔɹ.mɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)məl
Forms: form: normals
Etymology: From Latin normālis (“made according to a carpenter's square; later: according to a rule”), from nōrma (“carpenter's square”), of uncertain origin; doublet of normale. The earliest meaning of the word in English was "perpendicular; forming a right angle" like something normālis (“made according to a carpenter's square”), but by Late Latin normālis had also come to mean "according to a rule", from which modern English senses of the word derive: in the 1800s, as people began to quantitatively study things like height, weight and blood pressure, the usual or most common values came to be called "normal", and by extension values regarded as healthy or desirable came to be called "normal" regardless of their usuality.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.
examples: text: Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI.
ref: 2014, Ahmet Celik, Edibe Saricicek, Vahap Saricicek, Elif Sahin, Gokhan Ozdemir, Metin Kilinc, Ayten Oguz, Relation between the new anthropometric obesity parameters and inflammatory markers in healthy adult men, SCIRJ:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A person who is healthy, normal, as opposed to one who is morbid.
glosses: A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.
examples: text: His workload is now back to normal.
text: Heavy workload is the new normal.
text: Still, there was a hitch somewhere in the gathering that threw it out of normal.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 269:
glosses: The usual state.
Synonyms: sense: normal person
word: mainstreamer
snorkel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)kəl
Forms: form: snorkels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schnorchel (“(submarine) snorkel”), related to schnarchen (“to snore”). Thus named because of the submarine snorkel's functional similarity to a nose and because of its noise when in use. The anglicized spelling was first recorded in 1945. See, for example, Mark S. Watson, "New Epoch in Sea War", The Baltimore Sun, December 31, 1945, p. 8: "The Germans' earlier quest of the last important objective, it will be remembered, had produced the Snorkel, a long exhaust tube whose vent reached above water and permitted a submerged vessel to discharge its Diesel fumes in open air."
Senses: examples: text: They wore snorkels while exploring the coral reef.
text: She used a snorkel to breathe while swimming underwater.
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: A hollow tube, held in the mouth, or mounted on and opening into a diving mask, used by swimmers for breathing underwater.
synonyms: snort
glosses: A retractable tube fitted in diesel-engine submarines to allow sufficient ventilation that the engines may be used at periscope depth.
glosses: A snorkel parka.
snorkel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)kəl
Forms: form: snorkels
form: snorkeling
form: snorkelling
form: snorkeled
form: snorkeled
form: snorkelled
form: snorkelled
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schnorchel (“(submarine) snorkel”), related to schnarchen (“to snore”). Thus named because of the submarine snorkel's functional similarity to a nose and because of its noise when in use. The anglicized spelling was first recorded in 1945. See, for example, Mark S. Watson, "New Epoch in Sea War", The Baltimore Sun, December 31, 1945, p. 8: "The Germans' earlier quest of the last important objective, it will be remembered, had produced the Snorkel, a long exhaust tube whose vent reached above water and permitted a submerged vessel to discharge its Diesel fumes in open air."
Senses: examples: text: We spent the afternoon snorkeling in the clear blue waters.
glosses: To use a snorkel.
Derived terms: snorkeler
snorkeller
Kerry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛɹi/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
Etymology: * As an English surname, from a personal name derived from Old Norse Kári.
* As an Irish surname, from Ó Ciardha (“descendant of Ciardha”), from ciar (“black”).
Senses: glosses: A county of Ireland. County seat: Tralee.
glosses: A village and community in Powys, Wales, originally in Montgomeryshire (OS grid ref SO1489). Welsh spelling: Ceri.
glosses: A rural locality in Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia.
examples: text: A ticket of John Kerry and John Edwards with, effectively, four first names, would send the wrong message to the world. Also no candidate has ever been elected president, with a girl's name like "Kerry" for a "surname".
ref: 2004 The Bulletin, Australia, "Hustling Hustings", February 25, 2004
glosses: A surname from Middle English derived from the place name, or from the Middle English given name Kendrick.
examples: text: Kerry O'Leary - for so was he called to distinguish him from those of the name in the adjoining county - soon made his appearance in the court-yard beneath.
ref: 1845, Charles James Lever, The O' Donoghue: A Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago, W. Curry, published 1845, page 26:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname or place name.
examples: text: After nearly 20 months of celebrity theater and an incalculable amount of effort and courtroom expense, the misdemeanor trial of Kerry Kennedy ended on Friday in breakneck fashion, as jurors took one hour to find her not guilty of driving under the influence of a drug: a sleeping pill that she said she took by accident.
ref: 2014 February 28, Joseph Berger, “Fast Acquittal for Kennedy, Whose Name Put Prosecutors in Bind”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname or place name, originally of Australian usage, also spelled Keri, Kerri and Kerrie.
Derived terms: John Fraud Kerry
Kerry Blue
Kerry Blue Terrier
Kerry Hill
Kerryman
Kerrywoman
Kerry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛɹi/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
Forms: form: Kerries
Etymology: * As an English surname, from a personal name derived from Old Norse Kári.
* As an Irish surname, from Ó Ciardha (“descendant of Ciardha”), from ciar (“black”).
Senses: glosses: An animal belonging to a rare breed of dairy cattle, native to Ireland.
bleep censor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bleep censors
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software module, manually operated by a broadcast technician, putting a five-second broadcast delay on the live content, providing time to censor the audio (and video) feed, and used to censor out what many consider "inappropriate" audio content during a live broadcast signal and replace it with a bleep signal.
grandaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandaunts
form: grand aunt
form: grand-aunt
Etymology: From grand- + aunt.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of great-aunt.
synonyms: word: great-aunt
Derived terms: great-grandaunt
Related terms: granduncle
paternal uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paternal uncles
Senses: glosses: A brother or brother-in-law of one's father. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Related terms: maternal uncle
paternal aunt
biological
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbaɪ.ə(ʊ)ˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/
rhymes: -ɒdʒɪkəl
Forms: form: biologicals
Etymology: From biology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: This elementary treatise on biologicals was designed primarily for the instruction of Lilly salesmen to enable them to handle the biological line intelligently.
ref: 1917, A.B.C. Course on Biologicals, Indianapolis: Eli Lilly and Company, page 5:
text: Iscador is a biological made from mistletoe which strengthens the natural immune system, and works against the growth of malignant cells.
ref: 1984 June 7, Audre Lorde, correspondence, quoted in 1987, A Burst of Light
text: Researchers found that most of the warnings came within five years after these biologicals won government approval in the United States and Europe between 1995 and 2007.
ref: 2008 October 21, The Associated Press, “1 in 4 new bio meds cause serious side effects”, in NBC News:
glosses: A biological product.
Related terms: adoptive
birth mother
birth mother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birth mothers
form: birthmother
Senses: glosses: The woman who gives birth to a child (not necessarily the genetic mother)
Hypernyms: birth parent
Coordinate terms: birth father
Related terms: adoptive mother
baby mama
co-mother
foster mother
stepmother
surrogate mother
biotech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪəʊˌtɛk/
ipa: /ˈbaɪoʊˌtɛk/
Forms: form: biotechs
Etymology: Clipping of biotechnology. Analyzable as bio- (“biological”) + tech (“technology”) or as a clipped compound, bio(logical) tech(nology).
Senses: examples: text: I’m planning to work in biotech after college.
glosses: Biotechnology.
examples: text: A lot of people invested in biotechs back in the ’90s.
glosses: A company specializing in biotechnology, or stock in such a company.
Derived terms: agribiotech
Jane Doe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jane Does
Senses: examples: text: In the amended complaint, Carter is accused of raping the then-13-year-old Jane Doe at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards in the year 2000.
ref: 2024 December 14, Elizabeth Wagmeister, “Jay-Z says inconsistencies in rape accuser’s story proves her attorney was looking for ‘money and fame’”, in CNN:
glosses: An unknown or anonymous female; the female equivalent of John Doe.
Synonyms: Jane Roe
Hyponyms: english: Latina-version
translation: Latina-version
word: Juanita Doe
Related terms: Joe Average
Joe Bloggs
J. Random User
Tom, Dick or Harry
John Doe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Books that documented and taught the legal profession in England were using the names John Smith, John Doe, Richard Roe, and others as generic placeholder names (for roles, such as plaintiff, defendant, partitioner, etc) by the mid-seventeenth century (perhaps earlier). Compare also Tommy Atkins.
Senses: examples: text: i.e. "to Tom, Dick or Harry:" the names like John Doe and Richard Roe are used indefinitely in Arab.
ref: 1885, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 4:
synonyms: John Smith
Richard Roe
coordinate_terms: Jane Doe
Jane Roe
;
Joe Bloggs
John Citizen
;
Juan Doe
Juanita Doe
glosses: A fictitious name used chiefly in legal documents for an unknown or anonymous, usually male, person.
Related terms: average joe
everyman
Joe Average
Joe Bloggs
Joe Blow
Joe Doakes
Joe Public
Joe Q. Public
Joe Schmoe
John Q. Public
J. Random User
man on the street
John Doe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: John Does
Etymology: Books that documented and taught the legal profession in England were using the names John Smith, John Doe, Richard Roe, and others as generic placeholder names (for roles, such as plaintiff, defendant, partitioner, etc) by the mid-seventeenth century (perhaps earlier). Compare also Tommy Atkins.
Senses: glosses: Any unknown or anonymous, usually male, person.
Related terms: so-and-so
what's-his-name
you-know-who
taurophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Fear of bulls.
glosses: Opposition to bullfighting.
erotophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From eroto- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: At heart The Devil's Playground is about repression vs. personal integrity and freedom. Schepisi makes it clear that the outlandish rules, the strict self-discipline, the body hatred, and erotophobia is destructive; it is doing no one any good.
ref: 1982 February 13, Michael Bronski, “Boys from Catholic School”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 12:
glosses: Fear of sex; negative attitudes towards sex
Related terms: genophobia
eurotophobia
Medusa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈdjuːsə/
ipa: /mɪˈdjuːzə/
enpr: mĭ'dū'sə
enpr: mĭ'dū'zə
ipa: /məˈduːsə/
rhymes: -uːsə
Forms: form: Medousa
Etymology: From Middle English Medusa, Meduse, from Latin Medūsa, from Ancient Greek Μέδουσα (Médousa), from μέδω (médō, “rule over”).
Senses: examples: text: 1895, Adolf Furtwängler, Eugenie Strong (editor and translator), Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A Series of Essays on the History of Art, 2010, →ISBN, page 201,
On an Attic vase of the middle of the fifth century the head of Medusa in the hand of Perseus is represented as that of a beautiful woman free from any distortion. This led us to conclude (supra, p. 158) that Medusa must have been so represented at Athens in the greater arts even previous to this vase, for the vase-painters never invent such bold novelties for themselves.
text: It will be suggested here that the myth of Perseus, involving the decapitation of Medusa, is a narrative version of ritual.
ref: 2000, Nannó Marinatos, The Goddess and the Warrior: The Naked Goddess and Mistress of the Animals in Early Greek Religion, page 62:
text: But their depictions of Perseus are remarkably different and demonstrate the ambiguity of Medusa that was seeping into Victorian iconography. In later, Roman versions of the myth, for example Ovid's Metamorphoses, Perseus slays the sea monster with his sword instead of using Medusa’s head to petrify the monster.
ref: 2001, Dennis Berthold, “Melville's Medusas”, in Sanford E. Marovitz, Athanasios C. Christodoulou, editors, Melville "Among the nations": Proceedings of an International Conference, Volos, Greece, July 2-6, 1997:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
coordinate_terms: Euryale
Stheno
glosses: The youngest and only mortal of the three gorgon sisters, killed by Perseus.
wikipedia: Medusa (Rubens)
Rubens
Derived terms: medusafish
medusahead
medusal
Related terms: Euryale
Stheno
apostle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɑsl̩/
ipa: /əˈpɒs(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɒsəl
Forms: form: apostles
Etymology: From Middle English apostle, from Old French apostle, from Late Latin apostolus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστολος (apóstolos, “one sent forth, apostle”). Merged with Old English apostol, borrowing from the same Latin source.
Senses: glosses: A missionary, or leader of a religious mission, especially one in the early Christian Church (but see Apostle).
examples: text: [W]e must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?
ref: 1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Eve of the War”, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, book I (The Coming of the Martians), pages 4–5:
glosses: A pioneer or early advocate of a particular cause, prophet of a belief.
glosses: A top-ranking ecclesiastical official in the twelve seat administrative council of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
qualifier: Cambridge slang
glosses: A person who is plucked, that is, refused an academic degree.
Synonyms: disciple
Derived terms: word: apostlebird
word: apostlehood
taxonomic: Dendrophthoe vitellina
word: apostle mistletoe
word: Apostles' Creed
word: apostleship
word: apostle spoon
word: apostless
word: apostolate
word: apostolic
word: apostolicity
word: apostolize
word: pseudoapostle
Related terms: apostolado
apostle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɑsl̩/
ipa: /əˈpɒs(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɒsəl
Forms: form: apostles
Etymology: See apostil.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A letter dismissory.
topics: law
glosses: A note sent to an appeals court presenting the appeal in summary.
topics: law
glosses: The trial court record sent to an appeal court concerning an appeal.
pedis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedi
electrocutioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌlɛktɹəˈkjuʃənɚ/
ipa: /ɪˌlɛktɹəˈkjuːʃənə/
Forms: form: electrocutioners
Etymology: Blend of electrocution + executioner, or electrocution + -er
Senses: examples: text: 'Then the electrocutioner turned on the switch and when he did Willie Francis' lips puffed out and he groaned and jumped so that the chair came off the floor. Apparently the switch was turned on twice and then the condemned man yelled: 'Take it off. Let me breath."
ref: 1946 May 23, U.S. Supreme Court: STATE OF LA. EX REL. FRANCIS v. RESWEBER, 329 U.S. 459 (1947) 329 U.S. 459 STATE OF LOUISIANA ex rel. FRANCIS v. RESWEBER, sheriff, et al. No. 142., affidavit of official witness Harold Resweber:
text: Smiling as I throw the switch that takes away their breath
I see life as an interruption to the tune of death
ref: 1978, The Residents, “The Electrocutioner”, in Duck Stab/Buster & Glen, performed by Monica Ganas and Snakefinger:
glosses: An executioner who carries out an execution by means of electricity.
Related terms: electrocution
electrocute
doll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒl/
ipa: /dɑl/
ipa: /dɔl/
ipa: [dɒːɫ]
ipa: /dɔl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖɔ(w)l/
note: spelling pronunciation, effectively doll–dole merger
ipa: /ɖol/
rhymes: -ɒl
rhymes: -əʊl (doll–dole merger)
homophone: dole
Forms: form: dolls
form: dollz
Etymology: From Doll, pet form of the given name Dorothy.
The drug sense was coined and popularized by by American writer Jacqueline Susann in 1966 through her book Valley of the Dolls (1966) or the film Valley of the Dolls (1967).
Senses: glosses: A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy.
examples: text: Some fine day we may have the country raised, and the gendarmes down upon us from Strasburg, and all owing to your pretty doll, with her cunning ways of coming over you.
ref: 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:
glosses: An attractive young woman.
examples: text: "They didn't sell cigarettes where you were, doll?" Palmer asked.
ref: 2008, Stephen King, Willa:
qualifier: slightly dated
glosses: A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart.
examples: text: Won't you be a doll and fetch me a glass of water?
text: 2017, Chunk in "Skate-lebrity", The ZhuZhus
Ow! These things are defective. Pipsqueak, be a doll, I need a new pair, pronto!
qualifier: slightly dated
glosses: A good-natured, cooperative or helpful person.
glosses: The smallest or pet pig in a litter.
examples: text: The signals are on a three-doll bracket post; one doll carries two [signal] arms, one above the other.
ref: 1943 March and April, “Notes and News: Peculiar Distant Signals on L.N.E.R”, in Railway Magazine, page 116:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A short signal post mounted on a bracket mounted on the main signal post, or on a signal gantry.
examples: text: Each night she looked at the bottle of Seconals with affection. She never could do this without the dolls. She would have spent sleepless nights, smoking, worrying—and she would have lost her nerve.
ref: 1966, Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, page 227:
glosses: A barbiturate or amphetamine pill.
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: A transgender woman or transfeminine person.
Derived terms: action doll
apple doll
babushka doll
baby doll
baby doll dress
baby-doll dress
bisque doll
blood doll
blow-up doll
bobble-head doll syndrome
china doll
China doll
corn doll
Dharma doll
dolldom
dollface
dollhood
dollhouse
doll's house
dollified
dollish
dollkind
doll-less
doll-like
dollmaker
dollmaking
dollship
doll's pram
doll up
dolly
Dutch doll
fashion doll
fuckdoll
glove doll
harvest doll
honeydoll
Ken doll
kewpie doll
love doll
matrioshka doll
matryoshka doll
nesting doll
paper doll
Paris doll
pincushion doll
porcelain doll
rag doll
rapedoll
Russian doll
sex doll
voodoo doll
Waldorf doll
wax doll
doll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒl/
ipa: /dɑl/
ipa: /dɔl/
ipa: [dɒːɫ]
ipa: /dɔl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖɔ(w)l/
note: spelling pronunciation, effectively doll–dole merger
ipa: /ɖol/
rhymes: -ɒl
rhymes: -əʊl (doll–dole merger)
homophone: dole
Forms: form: dolls
form: dolling
form: dolled
form: dolled
Etymology: From Doll, pet form of the given name Dorothy.
The drug sense was coined and popularized by by American writer Jacqueline Susann in 1966 through her book Valley of the Dolls (1966) or the film Valley of the Dolls (1967).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of doll up
synonyms: word: doll up
Related terms: golliwog
puppet
teddy
teddy bear
doll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒl/
ipa: /dɑl/
ipa: /dɔl/
ipa: [dɒːɫ]
ipa: /dɔl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖɔ(w)l/
note: spelling pronunciation, effectively doll–dole merger
ipa: /ɖol/
rhymes: -ɒl
rhymes: -əʊl (doll–dole merger)
homophone: dole
Forms: form: dolls
Etymology: Probably variant of archaic dool (“boundary marker”).
Senses: examples: text: On a beautiful spring morning, after the “dolls and chains” had been removed to allow the horses room to pass through, in galloping “across the flat,” […]
ref: 1885, William Day, The Racehorse in Training, page 87:
glosses: A temporary barrier used in horse racing.
doll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒl/
ipa: /dɑl/
ipa: /dɔl/
ipa: [dɒːɫ]
ipa: /dɔl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖɔ(w)l/
note: spelling pronunciation, effectively doll–dole merger
ipa: /ɖol/
rhymes: -ɒl
rhymes: -əʊl (doll–dole merger)
homophone: dole
Forms: form: dolls
form: dolling
form: dolled
form: dolled
Etymology: Probably variant of archaic dool (“boundary marker”).
Senses: examples: ref: 2023 November 24, “Sean Quinlan: I get the frustration at fences being dolled off because of low sun - but trust jockeys when we say it's not safe”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To place a barrier in front of (a section of the course that is to be omitted from a horse race).
doll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒl/
ipa: /dɑl/
ipa: /dɔl/
ipa: [dɒːɫ]
ipa: /dɔl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖɔ(w)l/
note: spelling pronunciation, effectively doll–dole merger
ipa: /ɖol/
rhymes: -ɒl
rhymes: -əʊl (doll–dole merger)
homophone: dole
Forms: form: dolls
Etymology: A shortening of dollar.
Senses: glosses: A dollar.
doll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒl/
ipa: /dɑl/
ipa: /dɔl/
ipa: [dɒːɫ]
ipa: /dɔl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖɔ(w)l/
note: spelling pronunciation, effectively doll–dole merger
ipa: /ɖol/
rhymes: -ɒl
rhymes: -əʊl (doll–dole merger)
homophone: dole
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dal.
doll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒl/
ipa: /dɑl/
ipa: /dɔl/
ipa: [dɒːɫ]
ipa: /dɔl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖɔ(w)l/
note: spelling pronunciation, effectively doll–dole merger
ipa: /ɖol/
rhymes: -ɒl
rhymes: -əʊl (doll–dole merger)
homophone: dole
Forms: form: dolls
form: dolling
form: dolled
form: dolled
Etymology: Possibly same as dull (from which Middle English doll occurs).
Senses: glosses: To warm moderately; to make tepid; to mull.
electrocution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌlɛktɹəˈkjuːʃən/
Forms: form: electrocutions
Etymology: Blend of electro- + execution. By surface analysis, electrocute + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The faulty wiring caused the unfortunate worker’s accidental electrocution.
glosses: The accidental death or suicide by electric shock.
glosses: Deliberate execution by electric shock, usually involving an electric chair.
glosses: A severe electric shock, whether fatal or not.
Derived terms: electrocutioner
Related terms: execution
—
Language: English
Part of speech: article
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of the.
—
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Senses: glosses: The letter sequence ⟨th⟩.
glosses: The sound sequences /(V)nd/, /(V)nt/
examples: text: a— — [amendment]
glosses: The suffixes or sequences mand, mend, mond, and -ment.
Derived terms: english: they
translation: they
word: —a
english: those
translation: those
word: —oz
english: their/there
translation: their/there
word: —r
english: this
translation: this
word: —s
english: that
translation: that
word: —t
english: these
translation: these
word: —z